skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study authors supply plausible and completely ordinary explanations for weight gain in each of the populations. Why speculate beyond that? No reason except that it's "intriguing."

Though it is certainly not necessary that there be a single explanation for all of these population level increases nor even a single explanation for each individual population, it is intriguing to consider whether there are any factors that could conceivably account for weight increases in all of these populations.

In other words, just more fuel for speculation about some alien contaminant, a pathogen or pollutant, that we can blame for the obesity epidemic. We have all the explanations for human obesity that we could possibly need, but we continue to wish for some cause that does not operate through our behavior.
For my anecdote, I drink 1 cup a day, and then possibly a soda or tea at a meal. It hits me hard after 24 hours without any.
"If Lavabit lost its appeal to the F.I.S.C.R., and still refused to coöperate, it would run a serious risk of being found in contempt; that’s how most courts punish those who disobey its orders. The FISA court is no different. According to the court’s rules of procedure, a party may be held in contempt for defying its orders. The secret court may consider many punishments—secret fines for each day of noncompliance, or even secret jail time for executives. The idea behind civil contempt is that “you hold the key to your own cell.” If you comply, the punishment stops. But hold out long enough and your contempt may be criminal, and your compliance will not end the jail sentence or displace the fine."

Any claims the FISA court is not a real court fail hard if the above is correct. Which is pretty much has to be for the current system to work.
I think Ask Patents is supposed to be like this. HN already posted an article about this a few weeks ago.

http://patents.stackexchange.com/
I was up to 4 cans of rockstar a day and quit cold turkey a month ago. The withdrawal symptoms are gone, but the low energy levels persist. I'm more interested in finding out why than going back to the caffeine. I wonder if it's the increased number of adenosine receptors, combined with lower amounts of dopamine. Some days, I take 1g of L-Tyrosine (which gets converted into dopamine) and that helps me energetic and, in a word, normal. On the days I don't, I sleep 9 hours at night and take a 3 hour nap in the middle of the day. I don't have a lot of answers right now, but I hope my low energy levels don't persist for a whole year.
It's not a browser. It's a pre-configured Firefox with Tor and proxy manager.
And this is from 1974, one year before the Altair 8800 ("widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e11h73WhqK4
It's not the least bit friendly, and quite rude.
In 1992 Apple sold a computer that started at $16,500 modern (2013) dollars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_IIfx. The Lisa was a probably a failure because it started at $23,500 modern dollars, which was a lot compared to the original Macintosh's $5,600 modern dollars.

You used to have to really want access to a computer. Today's computers are a mighty bargain.
I really don't understand what you're advocating or what mechanism you hope to develop.

You basically want to put out bounties for law firms to take cases against patents? What patents would they target? What adversarial setting would they defend / attack patents in? Couldn't this result in a race to the bottom about what things people want in the public domain - ie. a bunch of people petitioning to have a law firm attack Amazon's One-Click patent? Basically if someone made something desirable enough, then an efficient market would funnel enough money into trumping their patent through your concept, destroying whatever incentive the company had to make something valuable.

I could be off on what your suggesting, so i apologize.

While there are lots of flaws & advantages in the patent system, one major opinion I have is that there should be some sort of use/active-pursue requirement. Ie. you can't claim property ownership over an idea unless you're actively putting it into product / trying to figure out how. Or maybe a shorter length of the patent (ie. 5/10 years), unless you're actively pursuing it.

This would be similar to adjustments in other types of property law. Ie. a lot of property law is based on incentives to define ownership / acquisition in a means that most benefits society. For example in the old property case Brazelton, they didn't award ownership to the person who found a sunk ship & squatted on it, but rather awarded ownership to the person who came later but actually had the technology to lift it.
The failure stories I have heard convince me these are not fail-safe devices. If the thing shuts down in the winter and doesn't restart correctly, and you are away, you could come back to frozen/burst pipes. (Probably hasn't happened yet, but the failures have happened, so it's likely just a matter of time.)

So I would only use one of these paired with a conventional thermostat serving as a safety net, in case the Nest fails. But then I resent having to compensate for a manufacturer that cannot be bothered to build the failsafe into their own product in the first place.
> I didn't think padding was inherited?

I forgot that padding required explicit "inherit".

So, bottom line, yes, it would seem to make sense to just have the single-line complete version:

padding: *w* *x* *y* *z*
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How much of your database is actually in your RAM?
"But a lot of the problems he described are like taking a huge dump in your toilet, it not flushing properly, and just giving up when the plunger is right there."

