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> You sound like an industry-insider explaining why a new startup will fail.

I certainly don't want to rain on some new visionary's parade, but I spend a lot of time tracking folks who I consider to be the real visionaries in this field. As in we are currently in the midst of the greatest revolution in human health of our lives, and this guy is running in the wrong direction. We're seeing astonishing results with dietary remediation of a vast array of conditions that were previously considered unrelated. And this isn't just "remedial eating", it's discovering that our current ways of eating are killing us but that diet can likewise help heal us. It's a Khunian revolution out of "the pill and the scalpel" mindset and into a deeper understanding of root causes of wide classes of disease and general unhealthiness in 21st century society. I must certainly be writing in an aggressive posture, for which I'll apologize. I'll have to account my overenthusiasm to the long-term health and well-being of literally everyone I've ever met being at stake.

Current research is showing that we are only just beginning to gain understanding of the complexity and health of the GI. An analogy is that our GI and GI microbiota are essentially a recently discovered vital organ. One which the industrialized western diet (now well exported globally) has been systematically destroying. Diet has direct and immense impact on GI health, which in turn impacts such matters as: chronic systemic inflammation, autoimmunity, hyperinsulinism, neurotransmitter production (a vast amount of which happens .. in the gut!), hunger signalling, and more.

I don't have time to put the references in here that this deserves, but I'll leave you all with this to whet appetites, as it were.

Dr. Terry Wahls, "Minding Your Mitochondria":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc

Watch that, so my bluntness to follow makes sense. I see this guy's protocol as nothing but poisonous in the long run. He's off and created yet another processed food product that must be assumed to fail to meet the needs of the human body. Current research hammers home the idea that we don't yet have a complete and constructive model of nutrition, so why in the heck should I believe a nonspecialist that claims otherwise? Extraordinary claims, extraordinary proof, or GTFO.
"Shirt Early. Shirt Often."

This made me email myself a new password.
He'll be fine as long as he drinks that in addition to eating steamed kale and sweet potatoes, broccoli, brown rice and a variety of beans and sprouts.
There's this triangle of food - cost/time/consequences.

You can spend little time and little money, and get something that's not very healthy for you. The dollar menu, for instance. You can spend a little time and a lot of money buying pre-prepared food at say, the deli at Whole Foods, and get something pretty healthy. If you have the time, tools, and knowledge, you can make cheap healthy food at home.

It just depends on what resources you have and what sacrifices you want to make. Shopping, cooking, doing the dishes, those things all take time you could use to do other things.
I think that's a great format for small screens. I could also imagine it as a storyboard for a video, or for mixed sequences of still images, audio, text and videos.
Except for the fact that world-changing technologies like the web would never have existed if nobody was permitted the first web browsers because platform vendors limited everyone to gopher.

I don't want to live in that two-tier world of web vendors and everyone else.
I am never more reminded of how smart people can succumb to groupthink than I am when I read HN posts about CISPA. There are a lot of misconceptions about the law, including what kind of data gets shared (only relevant threat data, this isn't your bank account info, and the RIAA can't sue you if shared data reveals you to be torrenting movies - can elaborate more on this if there's interest), who does the sharing (orgs share to the government voluntarily), who has access to the sharing (government and people the government decide to share the data with), etc.

I saw an infographic a little while back that I thought made a pretty good representation of what the bill actually proposes, I wonder if anyone has a link available to it.
Based on his recipe I don't see how this is being perceived as novel or revolutionary. Surely many HNers have endeavored to make "bachelor chow" (or more appropriately slurry) in the past.
I think you've blithely missed the point. I will quote my concluding remark for further emphasis:

> To clarify, I think sharing is great if you decide to do it. But I also think that the uninformed should be advised to not share by default because of the issues I mentioned above.

...

> This is not necessarily wrong. Maybe I set it up so he can use all the bandwidth that he can get

Maybe you did. So?

> Why is only the penultimate hop responsible for the last hop? Why should he be responsible in the first place. And why shouldn't all the network hops in-between be responsible as well???

Red herring. We're not talking about the appropriate legal perspective of network responsibility, but rather, what is the legal perspective of network responsibility.

