skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotal evidence how sweet current fruits are - the difference between wild apples, cherries and strawberries and the ones you can buy in the supermarket.

First about the salt - NaCl is salt so it is chemically quite inert you will have hard time breaking it unless you pump quite a lot of energy (or use elements that are more chemically active than either Na or Cl and there aren't many (lithium, fluorine, hydrogen).

Chlorine is very potent oxidizer that will wreak havoc in all kind of processes.

Sodium will just try to make your intestines into soap - quite unpleasant thing.

But they are chemically different elements.

Fruits are not bad for you in the same way most of the food is not bad for a healthy person. But if you are a person with the metabolic syndrome, high insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes you just cannot assume that a diet of only bananas, ultra sweet apples, pomelo, peaches etc will do you much good.

Of course fruits have the benefit of containing lots of water and pulp so they are digested slower than a can of coke with the same sugar amount which is good.

If you are healthy person eat fruits freely. If you are not be careful with the blind assumptions that they are good for you. Ask someone with great knowledge about human metabolism specifically for your case.
Thanks! We're looking forward to getting it out there for you to use.
Thanks, Evan.

- (still plan to visit you in Montreal)
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Singapore was one of the earliest adopters of a national firewall (back in the late 90s). I am sure this will be the primary tool in monitoring any 'misuse' of the Internet by the powers that be.
Bo
"There's actually evidence to support that eating fruit is quite detrimental to your health.."

If there is actual evidence, please cite it. I've never heard fruit proclaimed as bad for you. In fact, every major healthly eating initiative or campiagn (whether from governments, the World Health Organisation, or NGOs) always recommend consuming more fruit and vegetables as part of a healthy diet.

The fructose in fruit is not the same as high fructose corn syrup found in many processed foods. Yes, fruit can contribute to acid erosion on teeth, but this is also dependent on the type of fruit, the quantity you eat and when you eat it (e.g. eating fruit with a meal can lessen the impact of the sugar). Eating fresh fruit is always preferable to dried fruit or fruit juices.
The resulting law is nevertheless an attack on free speech, regardless of alternative underlying motivations.
Steve Jobs seems to have indulged in a surfeit of magical thinking about nutrition. It might have killed him.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/naughty-nutrition/201201...
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Meandering thoughts on the NSA scandal
Author possibly meant something like this (but yeah, same idea)
fffind () { find . -regex ".$1."; }
How legal is operating a Tor node?
I'm thinking of putting up a machine (and a VPS) to just run a node.
I just don't want to get into legal trouble for running a(n exit) node.
So were the systems for managing the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran. The system can be compromised, given the proper will and facilities.
It's not a replacement for grep, it's a replacement for find
This should give a perfect opportunity for mass protests at the trial of whoever did the leak.
Pure sodium is an extremely reactive metal. It's so reactive that it doesn't occur in nature - for example, if you drop it in water, it'll explode. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODf_sPexS2Q)

So, yes, it's probably lethal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Tre

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it', a United States major said today. He was talking about the decision by allied commanders to bomb and shell the town regardless of civilian casualties, to rout the Vietcong."
Maybe I'm misinformed, but I thought the big problem has less to do with data in transit than it does with the destinations (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc) working hand-in-hand with the NSA? What am I missing?
It's just a overhyped shiny toy...
That depends on your jurisdiction. In many countries it is perfectly legal. It is also very safe and low maintenance.
Assuming the NSA is tapping ISP cables, and siphoning all unencrypted data of the web, and that they need to ask the big companies in the slides for the encrypted data, would EFF's "HTTPS Everywhere" help with all the websites that are not encrypted, like say Reddit?
Is anybody surprised? This is Singapore where the authoritarian PAP has been in power for decades.
Indeed, the trains run on time!

Also, you may not know this but I think you've been hellbanned (your nick is in green)
Hate to repeat myself here, but they forgot to mention AMDOCS, another Israeli firm who run 'outsourced billing' for loads of major telecommunications companies globally. What do you need for billing? Metadata on everything.
Singapore make Russia's Putin regime look good ;)
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I do agree that many of us knew about the privacy implications of software as a service already and the outrage is somewhat artificial and about reminding others.

It's still a notable event when huge amounts of personal data leave the different silos and is combined and exchanged. It's a breach of trust when you voluntarily give personal information to a company and then this information leaks to a third party where it's further exchanged with subcontractor companies. At this point accountability and transparency is completely lost.

If you have personal data on google and google abuses this information you have ways of dealing with it. You can change the service, out the company, sue, ... With an opaque shadow industry there is little you can do in case of abuse.
In the dark, the three activists cut through a boundary fence which had signs stating “No Trespassing.”

