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On a vaguely related note, Mars Foods is planning on changing its labeling to indicate approx how often you should eat their products [1].

This was most likely a preemptive move on their part, presumably to counter the anti-sugar law being mooted in the UK.

My guess is that their argument will be that people should have the choice to eat unhealthily as long as they do it in moderation. If so, I would tend to agree but I think I'm inclined to moan about a lack of personal responsibility so I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-36051333
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To some extent I write to remind myself... I too tend towards the excessive cynicism rather than the insufficient. "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of Knuth" may be a true statement, but it does tend to lead to fewer actionable ideas.
I don't think I need to explain the myriad reasons MySpace lost.
> However, if most people were like me, ...

My teacher always said: Imagine the most average american citizen. Then realize that half of the american population is dumber that.

Really brings things in perspective.
I never said otherwise; are you sure you are not replying to somebody else?
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Product: AppHunt http://apphunt.livae.com It helps android early adopters to find new apps and also it helps developers to promote their apps. It has been developed for more than a year and shows good traction.

I am looking a couple of co-founders:

- Someone with experience in iOS to build the same thing for iPhones (backend already supports more than one platform)

- Front end/Back end developer to help me to create the B2B business: a payment platform and an adv network

About me: CS engineer, PhD in AI, MBA, 3 years android developer in startups, 1 year data scientist
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Shouldn't need javascript to read a blog post.
"Why operate ~196 governments when one government would suffice?"

Same reason ships have separate compartments in the hull, so if one floods they all don't. Basically it is not wise to put all your eggs in one basket.
I know this may come as a shock, but any one person's specific sexual preferences aren't always universal.
It is orders of magnitude beyond stupid - it's utterly brainless. So your nation has PROVIDED you with your values, huh? Yay. The objective of patriotism has been achieved. Now go and fight to the death for your beloved nation, because surely no other values should exist on Earth.
To be fair the risky research side is relatively low cost. It's the development part - putting drugs through clinical trials that costs a hell of a lot. And its usually drug companies that pay for that.
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> As long as they are active and are in the normal weight range, I don't see any reason to discourage it either

Diabetes is a pretty good reason.
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Keep in mind that this allegation is coming from a single conservative curator who no longer works there.

And even he seems pretty indecisive about it being an institutional bias: "I’d come on shift and I’d discover that CPAC or Mitt Romney or Glenn Beck or popular conservative topics wouldn’t be trending because either the curator didn’t recognize the news topic or it was like they had a bias against Ted Cruz."

If Facebook is trying to suppress conservative news, they're doing a terrible job of it. I see far more Trump than I would like.
I agree with the GP, calling this a surgeon is misleading and looking for hype. Yes, it's a great accomplishment. No, this is not a surgeon.

You can start calling it a surgeon when it can autonomously perform an appendectomy, including handling common complications (excessive bleeding, situs inversus, etc) during surgery.
Sure, can you email me? Email address is in the contact info here on HN.
Do you have a sense of the production costs?

If they aren't very high, the US government could start making the company look like jerks by offering $50 billion for the patent. I'm pretty sure they would be able to calculate a nice return based on a payment like that.

The math works fine for that, there's ~3 million people just in the US to treat, paying $50 billion would save a substantial amount just treating those patients. Of course, we don't run our government based on math that makes sense, so it's a pipe dream.
> True, websites have grown by a lot over the past decade, and so has functionality, take a look at your favourite websites on the waybackmachine and see how god awful most of them looked just 6-7 years ago, compare the functionality they provided vs what we have now.

Well, the article disagrees that this is always what is going on, for example:

> Here's the PayPal website as it looks today. The biggest element on the page is an icon chastising me that I haven't told PayPal what I look like. Next to that is a useless offer to 'download the app', and then an offer for a credit card. I can no longer control the sort order, there are no filter tools, and you see there are far fewer entries visible without scrolling.

and

> It's like we woke up one morning in 2008 to find that our Lego had all turned to Duplo. Sites that used to show useful data now look like cartoons. Interface elements are big and chunky. Any hint of complexity has been pushed deep into some sub-hamburger.

