skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Widespread Hatred of Immanuel Kant and Karl Popper
I found a PDF of Jaynes and read the part at the end of chapter 2. There it said to read Appendix A, and I did that, too.

Sorry, but in Appendix A, quickly Jaynes doesn't understand the Kolmogorov foundations. E.g., he confuses a trial and an event. Not good.

For what he thought about "ill posed", etc., problems, I couldn't find.

To me, Jaynes does not look good.
Hey you may want to put your contact details in your profile in case anyone would want to meet up with you while in Shenzhen.
I don't know what the secure phone does, but something like the IMSI Catcher Catcher [1] comes to mind.

[1] http://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/...
No, not Reddit. The NYT article that we are commenting on.

I offer up the reddit link for anyone interested in the mechanics of HFLC.
The study they are discussing set up test subject with two different diets. One low in fat, one low in carbs. Low in carbs had far better outcomes. I agree that cutting anything will implicitly cut calories, it seems low carb really is superior.
>It's still really hard to get around the privacy invasions of a smartphone, though. I'd like something without GPS...

I have only ever wished for the opposite, an app/feature that will log my location, frequently. I don't particularly care if it's stored in the cloud, as long as it's also stored on something of mine in a portable format (CSV, etc). I am thinking of this in terms of potentially catastrophic events where proving my location at some given time would be incredibly helpful, say, when the spouse/boss/police need to know, and the stakes are risking my marriage/job/freedom. Even more helpful would be if the app integrated with the fingerprint reader, to help prove that not only was my phone at this location, but with very high probability, so was I.

Why are people so interested in destroying this information about themselves? Is it "because freedom"? Or is there a real, practical threat that we open ourselves to when this information is out there? I am genuinely interested in knowing.
Same here, except I'm not at my ideal weight yet. Since starting a low-carb and fairly lean meat diet, I've lost 20 lbs in three months (200 -> 180, and hoping to get back to my pre-grad school weight of 160). I feel awesome, and I intend to keep up with this in the long-term.

The diet is basically to eat lean protein sources (scallops, salmon, round or loin steaks, chicken without skin, whey protein shakes (brand dependent), etc.) with broccoli, spinach, or another high fiber low carb green vegetable with every meal (4-6 meals per day). Assuming I haven't had any "cheat meals," the last meal of every 3rd day on this diet is a sweet potato/yam as a kind of carb refeed. I've really enjoyed the diet and I feel much better. I based it off of this source (but I used a somewhat lower calorie calculation than they suggest, since the diet is for bodybuilders): http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/docs/2007/gameover_vol2.pdf

At work I have a Quest Nutrition protein bar as a snack, which satisfies the fiber and protein requirements.

Before this, I followed a "healthy" Mediterranean diet for 2 years and failed to lose any weight even with exercise, but at least I didn't gain any either.
The whole thread (for the most part) is quite interesting. Here are two other gems from Linus:

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=143222&curposti...

http://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=143222&curposti...
Can't speak for your parent, but cheese seems to be a major stumbling point for a lot of people.
Thanks!

Some noteworthy excerpts:

- Participants assigned to
the low-carbohydrate diet were instructed to maintain an
intake of digestible carbohydrate (total carbohydrate minus
total fiber) of less than 40 g/d.

- The reduction in body weight
was significantly greater in the low-carbohydrate group
(mean difference in change at 12 months, 3.5 kg; P=0.002)

- those on the low-carbohydrate
diet had significantly greater proportional reductions in fat
mass (mean difference in change at 12 months, 1.5%
P=0.011)

- those on the low-carbohydrate diet had significantly greater proportional increases in lean mass (mean difference in change at 12 months, 1.7%; P=0.003)

- Compared with a low-fat diet, a low-carbohydrate diet resulted in greater improvements in body composition, HDL cholesterol level, ratio of total– HDL cholesterol, triglyceride level, CRP level, and estimated 10-year CHD risk

- Dietitians were not blinded to the study hypothesis(!!). To avoid potential differences in dietary counseling due to this, we used specific and detailed scripts for all counseling sessions and trained staff to deliver the scripts without deviation.

- The proportion of participants with detectable urinary ketone levels was significantly higher in the low-carbohydrate group than in the low-fat group at 3, 6, and 12 months (data not shown)
Nice, more interesting than the article. :)

Thanks for the link!
That entire article reads like an advertisement for a renamed Android rom.
Platform starts, intelligent, well-spoken early adopters sign on.

Fast forward 7-8 years. Platform is overrun by normal people.

