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> Food companies have been slated to add chemicals into their food that have been found to correlate with addiction, to keep people coming back for their product.

What does this even mean? Barring the more obvious "correlation != causation" issue here, this seems... logically fuzzy at best, and also reeks a bit of the "chemicals are bad" fad. Do you happen to have examples of such chemicals that "have been found [by whom?] to correlate [how strongly?] with addiction [to themselves? to something else? to what?]"?
> The human body is finely tuned to signal you to drink long before you are actually dehydrated.

Easily said than done. This is only true if the body is healthy in the first place, once you starts messing it up with unhealthy diet (especially high-in-sugar and salt diet) and so on, your body will confuse thirst with hunger. You have no idea how often people confuse both, the body will be happy to eat any food because most food has water in it.

The reality is that water is about the easiest and healthiest thing people can do and yet, in US, it's more common to see people drinking juices, soda, and any other sugar beverages with zero pure water drinks.

For people who can't think for their health, telling them to drink 8 cups of water and nothing else is the best thing we can do. Once they do, they are likely lose a lot of weight without any exercise. Unfortunately, it is more likely they won't follow through because sugar is an addiction that is not easily given up by the body.
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I feel like I'm using it constantly. I even find myself creating appointments more often for what I know is coming up just so I can get those departure reminders. I've uninstalled the Flixter app because it seems to show me movie recommendations every time I'm about to lookup showtimes. I almost never open a package tracking or travel reservation email any more. It just seems to save me time.
but why is FUSE used more often?
Doesn't turbotax provide just that? I did my taxes with them last year and never left the browser.
Some places don't even match 401k...
Credit where credit is due

-> https://github.com/sindresorhus
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> infidelity which we had the decency to try and keep secret.

Moreover, infidelity was about sex. It might also have cost a bit of money, going to mistresses and bastards, for wealthy male adulterers, but it didn't affect patrimonial rights. Neither could the mistress be promoted as new wife, to the detriment of the incumbent one.

The idea that marriage is first and foremost a love affair is a fairly recent one, and coincides with its demise (explosion of divorces, monoparental families...) The lifelong marriage was a patrimonial affair.
> Like you and I, they are simply looking for companionship - for someone they can count on for support and non-judgement during times of crisis, but who will also push them to become better and achieve their goals.

transfire explicitly was addressing the condition of men seeking sex, which is not the same as mean seeking "companionship - for someone they can count on for support and non-judgement during times of crisis, but who will also push them to become better and achieve their goals".

Insofar as women are seeking that (whether or not that's like you), that would likely be a problem for men who are simply seeking sex and not to find or provide companionship.

To the extent that there are asymmetries in the degrees to which (heterosexual, for simplicity) men and women seek sex vs. mutual companionship in relationships, this will produce advantages and disadvantages to some people on both
sides. For instance, to the extent the stereotypical idea that men are more prone to seek sex and women more prone to seek companionship is true (note that I'm not claiming it is), men who seek sex will have a more difficult time, as will women who seek mutual companionship (while, conversely, women who seek sex and men who seek mutual companionship will have a comparatively easy time.)

Its a simple issue of poor alignment of supply and demand (but it doesn't make it worse to be a man than a woman -- it makes it worse to be a man or woman seeking what people of your gender are most prone to seek, and people of your preferred gender are least prone to want to provide.)
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Buffett is more extroverted today, he grew up as an introvert.

Per his own biography:

He found it extremely difficult to approach women when he was younger. He simply was unable to do it.

He used to hide in the corner at college parties, and would wait for others to introduce themselves. Once he became comfortable with people or a situation, he could open up.

He was terrified by public speaking, and was completely unable to do it. He had to force himself to get better at it, so he could be effective in business.

He kept heavily to himself growing up, had a couple of friends, and spent his time reading investing books from the public library.

From his own descriptions of his pre-20s youth, he was a classic introvert.
I'd actually be looking at buying with a big down move. Not with all my cash, because trying to time bottoms is a bad idea. Buy with 1/3 or 1/4 cash whenever there's a significant drop and you should average out pretty well without having to time.
Everything that they do on the "cloud" or did ChromeOS started using native applications client side only?
I use it a lot. It pushes down alerts when my subway lines are delayed, as well as the status of various deliveries I have from Amazon.com and the like. Also sports results, which I sometimes care about.

That said, I believe what the article says - I don't feel like Google Now has changed meaningfully in a long time. The other day I got an alert saying that app-specific cards are being enabled, but I'm yet to see one.
I don't agree. I think that this quote expresses a more modern understanding of human transgressions such as adultery than what was present in the culture at that time. It called into question whether in fact capital punishment was appropriate for a transgression of that sort.

