skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's likely that vegans don't suffer from EPA and DHA deficiency because the body gets better at converting them from ALA. As this study have found: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20861171

From the study:
"Despite having significantly lower intakes of EPA and DHA (from fish or fish oil), blood levels of EPA and DHA in vegans and vegetarians were approximately the same as regular fish eaters.

The results indicate that the bodies of vegetarians and other non-fish-eaters can respond to a lack of dietary omega-3 EPA and DHA by increasing their ability to make them from omega-3 ALA.

And as they said, "The implications of this study are that, if conversion of plant-based sources of n-3 PUFAs were ... sufficient to maintain health, it could have significant consequences for public health ..."

To be safe, I occasionally take an omega-3 supplement from algae.
>It concerns me that might become a norm.

I wouldn't worry too much about this. Most companies see pair programming as paying 2X for the same amount of programming output.
Not all salads are equivalent. A mashed avocado kale salad is simply wicked:

http://www.food.com/recipe/kale-salad-with-avocado-for-two-4...

The avocado makes it really creamy and rich.
Several studies have found omega-3s in the bloodstream of vegans (I'll try and post links later), which suggest it endogenous production of it's metabolites actually occurs at a low level.

While this doesn't get you into the recommend blood levels of omega-3 oils (it's mostly suprising because it's been found at all, and consistently), I have not seen a non-drastic method for meeting the amounts of omega three that the science reccomends, vegan or not.

Omega fat science is quite out of whack with the dietary recomendations commonly made. If you do the math, in order to acheive the ratios that are described in most papers I've read, one would need to forgo all omega 6 sources (olive oil, tofu, many other things), or consume unrealistic amounts of omega-3 oil each day to offset them. (I once calculated it to be in the region of a pint of omega-3 rich oil a day)

I'm equally mystified, but about the whole thing.
Tundra is another kind of landscape, strictly speaking. Ever been there? It is full of life! Desert is arid, tundra is not.
I'm sure there is - I'd like to know what the real problems are, because I'm pretty certain that "we don't have the technology to accurately measure 50m" can't be the whole story :)
And: are you able to build a machine to turn the crank for you? A large part of the software development profession is building crank-turning machines.
Yeah, we've both been around for a long time now. Tae Kim's book is great to have too, but we wrote our material with different audiences in mind. His work takes a slightly more gentle approach, my work started with being for people who want the same material as university students of Japanese get, without being able to afford $100 text books (my print copy's $30 max) or even without being able to afford classes (not every country has affordable education for those who would do well).

I'd echo the link to his Guide to Japanese, and if you want a grammar reference as well, adding my book to the mix can carry you through your first year university pretty decently.
Data binding is also about computates function where you know the dependencies of this and know when recalculate it
Not a vegan but algal oils look promising.

http://www.foodprocessing.com/articles/2012/algae-dha-health...
I didn't get that either, there certainly are crops grown solely for animal feed, but it's not at all clear why that land can't be repurposed for human-edible crops.
Prod-to-dev with Mnesia
A Brief History of Niantic Labs, the Makers of Pokémon Go
I _think_ I remember hearing that the dedup would allow resubmission of things that didn't originally get much traction/upvotes/comments, so that might be at play here?
>Can you explain why archaeologists, astronomers and professors have the highest life expectancy and athletes and body builders have that among the lowest?

That's a pretty serious statement hidden as a question. Can you point to your source(s) claiming this to be true? I am sure a huge % of HN population would be interested in this.

For those interested, I found parent's claim very intriguing so I spent a few minutes Googling and the best I came close to answering yes/no was this -

The life-prolonging benefits of a scrupulous life have come to light from a comparison of 20 previous studies which together rated 8900 people for conscientiousness using a standard psychological survey, and also recorded the age they died.

Howard Friedman and Margaret Kern at the University of California at Riverside found that people who were less conscientious were 50 per cent more likely to die at any given age, on average, than those of the same age who scored highly (Health Psychology, DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.27.5.505). This exceeds the effects of socioeconomic status and intelligence, which are also known to increase longevity.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026794-800-conscien...

Do elite athletes live longer?
TLDR; - In most cases, not really
http://www.athletesheart.org/2013/11/do-elite-athletes-live-...

https://www.quora.com/Which-professions-have-the-longest-lif...
This made me wonder: Maybe returning these lands to their wild state can also be good for humanity when looking at it from another angle than just food production. Something to also consider.
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The Clash of Civilizations? (1992) [pdf]
Not really. Computers let us create any virtual environment we want, fulfill all of our fantasies. so what do we use it for? Play cs: simulate approximately tribal warfare, and hunting for food. Genetically this is what millions of years of evolution programmed us to enjoy.
Since i visited Japan (and some other asian countries) i will try to explain my own fascination of the coutry: It's the fascinating mix of high-tech and tradition.
Japan is very high tech, but remained relatively closed to other countries for a long time. They have their own religion (Shinto). Their own alphabet. Compared to other asian countries (like indonesia) people have a different mindset.
All in all, it fits the right amount of familiar-but-different for me. For comparison: Singapore is just familiar-with-an-asian-touch to a westerner.
USA eats excessive amounts of sugar, fat and calories.

