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The examples given only showed that of drinking only water, which I would say is exactly how we see people today.

If someone is only drinking water, so avoiding coffee, tea, soda, wine, beer, etc. we see it as something unusual. Normally as a sign of self-limitation either due to a self or medically imposed diet.

I haven't drank a glass of water in weeks, does that mean I avoid drinking water, or that I just have something better than water to drink?

Ascribing meaning into a choice with no knowledge or insight into the reasoning inherently creates falsehoods.

The Romans weren't masters of aquaducts just because they wanted to bathe in it. They drank it, they cooked with it. It's just absolutely silly to think people didn't drink water.

I don't drink coffee because my water isn't safe. I drink coffee because it tastes better than my tasteless water.
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Both. Both make perfect sense to the people within each system.
They might not be life changing technologically but at least WhatsApp has had a profound impact on the lives of many of my friends and relatives in terms of every day casual conversation.
The number of calories that go into your mouth can be very different from the number of calories absorbed by your body. To give a simple example you'll absorb way more calories by eating a piece of bread with olive oil than if you eat the two pieces of food a couple of hours apart. And someone with intestinal parasites will receive notably less nutrition from their food than someone without. It would would actually be very surprising if intestinal flora didn't effect the ratio of calories consumed to calories absorbed.
The mentality does, however due to lack of funding they tend to fizzle out fairly quickly.

I would argue this is actually a bad thing and it's why the Bay Area tends to produce lots of successful tech companies and other areas have trouble with it. Many would-be profitable businesses die out because they lack the funding necessary to get over the initial hurdles of starting a company. The willingness of investors in the valley to throw money at anything is a huge boon to startups - even if it wastes a ton of money in the process.

On the other hand profitability should still be a top goal of a startup - not investment. Many startups seem to have confused the two.
Your resume states that you're an "Expert Systems Engineer" but you don't give the number of years of experience. Based on the small number of positions listed, I'm guessing it's in the low single digits.

You mentioned college, but not whether you graduated. Did you go to a university? Graduate from university? If so, it's worth putting your degree. A degree doesn't necessarily mean you're a better programmer but it's an accomplishment nonetheless.

You state up front that you need remote work; does that mean you're far from large urban centers or corporate office parks? You're implying that you would not travel. That's going to make you a lot less employable, though there are a few remote positions out there. There are a lot more onsite positions that will let you convert to remote after a few months, once they've gotten to know and trust you.

Your "Personal Experience" section sounds like stuff that anyone in I.T. would have done, less than some people, perhaps more than others, but nothing impressive in there. In my opinion, the kind of personal projects that carry more weight would be verifiable contributions to well known open source projects, apps in the app store, and end-to-end involvement or total creation of a substantial project that you will be prepared to talk about in an interview.

It sounds like your main skill is Django and Python. There seem to be a lot of Python positions out there. Good luck, hope you get one of them.
I believe in many cases it is well documented that obesity isn't caused by a lack of self-control. However that knowledge is simply not accepted by the general population. I would guess that it is difficult for people to accept this for the same reason that rich people have difficulty accepting that poverty is commonly not the fault of the poor. We may even be able to generalize these problems to all forms of victim blaming.
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Observation: the up/down vote fluctuation on this post makes me wish HN would implement a Tufte-style "sparkline" next to the points. Sometimes a post gets an exciting amount of vote activity, but ends with a mundane neutral points total.
The issue is that Molyneux has had his personal brand tarnished for awhile (Fable + Project Milo), but he still received reputation and respect.
Thanks. Glad you liked it.
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So, a bit of background on fecal transplants. The idea is that you take the gut bacteria from a healthy donor, and put it in an unhealthy person's gut. This will make the recipient's metabolism/digestion more like the donor's. This has been found to work for weight loss; you give a normal-weight donor's microbiome to an overweight person, and they lose weight a significant fraction of the time.

So, when I read:

> the woman received a fecal transplant from her overweight but healthy daughter, via colonoscopy

I cringed. There are three things wrong with that. First: you don't need to use a relative, because fecal transplants don't have risk of rejection. Second, you wouldn't use a donor who's overweight. And third, it's normally done with a swallowed capsule, not with a colonoscopy, which adds risk and unpleasantness for no reason.

(Edit: The primary source says "With the occurrence of weight gain after FMT in this case, it is now our policy to use nonobese donors for FMT. The untoward consequences of using nonideal FMT donors are important, because patients may prefer to use a family member rather than an unrelated or unknown stool donor due to the perception that these sources are safer.")
Basically, though, it's at the point of debating positive effects (if any) of drinking alcohol. Because there is no evidence of a negative effect.

