skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find BMR: http://tinyurl.com/2uc7ps

Use BMR info to find daily calorie needs: http://tinyurl.com/yxrujb

Subtract the total daily calorie amount by 250-500 and eat that many calories per day. Yes, you'll have to count calories.

Make sure to get enough protein (at least 1g per pound of bodyweight) and healthy fats (olive oil, peanut butter, nuts, etc) and a moderate amount of carbohydrates.

Do weight lifting 3 days a week, cardio the other 3, and take one day off to rest.

Losing weight is very simple: just make sure you're eating below your maintenance calories. There's no need to follow any special 'diets'.
wow, this guy made it to TED? I saw him give this talk at penn, where he argued that we should never "maximize" (spend a lot of time researching) any decision, even seemingly important ones. The example he gave was a professional tennis player who, contrary to popular opinion, shouldn't "maximize" on a tennis racket because the psychological burden of doing all that research outweighed the marginal gain you'd get from buying a super-racket instead of some normal good racket. I also remember he was very unconvincing because that line of reasoning often leads to bad decisions (and rejecting it is what hacking's all about).
Eat less fat and things that are converted into sugar. Don't drink anything with calories. Exercise more. Eat as many fruits and vegetables as you can stomach. Drink black coffee or tea. For a treat, go with chocolate that is 70%+ cocoa. Or if you want to be hardcore, raw cocoa beans.
60% of world's paintings come from one village in China
Social network creator Ning raising $70M at $560M valuation
I am a Level 8 Entrepreneur with a +1 iPhone Of Dealmaking and an AC0 Business Suit.
enterprise can benefit greatly from smartness (which is why vmware is such a success story). but more than just a smart idea, enterprise requires perseverance and a longer term commitment (you can't just quickly build a site and see if it floats or sinks in the next n months).

for a consumer application, you have to offer something of immediate value (whether through a technological advance or not) or you have to heavily market it. no matter how long your commitment is to an idea, if it can't be marketed or isn't viral it won't catch on (versus with enterprise, where you are working with few high-value clients until you develop a product to match their needs / you build up a client base).
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If you don't think you're smart enough to start a startup doing something technically difficult, just write enterprise software. Enterprise software companies aren't technology companies, they're sales companies, and sales depends mostly on effort.
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See: http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Interesting business models - how to make sales viral
I just found this site, and I thought it was an interesting idea.

http://www.mupromo.com/ (I am in no way affiliated with it, nor am I actually using it to buy anything. I don't even use a Mac.)

As far as I can tell, the idea is to sell a bundle of Mac software over a limited period of time. Some of the pieces in the bundle are "locked" and will only be given out to the buyers ("unlocked") if certain sales thresholds are reached before the end.

The incentive for users to convince their friends to also buy is obvious, while also being a lot more elegant than a simple commission.

I realize after typing this that it might seem slightly spam-like, but it's not. Now and then I find something that makes me go "hmm, that's neat", and this was one of them.
Doing every exercise in TAOCP would be....quite some achievement, to put it mildly
"I'm a consultant, aren't you?"

No.
I've had dreams where I was in my room and it was completely realistic, but for some minor detail, such as a digital clock reading " 4:63 am". Often, I will notice the impossibility, even "consciously" within the context of the dream, and then I wake up.
Sick of jobs going overseas?
The Future of the Contact Us page
Twentysomething Entrepreneurs: tech industry's most promising player under 30
I read page 1 and jumped to page 5 without reading 2-4 without a loss of continuity. Guess I saved myself some time.
Timelope (http://timelope.com/) is a similar project started by Aviel (http://timelope.com/index.php?p=user&username=aviel) through Six Hour Startup here in Seattle a couple months ago. It's a Firefox browser plugin and keeps track of every site you go to (by default, the info isn't shared). From what I understand, it's got some brains on the backend to cut down on showing duplicates of the sites you visit.

