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This is a highly partisan site, but they do source most of their links. And keep in mind this is just a list of US political organizations he funds.

I'm not sure not what you mean by the Koch's extensive network. They're either giving their money, or it is other people's money. They can't be held responsible for how other people donate their money. I don't hold Soros responsible for all the ACLU's actions, even if he is a major backer. When they ACLU stands up for something I believe in, I donate, but I'm certainly [not responsible] for all their actions, especially in years I don't donate.

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> I pay a far higher percentage of my income as tax to the society I live in than the people in the panama papers.

Well you absolutely don't know that. And whilst no doubt some people _are_ avoiding tax, many are not. And btw overall the rich pay a far higher portion of their income in tax than the poor. In the UK for example the top 1% of earners account for 30% of the total tax take (up from 20% 10 years ago). The top 3,000 pay more than the 9m bottom.
You're referring to this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_David_Lukas_Olsen (see biography, the german article is much more extensive on the case). You have your details wrong: The vice police chief threatened a suspect kidnapper with torture, but the child was already dead by that time. The police chief was later convicted (though more a slap on the wrist than a real punishment)
You will never find a co-op that lets you be a member at 10%. 20% is the minimum I've seen and usually you're looking at 25% or 30%. And there's a chance someone with all cash will simply be a better fit for them.

Please find me a Co-Op in NYC that lets you in with 10%.
Yes .. but, by definition, 99% of people are worse off than you. They can't afford a house either.
The abuse of the @Sweden Twitter account is obvious -- just look at the lebanese immigrant Elias Kreidy who wrote “I’m the immigrant fking your daughter while you’re trying to sleep ignoring her moans calling me ‘daddy'”.

Now imagine this guy answering a phone line as an ambassador for the country!

NSFW article about the tweet: http://www.infowars.com/im-the-immigrant-fking-your-daughter...
This doesn't solve the primary issue which is that in order for me to verify my identity I have to give the other party sufficient information to spoof my identity. The solution is obvious: asymmetric cryptography, where I can prove I know a secret without revealing the secret.
Ingenious; Will also reduce suicides;
In addition to the investments in social services which the government provides, I suspect there's also a psychological element as well. New Yorkers, rich and poor, share a common identity which I don't see in a lot of other communities. There's an understanding that everyone lives in one city (even if they live in different parts of it), and at least has a modicum of responsibility to each other.

Contrast this with other cities like Detroit where the rich and poor live entirely separate existences.
While not on a keto diet, I am on a low-glycemic diet (also known on the web as the Trim Healthy Mama diet). Meals are either high fat and low to no carb or moderate carbs and low to no fat. You avoid all sugars but use alternatively like stevia, etc. I have lost over 35 lbs and kept it off to with no exercise. I mean I can eat on plan cheesecake as a meal and the next day lose weight. Also I don't count calories.
In the US it also varies a lot on a state by state basis.[1]

Handy image: https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/get-there/wp-content/upl...

[1] http://www.epi.org/publication/income-inequality-by-state-19...
It is very hard to hit 1800+ calories on a keto diet. You have to add a lot of fat to things. This means eating a little... Abnormally.

Such as eating baked cheese, adding extra butter (any fat) to meals. Avocado is a great fat-packed vege. Lots of cream cheese..
Engine cylinders is also not a 1:1 predictor of engine "power." A 1970's or 80's V8 will have way less horsepower than some turbocharged 4 cylinder engine on a modern luxury car. All things being equal more cylinders could equal more power, but there are MANY other things that are not equal.
So does Soros. Moveon.org for example.
I drink a lot of sugar-free cola, and to my dismay there seems to be mounting evidence that diet soft drinks actually contribute to weight gain, possibly by altering gut fauna. [0]

As with all nutrition advice, I find myself wondering what to do with this information (other than kicking my diet coke habit just to be on the safe side). Good science takes time, but I want to make decisions that benefit my health right now. Any that's before you even get into the crazy amount of pseudo-science and quackery that exists around nutrition.

It would be great if anyone knowledgable about the subject could add their two cents!

[0] http://time.com/3746047/diet-soda-bad-belly-fat/
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I dont wanna sleep

I just wanna keep on refreshing you...
Is the money/opt-out party-wide or is it tied to a specific candidate for a specific office. When you say "Obama" and "Romney" are you talking about them in their role as leading the entire party in the election or just their individual presidential runs?
Exactly. Extinguish what? Comcast et al's regressive monopolistic consumer-hostile business practices? Sign me up!

