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How is coming to the airport earlier supposed to solve what's obviously a throughput problem?

Sure, for an individual it reduces the chances they'll miss their flight. But if everyone does it, there's obviously no change. The only way showing up earlier would help with throughput is if there are periods of time where the security is under-utilized with absolutely no queues. Which, from my experience with US airports, is a laughable idea.
Why is there no social media in movies of the future?
It's worth noting Gavin and Peter don't exactly see eye-to-eye on the future direction of Bitcoin. I sense a hint of glee in this tweet.
A combination of the latter two.

I have bought and sold items from/to individuals using bitcoin, bought and sold bitcoin from exchanges, received them in donation for programs I have produced, and sent them in donation for programs/services others have produced/rendered.
Twitter has been trying to become Facebook for years, failing to realize that we already have Facebook, we don't need ANOTHER Facebook.

Sadly I seem to have missed the golden years of Twitter.
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Boxers and other people doing martial arts competitively have always known this. There has been a "walking around weight" concept since I can remember. Maintaining lower or, even more importantly in that context, higher weight takes concentrated effort.

BTW it's a really weird post-Christian belief that there is some you apart from your body and it can do things against your will.
Wow, looks impressive and that it comes from hedge fund is cool too.
It's like Jupyter but much more robust, multiple languages in single notebook and ability to share data across languages out of box is really nice.
Mine rings in the freezer. The theory why Snowden put the phones in the freezer was to block sound. Or he made a mistake.
You don't think that if everyone believed you were Bill Gates, you wouldn't benefit from that?
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Andresen's support would make sense in the context of building a new blockchain\bitcoin business.

To have Satoshi & Bitcoin's chief scientist would be impressive for a start-up.

Too good in fact.
Nice to know that all .io and .co domains i can think of are free ;)
I can give personal, anecdotal experience as to why this happens and a chart from Withings will illustrate perfectly. I know what I have to do now, and I'm fighting like hell to make it happen.

http://i.imgur.com/LR1wbH8.png
>Biology has not changed in that time.

Oh, yeah it has. Changes in food and environment have modified our biologies. The effects of food energy overexposure are semi-permanent.
Well, not willpower. The human condition is pretty steady. The industrialized food chain, on the other hand, has changed dramatically.
I'm not certain but I believe the last time Wright was suspected of being Satoshi, he had some business venture he was trying to promote. Could be a repeat of last time.
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Easy access to cheap calories.
I wonder why, when we talk about obesity, there is this tendency to use language that removes responsibility from the person, or at least move it from their mind to their "body", as if they were different entities.

I think obese people fit the definition of addicts. Most of the time, other addictions are fought by pushing awareness on the person, forcing them to recognize they have a problem and that they need to change.

I don't hear much "you were born this way" or "that's just what your body wants" for other drugs. Is it because other drugs are always viewed negatively, whereas food is a pillar of life under normal circumstances?

Maybe it has to do with the very high prevalence of obesity, and the echo chamber being big enough that deflection and denial are harder to combat?
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> Go look at twitter, and tumblr and facebook.

As much as I despise how close-minded and backwards society is on average, this particular argument doesn't hold. What you see on a social networks is not a likely to be valid data-point for what the average person is like; at the very least it will be heavily biased. SMBC has a very concise explanation:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2939

Of course that's just nice a hypothesis/observational humour mix, but it fits with the well-known effect of people thinking the world is a lot worse because the news reports only the negative, or that everyone else in their (virtual) social circle is more happy and successful than them because Facebook shows the most liked posts first.
I could publish a study saying smoking is bad for you, intentionally make some mistakes, and have the study withdrawn using strong words like 'fabricated' or 'lied'.

The result would be a dimino-compliant way of establishing that smoking is not bad for you. Or at least, that "smoking is bad for you" is a myth.

Of course, for smoking we have dozens of studies and a strong understanding of the mechanisms, so this trick wouldn't fool anyone. But, just be careful about letting fraudsters determine your opinion on a topic, whether for or against, whether they're caught or not.

As for bugs specifically, there are huge benefits to being able to reason about systems as if they are bug-free. It's a PITA when your libraries, kernel, compiler, upstream API, etc. don't behave as expected. As professional software developers, we can work around them; users can sometimes get really confused when things don't work as expected. Sometimes they're scared to tell you.

