skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a bunch of Aeron chairs on Craigslist (Baltimore) for around $450. I suggest just subscribing to the Aeron search results and waiting until you see one at your price point.
The exact nature of a hypnotic state is widely debated. But hypnosis being hogwash and hypnosis working for some are not mutually exclusive hypotheses. The test shows that there were differences of some kind between hypnotized and non hypnotized patients. Maybe it is hogwash, and only works because they think it will, but that doesn't change the fact that they are in a measurably different state.
If you set up a fake web site, took credit card numbers, and then said "Sorry, we're fake", then I think you would rapidly have other concerns, starting with whether you would even be legally permitted to run a business any more by the time several different groups of lawyers had finished chewing you over and you'd served your time for the fraud and identity theft convictions.
Actually, it's 9/8/10.
If you are going to make a misleading statement, at least do not provide the data to clearly show your bendy argument.

The combined market share of the largest and second largest insurer provider goes below 50% only in four states. It goes below 60% in only 5 states. That makes a combined 9 states out of 52 or so where there might not be an oligopoly. There are 19 states where their combined share is above 70% and I have used that cut off line strictly, not counting for example 69%.

So yeah, it might be very competitive in 4 states, ok maybe in 9 states. These states seem to be the one I recognise such as California where the combined share is the lowest at 44%, but it seems that for the vast majority of people the market is hardly "very competitive" or competitive at all.
the enormous yellow bar is large and loud... in hope to focus attention on the facebook connect. But ya, I'll have to spend some time taking a closer look to fix the little issues
It's clear that that would benefit the OP, but your assertion that it would be to the long-term benefit of the people is completely opinion. You take any piece of government spending and cut it, there's a rational argument as to why cutting it would cause serious harm in the long term, and many of those arguments are stronger than the reverse.
Three responses:

1. HackerNews is our personal Google, Wikipedia, and blog host rolled into one.

2. By putting the rest of the Internet here, we may never have to leave this site.

3. By only needing one site, we can finally reclaim the browser URL bar for a little more comment space.
eeek. really! does it do that all the time? but can you log back in? so sorry for that :(
And that is why I hate having lived in different countries with different conventions for writing down dates.
"Efforts to duplicate silicon valley tend to fail because they attempt to follow the valley by looking at where it is now. They don't look at the century of history."

The problem is that the solution isn't to endeavor to duplicate Silicon Valley. The solution is to start small, foster communication and collaboration between existing entrepreneurs, encourage and support a research-based creative education from the youngest ages, and to cross-pollinate interested parties with each other. Essentially, to take the lessons learned from SV's history and start cultivating them at the micro level.

There are a plethora of options, but in every case the various problem solvers are not self-organized to the extent that is required to make real progress. Consider PG with YC (or any of the other tech incubators). They specialize in matching entrepreneurs with each other and with VCs. That's great. Now consider companies like 3M, IBM, and HP, that all have significant R&D branches. Woohoo, but they're often isolated from the broader community due to IP-loss risks. What about research universities, business schools, or NPO research institutes? They certainly provide value and do great work, but there is often a barrier locking out the business world (except in a few cases, where researchers and professors (and their schools) actively look for entrepreneurs to support in founding either spin-offs or private companies). Finally, what about the -- for lack of a better term -- open source community? The problem here is that "community" is too loose and lack of coordination is the norm. Even in projects that have a charismatic leader who does an excellent job stimulating communication, projects themselves tend toward isolationism.

As the author notes, it won't be possible to create another hub innovating at ludicrous speed without looking at the problem organically and starting small.
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Couple of questions for you then:

* Do you do this every day?

* If so, do you get anything done?

I only being slightly facetious. I agree that there's a lot to be said for brainstorming in person. I'd also argue that there's a lot to be said for brainstorming out of your normal environment (i.e., office). But you don't do this every day. You code every day. Why not rent out some office/conference space for an afternoon every few weeks as you ramp up on your next iteration and save the money on the office space all the while allowing your programmers to be more productive?
There are some interesting articles here:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=207

The author of the linked article, "What's for Dinner" favours Pollan's approach.
Government does provide transportation. Roads?
Is there a word meaning, "having a fascination with dates"?
Yes, it's the sort of thing every programmer goes through on the road to enlightenment
Previously on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585693

Ergohuman is the closest I can find to the Aeron, but I haven't tried one yet. They're also pretty close to Aeron in price, around $600:

http://ergohuman.com/index.html

Realspace Pro 9000 is close too:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/690690/Realspace-PRO-9...

A Slate article looking for the 'best desk chair':

http://www.slate.com/id/2131646/

Some others worth looking at:

Herman Miller Ecua XR:

http://www.costco.com/Browse/ProductGroup.aspx?Prodid=113004...

