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> all the data all of its salesmen

There is no way you can judge "all the data" because "alternate medicine" is as big as saying "languages in the world". It's all that is not sanctioned. It includes a lot of things good and bad, crazy and sane.

E.G: calibrated fasting is alternate medicine. Data for fasting has amounted to many things including improving the immunity system response and lowering side effects of heavy drugs. There is nothing magical or mysterious about it.

It is "alternate medicine" because you won't see most doctors recommend fasting to your typical patient. There is no moral judgment in that. I'm not saying it's good or bad, it's just a fact.

You have one vision of "alternate medicine", and it's limited to a stereotype. I understand why. The louder champions of many alternate medicine are using pseudo science, repeated by stay-at-home mothers on facebook. It does make the credibility of many interesting informations crash.

However, dismissing what can be valuable information because of that is missing opportunities. Especially, a lot of chronic diseases have treatments outside of traditional medicine that make living with it much more bearable.

Again, it's not exclusive. You don't have to reject one to get the other. But trying a few things outside of ones own bubble can get some wonderful unexpected results.

I make a point of trying many such things. I'd say 9 times out of 10 it's a waste of my time and money. Sometime it's even unhealthy. But when you do find out something that brings strong benefits, it's usually really worth it.

It's a shame one's have to do it that way. I'd much rather have professionals advice me on those. And it's why it's so important no to close the door.
The point was that mainstream medicine is good for structurual and acute problems. Majority of other stuff it actually probably makes worse and there is low motivation for actually doing it better given that chronic deases keep the buisnis running. When cancer is in question, it actually can't be worse because price of the medication may destroy not only a person but entire families.
The paper says that the biggest delay is in the "scan" phase, just getting a list of all the available APs in the area. This would be the same problem addressed by Apple's "try to associate to all known SSIDs on powerup" approach.

Maybe I'm missing something, but their actual machine learning model seems to address a different problem:

The final features we choose to train: the connection
time cost includes hour of day, RSSI, mobile device
model, AP model, Encrypted

Given this, I they're basically giving lower priority to known incompatible device & AP pairs based on their BSS IDs.

Not sure I like the approach that much, seems an AP running a recent OpenWRT and very reliable would be penalized for having buggy factory firmware.
Let's hope so
1. There are many degrees between "didn't work at all" and "worked so well he became predident".

2. Cruz was an establishment candidate. This electorate wanted an outsider.
> In order to use all internet connections for the download, they would have to initiate multiple tcp sockets.

Opening one connection per interface is still a violation of TCP design. Look into MPTCP RFCs. It is specifically designed to use multiple connections as if you had only one. Developers of the standard made sure you don't have any advantage compared to someone using only one connection.

Two connections over two different interfaces will meet somewhere on the bottleneck near the mirror so you still have the advantage of multiple TCP connections.

Sure MPTCP is not ready yet, but multipath QUIC will be deployed by the end of this year so all your Chrome downloads from google drive will utilize multiple connections.
Apple doesn't need that insurance (not that anyone could cover it anyway). They have $200B in liquid funds, which they can use to set up shop elsewhere.

> Regimes can simply decide to seize company assets

And they can ignore the provisions in a treaty they sign, too. If a country is willing to start seizing assets and taking the usual penalties in business for doing so, the TPP isn't going to mean much.

Treaties are only as powerful as their ability to be enforced (whether that's militarily, politically, or economically). Have a look at the state of the 19th C treaties between the USA and various Indian nations for a crystal-clear example of this.
> "Physics and science in general looks stagnant (...) because it is actually stagnant.

Mate, what are you on about? We manipulate life almost at will, we have proven theorems that were unsolved for centuries, etc. Your limited imagination and your apparent lacking ability to see things in perspective make no rule.
Was brought up, but rejected, as it clashes with the perl 6 VM
Practical Guide to React and CSS Modules
Elm in itself is useless; the claim here is that among FP server-side languages that compile to js, CS leads the pack.

Sure, with Node.js on the server then Elm, Purescript, BuckleScript, etc. can do client-server, but they can't do so in the same language, seamlessly share code, etc. That's one of the selling points of one-language-to-rule-them-all (i.e. target js, wasm, native, clr, jvm, ...).

Saying that, looking at BuckleScript this weekend -- completely shocked that there's zero overhead wrt to generated file size; it's like typed Coffeescript a la OCaml, unbelievable (this from a dev using Scala/Scala.js in day job).
All hail open source
"But this was a deal designed to fail from the start."

