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"they aren't cutting down old growth forests"

That's because there are none left. Check out the maps over time here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest#Importance

"the lumber industry gets the bulk of their wood from farms and tracts that are continusouly replanted"

I believe most commercial logging is clear cut. This is devastating to not only trees, but soil, animals, watersheds, migratory birds, and who knows what else down the line.

We need wood, so we have a lumber industry that grows trees and cuts them down. But don't think for a second that replanting a clear cut wasteland with monoculture seedlings is in any way "renewable" or "encouraged".

If you have any doubt about the effectiveness of replanting, zoom in and around British Columbia with google maps. What appears to be a massive unbroken forest is actually riddled with clearcuts.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=54.361358,-125.178223...
Very widely used for non-useful uses of used. There aren't a lot of infinite sets in applied math. (The closest thing that I can think of to an actual application was http://xkcd.com/195/ and the same trick has since been used for visualizing other complicated large linear sets.)
Thanks for the great feedback.
I like it! Really very useful when you working with a geographically separated team.
Their competitors will be very happy
Better yet, eat the oranges.
I'd say people will only spend $1 if they know there are buyers coming to buy. How will you guarantee that?
"Many health systems, including Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), have tried unsuccessfully to implement comprehensive computer systems; patients and doctors often hate them."

When was doctor and patient satisfaction was the most important thing in medicine? is getting better treatment more important ?
Huh? Bad example. "Alternative medecine" that actually works just becomes "medecine". The fact that this happens rarely is due to the fact that most products marketed as alternative medecine are a crock and don't hold up when tested. If anything, the fact that government allows these things to be marketed at all is a perfect example of bureaucracy accepting diversity of thought (when it really shouldn't!)
If the college classes had been more interesting than kindergarten, I would have gone... but the reality was that the professors didn't speak English, the students didn't speak English, and I already knew everything they were teaching me anyway. It wasn't going to work. It depressed me, so I had to leave.

There is being gifted, and being arrogant (and young?). It's hard to tell them apart when reading comments on HN. How do we know if really you knew those thousands of pages already, or if you only thought your knew them.
There are some good points here, but that shorthand they use makes a lot of the post a guessing game. If you wrote this, it might be really great if you fleshed it out so that other people could understand it easily.
> And no, I'm not "gifted". I'm just an average student who likes to understand how things work.

The really smart thing to do would have been to both know how the formulae are derived, and also notice patterns in them that will help you remember them (symmetry, special cases, designing your own mnemonics, etc.).
True. But I've always believed when you're dealing with a C2C business, you have to choose one of the C's to attack first. On the other hand, sellers who pay to sell something that doesn't sell probably don't make great repeat customers.

Perhaps--like posterous again--the service could push the listing to all the existing classified sites. That would probably muddle his proposed business model though.
How about disappointed? I've seen intriguing non-Von architectures for decades, and they always lose out to Moore's Law and the fact that 1,000X more engineering resources are invested in Von Neumann architectures.
This is a good read.

In a class I took with my thesis advisor, he explained the Hilbert Hotel similarly, and it was as entertaining then as this is now.
All grains regardless of how wholesome they are have numerous issues with them.

1. Glycemic index / load...all starchy carbohydrates raise your blood sugar quickly and then cause a crash. This includes both white bleached flour as well as whole grains.

2. Gluten is the protein found in many grains, wheat being the most common. Gluten is responsible for SO many of today's problems. Seriously just google "gluten" paired with any autoimmune disease or other health condition and you will find loads of information. This is not just for people who are diagnosed Celiacs but for all.

3. Lectins are found in all grains and legumes. They are the defense mechanism for the plant to warn off predators to not eat them. They are toxic. When we consume them they are considered "anti-nutrients" and bind to various nutrients in our body such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, etc. The more you eat, the more your body is leached.

4. Calorie per nutrient, grains are horrible. It is impossible to calculate a grain based diet to meet all the recommended intakes while staying below the recommended calories. When you calculate a diet based on lean meats, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and nuts, it appears you are taking in a multivitamin.

5. Grains are acidic and the body is meant to run on an alkaline base. If you end the day leaning towards the acidic side you again start to leach nutrients, specifically calcium from your body. Replacing grains with fruits and vegetables gets you back to the alkaline side. The only acidic foods that should be consumed are grass-fed meats.