I'm reminded of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's comment when he defended a bill decriminalizing homosexual acts: "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation".
Because the pressure should go in the opposite direction -- they should have to find users that want to be spied on, we shouldn't have to find operating systems that don't spy on us.

I wouldn't otherwise have used Windows had I known they'd be shoving their telemetry reporting down my throat.
What's the typical way to handle transport security on 9p2000 or 9p?
A-10 replacement? USAF strategy calls for 'future CAS platform'
Over a period of 4 or 6 years? Sure they do. Personally, I've gone to Scout meetings for 2 decades, and spent a fortune on structured outings, uniforms, materials and supplies. Its something I enjoy and has a good result.

We have degrees to satisfy the need for some for closure, to recognize accomplishment, and to get old students out of there and make room for new ones. That a degree has been fastened onto as a job-training certificate is just unfortunate.
Why is it that suddenly lots of people are commenting about Android spying as much as Win10 ? This has never been a hugely commented upon topic but, as soon as concerns are raised about Win10, lots of people seem to respond that it's not as bad as Android.

It's almost like it's been a prepared response designed to distract attention from the problem (Win10 privacy) and try and deflect onto Android (and hence give Google a kick in the nuts in the process).

The issue is privacy in Win10. If you're concerned about privacy in Android, post something related to that and make the comments there.
I buy cat food from chewy.com. I doubt the site is worth $1B, but it does seem to be staying in business.
Just fuck my shit up fam, jesus... and I was thinking about shorting it friday. Oh well, gotta wait it out. Just hope it won't take 5 years not counting inflation
There are many articles on the internet - with varying levels of credibility. A quick Google for such things as chemical food addiction should yield many of this type of thing:

http://www.alternet.org/5-unhealthy-foods-engineered-be-addi...

Obviously you will be able to discern which are credible and which are not. That was sarcasm/cynicism, because it's really hard to discern what is credible, to what degree and what the motive of the author was. There is much propaganda on both sides of the fence, so at this point, it's pretty tough, beyond a religious debate to have any objective discussion.
I got fed up with Windows when XP was released. I've been running 64bit Linux since.
You see the Fed no longer pumping QE at $80B/month.
It isn't hostile just because it draws a conclusion about something.
That's a fragile solution at best. One update could change the IP/hosts of the data harvesting servers.

Surely the data will be transmitted using TLS or equivalent; HTTP logging won't do you much good unless you can (a) MITM the TLS setup, or (b) extract the keys that the spyware is using.
tldr: jamming can interrupt a carrier air group's activities

Aircraft and missile IFF, GPS, ILS, coms, etc. are indeed RF dependent and can indeed be jammed, hacked, spoofed, EMP'ed and snooped. But, IMO, none of this really news. RF measures and countermeasures have always--and will continue to--leapfrog each other. For example, switching to UWB will make jamming and snooping much harder.

It's also not the end of an air wing to have some channels denied. It might slow things down but the navy is pretty good at backup plans. For example, planes fly just swell without radios, pilots can follow paper maps, and iron bombs will continue to fall downwards.
Thanks!

I have used it. It's a good plugin, especially if running the test suite locally is already a habit of yours. The goal I had with flask-pytest more about taking "forgetting to run the tests" off the table (and less about the re-run case--although that's still an important feature for both).
"Adobe continues to actively invest in enabling developers to create and deploy Flash based content as mobile (and desktop) applications via Adobe AIR."
"Said simply, a liberated product is one which has built-in features that make it easy (and free) to remove your data from the product in the event that you'd like to take it elsewhere"

"For example, you can choose to have your data deleted — after three, six, nine or 12 months of inactivity."
Myself, I've got a choice. Either I'm at a constant weight and I'm stupid due to low blood sugar, or I end up gaining weight. It's incredibly hard for me to find the right balance, I haven't managed it yet.
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Well I think there's some pretty clear correlation that numerous large companies have been using cheap credit in the bond market to buy back shares at a rapid pace (billions) and further inflate the status of the equities market. That's the cheap credit that isn't doing anything other than fleecing the non-investor class. It's simply financial engineering dependent on access to cheap credit, from what I understand.
‘Customer collaboration over contract negotiation’ and #NoEstimates
There's a lot of stories about people searching for a domain on GoDaddy, seeing a good deal - and by the time they fill out the information the domain is purchased. By who? By GoDaddy.

http://antigodaddy.com/
I'm going to recommend deadlisting/disassembly instead. Network analysis doesn't give as much context for exactly what is sent, and there seems to be - as far as I can see, yet? - a total lack of hard data and verifiable evidence about what all this "telemetry" actually is, what can be turned off, what can't, and what actually gets sent to whom, when, from what, and why.