Smaller companies can probably bear more bugs, since they can give individual users more attention. Larger ones tend to need to work more reliably.
I don't think it's because of some conspiracy that EU leaders like Merkel favor TTIP. They probably think it's the right way to go, because TTIP will make EU's economy grow. (See for example http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/151787.htm)

And it is obvious that major internationals on both sides will be the ones that benefit most from the cuts in government regulations proposed by TTIP. So a substantial portion of the economic growth will go to them. Therefore I don't think you need to be in the tinfoil hat camp to support the believe that they are lobbying for TTIP.

The mistake that our EU leaders make, IMO, is that what's good for the EU's economy, is not necessarily always good for the majority of its citizens. Those government regulations were there for a reason, for instance to protect the environment, support area's who are economically behind etc.
Impulse control is fundamentally biological, so obviously a "lack of willpower" can't be the explanation.
The agriculture, restaurant, and food industry. Quite a bit, actually.
Does that mean that formerly fat people who lost weight and eat little to keep a low weight with their slower metabolism live longer because their body has less energy throughput?
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This is a truly horrifying piece of information.
It basically amounts to that going on a diet will make it harder to stay at the weight you had before your diet.
Intake of refined sugars. The amount of time spent sitting at a desk.
So, excluding life-critical software, it's still a business decision.

Engineering will naturally tend to geek out on infrastructure projects like this and they need to be kept focused on the business case. There has to be some push-back.

What is the cost of even one engineer working full-time on build verification?

The thing you really want to avoid is getting blind-sided by devastating bugs or systemic process problems. So it's a balance.

I've just seen many cases where projects got bogged down as developers built their super-uber-build-test framework. It's easy for people to push these projects through without rationally investigating the cost / benefit, because ... because ... you're not seriously suggesting that we shouldn't test more, you monster!?
Blaming volume? How about 1) the switch from metal detectors to less numerous and slower body scanners? 2) the allocation of employee resources to the "pre check" line leaving less staff for 90% of travelers. 3) still having to take belts and shoes off even with a full body scan? This program has gotten seriously out of hand and is incredibly frustrating. I don't care if it's 3 hours or "75 minutes" anything over 15 minutes is absurd.
$7 billion a year just for the TSA budget. That's not counting all the indirect economic losses from the security theatre.
A decent interviewer is probably willing to be cooperative and fill in some details for you. I guess some places are all about trying to play "gotcha" but the hell with them.
But you're not writing software for production, you're writing software for understanding/advancing research. Every thing that doesn't match up is either a mistake on your end, or an undocumented (and possibly dubious) assumption on their end, and it's really valuable to find out either way.

Reimplementation matter hugely (in ML at least). But that doesn't mean having the original implementation available isn't a huge advantage, obviously it is.
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so, i'm not generally one for low brow insults, alas, here we are; fucking ignorant cunts.

i'm in a position to have a pretty good grasp on (a) what deepmind are doing with this data, (b) who is working on this data (i.e the primary career researchers in this job have), and (c) the difficulty required to get any significant amount of patient data from any health organisation.

but yeah, let's just assume this anonymised data will get to google and they'll somehow figure out who is who, then use it to spam us with more ads.

pathetic.
I think we mostly agree on the empirical issues -- mathematicians usually don't care about the philosophical issues, and espouse naive Platonism which they haven't thought through.

However, I don't think it's right to say that they're formalist just because they wouldn't agree, upon reflection, with Platonism's conclusions. I (like a lot of computer scientists) am a formalist, but it's not fair to say that other people secretly agree with me because I think Platonism has major flaws.
I hit this at SeaTac recently. I showed up my normal "1 hour on a Tuesday afternoon should be more than enough" and encountered a nearly 3 hour line. They said it was the new normal.
It seems like the piece actually takes away some of the responsibility of the person. If your resting metabolism burns 400 calories per day less, you can eat exactly the same as someone else and slowly gain a lot of weight. I really don't think there is anyone to blame in that case.
Nobody is hiring. Move along.
Or, we could just read it.

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A lot. If you convince the right people, then there's loans with easy terms. Funding for your companies. Entrance into some very useful networks. The list could go on and on.

Pretending to wealth is a con probably as old as money itself. Just imagine: you convince a lot of people that you're a billionaire who's lost your wallet. What can you get out of those people just by the promise you're good for it?
There is little excuse[1] for such a website to not employ TSL encryption of all traffic.

I can't even imagine the size of the TLA database containing <"evil" page visited>: <ip of visitor> records at this point.