The question is, do you really want people seeing a list of every site you go to on the web? ;)
I found Artin to be overly wordy and often imprecise. I found Hungerford to be extremely dry and boring, but admittedly I only got through a short part of it.

Lang is very good, IMO, but more difficult.
EBay Will Sell Skype: Report
Virtualization has come a long way, baby
Ask YC:  What should one skimp on?
There are a lot of articles on hacker news about how important it is not to skimp on x for x = lawyers, graphic designers, people, people not in your core competency, marketing, gear, chairs, etc. I'd like to ask the opposite: of all the things a startup usually buys, what should one skimp on?
"... Why doesn't someone make a webapp for the cooks out there who have old, falling apart recipe books to enter in the recipes and store them online? The social aspect of the site is obvious too. It seems like the market is pretty big: people that like to cook ..."

I've been looking at this area for a while.

Not to build a business, but interested how you could apply this to recipes, cooking and food. http://www.opensourcefood.com does a good job. so does Jamie Oliver ~ http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/ There must be some other angle these to improve on these sites?

One idea I can think of now is to create the "YouTube of cooking demo's". Restrict the time to blocks of 90's of video instruction per user (like flickr) - a section for ingredients another for prep, the cook, and finally presentation. Then see what other users can upload. Maybe a "how do you do this segment" for basic cooking tasks, different cuisines etc. Gradually building up a catalogue of rated segments a user can choose to view.

If I've learnt anything about recipe books, websites is they are inanimate and unless you are determined you can stuff things up. TV comes up trumps. An online video collection of recipes just might improve on TV.
Will MySQL Keep Lighting up LAMP?
You might want to find something in addition to Dummit and Foote. Dummit and Foote is great when you want an example of something, but I think for learning the stuff there are better things out there.
Right, and they don't want "most people" applying. That's the point.

I could probably do it, but not blindfolded -- I'd have to work out (or look up) the details, because R/B-trees are the one data structure I learned in college that I have never once used.

But I do know at least one person who can implement a R/B-tree in assembly off the top of his head. Coincidentally or not, he's at Google now.
>> Every site will need to have an area like this - a place where the brand solicits feedback from its customers and responds to their comments.

That's what discussion forums are for. With a simple voting plugin (in vBulletin or phpBB for example), your ideas forum is good to go.
Thanks! Now I really feel old ;-)

In all seriousness though, great inspiration, and some good advice. I really liked this one...

"Says Taylor: "Getting things done is often more important than getting things right. When you are creating an entirely new product, getting things right without direct feedback from users is virtually impossible. The company that wins is the company that receives and responds to feedback the fastest."

This is my biggest problem. I start to delve into the details, then procrastination creeps in, and finally the project never gets done. Hopefully my latest project will not face this...
It's a great book, but not exactly one in the theorem-proof-corollary vein.
I found it interesting that FB uses 2.5" drives in RAID 10 config. I would imagine the lower power of the drives makes up for the increased cost.

I would think that they're significantly slower, but it looks like Seagate makes a reasonably priced 10,000RPM SCSI 2.5" drive.
No.

Why is it that racism is super untrendy, but this kind of nationalistic prejudice against foreigners is trendy? Why are Americans more deserving of a given job, just because they are American, and even if they will do an equally good job at a higher price?
Yes, one of them has you proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for example!
I generally agree that the ad blog thing is overdone. I swore on my blog that I will never introduce AdWords because I don't like ads on anyone else's blog and I think it disrespects what the reader visits for.

Also, I think it causes you to write popular or sensational things as you see your revenue fluctuate. It doesn't cause you to write what you actually want to write, which in the end isn't really good for anyone.

Also, a blog can still make you money if you do it well. It will expand your general net presence and reputation which can have a positive impact on your opportunities and careers. It's just not something you can stare at in Google Analytics and write in your checkbook.

Obviously, this doesn't apply to someone intending to be a career blog writer. If that's your thing, good luck with that.
Graphic design, if your concept or implementation is really stellar. Google and Reddit get by just fine. I've noticed that sites such as Digg will actually reduce graphics when redesigning the page, reducing clutter and bandwidth at the same time.

