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Some (many?) use MATLAB interactively to produce figures and then save them by hand. Often this involves a mixture of typing commands and clicking on GUI elements like "add colorbar". So a m-file that produces the figure doesn't exist; at best there would be fragments of code buried in MATLAB's command history.
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> information that allows us to go through the verification process independently was provided too late for us to do so fully

"Too late" ? They are in charge of their publication schedule, I believe.

The economist is a very weak publication. Anyone taking a lead from them on economics should think about how poor the above statement is and wonder about their rigor in other areas.
A year ago I would have agreed with you, but it is getting to the point where it is very difficult to run your own mail server (I still do).

In the name of fighting spam, Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc. have made it a real chore to get messages delivered to their networks. I still haven't figured out how to get messages delivered to AOL.
>It turned out, they couldn't figure out how to procure and install a server for it to run on.

Sure they could. There's talent abound in Africa. Unfortunately, the case here is usually corruption. That project money was siphoned to the politicians themselves or a connected pal, or both. Just old fashioned fraud here. I think "Africans don't know what they are doing" is a convenient scapegoat that empowers fraudsters. And if that narrative leads to more foreign aid, then wonderful, because the politically connected class abuse that too.
Yeah, there's nothing conspiracy-like about a group of powerful people colluding in secret to produce laws, via illegal means, for nearly the entire planet. That's literally a superset of the definition of "conspiracy". Do you spend a lot of time looking into the sun?
I've been told that card processors will get charged more going forward if they don't implement the chips, or for non-chip transactions because of the added risk involved. That should help speed up the transition or at least activate it on those readers that have it.
Thank you!

1. The data is from Spotify's API. I use 3 endpoints (artist info, artist top tracks, related artists). Really this is just a shiny interface over their API.

2. Yeah. The previous artist is meant as a way to go back in time (if you wanted to explore multiple "branches"). But yeah it's very "dumb" in this regard :)
> Or Gavin just isn't James Randi, and wasn't prepared to uncover deliberate fakes.

Right, it's very easy to fool a specific person, especially a smart person who thinks they cannot be fooled.
Indeed. I looked briefly into how multi-line SVG text elements work and it was not encouraging, so I let it be. I'll look into tspans though, thanks!
Why not fault them? Because it's not their area of expertise? They should get someone in to verify. Is this a real journalist or someone at a tabloid?
incidentally, I know a best selling author who wrote his two first books on a 2009 atom netbook.

(conclusion: stop blaming the tools and get back to work)
These variations on a "we found Satoshi for reals this time" story seems to be on a ~6 month cycle. It happens, it gets debunked, it fades, it happens again.
but we don't really have the consent-at-scale technology for anything else, do we? tbh it's just this specific NHS Trust that made the call in this instance.

Personally, I see potential in ResearchKit to solve the consent problem re medical data
It is indeed a joke :)

I realize that this probably renders the copyright void, but I don't particularly care. Infringe all you like!
My dad grew up under the Soviets, where he learned a thing or two about waste, inefficiency, and systematic corruption. He says the following:

"If the government ever gives you the chance to bribe them, do it immediately and with a smile. Pay double if they'll let you. You'll always come out ahead in the long run."

Precheck/Global entry is clearly unrelated to actual security; instead, it's an obvious shakedown, plain and simple. The TSA has given you a chance to pay them extra to be harassed less. From this perspective the GP is correct in practice - you'd be dumb not to pay up.
Free and unimpeded travel is not a basic right for any people, in any place.

It's supposed to be within the US, though, just like in Schengen. That's due to law, not some magical "right", though.

edit: what is a "basic right" supposed to be, anyway? I missed that day in philosophy class.
Well, I'd say that the endocrine reason sounds like a valid one. I can at least be counted in that group.

Last December, I was diagnosed with T2 diabetes. After talking with a researcher about this (have worked with diabetes research school locally due to job), I came across a few things:

1. Damage is done to the pancreas at 140mg/dL
2. Too long at 140mg/dL or above can cause permanent damage to the pancreas.
3. Early estimates indicate that 110mg/dL is a lower limit of beginning damage to the pancreas

Ok. There's a lot of moving parts in food. Nutritionists will tell you all sorts of bunkum, other than mineral assays and tests have discovered. But there's a simple way here: keep blood sugar under 140mg/dL, no matter what.

Is that possible? To keep your blood sugar under 140mg/dL? Yes. The answer is "Don't eat foods that raise your blood sugar above 140mg/dL". That's interestingly easy. What it amounts to, is cutting out sugars and carbohydrates out of your diet, and extensively testing when you come across foods you're unsure of.

