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Debian is an upstream of Ubuntu only in the development release. Ubuntu stable releases are effectively branches (like the stable releases of every other distro).

Stable release maintenance of Debian and Ubuntu are thus independent in principle.

In practice patches for one are likely to be similar to what is needed on the other, issues affecting one are likely to affect the other, there are Debian developers who are also Ubuntu developers, Canonical employees who are also Debian developers, everyone is working towards a common goal of stable maintenance, and so forth, so there is quite a bit of communication and cross-pollination between the two. For example: I'm a Canonical employee and Debian maintainer; today I've spent quite a bit of time working on a security fix for a package I maintain in Debian that I'm effectively being paid to do by Canonical.
Huh, I've never really been able to articulate why I dislike Tyson – this nails it.

It's such a shame when people compare him to Sagan. Two different playing fields, and this is why.
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Interesting is the 4K video mode and the 120fps and 180fps modes. I wonder to what extent this will be usable/available on an Rpi.
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> On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is different only in degree from any other calorie restriction, and when people try to reduce by X calories, it's probably a linear effect; more restriction, more of these effects. Oddly though, fasting tends not to have these effects, it's only in sustained calorie restriction, so fasting in various forms is one of the tools people can use to lose weight.

No dude, you are ignoring the fact that these people did not have ample fat stores. It is completely unreasonable to expect that obese people would behave the same while restricting calories than people who are already borderline starving (4% BF). These aren't effects of caloric intake restriction, they are effects of caloric restriction in general, which is a state obese people are not, have not been in for years and will not be in for years.

> One major problem is that the basal metabolic rate does not stay stable. Decreased caloric intake can decrease basal metabolic rate by up to 40 percent

This is basically unrelated to your statements about insulin though, so don't conflate the two. This statement does not support the idea that obese people cannot harvest energy from their fat stores, it supports the idea that you get less energy output from less energy input which is almost tautologically true.
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Chrome books are the best college laptops for the vast majority of students. The ability to have a ton of apps and then have the Microsoft suite on an App could really over come a few hiccups which is normally based on professors' issue of only using Word.

THE ONE ISSUE is Printing. I have to help my daughter setting up cloud printing all the time
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Lying isn't inherently wrong. You aren't lying to a person with feelings, you're lying to a faceless operation that is fucking you over.
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The fact that you're being downvoted just shows how many Apple zealots unwilling to accept Apple recent (last few years) across-the-board failings in software security there are still here at HN.

Your reply is factually correct and rather than attempt to rebut it in any way, they just downvote you.
You are a rounding error. There's not a large enough market. Also, consider how you are comparing a $2000 laptop to a Chromebook. What's the market again?
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This isn't entirely fair. Who drives to a Yankees game or a Red Sox game? Sane people take public transit. You should factor in "cost of [most common] transit to the game."

(And this is coming from someone who is in one of the least expensive towns.)
I am curious if this syntax is valid in anything other than Perl? (Though even that would need a trailing slash).
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I have:

> The Tokyo Whale Is Quietly Buying Up Huge Stakes in Japan Inc.

So I guess bloomberg is A/B testing their titles
There's a difference between research to prevent exploits VS. research to enable them. The latter is the FBI.
All but $81M was recovered.
It's almost working out as a very slow nationalization process -which is not what the Boj is looking for, so what's the endgame if they do end up controlling sizable shares in companies? More or less of the concrete-industrial-retirement complex?
The biggest issue with this is that it distorts the market in a way that normal quantitative easing doesn't. Normally the stock market prices are kept in check with short sellers putting downward pressure on stocks that are priced too high.

With the government buying so much, being long only, it makes it very hard for a fund to short a stock. Its one thing to be right, but its another to try and short a stock knowing that you've got the government taking the other side of your trade. It doesn't matter what fund you are, they have more firepower than you, which leads to decrease in short interest, which leads to an overall inflation in market values that goes away the moment the markets get any hint that the government will stop propping up prices.

Or put another way, the government is now in a position where they'll need to keep on buying and holding the stock market forever.

