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Are you seriously citing Lyle McDonald as proof that low carb diets lead to muscle wasting?

>If glucose requirements are high but glucose availability is low, as in the initial days of fasting, the body will break down its own protein stores to produce glucose. This is probably the origin of the concept that low carbohydrate diets are muscle wasting. As discussed in the next chapter, an adequate protein intake during the first weeks of a ketogenic diet will prevent muscle loss by supplying the amino acids for gluconeogenesis that would otherwise come from body proteins.

http://membres.multimania.fr/robody3/Ebooks/The_Ketogenic_Di...

>Bodybuilders cut with low fat, not low carb

It's a surprisingly common topic of discussion for something that's supposedly not done.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abodybuilding.com+keto...

CKD and TKD with specific carb ups to replenish glycogen stores are more common, but there are people that do it with purely ketogenic diets, as well.
JavaScript is a powerful seductress, I've fallen for her many times. I remember writing a js web server and web application framework when rhino came out. It was an awesome thing at first since I could turn tons of java code into one liners easily, but as my app grew over the several thousand line mark it became more of a hassle to find and remember the apis i was creating in this white fire of code genesis. Finally I started getting angry everytime I had to lookup my new methods for stuff and I said f this, tooling > *. My pace went to zero as code size increased, but with Java if anything it increases or at the very least stays constant. JS is great for my personal site and small projects, but if someone gave me 1 million and said build an app that you can iterate on that would be potentially huge for purpose X, I would use java.

Still though, I stare longingly into JS's eyes when she looks my way...
Not as far as nutrition is concerned. Some studies have indicated that D2 is slightly less potent, but the majority have shown equal efficacy.

The evidence does not support that claim. If anything we don't know, and that's my point. [1][2]

>Your whole argument seems to be an attempt at pointless pedantry, when the pedantry presented doesn't even matter to the subject at hand.

No I'm saying similar to "Vitamin B". You body may be lacking in pyridoxine or cobalamin or one of the other B vitamins. They are not equivalent. The B group has been studied in far greater depth, compared to say the menaquiniones (K2 group), and there simply does not exist the same level of research. Similarly K and D are groups too, and treating them like it's a single chemical with a specific effect is just plain wrong.

If you want to continue to argue please backup your claims with studies indicating K2 (any form) is equivalent to K1.

A study of 11000+ men by a German cancer research center found this:

"Our results suggest an inverse association between the intake of menaquinones, but not that of phylloquinone, and prostate cancer. Further studies of dietary vitamin K and prostate cancer are warranted." [3]

In other words K2 intake was correlated with reduced levels of prostate cancer, and K1 was not.

They are NOT the same thing and it's arrogant to dismiss this them as being functionally equivalent or assume one's body will perfectly convert between various forms as needed.

[1] http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/84/4/694.full

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21289249

[3] Dietary intake of vitamin K and risk of prostate cancer in the Heidelberg cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18400723
If you have not tasted that exact label from that exact winery, you have no idea what you are getting. Same grape, same winery, same year is not necessarily good enough, especially when dealing with interesting and not well known wineries.
The chart looks nice and clean! Good luck when you launch.

Some things to consider for the chart:

1) Include a date. That allows people who find the chart to know how up to date the chart is.

2) Include more information. Things like whether it's a standalone software (and what OSs it runs on) or a web service; what licence it uses; if there's a cost; if there are any social features (because being shown what some other people thought was great was useful.); if there are any sync features (so I can read my feed on my phone and laptop and desktop);

But these are just polite suggestions! Feel free to ignore them.
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Maybe not, but perhaps you'll later run into something you are missing from the language and Guido (PBUH) won't add add it. With Lisp (incl. Scheme), you can add it yourself.
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Neither are the vacuum cleaners, vortex separators have been used for years in large industry. His great idea that one could shrink them down to work in the home.
I switched to http://domains.live.com from google apps for my personal email. The new outlook.com is a LOT cleaner than Gmail.
we use whatever `go fmt` outputs (which, yes, happens to be tabs).
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> This can't be a promise to invest X at Y valuation no matter what, which it might be if it were treated as a legal contract.

Legal contracts don't work they way you think. If there is a discrepancy between what is offered and reality, the contract can fail, or the courts can find a reasonable interpretation, or both parties can agree to change the contract (most common). This happens in due diligence all the time.
Adding things up it does not look like food trucks are really cheaper day to day. "The rent of their restaurant was $4,500 a month."

