skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10 incidents since 2006. The rule of law? Where does the law say that planes must be manned? I don't buy the idea that we should be hamstringing the government just for the sake of doing that; I think you have to point to an actual abuse of the program to make a case against it.

Also: at no point in this or any other thread did I choose to make an argument by calling you a name. Perhaps you could extend everyone else that same courtesy.
How do you abolish something that the entirety of the federal and state governments rely upon? Intelligence resources are being pooled to the NSA, and cyber-intelligence reports are being sourced wholly from the NSA. They're the single most powerful intelligence agency in the US, and there's absolutely no sign of it slowing down.

If there's anything that Obama shall be remembered for, it's that under his administration there was an astronomical consolidation of power. The DHS has progressively been getting more and more involved in pulling the strings of all levels of law enforcement.
the article seems a bit muddled in what it's complaining about but I think the main point is that taking it easy and setting small, realistic goals works better in the long term than trying to make yourself bleed in every workout because it's more sustainable. 15 pounds in 2 months is within healthy limits but this seems more directed at people who try to go from the couch to full bore exercise & diet maniacs overnight, or people who make money from sensationalizing that kind of behavior.
Has anyone decoded the "other language" that shows up around frame 2664?
As I said, contemptuous.

Edit: I mean, c'mon. 2006 only stirs the pot further.

>> In June, FBI Director Robert Mueller admitted that his agency uses drones to spy on US citizens without any “operational guidelines.”
Yeah I was watching it lose about 30 every time I refreshed it. This is an interesting concept, for sure.
Without a VAT tax but with a wealth tax, $10 can buy 10 sandwiches today or 8 sandwiches in the future. If you add a VAT, $10 can buy 8 sandwiches today or 6.4 sandwiches in the future. Either way, better to consume today than tomorrow.

This applies to the wealthy and middle class alike.

A wealth tax discourages productive investments since it reduces all rates of return. In particular, it reduces marginal rates of return below zero, discouraging productive investments. Say I can buy 10 sandwiches today, or build a machine which will give me 11 sandwiches tomorrow. If your wealth tax is 20%, it's better for me to consume 10 sandwiches today than 8.8 sandwiches tomorrow.

Seriously, just crunch the numbers. It's not hard.
I am 41 years old. I have been thin my entire life. I don't try to "pin down" my "maintenance level" and frankly don't even know what would be involved in that.

When I am doing more physical work, I make sure I eat a bit more. When I am doing less physical work, I make sure I eat a bit less. It's not easy but it's really not as difficult as you are trying to make it seem. Further, I don't believe that people with legitimately diagnosed medical conditions make up a significant portion of the overweight population.
That might be, shall we say, a somewhat short term problem as the population is culled of less hardy individuals. When I think of the Mayo brothers using the Murphy Button zillions of times to splice together someone's small intestines, I realize that a lot of dangerous surgery was done with enough success in the pre-antibiotic era. One in which my parents, born in the mid-30s, grew up in; their attitudes towards sickness and death are markedly different than people younger who e.g. wouldn't have survived without antibiotics.
It seems to still do that, however I have not had any problems installing gpg2 via homebrew and overwriting the destination binary, e.g.,

brew link gpg2 --overwrite

(use the above with `--dry-run` first; I only have one symlink that gets overwritten, but you may have more.)
Some of us care more about being able to use our phone for whatever we damn please rather than depend on a highly restrictive app store that censors a ton of useful software.

People have different priorities. This is a tired meme; if you're that bothered by lag you're not using Android, if you're using Android it's not going to be such a huge change in the grand scheme of things. Can we have another argument for Apple superiority please?
In general there are three things you need to balance if you want to get fit, loose weight or get good at a sport or similar: eating, resting and training. Most make the mistake and think that the training is the most important thing, but it's really not. You cannot eat bad and train good and think that it will balance itself out, you really are what you eat.

Something I'm really annoyed at in today's society is the focus on calories. Sure calories are all which matter... If all you want to do is warm water. But then you're ignoring the effect on your hunger and your hormones which can lead to yo-yo dieting.

In theory it can work, if you can live with constantly being hungry. But in a war against hunger, you're bound to loose.

Aim for quality, not quantity, and let your built in weight control device - the hunger - take care of the rest.