Early adopters leave and move on to the next platform

The cycle continues.
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Look at your other abilities that can add value for people. The goal is to be a linchpin. Indispensable. With only basic programming skills, you need to add other intangibles to the mix.
No, I joined a startup at age 30. You will just have to accept that younger people may be better at you.
Well, it is the only platform where "famous" people (or their agents) have personally replied to me. Nobody would even bother to read my tweet if it was longer. It is as rich as it can get.
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I must admit that while the article is fantastic (and inspired me to get into low level development), I had an ulterior motive in posting it.

I wish Ars would bring back these in depth architecture overviews. Maybe by bring traffic to them, Ars will notice there is still demand.
My biggest complaint about Mosh is that how it handles the login sequence breaks common .bashrc/.bash_profile idioms like

test -z "$BASHPROFILEREAD" || return

(to avoid double-sourcing) and there's no good way to fix them. I haven't tested ksh93/zsh yet, but I suspect similar issues. I suspect the developers do little more with their shell initialization than set a few aliases and variables so it's not an issue for them, but fixing it for myself is far more work than worth it. It's too bad, everything else works well for me with mosh.
Where in the referenced article did it mention that the low fat diet was a plant based diet?

Here's a citation against your assertion.

http://www.jfponline.com/fileadmin/qhi/jfp/pdfs/6307/JFP_063...
Scalability of futex hash table collisions in the linux kernel
That would probably require a revival of Americans actually having the motivation to go to trade-school to be a machinist, carpenter, electronics manufacturing technician, etc.

On the other hand the US is steeped in an omnipresent push toward the value of a '4-year degree' no matter the discipline.

Until there is a serious motivational shift toward technical-trade, America's workforce will continue to atrophy it's industrial knowledge base.
Some related trivia: Sociomantic Labs, a D based startup that does realtime display-ad auction while the browser loads a page, got acquired by Dunhumby recently.

What is interesting about Sociomantic is that it has been a D shop straight from the start, meaning from the time it was a self funded startup. Another interesting bit, as far as I know, it has since been funded entirely by its own revenue, never had to depend on venture capital. Pretty interesting.

BTW I am not affiliated with any of them, although an opportunity to hack on a D based machine learning platform would be hard to resist. Too bad that they are Berlin only.

I got curious and searched if they were ever mentioned on HN. Among others this is what I found https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8240599 no discussion there though. It seems it has never had any traction on HN inspite of a few sporadic submissions.
Sounds like Japan's 5th generation computing project. Heavy efforts were made in the 80s/early 90s in the logic/relational programming direction but ultimately failed.

I think these efforts will ultimately succeed only when they are combined with ML, but there is currently very little cross over between PL and ML (I wonder what Peter Norvig will say about this at his Splash keynote).
Url changed from http://www.welivesecurity.com/2014/08/28/android-security-2/, which points to this.
It's not that people refuse to update. At work, we have not yet upgraded from XP so nothing above IE8 works here - you are not allowed to install any software on your own so no Firefox. If news sites, where the primary content should be text and maybe a couple of images, don't work because they require all kinds of fancy "modern web" features - then it is not a problem with users but a problem with the developers of the website.
We need to move past passwords.
Slate reported last year that IMSI catchers or similar technologies were "in the hands of the feds since about 1995 [...] widely deployed since the mid '90s".

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/02/15/stingray_...

Wikipedia does suggest it was "first commercialized" from 2003, but that doesn't mean that the technology wasn't around even earlier. (Ross Anderson has referred to interference from governments in the security design of GSM, and the possibility of fake towers could well have been one of several things those responsible for the interference had in mind.)
Let's see how (or if) Quora or HN follow that path.
I'm in the camp who thinks that fizzbuzz is a "do you know the modulus operator?" test.

I use the modulus operator several times a week but I realize that the software world is a pretty big place and people do not all know the same things that I do because they don't have any reason to.

For example: I never have cause to use a hash table. It's not something applicable to the stuff I work on. A world where hash tables aren't useful is probably unimaginable to some of you. I can assure you, I'm not an idiot - my mother had me tested ;-) I just work in a different corner of the programming space than the mainstream developer.
While I agree, the possibility is remote. Conde Naste is generally not interested in deep content (and I think that Stokes has moved on to other ventures).
Speaking of hypocrisy:

"Tell creepy men on the Internet how you really feel" then posts people's Twitter accounts.

It's public shaming when we do it, and organized harassment campaigns when they do it.
Startups are going to look at how you improve their condition and whether you can do it consistently, not what year you were born in, especially at 25.