Nothing about the Japanese stock market surprises me anymore.

Below is a good article illustrating how one leveraged ETF got so big that it was literally moving the market at the end of ht day in its attempt to re balance itself. Sort of a tail wagging the dog scenario.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-18/the-etf-wh...

I guess the one good thing about Japan is that its essentially a petri dish for maco economists and macro funds to experiment with to determine what the US markets will look like if/when the US hits an end to its economic growth.
Type 2 Diabetes can 100% be "cured" by a low fat vegan diet. Sorry you don't need a pill, you need to wake up and face the fact that you are poising yourself with your high fat diet.

FAT causes diabetes (and high blood pressure and heart disease) NOT Sugar. Dietary fat clogs up your bloodstream preventing insulin from effectively doing it's job.

http://www.amazon.com/Neal-Barnards-Program-Reversing-Diabet...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N636ftTJ10
You could queue an async job to rebuild what was stored in the cache right before the expiration time when you update / renew the expiration on the cached item?
I agree with the best STB, at least all the ones I've used recently.

There's an unofficall Amazon Video app that I've been using for quite awhile with little problems, the ShieldTV does use the Google Play Store and I've used other stores like Aptoide and AptoideTV.
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Well, I've also noticed the effect where when I write a short (2-3 paragraph) comment, it's instantly ranked at the top of the comments for the article with 1 point, while when I write a long (8-10 paragraph) comment, it's instantly ranked at the bottom of the comments for the article with 1 point.
Are you being sarcastic? Getting into stanford just makes you a good test taker and resume builder- and it means you are smart, but there are lots of smart people in the world. If it was that important, why have people from stanford worked for me many times, i'm just a humble southern state school grad.
On the other hand though "magician" unambiguously refers to a person that performs stage magic, in a modern context at least.
Has anyone seen an SDR based 'cellphone' type device out of curiosity?
Yes, taping is a great strategy but if you have bad tongue placement or just a physical nasal airway restriction, you might not be ready. ENT is your first stop, in my experience. Schedule it up!
But the FBI isn't exactly independent, is it? Would you say the same about "independent" researchers employed by the Chinese government, or Syria or Israel?
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True, but the article is arguing it's the FBI's failure to disclose the vulnerabilities that is making us less safe.

We expect researchers to follow responsible disclosure practices and at least notify the vendor to give them a chance to prepare a patch. I can understand why the FBI might not want to do that, but that's where the OP is coming from.
I've had - and still have, to a degree - similar troubles with understanding math notation. Some 9 years ago a friend, solidly mathematician, gave a good advice to me - at least try to pronounce the math expression aloud. That forces you to pay attention to each symbol - instead of trying to immediately find word-like "phrases", failing that and missing the expression as a whole.

APLs are - as Arthur Whitney likes to employ - supposed to be read symbol-by-symbol, since each one represent a whole operation. That's why APL program are so dense - you may have plenty of work done in a short line (but many APL writers prefer to keep lines short, to help with understanding). A screenful of APL can be moderately sized program, without need for scrolling... When you write J, you might be tempted to add more and more operations to the left (APL and J work from right to left), until it's hard to "explain" what the whole expression does - because it does so much. With an alternative - short, understandable expressions - you have another problem, that of naming :) - trying to give a traditional, long-worded name to an intermediate result of expression doesn't fit well with the rest of the style... So a good sense of balance is very valuable.

Another saying which may help to understand APL's mindset is that APLers spend 5 minutes to write a program, then spend next 1 hour to write the same program better and cleaner. That's what I understand as refactoring; the idea is to make the code more readable, the expression more obvious, more obviously correct, more reuseable... Properly done, the expression is a pleasure to look at and well worth the efforts to decipher it symbol-by-symbol. And another great option is documentation - lots of comments, just as in good math texts, where the idea is explained in plain English and then succinctly put to code.

