skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safe liposuction. (Going to be a few self-righteous "just eat less and exercise" replies to this one by metabolically advantaged folks who haven't got the slightest clue how difficult it can be to lose weight when your body doesn't want to cooperate.)

Metacognition can help with this (at least until safe weight-loss pills are invented).

The following worked for me: I taught myself to enjoy the suffering associated with weight loss/fitness. Basically, I made feeling hunger/muscle soreness my short term goal. When I didn't feel feel hungry/tired, I actively tried to feel it.

Using that strategy, I went from about 300lb to 210lb. (Switching that strategy off once I reached 210lb was also a bit tough. )

In the past year, I've used the same strategy (making muscle soreness my goal) to gain about 15 lb of muscle.

To learn Eskrima (fighting with a short club), I also make bruises a short term goal. This encourages me to fight people far above my level, which teaches you far more than fighting people at your level.
> how can we create our own silicon valley here?

You do it with laws that make it easy to start a company and that make it cost-effective to invest money in a local startup. Tax reductions are one way. Simple processes are another. Labor laws that distinguish between startups and established companies are yet another.

Here in Brazil we have labor laws that more or less make it prohibitively expensive you from legally starting a tech company, bureaucracy that's absolutely maddening, and an equally insane tax code.
Not sure about the legal stuff, but I'm still curious about the making money part. So the business model is either 1) advertising, or 2) getting acquired? That's what I think of when I hear "Web 2.0 business."
Times Square is not depicted in Blade Runner. The city in the film is Los Angeles.
easy to setup music system: buy x speakers, just put them where you want them (connect to electricity), decent music quality (varying sizes of speakers), they all play music from one computer somewhere in the house (wifi). About 80$ per average speaker (not 3 or 400$ as the current systems)
Can anyone else not find Myspace? Has it really shrunk that much?
Funny follow-up ... Ridley Scott, the director of BR, is also a producer of the TV show "Numbers".

There is a scene where two of the FBI agents are walking through the mall area where parts of BR were filmed (where Deckard looks for, chases, and ultimately kills the dancer replicant as she crashes through the glass) and they make references to how "Ridley Scott saw this all coming" and "this area looks like something out of Blade Runner" ...
Wait, isn't that the same effect as a mono signal with one speaker wired backwards? If so, that 'head-swimming' sound that results is awful, and the out of phase drivers will kill much of the bass response.

I'm very surprised that this trick was ever used in industry; after all, if someone listened to that old film on a single speaker TV, the signals would sum to zero and you'd have no audio at all! (And yes, our local cable company has managed this very stunt from time to time...flip to mono and the audio goes away.)
Recycling is Bullshit; Make Nov. 15 Zero Waste Day, not America Recycles Day
"[T]he ultimate revenue model may surprise you. as the product develops and evolves and your community grows, the revenue model is likely to reveal itself in an entirely new way."

Or fail to materialize altogether. Remember the dot-com bust?

"Scale first, monetize second" can be a recipe for disaster. (It can also work well, but that doesn't make it a general-purpose rule.)
Easy to use tracking of stolen car (I live in Colombia): put small device that costs about 60$ somewhere in your car. If it gets stolen, activate via internet service and it tells you where your car is.
The halting problem (in finite time).
The ugly truth: Security vendors can't solve many threats
A good photo management system for Windows that is designed to be useful over 10, 20 years (ie. keeps your photos stored, backedup, organized in a way that's not too proprietary). Picasa is powerful but has a CRAP ui, iPhoto is much better, but Mac only.
So far they're ignoring me. I guess I'll know I've "made it" when scum-sucking web parasites start feeding off my internet blood.
Or just flag the link since it doesn't work.
ET Jaynes solved it indirectly in his book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science(1). As a tl;dr, it turns out that knowledge--as it's defined in the problem of induction--doesn't exist.

(1) http://www-biba.inrialpes.fr/Jaynes/prob.html
Something (website) to replace my new car's manual with something that's actually useful: teach me about my new car, common probloems, how to maintain it myself, etc...
Africa would be mostly empty, for a start.
"If the government doesn't value the privacy of criminals, and the government is invading your privacy, then they must think you're a criminal. And if the government thinks your a criminal, who am I to argue?"

No, it lacks logic, it's not really fair, and it does stoop to their level. But damn, it sure does feel good in the short term, and frankly, puts them on the defensive.
How about their customers/users or comprehensiveness of data? The biggest thing that stops me moving from Facebook to competitor X is that all my friends are on Facebook and not competitor X. Similarly, would you prefer to use Foursquare with stuff and people already in your city, or competitor Y in which your city is barren?

Of course this leaves many startups out, since this doesn't apply to them.
Pretty sure we already have those... they're called "trees"
Wow. I don’t claim to know specifically where the line between “journalism” and “propaganda piece” lies but I think this article crosses it.