I know it’s just a question but it seems you’re making a big deal out of nothing. Just start applying while building up work. If you get no favourable replies it’s because you haven’t displayed what value you can bring to those companies yet, but it won’t because you’re a “late bloomer”.
Support the EFF - they are helping develop a false tower detector:
http://secupwn.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detector/
Are they talking about "good programmers"? Don't really see the difference between the two or understand the name "the wolf".
Money buys happiness, the Future of work, and Aussie Innovation
Median income isn't the whole story. Disposable income is a better story (particularly for entertainment), and Ireland in US$24k, Australia $31k. In Germany (the most populous European country that no-one questions is in Europe) it's US$30k. France is US$29.5k. (stats from OECD). Norway, with the same size population as Ireland, is more than Australia at US$32k. Australia isn't really as far ahead of Europe as you paint it. Picking one of the poorest countries in Western Europe and using that as the baseline isn't really playing fair.

These links have the country's median household disposable income listed in the first paragraph.

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/ireland/
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/australia/
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/germany/
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/france/
http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/fill-in-the-blank-here-or-just-click-on-a-flower/
A new SQL is long overdue. Too many folks throw the baby out with the bath-water and lose the relational algebra that makes databases awesome, but I've been using enough LINQ to see that I really want more competition in the space of relational languages - there's a lot of room for improvement.
Added a throwaway, always fun to meet up with people.
We've been invited to collaborate with that project in some way (and it "aims to be recommended by" EFF in the future), but I'm not aware of any announced collaboration between AIMSICD and EFF so far.
while i respect that you personally are constrained in this respect, support for XP has ended. Chronologically, google inc was founded ~3 years before XP was released and it wasn't mainstream on inception. So the point being when XP was released like 13 years ago, it enjoyed mass audience. Now there have been several iterations of windows and according to mores law 10 years forward see more innovation than the preceding 100. So I would allege, that it is actually absurd that you could be angry that the site you are using is degrading a little less gracefully than you would hope to put pressure on you and your company to use something that was created recently. Conversely, I wouldn't fault the phone company if my Nokia brick phone wasn't fully supported, while I loved playing snake, times change.
if housing became overpriced, others would show up and undercut those who are asking too much. However, having recently relocated to the bay area, I'm less convinced that would necessarily be true...

I keep hearing that the bay area is that way because of stupid zoning rules (artificially limited supply) that can't be fixed given screwed up local politics.

Some would say that a UBI is a "half measure", and that to really make it work you have to go all the way and provide free government-owned housing for anybody who wants it.

Nah, just make sure it's enough to cover minimal health insurance (and then stop using tax incentives to tie that to employment!!) and living within public-transit distance of an average middle-of-the-pack university. No sense in paying extra to some people just because they'd prefer to live in a place with bad zoning laws.

To me, this is the really big part of this that a lot of people against the idea of basic income miss: almost all of our current assistance programs phase themselves out as you make more money; they serve to discourage people from working.

Providing the benefit to everybody makes the whole thing much more fair: if you want more money, go make more money, and you don't lose any of the money you're already getting.

Yep. Plus, appearance matters.

(a) Your BI goes down by 1/3 the amount of your other income, and once it's gone income taxes kick in at 33% of whatever you make beyond 3x BI.

(b) Your BI never goes away, but you're taxed 33% of income starting at dollar one.

Somehow, (b) seems to sound better even tho they work out the same.
I advocate for the use of password managers.

I've bought 1Password for everyone in my family, and nagged them into using it. I console people online to do the same, or use keepassx, or last pass.

It's not effortless security, that's for sure. In a perfect world we would have a better system than passwords. But we live in a world of compromises, and I feel it's presently the wisest course of action.

https://lastpass.com
https://agilebytes.com

keepass or keepassx should be googled.
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"I've noticed the "you must use browser X, Y, or Z" trend become more prevalent over the years..."

I believe what you are actually seeing is the opposite of "Don't use IE". Instead they are saying "Use anything but IE" (best viewed in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera). And that's good advice.
'reset' combined with renaming the window may just work. Thanks for everyone's input!
Riiiight. "Old browsers." Which "old version" of Chrome do you think is affected?

Google has already proven their willingness to degrade their search experience for non-Chrome browsers, by splashing a Chrome banner ad on the Google search home page[1].

This is about capturing more marketshare for Chrome, pure and simple. Eventually "old browsers" will be replaced by "browsers we don't care to support" will be replaced by "browsers that aren't Chrome." In the end, there's a possibility that Google's client software will be required to access Google's services.

