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Except women are people, not inanimate objects to bounce balls off of. Those women did not choose to participate in SeanDav's practice, and it was not cost-free to them to be used and discarded that way.

More to brazzy's point, SeanDav doesn't get to decide how he comes across to people. Pretty young women get hit on constantly and it is really exhausting and demoralizing to be rudely interrupted every five minutes while out in public, by people who pretend to be friendly but clearly have ulterior motives. The girl - who was, by definition, interrupted for the umpteenth time that day - likely considered the interruption unpleasant and at least somewhat creepy. Withdrawing "if the situation becomes uncomfortable" is taking it many, many steps too far and is frankly wishful thinking - people in general, and girls especially, are not socialized to tell people to f--ck off right away so by the time the situation is so uncomfortable that the girl actually asks you to leave her alone, it is way past discomfort for her.

Not to mention that if all you really want to do is practice free-throws, you don't need to bust your way into the most elite basketball court to do it. Nothing wrong with practicing within your league. Why couldn't he get phone numbers from unattractive girls, or boys?
No. Firefox has no current plans to implement DANE. The plans on the wiki date from 2011, at roughly the same time Chrome played with DANE. The Chromium team subsequently removed the code for DNSSEC validation, and has since then declared that they're not moving forward with DNSSEC. The Bugzilla ticket for DANE support in Firefox features a member of the Mozilla team declaring that DANE support is no longer an active project there.
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I think he is referring to traditional Unix's where you would get all of the tools and such as part of the system. For OSS stuff it would be FreeBSD vs the Linux kernel.

It's a bit trollish though.
I believe eating breakfast is an indicator of a healthy lifestyle. Eating breakfast doesn't make you healthier, lose more weight, or exercise more, but the type of person who eats breakfast is more likely to exercise and eat healthier meals throughout the day.

This link mentions a few studies that "show the healthiness of breakfast". Instead of forcing people to eat breakfast or not eat breakfast, it studies about 4,000 people and their daily habits. Some anecdotal takeaways is that people who eat breakfast are more likely to exercise, and women who eat breakfast typically eat less calories in a day.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/lose-weight-eat-breakfast
>Well, that's a big part of it.

Fair enough. I didn't want to get into it because I wanted to keep my point succinct but I believe the main point still applies. You want to change the fact that in the US, comics are only for kids/nerds? Get kids involved early, don't alienate them, and what was once only for geeks and nerds will be for everyone.
The main reason is speed. Graph traversal is constant time as opposed to O(log n) for each traversal. The speed only becomes relevant later, and you can therefore add graph databases as a slightly delayed replica on top of a db for things you need to traverse fast.
As someone who has actually used Google Glass, the camera/videocamera was the very best part about it. The killer app for me (and others that I knew) was taking photos/videos of their kids. My daughter knew what I was doing when I pulled out my phone (and often wanted to take it from me), but she didn't know what to make of Glass and so I got a ton of great candid photos/videos of her.

That said, I was always VERY self-conscious wearing Glass, which doomed the experience for me for the most part.
I've done IF as well for extended periods of time (I quit mostly because I wanted to gain weight). The most common schedule is to skip breakfast and eat a late "lunch". I.e. if you wakeup at 8am, have your eating window be between 4pm and midnight. If you have a less flexible schedule, there's really not much harm eating just one really big meal after work, together with some more snacking (preferably high-protein) before bed.

In my experience, it's much easier to fast the first half of the day and do social eating in the evening and go to bed full, than doing the opposite.
There's so much emotion wrapped up in this issue that there really isn't anything that this guy could say that would change the perceptions of a lot of people.
How did you let the market run free? There were regulations to prevent this. If anything, this is an example of their ineffectiveness.
Being a pretty security conscious fellow, I would just like to say that we need more in depth and up to date comparisons like this. I would like it if more distros were added in though.

For example, while DragonFly BSD does not tout security as a strong point yet, I have been keeping an eye on them and am very impressed with some of the things they are doing and how they go about it. (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/Security/)

I also have gotten tired of pam/selinux on linux, but have been running Alpine linux with grsec and am impressed at the default install level of security, and would like to possible see alpine put up against openbsd.

Minix 3 is too immature at the moment but I think pretty soon they are going to be at the level where they need to start thinking about security as well.
Do you drink alcohol? If so, how much?
I never thought of this application before. It would open up a lot of interesting possibilities.
A modern-day analogue to this would be the "back is best" campaign for putting infants to sleep on their backs as a way to reduce SIDS. The evidence is overwhelming that putting infants to sleep on their backs (vs stomachs or sides) reduces the rate of SIDS significantly. We have no idea why, but that doesn't really matter.

