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I'm just always skeptical of new fad diets when they start claiming all sorts of health benefits beyond weight loss

There is a guy who did a nice work summarising the scientific findings.

http://www.lift-heavy.com/intermittent-fasting/

Many studies are on animal subjects, but there are human studies too which show more than just weight loss

Calorie restriction in humans is associated with weight loss, reduced inflammation and improved markers for cardiovascular and metabolic health in obese (9,10) as well as non-obese (11,12) subjects

In another study, fasting healthy men and women were compared to a matched non-fasting group with regard to inflammation markers and blood lipid status (61). No differences were observed in body weight, total cholesterol, triglycerides or LDL levels. There was however an increase in HDL levels and decreased inflammation – proposing a beneficial effect in the fasted subjects.

In obese subjects, a modified 8-10 week alternate-day fasting regimen resulted in weight loss, reduced blood pressure and heart rate, and improved markers for cardiovascular health, such as decreased total cholesterol, decreased LDL and triglycerides, increased HDL concentrations and decreased oxidative stress and systemic inflammation, suggesting that alternate-day fasting might be a novel strategy for decreasing body weight and improving cardiovascular health in the obese population (64,68).

eight healthy men were maintained on a 20h modified alternate-day fast for two weeks. Despite unaltered body weight and habitual physical activity, insulin dependent glucose uptake increased, and increased adiponectin levels were observed (65).

In another trial, the insulin sensitizing effect of true alternate-day fasting was observed through reduced insulin response to a standardized meal in men, but not women – suggesting a potential sex difference in the effect of alternate-day fasting on glucose metabolism (66).

I'm also doing intermittent fasting - a 36 hour fast each week - and plan to do longer fasts maybe every 3-4 months - for health reasons.
No, the real hotel access points, including at Marriott, are part of their attack strategy. They get hacked, sometimes via physical means, and commandeered to launch high-grade targeted malware.

The South Korean government has done that quite regularly, for one (known as DarkHotel), and I do believe GCHQ does it over here from time to time. Several others too, I expect. Intelligence agencies just like hotels, I guess, between the visitors of diplomatic, political and economic interest, the public access, potentially lowered guard, and things left unattended in hotel rooms locked by surprisingly forgeable master keys?
There is nothing reasonable about it, it's completely wrong on every level.
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Agreed. I was told to lead a team in all but title, but without the title I was consistently told that I didn't have the seniority nor have I proved myself. Maybe it's different at Delphix, doubt it, but if it is different at Delphix is there just the "Engineer" title and that's it? If so, that's great. If there are titles like Infrastructure Engineer and Front-End Engineer and Chief Architect, etc. then thats on the company culture for being contradictory.
There's actually a very simple answer for this. When you go to Yahoo.com on an iOS device it asks you if you want Yahoo to be the default search engine. Since Yahoo is a popular portal (I go to Yahoo news atleast a few times a day on my iOS device) people can inadvertently switch to Yahoo. This has happened to me numerous times and I couldn't figure out why. Then I figured out that Yahoo puts up a popup which I promptly clicked "ok" to get it out of the way, then wondered time and time again why my iPhone was always ignoring my default search preferences which was Google.
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What project management tools would your manager choose?
what makes you say so? smart people are smart enough to take any business further.
Perl isn't included in e.g. BusyBox. The additional overhead of including perl in an embedded distribution could be a valid reason for using sed where you could otherwise have used perl.
That headline is probably the only way to make a 4% decline in search share sound like a lot. Bait.
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You're pretty much describing a "smart"/active jammer there.
To the best of my understanding, meditation is a mental activity. You sit still and... do what, exactly? Think of nothing? How does one think of nothing? Is meditation another word for daydreaming? How can we be sure that any two people are "meditating" in the same way, since it's an unobservable mental state? And are proponents of meditation simply saying that sitting still, being calm, and focusing one's attention (or _not_ focusing one's attention? which is it?) has benefits over running around like a chicken with its head cut off? Doesn't that fall into the "no shit, Sherlock" realm of common sense?

Any "science" on meditation faces the same problems that "psychology" faced ~100 years ago, when practitioners simply described their mental states. It was only when psychology embraced empiricism and left self-descriptions of mental state behind that it was able to advance as a science.
You are absolutely correct. Revolution is strictly a brand name. 160mm and 0.28s is an incremental improvement over GE's CT750HD, albeit in two dimensions.
> Dietary restriction is known to slow down the aging process and hence reduce age-related diseases such as cancer

Isn't this, uh, wrong? My understanding was that calorie restriction was very promising in some animals, but that the studies were never positive for humans or large primates.
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"focus on more extensive automated testing, focus on more profiling, and focus on general software engineering principles like single-responsibility and DRY" - this is exactly what was suggested in article. Except may be DRY which is more about design.
In many studies they compare a control group eating a maintenance caloric intake with a fasting group that is in a caloric deficit. The results of positive health benefits of fasting usually have to do with the fact that the subjects are actually in a caloric deficit more than the studies choice of meal timing.