This way I better see the math background behind the problem. I certainly have an easier time to change something here and there - the changes required are so small. I also see similarities between different pieces of code, if they are put as similar expressions close to each other, on the same screen. Yes, the notation is terse... but it at least has good sides.
What's the end-game here?

Obviously their sovereign debt level is enormous too, but it's also mostly purchased by the Bank of Japan. It's a ponzi scheme that's contained within itself.

So it must mean Japan is heading toward a currency collapse, correct? They're not going to default on their own debt since they own it all and can print whatever they need to keep it serviced.

It seems to me that the markets will one day wake up and decide that the yen is worthless...and that will cause ruckus.
I'm glad you wrote this. I feel similarly myself, although it sounds like the making of friends comes more naturally to you. I have a surplus of friends that I know could become much closer friends if I was able to dedicate more time to those relationships, but the truth is that I already have a lot of excellent close friends.

It's absolutely lovely but exhausting. I too feel overwhelmed by texts, invites and the like and am trying to figure out how to handle this without compromising myself too much (life is tough right now and I feel like I need an increasing amount of time on my own right now). Honesty about it is the approach I've been taking - I try to be the best friend I can to all of those closest to me, but bear in mind that I am also the most important friend I have.

FWIW, I'm exactly with you on your points 1, 2 (replace calm with excitable sometimes though!) and 3.
The MBP doesn't have USB C either. The MacBook does, but then you lose the CPU, storage, keyboard, and still haven't got a touchscreen.
Once I decided to turn around on my bed by sleeping by putting my head where I usually put my feet... That was one of the most awkward weake up and dreaming experience I've ever had
This is pretty cool. One thing to note - he "killed" the google interview. Although it can vary from one interviewer to the next, it's nearly impossible to do this without becoming relatively fluid with a subset of data structures and algorithms, bit manipulation, and design.

Kind of cool to hear he was an English major. Although I doubled with math I did major in english as well, and it wasn't valuable only as something different from math/cs - in other words, it didn't build valuable but different skills such as communication and writing. I think that the kind of core logical, analytical reasoning we attribute to math or cs style classes is actually something you really can build through literary analysis. Lit and philosophy majors (not just because of symbolic logic) in general are much closer to talent and ability in programming than many of them realize. It actually isn't an easy major if you take it seriously. Unlike STEM majors, there's often an option to kick back, read the plot summaries, and rely on the relative indifference of most classmates to get a good grade - but these majors contain a small core of extremely devoted core of students who have pretty exceptional analytical and reading comprehension skills - these are the people who a professor can say "you know, you really might want to take a look at <dense obscure work of literature written in old language that is hard to follow>", and that student will be able to do it over the next 24 hours, with startling levels of understanding of the text.

It's not a long distance to cover between high levels of literary analysis and being able to find all matching sub-trees of a node, seriously.

I'm also glad to hera the guy got a strong salary, it gives me some confidence for the field. The reason is that while $120k a year is a fine salary in most parts of the country, people like this guy really do have a lot of options. If you have the ability to read and analyze a text like that, as well as an ability to transition into a more purely algorithmic way of reasoning, well, $120 isn't a particularly impressive salary for you. If that's considered a good salary, then people like this simply won't work in the industry - or if they do, they won't stay in it. They'll go off in pursuit of better options.
fyi (I didn't know either)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

Sturgeon's revelation, commonly referred to as Sturgeon's law, is an adage commonly cited as "ninety percent of everything is crap".
Yes, but why would I want to go to a hacker space, I have plenty of toys at home.

The excuse to go to the bookstore was to see what new books had come in.
Call centers are in general quite atrocious as far as authentication goes. Here is one particular egregious example http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/2016-reality-lazy-authent... I cannot remember where I read it, but there are services in Eastern Europe where you can hire someone to field questions at a call center. A calm detached criminal is going to be more convincing than a flustered person who cannot believe that their identity is being questioned.

In general, there is nothing that you can ask me over a phone that cannot be asked to someone pretending to be me who can get the details in a variety of ways. To static questions there are static answers. If you perform two factor authentication properly, this is actually easier over a website than the phone.
looks awesome. Can't wait to try out this new version.
Yes, so what you're saying is college student who sells aren't qualify as a part of my market since they can't fix this supply chain issue.

