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Looking like a panhandler is nothing like "not dressing up" for me and I don't really think that is what is being discussed, but if it is then my comments of course make no sense.

I also don't think tailored executive suits are what is being discussed.
A lot of modern fruit has been cultivated to increase its sugar content. An apple 200 years ago was a lot less sweet than one today.
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Voting is dumb in a text-based world of writing.
What is considered "unprocessed" foods at the grocer? Raw beans, rice, whole grain wheat? Is the ground beef/deli meat "unprocessed" by your definition?

Serious question. My impression is that anything not cut from an animal myself is processed by some harmful additive, so I've given up.
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Some place above 472..as I can't down-vote yet (despite being here 3 years).
Speaking of words, it's weird to often see 'veggies' in writing because to me that is squarely baby-talk. No offence - I'm sure it's a regional thing.
Does downvoting a comment cause the voter to lose karma, or is it in essence free? StackOverflow does this (you lose a point each time you vote something down), and it is actually a meaningful deterrent: maybe it would help here.
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> It's okay to have comments that are not in support with the original post

That's not really the problem, top comments very often contain counterpoints to the submission. It's deeper in the comments where you can easily slip into the light grey even with pretty uncontroversial posts citing scientific sources but I think that's just caused by a low number of votes in general for those comments, not particularly "unthoughtful" downvoting.

Oh, and it's apparently OK to use up/downvoting to express dis/agreement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
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The voter loses karma. One downvote is one karma. One upvote is one karma. (StackOverflow is 1 upvote for 10 karma for answers, 2 karma for questions; and 1 downvote for 1 karma everywhere, I think.)
> Does downvoting a comment cause the voter to lose karma, or is it in essence free?

It's free.

EDIT: Heh, I'm assuming the downvote came from testing?
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Backing up in the sense of maintaining a full copy of your harddisk seems increasingly unnecessary these days. Most of the stuff I would care about losing is effectively already backed up on Github, webmail, Facebook, Steam, etc.
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I don't think that something being "comparatively novel in our diet" is a sufficient or even useful argument.
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You only lose reputation when downvoting answers. Question downvotes are free. Also, question upvotes give 5 points to the poster
I agree with you entirely about the extent to which design is integral. I don't think design and making are effectively separable activities in software, especially at a startup.

But I think that doesn't mesh well with what a lot of people who identify as designers see as their role. From your portfolio you clearly don't fit the stereotype I'm describing, but a lot of self-identified designers (especially those with an agency background) want a lot of power to control others, rather than direct ability to create themselves. That is, they define "design" as something separate from coding, shipping, supporting, and studying the usage of a product.

That kind of hands-off approach to design won't work in a startup smaller that a dozen people or so; there just isn't enough of it to do. And even if there were, that sort of designer becomes a bottleneck, slowing iteration and reducing effectiveness. That's especially bad at small startups, because, as you say, at least one founder already believes they can do a lot of that work.

In your shoes, I'd look for a company where everybody is involved in product research, strategy, and prioritization. Sure, you'll do a lot of front end implementation to begin with, because that's what a startup needs. But if you also pick up some product tasks (e.g., organizing user tests, distilling site data into useful feature guidance, solving business problems via feature changes) I think you'll end up with the kind of involvement you want.
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Title can be improved.

What is toxicity?
"A central concept of toxicology is that effects are dose-dependent; even water can lead to water intoxication when taken in too many doses, whereas for even a very toxic substance such as snake venom there is a dose below which there is no detectable toxic effect. Toxicity is species-specific, lending cross-species analysis problematic. Newer paradigms and metrics are evolving to bypass animal-testing, while maintaining the concept of toxicity endpoints."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicity
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It's 501 exactly. I just hit this limit last week.
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Since your horn-tooting post will rightly get downvoted into illegibility, I wanted to extract the bit that I thought a useful contribution to the discussion:

> Here's the thing, though: I don't consider myself a 'designer'. I think the title is too limiting, because it doesn't encompass other skills (like coding).
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It sounds like you should start your own company. I can't think of a situation where an early stage startup will want to hire someone to have a significant influence over the product strategy to the degree that it sounds like you're looking for.
Mobile, location-aware deals is their main hope of driving large amounts of new revenue since most of their current audience is already suffering from email daily-deal fatigue.
The voter or the person who asked the question? I am confused.
I am thinking of laws that make it unlawful to publish certain links with an arbitrary property (containing or linking to copyrighted material) or laws that prohibits it to publish the result of statistical analysis (the whole auto-suggest debate). Note also that everytime that Google changes its ranking algorithm, some companies complain because, as they paid for SEO, they feel entitled to a high google rank.
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I think the title says it all...
Ask HN: Proving Early Stage Validation, When Everything Is Wrong With Your Idea
So we have a primitive thread going on at Reddit (here: http://redd.it/rmpcy) trying to learn about our customer segment and possible issues with our StartupWeekend App but Reddit is nowhere as credible/reliable as Hacker News. Our advisors are iffy on a few things listed below. Our Idea: We want to crowd-source development and design for business minded startups, making launching a reality for the no technical (yet good) teams.

