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From the video description:

Dr. Bredesen sees Alzheimer’s disease,- as an imbalance rather than a toxicity resulting in amyloid beta plaques which block nerve cell signaling and lead to memory loss.

Among the measures he recommends:

- A diet that eliminates processed foods and other unhealthy ingredients, and boosts fruits, vegetables and healthy fish

- Stress reduction with meditation, yoga, music or other means

- Eight hours of sleep a night

- At least 30 minutes of exercise four to six times a week

- Very good oral hygiene

- Improvement of gut health with probiotics and prebiotics

- Fasting for 12 hours between dinner and breakfast, and three hours or more between dinner and bedtime, to keep insulin levels low

Published in the September Journal Aging, he did a study on ten patients. Nine of the 10 patients improved. The one patient who did not improve was in the late stages of Alzheimer’s Disease.

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Additional info

Reversal of cognitive decline: A novel therapeutic program

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4221920/
This comment deserves more attention. And, in fact, means the headline is wrong.

Apple is not slowing down devices to extend battery life. Apple is slowing down devices to prevent the thing from crapping out entirely ("unexpectedly shutting down"). Arguably, this does more to prevent obsolescence than plan it.

Agreed with @djrogers suggestion to alert the user to the situation. It should not be a user choice.

"Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions [cold, low battery, battery age]."
If Mozilla was serious about repairing trust, they would make user studies opt-in instead of opt-out. As it stands now, they are performing experiments on users by default.

When people say the Mr. Robot thing was a violation of privacy, I believe this is ultimately where they are coming from.
Why do people want to have an "open-source" career at all? Why are people asking, "what should I contribute to?"

I honestly don't understand this attitude at all, assuming the people who want to "do" open source are in earnest, and not because they want to pad their CV in order to get a job completely unrelated to free software. So, assuming you really do want to do free development, why do you need help being told where to start? The typical self-motivated reason to start is because you have found open and free software that doesn't do what you want it to do, so you go ahead, and by golly, you've had enough of these blighted bugs, and you're going to make the software work for yourself (or rarely, for someone close to you that you care about).

Shopping around for something to work on without having a personal problem to solve seems like putting the cart before the horse. I assume that's not why people want to do it. They must already have a personal problem. So, what is it, what's the motivation to have a "career" in "open-source"?
If they did that then the NSA couldn't turn back on a "powered off" device while you are asleep to bombard you with ultrasonic waves.
We are inundated with news that outrages, saddens, and depresses. Whether it's because we have a natural affinity and attraction to such news, or because algorithms put them in front of us for profit, I believe it greatly detracts from the human experience.

Bravo, and thank you OP for sharing.
>>>And everyone is a "law abiding citizen" until their very first homicide.

Really? Everyone is law abiding until they commit a murder...

>I specifically exclude it from my estimates when I say that the USA has gun HOMICIDES the size of the Paris attacks every 6 days.

It is completely absurd to compare a nationwide static about violence where many many many many individual events unconnected to each other occur to one organized event.

> Nevermind gangs and so on.

This is the core problem with your aurgument, France does not have the same Gang problem we have in the US, France does not have the same Aggressive Policing as we do in the US.

You can not simply "never-mind" the gangs, as the gangs are what account for the statistical differences between the US and France, if you remove Gang Related Homicides you get a comparable level of Violent crime between France and the US

>>>My point, however, is that just as we are discussing things now, you should discuss about gay marriage and other things. And not just knee jerk fire someone when they don't bring their political views to work.

I agree with this, Free Speech is under attack, not by government but by people that believe they have the right to not be offended, not be confronted with opposing views, to live their life in a echo chamber bubble where only people that agree with them exists.

When a Tweet or facebook post that some one finds "offensive" results in a national boycott to get an individual fired we as a society have lost all connection with the concept of Free Speech
> Documented in what way?

Some of the most reputable organizations in medicine have documented the dangers of an high sodium diet.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/salt-and-sodium...

https://www.cdc.gov/salt/pdfs/children_sodium.pdf

There are still some people that believe that smoking doesn't cause cancer after decades of research. In the end you are free to believe as you wish. Godspeed
Are you an economist?
Let's assume some measurable number of people might do this, purely for arguments sake. Why does the resale value of old iPhones not reflect these devices being "unusable?"
But essentially infeasible. Most of us cannot spare to not have the phone for even a day. Say what you will about our dependence on the devices, but it's a practical problem.
"The Mr. Robot Malware?" You mean the extension that did literally nothing unless you turned it on in about:config? That's "malware?"
You must be talking from your white privilege.

It's a common known fact that crime-ridden, mostly minority neighborhoods have a complete dearth of services such as police, firefighters, and ambulance. Even back in the 80s, Public Enemy released a song called "911 is a Joke" because if you called 911 from a black neighborhood, they won't respond.