Bobby’s family borrows kitchen space in a friend’s restaurant, but commissaries complete with a kitchen, waste disposal, and a parking space run up to $1,000 a month. plus Another expense, for trucks that sell at places like Off The Grid, is the cut they owe to the organizers. Off The Grid charges 10% - something of an industry standard. They also expect vendors to sell a minimum of $1,000 of product over the course of a lunch or dinner period. So if a truck sells with them for lunch and dinner, 5 days a week, they will pay the organizer a minimum of $1,000 per week. which could easily be 6+k in a month.

However, I suspect the available locations are far better.
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OK people, I get it, you don't carry cash, etc etc. I'm just imagining myself using whatever I have on me to come to a quick agreement on a precise valuation and secure a solid "affirmative" from an investor, beyond a basic verbal agreement.

So whether that's scrawled on a dollar bill, transmitted officially via the "PG Handshake Protocol", or signed on your ass with a picture in the mirror for posterity... doesn't matter, have fun with it and get it done!
Or download LinCity[1].

[1]: http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Nope, you're not. Readability is crucial for those of us not wired the same way as those who seem to be more comfortable in Lisp. Can you get a lot done in Lisp? Sure, if you can scan through and make sense of it. I've tried for a long time, almost to the point of barging in on my work time, but I haven't been able to get comfortable. The innumerable parentheses, for example, make perfect sense to those with the Lisp brain, but since I'm reading it in the context of English, where too many of those are frowned upon, it's nearly impossible for me to follow quickly.

Whenever I bring this up among my colleagues, I get shot down by the proficient folks. The argument then turns into how I'm deficient somehow or haven't tried hard enough -- the word "stupid" came up a few times -- and that just completely turned me off the language.

Religion is a touchy subject.
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Holy fuck, y combinator is on the bar exam.
That's bullshit, however, because:

(a) there are techniques to deal with that, and
(b) where's the accurate stack trace from a state-maintaining while loop, or a trampoline?
No, it doesn’t.

This isn’t a black and white problem.
Selenium solves a different problem. With selenium, you record user actions, and verify properties about the state of the site.

The record/playback feature is designed to make a copy of the content you look at during a session, allowing you to retrieve it offline at a later time by revisiting the page (or making equivalent HTTP calls).

Interestingly, if you use both together, you can design a offline-mode reader for hacker news for use on the train or other disconnected environments. Or, combine selenium and playback mode to create kick ass demos that are less likely to fail on weak wifi networks. :)
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> because they already have good fraud mitigation methods

Then why is it such a big topic, with the banks even deflecting the blame by inventing "identity theft" etc? And even if the banks are fine, the merchants are not, and a new bank should have sprung up to address that. Which leaves us with the remaining option - incumbent banks are cooperating to prevent new competition. I'm not trying to specifically convince you of this paranoia, but provide it as something that may have to be overcome by a digital payment system to be adopted.

> Chaum's design, a person who double-spends is eventually ejected from the system

I'm hazy on my ecash citations. Is "Chaum's design" the one where merchants are assigned identities, payment is offline but specific to the merchant's identity, and a double spender's identity is revealed if a coin has been spent at two different merchants? That's the system that's stuck in my head as best-in-breed if there is a bank on board.

But what I've been trying to get across here is that Bitcoin provides a property none of those other systems provided - freedom from a trusted "issuer"/bank/etc. (While those protocols don't trust the bank to preserve privacy, they do trust the bank to administer the currency by being the counterparty to the tokens.)

> People might still be able to forge transactions, due to some other property of the Bitcoin protocol that composes poorly with DSA/SHA2

Oh sorry, you caught me with my rigor-pants down. What I meant to say is that being built from those primitives, it could be proved as secure as those primitives. Unlike the Byzantine agreement component, which will always have other security tradeoffs beyond SHA2.

> What does "authoritative" actually mean in the absence of an authority? Without a good definition, it is hard to actually say what a solution would have to look like.

When we give up trusted authorities (and specific "parties" necessarily created by some trusted authority), what remains? What differentiates "the majority" ? One of the few things I see is computing power.

> Sybil attacks are still possible; the only difference is that now the attacker will need more CPU power

No, Sybil attacks have been defined away, as they depend on some notion of "parties". The "honest parties" wishful-thinking has vanished, leaving only "majority of computation" as the network authority. Of course the merits of this security model are still up for debate, but it seems to mostly work.

> The fact that Tuesday's fork could happen is pretty strong evidence that Bitcoin is not really a solution to the problem

Erm, given that the fork was a rare event, it actually shows that Bitcoin is mostly solving the problem, just not perfectly.

