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0.1 ppm is the limit for popcorn; the limit for oats and other grains is 30ppm, so 1ppm is well under the limit for oats.

The 310 ppm mentioned in the article is the limit for "grain aspiration fraction", which I believe is the stuff that falls off grain when you clean it with air(?), which is not something you'd normally be eating, so I don't know why the Guardian pulled that number out. The highest limit I saw in the EFCR tables for anything people would be eating seemed to be mint at 200ppm; most everything else was under 100ppm for human consumption, and the things with 200, 300, 400 ppm limits was animal feed.
I'm from New Zealand. I had two molars pulled out when I was 15 to fix an overbite problem. It was a serious enough procedure that they gave me an IV anesthetic.

All they prescribed me afterwards was ibuprofen. The general rule around here seems to be that if they're not using a knife, they don't give you opioids. I had to get 6 stitches in my head a few years ago, and they refused to give me anything stronger than ibuprofen again.
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KHTML -> WebKit -> Blink

Implying that WebKit somehow stalled because Google forked it into Blink is silly. Apple and Google are both investing heavily in their browsers, just with different priorities. Doesn't take more than just looking at the WebKit blog to see that.
It's a jibe at the instability of the yuan. Mostly because it's built on a communist house of cards (rather than a real economy) and propped up by one of the most abusive and authoritarian governments in existence.
I did use it for a while, because I had issues starting to work. It helped with that but like you said, 25m were not enough and the interruptions got quite annoying. I tried a 45m/10m work/pause ratio instead and it was a bit better, but I don't really use pomodoro anymore.
It helped me to form a "habit of starting" though.
No. It hasn't been that way in China for maybe 30 years now.
>Nuclear power is sometimes described as being free of greenhouse gas emissions, and that’s true of the nuclear fission reactions themselves. But here is a list of all the stages of the nuclear power cycle at which greenhouse gases are emitted: uranium mining, uranium milling, conversion of uranium ore to uranium hexafluoride, uranium enrichment, fuel fabrication, reactor construction, reactor decommissioning, fuel reprocessing, nuclear waste disposal, mine site rehabilitation, and transport throughout all stages.

>During these stages, greenhouse gases are emitted directly (for instance, by trucks) but also indirectly (such as through the use of materials such as steel and cement, which are manufactured using emissions-intensive processes). [0]

I would hazard the site simply doesn't want to be disingenuous at all, and provide the facts, which I applaud! I do not consider this an argument against nuclear power per-se, as stated: it is still much lower carbon than burning FF directly as the plant's power source.

[0]http://theconversation.com/is-nuclear-power-zero-emission-no...
It's difficult to compare rates of suicide across countries because there are different ways of counting deaths, and there are different ways of ruling that something is a suicide.
Do you have any online resources you can share?
Correct: being fertile or not is a biological attribute.

It's when you introduce some means of manipulating your biological functions (either through behavioral changes or the consumption of external substances) for the sake of your health that something becomes "medical".

Your comparison breaks down: memory is a biological function, but the implements used to help one memorize stuff aren't being sold under the premise that it'll have any impact on the recipients health.

With unwanted pregnancy you have the possibility of psychological trauma and physical complications -- and as with any pregnancy, risk of death.

If we look at the app as just giving a rough idea of when one is ovulating, then it seems ridiculous to have the FDA involved. However, the FDA knows that people will be using this not purely out of curiosity in some biological attribute -- the app users will almost certainly be using it to choose when to have condom-less sex to not get pregnant. If the app is ineffective, it could do a lot of harm.

If humans had evolved in such a way that we risked severe physical and/or psychological trauma in the pursuit of expanding our vocabulary, you can safely bet the FDA would be involved there, too.
Yupp. My account at a particular website was terminated. They pointed to their TOS, where "anonymous" address are not allowed. Wasn't even given the chance to keep the account and change the email to an "acceptable" one.
"the bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017, taking home an average of $18.9m in compensation while their employees’ wages stalled, rising just 0.3% over the year."

That's the worst part of it. Companies are split up in two sections. One that benefits from the company's success while others get almost nothing. I see that in my company. In meetings they celebrate increased revenue and earnings. When I look around almost nobody except a few top guys I see benefits from that success and instead has to wonder when his job goes to India.

