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> Your body knows what to do with glucose, releases insulin preventing fat from being burnt and enables your cells to use glucose. Fructose is converted into fat by your liver but cannot be used until the insulin subsides. Fructose really is "bad". Sweetners do not help either as they keep your body addicted to sugar. It also looked at the impact sugar had on brain function. Note that in the film he kept to similar calorie intake, just swapped out his good fat sources with low fat "healthy" choices. He gained 8kg primarily around the waste within 40 days.

Ok but the insulin does subside and you do use the fat created from fructose provided you aren't eating a caloric surplus. There may be minor differences but calling any macro or micronutrient category "bad" is missing the forest for the trees. There is quite simply no way he gained nearly 20 lbs in a little over a month without significant increasing his calorie intake or decreasing his calorie output.

> The reality is, added sugar products need taxation which is then ring-fenced to support healthy eating education and healthy transport schemes (Walking, cycling and public transport). We need to recognise that added sugar, in particular fructose, has to be treated on the same level as smoking is.

The reality is that sugar is completely healthy for many people, and that the idea that sugar is "poison" is completely incorrect. It's dose dependent, like any other food. If you are sitting around all day doing nothing and you eat a lot of sugar you will gain unhealthy body mass, but for many atheletes, for instance, sugars are an extremely important part of performance quality. Protein or fat when eaten in excess will also make you fat. What separates sugar from cigarettes is that there are doses at which sugar is completely fine (even good) for you, and there is no dose at which a cigarette is good for you.
This is not evidence that unions make labour more dangerous.

The last paragraph even in your link is this;

"Tougher enforcement of laws, with higher penalties, and stronger safety standards are essential. But unionized miners have the power to enforce those standards before there's an accident, and they can prevent the speed-ups, overwork, and shortcuts that are common in non-union mines, like Upper Big Branch, and that contribute to the dangers of the job.

If Congress and Obama want to do something to save miners' lives, they should first of all protect and strengthen their right to organize."
Have you ever got lost in HackerNews?
Problem 1: For the last two days, i've been spending most of my time going through all HN stories, reading the links and going through all the comments to make sure i'm not missing out any information. I always want to learn something new and there's tonnes of new stuff in HN. Now, I'm completely addicted to HN. Sometimes all of a sudden i'll stop doing my work and jump into HN to check through the new stories and articles. That's the level of addiction!

I would like to know

- How much time you spend on HackerNews on daily basis?

- Do you spend time going through the comments thread? How much? As the comments count keeps on changing, more people jumping into dicussions, do you go through them again and again to see the new comments?

Problem 2: There are lot of new things like people talking about some reverse engineering, startups, open source, physics, future, programming.. etc. It's too difficult to list out all the categories and the list can go on so long. I'll just stumble upon some article which explains about some hardware stuff, which i'm not really good at. I want to understand the depth of the article but i couldn't, so i'll save the article to come back in future time hoping someday i'll be able to understand the breadth & depth of the article. The more the time i spend on HN, the more the topics,subjects i would like to be good at.

- Is it really a good idea to try to understand all the articles and participate in discussions?

- How do you digest all the new information? Do you make notes, saving articles? Will you ever go through the articles or notes?
Is there a way to mask the fact that you are using one?
>When I was in a unionized position, it was frustrating because I couldn't choose to not join (technically I guess I could, but the union and the employer had already agreed that non-union employees still paid 90+% of union dues to the union. why this is legal I have no idea).

Then that's not a real union. A real union also has competition; if the conditions are great at an employer the union will slowly lose members. If the union acts badly, the employees will just create a new union. But if there's only one union and it's cozy with the employer then you have a "company union" which will not always work on the benefits for the employees. You see this with teachers unions that hardly protect the teachers (salary/wage freezes and shrinking of benefits have been happening for years now).

>They were an entity with lots of institutional power, but they all had their own agenda. It's not like they really had my best interests at heart. It just became one more level of power to answer to. It was really frustrating, and I was happy when I was able to leave.

Yep and that's precisely the goal of a "company union". They want to make it so that the word "union" is a curse word. Even unions need competition.
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I think they are now so famous among potential founders, that their first-draw advantage is the main deciding factor.
For some accelerator to take over two things have to happen: a) They start not picking huge potential winners.
b) Somebody else picks up those they failed to recognize as huge potential winners.

It should really take only 1 (Google-size) instance of this happening to totally shift momentum to "Somebody".
Avoid cultures that hail 20 year olds dreaming up the next big thing. Outside of a few (toxic) pockets, those cultures are in the minority in my experience.
>> On a semi-related note, all my best bosses have been parents, having kids seem to teach you something about the value of time.

