skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be called the "slightly overweight paradox".

Article makes lots of qualitative statements. Much easier to look at the data (900,000 person study): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2662372/figure/f...

Optimal BMI appears to be 23-25 (at least for minimising the risk of death).

Another large study (1.46 million people) shows a similar result: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066051/figure/F...

Looking at either side of optimal BMI: People with a BMI of 26 (BMI 25-30 'overweight') have mildly better survival than those with 21 (18.5-25 'normal'). Push BMI up a little bit to above 28 and death rates are worse than with a BMI of 21. Not a huge paradox. Maybe we should just shift 'normal' BMI range to 20-27.
I agree with you, and I think it's sad that things like this happens. However, I think that the source of the problems you're describing is more cultural than religious. The United States were founded on the values of individual freedom and self-determination above all else, and I think that makes for a very selfish culture. I also think that most "religious" people in the United States (and in other countries too) are mostly doing it to look good to others and don't actually listen to the real message there.

Another issue is that the Bible is quite thick, and it's very easy to forget that it's actually a collection of many different texts with very different importance, authors, meanings and context, and mistaking it with a coherent book to be taken to the letter. The tone of the Old Testament is very different from the New Testament, and people often forget that they were written at very different epochs, for very different audiences.
Unfortunately by closing these channels it seems we have lost an opportunity for dissenting voices to reach ISIS supporters. If I was involved in the soft war against ISIS I don't think I would have wanted this to happen. The more they are driven underground the less influence moderate positions will have.

Edit: to be clear, I'm not expecting any miracles, that everyone could be talked off the ledge but some fraction definitely could. Perforating their echo chamber at least provides an opportunity to inject FUD into their discussions, undermine other's authority, play people off against each other, gives an opportunity to try and identify culprits, gives insights into what they are currently thinking, possibly targets that have been discussed, what the common recruitment strategies are etc. There are a lot of amateurs in their ranks (however dangerous) and these channels are probably a rich source of intelligence.
Why on Earth would we want to ban ISIS channels rather than closely tracking ISIS channels for opsec failures and dropping bombs or SWAT teams on participants?
CryptTalk: "Totally secure calls and messages for your peace of mind"
Also the audience (after possibly developers) who are willing to pay for really high speed low latency connections.
> Other research has show that sarcasm can be easily misinterpreted, particularly when communicated electronically.

I can't tell if the comments thus far are sarcastic.
Help me understand, how is The US Congress able to decide what is allowed or not is space?
Timewarner does it whenever I use their "free" wifi hotspots.
Telegram has end-to-end encryption. It's impossible
Yeah, from what I can tell (I'm not a professional in this field) the underlying issue here seems to be that bacteria are evolving faster than the fungi and molds that produce antibiotics. The solution is to find something that evolves faster than bacteria: viruses. Bacteria will never evolve as fast as viruses because their reproductive cycles are much longer.

The opposition to bacteriophage research comes from the belief that bacteriophage research could accidentally produce viruses that are deadly to humans or be used as a cover for biological weapons research. But these concerns are invalid: bacteria and human cells are drastically different, and so are the viruses that attack them: there's no chance that bacteriophages will mutate into viruses that attack human cells. And as the necessary equipment to do research on viruses becomes cheaper and cheaper and more easily constructable from widely available components, blocking legitimate bacteriophage research does less and less to prevent illegal biological weapons research.
Yes you can think yourself into a different person.

I thought myself into being 40kg (90lb) lighter in 40 weeks without exercise.

http://weightloss40kgin40weekswithoutexercise.com/
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The title says "Kindle Version" on Amazon but the only purchase option is a $45 (!) paperback?
Bacon-days and the value of financial freedom
Had the same issue with Ferrari's IPO for half the day on Google Finance
Big shorting coming.
I'm amazed at how Chrome keeps taking market share from Mozilla. Those ads in google.com help an awful lot but still, it's kind of unnerving. I understand why your average user wouldn't mind using it but Chrome has taken a lot of power users from Firefox. Some people even seem to deem "uncool" to use Firefox instead of chrome, it's ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where some sites features don't work correctly (or at all) in Firefox but they do so in Chrome, as if we were back in the era of browser-specific sites.
Lovelace Academy might have gotten bit more attention. :P

Edit: Incase someone doesn't know who I was referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace
"“I know I am a creative person who can do many of these jobs, but I think employers have these expectations that an applicant must bring a mid-level professional’s work experience and technical skills — even though it’s only an entry-level job,”"

High expectations from employers for not enough pay. No willingness to train people to spec, instead expecting everyone to be ready to go out of the box. It's easy to forget that people are messy, and not machines.

