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> Fruit is more than just sugar, it's a source of vitamins and minerals and it should not intentionally be limited from your diet.

You can dump a bunch of vitamins into a bottle of coke, that doesn't mean you can eat it without limit and remain healthy. The carbs are still there, and if fruit makes up a significant number of the calories you intake, you are going to have all the same problems you have when you eat a large number of carbs per day from other sources like candy and pasta, just to a somewhat lesser degree. With fruit, you still don't want to go over the daily number of carbs (~40).

>Even people with Type 2 diabetes are not discouraged from eating fruits. See the advice here for example from Diabetes UK (a charity). They are a credible and trustworthy source of advice for people with diabetes in the UK.

First of all, the site you listed is fairly low quality and significantly out of date:

>All fruit and vegetables are low in fat and calories and a good source of vitamins and minerals.

This isn't the nineties. Fat isn't considered bad for you according to any modern scientific theory except to some degree in relationship to heart disease, and for diabetes patients, is beneficial because it helps stabilize your blood sugar.

Secondly, yes, you should eat small amounts of fruit per day and large amounts of vegetables a day. I never claimed otherwise but the site simply fails to point out that fruit should be taken in significantly lesser quantities than vegetables.

>A piece of fruit and a candy bar are not nutritionally equivalent even if they share the same GI. In fact, most fruits are low in GI. See for yourself by going to the University of Sydney GI database.

Searching for individual foods is a terrible way to compare GI levels. And no, most fruit is not "low in GI", most are high and compare to starchy foods and even candy, as I stated earlier. Fruits like tomatoes that are not sugary/starchy are considered vegetables btw.

>Number two culprit? Lack of fruit and vegetables in the diet.

That's somewhat irrelevant. It's the combination of fruits and vegetables that keeps you healthy, and honestly, you probably could do without sugary fruits entirely if you ate enough quantity and variety of vegetables. It's the fresh plant material rich in minerals/vitamins that's good for you. In any case, small amounts of fruit should be sufficient to add nutritional value and not pose a risk, just as small amounts candy shouldn't pose a risk if eat in very small doses.
> Ideally, I would like to have a language that can compile a Java class that seamlessly interacts with other Java stuff.

Groovy fits the bill.
Credit Cards are almost definitely going to have an interest rate much higher than 13%. How would that be better than a loan from Amazon? If you need to take months to arrange the line of credit, then I understand your argument, but Amazon seems to make the process pretty easy
Rails is a lot harder to get started with than PHP, you can't just upload a file to your server and visit it in a browser. You need to know a bit about the command line to be a functional Rails programmer. But I'm sure we still have a crappy developer problem, that is in fact what happens as communities grow, the number of mediocre or sub-par people in that community also grows (usually at a faster pace than the great devs).

The testing culture, difficulty in deployment/setup, and general "application-style" attitude of Rails apps (just on the name alone...have you ever said "PHP app" in your life??), where the web site is treated as a web application and programmed as such, is what prevents Rails from becoming the next PHP.
Yes. This is called "negative option billing" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_option_billing). We (at BillGuard) see many people that fall into these kind of shady business models. It's pretty amazing that this is still legal and VCs are throwing money at it.
Does Tiger Woods sit around thinking about how all of the weekend hackers at the local country club are making the game of golf worse?

Nope, its the exact opposite, the more popular the game is the more the people at the top of it stand out. If you think you are the shining example of the elite Ruby programmer you should be doing everything you can to get more people involved in the ecosystem, the bigger that gets the better opportunities you'll have in the future.
Or it could be that we all live as programs running on the computronium that used to be our solar system; or some combination of all of these.

In any case, energy in space was not that big an issue. Unlimited supplies of it stream past earth's orbit pretty much all the time, you just need some concentrating mirrors or photovoltaic panels to put it to work.

The thing is that getting a foot hold is murderously expensive. And it remains merely prohibitively expensive unless and until you develop a cheap way to get mass into earth orbit.
As a child my father had pointed out to me that those book offers (in the UK at least) were only for adults (18 and over). So I used to fill in the form without ticking the 'I'm and adult' box, and see if they sent me the books. Most did, though as I was a minor they had no recourse to ask for payment. If only you'd contacted them and told them you were too young to sign a contract!
Thats pefect for cripy bacon, though different types of bacon tend to lend themselfs to different ways of cooking. For streaky bacon then cripy bacon style is great, for back bacon I prefer it non crispy.

I do however, especialy back bacon tend to cut the fat off and pop that into the pan whilst heating it up and then add the bacon, using the fat as libricant for the cooking process. Also bacon fat is tastes so nice, I know its bad but I agree with this kid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_obaO46Bo
While new developers are coming up learning Ruby as their first language and in the context of Rails, keep in mind that Rails introduces you to much of the core Ruby language, idioms and at least a few design patterns and useful abstractions. It also adds Sass and Coffeescript. There's much more complexity and therefore knowledge required for a "whiz kid" to build a useful Rails app that it's hardly a fair comparison. This "subpar software" meets a need that seasoned developers can't or won't.