I once talked to an old (60) guy who was writing code down the aisle from me. He said he tried management, but didn't want to mediate disputes between children - he had his own at home. I thought his experience was probably unusual, but I've asked a number of managers since then, and they all agree that's an unfortunately large part of the job. I don't see it because they keep it away from the team - as it should be. But then when I got my first crack at "having a small team" I saw exactly the same thing. So yes, tech skills are important but parenting can also be a relevant background ;-)
Old age is the single most surprising thing that happens to a person.

But I don't think getting hailed is the driver for success. What you accomplish is a lot more important. And age definitely does not prevent that.
I try to maintain my mental vitality by limiting nostalgia and intentionally seeking out new things.

For example, I do this thing periodically with my music collection where I create a playlist of only music made in the past 5 years. If that playlist is too sparse, I go looking for more.

A lot of what's bad about aging strikes me as almost an ideology. The cynicism of age is an ideology. It's like a belief system where you adopt a retrograde view of time -- things are getting worse, they were better in the old days, etc. This isn't how time actually works. Things evolve over time. Some things get better, some get worse, but mostly there's just change.
A computer made of nanoscale mechanical latches, made using nano-fabricators, was in fact one of the examples Drexler proposed. Supposedly it would perform better than transistor-based ones. [http://www.halcyon.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.html]

But isn't current computers an example of microscale fabrication that worked without being biochemical or biologically-inspired? They are made using optical etching, completely different from anything biology does.
I'm 35 and overall am feeling at the top of my game. I don't envy the 20 years olds or feel lost. I've learned so much, not just technically but around user and enterprise needs, inter-personal skills, and about myself since I was 18-20 that I absolutely feel better suited for success.

I've started eating right and working out, which has helped both body and mind, and I've developed task and time management techniques that work for me. While I admit my mind might not be 100% as quick as it was when i was 20, I do feel remarkably more productive.

Although to be fair, I'm not in the SV ecosystem, and run my startup (although after 8 years maybe not a startup any longer?) from outside of Boston (a location where a strong business model still beats a profitless pitch deck), so perhaps the environment is one reason I feel the way I do.
And they have a negative reaction because they have cognitive dissonance with what is presented to them. They're forced to either reject the alternate moral judgement and be hostile to it (in some sense, not directly), or accept it and change their behavior.

Even subjective "preferences" such as "I like soft-drinks" have logical consequences, or implicit decisions associated with them. I.e. "I am fine with hurting my long-term health because I enjoy the immediate rush of soft-drinks." Not every can live their lives in a completely evidence-based, logically-optimized way.
This can't be real!

She was just on 'This Week in Startups' (TWIST) and Jason was drooling at Zirtual's $11m run rate after only couple of years. (Jason Calacanis is an investor)

Was she lying throughout the interview? Is Silicon Valley built on engineered/bought hype and no real substance?

source: https://youtu.be/Tq_dMxsWe48
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>This is not evidence that unions make labour more dangerous.

No, it's evidence that unions help make laborers safer.
I watched the video and it looks like a barrel roll to me. The airplane doesn't maintain altitude nor heading. Also that engineer who took a photo while kneeling next to a window would have been on the ceiling at that point if it had been an aileron roll.
They aren't obligated to represent all employees equally in collective bargaining. It'd be impossible for them to do so, because there are intra-employee conflicts of interest. Rather than being a fiduciary institution, at least when it comes to negotiation, it's a democratic one that only needs to represent the interests of 50% + 1 members of the union. Often this manifests in trading off the interests of newer members in order to secure benefits for senior members -- sometimes even going so far as to bargain on behalf of retirees who aren't even members. But other configurations of favored and non-favored groups exist (another fairly common one is part time or seasonal employees paying dues but not being effectively representated during contract negotiations).

Grievance representation is a different matter, there the union is much closer to the fiduciary ideal.
This is so true. I went to a University in the UK which is well known for sport, so I was friends with a few aspiring pro athletes. They were the only people I recall being given a 'pass' when it came to peer-pressuring people to drink. The UK, on the whole, has a really awful relationship with alcohol, especially among uni students.
We do not even use numeric scores any more. I wasn't at the company in 2011 so I can't comment on possible historical accuracy, but it's nothing like this today.
There are some strange contradictions here. There's a huge overlap between burning man culture and tech culture. Part of the sentiment against burning man is because of this. The world may not be as simple as you think.
Yep, us programmers are usually introverted but more than that we just have never been given lessons on negotiations. Business people have classes on psychology and on how to deal with workers and clients and they have far more social training and skill to use in their negotiations. Us programmers, jesus christ, we can't even negotiate to be able to use a paltry $500 training budget.
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yup, I love DB, but I cant even edit text files on dropbox.com. I'd have stuck around longer to at least have this but they haven't innovated around my needs in a while - so it rarely comes up as a solution to others issues.

