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That may be possible, but no source had made that claim as far as I know, in this case or any other. Also, Github uses SSL. It would be interesting how they distinguish one user's Github connection from all the others originating in China.

Again, how the Github user was actually located by Chinese police was not disclosed or even discussed here. It's interesting that mentioning this has resulted in two comments by new accounts, solely to blame Chinese authorities as discovering the user on their own, with no evidence for it.

Do you have a reference for clowwindy revealing his employer? I didn't see anything about that.

Cops can do a lot of things, but they don't pull information from thin air. Github would be one source of information.

It's odd that this entire, and very popular, discussion on HN doesn't delve into how this individual was found.

It's also interesting that your reply is from a new account with only this comment.

So how did the Chinese police find clowwindy?

His contact information doesn't look readily available online.

Did Chinese authorities contact Github, which readily complied with information that led to him being located?

See also the related document the study's author submitted to the FCC:

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7520940937

A mass of HN denizens certainly know how to show disagreement (and intolerance).

Here's a recent 8 1/2 minute talk by Dr. George Guthrie (MD) on dietary salt.

https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/videos/advanced...

He mentions the importance of the potassium-sodium ratio.

Also, a 2008 article from Dr. John McDougall on salt and blood pressure:

"Salt: The Scapegoat for the Western Diet" https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/aug/salt.htm

In the context of most dietary factors on health, salt is probably one of the smaller influences.

It's funny, but not surprising, to see the "I love science" crowd on HN so eagerly buy into the "all scientists have been wrong about heart disease" myths propagated by journalists like Gary Taubes and later by Nina Teicholz.

Here are some reviews of Nina Teicholz's shoddy work.

http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2014/05/no-big-surprise.html

http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2014/05/book-review-big-fat-s...

But Teicholz just follows in Gary Taubes' footsteps. See the numerous problems with that journalist's interpretation of health and dietary science beginning here:

http://plantpositive.com/1-the-journalist-gary-taubes-1/

I would be very careful about taking anything in this study at face value. Be sure to look at available responses before taking advice from the Atkins, Inc. folks.

e.g. http://carbsanity.blogspot.com/2014/11/that-new-volek-phinne...

Palmitoleic acid is a MUFA and while it may be true that it can act as a biomarker, there is an insanely huge amount of research against there being any direct deleterious mechanism of action for this fatty acid. To the contrary, palmitoleic acid is often shown to have protective, insulin sensitizing effects. More on that later, but come on. How can you write that when even perusing Wikipedia should cause pause!

But let me ask you this. When was the last time you heard that saturated fat caused an increase in the saturated fat circulating in your blood and that THIS was the cause of heart disease? Answer: Never!

And if all else fails, just scale out further... until you're effectively outside the universe.

Stipulate the presence of additional universes.

Then call the whole theoretical collection a "multiverse."

Voilà. We have no reason to believe this reflects reality, but it must be assumed...

...in order to preserve the Cosmological Principle.

Dr. George Ellis speaks about physicists that knock philosophy, while they themselves regularly engage in metaphysics.

[...] George F. R. Ellis, the physicist-mathematician-cosmologist, an authority on the Big Bang and other cosmic mysteries. [...]

Horgan: Lawrence Krauss, in A Universe from Nothing, claims that physics has basically solved the mystery of why there is something rather than nothing. Do you agree?

Ellis: Certainly not. He is presenting untested speculative theories of how things came into existence out of a pre-existing complex of entities, including variational principles, quantum field theory, specific symmetry groups, a bubbling vacuum, all the components of the standard model of particle physics, and so on. He does not explain in what way these entities could have pre-existed the coming into being of the universe, why they should have existed at all, or why they should have had the form they did. And he gives no experimental or observational process whereby we could test these vivid speculations of the supposed universe-generation mechanism. How indeed can you test what existed before the universe existed? You can’t.

