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I know people who claim that eating a mainly paleo diet makes them feel better.

Though I am tempted to think it is less to do with removing diary , pasta etc and more to do with them actually eating some damn vegetables now.
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>> "I for one would love proof that the diet is wrong about cereals and legumes."

>> "I read reports and testimonies of people getting better on it and athletes performing on it."

I think this is the wrong way round. When people make claims that stuff we've been eating for thousands of years (bread, cereals, grains etc.) are actually really bad for us, the burden of proof is on them.

If anyone could actually prove that wheat causes weight gain and health problems (independent of other variables), they'd be a good candidate for the next Nobel in Medicine.

Most studies I've read show that Paleo is no better or worse than a normal healthy diet. In some cases e.g. when you're an athlete, it'll be actively worse, since carbs are a basic source of fuel. [1]

On top of this, Paleo promotes some claims that are ridiculous, e.g. that burning fat for fuel == burning carbs for fuel. They have totally different consequences.

Yes, eating lots of carbs is bad for you. So is eating lots of fatty food. Loads of calories and not enough exercise means your body stores fat. That's sort of obvious, and nothing to do with any special properties that 'carbs' have.

Just eat plenty of vegetables (esp green / strongly coloured ones), and make sure you get adequate amounts of protein & carbs. To lose weight, make sure calories in < calories out. That's the general pictures studies give us.

Be extremely sceptical of anything claiming otherwise. I'm not sure why intelligent people can get so caught up in fads - such as Paleo - that are backed up by pseudo-science. My theory is that they appeal to the contrarian in us - after all, they're delightfully counter-intuitive in some ways (eating lots of steak can be good for me?!).

You've got to have contrarian ideas to be really intelligent, but not all contrarianism is good.

[1] I say this as a semi-pro runner who has tried running on a Paleo diet and found it disastrous. You cannot burn fat with the same efficiency as you can 'burn' carbs (i.e. use glycogen). It doesn't work that way. And if you still think it does, look up the diets of the top 10 athletes in basically any sport & explain to me why none of them are on Paleo.
I specifically meant carbon credits. E.g. price of, for example, wood burning stoves could build in a fee/tax charged to manufacturers or importers given the nature of the product.

It's not just the air pollution, it's also cutting down trees, though at least when we cut it was usually clearing farm land.

As for existing fireplaces/stoves, I suppose a tax could be levied if they are the primary heat source. There are already lots of incentive based energy efficiency city and statewide programs around the nation that factor in heating method (and a lot of people eyeing the carbon credit "mining" in that case as well).
I think, the problem is that whenever a state-of-the-art synthesiser comes close to an expressive acoustic instrument it lives in the uncanny valley more often than not (see some YouTube videos of the Eigenharp for example). It will need a lot more sensors or better software to overcome that.
> Does Miller really believe that people who eat paleo do so because the diet is from the paleolithic?

People who are on the paleo diet tell me exactly that.

Anyway, they seem healthier than before they started, so taking an interest in healthier food consumption seems to work for them. As you say, the outcome is the important thing.

The Paleo diet may well have made the hunter-gatherers very healthy. However, as I have already passed their life-expectancy, there seems to be no data supporting whether it will work for my longevity ;)
With "keep tabs at exit" setting, I managed to reach over 250 tabs in Firefox. Had no issues what so ever, even when a game like guild wars 2 and bt was also up and running.

I would very much like to see a memory and cpu comparison between Firefox and chrome when the tab sizes reaches that size.
The evidence against cereals (and most especially wheat) seems in general to be much more widely accepted than that against legumes; take that as you will.

(Or to put it another way: "don't eat wheat" features in a lot more of the newfangled low-carbohydrate diets than "don't eat beans".)
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MacBook Air, Mid 2012 - base model with 4GB RAM etc.

Mt Lion. Don't feel the need of Linux now.

S/W:

Text - TextEdit, TextWrangler, Mo, Marked, MacVim(I've realized it works better without all those 'fancy' plug-ins), LyX for LaTex, iAWriter - *I collecetd/bought a lot more than I intended to use. My suggestion to you is pick any simple one and stick to it. You'll never need to look at those religious best text editors lists)

Note taking: Notational Velocity, Evernote

IDE: IntelliJ Idea, xCode(which keeps breaking after I nuke its iOS and Mac and other libraries/docsets that I don't use)

Version Control: Github and SourceTree

Comm: Adium, Mail, Telephone, Colloquy,

Backup/Sync: CrashPlan, Dropbox, Arq(to Glacier; for everything else Cyberduck was great)

Share: CloudApp, YoruFukurou(best/lightweight Mac twitter client)

Office: LibreOffice

Browser: Firefox for everything (except Chrome to stream online videos without Flash)

Video: MPlayerX, VLC(someimtes)

Music: iTunes(I wish it could sync my Andorid, will ditch if I get a real good alternative that does so)

Other tools: Jumpcut for clipboard, iTerm and Go2Shell for easy terminal access, Keka for file (de)compression, NetNewsWire for feeds, Skype(unfortunately), Transission & µTorrent both etc.
> In terms of skills, financial planning, cooking, interpersonal skills are all more essential than reading and writing code.

Teach all that stuff too, it is not mutually exclusive.
I'm not going to take a side, but just to answer a part of your comment on "species that just disappeared" as, apparently, an argument for saying humans might not have adapted to their new diet.

Obviously, humans have not disappeared - quite the contrary in fact - therefore they either have adapted to their new diet, or were already suited for it.
The update nagging has been much reduce since the start of the rapid release cycle, so you should definitely give it a try.
> no one drops dead because they sat near fire.

Joan of Arc would have a word with you, I'm sure.

The old Pratchett quote: "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Not in my experience -- I have the same issues on my MBP, though I use it maybe 1/10th the time, so I'm less certain of that impression.
That's weird, shouldn't Chrome be better at releasing memory due to its process model?
I have been saying this for a long time... what we are really seeing in "web 2.0" is actually average folks catching up to what geeks have been doing for a long time, it's only on a much larger scale now but almost all you see nowadays has already been there and done before.
What optimization tasks do Exec and Uber solve to provide the quality of service their customers expect?
Only because you have repeated your spelling of "Von Nueman" three times, I want to point out that it is in fact spelled "von Neumann".
Migration would slow down many kinds of evolution. Lots of interesting evolution happens when you get divergence in island (literal or metaphorical) populations.

Migration does mean that any clearly beneficial changes will spread quickly, and a large population gives more chances for them to arise - lactase persistence is probably an example of this. So humanity probably does adapt quicker than it otherwise would to changes in the environment, if those changes affect most of humanity.

In the short term I'd expect to see humanity getting better at a lot of things as races intermingle and previously separate gene pools combine - a lot of things like height or fitness or intelligence seem to be combinations of many genes where "perfect" is in some sense the default; how good you are is a question of how many "bad" genes you've picked up (and most of the bad genes are recessive). I've seen anecdotal suggestion that mixed-race children are healthier (would be interested to hear if there's any proper studies of this). I suspect in the immediate term this will be a bigger effect than that of new mutant genes.
Firefox is more standards compliant on the CSS front then...any other browser, actually.
When I started development, I didn't know that DOM controls could overlap, let alone lay over a WebGL canvas :) I had zero HTML (and general web development) knowledge at the time. Since I have some experience doing this kind of stuff, instead of diving into the scary DOM details, I took the path of least resistance for me (begun implementing a GUI on a nice, clean drawing surface).

Joking aside, it didn't start as a fully-fledged UI. Some scrolling text strings to show a message log first, the ability to move them out of the way later, then implementing a proper window container for them, then introducing the concept of a 'widget', then getting really excited and thinking about a layout system to be able to present multiple widgets per window... that's the way it usually goes :) The GUI turned out a lot more demanding than the terrain engine itself, both in development time as well as rendering load.

In the end, it's all about learning!
I hope the author is reading this thread.

What struck me was this line: "Family time bores me because I could otherwise be doing amazing things".

I felt like this for a long time. I was in a long-term relationship with an amazing woman, yet I spent my free time working or thinking about all the "amazing" things I could have been working on. Up to the point where she left me.

Family time is the one thing you should never consider a bore or a chore.
Installing NoScript freed up like 20% of my CPU time. Now I just need websites to stop failing ungracefully.
Or not. I can be a fan of a reductionist diet without buying the party line on the mechanism by which it works.
This page: http://www.srm.com/qtma/davidsmidispec.html (which is quite obviously highly unofficial) mentions both 0xAx and 0xDx, calling them "Key Pressure" and "Channel Pressure", respectively. The explanation says:

Some keyboards can detect a change in pressure on each key, while they are held by the player; these keyboards can report "key pressure" over MIDI. Some keyboards may sense the overall pressure on the device, such as with a weight sensor beneath the entire keyboard. These devices can report "channel pressure."

Sounds pretty nice.
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What about an easy way to redistribute customized versions of Firefox? What im thinking about is something like a software pack or plugin bundles, similar to ninite. Very much like the spf-13 vim distribution. Or like some of the bundled eclipse distributions, like PyDev or Aptana. It's a batteties included idea.

There are a lot of cool plugins, but new users don't always know what to get. But if if it was easy to fork Firefox and add some plugins and redistribute it in whatever forums or communities they prefer, that would be cool.

So there may end up being a Firefox for reddit, for image processing, for web design, for web dev, etc.
"Amanda todd", in canada died because of these ratters.

They are rotten people who do this to innocent girls,they bullied her to death. This same(dark,whatever )service will be used to make these girls slaves for pornography on cam....it must stop,

its being used by human traffickers, who will threaten her and than make her real computer slave.

This needs to stop, we are better human race than this.
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Your metaphor of adding wet sticks to a fire is flawed, from a thermodynamics argument. Assuming that the fire is large enough, it will dry out the wet sticks through evaporation/boiling, and the wood's total contribution to the heat ("energy out") will be unchanged.

Now, of course for the people sitting around the fire, some of the heat that would be warming them up or used for cooking is instead used to force a phase change in the water, so it won't be as much "useful" heat, but that meaning of utility - which I believe is the one you want - is outside of thermodynamics.

For what it's worth, "for some very compelling anecdotal evidence" of the thermodynamic approach, see The Hacker's Diet at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ , which uses the "Rubber Bag" model. Unlike the garytaubes.com web site, the entire book and supporting materials are available for free download. The basic premise is the thermodynamic "if you eat more calories than you burn, you gain weight; if you eat fewer calories than you burn, you lose weight." (See also 'Food and fact' where "The rubber bag view of the body and considering only the calorie content of food is obviously oversimplified." and some of the complications are mentioned.)

I believe you are making a different argument, which is that you can't always measure the caloric impact of foods. Under the Hacker Diet, that makes little difference. It uses a feedback system based on weight trends rather than specific calorie counting. There's no need to know that oak combustion produces about 15MJ/kg and boiling water from room temperature takes about 3MJ/kg, because it only looks at 'is there enough heat'?
Is it possible that while you had these nagging thoughts to read, build and hack, you were never really fully interested in it? Rearing a child may have given you the impetus you need to abandon those stressful goals.
That bit of trivia about the font creator (as opposed to the font) I definitely didn't need to know. Blecchhh!

I ought to have, (but didn't heed) your warning, and you are so right! Now I am really torn! At what point does one disassociate the person(ality) from the art? (similar to any discussion on Wagner's works today!)

>> it may well put you off using his fonts

I believe you are very right there! I am actually pretty pissed off with the man and his works now!
Yes, here colas are still made of sugar :) Even though... better to drink just water!
Breaking news: people do immoral shit. Regardless of where or when.
When I took a look at emberjs a few months bach ember-data was one of the most appealing parts. What are your concerns regarding viability?
Or company won't spend as much as they used to get those "likes". Do pizza companies still give out free pizza to get users to become a fan of them?
its insane, how many times the author used the word slaves
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Same issue here. Chrome 25.0.1364.160 on Linux.
Being humble and not trumpeting one's idea...
I switched from Firefox to Chrome at about the same time as op.

But I can't relate to how he feels:

- Chrome still has better dev tools than Firefox

- Chrome doesn't freeze at all (while Firefox does when handling a lot of tabs)

- Chrome doesn't require to restart when installing an extension (even if Firefox starts moving to this too)

- I still prefer Chrome's UI

- Even though I didn't try syncing with Firefox, Chrome does that very nicely
Same here, but for a slightly different reason for me:

When you're not logged into your google account, typing into the address bar with periodically kill chrome on mountain lion.

Not often, but maybe 3 or 4 times a day. Not kill the tab; hard kill chrome, instantly, destroying all the tabs, no recovery, all chrome processes go poof. It happens on all three of my mac devices (and this is on Version 25.0.1364.160).

It's not even a choice; that's just unusable.

I've also found firefox to be a lot better than I remember. Firebug is still a memory hog though, and as we saw in the other epic thread, the firebug / native developer tools thing is still just idiotic.

...but it's pretty good.

I honestly didn't expect to be ever returning to firefox because it was more stable than the alternative.
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Seriously how the fuck can we earn money that way and still be considered as an honest citizen ???
The connection economy we live in today has had drastic effects on the incentives and economics of education — yet it seems that colleges haven’t really taken notice.

Obviously, Colleges didn't take notice because enrollment is still high and people still bet on their degrees.

What I think colleges should do, is not reduce their tuition, but improve their brand. It's not the degree that matters, it's the college that you graduated from. If the quality of graduates of a certain college drops significantly, this will affect the whole college graduates credibility.

If you are looking for a JOB (at a company), go and get a DEGREE. That's it. The typical path. There is no creativity in this path. If you are looking to become an ENTREPRENEUR and start businesses and stuff, I'd say give college a shot (maybe a year or two) and then drop (if you don't like it).

There are many other ways to network beside college. But I'd say, give it a shot.
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Firefox is great, but I think is a unfair comparison Chrome vs Firefox as he's talking about freedom and Chrome is not free software[1]. He may want to try Chromium instead.

I know is supposed to be the same source code, but it gives me some peace of mind that a 3rd party I trust (Linux distro) had access to the source code and built the actual binary I'm using.

[1] http://www.google.co.uk/chrome/intl/en/eula_text.html

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Curiously, as someone who is religious, I read his article and thought after a couple of arguments "Huh, I guess burning wood is dangerous. Won't be using a fireplace anytime soon".

Now, I didn't bother to check any of his facts myself, but I'm confident he probably got them correct.

I guess my point is that, despite what he seems to assume, not all religious people debate on the basis of "feelings" or "emotions". My belief is the product of many years of debating with myself what the most reasonable explanation for existence is, and my conclusion was God. I'm not going to list my reasons or get into a debate on HN about it, because my point is simply this: it is possible for two rational people to come to different conclusions without the influence of emotions or personal bias.
>The “disable cache” checkbox in the developer tools seems to do nothing

I've the same issue. It works sometimes and other times it doesn't.
First thank you for making your work available for free. Looks like very interesting to read. And second, you can't exepect anything else from a capitalist economy Justice system. (Almost?) all life aspects in a capitalist economy suffer from this "self-agrandishment" (also known since inmemorial times as "greed") illness. It's the basic concept of capitalism, so nothing new actually.
But is writing a good child story easier than swapping two sprite sets in a blob?
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I too have switched Firefox as my main browser, so far I like the better addons,

* ad block is much better

* addons work in private mode by default,

* an addon to use keepaas as my password manager

* many addons that allow me to customize youtube which i could not do in chrome (force 240p etc..),

* I missed Instant search but Firefox already searches bookmarks better and with the instantFox addon i can also search any site ala google instant and ddg

Better in chrome

* Addons by HNers (HN in chrome is great with a few addons like tldr.io, HNbox)

* Firefox seems unable to do multiple downloads as well as chrome (I'm unable to download multiple videos at once from coursera when using firefox)

* some chrome store apps

* Developer tools (which I don't really need)

I don't see much of a performance difference (maybe Firefox is better now or it may be hardware accelerated as I'm using Windows)
As far as I know, almost any diet that's not obviously insane or unhealthy gives satisfactory results if followed diligently.

It's not about the specific content, it's not about any pseudo-scientific justifications for the content, it's simply about how easy it is to stay on the diet without lapsing or indulging in any extraneous treats.
Thank you so much! While XUL/Migemo seems to have problems with current FF versions, someone there linked Fastest Search [1] and it has everything I wanted plus way more (including RegEx).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fastest-searc...
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> What the Freakonomics guys did was take the above numbers and then use the total number of guns and total number of pools, and then abuse those statistics in order to try and get this 100x more dangerous figure.

I don't understand. This seems sensible to me. Why wouldn't we include this figure to calculate risk? Isn't risk a matter of incidences/exposures?
Yeah, that's suspicious. On my Macbook Air, which is noticeably weaker, I don't experience any of that with Chrome.
Just to add, users rarely choose their software at all. If we're talking about the unwashed masses here, then the primary reason Chrome, Internet Explorer, or Safari are popular at all is almost entirely due to placement.

Joe consumer, comprising an ever increasing majority of the Internet population, simply doesn't care about which browser she is using. More often it is a result of what randomly got installed as the default through their last foray of random clicking and purchases. As a result, Chrome's regular placement on the Google homepage (and IE's default-installation) give it obvious "competitive" edges.

Of course when discussing browser market share this is rarely mentioned, instead popularity is usually attributed to fractional nanosecond differences in rendering time and so on that 99% of users never notice, and simply won't care about even if you told them.

(Edit: there is another reason to appreciate Mozilla in here, in that their efforts seem less focused on branding and positioning than they are much more so on function and vision. Mozilla's endgame shares a certain utilitarian theme compatible with what the masses seem to expect from technology (it's a "computer" with the "Internet" on it, not a "Chromebook" with "Google" on it), than does just about every other company in this space who are using their platforms to sell people more shit they don't need)
> And you can't kill your potential killer or rapist

So, how many of those were killed/wounded in defense last year in US compared to all gun deaths?
Thankfully, the last sentence of the article states: "Then I'm going to the beach with my partner to 'do nothing' for an evening."

Just to add, it's not mererly a lack of "doing" something, but valuing the "being" part of ourselves: Father, husband, partner, friend, etc - out of which the "doing" bit naturally flows. Due to my personality flaws, I too often "do nothing" when in presence of my wife, which can be just as destructive for the relationship as wishing I was doing something somewhere else.
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