Humanscale Liberty:

http://www.thehumansolution.com/liberty.html

Hayworth Zody:

http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/review-haworth-zody-cha...

Realspace BT2:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/392830/Realspace-BT2-B... (I randomly found this one in Office Depot recently, and liked how it felt so much I bookmarked its page. I'm not Big & Tall, just average, but this chair's posture & lumbar support felt great)

Here's a fake Aeron:

http://www.coolchairz.com/solid-metal-mesh-chair--metallic-t...

Lots more at http://www.ergodepot.com/

Even a TED Talk on sitting:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/niels_diffrient_rethinks_...
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Klout is solving the cred/influence problem already. They're growing remarkably fast.
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Agreed! I like to use "build for emotion" as the barometer of a good idea. If you can actually see someone become excited to discover your app, and the delight of the first 15 minutes of using it, you're on the road to a good product.
Fermi problems ("How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?")
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Here's a prediction by a pundit for you: When intelligence becomes cool, it will have no more time to work on it's hobbies. Solve that problem Google.
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The parable of the transistor
Supporting telecommuting workers from out of state can be a big financial hassle as it may be enough to establish nexus in the state, which will force your company to collect sales tax there.
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Has anyone here ever tried hypnosis? I got sick from food poisoning a few years ago, and ever since then have had an on again off again issue with hypochondria. I've heard that hypnosis can help with this, but as a natural skeptic I'm... skeptical.
Generally very interesting discussion. The point that multiple muscles need to be addressed is important. I've read The Trigger Point Handbook and had some training in a form of trigger point therapy but I hadn't heard that exact discussion of the origin of trigger points - some references would great. Trigger points themselves also can and should be massaged - ideally by someone who knows what they're doing it.

I suspect the narrative is simplifying a bit. In my experience, trigger points develop in a variety of situations following a variety of physical, genetic and psychological factors.

I stretch at least daily and I'm probably more limber than 90% of people but I can certain develop trigger points after some intense exercise - stretching isn't necessarily enough.
One of the key features of AdGrok that makes it contextual is the GrokBar, a plugin that sits on a website, and pops up anytime the user is on a page that is being advertised on Google. Users will see a full breakdown of impressions, clicks, costs, and conversion. If a keyword isn’t performing well for a given page, the software will suggest alternate buys.

That's confusing to me. Who is the user? I'll assume they mean AdGrok users. What websites does it give info for? I'll assume just the ones the user owns, not their competitors who also use AdGrok, right? If so, why does it "sit on a webpage", and "pops up anytime the user is on a page that is being advertised?" Doesn't make any sense to me. [Edit] Isn't this just the functionality you'd expect in the AdGrok interface? [/Edit]
As I replied in another post, the coercion was no less than the coercion someone is under in US when their health insurance is tied to their job, they have mortgage payments to pay, and they have to buy an expensive house in a good school district.

I understand that we love to paint everything in ex-Soviet Union with wide black brush stokes, but speaking from personal experience that is just inaccurate.
Coming from Finland, this was my first reaction too.
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Me too. It lead to good things though:

1. When I write (on paper) I always write the month in words and the year in full. So 9 August 2010 or 9 Aug 2010. No uncertainty there.

2. When I name files or folders, it's always YYYY-MM-DD.
Innovation Insanity
This is the book I learned how to program with 5-6 years ago.

Great book, "translated" into different languages (Java for instance)
Have you tried a stand-desk?
'fraid so.
Seems to do it every time. I can log back in.

The link it is giving me to 'find friends' is: http://jummpp.in/users/45/find_friends
I can't recommend the Steelcase Leap enough. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I found the Aeron chairs to be somewhat uncomfortable. The Steelcase Leap, on the otherhand... I've had it for a year and couldn't imagine working without one.

I found mine for $100 on Craiglist, so maybe try there.
Apple buys rights to Liquidmetal Technologies patents
Nicely done PStamatiou. I went thru the same crunch a couple of years ago and dropped bread, dairy, coffee etc and it made a world of difference.

I actually had the folks at the gym and some friends casually tell me to eat more food as I had taken it a bit too far. What happened was mostly me trying to find that sweet spot where you can get benefits from the gym and not overdo it on either side (weight too low versus weight too high).
There is also a live blog: http://searchengineland.com/live-blogging-the-google-verizon...
Another option is the Swopper chair.
http://www.amazon.com/A-801-Black-Swopper-Chair/dp/B00079EH3...

It looks like a barstool and feels a bit like a high-tech, firm, adjustable exercise ball. Easily my favorite office chair and vastly better, in my opinion, than Aerons.
It's no coincidence that the people that you happened to meet during the course of your life also happened to be the ones who had the strongest influence on you.

