skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I am sorry to say that if you feel this way about a wood fire, you are not only wrong but dangerously misguided"

This does not follow the preceding paragraph at all, making it painful to read the rest. If my opposition just demonstrates that I'm a romantic that loves my wood fires, then I suppose...
This argument seems to have 'recreational' as its cornerstone - as soon as it's not recreational, it falls apart, since death from potential cancer in the future is not as bad as poor health or death now from being cold or having poor-quality food.

But even when it's not recreational, the author calls it a scourge in the developing world - apparently 'warmth' is just a nice-to-have, and food cooked for both taste (better subjective experience of life) and to ease digestion (better physical health) are significant issues that the author ignores.

I would say that the 'intelligent' people that the author presents this argument to are not intelligent enough to see the gaping flaws in the argument as presented. There are problems with burning wood, and these can be quite significant in some areas. But balancing this against the argument "all a wood fire gives us is a sense of comfort" should be easily countered by any intelligent audience. What is described in the article is not 'scientific reality', but a very selective subset of it.

It's a reasonable analogy for the some of the issues of discussing religion as an atheist, but I don't think it's anywhere near as clever as the author does, because it relies on intentionally withholding or glossing over a host of very pertinent information. A well-read atheist should be able to counter any point without withholding information.

As an aside, the best thing I've seen on the problems of atheism versus (christian) religion was one guy who became an atheist over the course of years. He mentioned that the way many atheists go about arguing their case undermines themselves - screaming facts at people, then being abusive to some degree when they "can't understand reason". He points out that it doesn't matter what it is you think, if someone is demanding you think differently, and abusing you for not changing instantly, you're instinctively going to create barriers to what they're saying. Whether it's religion, sporting teams, personal politics, diet, anything that's not a trivial investment for the individual. Of course, the fly in the ointment is that politics at the national level can't really be run this way...
I like the idea and I would probably be interested if I was a cash-starved startup. However, I suspect the intersection between people with under utilized property assets (especially in SF!) and people who want to speculate in early stage startups is vanishingly small. How are you going to find these people?
Right now we thought it would be valuable to simply help broker deals between property owners and start-ups. Similar to AirBNB, but you pay with equity instead.
The People's Pharmacy (well regarded U.S. public radio show):

Show 895 The Great Cholesterol Myth

http://www.peoplespharmacy.com/2013/03/09/895-the-great-chol...

Further recent discussion on Wisconsin Public Radio:

http://www.wpr.org/shows/peoples-pharmacy-special-pledge-dri...
Side projects have no deadlines. If you deadline you will have troubles with your current job.
common guys a googlytics ride,that's is a c.l.i.c.k.
I don't choose to sit by a fire (or smoke a cigar, for another example) because of apathy. I choose to value the purported benefits of an activity over the risk I take by partaking in said activity.

I'm not sure how to apply that analysis to a religious belief, which leads me to conclude that the analogy drawn by Sam Harris is flawed in at least some cases.
Fantasy talk for a second. . . ok, so if robots have far greater accuracy and of course options for self-exposure within a battlefield, why can't their primary directive be to shoot (literally) the guns of the enemy. It would be great if the technology was directed in a way for the robots not be "killer" but rather to shoot at the actual weapon someone is holding and not their person.
The LaTeX demo reminds me of Gummi[0]. Gummi has a similar two-paned interface with LaTeX on the left and the preview/build log on the right. This project seems a little too complicated, although their solution is a lot more general than editors like Gummi as it supports HTML and your editor of choice.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummi_%28software%29
Well, I assume that burning pretty much anything that is solid will produce some sort of micro-particles... which even if they are not cancerogenic are probably not good to inhale...
Come check us out at https://www.statuscake.com - we do have Pagerduty integration via the API (It's not full featured yet to be honest, but I'd say within the next few weeks we'll have an even better connection)
Great question ;) I think that you might find "mentor" type folks who would be interested in helping spur local economies who might not normally be as incentivized to list a room on AirBNB for example. We have some relationships with some real estate publications who may partner to cover this if it's interesting. Or maybe someone has office space and they would be happy to sublet it to a complimentary start-up for equity and the benefit of having some new ideas in the building.
On my android browser, it obscures the entire text. I gather they don't believe in mobile first.
If IE weren't so horrible, people wouldn't have to program so defensively for it. It's kind of like Office... the tiniest delay causes it to throw up dialogs saying that it's not responding, and as soon as that happens the typical non-expert user nukes it, and restarts Windows. I've watched it happen. This is what they expect.

We have a whole generation of computer users used to this kind of crap: Microsoft software sucks and you expect it to constantly misbehave, and randomly change, and must be constantly on guard to prevent it from causing problems.

Even if this was Google's fault, I really don't blame them.
> Doesn't sound fun, or easy at all. There are other ways.

You'd think, with the title of this webpage, that most would be interested in ways of elegantly and easily solving problems that are important to themselves. But it seems that the constant chanting of no pain no gain has left a lot of people with the conviction that, when it comes to health, things should not be easy nor simple.
I hope the scientists did not take advantage of him and paid him for all the experiments they performed on him.

This also shows something that athletes have known for a long time: there is a "muscle memory" that is quite distinct from our conscious memory and that muscle memory can help us perform tasks with great precision, as long as we practice.
Hacker News is strange... Post that describe a product that was built in a weekend manage to reach #1 all the time, but when I submit my project that I've been working on for more than a month, everyone collectively ignores is, and it receives 0 upvotes.
You probably feel better because you've lost weight. You could be eating nothing but Oreos and probably feel better after losing weight. Your blood panel would improve too.

I've been losing weight through simple calorie tracking. When I hit my daily limit I stop eating. I eat whatever I want. I've lost 22 pounds and feel great.

EDIT: Here's a nutritionist who improved his health markers eating nothing but junk food - http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/
BMW Considers Upping i3 Production
This was interesting but the title "From China, With Love" seems descriptively weak and unnecessarily confrontational, as if somehow the Chinese government were to blame for one router manufacturers backdoor.
The city I live in ran a campaign a number of years ago handing out $1000 vouchers to upgrade inefficient wood stoves. It can be a air quality issue, but the major issue is one of efficiency. Modern wood stoves are very efficient - where a fireplace may run at 15%, some of the new hearthstones exceed 80%. In any case, as someone from New Hampshire, I find it insulting that anyone would frame burning wood as "recreational."
A war with "no more bloodshed"? There's no such thing.

To quote George S. Patton, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
I suspect they will do more diligence for ideas in regulatuon-heavy industries. When a single law can destroy your business, you need to be sure that what you are doing is 100% kosher and also that the proper connections are in place to work out issues.

I'm surprised they didn't grill him more on that subject.
George from the CodeCombat team here. It was a crazy experience. Nick and I were leaving the stage, I was thinking "okay, that went okay, hope we get an interview!" When they called us back I thought we had biffed a mic transfer to the next team. When we heard we were in this next batch, I couldn't even believe it. Nick and I managed to keep it relatively cool on stage but we got a little silly back stage. Still can't really believe it, and can't wait to be a part of this cohort.
That's the idea. I've just put my email address in my profile, please contact me about this if you like.
Isn't switching from low-fat to low-carb just trading one dogma for another?
Nftables [0] comes to replace iptables, ip6tables, arptables and ebtables. It will introduce new common syntax for IPv4, IPv6 and ARP, and it has smaller kernel-mode code.

Its working process is somewhat similar to BPF (Berkeley Packet Filters): the rules are being compiled into byte-code at user-level and passed to the kernel (using the Netlink API) where it is being processed by a state machine.

[0] - http://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/
I'm sorry to hear you had this struggle to identify with what you like, but you seem like you've worked it out to some degree. It sounds like you just didn't enjoy CS and got stuck in the field. That's fine, but it's not indicative of the field as a whole. If you hate something fundamentally, you find everything about it wrong in your mind.

With that being said, a lot of your remarks about bad parts of the industry are subjective at best, and just seem like an artifact of the situation you were in. I love CS, and do it as a hobby, and have not had anywhere near the same kind of experience you have had. I had a contemplative period like this as well, but figured out that we do the things we're interested in and enjoy whether we realize it or not. If you do something as a hobby, chances are you like doing that thing.

In any case, good luck on your quest to do something you enjoy better!
My thoughts on commenting in code
I am a product development manager at an enterprise company. This is just an opinion based on what I see.

I don't have this issue exactly, but maintenance schedules of non-saas software is much harder to manage, budget, purchase, etc. It's not hair-on-fire for me -- I have a spreadsheet. Saas is actually easier, and we do all of the user management actively -- it's not a big deal (for our big Saas usage, it's tied to hiring/termination basically automatically)

There are some things that are used across all dev departments, like MSDN subscriptions, that are challenging to manage. We use a shared spreadsheet in sharepoint -- works fine -- I doubt anyone thinks this is a huge issue for us.

If you were thinking of doing this -- I think the way to go is to take the whole job -- not just give me what is basically a shared spreadsheet on the web, but perhaps tie into the Saas and see how it's being used and offer savings ideas (20% of your users don't use featureX). Try to find one really hard to manage product and align yourself as being perfect for managing that (Salesforce, Dynamics, MSDN?, -- things that an entire department uses across a whole company)
Help me understand...