ISP's have not been a free market for a long time, if ever, and it's about time they saw some competition that forces service to improve and prices to drop in step with the rest of the economy.
You earn more than 99% of people and you think you're fucked?
Or, back to my original point, your local places are not good.
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Love the idea and congratulations on your launch. How does it actually track the location of the tools? Do tools have GPS's embedded in them these days?
There was an article up here about the problem with energy measurement in modern food sciences. Calories/KJs are poor measures of energy density in food.

I have to agree with you. Over two years ago, a friend of mine got me interested in Keto. That 2nd week was kinda rough with my body going through sugar withdrawal, but after that it's been nothing but amazing. I rarely eat bread, pasta, potatoes, noodles etc.

I went from nearly 70kg down to 61~62kg in a year, and have stayed around there for well over two years (I was down ti 59kg, but I think that was more muscle loss than fat loss).

It's been life changing. I have better energy levels, am in a better mood, etc.

It's not for everyone. I work at a desk all day and only cycle on the weekends. If you use a lot of energy (play sports everyday or are a runner), your body may need more carbs, but even then it should really be in the forms of fruits (high fibre, lower GI, lower insulin response), possibly starchy vegetables like corn and potatoes. There's a huge lack of education though on how much energy is in corn/potatoes or even peas/carrots. It's a lot! Even our oranges have been bread over the past few hundred years to be much much sweeter than they use to be. Corn use to have significantly more protein, but those varieties have been mostly bread out.
I was hoping this question would come up. Not because I have the required answer at this time, but because I wanted others to chime in and give me some thoughts and perspective on this.

We have not done extensive researched on liability the company might face due to an undesirable outcome from use of the service. Likewise we have not looked at any coverage options as of yet.

We will definitely do so before launching but my opinions are as below:
For companies like Tinder, Uber, Care.com etc to exist there must me some solution to this, it is a matter of formalizing it for us.
We are building the app so that it does not set you up on a meet but rather gives you options and both users initiate and confirm the meet themselves. I feel this can assist in limiting the liability as we are just facilitating users.
The last thing we intend to do is have a very straight forward Terms of Service to add some protection and have notifications to the user, that if its your first meet we recommend a public area etc etc.

Have you had had to deal with something along these lines? Is there any recommendations you can give?
The rich are just suspicious of the poor. They trust people from similar backgrounds as themselves. Employers irrationally think they can gauge a person's trustworthiness just by interacting with them for a few hours during an interview. And trustworthiness is virtually impossible to test for in higher paying roles: people earning low wages ususally don't have the power to defraud the company too much, but there's a lot of people with that limited power so they're a threat. Wealthier employees could engage in petty fraud too, but they have less incentive to do so because they don't need the money as much, and there's not as many of them, so even if they did it would be less damaging. Instead the concern over richer, more skilled and educated employees is that they'll steal large amounts from the company, and unless they end up in prison, nobody will ever know (contrast with working-class fraud which will usually only end up losing the person their job, so there's less incentive to avoid being caught).

There's probably no conspiracy, just generalized classism.
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Electric motors are usually torque limited (especially modern inverter driven ones), so they have a constant maximum torque throughout their speed range. However, this means that at higher speeds, they are able to deliver more power, so gearing is actually beneficial. Formula E cars have 5 gears.

There is a lot of work done to change the performance - ideally you'd actually not want flat torque, but high torque at low speed and lower at high speed to reduce the need for switchable gears. This is done with techniques like flux weakening.
That comparison makes no sense to me. There's a world of difference between blowing the whistle and subverting due process.
Do they actually have the exact questions asked? I tend to wait on declaring it "despicable and disgusting" until I know what was asked and not the interpretation of it.
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Poor New Yorkers are a lot richer than other poor Americans.

And why are the only graphical comparisons given comparing NY to Detroit? That's a pretty low bar.
Very helpful! Thanks a lot! So it sounds like in our case with lots of small documents going into ES, we could reduce IO overhead with some batching.
How much administrative effort does it take to operate a private server? I've always kind of conceptualized it as a duct-tape-and-baling-wire affair, but I have a sneaking suspicion things are a lot more professional these days.
I'm in the 90th percentile in household salary in my country.
I'm single so double my salary to accomodate the 2.5 people living on average, and I jump to to the 93rd percentile.
It's not useful to try and debate that one field is more difficult than others. All three fields employ a mix of people with varying intellect. It's also not useful to make silly claims that every decent engineer you know had the intellect to complete medical/law school, or that numerous doctors/lawyers couldn't handle math/CS courses. Unless you're giving aptitude tests to your lawyers and doctors, which I assume you aren't. These claims are highly speculative and sound petty.

Your other comments are more worthy of further thought.

