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Indeed consuming protein molecules which contain glutamate is different from consuming free glutamate in the form of MSG.

We can draw a ready analogy to saccharides. It is like denying the effects of sugar because indigestible complex carbohydrates are made of sugar and do not produce those effects. "A blood sugar spike doesn't exist because cellulose is made of sugars, and I've eaten a large bowl of moistened sawdust without experiencing such a spike. It's probably an imagined effect or maybe caused by something else, such as a response to anti-caking agents in the sugar."

Why is MSG used in the first place on foods which already contain glutamate? For instance, why is it used in Vietnamese lemon grass chicken recipes, given that chicken protein has tons of glutamate? It's because the glutamate that is locked up in protein doesn't produce the taste effect of MSG.

So why don't these naysayers deny the existence of the taste effect of MSG also?

As in: "Gee, I don't believe that MSG can possibly be a flavor enhancer, because boiled chicken breast contains copious glutamate and yet tastes bland. People who say that flavor is enhanced by MSG are just imagining it due to confirmation bias fueled by mass hysteria."
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So the domain owner should have registered a business called "France.com"
Ask HN: Is there a way to see most upvoted comments?
..in posts of hn community?
Thanks in advance.
> Yes, people can actively work around the printing restriction, so it's not 100% secure.

And the people that do work around it in order to violate company policy can be dealt with here in meatspace.

Eg: HR -- "We didn't want you printing that sensitive email.... why did you go out of your way to print it?"
Here's a prime example of the typical article suggesting that statins are bad for the brain:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/20170...
are there any side effects( if any) that you've noticed on such long term use?
But if you make a habit of testing them you'll find the ones that aren't pretty quick.
> megadoses of B vitamins

Interesting. Never heard of this before.
Top 0.1% has more than 3x what it used to as a share of the total economy.

It's not really that the top 1% has more money it's mostly that the top 0.1% has vastly more money. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-wealth-i...

PS: People often think of themselves as middle class but frankly 5million is far from it. 5 million means you can pull 250k per year safely and really should consider retiring because more money has diminishing returns.
Minor nit I believe you mean Eminent Domain. Imminent Domain somehow sounds even scarier (and would be a great band name).
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> It's certainly possible I'm overlooking some larger aggregate effect because I'm not taking a far enough step back.

Inflation has a large aggregate effect, the people who first get the newly minted dollars can spend them at the current dollar value before their distribution dilutes the value of the dollar as a whole.

The effect of each newly created dollar may be immeasurably small but over time may result in things like, perhaps, growing wealth inequity and the "destruction" of the middle class.
Where did you find out about Emoxypine? Do you have any reliable references about this?
That's exactly how it's set up. Doesn't help, I'm apparently not allowed to tell my browser what to do in this instance.
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In theory you could already do this with Opal (https://github.com/opal/opal).
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Also:
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Ermm how exactly was an Internet company named Genesis Access Point domain-squatting a clothing company that didn’t even know what the internet was at the time they bought it? Did you think this one through?
He's right, of course. I went through the docs when they came out and was seriously underwhelmed.

But with all the people (e.g. costs) NSA has, I don't think much of their budget goes to the kind of blue sky research you need to make their own magic.
Each new thing I learn about Apple paints a coherent picture. Not one of incompetence, but one of 'intentional obsolesce'. Whether this is in the hardware failure rates, inability or difficulty to upgrade or repair, or how each software update makes the device less functional. In the case of the self slowing battery dates didn't even require an OS update it was on a death slowdown timer. The leaked internal memos illustrate that these are not accidents.

Apple is great at something--just not quite what they portray.
The thing about statins is if you believe the hype, and don't believe the fear mongering they still barely work, according to the pharmaceutical funded studies. Just enough to claim its got a benefit but how big is this benefit?
Its basically rewarded to be a black hat hacker- you scam your way into a industry, take it over from its previous owners - repackage the whole thing and try to get out before any liability could hit you.

Obviously nothing of value is here created- a bank-robber doesent create value, he redistributes it - from the bank to himsel. Same goes for Ueber- it takes pre-existing value (taxi services)- reduces the wages and worker protection- and leaves with its share before the police arrive.

