skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that's why it's an experiment. Having cut grains from my own diet I haven't seen any positive effects other than weight loss, and this guy doesn't need to lose weight, but other people may respond in different ways.

There's no especially good reason to suppose that grains are bad for you, but there's no especially good reason to suppose that they're not. Grains are a perfectly serviceable food source and helped to provide greater food stability for our neolithic ancestors (at least for those of us who had neolithic ancestors) but it's plausible that a diet excessively rich in them might contribute to minor ailments.

Anyway, better to experiment with it for 30 days than to sit around and prognosticate about whether it will work or not. The only downside is that you can't necessarily trust your introspective observations about your condition.
Sadly, it's because I presumed the email field was public. I didn't realize that I had to explicitly add it to the About section to make it visible.
Unless you are specifically looking to avoid responsibility for this debt and are planning to let your startup sink, I don't understand why you wouldn't pay for your debt with a credit card.
If you actually want literature, my favorite book as a child was Where the Red Fern Grows. If they are around 14+ there are some great, captivating Hemmingway books. A Farewell to Arms, Island in the Stream, A Movable Feast, and The Garden of Eden (In that order).

I keeping editing as I think of new things. This may sound odd, but if they are in the 14+ range, How to Win Friends and Influence People is great. It changed a lot for me.

When I was like 9 I got the book How to be Twice as Smart and it taught me a ton of mental tricks.

This book taught me a lot (probably if the boy is like 10 or 12+?)

http://www.amazon.com/Backyard-Ballistics-Cannons-Cincinnati...
and very large portions of insects, if we're talking primates.
Cutting out grains isn't just about the gluten, but about the starch and sugar too. Replacing grains with fruit and potatoes is likely not optimal.

I've been eating paleo/primal/low-carb (whatever) for half a year now. The need/craving for sweets and carby stuff disappears in a week (for me, YMMV). I eat about the same as I used to (which means I'm eating more meat and veggies to compensate) and don't recognize the hunger aspect of it at all. What I like most is the complete lack of insulin surge after a meal. I can eat a meal and immediatelly go sporting, because there is no insulin spike and thus no energy dip.

However, each body reacts differently, and it might now work for you. I know some people stay hungry without noticing anything.
Perhaps MediaWiki (or similar) would be a better choice. The (incomplete) U.S. Code is up on WikiSource (http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Code).
Grains are a relatively recent introduction to homo sapiens diet[1]. And the way the western diet consumes them is even more at odds with how they are traditionally consumed [2,3,4].

1. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/grains-and-hum...

2. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/03/grains-as-food...

3. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/05/traditional-pr...

4. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2010/06/fermented-grai...
But a specific allergy to gluten is well-known, tested, and verified phenomenon (it's called celiac disease). What this guy is attempting to pass off as "science" is just a bunch of conjecture about "this isn't what primates eat."

Thousands of years of evidence contradict his rather flimsy conjectures.
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Hmmm... what we need is a virtual US on which to test changes to laws.
Let me correct a misconception here, you are not screwing people over, customers having payment issues is a risk of doing business, they all decided just how much debt they let you get in to.

If you had set out to create this situation on purpose that would be screwing people over, now all that there is left to do is to shut down as orderly as you can and to have everybody absorb an appropriate part of the loss.
I live in NYC, and I see food trucks everywhere. Someone parking their car versus a food truck doesn't even compare. Like Thomas, I enjoy food trucks, but I wouldn't want them being able to just park anywhere. Food trucks attract many people, and thus result in more litter, noise, beggers etc; that's something I just don't want at my doorstep everyday.
How is fish unnatural? Fish are a huge part of the diet of many pre-agricultural cultures... pretty much any that live where there are fish, in fact.
I've heard good things about braintree. If you're an ecommerce site, I think shopify will handle it for you.
> Why is having a plugin incompatible with the web?

The very basis of the web is open protocols and open access: anyone running any networked computer can access any web content. That's how the web grew to be so big: it didn't matter if you were running UNIX or Windows or Mac, you could access the same information as anyone else, and you could contribute back.

Content that is produced with Silverlight is Microsoft-only, so if you are in an environment where you can't install closed plugins, or if you just don't want to, then you can't see the content. The same goes for Flash of course: the only reason it took off is because it could do things that the regular web couldn't. That's slowly becoming less and less true now, and Silverlight is just not needed.

