skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a few millions to die from the lack of infrastructure, emergency care, pollution with depleted (to a small degree) uranium.
In general, the thumb rule I would like to apply for a PhD is the function of the relationship between the graduate student (employee) and the advisor (manager). Most (not all) graduate student experiences turn bitter due to ethical and professional issues with your advisor. If I were to give any advice to a graduate student, I would write this on the top of my list.
Agreed.

For some incredibly interesting reading on the history of battle against cancer I highly recommend The Empreror of All Maladies [0].

0: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/...
No, they don't, they do a bad thing. In actual fact, all cops are bastards. Their primary function in society is to defend the property rights of the capitalist class against the working class, thus preserving inequality.
Poster: Yes, we scan. Deal with it.
this is blogspam of a reddit post. link to original reddit post here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...
In general, yes, but, in the worst case, no.
I love the idea of crowdsourcing your speed to generate real-time traffic information. The other crowdsourcing features this brings don't seem very useful to me. Also, not sure this is worth $1.3B. Seems like another groupon or summly.
I think the founding principle of the United States is the truth that governments cannot be trusted. Historically, governments represent, at best, a necessary evil. At worst they destroy human society utterly in a maelstrom of corruption and power abuse.

The founding fathers (imperfect as they were) put an incredible amount of effort into defining a rigorous checks and balances system. These were people who rebelled against the tyranny of "divine rule" and the right of monarchs to wield supreme executive power.

They could not have anticipated the tyrannies we have to rebel against, but it's our turn. Privacy is not even defined as an explicit right in the United States constitution - this is not because it isn't lawful, but because it is deservedly a proposition not requiring proof.

I'm not suggesting a revolution, but the United States government has devolved from the ideals it once represented. Surveillance of this magnitude and breaches of constitutional right (in the spirit of the law, and in the spirit of fundamental propositions) would never have been done by the fledgling American state.

That would be more closely characterized as the sort of injustice that caused our revolution. We need to bring the government back into alignment with its historical ideals of liberty - the zeitgeist of "land of the brave and home of the free" is no longer ours to claim if we don't have the courage to demand our liberty.
Fixing on-site security will - with the neat side effect to deter criminals, terrorists and so on as well.
"Yahoo" ... was that one of those twentieth century social networks like Myspace and Friendster?
Absolutely.

I'd recommend reading the Culture series (3 of the above mentioned books are part of it) in order if possible [0], they all have something to offer.

By the way, I'd recommend against reading any reviews for his books prior, they're easily spoiled.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
No, that’s not what ‘prisoner’ means. My dictionary says it’s either someone in an actual prison, “a person captured and kept confined by an enemy, opponent, or criminal”, or “a person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or set of circumstances”. Those definitions are close to what I had guessed the definition of ‘prisoner’ to be (“trapped or restricted in movement”).

People who are constantly being watched may be prisoners in that they feel trapped by the surveillance, and limited in the actions they can take, but that is not an instrinsic part of being watched. Some people being watched are prisoners, but not all. You want a word that means “people under surveillance”. I don’t think there is any such single word, like ‘surveillee’.
This thread concerns unlimited access to the entire internet.

PRISM concerns limited access to a few massive internet companies.
They exposed the lack of security, thereby threatening the revenues of some contractor(s) and kickbacks of some generals.

Reminds me of the charade of security exposed by Navy SEAL Richard Marcinko in his book Rogue Warrior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko

TL;DR: His team did penetration testing pretty much everywhere, with great success, embarrassing the hierarchy.
Show HN: Give stuff away on Craigslist more easily
What is interesting from a scientific point of view, and this is one subject we know a lot more about than actual nutrition, is why people who are otherwise scientific minded skeptics are superstitious when it comes to nutrition (if you believe that eating more green vegetable or less, consuming more vitamin C or less, more saturated fat or less is actually better for you, then you are superstitious, unless you are knowingly placing a scientifically unfounded bet on one diet over another).

I think you're too loosely using the terms "superstition" and "magic".

