skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It just got closer to the other leading operating systems (iOS and Android). They claim that they need telemetry, which I find reasonable from a technical standpoint. The lack of opt-out is annoying, however, given Microsoft's bad public image I think people would opt out in masses if they provided this option.

So I don't think the data they send back is 'spyware' in the sense that they want to know more about you and then sell it or use it to sell other stuff to you. But I don't have proof. :)
People get angry on the internet. Doesn't seen to matter what the subject is, you can nearly always find somebody angry about it.
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What is important - http://www.airtel.in/leap/network-safety.html?page=mySafety
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
For the past twelve years I've been most productive either at a cafe or on the train.

At either of those places I know what I'm there to do and there's an inherent time constraint that I find conducive to productivity.

For me my home office is the worst place to try and get things done
>The politician flipped his shit when I was able to demonstrably prove he voted for someone other than his party's candidate for governor.
The poll procedures were changed the next election cycle. The paper tapes were not allowed to be produced and the poll workers used a tick mark instead of a number in the poll books. The machines remain in use.

So you are the person that killed democracy? Given that voting is a "trade secret" and the code will never be inspected do you think the abolishment of a paper trail is a good idea?
Roland the Farter and How the Internet Killed Professional Flatulence
Doesn't the example of the dog figuring out request for unknown object among known objects count as "logical thinking"?

Anyway, I liked the article, it's a great overview of what is known.
I find it hard to work while on the beach. The sand gets everywhere, the wind gets annoying and you have to watch out for the sun too! OTOH if you have a house by the beach and you're just at the house, overlooking the beach... that's a different story.

I'd rather find a cozy Starbucks. That's where the work gets done. Doesn't matter the continent or the country :D The coffee quality varies a bit (good in most places in Asia, passable in UK, ok in States) but it's "home".

In many places there are better alternatives. Cool hipster coffee shops and whatnot but when I'm in a new location and need an anchor place I just go to Starbucks
For hundreds of years we've been writing summative introductions called "abstracts" to long documents called "journal articles", "lede" paragraphs introduce "journalism", and "introductions" summarize "books". People understand how to use these conventions. How is it easier for the end user to have to learn to install, use, and understand an additional tool chain? How is it easier for a project maintainer to manage documentation in multiple locations?

https://xkcd.com/1319/
>But many people are vastly overpaying for this benefit.

Exactly. I don't have any issues with getting a degree. I think it is very beneficial both financially in the long term and emotionally. But you shouldn't overpay for it. There is nothing wrong with community college. There is nothing wrong with putting off college for a year or two to save money. Obviously every situation is different, but I think we should be educating high school students about their options and their prospects.
I think this was the original plan, but they dropped the membership fee and have since raised several hundreds of millions to continue operating. Hence all of the head scratching about their financial prospects.
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> It was Castellan who had made the decision to scupper L’Utile by cutting her rudder in the hope that more men might be saved.

Why would that improve their chances? That intuitively seems like a bad idea, but the people who know what they're doing thought otherwise.
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> There's isn't any conflicting data.

I don't read blogs or HuffPo, I try to find the research, and I find plenty of - if-not-conflicting - difficult to fully reconcile evidence. My wife is a pediatrician who tries to keep up with this stuff, and she would disagree with you as well. I'm not just talking about diet comparisons alone, I'm talking about the merits and dangers of individual foods and food types. There's a lot of research, not all of it saying the same thing. It's not easy to parse all of the caveats, confounding factors, and unique populations.

> I challenge you to post some actual links to articles here which advocate a high-fat or low-carb diet.

Here's one [1], [2]. Your criticism of [1] will be "low sample size", which is fair. But then most studies with large sample sizes are retrospective, which is the other major criticism. Your criticism of [2] will be the population type, which is also fair.

> You can't eat cholesterol-laden meals without also consuming vast amounts of saturated fat, for instance.

