skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thanks for linking a really awful rebuttal. Not only does "Mark Kern, PHD, RD, CSSD, Professor of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences" start off by saying that Lustig is inherently biased by selling a book "Even if all proceeds are being donated to charity", he later goes on to drop such gems as:

The key for preventing obesity and metabolic syndrome is to avoid consuming excessive energy (Calories)

Maybe this is still debated in the (surely non-profit) exercise world, but I see no evidence that eating too many calories of lean meat would cause metabolic syndrome, or that limiting daily intake to 2000 calories of soda would cause one to become healthier.

Much of Kern's lengthy rebuttal are technical points that are beyond me to evaluate, but I suspect that the book is intended for a non academic medical audience. In fact Kern says

It is possible that the author’s intent was to simplify these processes for the reader, but doing so inaccurately calls into question his knowledge of metabolism, upon which he bases much of his book.

Perhaps one could use other material he has authored for a technical audience. And Kern is pedantic with quotes like "real food doesn’t have or need a Nutrition Facts Label". A casual reader would understand that a mango does not have a complicated ingredient list, Kern says:

While it is true that labels do not need to appear on unpackaged foods such as a produce, the Code of Federal Regulations is clear regarding nutrient labeling for these types of foods. The regulation from the Federal government is that nutrition facts must voluntarily be posted for at least 90% of fresh food items in a conspicuous place by at least 60% of companies that sell food.

Perhaps Kern doesn't understand who the audience of a trade book is. Kern also cites many studies that I'm not going to track down and evaluate for their own biases.

Giving talks, writing papers and selling books is how our world works. If that's the only thing Lustig is doing wrong, then he's doing alright by me.

but if there's one thing he's proven about nutrition, it's that he's no one to be taken seriously when talking about it

If you're going to grind your axe here, please make better arguments.
We can go back and forth on this, but HN isn't the place. I've had this debate many times and it ends nowhere. Bottom line, calories-in vs calories-out is a fine and dandy statement, but tells us nothing of value about the cause of increased calorie consumption. I agree with you that for weight gain to occur, there must be a greater energy intake than burn, but what causes more caloric intake?
I dont see one, and I feel like I am the only one who doesn't. I had to work hard to modulate depression and aggression. I have a lot of hobbies, but I actually - and of course looking at my user name you can probably guess, that I actually used to burn off a lot of steam trolling website forums.

I feel like if I go a therapist and start expressing anything dark and open a flood gate, I'll become a whiney ninny who cant lead the pack.

So camping solo in the wastelands will have to do.
No, they did not. Fisher, the company which make the space pen, developed it themselves and sell it to NASA at the same price they sell it at retail.

The space pen is decent in the sense that it writes very reliably, but it's not a particularly good pen overall, especially for the price.
HTC-ONE is the best phone ever made hands down
I just keep a pair of waterproof headphones permanently attached to my swim goggles and keep it in my gym stuff. It's not nearly as big a hassle as you think - just wrap it up tightly once and you have no cords dangling or anything while you swim.
This article is a bit off the mark. Daemontools and runit didn't replace init because they weren't designed to replace init, or to be exclusive technical choices in general. Non-exclusivity means no displacement, just happy co-habitation. Daemontools and runit work great under sysv init, BSD init, or under systemd.

There's a little piece of insight which seems to escape many: there is no serious technical reason why systemd must run as init. Systemd could have been written to coexist in a number of various ways following previous models, running under init and doing things for init.

Systemd is winning this war because it created the war, by conflicting with sysv init.
...your real cost is opportunity, but generally the market values a failed startup founder or early employee at enough of a premium over a member of a later stage team that you can catch up quickly.

Hmm. Is "generally" right here? Are founders really getting hired at a enough of a premium to earn the ~$100-200k they lost over 1-2 years while failing?
For more about 'The Curse of the Gifted' see:

Mindset: by Carol S. Dweck.