My research shows that all the standard sugars are bad for me (Sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose). I spike, and then fall. It also depends on what I'm eating with them. In those cases the rise and fall are longer.

Some complex carbohydrates I can handle. Potatoes are a nope, as are bread products. But spaghetti squash works with me well. I can handle it nicely, with a very low rise and fall.

I also end up eating a lot of fats, protein, and veggies. But I don't crave sugar at all. I've always liked meats, and this gives me the ability to continue that.
FWIW, there's a MyTSA app for iPhone & Android that estimates delays, and http://www.whatsbusy.com/airport can also give you a delay heads up.

In my experience flying domestically & internationally every month for the past 6 months, plan to get there 2 hours early for domestic, and 3 hours before for international, and you'll make it on time. This also depends greatly on the time of your flight and the airport, as both have peak times. When flying early, there is no rush. Red-eye, it can be stressful as some people are trying to make the last flight. When flying at more "convenient" times, expect the abbatoir line.

And when you have to make connections and they may be the last flights of the day, remember that the super-cheap internet-deal ticket you got probably does not include any refunds for delays. Certain airports are _constantly_ delayed, so check all your connecting airports and the connection times before you buy.
For a while there was actually an issue with iMessage where even after you switched to an Android, iMessage would continue to direct your friends' iPhones to contact you via iMessage instead of SMS. So if you left the iPhone platform, all of your iPhone-owning friends would be unable to text you.

Google Hangouts seemed to be a step in this direction as well, with SMS integration, it pushes users to use their proprietary protocol instead where possible. But it looks like Google has backed off of it since then.
Yes that certainly sounds very nice (pretending that political correctness is only about "being nice"), but in my opinion is an excellent example of the problem.

Some topics are going to hurt people's feelings, there's no getting around it, so if "treating people with respect" is an absolute, then it is in many scenarios outright censorship of ideas. The article you links claims that is simply not true but offers absolutely nothing to substantiate that claim. I find this type of reasoning pretty common on the left.
Hahahahaha wow! Yours definitely wins in terms of # of results :D

Very cool.
You submitted a different URL, the HN dupe check does exact URL matches and doesn't ignore query parameters (since some pages rely on them). Even if it did, shortened URLs etc would still trick it, so you have to check manually.
Interesting, though physical residency must come in at some point, otherwise who pays taxes for the country you actually live in? But hey, if they start making good laws, I'd move there, as European it's very easy. But good laws means also lower taxes and a decent healthcare at decent prices.
Maybe! I was 305 at my heaviest, but I was also a serious powerlifter and was at the gym 10-15 hours a week lifting, plus training for competitions. I often wonder if having that strength base made it easier, in some ways, to drop the weight than if I had been totally sedentary and had to start from zero with regards to exercising.
Personally, I think it's a generational thing; the notion that everyone deserves to feel honored and precious on the internet first and foremost is a new one.

"You're unique! You're special! You matter!"

This is the sentiment that seems so pervasive, and as Gen-X, one I find saccharine and stomach-churning.
It's like `python3 -m http.server` but in a language that is rarely pre-installed on systems with an external program that has two external dependencies.
You're missing the "fear it would leak before Official Announcement" part.

But there should now be no reason this signed message can't be published.
I hope you never find yourself on the other side of someone with the badge, even though these people don't even have the power to arrest me it was very scary feeling like they thought I was a criminal and nothing I could say could convince them otherwise.

"Did you know what you did was a felony? Did you know it's illegal to possess one of these?" - that's what I had to endure until the police arrived. For the crime of forgetting an item in my bag even existed after running a convention.

Of course it's my fault for not checking my bag before I left the house, if I was a weapons collector I'm sure I would've thought twice but I'm not.
Turns out GFW isn't so original after all. sigh
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Curious if there is sample content.
Well tax laws apply to you based on your tax residence and your citizenship so this has very limited benefits if you are already living in a western country. Plus due to all the anti money laundering rules you will have tough time opening a bank account remotely.
Oh you're absolutely right. A big part of the problem I've identified is that often enough I eat not because I'm hungry but because I'm stressed. And in that case, I tend to eat chocolates. It's not a coincidence that I started to become overweight (by roughly 40 pounds) when my startup failed.
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No, since it created a submission for them, which it doesn't if it recognizes the dupe.
They are not in charge of the publication schedule for several reasons:

1. They all have lives, and likely work regular hours.

2. They cannot control what other news outlets release and when. A skeptical story from The Economist in the presence of lots of credulous releases from other outlets is better than silence.

3. They are a print publication. They can't hold up an entire release for one story.

Actually, out of all the major outlets, I'm most impressed by The Economist's coverage. The BBC and CNN fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
Each pound of fat ~= 3,500 calories up front, but also another 3,500 calories every ~4.8 years if you never moved. Keep active and it's significantly higher as your effectively walking around carrying weights 24/7.

