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> Of course that is a non-sensical assumption

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but there is no "of course" about it! While I think the moral indignation about profiling is justified, the real fear is that a system that relies heavily on profiling is very weak to attack by learning the profile and planning accordingly.
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Can we just shut up about sugar already?

Yeah, it's freaking terrible, even though I eat sugar every day of my life and I have no health issues.

Drop the agenda.

P.S. I'm not bragging that I'm superman or anything, and I'm grateful for my health. I just want to make the point that this stupid propaganda fear mongering has to stop.
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I think he could have simply said "overeating fructose is bad for you, just like overeating practically anything else is". The lengths he went to vilify fructose as a poison, despite it naturally occurring in a very likely primate food source(fruit), just makes him seem to come off as an anti-fructose zealot - an anti-fructite.

Edit: Looking at other materials from him, it sounds like he's against the over consumption of fructose rather than fructose itself. This video does a pretty poor job expressing that though.
I don't know if you're being facetious but attaching bombs to children is nothing new. It happened in Vietnam and it happens in Iraq.
The firm holds a longer, (financially) non-optimal view; their handling stakeholders would be different if they were gunning for an exit. Instead, Wordpress seem to be presenting for (private; less volatile) investment (but I don't know what for?).
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He's talked about fructose in fruits before. It's the presence of fiber which makes the difference. Fiber alters the chemical process some way (he does explain it though). It's also why he's dead against fruit juice, even if they are made from 100% real juice. It's fructose without the fiber.

Also worth mentioning that, in addition fiber, fruits have other nutrients. fructose+fiber+vitamins+anti-oxidants+minerals vs fructose+fat+salt .

edit:

Sorry, just to be clear, he explains it in other papers/talks. I know it's at least briefly mentioned in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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Though I did a poor job at documenting it, $.el is actually a function that accepts a tag name as the first parameter. The following two snippets are equivalent:

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Why is the traffic graph never working? I was excited to hear the graphs were updated and assumed the traffic graph would finally be working again, but no it is still "temporarily down."
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:-) Interesting possibility......
Only 535 Americans were invited to vote on the TSA.
Another thought is that there may be some ratio between quality and rewatability that signifies the first-time (but not repeated) watchability of a film.

For example, 5 stars for quality and 0 for rewatachability doesn't tell me I should watch the film if I haven't already. But maybe 2 stars for rewatability/subjective enjoyment is enough justification to watch it to appreciate the quality?
Loved this post....cool John Wooden quote: “Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens – and when it happens, it lasts.”

Focusing on small wins is a great strategy. Easier to build consistency...and like it takes money to make money, it takes success to make more success.
What a different and more wonderful world this would be if President Bush's speech-writers had put together a more pithy variant of your attitude for his speech after 9/11! But I think a policy of courage would have been wildly less popular than that of fear proved to be.
Definitely sounds like a bit of a racket. There doesn't seem to be any reason to need all these studies to get diagnosed here.

However, if you go too far the other way, you end up with Kevin Trudeau and other scam artists selling you snake oil to cure whatever ails you. There are reasons why people can't just say anything will cure any medical ailment.
They did a better job of ripping off Apple's web site. Impressive commitment there.
Many would frown upon polluting the global name space with functions corresponding to all known HTML tags.
This is pretty, but unfortunately the only performant way to generate dom elements in javascript is with HTML. HTML parsing is orders of magnitude faster in most browsers.

How about a library like this to generate a string of HTML instead of dom elements?
The author couldn't proofread because he was so busy making features and talking to users.
It's not obvious. The word has become ambiguous. It was once used to describe a certain sort of programmer, but can mean just about anything now.
If you end up wrapping your code in an immediately called lambda anyhow I'm sure it would be fine.
Several times Obama has deflected criticism of some dangerous bill by saying he would not sign it, and then when everyone wanders off because they assume the veto is a sure thing and protest is no longer needed, he signs it. Example: NDAA.
Seems to me like an implementation detail that shouldn't have to affect the interface at all.
This article is backwards. As humans, we crave competition. As Humans we crave to be unique. Same concept, two different ways of saying it.

Both mean, "We want to stand out. Be appreciated and recoginized."