Anecdotes aren't data, but I can say that having this 'curse' has been a huge challenge in my programming career.
Moderation and balance, based on what precisely? Who defines what balanced is? Who pays to have their product a bigger portion of a balanced diet?
The Terrible Toll of Secrecy
You also have a significant problem, when looking back at the historical record, at defining social inequality. Is this a purely formal analysis? If it is than wage gaps are no issue, but economic liberty is overrated. The industrial economy, even though it produces significant social inequality on a substantial level, is very good at hiding it behind formal equality.

But to get to a substantive analysis, one has to look at what people's options in life are. If women can't seek divorce but can murder their husbands with impunity provided that certain cultural fictions remain intact (the case in ancient Athens, see Chris Faraone's "Ancient Greek Love Magic" covering poisonous love potions as a defence against murder, and note too that a purpose of the potions was to abate anger), then the right to divorce is totally subsumed in more substantial, even extreme, options.

If one accepts substantial realities as the measure of equality, then women are less equal today politically and economically than they were in 1800.
Because the "hackability" of the web is important. The ability to view source, play in the console, modify the dom, etc is amazing. Locking it down or providing a larger barrier to entry (eg, download this extra thing) provides dubious benefit and hides what makes the web great.

I speak from someone who teaches ruby and javascript. Javascript is in every browser and the console is a wonderful place to start. When I teach ruby (on Mac's) I have to start with, "well ok, now download xcode". It's really easy for someone to give up before getting everything working.
it all comes back to calories in vs calories out.

12 cans of Coke a day = healthy diet?
> Again, it all comes back to calories in vs calories out.

Which is both true and irrelevant, because the system that governs calories in and calories out is a complex control loop. When it's working correctly, weight is effortlessly maintained within a narrow range thanks to compensating adjustments in appetite and, to a lesser extent, metabolism.

When it isn't working right, people try to drive the process with their frontal cortex instead, which only a small fraction of population can actually achieve for any significant length of time.

So the most interesting questions in nutrition science are all around what effects satiety and why we have an epidemic of people with broken control loops. Sugar is a very strong suspect in that investigation.

And before someone says we aren't evolved for an environment of plenty, and our bodies just hoard every calorie they can get in case of famine -- that's really not it. No mammal simply hoards every calorie it can get without homeostatic feedback. Survival incentivizes balance -- hoarding a calorie means you don't spend that calorie today on something else that would aid your reproductive success. Which is why we (and most animals) have an extremely dynamic system to monitor and maintain appropriate energy stores.
What exactly is self-parodying about a "keto-adapted" lifestyle? Rice and bananas cause some of the same effects of sugar on the body. Some people can tolerate this and others can't.
Then everybody implements crypto, and then we get another 20 articles on Hacker News about how "your crypto is wrong and broken and you're a terrible person!".

I'd be interested in joining the fight to hide information from the NSA if it didn't seem functionally impossible for folks who haven't made it into a career.
I started a SG droplet about 5 hours ago. It's still down. They're suffering some outage and it's a shame it isn't mentioned on their status page. #fail

https://twitter.com/kaihendry/status/433451127657357312

I'll stick with GPLhost for now http://webconverger.org/servers/
>You skipped two grades in one subject with a peer so you weren't by yourself among the older children. I can certainly believe that worked out fine.

We actually ended up separated in our advanced math, and I was bullied heavily because I had to end up eating lunch with 8th graders while only being in 6th and 7th grade. It was socially sub-optimal and it sure wasn't rainbows and unicorns. However, I was already an outcast amongst my own grade level, so being an outcast amongst older kids wasn't much of a difference.

My point is that it was not intellectually hobbling, it did not set me up to feel a Curse of the Gifted in Math, nor did it teach me bad habits as the analogy with the marshmallow test would imply.
Eating? I'm only partially joking. Calories don't just magically appear.
> This ignores the fact that "feminism" is not a coherent movement.

Bingo.

