skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot more wrong with how the data was interpreted, not to mention the hyperbolic statements made by the researchers themselves.

"The statistics are staggering," study author Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public health, told us. "The increased risk is really substantial."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/12/148457233/death-...

That statement alone is absolutely contra-calm/cautious/undramatic.

The fact that this was an observational study based on a food frequency questionnaire is dubious as well. It's well established that participants underreport foods that are perceived as being "bad" for them and overreport things that society says are "good."

"Foods underestimated by the FFQs compared with the diet records (ie, the gold standard) included processed meats, eggs, butter, high-fat dairy products, mayonnaise and creamy salad dressings, refined grains, and sweets and desserts, whereas most of the vegetable and fruit groups, nuts, high-energy and low-energy drinks, and condiments were overestimated by the FFQs."
http://www.ajcn.org/content/69/2/243.full
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Agree. I Installed Ubuntu to my girlsfrind and it was running 1 year without destruction. On the other hand I've taken away administration priviledges from my dads windows 7 and its holding pretty well ...
Sure, you couldn't get away with this on an ecommerce site such as for a bank or store. But I bet you could for many things such as games or social sites.

People know there's something uncool about IE, even if they don't know why. And it can be replaced in 5 minutes.
This at least has some evidence. The guy pushing barefoot running has done some a study showing you put less stress on your joints when running barefoot then with shoes. I believe it had something to do with running with a better stride then when in padded shoes because your feet now have more feedback information. Just found his website here: http://barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/
First, even if its the answer you ruled out: get a machine with lots of RAM. Don't care about the rest, even an SSD is not that important, just cram as much of RAM into the machine as possible. 8GB would be good, 16 is better. Make sure that the OS has enough space to shuffle memory.

Use tiny VMs. Most development stacks do actually fit in 512MB, as long as there is nothing else running. Pay attention about which parts of your dev stack do actually consume the memory. In my case, it's mostly in-memory databases. Sample those for smaller datasets, its good practice anyways. If its still not enough, use odd values like 700MB. Rule memory leaks out (this is one of the big advantages of small VMs: memory leaks are easy to find).

Also, use one VM per project. Unless projects are tiny, putting 2 in one VM only replicates the problems of your host-system.

Finally, I also use VirtualBox with Vagrant and am quite okay with it.
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1.44" huh? Not 3.5" 1.44MB maybe?
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You might be interested in “The Alphabet vs. The Goddess”[1], which argues (dully, but persuasively) that literacy was the cause of the downfall of goddess worship. It doesn’t go much into the religious differences between pastoralists and agriculturalists, though, and I’d be interested to read more on that. Ishmael[2] and other books by Daniel Quinn changed the way I think about culture, and I guess I’ve been looking for the “next thing”. Anyone?

[1] http://www.alphabetvsgoddess.com/
[2] http://www.ishmael.com
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I don't know anything about how heavily you've modified Windows, but I just switched to OS X from Win7 a month ago. This is after only ever using Windows. I was surprised by how easily I made the switch. I know Lion gets mixed reviews from long time Mac users, but I'm a huge fan.
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The subheading of the linked article, "Monthly IT complaints dropped from 70 to a maximum of 4" is contradicted in the article text. The text of the article says that the "maximum number of complaints" per month dropped from 70 to 46, not 4.

(Also, the maximum number of complaints is irrelevant, but I guess complaining here about people not understanding statistics is pointless.)
I did the same thing on my mothers laptop a couple of years ago, but switched back to Windows a few month later after far too many complaints of "I can't view this document/power point someone emailed me" and "people can't view the document/power point I e-mailed them".
Until they call up asking how to get netflix to work
At home, I'm in Linux about as much as I'm in Windows. What's that mean? I use both and enjoy them equally. There's not really an option for that.
Well I did mention two laptops 1080p (1920 x 1080) with a color depth of 24. Both bought for around $1200, with substantially better hardware than what apple offers.
This article is seriously flawed.

>All Google ever hoped to do was provide a shell-shocked smartphone industry with the tools to build a credible alternative to the iPhone that didn’t come with Apple’s tight-fisted control.

This is wrong. The initial reason of why Android was even purchased was to prevent Microsoft from becoming dominant in mobile. Whatever argument that is made afterwards was historical revisionism.

>but its success has ensured that the world will have access to a modern mobile operating system governed by different principles than Apple’s.

How can Krazit possibly know this? Android seemed to be a bigger reason why WebOS and WP7 wasn't successful and, for a two year stretch, Android was primarily capitalizing off declining marketshare numbers from competitors and not Apple . It may have even killed off development of MeeGo.

