skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things that make me wonder is the idea that there are " diseases if civilisation" (accepted, look at increases in asthma etc) and that they are caused by diet

Of all the things that exist in the modern world, lead in atmosphere, weird fungicides in our furniture fire retardants, etc, why is it the one thing that is under individual control that is the main contributor to our malease - it seems far too linked to the common "if you are ill / poor then you aren't trying hard enough" meme that Oprah et al tend to fall for.

Anyway, as a set of nutritional guidelines it seems reasonable, if only because the avergage food obsessed westerner has aceess to a range of fruit veg and meat that our ancestors never dreamed of.

Now stop trying to persuade me to agree with you so that I can be saved - it smacks of religion
Thanks again for writing this. You're writing about a feeling that I've experienced and can relate to, and I thought the piece was excellent. Great job.
Here's a free PDF of the toxicology paper he cites:

"Woodsmoke Health Effects: A Review"

http://ehs.sph.berkeley.edu/krsmith/publications/2006%20pubs...

(update): More supporting references here (he should have linked this one):

http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/pdfs/woodsmoke_health_effects_ja...
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention Netbus, which was out before BackOrifice.
Except this time people are laughing because everyone else is doing it instead of what most of the rest of the world does, which is laugh at you because they think it's impossible or not worth trying because it's so risky.

Apple is an exception and had a clear idea of how they were going to do things differently. If you were to come up to me and say you were starting a smart phone company without a concrete idea (and the previous experience or intelligence to back it up) of how you were going to do things differently or how you were going to make an affordable phone without the scale of Apple or Motorola, I think I would laugh.
Give Alaska back the vast majority of its land and resources (something like 80-90% of the land is outright owned by the Feds, and they restrict access to vast amounts of state land, using environmental reasons as the excuse) which are owned or controlled by the federal government and we'd be self-sufficient in a heartbeat, even if we aren't already.

I seriously doubt your characterization of our Federal subsidies. Just as one example, Hawaii gets more interstate highway funds then we do, and we're responsible for the Alcan highway, one of the largest highways in the nation. Hawaii, as you might notice, has no interstate highways. We aren't heavily subsidized, as we have more than enough revenue from the oil leases on the North Slope.

If every state was left to its own devices (just a thought experiment here), Alaska would be one of the best situated due to is vast resources, active port (air cargo in particular uses Anchorage's facilities in huge amounts), and economic stability.

/rant
"In professional wrestling, kayfabe (pronounced /ˈkeɪfeɪb/) is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as "real" or "true," specifically the portrayal of competition and rivalries between participants as being genuine or not of a worked nature. "[1]

Was "kayabe" a new word for anyone else? The wikipedia article is remarkably long for a word I had never heard of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
Thanks man. Great straightforward list.
In the spirit of the simplicity of the quote, I'd bet on volume.
I didn't ask why we found it politically expedient to do this or that, I asked why the original poster thought rights for corporations was a fundamentally good idea.

"Because they balance various risks" (as I read your post) may be an accurate description of the world, but isn't an answer for why we don't change it.

Most everyone would agree Sturgeon was right, and doubly so about code - and the legal system is a huge pile of politically motivated spaghetti code written over centuries by people who didn't try to get a big picture. We need to decide what parts of our laws capture and define our image of ourselves and what parts are garbage.

So rather than create rights for money to prevent DEA seizures or enacting rights for corporations, recognize instead the point of a limited government. Everything that is not expressly forbidden is allowed. We can't fix our current government into that with more laws.
It spaces them evenly if you have multiple subsequent lines of them. Readable enough:

var (
i, j int
foobarStuff string
bebop bool
)

What's not readable?
Seems well argued.

But we will never be able to ban stoves, fireplaces, etc.
Hmm, really?

I remember the original TV series mainly as being completely, utterly, awesome.

The effects weren't particularly sophisticated, but they fit well enough, and never detracted. You didn't really notice them.

This is more than just a good story distracting one from the visuals, I think; the effects guys did a pretty good job with their limited means, and often those primitive effects really managed to communicate the atmosphere and feeling intended. They did this much better than Dr Who's effects ever did, in my experience: With Dr Who, one almost always had the feeling "ok, this is some guys on a soundstage", but with HHGttG, often it somehow really did seem like they were stowed away on a Vogon spaceship. I'm not really sure how they managed to pull it off as well as they did, though I suppose even in the category of "low budget BBC SF efx" there's a range of budgets...

.. and the hand-drawn "computer" animations were great. Together with the incredible music, they were a real highlight.

There were some lowlights, of course; I remember the scenes on the Heart of Gold as being pretty bad.