That is, as long as your target audience isn't primarily composed of Apple users. Then it's graphics all the way!
''Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like,'' says Steve Jobs, Apple's C.E.O. ''People think it's this veneer -- that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.''

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02E7D8113BF...
Splitting hairs a bit, but Marc says $60m:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pmarca/~3/273226506/ning-news...
The best design is one you don't notice. To make a page look simple and "good", you need a skilled designer.

One data point -- I'm not a skilled designer and have tried to "keep things simple". My sites still end up looking like crap :) That is why I let the designers design, though.

Making something complex is easy. Making something simple is hard.
net investment banker fees
This whole "buying and selling" thing is clearly outside of eBay's area of expertise...
Premature optimization.

For most Web 2.0 startups, you can also skip IE6 support, at least in the beginning.
Interview with Patrick Collison of Auctomatic on his company's acquisition
an office space, office furniture, luxury items like candy/soda
Are you joking? IE6 is still a massive percentage of visitors. It's not hard to do, unless you're just lazy. IE6 is definately not something to skimp on.
I knocked off about 25-ish pounds using the 'eat to live' approach and I still seem to be losing although I'm not as orthodox as when I first started. It's basically a plant-based whole foods diet focusing on low fat / low salt / high nutrient density.

The book is worthwhile but I don't know about any of the other stuff that Dr Joel Fuhrman sells. You don't even really need the book as you can find enough web resources to get started if you google 'eat to live'.

http://www.drfuhrman.com/
Ah. Should have studied finance. :)
I'm surprised there was no mention of Seaside or Smalltalk, the technology behind Auctomatic.
Horizontal partitioning at the MySQL level, great for growing Rails sites
Ask YC: Google Code or Sourceforge
I'm starting a new project (GPL apache module)... What do you prefer Google Code or SF.net... reasons?
He specified "Graphic Design" and there he is probably right, if only because your typical hacker will un-self-consciously design a graphical monstrosity. My answer to the OP's question is: "Everything outside your core competence". It's relative, of course...
Becoming a phone company was never in their best interests. VOIP has been looking for the killer app for 10 years. Unfortunately, everyone who does it winds up competing on cost.

Why? Because the telephone has had over 100 years of innovation. So every VOIP company recreates the wheel and sells it for less than the telcos or PBX companies by making it free or almost free. In the end cellphones will win out. The only thing people seem to care about VOIP for is games. The rest of the time they're just as likely to pick up a cell phone or land line.
Why Good Data Can Be Hard to Find
Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary
If you can catch Paul McKenna's "I Can Make You Thin" (I'm presuming you're in the US) in reruns on TLC -- revolutionary.

You don't "diet". Here are the rules (and they work):

1- eat anything you want (don't eat diet crap)

2- eat when you're hungry (no emotional eating)

3- eat mindfully (one bite at a time, put your fork down, chew 20 times or so, taste your food)

4- stop when you are full.

The rest is elaboration. Exercise helps, of course, and learning to enjoy exercise will help you in a lot of ways (disease prevention etc.).

But the big thing for me has been learning how to eat. That conquered, the rest comes naturally.
I'm not sure this is news. Maybe outside of the industry.

When I was at Oracle, about 12 years ago, they used to take the poor performers that they didn't fire and send them to the consulting division.
It isn't just a matter of who your target audience is. It's also what their relationship is to the information you're managing. More detail than you probably want re. my struggle with this issue can be found here:

http://ourdoings.com/2008-02-12
News at 11: Witless, soulless corporate management seduced by consulting firm. "I really liked the cool golf shirt and the free lunches," said Jerry from middle management, "but we really need to blame our failure on someone outside of the company. It didn't take long to realize consulting firm X was only interested in our money and this very cool golf shirt is still not worth the couple million dollars we spent [on consulting firm X]. I'm still trying to come to terms with the concept of a 'free market.'"
Find a rank order list of your most popular command line calls
$history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head
105	python
104	cd
69	svn
42	ls
36	ssh
25	wget
18	mate
12	./keyMetrics.py
11	cp
11	./lighttpd