EDIT: I beat this drum all of the time on HN... you will never have enough "technical skills" or "in demand skills" or "communications skills" to cheat your way out of the ability for someone to turn you down for the unicorn (who, ideally, will then be underemployed in the position) they're looking for.
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The idea that there is such a thing called "obscenity law" always struck me as profoundly backwards - the idea that someone can be so bothered by a piece of media they chose to willingly consume that they can take away the right of others to do the same.

This is one glaring inconsistency in the way courts have handled exclusions to freedom of speech. Normally, any abridgement requires a strict scrutiny test, and as far as I know, nobody has been able to articulate what, exactly, the legitimate and narrow government interest in regulating "obscenity" is.

AFAICT, it's a vestige of the puritan roots of the country.
Meanwhile, Telegram's cofounder Pavel Durov wrote about the Paris attacks on Instagram yesterday:

"I think the French government is as responsible as ISIS for this, because it is their policies and carelessness which eventually led to the tragedy. They take money away from hardworking people of France with outrageously high taxes and spend them on waging useless wars in the Middle East and on creating parasitic social paradise for North African immigrants. It is a disgrace to see Paris in the hands of shortsighted socialists who ruin this beautiful place. I hope they and their policies go away forever and this city will once again shine in its full glory – safe, rich and beautiful."

https://www.instagram.com/p/-MrPWGr7aL/?taken-by=durov
I wouldn't use a study. I'd ask about their own negative experiences - where a contractor did something, and it took them another six months to fix it. If that's ever happened to them, they'll get the point without needing a study.
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For advertising no up front costs, 22.5% of first year salary upon graduation spread over 12 months is a pretty aggressive payment plan. At 100k that's over $1800/month. It could be a good deal for someone that's still increasing their monthly take home though.

It'd be interesting if the payments were structured so that they were made by the hiring company, bringing the developer on with a reduced salary (or not) for the first year... or if they could be taken care of pre-tax. Not sure about the feasibility of those approaches.
I don't think you need to sarcastically explain the benefits of Free Software in this forum.
Hiring who you want is agency and power. Being powerless hurts, and giving us less agency makes us more powerless.

Applying to a position to a human similarly gives us agency and power. It's a bit of competition. If we pass or fail, it's based on how we did at the interview.

We give these things up, and that harms us. One of the big fears about Communism in the post war era was that the Party would dictate what you did for work and how you would get paid. This fear came from this loss of agency, but communism still had support in some situations because of the idea that at least in this case everyone would get paid.

Algorithmic hiring at its extreme would lead to the same loss of agency in the hiring and applying process. The algorithm would be the one that dictated whether you would get a job, and if your ability to get future jobs are dictated by your past jobs, and your past jobs are dictated by the algorithm, you are powerless. If you're really interested in computers but you worked a few summers doing mechanical work in college because that was the work that was available, well, maybe you're better qualified to be a mechanic now, so you'll never get an opportunity to work on computers. Maybe it is strictly better for the mechanic shop to hire you than get a new junior mechanic, and maybe it's strictly better for the company to hire a person who has more experience in IT.

But what if the person that they hire for IT actually wants to be a mechanic, they just had jobs doing IT work? In the same way, the company keeps you on as a mechanic because you've got experience, and it's still better for the company to hire someone like him for the IT position.

This might be more efficient for companies. But is it better for people. My question is really, how do you define 'better'?

It's certainly easy to say that it's more efficient. But cold efficiency is the stuff that scared us in the cold war, luckily Communism failed to really take hold because that cold 'efficiency' was actually inefficient and people were starving. However, implementing it in a Capitalist society is even worse, because you get all of the bad that comes with a cold uncaring hand dictating your fate, it probably IS going to be efficient, and you've got no promise that the people left behind after this efficient system is done allocating all the labor that's necessary will be cared for. How will an algorithm rate a person who is 25 and has been unemployed since college? They'd certainly be a high risk compared to someone who has been working steadily. Bottom of the pile. What if that person has been unemployed because the algorithm filtered them out of jobs just because at the time other applicants were better or more suited for the task?

As humans, we can take a chance on people like that. We might even know that they're not the perfect person for the position, but maybe we'll have "a good feeling" about them. We might make a poor hiring decision, but we might elevate a human because of it at the expense of company profits.
My comment was not an opinion on the proposed solution. It was an opinion on the likelihood of such a solution actually being implemented by society.
It was only a failure for investment bankers who want to collect the profit of a pop on the IPO.
From the looks of the article, "Estes" is going to be making the launch vehicles :-)

(the clip art look like the old "Sky Hook" cardboard & balsa rocket)
UK FOI is under threat
It seems like antibiotics like Colistin are uncontrolled in China, and perhaps very cheap? It seems like madness to use these last resort drugs on farm animals.
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We've been changing our selection factors for millenniums. Fire and road building had much stronger effects than anything coming from medical procedures today.

