seasonalgrit

Agreed that alcohol is Bad. Not related to sleep, but there is also lots of science stacking up now on the connection between alcohol and cancer.

If examine.com's metaanalsyses are based on legitimate research papers -- and you've read some of the papers yourself and find that they indeed provide support for the article citing them -- then i'd say yeah, use the site.

i guess to respond to your question: most biomedical research today is eminating from universities and university-affiliated entites. page for page, i generally wouldn't expect a .com web site -- the majority of which are probably just attempting to generate advertising revenue -- to be on par in terms of accuracy etc with a .edu site. generally, I've found one of the best ways to improve the signal-to-noise ratio is to filter to a specific set of domains (e.g., ,edu, .gov) when searching online.

Thanks for noting this. Their web site design (as well as the use of a dotcom domain) gives a misleading impression

Both of those sites appear to be money-making ventures that sell vitamins; I wouldn't consider them reliable sources.

Here is a university page with information:

http://www.umm.edu/health/medical/altmed/supplement/vitamin-...

" If this were any other manufacturer, they would be burnt at the stake."

Nah. Look at Samsung: you can make a TV that spies on you, a washing machine that explodes, and a smartphone that spontaneously catches on fire. And then go take a look at how their stock is doing this year.

We've reached the pavlovian phase of western consumer culture: we'll just keep on buying and buying and buying, no matter what.

in employment negotations, the only time you should start signing anything is when you have a job offer letter in hand with the salary you want, and the name of your manager, both in writing on that letter.

(rare exception: sometimes you might get asked to sign an NDA prior to being brought in for an onsite interview. even then, I would think very very carefully about signing it.)

My two cents: don't put companies on a pedestal -- we are certainly nothing special to them, after all. don't do anything you're not 100% comfortable about.

Putting an unknown substance into another person's beverage at a bar is a good way to get yourself arrested.

I was looking at a course and noticed this:

"This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad."

That's lame. For years, iTunes U materials used to be available in iTunes store, accessible via macOS and Windows. Now Apple wants me to buy an iPad? Hell no.

[edited for concision/focus.]

Thank you for sharing that link. I am not familiar with Russakoff's work and it looks very thought-provoking.

The proper way to improve education in a community is to get involved with the existing school systems -- the schools are already there. Be wary of ideologues possessing way too much money combined with an impoverished sense of ethics (e.g., Zuckerberg) who shun existing civic institutions and go off to start their own for-profit/corporate 'schools' instead.

"It's not your place to tell people what to do with their own bodies."

Come on, that's ridiculous.

E.g., if a loved one is abusing alcohol, it is definitely your place to intervene.

When you have to threaten someone on your team, you've reached rock-bottom as a manager; all you're really accomplishing is convincing your team to leave for greener pastures.

Wasn't entirely sure if this was a sincere post, or some sort of unfunny burlesque of some kind. Assuming it's sincere, then the author of this blog post couldn't be more wrong about how to manage a software team. If a manager-type started going full-on micromanagement on me ("add a private var to this class now! rawr!"), bandies about the term 'insubordiation', and generally believes they're entitled to my unthinking obedience, then congrats: you've successfully convinced me to start floating my resume so I can get the hell out of that shitshow. I'm an educated, experienced software engineer with multiple degrees and life's too short to put up with that bullshit.

If you're going to go with a functional approach (which he introduces in the section "How to avoid 'this'"), instead of creating a brand-new function for each particular piece of data (e.g., setName, setGreeting) -- which will result in a ton of extra code -- just use a simple, generic assoc function.

"Inventing a class with its own interface to hold a piece of information is like inventing a new language to write every short story." -- Rich Hickey

fyi, the company Functional Works is basically a tech recruiting agency.

"the HTTPS and IPv6 anti-vaxxer crowd "

What does this mean?

sounds like the latest predatory scam in for-profit 'education':

step 1: name your for-profit entity such that it sounds like an actual university, even though it isn't.

step 2: talk about how much you want to help out poor students so they're not in debt.

step 3: student ends up paying quite possibly the same amount of money equivalent to the debt they might accrue from a 4-year degree

step 4: student finds themself SOL in the long run since they do not possess a college degree

finally, here's a gem right from the company's home page: "Refer a student that joins and you'll both receive $250." oh dear.

Not OP, but in the United States, Americans' right to privacy is protected by the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

i did not downvote you. asking for a source is not a bad thing.

in addition to what i posted above, this paper is a good summary of what we know at this point: doi:10.1038/nrc3725

"as far as we can all tell he is avoiding the horrible health effects"

No. Nicotine is a carcinogen. Forgive my surprise, but I'm absolutely blown away that this isn't common knowledge in 2017.

Edit: I appreciate the distinction that folks are making as far as what constitutes a carcinogen. Yes, the science we have today falls short of us classifying nicotine as a 'complete carcinogen'. If that makes you sleep better, then ok, but the science shows carcinogenicity in vitro, and substantial ability to promote tumor growth, metastasis, and recurrence in vivo [0][1][2][3].

Your friend is also potentially exposing himself and those around him to formaldehyde and diacetyl and so on, which is present in many e-cigarette liquids.

Folks: eat healthy, get a bit of exercise, read good books, and most of all, develop relationships with people you truly trust. If you find yourself needing to rely on smoking or drinking to get you through the week, take a step back and garbage-collect your life and decide if you're living the life you want, or if it's a life that's in need of radical restructuring.

[0] doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007524

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7848904

[2] http://www.mdedge.com/ccjm/article/101393/adolescent-medicin...

[3] doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-14-0681

Smokers infringe on my health by exposing me to second-hand smoke and forcing me to ingest nicotine, a known carcinogen. This absolutely needs to be made illegal as far as I'm concerned.

As far as I know, there is no way to sync contacts/calendar over-the-wire (USB) using Android. That's a major ding if one is trying to avoid all things cloud.

(edit: i should add i'm referring to macos)

"About 10 SoFi executives met to discuss the situation; it was then that some of them learned Mr. Cagney had not actually secured the $90 million for the loan product, according to people who were at the meeting. Some attendees said they were dismayed at the possibility that they had made material misstatements to investors."

The litany of business misdealings detailed in this article makes me wonder how SoFi hasn't been fined out of existence by now.

It's interesting you ask. iCal had the option of 2-, 3-, or 4-day view, which I liked a lot. Also, I think iCal did much better job visually distinguishing the current day. But I'm also talking about the task management aspects that had been integrated into iCal. Sure, there's Reminders, but besides being a separate app, it is buggy (crashes a lot) and the ui/ux is nowhere close to what iCal offered.

I really miss iCal, which Apple killed off several years ago.

I'm confused -- i thought Snapchat was for sending pictures that get auto-deleted. I'm honestly not sure how to even keep up with this stuff anymore, other than installing everything and using it, which i don't have the time or inclination for.

"a nicer UI"

ok, I feel a little bad adding to the dogpile here, but . . . one of the great things about email is that it's an open standard -- you can use whatever software you want, or even write your own. the very article we're commenting on is about a new email client offering, among other things, an extremely shiny UI. :p

there are no dates on glassdoor data; is a figure from a year ago or 10 years ago? hard to say.

Backgound:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14559267

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-39300270

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40246754

You're misinformed when it comes to secondhand smoke. From the NIH:

"The U.S. Surgeon General estimates that living with a smoker increases a nonsmoker’s chances of developing lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent."

"There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke."

-- https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...