They broke into and vandalized a nuclear weapons facility. If you mess with the bull, you're gonna get the horns.
It has nothing to do with your organs trying to eliminate something but with B vitamin complex natural coloring. Your body only absorbs what it needs and the rest is excreted.
That's a good point.

Having said that, I guess it just comes back to the fact that the intermediary is the real target then. So we hope the NSA has had it's crack team in there. Which means that we hope that it's disconnected etc. as well... I mean, at some point there needs to a source that is connected to the internet and I guess that source is the real target.
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The fact that Identi.ca is based in Canada is certainly one of my stronger reasons for wanting to use this micro-blogging service over US based Twitter. Canadians seem to give a damn about privacy.

Too bad so many Internet properties are based in the US or are US owned, until we get to the bottom of this NSA debacle these can all be viewed as honeypots for the feds.

Bo
Ask HN: Why are there some many *.js frameworks/api's coming out
Its seems like, these days, everybody and their mother is writing a .js library or framework. Whats is causing this sudden phenomenon. Why do people want to use javascript the server or middlewhere or wherever ? what changed ? Would like to get the community's perspective.
I used to work on anti-fraud software for SMS and we had VPN access to a lot of the installed hardware.

I'd be more worried about an employee leaking data. Most telcos have many many employees and a carefully planned leak would be difficult to detect and prevent. In one installation I was involved in, we had access to all SMS messages in the system, in realtime, before the recipients got them. It would have been pretty easy to copy them to a memory stick and then leak them sometime later.
I think it's perfectly acceptable to ask that perceptions be stated explicitly as such, rather than leaving statements open to easy misinterpretation.
The Utah data center is more of a consolidating effort than some new spy program. It's suppose to save money and increase security (and storage ability).

The NSA has computer security technology that the public and other government do not. They also have an unfathomable amount of processing power without the Utah data center (Tordella).

What congress in their right mind would slash the NSAs budget and put the entire nation at risk?

Also, it isn't a set fact of life that all government agencies / programs are inefficient and incompetent.
Please add the year of publication (2001) in parens to the end of the title.
I take it you're not going to sign up for the beta then
Running a regular node is fine as you're routing encrypted information for the Tor network - your unlikely to get any hassle although check your countries laws on crypto first.

Running an exit node may be a different story. You could get false DMCA takedown notices or get charged with someone else's crime. Think of it this way; you're running an open proxy. Uses of Tor can send any traffic through your connection. That being said, some ISPs are ok with it, others won't tolerate it.

I suggest you checkout https://blog.torproject.org/running-exit-node if your really serious about running an exit node.
Speaking to awareness, I studied and worked in journalism and a lifetime close friend is a criminal defense attorney / public defender.

That English words have concrete meanings doesn't prevent misuse. On the contrary, specialty words with specialized meanings are misused most often by laymen. The misuse is just more recognizable when you're familiar with the area.
Well said. Also, tip to US journos (and Israeli Business-Insider-wannabe bloggers): 8200 used to be a small and highly selective unit. These days it's the biggest unit of any kind in the IDF.

The fact an Israeli company has people who served there is meaningless, it reflects nothing on what the company does nor the quality of its people.
Sad that this only got 5 votes, when it's a perfectly logical explanation for all the sensationalism around this story.
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I subscribed to your newsletter (life is too short for beta software, but once it hits 1.0 I'm all over it!) and you're on Elizabeth Street!

I'm based out of Canberra at the moment, but it's great to see local guys pop up on HN occasionally.
He didn't rebut it or claim to. He merely said "it's a bit harsher".
Is it possible to search within the documents?
1. node.js happened

2. lots of devs already know the javascript API very well.. a lot of times these same devs write server backends. why not share code between client and server?

3. (maybe just me) it turns out writing in a language as dynamic and flexible as javascript is pretty fun
What, you think they are NOT mad about Palestine?

You think jihadis are in truth really pleased about how Palestinians were ethnically cleansed, how they can't get their homes back and how they're treated like dirt everyday?

That's retarded, they're mad as hell about it, and as it happens many non-terrorist Middle Easterners are mad as hell about it too. If you doubt that, read the 2004 Pentagon Defense Science Board Report.