It's hard to understand how a scientist could be arrogant enough to dismiss legitimate evidence simply because the underlying mechanism isn't understood.
Buzzfeed Is Joining Viber with a New Public Chat
I agree; also, there is no evidence that restoring to /blog 'fixed' the problem... it's possible they just lost traffic!
> but it seems more likely that Americans are no different from Europeans

Huh? There's tons of ways in which Americans are culturally different from Europeans. Is it so crazy to think comic book tastes might be one of those differences?
Indeed, you're right. Even Apple's Preview app on my box can do that :)
> If they need to break some third-party application in fixing a security vulnerability, that's okay. Because that application can also be fixed by its developer, and security needs come ahead of an app here or an app there.

That is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft's customers think. If Microsoft began taking this attitude, there would be mass outrage. And maybe rightfully so: for countless applications in the Windows world, the developers are no longer around or ask for money to update the software. People are more likely to simply not update or roll back the update after they get it.

> Besides, it isn't as if users of Microsoft's products are not used to the concept of having stuff break all the time anyways.

They actually aren't. It certainly happens, but it's very rare that a Windows update (or even upgrade) breaks anything.
Huge 3D displays without 3D glasses
Do you honestly feel like that is anything but disingenuous?
The news can be really annoying and upsetting at times (Almost click-baity). They like to pump you full of fear with the "teases" so you pay attention (10 things in your kitchen that might kill you! Watch the news, we'll tell you what they are).

Bruce Scheiner said it best in a podcast: I'm paraphrasing: generally if its news, you don't have to worry about it because its uncommon, thats why its news.

I'm happier not paying much attention to it as well. That being said if you live in democracy its kinda important to at least pay some attention to what is going on so you can make informed voting decisions.

If you can find a local source of news, the information is more actionable and usefull. In boston the public radio does an interview/local news radio show [1] that runs 3 hours daily. Its kind of funny too which helps. And we have a news magazine called Chronicle [2]which documents interesting stuff going on in the area.

[1]http://wgbhnews.org/
[2]http://www.wcvb.com/chronicle
What is your evidence that the entire "sector" was depressed? Hand-waving about "Billions and Billions" doesn't count.

During the entire period of the "non-poaching" agreement, many other non-cartel bidders for tech talent were vigorously operating in the same market. If talent outside the cartel was underpriced, others would pay its full value.

Also during this whole period, industry salaries soared, and the number of opportunities at smaller companies (non-cartel bidders) multiplied.

Unless you spent time as a long-tenured employee at one of the specific cartel companies, their non-poaching agreements likely did not affect your compensation level.

And, to the extent cartel employees realized they could make more in the (large and growing!) non-cartel world of startups and smaller firms, they could (and did!) leave quite often. If you've worked with ex-Apple, ex-Google, ex-Intel, ex-Adobe, etc people, your projects' success and resulting total compensation levels may actually have been higher because of the stinginess of the cartel.
This isn't new. We basically banished android a few years ago when an active sync bug on a few thousand devices killed our on-prem exchange. The workaround was literally to land something like 8-12 servers.

Filed a bug with Google, they closed it. The handset vendor fixed it, but the carrier refused to release it. So we made the carrier take them back and give us iPhones. (One of those rare times when it's fun to work for a massive bureaucracy!) Never looked back.
One thing is for sure - UK needs a proper Constitution. It seems the government is treating the population lately as if it has no rights.

While in US at least the government tries to pretend that it only spies on "foreign" (with its own interpretation of foreign) communications, because it knows otherwise it would be unconstitutional, in UK Cameron has just said that "nothing should be hidden from the government". And the sad part is there's nothing stopping the UK government/Parliament from passing such a law, nullifying what should be an absolute basic right to privacy everyone on Earth should have.

When there's no privacy there's no freedom. And governments now try to get rid of that freedom under the false pretense that it will offer more security instead (it won't, or at very least the trade-off between terrorist violence and government violence won't be worth it in the long term).
Really? I skipped the rules as well and understood the mechanics after about 10 seconds of playing.
There's a lot of complaint about logical fallacies in the comments of this article. Does anyone know what they're referring to?

Seemed like quite a clear interview to me, and interesting to hear a bit of the history behind such a fundamentally useful piece of software.
Yes, she had an airline app that allowed you to check in using your phone. Not much use if your phone runs out of charge just when you are about to get it scanned to board the flight!
Sometimes you've gotta pick your battles. We're talking about comic books here. Who really cares? Why do they "need" to change?
Can you post some links for proof?
Well the vans seem real, http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detect%20the%20Detector%20vans.h..., but yes their being equipped with detector equipment is probably not real.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/55922/response/164153... however is a FOI response from TVL (run by Capita IIRC) that "TVL uses detection evidence when applying for
search warrants". But "detection evidence" is not defined and probably means the guy in the van seeing a CTV connection/aerial/dish or looking through the window and seeing a TV???
From paragraph three: "The caloric intake for all the mice was the same."