After that you can focus on your training regime. Here again I totally agree with the article. Training should be fun and rewarding and if you can manage get a good feedback loop you're golden.
The article is not the obesity apologetic you'd expect from the title. He's arguing that creating a positive feedback loop is a more powerful motivational tool than willpower. It doesn't seem like you read the article.
I think this is a problem implicit to anonymous imageboards. By definition, you (as administrator or moderator) can't stop someone from posting CP, you can only be reactive about deleting it after you find it. The policy for moderation can be as rigid as possible but regardless it still requires the offensive content to be posted and discovered first.

One possible way to solve this would be to force images through some kind of premoderation process before being posted, but that would probably destroy the conversational flow of the threads, especially if the mods happen not to be awake and sorting through the queue at the moment.
That's an issue that's arising in many forms recently, and I'm not sure the law has sorted out what to do about it.

The gut feeling, which I share, is that there's a qualitative difference between a few targeted observations and pervasive surveillance. But the law has traditionally not included a numerical aspect in 4th-amendment analyses. Either the police need a warrant to fly a helicopter over a city and photograph it, or they don't, regardless of whether they're flying one or a hundred. Saying that something would require a warrant if done very frequently but not if done occasionally would require a either a novel approach to the 4th amendment, or a new law passed by Congress specifying a new policy.

Two bits of 4th amendment law do point towards development of a new doctrine, but I'm not sure very strongly:

1. In United States v. Knotts (1983), the defendant argued that allowing the government to electronically track a vehicle without a warrant raised the spectre of the government being able to pervasively track all movements. The court dismissed that concern by writing: [Defendant] expresses the generalized view that the result of the holding sought by the Government would be that "twenty-four hour surveillance of any citizen of this country will be possible, without judicial knowledge or supervision." But the fact is that the reality hardly suggests abuse; if such dragnet-type law enforcement practices as respondent envisions should eventually occur, there will be time enough then to determine whether different constitutional principles may be applicable.

It's a bit of a confusing comment, though, because it doesn't explain the basis for treating "dragnet-type" uses of GPS tracking differently from scattered uses, from a 4th-amendment perspective. My guess is that Rehnquist just wanted to dismiss the defendant's dystopian hypothetical by saying it's not happening now and if it happens later, well we'll deal with it later.

2. One lower court has introduced a "mosaic theory" of the fourth amendment by which things that individually don't count as "searches" for 4th-amendment purposes could constitute a search when aggregated. Here's an article on that: http://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Thx so much for the video.

I am very confused though ... the documentary implies that the bacteria are developing the immunity through evolution ... over millions of cell divisions. But how can this be happening so fast? If a bacteria were to be countering the antibiotic via an enzyme, it would take an insane amount of time to develop that enzyme by pure chance. It is more likely that some of the bacteria already had the anti-antibiotic enzyme and we're seeing selection in progress. Can someone please please explain?
Yeah, that sort of mentality is awful. Extreme exercise just isn't sustainable. People who are really overweight need to accept that it may take a few years to reach their goals.
The iPhone 4 is priced for contracts, with a $0 (actually less -- usually the "buyer" gets credits) entry-fee. In the North American sense -- or in much of the world where the top selling devices are overwhelmingly $600+ -- it is absolutely "ultra discount": it's a three year old device!

As no-contract pricing starts to become competitive, Apple will do what is necessary with their discount entrant. But right now for a guy walking into Verizon or AT&T or many other cell providers around the globe, the iPhone 4 is as cheap as they can get.

As I said before, the ASP of Samsung smartphones approaches $500. This myth that everyone else is desperately pitching dollar phones is just nonsense. Yet so far this little thread offshoot has seen Apple compared with Lexus, Louis Vuitton, and Bentley.
I remember reading Jerry Pournelle "Chaos Manor" every month, as a 14 year old. English is not my first language and I'm sure reading Byte has taught me a lot of English. Fond memories.
Urgh. People argue these issues over and over and shave points so finely that I don't see the point any more. Who cares if, by some interpretation of the words, you can make the claim that "cardio alone is ineffective for weight loss?" Some people take up running and lose weight.

There are a thousand different ways to approach fitness, and apparently the important thing is not to present an original or enlightening perspective but to shit all over other people's perspectives, to call them "stupid," "dogma," "myths," and "big fat lies" that "prevent you from creating a healthy lifestyle."

Creating a feedback loop in which results motivate continued effort is one idea that has been around for decades and works for a lot of people. So is going for a run every morning. So is being "hard core," for that matter. For some people, the idea of being "hard core" is an exciting one that gets them out of bed early in the morning and helps them say no to excess food. If these ideas work for people, then they can be valuable, positive ideas, right? Wouldn't you want to make sure that people gave them serious consideration in case they were, for them, effective ideas?