We will always seek ways to stand out. Whether its through one upsmanship, or through differentiation.

We see this in marketing. When you are first in a new category in peoples minds. They consider you the best.

Everyone wants to be considered the best. Its up to you how you get there.
Also: we couldn't actually tell you this until now because we don't trust some of you.
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That's awesome! Yeah I see it now in the source's comments. Thanks for pointing that out; I'm sold.
The TSA doesn't ask for your consent, they ask for you to understand what they are going to do. They pull out a little card and say "I am required to inform you that ..."

It's obviously not sexual assault under law, since the searches are explicitly authorized by law. Even if the searches as designed were found to be unconstitutional or contradicting other law, that in no way would subject an individual agent following that law to prosecution under the government that gave the agent the orders.
Google is getting the better of Facebook and us. With Gmail, Docs, Play, Plus, now Drive, and oh, search, it's hard to evade our big brother's gaze.

Seriously, what's going to hurt you more: having your Facebook profile suddenly shut down or your Google account?

Google is doing a major 1up on everyone, not just Zuckerberg.
Yes I'm working on an implementation of those myself.

There are even designs for lock-free skiplist priorty queues, but they tend to be a little slower than the locking versions.
Like a template engine?
There is so much wrong in this article. The methodology described here is certainly appropriate for this kind of aim, but the claims that (for example, at the top of page 4) "It's the process that ... everyone else in the software world is still groping for." is simply false.

In accounting, how often are errors made? A certain error rate is acceptable.

For professionals whose primary outputs is reports, how often are commas forgotten? Frequently. But expectations are low since a missing comma in a TPS report won't have a negative impact.

For developers whose primary output is web applications, an occasional error is also acceptable. No one is dying, and the flexibility gained because you pursue sane development methodologies far outweighs the risk of errors.
This boggles my mind. I understand that much of our knowledge around nutrition (both at a micro and macro level) is still vague..but...

Surely he's either right or he's wrong. Either the ingestion of fructose leads to 3x the number of calories that must be phosphorylated or it doesn't (versus glucose). The need for this extra phosphor either leads to more uric acid, or it doesn't. So on and so forth.

It's like watching 1 politician argue "This budget will save $X billion over 5 years", while the opposition argues that "No, it will COST $X Billion over 5 years".

Isn't this shit basic chemistry for these professional?
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Fair enough, but I consider Buzz the right idea, with a botched execution (and especially rollout).
Some people use it as a means to communication.
Are you saying that this has no value?
While I don't entirely agree with your first statement, you could just grab the outerHTML instead of appending the element directly to the DOM:

$.el.div($.el.span()).outerHTML
Perhaps like some template engine, but not like any I know of.
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Amazing. Do you think a contributing factor of your success was the total control as the sole decision maker?
i don't understand the appeal of this when there's tons of client side js templating options (handlebars, jade, haml-js,...) that result in far more readable code than a $.el. prefixathon
Just out of curiosity, can someone explain to me why TSA articles tend to make their way to the front page of HN. I know there are some pretty random topics that HN'ers are interested in, but usually there is at least some small link to tech/startups/hacking. Not sure what the connection is here.
Can you run those numbers again, adding denominators for "number of adults encountered", and limiting to adults who have touched the child against the child's will, as happened in this case? You might find a hire rate of stranger-assault among those cases.
'One laptop per child'- like organisations?
Ok thanks, where did he say this about fruit juices? In the same video?
This is the same kind of attack. I've demonstrated here. But for users of a popular analytic service.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873774
That looks ugly to me.

I much prefer CoffeeScript, because plain JS makes me mad, and CoffeeKup (http://coffeekup.org/) for generating DOM content.
"If this situation existed anywhere else where we paid tens of thousands of dollars, people would be outraged."

oh you mean like your iphone? or how about your android? or the software that runs your television? or how about your car?

you're locked out of software products all the time and (almost) no one is outraged. the people who care diligently go to work to jailbreak the device and everyone else enjoys something that "just works"...
Maybe Bre Pettis' level of charisma has set a pretty high standard when it comes to 3D printer videos, but I think this could have really benefitted from a more enthusiastic presentation. Why isn't he pointing out that he's just undercut Makerbot's price by 70% (replicator)? Why isn't he pointing out that the case is made out of metal, which is far sturdier than the Makerbot's wood case? Besides build volume (9x9x6 for replicator vs 6x6x6 for solidoodle), and the option for dual extruders, solidoodle looks more attractive in every way.
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Direct competition and under cutting. This space could use a lot more innovation before resorting to under cutting price.
They insert simulated images of contraband in the scanner monitors.
Congratulations on your good health. Not everybody is you.