Do you think that's farfetched? That Google is committed to browser diversity on the web? Then look at their vision for the desktop: Chromebooks, which do not support installing any web browser that's not Chrome.

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/firefox-install-google-chro... and http://timothycope.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/0529201400...
> Users should be free to use whatever browser they want, on whatever hardware they want,

They are.

> with the understanding that some sites may use features their browsers don't support.

Yep.

> Most sites on the Internet are still primarily sources of information, and it's rather disconcerting to see "appification" turning easily accessible pages containing text and images into complex behemoths that only work in the latest browsers from the big vendors

That's covered by the second half of the first quoted sentence.

> I know there is a certain allure to using the "latest technologies" for many developers, but if it needlessly excludes some others,

Who are still free to use whatever they want.

> there's a marginalising, discriminatory element to it that I just can't agree with.

So, only users get to use new tech and developers are stuck with using whatever works on the oldest stuff?
Add to the fact that carbs cause a lot of what I like to call depressive-crashes, compared to caffeine-crashes for example.

Since off carbs I'm on a high and yes a I do a lot of caffeine, the latter doesn't lead to depressive moods and also no weight gain!

Carbs are still useful for high intensity athletes and before a high endurance workout (I'm talking fruits here and not the junk food).
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Vegetarianism isn't necessary high-carb low-fat.

Plenty of vegetarians stay away from pastas, grains, and other refined carbohydrates.

Yes fruits and dairy are also sources of sugars, but linking vegetarianism to high-carb, is like linking low-carb to risk for heart disease.

Vegetarians who do gain wait, are likely substituting high fat animal products for refined carbs like pasta, grains, starches, etc.
This is demonstrably not true in London where rent
just keeps on going up and hardly any new housing
is being built.

http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/housing-land/renting-hom... claims only a quarter of people in london rent? So the "if everyone rented" bit isn't being met. Because property values and rents mostly move together, as long as most people own their homes you have more people backing policies that push them higher than lower.

I don't know the London political situation very well: what makes it so expensive to build new units? Are there strict historical preservation laws? Rules that let neighbors veto or slow nearby construction? Permits and taxes?

He can't afford to rent a 4 bedroom house
anywhere near Westminster

"Anywhere near Westminster" apparently means "within walking distance". A 30min public transit commute covers areas where renting a 4br would be ~£26/year.

you can expect it to be under water for a few years

I'm not sure what you mean by this. You're saying if you build a flat and sell it then people are buying them at prices at which they wouldn't be able to resell them? Is this just because there's a premium for new construction? (Cars in the US, for example, lose ~20% of their value when they're bought for the first time because they stop being "new". So you could say that if you buy a new car you expect to be "under water" at first, but no one would say that.)
It's also really cool when you can compose queries. A thing in the Haskell world called esqueleto does this

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/esqueleto
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It's worked on every linux/unix variant I've tried it on (including OS X where it's in homebrew), but I can't swear to anything non-*nix.
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I've found that corruption can decrease the farther one gets away from Beijing. Some cities like Hangzhou, Kunming, and even Guangzhou are run much better than the capital. This only applies to a point: there are some pretty awfully run cities out there (like say Changsha).

It must be said that Shenzhen is also China's LGBT capital, for mostly the same reasons you listed above (parents and even spouses are often far away).

Edit: however, Beijing, being a seat of power, as a lot of waidi ren. The only Beijingers I meet often with hukou are taxi drivers, and even these people come from the more rural suburbs (some new grad hires are eligible for hukou, but even that has been cut recently). The hukou situation still sucks compared to Shenzhen. On the other hand, the police are absolutely terrified of enforcing traffic laws: you can never tell who knows who; residency isn't a good indicator of guangxi (and is probably inversely correlated).

Source: 7 years in Beijing.
It doesn't pass the "smell test" to think that Scalia's opinions on law are in colored by the facts he not only believes but also elevates to a privileged position in his formal declarations.

If he illustrates an opinion with a substantively wrong "fact", the opinion is suspect.
I apologize. I tried to click on your username and accidentally hit downvote. My bad.
I've adopted the "I don't care if you use IE" mentality.

I'm on OS X - if a browser doesn't run there, to hell with them. I'm not wasting the money to buy an OS I can't stand just to test a browser. I'm also not wasting time having to reinstall a VM every 30 days for the same reason.

When MS makes it painless to run IE on a Mac, then I'll actively test against it. I might not try to actively break it, but I'm not going to worry much.

And, thanks to Node-Webkit, anything that's critical can be wrapped up in an app.