I'd have to dig in to those specific studies to show that, but don't read an abstract and think that it in any way tells the whole story.
It's prioritizing companies that apply to be included with their program over the ones that did not apply. It's free and open to any legal provider. Out of those 27, I've only ever heard of 11, which goes to show that they're not prioritizing big companies over smaller companies.
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Right, because that's how democracy works.
It appears they added an extra IR eye scanner module, increasing accuracy. And they're focusing on 'sell to money-is-water gamers'.

I'd wait. The zone of gaze tracking is still too small, and it's still hardware in need of a killer app.
Brazilian GSM operators just announced (at TV) that they'll all (at the same time) start cutting internet access after a quota in order to provide their customers a better service.
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focus follows gaze might be the first real hardware-fueled productivity improvement since the scrolling wheel. That's pretty cool if you ask me.
I didn't know you could do that, so it's good to have an option- thanks.

But how do you then pipe that to tail? :D
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There was a post secret a while back about a secret club at Harvard where researchers already use the techniques for themselves. (And people never lie on the internet, so...)

(http://postsecret.com/ Sadly the images are deleted after a week or two, I can't find the one I'm talking about.

found it somewhere else: http://www.thedotspot.net/2014/11/23/postsecret-pic-of-the-w...)
What's so unreasonable about saying that different foods can satiate you differently?
All calories are not created equally.
I agree with you, but I don't think it's a bad exercise at all to apply the rules to a different domain and see how they make you feel. If they challenge your assumptions, why? What are your assumptions based on?

Creating a framework within which to challenge your assumptions can be useful.
It is an interesting theory, that does make sense... not that "making sense" means that the theory is true!

It may be worthwhile to conduct more studies in this direction. I'd be interested to know how soon after the patient stops eating will be the maximum difference in response between normal and cancer cells. And if this is more effective for short chemo treatments, or for the longer ones.
I had this with my Moto X too, I downloaded a EQ app and lowered all of the dials by an equal amount and that seems to have worked.
This is the missing thing, will add. Thanks guys!
It's definitely not a statement that should be taken as prima facie. The author having it in their abstract shows their bias.
You're right, you only consider designing an ASIC if it's guaranteed to be more interesting than other options. Note that the capital and risk are not so high if you use an older, proven technology (like 90nm) which should be more than enough for IoT-like devices.

Low power only may not be sufficient in itself to require an ASIC, but as you say it all depends on the computing power that is required. Which for a temperature sensor is close to nothing... I'll need a better example for the next article!
I don't have any authority to comment what they mean in this particular article, but I have studied the issue quite a bit. So I give you my own world view, whatever it's worth.

To get a quick therapeutic effect of starvation, the starvation has to endure several days. During that time the patient drinks water and doesn't ingest any calories at all. There are no exact rules, but after about 4 days the therapeutic effects kick into action, and about 7 days is the maximum. After that the starvation starts to make more harm than good.

This is not easy for a normal person accustomed to a western diet, let alone for someone going through chemotherapy. For someone who already eats correctly (see my other comment in this thread) it's not such a big deal. But then again, you don't see those people on cancer wards as patients too often.

As the saying goes, the best way to beat cancer is not to get one. And for that intermittent fasting is outstanding. In practice it means you eat one or two large portions of food a day. Between the last one of today and the first one of tomorrow should be about 16 hours, give or take. This gives you constant daily beneficial effects of fasting, and once you get accustomed to it and eat the right food, it feels great.

Some recommend a couple of 4-6 days fastings a year on top of this. It's a piece of cake for someone who has practiced such eating habits for some time.
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By contrast, "T-shaped" people are a delight to work with... Centroid of some deep domain knowledge and/or ownership of specific process/es but able to get out their comfort zone and don't really care what the title says... Get it done, make customers smile, and keep the company profitable.