1. https://letsencrypt.org/
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Why does the NYTimes quote tweets -- essentially publishing the shouts of strangers on the street -- before they report actual data like the change in the number of TSA screeners?
Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely a group, like Bourbaki.
This is one of the reasons I love the Midwest and living in smaller cities. My airport is international and flies just about anywhere you want to go, but 90% of the time I walk up to an empty line and I'm told "we don't have a precheck lane open, just walk on through". As a consultant, I fly the busiest times (monday and thursday), but the only trouble I've ever had was in Denver where I waited almost an hour and a half in a security line before I got my precheck approval.
Extreme diligence seems to be the only way to fight this. If I stop exercising, the pounds pack on within weeks. If I insure I burn at least 3000 calories a day (usually much more), I can maintain my weight indefinitely. But I walk to work and I exercise for 1-2 hours daily. Most people cannot or will not do this.

Add in the extreme carbohydrate and fat-laden diets most readily available to America and it's a perfect storm for our Wall-E future, no?

When I cook at home, I can avoid this by eating a little bit of meat/tofu/tempeh/etc with a pile of greens, but restaurant fare is a little bit of vegetables, a small slab of meat, and a super-size portion of some fancy grain of the week if not just white rice. Sigh...
This attitude is tiresome for precisely the reasons outlined in the article. That one guy in the article has to consume 800 calories a day fewer than a normal person his size to maintain his weight which likely means dealing with constant hunger. It's not exactly surprising that few people manage to succeed under those circumstances.

I also, frankly, think the opposite is true -- most material about obesity spends a lot of time vilifying fat people.
He originally presented an obvious forgery. Now he has presented a slightly better forgery, but given it only to outlets who will agree not to publish it (and risk scrutiny by folks more technically adept than the journalists). My working hypothesis is that Wright doesn't need to convince the "community". He only needs to convince the banks that lent him money based on collateral of an allegedly non-existent bitcoin wallet.
I am not complaining that others use the terms minority and majority differently to me, I am complaining that the terms have lost all meaning because they have been used so inconsistently. I would like us to use new terms with consistent meanings so we can talk constructively about serious issues.

Yes I understand what the concept minority means in regards the US census even if the groupings are now mostly historical rather than informative. This breakdown in meaning is reflected in the growing percentage of the population who do not feel they belong uniquely to one of the census categories.
We need a conversation about the future of human genetic enhancement
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I can't even go on Reddit anymore, in fact I just avoid it all together at this point. I'm sick of the memes, I'm sick of the left wing, hive mind, down vote brigades, and I'm especially sick of everyone just being an asshole to everyone else.
I would say there are two aspects of clustering that are important: accuracy of the model, and accuracy of the model fitting process.

A model is a guess about the underlying process that "generates" the data. If you're trying to use hyperplanes to divide data that lies on a manifold, then you are going to have poor results no matter how good your fitting algorithm is.

On the other hand, even if you know the true model, high levels of noise can prevent you from recovering the correct parameters. For instance, Max-Cut is NP-hard, and the best we can do is a semidefinite programming approximation. Beyond a certain noise threshold, the gap between the SDP solution and the true solution becomes very large very quickly.
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More work == more developers needed to get the same job done == less productivity == lower wages.
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Curious regarding the basis for the artist graph.
I was hoping "What Art Is" would be salvageable, but sadly not.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/6/19/143553/870

I don't even recall who wrote it now, but I've had it bookmarked for over 10 years.
You mean the Usenet model, which worked for decades and is still working, does, in fact, work? Amazing.

Edited to add: OK, that comes off as a bit mean. I'm leaving it in case someone likes it, which really just goes to show my point: Beyond a certain size, it's impossible to please everyone. You can please a good standard deviation or so worth of people, but you do that by offering content which almost aggressively cuts off the long tails. Think prime time TV circa 1990. The smaller voices just get drowned out.

The solution is so rock-simple obvious to me that I'm surprised it isn't standard practice: Allow the users to create newsgroups (or subreddits, or fora...) and let them manage them mostly-autonomously. Allow the small voices a place to dominate. If they want echo chambers, fine: The mainstream is even more of an echo chamber for people who live almost exclusively in the mainstream.
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I think the media got duped on this. Again.
I really enjoyed Robert Sedgewick's Algorithms (part I and II) courses on Coursera. I learned much more in those classes than I did in my data structures class in college. The textbook that accompanies it (Algorithms Fourth edition) is really good too. I left that course with a much, much stronger understanding and appreciation for algorithms/data structures.
Thanks for going into more detail. I was basing my assumption that it wasn't a huge problem on the fact that the only people who complain about it first seem to the folks designing the Mill. They have a ridiculous/insane/cool solution to it.

