skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can criticize Taubes for his low-carb advocacy, but that article is only indirectly related to low-carb diets: it's about how the USDA standards were determined. Moreover, a rebuttal from a site called "plant positive" hardly stacks up against a peer-reviewed source... just saying...

The second paper draws distinctions between several forms of fat hilighting the weak evidentiary link between most fats and CHD. Trans fats are an obvious exception. I posted it in response to the claim that low-fat diets are almost certainly healthier. At the very least, that paper reveals that eating meat isn't incompatible with longevity and good health, contrary to claims you've been making all over this comments section.

But since you asked, here's what 5s on sci-hub revealed, clicking literally on the first two links without looking:

- http://goo.gl/tWB3LA // Maternal vegan diet causing a serious infantile neurological disorder
due to vitamin B12 deficiency

- http://search.proquest.com.sci-hub.io/docview/197420736?pq-o... // yeah, ok, it's raw-vegan, but the B12 issue applies to all vegans (as noted in the refs of paper 1), especially since many can't seem to distinguish between B12 contents and bioavailable B12 ...

To be clear, my claim isn't that vegan diets are unhealthy. Rather, it's that we don't really know much due to the poor state of nutritional epidemiology, and that there's at least some evidence showing that veganism is really hard to get right.
Its striking how similar CNNs are to good old JPEG compression. Makes me think you would get better results by chopping up input into blocks, and slapping few more layers on top. From the article description I get that VGG16 tries to guess whole picture content from existence of particular patterns totally ignoring their location and arrangement, hence nonsensical magpie prediction. Photoshop magpie with a beak sticking out its ass and it will pass as genuine because all prerequisite patterns are there.
It's not entirely false. I've seen stubborn students before that refused to do anything new.
Ok someone has never been to Seattle it seems. It's not a 3 hour drive to the ocean.
I actually ignored the first "the".
> China has a big us against the world mentality

In 2001, George Bush ordered the Air Force to fly along the Chinese border, to purposefully set off China's attack systems. Then, one of the fighter jets rammed into a Chinese pilot, crashing his plane and killing him. Then, the attacking US plane landed without authorization within Chinese territory. The Chinese sent a crew aboard the airplane and the US media and politicians went ballistic about how "the Chinese are spying on our technology!" and demanded the equipment be returned. The plane pilot was given the Distinguished Flying Cross upon his return to ticker tape parades.

Not long after this Bush said "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists". Which country has an us against the world mentality?

> Economic "attacks" are often seen as attacks by nation states, not by individuals

What is TPP but an attack by various nation states against China? The main purpose of the TPP is an economic attack on China (with some benefits thrown in for copyright holders etc.) Governments have been attacking China for the past 2+ centuries, they are not imagining it. General MacArthur was bombing China in the 1950s, causing China to enter the Korean war.
It won't even take an actual attack to provoke an extreme response.

Imagine, for example, a troublemaker group putting together a fleet of 100+ consumer-grade drones with empty spray cans attached and painted as to provide the illusion of a chemical or biological attack. What does security do? Ignore it all, or shut the place down? I don't see an intermediate response happening.

Or, imagine the same thing being used as a diversion to a real attack elsewhere. Waiting within viewing range of the exits, for example.

In situations like this, I think I'd prefer that the majority of security be covert, mixing in the crowds.
Ever if you adjust for purchasing power parity GDP per capita in China is a fourth of that of the US. It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that they would like a higher standard of living.
I'm glad someone still has enthusiasm for job creating, real-value based on profits business models
Is there a reason why they can't just serve up an HTML page with an IMG tag rather than a completely blank page that only works with JS active?

It gets even worse. It pollutes your browser history as you scroll down the page.
Bitcoin and other online exchange / transaction systems (e-gold, LR, etc) represent a small fraction of global money laundering, a small enough fraction to be laughable and irrelevant.
> I'm not trying to be confrontational ...

I am having trouble understanding what you are saying. The wording and tense seems to switch between what is really happening today, versus what could happen today given sufficient effort and implementation. I believe that other than small niches (eg startcom, some smartcard use in corporate and DOD), client certs are essentially unused by the vast majority of users. And I believe that even if everywhere accepted them, the logistical issues around ensuring a user has their certs in the relevant places are far too hard to overcome no matter how big the magic wand :-)

> I gather that you don't have a smart card attached to your system?

Nope. I could get the smart card reader when I buy Thinkpads, but don't. And I use Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. Having a smartcard reader on one machine wouldn't really help.

> Certs are leaps and bounds safer than passwords.

