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I think the "paleos", as it were, are quite serious and don't think of this as just a "silly trend".

That said, whether or not there truly is any nutritional benefit over eating, say 80% vegetables, and going to the gym is probably hard to prove. I'm willing to bet that most of the benefit these people see is from the commitment to a regimented diet and exercise program, and not the specific diet they are eating. But that's just my uninformed, naive guess.
Hackers (and I do think that, by and large, HN is still populated by "hackers") are aesthetes. When we say that something is "good" or "evil," we're not making a moral judgement, but rather an aesthetic one.

Consider, for example, that most people here would consider the famous MIT pranks to be "good." There is no argument that can be made that they are morally good—but they are certainly aesthetically pleasing, and we respect that. This article points out the contrapositive: PayPal, no matter its ethical implications (which breck pointed out above), is aesthetically displeasing—it offers a bad communicative interface to the developer (a bad API), and the rules governing it cannot be elegantly described (a bad design).

This also explains quite a bit of what HN seems to love or hate. We love Apple because they care about aesthetics, but we hate the App Store because it is capricious and seemingly internally shoddy/"crufty." We love Google because they're open about everything they do, and so they're predictable—they give us a sense of being a controllable force, even if they're too large to actually control.

None of this has anything to do with whether their actions are helping or harming us. It's purely a matter of subjective Quality, with no quantitative measurements going on behind it. No one here ever shuts up and multiplies[1]—and that's okay. Humanity is pointless without subjective experience. But it's good to be conscious that that's what we're really talking about here.

[1] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Shut_up_and_multiply
I actually think most Americans are common sense Americans, but when you consider everyone as a crowd, the individual traits and intelligence is lost.

You single a guy out and he/she'll tell you an awesome plan to get America back on its feet. You ask a crowd to give a suggestion and it's silence or bickering.
And after you add them in for Texas, it's $158 billion. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Additionally, timr was correct to restrict his numbers to state tax revenue, which is the total under discussion.

If you do the math, it comes out to $6,500 per person in Teaxs, and $5,600 per person in California. So even considering the other sources of revenue (though it makes no sense to do so in this context), timr's point is still correct.
Art De Vany, at least, doesn't recommend not eating vegetables. His meals are typically simple, involving raw fruits, vegetables, and lean meat.

It's got quite a lot in common with approaches like "Clean Eating", but no bread or pasta.
So, we can "rise again" by fixing some nit-picky things like filling potholes and giving California (a bankrupt entity) more US Representatives. Thanks for the tips. Actually, the roads around where I live are pretty good.

the absolute pillars of American strength: continued openness to immigration, and a continued concentration of universities that people around the world want to attend.

Whatever you think of immigration, there's really a logical problem with the above thought. America is a place that consists of people, who are solely responsible for America's greatness...NOT theoretical future inflows of other people. His assertion can't be tested. It's a guess, no different than saying: "My upcoming policy of betting red on the roulette wheel is the source of my wealth. Because it worked before."

China and India are the countries on the ascendancy right now [1] and they are not rapidly replacing themselves with other nations, and would probably not appreciate the suggestion that doing so would be the "pillar" of their strength. This writer, of course, had to say it because it's ideologically required thinking.

[1] The US's ascendancy can be roughly marked from 1920 to 1965, a period of very low immigration.
ops, 3 and 5 not 5 and 7.
Once a coworker found a bug that would not happen in the mornings - a timestamp was being rounded instead of truncated so in the afternoon it would round off to the next day.

Another similar anedocte: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
Nearly all instances of "we'll run out of oil" are calls to action to innovate and adapt to ensure that the problem never comes to pass.

Claiming it's a bet against that is disingenuous at best.
I'd like to see someone who has a real crap phone review one of these smart phones. I have an old Nokia 6101 and believe most of the reviewers to be spoiled (no offence intended). Reviews are always in comparison to an iPhone or a crackberry. If I haven't used one of those, will these minor annoyances mean anything to me?

