skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biological imperative is to procreate. I don't want to split hairs and separate the mechanism from the goal. It's true there is plenty of social pressure to have sex or to be more sexually appealing, short of achieving the goal to have offspring. It doesn't matter. Remove the social pressure and people will continue to have children. It's not like they're going to forget how. Biology will take over.

I think there's overwhelming evidence for the social pressure to NOT have children. China's one-child policy comes to mind, along with the trend for certain categories of women in developed countries who are delaying childbirth until long after they become fertile. The contraception industry alone is enough evidence, and I'd be willing to bet that most abortions are a result of social pressure than medical necessity.

Both types of social pressure exist, I'm just under the impression that more people are actively discouraged from having children than otherwise. Neither trump the biological imperative we feel, consciously or unconsciously, as sexual organisms to reproduce.
Why Tony Robbins Is Completely Wrong About Diet
The ratio of fiber/sugar is high, but by any other index(fiber/total carbs or fiber/calories) it's terrible. (doesn't stop me from having it on rare occasions though)

A complete picture of the benefits and drawbacks of oatmeal, like any other food, has to acknowledge that:

-It's carb-heavy
-The carbs are from grain and thus glutenous
-Total nutrition is low(compared to say, an avocado)
I don't know how it works in the US. In Canada, if a business hires someone on contract but they are not in an "arms-length" transaction (ie. the 'contractor' is working in their office, using their equipment for more than a 'temporary' period of time), then the Canadian Revenue Agency can force the business to re-classify them as an "employee" causing both the person and company to pay back-taxes and any penalties.
You spilled some TechCrunch on my HN.
Amazingly, some bread products use HFCS.
Re: Afghanistan v. the Soviets
The British could do it. I see no reason to believe the Afghans would be able to put more than a dent in total air superiority so they could have won the same way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%27s_War
You might also be able to find Mexican Coke, which is sweetened with cane sugar. I've seen it at regular grocery stores in upstate NY and CT so I imagine it's fairly common.

There's a grocery store in Los Angeles with a large collection of glass-bottle sodas and they do sell online at http://www.sodapopstop.com/, but there are other sites as well. Elsewhere in California, I've seen Beverages and More have a small collection also.
I think it's more that the people on the eBay side were either morons or in breach of their own fiduciary duty to eBay shareholders. The deal terms were voluntarily accepted by eBay; terms which were insane. Plus of course the total lack of any strategic value for eBay. It was the worst tech M&A of its size.
How can you find 10 people willing to pay for something that doesn't exist, has no analogue, and will have no understanding of what it is until they use it?
Eric Schmidt calls for "a complete lack of anonymity"
Companies will still have to worry about it the same amount that they worry about russian invasion or about the state of the pavement on the interstate. i.e., not much, yeah they pay for it through taxes, but it's not a business concern.
There was 'speakfreely', but I think John Walker gave up on supporting all the different ways to get around fire-walls.

The kazaa code did that pretty good and Friis and Zennstrom figured a way to monetize their bag of tricks they'd created while creating kazaa. Remember how they sold off Kazaa but kept the fire-wall penetrating technology by licensing it back to the buyer (Joltid), then later they did the same thing with ebay and skype.

Given that they'd already pulled that one once before ebay was really pretty stupid to fall for it.
low-end Aeron (do they exist?)

Some of my coworkers saw an ad on Craigslist for a recording studio that was going out of business. They were selling everything, from mixing boards and microphones to computers and Aeron chairs. They got genuine Aeron chairs for about $250 each. Try looking on Craigslist or in the Pennysaver for going out of business type sales.
I would like to get this put on T-shirts, in big bold red letters, and hand them out and the next startup/VC/hack-a-whatever
Welcome to the mind of the Republican.

This guy probably spent 8 years defending the Bush deficits and discovered he was a fiscal hawk on January 29, 2009. Until 2016, that is, or earlier if he's lucky.
The other advantage to this (at least from what I've read, I have yet to try this) is that since they've basically already declared intent, they're also much more likely to enter that email. I mean, if it's interesting, why wouldn't you want to hear about it when it's released?
I don't know if it was Samba acting up on me or if it was the Ubuntu file browser (Nautilus?). Every couple days or so, I would have to click the refresh repeatedly for about 30s in order to get it to see the network shares. Was that Samba's fault or GNOMEs? I don't have the knowledge to say either way.