Only if the user is perfect. All it takes is them emailing it themselves, putting in Dropbox, being careless with backups or any number of other scenarios and it has the same "safety" as a password. (That is assuming your magic wand doesn't appear and somehow put smart card readers in every device overnight. :)

> Enigmail makes key management, selection, and use trivial.

Enigmail is indeed exactly what I use. Your statement above is true, but doesn't address the big picture. Every time I install a new system, I have to do copious amounts of googling to figure out exactly where my certs are installed, and then copy them over to the new machine, and get them imported. I'm never sure if I have done it right, haven't left myself open to compromise etc. A somewhat distant friend works in security, and once asked several people to email him their public keys. Virtually every response was a private key.

We've had decades of certs for PGP, everyone using it wants to be secure, and everyone wants it to be better and "user friendly". The effort has been a dismal failure.
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I was thinking the same thing. What confuses me though is how we've had numerous large threads of decent discussion on Soylent, the adult equivalent of baby formula. When it's a discussion about actual food, suddenly everyone's in full battle dress.
Ok, I was a tad lacking of precision.

Tk not tcl because it is event driven relies heavily on a mutable called time/clock.

And there also always states every time you do asynchronuous to handle the status of things (connection, ....). And since you can manipulate them, you have to deal with states. And you cannot "snapshot them". Basically modern web is just using browsers like an asynchronous GUI it was my thesis. And indeed, in other contexts tcl can map to functional paradigm.

I really don't care in fact of FP. At one point it is like monads, string theory & a lot of very interesting theories that are very enjoyable to learn but for which the cognitive burden to respect the purity of the theory outweigh for my pooor brain in real life application.

It reminds me of my teachers being pissed when I could solve their problem faster with an easier personal ways when I could use my tools. And even more pissed when I was framed to use their tools and failing. They thought I was doing it on purpose like other kids ... to shame them publicly. No I must be kuku.

What protects the international conventions on Intellectual Property anyway? The originality of the way of solving a problem.

So I always thought that making myself my own tools and thinking was a necessary risk in order to be truly innovative one day.

That is also why I dropped the consulting bullshit to test my theories in the grunt job.

I also do a lot of other stuff like testing my greatfathers ratio of KNOP in fertilizer, music, knitting, cycling 50km/h in the city, cider, bread, emulsions (béarnaise, béchamel, vinaigrette...) to challenge my knowledge.

Stuff that must work. And I pride myself in some successes. (at the price of a lot of failures).
How right you are. Arrangementfinder.com is the company in this space owned by Avid Life. It simply didn't occur to me that there would be yet another company with such a similar name in this space.
And that's if it was a closed system with no other sources or sinks of heat.
The actual spooks were terrified by that program. People who do espionage take things like reputation and honor very seriously. They understand the implications of that program for people in the field. The problem is that 99% of the people at cia/nsa/state are not anywhere near the field, nor do they every talk to field people. That program was a decision make by armchair spies with no appreciation of history, no respect for the profession.
It kinda sounds like nautic
If you try to hit the link before googling you'll get paywalled. They Probably stick a cookie on you to prevent you from playing this trick (use another browser or private window).
Reminds me off the speculation against the Estonian currency---they had a peg against the Euro but were also fully backed. (I never followed up whether the peg broke.)
I'm curious, what's make the app unusable according to you? Genuine question.

Here is a break down of the permissions:

- microphone: used to capture your voice to communicate with someone

- phone: you can send sms throught the app

- contacts: to associate a ring id with a contact (and have the phone number to send sms

- storage: to store your private key

- location: I admit, that one is weird
That is not victimless and off topic from this sub-argument.
So basically what you are saying is that all of the testing done on animals prior to humans as a requirement to get FDA approval is not valid. Perhaps I agree with you on that part.
I think I am going off topic here, but that is exactly What I thought, but to a much larger extend.

We have small display in retail for pricing, and many IMOD display for very slow frame rate / stationary uses. That could be used for poster, or all kind of things. Why do we not have a standard protocol for it?
This mentality was necessary for national survival given their history. From being doped up and murdered by imperialist westerners during the opium wars to being occupied and raped by imperial japan.

A unite and take on the world mentality is what allowed China to win sovereignty, and given how far they've come, I'd say the "us against the world" mentality has worked wonders for them so far.
Go easy on the red meat; research is starting to show it can cause colon cancer in certain quantities. Use whey or soy protein for some (not all) of your protein macros.

https://www.pcrm.org/health/cancer-resources/diet-cancer/typ...

http://www.health.harvard.edu/family_health_guide/red-meat-a...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0309174014...