> Yes, it is OK

For you? Great! Not for everyone. Which was my point.
I don't know what's funnier - the link, or the clueless hacker news people!
Thanks for going 2factor and even better: using google authenticator. Two factor is too easy and adds too much to user security to be avoided. Furthermore, I think google authenticator should become the standard to increase usage longterm, so much so I made a service to make implementing it even easier: https://www.gauthify.com
This really hit home for me one winter vacation when I decided to fast for 5 days straight. I had absolutely nothing to do so I mainly played video games and read. I couldn't believe how not hungry I was and how utterly bored I was because I wasn't occupying my days with procuring, preparing, eating, cleaning.
They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

- Carl Sagan

Sure, he could be on to something. But we also need an enormous amount of skepticism when evaluating it, just as we do when evaluating any large claim. What pings my radar is that we're still trying to understand how our body processes "whole food" as opposed to vitamins in supplement form.
I don't get it.

There are plenty of liquid feeds already in existence. These contain fibre and all the other nutrients you need to survive, and they come in a variety of flavours.

And you can have a naso-gastric tube fitted, to eat while you're doing just about anything else.
They should be using min-cut max-flow graph algorithms rather than dist based metrics.
I believe it's not emacs, it's Sublime Text 2
I would certainly argue that it is easier to find engineering-trained people who can become successful businessfolk, than business-trained people who can competently manage tech companies.

Being a successful engineer is evidence that you understand processes and systems very deeply. What remains is interpersonal skill and basic economics. Being a successful business person is evidence of the complement.

Couple this with the observation that it is easier to find people who picked up economics and interpersonal skills without training than it is to find people with deep untrained technical skill, because interactions with other people and decisions about money occur every day so any motivated somebody with a curious disposition may well have been pondering and improving those skills their whole life.

Remember, it's not that every engineer you find will be better rounded, it's just that those magical omnibus people are more likely to be found among the engineering ranks than the business ranks, especially when engineering jobs give a much more reliable salary out of college so that anyone with engineering skill and business skill is incentivized to study the former in school.
I used to love Heroku but it's just too darn rigid. I hate the fact that everything is done behind the velvet curtain and I'm just assured it's "going smoothly".

Last week I finally bit the bullet and bought a VPS from DigitalOcean and installed the bits and kibbles needed for Rails apps. Specifically Nginx and Passenger. Was it easy? No - but now I have total control over my machine, and my app (which let's face it, will probably never need to scale for millions of users at a time) is in my complete control.

Heroku doesn't even have a local filesystem, what's up with that?
The common wisdom of 100-150 years ago is not as bad as common wisdom from 1980.

Anna Karenina, Part Two, chapter 19:

"He had no need to be strict with himself, as he had very quickly been brought down to the required light weight; but still he had to avoid gaining flesh, and so he eschewed farinaceous and sweet dishes."
Freeze-drying does this, and the end result better resembles the original food.
I personally am looking very heavily into Rust, but if you haven't seen Elixir, you should.
How pronouns reveal who is more powerful in a relationship
I laughed so hard when I got this email that I actually spit my coffee out.
If I could afford to give up work, I could afford to not cook. The actual eating takes up very little of my time.
Dare I call into question what you are here for? How do you feel about your contribution- attempting to heap more shame- plays for the whole audience? Is what you are doing of value?
"that far yet"

This is exactly what I mean. "Chicago" can mean very different things to people who live in Chicago and Chicagoland. Chicago to me means 1) the city of Chicago (which I live in) and 2) Chicagoland (which actually encompasses about a 60 mile radius of downtown Chicago, including suburbs all the way up to the Wisconsin border, down to the Indiana border, and far west of the city proper).

Telling me you launched in "Chicago" and then telling me that you don't have anybody a mere 12 miles from the proper center point of downtown Chicago is a bit misleading in my eyes.
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D syntax is nicer than Go's, but its also dead compared to Go. Where are you going to put your chips?
These things were built into the network with good reasons. As were the ways to secure yourself. Just because it is insecure by design doesnt mean laws should be in place to protect those who show no desire to understand or use technology in the way it was designed. Should cars speed be limited based on the speed limit just because a few speed? That is what you are talking about
Microsoft required an illegal monopoly in order to obtain the incredible resources needed to certify Windows on all that hardware. And the prices were astronomical, for PCs, peripherals, etc.
AppHarbor turns up the throttle: Allows apps to improve performance by up to 4x
NYT design director: "We’re not going to do things that don’t work"
> isn't bulky?

What? He looks a bit chunky to me. Does he list his height / weight anywhere?

(Yes, I'm aware that BMI is flawed. You have olympic athletes with almost no body fat but 'obese' BMIs. This guy? He's no athlete.)
Right, the focus bit was more or less aimed at Netflix.. management I suppose? So something like "stop deciding we need social features implemented and perhaps use said time and effort towards getting more distribution deals signed"

I was legitimately upset when I wrote that comment and not thinking the clearest hah
Samsung, not TSMC, still makes the Apple TV’s new single-core A5 processor
My problem with bookmarking tools is that I horde links in them that I actually never go back and look for. I usually just use my brain as an index for some keywords and then utilize Google search.
Grid frameworks like 960gs never became as popular as Bootstrap because Boostrap is as much about formatting content (including forms and UI elements) as it is about the responsive grid layout.

