skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, he's quoted in the article saying that he has to have a personal email address. That probably means that there's a filter and/or blacklist that's at least watching for, if not actively blocking, access to whitehouse.gov and/or other official/important domains. This probably extends into the commercial world. I wonder if looking up anything other than the conventional email domains is a cause for suspicion. Thus, looking up "trump@trump.biz", for example, is inadvisable.
O_o

Really? I always just figured it was a blatant disregard for human life.

Go figure.
I agree that TLS would be nice, but it doesn't hide the fact that you've visited www.ttip-leaks.org
Do you know if the airlines pay the TSA for the security?

It seems like adding some direct private funding and influence would help alleviate some of these issues. Of courses that would affect ticket prices, but an extra hundred per passenger wouldn't be such a bad thing if it drastically improved the situation.
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>weird post-Christian belief that there is some you apart from your body

The body/mind have a lot of different parts doing different things. In the article the folks conscious minds tried to lose weight and the body's mechanisms tried to regain it. Not sure that's that weird?
5%?! This isn't 2006, it's 2016. Decode is annoying, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to lighting up the memory stack.
FBI Chooses Secrecy Over Locking Up Criminals
How do these proofs work if code has IO? For example, if I read a number from the command line, how can I know that it's within a certain range? I'm only very familiar with this type of thing through languages with explicit IO (Idris, F* to an extent), so I'm interested in seeing how it works in languages with implicit side effects.
Yeah, unfortunately both .io and .co are not gathered from authoritative sources, as the registrars don't provide free access to their zone root files. :\

I use this myself to look for domains and I figured something would be better than nothing at all in this case. :)
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Fat cells never go away once you've got them. Fat cells also really don't want to be empty. When you loose weight the fat is broken up in to H2O and CO2 (you literally breath and pee fat away) but the fat cell generally holds onto the water for a while and then, along with a load of other fat cells, will expel that water in one go(which is why you tend to keep a stable weight for a few days and then find you've lost 1 or 2 lbs "overnight"). It's called the Woosh effect I think?

Problem is that the body doesn't want to get rid of that fat cell because "hey, it might be handy one day to store extra energy when we can't eat for a few days because the baboons ate everything" and so it's fairly easy to top that cell back up with fat in the future.

With regards to the slow metabolism refereced in the article (I skimmed it) this is tied to leptin levels which needs to be topped up with "refeed days" every now and then just to kick start you metabolism again. A refeed day is basically a day where you eat a lot of carbs and keep your protein and fat as they usually are on the normal diet days.

Very broadly speaking (and short cutting lots of science and variations), it is easier for a previously fat person to get fat again than it is for a skinny person to get fat in the first place.
The food industry has a significant number of people employed whose whole job is to make you think foods are healthier than they are and get you to eat more of them. I mean it's not by accident that almost every food in the supermarket ended up with some health claims on the box (my favorite examples of this are, like, "natural" eggs and "gluten-free" meats).

That's assuming you're buying your own food; if you're eating in a restaurant or something you don't even really know what you are consuming.
The fact that you would spend more time in line than in the air is mind-boggling. I fly from Toronto to Newark on business semi-regularly and it's a 1h15m flight.

I haven't quite experienced a 3-hour wait in Newark but I did have a ~1h30m line earlier this year. I know for a fact a bunch of people in line with me (many who complained about showing up at the airport 2+ hours ahead of time) missed an international flight to India that day.

I immediately signed up for Global Entry after that.
The food has changed a lot - as other commenters have pointed out.

But our lifestyles have changed a lot, too.

Most people in sub/urban areas spend 1-2 mins walking to/from their cars and the rest of their waking hours (12+ hours) sitting/eating.
Yahoo gives CEO Marissa Mayer severance package worth $55M
Thanks, just to be clear: I'm not an advocate for TTIP.
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My main (remaining) issue with Apple Maps today is it does not give lane information for upcoming maneuvers. Google Maps does this and I find it invaluable.
There's probably no reason I can't still do it, aside from physical distance problems and getting the free time lined up on both sides, which was far easier when we could just schedule it during working hours as 20% time.

If we/I ever do it, I'll make sure to send you a link. :)
So add penance points for daily exercise milestones as measured by a fitness tracker and it'll be the next thing(tm), no?
Strengthening authentication through big data
Signatures are only probably unique. Theoretically there can be collisions.

Granted, the likelihood that he inadvertently collided with a public transaction is astronomically small.
See HN passim "The Sugar Conspiracy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941
Ah, that was the name. Thank you.
>As a working programmer I get access to all the papers I want.

I'll bite. Where?

>Also many do gladly send copies if asked about them.

I have no doubt, but that's not very scalable.
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In my case I have always liked and followed the Bitcoin scene because everybody in his right mind knew it would turn into a shitshow.

