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Thank you for opening up to this community. For better or worse, I feel the HN crowd has it's head together and will always give good feedback on products.
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What percentage of Conventional medicine practices are evidence based?, ie what percentage of what you as a conventional MD practice has been subjected to RCT?

I have a friend who is a Internal Medicine MD who claimed it was less than 50%. If thats the case then every conventional MD continues "to pretend and/or believe that what they are doing has a real scientific basis".

Please give me a % of what you do in a clinical setting that has been subjected to RCT otherwise you are setting a standard for CAM that even you cannot meet.

Can you explain, why, with all our advanced conventional medicine etc the USA still ranks 35 in the world for infant mortality, below even Cuba, Slovakia and Brunei? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_mor...

EDIT: Okay, I did my own research into my question above. I am sure this is just scratching the surface here.

See here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPag...
You can deactive this in chrome://settings/. I did it after your post. I find it also annoying.
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This is just awful. A quick scan of the code brings up the following problems:

* It fails to deal with the case where there is no MX record for the domain (fall back to A record)

* It fails to sort the MX records, potentially falling foul to tarpits

* It fails to connect to each A record lookup of the MX host on failures

* It fails to deal with transient failures (such as 4xx responses)

That was just from a quick scan.

Connecting to MX servers in a web environment (especially one using blocking I/O like Django) is generally a really bad idea. Many MX servers use delays and slow responses to combat spammers, and you're passing those slow responses on to your users.

Just check it looks vaguely like an email (the regexp fein posted is good enough most of the time) and send a confirmation email - it's the right thing to do.
Everything in 'high doses' is a poison, even pure, distilled water.

Herbs either contain active chemicals or they're a placebo.

If they're a placebo they're as good as taking a sugar pill.
If they contain active chemicals they contain unstandardised amounts and probably in concert with all sorts of other things that may or may not be helpful or harmful.

Ayurveda is bullshit. QED.
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Women are more prone to fall for BS because we enculturate them to believe that emotions and warm fuzzy feelings are a more reliable guide than science and logic. Third-wave feminism is partly to blame; the notion that science and logic are "patriarchal" and that not oppressing women entails a warm and fuzzy "feminine" replacement for disciplined thought is the third wave's doing.

Thinking logically, critically, and skeptically is an ungendered activity. Women are as capable of and welcome to it as men are; we should be encouraging the females of our kind to apply reason and evidence to their judgements! Sadly, we're the culture that produced Oprah and turned her into a media mogul powerful enough to make the foundations of the earth tremble.
To add a bit more context to this announce: we've working very hard on this release and we are very proud of this beta version of eXo Platform 4.0 Community Edition. We cannot wait getting feedbacks in order to make the GA an even greater release! So few key points about what you can expect and some useful resources:

Key points of this release:
* eXo Platform 4.0 adopts a LGPL license;
* An out-of-the-box social-collaborative intranet solution
* Over 400 screens redesigned for user experience optimisation;
* Enhanced navigation, redesigned activity stream, simplification of the document management and a brand new unified search.

Useful resources in addition to the annoucement posted above:
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This comment comes off as sexist to me. I don't think that more women being involved with C/AM means that a larger proportion of women are irrational. Different things are popular with women and men. A large portion of both men and women are irrational. Just because a larger group of irrational women like C/AM compared to men does NOT mean that there is a larger group of irrational women.

Conspiracy theories are irrational too, and seem to be much more popular with men. That doesn't mean that there are more irrational men than women.
Somewhat to your point, I've found that people arguing alternative vs modern western medicine are often arguing two sides of different issues. Those in favor of modern, evidence based medicine, explain why the scientific method works, and why is superior to superstition. However, those on the other side, having often spent a lot of time among doctors of all types trying to find help for some chronic condition, are arguing how horrible modern medicine has been to them in practice.

And if you look at the debate like this, it is possible to support both sides simultaneously.
Ancient Egypt certainly was a culture with agriculture so citing mummy studies to debunk paleo diets does not make much sense. Also ommitting the studies about actual living hunter gatherer tribes does not lend the argument much credibility.

I think paleo diet books should be scrutinized, but not be confused with actual science.
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Seaside is still developed, but if I were writing a website in Smalltalk right now, I'd be using one of the REST frameworks along with Amber Smalltalk, not Seaside. IMHO, Seaside is an amazing and beautiful piece of technology whose time has passed. I'd personally probably look at something like Iliad instead.
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Some of the paleo-esque promoters like Gary Taubes have been making similar comments about most "mainstream" nutrition research.