However, Microsoft is pushing Silverlight because it locks people into their software: if enough people use it to build content, then everyone will have to continue using Microsoft software. That is completely incompatible with The Web and all it stands for.

I don't know how Microsoft should make money. But the way they're aiming themselves into the future is doomed to fail. I get that they probably understand their space is dying, but the problem is that they're not looking for alternatives. They're just pushing the same products they have been for decades.

If they know that won't work, why are they trying it? Look, I haven't got the answer and if I did I'd be rich. But pushing your users into anti-Web, locked-in environments is going to fail in a web-driven world run by Google.
Ferriss' article discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1707305
I can hear the 50Hz modulation caused by the 20ms frames in the Codec2 samples. It's particularly problematic on the sibilants from the female sample. Codec2 seems to have a wider frequency response, but MELP is more intelligible.

That said, it sounds like a great version 0.1, and look forward to hearing what comes in the future.
My children like the George R. R. Martin books, the Philip Pullman books, the Harry Potter series, and other books much in that genre category. They also read "classic" literature as they get older, for example Oliver Twist or Tom Sawyer. Two of my sons have really liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (which I have never read) and I really liked The Chosen by Chaim Potok (which I reread a few years ago, and still thought was very good).
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Some of us administer networks where video is an unacceptable use of network resources (100 kb/s split among several dozen users.)

I've always avoided video, and especially now that I'm responsible for this network. (To clarify, since apparently this post is controversial, we're very isolated and this network is the primary link to the outside world for over 100 people.)
Posted. Cited anyway.

http://www.shinyfish.com/wiki/WebApplicationSecurity.html
Read the Tim Ferriss blog entry [1] for a potential explanation.

For your silently-added second paragraph: I thought differing descriptions of feng shui were hilarious, but you're not really surprised that different people digest food differently, are you? The blog is testing that hypothesis, so don't be so eager to shoot down the possibility.

[1] http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/09/19/paleo-diet-s...
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Direct link to the data visualization:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1245783...
If you're good enough at swinging a hammer, you can solve almost any problem by banging on it.
Can you go into detail, perhaps outside of HN, as to how you got to this stage? It could be a valuable lesson for others.
Surely your joking Mr. Feynman.
This should be required reading for people in this thing of ours.
Also Enders Game (fiction)
I don't think it's a good idea to start to take on personal debt for a limited company, that might open a huge can of worms.

Best to not mix private and business when a company is already going down the tubes.
I've always wondered if some human languages work better with speech codecs than others, ever since I saw someone having a cell phone conversation in an Asian language without appearing confused or asking for clarification (based on facial expression, body language, and conversation pacing). My experience speaking English on cell phones is one of constantly repeating myself.
I have the philosophy that "I am what I create". To me programming is art and the possibility for me to express myself. I also like reading other peoples code, not only to learn more - following other peoples line of thinking is awesome and a great inspiration.

Seeing the end result done by some really wierd, and perhaps even buggy, code is much more inspiring than seeing endless green unit test of perfect, sterile and vast plains of code written by the book.

I also like hunting bugs and performance and refactoring non-cemented funny code more than just flipping a unit test from red to green.

But the killer is seeing code implementing solutions to mathematical, biological and physical problems and how lines of code can tie them together into a beautiful whole.

God, I love to program..
That would be doable if the throwaway account had an email address associated with it, but it doesn't.

edit: it does now.
We really shouldn't be talking primates at all. Diets of paleolithic humans look nothing like diets of primates, we split off millions of years ago. Eat what a chimpanzee eats and you'll get sick.
Without grains and agriculture... the earth could not sustain billions of people.
Great, my current keyboard layout (colemak) comes out on with most of the text sample I've tested.

For those hesitating about using a different keyboard layout, do it! your wrist will thank you for it...
I used to have a lot of wrist problems and most have gone away since I've switched to Colemak
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I’ve vacillated from a near-all vegetarian diet (with fish 1x a week, mostly kidney beans for protein and eggs) back to this more "primal diet" of non-grains / breads.

Starting a few years ago, and overweight, I started feeling healthier after a few weeks. Over the next year dropped 55 lbs, then an addition 15 lbs of fat in another 3-5 months. This was without much exercise (due to a lower-back injury), though I would walk a few times a week. Which is not enough :)

I am still in a similar eating pattern (this is not a diet, it’s a way of healthy eating); lots of vegetables, meat and eggs daily. I may have grains / bread (pizza or other junk) on the weekend if I am inclined. I gradually turned into this eating lifestyle by making small eating changes 1x per week.