This is Merriam-Webster's definition of superstition:
1
a : a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation
b : an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition
2
: a notion maintained despite evidence to the contrary

There are indeed diets that are superstitiously motivated (don't eat pork because it's an impure animal, don't eat cows cause they're sacred, etc), but you're throwing everything in the same pot, liking religious motives and decisions by rational minds to eat or omit certain food items, based on observations and deductions (albeit sometimes limited and flawed) of effect and causality. If anything, the latter is but an attempt at building a framework toward a saner nutrition.

If we were to listen to you, we should wait until everything has been discovered about food and physiology to start making up our minds as to what is good or bad to ingest. At which point I guess what you keep calling "magic" then becomes science. This tendency of wanting to be absolute is a bit naive. No body of knowledge works like that. Just because our understanding of a topic is patchy, doesn't exempt some connections to be made that can be built upon to stitch up a gradual and more complete understanding. Which, if I observe how nutrition has evolved, is exactly what's happening.

Nothing magic there.
One of the whistleblowers at the end says she was listening to the content of the phone calls, too (from Americans). I hope nobody actually believed Obama when he said the phone calls are not listened to.

Clearly they take video-calls fully from the web, and chats, and e-mails. What would make phone calls so different if they already do that? Plus, he's hidden most of this so far, and who knows what else they aren't telling us (such as the fact that they are actually listening to phone calls from Americans).

That "analyst" that has all the data in front of him should be able to do whatever he wants with the data. There may be rules to not do that, but who's actually verifying it?
Indeed - but then when has reasoned judgement and objective review ever held a place in "mob" mentality?
I didn't know Banks personally, unfortunately, but I challenge you to find a single anti-semitic statement he made. As for BDS, I wasn't familiar with it until 5 minutes ago, but it seems to be a group calling for a non-violent boycott of Israel. I have a hard imagining how you can paint everybody who supports them as antisemitic.

If you want a shortcut into his politics, I suggest you read Dead Air.
/me cracks a bottle of whiskey across the bow of the ROU The Infuriating Fragility Of Life In A Pre-Contact Civilisation
"They knew what the potential punishments were."

I completely disagree with this. They could reasonably have expected to be charged with trespass and vandalism but to be labelled as terrorists is ludicrous. I doubt they even expected to get as far as they did (they had to hang around and sing songs before they were finally arrested).
This was a one-weekender project for me (which is about all I have time for these days), so it's pretty rough. But, it does work! And it's helped me clean out my garage without making a bunch of trips to Goodwill, which is something.
Every day you're Capuling? :)

I have a real question about this: is there something in your head that prevented you from stopping? Is it just something that has always been a part of you, or did you just make a decision that for once in your life, you were going to stick with something?
That is actually NOT logical though. You have conditioned yourself to dislike the taste and smell of meat. You might as well say that a dog salivating when it hears a bell is logical.

Of course it's ok, and in a lot of cases, preferable, to not behave logically.
I'm sorry to hear about your family. It wasn't my intention to make this debate personal. What were your family working towards?
This isn't a value judgement:

Japan doesn't have the same melting pot background as the U.S. It would take significant culture change for the Japanese to adopt an immigrant-inclusive culture.
The wikipedia article states:

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), in its advisory opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, issued 8 July 1996, unanimously interprets the text of Article VI as implying that

"There exists an obligation to pursue in good faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international control."
Want privacy? Tell Apple to integrate PGP into Mail and OSX.
First of all, the author sells a book about vitamins being bad, so he's probably not being objective about it.

Ok, but that standard applies to any researcher who receives grant money or a salary. In fact, it's so high a standard that objectivity can be claimed by no one. Which is probably accurate, but not very useful for making distinctions—it's a case of what Hegel called "the night in which all cows are black".
Don't you need to speak Portuguese fairly well to get a longer visa (more than 90 days) in Brazil?
Sending false privacy data to Google
Younger or older people have an unfortunate habit of letting the exercise of power turn them into "bad people" (whatever that means).
Let's try. Something like:

Some future event causes a dramatically change in your email `float meta_traffic_index' to trip a conditional threshold branching onto to why236(). If why236() conditionals returns indices within patterns statistically outlying, upgrades the colored code, larger font size label, and bar code, on your now growing hardcopy docket. Utah 24/7, dwells on your next expectation and every other why236() ORANGE profiles.
Do you not feel trapped or confined by the breaches of privacy commited by the government? That would satisfy your definition.
Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2009/...