Everyone else seems to first mention their cool branch predictor, or vector processor.
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Extending the Christian motif and treating obesity as a sin, one could consider the extra work needed to keep off the weight as penance, no? I'm smelling a new California quack religion(tm) already.
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That's a lot of hassle for what is little more than a placebo. In the 40y that terrorists have been targetting planes, I am not aware of a single major terrorist attack that has been stopped by passenger checks.
$99 for global entry for 5 years, includes tsa-pre was such a no brainer.

I've noticed in MIA airport, one security line might be packed , then you walk 4 minutes to the next one and its nearly empty (same staff at both).

Toronto security heading back to the US is fascinating, tons of passengers, but the screening process is broken up into multiple human touch points. Felt more fluid.
Why not give a 'security line' time (like the current gateline time). If the passenger is there before that time, then the flight waits for them, or they're put on the next flight.

That seems to sidestep the issue neatly. As a passenger, security is not a discrete part of the process. I'm actually surprised that airlines haven't done more to make the security experience more streamlined.
there is some you apart from your body

I wouldn't describe it as 'weird' but a lot of people find it unsettling that it's generally understood that the 'I' that makes conscious plans is a fairly thin layer on top of (poorly understood) consciousness, and that much of what humans do is subconscious conditioned behaviour. Below the brain is a set of autonomous systems and homeostatic mechanisms, like the leptin one mentioned in the article regulating hunger.
From the article (emphasis mine):

> Mr. Cahill was one of the worst off. As he regained more than 100 pounds, his metabolism slowed so much that, just to maintain his current weight of 295 pounds, he now has to eat 800 calories a day less than a typical man his size. Anything more turns to fat.

Presenting the numbers like this seems intentionally confusing. Casually reading this seems like he's eating 800 calories a day and still gaining weight.

What they're really saying is that he's eat $AVG_295_LB_MAN_CALORIES - 800 per day. That's probably around 4000 calories a day.
It's not about the money. It's about the fame - having you're name in stone for a very very long time. Some people see success as having their names printed in textbooks and in history books.
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I will usually drive unless it takes more than 12 hours to get to the destination. If I'm bringing my wife and kids I would probably drive anywhere that's on the same continent, rather than fly.

I do not enjoy being treated like cattle at the airport.
> I wonder why, when we talk about obesity, there is this tendency to use language that removes responsibility from the person, or at least move it from their mind to their "body", as if they were different entities.

I wonder why, when we talk about obesity, "responsibility" even enters the discussion. Obesity is a nationwide phenomenon, which means for "responsibility" to be the root cause, we have to posit that people as a whole are "just less responsible" than previous generations. It's ridiculous to posit that a basic biological process such as the ability to regulate food intake has changed so dramatically in just one generation.

"Personal responsibility" as the root cause of obesity also leads to questionable conclusions. 20% of black children are obese versus 14% of white children. Are black people just "less responsible" than white people? I think that conclusion requires a special level of justification for obvious reasons.
Etruscan was written in a predecessor of the Latin alphabet we still use (albeit omitting most vowels), so no, it's not going to have a huge amount of information.
That doesn't explain how someone can just let it happen to the point of suffering of it every day without taking simple measures to reverse it.

Most of the time the difference between steady gaining or losing weight is a few hundred calories a day. That's far from a lifestyle change.

When moving around becomes difficult, when dating becomes harder, when the aches and pain start... there's gotta be more to it than just a lot of sugar in your everyday stuff.

I always wonder (for other drugs too), if they're a way to slowly remove yourself from situations, or whatever it is, that make you uncomfortable. A way to permanently disqualify yourself from the race, because the idea of running (no pun intended) makes you anxious?
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Another fun fact. Before card terminals became universal, it was common for different cards to require their own handheld terminal. A sales desk may have had half a dozen or so, in order top process the card.

I really wish I could find that video again. It was interesting.
Of potential interest, the code itself: https://github.com/wuxb45/lsm-trie-release
It's called 'weightwatchers', and it allocates sin points to food as a simplified form of calorie counting. Participants go to confessional weigh-ins weekly.
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Seems like a perverse incentive to let them slow down the lines so you have to buy a "membership" in their precheck program. "Nice flight you have there...be a shame if you missed it."
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This seems contrary to my experience, could you provide some examples?

Obviously each of us only sees a portion of the internet, but from what I've seen it seems like most of the stuff you are describing has been aimed at people described as SJWs, not perpetrated by them.
The problem is when we have only the last version (state) of an identity, when we can't remember "how your haircut was yesterday".

In today RDBMS world this is on your shoulder (anyone creating columns with timestamps and PK hell?) or is left out entirely.
Curious as to what has changed since the nitial discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888763