Such as, getting rid of soda. Then getting rid of any deserts. Getting rid of bread at night. Getting rid of all pasta’s, etc. Slow progression to healthier eating. After a time, junk food will literally make you sick and not be as tasty..though if I’m missing something (like good fats or protein), I sometimes go nuts and eat 2 burritos or 3 burgers.

I go through these groceries weekly, cooking 2-4x meals per day.

12-24 eggs

2-3 steaks (frozen), or pork, or ground beef (Bison is tasty)

2-4 servings of fish (frozen, tilapia, halibut etc)

~1 can of kidney beans (against Tim Ferris’ article)

Number of handfuls of nuts; almonds, cashews, etc.

½ frozen bag of green beans

½ frozen bag of broccoli

1 bag of Chinese broccoli

3-4 peppers (green, red)

2-3 avocado’s

2-4 tomato’s

2 bags of spinach

I also used to eat more than 5 meals a day, now down to 2-4 (mostly a lot of snacks). Eating healthier = less fuel needed to function.

Edit: It took a number of MONTHS to get over feeling lethargic from not having any grains / bread. For those months I still had some grain / bread for lunch.
Not only that but he's not even defining his terms well. What does it mean to say that you'll "feel better"? This just isn't science.
> My co-founder owns a majority of the company

Minority shareholder, so he's protected anyway, no way this could be laid at his private door, unless there is outright fraud on his account.
The "gluttony-sloth" hypothesis (fat people don't move enough and eat too much) has been thoroughly disproved.

Regular exercise is an exceptionally bad way to lose weight (though there numerous other benefits!), so are smaller portions (smaller portions means you are hungry, and that makes you hold on to your fat deposits)

If you're interested, read "good calories, bad calories". It goes into about a century of dietary research and makes the arguments much more eloquently. Here are some notes: http://higher-thought.net/complete-notes-to-good-calories-ba...
Judge puts hammer down on Hurt Locker P2P subpoenas
It's not really a variable that can be isolated in any effective way. If you did a massive test across 1000s of sites you might be able to extract some useful data, but even then I think the psychological effect varies quite a bit depending on what kind of site it is to begin with.
I agree with the conclusion - stop worrying, start coding; but not with the arguments. Code is a form of communication; Communication has speed. Communication speed is related to things like redundancy and vocabulary.

A language with a lot of redundancy, like English or Java, is slower than one with generally less reduandancy, like Japanese or Python. Redundancy can be within syntax (like long words), or with context (like implied subjects in Japanese, writing "self" in Python, or declaring types in Java) - redundancy protects against signal/context loss, but its cost is in speed.

Vocabulary represents an abstraction of a concept. A person with a smaller vocabulary in a particular topic will take longer to express a concept than one with a large vocabulary in that area. If a language has a small vocabulary in a particular area, it will be slower than a better suited language.

In the end, getting the message across is more important than the speed of getting it there, but if you have a choice, use only as much redundancy as you need to get the signal across, and choose the language which gives you the largest domain specific vocabulary.
I wouldn't be surprised if this works, because I've done something similarly drastic that worked for me. Here's my story:

Last year I read something by Giles Bowkett about how he lost weight and got healthy. I've read about many fad diets and they all seem crazy or impractical. What he described sounded just boring enough to work. If you think about what a silver-bullet diet would look like, this is it. Here's his touched up version of what I originally read: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-i-lost-75-pound...

It's Dr. Fuhrmann's Eat To Live diet: Eat more vegetables. Lots more. Eat mostly vegetables. I didn't follow the diet exactly. I just tried to eat lots more vegetables. I was a young, fairly healthy guy but maybe 15 lbs overweight. I ate more vegetables, lost 10 lbs in a month, and felt fantastic doing it. I didn't eat any less or more. I didn't workout more. I simply lost weight and felt great.

I don't know if the no-grain thing will work for anybody, but the more vegetables thing sure worked for me.
Save-for-later is used when the material is too involved for a simple reply, such as if your boss wants your analysis of a report he sent over. Some small percentage of communication involves this type of work, but not much. You'd probably go to a regular browser for this work.