Whenever it's visibility of machines with Windows file sharing, 90% of the time it is what I've described above -- it's neither Samba nor Gnome's fault. The best thing you can do for the browsablity of your network (once you've ensured that NetBuei isn't in use), if you have an always on non-Windows machine (anything that will run Samba), is run Samba on it with nmbd enabled, even if you don't share anything from that samba instance itself. By default, Samba will always win network elections to become the master browser. Since it always wins, the list of hosts that are sharing is more consistent. Obviously, if you want to access shares on a machine that isn't always on, it takes a while (about 30s or so) after that machine boots to show up in the browse list reliably.

Another thing, if you have a bridged network, with both wireless and wired segments (which might be the case with a media player PC), run samba/nmbd on the wired segment. If a wireless machine that is the master browrser loses connectivity, a network election might need to take place and different machines might become the master browser, and they don't always have the full list of machines all the time.
GPS Tracks: Geotagging for your SLR
Recently I discovered Geotagging, this amazing feature that allows a user to display on a map, in iPhoto, Aperture, or Flickr, exactly where a photo was taken.
Logging Off: The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
Yes, made 30+ fake people for an advertising company I used to work at. They're long since dormant, but it provided some perspective on how people make friends online, what it takes to maintain 'friendships', and many other factors. Couldn't use facebook for months afterward, everything just seemed so plastic.
eh, it's not like I'm libeling them or anything.
Um. No. Schmidt demanded nothing. Quoting the article:

He says the only way to manage issues—like misuse of technology by people with bad intentions—is much greater transparency and a complete lack of anonymity. Schmidt says true anonymity on the Internet is dangerous.

So he makes an observation and an opinion. That is not a demand.

He might believe that, he might make the demand at some point. Or he might not. But he did not do so here.

Did you even read the article? Please tell me how you arrived at your conclusion and why you choose to share it?
Ask HN: How do I meet people in an industry
Me and a friend have an idea to change the television industry. Personally I'm a web developer. I have many connections to many industries, but none to television. However to be successful I feel as if I need one. In addition I live in Boston, which is on the opposite side of where I want to be. I want to execute my plan, but I can't imagine trying to get funding with my current team. Any suggestions?
I Hate Your Paper - Why peer review is broken
Roughly $43000, using spot-instances.

Back of the envelope...
From the link, it would take

1.1 billion seconds @ 4x 2.8ghz
= 4.4 billion @ 2.8 Ghz
= 12.32 billion seconds @ 1 Ghz = ~3430000 hours

Using ec2 unit performance as 1Ghz, assume computing is comparable, Ghz for Ghz (it isn't...), and storage and xfer is negligible.

Normal instances

instance-size|ec2units | $/hr | $ total
sm | 1 | 0.085 | 291550
large | 4 | 0.34 | 291550
xl | 8 | 0.50 | 214375
himem-xl | 6.5 | 0.69 | 364108
himem-double-xl | 13 | 1.20 | 316615
himem-quad | 26 | 2.40 | 316615
hicpu-med | 5 | 0.17 | 116620
hicpu-xl | 20 | 0.68 | 116620
cluster | 33.5 | 1.60 | 163821
Using spot instances
sm | 1 | 0.031 | 106330
large | 4 | 0.14 | 120050
xl | 8 | 0.245 | 105044
himem-xl | 6.5 | 0.172 | 90763.1
himem-double-xl | 13 | 0.427 | 112662
himem-quad | 26 | 0.871 | 114905
hicpu-med | 5 | 0.06 | 41160
hicpu-xl | 20 | 0.249 | 42703.5
* (being befriended a few times before I figured that it was beyond the experiment and should be killed).*

These guys started hitting on you didn't they?
The Meaning of Mad Men
The best answer I can give you is to spend some time on http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/ -- Stephan's own diet (which you can divine with a little reading) is based on his survey of food science. He provides references for everything. The closest thing you'll find to a "diet" is a list of real foods:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/real%20fo...