>...and when Apple started making noise about barring AdMob from the iPhone, the federal government raised an eyebrow.

Apple doesn't have to completely remove Google search completely from iOS to hurt Google. All they have to do is remove them as the default option.

It's a bit absurd to imply that the only reason Google is in this to make sure that one company won't control the future when this what Apple, Google and MS all want. Google wouldn't have spent $12.5 billion on MMI if they weren't expecting to make that money back and then some.
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Honestly, they have been getting their shit together since 7, they were just so far behind that it has taken this long to have enough impact that devs don't want to stab their eyes out rather then support it. IMO they should have either switched to webkit (or at least forked it and started again from a better place) years ago
Well, I have autohotkey modifications which give me a vim-like keyboard everywhere, add all sorts of shortcuts to switch to my most-used windows (browser, editor, etc.). Plus I have programs for everything I need to do, etc.

Honestly, the two biggest problems I have with switching are my AutoHotKey customizations, and Total Commander, which afaik doesn't exist for OSX.
"Watching the city of Munich fail to convert to Linux"
At least they post their bias upfront.

Sounds like a disgruntled vendor.
GW-BASIC, on an old Canon 8086. I'd be horrified if I still had any of that code around.
Hoooo memories... I started programming in Basic on an Apple IIc. Great machine, built like a tank and so cute with its squared monochrome display. I should by one on Ebay for the fun :)
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My parents use my old PC with Athlon 2000 and 512 MB RAM, I've instaled last Kubuntu with KDE 3.5 a few years ago, and never needed to touch it since then :)

The only problem so far is - once a year they need to use free windows-only application, that doesn't run in WINE, to calculate taxes. They just go to neighborns for a few hours.

My sister also has Kubuntu on her laptop, but she knows how to update it, so I don't know which version she runs now :)

If your relatives only use computer to browse web and write simple documents - linux requires less maintanance. At least that's my experience.
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So I've been right about that whith the early votes, already doubted that.

My impression is HN being a fast moving community with some posts sticking around longer. Spontaniously, I don't see an easy solution to retain the fast moving character AND not having long articles discriminated, kind of.
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"All Google ever hoped to do was provide a shell-shocked smartphone industry with the tools to build a credible alternative to the iPhone that didn’t come with Apple’s tight-fisted control." Every other commenter has tried to tldr this article and I think they've all got it wrong; this is the thesis statement.
Interesting... My mom seems perfectly happy with LibreOffice. I also set her up with Gmail, so she can view the PowerPoint files without launching LO.
I imagine this is exactly how it would go down if I installed Linux on my parent's computers. I think the key here is administration (at least until Linux is supported by 3rd party consumer companies). You can't move a company to a different OS without great IT support.
Footnote: after some naval-gazing, I have to conclude that all of these assumptions are based to some extent on the axiomatic belief that market-based approaches are the best way of managing a cultural communications medium.
> (I'd prefer OPEL, the drive encryption on-controller, for performance reasons, but Mac OS X doesn't support that.)

When available, OSX makes use of the hardware AES-NI capabilities of the CPU though.
U got it wrong... I want to install the speechhub module.
I'd then buy my mom a more modern DVD player. Watching movies on the computer is not for my mom at least and her TV is 9 times larger than her current computer screen (sadly, her 21" Integraph started to misbehave after 15 years)
Yeah, if you read that site you'll see that the Munich switch was really mismanaged and underestimated. This press release sounds more like pr spin then anything, since they we supposed to be done a very long time ago
19 years (a few months shy of 20) and I'm 23. I started with my dad's Commodore 64 and the BASIC reference manual. Flashing colors on the screen, followed by very simplistic text adventures.
Yes, that's my understanding. Virtually all jobs say "Bachelor's required" so the phrase has lost much of its meaning.
Agreed, though I think it's one of those things many people don't miss until they really need it, hence the lack of mentions.
"we don't tiptoe everywhere"

Strangely enough it's actually something we share in common with bears, along with being omnivores.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantigrade
The original post was lamenting the existence of products such as agave nectar as attempting to falsely lead people astray that are looking for alternatives to sugar, as a more 'healthier' choice. I posited a completely separate motivation that someone might have for choosing/using agave nectar (one that I might add does not necessarily have anything to do with being 'healthy').

The conversation is coming off like:

Original Post: "People might choose agave nectar for
<reason 1>, but it fails to deliver what
they are attempting to do."

