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Guyenet is a joke.

Peter over at HyperLipid recently ripped him to utter shreds:

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/confused.html

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2012/06/insulin-un-de...

Not to mention, Taubes countered Guyenet with a 6-part series refuting Guyenet's widely mocked food-reward/palatability hypothesis:

http://garytaubes.com/2011/09/catching-up-on-lost-time-ances...

http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-–-the...

http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-–-the...

http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-–-the...

http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-–-the...

http://garytaubes.com/2011/11/catching-up-on-lost-time-–-the...
This is great but why is English the only version that is in jpg rather than png?
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> I think removing patents from the equation would result in everything settling to a new norm.

I don't disagree. But the only way we, and Apple, and anyone else can operate right now, is under the current system. If you're not willing to work within the current system, you're not going to do well.

Of course, that's not to say we all shouldn't be investing energy into a new system, but you have to use what you've got when you've got it.
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What's to keep me from investing all my money in my own startup? I note attempting facetiousness, I'm truly curious how they differentiate me starting my own business and investing all my own money (at a substantial percentage of my reported income) or starting a business with a buddy and putting in a serious amount of cash.
Over-rationalization. Analysis paralysis. Always thinking, never doing.
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I'm aware that corn plays a huge part of North American diet (less so elsewhere since corn-fed beef isn't nearly as common), but I've never heard it said about potatoes..and while you mention it, you only provide links about corn.

Don't mean to be flippant, but it kinda sounds like you lumped potatoes in with corn for the sake of it.
The damage will really be done when Shell respond in kind and fake greenpeace campaigns spring up everywhere.

Disinformation warfare.
I believe it coincided with converting to a nearly sedentary culture. Nothing is as bad for you as being sedentary and since many/most people refuse to exercise, and you can't buy exercise pills (let alone get people to take them), you have to get people to want to cut down on the stuff their body isn't using.

Cholesterol isn't bad, saturated fat isn't bad, but if you're sitting around all day festering so are they.

Nutrition is far from an exact science and humans from around the world react to foods differently in subtle ways giving any Nutritional conclusions limited relevance.

IMHO, The 2 most important things you can do are exercise and pay attention to your body. Also, a lot of these "mis-conceptions" come from media and laymen thinking that phrases like "a link between saturated fat and heart disease" imply causation.

Remembered one more thing: A lot of shit food is loaded with saturated fat and cholesterol (and salt and sugar). Frozen dinners, snack cakes and fast food are some great examples. These products, which significantly contribute to the fattening of the world, help give their main flavor sources a bad name.
Not sure what you mean here... "fixed positioning" without context makes me cringe

In the CSS sense. That is to say, the ability to have a toolbar that doesn't disappear when you scroll.
Yeah it's definitely a double-edged sword. Like the person whose house was posted to Craigslist with a "come and take what you want", which people did....and only too late did the owner find out -- and of course, he made no such offers. But the mob was quick to act and didn't ask many questions.

On the brighter side, there's quite a few exposés that we now witness that would have never seen the light of day otherwise (or would have been relegated to B-theaters, flea markets, and mail-order catalogs).
but everyone hates firefox updates: http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/07/10/... ;)

I agree though, anything to push desktop browser technologies to a mobile platform faster is a great thing.
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It's actually fairly common. Large clients will pay high prices for great work. Sometimes it's hard to imagine as a developer paying that much for something you can clearly make yourself. Good developers are hard to come by. Great developers that actually deliver product on time and under budget are unicorns that are worth the money.
Are you aware of the crazy things that have been done with C++ templates? See boost spirit. It's thought-provoking, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea to use templates this way. It seems to be too hard to exercise control over the code that gets generated, and you end up with huge binaries.

That said, metaprogramming certainly has a place, particularly when creating state machines in code (e.g. yacc, lex, re2c, ragel). It makes you wish for a standard way, but C is a conservative language, and I think that's been a key to its success.
Why does having women invest in startups require a cessation of other forms of activism? I'll buy that having women loudly invest in startups might help the gender gap. But that and other efforts are not mutually exclusive. There isn't even tension between them. It's a false dichotomy.

