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The other option would be to allow an undo of your vote/downvote, perhaps only within 5 minutes or so, to prevent abuse.
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1 teaspoon is (very) approximately 5 grams. There are 1000 mg in 1 g; thus 5000 mg in 5 g.

So 50 mg is 100th of a teaspoon of salt. Roughly.

EDIT: This UK health advice suggests that adults should have less than 6 g of salt per day.

(http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/salt.aspx)

But this Scientific American Article suggests that there's no evidence for that.

(http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=its-time-to...)
This is considered good design? I'm having a bit of trouble reading it.

http://maxvoltar.com/
>My impression is that anything not cut from an animal myself is processed by some harmful additive, so I've given up.

There is plenty of simple advice on what to eat, and it isn't the end of the world if you don't follow the guidelines 100%. "Giving up" makes it sound like you're prone to an extremist view, which life has shown me is rarely the most pragmatic view.

Fruit that looks like it is something that would come off a plant > "Fruit roll-ups"
Whole-wheat bread > wonder bread
strawberries > twinkies

> As Mr. Pollan puts it, “If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02brod.html?_r=1
While I don't feel any one company has really nailed the location-aware deals space, when somebody finally does I think it'll be very closely tied to the payment. In my opinion, companies like Square and Dwolla have a distinct advantage that companies like Foursquare and Groupon (if they go this direction) lack.
People downvote to express one of two things:

- The post doesn't have a tone that fits the HN ideal.

- The post says something that they disagree with.

This is a problem, because those two cases should not be treated the same. A post containing an unpopular opinion should not be considered equivalent to a post that is insulting or derogatory, for instance.

From a user interface perspective, the sensible approach would be to provide an outlet for the user to do express two things independently, rather than attempting to modify behaviour through appealing to their better nature.

A separate 'flag' option would make a lot of sense.
It’s been April Fools Day in New Zealand for 14 hours, so I guess rather than it being setup in advance, they just launched it in time for the first country to hit 1/4.
Best of luck to you, if you don't succeed and fancy coming over the pond to the UK give me a shout. I hope I don't hear from you but read about you though.
It is sufficient to make it much more probable that we can't process it very well assuming one believes in evolution.
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Prozone! When I was typing the comment I was also thinking about them but couldn't remember the name. They're also a major player.

Football Manager relies on a network of 1000 scouts in 50 countries monitoring 20,000 teams. It's a useful first step in the search for the next star. Everton are the first club who signed a deal to get access to the full database.
It's also very much -EV. If you can bear the risk of having 10k hanging over your head--which you should at any reasonable level of savings--it's still a bad call.
Do you keep your own javascript "standard lib"?
And if so, what is in it?

What I mean is a .js file full of functions that you commonly use, and include in every project. Right now, I'm building myself one, and so far have stuff like:

A basic function for loading an external JSON.

A function called "modal", pops a jquery superbox.

A function called "chomp", which removes trailing newline characters from a string.

What I'd really love, however, is to also be able to include an "init" function that:

A) Loads necessary "helper" js, like jquery, jquery-ui

B) Loads necessary "helper" css, like css for jquery-superbox
IIRC it was introduced fairly recently, either Snow Leopard or Lion.
I think "toxic" is a strong word. Sugar occurs naturally in fruit which is relatively healthy and sugar in moderation (ie, not added) is completely fine.
He uses the word Startup a lot, doesn't he?! I love it!!

Thanks!
I'd like this to happen, for all of the privacy, freedom and decentralization reasons. I think the only way it is actually going to happen is if computation speeds/prices significantly outpace network speeds.

Take for example an AI that watches your facial expressions and helps you around the house. It might be cheaper/easier to have the computation happen locally and avoid the cost of streaming all of that data to a centralized location all of the time. Then again, having all of the data in one database may provide the AI with enough benefits that it is worth sending it across the wire - with aggregate data, valuable aggregate patterns can be found. It's hard to say at this point.

I have a really hard time seeing people buying a box to support the next facebook ...
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Who was in Dante's worst circle of hell? Judas, Brutus.

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The biggest reason for supporting DSL's, as far as I understand it, is so that, as with Lisp, much of the functionality of the language can be moved out of the compiler and into libraries. This will make the language proper actually rather simple, though, of course, great complexity can come out of simple, orthogonal rules.
It's almost just a number in a database. Negative scores cause the comment to be grayed out.

Perhaps comments with negative scores should not be grayed out. This would remove the incentive to downvote a comment to silence an unpopular opinion. I don't think this happens a lot, but some people disagree.

Then, there is the problem of "good" comments in response to the "bad" comments. When I see a grayed out comment with responses, I end up reading the grayed comment anyway. I doesn't make sense to make it more difficult to read the original comment than the responses.

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Try searching for something, then specify the time range. Check the last option (changes on reload) :)
Their homepage looks all right...
What if the low tax country had low tax because it had low government spending on benefits, etc. You'd still have to pay US tax rates for little benefit.
I care about a number in the database because that database is the mechanism behind a community I care about.

It has been observed that as online communities like HN grow, the signal-to-noise ratio falls on a progression that can be summarized as HN -> Reddit -> Digg. No one knows how to permanently stave off the Diggization of HN. But, in the mean time, it is worth trying to delay as much as possible.

As we become more complacent regarding downvotes on well-written comments because we disagree or not downvoting empty, witty fluff, HN slides farther and farther into the noise pit.
have you tried prunes? cheap, keep forever (powdered prunes are added to other foods to make them last longer) and loaded with antioxidants and fiber. I found it much easier to keep a bag of prunes around than trying to find decent quality berries.
I also mentioned heart problems, but I limited my response to only those side-effects Lazare mentioned in order to stay on-topic.

Side effects of Oestrogen-containing contraceptives that don't seem to be caused by Progestin-only contraceptives include:

Increased risk of cancer

Increased risk of heart disease

Bone density reduction

Blood clots / Stroke

Increased sensitivity to UV (and associated skin cancers)

Reduced breast-milk production. This isn't very detrimental to one's own health, but does effect the health of the child.

The only down-side of Progestin-only pills versus Oestrogen-containing pills is that it is extra important that it be taken at the same time every day for full efficacy. Obviously the implant doesn't suffer from this drawback.
They don't even press the keyboard. :/
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Nah, just try to use whole ingredients were possible, and read the label if you aren't sure.

Most pre-made foods have terrible ingredients. Manufactured foods are made of filler (water, flour, emulsifiers), a bit of "flavor" (preferably salt, cheap oil, sugar, and weird chemicals), and preservatives (some of which can be quite harmful).

The priorities of food manufacturers are shelf life, cost, marketing, and tastiness. Tastiness is usually their lowest priority. Unless they want to look healthy, health isn't even a priority.

Pan-frying some in-season vegetables with a bit of chilli and garlic is usually a lot healthier. A big ol' steak is less healthy, but tastier.

Try eating a tomato which was picked green (so it keeps better, and is easier to handle without bruising it), then had its skin artificially ripened. Then try a ripe tomato (you can generally tell just by how soft it is). There's a big difference.
If it grows on a plant, or eats plants, or eats things which eat plants, it's not processed food.

If it didn't exist 150 years ago, or you cannot find it in nature, it's processed food.
And those would be…
> Hang out on design communities like Dribble

In related news, an article "Why Can't Startups Find Programmers" is suggesting to hang out on programmer communities like Hawker News.
do you have a source on that claim? not that I don't believe you, I just haven't heard it before and it sounds pretty interesting.
I haven't watched the video, so this question is just based on the article: does he take into account multiple sources for the same book?

For instance, when a book is still under copyright and is available on Amazon, it is usually available from one publisher. When a book is not under copyright and is available on Amazon, it is often available from several different publishers.

If one book is available from 10 publishers, will it be counted 10 times in his numbers or just once?
You just don't have much of a sense of humor.
Fructose is the main problem, according to Lustig. Whole fruits aren't bad because they also contain fiber, which counteracts the fructose, but fruit juice is a problem because the fiber has been removed.
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Mostly tripe in this post. You do realize that Groupon only pays out 40% or so what it brings in making ponzi activity unnecessary.
No. Just a handful of executives and investors.
There is a separate flag option. It's hidden. For example, clicky the [link] URL in the menu bar for my post.

AIUI flagging comments (posts in a thread) is for spam or blatant nastiness, and down-votes are to encourage better behaviour. ("not a nice tone" / "factually incorrect" / "big claims with no evidence" / "missed point of thread by wide mark" etc.)

If a post gets down-voted and you really don't understand why either leave it, and wait to see if other people up-vote. (People can accidentally down-vote, although they'd normally mention that.) Asking politely for more information usually works.
Great, insightful comment.

Most people who do that are actually the ones who are faking it the most and trying to be different for the sake of being different.

This reminds me of something my very brilliant uncle often says: "When one cannot stand out, one makes oneself unique"

(my translation makes it lose a lot in subtlety, but there are no real equivalents for the verbs used— it sounds much better in the original French: "Quand on ne peut pas se démarquer, on se distingue")
I'm a designer and user experience guru and front-end dev, I want startups to find me and I want (and have) to find good startups.
There is a flag option, it shows only when you are replying. I don't know its moral purpose, but I guess you are supposed to post whenever you flag a comment.

Edit: TIL I should use the link link instead of the reply link, so I can see new answers before posting mine.
If they write you off as just another hacker that doesn't understand the business aspect of a start-up, you're not doing any favors.

Oh yes you are. You just avoided a bad investor.
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No code in these two, but lots of problem solving:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_34_%28novel%29

I recently read Rule 34 by HNer Charles Stross. I liked it a lot.

Thanks Charles.

If you want to go old school, Rendezvous With Rama is great.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
I would like to propose a small change to the commenting system: Don't shade downvoted comments grey.

I've noticed it's like a snowball effect. I've commented on a post and for hours it wasn't downvoted or even upvoted. But as soon as one person noticed that it had been downvoted, it would get 2 or 3 more.

And I've noticed this impulse in myself. I feel much more compelled to downvote a comment that is already grey than one that isn't, even though the grey one may be a perfectly valid point.

Maybe a good idea would be to only show it greyed out after 3+ downvotes. That way people wouldn't have that knee-jerk reaction to downvote just because someone else has.
I don't think that counts as "backed up". Personally, I always try to make sure I have a mirrored copy of any of my data that I store with a third party, unless I feel comfortable with that data vanishing without warning.
What would lead you to interpret that title as confusing?
If it really made 200k a day on ads, that's 73 million a year. That would be crazy if true and would justify a 200m valuation.
A troll or something near Mount Rainier: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=47.04299,-122.051239&hl=en...
Interesting, if you look at Pyongyang (North Korea), it has a bunch of labels that don't show if you use their regular maps. They're quite detailed too, it shows "Statue 2 of 'The Newly Freed Proletariat Thanks To The Grat Leader Kim Il-Sung'", schools and such. They must have hidden map data they don't show normally that leaked into this map. http://g.co/maps/tg9jy
Scala is awesome–you should definitely learn it.

Scala does provide you with enough rope to hang yourself with. What's the solution to this? A. Don't hang yourself. New Scala shops should definitely abide by the style guide that is provided at scala-lang.org to help with this.

Also, use implicits and multiple inheritance very judiciously. One thing that is quite true from the OP, is that the "cake pattern" is indeed "the bakery of doom". If you have to use dependency injection, use something sane, like Guice. Or just ol' constructor injection.

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

The problem is that even this statement is ambiguous. All foods, processed or not, are almost all chemical by any proper definition of the word chemical I know of.

Of course the point your trying to make is that they contain large amount of "human added chemicals" some synthesized, some not. If you look at the ingredient list of a rockstar energy drink you'll find almost everything in it is "natural", that is a chemical that exists in nature and is part of a diet that would be considered healthy (in some amount / combination).

The argument should really be based on healthy amounts and combinations of chemicals and just because it exists in nature, doesn't make it healthy (see red meat and recent studies regarding it).

