skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
APBs existed before ANPR. It's pretty well known that police who are driving around also have their eyes open for known fugitives, stolen cars, etc. There has to be a reason for an ANPR read of your car to actually do anything.

Making that electronic lets the cop focus on driving and increases the maximum number of cars he can be looking for.
The Microsoft TCP/IP stack didn't include dial-up support until Windows 95, though, so it was useless for the vast majority of home users.
The guy had put "married with kids" in a prominent location to imply a stable life and dependability. Now if you're trying to guess why a woman would do the same, you might think to yourself, 'well she must know this doesn't help her chances, but she's put it there anyway... ' - which spoils the experiment in terms what you can claim the results are indicative of.
+1 for CodeIgniter. Easy to learn and easy to hack, as it's very transparent about what goes under the hood.

Despite (or because of) its simplicity, I moved on to other frameworks after about 2-3 projects. But nothing beats CodeIgniter for its newbie-friendliness.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines at work.

> any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no."

The article directly answers the headline in the negative.

> our cells depend on sugar for energy

The rest of the article is more intelligent but it's undermined by the link-baiting headline.
Except it takes about 5 seconds for sucrase in your small intestine to hydrolyze sugar into exactly the same substances present in HFCS. So it doesn't matter. At all.
Huge? Seriously? It's just a more efficient window manager. I don't really care much about the window manage, X has never been inefficient for me, my hardware is plenty fast enough. I think Mir is more likely a benefit for low end hardware like smartphones.
Is this the prerequisite tech for a sonic screwdriver?
I'm not an expert in algorithms involving AI, but the ones I've been exposed share the characteristic of being brute force with giant if-then-else trees of possible decisions for the computer to make. It seems like any possible outcome a human can't for see will not be picked up by a computer either.
Where do you get your pork steaks?

Walmart, actually. $1.99/lb. It's all I can afford.

There's plenty to feel bad about in there.

Yeah, I feel bad that an animal had to die for me to live. But genetically my body freaks out if I don't eat meat, and the animal's already dead anyway.

Regarding fat in the pork steak, I'm not so worried about it. I try not to eat the fat, but even still, it seems like there's a decent chance that it's better for you than the additives present in almost all other food. We've been eating meat for millions of years, so I'm betting on evolution to take care of me.
ZFS - Linus had nothing to do with that! That was Sun.

Of course there's kernel innovation, my point was that this is true for all variants - not just Linux which gets all the attention.
If anyone wants to give this a go. I have created a Vagrant config which installs the OS, tools and runs the chain of programs. You can find it here: https://github.com/rabidgremlin/vagrant-quine-relay
Well 8 is a little incomplete. You may not be able to use a photo just because you are in it, but usually neither can the photographer without explicit consent. This is an issue rights of publicity rather the copyright (as I understand it, IANAL).

This is important to know because if say your boyfriend takes nude pictures of you and posts them on the internet, his presumed copyright ownership of those images does not protect him. Generally unless you've signed a release you can have images of you taken down from websites. Don't get bullied!
>I ended up shedding 30 pounds in 90 days, and have kept it off for a full year

>I probably upped my overall calorie consumption but I replaced the sugars with more complex energy sources like nuts

Unless you started exercising, these two statements are incompatible with one another (violates the first law of thermodynamics). What's more likely is you felt "fuller" from eating healthy foods and therefore consumed less calories.
Personally I would be cautious of anything in a can as well. By it's nature, the act of food preservation usually requires a massive increase in either sugar or salt.

You're right you shouldn't stress about what you eat too much; what's the point of eating healthy if it makes you miserable. But it's worth thinking about why taking the time to eat healthy stresses you out. If it's a matter of not having time, consider what you could do to make time. Your entire existence subsists on the stuff you ingest. I find that fact reason enough to make time to find healthier meals.

This is all just my 2 cents based on personal experience. Certainly don't mean to be telling you exactly what to do. Just want to encourage thoughtful consideration. It's not a switch you flip, it's a journey
Which ones are you talking about? I have only a superficial exposure to them (mostly Expert Systems, Machine Learning, and Optimization contexts) but none of the ones I have seen come anything close to if-then-else trees. Okay...maybe Random Forests, but they are only if-then-else trees in the evaluation/prediction stage.
You may be confounding ICE, CIS, and CBP, which is completely understandable (never mind EOIR, which is over in the DOJ and muddying the waters even more). The majority of CBP are federal "law enforcement" and are required to obtain clearance in addition to the suitability investigation(which is the equivalent of a lifestyle + polygraph background check for s/ts clearance).

