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is this another case of people trying to silver bullet their lives into happiness/healthiness by medicating themselves with food?
Why is simply admitting that human health is a complex set of factors that can never realistically be applied to the general population, but rather requires a total holistic approach, and that anything else requiring this much zeal is largely emotionally damaging?

It doesn't really hurt anyone, but it does turn sour. My mother is a breast cancer survivor and she told me a lot about her experiences meeting with other women (some of whom are now dead, which upsets me somewhat).

In particular she struck up a friendship with one woman who was very outspoken in meetings, and told her the 'must reads' for any woman going through breast cancer, and handed her a book she had with her. It was a diet book for women with cancer, HEAVILY annotated and sticky-noted by this woman, to a shocking degree.

When she showed it to me, I realised there was a culture of blame among women with breast cancer; you are 'at fault' for getting cancer because you had the audacity to eat or drink X and must make penance by following these self-help books. I felt sick after I came to that realisation.

I would surmise taking it further and that any nutrition advice of this kind is really just a set up to blame people for their failures when they wind up with something serious.

Of course taking care of yourself is good, and people should be encouraged to do so, but any advice outside of your doctor should really be taken dubiously, all pseudoscience aside.
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I understand when somebody writes an article in the format : "When I founded XXX, <some incredibly touching story>" or "I am <11-15> years old and this is my side project, check it out". But when You tell about someones death in your story to promote your product, if it is your close relative... I think it is disgraceful.
That's correct, two people can't be doing 2 different things at the same time (i.e., there is one keyboard). However you do have 2 mouse pointers and you can move/point/click with them independently. We found that in practice we actually preferred this because it's valuable to know that everyone is looking at the same thing at the same time.
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2005/09/reading-the-sin.p...

I am prepared to go out on a limb here, as I have done before, and say that business and research cycles that involve standard-issue humans are incompressible beneath a certain duration - they cannot be made to happen much faster than is possible today.

Kurzweil's Singularity is a Vingean slow burn across a decade, driven by recursively self-improving AI, enhanced human intelligence and the merger of the two. Interestingly, Kurzweil employs much the same arguments against a hard takeoff scenario - in which these processes of self-improvement in AI occur in a matter of hours or days - as I am employing against his proposed timescale: complexity must be managed and there are limits as to how fast this can happen. But artificial intelligence, or improved human intelligence, most likely through machine enhancement, is at the heart of the process. Intelligence can be thought of as the capacity for dealing with complexity; if we improve this capacity, then all the old limits we worked within can be pushed outwards. We don't need to search for keys to complexity if we can manage the complexity directly. Once the process of intelligence enhancement begins in earnest, then we can start to talk about compressing business cycles that existed due to the limits of present day human workers, individually and collectively.

Until we start pushing these limits, we're still stuck with the slow human organizational friction, limits on complexity management, and a limit on exponential growth. Couple this with slow progress towards both organizational efficiency and the development of general artificial intelligence, and this is why I believe that Kurzweil is optimistic by at least a decade or two.
It's one of those jokes that got everybody laughing, but everyone suddenly stopped laughing, got all serious and realized it was brilliant.
I expect the "best" answer depends on what kind of page you're building. For example, is this a a stand-alone web page, one page of a one-off site, part of a CMS where templates are used for common patterns, part of a full-blown web application with lots of interaction and every page unique? Will the content be static, generated from a DB on the server, generated dynamically on the client side? Are you designing alone or collaborating with others? Do different people have different roles on the project?

With that said, I typically develop HTML, CSS and even JS in parallel. I try to have a fair idea of what my information architecture, content, layout, visual style and interaction design are before I start, and then treat it somewhat like a software project: start by writing a high-level outline HTML page structure and the CSS to set up the layout and basic presentation style, then add more detailed HTML and CSS for each part of the page, and iterate in increasing levels of detail until I'm somewhere near done. At any point, I might step back and refine/replace something from earlier with something more flexible or generalised, particularly with CSS as the recurring patterns for the page start to become clear.
From Python to Ruby: Layouts, Templates, Views, oh my
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Except it is not bad science. Gluten and Gliadian are opiates that are found in Triticum (wheat). These opiates have a psychological effect on the brain. A certain segment of the population has a severe reaction to these chemicals, and can not eat wheat. I am surprised the article did not go more into this. There are dozens of scientific papers in mainstream journals covering this. Yes, the article does not cite like a scientific paper, but it is popular science, not a scientific paper for specialists. Scientific journals reflect what it says.