Of course many things improved, today you can make more with less, a lot more. But all of that can easily be undone by just piling on a bunch of hires stock photographs or even video, 20 ad networks and 5 tracking scripts. And one might also to consider the memory footprint and CPU usage of multiple open tabs, and how leet efficient pages and bloated crap alike get put into the browser cache which is of finite size and flushes out older things to make room. Then multiply that by number of visitors. Crisis or not, it's a LOT of waste if you really think it through.
What? This is so very wrongheaded.

We learned quickly that 'cancer' is to the twentieth century 'the fevers'. We learned there are many reasons and causes for the catch-all, 'cancer'. Some we now know how to cure effectively. Some we now now how to prevent, effectively. Some we now know what to do to cure, but don't have good tools yet. And many we still do not understand. That is a significant improvement in a very short time span.

But there's a LOT more to learn than 'how to cure cancer'. We very clearly understand gene expression and signal transaction to a first order, and have bits of the second order down too. There might be more - but that doesn't make that first order inneffective or wrong. There's lots you can do with a first order understanding - see what Newtonian physics did for the world - it was correct only to the first order. The idea that we know 'fuck-all' about biology because of dna sequencing is just ridiculous. The ability to read and write dna is fueling one of the fastest growing segments of human progress today.
Forbes will go out of business, and redditors might be mildly annoyed for a minute. All of the power is in the hands of the users, and users don't want to negotiate in this case.
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If this was a partisan media outlet like CNN, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, etc etc ad nauseam or FOX news (is there any other conservative network?), then yeah this would be expected.

The issue here is for the 'unsuspecting user' Facebook doesn't present itself as a partisan resource.
There's nothing 'wrong' with this per se as long as the user understands who they are dealing with, which articles like this one help in that respect.
I'd argue that a surgeon's time is wasted doing grunt engineering work, they are better as project managers and test engineers because they can come up with tests to prove it works better than the engineers. It's rare for someone to excel at two scientific fields, and you'd need excellent engineers for that kind of project.
How is it suppressing free speech?

It's not keeping you from posting ridiculous pro-Trump tirades. It's not even hiding those tirades from your friends.

All it's doing is choosing not to shine a spotlight on conservative stories which aren't corroborated by mainstream sources.
Right. For me (and maybe other commenters as well) the term "citizen" implies paying taxes to an armed entity in exchange for some protection and rights. So "global citizen" in this sense definitely implies some form of a global government. But of course the article doesn't talk about anything like that. I guess it intentionally uses the flashy term "global citizen" when its main message could be expressed simply as "more and more people don't feel much loyalty for their respective states".
Wherever the baseline intelligence quotient of John Q. Public sits on an absolute scale, when we're discussing something as critical and universal as food distribution, it should be pretty easy to accept that, at a minimum, the median IQ should be accommodated. It should be easy for the consumer to understand what's in the food he's going to eat. Manually picking up every food item and reviewing the list of ingredients by hand in the middle of grocery store does not comport with this; this is a matter of efficiency more than a lack of the intellectual faculty to process a list of ingredients (though when half of those ingredients are impenetrable chemical names that only commercial food chemists understand, it makes even more sense to skip it).

Lament the average consumer's lack of gross intelligence all you want, but the fact is that it's irrelevant in this circumstance. Food distribution should be accessible and understandable by nearly all adults, and if it's not, it's a systemic failure, not an individual one.

This is especially true now that all of the food for sale in a typical grocery store is altered by chemists. This artificial manipulation should cause us to be more careful about food, not less.

It is absolutely true that nearly every food item in the mainstream grocery store contains superfluous sugar, including foods that you wouldn't expect or think about. While many stores will carry one or two SKUs of a particular product without sugar, you have to be really careful to pick out the right one. For instance, canned pears come "in heavy syrup" (i.e., drenched in sugar) by default. They also offer pears in "light syrup" (i.e., sugar added). There are various combinations of heavy/light syrup canned pear offerings, and then, at the very back, you may luck out and find one can of pears "in water".

These aren't Oreos -- people are buying canned fruits and vegetables because they are trying to be healthy, and the corporate grocers are pulling a fast one on them by dumping large helpings of sugar into everything to try to make the food more addictive (and thereby, increase sales).