[Watching your clip really brings back the memories of the complete bliss of watching that on TV way back when... just hearing the music sends chills down my spine... :]
The idea that grains and legumes cause obesity is absurd. Asians have been living largely on both for thousands of years [1,2] and have enjoyed incredibly low obesity rates [3] until recently. Consuming more calories than you expend is the culprit here, not grains and legumes. If we want to single out some of the leading causes for overconsumption, I'd point to refined sugar, oils (pure fat), junk food, and high fructose corn syrup.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice#Asia
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_bean#Asia
[3] http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/obesity-prevention-source/obesit...
Agreed. It seems like the one of the biggest problems perfecting a product prior to shipping is - is the mindset. Placing the ship date ahead of time forces one to focus on the priorities instead of every tiny detail.
That's shifting the burden of proof. It's Cordain that is making the claim and promoting a diet, he should provide the evidence, not Zuk.
Great example of how to make seculars feel like religious people when confronted with science; and actually quite educational! I had no idea wood smoke was harmful, but am now glad the fireplace in my living room is gas, heh.
I am really stunned, how rigorously people protect their right to disease, premature aging and unnatural death. Do not question so called fruits of progress but require immediate proofs of mechanisms that have successfully worked for millions of years.
Would that be called sarcasm in the modern day?
I'm not denying that there certainly are such factors at play at some level, but not sure how decisive they are: I'd wager they won't make a dent if you consume 4500 calories of Paleo a day, and likewise won't if you consume 1200 calories of junk-food a day -- say for the average non-athlete rather-sedentary adult.
Cool thanks so much!
I struggle with this myself. But sometimes the problem is actually the thing you're pursuing. What if the thing you're second guessing is a zombie startup? Or really any pursuit that isn't measuring up to reasonable standards set for it.

Setting lofty goals often involves taking on projects and employment opportunities before they are mature ventures. And you end up asking the question "am I being unreasonable and impatient or is this project doomed?" It's not an easy question to answer.
I felt the same way. But I gave up struggling and accepted that my destiny is to lead sucky life, waste my time here on earth with mortals and mediocre jobs and most likely never accomplish anything non-average.
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Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012
we're adding a/v this week. cool thanks for sharing.
A quote from "Coders at Work" - one that I read every time I feel scared or not "good enough".

Seibel: And you very briefly went to CMU after you finished high school.

Zawinski: Yeah. What happened was, I hated high school. It was the
worst time of my life. And when I was about to graduate I asked
Fahlman if he’d hire me full-time and he said, “No, but I’ve got these
friends who’ve got a startup; go talk to them.” Which was Expert
Technologies—ETI. I guess he was on their board. They were making
this expert system to automatically paginate the yellow pages. They
were using Lisp and I knew a couple of the people already who had
been in Fahlman’s group. They hired me and that was all going fine,
and then about a year later I panicked: Oh my god, I completely lucked
into both of these jobs; this is never going to happen again. Once I no
longer work here I’m going to be flipping burgers if I don’t have a
college degree, so what I ought to do is go get one of those.

The plan was that I’d be working part-time at ETI and then I’d be going
to school part time. That turned into working full-time and going to
school full-time and that lasted, I think, six weeks. Maybe it was nine
weeks. I know it lasted long enough that I’d missed the add/drop
period, so I didn’t get any of my money back. But not long enough that
I actually got any grades. So it’s questionable whether I actually went.
It was just awful. When you’re in high school, everyone tells you,
“There’s a lot of repetitive bullshit and standardized tests; it’ll all be
better once you’re in college.” And then you get to your first year of
college and they’re like, “Oh, no—it gets better when you’re in grad
school.” So it’s just same shit, different day—I couldn’t take it. Getting
up at eight in the morning, memorizing things. They wouldn’t let me
opt out of this class called Introduction to Facilities where they teach
you how to use a mouse. I was like, “I’ve been working at this
university for a year and a half—I know how to use a mouse.” No way
out of it—“It’s policy.” All kinds of stuff like that. I couldn’t take it. So I
dropped out. And I’m glad I did.

Then I worked at ETI for four years or so until the company started
evaporating. We were using TI Explorer Lisp machines at ETI so I
spent a lot of my time, besides actually working on the expert system,
just sort of messing around with user-interface stuff and learning how
those machines worked from the bottom up. I loved them—I loved
digging around in the operating system and just figuring out how it all
fit together.
I’d written a bunch of code and there was some newsgroup where I
posted that I was looking for a job and, oh, by the way, here’s a bunch
of code. Peter Norvig saw it and scheduled an interview. My girlfriend
at the time had moved out here to go to UC Berkeley, so I followed
her out.
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Read the entire blog before commenting? What a waste of time! Better comment first. ;)
Well, the websites I check are made of the same "text, images, and links" nowadays
I don't see the diet as being universally applicable but the theory behind the diet is compelling. There's an overlap in risk factors for diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. There's also an overlap in medications(e.g statins/aspirin lowering cancer risk. metformin lowering cancer risk). It's possible that all these diseases share biomolecular cascades.