> What exactly can be done to "mitigate" double spending in Bitcoin? There is no system for denying access to the network

Lol. "no system for" is not the same as "system prevents" (see what happened to the End to End principle). I guarantee we will eventually see exchanges exerting control over what constitutes "valid transactions" and "the network". This is Bitcoin's real weakness.
FeedDemon is dead (died along with Google Reader). They are no longer developing. I would add RSSOwl in the desktop category. They are actively looking for synchronization alternative.
A couple years ago I was privy to a conversation Danny Bowien (mission chinese) was having with a journalist at his restaurant. Danny had already had been getting buzz; and Mission Chinese was about to blow up.. The conversation led to food trucks. What Bowien had to say about the economics of them is that.. They really aren't worth it. You have to purchase a vehicle.. out fit it.. and then you still have to rent at a commissary for food prep + clean up. Plus if you really care about food.. You aren't able to make the best product in a van. Paying rent on a space that has already been outfitted as a restaurant will come out cheaper(depending on decore), and allow you to make a better product.
It's just Abelson and Sussman's influence; it's their chosen metaphor for explaining programming in 6.001 + SICP (called, appropriately, "the Wizard book.")
I don't think you need to use VMWare. I understood from the article that you can upgrade to 1.1 and continue to use VirtualBox as the provider with basically no hiccups.
It actually looks pretty good, I was disappointed that there weren't any evangelists listing it in the other threads.

I signed up in two seconds by using a mailinator address. It looks like an exact clone + sharing/contacts. On revisiting though, the XML import failed. Too bad.
I'm glad you like the name! It was established like a year and a half ago. Since then someone developed some... not-so-great social app with the same name. We haven't really dealt with that yet.

HIPAA issues are going to be a nightmare, I agree. I think before we truly launch we're going to have to bring someone with thorough domain knowledge in for that. I went over-board with encryption, pretty much everything in the database is encrypted but naturally it's going to be some quirk with legalese that will catch us up. "The patient's mood is technically a medical condition and so cannot be displayed without waiver a-123" or something.

I appreciate your two ideas. Medication is something we're VERY hesitant to approach. God forbid a query gets screwed up (or even user error) and they end up with double dosages. Maybe later on, but for now... they can send messages with reminders or something :)

The mood ratings are a wonderful idea. I will be adding that to our to-do list. :)
Similar discussion was had on Quora back in 2010 - 2011 there's a list of names there http://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-influential-black-women-te...

This 2011 article on 10 Black Women In Tech will also expose you to the women who know the women, if they aren't the women themselves http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2011/11/10-black-women-in-tak...
Thanks! Added RSSOwl.
> I would not be surprised to see Google Groups get munched once they finish adding a few more features into the communities bag.

I would say that this is probably firmly in motion. I doubt that many users enjoy using the Groups interface. For instance, I can't remember if there was ever a time that the groups webpage correctly rendered on any of my Android devices' browsers (it always thinks I'm using an old version of Safari?!?), or was actually useful outside of a desktop (where it is merely annoying, but usable). I think this is a good indicator that they are divesting from any work there probably in preparation of dropping it.

> I backup everything locally that I think might be valuable to me in the future...just in case.

One thing I absolutely trust Google to do is provide a mechanism to get my data out of one of their services, particularly if the service is going to be discontinued.
This policy works for young or small projects. It does not work for larger, more complicated projects.

On the JRuby project, we carefully examine all incoming pull requests. At least half of them would break something unintended, and half of the remaining non-breaking PRs aren't done properly, don't match our style, would perform badly...and so on. Giving out commit access to people based on one PR and a bit of background information is not sufficient.

The problem here is one of expertise. Very few people in the world have what we need on the JRuby project. You need to be fairly meticulous about what you commit, running tests, understanding the codebase. Ideally you need to understand what's involved in building a language runtime. Just because you're a good contributor to other projects doesn't mean you're going to be a good contributor to JRuby, and we won't give out commit access to unproven devs.

Ultimately, the reasons people give for handing out commit access are almost completely trumped by Github's ability to fork repositories. You can basically fork, do multiple PRs and changes over time, and never really require commit access to be a good contributor. And we will potentially add you as a contributor if your results are solid over time (or steadily improve to where we're comfortable adding you).

My last statement on this is that I don't think I want people on the project that aren't willing to put together a good PR or patch until they're given commit access. The kinds of folks I want contributing are the ones willing to submit multiple fixes over time, willing to learn our codebase and standards before joining the team, and who have a vested interest in seeing JRuby remain solid and improve steadily.
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It is quite common practice for online games to use a hard-coded certificate issued by the publisher's CA, largely to prevent cheating.

Seeing how much effort EA have put into preventing piracy of this game (to the extent that it hurts their paying customers a great deal), I would be very surprised if they made so silly a mistake.
>All of the advances of modern computing boil down to advertising.
I could be very nitpicky about this, because it's not only technically wrong, but dead wrong. I'll leave it at "Advertising pays the dev, just like direct payment".

