skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying there isn't a line to be drawn - obviously given your example most people would shrink away from the idea of using someones thoughts to convict (literal thought-crime).

It's a question of where we draw the line. If we don't allow a judge to issue a search warrant for a phone where there is reasonable suspicion of illegal activity - why should we allow a judge to issue a warrant to search a car/property/paper-work?

Of course that completely oversteps the line in the other direction though. Conviction rates for many crimes would drop through the floor if the legal authorities have no way of obtaining evidence.

Given how powerful smart phones have become and you come run a criminal enterprise solely through your phone, it is reasonable to expect that the police with a proper warrant would be able to inspect your phone.
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Eating too much sugar and then bringing it down to "normal" levels is one thing, but cutting it out of your diet completely is another. I think eating too much of anything is going to have negative side-effects and bringing that consumption back to normal levels will have the reverse effect. It doesn't seem particularly compelling to me. Sugar is no more harmful to us than most of the other chemicals we consume when done in moderation, so I feel it's being unfairly singled out.
I'm currently in this situation myself, but living slightly up north in Canada (expensive city). I live at friend's mostly empty office, luckily for me it's inside an empty room.

I've also gotten a gym membership for a 24 hour place so I can go shower every day.

I highly doubt he's 'ok' with the lifestyle, it's simply what's available right now to him. not having your own space really sucks.

sadly the building is being sold in a few weeks so I hope I'll have enough by then to get myself a place.
Sugar is a preservative; it directly combats spoilage through osmotic effects, and does it indirectly in a couple different ways.

More importantly, since it was historically used to cure meats, it's become an important part of the flavor profile of those products. It's the same with nitrates and ham and bacon; without them, it just doesn't taste like bacon, which is why "uncured bacon" is usually a pretty deceptive product.
Stats like that may be available but I can not think of anything at the moment. I will look into that and let you know.

>Thanks about the warranty clarification, so it only protects you if the /CA/ does something bad to you? In that case wouldn't it possible to sue the entity for, possibly, an even larger sum?

Yes, I believe the damage has to be due to the CAs behaviors. The two major situations I can think of that would qualify would be:

1. The CA issues a certificate for your domain/company to someone who was not authorized. However I would think that cert would then have to be used in an actual attack so you could quantify your damages.

2. The CA is breached in some way that allowed your certificate to be compromised or allowed an attacker to create a fraudulent certificate for your domain/company.

That is a very good question about suing the CA for other damages. I am not aware if this has ever occurred but it certainly seems like it could.
By the same token, there are lots of skinny people who consume sugar with no ill effects. There isn't money to be made off of them since they aren't paying for obesity related medical services or supporting the dieting industry. Medical research isn't done on healthy people because it doesn't pull in the big grant money nor do they buy pharmaceuticals. The media doesn't report on them because there isn't anything sensational about normal people doing normal things. There is a huge confirmation bias against all sorts of "bad" foods because the people who are unaffected by them are systematically ignored.
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Exactly. Also: "...comparable percentages of protein, fat, and carbohydrate as their self-reported diet". Self-reported? That must be really reliable, let's just skip control group...

The problem is that the HN title is sensationalistic without merit.
Cool it from what? What is (not <will be> on the basis of dodgy models) the problem that needs a solution? There is zero evidence that current temperatures are outwith natural variability. Meanwhile the CO2 increase from 0.028% to 0.04% has generated a massive green revolution as shown by satellite imaging.

Analyses of ice cores from the ice sheet in Antarctica shows that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere <follows> the rise in Antarctic temperatures very closely and is staggered by a few hundred years
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2012/2012.7/rise_in_temperatures_...
Scientists found a way to float objects and create holograms with sound
(Edit: I misread your "unfortunately so" as "unfortunately no" and I was super confused.)

I find your comment disheartening because I was kind of hoping that I was guessing wrong. Can I still hope that things are not quite as bad at the NY Times as at local weeklies?
I like this idea of receiving free property - real estate, housing, animals, etc. - all for the low, low price of not renewing my lease at the end of the year and quitting my job to tinker on a farm during springtime, before getting another job, paying someone else to make sure my chickens don't die.
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I challenge you to live without sugar of any kind. Sugar is not only undeniably good for us, it's completely necessary for survival. What we're debating here is the amount one should consume and that's where things start to get fuzzy.
And even then there's an advantage to getting a ride from an app. You can track your driver.

I can't count the times cabs just no showed when I was living in DC. Nearly missed a few flights.
They won't. They're an absurd impracticality anywhere outside of Silicon Valley (suburban homes, no weather ever), and completely unnecessary even in those ideal conditions.