Why would you steer people away from alternative ideas by presenting them in the most negative possible light, in narrow, off-putting formulations?

Oh, right, because this isn't fitness advice. It's marketing for a company selling a fitness product.
Yes, but what the article really criticizes is you'll do that by willpower only (I was also very confused by the title and introduction of the article).

I have myself lost 10kg in the last year, albeit that was not especially my prime objective. I can clearly see that if it was all pain and no fun, I wouldn't have done it - I wasn't even overweight, but clearly a bit out of shape.

Mostly exercising made me feel really good about myself. As did eating less, especially when you start not to get hungry as much anymore. I still love to eat, but I try to be more mindful of my eating.
A variant of this, involving payment, could be the future of journalism.
"Admitted" is RT's carefully-chosen wording, since the fact that no warrants or "operational guidelines" were required for this activity was decided over 2 decades ago.
> I have been thin my entire life

I'm happy for you. People have different metabolisms, and there wouldn't be an entire multi billion dollar industry and worldwide government initiatives to help people if there wasn't a legitimate problem. Your beliefs don't enter into the equation. At all.
And it's gone :)
It'd be great to publicize a dataset of hit-times from each ip and from twitter accounts.
http://i.imgur.com/Tz8K46w.png
Because it worked so well for Microsoft, yeah? At least it's pretty easy to switch to Arch Linux.
If it said 'willpower alone ...' I might have disagreed with you, there was definitely a bit of a tone of selling something in the midst of condemning Biggest Loser.

In spite of that, it's true that willpower is a limited resource and if you push too hard you'll burn out (just like with programming but exercise gives you more immediate physical pain and high risk of injury from overuse)
Windows phone is damn good and I personally like Windows 8 especially with a touch screen monitor. I think MS is on to something and Ubuntu wants to make sure they have it covered once/If the "one OS" idea takes off. It is smart and if you do not like Ubuntu you can use one of the other distributions available.
Those are literally the two open mobile OSes, so being second place isn't a great feat.
Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily.

ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0

Concurrency Level: 30
Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds
Complete requests: 3000
Failed requests: 2137
(Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 31.267 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 182.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 116 165 165.9 122 1276
Processing: 137 771 624.6 625 6827
Waiting: 132 733 595.7 601 6823
Total: 254 936 644.7 789 7062

Perhaps should have "view" throttling per IP. Quite a few mechanisms could have solved my abuse.
gotcha!
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
This sounds like (the reverse of?) something I saw recently, "Projection Mapping on a Moving Object," demonstrated on a bouncing ball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuSUHuSceYc

The tech's called Lumipen, and they use something called Saccade Mirrors to do it.
Sorry but your perception of laws of thermodynamics is wrong. No one needs to eat the same amount of calories every day - your metabolism does not simply reset at midnight. It's a difference in energy consumption vs. expenditure that builds in a longer period of time that affects energy balance (positive or negative) and finally your weight change.

Eating less doesn't interfere with having diabetes or hypothyroidism. And 90% of people don't have these conditions.
Money won't make unhappy people happy, but it can make happy people happier.
I find it funny that their examples of grids don't line up on the right side.

It totally speaks to my experience with their grids.
Cloc -- Count Lines of Code
Well, nobody's going to force you to upgrade either. The 2.* code will still work just fine.
Does public relations have a PR problem?
If you eat less (below maintenance) and move more, you'll lose weight. That's just biological reality. I did that and have lost 15lbs in the past two months. Any psychological factors don't alter this basic fact.

Since when is psychology not part of biology?

Certainly, if you eat enough less and move enough more, you'll lose weight. I'm pretty sure there's a minimum threshold to this.

The problem with this is "eat less and move more" is just physics and not really a complete picture of your physiology. That is - you can be impelled somehow to eat less and move and if you go over threshold, you will lose weight. The problem is you may not reach a state which your body's internal calibration systems consider normal and thus you will wind-up gaining the weight back when the forces impelling you to eat less and move more go away. There's more to a craving for food than "psychology".

This is where the difficult biology of weight stands, as I understand it.

And personally, I'm always underweight no matter my food consumption so it's not hard to imagine other in the opposite situation. Each person's physiological system is different so a thousand antidotes don't prove a generality although they can certainly show the exceptions to the supposed "rule".
When I was doing some molecular genetics on E. Coli in the summer of 1977 I was told that for many antibiotics, 1 in a million of them would spontaneously mutate and develop resistance if exposed, and 1 in a billion for streptomycin.