Here are our issues:

- Intelectual Property,
- Integrating Github and StackOverflow into a Badgeville or Badge Farm (www.BadgeFarm.com) like system to vett the talent, and
- The actual "want/need" for a product like ours (http://www.joinastartup.org).

We need your advice HN! :)
Thing is, I don't mind wearing a suit at all, and in fact prefer it in certain situations. A good suit can be just as comfortable as a t-shirt and jeans or whatever other bullshit.

I don't have a problem with jeans and sneakers, but there's that expression "never trust a programmer in a suit", and I do have a problem with that.
I think downvoting should be thoughtful, but I'm not so sure about the burden of having to provide an explanation for doing so. IMO users should be able to judiciously downvote without doing anything else.
Maybe I can't tell whether the author is being ironic, or maybe I'm just old, but this is what we did in the past (10-15 years ago). Turned out to be noisy, unreliable, more expensive than you might think, and generally inconvenient, so hosting companies grew.
A running list of all the jokes can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782212
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This needs to be said, butt in chair hours =/= work hours. My brain is constantly thinking about problems I'm trying to solve or what I need to do next. At home, at work I often will be thinking of things and walk to my computer to either do them or note stuff down. My best hours aren't all at the office since often there is a lot of other things that interrupt me there.

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Legitimate comments are incredibly subjective. That down arrow helps me clarify what I consider legitimate.
The other thing to bear in mind is that when you downvote new members to the point that their karma goes negative, they will automatically be hellbanned -- their comments won't show up except to themselves.

EDIT: So, be nicer to new users, otherwise they'll end up like dailyllama: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dailyllama
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Computing expands, then it contracts, then it expands, then it contracts.

For every pro in any solution there's usually a similarly weighted con, both of which need to be balanced against the users technical ability, requirements, "infrastructure", etc.

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The homeserver can always be backed-up on an hourly basis as a fail safe. In case the home connection goes down, the backup server (maintained as a paid service by a company) can be used for a short while. I don't think traffic to the homeserver of any one family can be that huge. Torrent upload would typically have higher datarate than a regular house's upstream.
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I had the same reaction when he went off on the public restriction on alcohol (52m), but the science sounded reasonable. With that in mind, I cut my sugar and carb intake. I lost fat. So, I chalk it up to his personality or a reaction to being ignored for a long period of time.
It's a number in a database, who cares...

I used to get pissed about it and want an explanation, but the consequence of posting on controversial threads is getting downvoted. If you don't want to be downvoted just preface your comment with something like "I'm not dissing X, but <something that points out some major flaw in X>" it seems to mostly do the trick.

What's the bar for downvoting anyway these days still 200 points?
It sounds like people will prefer the (a,b) => {} syntax over function (a,b) {} simply because it's more concise and looks better, not because of its usefulness.
I agree, anything that is designed with the intention of being used by people must unify functionality with visual appeal. The best way to do this is to have those creating it involved with both sides of development.
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America has been exclusively electing irresponsible assholes to public office for the last 60 years though. It is the last nation you would want to hold up as an example for anything, no matter what your agenda, left or right.

There are plenty of great public education, public health, and public pension systems implemented in the world. That none of them are in the US has nothing to do with the idea of it, but rather who was in charge of getting it done (i.e. ultimately, the American population itself).
To clear up the confusion, the grandparent is simply wrong.

The only person to lose karma is the one that gets downvoted.
I fully agree. I've seen far too many comments that are meaningful or insightful - even ones I don't agree with - get unnecessarily downvoted without proper cause. On a discussion forum where one of its main objectives is to be a safe haven for intelligent discourse this is unacceptable. With that said, this is my officially unofficial guide to downvoting:

NEVER downvote:

1) Just because you disagree with a post.

2) Because you dislike the poster.

3) Because others have downvoted a comment into oblivion and you want to jump on the bandwagon. i.e. No need to kick a comment when it's already down.

4) When you have not explicitly reasoned out why you are downvoting beforehand.

DO downvote:

1) Because the comment is derogatory or offensive.

2) Because the comment is factually incorrect.

3) Because the comment is off topic and/or does not add to the conversation.

4) Because the comment lacked any meaningful content. Ex: "Yes!", "Nice post!", "LOL!", etc.

Ultimately the golden rule applies here. Do not downvote any comment for a reason that you yourself would be upset over if someone used that same reason to downvote a comment of yours. In short, just put some thought into it.
I typically downvote where someone appears to be failing to think deeply enough about the topic, or if they haven't read the article or the parent comment properly. In a sense, it's because I'm disagreeing with them, but it's a bit different to "You suck! <downvote>"
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I work in an open plan office and I hate it. I am constantly annoyed, inconvenienced and I can't get half as much code written as I do at home. The designers, salespeople, tech-support staff, managers and accountants I work with, however, love it. Their productivity is way up because they have quick, easy, friction-free and immediate access to me at all times. In aggregate the company does significantly better as a result of this open-plan office and I realise that wanting to be in 'The Zone' 8 hours a day is not why I work there. I work there to make the company as a whole as awesome as possible.
It's not the Zuck effect, though Zuck may have catalyzed it. You might as well call it the Steve Jobs effect; the trend has been all one way for at least 35 years and is related to changes in the industry and indeed the economy at large.
I don't think this is a recent trend... I've noticed it since I've been active on HN. But it's very true. I've noticed that very controversial comments will receive a lot of downvotes, but relatively few comments that disagree with them.

I'll confess I've been guilty of this in the past: downvoting comments I disagree with, or those which I think are false. On reflection, that is obviously wrong. Downvotes are for comments which are off-topic, unnnecessary for anyone to read. Not those with with there is legitimate disagreement. For those, commenting is the appropriate response.

I can only reinforce the OP: Downvotes are for off-topic, irrelevant, spam comments. If you disagree with a comment, comment to say why, or upvote a comment that expresses your disagreement. Downvoting a comment signifies nothing.
I don't care if this comment gets me downvoted to the point of extinction on HN, but seriously this shit is the number 1 story right now? Quit being such a friggin' baby. Your comment sucked(just like this one) and then you received and a downvote. I bet you are creaming in your pants now that you are the number 1 story.

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Definitely. However, that doesn't mean he is wrong. For more actual evidence of this stuff, The Eades' book `Protein Power'[1] and Robb Wolf's book `The Paleo Solution'[2] offer some pretty compelling evidence of how grains and related foods are detrimental to our health (among other topics). I, too, am a Paleo success story, having gone from 210 to 185 in 2 months, and feeling better than I have ever felt. All I have is anecdotal evidence for myself, though, so I always refer others to these books.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Protein-Power-High-Protein-Carbohydrat...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/The-Paleo-Solution-Original-Human/dp/0...
I understand that you could take this to an extreme: if it doesn't grow in my garden or die by my hand...

But let's just focus on low hanging stuff for now. There are food products that are more chemical than anything. Oreos, Poptarts, CheezWhiz, pops, frozen meals, Juices "now with 10% real juice"...The list is extensive. Then you have overly refined products (white bread, white pastas).

Fruits and vegetables (fresh, canned or frozen), lentiles and legumes, grains/careals (including breads and pastas), raw meat (fish/chicken/beef/pork/...) are all ok. I'm sure there's more.

I don't think there's much room for confusion between eating Captin' Crunch vs oatmeal, cheetos vs a bowl of plain yogurt with strawberries.
If you're going to complain how others are supposedly misusing a feature of the site, why would you do so by apparently misusing the "Ask HN" lead-in?
People downvote for various reasons, and there really isn't a lot of agreement on a good criterion. Some downvote only "harmful" comments, some downvote for disagreement. I'm guessing you're in the first camp, but given that pg has ok'd the second option as well, I doubt downvoting for disagreement is going away any time soon.

Speaking only for myself, I don't often see substantive comments which are downvoted into oblivion: at worst, they hang out at -1 or -2 until someone notices them and upvotes. Most good comments eventually recover; mediocre ones might stay at barely-downvoted. ( I see substantive comments go [dead] because the user's been hellbanned, but that's different.)

Maybe the solution is just to not start graying text until -2 or -3? Then one or two early downvotes would have less effect.
Dr Lustig has been promoting this idea for many years. The problem is that he's doing it very unscientifically. He vastly overstates his evidence and makes claims of certainty that the science doesn't support.

