skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sugars are fundamental bio-molecules and are essential for life.

That's not necessarily true. Humans do not need sugars from external sources to survive.

>“The amount of sugar needed by the body is zero as the body can produce and absorb sugar from consumption of other daily food supplements.

http://www.theborneopost.com/2010/01/10/human-body-can-survi...

Also see:

http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-he...

The no-sugar diets are unsurprisingly popular these days in one of their many forms: Atkins diet, paleo, keto, primal, etc: I personally tried Keto for 6 months and lost 30 kilos and plateaued at a normal weight. I felt great and had lots of energy.

I would actually opine that consuming more sugars than, say, a couple pieces of fruit or a loaf of bread every day, is quite toxic.

It's only relatively late in human evolution we obtained access to lots of sugar.
good call, didn't even think to check out fiverr.
How did it go? Would you refer the provider you used?
Very well. Given the recent and tragic case of one Aaron Swartz, are we to conclude that the justice system is irredeemably corrupt and cruel, forever serving the most special of special interests, devoid of all humanity? Why no, here's a counterpoint.
It's strange to me that you are comparing HN to traditional media. Mostly* the editors of Hacker News are readers. The readers choose what they want to read. The readers have spoken. It's too bad you disagree with the people who voted it up, but there's no point in quarreling with the format of HN itself.

* there's quite a bit of anecdotal evidence that moderators killfile individual articles, and we all know certain sites are fully blocked
"I can't help you."

I'm not sure that's entirely true, either. Not judging, just saying.
I'm going to try this for a while since it was easy to start using it with my Google apps domain. Within the first few minutes it has become clear that I need a way to convert a task into a group. I find myself wanting to express task dependencies by dragging things into each other but I can't drag a task onto another task. Annoying.

Edit: Also, a visual indicator of task progress, or more intermediate states (blocked, started, in progress, etc) would be helpful too.

Edit 2: And I've hit an arbitrary three project limit. So much for dumping my task list into this thing. Evaluation concluded.
Feebay has all sorts of auctions from followers to sponsored Tweets.
That doesn't really affect the developer using it though. GP's argument that Foundation is more flexible and Bootstrap is more opinionated seems unrelated to the semicolon debate.
If you need a templating language to force you to behave, you are not likely to understand why you need to "behave".

If others "misbehave" fucking tell them not to - why does everyone look for a technical solution to a human problem?
The "Clone now" link on http://foundation.zurb.com/ is a little boring on Windows. (It's currently pointing to github-mac://openRepo/https://github.com/zurb/foundation)
Makes me think of Steven Wright's bit about the light switch in his house he couldn't figure out the purpose for, so he flicks it on or off when he passes. After a month, he gets a letter from a woman in Germany saying, "Cut that out!"
I don't understand the whole mobile first thing? Isn't Foundation already responsive? Don't most websites built with Foundation's grid system automatically fit nicely on mobile devices? Am I missing something?
I agree with that too. Seeing the temperament of other dogs in the family can be a good indicator of how the puppy will (can?) turn out.

I've had four Brittany spaniels, two from early puppy stage, and two from adult stage. The two that I had from a puppy were wonderful dogs for me and my family. The two that were adopted as adults had acquired a variety of odd behaviors; one of them we were able to put up with, the other one was too destructive and eventually we had to relocate to a farm with more space than we had in the suburbs.

I now have an almost 2-year-old border collie that I first saw when she was 5 weeks old. Border collies in general have some particular tendencies that I'm still working on with her, but in general her temperament is very good.

For what it's worth, I did peruse the local shelter for a while before adopting a puppy from a farm.
Mason out as CEO at Groupon
Poe's law... can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
GROUPON CO-FOUNDER, CEO MASON DEPARTS; BOARD SEEKS NEW CEO
Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO
If you ate the fruit it would be much better for you. Instead you are basically taking something healthy overall, extracting the candy part out, and throwing away the parts that are best for you.
I agree. Foundation's responsiveness has always been better IMO.
This site is for technical and business discussion.

Where did you get that from? This site is for things that are interesting. This story is so unusual that it's interesting.