What would those instances do, exactly?
Laser scanning an ancient canyon for 3D playback.
Interesting, particularly since recent recommendations say that 4000 IUs should be the maximum dose. Any reason why s/he recommended 5k?
He's an obvious troll; his name is the name of the SomethingAwful techy-circlejerk sub-forum.

YOSPOS: Your OS is a Piece Of Shit
- General, Im proud to announce that after decades of research of our brightest scientists our country can make robots!

- Great, now its just put a gun in their hands and teach them how to kill!

Total failure of the human kind: Technologically advanced morally corrupt
I imagine you will have a hard time convincing people to give up collecting cash from rent for theoretical equity.
The original comment wasn't attacking the author, it was simply stating that while many people seemed excited at the prospect of flying off to Thailand (one person even emailed the author after booking tickets) that they should slow down and consider the expenses and lifestyle changes involved. His response was clearly intended to be humorous, but that doesn't mean that it was intended to reflect negatively on the author. His experience was that Thailand was an expensive place to live, I don't understand how you interpret that as an attack against the author. Like other people have mentioned, Thailand is a rather large place.

>He didn't merely dismiss the comment.

In his article, he only mentioned that he and many others felt that the comment was inaccurate. That doesn't constitute evidence or explanation. If you are stating something as a position in an article, it makes sense to present at least a modicum of support for that position within the article itself. Sure, you can cite sources, but in this case, his citation amounts to "some other people said that the statement I'm about to make is correct."
As a property owner, this is clearly a risky decision, that's why I think the future of BootRent would have some sort of startups valuation algorithm to give property owners some help in making that decision.
They also experience life more viscerally than spinach. What's your point. Tis better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. Also bacon is tasty.

Keep your moral proscriptions to your self.
ovh.com and online.net provides even cheaper servers, but with a DDoS filter by default. I'm very happy with both.
If someone from startup school is following the comments, can u focus the view on Balaji's slides? He has a lot of material on there.
Hi Googler!
Tight immigration rules divert high tech brains from Seattle to Santiago
Not yet, I'm finishing the launch version this week and will start posting it around then. Thanks for the tip :)
If 70% of chimney smoke re-entered nearby buildings, then those times when most buildings were burning, the air inside them would be nearly as smoky as what come out of the chimney. It's also very hard to believe outside of a tenement arrangement. In a village where there's lots of space between houses, and assuming all particulate matter fell back within the bounds of the village (itself a big stretch), it's hard to see how two-thirds of smoke would find its way back into buildings.
Good advice, and hard to remember when so focused at times. Looking behind me at the good things achieved usually happens when I am in a down cycle of being slightly burned out or demotivated. Something I should work on doing more regularly.
you mean twittstrap was made by nsA?
The problem isn't a lack of software to put on hardware, it's a lack of hardware that doesn't go out of its way to thwart attempts to install different software, either intentionally or as a side-effect of being optimized for cost.

As an example of the latter, I have a Monoprice-rebadged Tenda W301A ceiling-/wall-mount AP on my desk. It only has 2 MB of flash and 16 MB of RAM. It has a TTL serial port, but the lines are broken out to surface pads that aren't even grouped together on the PCB. (They're not labelled on the silkscreen, either.) The version of u-boot it ships with is stripped down to nothing, probably because of the limited flash space available. For ≤$5 more on the BOM, these problems could be fixed, and the device would be considerably more useful.
Thanks for your perspective. I don't claim to speak for everyone. I thought I was enjoying programming with just a few reservations that I could live with, but ultimately these problems became to be too much. The echo-chamber of love for the field, or "if you don't like it you just aren't tough enough" kind of talk really made me just feel like a whiner, especially considering I was pretty decent at it and received a good amount of praise/money for what I was doing.

HN frequently encourages people to go deeper into programming/technology when I really needed someone to tell me to explore around. My intention was to do just that for someone else.
So the question becomes, do you want a little bit of carcinogens in your air? a lot of them? or none (produced by you in your enclosed space/home)?

An identical argument can be made about wireless radiation. Literally, do a search/replace of a lot of the quackery throughout this whole discussion and you've got a standard discussion about banning wifi.

e.g. I have heard that standing close to a high power transmitter is dangerous. Therefore, I am in danger because of my neighbour's wifi transmitter.

Now someone is going to argue about ionizing potential energy, but the same principals apply for carcinogenic compounds, which are literally all around us. The process of cooking almost invariably even creates new carcinogenic compounds -- do you eschew cooking?

Reductionism is almost always garbage science if taken holistically (it has value within a context, however). Are there actual demonstrated correlative studies of recreational burn "advocates"? Of neighbours? Do wildfires lead to mass outbreaks of cancer (or even a statistically discernable incident rates)? No? Then it sounds like an enormous reach of extraterritorial offense.
The whole article just doesn't render at all for me[1]. Another site that seems to want to cookie-track you. (Turning cookies on causes it to render.)