Humans are a cybernetic species. Always were.
True about household soaps and cleaners, but rwj has a point with, "stop dosing livestock with antibiotics as a prophylactic."
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Implementation details: The PinLater Thrift server is written in Java and leverages Twitter’s Finagle RPC framework. We currently provide two storage backends: MySQL and Redis.
And Google still had a 15% first-day pop, which is just about the normal size for a traditional bank-run IPO.
It's not the media's job to help you raise money, it's their job to report the facts.

Have you notified TechCrunch and the rest of the so-called tech "media"?
Not directly related to the article but just to the topic: one of the biggest things for me to get used to when I moved from the UK to France earlier this year is the lack of sarcasm used/understood by French people. There's a couple of French people I know who get my sense of humour, for everyone else I have to conciously knock off what I think of as the UK part of my joking and keep it to "international-friendly humour" only.
Advantages of the business plan:

- I can usually get directly to someone clued on the phone, who doesn't make me jump through hoops or silly scripts to debug a problem; they realize I've already done everything possible on my end already before calling (spent years working for ISPs).

- No blocked ports, I host my own server and do my own email, web hosting, etc. Comcast even provides reverse dns for my five static IPs.

- No data caps. In fact, they don't even measure usage for business accounts.

Other than when I had a physical problem (short in the line from the pole to my house), I've always gotten the speeds that I pay for - in this case 50Mbps down, 10Mbps up.

Disadvantages to business class:

- I pay $150/month for 50/10 and five statics.

- It's Comcast.

I was an ATT UVerse customer (standard, not business) before switching to Comcast Business about 4-5 years ago, but their max speed offering was only around 18Mbps down, and their "business class" service required the same craptastic 2Wire gateway and static IPs required 1-to-1 NAT through that gateway... No thanks.
How hard would be for them to MITM their own app?
Because then the IPO underwriters (big investment banks) wouldn't be able to make a shitload of money on top of their IPO fees.
I agree in principle, but in practice I don't care much if many of my accounts get hacked or subpoenaed. Sure, I'd like to keep my communication and financial information as private as possible. My code, maybe and my personal photos and documents, but if a hacker or government organization gets access to my chess.com account or my GrubHub, I really don't care. They'll find out that I have trouble against the Sicilian Najdorf and that I eat too much cheese cake (which as of this post is open record anyway :)
Was Rackspace's trouble because of the auction, or just because of the company and market conditions? (In hindsight, August 2008 was probably not the ideal time for an IPO.) If they had done a regular IPO, might they just have had trouble selling all the offered shares at the set price?

(These are all honest questions, just to be sure. I have no preconceived idea what the answers might be! I'm not clued up enough to argue with rhetorical questions on this stuff.)
> A Lot more the trades happening are tagged as coming from trade reporting facilities

Where are you getting your data - a Bloomberg terminal?
What about regulating which "classes" of antibiotics get used at least in the gross majority of cases?

Different antibiotics have different pathways, much like barbituates and amphetamines have different pathways, despite both getting you high. Perhaps if we use only pathway "A" for a decade, bacteria will lose resistance on pathway "B" (and vica versa)?
It's an old strategy. I was reading Grimm's Fairy tales to my wife this morning and the brave little tailor used the same clever approach.

* * *

Leaping into the woods, he looked to the left and to the right. He soon saw the two giants. They were lying asleep under a tree, snoring until the branches bent up and down. The little tailor, not lazy, filled both pockets with stones and climbed the tree. Once in the middle of the tree, he slid out on a branch until he was seated right above the sleepers. Then he dropped one stone after another onto one of the giant's chest. For a long time the giant did not feel anything, but finally he woke up, shoved his companion, and said, "Why are you hitting me?"

"You are dreaming," said the other one. "I am not hitting you."

They fell asleep again, and the tailor threw a stone at the second one.

"What is this?" said the other one. "Why are you throwing things at me?"

"I am not throwing anything at you," answered the first one, grumbling.

They quarreled for a while, but because they were tired, they made peace, and they both closed their eyes again. Then the little tailor began his game again. Choosing his largest stone, he threw it at the first giant with all his strength, hitting him in the chest.

"That is too mean!" shouted the giant, then jumped up like a madman and pushed his companion against the tree, until it shook. The other one paid him back in kind, and they became so angry that they pulled up trees and struck at each other until finally, at the same time, they both fell to the ground dead.

