skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these are examples of actions which could be described in ways that make them sound like non-offenses (ie, a sequence of individual actions which don't sound like offenses if you ignore the context) but which are actually offenses when you look at all of the actions together. You can misleadingly describe 3taps' actions, entering a store you've been banned from disguised, or luring someone to the forest to shoot them, in ways that make them sound legit (please don't be that guy who takes issue with my not presenting them cleverly enough; you don't pay me enough to take the time to make the analogies airtight.)

Taking this back to the original point about Monsanto: it's not legal to isolate their seeds and then grow them while using roundup, without first paying the fee to have their patented roundup-ready seeds. Because it's illegal to skip the license fee. Several layers of posts back, you described certain farmers' actions in ways that sound legit, but when you take the actions all together they're clearly attempting to use the special properties of Monsanto's seeds without paying, which is illegal.
Doesn't load for me:

[blocked] The page at 'https://wagnerandrade.github.io/old-school-racing/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
wagnerandrade.github.io/:1
Uncaught ReferenceError: Track is not defined (index):32
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I think that crowd-sourcing startups are revolutionizing the way we live. Companies such as Uber and Airbnb have taken advantage of all of us being connected and willing to share our resources and time servicing others for profit.

That being said, I see new business opportunities in making sense of exorbitant amounts of data. This can help push further research in areas you have mentioned and obviously many others as well.
Hey, you should have. That was probably me, we are based in Sweden but I work out here from LA.
There's been some evidence that sugar is actually worse for you that we used to think.

It makes a bit of sense really. Fat and salt has always been part of the human diet, but large quantities of refined sugar are very recent.
Oh the memories of buffer underruns.

"DON'T touch the computer it's burning a CD!"
Best to ignore salt claims from studies using unsavoury data
In 90% of the cases this is a non issue, if you visit any doctor in any India metro, the guy will never write you a prescription which isn't available with the medical shop they tie up with.

These days I can more or less guess what medication the doctor where I regular go to generally writes.
Or specifically, the laws of thermodynamics still apply.
I keep forgetting that GNU echo has an -e option, which, if I'm not mistaken, makes it behave like printf. (Why does it need this feature when there also exists a builtin printf? Nevermind.)

Anyway, I didn't think about what happens if you create one file called "-e" and then do

echo *

Anyway, as someone else pointed out, using ./* instead of * will defeat the "exploits" in the article.
http://gifyoutube.com/gif/sDY ← My favorite GIF right now.
You know what would be super helpful? If scientists came up with a rating system that described how confident they were in the results from a study. That way the public would know how much weight they should give the results.

Independent body who runs a well-controlled double blinded study? A+

Biased organization who runs an analysis of questionable observational data with barely passible statistical significance? F

They already do this for cancer therapies. NCCN gives rating that describe how much evidence exists for a given therapy.
Use dollar-quoting for automatic string conversion:

insert into my_table values
($$ json_goes_here $$);

Works for all stringy things.
If that's true, I suspect it's because Java is an awful, unsexy language that few programmers are interested in learning. You have your .NET people, and you have people interested in exciting alternative languages like Ruby, Java, Erlang, Haskell, Go, etc. And then, for some reason, there are all these companies using Java (perhaps founded in the late nineties?) who need to keep things moving. (Also possible: maybe I'm wrong and Java is just a delight to program.)

I'd be curious to hear about the job offer and salary comparison between .NET and "various fashionable languages" apart from Java.
Moon fruit
Load it with normal http, not https.
IEEE 1284
and would be in 2010 ..if you had a time machine
A rap duo from Brooklyn noticed the same thing with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04
Very nicely done! I love these kinds of hacks :)

A small suggestion - can you make the camera smoother? It's a bit jarring when it's going right and it suddenly starts going left.
Except for the "reasonable rate" bit, which (IMHO) also includes "reasonable latency." Real UARTs can be used for, e.g., pulse-per-second inputs from GPS or atomic clocks to discipline an NTP server. That doesn't work for a USB->serial thingy (because the latency is literally three orders of magnitude worse).
Lack of evidence is not proof they aren't doing it. You can still say there is risk of it and ponder how much risk that means. There's definitely some concern of Chinese hardware.
The new study, which tracked more than 100,000 people from 17 countries over an average of more than three years, found that those who consumed fewer than 3,000 milligrams of sodium a day had a 27% higher risk of death or a serious event such as a heart attack or stroke in that period than those whose intake was estimated at 3,000 to 6,000 milligrams. Risk of death or other major events increased with intake above 6,000 milligrams.

What are the chances that there are many other confounding factors? The first one that comes to mind is that people with extremely low sodium intakes may also be the same ones who are malnourished because they can barely afford food.