The "evidence" I have seen so far that Windows 10 communicates with its maker is, let's be honest, pretty scaremongery and includes things like LLMNR traffic - which is link-local! - and neglects to consider that Windows Update now checks much more frequently (because of the accelerated release cadence of a rolling release) and essentially torrents its updates now, P2P-style.

If there's a real privacy issue - and there may well be, especially on default settings - we need reliable, detailed, hard information to see what binaries send what to where to begin to address it, and to see what can be turned off, what should be, etc. Does anyone know if anyone's begun that analysis yet?

(Of course it really should be Microsoft openly discussing this, but in the absence of that, the mantle inevitably falls to independent researchers.)
> If you sell immediately you will have no capital gains and therefore pay no capital gains tax.

That's the point. If you sell immediately, it's roughly the same as getting cash. If you sit on the stock, you need to worry about capital gains/losses and the tax implications.

> If you hold on to the stock for six months before selling and the stock went up ... you will still come out ahead versus having sold the stock on the day they vested.

Sure, you can play the market-timing game. I don't think that holding stock for less than a year is generally a good idea, due partly to the tax difference but largely because I'm not trying to time the market.

> The problem isn't short term capital gains taxes

Short-term capital gains are a pretty big deal. The gap between short-term and long-term capital gains taxes is up to 20%.

> If that happens you will have both lost money on the stock, and have to pay ordinary income tax on the value of the stock before it went down.

You can deduct the capital loss, up to 3000. You can offset more than 3000 if you have capital gains from other investments.
I think this thread (and everything I've read on this topic in the last few years) proves that people largely don't agree on the definitions of these terms, but having known many people who consider themselves introverted, "dealing with a lot of people superficially", and "dealing with near continuous rejection or indifference" is extremely poorly aligned with their personalities. Speaking personally, those things are my nightmare.
Or just one that runs open software...
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That seems to be some very silly reasoning.

It's not so silly when your culture is situated right on the Pacific "Ring of Fire" as is the case for Japan. In times past, you wanted to make your houses light, so that if there is an earthquake, less stuff falls on you and your family.

Imagine what it would be like if the entire culture was constantly metaphorically whispering to you from the moment of your birth about the temporary nature of life? Sorry, but while you can tell yourself you're doing it, you can't actually do it -- your imagination isn't that good! (Otherwise, there would be far fewer systemic social problems.)

In Japan, there is no distinction between high and low art. (This is absolutely related to the rest of this comment!)
Funny that you mention it, because I do have a punch-line that I tell obese people - it goes like this: "Eat little, fuck a lot". This is really just Occam's razor. Most people would feel better, if they would eat thoughtfully and do physically activities that they enjoy.

btw.: I was the fattest, weakest kid in high-school and after a decade of hard workouts and a strict diet, I can probably beat up most other guys and I also look better.
Ok, gnumeric then. In my limited experience it's better than excel.
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U.S. Unveils Measures to Encourage Solar Power Use
Its reasonable to compare and contrast with other options that we've previously been comfortable with. I wonder why folks are anxious to restrict the conversation to Microsoft. That sounds fishier to me.
> Sharing your password via Wi-Fi Sense to your friend gives him access to the network, but no knowledge of your password and no ability to share it.

Are you sure? Does "netsh wlan profile SSID-Name key=clear" not show it after you've connected?
Have you tried a ketogenic diet (low carb)?
If anything, there's been a switch away from complex carbohydrates (grains and starches, particularly) as humans have gained easier and easier access to a wider diversity of foods, including - and particularly - simpler carbohydrates like sugars; the prevalence of fruit and added sugar (especially high fructose corn syrup, but even table sugar, agave, and other objectively-healthier sugar sources) in the modern diet could very well be worth examining as such an "environmental factor".
I guess you haven't witnessed Corel Linux, Wordperfect for Linux or Loki Entertainment. It's been predicted way longer than 2006.

Ps. Sorry for the accidental downvote :(.
It seems nice to me, but doesn't fit my lifestyle at all.

I don't keep appointments, I never book planes or hotels, I don't drive anywhere that I need directions, I don't follow sports teams, I don't order enough stuff online to care about tracking them, so on and so on.
If I can see you with my eyes, why can't I see you with my camera?

If your presence in public spaces was "private" then I wouldn't be able to observe it simply by being there.
The first law of thermodynamics does not imply that every metabolism is the same. The human body and digestive system is not a physically simple system. There are many biological variables which change how food is processed. People like you (and the entire Fat People Hate movement using the same playbook involving the same misunderstanding of the first law of thermodynamics) might misunderstand this to justify spreading hate.

Much as your coworker faces health risks if he overindulges in sugar, it is not your business to try to regulate the weight of your coworker by arguing with him at work, it is not professional, and it is not civil. His health is his problem. If you find fat people disgusting and feel a compulsion to aggress against them, that is your problem. Please don't also make it HN's problem by using HN comments to spread hate.
As someone who has been both obese (as a child even), and underweight (as a stupid teenager), and is now what most people would consider "buff".

