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One 20oz (vending machine size) bottle of Coke per day is 52 lbs of sugar (well, actually high fructose corn syrup) per year. Next time you go shopping, count 10 5-lb bags of sugar. Each and every year.

The NYC Dept of Health estimates that 30% of adult New Yorkers have one sugar-added beverage per day. 20 years ago there were 10oz bottle in vending machines, then 12oz cans, now also 20oz bottles, thus, those consuming a bottle a day today now consume 52 lbs of sugar per year compared with 26 lbs 20 or so years ago.

Many of the poor (and others) have no idea how many sugar calories they are consuming each year when they drink Coke and other sugar-added beverages.

Besides tobacco use, obesity and lack of exercise is one of the major contributors to our increased health care costs.

The previous NY Mayor, Bloomberg, tried to have a state tax on sugar-added beverages passed which is what is recommended by public health officials such as the CDC but that was turned down. Then he lobbied the Federal Government to not allow food stamps to be used for sugar-added beverages but that was turned down. Then the health dept. tried to ensure that in venues where they had control that sugar-added beverages would have a 16oz size limit, but they lost in court.

Ironically, the land for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is located in Atlanta, Georgia was donated by none other than The Coca Cola Company.
Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?
The DMCA is relevant in the US only, so I don't think that's going to work. Moreover, one cannot simply, "claim copyright on your name." It just doesn't work that way.
I've also been using Paint.NET since v1. It's always had the crapware links.
Quantum: Check

Crystals: Check

Using established scientific terminology mashed together in a way that sounds rigorous on the surface but is really gibberish: Check!
I have a feeling that in today's corporate culture he would be probably fired.
I can’t actually remember when I began using ABP. I install it on all browser by default and I believe about a year ago have begun using Ghostery to block annoying beacons everywhere. Never had much success with it on my Google Nexus Tablet and because of it simply stopped surfing the web on tablets and smartphones altogether. However, since the release of Adblock Browser - big big kudos to the team for creating such a fantastic piece of software - I can resume browsing the web on my portable devices. I don’t mind relevant and unobtrusive ads. However, some sites simply have gone overboard with 30 plus beacons included and ads everywhere. I will never support such an aggressive approach to monetising a resource. Especially by those large publishers which believe they can do whatever they want on the web, simply because they're now not limited by physical space anymore, as they are with their print magazines.
Can anyone explain this code?
public class MainClass
{
static int i = 1;

static
{
i = i-- + --i;
}

{
i = i++ - ++i;
}

int methodOfTest()
{
return i + i - i * i / i;
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(new MainClass().methodOfTest());
}

}

Source : http://javaconceptoftheday.com/core-java-coding-questions-which-will-test-your-java-basic-skills/ (Question : 1)
Because some self proclaimed wise ass people on HN think you didn't contribute to the post, asked obvious questions etc.

HN is retarded, and it's user base declining in quality faster then bill cosby's reputation.

People can post the most trivial scripts and ask for attention no problem. But ask a simple question, and you get down voted, welcome to hacker news.

HN, where companies as cloudflare, qualys etc advertise like no other, to report their Xth so called vulnerability report or way how to protect yourself using their services.

Same as this post, even though i know the author typo fix, i disagree completely. You have _NO RIGHTS_ to be forgotten, the person who remembers decides what will be forgotten or not.

This is the right to have data deleted that are in relation of your person and might effect you negatively. This has nothing to do with being forgotten. The hope is that when the data is deleted, people will forget, but there is not such thing as to have a 'right to be forgotten'.

People think that the above exists, need to wake up.
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>One thing with the beverages is that if you choose to not drink them, you will most likely be the weird one in most social situations. Especially if you cut on alcohol.

Totally disagree, nobody cares if you have 2 beers vs 8 beers.
> advanced branch prediction is probably not free