"So forgive me if i’m getting a little tired of people telling me: 1) Why I need to put more women speakers on panels at conferences (we’re trying), 2) How women are still at a disadvantage in tech (yeah, i know), or 3) What MEN should be doing to help WOMEN in tech"

Why start out by ostracizing the people who are already vocally fighting against gender discrimination and latent sexism? It just detracts from his point about angel investing. The comment thread here is evidence of this - half the posts are ranting about feminists, affirmative action, and generally anybody who thinks there is a sexism problem in tech. The suggestion about angel investing is lost in the circlejerk.

"(sure they [men] could do more, but frankly it’s your [women's] problem not theirs)."

This is as false as it is offensive. When smart, talented women are discouraged from going into tech en masse because of a sexist culture, it is everybody's problem. In Bill Gates' words to a Saudi Arabian audience, "Well, if you’re not fully utilizing half the talent in the country, you’re not going to get too close to the top ten.”

"To which I reply: Physician, Heal Thy Damn Self. You don’t need men to solve the problem."

Men are the ones who dominate the industry now, and it is mostly men who contribute to the sexist culture (note that I am not saying most men contribute to this. I am saying most of the primary contributors to the culture being unfriendly to women are men. There is an important distinction there. Being a man does not make you automatically sexist). We need men AND women to solve the problem. We don't have to choose just one.

On a minor note, at the end he writes

"thanks to many women who helped proofread early drafts of this post… most of whom I didn’t listen to about how to make it better"

I like how he flat out admits that he is ignoring the opinions of women. What was that about it not being men's problem?
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Cool, I'll take a look at Peter's posts - I like him in general. Btw, Stephan did respond to Taubes' 6-part series:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-response...
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I think you're thinking of an electronic CVT, like the Prius uses.
You are ignoring the side effects of helmet use.[0] Mandatory helmet use is just as bad as mandatory drug administration when helmets can have lethal side effects.

* The mean motorist passing difference being several centimetres smaller for cyclists wearing helmets - increasing the chance of a collision. [1]

* Mandatory (and increased) helmet use correlates strongly with increased rates of cyclist fatalities. [2]

* Strangulation caused by straps around neck on catching helmet. (There is a mandatory legal disclaimer about this on every helmet in the UK)

* Increased risk of head injury due to increased head diameter

* Increased risk taking by the wearer based on reduced percieved risk

* Reduction in number of cyclists and "safety in numbers" due to making cycling a percieved risky activity.

* Diffuse axonal Injury injury caused by increased friction between helmet and tarmac

I personally do wear a helmet because the road conditions in London are made hazardous by motorists.

Helmet campaigns are really just victim blaming. Motorists kill more young people than aids and malaria combined and somehow society is ok with it.[3]

[0] http://www.ecf.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cycle-helmets....
[1] http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf
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[3] http://m.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/05/road-traffic-...
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This is at about the level of a 2003 flash game.

It's awesome you're sharing the source and helping push things forward, though.
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I highly recommend The Making of the Atomic Bomb. It goes into incredible detail about the blasts. One of the later chapters, using the example of hiroshima, discusses the effect of the blasts on the human body -- often to excruciating detail.

Your comment about the paint instantly turning to ash and blowing away made me think of the book. At a certain distance from the bomb, the wave isn't strong enough to instantly kill you, but much like paint on a car, you're skin will instantly blister from the heat, and then be blown off by the shock wave.

Horrifying stuff, but a really, really interesting read.
Maybe men don't care about working at a beautify salon?

More likely though Real Men(TM) don't want to be hairdressers! That's only for flaming homosexuals!

Never underestimate the power of a good social taboo.

Now, given that there aren't a lot of gender taboos against women working on Wikipedia or in technology startups, then it seems to me that at least the latter has to be a career choice issue. I think there are very strong reasons to think that men value security and stability of employment less than women, and so are going to be overrepresented in environments which are more risky and less stable than women are. If this is a problem the question is what we do to compensate. Would Marissa Mayer have been able to put in 130 hour work weeks as a new mom? Of course not. That our industry demands such may in fact be the problem.
One of the interesting things of Mozilla's approach is that their entire stack is standard HTML (or, it is planned to get it standardised).

Assuming they stick to this, and other browsers adopt the standard, it means that developing an app for Firefox OS is also developing an app for iOS, Android, WebOS etc. Their big push is for a web-stack, not necessarily for their OS.
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The whole thing is impersonating them!
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Too bad it doesn't include posters... I would have made the list :(
All I get is the language selector, though I'm on chrome mobile.
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They have this text about the fees you pay. Some also let you view account balances and transactions.