Related:
http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=7...
The problem is as the article states its already baked into the cake. Fine, encourage a salaryman and his wife to squirt out a kid in 2013 (well, unless you parallel process nine women into producing a full term baby in one month, In early June 2013 if you convince them to do it, its somewhat more likely they'll squirt out a kid in early 2014...), that's not going to change the employment situation in 2030.

Or another way to put it, 2030 is right around the corner.
> instead of crap from China

Did you know that iPhones, Xboxes, ThinkPads (the only laptop certified for use on the International Space Station) and loads of other quality electronics are made in China? I wouldn't say "made in China" automatically implies it's crap.
Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans
I find it a bit unbelievable that the bank of Japan wants inflation but has been unable to produce it. A simpler explanation is the bank of Japan does not want inflation because it is not politically possible. I also noticed he mentioned that economic textbooks say an aging economy should produce inflation so Japan is confusing. But what do political economy textbooks say about the monetary policy demands of an aging population? I can't see an inflationary monetary policy going down too well politically with older people who have savings in fixed interest. Japan has had low monetary growth because that is what is politically popular.
How would you implement caching in BT? I mean, who would cache what?
As an Asian in the United States, yes. In most places in the US being Asian is certainly being part of the underclass, though (fortunately?) we have it a lot better than most other minorities.

All of the ethnicities you mentioned were, for decades, if not an entire century, the underclass. Racism against the Irish, Italians, and Jews was extremely commonplace until relatively recent history.

An when they stopped being demonized as minorities society find more, newer immigrants to vilify instead. Hispanics for one, and in our industry, Indians.

I'm all for immigration and diversity, but let's call a spade a spade. Immigrants are an underclass, and it takes generations for the stigma to fade - if ever! Jews are still frequently discriminated against.

Not to mention, politically, Japan is very high on the xenophobia scale. I'd be interested to see the effects of large-scale immigration on their society, though I suspect it won't be pretty. At all.
Headline tampering--this is from deep within the article, and is not the headline published.
> but it seems to be a group calling for a non-violent boycott of Israel

They are calling for the delegitimization of Israel as a country.

> how you can paint everybody who supports them as antisemitic

I can't. I don't know him, but if you are going to publicly support a group it behooves you to look into them first.

Thanks for the mention of Dead Air - have you read it? I'm not familiar with UK politics - why is he so mad at Tony Blair?
Sorry, that blog it is not mine, I just stumbled upon the post and thought it was interesting, didn't know it wasn't the original source.
Maybe only a small portion who are actual developers. Most others might be third-party contractors, fixing map errors, street-view and such.
"Case in point: I bought a few silver ETF shares a while ago"

My dollar cost averaging long term for silver is about $5 per oz and for gold is about $550 per oz...

You select your profit when you select your purchase price. Real estate is kinda like that too.
Go to Homeschool
> "and diminish their country's cultural heritage"

Woah woah woah. Careful there, this line of argument has been used in the past.

Ditto with a previous mention of immigration making the country "less Japanese", which has shades of certain groups making a certain country "less German".
Have you done work there? Your profile mentions Atlanta.
Exactly.

Historically, governments have never been an altruistic entity that helps people; rather, it has always fulfilled the Hobbesian need for order.

Human beings are quite capable of being good, they may even be inherently so. But the outliers are so bad and corrupt the system so absolutely that no innovation or progress can be had for mankind without an organized system of law.

Unfortunately, this comes with a consequent liability for those in charge of the system ("government") to abuse their power, deeming their short lifetimes and microcosmic plans more important than the needs of the people and the society as a whole.

This is the fundamental problem that prevents utopian ideals from being plausible. This is what we need to constantly fight against, because governments are unfortunately a choice of either chaos or control - appropriately defined as "which option is less worse?"