Good luck.
I don't see the direct challenge in the supermarket example. It challenged the law in the same way as the left shoe example: comply with the explicit provisions of a bad law in such a way as to render its object unattainable.

Rosa Parks deliberately violated the law - this was a direct challenge, and one justified because the law was not just bad, but intentionally malicious.
Flower pots

ping pong paddles

toy river boats (place a candle in them and let them flow down the river)
Thanks, Alex. Yours is one of the few answers in the entire thread that attempts to give me what I'm looking for.

Do you know of any other resources that more directly address the criticisms of nutritional science set forth by Taubes and Pollan?
Just to answer your query here: integer factorization is still suspected to be outside of P, NP-complete and co-NP-complete (recently some have hinted that it may in fact be NP-complete, I cannot track the link to the email discussion atm). No proof for either of those claims exists yet.

Discrete logarithm has been found to be in BQP (Shor's algorithm), and therefore not NP-complete, since BQP is suspected to be disjoint from NP-complete. No proof of this claim is available, either.
If you have tried the Aeron and it is working for you then my advice is... buy an Aeron. Why are you trying to save nickels and dimes on a problem that is interfering with your work? You will spend more time searching and auditioning an alternative chair -- which will end up costing plenty, itself -- than the money you save will be worth.

My Aeron is nearly ten years old. A new Aeron costs $850 up front from Amazon; that works out to about $7 a month. It beats pain.

Recently my chair broke (the hydraulic unit sort of exploded). Fortunately Aerons have a twelve year warranty, so in about an hour a tech is scheduled to visit my home office and fix it, for free.

If you really cannot stomach spending money for a new Aeron buy a used Aeron. (But you might want to call and make sure that the sweet, sweet warranty will transfer! ;) Then, if you decide later that another chair is better, you can sell the Aeron used and not lose much money in the bargain.
I am not sold on the templating library either. But the Closure library is quite extensive and abstract. It contains tons of useful (and well designed) UI components and compares favorably to something like jQuery UI. On the other hand there is a higher barrier of entry due to the lack of adequate documentation.
Cool. Thank you. Another good answer.
True enough :) Maddof = crook. Friis and Zennstrom = Shrewd.

And shrewd isn't a compliment either, but some would think that's positive. (I'm not one of them)
Memcached Security
Fair enough. It just happened to be where I learned of the concept.
Because everyone can see exactly what the supermarket is doing, whereas the shoe guy did what he did by sneaking around.
Google CEO warns of data explosion and future without privacy
Hacker Monthly #3 for the Kindle, iPad, Nook (.epub and .mobi version)
No matter which hash function you use, you will _not_ get 100% unique identifiers, because you _can't_!
Just do the freaking math, and you'll see for yourself - it's quite obvious, actually!
Dog chew toys.
Yet those jobs are incredibly low paying.

Consequence: Those people can barely live above the poverty line. They are regularly on government support programs even though they are working a full time job.

Also, they can't afford and iPad or a new car. Henry Ford recognized the value of paying his workers well. Trash collectors and CNA's aren't typically paid well.
I understand that you don't want to split hairs, and I don't want to split them merely to be difficult (or pick nits). Nevertheless, I'm not entirely convinced that we can avoid the distinction between the desires for sex and for children. I remain unconvinced that the driving desire is for children (or procreation, as you put it now). My argument, in a nutshell, is that we can see that the desire for sex is primary and paramount by observing human behavior. The desire for sex precedes, outlasts, contravenes and cuts across the desire for children.

Beyond that, I don't think contraception is necessarily evidence for pressure to not have children, so much as evidence for a desire to control when and how many children to have. Certainly some people use contraception to avoid all children, but surely many more people use it in an effort not to have over large familes, no? As evidence for this (partial, because there are other factors like fear and permanence) consider that most people choose less reliable one-off contraception rather than a vasectomy or tubal ligation, even when both are readily available. China is one country, and in this regard somewhat exceptional.
I'm addicted to refined carbs and caffeine and junk food, so when I don't eat those for a while, I feel pretty awful.