3500kcal per person per day
150kg of meat per person per year (compared to chinese of 60kg, or world average of 40kg).

overconsumption is the word. there was not a hint of criticism of meat being "unhealthy" -- it was mentioned in the frame of overconsumption.
Possibly the "weird, perverted, hyper-futuristic" image of Japan that gets conveyed through memes and anime.
Humans vary in their ability to elongate fatty acids. It's possible that poor elongaters fail to thrive on a vegan diet and revert to a omnivorous diet, biasing the sample. We'd need a randomized controlled study to see if this is important.
It doesn't have to be nefarious. OP said it's a foreign investor. A foreign investor probably wants to avoid as much US bureaucracy and taxation as possible. Forming offshore with the US entity as a subsidiary allows the foreign investor to own shares of a non-US entity.

The real question for me governing law, and the potential to have to appear in the Caymans if there's a dispute. Maybe it's because I am a lawyer, but I'd rather go to court in Delaware than somewhere outside of the US, but this isn't really my area of knowledge. An attorney more versed in this would have more knowledge about the foreign forum and whether it presents a risk in potential litigation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280182
Well, recently we are creating machines to build crank turning machines.
If anyone could certify the neural network entire response mapping then you could simply write an exact algorithm with the same responses.

You can, actually, the result would be extremely complex, though.
I don't really see the energy problem here, I mean it's not like cows are powered by electricity.
Personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
It takes all types, I guess. I would sooner quit a job than pair program 20% of the time, much less 100%. I do my best work alone, in the dark, in the middle of the night. I don't think there's a tech company on earth that could pay me enough to spend dozens of hours each week sharing a keyboard and monitor with someone.
According to [1] the conversion rate puts the required daily intake of 2 teaspoons of flaxseed oil per day to meet the EPA and DHA RDA.

GMO could easily solve the problem of omega-3 and B12. [2]

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9637947

[2]: http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/plants/63.rapeseed.h...
Fish get their Omega 3 from algae, and so that's probably the best and most direct way to get it. That's what Soylent does for Omega 3's using bio reactors.

Also, vegans are healthier than the average population with lower rates of death in major categories like heart disease[1]. In other words, from the standard american diet to veganism, it's generally much healthier which I think is the better comparison to make.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism#Health_effects
Understand full-text search with Postgres
I responded to someone else a little bit speculatively. Let me ask, since it's really not my area, how much risk would you place on the forum for potential litigation being the Caymans vs the Delaware Court of Chancery?
In English, differences in stress can change meaning.
I think it's fast, fast enough to not have to worry about. OTOH, Angular with it's 2-way bindings gave me ton of performance problems in the past, so if anything, I would say that 1-way binding frameworks (riot/react) will be much more performant on a real world project.
Delivering UX related content all the time
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"And when it comes to meat it means years feeding and water etc. until the product can actually be sent to the store. "

Years? No. Chickens are normally slaughtered at around 40 days. Pigs, 4-10 months. Beef cattle around 14 months.
They are rich in mercury in my waters, so I don't want to consume them :D

Although eating animals that do not have a central nervous system is equivalent to eating plants, so it should be vegan.
If I am not mistaken this book was based off of his lectures at Caltech in the 80s , right around the time he was thinking about quantum computing.
Imgur and Gfycat convert gifs to either WebM or MP4—making them videos.

Imgur also introduced gifv—a faux extension—to easily identify video-enhanced gifs.

Of course, the internet is still full of glorious 256-color, chunky-sized traditional gifs.
A virtual dom is stupid about the view is only an algorithm that diff 2 trees. A data binding can create a graph of knowledge about the view and can create the best and fast mode for update the view.
Library like ractive and vue are the best tools for create animations in svg or where there are many updates of view
Good point, although that's a different rant after I found out that my ISP has an IPV6 enabled backbone but won't allegedly roll out IPV6 to their clients until late this year.
I didn't take it as a personal insult, just the pointless, flippant, content-free diversion it was. A personal insult is something I'd ignore.
Vue.js 2 doesn't include 2-way binding. As for syntax, I don't see what you're seeing by looking at the docs. And in Vue you can also create and mount components.

EDIT: I realized after posting this comment that 2-way binding has only partially gone away, v-model still works, it was prop syncing that was deprecated.
I don't think your examples work. Public education and road construction don't result in forced labor, they result in increased taxes. The people who vote for public education and road construction already share in the burden of increased taxes.