The way I see it this article’s points fall into two categories.

The first is using alarmists as examples and pretending no one else is concerned about privacy. Yes, the folks who thought Google Street View was an invasion of privacy were a little extreme but they certainly don’t represent the only people who are concerned about keeping things private.

The second thing this article does is to obscure the point with restrictive surveys. Yes, teens generally don’t care about their privacy because they don’t have professional reputations to up hold or jobs to lose. It’s when you start building a life for yourself that you realize how tragic it would be to lose your lifestyle because you said something stupid on Facebook. So using teens as your only data point is misleading.

In the end this is a Google propaganda piece IMHO. Google benefits from things being public because the more public stuff that’s out there the more ads they can sell. It’s hard to make money off a private profile that’s only visible to someone’s immediate friends and family.

(On that note, what's CNet thinking having a reporter who is married to a company employee cover that company?)
How about a re-usable electricity storage method with a power density equal to or better than petroleum?
Eventually some would move back, after having made their money in the US, and gained a lot of experience and knowledge in the process.

Stopping people from moving isn't the solution to fostering innovation.
An easy to use tool to connect my blog to all my various accounts (twitter, facebook, buzz, bla). that really focuses on letting me post easily. The current crop doesn't really seem to work for me.
Simply pointing out it's a crazy letter written by a mentally ill person who hadn't even seen it.

I'm curious why you feel a person's mental health has anything to do with the correctness of his/her writing. It's an obviously incorrect idea, but I'm wondering why you hold it.
Few voters will express their true preferences and will go instead with 'the lesser evil' when they fear their option will be in a small percentile and discarded. It is not unusual to have systems where 5% is required for a party to get into the parliament, or for a nominee to get into preliminary rounds, etc.
So one cannot expect a voting system to incorporate all voter's preferences if they are very small but a warm-up voting would reveal that the fringes that big media avoids covering can become popular.
my two hour commute :(
(this may exist) for teaching to drive a car, a way for the person in the passanger seat to see exactly which pedals the person driving is pushing. Should be cheap (50$) and easy to install/uninstall (10 mins)
I have a simple, genuine question. Why do smart people from countries with the highest quality of life in the world want to immigrate to the US?
Take the concept of a cheap car (like the one they did in India for about 1000$) and expand. No reason cars need to cost 15000$ and up.
Industrial-scale production of real bio (no pesticides etc) food.
With More Than Enough Apps, Apple Pushes for Quality
seriously though, we need to have term limits in politics - across all levels. i'm tired of career politicians who have completely lost touch with the reality of everyday Americans.
iPad Available for Pre-Ordering - Online Orders Arrive Day of Release
Sounds like you want a CrunchPad er.. JooJoo ;)
for what it's worth i just gave up on gmail over privacy. i've returned to mutt via ssh. i realise that's probably too old-school for most, but i've been making notes if anyone want to do the same. http://www.acooke.org/cute/LeavingGMa0.html is the first post with the general setup (in particular, using mairix to replace gmail's tags and search) and http://www.acooke.org/cute/EfficientS0.html goes into detail about how to get spam levels down to the same low level as gmail (ie practically none).
He's not kickstarting it with Wikipedia. Mahalo is not new.

The two main issues with all of these scraped pages is that a) Jason recently boasted how Wikipedia was, in his words, simply a "free for all" (thus leaving the impression that he feels that his site was therefore better, being moderated), and b) that his pages were all UGC built by "his" users, not bots.
Just ordered two of of the 64GBs, with cases and docks- the trick's going to be having them get through customs without too much of a delay, since we need them in Argentina and Hungary.
Science fiction is different than regular fiction, in that it has (surprise) science in it.
Ray Bradbury is far from real science fiction.
The company's 5 years old; we have a lot of people. I have two cofounders (Dave & Jeremy), both in NYC (we're in Chicago). When we started, Erin had a different job outside Matasano.
I've found the success of a work Science Fiction as a work of literature is closely correlated to how far removed it is from present day society. Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World are both fairly close to society today, as far as Science Fiction goes. Richard Powers has had great success writing about things like virtual reality (Plowing the Dark) and artificial intelligence (Galatea 2.2), but his works are even closer to present day than Bradbury or Huxley. The Foundation Series, while not quite on Powers's level, are still incredible books that might just belong in the class of real literature. I don't think it will ever get there though because its world isn't coupled closely enough with the one we know.
This is good! Is this only at participating locations?

Watch out, don't sleep on foursquare! I really believe that it'll continue to get bigger and bigger.
Kerala's love affair with alcohol
This stuff happens all the time. I paid $200 to "volunteer" to work at the PGA Senior Open
It says they're on a tourist visa (B2) - a B1 really wouldn't gain anything - they'd still have to leave every 3 months, and be questioned more closely each time they come back.
Okay, sure, if you have a ton of funding and love throwing money away, then this is a great plan.