The specific set of people you encounter may be largely a function of chance, but having the right mindset and drive to make the most of those relationships is not something you can't intentionally build.
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I recall a news story a year or two ago about a cafe owner forced to end live entertainment. Even after he explained that only hosted live bands playing original works, he was unable to get out from under unaffordable legal expense to defend his position.
Imho, Aeron chairs are overrated, because they lack good neck and head support.

I use a Vitra Headline. Most comfortable task chair in the world. I can code on it for days without feeling that my head is getting heavy and I need to sleep. It's so much relaxing fun I regularly have to drag myself away from the monitor at 3am to go to bed. Truly a revolution.
They use postgresql i believe.
that is weird. i am not getting any exception raised. let me try to track it down.
me too, its my birthday. i'm expecting greatness

it would only be (relatively) better if i were turning 42.
"the user"

You can hardly conclude by testing with only one user and even if there were more it is only 5 different weblogs.

It might seem intuitive that summaries are better, but how many of the people, sorry, how many articles did the person go on to read?

I think it depends much more on other variables, but fare enough in a corporate blog I would be skimming.
Being the son of an accountant I'd know it...
You (epi0Bauqu) should take a look at i.reddit.com as the interface looks similar and it already works on android and iphone and going to m.dukgo.com or m.duckduckgo.com would be somewhat enticing
That is true, but not because engineers are working in a Gulag.

Wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharashka
I was just trying to get him to clarify his point. There was nothing in his original comment that indicated he believed there was an optimum point between 0-100%. I'm at a loss as to why my comment was so much more inflammatory than his comment about the US being "arguably less civilized".
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what do you mean exactly by getting around routers and firewall? I've been working with freeswitch and NAT is really a no brainer if you have a UPnP router. Firewalls? Does skype get around firewalls that are explicitly configured to block it? As far as 'direct high quality connections' are concerned, even freeswitch does that, it only does the SIP signalling and lets the media stream exchange directly between the endpoints, given that both can see each other directlly (no NAT in between).
Rethinking Einstein: The end of space-time
Google + Verizon Proposal for "Open Internet"
From the TC comments, it seems like they built their traditional web admin interface into a toolbar for admins to use.
I think that's his point. Selling software is only one kind of startup. Would be interesting to apply the "get outside the building" thinking to:

1) Games - how to you verify that a game is "fun" before you build it? Cardboard cutouts and early play testing?

2) Marketplaces - You can verify that people hate eBay or VRBO, but what sort of early validation could you do to take them on?

3) User generated content - What could Yelp have done to validate the market?

Those are just a few off the top of my head. Not saying that you can't "get outside the building"-- just that it might take a different type of thinking...
The Quantum Mesh Chair from Office Depot is pretty nice, and about $300 new.

Double-check the seat height, though. I'm 5'11" and at the highest setting it's almost too low. I'm not entirely sure if they come in different sizes or if its one-size-fits-all.
It depends very much on the massage therapist.

Or rather, it depends the therapist stepping out of the role of "fixing the body" and into the role of helping the person use their body well.

"just message therapy" but message therapists these days are learning a variety of modalities, from hypnotherapy to Qigong to Rosen Work. If you are in a major city and have money to spend on body work, I'm sure you can find really skilled people.

In many ways, what's really necessary is for a person to wish to learn how to effectively use their body. But this goes against the expectation people learn in a consumer society, the majority of people expect a "plugin" fix.

Of course, each person's response is somewhat different. Some people seem to do well being "fixed" once a month.
And me. I'm running a 10k race starting at 10am.
If you think about Woz as "I started a multi-billion company when I was 17" then not many.

But if you think about Woz as "I inspired many to become engineers for engineering's sake" then you'd be surprised by sheer amount of engineering talent in eastern countries (I'm a central european myself) that got inspired by different tutors, mentors, tinkerers... Not to mention underfunded Soviet engineers that managed to build these wonderful machines of war - that could compete with US machinery.

AFAIK Engineering was always encouraged in east - It was "Liberal Arts" that were oppressed and eastern management stinks - even more than western does.
From what I've seen of it, it looks like a great idea. I can't wait 'til you have a mobile / non-FB interface. I hope it catches on.
It's a firefox plugin that's inside your browser and pops up when you browse to the website you're advertising on AdWords.

You can see a video demo here:

http://adgrok.com/features#grokbar
Can the protocol be reverse engineered? I guess regardless it is dependent on connecting to some central switching service; but maybe there could be an alternative, open central service someday.

Relatedly, if Skype changes the protocol, does it break an installed base of clients, or do those get updated automagically?
Why only product pages?
Thx--will do. I've actually had this (mobile formatting) on my list for a while, but just haven't gotten to it yet.
First off, I don't know Indian law, but normally import tax is based on wholesale value. AKA One ton of steel is worth X, pay Y% of X.