Best. Analogy. Ever.
Most DOM performance issues arise from jQuery (mis)usage, and fortunately there is documentation for that:

http://learn.jquery.com/performance/

It's brief and quite informative.
You are confusing throughput with latency. Google is optimizing for throughput.
Sorry to be that person... but it's actually a perfect fifth, not a third.
The one that is pre-installed pretty much everywhere and can run in a terminal
For me at least, I'm at one cup, but still get withdrawal symptoms if I don't have it. Is there any way to meter this down? Maybe just dump out half the cup?
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I didn't search for the specifics based on the language of the article; it seemed to boil down to "some future math breakthrough based on current work is possible"... which is always the case.

If I'm good enough to do something, it's to be able to switch out the encryption tools the enterprise I support uses at the drop of a hat, but despite similar fears voiced in tech forums over the last decade, I haven't yet needed to.

I think it's more likely our security breach will come from someone trying to buy cheap drugs from Canada over email, or by a good old-fashioned mole.
100%!

What I try to do is give folks the benefit of the doubt. Charity über Alles.

Rather than read "iconic" and jump to the first conclusion I have, I might try in earnest to read and understand what someone wrote as they intended it to be read.

In this case, if he meant "iconic" in the sense that The Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Elis Presley are iconic then, the tone of the article is off. It's very humble. There were no sour grapes, but rather a kind of happy surprise when he heard that a sound he made years ago was used on the iPhone. It sure doesn't seem like he was puffing himself up.

What's more likely, then? That he meant "iconic" in the Beatles sense or that it didn't occur to him that some folks reading this article might take "iconic" in a way he didn't intend?

My money is on the latter.
I'm ignoring older browser because it's the difference between a lot of pain and a modicum of joy. (Also, most of the actually cool stuff these days? "Sorry, must be this modern to ride")

Also, if you keep supporting older browser, people will keep using them. If they keep using them, they will likely have vulnerabilities. So in a sense, dropping support for old browsers is like tough love.. it's not an easy choice for anyone to lose out on however small a fraction of visitors/users, but sometimes you just have to do it, "for the greater good".
nice! thank you
Look at my project subvim: https://github.com/fatih/subvim It's sublime features include into vim. Give it a try and maybe you'll like it :)
I actually do have a minor chronic condition, causing inflammation of my sinuses and a subsequent poor sleep/fatigue. I can permanently cure it by opting for a nasal surgery which my private insurance is willing to pay most of the cost. Until then, I treat it with a nasal corticoid, one flask cost $150 in the US, $45 with the drugs copay I had on my first job, but only 25 euros shelf price in France, I just refill when I visit (I use about 5 flasks a year). I definitely agree that the PPACA provision easing coverage for those with a pre-existing condition it a good thing.
I've just updated my unofficial Mac OS X build (featuring alloy's native sidebar with a file tree):

https://github.com/rcarmo/macvim/releases/tag/7.4

It's a tad controversial, I know, but I find it vastly more friendly than NERDTree, and I know quite a few people were looking for alloy's builds a while back.

EDIT: screenshot, from an older build:

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/392683/793013/469e0c62-ebd...
This is absolutely true, and it's nice to see attention being paid to a problem that the tinfoil hat in me thinks might just still exist by design.
I've dealt with this for 12 years now.

Throw away your idealism and artistic ego.

You aren't getting paid because you are some grand wizard of digital design and your vision matters.

You're getting paid because you solve that "don't have a website" problem for the client.

>so bad that I would no longer want to be associated with making the site

Get over it man. Potential clients don't care as much as you think. They just want to see you get work done for a good price.
> These political discussions on HN are awkward, and I wish they'd stop.

I think "Worse is Better" applies here. Political discussions in online forums (or anywhere) aren't ideal, but I still think it's better to have them than not to.
You need to add a workout regimen in then, at leat 90mins of good working out. The problem is most tech people tire their brains out but not their body. My mind will be shot and i can get up and run for 60mins at a slow 6/6.5 miles an hr, it doesn't need to be crazy. I sleep like a baby when i workout.
You're right to look at the marginal tax rate but you're not considering all the options available. For goods like a hamburger it's easy to see why a tax on hamburgers makes people buy less hamburgers. Hamburgers cost more with the tax, so you can save money by buying chicken nuggets instead. This doesn't mean everyone will switch to chicken nuggets, just that many people who slightly preferred hamburgers to chicken nuggets before the tax will now switch over and slightly prefer the chicken nuggets after the tax.

For business and entrepreneurship the argument is the same. Increased taxes and other types of costs decrease the rewards so you'll end up with less of it. It's not that business owners don't want more money. It's that they are continually deciding between many options.

For example, years ago I had to decide between going to graduate school, getting a job in industry, and starting a business. The tax and subsidy breakdown is drastically different between all three. Of course tax implications wasn't the biggest factor in my decision, but it mattered.
I never looked into it much as i started with lisp just recently and also putting that info with your vimscript makes me love vim a lot more now. Thank you kind sir.
Oh and the mechanics analogy is dumb.