Older machines mainly, I haven't seen any recently.
Nice one. I'd love to see a walkthrough for .NET executables[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable#.NET.2C_met...
whatever: nukes /are/ bad, all too common, and entirely preventable.
given "they still can kill millions directly and effectively destroy civilization as we know it by wiping out potentially every major city in the world" -- what more do we want before this unacceptable risk gets adequate focus? certainly, so far, there's little risk that any resources have been 'misallocated'
I'm pretty sure no-one's gonna get hurt and die because we rid the world of these weapons of mass destruction.
With your definition, I guess I would consider bitcoin to be a currency in embryo. It will take some time to build up the infrastructure and adoption for people to use it for every day expenditures.
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>You can't have a proper meritocracy if the prospective field don't have access to the same level of opportunities.

Agreed but how do you define the same level of opportunities?

Suppose the opportunity is "work hard, every day, 12 hours every day from when you are 20 until you are 40 and then retire as a billionaire." There is nothing stopping women from taking that opportunity. But women who do lose something that men who take that opportunity do not lose, namely the ability to really have a family with kids of one's own.
Both things are a problem, for numerous reasons.

This is one of those "fish don't have a word for water" problems to some degree, beyond the misogyny that so often exists in tech. Part of the problem is that there is this stereotype of the tech "nerd" who is socially awkward, doesn't shower, works 70+ hours a week. That serves as a roadblock for guys to get into tech as well, but it's far easier for guys to overcome it than women. The fact that women are much less likely to find that stereotype desirable is used as a reinforcement of the notion that "girls just aren't well suited to the tech lifestyle". But the "tech lifestyle" is not an absolute, it's just a semi-arbitrary tradition. And it forms the core of just as much of an "old boy's club" as, say, traditions of cigars, scotch, and golf do in other activities. Or, more so, traditions of strip clubs and casual acceptance of pornographic representations of women, which is also a thing in many corners of tech.

Self-reinforcing stereotypes are part of the problem. The way that women are treated as outsiders and 2nd class citizens is part of the problem. The fact that women who are interested in tech and talented are turned off by the stereotypes and the culture is part of the problem.
I am a happier cyclist having moved to a country without pointless restrictions in the name of collective safety. If people want to brain themselves that should be their own choice. Encouraging people to take responsibility for their own actions is more important than some dictated decree from above.

What is the advantage of no gear? Well, I can get on my bike and get to and from the store in 5 minutes (I live in a safe country, I don't even lock my bike up most of the time). Five minutes. The roads around my home are so complex and steep that it is nigh on impossible for a car to travel faster than a cyclist. Having an arbitrary requirement would only act to discourage people from cycling.

For the record, I routinely cycle around 80km a week, mainly commuting. I am only on a road for 30 seconds in the entire trip (basically, the last part to my house). With practically no enforcement (I've never seen police on bike paths or talking to cyclists) cycling is safer and easier than what I have experienced elsewhere. When the main risk is to your own wellbeing, most people are sensible enough to not kill themselves without the nanny state holding their hand.
Wikipedia tells me that there are some CVTs that use planetary gears, but a traditional automatic uses them too: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/automatic-transmission2.htm
Oh man, this hits close to home...thanks for the reminder.
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While it's really interesting to debate whether you should eat potatoes or beef, the real battle for the western world is that we stop eating processed foods. Wheat vs eggs seems like a silly debate when people are living off of Coke, Oreos and Capt'N Crunch.

Whenever I hear these arguments, I feel like these scientists aren't living in the same world as me. "Eggs are ok, declare scientists" reads the headline while the man sips from 32 oz soda.

In addition to that, having no education in biology, chemistry or any field remotely associated with health and fitness, I do have two eyes. In light of all the contradicting information and conspiracy theories, I'll trust what I've observed. And, what I've observed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that people who favor fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes over beef, pork and fatty foods are healthier.
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> Because the women already in tech are very good, their companies are much more stable and profitable than the companies men start.