For most Americans, I believe this concept: that drinking probably is not bad for you, would be considered pretty radical.
And it's important to note that while she wasn't considered obese previously, her BMI was 26, which is considered overweight.
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I have discovered this as well. Although 100% of my own GitHub projects[1] are JavaScript, more than half appear as CSS due to the included documentation.

Ideally, the project manager should be able to define the language composition in their own projects. Something GitHub should consider IMO.

[1]: https://github.com/epistemex?tab=repositories
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From a moral standpoint, I'd say this person is in the right - they've paid in to the NHS at some point earlier, or their parents had - to cover this sort of thing. Legally, I don't know enough about the NHS to say for sure.
I know that there is a continuing fight between US measurements (inch, ...) and European measurements (Metric system) -- but I really was shocked, when a printer wanted to have "US letter" pages.
The advantage of the A-System is so big over the US letter system, that I don't understand that there are still countries that don't want to adopt it. Just ask your photo copier manufacturer!

It also can't be reasoned, that so many cars or traffic signs have to be changed ...
why not Mexico? it's a big destination for Health Care tourists, it's cheaper than Canada or Europe and you would only need to go to a doctor once to get a prescription and re-use that prescription. Also you would get to spend a few days in places like the mayan riviera.
Fecal transplants.... what a world we live in....

That said, the study of gut flora is just starting. Here's a summary of <Nature Article I read a while ago but can't seem to find> : When raising sterile mice (no bacterial whatsoever) they tend to do pretty badly. Low body mass, overactive immune system, etc. Taking these mice and then doing fecal transplants (method is for sure 'icky') from obese PEOPLE and thing PEOPLE (totally strange), the mice tend to be obese or thin. Now, they then just cage sterile mice NEAR transplanted mice, and see the same thing, the flora just waft over and find a home. Then they cage sterile mice near thin and obese mice at the same time. The sterile mice get obese, rarely thin, and NOT in-between, it's all or nothing. Flora, this one article I once read states, come in flavors (real icky ones) that like to be in certain relations to each other. Why the mice tended to get obese is strange, and needs more funding.

Real cool stuff, I guess, but then you get to be known as the 'rat poop eating' labs. So there is a detriment to the research.
> Otsuka’s patent on Abilify will expire in April, costing it an estimated $65 billion over the next four years.

That statement is false, and demonstrated clearly in the author's source:

> Drug makers face another patent cliff in which the industry will lose roughly $65 billion in revenue through the end of 2019, according to a research firm’s report.

...

> GlobalData estimates Otsuka will lose $6.2 billion in annual sales due to competition from generics by 2019.

Edit:

Continuing on this theme, according to Google finance Otsuka's net profit margin is 10%, which I think is on the higher end of reasonable. Now, I'm not saying the price they charge in the US is fair (for some definition of fair), but one does need to consider how much the ridiculous American drug prices are subsidizing the $24/year NHS prescriptions. A government can regulate the price of drugs, but can't force the companies to sell them in the first place. Not directly, anyway.
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> what, you really think 100,000 people would be willing to join a wait list for a random startup with no publicity?

Anything specific you're referring to?
> He said a lot of the same things mentioned in this article - about the suffocating culture, people "faking it until they make it", the tons of businesses being built on what he called, "bullshit and blue skies".

Mixing with entrepreneurs at events around the UK, it's not unique to SV. There's a lot of it about here, and not just in London.
> "That simply isn't happening with OCaml."

Err... based on what exactly? I've been working in the OCaml community for several years now and it's going from strength to strength. Do we have different definitions of 'strength' or something?
> The laws of physics apply to all people.

Yes they do. Ever consider this possibility?

Your body is immensely complex, can rid itself of toxins, pathogens, and other invaders ... but is not able to discard excess calories it doesn't need? To the point of making you sick and immobile?

That makes sense to you? That our body doesn't have a regulation mechanism?

Or perhaps it's more likely that it works in some people and is broken in others. Yes, starving yourself will always work. So will increasing exertion. But so will fixing that regulation mechanism. Just because we don't know how is hardly enough reason to discard the possibility.
> Kind of weaseled out at the end, though.

Agreed. A loose call to action was not what I was expecting nor hoping for at the end (of a good article).
Can you cite your source on this please?
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Because it's in interesting article about the human condition in the social technological culture we currently exist in. Though if you're genuinely curious, you could just slog through the article.
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If Google Maps knows my route to office, can it turn on indicators when I am supposed to take a turn or about to take one?
My school offered a computer class that was effectively just a typing class in both middle school and high school.

