skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that is why the fourth amendment reads:

>The right of the people to be secure in their houses against unreasonable searches, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the house to be searched.

Don't get me wrong. I get the pedantry. It just has a habit of completely missing the point.
Controversial ministry offering "alternative to homosexuality" to shut doors
I think a big problem there is that "encrypted good enough" today might be "completely breakable" in 20, 40, or X number of years.
Google was perfectly capable of creating a secure browser and propagating it through all manner of mechanisms. There is no reason they couldn't do the same with a secure mail system, for that matter they could just deliver it as a chrome update and smoothly redirect people into it if they wanted to. There is absolutely no reason why users would 'all jump ship' to another provider.

All you are really saying is that Google exposes data to the government because its business model dictates that it put privacy below behavioral profiling it its list of priorities. That is not in dispute.

You are arguing that Google is incapable of solving this problem, whereas I think that a group of people as talented and resourceful as Google could solve it if they wanted to, but they aren't trying because they think their value is tied to the amount of personal data they collect, rather than what problems they solve for society.

Right now, this privacy problem is a serious one for society, and who is better positioned than Google to solve it?
The better question is: Are you a whistleblower in a legal sense if what you reveal is legal?

The government doesn't operate on unicorns and happy thoughts, it operates on the law. It's the job of the people to elect representatives such that the law conforms as much as possible to unicorns and happy thoughts.
It's probably also against the UN declaration of human rights.
It's just another example of why grand juries in particular need to cease existing.
We could get rid of those pesky complaining meat sacks too. I never quite understood the fiscal arguements for pilotless passenger aircraft. It's not like a single seat fighter jet where you can ditch the pressurisation gear, you've got to still keep the cargo alive no matter how much noise that they make.
Generally the court will revisit
an issue if there is a compelling
reason from a new case someone
brings. As far as I know, the court
never revisits an issue without
a compelling reason from a new case.
I know what you're saying, but consider the counterfactual (ie, almost all history to this point).

In the absence of cheap, tasty food, obesity is rare.

When cheap, tasty food is abundant, so too are overweight and obesity.

On a population level it looks very much like cheap, tasty food is both necessary and sufficient. Without an increase in per-capita calories, there can't be an increase in population BMI.

The reason we call all these other phenomena strange is because we've never had tens of millions of overweight and obese subjects before. Sample sizes of tens of millions throw up new and interesting outliers. It's only going to get weirder.
Turkmenistan awards SpaceX contract to send its first satellite into orbit
At 2 tonnes I suspect they would have had someone tow them to the runway rather than run their engines.
Weight added to the aircraft (660lb). Another factor is reliability. Wheel or tire damage can bring down an airliner. The Concorde crash. Also a DC-8 crash in Jeddah in 1991 was due to a fire in the wheel well.[1] Even things like entertainment systems cause risk. Swissair Flight 111 went down due to a fire that started in the entertainment system rack, behind the cockpit. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_Airways_Flight_2120

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111
That is untrue since evolution has indeed been studied in falsifiable experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_evolution

On the other hand studying how exactly the current specieses evolved is more like history.
Not neocities, but a friend recently put this geocities-esque page up:

http://cats4gold.net/
> A systematic review of low-carbohydrate diets found that the weight loss achieved is associated with the duration of the diet and restriction of energy intake, but not with restriction of carbohydrates.

Put another way: ketogenesis isn't a magic escape hatch from physics. If you eat foods rich in protein, you are satieted sooner and total calories consumed falls.

Total calories consumed falls.

That's what causes the weight loss. Not a particular hormonal-metabolic configuration.
Think of the architects!

Each of them believe they are doing nothing wrong.
Actually, in the U.S. servicemembers are supposed to refuse to follow orders that are not lawful.

You are right that such cases are (and are meant to be) exceptionally rare. The U.S. Supreme Court gives exceptionally wide latitude in what counts as a lawful order, and as far as I know no servicemember has ever been tried (much less convicted) for following a valid order (even if they thought it was illegal).

But with that said I agree with your overall point that Snowden did break the law with at least some of his disclosures. If so much as one document he leaked was found to describe action that was legal (even if unethical) he would fall afoul of various U.S. laws protecting classified information.

Likewise, even if he leaked information describing activities found to be illegal, he may still get in trouble for not following Congress's approved route for such leaks (I'm not sure if that would be technically criminal or administrative in nature though).
Since this takes me back to the good old days of marquee tags, I made this fine work of art.
http://hello.neocities.org/
> Someone can be obese in the lower half of the body and emaciated in the top half or vice-versa. In this circumstance, your theory suggests they should simultaneously eat more AND eat less to fix it.

I've met these people myself. They call themselves "women".

> The viruses don't need to destroy or create energy, they just need modify the set point.

"Set points" assumes that we are dealing with an automatic system. This is true only if people do not pay attention to what they are eating.

