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This one I think is an interestingly specific question. I'm not upvoting it, but I'm not flagging it, either: It might lead to interesting answers.

Steve Reich's Music For 18 Musicians does it for me. It's a beautiful, pulsating piece, with every movement focusing on a single chord, with no progressions for minutes at a time. It's one of the most unique classical pieces I've ever heard, and it gets my mind in a relaxed mood almost instantly.
My personal observations: a lot of people who think they exercise actually do not.

While they may be physically located in a facility that describes itself as a gym, and while they may be moving their body and limbs to some degree, they don't make an effort. They don't put in any work.

Walking on a treadmill for fifteen minutes, using about the same amount of energy as it took them to even get to the gym is not sufficient.

Using machines or free weights at about the weight of the gallon of milk they habitually lift every day is not sufficient.

You have to put in the work. Whether you want to burn calories or build muscle, there is no short-cut to get around this fact.

Another wonderful mistake is to not work out properly because you don't want to expose yourself to the risk of accidently putting on too much muscle mass — sort of like not walking home too fast because you don't want to accidentally break the landspeed record.
Just to be clear, I am an admin and have never, ever disclosed any information I have come accross in log files to anyone other than the person in question's boss (and this is only with a written request approved by my boss). To be honest, I couldn't tell you the browsing habits of any of my users beyond hostnames and bandwidth logs from our firewAll. I suspect most admins Are the same way (at least I hope).
"You'd be better off with 20 minutes of high intensity workout versus 3 hours putzing around on a stationary bike."

You actually do burn a lot of fat just cruising at 155bpm or whatever, it's just that it takes about 90 min for your body to exhaust the energy supply in your liver. At this point your percentage of energy coming from fat increasing, which is necessary not only to lose weight but also to get the full benefits of cardio training. That's why elite athletes always go for at least 90min when they do cardio.

Note though that you want to eat something every 45min or so and also drink something with electrolytes or else you risk 'overtraining', which doesn't actually come from training too much but rather from chronic glycogen depletion.
That's just a sample. No way to load other videos in the HTML5 viewer.

fyi, the link works great in Safari.
I'm sorry, how does this make anything better?
Had you been less lucky and encountered medical bills that you and your family couldn't afford, everyone else would have to pay higher prices to make up for your failure to pay. If you want to live in a society where no one will be left to die because they can't pay, then you're going to have to chip in to make that happen. That requires insurance for large medical expenses so no one else has to pick up the tab for you.
Yep, I used to follow it years ago when it was still being updated. I think I've read all the stories on that site. (That's where I learned that Steve Jobs couldn't program. Amazing!)
Thank you! and you're welcome :)
This seems cool. It's not working for me though, the video never plays and the track scan and volume buttons have a blue border around them. I'm on FF 3.5.5
I agree with you although I wonder what happens in the case of repeated purchases. Wouldn't the store with lower prices and lower profits on these warranties attract more buyers? Or what if it's Christmas time and I'm buying a gift, I would consider the extended warranty much more rationally.
Brace : Dialect of C that looks like Python
I don't know about you but here is my experience from my first mobile app:

After 3,5 months of development I was really looking forward to launching, relaxing and observing. I still remember when I received the notification that my app is selling and it didn't take long until the first sale came in.

But then you just realized that once your app is finished and launched, you are just starting. Marketing, sales, letting other people know about your app/startup, bug fixing, customer support.

While marketing is not everything, you will realize that even if you have an awesome product you have to market it because there is simply too much out there that anyone will notice. Of course if your product is not great, your marketing efforts are wasted. But without marketing efforts, nobody will know about your app.
You need to manually press the play button. The numbers are a lie (0:00/0:00) and the blue border only appears in FF (silly thing requires a border=0 which I'll add later). It may take a while on slower internet and some videos do not have an MP4 upload on YouTube. However, the YouTube slider does work and you can use it to skip to any part of the movie.
Why can't scope be resolved at compile-time?

I realize that things like window.x can be added at runtime, but local scopes ought to be simple to rule out.... as long as there are no calls to eval() .....

eval(), which can introduce local bindings at runtime from arbitrary, runtime-constructed strings....

Ugh.

And since aliases to eval can also be created, in any scope, from other dynamically eval()'d code strings, you can't even be sure that any nonlocal symbol won't resolve to eval.

So the only way you can be sure that a level of scope can be skipped in the lookup chain is if there are no function calls made on any redefinable nonlocal symbols.