There was a discussion here about increasing employee participation. I really think we should get away from the belief that only shareholders count but also acknowledge that employees and even the communities where the company has its buildings have a stake.
It's unfortunate how there are not better birth control options available by now. Condoms are intrusive and make sex significantly less pleasurable for many people. The pill has a number of well documented side effects and many women anecdotally report a variety of other problems and reactions that make them unwilling to use it or other hormone based methods. IUDs are effective but also can have side effects for some women that in my experience are under reported / downplayed that make them not an option. All the other options I'm aware of have issues with effectiveness, side effects and practicality that make them not compelling options.

The temporary 'vasectomy' based on injecting a gel seems promising but needs more study and hasn't yet been approved in the US to my knowledge.

Given all this there's a reason natural methods like the rhythm method and withdrawal are still used despite lower than desirable effectiveness. People often talk like contraception is a solved problem when it's really not for many couples. Maybe this app is not as effective as would be desired but if it's improving on the unaided rhythm method it's still valuable.
I was about the comment that a single New York Post article (this is not the Times!) is hardly a credible source. These guys are barely above the National Enquirer for fact checking.
Oh, okay. Which part? Both, or just the compulsory employment?
Per the article, he went through multiple steps that all seem quite demanding:

> The screening interview requires:

> A webcam with a clear view of you and your room

> Granting a tool (admin) access to your computer to make sure you don't cheat

> The screening interview consists of a basic coding challenge and pre-recorded video questions to which you must give a response. Your response must be in video format - it cannot be written. After you are delivered a question via video, you are given about a minute to formulate your response and then are required to narrate it back staring into your webcam.

I'd consider this "arduous" for a very first step. Then the final stage is 3 days onsite. I'd consider that "long".

My scale is other interview processes, not Batman origination stories.
works well and doesn't have to be 25 minutes, it can be an hour. Experiment (test and learn)

The magic for me isn't seeing the timer as a distraction to my flow, but an enabler - that timer reminds me to go take a walk and let my "diffuse" mode thinking take over and all the sudden things start to click.
Not anymore. That was known as the "iron (rice) bowl," but that governmental job security has long since been removed from most positions.
I like the sheet to site idea. I've made a few importers from sheets to web, so this looks useful to me.
Oh good point. I hadn’t thought about vegan/not-vegan question. Though I eat a lot of vegan foods I’m not vegan, but I could see this being important to those that are.

You could conceivably extend this idea to listing sources of ingredients for those that are concerned with ingredient sustainability.

From my point of view the idea would not be to try and replicate the product but to have greater trust in it.
Well, because the majority of the population might not vote to distribute money to infrastructure outside of their area - why should the state pay for something that the majority of the state won't immediately use? Without some political power, the rural areas wouldn't be likely to even get proportional funding and infrastructure.

There are a lot of issues that are fundamentally important to people living in one area that those in another don't care about. Water rights for agriculture are a good example.

The most important part, though? If you live in the city and your vote counts 9/10ths of the vote of a person in a rural community, you're probably not going to complain about lack of representation. If you live in a rural community and you have one representative and the city has 12, you may complain and that complaint may turn into violence or rebellion, because you feel you don't have adequate representation even though statistically speaking, you do.
I use pomodoro and find it helps my productivity more than hinder it. Mind you I show signs of ADHD (working w/ a doc to get a diagnosis now) so pomodoro might no be for everyone but I find it allows me to slice out some time to really focus and not let myself get distracted.

When time is of the essence I simply skip the 5 minute breaks but continue to work using the pomodoro.
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Look for the root cause,not the proximal one.

You can certainly blame one bad doctor. You could probably blame a group of associated doctors, if the problem was associated with a certain hospital or medical school.

But when the problem is something that thousands and thousands of individual doctors mess up, it's hard to blame them all.