I wouldn't be surprised that in this particular case it's even more about the patents and the possibility to have an advantage to the competition than the silicon. Anybody knows if there is a patent? If there is, who holds it? How much would the CPU which would implement that method cost more?
It is Schroedinger who said that, who, considering his time in history, had a very broad view of what quantum mechanics and DNA are.
Given his high level viewpoint he was correct, considering that he was making a reference to interactions at the level of the universe. Although it is actually your DNA which codes the colour of your eyes, it is also true that quantum mechanics plays a part in the DNA encoding itself, which is what makes his statement true. And the fact that furthermore an exact process was discovered actually makes his statement a remarkably good prediction, as shown here:
"And, just as Schrödinger predicted, ‘every group of atoms’ does indeed play ‘an individual role’, with the position of even individual protons – a quantum property – determining each genetic letter".
Unfortunately, as a general solution, this doesn't really work. The enormous paperwork hassle aside, in some jurisdictions (like Germany), you can't change your name except in very limited circumstances (I think here the situations are marriage, naturalization, or you can demonstrate some hardship from it, like being named "Assbutt McGee" or whatever).
Its functionality hasn't advanced beyond OpenOffice 3.1, which it forked off in 2009. All changes since then have been tweaks. LibreOffice is six years' active development ahead of it.
Business model: scan the Internet for exposed and outdated technologies. Contact the company with a link to your article. Wait a few days, offer your services to upgrade and secure the specific system.
To expand upon this, typically, people at that age have learned moderation or are teetotalers due to choice or recovery. Not a lot of binge drinking woo-boys/girls in their mid to late 30s and beyond, and the exceptions to that rule are probably faced with some societal judgement. The alcoholics (more so the ones in denial) and the one-off regular drinkers that scoff at teetotalers are probably the only judgement giving ones.

I was probably getting close to alcoholism myself and felt touchy around people that didn't drink (well, only the ones that announced it every chance they got, but then it feels like a judgement not a statement). I drank every day basically (and not ONE beer either), but when I went to moderate myself it wasn't too difficult; now I drink less than a handful of times a month.
What about in cases where the prosecution committed no illegal activities in the duration of the trial? The defendant might be innocent of the crime but say that he has no alibi, there's physical evidence from him at the crime scene, and he has a motive. This could be something as benign as a man gets fired from his job. He job involved working with knives in a kitchen. That night, his boss is stabbed to death at the restaurant during a robbery while he's the only one there. Video evidence is grainy but it appears to be a similar car as the suspect leaving the scene. His DNA and fingerprints are all over the knife but the killer was wearing gloves. None of the stolen goods/money surfaced during the investigation. Our suspect was out dealing massive quantities of illegal drugs or maybe having lots of sex with hookers so his alibi is none, being home alone doesn't work. A jury could easily be convinced to convict this man if he had a poor defense attorney.

A few years later after he's been in prison, a video surfaces from an undercover DEA operation of him dealing drugs or maybe a cellphone video of him with hookers. Either way, he is exonerated shortly after the video's time stamp is verified. What should happen to the prosecution? The evidence pointed strongly at him and he had no way to beat the charges without incriminating himself in other illegal activities. Should the prosecution be sent to jail? Doesn't seem fair as everything looked legitimate. The jury determined guilt on the evidence in the first place. You can't punish the prosecution for getting it wrong unless they committed illegal or unconstitutional activities to win the case.
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01/17/the-most...

In short Copenhagen still (sadly) rules the day, followed by many worlds and QIT.
With 8 years of experience, you should be able to get a H1B. Every 3 years of experience adds 1 year to your education. You need 16 years of education to get a H1B. I too do not have a degree and managed to get a H1B. The challenge is to get through the lottery.

However, as many others have suggested, I too would recommend you to try another country, where visa rules are relaxed.
Especially if OP is Syrian:

http://www.seekasylumsweden.info/

Sweden is not California, but California is not Sweden. Why the pity party trying to stay in the US, when Sweden is welcoming--and a great place to live?
Because all your ancestors had it. It's a natural right, which stems from the abundance of new information generated every minute (and the brain's incapacity to contain all of it) and the inability to keep detailed records immediately accessible.

That situation has changed with the combination of web 2.0 and search engines, so now we need laws to enforce the old, natural situation while we (as a society) work out in which direction we want to go.
I can say I watched a lot of grey market content when I could a) not afford otherwise seeing it, and b) when there were nor reasonable offers like Netflix. Since there's Netflix in my country my grey market consumption has diminished to less than 10%. And 100% of that remaining content is content I can't get on Netflix.

The reality is advertising is a brainless way to refinance for content. That's one of the reasons people minimized buying DVD/Bluray, or watching tv (I am not even connected to public tv any more). Find a better way and people will pay.

Finding that way might be hard, harder than I think, but I don't think the whole text media industry will go down before they find a model that works.
Interesting thought about data being exported, I had never looked at it that way. From the French perspective, data is like a new "resource", and Google is the mighty data baron, in the era of the "data rush".
I completely agree with you. As a US citizen, I've found it easier to get through customs in France than to get back into the US.