Can you elaborate on this further? I just made a comment earlier about how Avaya ended up in this situation and I have had a feeling, based on how the last few years have played out, that you might be right: I just dont understand how the owners could have run the company the way they did and make out with a profit.
Ziya: in-browser editor
There's also no prohibition of advertising the job with a salary range, which would also solve the problem.
Actually, I think that was on the US side. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/20/womens-march-c...
What if I overwrite the partition table with an empty one, say "I'm just carrying empty HDDs", then restore it later? If all the data is encrypted, it will just look random, even if they dump all of it, which is what I imagine a new HDD looks like.
> He prefers to invest when it is actually possible to possess information or insights that have not been widely distributed to other potential buyers via public disclosure.

This is exactly the opposite of what he claims in his essays. One quote:

> The other way we differ from some arbitrage operations is that we participate only in transactions that have been publicly announced. We do not trade on rumors or try to guess takeover candidates. We just read the newspapers, think about a few of the big propositions, and go by our own sense of probabilities.

There are several others in "The Essays of Warren Buffett" where he also describes how he just uses public information.
By definition, the more leveraged the company, the more of it is owned by creditors. So if the company later does go belly-up, it is the creditors (banks, bondholders, etc.) who lose most on a percentage basis.

This simplistic analysis however ignores that before the buyout the company might have been a prosperous self-sustaining entity fully capitalized by common stock with little debt. That common stock, made into a small percentage of the capital structure by the buyout, is often wiped out too in the event of bankruptcy - indeed it is usually at the bottom of the totem pole in that capital structure. So although they may no longer be majority owners, bankruptcy is typically an unhappy event for long-time stockholders of the company such as founders, employees holding company stock in their 401ks, etc.

Perversely this is the kind of company PE outfits typically go after - in their worldview it is a waste of leveraging potential not to apply debt to such a company. I recommend reading "Barbarians at the Gate" if you are interested in this topic.
Analysis is useless if it isn't right each and very time, got it.
Rubber-hose cryptanalysis is standard procedure in United States airports?
I'm considering doing the same.

Have you had any issues migrating to OpenRC on Arch? Things to look out for?
Yes, the brain is absolutely embedded in the body, and part of my self-management is regular sleep, exercising and so on. I cover this in the talk I linked.

For me, these prevent or ameliorate some, but not all, of my depressive episodes. I must periodically rely on medication to protect myself from myself.

I draw this distinction because people with depression are commonly given advice by well-meaning associates that exercise, diet and sleep will fix their depression.

For severe depression it probably won't, and in many cases, severely depressed people are not able to pick up even minor changes without what feels like a great deal of effort.

In general, if you think you have depression, you should seek professional attention. For most people it is highly treatable.
That is hillarious. And name the files: bad data, really bad data, Really really bad data
Ok. If I told you you had 80% chance of flipping a coin to a head and you got a tail, would you say I couldn't predict things ?
I think many people would, yes. Which is frightening.

I just read an anecdote about Sid Meier dealing with this in the Civilization games in Michael Lewis' Undoing Project: people couldn't stand losing battles of 33% 3 times in a row.
You tell your service manager to run the binary?
Nosh seems to progress nicely - it just doesn't get a lot of public attention. If you follow the FreeBSD or debian mailing-lists you will find a new email announcement about releases every 3-4 weeks.

Init still seems to be undecided in FreeBSD land; my hope is that FreeBSD 11 or 12 at least makes a decision about considering to switch (or not).

Latest freebsd quarterly update: https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.h...

Latest release notes (jan 14th, 2017): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/01/msg00519.html
Additionally, outside of the complexity required to bend the alloy to shape a Ferrari - I would imagine a car that looks like a Ferrari, but behaves like a Civic would feel ridiculous, or out of place, from a cultural standpoint (much like driving an F1 car around your neighborhood).

I think sports cars balance their aesthetics as a compliment to their function, whereas a Mazda dressed like a Lamborghini would almost feel "phony" as the aesthetic value would not be in line with functional purpose of the car at all. Thus, they are optimized for their functionality, which is to store stuff and to be safe.
Well it's not false once you consider that those "dozens" are tiny variations of the existing ones.
Ask HN: Who's hiring recent grads? (January 2017)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, please include ONSITE. A one-sentence summary of your interview process would also be helpful.

Submitters: please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

I'm hoping this will help young hackers.
You have to be weary too of the exact meanings, not just how it reads. I remember reading an article from the EFF on the IP provisions which quoted a lot from the then-leaked information. The quotes all sounded quite fair and reasonable if you read them. Things like "countries should attempt to ensure proper protections of the public domain" (don't remember actual quotes, but that was the tone). But the problem was, as the EFF then pointed out, all of the provisions about protecting the people against corporations where just non-binding advice like that, while most of the provisions about protecting corporations from the people were strong and binding. So even if it seems like a reasonable text, if you look at it in a very critical lawyerish way, it could actually be very different.