It's routinely known that cops will rather stay in rich neighborhoods and let the poorer neighborhoods fester. This happened during the LA riots where Koreantown burned because most of the cops went to Beverly Hill, etc, to protect the rich people.

I saw this first hand in Detroit about 8 years ago. I was driving through a bad neighborhood in Detroit with my friend, and we entered the neighborhood of Grosse Point, a rich area. Cops followed us until we left, which is their way of saying "you don't belong here". Meanwhile, among the burnt down houses and broken windows of Detroit proper, you couldn't see a single cop.
Same experience, but I went back to the iPhone once, only once, with the iPhone 5s, and then already deeply regretted it after updating iOS to the latest. I should have known they'd do it again after what I experienced with the iPhone 3g last update, which made the thing so slow it was unusable.

The iPhone 5s should have hardware that is much faster than what's in a Moto G2. Yet, my friend's Moto G2 feels smoother in use, transitioning between apps and the like, than the 5s. I bought the Honor 8 to replace it, a somewhat cheap, midrange android device. Everything on it feels so fast I probably won't replace it until its battery gives out completely. On the paper, the hardware of the Honor 8 is not as fast as modern iPhones. In practice when I open apps it's pretty much instantaneous. The device has enough RAM to keep everything running.

People keep complaining android manufacturers aren't updating the OS fast enough. I'd say good on them to make sure they only give us an OS build that's actually usable on said hardware. Apple doesn't even let you install previous iOS versions.
Unlike iOS, most of Android's platform APIs are updated through the Play Store. Things like your web browser are also updated through the play store. So unlike iPhones where refusing new iOS updates means being stuck with browser engines that can't keep up with the web, your android handset stuck on older android is not actually becoming obsolete.

No matter how much nicer Apple's hardware looks and feels in the hands, I ain't ever giving them more of my money again. Premium prices should command more durability in time than this. Chosing to stay on an old iOS means you can't install new apps built on newer SDKs or get newer browsers and so on, so you really have to suffer the slow down treadmill with Apple. You don't have to on Android.
Try changing macOS' safari's useragent to safari on ipad next time.

Its also handy to get efficient video from sites stil serving flash to desktops.
in general, you are telling me to stop but I am telling you guys to stop. you do so much damage to companies with completely uninformed comments than you can possibly realize. if you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk. and yes, there are "facts" that companies cannot discuss in an open format. that's the nature of a regulated business. we do not do cat photo sharing. we hold money and assets for people. think on that.
There's been articles posted on HN about how sleep reduces inflammation.

It's also scary to me because there was a sleep disruption leads to dementia/Alzheimer's piece this week, and I only had five hours last night. Guess I'll have to hope Dr. Bredesen will be able to help, or the electrodes that restore sleep patterns.
Retrotechtacular: Field Assembling Airplanes Like Wartime “Ikea”
I would expect one can reason about the program of the proof in less than 100 hours, which is essentially the proof.
iPhones have the longest life of any smartphone and you can verify that yourself by looking at the used market for it (and any Apple product). User replaceable batteries may ironically decrease that and increase waste.
Is there a possibility of an alternative to Mozilla with the kind of backing that Mozilla enjoys now?
GNU project?
Apache web browser?
Linux Foundation?
Heck, I'm sure privacy conscious people will happily pay for a quality browser that they can trust. I don't have the technical prowess to build a browser. If I did, I would.
People who vote in municipal elections despise anything that looks like density. If it weren’t for freeways and parking lots, there would still be massive lawns and open spaces dotted with sparsely packed low rise and mostly single family buildings.

Parking contributes, but it’s mostly that American towns have at most a few blocks where European-level density (3-6 story buildings directly adjacent to each other) is permitted.

Good luck prying the detached house with a backyard out of the typical American family’s hands. Good luck getting them to consent to a multi family structure next door.
This is not necessarily the case for organizations that have special hiring authorities and/or contract dollars for use rapidly.
Also:

> Using flexible SSL, all communications between CloudFlare servers and GitHub ones are not encrypted. Not really secured, even if your domain would be served in HTTPs. [1]

[1]: https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2017/01/13/using-https-w...
We're well beyond a "lick," and nobody benefits from reading for the millionth time that a random HN commenter thinks it's just like tulips.
> So, what is it, what's the motivation to have a "career" in "open-source"?

Learn and work with people from all over the world, people who you never have a chance to work with in real life.
Chrome just screwed the pooch, at least for me... blocking .dev domains ended my use. I'm not going to setup ssl on all my development environments for all the sites I have. I'll just dev in firefox, and move to firefox completely.
How to Launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)? Online Course
Kubernetes, 1 year in production
IMO cryptocurrency is perfectly poised to be the global currency, transcending nation state central banks and leveraging fiat currency foundations via the bank for international settlements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_International_Settlem...