The Paleo approach is DEFINITELY the way to go for any person who is trying to get healthier and recover from chronic diseases your doctors have misdiagnosed you with. It is seriously amazing the vast number of misdiagnoses that occur when a holistic nutritional approach isn't considered.
Publishing is an industry full of turmoil at the moment it seems like, what opportunities are being presented as a result of this?
So that's a semi-bluff, if we want to be technical. ;)
if you want to get your head around infinity note that one of the greatest novelists of our time, david foster wallace, wrote a great book about it and cantor: "everything and more".

on a more sensational note, also note that wallace and cantor, both geniuses, also both committed suicide.
For some reason, I'm reading this post with a lot of sarcasm, though upon re-reading I agree with everything said.
Zynga could have FarmVille installed on 100% of iPads and they wouldn't even notice the user number move. 1 million iPads have been sold ever. 25 million people will play FarmVille on Monday. The scale is completely different.

Now, if iPad users monetize better or they can be more spammy than Facebook users, then we might be talking. But you still have to deal with keeping two separate codebases in sync while releasing new features nearly every day.
Interesting. Is it common that older people join FB because of games? According to Inside Facebook, after the earlier trend of older women joining FB, older men are now joining
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/05/03/facebook’s-april-20...
If this is explained by games, and not by "FB as a social service", it's really interesting news.

I haven't heard stories about parents joining FB because of games here in Finland, that's why I'm curious to learn more.
yes, great MVP!
Why would I tell you I knew them if I didn't know I knew them?
Exactly

GI tells at most one fact about a food, and food is more than just its sugar density or its fat content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritionism
Why I feel like a hypocrite for quitting Facebook
I can also attest that the Japanese spend in general a lot more hours at work than Americans (although they are, at least in my experience, rather inefficient - socializing tends to be done on the workplace).
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I don't think it's true that Cantor committed suicide. Wikipedia mentions no such thing, and the bio at http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Cant... says he died of a heart attack at 72.
2peer is a distributed peer-to-peer social network, similar to diaspora. It has downloadable Windows and Mac clients:
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Potatoes are not made up of refined carbohydrates.

If I pull a potato out of my backyard garden, bake it, and then chow down, what part of that has been refined? There's as much fiber in a russet potato than there is in a half-cup of brown rice.

It might be that the cause of diabetes is glucose level spikes and therefore insulin spikes; the video that was posted here last month with the Robert Lustig from UCSF talking suggested it actually something other than insulin that contributed insulin-resistance -- free fatty acids precipitated by the liver. It's not as simple as saying this thing that has spikey behavior is going to become ignored by the body if it keeps spiking. Things that seem analogous aren't always, as much as it would make knowing good from bad so much easier to distinguish.

I won't tell you it's bad for you, but I'll tell you with a pretty damn high amount of certainty something else: both and I and you don't know it is bad for you.

Might there be a risk? Sure. But then we've spent the last thirty years believing something else, saturated fats, were more of a risk than they now appear to be. It might be possible that we are leaping too quickly from possibly correlative to sufficiently causal yet again.

There's a lot in common between the saturated fats craze of the preceding few decades, and the fervor of our new dietary crusades today. I'm not convinced that we've learned a damn thing from that experience, and thus worry we are destining ourselves to looking back on this craze the same way in 30 years. Biochemistry and metabolism just aren't that simple; making it artificially simple doesn't do crap.
That may be true. If so, it makes recognising errors in design more difficult. It doesn't mean they aren't possible.
I think they are. They would lose a massive percentage of their revenue overnight. They could survive separated from Facebook, but they'd be significantly smaller. Their company probably can't afford to shrink that quickly.

They should diversify, but I seriously doubt they'd be stupid enough to do it overnight. Facebook can safely call their bluff.
The article was written in 2003. You forget that was the widely-accepted perception back then.
I don't know about their other games, but a lot of people are addicted to Farmville. Addicts are loyal.
> If we accept that Internet access should be provided by the Verizons, Comcasts, and AT&T's of the world

Why on Earth would we ever "accept" that?
I divide proofs into two groups:

1) Clever little things

2) Long, hard slogs

Cantor's proof is a clever little thing. These sorts of proofs can be daunting at first but they become easier, even delightful, as one becomes more familiar with their kind. If you studied the foundations of math in school for as long as an American student takes English literature courses then these proofs would be second nature to you. They aren't really hard, just written in a language unfamiliar to most people.