But if you want me to speculate, which I do not feel speculates very far...we know from court records that tobacco companies purposefully spiked their product with nicotine so as to cause more tobacco sales. What chemicals have we seen a spike in from wheat from the industry in the past decades? The chemicals with opiates.

On the fringes of social science, some people think wheat was a grass which was harvested originally for its opiates, not its nutritional effect. It is not the only plant with multiple purposes - cannabis can make hemp, but also has psychological effects. The extreme version of this theory is the agricultural revolution was started by a bunch of drug addicts trying to get their opiate fix from wheat.

See that is speculation. Although speculation which could possibly have some grounding. What is scientific and grounded is that some people have a negative reaction to gluten and gliadin. Which this article is about. I am surprised they did not talk about how gliadin is an opiate, because there are many scientific papers on that. You can look it up yourself. I wrote a biology paper on this once. I can post the references to the scientific literature if anyone is interested and does not know how to look it up themselves.
For a long while (not even sure if they got around to fixing it and I don't bother anymore), it kept saying I couldn't watch anything because I wasn't located in the U.S.

Problem was, I only lived in the U.S. This happened on multiple IP addresses. I got fed up.
also it is Patrick McKenzie not McKennie (aka patio11) :)
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I don't eat steak, or any meat for that matter.
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It works, until you need you need to scale your free Heroku instance to 1 $30-something worker for more than a month :)
You know, you probably could have chosen a better name. If for nothing else you are competing on searches with all of the actual Pow Wow websites that tribes and dancers have set up to catalog their events.
Things I wish someone had told me about life after college
Also, while some dog breeds are indeed endangered (or newly extinct) on the verge of extinction[1], many are dramatically overpopulated beyond sustainable proportions.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahltan_Bear_Dog
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Extinct_dog_breeds
> Show me your accurate C. Elegans simulation and I will start to believe you have something.

http://openworm.org/

If you think they are insufficiently accurate, submit a pull request.
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What's the point of Facebook? Twitter?
We don't have an automated way yet but there will be one eventually, most users are doing it add hock as you can import zip files easily. It is up to you which tool you want to use, sharelatex still lacks the git push and pull which may be a deal breaker for you but it is the future.
I was at the Radar event in NYC this week and was thinking the same thing. If anything I always thought Backbone minimizes abstraction compared to most frameworks.
Save the world or be dead!
"Time is valuable."

In that vein I would look to point out this handy reference: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
which goes into depth about why certain reactions happen.

"What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions. People like that are time sinks — they take without giving back, and they waste time we could have spent on another question more interesting and another person more worthy of an answer."

Note: We are upset that people do not think for themselves and feel that they have to be spoon fed because they are special.
Can you give us any insight into how you plan on getting around this? It seems that publication quality typesetting and layout requires a certain level of CPU power, especially with complex graphics from TikZ/PGF and/or pstricks. Do you think your solutions will also help desktop users reduce the amount of CPU latex eats?
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Well we have at least a hint on how to go about it software-wise. Jürgen Schmidhuber has been working on recursively self improving universal problem solvers for decades now:

http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html
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I'd say programming is a high level skill that computers can't do. Counter example?
I think 4 years of backtesting is too little. Also sounds like they used the same data for training and testing.
Great sexism, bro!
I certainly agree in principle and am glad we don't have these measures.

OTOH I can understand why this might be a harder thing for parents than perhaps is acknowledged.

There are so many internet capable devices in households nowadays, including phones and games consoles etc. Sure you can try and implement some filtering but no system is bulletproof, especially when you consider P2P networks, anonymous proxies etc etc.

So I can understand the worries of parents who perhaps themselves barely understand the internet (likely their kids are much more savvy) themselves but want their children to have access to the internet as an education resource.

You might try and not allow any internet enabled device in bedrooms etc but then these days everything is an internet device and they will likely want to play games with always-on DRM etc.
I take it you never heard of the JVM, or Microsoft's CLR.
Google had the opportunity to try that ever since they launched Google TV 2 years ago. Make Android/Google TV a "console platform", and make $100-$150 devices kind of like OUYA, but allow many manufacturers to build them, and crowd the market with them.

But they totally blew it on that one, because now it's probably too late to start that, especially considering how little Google cares about making Android a strong gaming platform (hint: they probably wouldn't even try to get game developers to write games for this "platform". They would just wait and see).