So, at least in the opinion of these researchers, it is more complicated than calories in vs calories burned. I can think of at least two ways that a mammal might be a less than perfect calorie-processing machine: (1)digestion might not be 100% efficient and confounding factors could alter the how many calories are absorbed or (2)the efficiency with which calories are either burned or stored as fat could vary over time.

Alternately, different feeding patterns could lead to different levels of physical activity and alter the "calories burned" part of your equation. That would produce these results even if food was metabolized with constant efficiency.
> Salk scientists fed groups of adult males one of four diets: high-fat, high-fructose, high-fat and high-sucrose, and regular mouse kibble. Some of the mice in each dietary group were allowed to eat whenever they wanted throughout their waking hours; others were restricted to feeding periods of nine, 12 or 15 hours. The caloric intake for all the mice was the sam

They tried different types of calories, but the number of calories was the same.
Ugh. This website has modified the behavior of two-fingered scrolling and broke two-fingered magnification on OS X. How do I send glitter to the idiot who decided to break Mac users' conventions?
What Taking My Daughter to a Comic Book Store Taught Me
The lesson for large companies to learn here is that you can get away with this kind of thing for a song.

In order for this behavior not to happen again, the outcome needed to have been penalties around 3x what each company "saved" by depressing wages.
This game mechanic reminds me a lot of Bicolor, an existing iOS game.
We're talking about physical barriers to entry. Without the money, you can't start the business. If you have the finance, but with a higher opportunity cost, you are still able.
That one I almost always use, but it's not very relevant to this specific case. If you add it to an existing script, there is usually work to be done because up until now, the script might have been working properly only because it persisted through some failing commands.
Feynman looks like a smug teenager in http://assets.nybooks.com/media/img/slideshows/8611940694_88... I guess it makes sense, I just imagined him older in my head.
Indeed!

I have a particularly relevant horror story. For one of my graduate classes, I built a game where two people (a liar and a truth teller) would try to convince a third person (the judge) they had experienced something. The goal was to see if people used different language when lying than they did when telling the truth. It was a fun project and we were focused more on the NLP/ML side of things. Turns out to be reasonably possible to separate our ~500 examples via a linear SVM, with some interesting separating words. That's where our claims stopped.

Then I took the results to a psychology prof. They loaded the data into SAS or something and it proceeded to perform HUNDREDS of independent t-tests. The results came out in a few seconds and the professor exclaimed "Oh look! Pronouns are statistically significant! Oh and possessive nouns too!" -- I cringed.

The flip side of this is that as statisticians, we do know how to handle different kinds of testing. If you're going to be looking at all these different outcomes, that's fine, but you just need to correct for it. We've had Bonferroni correction since the 1960s; Benjamini-Hochberg and related false discovery rate methods have been around for almost 20 years now. In fact, there are even situations where the data can help define a prior for your hypothesis testing [1].

Lastly, there is this quote from the article:

> There is no statistical quality board that could enforce such larger analyses—nor would we believe such coercion to be appropriate

I'm not sure if that's such a bad idea. In theory, that should be the job of the journal reviewers and editor. In practice, it's often the blind leading the blind, with confirmation bias thrown in to boot. Maybe we need an SRB as a companion to IRB.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6144
That's not what I said. If you look at said ticket, you will see that in fact plans were to make it fully validating.
e-paper, or electronic paper, is a generic term for any kind of display that doesn't work by emitting light, which the pebble, the popSLATE, and ereaders like the nook or kindle do. What you are describing is e-Ink, which is a specific implementation of a non-light-emitting screen generally used in ereaders.

That being said, it does seem that popSLATE is using a screen like what is used in an ereader, and not like what is used in the pebble.
Obligatory Pixelmater mention.
That difference applies to individuals and SMBs. With both Apple and Microsoft, if you have an account team you have a channel to get things escalated, and if you are a strategic customer, you'll get rapid attention.

Google doesn't really offer that, or if they do, the threshold to get that attention is very high.
For thousands of years, most Indians(as in from India) ate twice a day. The 1st meal was usually between 10 am to 1 pm. The 2nd meal was before 7 pm(sunset).

I used to be overweight(my eating window was about 14 hours) and then I switched to a strict 2 meals a day diet(8 hr eating window) -- the 1st meal at 10 am and the second before 7 pm. Add a lil bit yoga and walking, I lost about 10 kg in 6 weeks.