People are excited because they're cool toys, not because it actually solves a problem.
"Only housing" means a rental of a flat to live in for a fixed term. It's a consumption good. Buying property is a speculative investment.

Similarly, buying an iPad is consumption while buying AAPL is investment.
I didn't really understand your comment, but I was talking about passive-voice and words like "utilize", "enunciate" and "veracity".
Fruit is perfectly healthy in large quantities if it is raw with nothing added. The human body is very capable of processing the sugars in fruit.

It's when those sugars get extracted and concentrated we run into trouble. Juices and smoothies are more dangerous because they concentrate the sugars while removing fiber. This decreases the liver's ability to process the sugar. But actual refined sugar is most dangerous.
You make it sound like living off the land with a small farm is a particularly easy thing to do, and I don't think that's true, especially for someone with no experience with that lifestyle.

I can't imagine that a person who is unable to keep a home or job in the city due to mental or physical health issues would be able to sustain themselves on a farm.

Though I suppose rurality could help with drug and alcohol addictions by limiting access, you can't just pick people up and move them like that.
Ditto. I am looking forward to it as well. I am a big fan of the writings from the folks at Bell Labs. The awk book, the "software tools" book, the TPoP book. They are some of the finest programming books ever.
You write that as if my comment isn't right there for everyone to read. That's obviously not what I said.

I even took the time, elsewhere on the thread, to summarize all the different classes of data that CISA deems "indicators":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10454172
My local newspaper's website never links to outside pages, always to previous articles within the site. I assume it is to prevent readers to go wander off.
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There's one that's constantly at my back door asking for some food scraps or nuts, but I know it's really trying to proximity-sniff out my Wifi password.
I have some experience in this area. From what I've seen any company involved with lending to the underbanked is going to operate pretty similarly to a payday loan company... A lot of these new companies want to appear different and go out of their way to never mention payday lending. But the terms are pretty similar at the end of the day.

Lending to this segment of the population is fraught with write-offs, its just not possible to give a great deal on loans with that kind of risk unless you are a non-profit. If it were possible, one of the payday lenders would do it and corner the market.
Really appreciate the recommendations, thanks!
I appreciate you thinking I'm a buffoon who was born yesterday and hasn't heard of EWD215, but it appears your reading comprehension is, to be charitable, iffy.

wyager's statement, involving PHP (for which there is not a famous "considered harmful" essay to the best of my knowledge, though there is "A Fractal of Bad Design") and goto statements, was a rather clear implication that both constructs are innately harmful in an attempt to counter n0us' assertion that influential/popular technologies imply a high quality. There was nothing said about using goto statements in presence of structured programming, but merely goto as an intrinsic badness. This is a common belief cargo culted by a many naive commentators and XKCD readers who do not realize that all control flow is derived from goto, and moreover that even in some languages with structured control flow it is still useful, e.g. for resource cleanup and breaking out of nested loops.
WhatsApp collects phone numbers, call duration, and a lot of metadata
Thanks! We already have one. ;)
https://www.producthunt.com/tech/git2go-2
What's the name for the fallacy where you ignore the broader point in favor of nitpicking some minor piece of the argument?
I'm curious because every battery operated "drone" I've seen has a pretty limited range and flight time. Some of the higher-end multicopters built for videography can carry a decent camera for maybe a half hour but it seems like for deliveries, you'd be really limited in terms of weight carried and distance. The thing still has to get back to the warehouse even if it manages to land, drop the package, and fly back without hitting anything.

I say this as a big fan of hobbyist multicopters as well. The more automated the solution, the less useful and feasible it seems to me. I guess you could have someone at the "home base" watching a camera feed over LTE and maybe the latency wouldn't be so bad but just in terms of logistics, I can't see how some battery-powered DJI multicopter would be of much use outside of some edge cases.

Still, I guess it's cool to see companies experimenting. Sometimes you learn one thing by trying another. And on the surface it really does seem to make more sense to fly a small, battery-powered craft to drop off small items rather than having to drive a car back and forth across town to deliver a t-shirt or a roll of TP.
Best paragraph ever about squirrels, courtesy of http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/squirrel-po... :

Matthew Olearczyk, a program manager with the Electric Power Research Institute, explains that typically a squirrel will cause a blackout by scampering across electrical equipment and touching simultaneously both an energized component, like one of the cylindrical transformers at the top of a utility pole, and a grounded piece of equipment. The squirrel completes the circuit, generating an arc. There is an instantaneous flash of blue light. At its center is the squirrel, combusting.
Great incite, thank you!
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Let me rephrase with a quote from the public-key cryptography wiki:

"An attacker who could subvert any single one of those certificate authorities into issuing a certificate for a bogus public key could then mount a "man-in-the-middle" attack as easily as if the certificate scheme were not used at all."
Title should be:

"Substitution of starch for added sugars improves health of children suffering from obesity, metabolic syndrome, and high habitual added sugar consumption."