That being said -- you don't need to find the optimal for the population. You only need to find the optimal for you. And so even un-blind testing is reasonably effective at that.
I like this a lot, thanks for taking the time.
Right on, you and your teams' attitudes are encouraging!
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Hi everyone,

I come from a ruby background, and am recently getting a little tired of rails/sinatra being not as quick as I would like them to be.

I'd like to start learning Go, but I'm not quite sure where to start.

Are there any books or videos I could get my hands on to get me up to speed?

Thanks!
I appreciate this feature on mobile as it can help save me some more time-consuming taps, but I don't use it on Chrome since I can type faster than I can browse through the results it's guessing at.
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I've recently changed back over to Mozilla, this just proves that it was the correct decision.
This is great, thank you Mozilla for your hard work.

I am looking forward to ditching firebug and use the native tools.
"I do it because I'm intellectually curious (aka I like new stuff)"

I hear that a lot, and I hear the argument that industry doesn't give you that type of opportunity, but I firmly disagree: in many places, people with bachelors or masters degrees are put in research positions in setups that resemble the Bell Labs of lore. And while most software shops aren't doing new things, a growing number of large firms are exploring new frontiers. (and even some finance firms, god forbid)

"a PhD teaches you how to ask the right questions"

What you need is a mentor, and a surprising number of people who decided not to do a PhD have the right mindset and actually help train people.

"Take this argument too far and you find yourself in theoretical math,"

Many of the people at the forefront of industry work find themselves delving in theoretical math (as a really oft-cited example, functional programming drawing from category theory)

"a lot of smart people tend to do research and PhDs. "

A lot of smart people decide that the PhD is heavily bureaucratic and that it would be easier to do more intellectually stimulating work in industry.

"I do it because of vanity"

Fair enough :)
My wife is Turkish, and over the years of visiting Turkey, I fell in love with the country. Also, given the state of affairs in the US (especially with respect to education), we figure we're no worse off raising our children in Turkey. Of course, we also have a number of contacts in Turkey which make it easier (we plan on sending our kids to private school)...but that's a whole different topic for another time!

I think it's definitely interesting times in Turkey. I know a lot of people are worried that a turn to the east is a foregone conclusion, but at the same time the growth in places like Istanbul and Izmir is hard to ignore. Just a few weeks ago there was a major meeting of tech startups and VCs in Antalya. There's no guarantees, of course, but I think it's not impossible that Turkey could become a major player in the world economy in the next 15-20 years...
I'm pretty sure that most of us are aware of the subject by now.
I tried it and found it quite reasonable, even running it from my desktop. Is it as fast as Google Reader? Not quite, but it's not slow enough to be annoying, and certainly not "incredibly slow". Much easier to install than Newsblur.

Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin, not a developer.

AMD 2 core 5600+, 8GB, one spinning iron disk with an SSD cache via flashcache, Debian stable, Postgres and Apache and PHP as Debian provides. Really nothing fancy.
Has anyone claimed that the Paleo diet is unhealthy? From what I've seen the only complaints against it are that the claimed reason for it's effectiveness are not well supported.

I don't have any studies but it certainly seems healthier than the high-carb, low-fat diet which was promoted by the medical establishment for so long.
Emacs lisp has dynamic scoping which allows functions to modify the variables in a caller's scope, which is horrific.
I'll add to this that it is often (not always) possible to detect the presence of Coeliac Disease through a blood test. That should be the first step before going the colonoscopy route.
I still don't get it way mozilla made it's own devtools, instead of integrating and extending on firebug. Had the devs of mozilla and the one of firebug diffs, which couldn't be solved?
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> Because even if people happen to give you a functional email address, it isn't necessarily their email address.

True, but also true of Mailinator. Ultimatley, we can only receive what people are willing to give in the first place.
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I heartily recommend people check out "The Heretics" by Will Storr.

The book points out, amongst other insights, the tendency of scientists to react irrationally to alternative medicine and other such phenomena. Whilst the scientific community is usually right on such things, we (I'm a scientist) do have a tendency to be very dismissive and even contemptuous of people who believe in alternative therapies (or religion, or a whole host of subjects that contradict scientific thinking).