If there were a subset of javascript where eval was a keyword instead of an identifier, then this would be easier.
Probably because weight loss is "cheaper", i.e. it doesn't have to take from your precious time. And don't forget that being overweight brings along a few health problems, so weight loss automatically leads to improved health.
I wonder if "The Warranty Psychology" is extendable to the freemium model? In many cases, a web app may involve a large commitment which isn't necessarily monetary.

One's web email program can involve a large commitment of time. A lot of people spend quite a lot of time answering emails. Many other web apps may involve such large commitments as well. Some forms of "premium" service can act to increase the user's feeling of security in their decision.
Wow. That sure is a barrage of caveats. Nevertheless, this is awesome. I had the exact same idea last night and I could not sleep either; I put on a movie instead so kudos :) This is a really great idea and based on the shortcomings of Flash you described in your article it sounds like Google should have been doing this anyway. If they can take advantage of a new technology to better serve their users, why not?
I would choose the large apple. You know, the body is not stupid, eating 110 kcal doesn't mean storing fat.

In fact, Apple(look at the nutritional values):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple
- Sugars 10.39 g
- Fat	0.17 g

Peanut:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut
- Sugars 0 g.
- Fat Saturated 9 gr!!
- Fat monounsaturated 24gr!!
- Fat polyunsaturated 16gr!!

Maybe that doesn't tell you anything but 100 gr olive oil has more calories that 300gr of sugar.

Eating apples is natural for human beings,like many other fruits, eating peanut butter is not(apple has a lot of water with their sugar what makes it easy to process, and converting its sugars to fat would take energy).

They are other reasons for storing fat, e.g cold protection and cell and arteries protection from acids(produced by sugars burning).

The calories approach is an oversimplification.
Some links about the paradox itself:

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess%27s_paradox

English translation of the original paper: http://homepage.rub.de/Dietrich.Braess/Paradox-BNW.pdf

Preface to the translation: http://supernet.som.umass.edu/articles/preface_to_braess.pdf
It rather sounds like something from a D&D rulebook.
The above post is best said aloud in the voice of The Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.
Bioavailability is important.
> Of course the body is a complex thing, but the physics is easy, and understanding the physics makes the mental side easier too.

I think this is actually quite profound. So many people don't understand the (relatively simple) physics of it, they try out things left and right — for a week — because they read it in a magazine.
but since muscle is more dense than fat you'll be thinner too.

By weight-loss people generally seem to mean size-loss anyway.
The quick and dirty tricks suggested, none of which are particularly novel, are fine and probably good ideas for being more productive in the short term.

But what about the long-term increase from using willpower? I would be very interested to see research on how that works, particularly with an eye toward how one might construct a "willpower training regimen" of sorts.

There're a lot of questions that would need to be answered before being able to construct an optimal plan for increasing willpower reserves, such as: Does the gain depend on the final decision, or does it still benefit if you resist for a period of time before giving in? How quickly do you hit diminishing returns for use of self-control within a short time period? Are long-term gains roughly linear up to some point, or is it more complicated than that? What kind of effective upper limit is there? To what extent do gains depend on how tempting the thing you're resisting is? Are there long-term losses from not exerting self-control regularly?

Anyone know if research along those lines has been done?
I've been thinking a lot about how tags might be used to organize friends/contacts. Ideally I'd have a way to tag everyone I knew, perform basic set operations with the tags, and then synchronize the resulting lists with a variety of social websites. So I could be "friends" on a new site with, say, my 'friends among political junkies' and 'friends from college' but none of my 'friends from work' who were not also 'close friends'.
HTML5 video is not supposed to be used for video streaming at all. I think it is doubtful that companies with the concerns you described would use the video tag.
Only browser I got your app working in was Chrome. What browser were you primarily testing the application in? What version? Because Firefox just released an update this morning and it could very well be the culprit.

I not only could not get Firefox (3.5.5), IE7, or Safari to work with your HTML5 YouTube app, but I could not get YouTube's app to work either; I hope this fact mitigates your worries.
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I tried to say this and ended up being 4 sentences. You did it with three. pg did it in one with "Building what they should have made"

I think he has another tshirt quote.
The "rest of the day" assertion is commonly observed by people training, but I don't have a link handy.

Here's one that shows a longer-term effect:

http://jap.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/2/695

Essentially, incorporating resistance training in your exercise regime raises your basal metabolic rate.

This is quite well studied, and makes sense.
ClickToFlash allows you to download the HD H264 version of the video.
Well that's your experience, obviously you weren't exercising more than you was consuming.

I easily lost over 20lbs whilst regularly eating McDonald's (by regular I mean I managed two big mac & fries & large soda, sometimes multiple times a week). Plus at the time I was consuming tons of empty calories in the form of beer and alcohol.