To reply you just hit the reply button and speak. The system will try to do voice-to-text recognition and then it will send out both the initial message and your voice reply to an overseas service that would QA the voice-to-speech conversion. This allows you to train your system without having to do all of that stupid setup work. It also eliminates a keyboard. It's 2010 already. We might not have voice-to-speech worked out, but it's not like we can't just talk and have the system work it out, either. This also provides seamless integration with cellphone devices by use of voicemail.

"Going somewhere good" and "sites" are concepts that are only about 20 years old. You want material that interests you, wherever the source. The internet doesn't have to be some huge virtual city, with the browser taking the place of the tour bus, where you drive from site to site participating or observing. The model doesn't have to work that way, and it's fundamentally broken if only from an efficiency standpoint.

The system can keep track of all the sites you might like, your responses, and even aggregate you in groups with other like-minded folks. You don't go to a site, the material comes to you. Which is as it should be. The brick would handle whatever subscriptions were required behind the scenes, allocating traffic to and from perhaps millions of sites based on your preferences over time.

Look at it this way. Let's say you participate in 3 aggregation sites. Each site has article X. For each site to function correctly for you, you'd really have to consistently upvote or downvote article X on each site. In a P2P system all of that nonsense goes away.
That's cheap! :)
I would expect time of year is a significant factor. Are you sure you're comparing to this time last year? I do believe what you say, but memories are terrible data.
Does someone care to explain how it died? The article mentions loan modifications - does that mean the loans in Toxie were replaced by other loans?
well you do need a good design, the web has matured...if your site looks like crap people will leave.

but you don't need a designer for that.

1. istockphoto gets you a ton of illustrations that you can use to spice up your pages.

2. 99designs gets you a good logo or any other custom work you need. Some people will knock 99designs...and yes the quality may be worse than one you'd get from a top of the line designer. But it'll be miles ahead of what you can achieve on your own, and you'll get to avoid paying thousands for a logo.

from my experience, a single illustration can turn a boring and bland page into something that's decent.
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Is that better for you now?
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I do not believe Digg succeeded in their redesign, but I am thankful to them for trying. I greatly support Digg for being an ever-evolving platform.
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Dude. It's a blog, not a rigorous scientific study.
I think that in almost all cases, the 'professional' design is going to perform better -- where I think you'll find the conflict in advice is whether or not it's worth it to spend the expense on an untested idea.

If the idea holds enough water, it doesn't NEED a good design (re: Craigslist, tarsnap, the original Digg, etc.) -- it just needs to work. If it works, and you can prove there's a business there, then by all means, spend the money to make it perform as well as you possibly can. Design in this sense is an 'optimization' technique, not part of the core product.

The flip side, is if you have a horrible idea, and you spend $10k on design, you've effectively thrown that money away.

The exceptions to this, of course, are in the demographic. If your target market is web designers, they're going to be hypercritical of any design, so it needs to excel from day 1. If your startup is an iPhone app, same thing. Otherwise, most people will be forgiving of a spartan design, so long as the damn thing works, and that'll give you leverage to design against.

Also, another big point in this is that as you build the product, you'll change how things work, a lot. In the application I'm building now, I had Photoshop mockups for every page, and how I thought they would look, but in the initial testing, I've changed almost every page somewhat dramatically. It costs me time, which I hate, but it's better than costing me time AND dollars I'd have to pay a professional designer to re-design because I changed the position of button x. And, while I hate having to re-implement, I'd much rather not move into production with button x in the wrong place because I couldn't afford to pay a designer to move it.
How does your response relate to what I just said?
I have never done any graphics at all. All I know is bash and some awk and perl, mostly for text processing. I keep planning to learn more, which is why I read about it a bit, and browse HN, but I have too many other things I want to do too.
Good point. I was attempting to point out activities humans partake in that are more recent than evolutionary mechanisms would have had time to filter out. Though I suppose we've been clubbing and trapping fish for a good while longer than we've had agriculture.
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He's making specific, testable, claims with no references and encouraging people to make potentially damaging changes to their diets. That demands a slightly higher standard of evidence than somebody's cute code samples or kid photos.
OK. My version was the cautious story, if you want to make sure your vote counts. I never bothered testing the limits back home --- also you do not really get feedback, your vote will be just silently discarded or counted.

By the way the Bundeswahlgesetz (Paragraph 39, Absatz 1) says: "Ungültig sind Stimmen, wenn der Stimmzettel [...] einen Zusatz oder Vorbehalt enthält."

So in general, putting extra stuff besides your tick, is not allowed.