Given that the first and indeed only step in dieting is to observe and control your eating ...
There are certainly specific experiments that have been carried out w.r.t. mechanisms (also true with climate science, fwiw). It's more the overall "big" conclusions that are a bit difficult to replicate in a laboratory, e.g. "the earth is warming as a result of human-caused greenhouse-gas emissions" and "humans descended from other animals through a process of evolution driven by natural selection".
Call—actually call your members of Congress. It's a lot more effective than sending an email. Urge others to call too. If they get enough calls to understand a large number of people are actively angry about this, they might actually do something.

http://callday.org

Also encrypt everything possible, and encourage others to do that too. It might attract more attention to you, but it's also a strong assertion of your right to privacy. Everyone should use encryption for even the most mundane of things. The government says we have no right to privacy for emails older then 180 days because we are sharing them via someone else's server. If we encrypt them, that argument is invalid, because we are making it clear that only the recipients are intended to read it and it is private from everyone else.
Which often gets translated as "now shut up and believe what you're told" as soon as it gets past your target's ears.

Also, conspiracy theories do not just get counter points. They face sneers and coarse laugh, which are very effective at quickly convincing people who haven't make up their minds yet, though it does alienate conspiracy theorists themselves.

I recall having receiving coarse laughs when talking about cryonics. Many people first believe it's an obvious con job. Which is a rational reaction, by the way (it's expensive, unproven, and appeals to our not wanting to die). I just happen to know a bit more than they do (the nature of identity, the possible progress of science, the possibility for intelligence explosion, and possibly a few more wacky sounding beliefs).

Oh, but that's exactly what your regular "truther" thinks: you don't believe him because you lack the background, you poor ignorant fool! But then, how can we make the difference between the conspiracy theorist and the cryonics advocate?

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By the way, I do think a relatively limited number of powerful people do influence the world in a way that is significant, against the will of most people, and not widely known. Take the monetary system for instance. Put it bluntly, private banks effectively print more money than the public states through tricks that allow them to lend more money than they have (at an interest, of course). Not exactly a conspiracy theory (it's hiding in plain sight, just look up Fractional Reserve Banking), but very close in my opinion.
Musk has always stated the end goal is a $30k car for the masses. He wants to disrupt the entire auto industry not the S or 7 series market. It's that mass market window though that I think is closing. But I suspect if it closes he's OK as he met his goal. And Telsa may provide some or all that key tech and still flourish.
I separate high security passwords in to their own keychain with a different password. Every time I start chrome it prompts for access.

Out of all the things Chrome does this is one of the most annoying.
Well, yes. Soldiers are very much supposed to disobey unlawful orders - following unlawful orders is what can get you courtmartialed and 'I was just following orders' isn't going to be an effective defense.

Of course, this is all a bit moot because Snowden definitely did something illegal and it's not clear yet whether anything he reported was itself illegal.
Eh, even that would be effectively a life sentence here, don't think the U.S. would mind.
"The companies claim the result is a potential savings of more than 150 gallons during a multi-flight day for an airplane like the A320 or Boeing’s 737. Overall an airplane equipped with the EGTS could cut fuel consumption by four percent over the course of a year."

Another step to help reduce the costs of air travel. Follows the trend of airlines and manufacturers choosing to provide more efficient air travel vs faster air travel to consumers: https://medium.com/lift-and-drag/7885a299bca2

It's a pretty funny trend since, as both articles suggest, speed is the cooler/sexier technology. Goes to show that it isn't always the cooler inventions that have the greatest impact.
They also didn't sentence John Walker to death, and he arguably puts Snowden and Manning combined into the minor leagues.
> I don't know what the big deal is.

It's basically junk science (or a de-facto scam) by a guy who is doing well at marketing himself.

Food replacements already exist. The biggest is a product called Ensure. There are others. It's not clear that there's a need for Soylent at all.

You're right, iron deficiency can't be detected in a few days (3 months would be closer to the time frame required assuming you had healthy iron levels to begin).

Most of the other continual reformulations he discusses also seem pretty ridiculous on the timeframes involved. Basically, this guy doesn't seem to have any understanding of stochastic experimentation, limiting confounding factors or limiting free variables.
As a sysadmin, which do you prefer: self-contained software distributions with all the dependencies included, or packages that use the host distro's package manager, use system versions of libraries wherever possible, and otherwise integrate well with the host system? The latter seems better to me, but it's an honest question, not rhetorical.
If the trial is a mechanism to enforce the bad laws, of course it is unjust.

The dictionary definition is justice is "the quality of being fair and reasonable." Is there anything fair ad reasonable about how Snowden is about to be treated?
Great point.

In fact, Pfc. Manning has done exactly this IIRC: He is asking for bench trial so that the judge alone decides his fate.
> This is a petition to pardon, which is solely the power of the President. They can't - with any legitimacy - claim that commenting on this would be stepping on someone else's toes.