If they look at a computer based on information provided by a person entering the country, they have to have clearance. Uncleared or precleared people will often hang out over the shoulder of someone with clearance, so it's not really that "secure", but it ensures that queries are handled by cleared personnel.
I just bought a domain on namecheap.com with Bitcoin to test it out, and I had to wait an hour for the confirmation.
Hey folks, some context here. I needed a cache that will:

- Keep the site up when the web server is down

- Allow for logged-out users to see "login" and logged-in users to see session info (for example), while still caching most of the page, without using the outdated ESI standard

- Be delivered over a CDN

- Allow for hotfixes

- Cache must be spun up, not passively created by GETs, to avoid the issue of high average load times if you have a fairly even distribution of visitors

There isn't a solution on the market (that I have found) that accomplishes all of these things. I would really appreciate thoughts on how you're currently doing caching and whether this service would be useful.
In some sense anxiety is an inability to one region of the brain to tame activities of the other(s). There could be a whole set of possible causation, but the idea is quite simple - a brain is a muscle, so it could be "changed" via exercises. This is the reason why meditation works is a grossly oversimplified, naive wording.
So, yes, the way of out of chronic anxiety and anxiety disorders in general is not in medication or running away, but in contrary, go toward it and getting to know it by knowing oneself. This is how people survive on the war - by conquering extreme fear and anxiety.
>>Writing a script in python/ruby/perl/whatever would probably take a few minutes and then even more time for the script to actually complete.

Thankfully you can also write a Perl one liner. Which most of the times is far powerful than awk.
In Japan, Geocities lives on
I sorta had this happen to me once. I have used "lsl" as an alias for long directory listings for longer than I can remember. And just out of habit it was almost always the first command I typed when logging into any box anywhere.

So one day I telnetted into a Solaris machine and immediately typed "lsl" before doing anything else. A short while later a colleague came to my cube. He had been snooping the hme1 interface and saw me login. He didn't need to trace the IP because he knew it was me when he saw 3 telnet packets with "l" "s" "l" in them.
> I've found that the best way to handle anxiety to stop talking about it all the time, and just fill your mind with living.

Sometimes the solution to your problem is to un-ask the question.
Huh. I wonder what kept it alive over there.
libclang supports this and a lot more advanced functionality, but only works for languages supported by Clang:

http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/group__CINDEX.html

(It is what Xcode uses underneath, a C API that any IDE or dynamic language module could take advantage of)
The Whole System Failed
AT&T gets in on no-contract, early upgrade plans too
Spotify isn't really optimized for discovery. Service like YouTube, music blogs, hypemachine, are much better for this and their UIs aren't designed to replace your music player either, so listening to music on YouTube isn't going to replace buying (or some other way of getting the music file) the song.
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I now know what a quine is. And learned of about 15 new programming languages.
Hm..is it me or there's no way to switch branch using the mobile view..
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1. As someone said, do something that is out of your current routine to reset your system.(Go for a run, Stand in line at the DMV or post office, etc).

2. Find an actionable & useful project that you've to code/build at least for an hr where you see tangible progress. Allow that progress to motivate you so that you start spending more time on that.
Judge considers request to dismiss 7 charges against PFC Manning
You stopped eating bread while in France?
The correlation you want isn't BMI<->calories, it's food type<->calories. The question to be answered is whether some types of food make it easier or harder to maintain a caloric balance.
I've not yet been to the Computer History Museum. How is it? That's pretty cool that they have a TokenRing network set up!
The laws of thermodynamics do not preclude your body from ingesting something that has calories and shitting it out without actually doing anything with the calories. Your shit would just have more calories left in it, kind of like how a poorly made car might leak gasoline everywhere.
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To me, the mark of an artificial intelligence is general analogizing ability, and that's not what we have here.

A system capable of general analogy could potentially write its own drivers with some light scaffolding or guidance. A system capable of general analogy would be able to form causal models of our world, and to be sensitive to the differences between mere correlation and correlation with causal potential, just as rats and ravens do.