Corporate profiteering absolutely plays a massive role in the obesity epidemic. Discounting that is playing into their hands at the peril of public health.
Same story as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11658312
Another similar tool:

https://www.lysator.liu.se/~jc/wotsap/
Is it time to say goodbye to that difficult client?
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The code that is being processed is retrieved / posted from and to GitHub (others in the future), but are never saved on the servers at any point.
The term "microbiome" has become tired and 'frothy'. I advocate using the unglamorous but old school term "microbial flora" however futile and unimportant my effort may be.

How about a smart toilet rather than a pill for the daily diet analysis?
> When users weren’t reading stories that management viewed as important, several former workers said, curators were told to put them in the trending news feed anyway.

Maybe a goal here is to try to ensure that the FB community does not _appear to outsiders_ to be a right-wing, conservative, un-cool community.

If the FB user base were seen as a collection of mainstream, or even right-of-center, people, it would be bad for business. A lot of observers and decision-makers in industry might spend their ad dollars somewhere else.
At least once before, posting my email on HN lead to a lot of spam. Since there's no way to edit or delete comments after a few hours, it seemed like a bad idea to do it again. Making a reddit account takes literally 5 seconds so I didn't consider it much of a hurdle, especially since most people probably have one.
Nice shot at liberalism at the end there. I almost took you seriously, appreciate the heads up.
> peddle garbage to children who generally lack the capacity to make a healthy informed decision

I don't know many kids that do the shopping :)

It's parents that choose the sugary breakfast cereals for their children. I think many have the capacity to make a healthy, informed decision, but for some reason they do not. Marketing is likely at least part of the reason.
Yeesh, that guy never heard of Paul the Octopus...

And the magical, "subjective", idea of talking to the voters to gauge support that would solve everything? That's what polls __are__, does he not know?
There is an excellent Radiolab piece on this:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/what-year-life-worth/
500 MB could be enough. As I said, if I need a bigger plan, unoptimized websites have economic consequences. I heard mobile-first is a thing. It doesn't seem too far stretched to assume that users and thus potential customers might be interested in fast-loading websites.

See, what this boils down to is this: People use Adblockers, because they're tired of all that shit that's consuming their bandwidth (at least on mobile). Content publishers complain about people using Adblockers. But they're not willing to get the technical side of their content consumption platform right in order to accommodate their very visitors. They cry foul but are part of the problem obviously.

Unfortunately, I don't get to see what links to avoid (size-wise) before I download all the bloat and waste my bandwidth.
Altough i agree that they fucked up the marketing they didn't fuck up the card.

Even with 3.5gb it's still a great cost/performance card.
>Nationalism cuts both ways -- it's useful for tearing down the walls between ethnic groups within a country, but take it too far and you get Nazis.

Nationalism erects walls between ethnic groups by definition. Framing it as "within a country" is missing the forest for the trees.
That seems like a disingenuous question and the generally accepted answer is on the same website you linked: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/population

Fewer people = less growth
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The Slanic Salt Mine in Romania:

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@media is part of the problem. We need less of that kind of complexity. Straightforward pages look fine at any screen size.
Been thinking about a knock off Amazon Alexa type device. Where you register names and it passes the query/command off to a webs service. The management would be at a website.

So, you might say "George, what time is it? and the device looks and see to pass "what time is it" to "http://www.myservice.com/parse?q={text}" and the response is mapped back to the devices response.
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Make it a user option -- sites really shouldn't be in the business of globally blocking domains. And then let me add sites to the .ignore file too, please.

Anyone got the list of sites HN currently blocks/penalizes/rewards? I'd love to tweak those options, and add marco.org and buzzfeed to my personal blocklist.
HN does not publicly publish a downmod feed. I have asked multiple times to be linked to it, but I am always refused.

A top poster with privilege, tptacek, claimed on a detached (by dang) thread that seeing who downmods me is "really none of [my] business"[0]. I would guess the same applies to you.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10955220

[Still don't get how that comment was "off-topic"]
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When do you draw the line of "encouraging" and "this is what people actually want." I know that sugary cereals are bad for me, no one is encouraging me to eat them, but sometimes I really want Fruity Pebbles. The fact is that kids like sugary cereals, adults like sugary cereals, and a company is there to provide that product. I see nothing wrong with that.

