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The root of the problem here is that 1. A lot (most) people do not have any security enabled on their PCs (logged in as admin at all times) 2. Majority of software installs require admin privileges by default.

Of course, the guilty party here is the software developers that are unwilling to do anything about the status quo. Also the vendors, Microsofts, Apples and Redhats.

These days it is getting even more common and acceptable to install binary packages on a system as root and often in unattended manner (OS and package "updates", pray-and-run RPM installs, etc).

More so, there used to be some hope in this area by Apple, where you would just copy an app to install, w/o being an admin. Now even Apple is moving to store apps where every install seems to want an admin.

Linux and Windows people have been always lost in that regard: MSI and RPM/whatnot have always been unquestioned standard (Linux people, however, have a choice to not install software as root and build it locally when necessary).

Until this (admin installs) changes, we are going to have to deal with malware. Fixing this would not solve all the issues, but would help a lot.

In the meantime, enjoy your PC owned by some teenagers overseas.
If burning a fire once is equal to taking 30 cigarettes, then I suppose taking 30 cigarettes every 6-18 months isn't that bad, in the big scheme of things.
Thanks, I was probably approaching the article with the wrong expectations, leading to disappointment.
""Why do people insist on foisting "software literacy" on the general populace?""

Because under all that complication, there is a big secret, and that secret is that anything you can describe to another human being, you can describe to a computer. So what if, instead of not just learning to balance the books, teenagers are required to write a small accounting package to do it? Shouldn't competent literacy include the most significant literal tool the human race has ever created, the computer and the skills of its application, if after all, we've gotten as far as teaching kids to read and write, as well?
With Sinatra you add in and with Rails you taketh away.

You can use Sinatra for the same things that you use Rails for, but typical use cases are API's, since there's a lot of stuff in Rails that you don't want to use if your main output isn't html.
Does it matter that much if it is correct or not? Some amount of people are eating healthier because of it. That's a good thing, right? Whether that is due to a link to history or coincidence it seems like a good thing.

To me "is it doing something we know is bad" seems like something that would be useful to know. I don't care so much about "is it historically correct". I'd gladly trade that for even 100 people eating better. Pragmatically, it seems like a decent diet, so let's figure out how to get more people to eat healthier instead?
I'm sure it wasn't your intent, but you've just made Harris' argument for him.

Also, some science for your perusal can be found in uvdiv's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5355300
> Ask HN: how did you learn the command line?

I had no choice -- for most of my computing career, there wasn't anything else. in fact, when I first got into computing, I would have sold my left arm to gain access to a command line interface.

When I see a typical modern command line (a shell session), it's enclosed in a separate window, and I'm reminded how far we've come in a short time.

Before I had access to a terminal, I was writing programs anyway --

http://arachnoid.com/programmable_calculators

-- and my first terminal's output (while working for NASA in the early 1970s) was a roll of paper.

So that's my answer -- I had no choice.

Oh, p.s., here's my Bash tutorial:

http://arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html
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The flaw in this argument is that guns and pools have very different uses.

You can't swim in a gun.

Guns have no useful purpose. The fact that pools are more dangerous doesn't justify owning a gun, so there is no "cognitive dissonance" here.

You don't want a gun in your house regardless of any other dangers that exists, just like you want to child proof the house.

You want a pool for the same reason you want a bicycle: it provides lots of benefit. Ultimately we make a choice that the benefit of the pool or the benefit of a bicycle for the child is greater than the risk.

We can't eliminate all the risk.

We can eliminate unnecessary risk (like guns).
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yes, that was a spelling error, but given the context of the discussion (standard video codec) I doubt anyone failed to understand that I meant webm.
The ones I've seen to find something were sniffing for contraband imports to USA. Of course, elsewhere I've seen some sniffing for narcotics and explosives, but the only "live action" I've seen was when they did confiscate an apple from a passenger who just arrived in SFO. Not an Apple product, but an apple.
You are not making any sense.
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I have no idea how cavemen lived, and it doesn't interest me all that much either, but my guess is that they weren't as sedentary and they weren't as proficient in the art of preserving food. Overall, it should have been quite difficult for most of them to create a caloric surplus, day after day.

What I do know is that bodymass is lost and gained with deficits and surpluses of calories.