It might also be interesting to see if there's a strong correlation between sodium intake and life expectancy; comparing http://cdn.chr-hansen.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Salt_Consump... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Expectancy_2005-2010_... roughly, it doesn't seem like there is much of one... and in fact the other sources I could find indicate a slight positive correlation.
What if dissidents are using your service because it's outside their country of origin and they get disappeared because of it?
Come on, some common sense is needed. Salt is required by our bodies, too little and we die, too much and the same thing. Same goes for fat, sugar, vitamins, minerals, etc...

This isn't even new knowledge... Our bodies need various proteins, sugars and minerals in certain quantities - call the fucking press...
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Same for me with the HTTPS Everywhere extension. Just click "load unsafe script" and it will work.

Note to author, use a protocol-independent script tag, e.g. //github.com/wagnerandrade/old-school-racing/releases/download/0.0.1/old-school-racing.js
Old but good: https://www.mheducation.co.in/html/9780070265103.html
Government absolutely optimizes for profit.
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This is fot the 'hackers' such as Anonymous I suppose.
Computer Organization and Architecture by Stallings

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Organization-Architecture-Sta...
Give them a break. Its a large ship trying to re-orient itself to the new world order.
Arg. The findings are that low salt is bad for you, which is what people have thought for ages.

They did NOT find high salt wasn't actually bad for you.
This is actually Google's strategy with strategy. It's big enough that the kind of studies management consulting firms offer can be useful to the company, but instead of hiring McKinsey to do a study, they just hire away their best young talent and have them join their internal strategy arm.

Considering that their associates bill at $1MM/year, hiring them away ends up being much cheaper.
I always wanted something like this to generate terrain for FPS shooting game. So size of this would be lets say 2mx2m and it would be able to create walls on which I could lean to. And of course in combination with Oculus Rift. Of course when I walk in some direction this terrain would have to move in other way so I'm always in middle...
Which is why America puts bread at the base of the food Pyramid, can't get enough of that sweet sugar.
There was actually a study done a while back looking if sugar causes "hyperactivity" in children. You know your typical cliché "kids ate cake, and now they are so hyper running around".

And I believe they found that sugar does not cause hyperactivity, but somehow discovered that it helped either remember events better or learn new things.

Now looking back I think I had experienced that myself -- I remember my mom made some strawberry jam and I was eating it with a spoon for whatever reason, and it was while studying for a final oral exam in history (this is a different country, were we had to memorize and answer all 50 or so questions and then we'd be questioned on it orally by student). Anyway that one instance, out of many instances in years before before and after, I was remembering and at much higher rate. At least high enough to be noticeable to me.

Seeing the study years later kind of confirmed it.
Like everything, It depends. If your app provides a clear utility and that is the main reason for people to use it, then yes - A Js with some hybrid framework should do.

However - If you're competing in a crowded set of apps, then going native is the minimum you'd need to do for your app to stand out in the crowd.
Even if it's in the standard library, it still might be more work to find where it is in the standard library than just do it the way you already know how.
Scientists do in fact report how confident they are in their findings. Read original sources, most of them say things like "in X% of observed cases there was a Y% of Z over the course of T with confidence level of P".

But that sells a lot less clicks than "SCIENCE SAYS LOW SALT IS BAD FOR YOU OMG"
Alkyl azides are not very dangerous.
The State of Android Testing
I've met the guys behind a German startup called "Was hab ich?"[0] - which translates roughly to "what have I got?".

It's a platform that lets people post their doctor's notes and have med students interpret it for them in an easy to digest form.

It helps both patients better understand their conditions and med students learn how to read and interpret diagnosis.

It's a non-profit as far as I'm aware, since part of their philosophy is giving access to patients irrespective of their financial ability. I think it's a really neat concept. Sadly only available in German / Germany.

[0] https://washabich.de/
How do you measure founder quality? Most startups have some amount of traction when they raise VC funding. Either hundreds of thousands of users or $1M or more in revenue, especially with the bar for Series A getting consistently higher. That would speak to the quality of founders increasesing over time, not decreasing.
Connecting the Desktop to the Cloud: Local links' last stand
There was a discussion of spaced repetition here two days ago. Does this mean the optimum time for the next spaced repetition discussion is now about 10 days from now?
I went to a Montessori preschool for a year or two before doing public schooling K-12, and in retrospect I think it worked out pretty well. I was in Montessori for a short enough time that I didn't feel too weird during the switch (although I distinctly remember wondering why Kindergarten was so easy compared to preschool), but long enough that I was way ahead of most of the other kindergarteners. Then in the following years I was put into various accelerated learning groups with the other smart kids. Once you're in that group it's pretty easy to get a good education, even in public school (that or I got lucky with good public school teachers).
I'm disappointed with how difficult it is to unit test even simple classes in Android in Android Studio. The experience with unit testing is just one symptom of the general developer experience on Android. I really wish they'd pick up their game.
License cost for WHAT are enormous? Visual Studio Express is free. I assume you already own a copy of a Windows OS, so what other license do you need?

