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> 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.

Nutrition science is in its infancy. It's clear that the complexity of the interaction of food as it is digested and interacting with our organism has barely had the surface scratched. Also, if you look at the rise of processed foods along with obesity, diabetes, and other health problems that have increased over the past century it's clear that there are some serious problems, and they haven't been explained conclusively by this or that macro-nutrient trend.

So given the state of the evidence, a vague evolutionary assertion that whole foods are generally healthier than a distilled diet of completely isolated nutrients is not granola flag-waving woowoo nonsense, it's a perfectly reasonable belief based on imperfect evidence.

Put another way, the idea the ability to construct a perfect diet given the knowledge we have is likely to fail due to the overwhelming number of unknown details that simply aren't an issue when you're eating whole foods.

If this guy wants to experiment on himself than I'm happy to reap the benefits, but I do believe it's risky. Let's not whitewash common sense just because of "a lack of data". The fact that we have imperfect data does not make all approaches equal, and the fact that this guy is an engineer and wants to follow a scientific approach does automatically make his ideas superior to someone who holds certain nutritional beliefs for slightly more hand-wavy reasons.
Hilarious. It wouldn't take much "research" to find out that Automattic is the Acquia of WordPress. Poor kid.
Awesome to see this post, and your response here... I'm actually the author of the article.. Can you be more specific than "period"? It seems you guys have had coupon generation ability for quite some time.
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Is that really an accepted standard? I have to go out on a limb here and ask if that's even a proper sentence? Who/what is the subject? It certainly helps to know who you would be having coffee with.
"I believe a body absorbs naturally occurring things like protein, carbs, and fat better than when it is isolated"

I will ask my farmer great-uncle to ask his cow owning friends about this, and one of my wedding guests is/was a veterinarian and he'll likely have a lot to say. I will say based on evidence that humans Might be the only animal who require nutrition isolation, because I am unaware of any practice like this with livestock or pet nutrition. Now I do have personal experience that some farmers "mix their own" a cup of this to a sack of that to a spoon of this and shake it up, but others just use premix, and as far as I've personally seen even the home-mixer livestock farmers might custom mix but they then feed the same stuff every day. I'm intentionally excluding mammals drinking milk, I've read this guys blog and I think we can safely assume he's a young human but well past weaning.

I don't know anyone raising pets with nutritional segregation, and I've never heard of them accused of animal cruelty and never seen malnourished housecats because they've eaten the same food for many years.
>We're (as in, scientists studying nutrition and how utterly wrong food industry has gotten that in the 20th and early 21st century)

What does the food industry have to do with anything? They aren't trying to get nutrition "right", they are trying to sell their products. This is the same reason people who don't know anything about nutritional science claim that "science doesn't really know anything about nutrition, one day fat is good, the next day it is bad". Science never said fat was good or bad, marketing weasels for food companies deliberately misrepresent research to support unsubstantiated claims.

>finally starting to get our collective heads around the benefits of whole foods vs. highly processed foods

Except, there is no evidence to support that claim at all.

>It may be theoretically possible to create some processed food that's on par with the nutrition of whole foods

Not just theoretically, but practically too. What exactly do you think they are feeding people on feeding tubes? It isn't salads. http://abbottnutrition.com/Adult/Adult-Tube-Feeding-Products...
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I'm reminded of Andrew Chen's post on Facebook DAU/MAU number http://andrewchen.co/2012/05/16/quora-has-facebooks-daumau-a...

Part of the reason that email is so sticky is that it has an incredibly high DAU.
Disagree. Many elite athletes are not super scientific about their food choices [1]. Instead they eat what they crave. The human body is pretty good at figuring out what it needs nutritionally.

That being said, there is a lot that is important off of the field (e.g. sleep, stretching, etc). Just nutrition is fairly low on that list.

[1] http://www.active.com/triathlon/ironman/Articles/Nutrition-T...
Not innovative at all... Plenty of product like that already, e.g. http://nestlehealthscience.us/products/Pages/RESOURCE%C2%AE-... usually consumed in a medical setting.

No one will take that for long unless unable to do otherwise thought. Not that the taste is unbearable, but eating is more that nutrition, it's also fulfilling desire... Not even speaking of the social aspect...
How about:

What Problem Does This Solve?
Who Would Pay Money For That?
I am wondering the same thing. For all I know, the guy might have bones of adamantium, or bones so weak that they barely support his weight; a resting heart rate of 35, or 95...The only thing I can tell from the color of his neck and arms is he is an indoor person. His build looks fine to me.
man...and all I wanted was basically SC4 in 3d with mixed-use zoning, curved roads and a more robust transport network. I would have thrown money at them for that game.
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Ignoring the fact that this never happened there are plenty of stores that deliver, just not Wal*Mart.
I still think inline labels are a bad idea, regardless of placeholder behavior. To quote myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642146
The burden of evidence should be on the person claiming to have a miracle drink. The burdon of evidence should be even greater when it's a non-natural source, as Nassim Taleb argues in Antifragile, "The "non-natural" has to prove its harmlessness." If you don't take this viewpoint, you end up with cigarettes, transfat and radium jewelry.
How is this different from having your own fork?
Related: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/10/04/writing-idiomatic-p...
Yes well you're now part of a super secret club of cool people.
All the functionality is exposed as an API.
IIUC, it's a standard FFI call; you should be able to use such a Rust extension in any language with standard FFI conventions.
Hm. They labeled Oregon "Nevada", there is no info on how many searches these lists represent, and I'm not sure what half of these terms mean (most bizarrely "Straight (gay)"?) - but otherwise it's very interesting. I would have assumed a priori that stereotypical national fetishes feature more clearly, but instead people seem to search for their own country in the first place.
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Somewhat relevant, but on a much smaller scale I suppose:

I had to geocode 100million addresses and used PostGIS to get it done. It was painfully slow on disk, so I rented some big-ram servers, created ramdisks, configured postgres to run from those ramdisks, and it was off to the races.

What would have taken days of processing was taken down to several hours. The speed improvement was amazing. Even SSD couldn't touch it.
Take last year's tax bill and divide by 4. If you pay as much in estimated taxes as the previous year's total taxes, there will be no underpayment penalty even if you owe more at the end of the year. If you end up earning less and have overpaid, you'll get a refund. You don't need an accountant to help with this.

Print out the 4 payment vouchers, write in the amount you're paying, mail it with your check by the quarterly due dates. The vouchers are the last two pages of this PDF:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf
Agreed - just went through the list of product that pass the toothbrush test for me and Gmail is on top: Gmail, Google Search, Google Drive, Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Skype, Evernote, New York Times, Si.com. Commerce: Amazon, Frank & Oak.
Are you a full time employee?

I'd be interested in knowing what your current employer thinks about you have a scheduled departure date that far in the future.
This inspired me to go coding graphics again. Thank you :)
Weird. Here it is re-submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest.
I get your point. I just don't agree with it. If you don't want to share your data that doesn't make sharing bad. Which is _my_ point.

And what _is_ the legal perspective for this issue, anyway? Do you equate it with illegal activities in a house? So the owner is responsible for what's going on there? It's not the same thing.

If you could be 100% sure that the originator is the true owner maybe you could have a stand in your argument. But you can't be 100% sure that the network is uncrackable.
Please don't use this as an excuse to let the world's population hit eleven digits.

Stop fucking, for fuck's sake!
You may have complete control, but you also have a lot more responsibility; for tuning your software, and keeping it up to date. I recently got bitten by a bug with an out of date version of apache, where the whole server would become unresponsive under heavy load; trying to update it without bringing the entire server down was a fairly stressful operation.
That'll make sense just as soon as it's idiomatic to write python 3 :)
That's simply not true. They have to list the nutrition info the same as any other food. Protein powders that are "mostly filler" are actually ~20% filler, not mostly. And the label makes that quite clear as it both lists the ingredients so you even know what they are using as filler, but also the nutrition info. If 30g of powder is only giving you 20g of protein, obviously there's 10g of something other than protein there.
I didn't have a hand in the discounts code directly but I believe the private API was added last fall so that we could offer this free app to solve most people's needs with discounts ( http://www.shopify.ca/blog/6668676-new-free-shopify-app-bulk... ).

BTW, if you're interested, http://www.shopify.com/careers - things like "I reverse engineered your private APIs and got it on front page of HN" set you apart from the herd ;)
If it's a distributed network, data can be distributed across nodes using a RAID algorithm.
That did make it a little better, thank you :)
More vegetarian recipe ideas, please... those sound great!
But a fused Android and Chrome OS opens up a number of new potential revenue sources for Google. Foremost among them is simply charging for future Google services. While Gmail might always be free, Google is happy to charge users to store their data. As people move more and more of their lives to the cloud, Google could potentially lock them into life-long subscriptions to its data storage and other services.

More or less, Android = Samsung. No matter what Google thinks, Samsung has their own agenda (as they should) and dozens of billions ready to be put to play. They can fork it in a year or two and take it from there.
Show HN: SAT Hot Words, built by a teenager using Python and Firebase (mostly)
Sat Hot Words is a small service app I wrote to help me learn the vocabulary needed to bomb the SAT (lets not talk about the test itself (cringes) it's terrible).
sathotwords.com

Software stack

Frontend: HTML, CSS, JS(+jQuery) (and a bit of FlatUI styling)

Backend: Python script hosted on Appfog, Firebase

Hosting(and some workarounds):

Both the front-end and python script are hosted on Appfog, which has been a really great platform up to now. Their 'free' tier is amazing (2GB Ram). To host the static front-end(HTML,CSS,JS), I had to pretend it was a PHP application as their is no option for this on Appfog. For the python script, I required a few dependencies and Appfog doesn't currently install dependencies for standalone python app (they are working on it apparently). The work around wasn't too complicated, implementing it as a Flask based app solved the problem (requirements.txt is read if you're using a pythonic web framework).