I mean you have the combination of an open source community, libertarians, and a shitload of money. The outcome is pretty obvious.
Friends dont let friends use OVH, I cant reiterate this enough. They've long and sometimes dramatic history of broken services, undelivered paid services (like months long queues for paid upfront servers not being delivered), lack of communication with customers, truly horrible support all of which I had the back luck to experience myself, so do yourself a favor and just avoid them at any cost.
not entirely clear what you're cross about here, but perhaps the original story (which I reported) might be useful - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2086454-revealed-google...

happy to address any criticisms
All the more reason I've felt better about closing my "social media" accounts. The little that was useful, has been rendered worthless.
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My technique: When I'm in an unfamiliar city, I search for restaurants and then looks for clusters. When you see a cluster of restaurants, this tends to be a downtown and is usually somewhere 'interesting'.
Did businessinsider just run an article about what was an april fools joke?

http://arcticstartup.com/article/estonian-country-as-a-servi...

https://countryos.com/
Severe dieting has long been know to do that. Mild dieting combined with exercise seems to work better. We're a bit lacking in quantification on that though. It was interesting to get some numbers from the article.
If everyone comes a minute before departure, all lose the flight, whereas if everyone comes 24 hours earlier, none will miss the flight, so there is obviously a change. Plus you get people to sit in a huge store without any means to leave. So the airport doesn't have a throughput problem! They don't have a problem at all, as there is also no clear alternative - normally there is only 1 airport to choose from. So people need to take whatever service quality said airport offers.

EDIT: It would be good both for this conversation and HN in general if the downvotes were explained. The parent states several things that in my opinion are not completely true (such as all people arriving earlier don't having effect on anything, or the need to have absolutely no queues at some times for throughput to be improved, or that that never happens) and pointing some things out doesn't seem to me like a punishable action, but if it is, some explanation would be good.

In particular, my experience with for example the Frankfurt airport is that you get lots of security lines but more than half are closed, with up to 8 employees per line. They require that no one starts unpacking and preparing things until the area is cleared. They request a chemicals test if the metal detector jumps on you (?). They do random things like what vincefutr23 points out in another comment:
> still having to take belts and shoes off even with a full body scan

The effect of all this is that you get more "latency" than "throughput" problems, as each particular line clogs a lot, and you could open more lines if you wished, and it takes you a lot of time to be serviced even with few people.

But then again: it only is the problem of the airport if they are affected by it - but they don't seem very keen on improving it.
It is a recommendation based on lock-in. Of course it is not an absolute, but also of course it is highly likely that if there is vendor lock-in, it will greatly impact decisions of first time buyers.

To put it another way, if everyone you know is using ACME OS, then it is highly likely you will start off by using ACME OS.
The theory is, because of the checks no further attempts will be made. Its one thing to die for your cause; another to be arrested for your cause and disappear forever anonymously.
Ah. That helps. Thanks! :)
I am curious if this same effect is also seen in those who lost weight via a calorie restricted diet without exercise. It could be plausible that the extreme exercise regimen alone causes the body to become more efficient.
I'm just wondering why there seems to be more empathy towards people with eating habits problems, than when it comes to other addicts.

Maybe because they cause less damage to other people?

I don't think humans are less responsible, on a society scale obviously the problem is deeper. I'm just wondering why for other problems we blame people, but not for that one.

Maybe it has to do with addictions moving away from some common substances (alcohol, tobacco) and the food industry picking up the slack? And maybe in an evolving world, the number of addicts is bound to increase, as we adapt to the rise of new forms of pressure. Like the ever increasing lemon-squeeze dept system, or in-app purchases??
They lost their force and power of taxation. It's actually a great example of how fiat currencies work.

No "tanks", no taxes, no currency.
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You can just go to some other subreddit with a right-wing hive mind instead. Problem solved.
And it's already May 2nd. So it's 1 day late?
Sure. :)

Besides a few performance improvements, we've upped the limit from 15k domains to 50k domains (https://namegrep.com/#%5B0-9%5D%7B4%7D%5Babcde%5D).

We've also introduced .io and .co TLD lookups (albeit with limited support, since these zone files are not available to the general public).
How many hours does the security theatre have to take before the number of human lives lost waiting in line equals a plane blown up a month?
1) How do you know biology hasn't changed? The human gut microbiome has changed wildly over the past 50 to 100 years due to changes in modern diet.

2) Another point, the article is talking about the biology of people who have already been obese and then lost the weight. Given that people have more disposable income and obesity trends have risen, the inability to lose weight only after you first become obese would help explain why things like childhood obesity have negative impacts for the rest of a person's life.
The miners aren't forced to run the code that anyone commits.
How HTTP/2 Will Speed Up the Web
“Guru:” the most important free market movie ever made?
In addition to having the access keys to github, it also requires access to the secret in the pgp key which gives you identity proof. Ideally that's password protected too.