But I've been on the road for a while: http://twitter.com/tipjoy?page=2
Maybe you should start - it's easy money

:-)
Is the answer, everything too vague? I would say the first place to skrimp is lifestyle, and from there, build up.
Fraleigh contains solutions to the odd numbered sections (7th edition). It was the text I used (and enjoyed). I still have a copy of it, three years later.
I was always told a company should eat it's own dogfood so to speak, so I'll look forward to bidding on skype at auction.
if you write standard html4 and make sure that you use css that IE supports (even if it's not quite right) you can wait on the IE optimization. because it should still work.
I agree with this. Knuth quipped that 'Premature optimization is the root of all evil.' Get your stuff working correctly first, attract an audience, then if your current set up is lacking, try to optimize, or just throw more hardware at it. Hardware is typically cheaper than human time.
neither github http://github.com

main reason. It uses git. Another benefit of github is you can pay for accounts that are private, so if you wanted to host proprietary code. Or things that aren't so much proprietary as personally private (backups).

also google isn't supportive of AGPL, I like the AGPL so I can't support them on this one.

if you want subversion you should go with sourceforge.

I'm not sure which vcs system google uses. (on google code; they use perforce internally)

There is also Launchpad for bazaar (bzr) repositories

Honestly just pick the one one with the vcs you want to use.

EDIT: I've rewritten this like 3 times :P sorry. Should read right now.
"In a dynamic language like Python or Ruby I don’t have this problem at all. There is no need for a make to run my program. I just run it."

Does he think all statically typed languages are compiled-only and can't be run with an interpreter or from a REPL?
Ha nice joke and viral marketing trick! I've never heard of many of those services before until now!
Mixx.com, after $3.5 Mil and tons of press why does an unfunded social media site have your traffic?
Jobs don't "go overseas".

Individuals who happen to live in other countries simply provide more value in their work than individuals in this one.

So I try to keep the value of my work as high as I can.
Desks. A perfectly functional desk can be constructed out of an ordinary door in mere minutes.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010606140033/image.pathfinder.c...
Ning is not a developer's platform.
Using tesla coils to create music
Repost?
"Dynamic" has to be one of the most misleading terms in casually discussing programming languages.

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1562#comment-18623

Not sure whether to throw SCons into the discussion.
Firefox's AwesomeBar is awesome
I'd also like to say... sorry for answering your question in a round about manner and perhaps not the answer you were looking for.

I myself am annoyed when I ask one question about A and people answer it with use B. I just want you to be aware of the alternatives.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=166559
Drink water only!
sf.net has a lot of people migrating away because it can be extremely slow, the tracker interface isnt up to scratch, and its quite unreliable (they recently reset everyones password in the middle of an inkscape launch)

launchpad seems to be the best tracker around, but if you dont use bzr, or git, I would possibly just put your code on google code and use launchpad for everything else
google code is also subversion
Free Cooking Games for people who love cooking
Cooking games is games for kids and girls who love cooking. Here you can find alot Cooking games, Pizza games, make a Birth cake and much more.
Solo Founders: How do you do it?
I've been following the other discussion on how do you keep yourself emotionally efficient.

However, I'd to broaden the scope of discussion: How do you do it? Or in other words, how do you keep yourself motivated to keep doing a startup. I'm not talking about projects that you do on the side, while you have a full-time job or are in school. I'm talking about where your startup is your job, whether you have funding or not.

It seems specifically hard to get funding if you are going solo. How do you go about getting funding? It also seems harder making those first key hires.

Why do you guys believe that this is the right way to go? Share the experience.
I've made just a couple of simple changes, and I'm slimming down.