This is also why we need checks and balances. We cannot allow agencies like the NSA to conduct surveillance on a wide scale. They use fear and the threat of unknown danger to wield powers we do not know about, let alone elect to them. It is corrupt and an abuse of the founding principles of this country, and it needs to be stopped.
This is a bit disingenuous.

Top title: 'Don’t Take Your Vitamins'

Base : 'As a result, consumers don’t know that taking _megavitamins_ [...]'

♫♫ One of these things is not like the others. ♫♫

If the advice is just don't mega-dose the things, well - duh. The things even have warnings to that effect:

http://i.imgur.com/5bS4gl2.jpg

Right there on the tube - 'do not exceed the recommended daily dose.'

I take that advice to be fairly uncontroversial. Lots of things are going to kill you if you take too much of them. Just don't be a bit silly and expose your body to really high levels of things that it'd never get anywhere near in nature without doing the research first.

I suspect that people don't think it's particularly risky because it's so concentrated - if they had to sit down and eat their way through packets of much less concentrated pills maybe they'd start to worry about loading their systems with so much stuff. :/ -shrug-
Do you have a link to said paper by any chance?
The relative I was thinking of was an activist for constitutional democracy and against absolute monarchy. Don't know what happened to him in prison; he doesn't talk about it.
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Legal damages precisely include lost revenue.
Uh, hah? Haha?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846603
It's not just about information the government is collecting on you. It's about who's responsible when that database of information is compromised by e.g. the Chinese and what they'll do with it.
Larry Page could also avoid a future media debacle like this by integrating PGP into Gmail/Chrome.

Accusations would end very quickly when the response is "Just use PGP".

http://www.google.com/tools/feedback
I think we're using the instrument of 'war' for an end which it is not suited for. As you point out, we're not engaged in total war, at least not any more. The lines are clearer in that case: kill or capture all soldiers, do your best not to kill civilians but recognize that mistakes are made.

And maybe that was the case in 2001-2002, but this has morphed into a sort of hazy nation-building / police-action kind of thing. But the tools and methods more suited to total war are still being employed, with the same brutal side-effects.
Using Prototypical Objects to Implement Shared Behavior in OO Systems
How niche is too niche?
Capitalism finds a way to make everything profitable eventually. Iterate, optimize, and you have the perfect machine where some are at the controls and the rest are fuel.
The new Bootstrap 3 grid system
I think I know what country you're talking about, and I don't deny that the western powers have a case to answer.
Your VPN will become your new endpoint, it is a tor-vpn cascade.
> Multiple academic findings corroborating each other is typically seen as enough evidence upon which to base action.

There is little of that in nutritional research.

> Also, it would be helpful if you could point out aspects of peoples lives in which they generally behave according to your definition of rationality, or in which they maintain a 'high' standard of evidence.

I'll try, but first I'd like to point out that I don't think there's hardly any important decision people make rationally. I personally believe that people are utterly incapable of rational thought in all but the most emotionally-neutral of situations (and even when they are somehow able to think rationally, they are often unable to follow through with action), but that is a little beside the point.

People require an impossibly rigorous proof to sway their political opinions (you can call it the opposite kind of superstition. If healthy food is a new cult, politics is like an old, established religion).

Also economics and finance. Economics is also a highly debated field with about as much scientific rigor as nutritional research in its current form, and yet most people are much more careful about changing their spending habits -- or the economic policy they support, which brings us back to politics -- and certainly much less radically than their eating habits. Again, this may be superstition that causes inaction rather than action, but I think it's qualitatively different from our food superstition.

Raising children, too, I think, is different. I can't quite compare it to food (I haven't had the time to think it), but while there are many child-rearing fads, they somehow "feel" different from food fads. They feel more like fads, while healthy eating feels more like religion.

Sorry for not being very rigorous myself, but I'm just raising some things we can think about.
lol

c, c, c, c, b, d, c, b, c, c, c
I was referring to freelance, where that works out to about 35k a year.
If you like ack (and who doesn't???), you might like more or less `ag`: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher