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> There are food products that are more chemical than anything.

Everything is 100% chemical.
The coke I've drank in the past has been loaded with salt. But salt isn't really the most dangerous ingredient in coke... is it
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I'll add another. If the person the article is about comments don't downvote it just because they're being a bit rude. People reading an article generally want to hear what the person the article is about has to say, and downvoting them makes it harder to read those comments.

Remember, downvoting is supposed to be useful. That's why it exists.
OK, let's try this: Is honey toxic?
I'm sure they do, but the flaws in the database are very noticeable to the observant fan. I haven't gotten around to buying FM12 yet, but in FM11 they got a lot of big things wrong: Philipp Lahm is rated as a natural right-back even though he's a natural left-back, Gareth Bale's pace is underrated, Lionel Messi is rated almost as a pure right winger even though he plays effectively in a more central role, Sergio Busquets is underrated (Sergio Busquets is always underrated though), and a lot of wingers are very underrated playing in inverted positions compared to their real-life counterparts.
I'm sort of the opposite, sometimes I see a gray comment that I wouldn't normally have bothered to vote on either way and think "it's not that bad" and upvote to get it out of gray.
Together with the 8 bit maps, I had quite a chuckle. I really love this page, and I'm a little sad it doesn't function; I guess I won't be seeing any websites with Polka midis.

Great April Fools, Google!
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TWSS isn't a case of objectification, though.
Objects don't talk.
Determination is a quite powerful force. As Calvin Coolidge once said:

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Dredged up from the murky depths of my memory:

> I once had lunch with PG after having come back from a VC meeting. I had just moved to California then and was wearing business attire. PG stopped mid-sentence to ask me if I had on french cuffs and then told me how investors like startup guys to be scrappy haha.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048809
I said God didn't I?

Why's it so hard to believe what everyone since recorded history has been sayin -- there's a God and He talks!

God says...

29:7 When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and
rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest,
and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

29:8 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword
upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

29:9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste; and they shall
know that I am the LORD: because he hath said, The river is mine, and
I have made it.

29:10 Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and
I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the
tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

29:11 No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall
pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.
I wish this was real.
Sadly it's not real and you still can't get google to search for the query you enter.
The thing is: Women are the fuckees. The man is the one doing the fucking. That's just how nature works.
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HN's community is a pit of sexist villainy, unnecessary pedantry, empty sycophancy, and vapid self-aggrandizement.

But yeah, let's make sure we get on this downvoting "problem" post-haste.

PS: I downvoted every single comment in this thread that rubbed me even a little bit the wrong way, regardless of its constructiveness. I left no comment in explanation. I took special delight in doing so for comments with an especially righteous tone. The world is no worse for my having done so. The community would have been no better had I restrained myself.

Downvotes are not the problem.
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The liver gets nutrients from dietary fiber which help it process fructose. I believe the nutrient in question was phosphorus, but am not absolutely sure.
Yeah, I've done that a few times as well. I guess it could go either way. I think that's why only displaying as grey after 3+ downvotes would keep people only voting based on their own thoughts and not on how other people have acted on that comment.
Some of these claims about the danger of Groupon refunds are exaggerated. For many deals, Groupon simply does not grant refunds, so customers need to be sure they can use the deals they buy.

But, I still think that Groupon will fail, maybe when they run out of enough new vendors to partner with.
Try Cmd+Tilde.
Submitted more for the science-journalism parody than the politics.
Factually incorrect or relevant but info-light statements are often just as much noise as off-topic comments. For example, the top-voted comment on a post about Clojure says "Clojure is such utter shit. It doesn't even have integers. Don't use this crap." Are you really saying we shouldn't downvote that? The one bit of signal (it doesn't have integers) is false, and the rest of it is just flaming. By your metric, it's a good comment — it's on topic and it's not spam. But by any reasonable metric, it's a terrible comment, and I would like to discourage such mindlessness.
An immigration worker isn't likely to have heard of Pinterest. They've probably heard of Facebook & Twitter but they're likely not entirely aware of the ages of people involved.
It should stay as standard feature imho.
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Is this a joke? I'm not trolling, I just don't get it.
This video is a lot like something you would see on The Onion.

Edit: I'm an idiot.
perhaps the rate of change is so great that its leading to something completely unrecognisable in 100 years

That seems to be the most likely scenario.

Proof: Hop into your time-machine and try to explain the internet to someone from 100 years ago.

