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In my country the people who maintain facebook have a clear agenda which they are not afraid of showing. These people have already went as far as blocking the accounts of people who dared to question them in the guise of "verification" (that is, being forced to send your actual ID or having your account blocked).

Now they'll be able to decide which news are real and which ones are fake. I'm sure that absolutely nothing wrong will come out of this.
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Ask HN: What food do you eat to stay in good health?
I am trying out a few Paleo recipes in the hopes of cutting down on processed food. I find it a little challenging to know which ones are really going to be good and which are not.

I am curious what you like to cook and what recipes you like that help you stay healthy.
Yeah I mean it's the canonical example. But their support groups and conventions and special doctors all sound very similar.
I self-host my own weave server which is significantly easier to set up and run. They haven't dropped support for that yet.
> Capitalism is VERY good at moving money up.

You're phrasing it as if you're comparing it with something. Have you ever lived in a communist country? I have yet to see a "redistribution of wealth" system that actually distributes more wealth than it lives for itself.
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Julius_Baer_to_Angela_Merkel
Though they're specifying "This document appears to be a forgery." ...
I have written about this in the past.

I believe I proposed something like a "no executive" world government, where you had international laws, defined by treaties, and a commitment by some treaty signatories to "arrest" any state actor which broke them. If this coalition of "world police" (which are, of course, armies) were powerful enough, I believe this could lead to less lawbreaking by governments (from the USA to Zimbabwe). Note, the commitment is not to start wars/invade, but specifically to arrest e.g. presidents or generals. You can't do this without an army, but the objective is considerably different from invading, neutralising any opposing forces, and securing a place.

Of course, persuading people something like this is a good idea, your actual question, is just about the hardest problem I've ever thought about solving. I still don't really know where to begin, but I'm interested in teaching people epistemology before other things, as a means to halt the "post truth" stuff (which has been going on for years, not only recently!)

By the way, if anyone wants to work on these idea with me - I'm calling the concept "World Peace, Inc" in my head - please get in touch with me (clues in profile). I'd love for this to be my job rather than the hobby I don't have time for.
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I make indian dishes mostly, Dal comes out perfect. I cook veg, like green beans - only takes 3 min (5 if you add warm-up time) which otherwise will take 20-30 min. I also cook pasta - low pressure for 6 min gives perfect la dante!
Flagged.

We don't do "megathreads" here, we discuss specific submissions. Of which there are quite a lot right now in /new. You don't get to redirect all Wikileaks stuff of the day to your submission.

It's fine as a comment, as a submission it borders on abuse.
A really cool replacement for make is tup. It's very fast and figures out dependencies by tracking which files get read or written by each command.
> invading North Korea in 2003 would have been a far better choice

This sounds just like the rationale for the Vietnam war or the recent annexation of Crimea.
You mean...very high coupling?
If you know of any other effective way of solving problems other than applying broadly understood science and technology, please share. You may save the world and win a few prizes with that.
It's a useful tool to determine how well-edited the source is.
> Does anyone else actually enjoy going to the grocery store or walking to a local place to pick up food?

No, I hate it. Supermarkets especially are a horrible place, they are way too crowded and I don't like being in situations like that. I will cycle to the grocery store and if I see there's a long line for checkout I'll reverse course and try at a later time in the hope there's less people.

I do my grocery shopping stormtrooper-style. I'll be in and out in as little time as possible (think 3-5 minutes for a typical shopping trip).

> What, exactly, are people doing that gives them so little free time that this is necessary?

Stuff in grocery stores costs money, you get money by having a job.

> I seriously don't understand the mentality that working all the time is good for you.

And yet you claim not to understand why people hate doing more work ?
That is annoying, but does the Inspector in the Developer Tools show what you're looking for?
The comparison between a bugged table and a device whose primary purpose is to always be listening to you is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?

Amazon provides cloud storage and processing to the web. Given their history of relatively ruthless (if strategically smart) business moves, I don't think it is unreasonable to consider that they could store this data for use down the line or do so at government request. This is all software based permissions that seem to be one invisible server side tweak away from becoming an always recording (not just listening for a wake word) device.