BTW, anyone who thinks it is a coherent movement needs to read this feminist critique of obstetrics(which expands to a critique of modern medicine and mainstream feminism):

"Birth as an American Rite of Passage" by Robbie Davis-Floyd. Better to read the second edition than the first.
We went to a therapist [Licensed Clinical Social Worker] for marriage counseling at two different times in our 18 years of wedded bliss. These are decisions I have never regretted.

For context my spouse is a therapist - hospice, oncology, Alzheimer's and geriatrics over the past twenty odd years - so I am perhaps biased.
More thoughts on a bigger screen iPhone
http://www.businessinsider.com/whats-wrong-with-the-modern-d...
I have, yes. Problem is, therapy isn't much more effective than placebo these days. Psychoanalysis has largely been shown to not work... There are things you can do, however. Gratitude is probably the single highest expected value activity you can do for your mental health. Also, developing a practice to fully feel and process / access emotions. Happy to share more and talk if you need.. anthony @ 175g . com

PS - I also work as a coach with high performers and have helped a number of folks on Hacker News for free who have reached out, and happy to do the same for you or anyone else.
i had to scroll down this far to find people who actually read the link. everybody above just wants to tell us how much of a curse their high intelligence is.
"So, contrary to the article, I think that there are plenty of people from investors to founders to employees who are simply chasing a buck. So much so, that from outside SV (and from many quarters within), it has become the understood ethos of the valley."

Those VCs are not AZ16 + those startups are not the future facebooks or googles of the world.
Yeah, the problem comes in when you want to share pre-processor variables between your components.
It's really hard to generalize.

I think "person who is a top 10% but not top 5 Stanford undergrad CS senior" who then goes to found a YC-backed startup which ultimately fails after 2y is ultimately better off than the person who takes the "good dev job" at Google or Facebook. When the founder is looking for a job 2 years later, if it's via acquihire, it is probably a wash on cash (due to taxes...potentially quite ahead); has almost certainly had more public visibility and thus potentially is in a "bidding" situation for his talent, etc. I doubt the 90th percentile Stanford CS grad gets more than $150k cash, $250k total compensation, in year 1, and probably not more than 200k/300k in year 2, at a tech company.

A person at the 90th percentile, all things being equal, probably isn't good enough to get one of the $250-500k hedge fund programming jobs.

Taking the good dev job/employee #1 at the hot startup which happens to do well is better than being founder of the failed startup.

Obviously, the person who starts Facebook is ahead of everyone.

Partially it's that equity compensation (in an acquihire/earn out) is tax privileged, part is that it's essentially forced savings. From $100k to $200k, you lose a lot of your income to basically bullshit -- US/CA taxes and somewhat higher living standard, higher student loan repayment, etc. -- where if you can essentially bet that "pre-tax" on a startup, you probably come out ahead.

I'm not sure how this applies to someone in the bottom 90% of Stanford, or in the bottom 99% of the world. Probably the best bet is to somehow get into a top startup in a role where performance isn't so critical to the ultimate success of the company, usually after Series B, or at a big company.

Someone who is the top CS grad for the year, or who is later in career with exceptional talent, or who has a burning drive for a specific area (e.g. Steve Mann in wearables), has an entirely different analysis, too. At that point what actually matters is role.