I suppose you could say it comes with a theme, but anyone who cares enough to complain about the theme should also be motivated enough to customize it.
How do other founders deal with non-committal VC nonsense? I feel like only taking targeted meetings where social capital gets spent on introductions to avoid this takes too much serendipity out of the equation.
I'm guessing that because watching someone who speaks (and moans) your own language removes an artificiality barrier and makes it more authentic. Like a girl next door kind of thing.
A prank no, a poor choice for an acronym yes. I've updated the post to focus on total integration testing. Hopefully with this we can move on and discuss the core idea. What did you think about it?

Thanks for taking the time to comment and highlight your concerns on the acronym.
Chrome has the same security issues as Android, but it isn't obvious until Chrome becomes the whole UX. Which it is now.
"Working with really long class names or IDs isn't an option."

How does SASS/LESS solve this? Don't you still need the class names and IDs to hook it up with the DOM?
How would it be better suited than any of the other companies competing in that space?
Wunderlist becomes much more than a To-Do List with Add to Wunderlist
Finland seems like a kinky place. Top three results:

1) mature
2) granny
3) male ejaculation (gay)
Pure speculation here: Andy might work on a new version of Android which will integrate Android with Google's self-driving car, and also bring the work done by CloudCar to Android.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/cloudcar-the-stealthy-start...
Same with Chicago. I live a whopping 12 miles from the center of downtown, IN the city of Chicago, and they told me they don't have people out "that far" yet.
one liners are usually frowned upon on HN, the logic goes that it just clutters without adding anything to the conversation, if you just want to agree the logic is you upvote. The problem is this creates the perception of downvote being for i disagree which is not truly the case. Generally down-vote should be reserved for useless, false-fact, deceptive or abusive posts. In your particulate case the down-vote was used correctly because the post would fall under the useless (I am not trying to be rude just trying help you understand the logic). So on HN while someone may agree with the sentiment of your post, they may still down-vote you based on those criteria for down-voting. Using the down-vote correctly is one of the things that has kept the HN community from devolving into a clone of many of the other offerings on the internet. It used to be better than it is now, and in my opinion the only thing that has kept some of the quality is the proper use of down-voting to reduce the signal to noise ratio. Over time they have upped the requirements for down-voting, but my assumption would be that the threshold for down-voting is set to about the point where people start to understand the importance of correctly down-voting.

So in short it's not that people disliked what you said, rather they felt that it was not important enough to not be swept away to clean up the signal to noise ratio.
I tend to agree. On one level, you could say it's a satire and even a mockery to VCs in general (which I found hilarious when I found out who Tagger was).

However, in real life I think this would be a polite response. It might read like bullshit but it's quite fair to see he's trying to make these points. Everything else not in the email (e.g. why does the VC not want to invest) would be speculation.
Thanks for the comment, I have been meaning to start a blog and maybe that could be the spark that I need. It was an interesting experience even though we moved on about 1.5 years ago from that business.
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I guess we'd better be careful about supporting marijuana legalization, too.
I'll observe that virtually all of that can be accounted for by eliminating known problematic elements in the standard american/western diet. Whether it promotes long-term health or doesn't cause other problems is a very different matter.

Despite what else I've written in this thread, I'm not against the idea of healthy, cheap, time efficient nutrition options. But I don't think we know enough yet to nail the "healthy" part, and the human cost of our failures to date has been truly terrible.
So did they just go back in time on this new layout? Don't get me wrong, I like it, but it looks they've finally accepted the criticism of the two-column layout and gone back to a more popular version from the past. For reference, here's the layout from 2008 taken off google images:
http://blog.hishamrana.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/facebo...
The reason you get into argunents is because your point of view is flawed. It would be far to easy to hide yourself or fake your id. Implementing anything like this would simply hinder the legal user experience and do nothing to stop the bad guys.
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CMU's CHIMP Humanoid Robot Moves Like a Tank
"How much time is needed to ensure this method of feeding is viable for humans?"

Yes ha ha.

(For those who don't get the joke there's long been available a liquid meal replacement called "Ensure(tm)" as with many "tech" novelty stories a supposed inventor is actually just walking on very well trodden ground rather than inventing anything.)
You are aware the jail breaking exists, right? So iPhones aren't so secure.
> In previous SimCity games simulation was performed on the macro scale - not on each citizen.