Now, there are plenty of loopholes in the law but, just as you can get a speeding ticket while traveling below the posted speed limit in a blizzard the basic rules are usually still enforceable. The law may go to great detail about what how and why to post a given speed limit, but they are only guidelines. EX: A friend was given a speeding ticket by a cop who did not know how fast he was going AND did not know what the speeding limit was on that road. However, the Judge decided that the cop as an expert witness and he had to pay the fine.

PS: You often see the same sorts of things in IRS audits, because you don’t get to just follow 95% of the rules.
Google And Verizon Reiterate Their Love For The Open Internet
The huge problem they have in the USA is not that health care is private, it's that health is incredibly expansive.
This was my first Assembly (I know, I'm late) and it was absolutely inspiring. These demos take months of work, and they're done for fun -- sure, there's some rivalry there, and there's a challenge, but it mostly seems to be about creating art and having fun. It reminded me why I started programming computers in the first place.
Or maybe he operates in a workplace where you can just pick up the phone at your desk and not worry about the implementation details of the underlying telephony infrastructure.
who said anything about taking credit card numbers?

1. You don't save credit card numbers...in fact you don't transmit anything from the form...just clear it out without saving.

2. You don't tell them "sorry we are fake"...you tell them "This product is no longer available for sale...your credit card will not be charged".

3. You have to remember this is a limited run. At most you'll have 10-15 buyers before you realize that you are onto something and would stop your test. So the chance of someone bitching at you for "taking" their credit card number is slim.

So there is no fraud, no identity theft...the only unethical thing you are doing...is making someone read a description of a product that's not available for sale.

And in return you get your REAL numbers...not the inflated ones that can send you chasing the wrong idea. I'll give you an actual example...156(order form impressoins) = 18(order form submits) = 13(actual sales)
I love that you've proven the Butterfield Diet Plan works!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnuBTPOaKY

Don't forget... Saturday is Treat Day.
Thinking of getting a GeekDesk. You can buy just the frame, then find your own desk top piece (and a hollow-core door from home depot will work just fine)
>the US has far less taxes that most western countries

I own my own LLC, and lose 45% of my "salary" to taxes (in large part because I pay both 7.5% "halves" of my Medicare tax). Is that far less than it would be in most other Western countries?
is anyone having the same problem? the "find friends" page queries facebook for the list of your friends also using jummpp.in. which is most likely the empty set. Tearing my hair out why Super_Jambo is being logged out.
That is almost word-for-word why my sister told me that she started smoking at age 20.
Gem from the Discussion page:

"1., If P not equal NP, then God cannot exist.

(P=!NP would allow easily creating a problem which God himself cannot solve, making omnipotence impossible. Science is not allowed to prove/disprove the exitance of God per definition, thus P must be equal to NP, where even a non-constructive proof would allow for a God.)"

I wonder what kind of education leads to statements like this.
Hmm... I'm sure someone with more experience will chime in, but I recall reading in a Scientific American years ago that removing a particular piece from the cube then reinserting it wrong could yield a non-solvable configuration.

So I think your statement is only true if you define 'possible' and 'reachable' as synonymous, making it tautological. There are still 'cubes' that look plausible, with the right number of faces of each color and adjacent-faced-pieces, that are still unsolvable.
I haven't tried it, but the first thing that comes to mind is that your skepticism is likely to have a causal influence on it's efficacy.
I cant use it. I don't have a FB account so pretty useless to me.

Looks like a fun idea though.
The best part of TDD
It's "democratic". Grammar!
> What if the company uses an agile approach to development? Maybe they pair program.

I pair program every day over voip and tmux. It works great; there's absolutely nothing about being remote that precludes pairing as long as you have a stable 'net connection.
I was curious; looks like they've used a few different things to put it together; everything from Delphi to Objective C.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype
The article says TRILL may be redundant with capabilities already on the market, like Cisco's FabricPath. But FabricPath is based on TRILL, is likely Cisco-proprietary, and Cisco says they will upgrade it to be compatible with TRILL once that spec is complete.

Isn't this like saying "Who needs 802.11n when we have draft-n right now!"
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You claim you try to make "substantive contributions", [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582396] but really, I'm not sure I'm seeing it.
Everyone is free to provide goods to other people out of the warmness of their hearts!
I'm saying that while there is a large random multiplier in everyone's outcome, the risk of total failure varies enormously with the founders. Some founders have a near 0% chance of total failure. Others (a larger number) have a near 100% chance. So while this means on average the change of a startup succeeding is 1/n, quoting that stat as part of the description of a startup would be misleading, because for a small number of people it's just not true, just as for a small number of fast runners it would not be true that they'd run slow in the shoes, whatever the average person did.