I find that fact completely astounding.
I wonder why nvidia refuses to release their public API unless you sign an NDA. Are they just worried people will buy cheaper cards and overclock them?
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The author is a molecular biologist with several published books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles, so he definitely has a grasp on basic biology. I think that what you are missing is the assertion that each atom plays an individual role in the process. That is, there are low-level processes that take place on a small enough scale to depend on quantum effects that make direct contributions to DNA. The point is that quantum physics contributes a lot more than we usually think to macroscopic processes like biology.
> proceeded to tell me how terrible I was

Because that's probably cutting into his paycheck ;)
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I think the problem with processed food is that it allows combinations of nutrients which don't occur in nature, which our bodies are not well adapted to.

It's not so much processed foods - obviously you can have processed foods which are healthy too. But if people with very unhealthy diets cut out the kinds of processed foods they eat it would probably go a long way towards making them healthier.

And you're right that capitalism is the root cause - the incentives are skewed towards making foods more addictive and moreish, to help with sales, which leads to making them worse for us. Big food companies even have labs to help them optimise this: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...
No. The right to be forgotten law is not an adaptation, it is an attempt to cling on to the past.

In the past your personal history was difficult to dig. Nowadays it is archived on the Internet for anyone to search and read. These laws try to emulate the past environment in the new information age.

Instead, I think we should let information flow. People will adapt to having lots of information available, and the effect of negative signals, that people are so afraid of today, will probably be minor. As an example: who cares if you smoked pot in college when 60% of people also have an online record of smoking pot.
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> Most laws and regulations "elevate one person's rights over another". Most basic and human rights conflict with other basic and human rights. That's inherent.

This just simply isn't true. Most rights do not violate anyone else's rights. My right to privacy, right to fair trial, etc. all do not require any violation of your rights. Similarly my to free speech doesn't violate any of your rights. I cannot violate your right to privacy using my right to free speech unless either you have already violated it yourself by releasing your information, OR I have committed a crime, in which case the crime has violated your rights, not the free speech.

But a right to be forgotten for me necessitates that if you have information on me publicly accessible on the web, your site has to be hidden or removed. That's elevating my right to be forgotten over your right to free speech.
The only thing I use dropbox for is to publically store screenshots for easy sharing, and dropbox fails more than 50% of the time at that. (the "click to share public link" feature, sometimes takes upwards of 2 minutes, sometimes it's instant)
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official confirmation:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/08/10/virtual-assistant-s...
>And even from those who don't particularly like the Right To Be Forgotten, many would not take kindly to an American company trying to teach us how we should organize our society.

This isn't saying "organize your society like this", it's saying "we refuse to operate under these laws we view as restrictive, so as a society, decide whether you prefer to have these laws, or have Google". They have leverage, why not use it?

As for popular opposition, their case is that they shouldn't need to censor things around the world that are only illegal under French law. That seems likely to be well supported (especially if the alternative is "we can't use Google at all anymore").
To be fair, obesity is caused by a multitude of factors. For example, one often overlooked factor is the speed of eating. Your body only notices that you had enough with a certain delay. The faster you eat, the more you get in before feeling full. So regardless of food quality, fast food poses an elevated obesity risk.
They promote them to the people who like them, but lots of us just do not like the taste of any diet soda. Coke zero and others are better than traditional diet coke to me, but I've never got beyond the initial bad taste--I'd much rather drink water than them.

I've heard that you eventually get used to them or even prefer them, but I've never gotten to that point.
I think the difficulty comes in when the two parties (us vs the site owners) come into the situation with different views about what the website IS.

You're viewing it, quite correctly, as a technical request that's made and some data that's passed back that you can use at your discretion.

They're viewing it as you entering a digital storefront where they need to take every opportunity to convert you into a customer.

In your mind, you're staying right where you are and the data you're getting back is just that: yours. In their mind, you're entering into their space and so they have certain expectations of you and your experience. You telling them what kind of advertising they are allowed to have is, in their minds, tantamount to walking in to one of their stores and telling them to change the displays they have out. Not saying that it justifies any claims about what should be legal, illegal, etc. but it does make sense why each party would have the opinions they do.
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Show HN: Browser extension to make Gmail filter management easier
There really needs to be more transparency to how US compares to other destinations.
https://medium.com/digital-nomad-stories/the-fading-american...
I've been using a different one (http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt), which is roughly the same size. However, their entries seem quite different (only 1921 common domains out of 11356+13586 total). Maybe they should be merged.
What the hell are you talking about? There is no right to assault people. Talk about senseless...