Move fast, break a few things and
Agile methods were born in the world of custom LOB software development, where the real problems are not technical but social -- and chiefly, communication. It's not surprising that agile would be less useful as you get further from that environment.
Usually cheaper places have free wifi and expensive 5 star hotels have paid wifi, even in the same city. I think on reason is knowing their customers. A backpacker hostel won't be able to charge the backpackers €10 a day for wifi, the people will either choose another hostel, or go to a cafe. The people staying at an expensive hotel are less price sensitive and will pay up.
I don't think so and I didn't say so above. I hope you read my text, not only the first sentence of it.
"During the first 10 hours of starvation, when the body utilizes any consumed food, stored glycogen becomes the main source of energy. When liver glycogen stores deplete, amino acids act as a source of energy. Eventually fatty acids and glycerol from adipose tissue serve as a major source of energy. If starvation continues for a week or more, fat derived β-hydroxybutyrate becomes the most abundant ketone in body while glucose production becomes very low. When fat stores are depleted rapid muscle degradation occurs and provides energy to the body through gluconeogenesis. Weight loss caused by starvation is initially intense and rapid but eventually becomes gradual. A study has shown that during the first week of starvation average weight loss is 0.9kg/day and reduces to 0.3kg/day by the third week."

You should probably try reading the article, since the entire thing deals with the science of fasting and starvation and they talk about everything from intermittent fasting to multi-week starvation diets. 72 hour fasts, alternate day fasting, and IF provide the greatest return for the least physiological cost (in that order).
I'm on the design team for this product.

In the CT "super premium" market, the major players focused on different specs and tried to convince hospitals that the future of CT was in this direction (volume/slices/coverage, temporal resolution/cardiac, dose, new imaging/spectral, spatial resolution). Revolution CT is GE's attempt to deliver something that unifies on these goals and they hope to sweep this high end market.
That's not what I said, my point was that labelling it blogspam doesn't seem correct because it's opt-in and a preferred source for articles for many in the R community. And as I said the original link should have been linked to.
He did not say that you could eat a caloric surplus and lose weight.
Keeping signals out is the definition of jamming.
Your account also appears to have been (edit) first used to comment in the last 19 hours to comment on and upvote this story. Despite being registered a while ago, it has no submissions or comments prior to yesterday.
It seems strange to me that we're willing to spend trillions of tax dollars on the military, but when it comes to the bacteria that attack us every day, we throw up our hands and just take whatever the free market finds profitable to provide.
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It's more of "my principles tell me that this policy is wrong. However, I don't have the ability to make it right or avoid using it. So until it's set right by someone who DOES have that power, I don't have a choice."

So to use your analogy, I believe in the sanctity of human life. But my government doesn't. I don't kill anyone, but I live in a country that does. The fact that my government kills people won't stop me from driving on the government-built roads.

However you want to word it, I disagree with T-Mobile and AT&T's net neutrality policies. But I'm not in a position of power to make them change that, so what can I do?
tl;dr: Starving causes normal cells to get less sensitive to chemo while cancer cells remain just as sensitive as during normal eating. Starving better than just eating little.
Interestingly enough with modern CTs you can get more than strictly density/attenuation.

Though you're right that indeed these images are using some transform between what they think bone and vascular densities and their colors.
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It's very important to keep prisoners' morale high, so this initiative is very commendable.

But this isn't a new idea, there are a lot of pop songs with embedded morse code messages, for example, this Slipknots' song:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_I_Forget_%28song%29

A tutorial:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dmitrismirnov/MorseMusic.html

Anyway, there are more creative methods to insert coded messages in radio shows, for example, some years ago, the italian police confiscated a commercial radio in Naple. That radio was controlled by a mafia family and used to send message to the inmates of Poggioreale prison. They used fake "inscription" related to the songs transmitted:

http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2007/06_Giugno/1...
Well stated. I think the equivalent would be if Twitter had poetry filters. (Poetry meaning evocative, succinct, and engaging writing.)
Yes I know it sounds absurd.

That just happens to be the topic of the article we're commenting on here. It's also the topic of the book Tripping Over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer by Travis Christofferson.

I'm not going to argue about the issue here, but I recommend that book for everyone. If nothing else, it's an interesting read for the history of cancer research and the development of chemotherapeutic drugs.
exactly, and there are some open-source hardware designs (on sites like OpenCores), but the problem is that with existing hardware description languages very few people are able to reuse and contribute to these. This is why we've created the Cx language, to make it easier to design hardware for developers, and not just hardware designers.

We've open sourced the compiler; and we've designed some open-source hardware in Cx, see for example our Ethernet MAC: https://github.com/synflow/ethernet-mac
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but it sounds like you're saying that you'll reduce complexity by avoiding jquery, underscore, and half of the built in API. This is the opposite of my experience.
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I guess 408 days ago means 19 hours?
I'm not impressed by the excuses you give to yourself.
Any help on making text better is appreciated. Blogspam... May be, but consider that PDF were published a long time ago and not that many Web people were interested until there came a way to use it in everyday practice.
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Two things.