>Like a world interdisciplinary project to cure cancer.
I'm pretty sure there is an interdisciplinary, international effort to cure cancer, which is really easy to miss because other world projects that spend more of their money marketing themselves. Lots of things starting with UN. I honestly wouldn't want to see cancer research turn into the ineffectual behemoth some of those peace keeping missions by the UN are.

>But in capitalism it's more important to work on SEO and sell stuff to people
And in Communism it's more important to do pep rallys and posters to sell Communism to people. Whosh, expect economics to be some strategy game where you assign some people to cancer, and it gets solved faster, and you take those people from SEO, and you have a little "You won!" screen in the end? Ok, here's what'd happen. All those SEO people would likely just end up eating up research budgets, because they know SEO, but no biomolecular chemistry. Still, you assigned them, so you got to pay them, or at least throw them some bread so that they don't die. The impact on cancer research would likely be the same to the impact on Hacker News if we got a sudden, forced influx of carpenters, or cooks, or whatever. "RSS was some kind of drill right?" "Nah, that's HSS".

Everytime I hear a grand project with a noble goal announced, I cringe. Because whatever it is, politics will screw it up, and noble goals are perfect excuses in front of the public (democratization of the middle east...yeah, right). And it will likely jeopardize other, more effective initiatives in the field where the metric is improvement, not good will(exp. Europe pouring money into Africa to feed (warlords/)the starving vs China investing in infrastructure and stability ("evil ressource grab, why haven't I thought of that"))
Thanks for the feedback, Dan. Those are both excellent points.

It's only a web app right now, but I'll be releasing mobile apps shortly. I've added a few more details in my other comment.
>> Finally, it isn't possible to add conditions to a handshake deal. For example, there is no way for an investor to use this protocol to offer, as some investors try to do, to invest if other people will—e.g. to say that they'll invest as part of a larger round if you can find a lead.

I disagree with this statement -- specifically about having a lead. As an angel, I would use this condition because I wouldn't invest without a lead institutional investor. What they bring to the table is:
a) diligence during the investment period
b) lawyers that know what they're doing
c) taking a seat on the board

I feel these add material value to a deal (when it's the right lead, there can be bad ones). I hope I'm adding value, both with money and with advice / monitorship / whatever, but I'm not going to in a positon to look after legal, finance, or accounting issues, I'm probably not going to insist on auditing books, I am probably not interested in a board seat, etc. etc.

There are definitely angels and institutions who invest largely on social proof. But there are real reasons to want a "real lead". I will probably never invest in a party round unless it's really a friends and family round.

I will say "$X with $Y cap, but only with a lead". As a "small time" investor, I am not willing to set or negotiate the valuation. I am not going to judge based on who else you get or who your lead is but I do want there to be a lead.
Correct, and that is "exactly what [I would] think". So, title was wrong, ironically.
I'm not an e-sports fan, but there are plenty more monotonous jobs that people do for a living other than playing videogames. Is it silly? Maybe. Would I enjoy playing games for so long every day? Not really. Compared to watching "reality" contestants humiliate themselves to make a "brand name" for themselves, this is perfectly respectable.
Here is my theory.

When we read code, we use our language abilities. Our ability to read syntax uses some sort of built in grammar recognition, which has a maximum capacity that it can handle and doesn't abstract well. Thus in "normal" programming languages a certain amount of flow of control is pushed into syntax and grammar, and the offloading of that work makes it easier.

Lisp goes the opposite way. There is pretty much no syntax, thus all flow of control is automatically pushed to your higher reasoning area, which suddenly does a lot more work and you notice it. Thus it feels like more work. The tradeoff is that everything is more flexible and easier to build abstractions on. But after you have programmed enough Lisp, the "flow of control" key words get wired properly into your grammar processing, and you stop noticing the effort again. But it takes longer for your brain to start processing things this way.

Something similar happens in normal language. The same grammar areas of the brain pay attention to pauses, speech emphasis, and so on. Which in written form we notice as punctuation. But it is also wired to pick up and process small connective words like and, not, or, etc.

Note, I have no evidence for my theory other than "it makes sense to me". However it is based on my limited knowledge of how brains process speech, which we have learned about because of the fact that when strokes take out specific areas of speech, we wind up with specific speech impediments.
Well maybe Cargo ships would work better than oil tankers since they can carry a variety of things in the container (and since I think they take loads by container, the "container owner" can be the AirBnB-like host)
That's irrelevant. Shaun Inman doesn't develop Reeder. He develops Fever, which is fine as it is.
I was actually checking out Clozure. Not a big fan of anything Java or Java adjacent.
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