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> Spending $40k to blog is pretty awful and is not rebutted by something that's even more awful.

Well, if you believe the article, "personal blogs" will not be affected. The claim is that only "ten websites" are affected. So that means big media companies like Yahoo.

In reality this policy is nothing new. The Singapore government has for many years reacted harshly against stories they didn't like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Singapore
They have required a S$200,000 (US $158,000) "security deposit" from foreign publications.
"Most of the time, most people are not crying in public, but everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs."

I must be a misanthrope, but I disagree wholeheartedly with the latter. Limiting the annoying exposure to other people's problems is a feature, not a bug. People cry every day over ridiculous small-minded problems.
To be fair, its more like Quakeworld than Quake 3.
What counts as scientific evidence has fairly high standard. What we know may not reach that level of rigor, but isn't it still a bit more than 'very little'.

If, say, it's 80% (rather than 95%) likely that eating more than 4 servings of fruits and vegetables per day helps reduce your chance of having cardiovascular diseases by 35%, and you don't mind the food group anyway, why shouldn't you try?

In any case, there are very few (or no?) studies that say eating a lot of vegetables and fruits (within reason) will cause you health problems.

A principle of entrepreneurship is that whenever a bet yields either positive or neutral results, you should do it. Why shouldn't this principle be applied to such an important area as our health and wellness?
I'm not looking for cheap ways to cure or prevent cancer. With that out of the way, I can talk about why I find references important.

> That introduction is very clear. it is unambiguous.

No it wasn't, on both counts. Vitamins A, D and E are widely known to cause hypervitaminosis. Of course I wouldn't want to over-eat those. What about C, that they mentioned?

Cohchrane Review might be widely respected. That does not mean that everyone who cites them does it accurately, with full context. If he had given links at the end of his rag, I could have verified the details for myself.
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I think Kim wants to do something alike, the mega email. Anyway it might very well be a good niche market. I would be very interested if i had the time, but you know, kids, shit, life ... :(
I'd be absolutely delighted if the companies were forced to release such data if they hope to sell anything to anybody.

I think it would led to much healthier and less wasteful freer market.
It could be just me, but this story bothers me a lot more than all the non-stop coverage about NSA.

Perhaps I had always expected NSA to snoop on everything on the internet whereas this shows complete breakdown in common sense by the government.
It doesn't matter whether as an individual you have anything to hide or not. That's completely missing the point. The problem with all this data collection/snooping is that it gives the government (or some branch of the state) far too much power.

People who do have secrets can be blackmailed. And whatever they're forced to do can potentially harm society. It doesn't even matter what the nature of the secret is.

Nobody should have that much power.
"He can remain under the radar because the request can be clubbed with other legitimate ones."

I still don´t see the legitimacy of the US government accessing citizen´s data. Perhaps it´s because I´m from an european country, and governments in europe have laws to proctect citizen´s private data.
I think that's more an indictment of the status quo than an indictment of their ineffectiveness.
If you're attending a university or still in high school, perhaps ask one of your teachers to recommend someone that might be willing. Either that or start attending some of the extracurricular clubs at your school.

If not in school, then find one of the local programming/hacker clubs around your community and hang out there. After getting to know some of the members, you might be able to work something out like trading some beers/coffees for their time. It's hard to give specifics to how to find a mentor, but patience and an understanding of how to relate concepts to someone learning are the key for anyone teaching.

I found from mentoring friends a few years younger than me in school that it not only improved their own programming skills, but mine as well. Mainly because it makes you rethink how you interpret concepts so you can relate them to someone who doesn't understand them as well yet (which is also a useful skill when talking to clients or bosses that aren't developers). Sometimes you also learn something new (as no university covers 100% exactly the same material, though most are generally similar). I have a saying that if one cannot explain a concept to someone who is genuinely interested with sufficient time, then one does not really know the topic as well as they think.
That's not a false dichotomy. That's an appeal to worse problems.
The definition of news according to this regulation is "any news, intelligence, report or occurrence or any matter of public interest about any social, economic, political, cultural, artistic, sporting scientific or any other aspect of Singapore in any language". That covers a lot of ground.

50,000 unique IP addresses (not visitors, as in the article) isn't too hard to hit either.

Here's the original press release by the regulatory authority:
http://www.mda.gov.sg/NewsAndEvents/PressRelease/2013/Pages/...
Unfortunately I think the fork didn't go very well. If they'd immediately just released a nearly-the-same version and iterated from there the entire Nexuiz community would have brought along to the new project. Instead, the developers treated Xonotic as their chance to change everything, so you ended up with drastically different gameplay and no map-file compatibility.