There's much said about the evil of saturated fat, and some of it is clearly true such as a link to heart disease (or is it? suggests one of many not-hard-to-find conflicting sources [3]; [4]) other evils are less clear. Much early criticism at it was given because it was thought to increase cholesterol, which isn't the case for most individuals; when cholesterol is impacted, it's primarily impacting the HDL:LDL ratio (or alternatively, Total:HDL).

This study [5] suggests little difference in saturated vs. other types of fat, though it relied on self-reporting. The story is more nuanced, as [6] suggests, with some clear influence on some things and mixed results elsewhere. [7] is interesting though as it indicates a link between saturated fat and heart disease, but suggests replacing saturated fat with carbs slightly increases that risk.

> Whatever nit-picked understanding you have of how cholesterol works in the human physiology will not refute this fact.

It's hardly fair to deride someone for accurately pointing out the small connection between dietary and bodily cholesterol. That's not a nit-picked understanding, it's something worth knowing.

> But what you've done by feeling satiated is miss out on nutritionally-dense foods and replace them with poor quality foods which just fill you up.

I'm not the OP, but it's certainly not one or the other for me. I eat high-fat foods (dairy, nuts, legumes, olive oil, eggs), and nutritionally dense foods (leafy greens, root vegetables). I don't disagree with your conclusions in general, but do think it is a bit over-dismissive.

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[1] http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v63/n8/full/ejcn20094a.ht...

[2] (PDF WARNING) http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1475-2840-8-35.pdf

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648?dopt=AbstractPlu...

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20685950?dopt=AbstractPlu...

[5] http://annals.org/article.aspx?doi=10.7326/M13-1788&an_fo_ed

[6] http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11745-010-3393-4/f...

[7] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/5/1425.abstract?ijkey=9...
It's either the start of the end of meat consumption or the start of a morals framework built around how "person-like" another thinking organism is.

To be honest, that's a valid road, though fraught with the peril of declaring certain classifications of human non-person. There's evidence suggesting, though, that morals are a lot more about survival of our instinctual identification of "species" than they are about the inviolable rights of other sentient organisms (i.e. "Sure that cow has thoughts, but it's not a PERSON, so eat up").
I use Zotero, with annotations typed as PDF comments. The biggest thing I am lacking is a hardware device and compatible software for hand-written notations that actually works smoothly in practice.
Except you opt-in by agreeing to use Google Now, e.g. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/05/google-now-for-androi...

I'm sure the implications of this isn't obvious for most people, just as express settings in Windows aren't obvious.
Zuck is making a great ass of himself. The conflict of interest is glaring, and that's why no one will take him seriously even if he's right.

He should simply let the professional lobbyists, spin doctors and astroturfers fight for the idea and realize that nothing he says can help the cause.
You can actually do it if you are only overlooking the process of product/service creation. So lets say your task is to just control if all is done properly. For example if you resell things and you have set everything up. You got many reports that come and then go. You got a person that handles the whole process, but just in case you need to approve everything. So when the report comes from your processor, you just have a quick 5 minutes look and then you are free again. Since reports come at random times and it is better if they are forwarded asap. Now, you can enjoy all the time in-between and obviously this is not holidays but you are not on holidays. You live there. A lot of people will not understand how it is to live in holiday places and travel the world. It quickly becomes just another place and if you have everything figured out, work will allow you to enjoy the free time you get.
So here's a starting point: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A27017+country%3AUS...

I'm not sure how to search by database size though. But I'd estimate that 190 million voter records, at 1 kb each, would be a little under 2 GB if my math is right.
college professors in the States need to be compensated at the same rate as company CEOs. EVERYONE 'deserves' a flat screen 4k TV, a brand new car every 3 years and 7%+ gains on any and all investments, otherwise, it isn't "fair".
>I only read half of the article, but it seems to me that the language used is philosophically naive.

