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tokenizer··on Green Faces (or How to Hack Your Metabolism)
This is also called Keto is you were maintaining a threshold of less than 20grams of carbs a day.
tokenizer··on Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.
Why wouldn't you use sleep.io as the default?
tokenizer··on Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
It's pretty easy to Google for specific cases of young adults, some less than 22 years old being prosecuted for having younger (16,17 years old) girl/boyfriends. What about teenagers sending naked pictures to their girl/boyfriends through their mobile phones? Not a problem you say? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJBIvBfk26o.

So that video mentions the 15 year old girl who sent the photos, facing federal prosecution as an adult for child pornography charges, and then mentions that the people who've received the photos possibly facing charges as well. Sounds like the author of the article was spot on.

I'd like your opinion on the link I just sent please. The authors point was about the laws being outdated and people being more afraid of dealing with the issue than facing it appropriately for victims. He wrote a good article in relation to that.

tokenizer··on Rick Falkvinge: Why free speech is harmed by the ban on child porn
Yes. Like the author points out. In the case of child pornography, simply having it is illegal regardless of reason, which makes people who come across such content, destroying their evidence.

This would only put more people in jail, the killer (maybe), and the people watching it (maybe). I'd rather it just be the killer. And the molester in the case of the article.

tokenizer··on The Woman Who Needed to Be Upside-Down
This was a great story, and really demonstrates the value of being calm and accessing a situation. This could have easily turned into a worse situation had the doctors forced the man to drop his wife and then examine the situation.
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Agreed. This isn't sexist at all. Bad OP, bad.
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Maybe their should be a type of license regarding the use of the API that we should all look for? I feel the same way and am reticent to build anything for twitter or facebook...
tokenizer··on Judge Upholds $675K fine for Downloading, Sharing 30 Songs
It costs roughly $30 dollars in Canada for a 12 song cd. If multiply that cost by 2.5 (for the 30 songs) you get $75. Let's say you consider 1000x for damages and that's still only 75,000 dollars! This is a crazy amount of money for a fine.
tokenizer··on A worthy Ultrabook appears: the ThinkPad X1 Carbon reviewed
I have Ubuntu with my X1 (less than a year old but not carbon). While it works great from a drivers standpoint, the trackpad is extremely messed up. My only dislike for the laptop is the poor trackpad. Other than that it's solid.
tokenizer··on 100% of the world now uses the cloud
Exactly! It's funny how you could take something so broad and even try to make it something specific. To me the definition will always be very broad. Maybe I'm a cloud developer instead of a web developer now?
tokenizer··on Working on (serious) side project while having a full-time job
I feel the same way, although, I usually have spurts, where I will work really hard on a side project for a few days, maybe even a week, but end up burning myself out when it's combined with work. You're not alone.
tokenizer··on 100% of the world now uses the cloud
I remember when I was in school, the illustrations our instructor would use for the internet (networking class), would be a cloud. I always associated with "Internet". To me, having something interconnected and easily accessible is "Cloud". While I'm sure other people could defend their definitions, I'm pretty sure this was before the term was popular, so I'm going to continue my conceptualization of it in this way.

However, when it comes to cloud hosting, is VPS included? I only use one node right now, but if I balance my load across to servers, would it then be cloud?

tokenizer··on Norwegian bomber and Utøya killer Anders Breivik ruled sane
Not everyone who commits inhumane acts are insane. Some people's actions are based on their mental health, other actions are based on people's ideologies. In this case, the man was an extremist.

No normal sane person would do such a thing, only someone who is either an extremist or an insane person would.

tokenizer··on Norwegian bomber and Utøya killer Anders Breivik ruled sane
Absolutely. Insanity would be considered in the medical sense in a court room, not in a societies preconceived notion of what insanity means.

Webster defines it as, "a severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder (as paranoid schizophrenia)".

This means that they concluded that he committed the crime in a non disordered state, and his mental health did not point to any particular disorder. Just because someone holds extremely radical views (you mentioned religion, politics can also be included) doesn't mean someone is insane.

However, I'm sure it was a very close call.

tokenizer··on The White House just open sourced their first Github repo
However, the point about the brain is accurate. While this is purely my own experience, two people I've known, have developed schizophrenia in their early twenties (when the onset usually occurs) and both had smoked pot heavily in their teens. I and many more friends however, have and continue to smoke pot with no ill effects save short term memory.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/health/medical/pediatrics/2...

However, repeated studies and surveys show that it is easier for teens to get certain drugs, including pot, than it is for them to get cigarettes or alcohol. This make sense considering someone mandated by law to check for id is selling it to them, oppose to another teen selling them unchecked, non taxed pot without doing so.

Link: http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-t...

While this thread may be about the white house's code base, hear this; don't put your github account near this. You may think it could be harmless, but they could be collecting your account names. After all we are all just dangerous computer hackers!