Also of note: it's no longer 1999. People expect a bit more out of their website than during the glory days of the independent 19-year-old PHP developer. These novices are orders of magnitude more capable than PHP developers of a decade ago. These folks building one-off websites for clients are also often doing both design and development—something many developers are awful at.

This elitism should stop. Programming is a means to an end, and we should welcome any and everyone despite their level of commitment, talent, or focus.
I have many concerns about TechCrunch. They are the CNBC of the tech community (essentially a mouthpiece for those that pay). All we need now is an expose like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMShFx5rThI
The method ++ adds one collection to another. The specific type signature you are looking at is for the most general possible parallel collection. Obviously in that case the type signature will be complex - it needs to enable the compiler to determine the type of (Set(Superclass()).par ++ List(Subclass(), Subclass2())).

In practice, type signatures written in application code rarely look like that.

Don't get me wrong - Scala is complex. If you don't need the JVM, Haskell is far simpler and cleaner. But you are exaggerating the complexity of it.
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I think Code Gardener is a better name.

Software is like a garden. It can be master planned, well manicured, organized or it can be the result of uncontrolled organic growth of years and years.

Either way, my job is to keep it healthy and servings its purpose. It is my job to water,fertilize, pull out weeds as they show up and sometimes to uproot whole trees and plant them somewhere else as they are necessary for the system.

Continuing with the analogy, it is key to any good gardener to have good tools to do the job, because they make all the difference on how hard you have to work and how much you can get done in a season.
PHP has a lot of people using it. That doesn't mean it has a huge community. Most people who use PHP do not frequently meet up and talk to other folks who use the language.
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"PC death" is a marketing fad.
Will linkbait be the new inflammatory headline?

Will handwaving be the new fluff?

Will insubstantial murmurings be the new mumbling into whiskers?

Will this turn out to be a useful blog post or is it just a bunch of questions that can't be answered because they're pretty close to meaningless?
You can program messy Ruby as easily as messy PHP. Rails is an MVC framework. PHP has plenty of those as well.
This is the best suggestion, but unfortunately may not be possible for them to recover everything depending on how they paid/their credit card company. Most banks only allow you to do a chargeback for charges within the last 1-2 months on debit purchases and 6 months on credit card purchases.
1) userbase is not a community, usergroups and such are.

2) the sub-par php code thing? go post on place like craig's list, where the uninformed who need developers might post things, and see what kind of developers respond. go look at wordpress plugins. go look at tutorials and examples on blogs. while yes, there are certainly well qualified php programmers, you're going to see a lot of horrifying code.
I guess that raises a few questions.

1) How do they keep them high? They are buying these services from a third-party.

2) These cost of clinical trials is increasing because FDA evidence requirements are getting stricter and stricter. Back in the 1950s, you could get a drug approved in under 2 years. Now? It's more like 5-8 years. Of course, you end up with much safer drugs this way.
It would seem reasonable that to assume "skip the month" just means "don't buy anything this month" as opposed to having to do a specific action.

After all , it would seem strange to be voluntarily charged unnecessarily.
it's just a computerworld article ... Seems like their previous deal with slashdot is over (since it got acquired) because I see a lot of these links on HN recently
I blame the bubble. HN has a bubble, the Ruby community has its bubble, and so does the Rails community. Bubbles intersect but overall I blame the bubble(s).
It is true that you can get around a patent by creating a slightly different molecule. However, drug companies aren't stupid. When they patent a drug, they are patenting a pretty big space around their molecule of interest. Pretty much every modification you can think of, they will patent. The resulting patents aren't just one molecule but rather an IP "space".
>"And I think you're conflating economists with people that didn't influence policy at the top level to enable those "salesmen" to do what they did"

Pray tell, what did they do? What options does the Fed have that can run opposite popular politics that wouldn't instantly cause them to lose independence?

>"people that didn't ensure the public that everything was perfectly OK before the crash"

This is simply not true. People, including academics, were writing about the housing market pressures as early as 2004. The "economists" can't force themselves onto MSNBC or CNN to tell people to stop buying houses, especially when that runs counter to what politicians want: a hot economy.

>"The former Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, has conceded that the global financial crisis has exposed a "mistake" in the free market ideology which guided his 18-year stewardship of US monetary policy."

An old Randian, trying to ensure his legacy isn't completely tarnished. Hindsight is pretty easy.
Every line you don't have to write is a line which can't contain bugs. Lack of semicolons makes for better readability. Pre-included functions like map() enable programmers to use best practices, allowing for even terser code. You might have noticed that as a programmer you spend about 80% of your time reading code (if you are lucky, it's your own), so let's not pretend there is no merit to code readability and shortness.
Right, but Rails will always have some sort of organization. That being said it is possible to go against the grain and not use Rails' default directory structure - but that's difficult.