Just because you are using Windows and C# doesn't mean you have to use MSSQL and other Microsoft products as well. And honestly, using other things, you'll be just as happy.
Google also has the brand name to do this. Leaving McKinsey to work at Google looks great on a resume, leaving McKinsey to work at a small or midsize company looks much stranger.
As we've read in the recent front page article about cereal. The food and agricultural lobby is heavily involved in "recommended food pyramid" agenda.

The most recent change I think was to make it a strange looking thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_guide_pyramid#mediaviewer...

With "milk" being it own category. (Hello Milk Lobby) and then some humanoid shape running up the stairs.

Basically the message is "eat whatever is marketed to you, but if you get fat is because you didn't run up the stairs enough".
> Lua's nature is definitely a bit prohibitive to a tight community

Is that for technical reasons or because Lua is commonly used in proprietary apps?
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There's always a way.

That doesn't mean I will be the one to build it. Many undesirable things are imminently possible, easy even, but very few people do those things. With enough solid arguments and education, mass surveillance, even ostensibly for good purposes, can be added to that list.
In the case of Bitlocker we know that Niels Ferguson is behind it. The name might ring a bell.
Isn't it also plausible that many people on low-sodium diets were at risk of heart attack or stroke already (and that's why they were on the low-sodium diet)? Interesting result, for sure, and it'll be interesting to see the follow-up studies.
Next thing they will me telling me there is no evidence than salt raises blood pressure.
Node.js performance benchmarks
A rather peculiar one my friend noticed: Apple stores and Victoria's Secret.
The Message from Water
>> Using an iframe?

Let's say yes.
Back then MS was a tiny company. 8% wasn't seen as much and they wanted a somewhat older management type with some qualifications. I think BillG might have known of SteveB from his short stint at Harvard.
I wish I had this list when I started programming in Lua.
Thus Google is/was the #1 destination for ex-McKinsey folks. Generally speaking, mgmt consulting attracts more risk averse people than otherwise, so this is somewhat natural (in fact, my risk-seeking friend who joined the firm was surprised that so many people were risk averse).

But there are plenty of people who leave the firm to go to mid sizes places or places with less cache, but at a relatively high position in the corporate chain.

They also leave to join growth phase startups as well.
Windows 8.1 Update Crippling PCs With BSOD, Microsoft Suggests You Roll Back
Well, the brain does run on glucose...
Do you look at your server screens while they boot?

Long enough to see the POST screen where I put the message:

Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG ==Customised by XXXXXXXX==

is pretty hard to not notice, especially if it suddenly changed back to string in the OEM BIOS. The code I inserted basically computes my string by "encrypting" the original string with some constants derived from the whole BIOS image, so if the BIOS was only partially modified it turns into rubbish, and if it was replaced, then the string reverts to the original one. The point is that the BIOS on that machine is globally unique, has a feature that I can easily identify, and would be difficult if not impossible to forge by an attacker with only the OEM BIOS. I came up with this shortly after the infamous CIH virus emerged.

Ditto for the NSA trying to flash a backdoored Coreboot: they would have to know exactly the customisations I made to my BIOS to replicate them, and if they did, then I'm probably pwned anyway. Backdoors in an offboard option ROM would certainly avoid modifying the BIOS, but I guess a similar mechanism could be used to customise one to easily detect its modification.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as...

Is that absolute proof? No.

Is it better than some unknown guy claiming whatever? I think yes. YMMV.
Reading the "news" section, they actually still haven't made any changes, they just managed to compile it!

Some other place that forked the TrueCrypt sources to some repo (VeraCrypt) managed to change a few constants and make the containers incompatible. At least they addressed a known TC weakness: the low number of PBKDF2 passes.

Finally, the contribution of the TruCrypt.ch (TCNext) is that they put the original sources and binaries behind a new domain name and wrote "TrueCrypt must not die."

In short, it's easy to put other's work behind a new domain or in another repo, it's hard and costly to do the real development.
I was in Professor Sharpless' organic synthesis class at Scripps many many years ago. Very nice guy and extremely bright. I'm not surprised he's pushing the envelope again.
As I've commented on similar articles in the past, it's not enough to "just know" things; science has to prove them, repeatedly, in multiple ways. Sure it's tedious and repetitive, but it's absolutely essential to lay a solid foundation for the next generation of research.
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> It makes a bit of sense really. Fat and salt has always been part of the human diet, but large quantities of refined sugar are very recent.

