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Hey everyone has their own preferences. I try out a different browser every once in a while, or you may lose out on a feature that the "other" side has, or maybe a degradation that is not. Way back when, the great eagle king of browsers used to be Opera, no competition :) But those days are long gone (and after they fired the Presto team, the only similarity today is the name of the company, don't even bother).

Currently am using Firefox. Recently gave Chromium a good try for a month or so, for my personal experiences, right now best product on the market is Firefox. The address bar / search bar in Chromium is just inferior--you only get ~five autocompletes from your history and bookmarks, total. That basically means there's a reasonable chance the thing you're looking for will appear, but it's not really something you can rely on to navigate the personal knowledge base of bookmarks and history. Not talking about search suggestions btw. The other thing is Firefox Android supports Add-ons, so you can have uBlock and Ghostery on your phone (not even sure why anyone would even begin to consider a browser that doesn't support adblocking?) and Firefox Sync works well, to connect to the desktop and back (gave Pocket a try, didn't like it).

I also use DDG as default search in Firefox, very useful with the bang syntaxes, more powerful than Google (which is just a !g away anyhow). Also in Chromium, so the address bar feels more familiar and somewhat makes up for its lack of power :)
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The problem with identifying such people is that we can usually point to some tangible cause of failure. I think it's more useful to analyze the traits common to most successful people:

* Not being born into extreme poverty
* Having a basic education (not many successful illiterate people)
* Having access to at least one strong connection
* Having "true grit", whatever that means
* Discovering an available niche
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> Yes, we do "have to meet FDA compliance." I can't define "have to meet" and I work here. Of course, I'm just an engineer.

You are not an engineer. This is a protected term in the US and other countries. If you were a professional engineer, you would be bound by a legal and moral framework preventing you from doing work on unsafe medical equipment.

There is a good argument that there should be a software equivalent of protected engineer status for this kind of work. This kind of story should be a wake up call. I personally had no idea that critical medical equipment would be running on MS windows...
I see your "Tom and Jerry" and I raise you.... chinese food
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Haryana-khap-blames...

There's never a shortage of people blaming other people for their own evil
I feel more awake and stimulated from it. A laser focus. And the pain relief is far better than Tramadol or conventional opiates that lack an adrenal boost. I would guess you are right and it can definitely be a genetic variability. Its actually difficult for me to sleep on Tramadol or Nucynta .. so exactly the opposite of drowsy.
Re: the UBS analyst question - I thought this was a totally fair response by Elon. In his previous question, the UBS guy asked Elon where their battery costs would be by the time the Model 3 launches, and Elon said he felt was proprietary.

Then the guy basically asks the EXACT same thing, but rather than asking for the final price, he asked for the pace of reduction (CAGR) in price, over a given amount of time (until the Gigafactory is open, and once it is online)... which would allow him to calculate cost/kwh when Model 3 launches.

Musk politely answered a whole series of questions from this and other analysts, only cutting them off if they asked something stupid - like this guy. You're not gonna trick Elon Musk into giving you more data by asking the question a different way.
To be fair BMI is not perfect. All your gym rats get lumped in Obese for example.

There are also many skinny people who eat nothing but dorritos and are skinnyweak. They don't make the Obese charts but they are no more healthy.

The fact of the matter is that people need to own their health.
Nice! A/B testing carried to its logical conclusion. I would not have thought of dynamically rating thumbnail images, but once I read the article, it was 'of course' they would do that.
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I could only support that idea if the taxes went towards publically funded nutrition research; the kind that drug companies won't do because prevention is not profitable.

It's not like the obese don't know they're obese and unhealthy; the problem is that it's really hard to fix, there's way too much misinformation out there, and for most people most weight loss approaches don't work. There is still a lot of fundamental research to be done to understand obese metabolisms and how to manipulate them so the body doesn't fight back against weight loss.
How's this any more dangerous than "download this .exe" or "add this apt repository" especially over https?
As far as I'm aware, Wolfram doesn't think cellular automata underpin our physical universe; they're just a very simple form of universal computation, which makes them interesting to explore.

He thinks the Universe is more like a graph of nodes and edges, with particles, interactions, spacetime, etc. emerging from the rewriting of simple patterns in the network http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/what-is-spacetime-rea...
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The problem is that for a lot of poorer communities where obesity is most rampant, there is no "grocery store to buy some vegetables or other healthy ingredients" anywhere nearby and owning a car is not a given. So yes, making good choices is important, and most posters on HN are lucky enough to have healthy options easily accessible to them. But a lot of people, even in the US, do not have realistic healthy options available to them.
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I'm not sure if this is meant as an update or merely my misinterpretation of a brief passage, but while NKS book's chapter on principle of computational equivalence talked about the principle applying to any process of any kind both natural and artificial, the current definition of the principle on Wolfram's mathworld only defines as applying to systems found in the natural world.
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I think it has a lot more to do with choices than with willpower/honesty.