Also: what's (inherently) wrong with agendas? We've all got 'em.
No one voted for the TSA. The American public had no input into the policies put into place. We can elect officials, but many of those officials were already in office when they chose to create the TSA.
Seems like a reasonable solution.

My first statement was certainly true in the previous generation of browsers, including IE 7. I'm not sure about more modern browsers. What basis do you have for disagreeing?

Refer to:

http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html
Where was the part about fiber? I didn't see it in this video.
And when "intelligence" suggests that it might happen in the US, will they start banning children from planes?
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Also, fiber in five oranges: 15g

Fiber in a can of coke: 0g
And there's a lot of stuff to digest in those oranges. I'm full up after one. That's maybe a tsp of sugar.
If that's the case. I am humbled and further apologize for not seeing it that way.
But you get the idea what he trying to say no? We all here are not speaking English as the mother language. Please excuse :)
Oh, cop-speak preserve deep meaning. It clearly communicates the mindset of the speaker, which is an important part of language. When considered in context (not spoken by a cop), it telegraphs the mental illness of the speaker.
what do you do with $6.4 million more than you asked for?
While I agree the $.el prefix is annoying, I don't believe it has a negative effect on readability. For me, templates are just another level of unneccesary indirection.
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Fat Head has some excellent content, but it is far from a superb documentary.
Here's one: Walk through security with a child under the age of 2, and you are legally exempted from the body scanners.
They are technically both correct, but in different situations. If you drink a glass of orange juice, you get Feinman's case and no problems. If you drink a 72 oz soda, you get Lustig's case. Lustig goes into details about the differences in other videos, and makes the point that the 72-oz soda case is very common in America.
I still wanted to own a makerbot, because of all the infrastructure surrounding it. However, each iteration of their printer cost more than the last, making the possibility of owning a makerbot more remote than ever.

If solidoodle is indeed open source, I'll probably eventually buy one.
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There's seldom such a thing as basic chemistry in complex biological systems. It's like conflating programming with arithmetic.
Sort of, but there are some tags you probably don't want to pollute your own top-level namespace with, like a, b, i, object, p, q, and s. There's at least one tag (var) which is not allowed as an identifier on its own.
Didn't I download an install this exact OS a year or two ago? I don't believe they've changed the website, or the OS, in any significant way since then... Not exactly sure why this was posted or how it made front page :|

Oh, and I didn't keep it, can't even remember why (probably because it was just another boring linux distro with nothing particular to offer)
Just for fun, here's my version from 2006:

http://mg.to/2006/02/27/easy-dom-creation-for-jquery-and-pro...

It's based on Bob Ippolito's version from 2005. :-)

The comments on the post have a few other interesting implementations that others contributed.

At the time I got pretty excited about this idea, but I abandoned it after a while for performance reasons. I was building large DOM structures and it was really slow. I knew that innerHTML was faster, so I tried keeping the same syntax and generating HTML from it instead of DOM insertions - and it was almost as slow that way!

Then I realized that it was just the sheer amount of JavaScript code being run that was slowing it down. I changed my code to build HTML strings with array pushes and a join at the end and then innerHTML to insert, and it was much faster.

Of course, JavaScript has gotten a lot faster since then (at least in new browsers!), so the more code-intensive techniques may be more practical now.
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It's dead simple. There's no fancy interface. Basic features are gone. That's all on purpose.