We also had available to us a Pascal course, a C++ course, and an AP Comp Sci (at the time it was still C++).

The core curriculum never got into anything too sophisticated (the AP final project was the most ambitious thing most people worked on) but the teacher allowed those who were comfortable to explore other areas on the side. The most valuable part of the class, in my opinion, was the teachers approach. She would use an overhead projector and write out memory allocations and then show step by step how different allocations were changing as you went through a program. This step by step approach was extremely helpful when trying to internalize the nature of variables, how sort algorithms worked, etc.

I could possibly get you in touch with my old HS teacher, my email is in my profile.
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GitHub is a tremendous source of code and projects. Great for everyday work, inspiration and learning. Nice extension and too bad it's for Chrome only.

I've recently hacked a quick app for fast access to GitHub stars [1], just because I needed it so badly, although you (currently) can't tag repositories, only save your searches.

[1] https://github.com/hanula/StarHub
> I wonder what the reaction will be if it turns out obesity isn't just about 'fatty has no self-control'

Since the scientific evidence for a variety of metabolic conditions, etc., contributing to obesity has been overwhelming for a long time without dispelling the popularity of this attitude, I'm going to say the correct answer is "people who are emotionally attached to the idea of 'fatty has no self-control' will continue to ignore the scientific evidence."
This article doesn't really make a compelling case. Facts would have been nice.(I would spend x dollars for the drug I need in the US which is more than I would spend flying to the UK and getting 6 months worth at a time. Or something like the drug I need is in short supply in the US so I go to where it's plentiful in the UK)
What is so screwed about it in the authors eyes?
This is so stupid. If you want $10 for your product, then charge $10 for it.

If you're offering your product that your team worked hard on for $0, then someone paying $0 for it is not cheating the system.

Your company's profitability is your responsibility, not mine.
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There won't be one. Bigotry cannot be fought with facts.

While some forms of obesity have been linked to physical health and or genetic factors, even if you discount that the remaining research has suggested it is a mental health disorder not that dissimilar from e.g. alcoholism, exercise addiction, sex addiction, drug addiction, smoking, and so on.

Essentially food causes pleasure centres in the brain to fire, these make people feel less depressed, tired, or just happier in general. So food is often used to treat depression, which unfortunately as the person gains weight can cause both tiredness, lethargy, and depression to grow, so they need even more food to fight it (rinse, repeat).

But all this won't change perception, because perception isn't about facts. For example, homophobes don't hate gay people for any logical reason that you can fight with facts and evidence, it is deeper than that. You have to deal with the core of their hate, which is often self-hate, or fear.

Ultimately these are people picking on others with a mental health issue. It only makes the depression worse. But they rationalise their bullying as "helping" (even if there is evidence that it hurts, not helps), but really this all comes from a core of self-hate or fear, rather than any logical part.
I think you bring up a good point. These metrics, formulae, etc. can only be applied when thinking about new features. When building the core product we must rely on our knowledge of the market/users to decide what features end up in v1.0.

It is also prudent to bake in anonymized usage tracking code so you know how users are using your v1.0. This will provide a guideline on what area of the product to concentrate on when thinking about new features. This way we don't end up spending time pushing out features that few will use when our data had showed we should be concentrating on a different area of the product.
> I believe in many cases it is well documented that obesity isn't caused by a lack of self-control.

Please show me the documentation because nearly everything I have read is to the contrary. More specifically I am interested if there are cases where someone eats less than their TDEE and doesn't lose weight or a case where eating at TDEE is unhealthy for some reason.
Aren't the Central, Jubilee and Victoria lines all using ATO already? They carry drivers for doors, emergencies, etc but I thought that the movement of the train was automated.
There may be special factors we haven't discovered yet, but a lot of people are overweight simply because they don't have the money or will to consume decent food.

imho the article is awful. There was 1 case study and it happened by accident. The title is just giving another excuse to people who are struggling with self-discipline.
I wasn't talking about the relationship between the two, I was talking about "it happened to her, therefore it must be true".
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I don't want to sound pedantic, but the correct pronunciation of "archaeopterix" is [ar-keh-o-pteh-riks]. Apparently the English Wikipedia page for it has the English-tainted pronounciation.

I spent 5 good minutes trying to find a way to transcribe in a way that an Anglosaxon would pronounce correctly, as Greek-Latin vowels have a unique sound while in English their sound depend on the letters before or after them and often are pronounced as diphtongs.