If you choose to not have desirable food in your household, it is much easier to eat less. You won't have to strain your willpower or lie to yourself.

If everyone went to the grocery store and bought eggs for breakfast and brown rice + tuna for dinner with no oil, they would be just fine.
Just let the natural selection work. If a person doesn't cares about her health, why other should?
We have to go back to human psychology to build better AI
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I'm curious - do you have any peer reviewed research papers in any of the well known journals, such as American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, to shine further light on this process of fat going to the lymph, excess being dumped into the blood stream, and cloudy blood after a heavy meal?
It really isn't. The only time you'd have an advantage is with a package from your distro, which you might trust more than the maintainer. For Windows users who download and run often unsigned binaries all the time, it's really no better.
It's pretty cut and dry. Clinton was the only SoS that was legally required to maintain government email account for record keeping. Kerry is following the new laws as he should be.

Oct. 2, 2009: federal regulations on handling electronic records is updated: “Agencies that allow employees to send and receive official electronic mail messages using a system not operated by the agency must ensure that Federal records sent or received on such systems are preserved in the appropriate agency recordkeeping system.” The responsibility for making and preserving the records is assigned to “the head of each federal agency.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/...
Usually when a drug is not available in the us it means that no regulations address it at all, do its legal to import as long as you don't sell it domestically. Do your researvh, but this is what I hear from nootropics enthusiasts.
Anybody here addicted to oxycotin?
You mean the Jack Kerouac who ended up drinking himself to death? Perhaps the road trips did not cure all ails.
Chess, and perhaps Go, might be outliers here, in that both are designed to exceed the human mind's possible ability.

But for everything else, I agree with you. I'm able to learn new skills considerably faster now than in my twenties. Part of that is practice learning, and part of that is having a lot of things to relate any new concept to.
The canonical example is this:

Imagine an installer script that runs a buildscript and then cleans up after itself. So somewhere in the depth of it there is the command rm /home/gonzales/.build/foo, but the network connection cut's out just after /home/gonzales so the last thing that the interpreter sees is rm /home/gonzales and well ... there you go.

Stranger things have happened.
tell that to start-up founders and people trying to be athletes as well
"Is curl|bash insecure?"

https://sandstorm.io/news/2015-09-24-is-curl-bash-insecure-p...
The law restricting government officials to use government email was only passed in 2009. Powell or rice weren't abusing any written rules, Clinton was.
Earlier discussion about an article that goes much more in depth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11648110
https://online-go.com/

I highly recommend it.
That report makes some interesting points about the increasing role of student loan debt covering the rise in tuition. They don't really suggest what universities should do though, it's more state-level reform: standardize admissions and credit transfer, bring primary and secondary education up to par... How do you propose getting costs under control?

Interestingly, the OP (the chronicle) states that the cut in state funding per student is 25% since 2000 vs 10% over 2003--2012 (citing dept of Ed). I wonder where the writer for the chronicle got their data? I still think the OP makes some valid points.
If the connection breaks mid-download so that "rm -rf /opt/whatever" becomes "rm -rf /opt", then it is more dangerous. This can be mitigated by wrapping everything in a function, but not everyone does that.
I run linux in virtual box (with vagrant) as a server on my macbook. I'm using Ubuntu, It works fine. I start it and stop it as needed.

You could boot directly into linux using bootcamp, bu not sure how well that will work. Drivers might be an issue.
Right, just like all other diseases. If any disease had a genetic origin, it would be wiped out within a few generations.

Oh, except for all of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genetic_disorders

There are even lots of diseases that provide strange benefits that protect the sufferer from other illnesses. Having half the genes for sickle-cell trait will give you strong resistance to malaria. Having both is a terrible illness. Huntington's Disease seems to provide resistance to certain types of cancers, but when you turn 35 or 40 your life becomes a real nightmare.

The point is that the purpose of genetics is not to promote healthy humans, it's to promote the reproduction of the group of genes in question. Genes will use all kinds of tricky methods to duplicate themselves, including all kinds of things that are awful for the person with them.
This article and the concept it discusses - that we have a "weight set point" - seems overly simplistic. Maybe I'm missing something, but weight isn't an indicator of obesity (or rather, it is a very poor one). Body fat percentage is a much better suited for this. Is the weight set point theory based on an overall weight or an amount of body fat?