To call that innovation is really a insult to the likes of tesla and einstein.
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I suspect this is covered in greater detail in the book from which TFA is excerpted, but this description of rent-seeking through control of the government is incomplete. In addition to one-sided transactions with the government, large firms benefit from their regulatory control of the commercial environment, enforced by the government. Smaller firms and individual people will always negotiate and compete from a disadvantage, because they have no say in how business will be conducted. Regulators like SEC and FCC pretend that their purpose is to rein in the excesses of big firms, while spending almost all of their time and resources ensuring that we cannot do business with anyone besides big firms.
I may be naive, but math seems to be the subject with the post potential for transfer.
To be clear, that bug originally tracked the implementation of the Audio Worker API, which went through many iterations that eventually led to the current Audio Worklet spec.
Because far fewer (eventually big) companies were started in 1950 than in 1998. In 1950 "the major sectors of the economy were either organized as government-backed cartels or dominated by a few oligopolistic corporations." (Michael Lind, Land of Promise)

The innovation that happened in 1950 consisted of General Electric getting into a new line of business, not a grad student starting his own company.
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I would gladly switch from MacBooks if anyone came even close to the same touchpad experience.

I keep trying the latest Lenovo’s and they still have garbage touch pads.
Suppose you've filled up most of your memory and that some of that memory contains data that you've written to an NBD-backed device but that hasn't been flushed out yet. The kernel may try to free memory by writing out some of that dirty data. If it were a real remote NBD-backed device, all kinds of fancy logic in the kernel would kick in to get the data written to the network without problems. Because it's actually local, that logic won't do much. Instead, the kernel will successfully deliver the write requests to the Python interpreter's socket. Now the Python script will have to do its own writeback logic while the system is still potentially out of memory. At the very least, this will involve calls to the FoundationDB client library. Since the script is in Python, it's extremley likely that it will also try to allocate some memory to store temporary objects used by the Python code. If that allocation ends up asking the kernel for more memory, then you either deadlock (memory reclaim is waiting for Python, which is in turn waiting for memory) or you trigger an OOM condition. If the latter happens and the Python interpreter gets killed, then you lose data.
Future generations have to deal with whatever their situation is at their future time

I’m not talking about “generations”, I’m talking about us.

The people who enjoyed an easy credit-fuelled boom in the 00’s didn’t fully understand that they were merely spending their retirement money now (or rather, then)
A new collision attack 6 years after the first public example counts as magic? In the press release[0] by the authors of the discovery they describe the backstory:

> The first cryptographic collision attack against the cryptographic hash function MD5 was invented by Xiaoyun Wang et al. in 2004, which however did not pose a serious immediate threat due to technical limitations. Subsequently, we have devised a more flexible collision attack against MD5 in 2007, a so-called chosen-prefix collision attack. This posed a greater threat due to the removal of the most important technical limitation. Finally, we refined our attack in 2008 and used it to construct a rogue Certification Authority, thereby demonstrating a serious vulnerability in internet security. Our demonstration convinced Microsoft and various governments to raise the security standards for Certification Authorities, by disallowing the use of MD5-based signatures effective 15 January 2009.

Flame was probably deployed around February 2010 and the practical attack was announced May 2007, giving 2.5 years for finding a variant and make and debug the malware. Seems reasonable if you have good cryptographers and development team, since the collision is fairly well contained functionality that doesn't block other parts of the project.

Generally I would reserve the term "magic" for secret crypto that is better than state of the art, a new variant of state of the art is simply impressive.

[0]: https://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/cwi-cryptanalist-discovers-new-...
EMD is something that really needs more, better implementations.

The one that everyone uses from Python isn't the easiest thing to install, doesn't have a great API and isn't easy to extend.

I think Gensim recently added it, but I think they use the same backend solver.

Edit: this is a better article on EMD anyway: https://markroxor.github.io/gensim/static/notebooks/WMD_tuto...

Edit 2: I forget Textacy has an implmentation built on Spacy. Still uses the same backend solver, but the API is nice (https://chartbeat-labs.github.io/textacy/api_reference.html#...)
> "spam can be filtered objectively"

"Objective filters" (by which I assume you mean "rule based") can easily be worked around by the people trying to get through the filter. All you gotta do is figure out the rule and bam, you are back in again.

Sure it might work for your tiny little family domain name with your tiny 10 mailbox email server. No spammer gives a crap about you. But when you are on the scale of gmail, you will have a lot of people whose entire purpose in life is getting through your spam filters. "Objective filters" turn into a continual game of whack-a-mole. Put in a rule, wait half a day until somebody works around that rule, put in another rule.... repeat ad nauseam.