During school dropbox was great for groups as well as my multiple devices, but anecdotally over the last few years i've changed my behavior:

Photos & Videos - now on amazon CloudDrive since i'm already a prime member - now I finally don't have space issues on my phone anymore, Amazons iOS app convinced me that they're serious (for now..)

Documents on Google drive - mainly due to simple online editors for XLS and DOC - resume and daily logs

Static websites now on S3 (anyone recommend an S3 sync tool?)

Grocery lists shared with the wife - now using SimpleNote since we can edit on devices and cloud

I haven't gone to my free Dropbox account in a while, so its becoming an archive with less traffic for my account. I'm sure they track dormancy rates as well, i'd wager i'm not alone. I did get dad to put his photos & docs up on dropbox and he loves it. Meanwhile I just upgraded to start paying for amazon cloud drive so my wife has a one click solution to backing up her photos and videos from her phone.

Edit: Drew took the first bite out of the multiple device problem and rocked it better than anyone else because he put the users experience first, above all. Today plenty of big players host consumer data, but i feel none are truly focused on the everyday problems of the average joe, Drew could do it again.
We need to believe all men are created equal but everyone knows it isn't true. So goes for particles probably. Would explain all the weirdness.
This article misses the core reason people develop and contribute to open source; (1) to be able build something that never existed that the person thinks should exist and (2) to contribute to and a be a part of a community with a similar/same goal.
Sounds like you're a good role model :) .

8 years and going is not a startup though, congratulations on your (small?) business :)
I think the word you are looking for is "censorship" instead of regulation. Though I suppose "heavy regulation" could a clever/funny euphemism for "censorship"
"Pick up" as in "clean up"
Why not then just standardize, or at least attempt to, the method by which we compare sugar-content in these discussions.

I.e. "4 grams of sugar per 100ml of coke"
Glasswire, https://www.glasswire.com/ is a solid Windows alternative.
Actually, that would be people in their early 50's. Born in '64, started programming in '77.
The documentation is pretty minimal here, so I'm wondering if this has anything to do with WebAssembly[1].

If not, wouldn't it make more sense to target WebAssembly?

1. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/the-we...
The same presumption happens for people, too. Developers tend to assume that the people that wrote the terribly messy code that you inherited were incompetent. I think a much more productive and healthy attitude is to assume that everyone was doing the best they could, given their resources, knowledge, and deadlines at the time.

That might be a false assumption (look, some people just don't care) but you gain very little by complaining and getting mad at things that already happened.

We love to complain about things our predecessors did wrong, but often, we don't do those things either :)
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We do not even use numeric scores any more.

I've heard this from more than one source.

You can thank me for that. I embarrassed their performance review system, and it started costing them money in increased recruiting difficulty, and so they changed it up. Of course, they won't admit to this.

Whether the new system is better or worse, I couldn't possibly opine on that. And I have no idea whether calibration scores have been abolished or are just hidden.
Isn't any such a question really asks "how do you deal with the fact you'll die quite soon"?
> "Money is ruining movies. The 1970s had auteur directors but now all we get at theaters is superheroes in spandex and Disney princesses because they need ROI from international blockbusters."

The funny thing about this statement is that the auteur era was a very short-lived period created by the collapse of the old studio system until the studios regrouped and the blockbuster era began.

Go back to the truly old-school days of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you'll see an environment uttely driven by the bottom line, where oppressive contracts and shady deals ruled the day. At least nowadays you don't have studios signing exclusivity deals with theaters like you had back in the day, the epitome of this was Paramount signing every single theater in Detroit to such a deal. Just imagine living in a major city and only being allowed to see movies made by a single studio.
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This only supports restaurants keeping their menus in PDFs.
This could be interesting for using Node on embedded devices. V8 is pretty memory hungry right now, and this could provide a nice way to sacrifice some speed for memory space which would be in short supply on an embedded device.
This can't be real!
She was just on 'This Week in Startups' (TWIST) and Jason was drooling at Zirtual's $11m run rate after only couple of years. (Jason Calacanis is an investor)

Was she lying throughout the interview?
Is Silicon Valley built on engineered/bought hype and no real substance?

video source: https://youtu.be/Tq_dMxsWe48
Can someone knowledgeable tell me if Vulkan is a good API? I've heard that OpenGL is a bit of a mess (maybe DirectX is too?), did they get it right this time?
I think you can generalise one more step up. Markets that look horribly inefficient may well not be.
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Only 30%? That's nothing. Were in the world would you pay less?