Then the little tailor jumped down. "It is fortunate," he said, "that they did not pull up the tree where I was sitting, or I would have had to jump into another one like a squirrel. But people like me are nimble."

Drawing his sword, he gave each one a few good blows to the chest, then went back to the horsemen and said, "The work is done. I finished off both of them, but it was hard.

* * *

From The Brave Little Tailor by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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He's helped me immeasurably through the years. I really liked his Sine wave stuff early on in that series.
Read about emotional intelligence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intelligence
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I suppose there's probably a lot of reporting bias, where IPOs which jump a lot are the ones that make the news.

Even if it's uncommon, an auction would ensure it doesn't happen to you. Maybe!
> Also supporting this thesis is the number of small and odd lot trades.

That's the norm in all stocks these days because of HFT. Even in highly liquid names.
Alas, even the omen.com domain is for sale. See: http://www.omen.com

Chuck Forsberg was the kind of optimizing engineer we just do not see much anymore.
"on waging useless wars in the Middle East" - he thinks it would be better to cowardly stay aside? Then war will come to cowards countries itself.
Fair, but I said it's their job, I didn't say they all (or even most) did it well.
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good point. The project is referring to its own phase 1, 2, etc independently from "FDA phase x clinical trials"
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Yahoo finance says the market cap is only $340M, but all the articles leading up to today said their valuation was going to be $2.5-3B.

Did they really only IPO less than 20% of the total company and keep the rest private?
Definitely. Many specialist companies are having a hard time hiring. Also, we have some really nice visas for foreign knowledge workers.

Depending on your specialization/experience I could give you some tips if you'd like.
Bad headline wordplay. The Economist loves those, and it's too carefully-edited otherwise for it to be accidental.
"Sure, outer space is infinite" - ugh.

Right. I get everything within 20 AU's, you can have the next 12 billion light years, and they get anything left over.

Only if the universe can be "inflated" as much as the US Dollar, I guess.
These people don't care about moderate voices. It would be like convincing Lenin to embrace capitalism. If cutting the head off someone or raping children is a normal course of business, some moderate voice isn't going to make a single difference.
Maybe I'm missing something but I always thought renting designer clothes has a limited market.

People who attend many special events a year where they need a new outfit for each one typically have the disposable income to outright buy their clothes or have companies borrow them clothes for the publicity.

The average person who goes to a few special events a year? You can buy a nice outfit for just a little more than what they're renting a designer dress for. And you get the keep it forever and wear it some time later.

The only time I've rented a dress was for prom and that was because it didn't make sense to buy a dress I was going to outgrow in a few years.
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You mean don't seed infringing torrents, right?

:)
at some point you need to come to grips with the fact that some people are just wealthier than you, and don't really care about that $2k in 18 years because they or their parents, or grand-parents, or great great great grand-parents already solved that pesky 'lack of money for the kids' issue.

you're projecting your own financial situation onto others in the demographic buying disposable $180 doo-dads for their kids.

it's like getting mad at the rain.
The root of the problem is the legal difference between POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), which has been around a long time, and broadband, which came much later and had the POTS environment as an example of what to avoid (from the POV of Comcast and their ilk).

The old dialup ISPs were allowed to resell internet service on the local provider's POTS lines. There was quite a lot of competition, and the service was generally excellent, even generally better than the carrier's.

There is no requirement for broadband providers like Comcast to allow resellers. The barrier to entry for laying other broadband lines is huge; Google is one of the few who can do it. So unless there's a quantum leap in wireless to the curb, there will be no meaningful competition to amoral corporations like Comcast; we're stuck and it will continue to suck.
It's called quarantine. It's a valid tactic, though it's quite unpleasant for everyone. If the issue is really as serious as the article details, my plan is not so much of a "we can solve this problem if we do X" as much as a "this is the extreme approach required to mitigate the problem". The government will naturally default to this strategy if things are actually in danger of getting bad. Getting bad is defined as a drug resistant bacteria's ability to occasionally fell healthy normal people.

I guess the alternative is to hand wave that us scientists can magically solve the decades-building problem that big-agriculture and doctors caused. Sure, we'll get right on it, but there needs to be a plan for the time between when research starts and when a new group of antibiotics is tested and ready for the market. Staged rotating/phasing out certain antibiotics so that they will be usable again after a period of time would ensure that there's something left in reserve for people who actually need it.
But doesn't using a locksmith clearly suggest legal access, unlike entering through a window? No criminal would risk a locksmith witness or the increased visibility of standing around outside waiting for them to arrive.
This is almost as awesome as the fake bomb detector ... Which some states actually purchased!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651
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