Then again maybe you did read it that way and still found it not that bad. I admit I didn't read it myself, but then again I'm from Europe so it's not my agreement to check. Still I have some faith in the EFF and other organisations which did read it and found it a dangerous agreement. And I really think it's a good thing that it's now harder to negotiate trade agreements in secret. It doesn't matter what the traditional way to negotiate these was, they have a big impact on the countries that implement them, and people deserve more than just a (representative) YES/NO to a huge number of potentially life-changing provisions at once.
The actual problem is companies being above the law. The TPP would enable them to petition an unelected panel of lawyers for the right to ignore laws that inconvenience them, and to sue governments for damages that arise from those laws.
You seem to have got that backwards. What was meant is that it is not okay when companies are above the law, and sue whole nations for compensation when they are not allowed to run their business in violation of national regulations.
Predestination.
This is a big misconception.

I have experience with Asterisk and the Mizu VoIP softswitch only.
Asterisk is quite limited on capacity, but that mizu server can handle 10000 simultaneous calls on a cheap Xeon server (full B2B calls with billing and RTP proxy and all the PBX stuff such as IVR, voicemail, conference).

This capacity is enough for a whole smaller country and these kind of software solutions can be easily scaled.

Of course, you can buy the same capacity 100x more expensive from a hardware vendor.
That doesn't contradict anything I said.

The crucial difference between the pharmaceutical industry and the alternative health sector is centralisation vs fragmentation.

Due to being vast, centralised entities, pharmaceutical companies can utilise mass marketing, lobbying and the perception of scientific validity and government endorsement to get their products into the hands of customers, and can continue to do so even if their products cause widespread harm [1]).

But every natural/holistic practitioner is an independent operator servicing a small local area, and must work hard to provide a high degree of satisfaction to every customer every day, and face the reality that a single instance of serious harm will put them out of business for good.

The article you cited demonstrating the size of the industry only confirms that for the most part, practitioners are doing a pretty good job.

I'm not arguing that mainstream medicine and pharma shouldn't exist, or should even be dramatically changed. I happily use it, and find it very beneficial. But I also know from personal experience and simple market economics, that the oft-touted-here attitude, that most/all natural/holistic/alternative medicine is useless/harmful snake-oil peddled by charlatans to morons, is misinformed and mostly false.

[1] http://www.livescience.com/57268-fentanyl-overdose-deaths-do...
The OP has given a brief description, which you have chosen to interpret so as to ignore the real issue.

ISDR (investor state dispute resolution) is usually arranged as a private arbitration, with arbitrators who conspicuously do not meet conflict of interest or probity rules of even a hicksville kangaroo court. ISDR has the power to force judgements which are strongly not in the public interest, under the pretence of 'market interference'. The most obvious case is the tobacco lobby trying to prevent plain packaging legislation.

This idea that trade deals can guarantee commercial justice for large multinationals in authoritarian countries, but we shouldn't expect any such improvement for citizens, is quite abhorrent.
> The images work by mounting the X11 socket into the container! Yippeeeee!

Well, yippee, now the application can read all keyboard input from that X11 socket, there goes your "sandbox"...

You really need Wayland to get a practical security benefit for GUI applications from containers.
Again, there is a distinction between buying private businesses outright and buying in the open market.

In the former case, Buffett solicits sellers to directly contact him. He makes this solicitation every year in his letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.

In the latter case, Buffett recommends the Financial Times as a source of information.
I just remember God does not exist, and thus my failures are not due to an hidden goal.

Then I breath.

I remember that keeping faith is about accepting failures : there is no win if there is no risks.

Fear and anxiety kills the spirit. I know they are direct consequences of failures, and I accept them. It does not mean I let fear rule my life.

Then, I remember our wold is about luck. So, I plan my next try at doing something, and I look back at my failures to see what valuables lessons I learned.

Basically they boil down to: work hard, keep it simple, and don't get tricked again in investing your time/money/energy/emotions in stuff that don't make you feel good. Love your self and who you are not a cool picture built for being accepted by others. Life is no popularity contest.

Failures taught me I can rise again. Success taught me it is all about luck. Failures and success taught me that the only way to potentially win is to try again.

And why do I try that much? Because, well, it is in my Nature, and the more the competition is unfair like nowadays, the more it makes me want to defy the odds because I am bored.

I don't know what your motivations are, I just know mine.

But failures should have taught you a great load of things you can use to understand your true self and empower it.