This inevitably led to a split where some people like the changes overall, and others still cling to the 4-year-old Nexuiz 2.5.2 release. Worse, neither group is large enough to really have a healthy ecosystem of active players. Nexuiz was already in decline before the fork, but splitting the community in two hastened it considerably.

It's a shame, I really liked Nexuiz a lot... fast pace and interesting movement system. I used to follow Xonotic development fairly closely, but never got the same enjoyment out of the gameplay.
Would it even? Whose to say it would be followed?
The article is a rather obvious satirical piece.
I think the number would be closer to 40-50%, but your point stands.
Men, as a group, are also responsible for the "greatest amount of death" in the 20th century. Just letting you know in case you ever decide to make a joke about men.
> I still don´t see the legitimacy of the US government accessing citizen´s data.

I agree with you. My point was related to a legitimate telecom request, for example to track the telephone of a person declared missing.
The most dangerous crime you can commit is to embarrass this government.
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Could well be. (Though I'd assume that as long as a "virtual wiretap" is in place on an individual the NSA gets a firehose of everything which happens to that user account (or at least everything the FISA order permits) and then just filters out whatever doesn't interest it.) For my part I wouldn't be surprised if "The companies cannot see the queries that are sent from the NSA to the systems installed on their premises" just turns out to mean "The connection between the on-site server and Fort Meade is protected by SSL" (and probably dedicated fibre). To someone looking at the NSA as the bad wolf here it sounds like an odd thing to emphasise, but from the perspective of an actual NSA agent the security of these off-site servers handling top-secret material (in an environment full of highly-technical leftists and libertarians!) must be an obvious concern. Just for a start, you wouldn't want anyone at Google other than the appointed lawyers taking a look at what you're requesting surveillance on... But that's just a guess of course.
Each of those tweets I can see says "nothing to hide from the government". You are not the government.

Secondly, the fact that you would stoop to doing exactly the sort of thing you oppose, because these people are on the other side of a debate, shows exactly the sort of thinking that creates these problems in the first place. Even if they explicitly asked for it, which they didn't, you still shouldn't do it if you believe it is a thing that shouldn't be done to people.
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"This is not a question between privacy against security. It's a question of freedom against control"
"Now when we think deeper about things like these, the obvious response from people should be that, "Okay, that sounds bad, but that doesn't really affect me because I'm a legal citizen. Why should I worry? Because I have nothing to hide." And this is an argument, which doesn't make sense. Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion. This is not a question between privacy against security. It's a question of freedom against control. And while we might trust our governments right now, right here in 2011, any right we give away will be given away for good. And do we trust, do we blindly trust, any future government, a government we might have 50 years from now? And these are the questions that we have to worry about for the next 50 years."
Do you think they'll ever admit they are responsible for something like that?

They'll just make the "cyberwarfare" campaign even louder, and say how new laws and bigger budgets are needed to keep you safe (and of course continue their spying and their hacking on others).

The "cyberwarfare" will be the new war on terror, 5-10 years from now.
There was just an article on the front page not too long ago about the misuse of logical fallacies, so thanks for correcting that for everybody. As a rule of thumb, an 'Ad hominem' is only fallacious when the 'attack' is irrelevant to the argument; probable motivation to exhibit bias is not irrelevant to the argument.
more than a lack of common sense - it's vindictive, thuggish behaviour.

(then again - aaron swartz...)
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I agree, Xonotic is a great game and a lot of fun. Also it is highly competitive.
It is also a blast at most lan parties where it's been played.

Only thing Xonotic really lacks are active players - typical chicken and egg problem. Although it already got better. And servers are online en masse.
Maybe Xonotic's lack of active players is a result of somewhat overcomplicated accessibility for less computer savy gamers, as the set-up (ingame) and the heaps of options are a little bit too much and confusing.

Actually, I think it would be nice if the game starts into a "beginner" mode, which promts for basic things intuitively. The game does it already for Playername and such but important settings such as Field of View are hard to find. Well, it's open source so maybe I should be looking into that :)
> This is an article in the NY Times, not a scientific paper.

This is the attitude that I'm trying to address.

> This is an article in the NY Times, not a scientific paper.

Look at this discussion on HN. How many of them give references. Is their writing any less clear for it?

> The Cochrane Library is a very reliable resource, and I think it's valid to assume that the author is not simply making this up.

Refer to my earlier comment about accuracy and context.
Yeah and the Titanic was too big to sink.