Remember, the first computer (Z1) was invented only 76 years ago. The first commercial TV-sets became available 92 years ago. Our technology is evolving at a mind-bending pace.

I wouldn't be surprised if Star Trek style voice input was the norm by the time I bite the dust. I wonder if my grand-kids will still use keyboards or consider them a relic...
Underscore makes me wonder if people really understand JS.
>My only big gripe with Scala is that OO syntax is a blight on the world. They should have provided multi-methods instead, so everything could be done with functional syntax.

I actually disagree. Functional syntax means that you need to start using qualified names or polluting your namespace (think of module/import usage in Python, but without OOP dot-notation). I like being able to say:

val herp: Option[Derp] = hurr()
herp.getOrElse(Darpity)

Leaving aside the awful metasyntactic variables, the `getOrElse` method could exist on any number of classes (stuff like `map` sure does!), but I never have to use a qualified name to get the right one. I use dot-notation on the object itself to qualify the method name.
And what do you mean by that?
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What a cruel and cynical recommendation! Who cares if Canadian health care costs spike for a number of years as the population gets older and baby boomers require treatment. This the point of having health care.

The source of the bitterness many feel towards the baby boomer generation is the perception (rightly or wrongly) that the group as a whole advocates politically hypocritical policies -- not because anyone sane wishes ill of the weak or poor or infirm.
Yes, here's an article promoting this from last year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...

And from earlier this year:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2094812/Sugar-cont...
What a joke. Obviously an April fool prank.
What is the dissonance between "Don't downvote to disagree" and "I have many skills"? They seem completely unrelated. Did you link the wrong comment?
You would still have the us foreign exclusion, at least. But most of the low tax places are not places I'd want to live (which is sad, as a libertarian); I've lived in several of them. Hong Kong is the sole exception, and there the benefits (at least roads, security, etc) are superior to the USA, due to high density and efficiency and a long period of good governance.

(also, most of the benefits of living in a high tax high service economy are not really delivered by the US government now, even given moderately high taxes. Defense spending is not particularly improving my quality of life, and to the extent it does, it is a global value which taxpayers in Japan benefit from as well. I'm not sure why the US Government and California are relatively less efficient at delivering worthwhile services than other governments around the world.)
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You see why I said it is dumb? You downvoted without adding dialog (counter-points as your disagreement). If this was an offline world, what would you have done to me and my voice? Punch me as downvote? Leave me alone as downvote? Ignore me? It is totally dumb to have downvotes on text/writing because it gives you an easy way out.

The same is the case with Like buttons and upvotes, there's no difference.
I don't think anyone is saying to be fake

Nobody's saying it, just implying it.

at the YCom demo day, what do the presenting YCers wear?

A good question. Someone who was there should tell us.
The article buries that caveat about how many players of Draw Something also play Words with Friends, etc. I would guess it's a significant amount. I play both games, and many of the friends I play with are playing both too.

So, inaccurate headline with a rather speculative article to follow.
In other words, it has taken the ridiculous cultural productivity of the internet era to even balance out the downward drag of copyright.

Copyright and patents need to be completely destroyed. They are not worth the price.
Honestly How Hard Can It Be?
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I can't decide if this is real or fake. :)
I was down voted because I asked hackers to grow the fuck up and stop following the hype. not fair.
Sodium nitrate is a raging carcinogen if you char grill it.

Sulfur dioxide can cause problems in some people. It's relatively safe (as in, as safe as you can get for a preservative), but can induce asthma in some people. See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7426352.
Why don't they start by allowing you to search for substrings in email?
I guess that is why Facebook doesn't have a Dislike button. In the end, it never works. We are emotional creatures and sometimes we feel like we need to vent off somewhere. And during that time, we are highly likely to vent off on things unrelated to the source of the feeling we feel we need to vent off.

I think to fix that, either remove downvoting entirely, or add a secondary system where downvotes are reviewed, and the downvoting right is taken from people who abuse it.
Interesting. Was it the pairing per se or the people you were paired up with that didn't work for you?
/re your last point, that's exactly what we noticed. A lot of companies think they need a full-time designer, but they could get away with contracting one multiple times throughout the year, leading to a much happier designer who gets to work on multiple projects.
Your profile reads ~"inescapable idealism" yet you sound like the most jaded person I've come across lately. Downvoting isn't the problem, it's probably cynicism. Nailed it.
All you need to do is put quotes around the phrase. Or if you want pages that must contain all the words in any order, place quotes around each word. Or just use Verbatim Search: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
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Why not just write it, rather than complain?
April Fool's day, they're just being silly
true in subjective sense.
How much would you pay to run a custom query against all of Google's index? Sounds interesting. Also, funny, Google spends a bit on creativity and get a large return with publicity every April 1st.
The latter is more what I meant, yes. Basically, we all know you shouldn't trust the client ever.
April fools.
Happy First April to everyone!
Never underestimate the business value of being able to make a good sandwich, appreciate a good meal, and to make people comfortable.