My 6101 does what it's supposed to do and I think it does well, especially in my fringe area. On that note, why are radio specs never included? I've had 2 other phones and had to go back to the old Nokia because reception sucked.
I took it to mean general queries. Anyway I often format my query for google & that gets me to the article much faster.
Google, what have you done to my phone?
I have had my N1 since Google gave them out to employees. I also spent several months with Android last year. My second and third impressions were the same as the first -- that it's quite poor compared to the iPhone, and that its only redeeming feature is that it has a few applications that the iPhone does not. Are those impressions also wrong?
I believe you are correct! See http://www.texasbudgetsource.com/texas-budget-overview
> Nearly all instances of "we'll run out of oil" are calls to action to innovate

Hardly. In my experience, most alarmist calls about the finite nature of oil or resource xyz come with it a series of proposals to regulate or "conserve" whereas prices in and of themselves provide incentives to increase supply either through greater extraction/technology or substitutes.
To get that discussion started, any decent games on Android would be nice.
What if they are not improved by doing that? What if women actually respond "better" to not being listened to? If that's (empirically) true, is that acceptable? I think the parents are asking how we can go about wrangling with gender roles, when maybe we're just programmed to be shitty to each other. It's not a secret that our social interactions are still hierarchical, as disgusting as that is.
buyfriend? intentional, mistake, or Freudian?
Sadly, of the top 10, only 1 has a link to the text. And the link doesn't work. And a basic search for the title of the article doesn't work on the website (though it is hosted there, by that identical title. And an advanced search-by-title finds it).

It also seems to imply that most of the judges haven't read everything, even the top 10, as there are so few comments on the works, and few have usefully descriptive nominator's comments. Basically, if you haven't read the works, you don't really know why they're influential.

Some nominator statements include:

URLs to the content, with no description.

"This one is a must!"

"An important book, but certainly not what launched cognitive psychology! At best, it helped baptize it with a name."

"For more information on Brunswik and current work in the Brunswikian tradition...".

Gee, thanks for those eloquent descriptions of why you nominated that particular item.
Digidorm live again - Took all of your advice
About 8 weeks ago I submitted questions for a critique of my business www.digidorm.com. I took the advice of many responders - made it much easier to register, much clearer in the header of the site what it is to be used for, and redesigned the GUI a bit to clarify hi-level content.
I'm now resubmitting for further feedback. I added a scholarship contest to try and generate more traffic to the site (details at www.digidorm.com/contest) - perhaps you can feedback on that as well?
Thanks. The feedback was very valuable last time and I look forward to your responses again..James
I believe he is trying to qualify why this article is appropriate for HN. Read the last two sentences. He is refuting the original comment by saying that this story "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". The AI stuff might need a bit of explanation, though.
So you're saying human evolution (what our bodies have evolved to digest and process over the past half million years) should have no bearing on what we eat today? I think that's the silly part.
You're right, I misread the parent's post. It's unclear to me at this point whether the sums actually account for the same basket of incomes, but even if they do you have to admit that after this adjustment timr's point is about 50% less correct than it was before.
I really want to try this! I want to try it with an elliptical. I currently have a little TV in front of it, do you think a projector would be more immersive == more exercise?

Are the 5 sensors really necessary, or would it be ok with just one?
Hit the 'flag' link. If enough people do that, it'll be killed automatically, without need for any mods.
Apparently still not true. Have a look here (California State Per Capita Revenue numbers) 2010E - State: $4015; State+Local: $9050
http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/CA_per_capita_revenue.htm...

and here (Texas State Per Capita Revenue numbers) 2010E - State: $2980; State+Local: $7041
http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/TX_per_capita_revenue.htm...

These tie better back to the US Census numbers (which are only as at 2004 but are on an apples-apples basis): http://www.census.gov/govs/state/04rank.html

The problem is that states do not report revenues in the same ways and some are clearly more creative than others.
You've summed it up very well.
I like your non-partisan approach. At the same time, I wonder; if people who worried about teh terrorists also worried equally about SUVs then maybe their breath would be watered down enough that it wouldn't support encroaching government expansion in either direction. The argument works in the reverse direction as well.
This would be really cool if it used Power instead of speed....
Do you think paleolithic man researched their own distant ancestors to figure out what to eat? I personally doubt it. Why should we?
Wow, you completely misread what I wrote. I wrote that these particular people are eating what they believe is a caveman diet, though in fact it is no more than their own wishful food fantasy, with almost no grounding in history or science.
When a quantum computer is put to work on a problem, it considers all possible answers by simultaneously arranging its qubits into every combination of "zeroes" and "ones."

This has got to stop.
OT, which do people think will replace economics - cognitive science or quantitative finance?
Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds
As one small point, Greenspun waxes eloquent about the "big government" stupidity of the Berkeley Tool Lending Library.