Which I also mentioned the way to solve it is to cut down the market size, so that only first hand suppliers are the ones majority selling
It's a different solution, but I don't know if it would be better. How do you think it's better?

VW doesn't want their cars going into limp mode. They don't want customers calling up asking why their car is acting funny. They don't want to increase the maintenance load on their customers. They don't want customers coming in for unnecessary service appointments (especially for stuff they wouldn't be able to charge for). Making a tank big enough to last as long as the motor oil seems like an easy, low tech solution. Sometimes simple is better.
I am not sure what makes you trust node.js (V8) more than the JVM. The JVM has been in solid for a long time, has higher performance, and more stable. The JVM GC is very good and highly-tunable.
I'd say that coming from a company who pushed a standard called "Office Open" to undermine standardization on ODF, that'd be rich.
This is of course true, but it's also worth pointing out that your dad is by far the exception. Very few underweight people get T2.
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I wrote about some challenges in doing growth hacking in my other medium post :)
Just be careful that they don't take you to collections for "missed payments". Regardless though, fuck these kinds of practices where signing up is easy and leaving is hard. That should be something massively illegal with fines in the millions to billions for the number of affected customers.
I use Vim for everything except for Java development. Java apps are just often so heavy that I have to use IntelliJ. It makes it a lot easier to handle refactoring, etc. However, I do use IntelliJ with Vim bindings.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. BofJ does not hold 90% of Japanese stocks, just 90% of stocks in the Nikkei 225 index. Still interesting but very misleading title.
I'm not sure how relevant this is, but I'm one of the most open, positive and optimistic people I know and I just want everyone to enjoy life and being alive as much as I do. Perhaps people like that.
Do they have a decent amount of storage, I thought they were very cloud oriented.

My Ubuntu laptop could do with more storage, but I can't really justify the next size SSD jump.
RSA is not used to encrypt large messages. Symmetric ciphers are used for this. With classic RSA, the secret key for the symmetric cipher is encrypted using RSA.

Often (e.g. in the Signal protocol), a short secret key is extended using a HKDF (RFC 5869) to create enough bits for a symmetric key and an IV or a nonce (and a MAC key if needed).

So for randomness, take 128 bits, use HKDF to extend to 192 bits, use 128 bits of output as AES-128 key, use next 64 bits of output as nonce, use 64 bits counter, produce AES-128(key, nonce||counter) for every value of counter until it overflows as randomness. 2^64 of 2^4 byte blocks is 2^68 bytes of randomness - enough for most purposes. An Intel chip will produce it at 1GB/sec per core.
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I have a hard time giving credit to the examples they raise, since they say users were aware that humans were present behind the 'bot', which would explain to me why they used emojis / gifs and images to talk with the 'bots'.
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A agency of some sort that protected consumers from these sorts of business practices would make a lot of sense. I wonder if Elizabeth Warren is doing anything...
Nothing about the ecosystem attracts me. What is the value proposition again?
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How complete is the Android port?
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Japan has a lot of leading industries and a social contract that depends on conglomerate careers for life. Nationalistic mercantilism makes enormous sense in Japan.
The current science does not support this position. The current science basically says there is an interplay between fats and carbs, and that fat tends to clog your arteries when consumed in the presence of a caloric surplus, usually brought on via carbs. Low fat diets seem to work provided they are high in fiber, and high fat diets seem to work provided they are low in carbs. High fat, high carb seems to be where we see the biggest issues.

So while you actually might be right, that in many cases a low fat vegan diet helps T2 diabetes, it's only one of many strategies to arrive at a suitable diet.
Perhaps someone should create a "learnxinyminutes" for this.
>That doesn't make it okay to lie to them.

You are right. What makes it okay to lie is that no harm is done to anyone I care about not harming. That they made themselves someone I no longer care about harming is their own issue.
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