War results in death, but, as the OP points out, people who support war don't necessarily share in that burden of lost life.
I find it hard top believe that we need both. People have populated (almost) every part of the world for centuries, and have vastly different diets wherever you go. Indians are vegetarian in general, while I imagine that Inuits traditionally ate pretty much anything but plants.
I recently read how Palantir is currently suing the government because they got pissed the Army is considering dumping them and is trying to bid out the work to others. They're coming across as a bit desperate in this whole thing and to be fair they probably are since if Uncle Sam pulls out they're probably toast.

There was a lot of press a few months back about how they've been dumped by a lot of their private sector customers for costing too much and delivering too little. If the government catches on and and does the same thing that sort of destroys their business model.
I started writing Java with no IDE; and mostly just used * imports; that worked pretty well (and I don't remember it being a headache at all). In IDE land (since, uh, I guess the first I used was called Roaster) automatic imports meant I could always use specific imports, which is a tiny bit better in my mind, but not worth ever doing it manually.
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> Overall, it's quite obvious that the medical costs of today are extremely large mostly due to overconsumption of animal products.

Whoa there, you have no evidence for that claim. The medical impacts of sugar and corn syrup for example have been a disaster. Probably more so than excessive meat. You can't single-out meat, Americans overconsume everything.
They have had a DC office for almost 10 years, and they hire plenty of engineers for it. Still lots of disadvantages, but hiring isn't one of them.
Indeed, we already produce enough food, that it would be toxic if it were all consumed. Meat production is a symptom of a food surplus.
Good luck getting all the extra bugs and timing issues out of a half-duplex setup like that.
Athletic and mental performance. Paleo alongside intermittent fasting is super popular amongst endurance athletes reporting significant energy increase comparing to popular liquid vegan diet; a low-carb, high fiber, medium fat/protein diet also has significant positive effects on some mental disorders (like the currently "popular" BPD or ADHD). And you often see vegans with significant health problems later in life as well (cancer), though this might be side effects of past extremes such as eating junk fats like margarine and plenty of sugar because of mistaken belief those were healthier alternatives, making them as ill as frequent red meat consumers. Will see how this would fare for Soylent users in a few decades.

We probably shouldn't be on either side of extreme - vegan vs meat-only but rather figure out what works for our DNA/RNA-based protein factory best (maybe using personalized ML?) and exercise self-restraint.
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~ companies will be less willing to write code

~ artists will create fewer video games

To me these are arguments for making closed source illegal, especially the second. Among many benefits of first, fewer actors warping society in order to capture rents from software they control, eg tax software vendors. On second, destroy one incentive to create addicts.
I found it quite a hassle to manage a lot of events. So many e-mail exchanges, links and confusing interactions. It puts too much focus on the "confirmation" part. I couldn't find how to notify users a day before the event date but I'll keep looking. Thanks.
"people fighting change are doing it for selfish motivations"
Eat this: https://mothersagainstwindturbines.com/2014/06/30/greenpeace...

"The Indian Express reports that the Intelligence Bureau submitted a report to the prime minister’s office saying Greenpeace was “negatively impacting economic development” through political activism and its anti-fossil fuels agenda. The reports says that Greenpeace activities have reduced the country’s GDP by 2 to 3 percent a year."

And to be precise about the topic - it is Lael Parrott's selfish interest to finance her 'research' in Okanagon that stinks from this PR article.
You should see huge sectors of the pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries, you'd weep.
Any idea how much of that is to juice margins by billing two people minimum? Surely the work is not completed twice as quickly.
The way Angular 1 and Vue.js 1 implement 2-way binding is very different (dirty checking vs getters-setters), which is why Vue.js 1 implementation doesn't have performance issues.
Maybe after a few months, this is the PR course they've decided to take? If so... yikes.
I would argue that the reason vegans are much healthier isn't their specific diet but that they're paying so much attention to their diet.
Who needs working calendars when we have Uber.
If you're in your 20's or 30's, you'll probably remember when you were young that Japan was synonymous with technology. The best electronics were made in Japan and they were at the forefront of innovation. That is not really true anymore (although Japan does still lead in areas like robotics) but the stereotype persists.
> [...] I feel implicitly encouraged DOM manipulations.

That's jQuery's primary job. It isn't DOM manipulation that causes code/architectural issues.

"All" (I'm simplifying) jQuery does is provide mechanisms to select and manipulate DOM. How to organize its usage is an exercise left to the reader, and most readers did it poorly.

It's not jQuery's fault that people wrote shitty code with it. And, in fairness, when Prototype/jQuery/etc. came out, sites were simpler. When people started doing more, if they didn't take control of how they were using jQ/etc., it blew up and made them hate their lives.