This system has not yet even tackled the intelligence of rats and ravens.
Blaming carbs is not a "just calories" explanation, rather the opposite.
Only the USA has an unusually high supply of fructose.

Everyone else uses cane sugar because it's cheaper.

People are getting fat because they like the taste of dense foods and those foods are cheaper and more available than ever before in history.
Sounds like the first denial was due to an automated fraud check with a false positive. When that happens, it's a good idea to call your credit card company right away - if it was such a fraud check, they can usually reactivate it right away and whitelist the merchant you tried to buy from, allowing you to retry the transaction - and more importantly, ensuring that your card isn't suspended and later declined again at an inopportune time.
So at the cost of usability (for the cell user), wouldn't a product (or homemade solution: Hello, tin foil!) that blocks RFID/wifi signals wrapped around the phone also foil (ouch) this tracking? I'm thinking something like Blokket (http://howsyourrobot.com/2012/09/26/blokket-blocks-rfid-wifi... - I have no direct knowledge of this product, BTW; just googled RFID/wifi blocking).

Obviously this won't work for facial recognition, but I see that's discussed in other comments.
If you're going to bash Microsoft, at least find an accurate point to build your case on. Skype was added to the PRISM program 8 months before being acquired by Microsoft in 2011, and was looking into how to cooperate with wiretaps since 2008 under Project Chess.
Not sure you understand how the sort interface works...
Not to discredit them completely, but don't forget that dropbox was listed as "coming soon" in the PRISM slides.
It's possible that they are eating more calories, but digesting or storing fewer (thus passing more as waste).
They were referring to haskell typeclasses, which is a way to dispatch to different function definitions based upon your data's type - which, if you squint, looks sort of like OO without inheritance.
It seems to always be acceptable to blame the US for any problem but as pointed out in the article neither sugar cane, refined sugar nor high-fructose corn syrup originated in the US. And almost every "US style food" originated somewhere else. So should we blame Italy, France, China and Mexico too?

I would say the US may be primarily responsible for the technology (agricultural, supply chain, financing, etc) that made food potentially affordable to everyone. An unfortunate consequence of having enough food to eat is being able to eat too much.
> I've been meaning to experiment on myself a bit with some glucose tabs after a long day of code

Anecdotal feedback - they work great for short bursts of activity. I use them when playing multiplayer games at night. Given my opponents are usually young and fuelled on caffeinated sodas I need some kind of edge after getting home from work. When I stomp a lobby on team deathmatch it's usually after popping a couple of glucose tabs. A good low-GI meal does much the same, but of course isn’t as convenient.
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Electronic payments are an entirely separate issue and there ought to be strong legal requirements preventing retailers and credit card companies from sharing data about people's purchases. Or, better yet, anonymous electronic cash like BitCoin.

While the invasiveness of a database of purchases linked to identities by credit card is substantial, it is orthogonal to the collection of how the user walked through the store. That hardly adds any additional value for anyone when it's just one datapoint. It's completely useless to insurance companies, maybe useful in aggregate to other stores. The point is to more effectively lay out displays to drive impulse purchases from people in aggregate. It would not be in Target's interest to let Wal-Mart know what the traffic pattern is in a Target.

If you are not already disclosing the fact that you shopped at the store by using a credit card, then there is nothing to tie your MAC address to your identity.
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I wonder if there isn't another force in play here, given the aggressiveness of acqui-hires a VC firm can make book by spraying a lot of 100 - 200K investments around, maybe a 1M and then harvesting the acquihire dollars when the team works out. They are essentially glorified head hunters with a bigger contract bounty but they put together teams instead of just individuals. So putting in a million $ to get a couple of young stars to recruit 5 or 6 of the best programmers they know, and organize them into a team that can build a project. Then scare them with the "Series A crunch" and sell them off to BigCo for a million dollars a head.

I know, I know, too cynical. But looking at the exits that way skews the numbers.
Ask HN: PyPi pkg owner abandoned, doesn't merge pull requests, what should I do?
Hi guys, I need advice.<p>I am submitting pull requests for Python package project, owner doesn't give a shit. Apparently he's abandoned the project. I know that sort of things can happen in open source and transferring ownership is not easy in cases like this. (especially if single maintainer happens to die or something).<p>Should I go create another PyPi package (named foopkg-2 maybe) with my fork or what?
Any source on that Steve Jobs speculation?