Meta subthreads are not interesting.
As soon as you find an environment where no one ever plays the blame game, let me know.
I didn’t get any spam either, but then a short grep through my mail.log showed this:

2013-02-28T18:05:18.865406+01:00 nfc postfix/smtpd[14995]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from bl14-172-78.dsl.telepac.pt[85.247.172.78]: 504 5.5.2 <discus>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname; from=<fuzzilyjg755@lanuschny.de> to=<X_dropbox@example.net> proto=ESMTP helo=<discus>
Fascinating reading, thanks.
This is why the webkit- prefix is nearly worthless. I've had a lot of problems where chrome and safari were rendering prefixed things differently and I couldn't target them individually, because they both use the same prefix. This is the whole point of having the prefixes!
Ten years of PyPy
If you wired up hamsters like that, you might be able to get them to dance in unison. The gifts are preferable, but still execrable.
Industry would find the next cheapest alternative to making the food sweet.
How about, "Welcome to Prison?"
This is generally why I stay clear of using the "free DNS" provided by registrars. But then again, they can still be more reliable than hosting your own.
Andrew Mason out at Groupon
We've found meteorites ejected from Martian impacts that have landed in Antarctica. Mars' gravity is such that a sufficiently large impact can create ejecta traveling at greater than escape velocity.
I find this fascinating especially that the code is open source. Makes me wonder what kind of applications can be built. Maybe even using some sort of Leap Motion application in conjunction with the amplification algorithm.
I'd like to see them balance out dropping the interim releases with doing slightly more frequent LTE releases. Maybe every 1 or 1.5 years instead of 2. But obviously there might be manpower issues there. I just think they're abandoning a middle ground of stability that's still a very valuable space.
I wonder if there is a way to build this process more into the package management system. Maybe have to sets of repositories, a 'stable' repository that would behave like current, non-rolling repositories, and a 'rolling' repository that would get new versions of software once they've been tested. By default, software would install from the stable repositories, but you can do something like 'apt-get make_rolling python', and get the rolling release version of python. Such a system should then be able to handle dependencies that would need to be made rolling as well.

This clearly means more work for the maintainers, but only because the PPA method is so clearly a hack that there is no expectation that it must just work.
Love the story.

When we talk about gay marriage and adoption I always need to query a little more, especially about the kids.

What's about Kevin ? His life is "perfectly normal" (how stupid is this expression) ? He is happy ? Does he have problem with his sexuality ?

Do anybody have any experience to share ?
Please to be obvious, in neither way...

(Why this is on HN ? Well, because I believe that HN is one of the best community on the internet, it is normal that people want to share stories and ask opinion to other they respect/admire)
In science, "sugar" is a class of molecules, of which sucrose is one. One thing I'm trying to point out the difference between common language uses of scientific terms.

The other is the sheer ludicrous nature of the statement "sugar is toxic" (meaning sucrose). No, it isn't. Too much sugar in your diet can lead to health problems, but you will not die from eating sugar.

In sufficient quantities, even water is toxic to some degree (and I'm not even talking about drowning).

So, why don't you tone it down a little.
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Yes, I'm thinking along those lines. I have a product idea for solving this problem... just no time. :)
For all we know, the 2nd rat just gets a bloated feeling when it's the 2nd button.
I tried both the downloaded version and the master version from github. both seem to have issues. the release is missing a bunch of dependent js files.
Yes, that fructose.

You are correct. HFCS is unassociated glucose and fructose, and to my understanding is pretty much interchangeable with sucrose, as sucrose is enzymatically cloven almost immediately.

I will throw in that firstly, it is theorized that the fiber in apples etc provides some regulation to the absorption of the fructose and that somehow changes matters. Secondly, and in my mind more importantly, it is much easier to gorge on pure sugar than it is to eat an equivalent amount of sugar in the form of apples.
But if you ate that fruit you'd be full, and thus less likely to eat other stuff.

And that one cup of juice could be swigged down easily. You can see how some people would just pour another glass? (Especially if they think undiluted juice is healthy?)
Well, people want what they want. And with dogs there's a ton of variation so getting what you want - right now - is more important to some people.

With cats, not so much. Most people want kittens, which there are always plenty of at the right times, and the variation in cats tends to be a little more interesting to the average cat owner. I've personally never owned 2 similar cats - other than two brothers who still were very different.
It's all fun and games until you get attacked by a spambot that tries blindly sending thousands of messages to <common_user_names>@yourdomain.com
> Isn't Foundation already responsive?

Yes.

> Don't most websites built with Foundation's grid system automatically fit nicely on mobile devices?

Yes, but responsive designs always means tradeoffs, and those tradeoffs will be different depending whether you're "desktop first" and scaling down or "mobile first" and scaling up. And of course, the framework can set a course on what to check and where to start from.