As the comment I replied to remarked about the tech ability of the founders I'd have to say that I'm willing to bet that the young Australian woman that started a trading site with her younger brother very probably has a good grip on the mechanics of web site building and operation. Further she appears to have had the good sense to outsource for the tech when scaling up for the American market.

I've been involved in a number of businesses that have gone from small to international, nearly half with women founders and nearly half with tech founders (with some overlap). In almost all cases the telling important factors weren't gender or tech ability but that elusive EQ ... the ability of the founders to rally a team and have them hold the faith while deals were formed and products deployed.
At some point, when you're just as popular as him, you will get away with having a personal page looking whichever way you want it to be. Also, it's quote possible that he's just too busy doing other work and home page isn't a priority.
I was pleased to learn Verbatim Search no longer requires you to spend several clicks per query to use it, but sad that you cannot set it as a permanent preference.
Why would I do that when 99% of the time is spent waiting on the http call to return?
Native Mobile developer has been great not liking the way javascript works it has been a heaven sent to have relevant platforms to develop on. Whether it's iOS, Android, or Windows Phone 7 I way rather learn all three languages than one I just don't like. I still have to do web mostly for websites for mobile apps, but I am glad mobile is catching on as it has.
Every year some people complain about all the april fools jokes "cluttering" HN.

Sheesh people, it's one day a year. It's fun. If you don't like fun, don't visit HN for a day or two. Hell, it's the weekend. Go outside. Come back on Monday. You won't miss anything. And no one will miss you. Promise.
All right, I'll bite.

>HN's community is a pit of sexist villainy, unnecessary pedantry, empty sycophancy, and vapid self-aggrandizement.

Then why are you here? I'm not asking you to leave, but that is such a thorough indictment that I do wonder why you stay. There must be more to the site than that.

>PS: I downvoted every single comment in this thread that rubbed me even a little bit the wrong way, regardless of its constructiveness. I left no comment in explanation. I took special delight in doing so for comments with an especially righteous tone. The world is no worse for my having done so. The community would have been no better had I restrained myself.

One person downvoting like this is not much of a problem. If very few people behaved like that the OP would not have needed to post this. If everyone behaved like that the site would be unusable.

>Downvotes are not the problem.

Thoughtless downvoting is _a_ problem. I don't know if it's the biggest problem the site has but why would you let that stop you from addressing it?
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I think they lose audience by using terms such as "Computational Thinking".

What I find lacking in many non-tech folks is not Com Sci thought (by my definition), but rather something much more fundamental: systematic and analytic thought.

I find no end to the level of frustration I feel when I try to have a conversation about something, anything, with a non-tech person and they can't deal with breaking a problem down into a set of interrelated sub issues and focusing the discussion on what those issues are and how they interact with each other.

This of course, isn't true of every non-tech person I talk to. But, it is clearly far more prevalent outside the tech community. I do agree that it needs to be core to education, far more core than remembering what year some guy found some land in my opinion.
As funny as this is, it's sad that Google doesn't offer something that actually searches for the stuff you enter and doesn't try to guess your intentions or randomly jump to "Did you really mean [...], dumbass?". Kinda like it did several years ago. Heavy use of + used to do that but the new "" replacement is more of a crapshoot.
Holy crap part 2. I've been looking for that for a long time!
I don't know, it seems that greenlets are basically exactly as easy to program with as threads, from a quick skim of the docs.
It seems like groupon goose is cooked the model was flawed. I don't think it started out as a ponzi scheme, but now it seems like what it will be known for. The bubble 2.0 will live on groupon may even live on as different startups which learn from it's mistake. Unless they learn and change this is bound to fail. They went to IPO to fast anyway for my taste.
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I think the generational privacy attitudes are less a "when you were born" thing (though that matters) than a "how old you are and what shit you've seen" thing.