Personally, I've been working out very regularly for some time but the change hasn't been in my weight, just in my body fat. Going purely on weight, "dieting" (eg: eating healthy and eating less) hasn't changed my weight at all. But I am orders of magnitude fitter and stronger than I was before. These articles only serve to highlight how little we know about how our bodies function.
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> The right way is to ask for the documents.

That's what they did, so why are you complaining? (Note that these documents are called Zeugnis in German, which translates to certificate, so maybe something got lost in translation if you think your university certificates are the wrong documents.)

I also disagree that an academic title earned 10 years ago is irrelevant. Having graduated with good grades from a top school signals a lot, even if it's been a while ago.
It's a valid concern. The solution is to wrap the whole script in a bash function executed on the last line.
My philosophy is that you ask questions either a) to ensure someone knows material they say they do (if you claim you have a bunch of Java experience, you are expected to know how java.util.collections works or how the final operator works, as examples) or b) to see how someone thinks. The questions I ask sometimes truly do not have answers, but seeing the walls pop up and the candidate try to work around the walls tells me a lot about how they will approach problems in the workplace.
How was DS3? I liked DS but haven't tried DS2 yet.
Heres the deal, now both Intel and AMD are operating on 14nm 16nm, things are going to rebalance out in both cpu and gpu markets. After much deliberation, I have decided to wait for Zen for all my future builds, because I have this strong feeling AMD is about to be back and stronger than ever before.

Basically, Intel was ahead of AMD(ATI), but not anymore...

I welcome more competition in the market either way.
Apt repositories are typically PGP signed. Even in the case where you just obliviously add the repository's PGP key, you are protected against the file server being compromised. Also if you find malicious things in a signed package, that takes away some deniability from repository principal.

Then there's https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
I agree. The title should read 'Where Can a Ph.D. Take You? Forward to More Research, Usually'

Which is the entire point getting a PhD in the first place. More research. Forever.

I (along with many others) cringed at the phrasing of postdoctoral degree. A post-doc is not a degree. The article's comparison of a post-doc to law school for liberal arts majors was equally egregious. Sloppy writing.

Now, to be fair to their point. What they are observing is a cultural phenomenon in academia which is to stay in academia until you can't stay any more. Industry is for those who fail at academic research, whether that failure occurs at the post-doc stage or pre-tenure stage. This is in contrast to the sentiments of the real world (the perspective of the article author) which wonders why these "students" take so long to get a real job.
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Many of those problems could also be solved by adjusting zoning laws to increase density. Suburbs have a lot of problems aside from just commute times that can be solved by working from home.

The maintenance costs associated with the spread-out infrastructure required to support everyone having their own personal 1/4 acre of land cannot be supported by the tax base available in such a low density population. Most US cities could be much denser than they are with a higher quality of life and lower pollution if people could be located within walking distance of most of the places they need to go.
It might work for unemployed people who live alone, yes.
The server was maintained by the Clinton's tech guy. The deceive was housed in a utility closet off the bathroom in one of their mega houses. This isn't a gmail yahoo type deal. This is a high school kids email setup. Not professional in the least.
It's not about conversion rate, it's about LTV.

Even if they only influence 1 doctor in a hundred, but that doctor brings enough revenue, it's worth it.
I couldn't agree more (see my comment interactions in this thread.) It surprises me how ideological people get about it in several ways:

1. You must feel ashamed for your laziness and greed - anything other than humble capitulation to this is 'making excuses' and maybe you're 'not ready' to make the changes you need.

2. Dieting's easy - just eat less, fatty!

3. Dieting is literally energy in/energy out and weight/BMI is a perfect measure of progress. If you eat X calories a day and log it accurately you will ALWAYS lose weight Y/week and if you keep this up permanently you will keep it off. If anything happens that this model can't explain, it's because you fucked up and are being lazy/greedy again/lying to yourself.

4. I absolutely discount any possibility of this being a psychological crutch that will not be replaced if you lose weight (often the person doing the judging has several of their own that would render them miserable if they gave up, but those are not 'special' topics that are allowed to be brought up in polite conversation.)

5. I am saying all this only because I am concerned for your health, not due to this being a good source of feeling superior or insecurities in this area or just finding fat people amusing.

And I'm sure I could go on.