Ironically, countries in the Middle East.
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Great advice.

I do think that you should try to think about how you might try to solve something before looking at what your competitors do. The reason being that it's easy to trap our minds into thinking that there are no other solutions unless they fit into a similar box of what's already working. Naïveté combined with thinking for yourself can often be a powerful reason why many startups succeed.

If your solution ends up looking similar, at least, it was likely derived from first principals vs the path of least resistance: blind copying.
This seems a case where the "infographic" is almost worse than useless. The image has no meaningful alt attribute, thus making it inaccessible.

The graphic is followed by links to the information. Why not make the links have the text that was in the graphic, place the icons next to the links, and presto - you have an accessible interface with the same information. (With a bit of CSS-fu, it could well be nearly as attractive as the infographic.)
If we don't die from an acute event or illness, we can expect to live somewhere around 75 years. How many of those years do most people take full advantage of?

My heroes are people like Fred Beckey [0], who keep living fully through all their years. I've watched most people in my family stop living fully around their 40's and 50's, mostly associated with the focus on raising kids. But it's also an effect of not wanting to face the challenges of the world; I've watched many older family members retreat into their own homes, and venture out into the world less and less often out of fear of a changing world.

How do you live fully through all your years? Keep doing the things you love, especially the things that require you to be mentally and physically active. Don't give up everything for your kids. Learn new things, mentally and physically. I started learning to drive a boat on the ocean at 41 last summer, and it was deeply humbling but deeply renewing. I'm planning to pick up a musical instrument sometime in the next few years.

It's not about living longer, it's about living fully with the years we have.

[0] - http://www.thecleanestline.com/2013/01/happy-90th-birthday-t...
This research misses a few important points.

First, the fastest interpreter is never switch or "jump threading" (i.e. computed goto) based. It is either based on passing the next pointer from one opcode to the next (e.g. perl5) or using an opcode array (lua). Those two cache much better and don't need the dispatch overhead with a jump table at all. Not talking about asm tuned interpreter dispatch yet, which count as best of the best.

Second, the famous cited Ertl paper mostly suggested to use smaller opcodes to influence the icache. Lua and luajit do this with one-word ops and blow all other interpreters away.

Using the computed goto extension only helps in bypassing the out of bounds check at the start of the switch dispatch, and gains the famous 2-3%, and less on more modern CPU's. When talking about the differences, the differences should be explained.

Summary: This research result is not useful for state of the art interpreters, only for conventional slow interpreters. And for those the result should be ignored at all, as much better interpreter speedup techniques exist, not noted in this paper.
I believe that the error the article describes comes from the family of "inside view" errors (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting). Taking an outside view instead is a very widely applicable principle.
> As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?

I dunno what this is supposed to mean. I have known tons of older guys who really know their shit and have been programmers their entire career. I'll be 37 next month and feel like I'm not only more knowledgeable and on top of things than I've ever been, but also far more professional in how I conduct myself than I was when I was younger.

And based on the 20-somethings I"ve interviewed, I have zero fear that young people are going to make me obsolete.

> Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing?

No because being an entrepreneur has never been my goal in life. My dad had a computer company in the 80s, and our family suffered greatly when it went under. I have always prioritized stable income over a shot at becoming a millionaire/billionaire. The company I work for now was actually started by a friend of mine over 10 years ago, and has made him rich and made me comfortable.

If I were going to quit my job to do a start up, yeah I might get passed up in favor of young people by investors, but if they truly only passed me up for another company just because they were younger a) I could sue them and b) they wouldn't be the right partners anyway.

I think if you want to stay in this industry in later years, you should set yourself up to be in a comfortable position for you, whatever that means. If that means you do your start up when you're young and make a solid business out of it, or if that means you get yourself the skills needed to be highly in demand and well paid when you're older, you should plan for where you want to be.
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>We have a union for IT workers (including developers) at my workplace. I was only recently allowed to leave it as a result of becoming a supervisor.

If you exit the union but still work at the company you're free riding on the higher benefits and wages negotiated by the union your coworkers paid for.

If you really don't like unions that much you can leave and go work for a company that isn't unionized. It isn't like there's a shortage of them.
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Liquibase is pretty good for managing database versions

http://www.liquibase.org/