Humanity can often get it wrong.
Very related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5848540
I've been thinking about this issue of Hopi "child abuse".

Is it more abusive to subject children to a single coming-of-age ritual designed to teach them to think, or to allow children to transition to adulthood physically unharmed yet full of ideas designed to hold them back from full enjoyment of their faculties?

It seems that the Hopi would be entirely justified in saying that all other Americans are guilty of child abuse.
Its basically any site they decide they want covered. Current list is 1. asiaone.com
2. businesstimes.com.sg
3. channelnewsasia.com
4. omy.sg
5. sg.news.yahoo.com
6. stomp.com.sg
7. straitstimes.com
8. tnp.sg
9. todayonline.com
10. zaobao.com

But they can add anyone at any time.
Flagged this submission. What happened to respecting other peoples' opinions?
As always, the default assumption is that the government can be trusted completely. It can't. It's made up of corruptible human beings with their own interests.

Even if you personally have nothing to hide, you should be worried at how much power the holders of this data have. If you blackmail someone into doing something, it's not necessarily just the blackmail victim who suffers. It can be used to corrupt any of our institutions.
I think the movement towards total surveilence should be accompanied by redefining from scratch of what actions can be persecuted by using evidence from such surveilence.

This might be the only opportunity to shed cruft that accumulated in our laws and to give total surveilence some public legitimacy.

People are mostly afraid of surveilence because laws and morality nowadays are batshit crazy from all the cruft from previous times and you can't be sure if you are doing anything illegal.
It's pretty disturbing to read things like this:

"Unless I could break this guy’s alibi a murderer might be walking on the street. There was such a small window of opportunity, I had to act fast."

The guy has obviously decided that this man is a murderer, and needs to be convicted, and thus it's okay to take "extreme" measures to break an alibi.

Sometimes this results in guilty people being convicted, but it also results in wrongful convictions.
He could be writing the book because he wants to make people aware.

I don't understand why people insist on taking supplements when they have no medical reason to do so.

From the bottom of the page:

"Paul A. Offit is the chief of the infectious diseases division of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia"
Even the staunchest privacy advocates don't use privacy to mean that people shouldn't be able to share their information with others, as far as I'm aware. Therefore, a privacy advocate searching for and publishing information about people who've explicitly given permission is certainly not doing anything that they believe "shouldn't be done to people".
Yes, I wish that the 'nothing to hide' fools would all read this.
There's actually evidence to support that eating fruit is quite detrimental to your health, as modern fruit contain so much sugar. What are you eating fruits for? Water? Vitamins you can get from meat anyway? A lot of people say fruits are bad for you.

Now, I'm not saying you should or shouldn't do one thing or another when it comes to nutrition. All I'm saying is you should be aware that it's little more than superstition and magical thinking. It's very hard to resist magical thinking, but it's often good to know when you're doing it. Sometimes doing things with your eyes open is better than doing them with your eyes shut. Although in this case I'm not 100% sure about that: there's clearly a lot of (positive) placebo effect at the cause of many anecdotal reports about nutrition, and knowing that it's mostly superstition may negate it.
The vitamins that most take provides fractional amounts of the RDA -- at most 100% (e.g. Centrum, etc.) -- and is truly intended to be an offset of an imperfect diet. Using the case of mega-doses, especially against compromised peoples, as the demonstration of the dangers of normal supplementation is dishonest, just as it wouldn't be reasonable to discourage water consumption through the example of someone consuming tens of gallons a day.

I am not speaking of this specific author, a very respected researcher, however there are many who essentially make bank on the anti-vitamin bandwagon (never underestimate the motivation of getting broadly quoted and referenced, which is a likely outcome when you "prove" counter-intuitive conclusions), and the techniques are often highly dubious.

One of the most common tactics to discourage vitamin use is to compare the mortality of general vitamin supplementation users and those who don't, ignoring the immense self-selection bias that comes into play. Namely that people in compromised health or at risk often flock to vitamins -- wrongly -- as a snake-oil fix for ailments, thus providing plenty of data in the "mortality" side.

I take the odd multi-vitamin, primarily on days where I know I've eaten terribly. I do supplement Omega 3s daily.
Why do you eat so little vegetables?
The point, in my humble opinion, about being free from surveillance is not "I don't do anything wrong anyways", it's about not being titled guilty or possible guilty. I'm not guilty, but I wont be treated as one or a potential one.
Does Iceland want immigrants?

Japan, another quite homogenous country (demographically speaking), makes it quite difficult to immigrate there.