Seems scientists can be as dogmatic as their opponents. Thought-provoking stuff.
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Not at all. The point OP was making is that these 3 cultures are decidedly NOT paleolithic, and it's disingenuous to use them as examples of the effects of the paleolithic diet on cardiovascular health.
Why is the above comment downvoted? Totally relevant in addressing what the comment above it said.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but $650k seems like a huge return on 3 months of one person's work, which they can then pour back into the product, hopefully improving it far more than they could've in 3 months without $650k.
Well I know several people for whom the Paleo diet has worked, and also alt medicine. I don't know why it works but it's unscientific to ignore the evidence simply because you don't understand it.
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"the main advantage of plants over modern medicine in its typical form is that they contain complex compounds of chemical substances which show a synergy in a certain direction"

This is such unutterable nonsense.

Take Aspirin vs. Willow Bark.

Aspirin is derived from substances found in willow bark. Aspirin will cure your headache with a known dose of a substance with a well documented harm profile.

Willow bark will cure your headache with a slightly less effective form of the compound, and if used often enough will harm your liver and kidneys because of all the other stuff that's in there.

Plants are not 'designed' to cure you, the 'spirit of the plant' does not lean in one way or other. This is animistic nonsense.
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Yes, we did scrap the Sencha app and start from scratch. Because Sencha Touch is really only designed for mobile devices with touch interfaces, you can't really re-use the code for web apps, so there wasn't much to salvage. We also were not very comfortable with Ext to begin with.

For JS frameworks we decided between Backbone.js, Angular.js, and Can.js (because we had previously used JavascriptMVC on our web app). We fell in love with angular.js and went that route.

The main reason to use native UI components is to allow smooth scrolling on older Android devices which don't support fixed elements like top and bottom nav bars very well. Both on iOS and Android the top navigation bar and bottom tab bars are done in native code as well as the Facebook-style drawers that reveal other sections of the app. In all, we use three Phonegap enabled webViews and three major native UI components (top bar, bottom bar, and a custom "quick add" control). We pass messages back and forth from the native app to the javascript app via phonegap's native bridge, like when a user taps a native button or the javascript app changes tabs and needs to inform the native app.

We used grunt.js to help manage all our development and build workflows. It concatenates our files for us, creates separate builds for iOS and Android (and other platforms now, too), compiles and minifies our CSS, etc. It also runs our test suite which is another big advantage to using HTML5/JS instead of native. Most of our code has test coverage and it's very easy to automate using grunt.js and testacular.js.

If you're interested you can check out the app on the Play and iTunes App stores; it's called Kona Mobile (it's the mobile app for our main offering, http://kona.com).
That depends a lot on your background and interests.

But if you like dynamic languages, and being highly productive with a "years ahead" development environment, then Pharo is a good alternative.

Many of the features you see added today to mainstream IDEs, have a background in Smalltalk. Even in Chrome Debugger the "code hot swap" is a showcase feature, whilst Smalltalk have it since decades.

And of course, Smalltalk provides features that no other environment/languages provides yet. So if you want to take advantage of those now, instead of waiting for them reaching mainstream, then it matters to use it now.

Features like those provided by Moose (http://moosetechnology.org/) will take years to be available as an Eclipse Plugin. :)
This is purely an image problem for science education, then. Because there is absolutely nothing warm and fuzzy about the "natural state" or whatever romanticized notion we're entertaining about nature. Applied science, and more importantly, the ability to apply science, enables people to build, cure, protect, predict, ensure, improve, discover, and many other things that are intrinsically more warm and fuzzy than, say, naturally dying of a curable disease.
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... because you will learn more by working in the wild, including why many real-world engineers have a vague disdain of academia - especially in the genuinely difficult fields.

Maybe it differs away from software engineering - but my experience of grads, even Oxbridge PhDs is that I will code circles around them with what I learned off my own back in my spare time... and mainly because I learned it off my own back - or in many cases reinvented solutions without any hints or assistance.

Sorry. I'd like courses to produce valuable, employable engineers - my experience is that they do not.
You're right, I didn't think it through... So, is there any way (in your opinion) how one can safely retain password access for root/one user, so it's still possible to control the server, even if you don't have your keys?
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The no-true-scotsman fallacy implies a shifting or pedantically narrow definition. That's not applicable here.

Paleo fans are very clear that they're trying to emulate pre-agricultural diets. That's the sine qua non of the Paleo fad. So it's totally legitimate that they would object to evidence about agricultural societies.
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The variance in recommendations on the best carb to protein ratio to take postworkout seems to be much bigger than the variance in the milkshakes you reviewed (between 1:1 and 5:1, with your shakes only varying between 2.7:1 and 4.4:1). Choosing one milkshake over another because the ratio is very slightly closer to a ratio you've arbitrarily picked as the ideal seems like over-optimisation. (Especially as some of the shakes are more than twice as big as others, which is going to make a lot more of a difference than minor ratio differences).
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youtube.com has been not working for the past few days properly (on and off), while www.youtube.com works fine. Same goes for Google.<p>Or is it my connection that's messed up?
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Exotic? Really? Hmmm, I don't really seem them as exotic, I (now) find quinoa in regular supermarkets.