I personally am happy doing a startup to accomplish my specific change-the-world goals and would be equally happy doing so at a large company; it's just that it would be much more difficult in ways I don't enjoy at most large companies (budget and multiple hats at a startup; stupid politics at a big company). (If I had more of an aero/engineering background, I'd probably prioritize space, and try to work for SpaceX; as it is, the only things I'd be qualified for there are IT, and their IT is windows shit, and not core to the success of the enterprise.)
Well, no, I disagree. Having to create, maintain and monitor your own infrastructure is a very big time cost which has very real consequences when you are in a business. As a business you should be spending as much time as possible focusing on your product and not things that are extraneous to it. At this point the basic infrastructure for 99 % of small web applications is pretty much identical: a web service, a backend relational store, a load balancer, and probably a caching service. This basic set-up can accommodate a wide range of features. There is absolutely no need to spend time configuring these services and making sure they remain up and running. I see a lot of people who want to configure their own infrastructure because for some reason they believe their application is special. Invariably, if you look at their application more closely I've realized that, no, it tends not to be that special. Perhaps when/if they scale up the service requirements they will need to be become more specialized but even then, probably not. Even if it does end up that you have to change your application's structure during scaling, trying to make it ready for scaling too early is a premature optimization and will end up costing you.
The only point I'm trying to make is that blood sugar is culprit of the numerous conditions afflicting wealthy countries, not just obesity. Clearly obesity isn't a neutral variable in this equation.
I can confirm that from my own experience. I lost 20kg in 6 months. Yes I restricted my calorie intake. But how I did that? By controlling my appetite with avoiding carbs especially sugar. Ketogenic diet is powerful tool for restricting calorie intake.
I think many people on this thread don't understand the importance of "mission". Mission plays a big role in hiring the best talent - without a mission, you are like a rudderless ship. You may make money in the short-term but you are not building a great company for the future.
I don't think the idea that junk food is bad for you is surprising to anyone, even if Lustig paints it as a revelation. Have you tried 500 calories worth of apples?

The closer people move to actual food and sanity, the further I feel we'll move away from obesity. Rehashed sensationalism helps few other than diet gurus and their brand.
This article just doesn't sound right. YC has much higher success than most VCs. But even if you weren't doing your startup at YC, I still feel it's far better thing than having a corporate tech job (let alone pseudo-tech job in finance). The thing is that, you choose what you want to do. Even if you choose selling newspaper, its better than a random "manager" with half the competency telling you to fix a random bug in some product you didn't even cared before. You setup your own culture. If you don't like meetings, you don't do it. If you like blasting music and have grill in your office, go ahead.

Above all, startups in SV is something that doesn't have downside to people coming out of college. Even with miserable failures, you would be most likely get aqui-hired with 3-5X better pay package than someone who had worked for a decade in that same company.

However I totally discourage people dropping out of school to do startup. I get truly disgusted when people suggest that option. As Guy Kawasaki used to say, stay in school as long as you possibly can. Rest of your life is very likely going to be in one job or another unless you hit a lottery.
Well, now meet one! I skipped grade 2, and I think it was the right choice. I would have skipped grade 1, but my parents held me back in order to let me ease into full-length school days. I was incredibly fortunate to have good outlets for creativity available to me and a dedicated and wonderful teacher that year, who kept me engaged.

The reasons skipping that grade was good: I avoided a poor teacher, whom I would not have gotten along well with. Part of the reason for me skipping a grade was that the disparity in reading levels was actually detrimental to the class, because of the diversion of the teacher's resources. Second reason is that I have an early birthday, so I was never tooo far behind my peers in the next grade, and in fact I felt much more comfortable in that situation and made friends better.

Just for an alternate perspective!
I'm currently reading "The Low-Carb Fraud", by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, who was one of the original authors of the China Study.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Low-Carb-Fraud-Colin-Campbell/dp/1...

Campbell has multiple degrees in biochemistry and nutrition, and from what I can tell, seems to be pretty well respected in his field.

On the other hand, Gary Taube, who wrote Good Calories, Bad Calories, and who people here seem to hold up as some kind of nutritional guru - basically is a science writer, with no formal education in nutrition at all.

Campbell basically spends the first few chapters debunking many of Gary Taubes's conclusions, and then talking about the current low-carb fads.

Definitely a good read, and approachable.
Right on, and thats why they brand sugar as deadly poison -- it affects your brain and tricks it into wanting more of it because its a drug of pleasure. Then it makes you never full so you eat more of other stuff that eventually gets you sick.