Some thoughts

Building stuff is really the best way to learn a language and it's features. I cannot stress this enough, it's so satisfying to write something yourself and see it work.

I'm actually quite proud of my little script(roughly 200 loc), there are a few neat little gems in it that I was particularly proud of (recursion, always makes me smile).

Why did I choose Appfog instead of [insert cloud hosting company]? They are generous with their free tier, as a 16/17 year old that's important, plus it's actually really awesome.

How's Firebase? Firebase is great, using it as a database replacement here and it's actually easier to integrate than a proper database (of course there are differences, Firebase just happened to be a good match for this). You should check that out also.

I firmly believe that education should be as cheap and as open as possible (I fully support, admire and use Khan Academy).

Are you a startup/company in London

http://pastebin.com/jLXwkZh0

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Andy Rubin Says He’s “An Entrepreneur At Heart”
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Clickable http://sathotwords.com
http://pastebin.com/jLXwkZh0
Yes `yes no`
The article doesn't support "calori restriction" -> "longer lifespan"

<quote>
No clinical trial has been performed involving humans. Two trials have been performed involving primates, but have not demonstrated increases in median lifespan. A study of rhesus monkeys begun in 1987 by the National Institute on Aging published results in August 2012 that found evidence of health benefits, but did not demonstrate increased median lifespan.[2] A study by the University of Wisconsin beginning in 1989 is still ongoing.[1][3][4] Research on maximum life span in that study is still ongoing.
</quote>
Look, as a Medical student, I agree with what you are saying regarding the challenges that faces solving such a problem.

But, being stupid help solve BIG problems. This guy is risking his health for the sake of science. He has a very high risk/reward ratio. I don't think he is not serious. He is not even trying in animals (which I thought he was doing before reading the rest of the article). He's obviously stupid when it comes to experimentation, but this is when it yields interesting results.
The subject is implied and purposely left out to avoid emphasis.

It's not an ultra-formal construction, but it would be a stretch to call it incorrect grammar.

You know who you'd be having coffee with. The sender of the email. :)
The subject is an implied first person. (i.e., "I" or "we.")

I see this kind of omission as a way for cowards to avoid explicitly standing behind their request, both to diminish their own disappointment if the recipient says no or ignores them and to mitigate the chance that the recipient perceives their note as 'needy.'

Just my 2¢.
> Not everything needs to be optimized for efficiency. If you've ever been to France, you'll know that many people spend an hour or more at breakfast. It slows people down, and provides them a chance to think, contemplate, and relax. Sometimes, the very act of something being inefficient can be beneficial in its own right.

I think the Buddha would agree.
I would appreciate it you'd elaborate on your first point about mitochondria here. I'm intrigued to find out why this term is highly suspicious. Are there other organelles that are less crank-like to you?
you summed it up nicely.

6 weeks on some combination of stuff that contains good things like olive and fish oil and other nutrients can't be as bad as the 'supersize me' diet, and even he managed to survive for 30 days...

hardly scientific or even "common-sense" evidence of any long-term viability.
I liked your website and was going to sign up. However, your catalog of screen casts is too short to sign up for at the moment. On the other hand, does anyone know other python screen cast websites like this with more topics/videos?
>It seems like this perhaps guy created a better version than Nestle on account of it actually tasting good

I just want to point out that it doesn't actually taste good. He says it does, but try mixing whey powder, olive oil, and maltodextrin in water and drink it. It tastes fucking awful.
I know I can google and figure this out, but how exactly can I deploy a rails app with git to an EC2 instance. I want to do something like I can do on Heroku(git push heroku master) with an EC2 instance.
The most disturbing takeaway from this article is that it's not necessary to "like" marijuana legalisation to be identified as a stoner. It can be inferred from your taste of music, movies, and so forth. More disturbing: Even if you are careful what you "like", your social network is probably a sufficient indicator.

This shit scares the fucking hell out of me.
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By best I mean simple and powerful enough that I dont need to worry about till at least a hundred thousand requests a day.
I think everyone thinks of their own field as the harshest.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/opensuse-fonts-nvidia-driver...

Above with an Opensuse 12.3 installation updated from RC2 to the release, with nvidia proprietary drivers installed (GO2 version, GT520 card) and ms web core fonts installed (fetchmsttfonts). Screen resolution is the default 96 dpi.

