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saturated fats are still thought to be associated with poor heart health When you remove the passive voice from this, you get something like "The people who've been telling you all fats are bad have been wrong for decades, but
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This issue is addressed in the article: Whether the coywolf actually has evolved into a distinct species is debated. Jonathan Way, who works in Massachusetts for the National Park Service, claims in a forthcoming paper that it has. He thin
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In a parallel development, a hybrid pigeon, hawk, and roadrunner—the "pigeawkrunner"—has emerged in the same environments as the coywolf. Reports that the coywolf's attempts to catch the pigeawkrunner frequently backfire, res
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One important difference between written and spoken language is that in the former case readers have the luxury of looking words up in a dictionary if they don't know them. When speaking, I'm careful to avoid words I suspect might
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Yup, I met Matt Maroon back in '08 when going through YC myself.
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Thanks! I suppose I could have consoled myself with the millions and millions of dollars, but then maybe that just wouldn't have been the same…
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Not sure how big mobile is, but one huge difference is that the major sports leagues have embraced fantasy sports instead of suing the providers.
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I cofounded a daily fantasy sports site in 2004, so it's funny to see FanDuel's 2009 launch date described as "early to market". But the environment for fantasy sports in 2004–2005 was incredibly different, with the majo
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You're welcome. :-)
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PSA: Rather than using underscores, _like this_, at HN you can get emphasized text using asterisks, like this . (I see _emphasis_ almost every day on HN, so IMHO it should support both. But until it does, asterisks are definitely the way
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I can't be 100% sure what Taleb had in mind, but I think the idea is that Stoics are a little more defiant than Buddhists, whose reputation is more for passivity. In fact I truncated the quote, both for brevity and because I don't
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Or, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb put it in Antifragile : "A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude."
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From the source: # Youtube-dl is a proof that god exists.
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Congrats! It's exciting to see how YC continues to grow.
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This is a charitable cause. My guess is that YCR-sponsored organizations will be involved in the kinds of projects that might affect world hunger, etc.
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I'm linking this news post mainly because it offers a 50% launch discount, but you can find the completed Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous tutorial here: http://learnenough.com/command-line Thanks to HN for
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Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous Ebooks(news.railstutorial.org)
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The way to tell the difference between the past and the future is to look at the derivative. For example, in an attempt to get to know Windows better, I recently asked the only top Windows-using dev I know what his environment and tooling l
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N.B. Here I'm exaggerating for effect the same way pg was. Windows still has a huge market share among devs, but Macs dominate among those who are on the leading edge of technology development (such as those who attend, e.g., Elixir or
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When virtually every dev not in gaming is using a Mac, which is the future, and which is the past?
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Ruby and Python as "edgy"? I wrote "slightly edgy", which obviously changes the meaning, or else you wouldn't have deleted a word. And yes, Python and Ruby are slightly edgy compared to, say, Java or C++.
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When two worlds are different, each is "another world" to the other. What pg means is—well, actually, he tells us later in the same paragraph: All the computer people use Macs or Linux now. Windows is for grandmas, like Macs used
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In a similar vein, I find it surreal to realize that Stalin's granddaughter is alive and well and living in Portland, Oregon [1]. [1]: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/11/portlan...
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In Chrome or Safari, typing the URL and hitting Cmd-Enter opens the site in a new tab in the background , allowing you to keep reading the tab you're in. This is why _jomo mentioned "then switch back to the old site to keep on
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I agree completely. I'm currently working on a text editor tutorial [1], and one element I emphasize is learning how to use keyboard shortcuts. Future tutorials [2] will cover shortcuts for browsers and other apps as well. Cmd+L, URL,
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Your response is a non sequitur , which could explain the downvoting (though certainly not by me). My comment was a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANPsHKpti48
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He's thirty minutes away. He'll be there in ten.
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Ah, this explains all the notifications I've been getting trying to get me to go premium. Not that it's a big deal—I can't blame them for trying to monetize—but I had noticed they'd gotten a lot more aggressive lately.
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Yeah, I hate that, too. Maximizing the window worked, though.
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There are at least three exciting things here: 1. A well-known conjecture in number theory has been proven (by Terry Tao, natch). 2. Several elements in the proof arose from an innovative collaborative approach to mathematical research (the

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