Then there are the long, hard slogs. Lemma after lemma, with no clue as to where the author is leading, until finally, after an exhausting march, he bludgeons the reader into accepting his conclusions. These are pretty hard for anybody to understand because you can't hold the whole thing in your head. You just have to convince yourself of the truth of each step.
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Is this more helpful?

http://developers.facebook.com/live_status
That's why I'm trying to spread the word. :-)
while visiting my mom for mother's day, she just told me that zynga and facebook are having disagreements. shocked that she knew this, i let her keep talking without interrupting her. (she's the type who doesn't know what a browser is, so i had no idea how she knew about this tech company relationship. i wondered if zynga was telling their users.)

she explained how her and her farmville friends have been protesting facebook. she was happy because once they "got facebook to change something by a certain deadline." (not sure what facebook change this was, but obviously it was a coincidence.) then she explained why -- "it's so annoying when you go to facebook and it's all of these things about people being friends with friends. who cares? i have to click something like 'see related stories' to see all my farmville notifications. it's a total mess with all that stuff about friends in there."

basically, my mom doesn't think anything of facebook's core product. it gets in her way. ("some of the people in our farmville/mafia wars groups have left facebook because of how annoying it is!") she doesn't know that friends are supposed to be people that you know, or that it's a site about keeping up to date with people. she just knows that it's a place to play farmville and mafia wars, and the rest is the fluff.
Been using this for a couple projects lately. Despite a couple quirks (mostly features I'm used to in Basecamp) it's been really solid. Now if I could just get the rest of my team to start using it :)
Tell HN: One year later with DiveIntoThePool.com
I've just reached the one year milestone of running my free online dating service at DiveIntoThePool.com and I wanted to just share that feeling of not giving up. Just before I launched I saw several posts about startups that gave up after a very short amount of time and I feared falling into that same category. All my research into competing free online dating services pointed out the same issue of the owners stopping promotion or administration after a very short amount of time.

I figure I don't have the budget to take over the online dating world in 3 months, I'm betting it will take another 2 years at the least to reach my own goals. I'm looking forward to another year, maybe I'll finally break into the organic search results and have users find me versus me coming to them first.

I posted a little overview of the past year on the sites blog here:
http://diveintothepool.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/one-year-and-going-strong/

Thanks to HN for providing me very inspiring and helpful links to keep my own enthusiasm high enough to keep working and not give up!
Cobra, as you're a new user you should know that it's better to add the URL (http://chinable.net/?p=93) in its own box during submission, rather than as message text.

I almost flagged this, as it resembles the kind of spam post we are frequently troubled with.
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I disagree. Angels and VCs make money by investing in people who build great companies. What do derivatives traders build?
In Outliers Gladwell found that family income was the primary determinant of success not intelligence. Most gifted students from poor families did not do well.

"Gladwell continuously reminds the reader that genius is not the only or even the most important thing when determining a person's success. Using an anecdote to illustrate his claim, he discusses the story of Christopher Langan, a man who ended up working on a horse farm in rural Missouri despite having an IQ of 195"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
You don't need Facebook to play, Farmville.com. Although since its written in flash,it is unlikely that it will ever be on i{Pod/Phone/Pad} systems.
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"and that you’re convinced that any particular person will be reached in a finite number of steps."

How can any point in an infinite set be reached in a finite number of steps? For that to be the case, isn't the set in question necessarily a finite set between 0 and infinity?
I have been in actual class, in the last 3 years, where this text was used as the opening reading. It was a course on pedagogy. The teacher was using it as a lightning rod, a discussion piece. The teacher used it, I think, to quickly sort the class in to the types of people she had in her classroom.

To be blunt, I love this essay. And, there seem to be few of you engaging in the ideas. Yes, its easy to look at it and say utopia, never going to happen. And, yet, it's easy to say well if this was the case, no one would learn anything, but come on, dig in.

I think the point is, and it's one that paul graham him self has made in his book, Hackers and Painters, is that students are trying to learn real things, but in most cases they are just sitting there being talked at. Not in all cases, but most cases.

I don't think he is trying to say that things like chemistry, and physics aren't important, but he is making the point that giving people a choice is more important.

Before I make my passionate case for the way I like to learn, its important to state that I realize that there are as many ways to learn as there are colors. We can probably sort people in to a small number of effective buckets, but diversity is the name of the game.

I don't practice anything passionately that was taught to me in school. Programming, cooking, writing. They tried to teach me writing, but they tried in an English teacher way, and I don't write, or think like an English teacher.

The things I choice to care about, and I chose to get better at, I do best.

And, I can hear you already, you liberal education people, yelling, "but if you don't force people to learn lots of things, they won't ever do it by themselves.", bull shit, of course there are going to be people who refuse to learn anything, but come on, life is a bell curve, most people would probably choose to learn, a moderate amount of things ,in moderation, and that is fine.