The interview with the ex kite surfer and trauma surgeon is his opinions based on his ICO
I did the same thing at JHU (albeit only 15 years ago). My project was a pill dispensing machine for a quadriplegic man.
Upon seeing the title I was reminded of Rōjin Z, an anime I watched about 20 years ago, whose McGuffin was an AI-equipped robotic hospital bed that could assimilate any machinery it needs to tend to its elderly patient (and eventually becomes a katamari-like monstrosity of destruction). So I expected a cautionary tale about runaway tech, dehumanization, etc.

Instead I got... an early prototype of the book from The Diamond Age.
North Korea may be making a fortune from Bitcoin mania
Have you submitted a bug report about it?
People don't care about odds, or the odds on the back of lotto tickets would reduce gambling.

Even if you do know the odds, do you even know the cost of the loot box? Say the loot box cost 500 murp points, and you can buy 25 merp points for $1 or 700 merp points for $9 or 10000 merp points for $80, and the odds of your loot box are 1:100 for having a rare item - what is your EV to spend to get the rare item?
This is a 'blind' sql injection attack. Tools like sqlmap make finding and exploiting sql injection very easy. sqlmap includes excellent support for blind sqli exploitation.

SQL injection is very common in our space which is WordPress. (I'm the Wordfence founder) There are over 40,000 plugins for WP and around 25k developers and writing PHP with a sqli vulnerability is really easy to do accidentally so it is super common.
That's my issue. I've basically learned (as a developer) to not use any new features in Safari until the version after they come out.

IndexedDB was broken so badly it literally wouldn't work, flexbox is much better now, but I wouldn't have called it "supported" by safari for a while, and now while their WebRTC APIs work, they are really flakey and have a lot of extra "restrictions" tacked on that aren't really explained anywhere (like they won't work in a WebView, or if the page is bookmarked on the homescreen).

I like what they are trying to do, and I absolutely think there is a place for a browser that is fast, low resource usage, and more stable, even if it means it's single platform, slower to add features, and doesn't have as many customization options. But Safari is falling short of their goals while still having those downsides and on one platform is the only browser that is allowed.
Every great language needs a Steve.

If you don't read anything else programming related next year, read the Rust book. Even if you don't need Rust, there's a lot you can learn from it.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/second-edition/
The euro is also in crisis.... Just look at Greece and Spain. The euro is an experiment and we still have time to see if it works.
Well I think the function scope the most useful, but wish there was block scope available too.

So what I really wish was that languages used dot notation to go up scope eg ..name is that name two blocks out. This was one of the good parts of VB syntax which I miss in other languages. Think how much nicer it is than python's nonlocal and global, for example!
The Mr. Robot thing was not "malware". It was an easter egg, just like about:mozilla. You may say it was poor taste on Mozilla's part, since it was essentially a paid-for promotional tie-in with a TV show, and I would probably agree with you. But it did not damage anyone's computer, compromise any data or do anything that could put it on the "Malware" category.

Something similar that noone has complained about are the Android version names which are promotional tie-ins: Kit Kat and Oreo. Mozilla's biggest screw up IMO was failing to disclose properly what was going on.
Its a time of political upheaval worldwide.

Nationalists are rising or at least becoming more vocal in at least Britain, India, United States, Austria, Germany, Korea, and Japan.

They are direct threats to the established status quo. Censoring their political speech will cause a "Streisand Effect" and only further galvanize a backlash against the establishment.

Social Media will probably be broken up by country (Ex. The chinese model), so that national laws on speech can be enforced.

However pros and cons of the new political groups must be debated on a public stage.
Safeborhood – rent a safe place to live
America has been sending a lot of dangerous manufacturing jobs to oversea competitors for decades now. The data likewise show that about 2/3 of all occupational fatalities are caused by transportation incidents ("road incidents") or by "persons or animals," not by unsafe, dangerous working condition we often associate with industrial manufacturing (and already outsourced to poorer nations).

I don't see why we need the union today -- especially when the NYC city transportation employees are known to earn more than $100K in wages alone.
And for every day of December you use 10% more alcohol, until on New Years you don't use any.
I'm in IE so no dice – I'll keep an eye on it.
iPhone X will bring $ 22B to Samsung Display in 2018
That is a good example you've dug up there. Thank you.

I made a statement incontrovertibly grounded in fact, but not resonating well in the present eccosphere. And was promptly flagged and gagged.

I realise this is probably a waste of everybody's time and karma-points attempting to debate.
I believe in free markets. If Chrome is winning, so be it. I for one am on the wagon.
Triffin dilemma
> The only way to disable Pocket was to go into "about:config", as the option was not available in the "Extensions" toolbar.

This isn't exactly correct. The Pocket integration did absolutely nothing at all until and unless you tried to use it. So by "disabling" it from about:config all you did was to remove the icon.
I can't agree with the title more.