I got an Amazon Tap because it required a button push to record. They just enabled the option for always listening just like the echo. In theory I control it, but clearly I do not in practice.
I think it makes an unwarranted (ha!) connection between the current released documents that do not indicate they were used against US citizens, and a previous probed and documented illegal act by the CIA. Not a justification for their previous behavior, more of drawing solid lines between two ideas, where maybe a dash is better fitted.
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I'd love to see some webassymbly benchmarks now with 52 stable.
Very excited to see the improvements contained in this product. I swear they are taking a page out of the VS Code team playbook. I just updated from RC to RTM with ZERO issues and the update was done within 20 minutes.
Interesting. Is there any plausible way that Rust can fall into the == vs = trap?
The marine environment is the harshest, most corrosive environment for machines. It seems to me underwater would be the last place I would place an energy storage device, if there were viable alternatives. The article does not say what the benefit of using this system is over existing gravity systems.
They did make one and it got killed off by anti-vaccine campaigners.
Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned. I'd love to be doing this when I'm 70, but I'm not sure my mind and body (eyes, hands) will be able to do it.
I'm not sure why this is being upvoted? The CIA uses wireshark?
It's not an issue to take sides on. Some people get infected with Lyme disease and need treatment. Some unhappy people go looking for a disease to believe they have and choose Lyme disease. My father had mysterious and very scary symptoms for several years running in the 1990s, and in like 2005 his doctor said, "You know, that could have been Lyme disease. Heck, it probably was," and that very quickly became a certainty in my Dad's mind. So when you hear someone say "Lyme disease" there's no way to know exactly what's up without hearing more.
That may be your opinion, but I think it speaks to the veracity of the article. If the author is so sloppy they don't get simple stuff right, I shouldn't trust your evaluation of complicated, subtle medical issues.
I thought Amazon claimed this was impossible and they didn't have this audio?
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My wife has prepared a lot of these dishes in the past, but without a pressure cooker. So, what's different with the pressure cooker is that the cooking time for these dishes is much lower?
That type of hyperbole isn't helpful. 0-days are hardly equivalent to atomic bombs, much known and patched vulnerabilities.
t\ime is rather surprising. Is there any documentation or explanation on why it does what it does?
How does this compare to Unreal Engine's visual programming language?
So much fluff. Long gone are the days when Mozilla wanted to build the best browser. You simply have to use the browser everyday to know where they are putting in a their efforts.. it is certainly not in the browser.

Rust and servo have noble visions but are irrelevant to the future of the web. UX is what drives browser market share and unless Mozilla refocuses on this, they will contjnue to lose maket share. TBH, it will take years if they start now to convince back all the people they lost.
Most important to me from this release: webdriver finally supports self-signed certificates.
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It you haven't tried it yet, I would highly recommend it. https://www.mongodb.com/atlas
> Before Diabetes was a known condition, it was considered a mental disorder.

That's a disingenuous comparison. Lyme disease is a known condition, with empirical tests to detect it and clinically proven treatments.
I'm not surprised the majority of comments here dismiss Lyme disease as a figment. It's odd the new anti-establishment is always pro establishment. In politics and medicine. It seems ( with the left), whatever the established authority says; it must be right -- (err, left?).
And the pressure makes them very easy to peel.
Couldn't you start a class action against one named defendant, and use the discovery process to uncover all the other unknown-at-the-time-of-filing defendants?

I'm pretty sure that if the named defendant coughs up an NDA that prevents them from disclosing the names of their business associates to a court, the judge is not just going to say, "I'll allow it."
I think that is a separate issue entirely though. As defined, the role of the CIA domestically is pretty much nil. Personally I believe that if they stretch that role, it should be something that is dealt with separately from a document release. And is probably something better fitted for a different discussion.
To cook things faster.

Takes an hour or two off of a pot roast.
I just found out this week that my wife has never played snake, and is unfamiliar with the concept.
ESR52 also maintains support for NPAPI plugins for those who depend on that.
> How is echo audio data substantially different than something like a tape recorder that was live in the man's home?

This is an interesting question that leads to (surprising?) ruling in certain jurisdictions. Take Germany for an example: The German law on telecommunication and privacy in telecommunication explicitly forbids the manufacturing, distribution and possesion of disguised recording deviced with transmission capability. Take note that it does not outlaw concealed/disguised recording deviced entirely, but is specific on the transmission capability. This law has been put into place in reaction to the massive invasions of privacy under the Nazi regime and until the iron curtain fell in the GDR by the Stasi (the agency depicted in the movie "The Life of Others").

A few weeks ago there was that case of the German Bundesnetzagentur (German equivalent to the FCC) banning a "smart doll" for that very reason. Now consider that certain variants of Amazon Echo could be mistaken for mundane wireless speakers, especially to people who are not familiar with the concept of connected devices. However the wireless transmission capability of the Echo clearly puts them into the reach of the aforementioned law, and some people actually argue, that because of that, they are in fact illegal in Germany. Now what about actual Bluetooth speakers with a microphone built-in to support speakerphone? Technically illegal, too, because one could put them in aunty's home, connected by wire to their CD player or such, yet use the bluetooth function to eavesdrop from outside the home.