Failures are so valuable I regret not having failed when I was younger. There is a curse in being lucky, I am glad my curse was lifted.
What does your comment even mean? According to you, you're getting lied to either way.
This was also a phone from a terrorist.
I doubt the top 1% got rich by insider trading.
I feel like Mickey Mouse is really a special case - Disney employs literally thousands of people promoting their IP, and MM's been in constant ongoing and heavy use by them since the start. Mickey Mouse isn't a 'sitting on their laurels' situation - it's an actively worked bit of IP - not something that would be described as 'passive income'.
"...Is there a way out of this polarisation? Must we simply choose between a politics of facts and one of emotions, or is there another way of looking at this situation?..."

I feel extremely uncomfortable being put in the position of supporting populist, right-wing causes simply because the essayist is doing such a bad job, but here we are.

This author did a terrible job of understanding and explaining whatever the hell it was that they were trying to understand and explain. Perhaps "Populists hate science! How can we live with them?"

Heck with it. I'm not going to take the other side. There are a half-dozen problems with how the argument is set up. Anybody with a passing familiarization with "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics" should at least be able to set up a counter-argument or two.

Statistical science is great. It's the foundation of much of the western economies. "Statistics", as that kind of numerical smorgasbord that's thrown around constantly in the media and politics where correlation and causation are the same? Not so much. If you can't see the difference, you really shouldn't be writing essays supposing to inform us on anything.
I decided to upvote you to keep you from oblivion for that much longer.
Agreed. I'm not saying take your kids to the Folsom Street Fair, but rather that it's easy to avoid if you want to. More importantly, unlike human feces and homeless crazy people, it's in no way a problem that needs to be dealt with or removed.
I wouldn't expect US participance in either unless they're heavily slanted in favor of US interests.

That's what I would assume. It's hard to tell because right now the Trump administration approach to trade and pretty much everything is solely sloganeering, but the initial actions appear to support the assumptions that Trump is an isolationist and wants to disengage from much of current and future national accords.

I oppose the TPP though not for the reasons given by the Trump administration, who I also oppose, so this exit is bittersweet.
Q Learning Agent Plays Atari “Krull”
I've always been guarding against such things whenever I passed through a non-free or otherwise questionable country's air ports: Laptop contents were pruned of everything, leaving just the base OS, and data was stored redundantly on dedicated servers connected to the internet. I then would connect via SSH or VPN, unlock the encrypted partitions and download whatever I needed.

The only countries where I got treated in an appropriate, respectful manner at airports were Japan (both entry and exit as a foreign citizen) and Germany. UK (Heathrow) and VAE just had idiots and bullies for security and were my worst experiences. Which I'm assuming is entirely intentional. Going for the headphones even is really a bit stark I'd say.

Needlessly to say, I don't fly to or via these countries whenever I can avoid it at a good price.
BASH for cybersec
Interesting to notice how europe banned antibiotics while China and US are doing nothing about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_use_in_livestock
A relative of mine used to work security at a busy airport for the TSA. I think a lot of discretion is given to the individual officers to decide who gets extra scrutiny - so one experience either way is not really going to light up a potential policy.
How does Trump winning prove he had more than a 20% chance of winning?
I'm not sure that failure is the word you want - I would call them setbacks. Failure suggests finality, it is the point where you are out of options and have to change goals. Overcoming failure means how to restart on a new goal after giving up on the last one. Overcoming setbacks means how to stay focused on a goal despite interference and things not happening as you hope.

My simplest answer is to pick the right goal. You know its the right goal when you can envisage countless possible setbacks but it would seem absurd that they could cause you to abandon your goal. Give up on reaching the Olympics because you run out of money, have a bout of flu, or a parent dies? It should feel like a non-sequitur. Your goal needs rise above the inevitable twists and turns of life - it should not just be a "fair weather" goal you would drop when clouds pile in.

Your interest in the goal should be deep. It should not be for the moment it can be said it is done but for the transformation that achieving that goal brings. You must not simply want to reach a finish line, you have to want the life that comes after crossing that finishing line. If life after reaching a goal is little different or you are indifferent to that life, it is a weak goal, it won't sustain you through the hard times.
Russia aren't interested in pointless security theatre, if they're interested in you, you just wake up at an enhanced interrogation facility, or you have all your stuff searched without anyone notifying you. Both also have tighter controls on what gets posted. I'd say Russia also have a big interest in appearing better than the USA, so they can just tell their citizens: "Look at the kind of shit they do in the USA; while when you enter our great country of Russia, you just come in peacefully". Back in the day part of anti-USA propaganda was "USA treats blacks in horrific ways, we treat everyone equally".
Or find a way to fit well enough into the tribe at hand that your pack-ape instincts are satisfied.
Government agencies and leaders are subject to the law and congress is subject to the ballot box.

No foreign nation or individual should be able to override what a country has decided to do via the democratic process. There is no absolute higher authority to appeal to in a true democracy.