Indian Ayurveda books talk about not eating/consuming any food after sunset.
Remember that it's a settlement to avoid a trial. The settlement amount is going to be somewhere in between $0 and the real damages, modified by the odds of winning the trial. Additionally, the lawyers in a class action have a real aversion to going to trial, since they are working on contingency and get nothing if it goes to trial and they lose. That should drive the settlement offer down too.
North Ireland is a no-go zone where Muslims and IRA keep police away. -FoxNewsFacts
Very good article, but I would say that exposure therapy has limits. I live in an area with lots of rattlesnakes and am terrified of them. I'm certainly not going to risk a venomous bite to get over my fear.
There are other bugs not reported by Google that Microsoft has to investigate and resolve as well. I doubt Google is the primary channel of security bug reports.
I'm interested by the rule that says that loops must either be statically verified to terminate or statically verified to never terminate. Combined with the forbidding of recursion, it's an interesting approximation of a non-Turing-complete language. Or are guaranteed-to-be-infinite loops admissible in non-Turing-complete languages?
I had no intention of accusing this specific website or code for storing your password or sending it back to a server. But using a random "how secure is your password" website is one of the least secure things you can do.
That may not be sufficient, but if you want anything to work to maintain your anonymity in the future, you have to start now.

Recognition technologies currently in development can identify a person by gait, posture, and by face while disguised, turned away from the viewer, or otherwise obscured, albeit with a low probability of success. For now.

One of the few countermeasures shown to be effective against the newer recognition systems is "dazzle"-style camouflage. The other is to keep yourself out of any databases used for matching. Obviously, the former looks a bit outlandish for anyone out in public.

The paranoid and prepared will start scrubbing their social networks, wearing veils of some sort in public, and intentionally sewing rocks into their shoes now, so that when the technology matures later, they will be a "no match" to the databases already being built right now. Everyone else will screw their eyes shut and scream silently into their own skulls as their lives are pushed ever closer to resembling all the various sci-fi dystopias and utopias, blended and amalgamated into one terrifying and beautiful reality.
What evidence do you have that "The entire greater Bay area technology job sector" experienced depressed salaries as a result of what these companies did?
Given their market power and prominence; you could make a strong case that unduly restrictive covenants in the contract language are in fact against the interests of a society that values freedom and equity.

Many of the arguments on this page in defense of Apple could equally well be applied to a defense of debt slavery or indentured servitude.

Apple taking a third share of every creators work may have been reasonable when they were a small part of the market; but is less so when they are able to turn their dominance in the smart phone market into outsized profits and onerous terms in the media distribution market.
Really? Try to imagine a world where EVERY guy resolved to ask 1 pretty girl a day for her phone number to improve his own self confidence. Now imagine being a pretty girl in such a world. Now try to figure out what purpose the pretty girl is serving in this self help exercise and if she had the option to opt out?
We had vans with antennas like that driving around in Germany in the 80s. Similar TV licence, similar myth. I'm sure they just measured signal strength to find out if they have to add more cell towers.
In principle, yes. There are a number of other techniques as well.

Here is an interesting new one: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/01/08/28c3-smart-meter...
It is not the males pushing people away from comics. It's exactly the opposite. This is a group engaged in an activity which has long been looked down upon. Reading comics was seen as merely childish. Men embraced it, get called basement dwellers and just go on enjoying the things they enjoy. Then someone sees they are having a good time in spite of decades of being called childish and now suddenly they are sexist for excluding others. These were commonly the guys getting excluded and the comic book store has been their refuge.
"Here, you’re in luck. The IRS, being awesome, actually encourages you to piss off to parts unknown with its Foreign Earned Income Exclusion."

How is this the IRS being awesome? This is the U.S. being one of only two countries who tax its citizens on foreign income.
Center of Gravity Forex System
>Two studies in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association backed up this finding. Though they were funded by cereal companies, dietitians say they underscore the message - breakfast is important to weight loss.

I'd be very careful here. While studies funded by private interests are probably not tampered with, the results generally are through reporting bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporting_bias#Reporting_biases.... Basically, these cereal companies can keep funding studies and publishing the ones that serve their economic interests - the scientific world is rife with this kind of crap (seriously, this isn't a conspiracy theory, it's the norm). There are other studies that directly contradict the cereal-company ones btw: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/21/is-breakfast-overra...
Something similar seems to have worked for Paul Krugman:

"I have some recent experience along those lines. Yes, I’ve lost a fair bit of weight over the past two years (no special forcing event, just the approach of the big six-oh), and learned a few things about myself along the way.
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But what has worked for me is severe caloric restriction two days a week. In case you’re wondering, it’s actually very unpleasant. But periodic suffering seems to suit my personality."

Of course, he goes on to say he has a fitbit, does daily cardio, and tracks his weight, so I'm not sure how he's teasing out the confounding variables.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/this-dieter-is-d...