Transient spikes in insulin and stuff like that are irrelevant. This is well established in nutritional science.
Courant said much more much better in much less words:

There seems to be a great danger in the prevailing overemphasis on the deductive-postulational character of mathematics. True, the element of constructive invention, of directing and motivating intuition, is apt to elude a simple philosophical formulation; but it remains the core of any mathematical achievement, even in the most abstract fields. If the crystallized deductive form is the goal, intuition and construction are at least the driving forces. A serious threat to the very life of science is implied in the assertion that mathematics is nothing but a system of conclusions drawn from definitions and postulates that must be consistent but otherwise may be created by the free will of the mathematician. If this description were accurate, mathematics could not attract any intelligent person. It would be a game with definitions, rules, and syllogisms, without motive or goal. The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic necessity, can the free mind achieve results of scientific value…To establish once again an organic union between pure and applied science and a sound balance between abstract generality and colourful individuality may well be the paramount task of mathematics in the immediate future.
Well, for very relative values of "all-functional".

But yeah, Cabal is certainly a bit of a pain. Happily, people are working on it. Superior cabal-dev functionality is going to be integrated into cabal proper very soon, if it hasn't already, for example.

Also, couldn't you just compile your binary with static linking and just deploy that? I understand there can be problems if you depend on certain non-Haskell libraries like GUI toolkits, but that shouldn't be an issue for a web app. I think a statically linked binary is pretty similar to a jar file in practice.
Taubes has been refuted so many times it's astonishing that anyone still cites him.

Compelling anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron, especially when the scientific evidence to the contrary is so strong.
Out of curiosity, what law makes it illegal?
> most people reading it will feel an instinctive negative reaction against having something they cherish so attacked, even with solid evidence

All I got was "Damn, do I tell my open-fire loving unscientific friends they're harming their children, or should I just keep quiet for the sake of an easy life?"
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I assume you mean carbon dioxide credits, not carbon credits. Because for fireplaces it would have to be actual carbon credits - fireplaces release lots of carbon into the air as pollution.

Incidentally people should stop being lazy and say carbon dioxide when they mean carbon dioxide - otherwise it gets confusing in situations like this where fireplaces release both carbon dioxide, and carbon, into the air.
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> Guns have no useful purpose

Home defense, hunting, on-person defense for women in unsafe areas, etc.

But yeah, continue on your screed. Let's not let facts get in the way of a good diatribe.
Pools are for swimming. Food is for eating. Cars are for transporting. All of those things can be hazardous.

Guns are for "safety", but they actually decrease safety:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/04/guns-in-the-home-lots...

http://www.iansa.org/system/files/Risks%20and%20Benefits%20o...
I agree with you on the first two points.

With regards to the third, I've seen this gripe before, but I feel its misplaced.

This author has personally noticed a parallel between the reaction of his friends to wood-burning and religion. Something he though was interesting and decided to write about. Expecting him to fit that realization in to an analogy that would cater to the entire world, will water down the effectiveness of his point.

Additionally, he may not have any inkling about what will cater to the world audience. When I write something, I write from my own experiences, I have no idea if a reader in the U.K. will relate to my problem or my thoughts.

I am from South India too.
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I think I see your point, but I wonder if this idealized scenario would be achievable in practice anytime soon, and if it's worth the current issues to try for it.
A lot more people die from gunshots than people drown, even if you count all drownings, not just pool-related (in the US, of course).

You cherry-picked one child-dangerous item in the house. Yay for "logic".
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If you spend your day harvesting a field or running after animals to pray them, you're not going to be obese, you're more likely to gather fat if your day is taping on a computer, but this has nothing to do with diet.
Also, I won't the lifestyle of a period of our history, as a species, where the expected longevity was something like 30 years against 80+ of today.
> Until this (admin installs) changes, we are going to have to deal with malware. Fixing this would not solve all the issues, but would help a lot.

This is a hopelessly misguided argument. Could you maybe explain your reasoning a bit?

The argument for requiring admin rights to install is that the binaries are not user infectable. Now whether or not this leads to other problems is a different matter, but I don't see how making binaries user writeable on a box which receives automatic updates is going to make everything more secure...
Also, is it really necessary for us to pretend the typical graduate is 150k in the red on tuition? I mean, if the argument is good, surely we can make it with realistic numbers.
Exactly what I thought too.
Weird, I have debian installed and just plugged in the rgb cable and things were working.
What's the useful purpose of a private pool?
Child proofing your house does not include throwing away everything that is dangerous in the house, the same way you lock your liquor and medicine cabinet instead of getting rid of them.
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At the very least the extortionists are pretty damn evil.
This appears to be the animator, Rod Lord talking about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPS4GohlRn4
Nothing is stopping you from paying for h.264 for better quality (although the difference is far from what you try to portray).

Meanwhile those who doesn't want to pay for the priviledge of the better quality h.264 offers (and likely h.265 in comparison with vp9) will be able to use a free codec, hopefully one which will be standarised under HTML5 and thus supported across all HTML5 compliant software.