Well, what is the Berkeley Tool Lending Library? It's a couple of sheds and some low-hours guys there taking care of the equipment. We got wheelbarrows, we got various small power tools, we got rotor tillers, we got tree pruning equipment, some ladders, etc. Lots of people benefit but, by eye, I'd say the main beneficiaries are homeowners who otherwise would have to buy under-used equipment from Home Depot or hire a contractor. The budget is freaking small. The social benefits (including bottom-line contribution to the local economy) is freaking huge. He's talking through his hat on that point, at the very least.
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We are omnivores like raccoons, we can and did eat just about anything from plants and fresh kills to rotting meat and insects. We gorged on fruit when in season and starved when we could not find anything. We even eat each other and feces like dogs from time to time. Which is why we can still eat just about anything for long periods of time and survive.
Do these "cavemen" concern themselves with hygiene? Or practice safe sex? Or take medicine? Or live to see 40? Those should be among many decidedly non-Paleolithic habits which these "cavemen" should be very much against.
Trying to imagine the GIL coping with managing the entire world.. now there's a dystopian vision!
That's what I mean. If Lucas has trademarked "droid", that can't possibly apply for a piece of software. Motorola might have a problem, though.
Folks, we have a 1st place winner of the 2010 HN Science Fair here. Seriously though, way to think outside the box. X-Box that is, lol.

Really though, nice job, I’m impressed. This is an interesting invention.
You're right on the 1st 1/2. Concerning AI, it's certainly artificial, but how intelligent does it need to be to be considered AI (at least, by the general population)? People seem to be using Google Suggest to get answers to real questions (or at least entertain themselves). If a useful answer is returned, is it not "intelligence?"
Definitely, without this approach Superman III wouldn't have had a plot and Office Space would have sucked even worse.
This reminds me of how I started "programming", making bots for online text-based mmorpgs with AutoIt V3 (http://www.autoitscript.com/), automating
IE. That was a great introduction to programming for me, very simple language with useful functions and great help files.
Since I switched to using Linux, I've been trying to find a Linux equivalent. Of course, a general programming language with an http library could be
used to do what I was initially doing with AutoIt, but it's kind of fun to see windows being manipulated and the mouse moving, keyboard text being
sent out, like a ghost user.

AutoPy gives me an excuse to learn python too. Totally sweet.
The chart says 85.7 billion in 2008, 82.1 billion in 2009, and the text claims $167 for the 2008-2009 biennial.

That's slightly higher than the per-year figure in the original comment:

I don't think he's correct.
I see your point, I would counter that users almost expect everything for free these days and getting them to pay is harder than it was before, but easier than originally?
I don't have any sources to cite, but with my graphic design business I give discounts or cash for referrals. Although just telling people doesn't really seem to do the trick. Instead, get them something in their hand that reminds them about it. I like to use something that is akin to a coupon, but really well designed and on heavy card stock. Perhaps even embossed or foil stamped... all depends on what your marketing dollar looks like.

Probably not the end-all solution you're looking for, but a small hint from my experience.

Goodluck!
Ask HN: trustful VPN proxy provider?
My partner and I are currently running a Facebook application in China. As you may know, Facebook.com is blocked in China and that causes inconvenience. We consider to buy a VPN proxy service but there are too many noise when Google it. We need a VPN service that is trustful and secure, supporting multi-user (< 5) and at a reasonable price (we are startup afterall, < $50 per month is wonderful, < $100 is OK).

Any suggestions?
Well there trying to say that they have a better feature set than a product that's worth over $200 but the average price there getting is $5, it's just devaluing the product.
I've never seen someone so bitter about California weather.
I was planning on doing something similar (but go waylaid). Have you considered Amazon affiliate links?
About Berkeley's poverty rate, it doesn't seem like he considered that just like rich people can move to other states, poor people can move too. Maybe the poverty rate of Berkeley is high precisely because it's better to be poor in Berkeley than in Oakland or Emeryville? When a city cuts down on social services, they are just externalizing the costs onto neighboring communities.

I know that Santa Cruz was trying to get rid of its reputation as "a good place to be homeless in" exactly because homeless people from all over the Bay Area came there.
I think one of the big differences in such a review is that learning to use Android will be even harder, whereas the iPhone is incredibly easy to use, by design. Apple did a great job. I am guessing google has not had as much time/is aiming for the tech crowd at this stage/or it is really really hard to get right.
After reading the paper here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0905.0887, I think that this wasn't actually done on a quantum computer, but rather simulated via PyQuante: http://pyquante.sourceforge.net/#

It's still impressive, but goes to show that we're a long way from practical quantum computing.
Well, there are two issues in my post. 1.) Is the Paleo diet legitimate, and 2.) Is it attracting some douche bag followers.