"Objective Filters" don't scale at all. They might filter out the riff-raff script kiddies but anybody whose livelihood is based on getting past your "objective filters" will easily overcome them.
It's not just about the art, also about the history of the art piece. When we stand in front of a painting we don't only think of the painting, but also of the first person to stand before it, the people who have owned and traded it through the years. We think of the type of linen used to make the canvas, the paints used to colour it.

In saying that, I still wouldn't call this a catastrophe. Yes, they will need to drastically reevaluate their presentation of these pieces, but they're still as valid as ever from an historical point of view. My advice would be for the gallery to pivot a few of its rooms and present the history of these fakes, who they were created by, why, how they fooled the gallery, and how the truth was finally arrived at.
He did operate such a business. From the article: "For over 20 years, Frydman built up a business (also known as France.com) [...]."

I don't think we've routinely required ".com" to be part of the business branding of .com domain owners, but Ars Technica says he had that.
You're not the only one. I hypothesised about this before in previous SciHub discussions, and SciHub isn't the only site that is/will be affected. Security is the ostensible benefit, and it's the one they advertise the most; easier censorship and centralised access control is the other---something which a lot of the pro-(traditional)-HTTPS advocates don't advertise. Make HTTPS mandatory (so no more HTTP), make it near impossible to bypass in browsers, and you have created a very effective censorship system controlled by the CAs and whatever interests they serve.

Slowly ostracising and forcing "compliance" of those who don't toe the line is easier than before. They want you to be obedient sheep, living in an illusion of security and safety while continuing to mindlessly consume under their control.

I will resist the urge to post that memorable Franklin quote.
Now if only this could be baked into VSCode for workspace-global symbol search. I would then finally ditch WebStorm.
Gmail is not just an email client though, it's also the email provider.

If you want to get off of Gmail the client, you can use an IMAP client like Apple Mail, Thunderbird, etc. There are quirks with how the IMAP protocol's concepts get mapped to Gmail's concepts though.

If you want to get off of Gmail the provider, that's a different story. There are many free and paid providers, but there's still a large effort to switch since you have to ask people to update your email address and probably keep the old one around (and forwarding to the new one) for a long time. If you have your own domain that's backended by Gmail, this is a lot easier.
I think part of the problem is that the price of more inelastic things in our society is driven by that top 5%. The housing market is especially dominated by that demographic, but so is healthcare and college. And since all of those things are priced for the wealthy first and then marginally discounted for middle class needs, they've become completely unaffordable.
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> Having confidence in something, and finding out that your target audience doesn't want it, or need it are 2 entirely different things.

Splitting hairs IMHO.
How many years in federal PMITAP did your humble friend's business rival get?
Printscreen.

Photograph your screen with your phone.

It’s still just a «please don’t print».
Just a guess, but it sounds like it could be detected via static dependency analysis and the compiler could throw an error.
I still don’t trust HodlBot with my API Keys

That’s really a major issue that should be your main focus. Can’t wait to see the Electron app.
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Yeah I've wondered about this a lot. I mean, what kind of inequality are we talking about, and in which cases does it matter.

(A) 3 people earn 25k a year, 4 people $30k, 3 people 40k.

moves to:

(B) 4 people earn 50k a year, 4 people earn 60k a year, 1 person earns 300k a year.

B is typically viewed as both preferable and less equal to A. I'm not saying we were at A and got to B. What I'm saying is that I don't know, and a treatise of A/B is always left out from every single article I come across on the topic of inequality. What kind of inequality are we talking about and is it an issue?

It's like the gender gap. Tons of studies indicate if you correct for things like job choice, experience, overtime etc, the gender gap is about 2 or 3 cents on the dollar (and shifts in favour of women under certain conditions. Cultural gender roles likely influence things like job choice and you can make a sensible claim that this ought to be fixed. But the framing of unequal pay (20% less!) for equal work just isn't the case. However, plenty of data now shows the gender gap isn't as big as we think, mostly unrelated to blatant discrimination and quickly becoming smaller and smaller. The literature is more nuanced than some of the political movements behind it. But in the realm of inequality all I read is 'top x% makes y% of the money', without delving much deeper into why this is a problem, there's no nuance or depth in most news articles on the topic, and I'm not familiar with (or too interested in reading) super technical research on the topic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a leftist, I'm aware that inequality correlates strongly with a whole range of shitty social outcomes like crime or teenage pregnancy. But I want to know what I'm arguing against and why, and I've got no clue whether we're talking about inequality between regular folk growing, or inequality between equal regular folk and a few bill gates types growing, and which is problematic and why.