Like with anything else, including alcohol or even heroine (altho that one very limited) - nothing in reasonable limitations will kill you. If you have strong will then you keep your brain on leech and treat it as a pleasure you consume time to time in limitations. If you eat it daily in large quanitities, then you helping yourself to get sick.
Hey man, calories-in, calories-out! Calorie-is-a-calorie! Sugar is fine! All in moderation! Heroin is fine, all in moderation!
Another anti-sugar bestseller from the same era was William Dufty's 'Sugar Blues' [1975]:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Blues
BTW, if anyone cannot afford a therapist and just needs to talk to someone, check out:

blahtherapy.com

Because sometimes you just need to get things off of your chest.
Updated.

1. fix some bugs (e.g. "item.time_str")

2. support responsive design (currently optimized with iPhone)
King's Assembly – A Computer Mouse Full Of Awesome
I respect your work, but I must say this: "You are terrible."

Why you might ask? Well ask any kid who has been forced off to Bible Camp or some other humiliating childhood summer activity.

Keep up the great work!
Completely illegible due to the colors and lack of contrast. Would be greatly improved if newsprint gray + black were used.
How about 500 calories worth of 100% natural apple juice (about 4.5 cups)

Try it. Drink it and come back in 15-20 minutes and let me know.

Then try 11 slices of pan fried bacon (43 cal/slice according to google) and then tell me how hungry you are in 15-20 minutes.
yes indeed social problems. or as one of my favorite quotes goes: "Trust no one! The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them!"
--Col. Hunter Gathers, OSI (Venture Bros parody of Hunter S. Thompson)
You cannot (verify using hashes that is). On the other hand, you can use git URLs with commit hashes, which works pretty well.
He's commenting on the fact that large populations of humanity (pretty much all of Asia and Oceania) subsist on high carb diets -- lots of rice and bananas -- yet don't exhibit massive rates of heart disease etc.
And my point is that (aside from glycation damage), blood sugar is a symptom of disease, not a cause of disease.
Concur. I didn't restrict my calorie intake, and lost 40lbs eating 65% fat, 30% protein and 5% carb. As soon as I add in sugar or other carbohydrates in any capacity, I gain weight and eat much more. On a ketogenic diet I rarely even think about food - I am rarely hungry.
It works fine. When I did the initial implementation of the Go ARM compiler I mostly used my phone as a debug environment. Android was probably the only Linux distro where the compiler worked when 1.0 was released.
Information Is the Resolution Of Uncertainty
I'm all about the Couch/Pouch ecosystem. :)
Optimizing cv::drawContours on iOS
You mentioned bacon as an example of a fatty meat, but one should think twice before having bacon at every breakfast:

We estimated that 3.3% (95% CI 1.5% to 5.0%) of deaths
could be prevented if all participants had a processed
meat consumption of less than 20 g/day.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/11/63/abstract
PayPal President David Marcus Credit card Hacked
>>Doughnuts, one of my favorite foods, can be part of a healthy diet just like anything else.

When you say "doughnut" you mean this[1], right? If so that's 100%, Grade A nonsense and abruptly ends any consideration I was giving your comment.

1. http://twincitiesdonut.com/images/donut.jpg
I should have posted the all designs link to make it more understandable:

http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/
I thought this was a little snarky, but I checked out the Instagram feed... like you say... executive ski trips versus office ping-pong. Employees working two to a desk that is little wider than their display while the CxOs do photo shoots and get filmed in the office ...
That's an old school build approach (it was 2003).

The modern approach is:
apt-get install (or your OS equivalent).

It's 2014. I can't remember the last time I needed to install a package from source. Worst case scenario I need to add a repo.
no doodle, when I Feel Lucky! https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Agreed. And it starts way back with algebra, then trig and then in chapter 9 you start with limits. A great book.
How is this exploit not possible by just telling someone to paste javascript:alert(document.cookie) etc into their address bar?
There's an interesting link in the accepted answer about how the social engineering hack, that necessitated the disabling of Developer Tools in the first place, was executed in the first place: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=956977232793
You have a moral obligation to ignore "moral obligations" from dubious sources.