At the same time people were doing that, other people were using various organizing principles to tame their jQ/etc. soup, writing tests, and keeping a handle on the sprawl.

You can write shitty code in React, too. It imposes a certain set of conventions that make it harder to want to. Layer on Redux/etc. and it's even harder to want to. Layer on other various conventions and frameworks and you want to even less. But it doesn't stop you--just like jQ didn't stop you from using self-discipline before people smarter than me evolved client-side frameworks to where we are now.

While I wrote my share of jQ soup, I also worked on projects that were flexible, extensible, testable, and clean. The choice is always ours to make.
I find this a bit of an odd claim, since I have a mailserver running on port 25 on EC2 right now, without a support ticket, and have no problems.
Interesting article. I have long been of the opinion that a little meat is no big deal. However, the argument that we can feed more people with a mostly vegetarian diet vs a full vegan one doesn't mean going vegan is less efficient. If we want the average diet to have less animal products, then if some people completely give up meat it will be better than if they just cut down - they are in a sense making up for everyone else still eating their daily KFC bucket. Until most people are mostly vegetarian, we can still thank the vegans for taking one for the team.
I don't have a problem with taking donations. I wish other projects that seem more urgent got more. Mailman is important because we need decentralised means of communication and Replicant is important because Android is everywhere and needs a free replacement. I know Matlab is also very big and needs a replacement, but I think other projects need more funding and could have a much greater impact.
Legal Loophole Could Trigger a Landgrab for the Moon’s Most Valuable Real Estate
My dad was a geneticist at Harvard and we lived across the street from Stephen J. Gould. When people on Facebook are having a conversation about how Benghazi is a sign of the second coming of Christ, I sometimes take a moment and question my own beliefs. The foundation of my beliefs isn't because someone said punctuated equilibrium is a thing but that tests can replicated and peer review scientific research can stand the test of time.
It is only the democratic will because politicians have convinced the masses it is what they want.
Probably? Give amazon or google a search for a "grammar" (which is a style of book in the educational space) on those languages, rather than a textbook and see what comes back?
I sometimes wonder if curing cancer and other diseases is such a noble cause. More people consuming more of the finite resources that we have. Its a difficult question, and I am thinking of lots of outliers as I type this. Extending a 70 year olds life by a few years is different from curing a child leukemia sufferer.
I feel like it's important to point out that the modern approach to diet of picking one nutrient as a magic one, is, well, kinda magical thinking. Omega-3 fatty acids, beyond the minimum amount your body needs, haven't been shown to be a cure for anything and supplementation hasn't been shown to improve outcomes or performance. You need it, yes; but you probably don't need to build your diet around it. e.g. from WikiPedia:

"Dietary supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids does not appear to affect the risk of death, cancer or heart disease. Furthermore, fish oil supplement studies have failed to support claims of preventing heart attacks or strokes."

OK, so even if we assume we need more Omega-3 than a normal vegan diet contains, most meat also does not contain a good balance of Omega-3 to Omega-6. Eggs are only a good source if they have been supplemented with flax or other good sources of Omega-3. Fish is often a mixed bag, when it comes to health; it may be better to get our nutrients from the same place they get it. Seaweed and other edible ocean plants are a pretty good source of Omega-3 and are healthy on other fronts, too.

Finally, there are many normal foods that have a good Omega-3 to Omega-6 balance. Walnuts and other nuts, most seeds, several kinds of fruit and vegetables (while it's a smallish amount, the balance is good and you really don't need mega-doses).

In short, if you're eating a diverse vegan or vegetarian diet, you almost certainly don't need to think about any specific nutrient (except B12 for vegans, which does need to be supplemented, or obtained via nutritional yeast that has B12). You're just as likely to have specific nutritional deficiencies on a meat-based diet; folic acid deficiency is a common problem of a meat-heavy diet that would not trouble a vegan or vegetarian, for example.

A balanced and diverse diet is the right answer to questions about food and nutrition. Laser-focus on any one particular nutrient is probably counter-productive, unless there's a specific reason to focus on it (some people have difficulty processing some nutrients, for example, but Omega-3 isn't one of them, to my knowledge).

In short: Omega-3 is the new fad nutrient. There will be another in a year or two, and the entire health nutrition industry will figure out ways to sell you books, and pills, and diet plans, and the food industry will figure out how to cram more of it into foods, and we'll find that, like most of the other supplements over the years, it doesn't really do anything. You need some to be healthy; you don't need gallons of it to be healthy.
150kg of meat/year is 411g/day. Making the conservative assumption that it's all 20% fat ground beef (in practice it's likely leaner), that's only 1041kcal/day. This is well below the minimum calorie requirement for a healthy adult, so for it to be "overconsumption" there must be something unhealthy about meat specifically.