Me: "Agave nectar doesn't exist just to satisfy
people with <reason 1>. There are people that might
choose it for <reason 2>."

People seem to be attempting to 'rebut' me with, "BUT <REASON 1>!" I really don't understand it.
For my wife, I advised a move to Mac. She needed perfect MS Office compatibility for professional reasons and the computers are much prettier.
Im 25. I remember my dad mentioning writing software to compute the trajectory of artillery shells when he was a Navy cadet. He later went on to establish some of the early IT institutes the Navy uses to train it's personel (this was some time in the mid 90s).

I would hang out with my dad in his office, and that's when i first saw computers. Later on, i was exposed to Foxpro programs in high school and two semesters of C in freshman year. But i was too busy fooling around with my buddies to take notice. I was studying EE, so din't really get much programming practice except for some Matlab.

It was only toward my third year in college when i sensed that having good programming skills might be useful. That's when i started doing some project Euler problems. My final year project involved an embedded networked application, and that's when got to know about GCC, linux and the open source world.

I am now a programmer in a research lab, and my masters thesis involves building machine learning models for an underwater acoustic communication system.
No, running doesn't ruin your knees. Rather than rewrite the wheel RW Daily does a fine job including links to research.
http://rwdaily.runnersworld.com/2012/02/no-running-does-not-...
I confess ignorance on the particular details of whether a PGP-encrypted message leaks who the sender/receiver are, though supposing it does it only leaks a single token--a username-email pair. If the state can read everything you as an individual send, they can only know who you're communicating with if the PGP-encrypted message itself leaks a name that maps to another offline individual. You could argue that a PGP-encrypted email leaks the name by default--i.e., the recipient of the email. You tell me how useful it is to know that I sent a message to cornflakesrule12345@emailprovider.ext without knowing what the message says. (More information can of course be found by coercing the particular email provider, if you can, to give up an IP address of the user, but we all know how reliable IP addresses are at pinpointing a single offline individual and there are many other options...)

Of course, we can go further down the rabbit hole of schemes, we don't have to stick with just PGP. As one of your sibling-comments noticed, anyone who wants to get around any State Spying can do so as long as the State leaves room for some reasonable assumptions. (As for outlawing encryption, that's a problem on its own, both in enforcement and in definition. You'd likely just get particular encryption software outlawed rather than the concept. (I'm aware of the US classifying certain algorithms as munitions.) Funnily enough, telegraph operators tried to outlaw simple ciphers and encodings (like 'u' for 'you' and even anagrams) used back in the day because they were losing money, since they charged a fee for a message length.)

I like the '89 paper entitled The Dining Cryptographers in the Disco: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability with Computationally Secure Serviceability. Here's part of the abstract:

We present a protocol which guarantees unconditional untraceability, the original goal of the DC-net, on
the inseparability assumption (i.e. the attacker must be unable to prevent honest participants from
communicating, which is considerably less than reliable broadcast), and computationally secure
serviceability: Computationally restricted disrupters can be identified and removed from the DC-net.
This test is for a pointlessly weak concurrency level of 25. Under serious load the difference is much more gigantic showing that Twisted can't handle the same load as gevent.
What's your machine?

More RAM would certainly help, more CPU cores (real cores, not hyper-threaded "virtual" cores) will too.
3rd gen, my family is full of programmers.
It's not a bad choice if you consider he looks a little like a young Jobs and the "Butterfly Effect" showed he can be a superb actor given the right vehicle.
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I run Fedora Linux on the laptop I use for all my day to day stuff. All of the servers I maintain are running some RH related distro; either Fedora, CentOS or - in the case of one really old server - Red Hat 9.
Actually, there have been studies that show that the more expensive your running shoe, the more likely you are to get injured.

People think they need running shoes because they run incorrectly. You are not supposed to land on your heel. This is something you can only do with super padded running shoes.
Seems like good news for PC gamers, bad news for nVidia, so. I don't even see the risk of having that fast moving hardware development cycles like we had in the past when PC don't need to catch up on concoles in terms of performance.

The only hope I have now is PC gamers don't have to cope with PC adapted console titles affecting game play. But maybe that's more due to market share and not architecture, but hope dies last!
I just stopped using the monitor after half an hour of using OS X on it and gave it to my roommate, since I'm hardly ever home anyway. Now it's back on my desk again.

It bugs me that I thought I needed a better screen instead of instantly seeing what's the issue. Especially since I used to play around a lot with the Freetype settings in Ubuntu and should have known what makes the fonts look the way they do.