On the one hand it's great to have this law in place. But on the other hand it's clearly ripe for being updated to match current technological developments.
> Does anyone have ideas how to write a utopia that would fulfill people's need to be needed by each other

What if you don't have a need like that ? The only reason I wouldn't sign up for a one-way trip to Mars is because they would probably want to send other people too.
What percent of Google Voice users will abandon Firefox now that v52 breaks a key component of their workflow?

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts...

Ironically, Mozilla has stated that breaking all these user plugins is part of some strategy to regain market share and "influence web standards". Now that it's actually happening, I'm hoping more people will see how it's not going to work.
Didn't create the language, but had to implement a parser for RELAX NG Compact[0] years ago (in PHP!!).

It was to provide a client the flexibility they "needed" for data validation specifications.

It was a mess. We suggested many alternative routes, but the client insisted on this. We did make the saner decision to go with an already-established markup language.

We couldn't even do the full XML version, as the client didn't want to "do XML".

[0] http://relaxng.org/compact-tutorial-20030326.html
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Where to find Snap roadshow video?
Snap released 35min video for their investor roadshow. Now the link with video is dead: http://snap.netroadshow.com/retail/roadshow.aspx

Seem like good to be able to look back on an judge Snap's progressive against their stated goals.
Release to public domain would solve it.
> 8-week-contract for $25 an hour and THEN they maybe decide you're worthy

Even for junior devs outside Silicon Valley that's not a very good rate. On the other hand, contracting firms here seem to love this approach (cynically, it's just discount labor). Last time I was looking for a job, I started getting calls from people who wanted me to do a half salary trial for six months. And no, the 'full' salary wasn't anything special.

I'm assuming these places are trying to pick up people who are desperate or unwilling to move at discount rates, but it's not a very attractive system.
This is the same set of design principles that was behind COBOL, as I understand them.

It is probably fine for the purpose of simple gaming scripts.
Seems like a good step toward dropping programming from Middle Class or High Prole to Middle Prole, to me (following Fussell's descriptions of classes).
I'm willing to acknowledge that you may have access to information that proves your point.

But I know for a fact that the CIA does have a committee of elected officials that oversee it. Whether that is effective oversight is debatable, but the fact is that it exists, and they must legally disclose their actions. This means there are legal means by which they can be held to account in the cases where they do not.
I can do all that stuff at the office, so it's not just on-site vs. remote.
Are there any particularly good courses that I should try to download ASAP?
perhaps, coupling does seem better; I am actually just quoting the definition as sourced here.
I feel like WeTransfer has got this right. They have wonderful full page ads and are monetizing by selling premium accounts to corporates, which have the ability to change the ads to fit their branding. https://wetransfer.com
> I did get an A, the professor said I should've gotten bonus points, but in retrospect he would've been within his rights to fail me outright

Well, to be fair, in the real world its not too rare for engineers to write custom programming languages to solve their problems (see: this thread). So what you did isn't that far outside of what's really done, assuming you submitted the code for the programming language with the assignment.

That said, I think he would have been within his rights to give you a C for overengineering it :p.
a friend of mine spiraled into years of undiagnosed anxiety, depression and fatigue and was told by many doctors it was all in her head. a few years later she was diagnosed with lyme disease, got treatment and now has a new lease on life.
I would also expect a spy agency to be hoarding exploits. I don't think that's the concerning part of the reveal. Here's what I gather are the main issues the analysis discusses.

1. Poor control of the resources means a proliferation concern. Hacking tools are not classified, because it would then be illegal to deploy them if they were. But leaving them unclassified makes it easier for them to spread outside of the agency.

2. The CIA is duplicating the NSA's capabilities for no real reason other than institutional rivalries.

One of the lesser issues I thought was particularly interesting is that the CIA works to make attribution more difficult, and in particular, to pin things on the Russians. That's got to be relevant in the current political climate.
> Of course, persuading people something like this is a good idea, your actual question, is just about the hardest problem I've ever thought about solving.

It's borderline impossible. People are social animals. While they don't necessarily form hierarhical societies, they are easily swayed by someone who offers simple solutions to their complex problems and have a bias towards following others vs being their own individual sovereign.