Personally, I blame the slimy Purdue salesmen and the idiot bureaucrats who let prescription drug companies advertise prescription drugs on TV, or give kickbacks to doctors who prescribe their medicine. Without these awful incentives, you wouldn't have this widespread failure.
There's nothing wrong with using open source code, but then saying it's "fully homegrown" is more than slightly disingenuous.
25+5 is too short but I found 48+12 worked well. With that said usually it's just about starting, once you start it's not nearly as hard to keep going.
This thought format is a great way for developers to find good business solutions. Nice share.
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> There is hardly any activism against the invasive surveillance of SV companies

Wut? It's obvious that's not true at all, and really easy to prove. Just read this NY Times article from yesterday, about how privacy activists got a law passed in California to reign in those same SV companies: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-....
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We haven't forgotten about you, but we could use your help if you want it done fast. We've made some important progress towards supporting this functionality recently. A protocol our people have been working on is currently undergoing standardization[0] which enables software keyboard devices. A similar protocol could enable software pointer devices. We also made another[1] protocol for efficiently capturing the contents of the display.

Plug all of these together and an RDP server is probably possible. Maybe a few weeks of work with FreeRDP for the motivated programmer. My email is in my profile, reach out if you want to make some connections and get started.

[0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-Au...
[1] https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/blob/master/unstable...
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American doctors are persistently and openly reluctant to prescribe lifestyle changes for fear of patient anger and noncompliance. Even in cases where the medical advice is something along the lines of “get some exercise or start planning your own funeral”.

Obviously doctors continuing to hand out pills (opioids, statins, etc.) to patients who really need therapy, exercise, or dietary changes is helping to reinforce the problem.
Umm, isn't that why they're called guidelines instead of rules or laws? They're a generalized solution for the populace at large which may be adjusted for individuals as their needs differ. Comparatively, BMI is a guideline and body fat/cholesterol/activity levels/nutrition intake are the more important drivers to health that determine what changes need to be made for improvement.
Both. China is not really a communist country anymore except in name.
my take on this: The high bias, low variance means that the models used in the book are the standard used in physic. The low variance means that the author doesn't use any artificial model or parameter except those that arise from physical considerations. Care is taken to motivate physically ML models and those far from physic can't be used with many parameters (hyperparameters).
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I would trust these tweets to still be visible in 10 years more than one individuals blog being around
What I've found in using the technique is that anything lost in focus is more than made up for by insights gained during the break.

Taking your eyes off of a problem for a short time can often help you return to it with a different mindset / approach.
Any of these projects could use your help :)

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/wiki
Unions have to make a comeback. Look at German unions. They are organized over a whole industry, not just companies, have a seat on the board of directors. I think this system works really well.
> one of the most noticeable aspects of the city is its relative uniformity

In case anyone is unaware, that is intentional. Look up Haussmann.
The CIA is incompetent. It’s their system.
>> "the boy carried out the attacks ‘because he was such a fan of the company’ and hoped to work there"

How do you like them Apples?!
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> Umm, Webkit spun out of Safari, so that would make Chrome the "clone" of Safari.

webkit/safari was spun off of KHTML/Konqueror, so would that make Safari a "clone" of Konqueror

edit: spelling
<Result, ErrorData>

Yes, exactly like that. In real world programs, every function might fail, even the simplest ones (stack overflow, out of memory, interrupts, etc). No information is gained by declaring a specific function might fail. Also it's almost certainly a lie to declare: this function will never fail. So if every function might fail, why not just produce a union type <Result|ErrorData> for every function return type. Also, lets automatically check for the error case after each nested invocation, and cleanly unwind the stack (returning ErrorData again) on failure. This makes 95% error handling code go away. The ErrorData type uses a special return keyword ("throw"), and in rare cases, errors need to actually be handled, so the union's ErrorData type is exposed to the user code with additional primitives (catch). On all the code in between, the ErrorData type is just hidden behind the scenes.
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Orgmode has support for both executing code and for literate programming -- incl. of course tangling and weaving -- in many, many languages.
isn't this why https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres... was invented?
I think this study has the same problem as the argument that hedge funds are a waste of time because hedge funds don't make money on average. Imaging the average return of hedge funds was 50%, what would happen? people would open up more and more less and less competent hedge funds until it was a flat return and no longer attractive.

You're measuring the results post (arguably) a market force which has impacted the results. If paying managers more than the current average showed obvious results, the average would go up. You also have correlation/causation.