It's defense in depth.
That's fair, but the subtitle was intended to be a little controversial. I could have included more datasets, but ultimately that just clutters the exposition -- instead I chose a dataset that can illustrate several different ways clustering algorithms can break. Ultimately it is meant to be a teaser as to why you should use HDBSCAN; the real answer is to grab the code and run it on your data, or your favorite test datasets, and see how it performs for you (because there is no substitute for that). I'm actually pretty confident you'll find the results impressive enough to make HDBSCAN a go-to choice for clustering.
How do you manage the 1 to 2 hours of daily exercise with a programmer lifestyle(assuming you are a programmer)?
No, I can't, because if I want information on a particular game/field/whatever, it's been overrun with trash by now. Sure, you can find your little niche subreddits that are civil, but how is that helping me? I don't want to use it, just to use it.
No, that is purely humor, and isn't related to what I am talking about. There are no sides here. This isn't "people on side X of issue are bad, not like us wonderful side Y people". It is the simple fact that those sites demonstrate that reddit is not driving away normal people. Facebook is the definition of normal people, and they act the same way. And note, I am not saying ALL normal people are mean and "toxic". I am saying having a small vocal subset of the population be mean and "toxic" is normal. What was abnormal was having a higher standard than that, caused by having a small, fairly homogeneous community. Reddit went from abnormal to normal, not the other way around.
Even the precheck lines have gotten out of hand in a few places I've been lately. In some cases it has been slower with so many people signed up and far less capacity to serve them.
This looks like an interesting finding. Unfortunately, the trade-off for this type of efficient small data storage is real:

> Note that LSM-trie uses hash functions to organize its data and accordingly does not support range search.

Range search, while not directly applicable to all data sets, is an important feature of the LSM data stores compared (LevelDB & RocksDB).

The authors acknowledge this and say:

> There are techniques available to support the command by
maintaining an index above these hash-based stores

So, don't plan on using an LSM-Trie for a direct replacement for your LevelDB or other LSM-Tree based projects that rely on Range searches without considering the additional complexity of building and maintaining an index to perform those Range searches.
Perhaps. My problem is that most of the time the papers I find most useful/interesting professionally aren't pure CS papers, but papers about computational topics in applied fields, and the unwillingness to share source code is staggering and very very sad.
There are at least three equilibriums that are apparently of relevance, based on what I have read. These are:

1. the hunger cycle - the hormones emitted during hunger

2. the metabolic cycle - the neuropeptide y's and other such unmemorable names, near the decision making part of the brain

3. the hydrocarbon cycle – the hormones emitted as a result of fat cells that are not flush with hydrocarbons

Diets address number 1. Number 2 and 3 are the more relevant for long-term success, but not enough is understood about them.

Here's a TED talk with some illumination:

https://www.ted.com/talks/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_...

Research about weight control and loss is further conflated by profit-oriented companies that derive their primary income from "diet cycles".

That said, the failure of dieting is not new information: http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/Dieting-Does-Not-Work-UCLA...

The only known sure way to achieve substantial long-term weight loss is hyper-diligence in portion control and metabolic stimulation. Few can do it.

One of the unknowns is whether fasting survives long-term trends, such as the "5-2 fast" https://thefastdiet.co.uk/

All to say, the long-term results of the biggest loser accord with the latest research in weight control and loss.
I didn't mean that comment to be entirely serious; sorry.
And I'm in the second week of the Fast 5/2 diet. Not very encouraging to read this.

Problem though is that I have to diet, my triglycerides are off the chart, my LDL cholesterol too and my fasting blood sugar are at the limit.... Hope I can keep my weight off somehow later.
Or is it the same age and your a little older?
Indeed. We've experienced the same. Cuz, you don't need emails to stay valid right?

Stupid Mandrill. I would advise anyone never to do any business with Mailchimp or Mandrill anymore.
> will get to google

The data "got to" Google when it was sent to Google DeepMind.

> anonymised

I expect a HN to understand how this is usually impossible. Correlating data may seem hard to the layman, but Google is experience at data analysis.

Arguing that Google's AI division - who are trying to find subtle correlations in the medical data - somehow cannot correlate those same records back to their "personally identifiable information" laughable.

> use it to

That's not the only reason to not want your medical data spread around. A better reason might be not wanting your data in more places where it could be stolen or leaked.

edit:

> pathetic

The "pathetic" part is the complete disregard for the people that generated that data. It doesn't matter if Google is talented at what they do, or if the data might be used for something that you might think is useful. I may even agree about the utility of the data, but if you aren't getting explicit informed consent from the people involved, you have a serious ethics problem.
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Interesting, so I guess it's an education problem?