I'm talking about actual rights, not fictitious insane rights like a right to punch people.
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Little mistake "Start interatcing "
‘I’m a professional cyberstalker'
True. We are not, however, far along the road of having our lives exposed online for all to see. We're certainly not far enough to "(...) know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from [wrongful behaviours]".
Hello! I've recently made a Chrome extension that automatically fills "From", "To" and "Subject" fields when you create a new Gmail filter from existing email. I did it for my personal purposes, but probably somebody will find the extension useful too.
Have a look at the screenshots to understand how it works: http://i.snag.gy/z4OTF.jpg.

If you have some ideas or suggestions for the extension - please drop me a line here or use 606b3134@gmail.com.
Flip it and host all your content on the ad servers? Or at least some important parts, such that blocking them would make the site unusable?

Of course someone could startup a sniffer built to do nothing but prove impressions.
Thank you, and I understand. But I'm arguing that the internet is part of the collective memory of Man.
For the uninitiated: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
This has yet to affect me to the point of me actually noticing that anything was broken. The worst I'll see is a lot of extraneous whitespace on a webpage where an ad would have been.

That said, frankly, if a web site won't work properly because it can't load content from an ad network, then it's probably not a site I'd want to visit and pull information from.
The TL;DR: is that non-hot code will run slower (it looks like about 1.5 to 2 times slower) with the benefit of reducing the code-space to about 25% of it's current size. (saving any memory usage that would have been used by that)

"Hot" or optimizable code will still be optimized and run just as fast.
> One thing with the beverages is that if you choose to not drink them, you will most likely be the weird one in most social situations.

Why are you so preoccupied with what people think about you?

Just get a glass of water. If they ask, say you don't drink. That will be the end of it. Trust me, you're not the only one. Many people don't drink soda/alcohol/etc.

> go explain that to people every time you are drinking water in a pub

That's like going to a whorehouse and saying you're abstinent. Of course people are going to give you weird looks.

Don't go to establishments that primarily serve alcohol. If you're going out with friends or co-workers, go to a establishment where the primary focus is on food. Then get yourself a glass of water.

Most people hate making decisions, including where to go. So speak up and tell them where to go.
If you're rooted download F-Droid (Open Source Play Store Alternative) and download 'AdAway'.

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

Works a charm ;)
Because they replace sugar with aspartam, and it's at least as bad as sugar (at the very least in the public opinion / medias).
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Only partially relevant to the subject, but note that this tool still requires the nvidia proprietary drivers to work.

https://secure.freedesktop.org/~cbrill/dri-log/dri-devel-201...
<mupuf> and we already had this information because nvidia-settings is open source :)

The subject post is about reversing the application/driver interface; to get reclocking working on the FOSS nouveau driver would require reversing the driver/hardware interface.

Background: currently newer nvidia cards boot up at a very low clock speed (~0.1x normal speed) and require the driver to reclock it. But nvidia isn't releasing the docs on how to do this.

[0] http://www.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2014/XDC2014SplietREclock/
[1] http://nouveau.spliet.org/evoc.html
[2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
[3] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
It would be very interesting to perform an analysis of the differences and merge them, I agree.
I don't like diet coke either, but think that Zero is completely different. Make sure you drink it when it's cold. My impression is that it also depends on the type of artificial sweetener used, which depends on local taste and regulation. I think it tastes good in Europe and most parts of Asia.
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Regarding MOOCs, part is that is likely cultural - some groups are more likely to have been enculturated in communities where independent learning and self-study is acceptable, if not actively encouraged, versus being discouraged by social ostracization or physical violence in others.

Why do you think that the cultural capital of a certain social group is completely isolated and detached from their income level or past history of economic affluence or wellbeing?

What I find from my observations and unbiased reading is that rich people or people with a good track of generational prosperity have better chances to instill in their families the values of entrepreneurship and taking initiative while in poor or less fortunate families this becomes paradoxically difficult to achieve despite the seemingly urgent need to act on.

So, poor families especially the ones with a history of poverty and hardships spanning many generations back are hit on so many levels whether economically, socially or culturally and your thinly veiled attack on minorities communities and the insinuation that their culture product is the reason behind their economic hardships are not really helpful.
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I now install this on other people's computers as well as ABP.
http://unchecky.com/

Automatically unchecks most 'related/sponsored offers' in installers for software. Most of the adware that people install often tends to be a result of not reading the installer properly.
I can't manage to reconcile what you are explaining here with your previous post on Turkish censorship.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005009

It sounds like you are advocating the exact opposite in both posts regarding how a global company should treat local laws and culture.