But then it seems slightly less groundbreaking.
It might be correlated to journals that charge $70.00 per paper. If the NYT publishes a story citing a journal, the journal may go back, see that the NYT never actually bought the paper and a journalist just got a copy from somewhere, and then try to sue the NYT. The 'study' may be a weasel word that is used to avoid this outcome. And yes, over one article this is frivolous, but if the journal waits a few years and amasses 100 instances where this happened, then the NYT may actually go to court.
Lol, I was just at a tour of the new underground power distribution building in Zürich. Squirrels were mentioned and this new underground building tries to prevent "squirrel incidents" in the future.

Some photos I took: https://goo.gl/photos/dLpTWm9m8Ggdirzn9
Isn't it tied to drunk driving, where you are meant to plan out one 'British unit' of alcohol per hour to stay under the limit?
Before anything, you need to figure out why they aren't willing to pay you. Is this just a matter of a junior dev not having the ability to actually put a card on file or perhaps they haven't had enough time to actually test out your product and present it to their paying client.

I'd write an email something like this:

Hi XXXX,

Thanks so much for signing up again! It's normally against our policy to have two identical trial accounts so I've extended the free trial on your initial account so that you can continue using our service.

At [your company] we work very hard to provide value to our customers and I'd love to know what we could do to turn you into a paying customer when your trial expires.

Thanks,
[you]

This gives them the opportunity to 1. make it seem like you're doing them a favor and 2. to let you know what the limitation on their side is.
There is something called blue zone food, Okinawa islands. There have been a studies of the people who live longest and what they eat.

The study concluded you should cut down on sugar and white flour. Use fresh locally produced food and avoid processed foods.
Good point. Successful sites with lots of traffic also employ regular people and depend on ad revenue. However, they are in a better position to monetize content in a smarter way than than just showing ads. In any case, maybe this concept is not "fair", but it provides an alternative.
> I know, I just think "auth mode" could be a separate tool to improve usability. It might just be an alias, I don't care, but it's easier to remember "get-cert" than yet another double-dash parameter IMHO.

It's a subcommand, not a "double-dash parameter". You have to supply one of the following, for it to do anything:

(default) run Obtain & install a cert in your current webserver
auth Authenticate & obtain cert, but do not install it
install Install a previously obtained cert in a server
revoke Revoke a previously obtained certificate
rollback Rollback server configuration changes made during install
config_changes Show changes made to server config during installation

> No, but very often they develop and try new tools on their Macs. By blowing the mac experience you're forcing them/us to spin up a vm (if you can) and repeat the installation. This raises the bar for adoption a little bit. In these fickle times, it can make the difference between "oh wow this is magic" and "can't be arsed, will check it out later/never".

It's a tool meant for servers, to configure server software. I'm not sure why anyone would want to run it on their development machine, especially since a domain name needs to be pointed towards a webserver running on that machine that is accessible from the WAN.
Maybe I just show you next time we run into each other at the 'lab or so ..
Please expand on that.
Zero relationship to this issue, though.

I really don’t see the connection to greed.
i wonder what your doctor would make of trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tdcs). people have been hacking together homemade kits and passing dc current through their brains. it's crazy and amazing and a little bit scary. great podcast on it here http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/
It's a long way to single market, it's a long way to home

The process has been really slow...
Exactly what I was thinking. If you read the end of TFA you'll see that the main benefit here is that they provide a human force to curate it, etc. That means that even if they open sourced it today it won't do you and me any good without the human element. Then again, if there is an OSS version of this that someone knows of, please do point it out.

Having said that the price is too high for me personally. I'd consider $5/month. Also since I schedule way fewer meetings than the author of TFA, I would need longer than a month to try it out.
It's the 'Holy Grail' of exploitation though - if you can back-door the hardware as she's suggested in the paper, nothing in the software stack can detect it, which means you cannot know if your machine is secure or not.