In Greek-Latin AE = E, always, and sounds like the "e" in "men".

Anyway, I'm no linguist.
>> "they've paid in to the NHS at some point earlier, or their parents had"

Yeh, to cover them for the time they were paying. If you're no longer paying your taxes or seeking employment or unable to work due disability the money you paid in the past should't cover you morally.

Edit: There's no doubt the price the writer has to pay in the US is a disgrace and if they couldn't afford it then I think using the NHS is a good temporary solution but the fact that he could afford it but uses that money for a holiday instead is very immoral imo.
English is defined by usage. "Actual correct grammar" is what people actually use.

While I tend to use whom, dative forms in most non-German Germanic languages have been on life support for longer than most of us have been alive.
Everyone I have ever known or seen that goes on one of those bootcamp style exercise programs loses dramatic weight. Every single person.

There's something about working your ass off everyday for an hour with resistance and cardio that works.

Everyone I have ever known or seen that went to actual bootcamp loses dramatic weight too, whether be army or marines.

Yes there might be exceptions for some with rare illnesses, but let's not throw out good common sense because of a small percentage of people.
> I don't think any developer with decision-making power will go anywhere near the GoDaddy brand for years to come.

In the past I prefered Godaddy for pet projects because they used to have lower prices, but until recently they removed all their renewal coupons, so there's not a reason for me to stay with them anymore.

For serious projects I never trusted Godaddy because their process to order a domain is too shady.
In high school we did an experiment where we caught different types of food on fire, and using them as fuel burning under a beaker, measured the temperature change of the water in the beaker.

Later I learned that cow-dung was used for fuel in some of the poorer places on earth.

I always assumed there must be some calories left in stool; and that this seeming-dogma about 'calories in calories out' was completely ignoring what could be a huge amount of calories getting shat out (or not).
> Second, you wouldn't use a donor who's overweight.

Why did that make you cringe in particular?
This kind of reminds me of some site that made the rounds maybe 2 years ago: It used percussive type sound samples and full screen animations for each keypress. I can't seem to remember what it was called. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?
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How do you know that? How can you prove that? Honestly, I wouldn't blame someone for stopping to read at that point.

Is there some reason you believe corporations, composed of human beings, are exempt from the human vulnerabilities documented by people like Zimbardo and Milgram?

That's the whole problem: if someone refuses to go along with your plan, all you have to do is ask somebody else. You will be (un)pleasantly surprised at just how few people, or by extension corporations, you have to approach with your proposal. There's nothing to "prove."
Having sales of your product after the Kickstarter delivers? Doesn't apply to all Kickstarter projects, but any of the bring-an-early-product-to-release ones will benefit from positive word of mouth.
There is an excellent New Yorker article on fecal transplants and gut flora.

The article spends considerable time talking about the donors, and the rigorous screening process to make sure the donated bacteria are good ones. Obviously, that procedure wasn't followed in this particular incident.

Worth a read!

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/01/excrement-exper...
> Second, you wouldn't use a donor who's overweight.

Why? These transplants are so new and cutting edge that we don't know if taking from an obese person will be a bad or good thing, anecdotes like this might help us form an educated opinion, but it is too early to say for sure.

You certainly cannot say for sure if that was a mistake because few know that really...
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I agree with your points, but as far as the high level argument as to "why the web sucks" goes, they are fairly weak towards that end and not as decisive as laid out in the article.
> I've yet to see anyone eat well and exercise and not maintain a healthy weight. Ever. Not once.

I too had never, ever met an overweight person who ate well and exercised. Not even once! Until I did meet one. Your anecdotal absence of proof is not proof of absence. The vast majority of overweight people may eat poorly and not exercise, but that doesn't exclude other possibilities.

In my case, I eat junk food and lead a sedentary lifestyle, and yet I'm lean and muscular. Care to explain?
If we're able to cure obesity using probiotics designed to wipe out existing gut bacteria and replace it with something designed to reduce the absorption of calories/carbohydrates/sugars, that would be a huge breakthrough.

As always, science doesn't happen via "Eureka!" but by "Well that's strange...".
This is really good example of a useful slopegraph. I find so few of these in the wild thus I often fail to articulate the value of the approach such that a client will buy into the idea before I build it.

for reference: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

edit: the use of "small multiples" is superb as well
This article was quite eye-opening, I have to say. I will have to grill my iPhone-owning friends about this... I wonder if they've noticed, or if it's explicitly called out in the UI.