Firstly, please spell his name correctly. It's Aaron Swartz. That respects him and makes sure that your audience isn't distracted by that tiny detail and can focus on your message.

Secondly, the petition was too narrow and targeted the individual prosecutor for that case. Even if she was removed, it wouldn't prevent the same sort of thing happening again.

The larger issue (and one closer to the point) is that the law is broken.

- There are overlapping laws such that Swartz was charged with several distinct offences for what was fundamentally a single (though repeated) action.

- Maximum sentences for such offences (crimes against property, in particular those that use technology, even crimes that are on the face of it relatively victimless) are grossly overstated when compared to violent crimes.

- Prosecutors are permitted to present the charges in a way that maximizes the sentencing, by adding them consecutively.

- All of the above points join together to maximize the number of cases where the defendant pleads guilty to avoid a court case, so there is a ridiculously small number of such cases that go to trial (and a correspondingly vast majority of cases of which the defendant is, as a result, convicted), even where the defendant is actually innocent of some or all charges, or when it is likely that a trial could result in a not guilty verdict.

No reasonable person could say Swartz deserved 35 years in prison for what he is alleged to have done. The legal system that enabled Ortiz to present the charges as she did is much bigger than any prosecutorial overreach she is accused of in that petition. Let's not make it about one prosecutor. Let's make it about all of them.
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True enough, but 300+ thousand people have physically traveled to DC for some protests. Getting ~3x as many people to just sign a petition is a much smaller hurdle.

Granted, these are just focused on getting a response so people don't waste a lot of effort 'running up the numbers'. Still, I suspect if you combine similar petitions you will see large numbers of people supporting things like legalizing pot.
Considering this is a comment thread about that article, I would presume that makes it relevant.
I don't see how either this quote or the article from which it is drawn conflates those those two categories of people. Indeed, it says that we "conquered" the native lands, a word that usually refers to one polity expanding from lands of its own into lands outside of it. It presupposes that native american lands were outside of the United States.

Yes, the European pioneers struggled. Both a military campaign and an agricultural enterprise are very difficult.
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Oh, great, it's those jokers from the Russian Reich again.

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Because nothing says "valid political concerns", like a cyber attack on a foreign government.
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What's the use of anything? Seriously, you're on HackerNews where all sorts of one-off projects with no purpose except to exist get displayed and you're asking what the use of an NES emulator is? Maybe the author wanted to learn about emulation, or found it a challenge to do in Go. Does it matter? If you don't enjoy it, move on.
Here it is http://pongjs.herokuapp.com
I agree that "someone else's land" is a bit much.

Saying that "North American Aborigines lived outside the republic" is a bit misleading, because it insinuates that they weren't interested in assimilating, and becoming a part of that struggling, triumphing mass of people that identified as Americans at that time.

More truthfully, leading up to the times when they were forcibly relocated to reservations, they were never allowed in, for the same reasons that black residents of the US had a tough time in those years: the world around them was quite racist and (especially in the case of indians) kleptomaniac.

In fact, many Native Americans tried to assimilate; I remember reading about one enterprising native gent in the early 1800s who had made himself quite rich from trade, had a mansion, the whole nine yards ... until the day came when his town wanted his stuff. So they took it, because America was in large part founded on the notion of repeatedly taking stuff that the natives considered their property.

Acknowledging the massive wrongs committed by this country against those peoples isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I agree with you that we need to be realistic about what conclusions we draw from it. Yes, the United States stole stuff from the indians. No, we're not going to now consider dispossessing the current owners of that stuff; that's akin to, say, questioning the rightness of the origins of modern-day Israel. There's a state there now, so it's moot.
Ditto, I would love to know as well.
The European pioneers did not "steal" a pre-existing democratic republic,

Correct. They didn't steal a pre-existing political entity analogous to their own. What they stole was land and resources. Through force, manipulation, guile, rape, and genocide.
Advertisers will use this to try and sell you more targeted products, so their advertising costs go down and they can be profitable longer, improve their products, sell more, etc.

You should worry about how governments will use this data.
I would appreciate if the home page provides the real incentive behind inventing this language. "a robust statically typed programming language where structure is not a pain" is a bit vague and not a unique thing that hasn't been achieved by other existing languages.

My current hunch is something like "let's have a static typed language with Ruby syntax," but I am really not sure.
Lets call our two-party-government "democracy". It will be fun.

Is it the same as voting for mtv awards ? If i don't like any of the "chosen" artists do I still have to vote ?

It can surely save me countless hours of mind numbing music.