But then again I trusted Apple to not let this kind of stuff happen.
The initial reason of why Android was even purchased was to prevent Microsoft from becoming dominant in mobile.

This is very interesting. Can you provide a source on it?

I think the thesis should be seen more broadly than stated in the article: Android was meant to make smartphones a commodity, giving millions of people access the mobile web.
My VPS is my primary dev machine.
Should be fun when they upgrade to 12.04. And I say that as one who quite likes Unity
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See my answer to jaylevitt's posting.
I used to think a comment should stand on its own too, but I now think that the benefit of knowing the background of the person speaking to you outweighs the downside of introducing your own personal prejudices. I mean, should HN be optimized toward mitigating user prejudice or an enhanced experience for the enlightened?
"In particular, persistence hunting (the form of hunting that relied on long distance running)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Here it is in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
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x86 is aimed at Pascal and other stack-based languages.

The processor had some new instructions (not present in the 8080 and 8085) to better support stack based high level programming languages such as Pascal and PL/M; some of the more useful ones were push mem-op, and ret size, supporting the "pascal calling convention" directly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086
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The future of the living room is absolutely rooted in some form of forthcoming disruption. However, no one has meaningfully disrupted TV since the 80s when cable, video tapes and game consoles all hit mass market appeal at the same time.

If the rumors here are to be believed, innovation among console makers is waning, so you're right in assuming the inevitable TV disruption is coming from elsewhere.

It could come from Apple, but my money is on a startup.

TVs, ultimately, are just monitors. They process a signal that comes from an external source. The first product that meaningfully augments the signal, regardless of source (antenna, cable, satellite, streaming, game console) is the true disruptor.

Tayloring your TV watching experience to your web browsing, social, taste, and purchase histories is where TV will ultimately be disrupted. When you walk into the living room to watch Mad Men, the TV should know it and adjust the in-screen Twitter feed accordingly. It should hear you laughing at Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia and provide suggestions to other shows people laughed at who laughed at the same joke. No man should ever watch a commercial for feminine hygiene again. No woman should watch a beer commercial that objectifies women again. And when I see Don Draper wearing a slick hat, I should be able to pause the show so I can buy it.

As far as I can tell, the only thing stopping this gazillion dollar disruption is that we can't get signal providers to play well with device makers. Apple has made this work with cell phones, so there's every reason to believe they could do it to TV, but I think a startup that figures out how to augment the signal without the provider detecting and blocking it has a chance to become the next Apple.
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If you create a website that users pay for and it becomes popular, somebody will come along and create an Ad funded version and take some or all of your users (assuming everything else is equal).

I have no problem with this whatsoever. I have no problem with advertising. What I do have a problem with is advertisers tracking people across websites, and that all of the major browser vendors are happy to facilitate/encourage this.

If all of the major browser vendors just tied third party cookies to the domain of the top level origin, this sort of cross site tracking would be blocked, with the bare minimum of damage. It wouldn't kill advertising, it would just stop advertisers compiling data that they didn't ask permission for.

There are of course lots of other tricks to track users even if they turn off third party cookies altogether. But lets at least try to get the low hanging fruit first, please.

EDIT: It would probably help if the major browser vendors didn't make large sums of money from this sort of advertising. Talk about a conflict of interest. It would be better for everyone if the evolution of the web wasn't so heavily guided by advertisers.
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Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer and have been a bystander in medium sized IT projects.

Does anyone think that large organisations will tend to move to Web-browser based business applications over the next few years?

If so, will that make it easier to switch the client device without major change in the central plumbing?
Its not a standard Ubuntu. For example, they use KDE 3 :).
But what about the battery life under linux? Have you experienced any kind of problems with that?
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Isn't the strength of PHP the easy to learn and easy install on cheap shared hosts and the strong killer apps like wordpress/magento/drupal/etc ?

Given the arguments in the article: Isn't Node.js rather the new RubyOnRails ?
Rails had similar hype patterns and unclear long term usecases when they launched the blog video. (imho)
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Google having Android guarantees a large percent of mobile searches go through Google. It also means that Google has to pay Apple significantly less to be the default search provider for the iPhone. If these were the only accomplishments of Android, it would likely still be worth it for Google.
I run the same. That - plus tmux, Emacs and Chromium - is just about perfect. If I wasn't tied to Lightroom for photography I'd get rid of the mac.
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Just as a weird aside - a female friend worked with a guy who could 100% of the time tell if a woman was menstruating from smelling their breath.

I'm unsure as to how this came up in conversation.
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