Thus, you really need to eat far less to maintain a healthy weigh long term, and or become significantly more active.
SJWs are not actually the biggest jerks on the network. But I think they do have the most cohesive groupthink at the moment.

I consider them to be a grave threat to the traditional American freedoms of speech, free exercise of religion, the press, association, peaceful assembly, bearing arms, privacy, and due process. They are replacing all of these with the freedom to retaliate for being offended or threatened by proxy. That is, as long as a SJW can conceive the possibility of a person that could have been threatened or offended by you, they feel they are entitled to react as though those people actually exist, but are too afraid to self-identify and respond for themselves.

And speaking of dog-whistles, the SJWs have an annoying habit of using "check your privilege" as an ad hominem distraction, to derail anyone that may be threatening to a groupthink narrative. They are also big users of "no true Scotsman".
TSA already have a deal with USPS in some airports.
You can ban the guns on planes and fine people if anyone spots them. That should discourage open carry zealots. You could also ban carry-on bags, so it's harder to hide them. I guess people could bring on knives, pistols, or box-cutters; I don't know if there's a technical way to make planes resistant enough to these to give the pilot a chance to land in an emergency.

There's still room for disagreement even after all of these, though.
> But good laws means ... decent healthcare at decent prices

I'd say it means decent healthcare, universally free of charge.
But we still have memepool, right?
This is a non-issue. First class flyers pay for a ticket that allows them shorter lines, not expedited screening. They're still subject to being randomly flagged, and they will go through the same screening process as everyone else.

That's why first/business class tickets cost so damn much - to blind the traveler into believing that they're actually paying for something worthwhile. As it turns out, for many of them, it is worthwhile just to have shorter lines.

Theme parks do the same thing: pay more for shorter lines. Many attractions, such as the Sears Tower (still can't bring myself to use its official name) Observation Deck, do the same thing.

It's a money grab for sure, just not by the TSA. and why should the TSA give a shit about it if the first class passenger gets the same screening?
To play devil's advocate: I'm in my mid 30's myself and I'm not a director anywhere, so it does sound impressive to me (ok, maybe not enough for top 5 school ambitions or whatever).

And it does seem old compared to the perception of how life is seen in Silicon Valley / startup culture.
Cool! At a glance, it looks similar to my approach. Different tools, but same rough architecture.
Maybe, but your interface is smooth and slick! It was a weekend project for me, so didn't have time to refine it too much, and it does what I use it to do, but it definitely looks like I could learn a lot in design from you :D
I'm not criticizing capitalism. There are a lot of good things you can say about capitalism. It results in some efficient organizations being created, a lot of useful work getting done, and everyone having incentives to increase productivity and reduce waste. It produces a lot of wealth. I don't think we would do better without markets.

Like evolution, capitalism exists so we need to describe it and understand it. It's definitely a force to be reckoned with.

It's not a system for approximating justice. It doesn't result in people getting what they deserve, even approximately.

The problem isn't only the cheating but also the randomness, which basically gives outsized rewards for being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Anyone watching the tech industry knows this.

If the people who end up with the money choose to spend it to pursue justice, sometimes the world becomes a better place. But nothing in economic theory guarantees it will happen. It's up to people to do it.
Ask HN: Why is Google discriminating with my Android application?
I am a student developer, I have developed an Android application[1].
And Google IS NOT letting me publish this on Play Store.

The app lets you play YouTube videos (and playlists) in a chathead like floating window player.
So you can listen to videos while using other applications also.

Every time I try to publish the app, this is what I get:

1. Your app is enabling background play of YouTube.

2. Your app allows the audio of a YouTube video continues to play even when users turn off the screen of the device or the Youtube video play window.

3. The audio of a YouTube video continues to play even after the user has navigated away from the page containing that video.

4. Our review revealed that your app provides a webview of Youtube.

I feel biased because there exist other application(s) like ListenOnRepeat[2] and Floating Tube[3] doing the similar functionalities.

If my application is violating the ToS of YouTube, how come these apps are live on play store?

These apps also provide YouTube's website in webview and continues to play videos in the background.

Can you please suggest me the correct solution for the given situation?

[1]: http://imshyam.me/mintube/

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.youtuberepeatfree&hl=en

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kc.floatingtubeapp&hl=en

[4]: https://github.com/imshyam/mintube
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Changing an already finished agreement will be a major undertaking, bordering on the impossible. The Congress can either pass or not pass it, which biases the vote heavily. Having the opportunity to present a negotiated document implies the opportunity to anchor the discussions starting point.
Ah, ok, I stand corrected.
Might be a temporary bug. If it persists, it might make sense to contact the moderators directly using the contact link at the bottom of the page.
> If/If not a negative vocal minority exists is irrelevant, nor its interactions.