Looks not far south of Ubuntu to me. How bad does it look to you?
I believe Chrome will exist as a unifying brand. ChromeOS will probably be web apps running alongside a "native" Android apps on an Android foundation. Over the last year, Google has been downplaying the Android brand and differentiating its own Google-branded devices.
yep, or even MRI with threads.

EventMachine requires fundamental changes to your code.

threads do not.

And even with MRI, you are, I am going to predict, see _significant_ performance improvement using an app server that can dispatch multi-threaded (say, puma) with config.threadsafe!.

I am confused why threads aren't getting more attention on this topic.
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No, I mistakenly thought you could have some insight on the matter.

Building a remote management solution that can mix the functionality of Active Directory and LDAP with Chef is one of the startup ideas I've been pondering lately.
Andy's previous company implemented over the air updates years before anyone had even thought of Android or iOS. :-)
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No, they can't. Because two years ago Android was HTC. And then the Samsung Galaxy was better. And two years from now, it's entirely possible that people will be using Sony phones instead. Or LG.

What they won't do is move to a new Samsung phone that doesn't run their existing apps.
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your neighborhood wireless hacker's kiddie porn habits

If your wifi is secured and there are open networks nearby, the hacker isn't going to bother trying to hack yours (I assume you're using WPA, not WEP, the latter is so easy to hack now that it doesn't really make a difference). He's going to use one of the open ones. To have a serious chance of having your WPA hacked you would need to have attracted the notice of someone much more determined than your neighborhood porn junkie, someone like the NSA. So I would say the former scenario is much more likely than the latter.
Do you have a better source than someone's blog?
Those low carb diets are also diets that reduce your ability to engage in strenuous activities, and cause muscle wasting. The idea is to be healthy, not to lose weight or treat epilepsy.
Chrome is a browser, that's all. Not sure what it will be 1-5 years from now but now it's a browser in a computer
> the benefits of whole foods vs. highly processed foods, and just how badly our bodies deal with the latter

This sounds like the naturalistic fallacy.
Ignoring the processed/liquid aspect--maybe you could randomize the recipe a bit each time to account for our incomplete understanding.
Like most sites, there are public and "private" APIs. Publicly documented APIs are officially support. Private API can (and often do) change at any time, which is why we don't recommend they be consumed by customers.
My point is that the FDA doesn't rule this with the iron fist they rule over real food.

In other words, by declaring 'Soylent' as 'not food' he sidesteps lots of regulations and tests.
that's what the firefox nuke anything extension was created for :)
> A random cookie or authentication record containing your logon details for an online site, with which someone could pretend to be you? Don't you realize what it means when the browser asks you whether it should "remember" your logon name and password?

It implies saving that password on the hard drive, yes. However, any interested attacker, once gaining access to my account, can just as easily install a keylogger and simply wait for me to log in to this site the next time. Or for me to enter the passphrase for my SSH keys or GPG keys, which is likely more interesting than my HN account.

He could also access my email account and send spam via my server (because, yes, I do let Claws save my password…), or could use all the other data on this hard drive (pictures, CV, instant messaging logs, emails, etc.) to impersonate me.

Really, what’s so special about authentication cookies that they absolutely must be secured?

Okay, here’s one difference: Assuming an exploit in Opera allowing for arbitrary code execution, the OS won’t block access to wand.dat, but it will, thanks to AppArmor, block access to ~/.ssh (in fact, everything but ~/.opera and a few other select directories). Circumventing AppArmor either requires root access (theoretically possible assuming a fault in the kernel) or tricking me into running code I don't want to run outside of the AppArmor profile, e.g. by adding an exploit to a downloaded PDF file I then open in Evince.

But, uh, yes, this requires arbitrary code execution in at least one of the internet-facing applications, most of which are enclosed in their respective AppArmor profile, and then some sort of escape from said profile if one wanted to read anything not naturally relevant to the programme exploited (~/.opera/wand.dat from Pidgin, e.g.).

However, if someone is actually able to run arbitrary code in Opera, they can at least access all cookies of the current session, even if I didn't let the browser remember the password, as well as install backdoors in the browser[0] to record future logins and send them somewhere. So by not letting Opera remember passwords, I secured those passwords which I didn't use in the current session. Considering that usual sessions in Opera last about four to eight weeks for me, that gain is rather minuscule compared to the hassle of entering/remembering or copy-pasting passwords from somewhere else.

[0] Opera evaluates user-provided Javascript files in ~/.opera pretty much all the time, so it is not necessary to write to /usr/bin/opera for that.
Yes thank you, this was the thread I was referring to.
Thanks for this post! I too have Crohn's (and ankylosing spondylitis), but I had not heard of Modulen before. I also very much share the sentiments of the article author, so I'm a bit bummed to hear you found it to be a terrible experience.