I'm comparing Rails to vanilla PHP - just as the author is. People are exposed to PHP's low barrier of entry (again, vanilla here) because you can write an application with PHP/Apache/mySQL very quickly. However, because of this, most instances are very hacky.
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The whole point of the original comment was that Noah fires to stop people's equity from vesting. If he did, sure, there's a claim that it's unethical. But since that's unlikely, what do you have left???

That Noah fired some people who may or may not have deserved it. Happens every day. Anyone on HN who builds a company of any size will probably have employees mad at them for doing the same.

Employment is a MARKET. Both parties are "at will"...

If an employee quits without a good reason, is that scummy?

Should the scumminess of it depend on how it "affects" the COMPANY?

People quit every day to earn 10% more across the street, work with better technology, walk away from technical debt, shorten their commute, get away from a dreary office or smelly coworkers. Whatever.

There's no morality in it, good or bad. And employers should feel free to fire people who aren't fitting and/or cannot be kept for whatever reason.

As far as I can tell, that's the AppSumo situation. If you want to call that "scummy" feel free, but I don't see any logic in it.
>This site seems to be entirely designed to mislead you into thinking you're just ordering one item, while in fact you are signing up for a membership.

Bingo!
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I would absolutely use an API for your transactional emails. I started out with our app sending the emails from our server and it was a constant headache. I now use Postmark (http://postmarkapp.com/) and I have no problems. I believe Mailchimp also has an api for transactional emails not too. Sending emails this way is very inexpensive, especially compared to the headaches of managing it yourself.
Once at a wedding dinner in Asia I got in a lot of trouble for describing my job as "computer janitor/computer fireman". The table was filled with with people in my same line of work who where very proud of their jobs. My comment/silly joke was not taken nicely and got me into the dog house with the wife (Asian) for a good while!

Since then I've been proudly describing my job as software gardener.
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There are hundreds of websites that operate the same way. JustFab's membership fee is higher than any other that I've heard of, but there are tons of websites that are built around the idea that most people who shop online don't think to read the fine print. While in most cases the burden of responsibility should fall on the buyer, I think it's perfectly reasonable for a person to assume that when they buy a product from an online store, that they aren't going to be automatically enrolled in a membership program. I really hope that in the near future, people who run such businesses will start getting thrown in prison where they belong.
It doesn't seem out of the question that a funder could be just as dishonest as this company.
Yup. Postmark, Sendgrid, SES, they were built to solve this problem. Most have some kind of a free tier for testing.
I also think Mou is by far the best Markdown editor I ever used. But even better is it's creator @chenluois. I asked him if he was to support Math Syntax, and ~2 months later it came. As he writes on this post;

> That's why donated users' suggestions are on my highest priority, because it is them who are supporting Mou's development.

Thanks so much, and I really hope ppl keep donating for every feature that ships (if they benefit from it). I know I will.
> If Ruby on Rails has, or were to have, a small army of beginner developers writing poor code on small projects and charging too little for it; I think it would be a healthy thing.

Hmm, well I see your point, but disagree. It's just like the WordPress situation for small businesses.

Someone comes in (usually a "designer") and cobbles some WP plugins and a template into a seemingly okay site for $500, but eventually the small business owner hits the limitations of that arrangement, and (from what I've observed) good programmers won't even take $5,000 to salvage a mess like that.

And not only does the customer end up feeling burned, it also leaves behind some toxic consequences, e.g., the customer has no idea what programming costs nor the difference between a prototype and production quality. So while we all start somewhere, this kind of low-rent ecosystem has certain enduring negative consequences (evident on Craigslist).
What you've written here is pretty much what I meant to write in my comment. What is the name of your book by chance?
>Haskell is far simpler

I disagree. If anything, both Scala and Haskell are comparable to C++ in terms of complexity. Haskell is in fact, a bottomless pit.

During your descent into madness, you may encounter functors, monads, comonads, free monads, higher ranked types, arrows, zippers, existentially/universally quantified
types, GADTs, kinds, and the other 300 extra compiler extensions that people use on a daily basis.

Documentation is provided in the form of academic research papers.

Not that I'm saying it's not an exciting journey, but it is a long journey.
>" Economic events tend to be highly dissimilar in terms of context (Great Depression? 1988 Savings and Loans Crisis? 1997 Asian Financial Crisis? 2008 Global Financial Crisis?)"

I'm not sure this is true, either. Financial crises are surprisingly similar [0].

[0]http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-Different-Centuries-Financia...

>"These are founded upon a large body of knowledge of causation and empirics in medicine, chemistry, and biology"

And what about new discoveries? What do they do then?