http://robbwolf.com/2012/03/09/paleo-diet-inflammation-metfo...
http://robbwolf.com/2012/03/09/paleo-diet-inflammation-metfo...
I'm going to have to agree with your statement, "Creating a complex web application with Views, Sub Views & Deep-linking is difficult, no matter what framework you use". I tried using emberjs, their docs at the time were all over the place since they were not in-sync with their distributed code-base for learning. I've noticed more people have created good tutorials working with backbonejs and seems the right path moving forward for atleast making something remotely understandable.
Refusing to "believe" that fireplaces is bad is simply indulgent and intellectually lazy. I grew up felling trees, cutting wood and burning it all winter long. Yet my fellow bleeding heart environmentalist friends and I have no trouble identifying what a horror wood burning is now.

Sam needs new friends.
Without having done much research I also find it easy to imagine that the sedentariness of the paleo-people where, on average, a lot less than of people nowadays.
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python has flask & bottle, so.. you may consider going back?..
Maybe not ban, nor would we want to, but carbon credits could come into play and impact selection of home heating options, for example.
Many colleges in the upper level electives will let you use whatever language you want, but if the prof doesn't know it don't expect help. I was using Scala in my game programming class instead of Java like everyone else (since the projects were targeting the JVM, I couldn't assume any other environment be present, and I had done plenty of C/C++ elsewhere and wanted to try something new). I got an A, and the prof only once read my code and said "I really need to read some documentation on Scala!"
Anecdotally, this seems right to me; anytime I use the fireplace, I wake up with a cough the next morning.

The framing device of belief systems is interesting. My reaction was to immediately accept his statements as highly probable, but also accept that for now, I'll keep using the fireplace anyway, although maybe less often. But I've no doubt that many self-proclaimed rationalists would jump backflips to maintain what they want to be true.

The more I observe human behavior, the more it seems that religious belief is the norm, not the exception. Believers and non-believers alike cement ideas in their head which are indifferent to reality and hard to dislodge. Sometimes this is due to social bonds, or low-level emotional associations, or a support structure for identity/ego; often, it's just plain habit. Nobody likes to feel the rug pulled out from under them. (Okay: I like it just a little.)
Seems to work a lot better than google play's search, which returns absolutely awful results. Searching for New York travel guide in google play will return travel guides for Paris, Rome etc...
Paywall and no proper abstract -- so, what's the point? Maybe this is the submitter's not-so-subtle objection to expensive science publishing.
There is something to be careful of with this new piece of information, this is about accumulation, so don't freak about going to your firend's who as a chimey. It's about everyday smoke.

On another level, it reminds us that human are creatures of psychology, this feeling of warms and wood smoke is important, we have to find some other ritual to replace it. Rituals are important to the society.
I think you described Padrino (http://www.padrinorb.com/).

Sinatra is good for APIs but it's easy to find yourself reinventing Rails/Padrino when you have a view layer.
I get the point but was is the impact of recreationally burning wood a few evenings in the winter or at a campfire. It seems, even from the article, that the repeated practice is bad but I don't think that at this point it would still be called recreational.

It's similar to eating fast food. Every day, the consequences would be disastrous, but once in a blue moon that's a different story.
We sure never see this topic on HN. :) Of course you don't have to go. And of course, getting stuck working in the restaurant business until you're 40 because you started working their because it was quick money out of high school and easier than going to college is always an option too.

Now, lest anyone get the wrong idea I do not mean to imply that one path leads to the other. But also, please let's not pretend that Gates and Zuckerberg are "typical" college dropouts either. Maybe, the restaurant kids are more common than Gates type people, eh?

-- Anyway, seriously, if you are a recent HS grad and choose not to go to college and instead decide to give Devbootcamp $12,200 for an RoR course ... I'm sure they have a nice product ... But I will also like to contact you regarding the small matter of a bridge I would like to sell.
Blame it on a verbose minority not getting it... I think your opening title was a pretty strong hint of the direction you were taking it. Well done
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Did you mean litterary or literary?
There's a reason Atkin's diet is so popular. It's because it's extremely effective at shedding weight. Sure there might be a point at which you're gaining weight due to the fact that it's an astronomical amount of calories and there are going to be differences in biology but over-all people find eliminating carbs will cut the weight even if they don't cut calories.
I don't think so. But this stuff is always in flux. I see irony as constructive - it intends to produce something. In the case of the author, writing from an ironic perspective was the best way to describe a feeling and emotion that would have been hard, if impossible, to capture otherwise.