Just because scientific findings disagree with the conceptual framework taught in philosophy degrees doesn't make them wrong.
Author here.. Thanks. After re-reading the post the link was buried in the article and not that obvious..
5 Common Misconceptions About Adventure Travelers
As they say, be warned - secondhand bookshops are the best way to "spend" your retirement.
this guy always chimes in with this kind of thing - he's pushing a vegan agenda.
Option 4: use mirrors.
Their on-site tools are total garbage, so I tried playing with their API... and it was also a giant pile of trash. Random exceptions, timeouts, incoherent structure all around. 0/7 would not play with again.
The difference between a Command-Line Interface (argv-based) and a Textual User Interface (e.g. ncurses or fdisk-style interactive) is very important; the latter generally just means "a very bad but low-bandwidth GUI with no mouse support", but the former implies several attributes that allow for automation and programability: the course of interaction with a program (its command-line invocation) becomes an object trivially manipulable in its own right by users and programs.

We need to improve from the command-line by enabling even more expressive operations on programs invocations: programs should cooperate to enable perfect completion in a way that doesn't require writing custom completion scripts for every (shell, tool) combination, and they could describe their input and output formats to allow the shell to do "program search" in the space of command-lines. Given fairly rough user input, the shell can help guide the user to where they were trying to go with less work. Computers should be using some CPU time to actually help us figure out what we're trying to do, instead of everyone still hunting down syntax errors and reading man pages like it's the 1980's.
They want more people to use the machines, just to justify them.

I think the pat downs are more effective security wise.
20% of the users that browse to w3schools.com. Not the Web, or any other actually meaningful metric
The fact that we don't treat actual humans humanely may very well be on a continuum with the fact that we don't treat animals as having human-level rights.

Ultimately, it may not be that things that are sentient have inviolable rights; it may be that we simply draw a moral circle around ourselves and if you're close enough in the circle, you're protected; if not, you're not. There may be a good historical reason for that; there's anthropological evidence that our early ancestors shared the planet with creatures who were a lot closer to them in both look and behavior than anything living today and that were competing fiercely and in a zero-sum style for overlapping resources. It's not a large leap to imagine that our developed morality therefore accounts for creatures with every bit the cognitive capacity of your own that you cannot coexist peaceably with for risk that they'll end you and your entire bloodline by out-competing you.

Whether that's the way we should approach the world (in a modern era where our species dominates the planet's resource allocation and is threatened by functionally zero complex organisms) is a reasonable question; it may very well still be a framework that describes morality for a great deal of the planet's population.
3 Degrees of LinkedIn Separation from the Military-Industrial-Surveillance State
>> Reminder that relying on electronic books means your research and reading habits can be tracked and stored for later analysis.

Libraries don't keep records? That's how the killer was caught in the film Seven
Fascinating tale. But why no pictures at all? Just a drawing.

Here's google maps' view:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ile+Tromelin/@-15.887665,54.518924,3a,75y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1s51527737!2e1!3e10!6s%2F%2Flh4.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2FiMhyFUkn4LJgwo9p8DjAUZt0vlqw-WwVhSy_sTrUodfRWDx5vbsokN0DWBptPTKfGrd8C4cokaPA8UYgxRRoPlzLlFJcuQ%3Dw203-h134!7i1000!8i661!4m2!3m1!1s0x223214bebf13fbd7:0x7691448fcb61642d?hl=en
The V40 is a sporty looking hatch. Personally I think it looks amazing.
Meditation Centers Get in Touch with Modern Age
Degenerate Curve Attacks
I'd remain a citizen of the US, so I'd still owe taxes to the US. Then, use a family member's address as a home address for official documents.

Visas would take some planning for countries requiring a visa for your passport. Many cities have consulates that you can go to. For example, if you were in Tokyo and wanted to go to Bankok next and needed a visa for Thailand, you'd head over to the Thai consulate near Meguro station to complete the formalities.

I suppose I may be skirting local employment laws in some places, on the other hand, my employer is not likely based in that country and would therefore have no tax reporting obligations.
For me it was about 2012.