I find this discussion to be fascinating in regards to evolutionary development. Humans 'like' sugars and meats for strong evolutionary reasons. They were rare when the average age of death was like 30. Getting cheap calories was very beneficial to successful life and hence child bearing in the era.

Whats really interesting is that I don't see those traits going away. Evolution requires selective pressure. There would have to be a selective mechanism that resulted in those who "eat well" to contribute more to the gene pool than those who do not. While I have no studies at hand to back this up, my personal observation doesn't indicate that this pressure exists. As a result I don't think we'll see the enjoyment of such food disappear any time soon.
I do find Backblaze interesting, particularly the details of the storage pod, but I always tend to read "unlimited" (commonly used in "unlimited storage" or "unlimited bandwidth") as "we won't tell you the limit unless you exceed it".
And thus you would overlook Woz and demonstrate incompetency.
Not that I accept for a second that someone like Woz deserves patronizing language like "attended to personal hygiene that day" or "panhandler" - but people who base their evaluation of technical talent on social conformity certainly do see them that way.

The thing about the good investors the OP is talking about is that, increasingly, they don't do this. There are two reasons why they don't. One (which applies to only some, like YC) is that they are technical people themselves. The other is that the ones who do it lose to the ones who don't.

That is the historical trend and it has little to with fads or fashions. It has to do with economic power shifting towards people who create things.
> preservatives (some of which can be quite harmful).

Citation needed.

Specifically, I want you to support the assertion that preservatives used in modern, Western food are currently known to be potentially quite harmful in the usual amounts consumed.
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I find the best way to create an entry on Blogger is to email it with your secret email code. Now your editor is as good as your email client's editor.

I won't touch Blogger's editor unless forced. I haven't seen it for months.
All you have demonstrated is that one person had a bad experience with a vasectomy and decided to write about it.

>The operating room is cold. The walls are busy with gruesome anatomical diagrams, cross sections that make the male genitalia resemble charcuterie. I lie back on the table, draw the paper sheet over my crotch, and seconds later the doctor and an older, hen-shaped nurse enter the room.

I know that all reporting is biased, but the signal-to-noise ratio here is abysmal.
> The liver can actually process fructose fine if it gets a little at a time and simultaneously receives fiber.

Dietary fibre gets to the liver?
He's got the point though that only one's data needs to be backed up, not every single bit on the disk.
Reading through these comments I would like to point out this is an Aprils fools day post. Its funny because if you didn't read to the end you might very well believe it.
I would add to the "factually incorrect".

It is better to reply and correct wrong facts, also people just sometimes get things wrong and can write a good post in the context of something that might be a bit inaccurate.

Also it may be beneficial if something is wrong but believed by many people to have the content and the correction displayed prominently on the page.
If you downvote, you should be obligated to leave a comment. Downvoting otherwise feels like a victimless crime. I exaggerate obviously, but the lack of feedback stunts learning especially if you take the time to read the article and offer commentary.
Wasn't the point, just a hypothetical example.
This isn't about malicious applications stealing your data. It's about misconfigured or buggy applications giving people more access to your computer than you intend.

Think about how many professionally developed websites fall prey to SQL injections, CSRF vulnerabilities, server exploits and the like. Nginx recently issued a warning about a big vulnerability in all but the most recent version. Github got owned by Egor Homakov using an old Rails exploit.

And those are professionally maintained. When your average "I'm not computer-savvy, but I can work Microsoft pretty well" user is the one setting up and maintaining the server, how long do you reckon it will be before somebody takes over his computer? My guess is that you're very optimistic if your answer uses hours as a unit.
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I really don't understand the view that it's OK to use downvoting to express disagreement.

I think that what a downvote says, regardless of what's intended, is "I do not want to see this type of post anymore." This makes sense if someone is misbehaving. I think it also makes sense for very extreme opinions.

But for simple disagreement? Just because I disagree with you does not mean I want you to stop expressing your viewpoint.
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> If it grows on a plant, or eats plants, or eats things which eat plants, it's not processed food.

Tell that to people who go bugnuts about GMO foods.

> If it didn't exist 150 years ago, or you cannot find it in nature

Start checking on when your favorite variety of apples was first created.
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