Luke Wroblewski is a big advocate of tackling responsive design from the bottom ("Mobile First"): http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?933 http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first and he apparently pushed for Foundation 4 to much better support this design style.
This is a great start; I will commence tonight! Thanks!
Sure, but I said "like", not "better". When I learned Python, I had that feeling described as weightlessness by xkcd [http://xkcd.com/353/], because I didn't have to write several lines and a loop to make a list. It made me happy. Fair comparisons don't really come into it.
I don't think it's so much on the bleeding edge in Arch as most people think and packages are usually upgraded in such a way so that dependencies don't cause problems in other packages (at least from my experience). The key has always been to always do a system upgrade and not upgrade individual packages, i.e. always run pacman -Syu or pacman -Syu <packagename>. In four years I've never seen anything break (knock on wood) aside from a minor issue with a pcre upgrade sometime ago. That has just been my experience though, I run Arch on my desktop, laptop and about 10 vps servers.
I can't use Ubuntu, I've tried countless times, the experience sucks. I'm trying mint, and i can't even access latest libraries, everything is old, no partition resizing during installation, lack of distro tools and lack of polish; in mageia everything is fresh and if it not the free support quickly updates them.

Mandriva had rolling releases with cooker and mageia has also with cauldron. Sorry for looking like a troll but i never got the hype with this ubuntu distro, i wish HN supported mageia more since distrowatch even reports mageia as the number two more popular distro.
What did you have? A TI-81 calculator?
Have an upvote, if only for being giggle-worthy. I have been trying to mentally model this as "no one should be treated as an object, men don't like it anymore than I do" and looking for a path forward that allows for meaningful negotiation of terms which satisfy both parties. It's been challenging but interesting.
It seems to be a fictional story. The author is a playwright and a screenwriter. No last names are given (except the author), and the desire for anonymity is not explicitly stated.

I am surprised the NYT Editor did not ask the author to make it clear if it is a fictional or real story.
sorry for being cynical ... but , should i be impressed?
Blog systems/ CMS are dime a dozen. Can you explain why should I or anyone in fact pay attention to this platform?
I've been meaning to send in a complaint, but they should really have some canary addresses in there to catch this. Of interest, the mint spam is a lot more varied than the geico spam. The geico address gets nothing but Canadian Pharmacy Viagra spam.
Bootstrap 3 is going in the same direction.

I think it's a matter of orientation. Rather than creating a Desktop site and then scaling it down, you're creating a Mobile site and scaling it up.

I haven't really put much thought into it, but this may actually make more sense, since you're creating the minimum viable product first, and then adding to it, rather than creating a full project and then trying to figure out what to hack away.
Yes, the wording is sketchy, but are you aware…

* one of the reasons HFCS is so prevalent in the US is because it's effectively government subsidized?
* which is also why the worst foods are often the cheapest?
* that HFCS is in all kinds of food you'd never expect, like "grilled" chicken in the salads at mid-level (or worse yet, fast food) restaurants?

If you're a label reader, you will find HFCS in a million places it oughtn't be. Since nobody expects their grilled chicken strips to stuffed with sugar, they are being tricked -- an angry person might say "force-fed."

"Big Food" may be inflammatory but it's also true, in this case. Agribusiness is an enormous industry and in the top 10 lobbyist groups in the US.

Other countries have outlawed HFCS. There's no reason that our government shouldn't.
Have you written this up (bootstrapped to 100k users) in more detail on your blog or elsewhere? Please provide a url (and if you have not, please write it up and share on HN).
One of the harder lessons stamped into me by the last few years in finance is just how wrong the myth of the rational consumer is, regardless of my liberal individualist world-view. The best of us make terrible decisions in almost everything we don't consciously analyse, i.e. almost everything. The rest busy ourselves with illustrating Murphy's Law in strings of bad decisions. When a system provides individuals with easy bad decisions it should not be surprising when people behave per expectation, and thus, not sufficient to blame them.
"Not tested in 4" for add-ons http://foundation.zurb.com/icon-fonts.php.

Thats unexpected. With bootstrap the whole package is ready-to-go in each release...
The average Linux user is technical by definition. They will care a big deal about this issue.
Mason quits as Groupon CEO
I've had little respect for the way Mason ran Groupon, but I have immense respect for the way he's handling his dismissal.
http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/ is broken
It's not very logical until you learn the science behind it:

If I want less of something (fat) on my body, I eat less of it, right? But I actually have to keep my fat consumption the same and eat less carbs.
I just tell them it makes it easier for me to find their e-mails.
I suspect this is a MUCH larger problem than people realize and not Dropbox's fault.

I've noticed in the past few months I've been getting spam to a lot of site specific emails I've used under my Gmail catch all. It's as if a spammer had access to all email addresses I've used for incoming mail. I've talked with friends and found some have had the same problem.