The answer to the question of whether the movement is attracting idiots is, as evidenced by this article, a clear yes. This is shown in silly comments like: “Another caveman trick involves donating blood frequently. The idea is that various hardships might have occasionally left ancient humans a pint short.”.

The answer to whether the diet is legitimate is I don't quite know. My suspicion is there are things to learn from it, but let's not forget, we aren't cavemen anymore.

The big question for me is does the caveman diet (and there are more than one at this point) work without the caveman lifestyle, and that really would require long term studies, not anecdotes, which is all we see so far.

That being said, it's almost certainly better than the highly processed food most Americans eat right now, but that hardly makes it a first choice for a diet.
If your goal is to create a more immersive experience to encourage yourself to run more, I'd really suggest plotting an outdoor course[1] and trying to run the whole thing. I found nothing motivates me more than that: you always have a set goal and destination in mind, your scenery's always changing, you're outside!, and you can keep tabs on how well you feel past certain landmarks and watch yourself improve over time.

[1] I use gmap-pedometer.com
Yeah that would be a good twist on it, but in a way it always supports that; you can adjust the top speed and bike resistance yourself. The only difference is you need to adjust both controls at once instead of just changing one.
> As easy sources dry up, higher cost reserves become economically feasible.

True, but those reserves are higher cost for a reason: they're harder to extract and have a lower production rate. Frankly, it doesn't matter how much oil there is if you can't bring it to market fast enough to meet demand.
I've always thought Greenspun's articles were interesting and well written, so I'm disappointed to see such a transparently ideological and sarcastic article.
Alpha implies that there's something that somewhat works. I wouldn't consider just parsing something as working, myself.
It's not necessary if you're going to get up to a constant speed and don't plan on stopping much, or if you're playing a game that lets you effectively brake while you're giving gas.

I couldn't comment on which games are good about this, I haven't tried.
I'm not going to say you're wrong, because I'm not really in a position to argue that. However, we're talking about Volkswagen vs BMW here, not horse and buggy vs car.
In precisely the same sense, nothing implies anything. So why single out causality?
Aren't they required by the California constitution to maintain certain percentages of spending for education? Among other things?

You have to weigh reduced spending with the consequences of that, and sometimes maybe running a deficit is better.

That's not to paint too rosy a picture- California is doing plenty of absurd things with its money, but much of that is mandated by the propositions, not a choice by the legislature (Three strikes means more, unavoidable, prison expenses, the high speed rail bond fiasco, the extravagant research bonds that inevitably get approved and squandered).
Clickable: http://digidorm.com

I remember that thread, James. It looks like you've made decent progress and have heeded the advice from commenters here.

It is always a process to build that visual argument on a homepage to sell visitors on the concept. If I could change one thing, it would probably be to whittle down your pitch into one sentence and blow up that text up so it's extremely prominent. (e.g. "Digidorm: blog with us about your university and win a $1k scholarship.") Way to iterate and ask for feedback.
This sounds like the guy who asks "but can it make phone calls" whenever a new smart phone comes out. Some people don't want that stuff, they just want to make calls. Sad, old people.
Why would cognitive science or even behavioral economics would replace mainstream economics at all?

At best, behavioral and cognitive economics would complement it, rather than replace it. Incentives, marginal utility, and scarcity and other concepts would still exists.

Quantitative finance? That doesn't deal with economic. It is just counting money.
Well, it's Intel + Apple, so it's not quite the lone gunslinger situation you suggest. ;-)
Crime has been down, down, down since the 1970s. It's because of hard-ass policies. Joe Sixpack understands what it means to be mugged.
Our compiler parses ANI soo much faster than GCC compiles whole programs, it makes GCC look pathetic!
The best part of that page was the ad for the Google Nexus One at the bottom that Google chose to show me. But I don't care, because Google does a pretty good job.
ING Direct doesn't have a strict minimum balance, but will close your account if you use too many "free" services or if you need to much personal support.

"We fire our customers is a colorful way of putting it," said ING Direct's Kuhlmann. "While the banking business says the customer is always right, we're online guys and you can only do business with us in a certain way."

-- "4% interest...why not bank online?" (http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/02/pf/debt/internet_banking/ind...)
I took Lakoff's class on this last semester. It's quite cool stuff as it gives an understanding of how we think.

Check out these books if you are interesting. We used the first as our textbook. (His writing is like his teaching.)
* Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
* Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being
Simple solution to the RF energy density problem: pop the phone and "harvester" into your microwave and nuke it on high for 3 hours. Bingo, full charge.

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-oroNqAbs
Not sure why people downvotes his comment.

Price systems are natural means of conserving/rationing resources.