I didn't exercise either, I simply did my job. 8 hours of hard menial work, and frequently carrying exceptionally heavy weights up and down stairs. It's estimated that for an athletic person, 9 stairs = 1 calorie. Basically you burn 1 calorie every 5 1/4 feet if you're a ~120lb person. At the time I was ~240lb and I was carrying ~70lb of materials and ~20lb of tools up a 15ft staircase.

Basically I burnt 9 calories every trip upstairs and I likely made over a hundred of them in a day, every day 7 days a week. I lost that 20lbs in two weeks.

So from my experience, you can literally eat the most disgusting greasy food and load up on hundreds of empty calories because if you actually work you will find a way to burn off those calories. Assuming 1 hour of mild exercise means you can eat anything you want is absurd. I 'exercised' over 8 hours a day (frequently it ran to 10 hours) and it made me a shit load of cash . . . suck that gym membership!
I suppose when people comparison-shop they compare on prices, not thinking about extended warranty yet. That part comes later.

You are also neglecting an important factor - someone who is that much into forethought and rational decision-making (such as yourself) so that he is comparing extended warranties before shopping is more likely to buy after-market insurance or better yet skip it altogether because it's pointless.

In fact, I would prefer to shop in stores with more expensive extended warranty because such stores can allow lower margins on the products themselves.
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Apparat's Walls album. If there is a way to hack consciousness, Walls does it:
http://www.lala.com/#album/1513490949824332234/Apparat/Walls

Try Fractals part 1 and 2. It really does feel like the audible equivalent of a fractal!
I was surprised to read this. Wikipedia also has "Zero-day warez: copyrighted works that are pirated on the same day they are released", so the meaning of zero-day is different depending on the context.

I'm not quite convinced by the Wiki quote though; more than once, I've heard 0-day attacks to mean a vulnerability found on the day a new version of a software is released. Perhaps both meanings exist.
Arrington has an inflated sense of self importance. I'm quite sure that, he too, does not give a hoot about users, just about trumpeting himself. I had the opportunity to interact with him in person back in July and picked up a weird negative vibe and actually felt bad about it. Don't know what it was but the man just reeked of negativity!
Communism is a cold shower
Aren't there enough objectively bad things about Flash to justify summarizing it as "evil"? It does so many bad things to a web site's accessibility, usability, download size, security, and performance that anybody with a genuine interest in making the web a better place should be encouraging migration to the open standards based alternatives. Now that HTML5 features are available, it seems that the only significant things Flash has going for it are a large install base and a decent authoring tool.
looks cool! what features did the author add beyond straightforward (nice-looking) syntactic transformations from Python-like syntax into C code? in other words, if i stared at Brace code and imagined how to manually translate it into C, what tricky cases are there?

the ability to quickly generate graphics with little code reminds me of Processing: http://processing.org/
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OK, it's going to be super-slow right now because it's already been slashdotted.

Don't know why it's taking it down so badly, MySQL has been acting up for the past fortnight :S

EDIT: Just swapped services (from Apache to IIS) and it looks like everything's doing better.
It depends what state of consciousness I'm currently in and what state I'm trying to get into. I think though that the best way to hack your state of conscious is by selectively engaging or disengaging all of the senses at once. There is actually a machine that was at least patented to do this for you, although I'm not sure if it ever actually went into production or not:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...
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A lot of people underestimate the value of weight training. Gaining muscle increases your metabolism. And really, you aren't going to look anything like a bodybuilder. And if you want to, you already know what kind of work that requires.
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But those ideologists are right, Flash is evil in so many ways:

a) It eats babies. (Seriously, look at how much CPU and RAM it eats.)
b) It's insecure. Want a flaw that even users with a safe browser (ie not IE) are not safe against? Search for a Flash vulnerability.
c) It sucks for handicapped people. Blind? Well your bad that you can only use a screen reader. No website for you. (This obviously doesn't matter for video sites).
d) Cookies? Lame, if you really want to track your user (or whatever you call the people that watch your ads), even if he clears his browser cache, use Flash cookies. Want to open Popups? Too bad the user has a popup blocker. Oh wait, we can get around that with Flash.
d) It's closed source, so many free software people don't want to run it.
Thanks. I did press the play button and nothing is playing. I just copied the whole youtube link into the box before watching. That's what you're supposed to do, correct?
More than a dialect, a skin over C which could use some syntactic sugar. let(a,1)? In my book "a = 1", not even "let a = 1".
It could be interesting, but the examples are too LOGO-ish, it could do trivial "duck-typing" (does "int a = 0" really need the "int"?), and the trade-off of using an imperative language or using another imperative language _and_ using another compiler isn't worth it.
Yeah, I don't think Ghandi's strategy would have worked against Stalin. In the purges he had people murdered in broad daylight pretty regularly and it didn't even ruffle his mustache.
They would never use Linux for Avionics, because it would be far too expensive to get such a large and complex system certified for that kind of work.