Furthermore, many non-Middle Easterners are mad as hell about it too. Many jews are mad as hell about it as well, as you can see from looking up eg mondoweiss.net

Finally, many Americans - including veterans and ex-intelligence personnel - are mad as hell about the American money and lives being expended to harm the Middle East on Israel's behalf, which you can see by looking up eg The Council for the National Interest.
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That order can sometimes work, but there are a lot of examples of it failing. That was the goal of Portugal's authoritarian "Estado Novo", for example: a strong government that would guarantee stability and the rule of law, and on that basis carefully lead a corporatist economy, together with industry partners, towards a controlled but prosperous society. But in practice it didn't work that well economically, and Portugal's economy benefited from the 1974 overthrow of the regime, i.e. democracy -> economic prosperity.
Pierre, who didn't care:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWnuGcI8QwU
Ask HN: Is the Appleseed project dead?
Because of what's been going on lately, I decided to have another look at distributed social network options. I went to look at the Appleseed Project (http://opensource.appleseedproject.org/) but it just redirects to a Wikipedia page comparing distributed social networks. Is this just a temporary thing or did something happen that I totally missed? What other options are a 'legitimate possibility' at the moment?
Or that "China" hacks American businesses.
As an Indian citizen, the scariest thing about this is my government copying from its Singaporean counterpart.
This line of discussion rather proves the original point. We don't know if unbounded fruit consumption is bad. Of course unbounded simple sugar consumption is (we think) but some evidence has shown that for whatever reason, sugars directly from fruit enter the blood stream slower. Maybe. :-)
This is precisely what I came to this comment section looking for. I'd like to know which of these books HN users would suggest over others.
Nixon dropped gold standard in 1971 and state power started expanding like crazy with printed money. Incarceration rate is just one of the effects of growing violent power.
They could have run away in defeat instead of "destroying the village to save it".

By the way, it's a really crappy air force that can't do an air strike with sleeping-gas bombs.
Taoism emphasizes locality. So if you have coal at your place and burn it, so be it. If you have no coal, use wood instead. Many people in the modern world, so far from nature, are unaware that the emissions from burning locally sourced wood for heat and cooking are actually very low... making it more attractive than other energy sources for these purposes, as long as you have some and a bit of time to collect, chop and maintain it. Transportation overheads are removed, fuel grows itself. Win. If you have no wood and no coal, be one with the natural cold :) http://nepacrossroads.com/fuel-comparison-calculator.php (Excepts transportation/purchasing overheads)
Prosecutors, like police, have 'discretion.' The ability to decide, hey this is not that important to our community and let it go; there are more important things to do.
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This is extremely counterproductive. You aren't going to get anywhere simultaneously bemoaning the damage caused by extremist acts and the excesses of the NSA.

When you point out the failures of the NSA to stop specific instances of terrorism, it only suggests that they need more resources and legal surveillance. The reasons for wanting the NSA surveillance to stop have to be that the innumerable injustices suffered by citizens under a surveillance state would be worse than the occasional extremist attack that would be preventable under such surveillance.
Is Civic Hacking The Future Of Democracy And Job Creation?
You can host it on your own machine. Even if you host it via an hosting provider, you can export all your data and your apps to any new servers like an home server for example!
I think it's more of a case of lay-people realising the irony in using say, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Whatsapp, BBM products and then complaining that someone somewhere is tracking them.

Or is the assumption in here that corporations are more trustworthy than government?
I thought "HTTPS everywhere" is just switching your connection from HTTP to HTTPS when the site you are visiting is on the list of sites known to support their services over HTTPS.
I am not sure they do contradict. In the Middle Ages, for example, there was a significant amount of local governance and more continuity from baron to baron than from king to king. States as we might think of them might vary, and people might in theory owe allegiance to different crowns, but the overall nationhood was still closely connected to local governance.

Personally I see the loss of local dialects in Europe (which is happening many places to various degrees, sometimes with government help, sometimes without) with a great degree of sadness. It used to be that you could walk from Amsterdam to Munich and never encounter a line where the dialects on one side were unintellible to those on the others, because the various sound shifts existed as gradients rather than hard boundaries (raising the question of whether Dutch, Low German, and High German were just dialects of the same language).

> Norwegian nationalism then on one and preserved some local traditions, but it homogenised them, distorted them, and discarded any elements that did not fit in, and created a mythos of a historical Norwegian nation that was in some respects pure fiction - if you look at Norwegian representations of the viking era, you might be forgiven to think that vikings were all Norwegian, for example, (Danish and Swedish vikings gets the occasional mention, but not much considering the major empires they built) and that this was our defining characteristic. Yet the viking era was culturally largely forgotten and ignored for hundreds of years - Norway was a country of farmers and fishermen, even during the viking era.

FWIW most of the Icelandic material mostly mentions Norwegians as Vikings too but that probably mostly has to do with geography.