There is one way to change a break pad and potentially infinite ways to create a website.
this being said, our overall conversation was not too out of the ordinary. they asked what my startup did, i gave them the pitch, and then we talked about advanced manufacturing and the future of the american economy for ~20min. none of them smiled though.
Well, the model would be a little different. It wouldn't be just about money. You would want to crowd-source work, ancillary projects, etc. Also, I wouldn't crowd-source a cure for cancer, but research in general.

For example, we might find a way to cure a lot of cancers by simply detecting them when they are days old when they are easier to treat, so a better, and inexpensive, way to detect cancers would be valuable.
I am sure that it is dependent on the individual. I know some people who can't have caffeine due to various health reasons and others can't tolorrate the effects.
considering the smallest can of red bull has as much caffeine as a cup of coffee (80mg) and a can of rockstar has twice that (160mg) I would say you're off base. Especially since both come in sugar free versions (which I used to enjoy more than the HFCS laden stuff, before I quit).
I think that what makes Vim inferior nowadays is its scripting language, and its clunky implementation in general. It takes a lot more effort to build something like org-mode in vimscript.
Hi!

Are you sure? Check out my build: https://github.com/rcarmo/macvim/releases/tag/7.4

EDIT: link to fixed release.
Any evidence of software gains from OSX?

Hardware is hardware, so the pretty Mac Pro box isn't worth much, when the same hardware is available elsewhere. Perhaps it makes the employees feel more important at work. That said, a couple of days ago, HN had an article with evidence that the more you make your employees feel like the company is on the edge of collapse - the better they'll perform.
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What do you suggest he do? He cannot even close Gitmo, real reform of the prison system requires buy in from Congress. About the only thing they were able to squeak through was reducing the penalty gap in mandatory sentencing guidelines between crack and powder cocaine. Then the GOP took control of the House and any further legislation seen as being soft on [non white collar] crime have nearly a 0% chance of passing.
>It's fascinating that the situation is such a mockery of the rule of law, yet it keeps on rolling.

Unable to be aware of the current secret case law history,
addressing the FISA secret court, is it intellectually dishonest to still say, `Your Honor?'"
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Really? The first thing that pops into your head is to argue terminology?
You know, we could just stop messing with healthcare providers and insurers, and let them provide a worthwhile service rather than just a legal one.

Oh, and try to shut down the FDA too, with all their liability fobbing and bias toward dangerous, old, and addictive treatments.
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Nice compendium of resources, good timing also :-)
I don't see the problem: there's a question, there's a good answer, so it's closed. Not everything has to be an on-going debate.
Secret fines, secret proceedings, secret prison time. I wonder if the charges and evidence against you are also secret and only the court knows not the defendent.
"Couldn't this result in a race to the bottom about what things people want in the public domain - ie. a bunch of people petitioning to have a law firm attack Amazon's One-Click patent? Basically if someone made something desirable enough, then an efficient market would funnel enough money into trumping their patent through your concept, destroying whatever incentive the company had to make something valuable."

I see absolutely no problem with this. If the patent is defensible, then no amount of law firm action or monetary incentive should make any difference in removing the patent. Most software patents are probably indefensible which does already say a lot about software patents.

Calling for changes to patent law is where I don't understand what you're hoping to accomplish. If there was going to be any change, it would already have happened.
Here's a cached copy: http://www.losdoggies.com.nyud.net:8080/archives/1302
Secret courts

extraordinary rendition

waterboarding

indefinite detention in a location beyond the reach of the judicial system

shoot to kill via drone

spying on the populace on a scale that the stasi could only dream of.

Spying on allies as well as enemies

What kind of a regime is that?
I don't agree that killing patents is the right approach, how about this as an alternative: The site's admin team could identify patents of particularly useful or disruptive potential and users could pledge a value to bring this patent into the public domain, and their pledge could remain valid for some reasonable period of time, the site could then put forward the aggregate pledge and buy the patent with the view to releasing it. Perhaps a price could be agreed upon up front. The same could be done to bring creative works like books into the public domain.
The link above should mention this requires 10.8 and above.
things seem to become interesting more and more, i mean the secret fines and secret jail time. The former i guess accounted and reported to [secret department of] SEC on secret 10K forms, while later suggests the following interpretation for this new brave world of the old Russian joke: "A CEO tells to his wife that his is going on a vacation with a mistress, and he tells his mistress that he is going on a vacation with the wife, while he is going to serve secret sentence in a jail".
>It's not a browser

>It's Firefox

So Firefox is not a browser?
I agree, and when making the conscious decision to get a entry-level private insurance, I made the calculation that what I save on a lower price insurance I could use to spend more on healthier food, in addition of me being physically active, and in my 20's, which makes me a lower risk profile and try to take advantage of it. I also realize that as I get older, I will probably need to set more aside for health-related coverage.
My great grandmother spent 15 years staying up late at night to watch which buildings the KGB agents went into and who they black bagged every single night. My great grandfather's brother was black bagged and dragged away in the middle of the night. My family found out where he was buried decades later through an government inquiry after the attitude towards these inquiries had changed (before, if you sent one in, they instead dragged you away).