Scalability can be bought, but not without cold hard cash. A decent product and related revenue model has to be built.
I have a number of Dutch friends. They moved to California for the weather, job opportunities, and to escape the attitudes of their families and fellow countrymen. These are also the same reasons people move from other states within the USA to California.
It's there with e.g. the recur kludge (which some people prefer, instead of the implicit style where if you get the position wrong you blow your stack) and real support is waiting for support in the JVM, which with any luck will happen in the next version of Java.
I'm 38 and am indeed quite into sci-fi. I saw Blade Runner in the theater in 1982. None of that has any bearing on whether that guy is up himself.

I prefer to read things I see here without any context or preconceptions. I'll often get to the bottom of an article or all the way back to the comments here before I discover it was written by somebody I'm familiar with. I thinks that's helpful because it keeps your mind free of bias while you're soaking up what's written on the page.

I'd suggest reading the letter again without any preconceptions and see if it seems a bit self-important.
It goes further than that. It can easily be set up so that the first founder and his wife each get 1/4 and the second founder gets half to balance the power. This is done all the time.

The trouble comes when two founders own 1/2 each and one dies or gets divorced and then the spouse asserts an ownership (or worse, control) claim against the startup.

Here in the US, if not specifically set up otherwise, my wife would automatically get my shares (and voting power) in the event of my death. If she then wanted to "just sell the damn thing for whatever we can get for it now" just to get some quick cash, there would be little the other founder(s) could do about it if I had sufficient shares.
Here's what it may feel like: to big to replace your iPhone or iPod, no keyboard or mouse so it won't replace your laptop. A "three-handled family credenza" with no place in your life.
Which probably doesn't relate much to laboratory modification of your genome.
What's funny to me is that Americans keep talking about Canada and Britain, when the best systems in the world are in France, Germany, and Japan.
This isn't correct. Science fiction routinely has elements that violate the laws of physics and nature as we know them today. Having actual science is in most cases a disqualifier (there is some SF that sticks to science, but that's hardly the norm). If your imagination is required for the work to make sense, it's probably not science.
True, but that's a lot of never ending work. If you control the horizontal and vertical you can I imagine without too much work achieve this narrow "it just works" goal.

One of my current projects is targeted at Xen; I can see myself taking the same approach someday.
Sigh. It's not only and indeed not primarily about price. What about the effects on the environment of growing and transporting that rice?
Also I sure would like to go on a hike in the mountains without needing to carry 25 Kg of food for a week.
It is not silly, you are looking at it very conservatively.
My parents started a company together. My mom had more drive and interest in managing, so as they grew she became CEO while my dad continued to tinker with IT. They've been working together for ~16 years, their company is doing OK, but my dad hasn't seemed happy about the situation in a long time.
i just reported a bunch of pages. i hate Jason Calacanis's shady bussiness practices and employees exploitation.
I'm curious why you consider the nutty idea that mental health is completely orthogonal to one's ability to write 'correctly' obvious. If your ability to perceive reality is impaired (say, you're delusional or clinically paranoid or otherwise irrational) you're likely to have a very difficult time accurately representing and interpreting reality in writing.
"eXistenZ" is the only good PKD movie I know about, although it is not directly based on one specific book.

Also you've got to read all the short stories. They are better than the novels in my opinion.
Simply based on the victims' experiences, this seems more in line with ergot poisoning than a mass LSD experiment.

Acid trips are different for everyone, and the experience is heavily influenced by environment: physical, mental, and spiritual. In such a quiet, rural village, it is hard to believe everyone would have such similarly terrifying experiences. A few, perhaps, but the majority would be non-threatening.

Ergot poisoning, on the other hand, carries all the symptoms the villagers had, mania as well as convulsions.

Perhaps Mr. Albarelli gives the CIA a little too much credit.
A Study In Kith by Andrew Sorensen. Awesome live coding
The Martian Chronicles is SF, maybe not Hard SF, but SF.
That's where the limit between SF and fantastic is blury, but in that regard Dick is sometimes more fantasy, or not so science (consider Time Out of Joint for instance, probable inspiration for the Truman Show).
I think it would work out ok. There are plenty of wealthy Americans who would flock to Italy, for instance, if it were easier. And plenty of Europeans who might give a job in the US a whirl and then go home. And plenty of Americans who would love to spend a year working in Europe. And vice versa.

I don't think you'd see big imbalances between areas with roughly equivalent living standards.
Depends on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_map_of_countries_by_...
I think it is kind of nice that you can suddenly revive a submission or dive into old commentary.