I don't understand why you feel software professionals aren't given respect. Nearly every "Best job" survey on the internet will list it #1 or 2, with several other technical jobs in the top 10. That doesn't necessarily equal respect, but the industry is certainly getting tons of attention and many are trying to enter through any means possible. I'm not sure how we can measure respect or disrespect, but I don't see it.

I know plenty of engineers that are making a good living with plenty of work/life balance that are well beyond 40. I'm sure there are some that aren't as well, but engineers that are mindful of marketability can have a long run in the industry.
I, for one, would much rather read the comments about this here than on reddit or other aggregators.

Even then, I'll admit that it's off topic, and that doing so too often could alter the makeup of the community.
That's an extremely good point. I imagine they usually they usually keep good approval ratings for people who vote. Recently the incumbent senator from my state, who was wildly popular, retired. His replacement was hard core conservative and the election turned into a 3 way to see who could out conservative each other. I wasn't happy, but I think most of the electorate got exactly what they wanted.
Snapshot: The current top headline at the Guardian's UK website concerns David Cameron facing MPs over his father's offshore bank account (exposed in the Panama Papers leak).

The current top news headline at the Daily Mail is something about Kate Middleton's $4200 dress.

This is pretty typical. I don't consider the Guardian the best journalism has to offer. But the Daily Mail is way more "tabloid-lite", with a huge amount of gossip and celebrity culture. The fluffy stories make the Daily Mail far closer to something like a full-on tabloid (like The Sun etc.) to me. It's not just editorial stance we are talking about.
Technically speaking, on a low-carb diet, you can drink all the diet soda you want. Although you'd have to see how they effect your insulin levels and such, as some people are effected by it more than others.

There's obviously a lot of other potential concerns regarding "artificial sweeteners"... But I'll take my chance with those over sugar.
That's a great idea but the website needs some work. But it's fine considering that it is a prototype :)
One of the nice features of the "Apply HN" process is that you can get feedback from other HNers (I applied to both).
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OpenBSD has been fairly niche for most of it's existence. They got SMP support in 2004, but that was 8 years after the project started. They just recently upgraded much of the network stack to use multiple processors more efficiently (or at all?) when processing packets, and that that's one of the core use cases for OpenBSD. In a perfect world, they would have done all this long ago. I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of not enough developers (or not enough developers of enough skill) to accomplish all the things they want to do.
Sweden today is probably the most arabized country in Europe.
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I didn't downvote you but people probably did because, if all someone says is "average," most people will assume they're talking about the mean absent any other context. Yes, it's a bad measure to use for certain things but lots of bad measures are used in lots of places.

(Now, if a piece talks exclusively and explicitly about medians and then uses a term such as "this average" that's probably OK because they've already stated that median is the only average they're discussing.)

All Google is doing BTW is basically "deciding" that although you asked for average income, what you really wanted is median income because that's what people are looking for. So it basically reworded your query for you.
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Credit is mildly dumb, but honestly it doesn't bother me. It's a game. It's a weird game. Arguably an illogical game.

But you know what? It's not a difficult game to play. It's an arbitrary benchmark of responsibility. If you're loaning money to someone or entering a contract you'd want to do so with someone who is dependable and responsible. Someone you can trust to hold up their end of the bargain. If they can't successfully play the credit score game then that's a pretty clear warning flag.

I kinda view high school/college the same way. They're another dumb game. But everyone knows credit scores and degrees make a difference. So if someone can identify and successfully navigate the game that's a very good indicator. Not the only indicator. And certainly not the end all to be all. But a good, solid one.

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Until ~2015 the databases holding your credit file at EQ and TU were so shoddy that you could easily remove "hard" inquiries on your credit report (those that other people see for 2 years, and which affect your fico score for 1 year). The "trick" was to sign up for several services that let you pull your own credit every day. Pulling your own credit, a "soft" inquiry, does not affect on your score. Their databases could hold only the last 100 or so inquiries, so you just pull your credit a few times every day and you overflow the field. They had a monthly batching process to consolidate these soft inquiries, so it did take a bit of persistence, but it's an alarming look at the tech underlying this critical piece of our credit economy.
If I remember correctly, messing with sleeping habits (telling them they had 8 hours sleep when they had 3, putting them on a variable length day, etc.) and getting their body off cycle is more effective. Depending on who you are, that might be torture or it might not be.
Some information is verifiable. It's useless in a war setting as bad information can be extremely costly, but questions like "Where did you hide the money?" are different as digging is generally a low risk activity.