How things feel doesn't always give you the best guidance, especially if you're not good at tracking those things accurately.
Many speedcubers hit a plateau after a number of years and get bored, true, but it's a deep subject. Every solve is different and there is endless opprotunity for optimization and improvisation. And the physical dexterity aspect just adds to the fun. It would get boring only if you never improved or learned anything new. Definitely more satisfying than Sudoku or Solitaire.
Presumably the exact same thing that stops businesses from just paying everyone minimum wage and only ever hiring people part-time to get out of paying benefits.

I.e., Sally will go work somewhere else, or will unionize and kick their ass (ideally only in the figurative sense).
Not sure you have a basis for declaring it arbitrary yet, not even in the absence of evidence that it isn't.
i honestly don't know the details of the current US laws, but i do know that i've worked in a team with reasonably permanent, in-house contractors before.
In particular I use this when dealing with European clients/international calls. "Skyping" is a pretty common alternative to "calling".
To me, the hotness/coldness of a food is not always obvious.

Would you have guessed that apples are 'hot'?
With some handwaving it could be about $82.5K (computation spread over 1 year) or $125K (computation done in 1 month).

total cost was 35 CPU years (Intel Nehalem, 4-core, 2.8GHz)
1 EC2 compute unit is about 1 GHz Xeon
let's assume 1 Google unit = 12 EC2 units (3x4 cores)
High-CPU Extra Large instance = 20 EC2 units

35*12 = 420 EC2 unit years = 5040 EC2 unit months
= 21 HiCPU XL instances for 1 year
= 252 HiCPU XL instances for 1 month

Putting this into AWS calculator [1] yields:

$82,491.36 (21 HiCPU XL reserved instances for 1 year)
$125,435.52 (252 HiCPU XL on-demand instances for 1 month)

[1] http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

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Edit: It could be actually a bit more, Nehalems seem to be faster than my first estimate.

Plugging in EC2 computing unit comparison from Cluster Compute instance (which has 2x quadcore Nehalem), 1 Google unit can be 16.75 EC2 units.

This gives:

$114K for 1 year of 29 reserved HiCPU XL instances
$166K for 1 year of 18 reserved cluster compute instances

$173K for 1 month of 348 on-demand HiCPU XL instances
$246K for 1 month of 210 on-demand cluster compute instances

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Edit2: Dedicated server hosting would be much cheaper. For example, from Hetzner [2] it would cost just about 26K EUR (= $34K) to rent 35 dedicated quadcore Nehalem servers for 1 year.

[2] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...
I'm looking for someone with 10 years experience in html5.
The HTC EVO is Sprint and is probably one of the most widely known new android phones.
1 - not necessarily 2 - it depends on app complexity. Most people that read Y need it. 3 - Benchmarks? sure :) http://www.unixy.net/apache-vs-litespeed
RiotVine Post-mortem
No, not really. P != NP should be read: It is not true that for every NP, there is a P, but for any specific P problem, there MAY be an NP solution unless you can prove otherwise.

This is a classic syllogism: All tigers are cats, but not all cats are tigers.

Similarly, if P != NP, you can say, there absolutely, and provably, are solutions which are hard to solve, but easy to validate. However, this fact alone does not tell you if your problem is that way.

If P=NP were true, you could consider every public-key cryptographic system to be a ticking time-bomb. It's only a matter of time before someone find's the easy solution that breaks the entire system irrevocably, because such a solution absolutely does exist if P=NP.

P != NP is status quo. It means: Breathe easy, folks. Your cryptography systems may not be provably secure, but they are certainly not provably unsecure as a category.
The Internet’s Infrastructure Needs a Revamp. Or At Least, Browsers Do.
think it will ever happen?
One that was recommended to me on here before (and I ended up buying - thanks HN!) was the Markus from Ikea - http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/20103101

It's a lovely chair for working in, very comfortable and with a decent head / neck support.
Yeah, but this time it's for real!