The fact it's very hard to achieve means it's not something that's likely, but if a government decides that it wants to commandeer your computing hardware, there's nothing you could do to stop them, plus you'd never know that it occurred.
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Are+Your+Demons+Haunting+Your+Daughter?
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Not reflected in the graphic: French supply was heavily compromised due to the Peninsular War.
tl;dr: criticizes Scrum for what it actually does well - take some of the risk out of estimating, and make visible project progress in small increments. Article slams Scrum (by which they mean Agile?) for not doing it perfectly.
Seems pretty inefficient to fly things, because the energy needed to keep it floating in air. Although history tells us never to say never about technology, it seems like having small autonomous robots on wheels. They could travel on the sidewalks in cities, and also go the fastest way straight thru forest (for the many who live outside of cities).
I disagree. Granting free speech does not mean war. It means a better economy. China's economy is plateauing. It will not get a major boost from, for example, buying US patents en masse. China needs more homemade innovation. As you say, they will get the best innovation from people they trust. They can get even more of that from people who feel free to think, communicate and express themselves. It's currently easier to do all that outside China than it is within. Therefore the brightest leave and other countries benefit from China's cream of the crop.

There are plenty of examples of other Asian countries which have the same trust issues you mention and also have free speech. They have not descended into war. Their economies have improved. Are there disputes that play out on TV and in newspapers? Yes. Are people embarrassed? Yes. Is it the end of the world? No.
They could also use cannons and shells with parachute for delivery in Silicon Valley area. Well, looks like I missed another startup opportunity...
I love this. I can't stand in app purchases on kids games
That's it!!

Thank you "Enrolled Agents" was the term I was looking for.

Appreciated.
What I find a bit jarring is the lack of journalistic intent in the verification of data. I know that all data visualisations start at the source - the data.

The data comes from somewhere, and I'd really like to see data-engineer-journalists be a bit more skeptical about where that data comes from and how it was collected / sampled / modified before going into visualisations.

I think that's the one part of the journalist's toolkit that hasn't made its way into the coding side yet - the ability to step back and say do we trust this data? How do we verify? Can we talk to the people who collected this? If it's collected by a government agency, under who's funding was this done? How do we fact check a graph that composes of an aggregate of population statistics, for example?

In old school narrative journalism, someone (usually an intern) calls up all the sources, looks into the government departments who gives the stats, tries to find third parties from universities or other non-related parties to cross reference ideas, statements, facts. How do we do that in a data driven world?

It's a good angle and someone ought look into it. Potential for more data-driven stories.
> But that difference - like the differences you mention - isn't racial, it's cultural. The culture just happens to correlate with the race.

That was exactly my point. But because they correlate with race, they get imposed upon you and associated with you even beyond what culture brings.

> There are plenty of white minorities that would identify with this.

Part of this must take into account how Jews and Greeks were not considered 'white' for centuries. Furthermore, it also speaks to how I don't even know exactly why the average white person implicitly doesn't understand me.
Why? The doctor is a principal, an owner of a bona-fide business. Why should the doctor be treated the same as the receptionist or nurse?

Theoretically, a dividend is a share of the profit generated by the business. Salary is payment for labor rendered. They both exist for different reasons.
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I been looking at this for years just so I can finally finish the game as the copy I have has the last level bug where you cannot keep the doctors happy and they all leave.

That being said I think I been watching it for 10 years :/
Racism by definition requires some generalization, however the generality of statements or beliefs do not racism make.
I'm not able to see the full title of the posts (13" MBP Retina). It is cut off half-way. As a front-page for a HN-style site, that's a serious usability bug that you want to fix.

http://imgur.com/DatjKpe
Computer platform security is not like physical security. Once you write the software to accomplish a platform attack, it's usually about as simple to execute it as it would be to execute a simpler attack. The complexity is in the software, not the attack execution.
Grape by Intridea https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape is a nifty choice. It is somewhat opinionated, but lightweight enough to have most of the features you'll need in writing an API

Docs over at http://intridea.github.io/grape/
Except you still haven't explained what's actually wrong with the article, even though the author seemingly has far more experience than you do. It seem more like you disagree with the view of your profession, something that seem more easily explained by bias than any factual disagreement. Especially since one of the point of the article is the existence of such an in-group bias.
Nothing in this paper has anything to do with the ISA.
So what? Whether or not you give someone credit for their work or provide evidence for a claim you make is not contingent on your audience's having immediate access to the fulltext of your source. If the source exists, you cite it, and link to it -- period.
I think the result is still interesting. There's a whole lifestyle called "IIFYM" or If It Fits your Macros which suggests that the macronutrient breakdown (% carbs/fat/protein) is the main factor in growth/health, and that you can eat whatever IIFYM.

This study contradicts that by showing health improvement while maintaining macronutrient breakdown, albeit in obese kids. Is this replicable in adults and/or normal weight people? Who knows? Still a pretty interesting result IMO.
> There is no way I am spending $49 a month on this.

You're not the target market then. For that matter, neither am I. The target market is people who need an admin assistant, but can't pay the five figures per year yet.
As opposed to the stroke of a pen?