I'm not sure if i'm pro bosses mental pay or whether I think it makes any difference just don't buy this argument/study.
There was a time when the NSA was in the white hat business; securing networks, identifying vulnerabilities and contributing to net sec projects. SELinux has been their most famous contribution. This all changed with the war on terrorism. Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities was the mission.
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The New York Post always seems a little sketchy to me, based on the articles I've read and their trashy ads, but I'm not really sure if that's a valid conclusion or just a quick judgment.
With a 'few loons' you mean many of the founders of the environmentalist movement that are still highly respected today. These people were the founders of some of the larger organisations today.

In fact these 'loons' were invited to give talks in popular TV.

There are some of the early environmentalists who changed position and realized these issues, but the waste majority did not. See 'Russel Brand' who help start the environmental movement and has tried to tell them for years that nuclear is the way to save the world. Of course he was basically made into a traitor.

> It's pro-human in that the ultimate goal is to avoid those long term negative consequences.

No. Saying we should have less people and let more people die faster in order to delay 'perceived ' negative long term consequences, is a anti-humanist way of thinking.

> Is it anti-well-being to advocate living below one's means to save for the future? Saving implies spending less right now to realize a potential future gain.

Clearly you have not actually read that stuff. They don't want to save for the future, they thought that there were already to many people on earth and they wanted fewer.

Conservatives have made many mistakes in this as well, but not so fundamental as liberals.
==Whether it's some version of ensuring a worker advocate is on the board of a corporation or that some kind of coop ownership scheme gives employees voting rights, hell I have no idea, but pay inequality won't change on its own.==

Senator Elizabeth Warren is proposing a bill [1] that hits pretty close to these points. It's a unique way to tackle inequality without mandating wage hikes or raising taxes.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-acco...
> The only limitations come from the platform itself (JavaScript/web), which do not allow for side channel resistance or reliable constant time operations. Overall however this is an exceptional library for JavaScript cryptography.

How would this compare to something like WebCrypto, which assume would be implemented in a way that would allow for side channel resistance etc? It does seem surprising that we don't have something like a browser API version of libsodium in widespread use already.
And that's the main reason life expectancy in the US is declining: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180815190526.h...
I prefer sin taxes to income taxes. I'd rather be taxed for vice (gambling, prostitution, smoking, what-have-you (not that I do any of those things)) then virtue (getting up and working hard to earn a living and be a positive, value-added member of society).
To add. I am always amazed at how often top levels get fired and life just goes on. Every time one of those emails goes out to all staff saying so and so has decided to pursue other interests in life is actually code for so and so got kicked out of the high earnings club. I do think capitalism is the best of the whole lot but the hyperbole used to justify executive earnings is something that the world needs to focus on. We have created such complex systems such that no one person can really claim to be the reason things succeed or fail
I wonder why browser makers not take full advantage of the high churn of the JS ecosystem to move forward.

Let put a end to the madness, and say "after 2020, not more in the old apis" and do a clean standard. Then take advantage of the fact html/js have tags that could declare versions, and when a old page show, use the old rendered, and when a new, use the clean one.

By then, most PC/mobile devices are powerfull enough to have 2 renders alive and the transition will be fast for more big/popular sites.
I agree. It seems that much of society is running on fumes and that there is this persistent narrative that if you just try harder and work more hours while doing these 5 self-help steps that somehow that will lead to wealth. Part of my background was in evaluating credit risk of millions of loan applicants and it was very concerning to see the state of economic stability in the country.
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Aretha Franklin just died and a story about her reached #1 on HN this morning before being removed (edit: looks like mods revived it and removed this post :D): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17774698

When other celebrities die the post stays up. For example, this story about Anthony Bourdain's death wasn't taken down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17264376

Aretha Franklin has had a much broader impact on culture (and I say that as a fan of them both) and if a post reaches #1 it's hard to make the case the story isn't relevant to the community.

Why the double standard?
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Like today's average worker's kids actually get the same shot at college than their boss' counterparts.

See also https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/102716377897728000... which was recently mentionned on HN
Getting a big payout is not the problem. Getting a big payout that's disproportional to the company's performance or profitability is. Getting a golden parachute while the plane is diving should not be an option. Bonus/malus.
Yes, sure... The most anti-tax journalist out there finds an anonymous "whistle blower" to tarnish the IRS reputation.

> Why didn’t I bring these allegations to the proper authorities to investigate? I did and was essentially told to get lost

Right...