It's the Year of the Linux Desktop that you need to be skeptical about.
Yes, but who said they’d actually BUY the damn thing?
>I'll actually even go to my school's computer lab for extended periods of time if I have a lot of work to do since their chairs are so comfortable to sit in while working.

So what kind of chairs do they have? School labs aren't known for having Aerons.
Causata shipped our software in January 2010. It's not something you can just download, but we would be happy to sell it to you.
These arrangements require strong people willing to be rigorously honest with each other.

Too often I have seen "Mr. Brains" partner up with "Mr. Wallet." Sooner or later Mr. Brains thinks the business would be nowhere without his ideas. The business would have launched successfully with a nickel of capital. Mr. Wallet sooner or later thinks the business was self-ordained to succeed and even a monkey could have launched it. His capital was the critical ingredient and you could have been replaced by minimum wage high school kids.

In this situation -- far more than any other -- you need extremely good legal documentation. (Define this as a buy-sell agreement, with extremely clear mechanisms for how to deal with the situation where there is a disagreement and one of you has to leave.) Otherwise you, as the person with the thinner wallet, will lose if things come to push. In legal battles the win usually goes to the person who has the financial staying power.

From your brief description of the situation, you are facing an odd hybrid of getting a co-founder as well as getting an investor. Analyze the situation from both perspectives.

In my experience, things seem to work better when business partners face approximately equal risks and expect approximately equal (maybe I should say proportional) rewards. Otherwise, the weaker one is a disguised at-will employee with a contingent, equity-based salary.
If you are not intuitive enough to know what people will buy and need outside validation, it may be a tough road to being a successful entrepreneur. To build great products, you have to know what people want. Maybe if your product had massive upfront capital costs - like a chip fab - you would get some signed purchase orders before hand, but if its a web app, you should be confident enough to just do it.
I read the entire thing. I mentioned it because you're having ghosts in your data, and you and I know the lack of separation between your test and your software is the #1 candidate for a culprit.
That will allow you to search google, but you must be logged in for it to be tracked.
What's the difference? The shoe importer complied with the established laws as written (assuming that there was no prohibition on the original intended recipient of the merchandise bidding on the auction once the customs period has expired).
> I think with coercion pvg refers to the use of 'perks' (such as education for your kids and the privilege of being able to buy in the hard currency stores)

I think that relatively to other professions, engineering was actually prestigious. I was on awe of my uncle and father who were engineers and wanted to be like them. American kids today want to either play professional sports, be lawyers, CEO, or doctors. In ex USSR engineering was a relatively good profession to have without having to necessarily be involved too much into the party politics.

The perks were no more coercieve than having health insurance tied to the job + mortgage payments in America.

> As for the oppression bit, the satellite states of the USSR were fairly ruthlessly kept in check, lots of very bad things happened there, more than we will probably ever know about and there are definitely examples of scientists that were forced to work on projects that they did not want to work on, such as Theremin.

That is true and that is a serious problem. We are yet to have the equivalent of Nuremberg trials for ex Soviet Union apartchiks and those who co-operated with them.

I am not excusing them on a absolute moral ground. On a relative moral ground, I would like Americans to stop thinking their empire is less coersive and repressive. It treated many countries around the world very brutally, it installed ruthless fascist dictators all through South America and Asia. They are still fighting wars in the Middle East and "brave" drone pilots in Langley, VA are risking their lives daily driving to work so they can play video-games and with a push of a joystick putton assasinate individual we'll never know or hear about in a country we are not even at war with...

So yes, I am for critisizing imperialism and oppression, but I am for doing so for all the imperialism and oppression not just the ones that the popular propaganda machine wants to critisize.
http://i.imgur.com/uB7UI.jpg
I thought your question was good enough to spend some time on a blog post today

http://bit.ly/bKxsp4
No, but they were "fat startups" aka startups that weren't founded on lean startup principles, like customer validation and customer development. Fat startups definitely can be successful, but it's more of a crap shoot. Lean startup advocates would claim that the probability of a lean startup succeeding is much higher.
How long have you had yours? I have a chair from Ikea that was great for about 1.5 years then deteriorated rather quickly.