But yeah, if Valve does that, it would be great for Linux gaming, and OpenGL gaming in general.
> That's because any such forcing prevents people from acting on their own best judgement

That is not how societies work, if you believe Hydrogen cyanide is the best thing to paint your house that doesn't mean you are allowed to do it; it doesn't matter if you realize or not how poisonous it is.
Here's what the filtering would mean: sexual health sites would also be blocked. Whenever I visit a university or corporation that has filtered Internet access, I always test out a few sexual health and LGBT support sites. Inevitably, a few of them are blocked. (Hey, my alma mater used to filter access to the Wikipedia article "Same-sex marriage" because it has the word "sex" in the URL.)

For years, websites that offer a space for young people to talk about sex, sexual orientation, relationships and so on have been blocked because too many of the people making the censorware presume that sex == porn or that LGBT == porn.

That's the cost of our anti-porn prudery: that people can't access sites that have advice on having healthy sex and relationships. Mandating a policy with that kind of side effect by law is a really dumb idea.

I've yet to see a compelling case that teenagers are being harmed by porn. But not having access to advice on how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases... that's really harmful. Whether it's providing sexual health advice or providing an anonymous shoulder to cry on for sexually confused teenagers, the Internet has saved plenty of young people's lives and health. It's helped people discover who they are, how to come out, how to have positive, healthy relationships. Ensuring that the next generation can have access to the enormous amount of good stuff that the Internet provides is precisely why we need to ensure we do not have government-instituted web censorship.
Bootstrap is not design, it's just a tool that you can use to create a design.
Yay, more baseless attacks on MBAs!
self-programming software = machine learning
Just curious, in what context did you ask Bill Gates that?
But nobody is saying "We are breeding these wolves that have been led down a genetic path that makes them unable to survive without man's help to save the wolves in the wild". It is also highly unlikely that any dog breeding programs are taking any resources away from wolf conservation, but that is exactly what is happening in the white tiger case.
I think the issue is that you can sometimes stumble on quite hardcore porn without actually looking for it. I've used plenty of non porn sites that have had porn as advertising.

The issue is at what point have the "grown up enough". The law says that porn is only for those > 18 but good look persuading a 16 year old that they aren't allowed a smartphone.
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Stating "scientific journals reflect [this or that]" and then saying "you can look it up yourself" immediately makes people assume you're either (1) an expert speaking authoritatively, or (2) just another pseudo-science internet crank. I don't know you or your credentials... but I'm guessing the HN crowd isn't going to prescribe you expert status.

In short: I'm not going to do the legwork for you. I have no horse in this race. But... I would have liked to check out credible journal articles suggested by someone that is (perhaps) more informed than me -- I wouldn't even know what to search for on Google Scholar.
Because current energy sources get no subsidies? At the very least let them compete fairly in the market. Eliminate all coal and gas subsidies.
> Here's what the filtering would mean: sexual health sites would also be blocked

You list the result of bad filtering, and suggest that a national filter would have the same problems.

While I disagree with a national filter it's easy to think it would have been better than the lousy filters already existing.

Does the existing child porn filter prevent access to innocent sites?
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> My standard of living is something I won't compromise on.

Maybe you phrased it stronger than intended, but this rejection of any compromise feels very egoistic and short-sighted. This is unrelated to the article itself, which I didn't even read, but I wanted to react because I think the lack of compromise is doing a lot of harm these days.
indeed, python does not specify the complexity, it's just what everyone expects.

Anyway, my problem is not with "not quite Python", my problem is with calling it "Python". As long as you call it "a language with Python inspired syntax", it's seriously left to the reader whether he likes it or not. If you call it Python, it's fine to have something incomplete, however provide a way forward at least. This seems to be incredibly far from supporting full Python, which might or might not be a goal.
Good question. There's not much we can do at the LaTeX level, but writeLaTeX also has to send images of the pages back to browser, and we can improve that part of the process in quite a few ways.
You skew my words. What I was saying is that you can't say anything is hard if you have the right tools to do it. Not that this hasn't proved hard with our current technology/approach.

This was in response to the above post using phrases like "intrinsically harder" and "highly dependent on the representations and models used".

Apart from that I agree with you...
Good grief, tests for HTML! Some people will do anything to get out of doing real work!
This (HN post) is a good marketing attempt, but perhaps the best way to grow your business is to add some sort of referral bonus (refer a friend and get $10 discount). Word-of-mouth is powerful, more powerful than posting on HN. ;-)
About enforcing coding standards
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The red tape is not the executive apparatus, but rather the choice of the executive apparatus. And since I'm not an idealogue I can see the pros and cons.
> The full stack of software included in any significant JavaScript app is big and complicated.