I use a rather obscure browser full time (qutebrowser) and they use Qt native bindings.

Due to compatibility issues Qt has _two_ backends for rendering HTML content.

One is based on webkit (qt-webkit), the other (unintuitively called qt-webengine) is actually chrome underneath.

Why chrome? because the web is now owned by chrome.

Before qutebrowser I was a heavy firefox user, but I always had chrome installed for those sites which rendered bizarrely and were obviously only tested in chrome. Too much market share is toxic in this industry I feel.
Most of that is covered pretty well in "Rust in 2017"[1] which somehow didn't make it to the front page.

Splitting out cargo and build systems is something that is explicitly called out and I'm pretty sure there's a bunch of work ongoing to get other Tier 1 targets online.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15980359
> Customers seem to be happy with a flaky, feature-lite products and pay for it. They'll pay to have something that kinda-sorta works now and pay to improve it on an extended basis

Yea, I was going to say - do customers expect flaky products, and companies have structured themselves accordingly? Or have companies produced flaky products, thereby getting users accustomed to paying for flaky products with promises of "we'll fix it in the next version," thus allowing companies to produce ever flakier products? Chicken and egg question I guess.
He is a forward thinking individual. Those types of people are always open to criticism for ideas that can change and revolutionize the norm. You don't need to look any farther than Tesla and SpaceX. As a resident of Los Angeles I support his innovation and ideas behind alleviating traffic congestion. His work with The Boring Company and Hyperloop are simple examples of that.

https://latechnews.org/elon-musk-bores-152-meters-closer-dis...
https://latechnews.org/hyperloop-one-reaches-192-mph/
https://latechnews.org/hyperloop-one-high-speed-project-test...
The method of explaining things is cute, but - for me at least - completely opaque. These are concepts I already understand, and this "simplification" of them into analogy-land seems to obscure them beyond recognition in my mind.

Maybe someone of a different bent will find this more accessible?
Yes. If they could make a tray and flap to hold the nano SIM card and still make their phone water resistant, they can engineer the phones to have user swappable batteries. They just choose not to because it is not in their interest for their customers to keep the phones longer.
Being people ourselves many of us are as fascinated by the Recognized People associated with the things we’re interested in as we are with the thing itself.

It’s an interesting facet of the human experience that lets me live Steve’s life for a moment through my own lens of life experiences.
Haunted Again: Skull-Faced 'Halloween Asteroid' Returns in 2018
L. Krauss is Live responding to questions about the Quantization of Gravity [pdf]
Chrome is implementing a standard that pretty much all other modern browsers are also implementing. For example, service workers - implemented by Chrome initially and pretty heavily integrated into Android/PWAs - but Firefox and Safari are also shipping this feature currently. And also most features, such as service workers, can be effectively used with progressive enhancement, still providing a working experience to the user when they are using an older browser. Most sites I've seen that say "Must be used in Chrome" or whatever really have no reason to do that. There is more nuance to the progression of the modern web platform than the OP article gives off.
To review:

You said that delaying the start of the new line until PTC was installed seems pretty reasonable.

roywiggins replied that the line being replaced also didn't have PTC, so that switching to the new line meant swapping a line without PTC for another line without PTC, which is a net wash.

You replied "It's possible that this was just a horrible coincidence, but it seems more likely that something about the new line made it riskier. Maybe just the fact that the driver is less familiar with it?" I presume that you're still arguing here for waiting until PTC was installed.

I replied. Since you didn't seem to understand my reply, let me try again.

There are lots of things that could make a new line more dangerous. Some of them could be fixed by PTC. Some of them would not. So unless you know that the cause of the crash is something that PTC would have prevented, then "the new line is more dangerous" does not imply "wait for PTC".

Why is the new line more dangerous? Is it because it has a curve? The other line had far more. Is it because the new line had a curve that was lower speed than the rest of the line? It's possible that the other line had so many curves that there never was a place for fast running, and therefore that there never was a curve that you could be suckered into coming into too fast.

Is the new line more dangerous because people aren't familiar with it? Well, that's what months of training runs are for. (They did do months of training runs, didn't they?)

It's possible that the cause is a combination of all of this: A tight curve in the middle of a fast stretch, and engineers unfamiliar with the route ran into the curve too fast. If that's all true, then yes, PTC probably would have prevented the crash.

Also note that all this is hindsight. When making the decision to open the new line, was it obvious that the new line (without PTC) was more dangerous than the old line (also without PTC)? Probably not. If anything, I suspect that the thinking was that the new line would be less dangerous - it wouldn't be cluttered up with a bunch of freight trains, running on a line without PTC, where a mistake could squish a passenger train. So if the thinking in advance is that the new line is at least as safe, and plausibly safer, even without the safety equipment, why would you wait?