Herb Sutter (at MS) wrote his famous "Welcome to the jungle" article (http://herbsutter.com/welcome-to-the-jungle).

It seemed if anyone was adapting, their platform, development tools, and languages to match the revolution in hardware, it was MS.

(Given this revolution, on the language side MS changed focus from managed languages to the previously neglected native C++)
As a driver I will go to court if I hit you, but if you aren't wearing lights and I am turning right in a place with no street lights seeing you behind the car is physically impossible. Wear lights, please, I don't want to be responsible for any deaths.
iPhone 6S is about the same size as Nexus 5, despite having smaller display.

If you compare it with another 4,7" android, such as Sony Xperia Z5 Compact, that Xperia is significantly smaller.
Referred to variously Rowland le Sarcere, Roland le Fartere, Roland le Petour, and Roland the Farter, Roland really had one job in the court: Every Christmas, during the court’s riotous pageant, he performed a dance that ended with “one jump, one whistle, and one fart”, executed simultaneously.

For this, Roland was gifted a manor house in Hemingstone, Suffolk, and more than 100 acres of land. For farting on cue.
Actually, it's almost certainly not the way GP actually experiences most thought. A lot, if not most, of any intelligence is nonverbal, whether your mouth functions correctly or not.
More "powerful" than gravatar?

Why everything has to be "powerful", especially stuff that calls itself "simple"? Why you didn't call it "scalable" as well?
Did almost exactly this for all of 2014 (part of 2015). With a US citizenship, and visited 10 countries for a month+.

Working remotely for a foreign corporation generally isn't against the terms of a tourist visa (consult the specific country you're visiting). All officials I asked had no problem with it, from South America/Asia/Europe (Germany will actually let you stay longer, up to 2 years, if you're a remote worker/freelancer). You do need a work visa if you're planning to do work for a company that exists locally (competing with the locals, etc).

It was hugely income tax advantageous. There's a huge US tax credit if you aren't living in the US (your first $95-120k tax free), and I wasn't staying long enough in any country to meet their reporting requirements.
AES-XTS is also not authenticated. The whole "diffuser" thing is a pretty silly controversy.
I asked at the Microsoft store for an Enterprise edition of Windows and they told me it's not sold to consumers (they tried to tell me I want Windows 10 Professional).

I'm not a student or a teacher, so I don't think I can buy the education edition either.
Generally agree that augmenting existing man pages is then way to go. However, using a new number to categorize "use cases" or "examples" is probably incorrect.

man page categories (1, 2, 3, etc.) are organized by type of command. See: http://www.schweikhardt.net/man_page_howto.html#q2

Reviewing the convention for man pages, it seems like adding an EXAMPLES section to existing man pages is the correct way to augment the documentation.

Definitely support your position that improving existing documentation is the way to go. Just wanted to share my research on how man pages are supposed to work.
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Kevin Lynch says Steve Jobs tried recruiting him to Apple after Flash debate
My community college had activist librarians that would purge books that were critical of the government and capitalism, but they would do it be between quarters so that students and faculty wouldn't see it.

The discard book section would have whole swaths of subject matter for the taking. I can only imagine how physical books are getting disappeared now that libraries have leases to ebook services.