Link: http://www.channel4.com/news/hackers-are-more-dangerous-than...

Disclaimer: Just my opinion.

tokenizer··on Is there a 'Moore's Law' for web pages?
Interesting insight. I wouldn't be sure to call it a law if it didn't apply to every web page, which this wouldn't.

But if one could do some averaging for every year, I'd like to see if a similar trend happened.

tokenizer··on Is An International Cyber Regulatory Agency Needed?
I think so. But isn't this a touchy issue? I mean doesn't the US own the internet? So why would they relinquish regulation?
tokenizer··on I said I hated HN, blown away by the response
You could argue that's necessary for change though.
tokenizer··on Ask HN: Keeping yourself hire-able while not working?
Applying to jobs, working on projects, taking contracts. You know what to do, you just want us to tell you to do it. Do it bud!
tokenizer··on History of CSS Layouts, from Geocities on
Very interesting read. The best information I got out of this was the: columns: 30em 4; property.

Explanation from the post:

The width you specify isn't an absolute, it's a goal. If 2½ columns will fit, you'll get two columns 45em wide each. If only half a column will fit, you'll get one column 15em wide. So the width might not always be what was specified, but for the reader, the design always fits the screen perfectly. And since the column heights are auto-balanced, the layout always fits the content.

tokenizer··on Thoughts on being a programmer
You're right. I guess I meant the aspect of fear one has of new things as they get older. I hate that personality trait. It is more prominent in older people.
tokenizer··on Thoughts on being a programmer
Be yourself. Code for fun. There's hundreds of ways to write the same thing, don't be a dick about your way, but stand up for good practices. Respect those who accomplish great things, because it was a lot of work, even if they say it was a weekend practice, they took a lot of time to get to that point. If you code correctly, one line changes are possible. Learn to desire success more than you fear failure. (I like this one) Don't become the old people you hate, always try to learn new things, no matter how alien. Who cares if you're coding on production live? Right? Right? Comments are for the weak, tracing and prototyping code is not. Mistakes are inevitable *It's hard being the smartest person in the room sometimes, wear it with humility rather than pride.

My version of the list. This was fun!

tokenizer··on Why Absolutely Everyone Needs To Be Software Literate
Keyword is average. The average IQ is 90 to 100 (Not saying I agree with IQs). The average is generally not something to aspire to.
tokenizer··on Why Absolutely Everyone Needs To Be Software Literate
This was my view on why people should know how to code, not because I love it and you should love it too, but because, my god man, you use a computer for like at least 6 hours a day if you're in any modern country.

Not knowing how hardware works in one thing, but software is becoming even more proliferate. Not understanding something that will encompass so much of the economy, your leisure, and not to mention something so powerful, is ridiculous and infantile.

Maybe it's just me, but I always wanted to know how things worked, and it still baffles me how people don't want to know how software works. It's quite easy for the most part after a few years of torturous study:

Databases, Queries, Logic Conditionals, Data Structures, Inheritance/Polymorphism, Graphics, and your done. You basically understand software, and can marvel over it with another perspective...

NOTE: I obviously missed your favourite specialization and I'm sorry, but only a basic understanding is necessary, and is achievable with understanding a few of each of the concepts I've listed.

tokenizer··on United Airlines Lost My Friend's 10 Year Old Daughter And Didn't Care
Some people value being able to mask their account to voice their true opinion.

It doesn't mean he's creating an account to troll necessarily, but to conceal his more reputable account from things we all know if possible; abuse. Something your parent doesn't seem to respect.

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

tokenizer··on Ask HN: Would most managers today fire Steve Jobs?
Absolutely when it comes to big companies. I'd also like to imagine that Steve would have potentially gotten fired before making any heads spin with his decisions/design achievements.

I'd say that Steve Jobs created an interesting atmosphere/culture for a company more than anything, and that if he was just a rank and file employee, would never had the chance for this.

tokenizer··on How to make a website in only 5 years
Great post. I kinda resent when people mention weekly products that seem so awesome simply because I fret about with my projects, but then again, they're awesome if it's true, and kudos for the work ethic.

I think that the author, and I can definitely relate to this as well, don't plow through without overthinking things, and I feel this holds people back more than anything. I'd love to just build something without constantly getting stuck with architecture or design decisions constantly...

tokenizer··on Was Godaddy Caught Registering Domains Names After Availability Lookup?
When I used GoDaddy they automatically park your domain until you configure the nameservers like you said. This is the most likely explanation of his/her account.
tokenizer··on Was Godaddy Caught Registering Domains Names After Availability Lookup?
How do you explain users mentioning the who is data linking back to GoDaddy?

I'm trying to believe this is just rotten luck, but every single account of this happening seems to link back to GoDaddy.

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