This is interesting, can you provide us a citation?
If hairdressing were a multi-billion dollar global industry and the foundation of almost the entirety of the future economy that would be more of a problem. Tech, however, is big, important, and getting bigger.
I agree. I read the post and most comments here apparently didn't get the main point of the article.
> "Sometimes, we just want to share a bit of writing that is neither. Maybe we want to write for a specific audience, but don’t want to address the people who usually read our blogs."

You had me here. But I want to know where the top, featured, and new sections are. Where can I be recommended gists that are similar to those of users I subscribe to? Or are you trying to make this into the sort of imgur.com of stories on HN kind of thing?
For me, this just makes Greenpeace look bad. I wonder when we will see an "online assassination assassination": a purposely concocted lie that looks like it is spread by another party, designed to "backfire".
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I also saw a link earlier this week that suggested that Sourceforge's pricing model was way too exorbitant for smaller developers.
However, if other industries and businesses are indications, as the industry matures, women will come. The internet used to have a 50:1 male to female ratio. Open source software engineering today has a similar ratio (compared to a 2:1 ratio in commercial software houses).

Maybe the issue is that women don't want to work in a risky and immature industry. Especially when that involves potentially deferring or even giving up on plans to have a family (something men do not have to do to participate in it). You can't be a new mother and try to raise your kid naturally (breastfeeding etc) and work 130 hours a week. It doesn't work.
Huh, don't recognize either names. Coincidence!
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Speaking of encfs, has anyone else had problems using encfs under OSX Lion? OSX would occasionally freeze on me, and when I eventually uninstalled encfs, the problem went away. It might be a coincidence tho.
Honestly, I think the jury is back on Greenpeace. Either you already think they look bad, or you are a fan of their work. I don't imagine many people are going to be forming new opinions on them in 2012.
It's wrong to offer up the idea that women somehow are biologically averse to tech. You need only look outside the US to verify this: Malaysia's tech sector is almost evenly split between men and women.

It's a cultural thing, which we're loth to admit. We look around and say, "We treat women the same around here", not thinking for a second that maybe that's the problem.

I run the Hackbright Academy, a hacker school for women, and I ask all applicants what compels them to apply to our program. Invariably, part of every story is the idea that they were intimidated out of the field in college or high school by their male peers. Whether or not that's the grand reason for the disparity, it's still something that shouldn't be a reason at all.
I think this may be what I was asking for. Although, I would have to rewrite it in C and remove a lot of the unwanted C++ features...
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Cool! It would be nice if there is some information about the writer available. For instance, their name as registered on Github.
Not just Windows developers.

Microsoft Office for Mac v.X was released on November 19, 2001. It ran without incident for a decade on the latest and best Macs that money could buy through July 20, 2011. This was not by happenstance.
Malaysia may not constitute good evidence for it being a cultural thing. Reason: a young male social outcast in Malaysia can't teach himself computer programming the way a young male social outcast in the United States can. So all programmers are college taught, which results in an even gender split. Whereas in the US, male geeks get a head start as kids and intimidate women in college with their accumulated skills.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4062243
I'm not sure what point you are driving to.

I was referring world wide, not just U.S.

I suspect, yes, in some countries asian's are ostracised from upper management.
The problem is that this is the same argument about why we had the "only supports ie6" way back in the day (and ie5.5 before that).

While I don't think that webkit will stagnate the way ie did, it's really amusing to see the webdev community repeating the exact same arguments supporting webkit-only sites that we were about ie5-only sites 12 years ago.
Actually, I think it's a good read for all developers, irrespective of platform. The underlying message of the post above is relevant to anyone writing something that interfaces with third-party code. Not to mention, it's a good look into how one of the larger software companies approaches compatibility.
Both "normal" automatic transmissions and the Prius use epicyclic gears. The main difference between the two would be that an automatic transmission in normal operation has one power input (the engine) and one output. As bprater alluded to, any variation in gearing is achieved through fixing different parts of the transmission.

The Prius has two electric motors and a gas engine. It's not a CVT in the traditional sense though, this simulator does a good job of demonstrating how it works(implemented in Flash, not D3...) http://eahart.com/prius/psd/
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Sure. But how many decades of unfair treatment and exclusionary culture are we willing to tolerate? Especially when you consider that tech is one of the most lucrative industries at present. How much money are people missing out on because of the exclusionary culture of tech? How much is the industry itself being held back?