But those are libraries under your control at least. The "problem" with Python is that the language itself is big. Normally this is a non-issue, since you can upgrade your interpreter version when your code stack supports it but on the web you don't get that luxury because you are forced to use whatever interpreter the users have.
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As somebody who works for a 501c3... why is there such poor accountability that funding for species preservation is being used on white tigers? If I'm not mistaken, a lot of zoo money is nonprofit money. If we can prove to grant-writers and donors that the money is being used outside of what it was intended for normally the money dries up. Seems like that would solve the problem pretty quickly...
I think when intelligence is mentioned in these discussions it is implicitly defined as "being reasonably capable of doing everything a human can."

However, intelligence can also be defined as "the ability to maximize a risk/reward function." In this case, Kurzweil and Allen aren't referring to a specific function, so the first definition supersedes this second, more precise definition.
"...should Facebook be more proactive in removing (at least provisionally) hate groups like the ones listed above? Okay, before you start crying foul about free speech and the 1st amendment..."

Is there some Facebook Constitution I'm not aware of? What duty does Facebook have to uphold the first amendment?
> My standard of living is something I won't compromise on.

You can compromise on it or you can lose it entirely.

Your choice, snowflake.
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I get the new iMac this week, and I'm taking my current windows machine and turning it into a homebrew Steambox tomorrow. I'm using an Ikea dresser thing http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/90179927/#/601799... as the box (with the top drawer for the console games), though I'm a little concerned with the airflow... The current case is probably overkill with the 6 fans, but I can only cut out two holes in the drawer before I'm worried about loosing structural integrity, it's particle board after all. Add the power supply and drive mounts (I want both windows 7 and Linux), and there isn't any more space. Oh well, I guess I'll find out soon enough. As much as I love the hacking, it would be nice to have something prebuilt so I'm not completely screwed if I turn this into a smokebox instead of a steambox.
100% agree about keeping hobbies going (or developing new ones). If your whole life is going to work and hanging out with the friends you made in college/high school, you're not going to make a lot of new friends.

I joined a triathlon team five years after college and have had an amazing time. I'm not an athlete at all, but nobody cares - half the team is just there to meet people and have fun. I really wish I'd gotten into it (or something similar) straight out of college. My social life would have been a lot better.
A pardon implies that there was, in fact, some kind of a crime.

What we should be pushing for is a redaction, and an acknowledgement that the prosecutors were ignorant morons who harassed and extinguished a great mind because they didn't know any better.
> in your house

That's hilariously old fashioned. Kids have smart phones.
OK, how about :

1) getting Python ==> LLVM bytecode

2) then using emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki) to run LLVM in browser?

An option to perform the first step seems to be :
http://code.google.com/p/py2llvm/

Or 'simply' getting CPython ported on emscripten?

Any opinions on this suggestion?
( I don't believe Allen ever actually conceded the point you seem to wish to attribute to him, even after multiple readings. )

There's every reason to believe that things aren't going to get faster or better--CPU development seems to be petering out compared to the gains of yesteryear. Worse, the products that drive those sales, and the markets that drive those products, seem utterly uninterested in anything beyond simple apps and hardware-as-appliance.

The thing a lot of people seem to forget is that the market is what drives this stuff, and that in the absence of market forces not very much happens. This is the world we live in.
Bill Gates makes the argument that energy storage is way behind. If you used all the batteries currently in existence you would only have minutes of energy, not enough to make it through the night.
Keep those hobbies going. Keep playing soccer, or pool, or surfing. Keep doing yoga. Keep reading. Keep doing you. You’ll develop some great friends around those interests.

One of my most resounding fears is meeting people in different fields. In school, it's easy. I can go to a party, go out to a club with friends, or just sit down at a library table with a stranger and meet someone new.

Out of school, it seems those opportunities erode... and the majority of friends are either coworkers or friends from the past :(

For those of you who have graduated recently, how have you dealt with this? Not that tech friends aren't great - but diversity is wonderful.
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"I'm not an athlete at all, but nobody cares - half the team is just there to meet people and have fun."

Totally what's important
The only problem with this is that he wants anything in return at all. If you take convertible debt (as he says) you must be 1) incorporated, 2) lawyered-up, if at all serious. Maybe the marketing he can provide is worth it, but I look at this as almost a statement/art project. From that context, it is just not going to make financial sense to bother with for a one-man show.