I'm interested to see what replies his recent Nature publication receives.
Glucose + Fructose = Sucrose; which is why I don't like the title. Cyanide is not in context...

A healthy liver can process roughly 50g fructose before fat storage begins to occur. This would be a tough number to hit since for every 100g of fruit you eat only 7g is fructose (on average).

Please link baby saying "veggies", ty.
Please keep in mind, most secondaries are done like a IPO except its secondary shares not primary. Bankers line up a set of buyers to sell in blocks (usually at a discount but not as much as IPO discount) in order to help with the massive liquidity inflow.

Also, they can't dump their entire stake. Usually IPOs of tech companies get to dump around 25% max of top mgmt stake in its first secondary offering and bankers will advise companies to usually wait 3-6 months to dump another stake and so forth especially for companies with low barriers to entry. So the entire process takes a decently long time not one month or quarter.

Management dumping so much ahead of IPO is very suspicious and /or at the very least it may imply they have no conviction in their core business model. I mean companies go public to raise money to propel growth. It should help pump up the share price. On top of that, original IPO budgets given to banks are usually conservative so that MGMT doesn't miss guidance for the first 4-6 quarters until they can dump all of their shares. The fact that in their first quarter they missed their own guidance suggests the business is in a whole lot worse shape than even what the company expected. That's bad news.
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I can't imagine anything more tedious than to spend my life thinking this way.
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You overstate your case quite a bit. There are a lot of products for which great visual design or very-well tuned usability are, frankly, not necessary for market success. Consider, for example, this very site. Some startups do indeed need great design, though.

Even for those startups where design is crucial, I think I'd only go as far as saying that the founding team needs someone with a strong design sense and some specific design skill. But that person needs to be a lot more than a designer.

Consider Chad Hurley, for example. YouTube beat out many competitors partly because of a much more usable design. But Hurley was also CEO and head of product, and he handed off the details of design early on to others. Even years later he still reviewed all the new features before they went live, but that's much more about his ability to evaluate design (and design's impact on metrics, which YouTube used heavily) than it is about being a designer.
I do not know whether 45 mg is a small or large amount of salt. But his main point is that that salt is there to make you feel thirsty after drinking a soda.

In my personal experience he is correct there. Soda does not quench my thirst and leaves me feeling thirsty.
Wait, if a book isn't copyrighted, it's not eligible for inclusion in the LoC? How does that make any sense at all?
By chance I noticed your earlier comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3782072

and I'm trying to get over the dissonance between what you said there and what you're saying here.
"There's no shortage of smart, hardworking [designers]. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking [designers] willing to work for very little money." ~ paraphrased from David "Pardo" Keppel

If you're having trouble hiring, it's probably because you're not paying enough. It turns out that talented people are worth paying a lot for.
I like how the title mentions 'the future' when what he describes is a thing that happened in the past.
Wait, Google earns four times more from iOS than Android?
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Dr Lustig's argument is that the amount of sucrose the average person takes is toxic. The title could be "Average person eats sucrose in doses of toxicity"...or "Sucrose is toxic"

You are being pedantic.
> "I'm not dissing X, but <something that points out some major flaw in X>"

The only way I've ever seen this used is "I'm not dissing X, but fuck X, I hate it because of A, B, and C"

On more popular threads, being down voted will push a comment down to the point where it may not be seen. If the comment is constructive and adds value to the discussion, downvoting it is a disservice to the community and hurts the discussion as a whole.
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Too bad you stuck around for 7 months. You sound like a person who knows you should have left after month 2-3.

Best of luck.
The game is probably still in a period where the buzz around it is causing more growth than users who hav stopped playing. Even when they do, I'm sure you will soon see other Zynga apps cross promoted in the game to keep the audience playing Zynga games. I think also that pushing updates to a large install base can generate some uptick.
For starters, everything that doesn't come in a box or a bag is likely unprocessed (which includes the meat you mention). The massive categories you are missing are fruits and vegetables (although excess fruit can also pose a sugar problem). Wheat is tricky because it is typically processed. Whole grains are better.
Yep, very true and very insightful. But you can't tell these people to hire someone with talent and help them grow into the role. Startups have imbibed the unicorn philosophy that they must have a multitasking design "rockstar" or "ninja" and they won't accept anything less. Then they wonder why the job has been open for half a year and they can't find a designer that "fits."
Have you tried using shortcut keys instead of the mouse? I find the more I keep my hands on the keyboard the faster everything becomes.