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/red-meat.aspx
You can't deny the fact certain foods, like processed meat, surely have a causal relationship to cancer, probably also heart disease and diabetes. As I've said before, the evidence against animal products and processed food in general is damning, but I've yet to find a single case study of someone getting fat off eating fruit, getting cancer from tofu, or becoming diabetic from eating too many vegetables.
A bit different from the rest, is `repo`, from AOSP: https://source.android.com/source/downloading.html

We run dozens of microservices and have nearly 100 git repositories. Using `repo`, every dev has every repo in consistent (relative) path from each other. It also greatly simplifies cross-cutting changes across repositories, and staying in sync (`repo sync` updates all repos all at once.)

I also use it to manage my dotfiles: github.com/grahamc/manifest

Second: Go.CD (https://www.go.cd/) -- applying build templates to our 100 repositories has greatly simplified our management of the repositories. Using pipelines has added deep visibility into what is deployed where. I love Go.CD.
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I don't think this was in response to the pictures China released. It's not a competition, and NASA's been putting out these sorts of pictures since Curiosity has been there.
One problem with extrma is it's hard to stick with them. I saw some study somewhere that the people who did best long term at keeping weight off had fairly balanced diets. The Atkins guys seem to say its great at first and the fall off the diet in less than a year.
Ask HN: How to improve Oral and Written communication for managerial role?
Hi HN ,

I have somewhat odd question for you all. I work for a well known company in bay area. I have 8 years of experience and now looking to enter into managerial / director role. I have already performed role of team lead at my previous job.
I should also mention that I was not born in United States.

I am good at technical stuff , although far from expert. I have seen myself stumbling to pronounce words in american way or saying things like american people do.

1. How do I improve my oral and written english communication skill ?

2. What specific communication skill one should possess for manager/director role at high-tech company like google, Facebook or LinkedIn and other similar companies ?

3. Any tips for improving american pronunciation of English words ?

I don't have lot of friends here in bay area ( albeit, its difficult to make new :-( ). I do watch american shows and but progress is made really slow this way.

Thank you for your suggestions.
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I don't know if I'm at a crossroads or a dead end; feels more like the latter. I am a 13-year career Oracle and SQL Server DBA working for the DoD in rural Georgia. To avoid being locked into being a DBA, over the years I've picked up Python, Node.js, learned various frameworks like d3.js, Django, and some more buzzwords, and done some basic AWS work. I have an MBA (not from a top 20 school) and have a real interest for Finance, but due to my location I haven't been able to work in a finance back office dealing with data.

Remote work is happening more and more. So my train of thought (and I'm hoping you can sort of tell me if I'm dreaming too hard) is - "learn something about smart data analytics (neural networks, machine learning), get good at visualization techniques, and try to get a remote job with a bank (do they exist?), small boutique firm, or some gov't finance regulation agency."

Feeling a little lost this evening with the dreary weather coming in and endless schedule of meetings on deck, just hoping for someone smarter than me to get me straight.

My best,
The context of balance is the very thing being studied.

How are the food groups defined? Why isn't ethanol included as a food group? Do you consider fiber in its own group?

Taking "balanced" portions from a set of groups makes the context in which the groups are defined very important.
I noticed that too. Myself included. I really wonder why?

Some form of anarcho-primitivism that comes from working so closely with the most advanced tech?
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The demand for sugar is pretty high, I guess!
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> At first I was concerned that there would be so much humidity inside of the capsule from the condensation caused by the temperature difference between the outside and the inside, but I see they've addressed that by replacing the atmosphere with Nitrogen.

Whatever reason they have for using nitrogen (making the thing fireproof is one reason), avoiding condensation isn't it. You could do that just by using dry air and packing a little silica gel. It's not like you're going to introduce more moisture over time into a sealed system.
The data center generates the same amount of heat no matter what. It doesn't matter where it's generated. So unless you're arguing that we shouldn't have data centers, I don't understand your point.
They demand the removal of Western influences from their society, the removal of current governments in the Middle East (and elsewhere), and the establishment of an expansionist caliphate with Sharia law in their place. Terrorism is not their goal, it is their method.
>China has a big us against the world mentality

And Americans don't? Probably the most paranoid people with such limited understanding of the surrounding world...
> It's not entirely false. I've seen stubborn students before that refused to do anything new.

How would someone like that ever become a good programmer? Programming involves continual learning and keeping your skillset up-to-date.
> or eating cheeseburgers all the time.

Cheeseburgers are okay! Just hold the bun and the ketchup. One of my favorite keto meals is a double cheeseburger with bacon, mustard, extra mayo, lettuce, and onions from Five Guys or In-N-Out.
I hardly eat any red meat. It's expensive, and there just isn't enough fat in it. Pork, fowl, and fish are more than enough options for hitting a protein target.
I think China has both bubbles and genuine exceptional performance. The property market there is pretty bubbly. And I don't know if you'd even call the stock market thing a bubble when it was deliberate government hyping.
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How long before the moon landing "shadows don't match" people start passing this around.