Sarcasm is entirely destructive. It isn't comedy, and it isn't irony. I'm pigeonholing it into a very tight definition, but when sarcasm is used, it tends to be used as a way to put the person using it on a higher pedestal than whomever the sarcasm is directed at. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but think of times when someone acts in a sarcastic manner. It usually isn't funny, and it doesn't communicate a feeling, it's just meant to make a witty or kitschy point that is meant to bring the subject of the sarcasm down and elevate the person who is using sarcasm, his or her feeling of self worth.
I thought it was rather obvious I was looking for justification as to why you thought cavemen didn't have the luxury of caloric surplus.

You already made it clear that you more than doubt they they had that luxury, you definitively said they did not. Again, the question is why?
Require restaurants to LABEL their food for existing or possible allergens
Please stop making sane arguments. They cause me to think, and that's not good now is it?
I don't think that's true. Financial regulations tend to force you to pull the plug as soon as you can no longer prove that you are solvent. There's a large range between "cannot prove we do" and "can prove we do not".
Actually one city in silicon valley has already banned building new wood-burning fireplaces:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&#...
He had a good idea of what he wanted as well.

http://www.h2g2.com/douglas_adams/
So I accept they're bad for me and my neighbors--how bad, roughly? I like wood fires, and intend to keep lighting them with about the same frequency as now (every 6-18 months or so), but is this going to take a year off my/my neighbors' life expectancy? Just like driving has a pretty high chance of death, I suspect it's "worth it" when the utilities come out. (Edit: Or as fmkamchatka mentioned in a better example, eating fast food every now and again.)
Great piece, I am sure many people on HN can relate to this. Its especially true in this community where you are constantly reminded that other people "like you" build these amazing things. The project that millions use, the open source software that is a godsend to developers, the game that is getting rave reviews, the prototype that is so amazing in a technical sense.

Add to that the interaction with super smart people that talk alot about programming best practices, new technologies, the future of computing, maths, literature.

I think as a person inside of this world, its really hard to not get sucked into the mindsight of:

* i need to get more work done

* i need to start this amazing project

* i need to learn more

* i need to grow

* i need to make more money faster

All this is well and good, but for me it often results in being impatient when doing things "normal people do". I have this constant feel of "i should be doing something more useful" no matter what i do. This is were it gets dangerous and i think in the long run it will lead to alot of unhappiness.

Atleast that i am aware of it and try to reflect on it, is the first step to more happiness, or so i hope.
Your assumption about the laws of thermodynamics predicates that the "Energy out" part of the equation is not somehow effected by the type of "Energy in" (Adding wet sticks to a fire will not produce as much released energy as adding dry sticks or gasoline soaked sticks)

The general argument about carbs or any food with high glycemic response is that these foods are like adding "wet sticks" to the fire. There's considerable science and anicdote to support this.

If you're interested (And not simply not throwing around pithy sound bytes about physics) check out:
Why we get fat (And what to do about it) By Gary Taubes (http://garytaubes.com/)

For some very compelling anicdotal evidence (That also supports some concepts of Paleo) check out http://www.reddit.com/r/keto
> Kenehora. You are zazen. Everyone should be you. You sound like a true bootstrapper, a self-made man that needs no help from others.

Actually, that doesn't sound like me at all! I have benefited from need-based grants and a cheap education system. And even despite these great conditions I almost screwed up my education several times. It took some time for me to get my act together!
It's only easier after twenty years training submersed in a super-literate society. The actual changes he made were minor, just in a format most of us are completely unfamiliar with. Had this been a JavaScript game I suspect it would have passed unremarked

(actually that's unfair - had it been a JavaScript game of the iconic status of donkey kong then it would still be here)
Honestly, I find myself easily convinced that burning wood is hazardous, though I do note that it is not something most people do all the time (nor is it addictive).
Too bad there's no WebGL support in Mobile Safari.
The overall point seems to be true, but that may just be because of previously held beliefs which I would like to confirm (much like the author suggests with fireplaces).

I think people have a hard time accepting scientific fact because the reality of the situation is much more convincing. Many people live with fireplaces, so their reality is that they are not harmful, regardless of the science behind the hazard they pose. It's much like American football: so many people have either played it or know people that play it that the possibility of damage due to injuries seems unreal or at least acceptable to them, because they haven't seen the harm in their experience.

Speaking from a personal viewpoint, I find that many rationalists put little value in peoples' opinions because they are "unsupported", ignoring the mountain of personal, anecdoctal evidence that the person has gained over their life, which is much more likely to be believed than the foreign research of far-off scientists.
Very well put - and the cooking analogy has resonance
Excellent example of how something that is natural and have been around for tens of thousands of years is worse than other artificial things that are manufactured in factories.