Much of the current discussion revolving around Facebook is just a re-treading of discussions that happened in the late 1980s / early 1990s with The WELL and first generation Internet sites and "online diaries" (before they were labled "blogs"). Several prolific early personalities emerged, sharing much about their lives. Most of them have since drastically reduced, or entirely eliminated, their online profiles. All that I'm aware of are much more circumspect and targeted in what they share.

And for the most part, they're now in their 40s, 50s, or later (a few exceptionally precocious ones perhaps their mid/late 30s).

What's happened? The Bush administration (Ari Fleischer's "[people should] watch what they do and what they say") marriages ... and divorces, business startups ... and failures, lawsuits, personal feuds, trolls, stalkers. For some, exposure to less liberal regimes, whether in the Middle East of today, Latin America of the 70s and 80s, Africa of the 60s, Eastern Europe of the 50s and60s, Germany of the 30s an 40s, Soviet Russia of the 20s and 30s.....

Some of us recall dystopian movies or short stories / SF from a few decades previous suggesting that a global, all-knowing network might be something other than a benevolent overlord. And noted a certain Mark Zuckerberg's consistently condescending attitude toward his users, from Harvard days forward, his consistent trashing of privacy settings, association with at best questionably ethical Russian investors. Etc.

So yeah, I think today's kids will get over their social fixation. It's going to take a while though.
From early morning UTC+23 to late night UTC-23, I suppose.
This doesn't seem all that useful. I can't find salads in nature. I can't find bread in nature. I can't find smoothies in nature. I can't find noodles in nature. Are those all bad, processed foods?
Other problems.

1) Karma bullies abuse the down voting system.

2) Unpopular disruptive knowledge is trivially targeted by bullies.

3) It's not just down voting and bullies which are BROKEN --- the karma implementation lends itself to bullying through its mysterious behaviors (as alluded to by this topic, e.g., hellbanning) and negative spiral powerplays.

4) Informed opinions trivially get lost in the "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." --- YCombinator passive aggressive powerplay. I.e., rapid threads and frequent participation leads (automatically) to censorship. Just the opposite of healthy discourse! (Not to mention: censored posts are automatically lost via "slow down" powerplay. I now copy-to-pasteboard all my HN postings --- as a form of self-defense and time-saving... just in case. Ridiculous.)

5) There's no practical recovery for victims of karma bullying.

+1) I now consider negative karma (on YCombinator Hacker News) a badge of honor due to the fundamentally broken "karma" system touched on by this thread.
> Then why are you here?

The obvious reason – occasional boredom. Oh, and the inherent joys of venting my spleen.
Being on-topic, polite and factually correct are all virtues that I would expect in a typical HN poster. We should prefer comments which reflect these virtues!

However, regardless of what we intend, I think upvoting and downvoting equate to 'I like' and 'I no like'. We should embrace this de facto reality.

People, including good people with sound judgments, cannot always explain their choices at the time they make them, nor is this desirable.

When people downvote foolishly, in many cases they will have lost their tempers. In such cases sober rules like 'only downvote comments which do not add to the discussion' may go out of the window.

This can't be fixed by exhorting users not to get angry or not to comment when angry, for people can be goaded into anger in subtle, malicious ways (which cannot themselves be easily captured and prevented by other rules). And people can deny that they are angry, even to themselves.

Anyway, effective rules must remain stable under such conditions, which is no mean task.

One way is to engineer new rules into the system itself.

For instance, improvement might be brought about if downvoting, in addition to costing the downvotee one point, cost the downvoter one karma point. People would then refrain from frivolous downvoting, but I believe would still downvote inappropriate, thread-damaging comments. This is partly because good people tend to have more karma and well as better judgment. It also reflects human psychology. Getting angry always costs the angry person.
What collaborative face-to-face environment doesn't reduce the quality of introverts' work?

Most work environments today are open, regardless of industry. Strong personalities and herd thinking exist outside of the tech world too.

Pointing the finger at agile might get eyeballs, but you have to keep in mind that open office plans have been popular long before Agile became a mainstream buzzword, probably because they're cheaper than putting up walls. I tend to think the Japanese management fad of the 80s probably had a little to do with it too.

And not every group practising agile is pair programming.

I am no fan of Agile, and as a former introvert, I can say that the only thing that stifled me in my introverted days was my own introversion.
Sorry, of course that's right. I meant the list of ingredients.
The better question: Why do you engage in the community?

You could just browse articles without creating an account.