One, I now walk for a long time (1-2 hours) every few days. I go around the neighborhood, up hills and such, so it's not a huge strain but not trivial either. I find a 2 hour walk all at once is much better than, say, 4 days of 30 minute walks, because your body only has to "ramp up" once and spends most of the time at a higher metabolic rate.

Two, I reduced, but did not eliminate, the "bad" things from my diet, permanently. For example, I like soda; but I drink mini-bar cans (100 calories) instead of bottles. I'm slimming anyway; soda is fine, as long as you don't drink so much that there's no calories left for real food. Sure, maybe I could slim down a week or two faster without it, but I wouldn't be happy, so why go through that? :)
Misuse of "compiled". Zed fail.

I use a compiled language all day that gives me a console, no separate compile stage, etc. sigh
bold usernames. I have trouble noticing who is saying what sometimes. colors or something could also work.
xenoterracide: no worries, it was a very helpful reply as I hadn't actually considered launchpad (I always thought of it as an Ubuntu specific project, but clearly I was wrong)

I'm already familiar with SVN, so the lazy me would want to go with that -- but I've been meaning to learn git for sometime, and github might be the way to go.
The article starts its ramble complaining about tech jobs, then claims tech jobs go overseas due to "stricter labor laws and environmental protection laws." I doubt India's competitive advantages revolve around child engineers dumping wasteful piles of Java into the Ganges.

Our declining currency will mitigate how many jobs go overseas as we go forward, anyway.
SBCL?
I've lost nearly 60 pounds in 7 months. I did that by making sure I walk for atleast 1 hour a day and changing my diet. Yes, just regular walking - no running because 15-20 minutes of running kicks my ass whereas I can walk for 1-1.5 hours without getting too tired.

Aside from that I've made sure I'm comfortable with my diet throughout the initial weight loss. To maintain the loss I've realized that I need to decide to change my lifestyle and my diet permanently. So that excludes diets that deprive my body off essential nutrients and which I can not maintain long-term. I've started to eat more salads for my meals - the salads always include protein (grilled chicken or grilled steak) and sometimes carbs too (sweet fruits). I always make sure my meal contains some form of veggies. I try to avoid fat and greasy things totally (but not always). For desert or just increasing my sugar level when I'm feeling lethargic I take sugar in the form of fruits - mostly apples, oranges or anything else that is sitting in the fridge. I've developed a new appreciation for fruits and veggies during the last 6 months. For breakfast I've shifted to having boiled egg whites and recently have started to include brown bread too.

I think the first comment hit the nail on the head - to maintain the loss you need to change your habits permanently. You should pick a routine _now_ that you are comfortable with and plan to carry it with you long term. You can keep tweaking the routine to suit your needs as you go along but anything that you can not carry with you long term should be avoided.
How do I get funding? I haven't -- I was introduced to one "angel" when I was first getting started, but the draft MOU he put onto paper had almost nothing in common with what we had discussed in person, and after that experience I realized that I didn't really need funding. My costs are kept down by living in my parents' basement, using a 4 year old laptop, not hiring anyone else to help me out, and using Amazon Web Services instead of buying/renting discrete servers (although I spent the first 15 months writing code on my laptop before I got to the point of using AWS).

How do I keep myself motivated? The same way as multiple founders do, I guess -- by telling people what I'm doing and knowing that they expect that I will succeed. The fact that I turned down a six-figure job at Google to do this also helps keep me motivated -- I need to succeed here in order to make up for all the money I'm not earning at Google.

Why do I believe that this is the right way to go? I don't think it is, for most people. I'm unusual both in terms of my clarity of vision and my expertise in this particular area.
I thought the basics of git were easy. But I haven't had to play with others yet.

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/QuickStart

http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html (for svn users)

one thing I just noticed... github offers a wiki for your project but no bug tracker (that I'm aware of) :( I filed a bug with them on it.

and if launchpad offers git support it might be the way to go if you'll need a bug tracker soon. (if you won't I'm sure they'll fix that).
It's a joke. If that posting made you smile knowingly and you are also looking for a job, please apply.