Though even SimCity 4 actually assigned each sim a specific home and workplace. Their travels/resources were calculated on the macro scale though.
Well done to have replicated RStudio for pyhton on Emacs. I am interested by that, do you have the ELisp code somewhere? Thanks!
How about "crafting"? With the advent of MMOs and Minecraft people associate that word more with digital items than with arts and crafts anyway.
> It is possible that the nutrient powder (and similar) industry hasn't given much thought to this idea because its radical and potentially risky, especially as a business venture where legal liability might be very, very high.

The stuff bodybuilders consume is not as well controlled as anything called 'food'. In fact, bodybuilding forums are full of 'I bought brand X and it was mostly filler, better stick to brand Y'.
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This is likely a hoax (as the backdrop voice apparently does not match the English translation accurately), but I couldn't stop laughing. More snow, please!
That's awesome! Just curious, how did you go about searching for them?
Maybe that's true, but it's really a different conversation. We were talking about getting your choice of web browser on a mobile OS. You're always going to be at the mercy of a platform vendor - Mozilla, Apple, Linus Torvalds, Intel. Honestly at least Mozilla are trying for an open development process, more than anyone else. Even Android's source only gets published after the code has already shipped. I trust Mozilla more than anyone except maybe the Linux project itself to do right by application developers.
Strange how Asian is top ten USA, even moreso than Ebony considering there are more African-American men and women in the U.S. than Asians. The more general terms (Teen, College, Creampie) would most likely primarily show Caucasian stars.
Google is responsible for pushing updates to some other company's customers against that company's will?

Google's customers get updates just fine.
Adobe's BrowserLab shutting down effective today
audio only here too, Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Hands-on is key but after 30 years of programming I still feel the same excitement when I get my first program running in a new language as I did on my Apple ][ back then.

I'm sure you can learn to love it but for me programming was something I instantly knew I wanted to learn everything about.
How would this compare to using JRuby and threads?

If you use eventmachine, every single network call you make has to be evented. So you'd need to use things like https://github.com/leftbee/em-postgresql-adapter which aren't going to be as well tested as the standard pg driver.
It's definitely more nutritious than packaged ramen, at the least.
>"Extraordinary claims, extraordinary proof, or GTFO."

>"I see this guy's protocol as nothing but poisonous in the long run."

You place a burden of evidence on him that you yourself in this very post violated on a number of occasions. You CANNOT call his diet poisonous simply because you disagree with it.

You admitted it yourself:

>"Current research is showing that we are only just beginning to gain understanding of the complexity and health of the GI."

So no offense, but you have literally no ground to say that this is poisonous in the short OR long term, no evidence to back that up, and you cannot rely on a field that cannot support your view.

You have a view on this, congratulations, but it is nothing more than a well-informed opinion. It is not fact, it is not supported by fact and as you've admitted -- it CANNOT at this point be supported by fact that does not yet exist.

Even your link to a TEDX (aka, unvetted content) states upfront: "This talk is a personal narrative and is not yet backed by larger experimentation."

I'm sorry, but you've been consistently and narrow-mindedly against what the OP has put forth. You dismiss his views for their lack of credibility but turn around and post sources that themselves have no credibility (admit to being anecdotal).

You seem to have picked what is correct and are now looking for evidence to support your preconceived notion. You also seem to be falling for the naturalism fallacy by pretending that since his food is "pill and scalpel" it is therefore wrong/bad.

Just my conclusions: obviously he hasn't posted data or even analyzed it, but you present many issues in your posts that I disagree with more strongly than what he puts forth (and I'm not a layman).
I don't know the guy, but... consider the power dynamic. PG sends him a sales pitch and the guy pushes back. What's he supposed to do, fall all over himself and say "where do I sign"?

No, he says, "yeah, maybe".

Wouldn't you do the same if someone came to your door looking to sell you something?
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My only issue with this email is that he used the subject "we" when mentioning grabbing a coffee. The current accepted standard of phrasing in business circles eliminates the subject and would read "would love to grab a coffee".

Would love to hear your thoughts on this space.
I should add that I've pretty much given up on bookmarking tools because I've left a trail on delicious, the old Google one, Springpad, Clipboard, etc... I'm not just using plain-jane Notational velocity notes, and I'm pretty diligent in writing why I'm saving a link, whether it's an interesting library I need to use some day, or a good article that I read where I learned something. I'll usually summarize what I learned.