Perhaps you shouldn't display anything older than 3 months, as after 3 months one can re-submit the page.
Developer Tools in Firefox: What next?
People who follow "fail fast" actually work a lot harder, than those living in dreams for years, VC how throw good money after bad money and then fail.

No idea where the notion "fail fast" = easily give up comes from.
I agree, the Founding Fathers believe rights are inherent in being human, and given by God. The had no use for atheists. I am mostly an atheist myself, still I am aware I am born into a country founded on faith and pragmatism both. This is not wholly a bad thing. Those that attack simple expressions of faith stand on uncertain ground. Whose interests are served by denigrating faith?
I'll grant that monetizing advertising without scale may be futile. However, the flip side of this is that monetizing too late shapes a company into a VC addict, always pushing the fund raising lever for another scale pellet. Few media sites make it at all, hoping they can scale their way to viability. At a certain point, entrepreneurs need to tell VC's to get out of the way with their the-first-hit-is-free scale advice.
True; at the same time, though, implementing a simple firewall on a router with equivalent security to NAT is actually simpler than implementing NAT itself: block incoming connection initiation packets by default, e.g. SYN packets in TCP, UDP packets whose destination & source IP & port don't match recent previous packets. (and just drop unknown transport layer protocols) That logic is identical to NAT, except the packets just need to be accepted or dropped, never rewritten.
I'm curious why you consider the nutty idea that mental health is completely orthogonal to one's ability to write 'correctly' obvious. If your ability to perceive reality is impaired (say, you're delusional or clinically paranoid or otherwise irrational) you're likely to have a very difficult time accurately representing and interpreting reality in writing.

If a mentally ill person writes down 1+1=2, the fact that they are mentally ill does not make them any less correct. Being mentally ill may or may not affect the probability that a person will write something correct, but that has nothing to do with the actual correctness of what is ultimately produced. Attempting to disprove what was in the letter by pointing to the author's mental illness is just you being intellectually lazy. You might as well have used his physical height or eye color. These attributes are equally valuable in disproving the correctness of ideas.
Having the tech available would indeed not prevent anyone from using the old ways. I wonder why not answer this to all proposals in this topic as those problems being solved would make people stop doing stuff the old way.

Also you miss a huge point: with such magic pills there would be no team. You would not need cranking out software for industries that would go away entirely if the problem was solved or for niche domains that would also become irrelevant. Most of our problems and solutions we are looking for today are indirectly related to our need to live and thus eat. Name one problem outside the realm of metaphysics, arts, emotions and the like that is not solved if the food problem is solved.
Twitter Data Suggests A New Class Of Web User - 80/20 Rule Applies
Interesting opportunity for viral bots - scan local subnet and report addresses found. The entire IPv6 space will be mapped soon after widespread adoption I imagine.
The Single Page Interface Manifesto
Stanford has the Clean Slate program to address the broken IP stack.. Still in its infancy.
cleanslate.stanford.edu
I know that I shouldn't but I'll bite. It's not about denigrating faith. It's about not having GOD shoved in your face by government. Simple, really, and I doubt your claim of near-atheism.
From imdb:
The truman show 8.0
Minority report 7.7
Blade runner 8.3
Total recall 7.4
How the Internet threats universities and newspapers in the same way
One thing I wonder - it seems like poor practice to take down the site just to add a new product. Seems like they could do better. On the other hand it could just be part of the hype cycle.
maybe the desert in aggregate is a boltzmann brain.

This leads to the Boltzmann brain concept: If our current level of organization, having many self-aware entities, is a result of a random fluctuation, it is much less likely than a level of organization which is only just able to create a single self-aware entity. For every universe with the level of organization we see, there should be an enormous number of lone Boltzmann brains floating around in unorganized environments. This refutes the observer argument above: the organization I see is vastly more than what is required to explain my consciousness, and therefore it is highly unlikely that I am the result of a stochastic fluctuation.

The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of self-aware brains.
Its actually not to shabby in windows 7. It also gets better the more you use it.
I've run into several happy founding couples (not married, just dating). They rarely publicize it, so at first glance it seems to be less common than it actually is.
My wife and I cofounded our company. She is very good at product development and relationship building and I handle the technical side.

Plus since we have a near psychic connection our meetings are very short.
Apple Part #MC497LL/A
I hope this helps more people find apps they might like. The new iTunes layout seems to encourage people to NOT read the description at all (sales on one of my apps just dropped 40% due to a bad review - the first review after the latest update). Indexing on 100 chars of keywords is the only way you can find something in iTunes, but there's more to most apps than that.
The words "under God" did not come from the Founding Fathers, they were added by Eisenhower in 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pledge_of_Allegiance#Additi...
Indeed. His name is Geoff Stearns, blog: http://blog.deconcept.com/