Some things are easy. Some things are new, you have little data, and have to make a best guess. Same as economics.
> I actually support "vicious" speedbumps. People regularly drive 40 mph on my road which has official speed limit of 25 mph.

A speeding camera is a better solution than a speedbump. You turn the problem into a revenue stream. And then you'll create a negative incentive for locals to reduce the speed limit even further.
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That business model is alive and well in Hungary. A single SMS was sent from my phone in August (nobody in the family knew anything about it, so we can only assume it was sent by somebody else who may have gained access to the phone while the kids took it to day camp). This SMS "authorized" three different companies to send me "premium SMSs", each of which cost $2.50 (roughly, converted to USD).

My phone's a prepaid, so this ran the balance down to the minimum $1.50 in short order, but I didn't know whether perhaps somebody in the family had simply used those minutes - so I recharged it with $50. In three days, it was back at $1.50 and it had done nothing but vibrate in my desk drawer occasionally.

The "premium SMSs" were sent as system SMSs so they wouldn't appear in my Inbox; if I hadn't noticed one or two I wouldn't have seen them at all. I thought they were simply SMS spam, not even knowing that a "service" like premium SMSs even existed. They seemed to include a URL and nothing else - on a phone that only supports Internet on GPRS, which is no longer even available in Budapest.

T-Mobile said that for privacy reasons, they can't divulge the identity of those companies. Of course, T-Mobile gets about half of the cost of each premium SMS, so it's not terribly surprising that they're not highly motivated to stamp out scams. I told them to remove my ability to enjoy the premium SMS service, and they obliged, but that's as far as they would go.

(Nothing against Hungary. Same thing happened to me once in America with 900 numbers; the only thing the phone company would say is that somebody must have plugged a phone into our outside service jack - we turned off 900 numbers then and made sure they were off for every subsequent landline we obtained, but a scam's a scam.)

I have no recourse under Hungarian law, incidentally. Since a subscription was entered from my phone, there's nothing I can do to recover that money. It's no great problem for me, but that's a lot of money to the average Hungarian, who is absolutely powerless against a big foreign company like T-Mobile.
Is it just me or is the date for recovery always Current Date + 1.5 years?

Anyway...I bought a SSD yesterday & feel that soon the only people who need HDDs will be people with massive media collections (ignoring servers etc). Even things like Steam libraries on SSDs are starting to become feasible.
This is the law in question if anyone wants to read it:

http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/12/republic-act-no-10175/

The relevant sections that are causing most of the the ruckus:

Section 4(c)(4) (PUNISHABLE ACTS):

(4) Libel. — The unlawful or prohibited acts of libel as defined in Article 355 of the Revised Penal Code, as amended, committed through a computer system or any other similar means which may be devised in the future.

Section 19 (ENFORCEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION):

SEC. 19. Restricting or Blocking Access to Computer Data. — When a computer data is prima facie found to be in violation of the provisions of this Act, the DOJ shall issue an order to restrict or block access to such computer data.

The Senator Guingona in the article published more of his thoughts here: http://www.rappler.com/thought-leaders/13041-gagging-the-com...
Lima is cool, depending on your needs you should be able to survive on a grand a month.
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>"We really have no idea what would have happened had the fed not intervened and allowed a normal bankruptcy to occur."

This is the fallacy: You really have no idea. That's not an insult. People who do this for a living, like, say, FRB economists, do know the consequences of letting bank runs occur and not providing liquidity during a crisis. It's well studied.
Most people think bread is a carb, which there are many carbs coming from it - you also get gluten in that mix. You're right that it is a protein [gluten] and not a carb but this is a classic example of an unhelpful HN comment thread where pedanticism is slowly taking over unless my writing has the quality of oral debate speech followed by scientific citations.
I agree it's unethical. This is a commercial site, it tries to offer goods in exchange for money, anything that costs money should be emphasized and explained. How would they feel if someone managed to take some of their merchandise by stealth?

I don't think this is some grey area: if you tricked me into paying a sum I never chose to pay, you're stealing money off my pocket.
I'm assuming this still has the 500-item limit like the full site?

It bugs me a little when apps aren't full-disclosure about their freemium model (Nothing in the app store description indicates it's anything but free to use). It seems sleazy, like they're waiting for you to start using and depending on it before telling you that you'll have to pay to get the most out of it. I'd rather know that I'm evaluating a paid product up front.
That's really quite good. I hope they follow it up with some Design Guidelines. Extensions could do with a bit more consistency.
They aren't mere programmers, they're "rockstar ninjas" (in their own minds).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4572668
tl;dr - the author plans to switch to node
Another little known fact about chargebacks: You lose some of your rights if you pay charges before disputing them.

Try it, absolutely still try it, and good luck!
I measure them roughly around the same time.
Cheers guys, that looks perfect.

Being non technical (I outsource my coding), is this a simple thing to implement?