But let's also point out that fact that diabetes is -not- caused by sugar consumption itself. There is a genetic strain, and there is a strain caused by obesity. Does sugar lead to obesity? Yes, it can, but it does not directly cause diabetes. This is an important distinction.
Pinboard? Really? Are they confusing it with something else? Pinboard, in my eyes, is utilitarian and plain, but not ugly and unusable.
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About a year a ago, started from scratch writing a front-end client SPA for web-based software -- it's a custom framework built around Backbone.js and jQuery, written in CoffeeScript. The .coffee files are beautiful, and on save a shell script automatically compiles all the .coffee files down to a single JavaScript file that I would describe as good JavaScript code.

Not open source, so no demo, but it's definitely possible to create good JS.
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Nothing short of an alien invasion can possibly bring humankind together.

That wouldn't work either. People would still be divided among fight vs appease vs run away, trying to use the chaos to backstab anyone they don't like or to jockey for power, etc.
if most people were like me, they would read the label and refuse to buy

Well, obvious conclusion is obvious: people are not like you. Especially since you said earlier:

WTF?!? There should be no need for sugar in refried beans!

So why would you expect people to read the label for a product that clearly names what it should contain?

There can only be one explanation: most consumers are dumb.

In light of the above, I can offer another explanation: most consumers are too trusting. Distrust takes mental effort, so people pick their battles. I would not have read the label for a can of refried beans either.

(as an aside: I believe this is where many Europeans would say that this is what food standards are for, to which many Americans would respond: wtf regulation)
The geographic coordinate of your birth should not be the defining factor in your opportunities in life. If you are born in a poor country with low opportunities, why is that your fault? Why shouldn't you be allowed to get the opportunities of someone born in a rich country? Why do we allow countries to deny people their basic human rights? Why should there be segregation allowed under the banner of the supposed egalitarian UN? I don't see how you rhyme nationalism with human rights and equal opportunity.
>Spaceship Earth now has 150 admirals. The five admirals in the staterooms immediately above the ship's fuel tanks claim that they own the oil. The admirals with staterooms surrounding the ship's kitchen, dining rooms, and food refrigerators claim they own all the food. Those with a stateroom next to a lifeboat claim that they own the lifeboat, and so forth. They then have an onboard game called balance of trade. Very shortly the majority of admirals have a deficit balance. All the while the starboard-side admirals are secretly planning to list the boat to port far enough to drown the portside admirals, while the portside admirals are secretly trying to list the boat to starboard far enough to drown the starboard-side admirals. Nobody is paying any attention to operating the ship or steering it to some port. They run out of food and fuel. They discover that they can no longer reach a port of supply. Finis.

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Adding to the varieties of other explanations countering your "one explanation:"

1.) Time. Although I'm (perhaps overly) sensitive to which foods are healthy and which aren't, I often find myself eating sub-optimally simply because I can't muster the time/energy to make something healthy, do the resulting dishes, etc... And veggies can be some of the most labor intensive. Or, you want a quick snack that's also really healthy? Here's $5 for a small bag of kale chips (see "Cost," below.)

2.) Skill. It's taken me a while to learn to cook well enough that much of what I make is at least on par with (non-gourmet) restaurant food.

3.) Cost. Compare the beans with sugar to higher end -- organic, in particular -- varieties.
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I live in Edmonton, which is the closest big city to Fort McMurray, about a 5 hour drive south. While it's true that the devastation has been extensive and that this is the most expensive disaster in Alberta's history, the extent as we know it so far is that approximately 15-20% of the city has been destroyed. Most of the news articles I've read have left that fact out and have tried to allude that the entire city has been destroyed, which is far from true. The majority of residents have a home to return to and the city will recover.
Why Moon orbits Earth? Why not Sun? I'm struck with 2 whys :)
I'm not looking for a co-founder, but could really use someone like you as a project partner. And I have a pretty interesting project right now.
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Pretty simple, in my opinion. Not everyone in jail or prison is as yet convicted. Prison sentences do not explicitly include this kind of restriction.

You can't just arbitrarily decide how to treat prisoners. Moreover after the fact of their sentencing. Let alone people who are in prison who are not convicted or sentenced.