So where are spammers getting the email addresses we've received email from?

1. There's a vulnerability in Gmail / Google Contacts.

2. Some widely used app I've allowed to access my email has been hacked or has been selling email addresses.

3. An Android app that requires access to my email is compromised, either intentionally or unintentionally.

The least likely one I haven't mentioned is that many independent companies have sold my emails which I find very unlikely.

So what's causing this to happen?
Thats a great idea. I've been too close to this (stupid?) to even think of that. I'll get them to do that. Fingers crossed that will help, but I also feel the damage has been done in terms of my feelings towards them. I have spent part of today looking at alternatives. Thanks again
A friend of mine, whom I know does not read HN, linked to this on Facebook before I saw it here. I would be willing to bet that most HN readers who have Facebook accounts will see it pop up in their news feed soon, if they haven't already.
It's not. There is a clear byline with the author's full name. We generally understand that columns in the NYT are not fiction.
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FWIW I run DNS hosting service SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com/) and hijacking non-existent subdomains is a non-feature. It's free for personal use for 2 domains and paid plans start at $10/month.
Sounds more like a user education problem to me. We don't let people drive without a license I don't see why we should worry about the people who use computers and don't bother to read up and understand what they're using.

In before "everyone should be able to use computers and they should just work" - I agree, it should be like this; however, the hardware, software, and usability has just never been at that level - and won't be for some time. Thus I dislike that argument.

I do understand this means we should be making things better as we go, I just don't see how this is one of those things, nor do I see how proper education should be lacking for the time being. To put that in the car analogy: Should we let people drive around because they need to get to work today but don't have time to sit the license right now?

Disclaimer: Opinion, and I'm a huge usability fan and hope one day things do "just work", I'm just also a realist and don't see the logic behind letting people use something before they or the thing is ready for them.

Edit: Just realised I went on a bit of a mad rant and kind of went a bit off topic. Apologies.
You have a point here, the 1984-ish attitude is unpleasant. However, a broken clock is right twice a day.

From earlier in the week, The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279307

Junk food is designed to be addictive. Furthermore, there's no truth in advertising, the fact is that people are being manipulated en messe. In the article they full admit to it.

Finally, it is marketed at kids. (Besides, I've been to the US - I know what passes for cheese over there! Heh)

Personal responsibility is all well and good but surely you can't expect the general population to watch the lectures of Dr. Lustig or even know what HFCS is to begin with, never mind that it is bad for you and why.

Once upon a time doctors recommended smoking. What's obvious to you in the present is not necessarily 'common' sense.

Have big warning labels, skull and bones, the works, just like cigarette packs. And ban them from marketing it at kids at least. "If you eat more than one pack of these a week, you will gain weight and increase your risk of diabetes" - I bet you MOST Americans have yet to connect those dots.
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I'd love to get a hold of that Bob Barton article Alan Kay talks about, but strangely it seems like all the PDFs of it have been taken down...
That's a fair point, but I can appreciate getting a new version of the main framework out and giving a nod that the add-ons haven't been tested yet. Ship sooner, right?
>Does he have problem with his sexuality ?

You may not be aware of this, but this question will likely get you downvoted as it will be perceived as homophobia (or at least heteronormativity).
That was a great FAQ to read through. I'm really impressed with the organization's communication.
...and GRPN is up 5% after-hours. Investors really didn't like him, did they?
There are heavy subsidies on corn and not enough on fresh vegetables and fruits.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fresh-fruit...

So yes, lopsided subsidies indeed shape what some people eat.
Keto cuts out carbs including those that are converted to just glucose, not just sugar (which is 50% fructose). It's not the same thing at all.
Well, collectively we certainly don't seem to be taking climate change seriously, the implications of which are known and more disastrous than a hypothetical comet striking our planet.
Chrome throws a security error up for this site:

The site's security certificate is not trusted!
You attempted to reach www.jottit.com, but the server presented a certificate issued by an entity that is not trusted by your computer's operating system. This may mean that the server has generated its own security credentials, which Google Chrome cannot rely on for identity information, or an attacker may be trying to intercept your communications.
You cannot proceed because the website operator has requested heightened security for this domain.
I agree, it's the worst part I hate about HN...especially if you are deep down on page 10+ and it shows this "unknown or expired link". Now even if you startover you have sift through 10 pages to get to where you were. Annoying but as samwillis said it's the nature of arc I guess. I sincerely hope there are some workarounds to this.
SendGrid launches Loader.io, an app load testing tool
So by that logic we should start linking to every story about celebrities embarrassing themselves on Twitter.