Obviously I wasn't proposing basing a vegetarian diet after only soy and quinoa, I was just naming a couple of examples of protein rich foods.
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I can't get to anything Google right now.
I've been using it for a few days, but I can only comment on how they present the feeds, since I don't use the social features at all. It's pretty decent, there is no frills and pretty straightforward. If you want an RSS reader with a simple interface, and doesn't impose anything on you, this should be suitable for you.

But, there are two huge things that are a turn-off for me. First, I can't set the default homepage to be where all my subscription feeds' items are aggregated. So you will be left with the dashboard page when you open The Old Reader. Second, the feeds' items are not sorted in the order they were created or posted by default, but what irks me is I can't find any options so that it will be sorted according to the dates. I don't know if both of these things are something they will fix or add in the future, so I'm still jumping back and forth between this and Feedly. If they are not planning to address both of those caveats in the future, and Feedly delivers their promise on the seamless migration when Google Reader dies. Then I'll probably opt for Feedly.
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> Ayurveda is bullshit

My wife is an Ayurvedic practitioner, so yes I am biased, but I dont believe in every aspect of it. I can definitely say it is not "bullshit" and it is indeed helping many of her clients.

She has people who come to her, that conventional docs have literally given up on. "We cant figure out what is wrong with your digestion, theres nothing more we can try" she hears stories like that all the time.

People ARE being helped. Whether it is all placebo I dont know for sure. but people who literally have no other options in conventional medicine are seeing real results.

They are sleeping better w/o medication, they are not having anxiety attacks anymore, I could go on and on with her stories.

My wife is pretty humble about it and not selling snake oil etc. People are seeing real results.
No, it doesn't. It is single process with "green threads". Same as node.js ;-)
Both religious and C/AM people usually have an approachable simple, clear way of presenting their (irrational) thesis to an average person. Just like salesmen, they appeal to trust, basic needs, use the right words like (clean, pure, natural) for their approach and the right words for the opposite approach (chemical, poisonous, toxic). For homeopathy, stupid little slogans for disease models work "fight fire with fire", "fight like with like" and so on. Makes sense right...

> The transmission seems to be helped by exploiting trusted relationships among network nodes,

I understand your reaction against GP's opinion that he noticed more women in his circles are susceptible to this. I don't know what to tell you, I have the same observation. I would characterize not as "women are wired for irrationality" but maybe women are wired better for communication and for building trusting relationships.

Again, maybe I am making shit up here, this is just my silly observation. But I have noticed that women (in my circle) more so once they establish their trust in respect to other women they we more willing to accept advice such as "so and so told me homeopathy work and I trust".

Also to hammer more on the dangerous topic. I think there is self-fulfilling circular dependency between the idea that women are wired to be irrational and girl acting that way because the society already has that belief.
Following the reference through from the "clinical trials" section, the Wikipedia article is a little misleading. It makes it sound like only 356/1000 random plants have been studied, but in the paper [1] the breakdown is actually:

15.7% had been tested in clinical trials; 50.9% had been tested in vitro or in vivo; 20.8% had been subject to a phytochemical study; 12.1% had no studies found in the literature search; 0.5% were "dangerous".

That's not saying only 1/3 of plants had been studied. That is saying that 87% of plants have been studied.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1365-2710.200...
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We are a startup with working products, success with critics, and moderate traction.

The tech people are more of early employees with lots of equity, we don't have money. We have issues with the suits of the company, should we just apply to YC as a new startup? ( the suits don't want YC, they think it will meddle with their management style)
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Anecdotes != evidence.

It's unscientific to elevate your anecdotes above actual studies because you subjectively feel there's something there. This is why we have studies.

I don't know why it works but it's unscientific to ignore the evidence simply because you don't understand it.

Classic. Homeopathy enthusiasts always wheel this out and it's hilarious. "Just because you don't understand how it works you shouldn't ignore it!". I don't understand how it works because it doesn't! And this has been shown over and over again!

I have no idea about the paleo diet, but if it seems to do good things for people we should first establish whether that is true and then find out how it's true. Alt med always misses step 1.
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