The moral of the story is that the US is not nearly as bad as people might think/say, but governments watching people's every move is the first rung in the 1000 step ladder down to hell.
As I said, the browser is a new challenge, and I was referring exactly to the problem of presentation flexibility. However, I'm pretty sure that the boxes-and-glue model can handle flexible viewport and font sizes as inputs from the browser, rather than specified by the user in terms of page size.

CSS has boxes, more or less. It does not have glue in any meaningful way, i.e., it does not give a direct way to specify what happens in between the boxes. Pretty much all the things that are difficult to do in CSS have to do with the difficulty of describing what happens in the negative space.
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And not even mine, I got it from Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, can't remember if he got it from someone else.

Another half test is to wait and see if we don't have an ice age, that would be evidence against it, but not absolute if e.g. the global warming crowd is partly correct.
11.8% body weight increase per decade means a doubling of body weight in 60 years. That can not be a healthy speed of evolution.
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Sounds like (+ AskPatents money), I'm up for it.
Also potentially creates market for patent lawyers to clear their consciences.
Classes and IDs have no semantic purpose in HTML[1]. Bootstrap's approach is bad from a developer's perspective, but is not bad as long as you use the right elements.

[1] search/indexing bots do look at classes to try to make sense of a page, but only because of tag soup and the lack of structural elements before html5
Firfefox is a browser. PirateBrowser is not.
Breaking crypto is the hard way to get information. Way easier to get it at one of the endpoints. (Industry lingo would say: attack data at rest, not data in transit.)

Poison RNGs, get backdoors into the biggest services and software, and you have the majority of what you could need with almost no computing power.
RPX[1] is doing some interesting things with Patent Troll Insurance, but it's really only a viable option for huge corporations who want to buy into the troll-defense patent pool.

[1] http://www.crowell.com/NewsEvents/AlertsNewsletters/all/Cour...
Same here, really enjoying it. I have/had a few pain points, but I'm writing a detailed review of the book as I go through it and those will be in there.
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Regarding target audience, I think if the screencasts were "emacs for beginners and elisp for beginners" it would be too much and there would be no real audience: people who are starting out in emacs don't need to bother about elisp yet, people who are starting out in elisp probably know at least the basics, if not more, of emacs.

So either do emacs for beginners (of which there are already quite a few screencasts) or do elisp for intermediate emacs users but those new to elisp

Disclaimer: I am being amazingly selfish here as I've been using emacs for quite a while, but only now getting into elisp (and lisp in general)

I've just watched all 3 screencasts and found them really very useful. Not just the elisp stuff, which is great, but also the modes that help you use elisp (smartparens etc).

I would happily pay/gittip for a series that aimed at programmers who already use emacs (or can figure out the editing/movement functions) that takes you from no elisp to being able to write your own (useful) packages. Tips for getting the most out of emacs for the development of lisp would be a huge plus (for example, an episode on setting up/using smartparens, eldocs or whatever).
Just like iOS, OS X is designed to build on very specific hardware and it is known which specific optimizations and generalizations can be made. Hence the term "hackintosh".
That's so drugs can be prescribed for it.
When you're addicted, you need a drug. When you kick the addiction, you'll need another drug.
Instant coffee will give you roughly 12mg of caffeine, an espresso will give you ~150mg , a regular size cup of brewed coffee from somewhere like Starbucks is around ~200mg of caffeine.

The strength of your coffee is in the brewing method and beans used. So, I guess, the effect of a cup would vary greatly depending on where you got it.
I am not sure if patent trolls will want to part with their main source of income for any reasonable amount.
Great, I've just send you an email.
I (somewhat recently) taught myself how to play the piano solely by playing Mario songs. There's a pretty decent easy piano book which goes through the entire canon.

Here's a link to the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Series-Piano-Easy/dp/07390...
Additional thought, promoted by Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds (http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/017469/): "The secret of social harmony is simple: Old men must be dangerous."
>What exactly are people doing with these Mac Books that could not be achieved on a $1500-1800 PC?

They aesthetically please the eye in clean, minimalist offices.
Cool story bro, Switzerland is so much better than the US. Please, go on and tell us about all the other ways in which Switzerland surpasses the US.
/s

And I say this as a non-American.
do you customize your emacs keybindings for text editing, or do you use the emacs defaults?
How about if you want to override just one part?

It doesn't make much sense with "padding", but for something like "border: red solid 2px;", how do you override just the color if you don't have the individual components broken out?