I guess just like real-talk sex-ed went against the interest of big-church, teaching some basics when it comes to nutrition would hurt a lot of big-food...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11600137
There was an article on /r/science 1 or 2 weeks ago which stated that the body needs about a year after the weight-loss to accept the new weight as normal. Before that normalization is done it is very easy to regain the initial weight, after the normalization it gets easier.
Interesting, will try to add that into my project.
I need help in argumenting: What's the difference between the EU-US WTO agreements and the TTIP, apart from the former being from the XXth century. Aren't we happier and wealthier since the WTO exists?

Please don't tell me about how a treaty should be voted on by the people, because I already agree about this part.
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IMHO, niche sub-reddits are really where Reddit shines. I can't even remember the last time I intentionally visited /r/all. Topic-specific sub-reddits are my go-to source for unbiased information, advice, and birds of a feather.
It's strange that the security lines are suddenly getting worse everywhere, the last several months. I regularly fly Denver->San Jose. While the lines at Denver can be quite awful, I used to be able to count on getting through San Jose security quickly. Lately, though, even San Jose has been getting backed up, and the airport has resorted to putting signs in the security line encouraging passengers to complain to TSA.

I'm quite nervous about what time I need to get to Denver airport tomorrow morning. :(
You've reframed the concept in a very interesting way.

Another permutation: It's almost as if a government holds your liberty as collateral to ensure use of their currency domestically.
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This, in combination with American airports being completely ignorant to the transit concept must cost American airline companies dozens, if not hundreds of millions a year in lost revenues.

Case in point: if I want to to fly from Zurich to Lima I have essentially two choices: I can connect either in Amsterdam, or in Madrid. Madrids legal connection time is 55 minutes max (on Iberia). In AMS on KLM it's a maximum of 50 minutes.

Another option would be to fly via an US airport. For example Miami. Only that I would have to be crazy.

Start with the fact that I can't check my luggage through to Lima. I must go through immigration in Miami, pick up my luggage, go through customs, re-check my luggage and then endure the security hassle.

Even if the US connection would save me a couple hundred $ I would have to be crazy to chose the hassle, the annoyance and the risk of missing my connection.

And I don't think I'm alone with such thoughts.

Edited: Added actual legal connection times for AMS and MAD
Referenced in the paper panic suggested below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11595273 ), and suggested to me directly by @mattcmd on twitter ( https://twitter.com/mattmcd/status/726342652845809664 ), there is something called the "fusion property of fold," which would explain transformations I'm discussing here applied to folds (sided reduce). From the paper ( http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/fold.pdf ), (and some minimal editorial substitution from me) we see that:

h(fold(g, w, l)) = fold(f, h(w), l)

if

h(g(x, y)) = f(x, h(y))

This is exciting because (1) it suggests the equivalent transformation for sided reduces (folds), and (2) fold is a more general operator than the others. My somewhat silly use of "hypothetical inverses" effectively just creates a goalpost to (1) constructively find the the function f, given g (or vice-versa) and (2) prove the necessary condition.

Very exciting.
Here's an awesome TSA story for you:

Late last year while trying to fly out of LAX a TSA employee thought I was carrying a throwing star. They called the police, who correctly identified as a toy in seconds.

I thought the whole ordeal was over until I got a "notice of violation" in the mail from TSA 45 days later.

Now I'm banned from pre-check for three years, even though I have global entry and even though the fine was thrown out. It's a kangaroo court were the only two options are you pay the fine or they convert it to a warning.

Some shit head got a gold star for "finding a weapon" and I get fucked.

Please defund these 0-terrorist-catching losers.
Some suggestions for how to improve the situation:

1) Set up a large booth where people can sign up for the TSA pre-check program inside the airport, while they are waiting for their delayed flight, etc.

2) Institute fees for carry-on baggage and reduce fees for checked baggage to reduce the number of bags being screened.

3) Have a separate line for passengers with no carry-on bag that moves 5x faster.

4) Publish statistics about security checkpoint failures, and the overall ineffectiveness of the program. Allow public outrage to result in the TSA being shut down.

5) Offer a free, high throughput lane guaranteed to take under 10 minutes, and a slow lane where passengers are given a $10 meal voucher for putting up with the wait, which could be up to 2 hours.

6) Claim victory over terrorism, and drastically scale back the TSA and the foreign wars/occupations.
I'm experiencing a great low-level bug right now. Last week Google released an update that breaks SSL in chrome, google now, and the search bar. Apparently this phone has a buggy neon unit and their latest update broke the check that would detect the problem and disable the offending instructions. Even for a company with experience and talent like Google, and even having seen this bug before, they still released this code that breaks most things on my phone, and there has not been a fix for six days now. I can't imagine being a small developer trying to handle quirks like this in the vast array of phones on the market.