So point me to some (not too extremely academic) literature if you can! Thanks.
How is it ahead of state of the art when it was deployed a full year after MD5 was supposed to be removed because practical exploits had been released?
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Hi, I have already expected a question about Neural Networks :)

When I had the idea I also toyed around with word-rnn and similar RNN libraries. The results I got were pretty good, but training was extremely resource consuming. Cuda gave a 8x boost, but still training one of the smaller sites took 20 minutes on my simple graphics card while creating the Markov chain is done in 2 minutes.

I also have absolutely no experience with Machine Learning and just the setup was already quite an experience. So I stuck with what I know and stayed "the traditional way".
Your comment is deeply misleading. Floating point is mostly just fixed point plus some rules for automatically moving the decimal point. The point is that depending how you express the formula, you need to "expand the size of the space to prevent decimals from being used" (what do you even mean by that, if your answer has no exact binary representation? how would you express 1/7, or 10000/7, or 65536/7?) by spectacularly more or less.

If you think I'm wrong: Can you code the quadratic formula using integer or other fixed-point math, and demonstrate why it doesn't need the attention to bad numerical conditioning noted in the parent?
Many Android apps can have much more information on you then Facebook, I don't really understand this whole thing, but I am still glad that it is getting more attention...
> This has led me to think Inbox is on its way out.

Any time an app takes forever to update to a new apple screen resolution is a good indicator the app is on its way out.

I mean, think about it.... if you were all-in on your app, wouldn't the highest priority fixes on your backlog be "get the damn thing to run in the native resolution of your target device"?
Oh, you mean all the way to page 135 of the technology preview specification :) Mea culpa!

Anyway, CET already bloats code with ENDBRANCH tags, and you'll find that most fully-software CFI mechanisms (including, IIRC, clang's and grsecurity's) extend their tags to carry some form of hash of the function signature.
SHA-0 is another good example. It was withdrawn and replaced with the tweaked SHA-1 for no apparent reason. Years later techniques were discovered that the tweak defended against.

DES also defended against a technique that wasn’t developed in the public until two decades later. That technique was originally developed at IBM and NSA merely convinced them to keep it secret, so I’m not sure how that qualifies.

Edit: Schneier has written about these before, of course. I wonder if his point here is not that the NSA was always boring, but rather that its lead is way less impressive than it once was.
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I hear your point that phrasing in terms of angles may be more understandable.

The x-axis in my plot shows the ratio of lengths of the longer to the shorter of the two non-hypotenuse sides (yes, typing this out it does sound convoluted). This ratio is 1 when those two sides are equal length, which implies that the two corners are 45°. So the plot does show that the return to cutting corners is maximized at 45°-45°-90°, but indirectly.

It's not an arbitrary decision that the graph only covers half the angle range. That's a consequence of the decision to label the shortest side "a" and the longer one (non-hypotenuse) "b". If those labels were applied to specific sides then you could explore the full angle range, but it would be redundant. I'm open to the idea that people might find this easier to understand though.

I think the natural way to refer to the sides of a triangle is by their length, which lead to my formulation. If you feel like plotting your formulation, here's my source code (in R): https://gist.github.com/masonicboom/dafeb49b3c1d4c44998969ef....

Cheers!
We can all stay on the same page by expressing the numbers as percentage-above-cost-of-living. Or, we just represent this dollar amount as X, where X is how much money you need to live comfortably off passive income for any given region. In the case of SV, it’s $5-10M. In other places, it’s $1M.
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...and then LE also revokes their certificate.
I guess - feels like the fundamental function of friends and support networks is to be able to weather these kinds things together.
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There are plenty of reasons to pay for a certificate. Wildcard certificates only came out last month on LE, and people might still be weary to switch their primary site over so quickly. Additionally, there's still a few cases I can think of where a custom certificate might be needed.

For instance, I recently consolidated my personal projects and site onto one server. I needed a single certificate that'd cover two domains. Digicert combined two of my orders into one certificate with two wildcard SANs. You wouldn't be able to do that with LE.

Edit: I was under the impression you couldn't do multiple wildcard SANs in LE but according to some forum posts it's fully possible as long as validation passes.