That kind of reasoning is very much flawed. Why would the diet of x years ago be relevant versus having a better diet nowadays ? For all we know, our ancestors were eating berries and much less meat than we do, yet we seem to live longer those days and yet we ingest substances (such as medicines) that were not part of the human diet before.

Actually, that line of reasoning does not make sense at all. That's why we run clinical studies. To find out answers.
This may not be 100% accurate, but this is one way of doing it:

1) youtube-dl ${video-id} video.avi #download youtube to avi

2) ffmpeg -i video.avi -t 10 out%02d.gif #export avi file to gif frames

3) gifsicle --delay=10 --loop *.gif > anim.gif #makes animated looping gif
>>I met a number of doctors who took the attitude that if they couldn’t figure out what was wrong, it must be in my head.

I hear you.

I went through a very similar phase a few years back here in India. It turns out it was just a simple infection being dragged around by my doctor just to keep the consultation fees coming.

It took a little internet research and a change of doctor to get the problem resolved.

In another case a wife of a colleague suffered from a serious health issue. Turns out the doctor did everything to delay the actual treatment to keep the expenses high. After a little research and catching the doctor in the act, the doctor yelled at them telling that was how he deals and they can go to a different doctor if they wanted. A new doctor was able to get the situation under control and get the issues resolved pretty quick.

We need to understand that at the end of the day its just a business, and they just tend to optimize what works for them.
So that most of our hot data fits in RAM? I would expect the type of machine you guys are selling to come with 256Gb standard, to be honest (and the cost of another 128Gb of RAM is negligible -- I'd pay a couple more $ per day or whatever for it).
Click chemistry despite its cool sounding name isn't very useful because the clickable parts that are left behind in the final structure are not necessarily themselves useful for other things..m in biology this can often mean "they get in the way" except for a subset of problems like payload attachment or imaging agent/analytical agent attachment. Mostly click chemistry gets used to make other biological discovery marginally easier.
It has now turned into this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate
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Like recovered memory therapy, for example, or prefrontal lobotomy? There's a reason mainstream medicine forbids therapies that have no experimental verification, a wise practice that has yet to take hold in psychology.
With that said, i Just read the Lowe review and I think the polymer application is exciting.
Why would someone press 7 or more keys at the same time?
I love being able to drive in reverse at 300km/h.
Or you could just use gfycat to create both gif and webm versions (up to 15 sec long) directly from youtube, vimeo etc.
One issue that was very time consuming for me until recently was that on machines we had mining data upstream across many clusters of vm's, they would sometimes spit out mal formatted files that would need to be fed in downstream for indexing.

Each file had about 100k objects, and there would be less 10 objects with errors on avg if they were mal formatted. It was easy (but annoying) to do at first but scaling up the clusters made it exponentially harder to do by hand in the terminal.

It was conceptually easy to solve once I abstracted the problem a bit: I had a rough idea of where I was getting the data from on the mining servers (urls, ocr'd pdfs , etc), and since there are a bunch of libraries out there for parsing json that give an idea of where the errors are occurring in the files by the byte, after that it was a combination of traversing file forwards and backwards (in memory, luckily files are only ~20mb each, but crashed every text editor I tried before trying to do search and replace) looking for any data within the file that could help me reconstruct the mal formatted object or remove the object if not enough information was available (which if I didn't want to do if my error occurrence wasn't ~10/100,000, I could use the other objects near it to reconstruct the object from inference).
The cochrane review (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21735439) already pointed in this direction, namely that although a reduced salt diet reduced blood pressure, that reduction was not correlated with decreased mortality in this case. Looking at sodium consumption without taking into account potassium consumption also appears to be a major issue with lots of previous salt studies. We had people recommend putting 1500mg (DASH diet level) in MealSquares, but we feel confident not going below the 2400mg level for health.

Soylent ran into issues by including around a gram of salt in their 1.0 version with people getting dizzy from too little sodium in the diet. They're now suggesting adding some extra.
The truth of the matter is that the general public shouldn't be reading scientific publications, because without the context of the intended audience, reasoning about what you read is incredibly difficult or impossible. This is doubly true for 'science journalists' who so very rarely are educated to be able to correctly translate and very often distill a paper into an incorrect and baiting article with only the tiniest shreds of truth.

The confidence rating you mention has little value to the general public, and even among scientists, the value of 'p-value' is questionable and the matter of occasional debate.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=712762#ThePValueFal...