They can, as at this point he hasn't convicted. Promising to pardon (or declining to do so) in advance of trial would indeed be stepping on the legal system's toes.
Why do people on here simultaneously ask for "no selective enforcement!" but then when it's their guy in trouble, ask for special favors?
Do we know that he's even still there? I know he said he'd be there, but I'm not sure.
They will care if they are given
a compelling reason to care from
some new case someone brings.

The system is designed so that it's
super tough for politics, etc. to
cause the court not to care. It
is likely true that the court wants
to maintain a lot of respect from
the citizens, but their level of
respect is fairly high now.

If the court gets an opportunity
to strike down some of the Patriot
Act, etc. and wants to, then they
likely have plenty of 'political
capital' to do so. Indeed, one
reason now to make a big stink in the
public media, including HN, that
what the NSA did violates the Fourth
Amendment, etc. is to provide
'political capital' for the court
to strike down the relevant laws.

My reading is that at the present
time, US citizens are heavily on
the side of keeping their phone
calls, e-mail contents, Internet
usage, etc. private instead of
trashing the Constitution so that
the NSA can try to catch another
Boston bomber.

The way I have tried to put the
issue is to say that the Constitution
is a big part of what is worth
protecting in the US so that it is
logically impossible both to protect
the US and trash the Constitution
and, instead, we need to protect
both the Constitution and the rest
of the US. For this goal, maybe we need
some better police work.

I have high confidence that we can
protect both the US and the Constitution.
If that view is popular in the US,
then the court will have plenty of
'political capital' to protect the
Constitution.
Right. This is why we need encryption.
This probably reflects more on me than it does you, I should spend less time on here...
But have the icecaps slowed in melting? Their contribution to ocean currents has a wide effect on surface temperature.
I'm not so sure. This seems like a brilliant idea for projects that can successfully generate their own hype and buzz (as Soylent did through HN before launching their campaign), but that may not work for Joe Everyman who has a cool idea that they want to fund. Kickstarter provides an aggregation of fundable ideas in one place for curious people to browse.

It's similar to what you see with musicians and comedians. Radiohead and Louis C.K. can probably host and fund their own releases/campaigns easily, but your average local band probably doesn't have sufficient reach.

Edited for grammer/typos
"...the public needs to know the kinds of things a government does in its name, or the "consent of the governed" is meaningless." Snowden, 2013.
i don't believe this joke. ;)
To make it clearer, I don't have a FB account but from what I get from the article:

John add Bob in his friends.

Alice add Bob in her friends, and while crawling her contacts infos (say, on her smartphone), facebook finds a phone number for Bob that Bob himself didn't give.

Facebook remember the phone number on Bob's "shadow" account.

John download his infos, and for his friend Bob he can see the phone number. Bob never gave it to Facebook, never gave it to John. Facebook never told Bob they had it.
Firstly, the body is not a finite state machine. All the mechanisms of metabolism and there are a lot of them are, basically, active all the time. A great deal of complicated chemistry is underway, simultaneously, day and night. Including reactions whose effects cancel out, meaning that it is the balance of reactions that determines the system configuration.

(Yes! It's multivariate integral calculus, back from your youth to haunt you!)

Anyway, the second problem is that blood sugar in healthy individuals is very well regulated anyway. The blood sugar pathologies you see in obese individuals are usually pathologies of obesity, not the other way around.

The third problem is that carbohydrates, even simple ones, don't have a monopoly on short-term blood sugar effects. Insulin is usually identified as the primary regulator of blood sugar, but insulin is affected very strongly by protein as well as by carbohydrates. This is because insulin actually has a whole bunch of functions, only one of which is blood sugar regulation.

Biology is really complicated. It's the worst spaghetti code ever. It works, but there's no modularity, no information hiding, no clean APIs, everything is a global variable and there's not even the most basic concurrency controls. It's very hard to reason about.

But because it is so robust, it is easy to do thing A, get result B and attribute the results to factually incorrect theory Z9-gamma-pink-battleship.
Any examples of such experiments for climate science? Other than actually predicting climate change and then waiting 30 years I have trouble imagining falsifiable experiments. For evolution you can isolate a couple of populations with short generations in the lab and study them.
He's in Hong Kong talking about US intelligence operations in Hong Kong. Short of the government not charging him for that specific thing (say, to avoid talking about it altogether), there's doesn't seem to be any way to avoid getting in trouble for it.
if I can channel RMS for a second; If you use Windows at this point, it's very clear that you do not care about security as much as you care about convenience. Whatever browser you attempt to put on top of that backdoor/COFEE-infested nightmare matters almost as much as what bikini you wear before jumping into a vat of acid.