> "World Peace, Inc"

Alright Tony Stark :) Are you recruiting Avengers and trying to successfully privatize world peace?
> Command & Control and Listening Post software were classified, then CIA officers could be prosecuted or dismissed for violating rules that prohibit placing classified information onto the Internet. Consequently the CIA has secretly made most of its cyber spying/war code unclassified.

This is almost hilarious.

Not that being classified would make any difference: cyber-"weapons" have something in common with biological weapons in that they're prone to leaking and blowing upwind, but also once used it's possible for the enemy to vaccinate against them.
I didn't even realize google voice had hangouts integration in the browser.
That they are always terminating is very useful for programs that generate proofs, or otherwise don't have to be evaluated.

But if you can encode the Ackermann function, proof of termination is not very useful in practice - as it may consume arbitrarily large amounts of space and time to evaluate (easily more than the age/size of the universe).
but doesn't it show something completely different, ie. DOM after JS ran?
> That said, I think he would have been within his rights to give you a C for overengineering it :p.

Exactly.
>It suggests that USA had to invade something, just for the sake of invasion.

Correct, at least with the administration at the time. Iraq was invaded on the flimsiest of pretenses, and was done in a fashion to maximize profit.

For example: Critical infrastructure was targeted under the pretense of rapid dominance largely for the purpose of creating incredibly lucrative reconstruction contracts for that administration's criminal friends. It's not like we needed to take out power and water for months.

Not to mention lucrative private security contracts, privatized logistics for the military, munitions and weapon systems. Attempts at privatizing Iraq's oil that only served to further fuel the brutal insurgency. The list goes on.

>Maybe the scars of the two WW are still a little too fresh where I live (France) for me to understand such a point of view. I'm trying hard to put an adjective on that mentality, but all that comes is alien, as in inhuman.

It is inhuman, when the motivations are profit. On the other hand, there's people suffering in North Korean camps that endure Holocaust-like conditions right now, as we speak. Liberating those people would be a moral justification for war if I've ever heard one.
Not 100% sure, but I think the default Standard Notes client is an Electron application. If battery life is a concern, I'd stick with nvALT. Other note clients can use the Standard Note backend and that seems like a reasonable path, but I would avoid the Standard Notes client.
> NK didn't have nukes back then

They still had artillery pointed at Seoul, no?
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Hi, does anyone have experience about adding a free MongoDB Atlas M0 tier as a sandbox database? Is it manageable within a recipe in Vagrant per example to create/update the instance using the API?
Pretty cool names for the tools...
Is this really real or a honeypot?
Thanks for the insight.

In regards to comparing new technologies against previous ones to understand their legal definitions, it feels like the burden is on technologists to navigate us through the ethical minefield. I'm not very aware of what place ethicists have in many tech corporations, but it feels like most of us just build straight ahead and figure out the implications afterward. Not that we should halt progress on everything until we know if it's "good", but maybe a tech ethicist could be a kind of QA role during product development.
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Before you laugh yourself silly at the hilarity, you may give some thought to the various paths to being labeled a felon. Put the Prenda sociopaths aside, and look at the treatment of members of that 99% on the school->prison pipeline, as just one example.

You might just find that the injustices you do recognize are linked to the ones you laugh at.
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The wikipedia entry for Nimble [1] talks a lot about "predictive" technology for their storage devices. But it's not clear to me what they're predicting. "When you need to buy more storage"? Or is it the geometry/layout of the data in order to optimize performance?
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Looks like a good replacement for the now dead fseventer.app

http://superuser.com/a/98033
From what I know, there's no sure way of diagnosing Chronic Lyme. There is no real proof that it exist. That doesn't mean that the symptoms attributed to Chronic Lyme doesn't exist.

http://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/chron...

Now, attributing any symptoms like this to hypochondria should of course only be done by a licenced medical doctor. However I also think that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about hypochondria. I believe that hypochondria is quite akin to synesthesia. It's not really by choice as it affects the perception. Emotional or mental states feed back into the perception in a way that can't be distinguished from "real" perceptions. The pain is felt, not "imagined". But triggered in an unconscious way by the imagination. It might be an evolutionary artefact from developing ways to identify bodily problems in moments of distress. And when the cause of the distress is hard to identify it is attributed to something close by.
As far as I know the way to get the unmodified source in the Developer tools is to find the html request in the Network tab, click on it, go to the Response tab of the small panel on the right and read the source out of said small panel (it's about 65x11 chars here). I'd much, much rather be able to just hit Ctrl-U and read it in a new tab. If there's an easier way then I'd like to know about it.