Commercial planes use linux for non-critical functions like the in-flight entertainment. I can't think of anything that would be on a fighter plane that would be considered "non-critical" enough to not require a high-integrity system though.
I think there is some truth in the advice to avoid sub-vocalizing. It seems to improve my reading speed, but does take an effort. The other day I was reading something that included a word I have some trouble pronouncing (sorry, don't remember what it was now). I noticed I was pausing over that word every time I encountered it, trying to solve the puzzle of how to pronounce it. When I made an effort to stop that, I sped up my reading quite a bit.
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I too have always been able to read at what other people think are very high speeds. It started when I was in 2nd grade. (talking Australian here, don't know if this is the same terminology for other countries) In grade two I could read at a grade 6 level, by year 7 I could read at a year 12 level. This is by no means some amazing feat, I'm certainly not special.

It was around grade 5 I realised that I could actually read much faster than my peers. It was silent reading hour and I finished my book in a few minutes, the teacher told me that I hadn't and to keep reading, the other kids called me a liar. It was a long hour as far as I was concerned being a little kid. After that I hid my speed reading and only ever used it to entertain myself. I would try to see how fast I could read the subtitles on the Japanese shows they played on SBS, or to knock off an entire book before my mum made me turn off my lights. When I practised by myself I usually did it out loud, trying not to slur my words, stuff like that. Once again this was just for my own amusement.

Reading out loud I am very fast, my sister is the only person I have ever met that can understand when I read a passage at full speed. Silently I read many times faster. I always hear people saying that cutting out the sub-vocalisation allows anyone to read at high speeds, but I still say the words in my head as I go.

I find I can read most fiction without having to slow down to enjoy it, as well as still comprehending and remembering all the plot details, character interactions and even the exact wording of dialogue from fairly far back in the text. I find it is not as useful for technical writings or anything involving stopping to understand math. Despite this it is still very useful for quickly finding passages or words in large chunks of text or reading through material that can be learned by rote.

All in all I treasure my little skill and would be very upset to lose it.
A search for "period without war in Western Europe" goes to this thread.
I too would love to hear other ideas about it!

I have only came up with one option "premium, personal tech support service plan". Given that I already give this level of service to all customers anyway, I might as well sell it as an add-on.

Maybe you, I and whoever else is into this should branch off into some place more permanent to brain-storm some ideas?
This doesn't address my criticism. I've never read that training in the morning provides a superior metabolism boost.
The struggle between national interests does not require war. War is counter-productive to national interests. A great conflict is currently playing out between the USA and China in Africa but not a shot has been fired and there is no reason for a shot to be fired.
The music that alters my state tends to be the kind of music that creates an atmosphere:

* Anything by Gas (but mostly Zauberberg and Königsforst)

* Eno and Fripp

* Burial

* Montauk
A lot of it looks like this even today.

It's funny that people, even today, are giving Apple advice on how they should change their business strategies, considering that Apple is hugely successful and extraordinarily profitable.
I just released an iPhone app called QuickReader (http://www.quickreader.net). It is a "speed reading eBook reader" that trains you to read more words at once (expand your field of vision) and track properly. It employs the same techniques as are taught in the better speed reading courses. You take a speed reading test and then adjust the reading guide from 100 to 2000 words per minute. It comes with 21 full-length eBooks, so it doubles as an eBook reader. You can watch a demo video describing how it works at http://www.quickreader.net/videos or find it on the iTunes app store at http://bit.ly/GetQuickReader.
I don't speed read, but I have still read 3 different ~400 page books in a single day. What I find really strange is just how slow some people read where some people actually speak faster than they read which seems odd to me.
Stupid microoptimisations.
Not only one should never optimize prematurely, and that is noted in the slides, but one should also never optimize like that (at least in the JS context). The interpreters/compilers/whatever will evolve for the readable cases, not for obscure idiocies, and programs using these techniques today will just run slower tomorrow.
Love the album.

As an aside, if you're an Ableton Live 8 user, you can go download Fractales (both parts) as an Ableton Live Set -- part of their 10th anniversary celebration. It is fun to tease apart the track and figure out what makes it tick.

http://www.ableton.com/able10-artist-packs (see Apparat)