That said, It's very good to know that Firefox is the safest of the three. If I ever again have the misfortune of advising windows users on the safest browser to use, I will definitely let them know that it would take far longer to compromise their passwords in firefox (even hours longer!) than the other browsers.

Myself, I'll stick to Firefox with the KWallet extension under Kubuntu.
5600... keep it up...
Yeah, that's what I wanted to clarify. It's with us, not the same insurance as through the shippers. Let us know if you're interested!
To be replaced with what?
Prediction: Way too many Google Reader clones, not enough demand for them
That's what you may have thought it meant, or what you think it should mean, but it's not what it does mean. If you are so sure it's wrong, then it's up to you to make the argument for why, instead of just handwaving it away because you don't like it.
MacPorts all the way, since it's sane.
Yes, this is true. It's a violation of federal law to ship to an individual out of state. It is, however, legal to ship to individuals within the state or to FFLs either way. It's very common for firearms purchased over the internet to be sent USPS to the local FFL, and it's common for individuals to ship firearms to manufacturers, FFLs or smiths directly as well.
Yes, but that's because it would require access to your bedroom, not because it's evil to capture data per se.

What if, instead, you had a bedroom camera (maybe for tracking frisky escapades) and it streamed wirelessly to a home server? The more relevant question then becomes whether it's OK for the NSA (or rather, FBI) to sit on the street and capture that WiFi stream from a public road.

As you consider this question, also consider how many open WiFi hotspots you've ever used (or broke the WEP for) in your hacking career. :) The idea that it's OK to hack the stupid because their system was so open to attack might finally die due to PRISM, if people are intellectually honest with themselves.
It looks like they've switched to some less reliable technology based on Amazon reviews:

http://www.amazon.com/Tatung-Tac-11kn-Stainless-Steel-Cooker...

I grew up with Tatung rice cookers. They used to last forever - only get replaced when owners get tired of looking at them or they become too dirty. I replaced mine with this stainless steel rice cooker about 1.5 years ago thinking it will really last forever since it's stainless steel (the old ones were made out of aluminum). Unfortunately, it stopped working a few days ago.

I just couldn't believe it, I opened it up (I am a hand-on electrical engineer) and found the heating element to be the culprit. Tatung no longer uses solid metal heating element, instead, Tatung uses a much inferior heating element made out of a sandwich of 3 to 4 layers of thin circular heat-resistant cardboard. With metal wires (the heating element) looped around these circular cardboard. After probing a bit, I found where the metal wire broke.

Called Tatung customer support and was told that they can't sell heating element because of liability issue. It'll cost $40 for them the repair it but I will need to ship it to them.

Side note: curse Wade and Giles for making everyone mispronounce this company's name.
Disagree! Publishing is laudable. Paying customers might tip the scales otherwise, but apparently that's not yet an issue.
If you packaging partisans manage to convince developers of the merits of your position, the individual packaging method won't be easily available: it'll be "wait for the OS maintainers to decide to include the newer version" or "make; make test; make install" (i.e., be your own packager).
I have been using Stripes and Braintree's "Store/Verify then Charge Later" model in SaaS apps I build for customers in the service(Reserving services in advance) industry.

I have found that better that the original Auth/Capture flow since the final amount to be charged can be highly variable. Can anyone shed some light on when/if this auth/capture approach might make more sense in this type of use case?
You could image the PC, then upload an encrypted copy to Google Drive, so that the NSA can keep the copy forever for you.
Down to 5.5k two hours after your comment. At this rate, we should be done pretty darn soon.
I think the even bigger problem is how Indonesian authority is handling this. Looking around the national publication, this haze problem is barely covered. A lot of the "netizens" hanging around forums are acting like a spoiled child saying how the Indonesian forests provides tonnes of oxygen every year and people shouldn't be overreacting. Heck, even the ministry is acting childish by refusing aid from Singapore to put out the fire.
And windows has winSxs - side by side assembly... Then again it's the thing that makes the c:\windows\winsxs folder grow to dozen gigabytes and more (like 9 different versions of msvcr90 which is only for vs2008)

Oh, and its the thing that totally stops me from buying surface, since I did "dir /s" on one of the devices at the store
If you add a random query string to the end of the url you'll get the latest signature count. You will have to change it each time you want to see the current count.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...
So, the web back then is what Wikipedia is today?
Positive Control Means the End of Freedom
What if my aunt were my uncle? Inventing an alternative set of facts to support your argument is the surest sign that something is seriously wrong wrong with your argument.
Been also watching WheelTug[1] as a result of Andrew Tobias' interest (and investment) in it[2]. Sounds like they have more customers lined up, but competition already in this market should be a good thing!

[1] http://www.wheeltug.gi/

[2] http://andrewtobias.com/column/hot-brakes/
Does this take away from being able to warm the engines up to prevent thermal shock and/or ensure give them enough run time before takeoff to ensure they are running well?