See, it works out for everyone.
> Guns have no useful purpose.

If I recall, in some countries, the only legal guns are rifles--because they can be used to hunt game. Or, to put a finer point on it: some people use a gun to feed their family.
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> Guns have no useful purpose. The fact that pools are more dangerous doesn't justify owning a gun, so there is no "cognitive dissonance" here.

What is the useful purpose of a swimming pool exactly? Are you proposing that they are a meaningful part of our society? Is this "use" so valuable that it clearly outweighs the deaths it causes? You seem to in your own comment think the bicycle provides the same benefit, so why keep pools if we have such a great alternative? No one swims a gun, but no one swims to work either. At least there are people actually dependent on bikes because they can't afford cars.

> We can't eliminate all the risk.
> We can eliminate unnecessary risk (like guns).

So you think pools qualify as a necessary risk then?

Is it at all possible that you may just personally see no use in guns while appreciating the recreational value of a pool despite its risks, while at the exact same time a gun owner may see no use in pools while appreciating the recreational value of guns? You can't swim (useless activity) in a gun. You also can't fire a pool.

I can actually perfectly understand the argument "well, both guns and pools should be outlawed then". I really have a hard time shrugging off pool deaths because they are such a clearly useful thing that is a necessary risk for society though (however that argument works much better for car deaths vs. gun deaths).

Edit: Below I was just commenting on understanding your audience and thus not making arguments that won't resonate with them. There is an entire culture around gun ownership. There are some people that go shooting every day, and it really hurts your position to tell them that that part of their life is not a valid "use". It is actually quite similar to football in some respects. At some point in this country we may have to discuss the very real health issues associated with it, and a part of the framing of that argument should probably not belittle the attachment people have to something that is in fact quite useless (as any and all recreations are to the people that don't practice them).
If the body digested everything with 100% efficiency and didn't produce waste, and also treated all 'calories' equally, then I'd agree that thermodynamics tells us everything we need to know.

But even people coming from the complete opposite end of the argument to the paleo crowd ("Eat more whole grains!") agree that the amount of heat produced by a substance when it's burnt in a calorimeter doesn't tell the full story about its potential for causing obesity.
* People who spy on people through their webcams

The article itself had several images of male humans.
One of the primary arguments of a keto/paleo diet is that the different diets affect how many calories your body thinks it needs, how it uses them, and how it influences behavior as a result. (Disclaimer: using imaginary numbers below to illustrate the theory.)

Let's say your body typically wants 1000 calories at breakfast, and you eat 1000 calories with a heavy load of carbs. Carbohydrates with a high glycemic index cause your insulin to spike. That signals fat cells that they should start storing energy, and they do so, tucking away 300 of the 1000 calories you ate.

This means your body only gets to spend 700 of the 1000 calories you ate, and as such, it says "hey, I'm still hungry". You eat 300 calories worth of food. But your fat cells are still sucking up (X%) of what you eat into storage, due to the insulin reaction. So, your body gets 200 of those 300 it wants, and it stays a little bit hungry. (Or, more likely, your body wants 300, but you eat 500 to make it shut up.)

Carbs have the unfortunate habit of converting useful calories into fat storage prior to processing them for the purposes of nutrition. This means carb-heavy diets tend to cause unconscious overeating, and also constant feelings of hunger/cravings/etc.

One of the advantages of a paleo/keto diet is that they often avoid the type of carbohydrates that cause this problem, namely ones with a high glycemic index. This means when you eat 1000 calories, your fat cells don't skim any off the top before your metabolism gets to them, and you get the full 1000; this means you don't end up hungry after a meal, and don't suffer from the urge to snack/eat more. Because your body got all the energy it wanted, it doesn't start saying it's hungry again until it actually does need the nutrition, and you're more likely to eat closer to the correct amount for your body's needs.

The difference between the examples you give, 4500 of Paleo and 1200 of junk food, is primarily how they'd make your body react. 1200 of junk food would certainly be a caloric deficit, but you'd be ravenously hungry at that level. (I've done 1000 calories a day for 6 months straight - it's pretty awful for the first few months.) But with keto, you could eat 4500 calories in a day, but you won't want to. When I'm done eating a keto-style meal, I am completely uninterested in food until the next. Those meals, for me, are typically 1-2 small/medium brats with no bun. But if I go out and cheat, and grab a burger and fries, I've got to fight the urge to follow it up with some ice cream, even though the fries and burger combined are drastically more calories than the brats I was satisfied with the meal before.

It's really interesting stuff. The "calories-in, calories-out" model is completely right from a completely energy-based perspective, but it doesn't account for the side effects produced by the energy source, and how people react to them.
I have a lovely babel fish graphic from this awaiting framing. The artist, Rod Lord, was selling the original artwork on eBay a few years ago.