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/4l9VB2l.png
yes you are right it was made by nsa and nsa uses it, did you get it?
What I'm interested in with all the recent talk (/hype) about gut health and gut bacteria transplants: Are there studies into whether the nutrients we can supplement actually don't enter our own metabolism, but instead benefit our gut bacteria which in turn benefit us?
Computer science seems like the dominant choice for me when faced with a decision mostly based on ignorance, in the terminology of decision theory. (It's at least as good as any other option and is better in at least some areas.) I enjoy the benefits of more course freedom than engineering and relatively good job prospects. If it turns out that I despise coding for a job, I can change directions via grad school as I'll be taking more mathematics courses than the minimum requirements; moreover, it may be the case that I would've hated doing X for a job for most X, but it's not practical to actually try most X before arriving at a more definite conclusion.
Interesting thoughts. As a professional software engineer (~7 years working) I disagree on a few points.

> Nobody cares that you work at a prestigious tech company that gives you ~cool benefits~.

If you're taking a job to impress other people, you're doing it wrong. The only people that really care about where you've worked are future employers.

> These projects were frighteningly representative of what work-life is.

Fairly true, except in the workplace you can count on other people to be marginally competent. In some cases the code is great, and in some cases it's awful. But in the vast majority of cases what counts is not whether it's "good" or not, but whether it works.

> There is little intellectual satisfaction to be had from contorting bytes.

Maybe you're referring to something else, but I find the process of constructing something functional to be immensely satisfying.

> Learning new programming languages is extremely fun at first but exasperating and repetitive after a while.

Never gets old for me. There's always something new and unique in each language.

> but it seems to be having very little impact on my life.

The more money I make, the more I can save, which means the faster I can become financially independent. Although I do enjoy my job, I wouldn't do it for free. I want to spread my time out across all my hobbies rather than tying 40 hours a week to one job in particular.

> If you get into a deep discussion about programming and you're surprised by how many things you know that you don't care about, really consider what that means.

Good point. It probably means you don't really care about programming in general. I love the fact that I know the quirks of python generators, or C++ keywords. I just love understanding systems in their entirely, from top to bottom.

> Find something you're actually passionate about and use programming to do cool things in that area.

Couldn't have said it better.

> Entitlement, lack of compassion, materialism, and (surprisingly) anti-intellectualism is the norm.

I haven't found this to be true at all. Intellectual pursuits are very commonplace in my tech workplace.
being the broker in the deal between the asset owner and startup folks, you will need to convince the asset owner about the worthiness of the startup. Have you thought of the metrics that could be used to help the asset owner understand the startup's value? Most asset owners do not know beyond GMail, Yahoo Mail and, perhaps, Facebook and Twitter. So how will they ever understand about values of startups like, for example, Cloudability or AdCash?
Well that's just irrational - argumentum ad hominem tu quoque. Aka, the "and you too!" fallacy.

The idea that Microsoft's wrongs justify alleged Google wrongs is wrong.
Yeah, you're not going to replace modern networking chips very easily.

If it's China you are worried about, perhaps work with a domestic chip producer like Broadcom. The chips might be fabbed in China, but it would be pretty difficult for China to sneak a "phone home" module into a GDSII drop.
Aaaand... the first reply on HN is a bullying response telling the submitter to "get a life." Hilarious.
> So, it is almost impossible to over-dose on Vitamin C, since, your body will easily eliminate anything it doesn't need - C is water-soluble.

Wait, are you really arguing that it's impossible to have too much of something that is water-soluble? What about sugar? What about salt?
Can you give me an example in another language?
You might be suffering from the fact that HN seems predominantly OSX-based and your app is for Windows 8. From my stats, only 1/5 of HN is on Windows.
Thanks for your feedback. Good points about tackling the hard to manage aspects. I wonder how feasible it is to track usage based on logs. I guess you would just need to flag non usage then follow up. Obviously usage info is not something that saas companies would share. Although I've been asked once or twice (by purchasing depts) to check if anyone of their users where using it. Thanks again
Slow down there - that list is hardly a "quirks-mode" list and there's no reason to believe a change in behavior was malicious by either party. You're assuming that list was recently changed by Microsoft for the purpose of what - ruining customer's experiences of using Windows 8.1? Tarnish Google's reputation?

There are so many assumptions at work here that I don't think it's reasonable to conclude any malice.
Swede here.
Here is a google translate from the "government agency of food" website, stating their stance on low-carb high-fat.
http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=htt...

They also provide national dietary guidelines, found on the site.