I love ebooks, but they are in addition to, not a replacement of print books. Most books are no longer in print and are not available as an ebook. The physical archives are absolutely necessary.
Yeah I don't know bud. The human body is pretty good at not wasting calories, and there's no way to double or triple your base metabolism like you're describing. My guess is you're measuring water weight, and confusing dehydration with weight loss. Maybe you ate a whole bunch of salty food and your body had to use a bunch of water to flush it out. The fact that you lost 43 pounds is telling, it means you were at least that much overweight to begin with, so the fluctuation day to day is going to be quite large. Once you get into shape enough to consider yourself an athlete, no way you can eat like that and not gain weight, unless you have the muscle mass of Michael Phelps, and spend as much time as him training too. Hiking up and down Mount Washington, for example, is going to burn maybe 5000 calories, assuming you don't eat anything on the way up or down and drink only water. But you can't hike Mt Washington every day and keep your knees and your job. So you can't possibly need that many calories.
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini is not that far from your requirements. I'm very happy with S4 Mini, S5 Mini wasn't that much of an improvement to make me upgrade. Physical button, replaceable battery, SD cars slot, all must-have features in my opinion but which are getting less and less common. Anyway, this size of phone is maximum I can handle with one hand. It's easy to unlock on the bottom, pull notification on the top and reach any corner of screen if needed. With larger phones I either have to use both hands, or "scroll" phone if I need other part of screen.
That would be a lie though. The west values things like independence and competition which dont fit well in a society that values family/piety so high. I suppose however it was the perceived achievments of the west that brought admiration, and made these purchases possible in the first place.
re: the committee:

As would I, but after reading and listening to the ridiculous statements and ideas from the current batch of "social justice warrior" types, I think the rapists would be back on the street quicker than they are now. Medical professionals are no more immune to this trend of lunacy than are any other people.

I agree that there are too many asinine reasons for being placed on the lists. Who is to blame for that? The lawmakers? The people who elected simpletons? The people who'd rather leave a sexual sadist locked in cage forever? Certainly not those who'd as soon have such a being immediately hung after sentencing.

If there was as cure them, a way to prevent it from happening, I'd be happy. But this is why there are so many no-go zones for sexual offenders. Everyone says NIMBY, but aren't willing to do anything concrete to fix the issue besides add even more laws upon the ones that already result in lax sentencing.
> It's not difficult to show that Sweden's rape epidemic is caused by it's recent influx of immigrants

Really? By including this one statement you made me think you are part of the nationalistic right.

Sweden's "rape epidemic" is mostly because other countries under-report rape. If a woman comes to the police and say that her husband had raped her almost every day for a year, then that's 300+ rape reports. Other countries might report that as a single rape report, or declare outright that it's impossible for a husband to rape his wife.

See for examples http://www.geocurrents.info/geography-of-crime-and-punishmen... and http://www.bad-housekeeping.com/2013/12/01/sweden-gender-par... .

There are certainly people who argue that this isn't true, but that analysis is not simple, while you argue that it's "not difficult".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
This island provided the basics for life and yet could not sustain it. It's sobering when we consider sending people to a planet that is entirely hostile to our existence.
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I imagine my kindle dx, loaded with 4GB of technical information being more important than any one person. Kinda like gasoline in mad max.
They said "by" not "in". Half jokingly, that means by 2020, nobody will be hit by a Volvo car, but the people inside might still suffer injuries if involved in an accident. That can mean the car AI might sacrifice the car passengers to save a pedestrian or cyclist.
All can be turned off in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB (Long Term Servicing Branch) - it's very expensive and not sold to consumer nor small business at all.

But think about your doctor, your lawyer, etc. many smaller business, cheaper Windows 10 editon (non LTSB) they will unintentionally leak your confidential personal data. You say such PCs shouldn't be online at all? But they are and many of them run on Windows. Scary.
"Inside Paju Book City books outnumber people by a ratio of 20:1"

Pathetic! In my house its more like 1000:1
> At least in the US, unless the nutritionist is a doctor, they can't legally diagnose or prescribe medicines or treatments

That's not true; all (or nearly all) US jurisdictions give general prescribing authority to more than just physicians (including MDs and DOs in that label) -- e.g., PAs and NPs.
Dear Southwest Airlines, Please Do What You Say
Killing the passengers violates the "no person" part.
Whenever I read a Modula 2 source, I get the feeling the programmer is yelling at me.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Microsoft’s Design Patent on a Slider
Softpedia has a good article about the history of Solus - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qXMSxgM... (since Softpedia seems to be down at the moment.)