Looks like you can still buy prints:
http://www.rodlord.com/H2G2PRINTS/PAGES/prints1.htm
Nice read, interesting. A quote: "A computer is used to automatically tune the antennas during icy and/or windy conditions. This automatic tuning provides a dynamic match between the transmitter and the antenna system. The computer looks for a phase difference between voltage and current at the transmitter. If one is detected, an error signal is sent to a 3-phase motor in the helix house that rotates the rotor inside the variometer. This retunes the antenna and restores the match between the antenna and transmitter."

Remarkably, given the technical meaning of the above, the author managed to avoid saying "standing wave ratio" even once.
tl; dr
The sequence of images that appear on the Guide are a reference to:

- The Babel Fish
- Earth's entry in the Guide - "Mostly Harmless"
- "There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss"
- The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster - the effects of drinking which is "similar to having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
- The Infinite Improbability Drive - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA
- The creation myth of the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle VI. They believe that the entire Universe was in fact sneezed out of the nose of a being known as the Great Green Arkleseizure
- Mankind are only the third most intelligent species on the planet. Dolphins are more intelligent than man, and mice are more intelligent than dolphins
- Towels are a hitchhiker's best friend
- Earth being demolished by Vogons
- The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything - 42, as calculated by Deep Thought

All of which comes from the Hitchhiker's Guide novels.
> Obesity is the result of a caloric surplus. Cavemen didn't have that luxury.

No obese cavemen? How about a cavewoman?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
I think blind chess is a lot easier than blind go. Apparently there are master-level blind chess players, while Sensei's Wiki mentions only a 26-kyu blind go player (i.e., around the level of somebody who has been playing for about a month).
This is absurdly hyperbolic. Few people are going to die because they made a wood fire in a fireplace 10-20 times a year. The reason wood fires cause serious health problems in the developing world is that they’re put in the center of a one-room house, with no chimney, and used for heating/cooking/etc. The whole room fills with smoke, to the point that eyes sting and it’s hard to breathe, and the smoke noticeably impacts visibility. The density of smoke in such a room is probably at least an order of magnitude greater than in a room with a fireplace and in the corner. Additionally, such houses are filled with wood smoke all day every day of the year. The hearth fire is an essential part of the home. [Source: my parents are anthropologists and I spent a substantial chunk of my childhood hanging out in this kind of home.]

That said, I’ll absolutely agree that spending time in such an environment is dramatically more unpleasant than spending time in a room with several heavy smokers, and almost certainly more damaging. Which is why it seems ridiculous that a certain sort of person will both make a big stink about someone smoking nearby outdoors, and also romanticize rural peasant life and wax poetic about how much less toxic life used to be in the past.
FWIW, when I try installing the extension, it says "Manifest file is invalid" and the installation fails.
I'd like to point out that there is a difference between the law of the excluded middle and proof by contradiction.

The law of the excluded middle says that for every x, either x or not x is true. Proof by contradiction says that if given not x you can derive a contradiction, then x is true.
> By default, Sinatra will now only serve localhost in development mode. You should not be running your production system in development mode.

This "opinionated default" makes it very hard to test when you're running your development environment from a virtual machine, like Vagrant.

More and more people are doing this (gotta use those extra cores + memory for something, right?), so please consider us before adding a "listen 127.0.0.1". :)
(Biggest orig HHGG / Tom Baker era Dr. Who fan ever, here.)

Looking back, those effects were bad (like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynMCvdkp0M#t=2m10s ), but I'll agree with you on this: back then, I never cared or noticed; the whole thing was just pure joy as far as I was concerned.

And in a way these effects just offset the glorious, labor of love animations.

Totally agree about the music. In fact I was just telling someone last night that Justice's "Civilization" always makes me think of the HHGG tv theme music (this comparison fell on deaf ears). One of the best ever intro tracks.

And the opening title sequence with the GOLD ASTRONAUT? Genius. A low budget effect but nicely executed. (for the uninitiated: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywKilWkX4jA )

You have swayed my opinion. I hereby revised my previous comment to confirm that these BBC folks really deserve a geek hero's medal for their work. I suspect you are right that it was often scrounging sets/etc. and it shaped my taste to this day. Much love to those unnamed fx teams.
That evokes some interesting feelings. While I'm ready to let go of being the 'uber-hacker' in favor of, you know, life, I still want to be among the elite, or at least do something big and great before I settle in to the bigger picture of life. But that's probably got something to do with not being able to see the bigger picture. How recursive.
Is it truly better when you get there?