> But even if you want to apply your interpretation of pre-nation state proto-nationalism of sorts, Norway is a prime example of how this actively suppresses rather than preserved local culture: Norway was christened, as many other countries, through violence. King Olav the Holy travelled the country and introduced legislation based on establishing Christianity as a state religion through threats and use of force, actively encouraging the eradication of ancient traditions

Those are good points. Thank you for sharing them. Perhaps the question is how we define a cultural community worth preserving. What you describe is not something I like. Again, I think the old idea was one of concentric circles, centered on the household (while Aristotle was the first to articulate it, my sense as a global traveller is that it is a very pervasive traditional model).

So the question is what we do about it ;-)
Well yeah, I wasn't arguing against that point. But that's separate from the point which the OP raised. I was merely stating that you can write a privacy policy which doesn't sound like you're trying to weasel out, and posted a very basic one-liner to demonstrate that point. I could also add the following to cover your point as well:

"In the instance where a court order is raised to provide your information, we release only as much as we are legally obliged to and will inform you of the order"

"In the instance where a gag order prevents us from notifying you of the requested data, then you are probably heading for Guantanamo Bay regardless of what information we leak :p"
He's basically been doing the paleo diet (and the associated exercise, short duration sprints and weight lifting) for a while now. It doesn't seem hugely compelling to me, except for the reduction of all the excess carbs that come from a modern diet, which is a really good idea. (Pretty much everyone except the nutty nutrition skeptics - have a smoke, correlation isn't causation guys! - in this thread would categorize that as a win.)
it's not separate. the reason why such harsh penalties are needed (i imagine, from the pov of the government) is because there's nothing else to stop others from doing the same damage. in your apology for the status quo above, where you mumble on about the need to protect society (and make trains run on time), you conveniently forget that there are many tools for that, including security guards.

also, if there had been competent security, then they wouldn't have got so far and would likely be open to significantly less charges. it seems particularly unfair (to me, i guess you'll find an excuse) that the incompetent security lead directly to worse charges. so again - not separate.

i'm sorry for the vitriol above, well not really, but people who say they understand and then dream up excuses to have everything continue exactly as before make my blood boil.
Well, as but one example, computer crimes are more harshly punished than in the past, and sometimes get harsher sentences than causing bodily harm.
Vagrant looks interesting but I am not sure why I would use it. Almost all of my work involves using Clojure and I default to using Postgres except in exceptional circumstances. It is so easy to have the same setup on my OS X and Linux laptops as my servers. I have never run into any compatibility problems, at least that I am aware of.

Vagrant looks more useful for systems with lots of moving parts.

I am starting a new project with Node.js, Meteor and MongoDB - also an easy to set up stack. I will keep Vagrant in mind, but I hope I don't need it.
Not to mention they have to get the data to the top secret offline location and it can be intercepted before it gets there.
According to common sense, any news organization is funded by some means. Which means it's biased by its nature in some way.

BTW, BBC is mostly government funded. Does it mean you disregard everything it reports about the government of the UK?

You have an old beef with USSR/KGB and Putin. So whatever you say about them is automatically suspect. How about that?
I've used both. Honestly, I don't have any hard stats to back this up but in a Unix environment, VirtualBox is the way to go. I've done a bit of dev on a Windows machine, for training purposes, and I've found that VMware has better performance.

Again, this is based solely on subjective, empirical data.

And yes, Vagrant is awesome.
I found this article angsty, obnoxious and full of belabored, melodramatic prose, just like the rest of Foer's writing.

The instinct not to interfere in complete stranger's emotional turmoil -- especially when she is a 15 year old girl and you are a man in his 30s -- has little to do with technology. There are other ways to distract oneself in uncomfortable situations.

I also can't relate to his "diminished subsitute" hypothesis. When I look at my text/call/email/skype logs I'm hard pressed to find any instances where I used a "diminished" medium -- sending a text when I should have called, calling when I should have visited, etc... Some people may do that, but that's not a symptom of technology, that's just a way of being rude that technology has enabled.

That's really the crux of the problem with modern communication technology. It gives people more outlets to be impolite by using it an innapropriate times or innapropriately. But in many ways, it allows us to connect and stay in touch with people that were never possible before.
What happens if NSA starts operating a number of Tor exit nodes and eavesdropping on the outgoing traffic? What prevents them from doing so?
Heh, Richard "Wretchard" Fernandez points out in an essay (http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/06/07/all-we-are-sa...) that quotes Mead's essay that this total surveillance state puts a rather sinister cast on "Obamaphones".

"[...] he had no difficulty convincing his base ... that it could have free Obamaphones. He forgot to say there was one problem with those phones …."