So, from a utility standpoint, it's far more likely to be useful for the Mob than any government.
An mobile app allowing you to choose a prostitute, IF, done legally and in a "clean" (no mafia, human traffic, ...) way could be VERY profitable.
Well yeah, why?
Inaccurate claims that damage your reputation enough to harm your ability to e.g. get a job are why we have slander and libel laws. Anybody harmed by an inaccurate credit report should be suing the reporting agency for libel.

Unfortunately, the agencies have specific immunity from libel laws. It's probably going to take another trip to the SCOTUS to fix that example of institutional corruption.
But that's not true since our bodies process different foods in different ways. Marathon runners don't eat a bunch of steak fat before a run.
Anyone who has been following blockchain technology for more than 6 months can see that this is the same recycled already-done altcoin as the last guy.

The promoters get larger, and the consortiums get larger.

People need to talk about the WHY and HOW their blockchain works better. How it solves problems better than an existing blockchain. This isn't detailed because you already know the answer: "It doesn't, but I couldn't get a pull request to that other open-source repo approved so I made my own" .... "and this time got my managers to approve it too"

But yeah the consensus model sounds interesting.
The niche was extremely specific. It's not something the NY Times or TechCrunch or other big generic media outlets would've reported on.

As for niche authorities, there are only a very small handful of them. I did contact them. One of them never replied and started deleting all references to my project off of their message boards where users had been raving about it. I don't have any official reason why, I can only speculate that they saw some sort of competitive threat in it, though it wasn't competing other than providing a service to the same small niche at the time.

Another niche authority I spoke with pretended that they were interested in running a story about me long enough to get into the beta and get a feel for how it worked, at which point they stopped replying to me, blocked me everywhere that has a block function, and tried to copy the idea themselves. Their copycat was so bad that it was shut down by their host for spam violations within a month. I tried to follow up after the fact here and never got a reply.

I got one or two sites to link to me as a paid sponsorship thing. I don't think they put nofollow on their links, but I'm sure their PageRank was pretty small anyway. My guess would be that most domains in the niche don't have a lot of influence with Google.

In a dysfunctional niche like the one I was involved in, where everyone is hyper-paranoid that any new person on the scene, even if they're not directly competing, could be their death, Google's link authority approach doesn't really work.

I made extensive use of social media through the advertising options on Facebook and Twitter. I also ran AdWords. The results from the first 2 were fine and the results from AdWords were below average. However, all that was proven to be useless when compared with an organized spam campaign, which I was intentionally trying not to run.

I've since accepted that you have to deploy some of these tactics that everyone complains about and pretends are so evil, whilst they do them behind their back. I wish I would've accepted that earlier instead of believing the bullshit that's put out about this.
I don't think it's conclusive - that's my point.

I think it is conclusive that there are no old obese people.
This was the post that got to the front page:

https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4a4ol6...

The warmest feedback tended to come through PMs and email.
The page loads in 200ms for me. This is pretty good but then again. Why the hell do I have to wait 3 seconds for some loading screen?
Maybe in theory but in practice we see poor performance using OpenCL to target CPU devices (much worse than our reference C++ code)
The findings underscore public health research showing that healthy habits matter. The JAMA paper found that several measures of access to medical care had no clear relationship with longevity among the poor. But there were correlations with smoking, exercise and obesity.
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The city also imposed novel regulations on restaurants and food, banning trans fats that are associated with heart disease, and requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on menus. Efforts to tax or limit soda sales were unsuccessful, but public campaigns to discourage unhealthy eating were widespread.

The implication is that the nanny state has to step in because the poor don't exercise personal responsibility as diligently as the non-poor. Sad.
Best answers I can think of here:

"I'm sorry, I don't use Facebook as it seems an invasion of personal privacy"

or

"Ok, here's my Facebook account" and then give them some uber-sanitized account that just has photos of kittens and messages on your mom's wall about her cookies.
My first thought as well.
Have you looked at the numbers for fruit juice vs soda? Fruit juice has more fructose than most sugars.

None of the orange juice on the shelves is even made from squeezed oranges. They add flavor packs (often made from oranges so they can get away with it being 100% juice; and yes this goes for the natural/organic brands as well).

When you consume oranges, the fiber helps your body feel full. The fiber also helps reduce the insulin response and changes the absorption process. In juice form it digests very differently.

Orange juice is not healthy (and really, neither are oranges in large quantities).
Any system of shared secrets is doomed to fail. Inevitably one of the dozens of entities trusted with them will leak them.

Let citizens approve specific authentication requests via a secure channel to a government website or with government issue smart cards or something.
Great business idea, but you have a lot of catching up to do with https://www.netlify.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297316
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