See! Look! Someone had to be standing there in order to take this picture. Either we have people on Mars, or Nasa is again filming the whole thing in a studio! That does look very much like some parts of california.
The paper doesn't categorize low-fat vegan diets. The closest to it was recognized though: "only a Mediterranean dietary pattern was related to CHD in RCTs." (assuming saturated fat from meat was replaced with MUFAs or PUFAs).

Also, the B12 boogeyman? Just take a weekly supplement and be fine.
Do you like eggs? They're a fantastic protein source! Also, fish (I see you mentioned that) is helpful for omega-3 intake.
I was far more interested in this article when I thought the title was "Concurrency War" :-(
That's somewhat reassuring (there's thought to be a 12% chance of a Cascadia mega-quake and accompanying west coast tsunami in the next twenty years).
Science isn't a democracy. If they are wrong, it doesn't matter how many people cited it. Look at what happened with the austerity paper.
That's nice, but you've said basically nothing.

What are the food groups? What's the right proportion? Does it vary with age/ethnicity/nurture?

These are precisely the questions being examined, so telling people to eat a balanced diet without telling them what that actually is, doesn't help.
I have a BFA in this subject and 30+ years of experience designing graphics and interfaces back to Deluxe Paint and Photoshop 1. So I can't take an anon post seriously. What your saying demonstrates my point, it's a self-reinforcing trend that's gaining more traction, and I blame the popularity of Twitter for that. It was not common to see so many CSS grids until Twitter Bootstrap.

The problem is, non-designers are buying and selling these frameworks and themes. Often designers aren't even part of the purchase process. And how many designers would object: "You're making a mistake because you will regret the technical debt of this." Hey, more billable hours for everybody when it comes time to maintain the grid within the grid from hell, which was FUBAR code from day 1, further obfuscated by some proprietary WYSIWYG. Wow, the screenshot looks great though! How many designers even use the Bootstrap grid properly, assuming it was a good idea in the first place?

The fundamentals of composition haven't changed in hundreds of years. This is false: "Not using a grid is the sure sign of an amateur." Yes, grids go back to the Renaissance, but it's more often a crutch for a new artist copying a master, or for an OCD personality like Edward Hopper. You can feel the cold, painful rigidity of his work, it's amazing--but if the guy was my personal friend, I'd say he needs to loosen up and take off the training wheels. But hey, that's just my opinion ;-)
Is that because it is inherently flawed, or because it isn't done correctly?
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Or, get your omega-3 from plant sources like flax and chia seed, and avoid eating fat-soluble industrial pollutants, like mercury and lead, found in fish.
The "Leona Philpot"? Surely a reference to the "I Love Bees" ARG for Halo 2?

http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Leona_Philpot
Yeah I'm not sure what it has to do with it either, desiccants[1] are nothing new and they are the standard when it comes to humidity reduction in shipping. You might be familiar with those little packets of silica beads in foods and computer components that say "DO NOT EAT" on them.

That said, nitrogen-refrigeration is commonly used for temperature control.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccant
That's very cynical. In reality, that probe was examining things that might be too harsh to be legal, but not necessarily extreme enough to fall under the category of torture.

One example is verbal threats. Those aren't really "torture" (using the most common definition), but they shouldn't necessarily be legal.

They were also investigating waterboarding, even though it wasn't considered torture in the US at the time. The Obama Administration now officially classifies it as torture, but it's good that waterboarding was examined before that reclassification was officially made.

There is a terrible injustice here, though, and it doesn't have to do with definitions. It's that the aforementioned probe supposedly found no wrongdoing and led to zero criminal trials.
As someone who has little experience with any of these, would love to hear some experienced folks give feedback on these claims.
History has shown us that all the the IoT devices are poorly coded at best and completely un-managed at worst.

It is also assumed that these devices have unfettered internet access. Most of them can do HTTPS. Either you allow it or you don't. How many Barbie dolls have been having inappropriate conversations with children that a human would otherwise be arrested for? How many televisions are feeding audio from families back to a company? How long is this data saved? Who has access to it? When must it be destroyed? What legal protections does anyone have against data abuse? What is deemed data abuse? If it turns out I am being spied on, what binding agreement do I have with the manufacturer and seller that will make them feel pain? Are they obligated to give me more than, "We're sorry. Gosh, we're just so darn sorry."

Sorry, no. These devices need to be recycled before they are ever used.
I think the counter-argument (in this specific case) is that it's geographically restricted, which I think is fair from the standpoint of civil liberties. Does your example posit global dragnet surveillance, or are we still working within the frame of the superbowl exemplar?