It makes more sense that Apple's lack of attractive cloud/internet service presence delayed their eventual adoption.
The web has NOTHING to do with files, so it seems like the perfect place to just forget about them and move forward...

What? I really don't understand this comment. The web is almost totally file-based. Visiting any website is just downloading and executing files. Including Javascript and CSS files is really just like a copy-paste operation--it just spews everything into the global namespace, which is that of the HTML file that you're currently viewing.
Not that I don't think the technology behind this is both awesome and completely applicable -- because it is, and it is -- but I hope Medium doesn't take this approach.

The biggest part of Medium's value proposition, to me, is manual curation. While the included summarizations are technically accurate, they're stilted, like they're being spat out from an algorithm (because they are!): the exact opposite feeling that you want when you're being gently told from a site that they're editing and proofing and including all of these human flourishes.
when you inch along in traffic, you can be 15 mins to your destination for a long time.
So you're completely disregarding the possibility that Qwest was dismantled and Nacchio was just a pawn?
Fructose (as in HFCS) goes through the same metabolic pathway as alcohol, so it's important to differentiate between fructose and glucose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
GitHub

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So basically it did like a 4 year old on the knowledge portion, and failed miserably on the intelligence portion?

I'm actually surprised that it only did like a 4 year on the knowledge part, I would have assumed computers would do better.

We aren't anywhere near AI, but AK (artificial knowledge) exists.
I'm not sure I would describe a team that releases an OS without memory protection, pre-emptive multitasking, or a 32-bit API several years after the introduction of the 386 a "heck of a systems programming shop".

The NT kernel, developed around that period, was good for its time though. Windows 3.x ... not so much.
Except when Snowden actively denies these companies inability to avoid compliance.

I'm not sure who to believe that this point. This whole thing is messier than cold war politics and it was probably orchestrated that way.
What's the last federal bureaucracy that was abolished?

This is never gonna happen. The size of government only goes one way.
I would also argue that for intelligence to be comparable to a human, creativity must be measured accurately. Of course, this is something that classic IQ tests don't measure well, so maybe that's hoping for too much.
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Question:

>Yahoo has previously denied the allegations regarding participation in the program, calling them "categorically false."

That's what they say, but doesn't this just show that while they fought it, they did participate because they lost the fight?[1]

I'm not aiming to say "liar, liar, pants on fire" since they were probably required to say that (if my reading is accurate). I'm just wondering if they were required to say that, as this is nearly evidence of it, which would cast even more doubt on the other companies' denials.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/yahoo-fight-for-users-... (thanks, cmwelsh!) in particular this quote:

>Ultimately, the Court of Review ruled against Yahoo, upholding the constitutionality of the Protect America Act and ordering Yahoo to turn over the user data the government requested.

Though they can't say what was turned over.
Did you read the article? It argues directly against your claim that fructose is the primary culprit for obesity.
glad to know another one of us graze over here, too.
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This is a sad and heartbreaking article, about one of the most shameful trials of this country.

Regardless if judge's decision was due to racial bias or not, it doesn't change the facts: a teenage boy is dead, while his killer is out there, walking around freely, with a concealed gun, legally allowed to kill people under the claim of self-defense whenever he feels threatened.

This is really a f'ed system.
>While I like linux, and I am writing this on an Ubuntu 13.10 install, there's really nothing very innovating about Linux, for anyone that has a unix history, it's just another variant, like the myriad of other ones [1].

I really wish I could use control-F on paper books.

I don't remember what book it was in, I think maybe the Art of Unix Programming or Just for Fun, but somebody remarked that the real innovation of Linux was the modern open source model of software development. And I think that's mostly true.
I like your comment. Even though you mention that it should not be used in Medium, you still praise the technology. :) Thanks!
Did you read the article? Cane sugar is sucrose. The sucrose molecule gets broken up into a fructose and glucose molecule by the gut. Thus, cane sugar is for all intents and purposes 50% fructose. This is very similar to HFCS, which is 55% fructose.
I meant search trees such as the ones used in minimax. I think of it as "if-then-else" in more of a colloquial sense, may be an incorrect description.