If you're like me, you're always writing down ideas on pieces of paper. My webapp is like that, but for the internet. Let me know if you find it useful.
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Sadly, that's typical David Brooks. Between Maureen Dowd and Brooks, I think NY Times should be embarrassed.
The world isn't black and white. Just because fruit has some healthy aspects, doesn't mean it can't have bad aspects as well. In fact, different fruits have different ratios of fructose to glucose. So you can't even generalize to just fruits. Unfortunately, evolution seems to have chosen glucose as the sugar that makes us feel full and that can be used directly by the body. Fructose has to be metabolized in the liver and doesn't make us feel full as directly. This was a good bet before we started custom making all our food, because most sugar is sucrose anyway, which is a combination of glucose and fructose. Unfortunately, man can now add only fructose to things and the body hasn't evolved to understand that signal. You are still way better off eating fruit than empty calories, of couorse, that is manufactured food with little nutrients or fiber and lots of calories.
This is fine for small, one-person projects, but if you generate DOM content in your JS views it will come back to bite you in the ass once you hit a certain size. The first time you need to bring in a designer, or integrate a static mockup from a designer, you'll be wishing you used a template engine.

You wouldn't embed database queries into your view controllers, so why would you couple your html to your javascript?
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I'm only disagreeing with the use of the word 'performant', and the popular viewpoint that any solution that isn't as fast as possible can't be labeled as such.
That's not the kind of rule-making under discussion, so thanks for conceding the point wrt that kind of rule-making.

As to contract-law, mandatory arbitration is getting "interesting".
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I tried that some years ago (see my other comment). I had a very similar DOM creation function and I updated it to generate HTML instead. It was almost as slow as before - and then I realized that the sheer amount of JS code I was running to generate the HTML was taking up the time.

Of course the performance tradeoff would be different in modern browsers.
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On the one hand, the TSA agents could have been more sensitive. On the other hand, the parents could probably have prevented the whole thing by not letting the girl run off to hug grandma.

My dad was career miltary and so was my ex. I spent much of my life around environments where security was taken seriously. You just don't let kids goof off in such environments. Somewhat similarly, I also grew up with shotguns hung on the wall above my parents' bed. They were not loaded but there were two shells laying in the groove on the barrel so they could be loaded quickly if necessary. The rest of the ammo was locked up in dad's closet and kids did not go in dad's closet. Guns were not something children played with and there were no accidents because the adults in the house just did not allow it to happen.
So that's the alternative to scholarly journals Harvard's been looking for! Youtube comments!

Someone else posted this guy's comment (real guy, apparently, funny coincidence he's called Richard Feinman), so here's the reply:

"Hi Richard, Maybe you could update the Wikipedia entry on Fructose then? It's here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose . I know it says glucose can be metabolized anywhere in the body, but fructose needs to be trapped in the liver first. So it is handled by the liver, just like alcohol. Also mentioned is how it doesn't trigger insulin, like glucose, nor leptin, and doesn't decrease ghrelin - this means it is sort of invisible calories to the body, it doesn't make you feel full like glucose. Surely you agree that a sugar that makes you feel full is different from a sugar that doesn't when it comes to people living healthy lives? There are a lot of links to studies on weight gain, fatty liver disease, metabolic syndrome, and insulin resistance there as well."
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Well, I wish I had the formula for perfection. I don't.

It's interesting to see how in China a "benevolent" (using the term loosely) dictatorship is able to push billions of people forward. One could of course argue about a million things they are doing wrong and there would be no doubt that the charges would be on point. However, what they seem to be doing very well is taking their time to become a super power in their own right. At our expense as well as others.
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Thanks, and if that's true (which I believe you), then I'd argue that Feinman is out of touch with reality. It seems like Lustig is both a researcher and an actual MD, while Feinman is pure research. This is possibly what is keeping Lustig in better touch with the realities of western nutrition.

Quickly going Feinman's blog, he seems like a bit of an ass too..

"Avoiding ad hominem is tough. Lustig’s Nature paper contains the single stupidest line in the history of the journal..."
No. Just no.

Where do you think money GOES when it is donated to charity? It doesn't disappear. Are you seriously making the argument that it's better for the world that $X is used to purchase an expensive unnecessary item, than actually spending it on things that matter in the world?

"charity" is not some bullshit phrase that means "wasted money". There are a lot of people in the world who make really compelling cases for certain charity money being better spent, in terms of global well being, than almost anything else. See http://www.givewell.org and http://www.givingwhatwecan.org.
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