I should point out that I am very much _not_ in favour of the whole 'fat pride' movement stuff - having digs at people for being fat is not ok, but being significantly overweight is a serious health hazard and extremely bad for you.

What most people miss in this is how incredibly hard it is to actually get your damn body to lose weight and keep it off. A lot of the problem is psychological, and we genuinely do need to look at means of being smarter about how we tackle the problem, instead of using the blame game as an excuse when we are facing an absolute epidemic of obesity. Blaming is not making those numbers any smaller.
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I disagree. What in my post said that I wouldn't have given myself a shot? I would have brought myself in for an interview and interviewee me would have to had proven myself to interviewer me, same as someone from an elite school or a dev bootcamp.
My remarks were certainly addressed also, by the same logic, to people trying to become Olympic athletes. Founding a startup isn't quite the same, because there isn't so much a fixed quota of startups. It is possible to win without having to make ten thousand other people lose.
When you are talking about "overweight" and "obese", you are talking about the BMI.

Unfortunately your idea of disparaging the "clinically overweight" is based on arbitrary BMI cutoffs that are poorly chosen. Recent studies have shown that overall health outcomes (ie, not just heart-disease numbers) are actually better for "overweight" people than those of "normal" weight. And BMI does not scale with height correctly, so it imposes a much stricter standard of what's "healthy" on someone who's 6'3" as opposed to someone who's 5'3". The ratings for what's "normal" also do not take into account age or sex, much less things like frame size.

BMI was devised because height and weight are numbers that have been collected in medical records and studies for decades, whereas the other factors are far less likely to have been recorded at all. So while BMI is often used as a tool for doing large-scale historical research or research across large population groups, that's simply because BMI is a number we can easily figure out, and not because it's actually a good indicator of an individual's health.
Per Neuroskeptic's due diligence, human effects don't look promising.

>>> This is a citation to one of their own papers, from 2012. There’s just one problem – as far as I can see that paper didn’t find the correlation that Zanos et al. say it did.
During my job search I wanted to applied at Gitlab, sadly my niche is mobile development across all platforms and no mobile Gitlab app.
What decision is Apple making that is going to ruin his business?

If you're going to make a post calling Marco some sort of platform biased fanboy, you should refrain from being a platform biased fanboy.
Berkeley isn't exactly a typical state school though. It'd be interesting to see a more comprehensive dataset.
"As I've got older I felt I learned stuff much more quickly than when I started college."

Drifting into a personal monologue, I know I am a lot better at learning now than I was 15 years ago. Learning advanced mathematics now is much easier than it was then (measured in the rather subjective unit of "amount learned / time taken"). Languages also are much easier. The only difference is the amount of time I put in now compared to the amount of time I put in then. If I was in full-time education now (instead of a half hour to an hour a few times a week) I would be yomping through textbooks and courses.

I think some of it is that I just know so much more now, and I've got so much more experience of joining knowledge up and making use of the combined result. I've also got so much more confidence in my ability to learn, and I know that if I'm struggling, grinding through does get results. I don't get demoralised, I don't wonder if I'm ever going to be able to understand it; I just do it.
I think what you're trying to say, in that most basic research has no inherent economic value to civilization. I agree with that premise; but there is more to it. The benefits of research is not just its output, but its effects: fostering communities of people dedicated to investigating curiosities which we non-academics cannot (or do not) want to dedicate significant time and/or effort to doing.
Mass is not the same as energy. If she claimed to be eating 1.5kg of food a day, and excreting 1.55kg, then your explanation/accusation would hold. But she didn't - she talked about energy intake and expenditure which is not the same.
College and graduate school loan payments are limited to 10% of discretionary income under Obama's recent programs. So yes, even with the debt.
You may be right, but from my perspective you're falling into the same trap that most IT security people do. You're assuming that the mainstream devs should put security first.

They just never will. Follow the money. The money is paying for revenue generating activity.

Using your example that "zones and SmartOS" are preferable to "SELinux and Linux Containers"....that's not going to happen. The people with the money have already chosen the container direction.

A much better strategy would be to give up on what you want, and focus your energy on making the direction that's been chosen more secure.

I suspect if enough talented, security minded engineers descended as contributors for docker, rkt, etc...the situation would improve much faster than the current direction of just complaining they aren't secure.

Perfect is the enemy of good.
Exe-files, repository packages are usually signed by the developers, so in order to execute malicious code on your system, attacker must obtain private keys from developers. It's usually harder than attack a website.

If an executable is not signed, I don't see any difference, if you are not going to inspect script before you run it. You either trust a website or not.