Fatness is a simple matter of putting in the work. You have to work hard to gain weight. Eating that much isn't easy (to gain fat). And lifting that much isn't easy either (to gain muscle). And you have to work hard to lose weight.

Yes, biology and genetics play into it. But they only affect your slope, not the end result.

If it took you ten years of consistently bad eating to become fat. Why would you expect it to take less than ten years of consistently good eating to lose the fat?

And yes, it is very discouraging when you naturally have a slow slope. It's not meant to be easy. If it were easy we'd all look like Schwarzenegger in his prime.

edit: my girlfriend likes to complain that "this stuff is easy for you", but she forgets the fact that I haven't had a rest day in 5+ years, and haven't had a cheat day in 2+ years.
Applying DeMorgan's Law to reduce a few characters in JS seems really overkill...

Reading this makes it seem hardly worth saving a few bytes over.
That's really surprising. Thanks!
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That's fine, but where has anyone said that the Met Office can't bid in the upcoming tender? The Met Office blog post that you linked (thanks, I hadn't seen that) implies that they will no longer be providing services, but is this because they will decline to bid or because they are not permitted to bid?
This project started as a way to explore and get more familiar with a few technologies/services (AngularJS and deploying a MEAN stack on Heroku mostly). I am pretty happy with how it turned out so I thought I would post and get some feedback (FYI - I am still working on the mobile compatibility). Feel free to use it if you find the need. And feedback is always welcome/appreciated. Thanks!
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FUSE is an informally specified one-stop library that explicitly targets the Linux VFS, so it might be considered more convenient for whatever reason. There's also a general lack of knowledge about Plan 9 and Inferno on anything beyond a superficial level, though this might be improving.

9P is a small generic protocol that is often independently implemented because of its simplicity, so there are many heterogenous libraries for it.
London-ish based, regularly pootle around the UK. Very useful. Massively plugged in to Google services though, so suspect it knows everything it could need to to be useful.
I had a professor once who specialized in human factors design in cockpit safety. Her view was that it was pointless to blame anything on "pilot error" because if the plane let the pilot screw up it was a flaw in the design of the plane.

That's a good way to view any problem having to do with people. People are the same as they've always been--it's ludicrous to think that they're intrinsically any lazier or have less self-control than people a generation or two ago. If they're a lot fatter than prior generations, then something external must be different. You're never going to fix people, so if you want to solve the problem you have to focus on those external things.
I would think nowish would be the time to get money into equities.
Agree. There seem to be hundreds of analytics services. Use of those is totally correct, obviously. The more specific the merrier.
Because it is easier to switch a browser then a OS and many just can't switch to linux.
Hue 3.9 with improvements for Spark Notebook and Solr Search is out
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"A large percentage of the population don't have the correct hormone response that tells them to drink." Please define large percentage and offer a reference to this fact. The point made in the article was based around "otherwise healthy idividuals"... not people who have a health issue that would not let them know they are thirsty.
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Windows, now like AOL but better!
Chrome -- as far as we know -- doesn't transmit all of your keystrokes to Google, nor does it transmit the contents or indexes of your local filesystem(s) back to Google.
Q4 2010 feels about right to me -- that's when companies started to hire more aggressively, anyway.

In retrospect, my first "this might be insane" moment happened when techcrunch wrote the "airbnb has arrived" article, announcing that they'd grown a horn and become a unicorn. That was June 2011.
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I submitted a story to Boing Boing (at http://boingboing.net/2015/08/10/windows-10.html) about the weird experience I had after upgrading my son's laptop from Windows 8.1 to 10. We did this on a Saturday, and Monday morning I had a "family safety report" email from Microsoft detailing which websites he'd visited, which apps he'd used (and for how long), etc. since the upgrade.

According to Microsoft's Family Safety FAQ (https://account.microsoft.com/family/faq/):

> On Windows 10, you’ll need a Microsoft account in order to use Microsoft family whether you’re a part of a family as an adult or a child. When kids are added to a Microsoft family with a Microsoft account, any time they sign in to a Windows 10 device, their settings will be applied and their activity will be reported to the adults in their family. Adults can always turn off activity reporting or remove kids from the Microsoft family at account.microsoft.com/family.

By default, unless you log in and explicitly disable it, Windows 10 collects kids' usage activity and uploads it to Microsoft's servers. Presumably the same mechanism is disabled for adults. Presumably.

I definitely didn't enable it, and I'm sure my son didn't check any "narc me out to my parents" checkbox.

Edit: we already had a family account set up for our Xbox. I suspect that's how Microsoft determined that the emails should go to me.