The damage we are doing, as argued by the essay, is that by forcing everyone to learn the same things, determined by people other then the people learning, is that we are probably turning many, otherwise eager to learn people, off of learning for ever, because they are forced to learn things they don't care about, and a lot of things they really don't care about.

So, come on, lets engage on the subject matter.

Hackers, and Painters
http://books.google.com/books?id=B4dk0tYPrckC&printsec=f...
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Many of your points in favor of paper books exist because of flaws in the Copyright regime, not the eBook format itself. Fortunately there exists ways to (partially) circumvent the copyright regime. And hopefully market norms will evolve to be more open and permissive over time.

Books are the next vinyl records. Sure, there are some advantages to them. Enthusiasts will cling to them for a long time, mostly because of feelings of nostalgia and the desire to mark themselves as members of a particular subculture. But the advantages of digital formats are so large that books are going to be relegated to niche markets. Considering my own personal reading habits, I can't wait for that to happen.

Indeed most of your arguments in favor of books can also be made to support CDs or vinyl records over digital music.

Lastly, you forgot to mention the environmental impact of books and eBooks. Books have to be manufactured and carted around. eBook devices also have this drawback, but eBooks themselves do not.
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I listen to a lot of Dr. William Lane Craig and he speaks often about Hilbert's Hotel. Here is a pretty good video on the subject http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual...
my wife and i have had the scourge of bedbugs previously.

We got the pest control guys out and they reduced the problem but werent able to get rid of them.

the best thing that we found to deal with them is Diatomaceous Earth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

Make sure you get the food-grade kind, not the stuff they use in pools

Sprinkle it on the floor around your bed and clothes racks/cupboards and leave it overnight. In the morning vacuum it up and throw the vacuum bag out. Repeat daily for about a week or until you notice the number of bedbugs or irritation decreasing, then start increasing the amount of time that you leave the powder out for.

Its also good to check for them everynight before you go to sleep. Be sure to check under your mattress, and all around your bed frame.

We would collect them in a jar and them leave them in the sun to make sure they were dead.
Reminds me of the Freecycle idea, but with payment. I wonder if Freecycle would actually try to respond with a similar board if this idea became popular.
Authors like Stross or Scalzi need to see this bit about "Learned Helplessness" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness

Their attitude of publishers being all-powerful is one that needs to die.
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I know that the gimmick is the cause of Twitter's success as well; I wasn't saying otherwise. But that doesn't make it a gimmick.

URL shortening is bad for humans and bad for machines. Ergo, that behavior is bad.
Yes! I'd love to see the Graph API stuff integrated in there, too, though, but I bet you guys are already doing that :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrong_direction
Take the set of natural numbers. Pick any one and count to it. The set of natural numbers has infinite cardinality, but any particular member of the set is finite and can be reached in a finite number of steps.
Crucially, and somewhat surprisingly, the Beagle Board does not have on board Ethernet. You need to add it via a USB dongle.
I totally agree. To me, Facebook is a very useful tool. Now that I am aware of the privacy deficiencies, I will just be more careful about what I say.

The same thing happened to me on twitter. I realized that my little tweets started giving me an online persona that was far more skewed and public than I initially expected, so I stopped tweeting. Now I only tweet to announce something or congratulate someone.
While encryption may save your data, you can't really brick the computer. Take out hard-disk throw in trash, replace with new 50$ disk, welcome to you're new macbook pro.
I don't see how those are similar to Zynga pulling out of Facebook and switching to "Zynga Live" which doesn't yet exist.

Google didn't "pull out" of offering their services through the established browsers when they released their own. They didn't stop offering Google apps on the iPhone when they released Android.
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I think this is a really good idea. How about a smaller charge, say, $0.50 an image, or tiered, at $1.00 for the first image, $0.75 for the next, $0.50 for each after?

Perhaps a discount on the next sale if a previous sale was successful?

I know my idea isn't perfect. However I think Zed should think of something along those lines. One dollar flat per image might discourage bulk sales or products that need visual defining.
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Looking at the websites of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation <http://www.ppnf.org/ > and the Weston A Price Foundation <http://www.westonaprice.org/ >, both linked from Price's Wikipedia article, I am not convinced that those who call his views "junk science" are wrong.

Among their tenets:

* supporting raw whole milk instead of pasteurized milk

* believing that facial structure has an effect on health (and that the nutrition of one's parents affects this)

* campaigning against the fluoridation of public water
The actual contradiction proof that the reals have larger cardinality than the natural numbers uses the binary representation of decimals. See Cantor's diagonal argument: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantors_diagonal_argument.