Thus what he is presenting is not tested science. It’s a philosophical speculation, which he apparently believes is so compelling he does not have to give any specification of evidence that would confirm it is true. Well, you can’t get any evidence about what existed before space and time came into being. Above all he believes that these mathematically based speculations solve thousand year old philosophical conundrums, without seriously engaging those philosophical issues. The belief that all of reality can be fully comprehended in terms of physics and the equations of physics is a fantasy. As pointed out so well by Eddington in his Gifford lectures, they are partial and incomplete representations of physical, biological, psychological, and social reality.

You assumed his profile wasn't clicked on and the URL viewed, identifying him as male. And even if it weren't, the majority of people here are males, and even more so those that talk here about politics. So it would be a perfectly logical assumption to make.

You ruined the spirit of your reply.

You plainly don't know what "defines" means.

I'll give your posturing some thought when I see the arguments for banning alcohol. Around 1,500 murders a year are alcohol-fueled. Add in drunk driving, and it's even stronger. Nobody needs alcohol. Live by those principles and maybe people will give your cars/utility argument a second thought.

I believe both petitions were grandfathered in. And the site does indicate the "fire Stephen Heymann" petition has met the requirement. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-... "Signatures needed by February 11, 2013 to reach goal of 25,000: 0"

So the Forbes author does not appear to be mistaken.

Prosecutors in general are professional conspiracy theorists.

It's actually criminal - known as murder.

The US Attorney prosecuting the case is Benjamin Wagner, appointed by Obama, as stated in the article.

The truth about Ancel Keys can be seen in the following video.

Primitive Nutrition 36: The Infamous Ancel Keys? Part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDwjkv1FW5g

Also, Denise Minger's "refutation" is hardly to be trusted. She even plagiarized this man's work on Ancel Keys. http://www.plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/21/a-reply-to-denis...

You may want to read this before trusting Denise Minger's response to the China study. http://www.plantpositive.com/blog/2012/3/21/a-reply-to-denis...

* tarsnap: uses encryption, paid. http://tarsnap.com

* brackup: uses encryption, host yourself. http://code.google.com/p/brackup

* Camlistore is worth keeping an eye on. Looks like a next-generation all-purpose low level CMS. By the same author of brackup, Brad Fitzpatrick. http://camlistore.org/

Thanks for the update. It's great to hear that there may be some work done to make these improvements part of Percona or others.

The post refers to Twitter MySQL 5.5. I would be interested to know what Percona, a more mature fork, is doing with respect to these recent patches from Twitter.

I don't need to propose an alternative in order to state that the imposed one child policy is evil, along with its forced abortions and forced sterilizations.

Second, you can't prove overpopulation is as serious as the government claims, nor can you prove their "solution" fixes it.

Third, if it is as serious as is claimed, it will affect the world (anthropogenic environmental impact, immigration, etc...), so it's everyone's worry.

The one child policy of China is pure evil. It's a wonder the forced abortions and these effects don't feature more prominently in this discussion.

The land of the fee, home of the slave.

For Linux users there is "notmuch" for full-text searching. http://notmuchmail.org

Uses the excellent Xapian library to perform just about any search you'd need.

Amazon's Video on Demand works fine in Linux already, so this new service likely will too.

Big win over Netflix if the selection of the upcoming service is just as good. There will be no need to boot up qemu-kvm on Linux to load Windows, just to stream a video.

Also, Amazon's MP3 downloader program has a Linux version. So they do have some record of catering to us.

Very interesting project. Brad, are there any similarities with your previous work on brackup? Perhaps with how the files are tracked?

I would say it is pure evil.

"Some users of the site even taunted the 42-year-old over her final status update instead of trying to save her, calling her a “liar” and saying the fatal overdose was 'her choice'."

"Yesterday her mother, Jennifer Langridge, said she was shocked and upset that nobody did anything for her daughter despite being aware of her threats."

"Mental health charities said the case was a sad reflection on today’s society where friends made online are not necessarily friends in real life."

The ability to be more connected seems to have commoditized friendships.

The article admits of claims by some friends who lived far away trying to obtain help, and a claim that this woman had basically "cried wolf" before.

But the trend does seem to be a cheapening of what friendship means.