The amplification of the loudest and most brash is the social interaction equivalent of selection bias, or cherry picking, except without it being by choice on the recipients end. How is that not relevant?

Furthermore, a social network is nothing but interactions. That's all communication is: interaction between people.

> All you do is provide a rationalization that the world isn't as bad of a place as the comment section suggestions.

Given that I am responding to a comment that EDIT:appears to argue that the comment section represents "normal people" I think that is a pretty relevant argument. Although GP has since explained that he meant something else.

And no, it is not like hidden variable theory at all, since that argues that there is an unseen explanation of observed effect, without arguing that the observed effect is not representative. I am arguing the observed effect isn't representative to begin with.
Because, since no one would expect you to publish every relevant tweet, it makes it more defensible to cherry-pick references that are editorially on-the-nose. It's pretty reprehensible; I've seen WaPo, NYT, and the Guardian publish (editorial, not eyewitness) tweets in stories that had been retweeted less than a dozen times before making the paper.
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Outsourced to the Spotify API. Would have loved to take a crack at solving that problem, but limited time for side projects :)
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What do you have to say about http://trilema.com/2015/more-factored-rsa-keys-and-assorted-... getting caught lying last time around?
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fibers?
sounds like a duck named quacky.
You would think that Satoshi, who has been in hiding for so long, would have a fully planned reveal. He/she has had a long time to plan. As long as Satoshi is not outed unintentionally, I would think he/she would have a long list of lawyers and accountants. Roughly 1 million btc could be 400 million in assets. That's a heck of a lot of capital to be dealing with reporters directly.
I cycle 7 miles to work, and back. That's some 25 minutes both ways. During the day, I go for a 4 or 8 mile run. That's another half an hour or hour.
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He said /r/all and not the default subs.

/r/all is generally a cesspool nowadays, especially with all the #TREMENDOUS /r/the_donald shitposts.

I have seen Trump-tier shitposting leak into /r/China and other completely unrelated subs as well.

It's getting out of hand.
I've been Team PostgreSQL for a long time in the FLOSS DB Wars, so take this with a grain of salt, but that MySQL hasn't managed to implement "ancient" standards certainly has bothered me over the years and there are certainly plenty of other people on Team PostgreSQL that have been pointing this stuff out for in some cases decades. So yes, shame on MySQL for failing SQL99 (and heck, shame on them for failing SQL86 in their basic [lack of] ACID compliance in their default DB storage for far too many years).

So yes, this certainly feeds my point that standards years can be useful to point out the quirky failings of software by potentially adding to their shame. It's 2016, are you using an SQL-1986-compliant database?
The same thing happened in France, kind of.

For a while (in the 70s and 80s) there were two competing, state-sponsored networks in France: Minitel, based on x25 and made by French telcos, and Cyclades, based on datagrams and made by French CS research labs. The telcos lobbied the government to cut funding for Cyclades, which they saw as a competitor, and it eventually happened (under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, probably neither Pompidou nor de Gaulle would have made that mistake).

There is a very good book (in French) about that story, called La France en réseaux, by Valérie Schafer. It is one of my favorite tech history books. I will certainly read yours and hope it is as good!

However, I saw it is only available as hardcover. Any chance you can make it available for Kindle?
Agreed, but I think these are all solvable issues, someone just has to make the first attempt at solving them.
Oddly enough HDBSCAN can be recast as a persistent homology computation; the trick is in simplicial complex construction; you need something slightly more density aware than traditional Rips complexes. I am currently working on designing a version of Carlsson and Memoli's Multiparameter Hierarchical Clustering based on the persistent homology interpretation of HDBSCAN.
Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602536
You stated a fact alongside your opinion, that a large portion of the TSA's operation includes seizing drugs. Do you have a source for this?
To be fair, a good chunk of the social justice community online is intensely vitriolic. Because they deal with the worst trolls on the Internet, they've developed an intensely callous and mean-spirited approach to "social justice" and have made absurd terms like "die cis scum" into catch-phrases.

Basically, they have the moral high-ground... but are turning it into a crater.

Reddit has /r/ShitRedditSays, which is the perfect example of this approach of "social justice trolling".

http://imgur.com/gallery/40Idny0
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Satoshi, is that you :P?
For cancer yes, but for a back pain? It's very hard to make universal healthcare because universal healthcare is a very subjective term. The only way to make healthcare universal is to work out serious insurance plans and then make sure that what's not covered is priced honestly.
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