Contrast with the USA, where one of Americas greatest strengths is in welcoming immigrants. E.g. people like Andy Grove and Sergey Brin and countless others.
Whistle-blowing does not equal hacking.
you're right, I just woke up and my first thought was "why the heck did I talk about dialysis" when we were discussing livers. Also weird that it was my first thought upon waking!

my only excuse last night was that it was late, I was exhausted from a long day, and I kept conflating the two for some reason

cheers
Is this the first ever map of real time underground? Have been looking for an android app that does it for ages, so looking forward to this releasing!
The problem, and what bandushrew is saying, is that purposes can be flexible. Once a system or method is legitimised, legalised or even routinely used it can be repurposed for other means. That's the true message of the OP's post - the "coming for" is the method in this case, while the people listed are the individual purposes.
I agree that it is important to provide references.

You've already called him a scumbag. Thus, you won't trust whatever he provides. If he had provided a list of references you would have accused him of cherry picking.

The fact that you quibble with Cochrane reviews tells me all I need to know. (That this discussion is unlikely to be of any use or interest to me.)

> Of course I wouldn't want to over-eat those.

Did you read the meta-study? Did you read any of the original studies?
A few broad facts are well known, but our knowledge is still quite limited.

> A principle of entrepreneurship is that whenever a bet yields either positive or neutral results, you should do it. Why shouldn't this principle be applied to such an important area as our health and wellness?

It's not only positive or negative expected value, but rather that the uncertainty (i.e. variance) outweighs the expected value of almost all detailed propositions.

After you took care of the simple and uncontroversial things, e.g. adequate amount of calories, enough iron etc, there's not too much we know how to optimize in general.
Not first… the 2D map I link to in the post did real-time before us. This is certainly the first 3D (with depths) real-time tube map that I've seen!
This is becoming a lot more common lately. The discrepancy between how much jail time the people who upset the government get, and the people who commit real crimes is getting bigger. And that's without counting the complete lack of interest in prosecuting bankers and other corporations that are very friendly to the government. Justice is becoming increasingly more unequal.
Retroactive immunity should itself be illegal, no exceptions.
I wonder whether it was a specific component, and if yes, which.
Obviously. But it's only because historically people couldn't listen to it without serious effort and if they did that it usually had malicious intent.

If your phonecall is as easy and neutral to observe as your face or height when you show up on the street you can no longer expect it to remain private.

Same way you coldn't expect conversation between two distant parties to be private before phone was invented an it could only be performed by shouting.

Taking a dump wasn't private act before toiled was invented and probably it won't again be when cameras will be as small as dust particles self powered wireless and everywhere.

Privacy of actions is noT some philosophical absolute. It's just function of what technology is available to how many people.
[Edited: Deleted, wrong thread. Thanks for pointing it out. Sorry]
I cannot believe that people have forgotten the reason you have to keep information from your government. Its not that you have nothing to hide right NOW. Its that if someone later got into power that wanted to suppress everybody that didn't think like them, then you have something to hide. Being a sheep is fine, but I want my freedom of expression now and in the future.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

So many people clearly are too stupid to know that means you don't give up your rights now because you won't have them when you need them.
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I used to take daily Centrum. Had a few years where my liver enzymes (AST/ALT) were elevated. Doctor asked if i took a multivitamin to which I told her I did. She said stop taking it. That was about 8 years ago and I haven't had an elevated liver enzyme test since then. She said some people have a really hard time processing all those vitamins in their system and it hurts their liver.

Now I just take Vitamin D (tested as mildly deficient) and Omega 3 from krill.
Your answer is posted 9 minutes after my response.

Did you read the Cochrane meta study in that time? Did you read any of the original studies in that time?
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> On the other hand, we have the idea that the mind is a muscle and it works best if we train it hard. In this mindset, we see objects as crutches that are best to be avoided in order to improve the mind as efficiently as possible.

Those crutches frees up time to let one work on other muscles; muscles that might not have any known crutches (like practicing reading maps instead of practicing navigating by the stars some centuries ago).
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It's simple enough to get a test for deficiencies, then take the specific supplements you need, if you need them.
Do either of them make any money?
Sure, and I agree with you. I just don't think self-employment will be the solution for more than a small percentage of the population any time soon.
Why don't you create a better ranking and see how it does?

I bet the results will be nearly identical, if not worse for the US.
Yes, but it still means the data finds a way out.
That was my thinking too but there are so many things in them, doing it scientifically would be quite a feat and not sure how to go about it.

For all I know it might even be the inert compound binding it.
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