Note that there are many methods of antibiotic resistance, including little pumps that try to keep the level low enough inside the bacterium. They've been developing them for a very long time, the other insight you need into this is the ecological one.

Most are from molds, and they release them to better compete with bacteria. And a resistant bacterial strain will not necessarily compete well with others lacking its mechanism(s) because those are otherwise maladaptive . E.g. it's spending raw materials and energy producing a β-lactamase while its competitors are dividing more rapidly. Only when you add the selection pressure of the antibiotic does it win big.
Is World War II so far away that everyone forgets how fucked up the entire world can become - and it doesn't take long for it all to go to hell either. The NSA has to get their shit together, but we still need real strategical/tactical intelligence inside and outside of the US. So when it does happen (and it will eventually happen) we're prepared not to lose our country, or even the world to the super nuclear powered genetically modified nazi cyborgs.
Efficiency is not our goal
It's a good question. Maybe that is what they are trying to figure out?

I've heard suggestions that the mutation rate can go up in a high-stress environment, perhaps that could be related?

I hope the HN research effect kicks in and someone finds and summarizes the research on these questions.
What is this obsession with trying to stick the same UI on lots of completely different things?

Every time I hear someone advocating this kind of "convergence", I imagine the dashboard of a Toyota Corolla installed in the cockpit of a 747, or the control panel from a blender transplanted onto an air conditioner.

Why do devices that do different things in different ways need to be interacted with in the same manner?
"You're arguing the "feelings" argument of investing which is vastly inferior to the mathematic reality of investing."

I am not talking primarily about "investing". I'm talking about owning a home vs. renting a home not as a way to make an investment. Consequently the "feelings" (if you want to call it that) as well as the practical aspects of ownership (such as improvements and control) are important to some people. But not all. Depends on many factors. Which is what I said in my parent comment.

You are saying "For the past 5 years, renting would've been much better than owning in most areas of the U.S."

If you incorporate a time frame into investing anything can seem like a good or bad investment. For example using a 10 year time frame or even a 3 year time frame (before the RE market tanked). Different results? I'm sure you are not unhappy about the 500,000 you did make which if you had shifted the time frame would not have happened.

I am not taking issue with what you are saying. I thought I layed out the case whereby there were other non-economic reasons that someone might make a particular decision to own vs. rent.

As far as bank value and leverage I am well aware of that. Just like I am aware that if you are in a divorce an appraisal can come into play even though you are not selling anything (one party might retain the residence and be subject to a high or low value that may or may not benefit). Also the fact that people tend to spend more money if they feel rich and that their RE (which they have no intention of selling) is more "valuable". And so on.
It's not about Apple per se because I am pretty sure Windows Phone does not have these problems either. It's an attention to detail thing. That they shipped the S4 with obvious animation lag shows they may just be blind to it or notice it and make a calculation that the tradeoff is not worth it to fix it. In other words, they're willing to ship something that is kind of shitty because of a cost-benefit analysis, or they can't even see that it's shitty. This to me is not the strategy of a company who is seeking a leadership position in terms of innovation, and in this market, a leadership position is pretty important since things change so quickly.

Say what you will about Apple, but it's pretty clear they pride themselves on shipping things they are proud to put their name on because they only ship it when they feel the details are right. The App Store review process is in this spirit, they don't want shitty apps screwing up the experience on their phones.

This is why the Maps debacle was a catalyst for their stock plummeting, it showed to many this may have been lost with the loss of Jobs. I think the final build of iOS 7 is going to speak volumes about how Apple's culture has changed or not. If they get the details right, they've still got it. If it's laggy, has minor usability issues everywhere, etc, then that is the type of thing that I think spells Apple's doom.

edit: To summarize, I don't think 'animation lag' is in the same class of tradeoffs as 'open vs closed app stores.' Animation lag is a bug, and makes your work look objectively shitty, full stop. Animation lag 'matters' to everyone, even if they don't overtly notice it, because to everyone, animation lag breaks the illusion of fluid motion and interactivity on a subconscious level. It's sloppiness, plain and simple.
Are you actually comparing Darwin vs Linux, or OSX vs GNU?

Proprietary software has many advantages over Free - heavier corporate investment creates more consistent and polished results. But that doesn't imply that it's better for all purposes, or that a new project is better off choosing a license that makes easy to incorporate into proprietary products.
There is no American comparison to a chaebol, especially Samsung. Fanboy arguments aside, you can't compare the two.

It would be like if Apple built your car, held your insurance policy, and owned the apartment complex you lived in. None of that comes close to having to buy digital apps on your Apple phone from Apple.