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It doesn't really matter what he meant, any way you slice it that comment is simply disgusting.
Do you like writing grant proposals? Do you like teaching? Do you like writing and reviewing papers? Academia consists of a lot of non-coding work that I frankly cannot stand. Heck, I thought I might actually like teaching and it turned out it was the most unpleasant job I've ever had.
I loved the book, but don't remember that being one of the points.
Thanks for the effort, but seems to be a pretty rough link blast. Maybe there are some diamonds in here, but many certainly miss the point.

"Weight Loss As the Paleo diet is by nature pretty low-carbohydrate":
Paleo is not necessarily low-carb. You could eat squash, root vegetables, and fruit all day for nearly all your calories. I actually don't doubt that you can lose weight on the paleo diet, though. You can lose weight on almost any vaguely healthy diet.

"Cancer Patterns in Inuits" : Cancer has many other causes than diet, and this study in no way isolates diet as the factor in disease-patterns in Inuits.

"This William Lands paper": This solely studies omega-3/6 intake and health. Not the overall health effects of the paleo diet.

"Good Calories, Bad Calories" does have an explanation of why the medical establishment has made its recommendations. Still, it is written by one non-expert. Hardly enough to make radical lifestyle changes for.

"Dr Barry Groves" OK, this looks possibly legit.

I'm not going to try to figure out the rest, given the poor quality of the preceding.
How's 80%?
He does say Plato's Socratic dialogues. The Republic, which he has problems with (e.g., http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/culture/philosophy/5393-Je... -- thanks for mentioning that correspondence -- had no idea, quite fascinating) we of course associate with the beginning of the end of Plato's Socratic dialogues -- even if he uses Socrates as a mouthpiece there and later. It's curious that Jefferson might've already understood those differences (he's also right about, e.g., 'Cicero's philosophies' as opposed to the guy's five billion other letters, speeches, commentaries, etc.). But then again Jefferson was sort of a baller (walk around and shoot things for exercise? I'm not a huge fan of guns or, frankly, Jefferson -- on account of his 400 slaves, etc. -- but if there was a baller in that century, it was probably him).
How is being an entrepreneur different from being a financier? Both are speculative. The financier invests dollars in risky schemes, the entrepreneur invests time and energy in them. If the scheme pans out, both get rich.
you can make your own assumptions about acceptable ways of canceling a monthly service. you can also read the terms of service and abide by what you said ok to.

personally, it seems like a lot of people are trying to whine their way out of contracts.
Rather than force fun, I think it's much more effective for management to simply loosen up and let people be themselves. I work at a large company where management doesn't really care how people go about their work, as long as it gets done.
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How's 110%? They should give their best effort, yeah?
This is the key point (or should be) in this discussion. The foolish spending that Delong accuses Henderson of supporting would never have been approved if the average taxpayer had to pay even $10 out of pocket for it.

The general public can only be convinced to vote for grandiose schemes when there is zero perceived cost. Since most US citizens pay nearly nothing in taxes, it's easy to get them to vote for such schemes. The tax system is designed to facilitate consent for such schemes, or at least to minimize the natural skepticism that any reasonable person would have about the ROI of most government endeavors.

Of course, you can't have negative ROI if your investment was $0, so why not cheer on the blow dried politicians and hope it works, after all someone else is paying for it.
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>I get skeptical every time someone brings out a list of "chemicals" that are supposedly all around us

What is there to possibly be skeptical about in this article? Why did you put quotes around chemicals? His point was everything that exists is a chemical and is processed by the body as a chemical. I'm more skeptical as to whether or not you read the article than anything presented in it.
Yeah, I still play Final Fantasy on occasion, though Dragon Warrior has weathered a bit worse (the grind is a bit harsh, though the sequels are better).

I think this is because good gameplay doesn't age as quickly or as harshly as good graphics. Graphics have improved greatly, while gameplay hasn't come quite so far.
I can't agree more thoroughly.

It's obnoxiously difficult to identify all of the taxes (especially state and local) that are relevant to your business, let alone to actually file and pay them (both of which can be harder than you'd think.)

Until there's an easy way to verify you're compliant, I don't think there's any viable option except to hire an accounting firm to ensure compliance. If you use standard accounting software (like quickbooks) and just want them to deal with filing and paying the taxes, the bill will be small.
Urgent: name of piece that connect laptop screen?
Hi..
I have LG laptop, and there is a problem in the piece that connects the monitor of the laptop with the laptop itself..

I am from Egypt... and we don't have such parts here..
so, I would like to know the name of that piece in English? so I would search for it on ebay and buy it..

Again, to make it clear...
It's the part that connects between the monitor and laptop itself... I tried VGA connector word, but it seems that it's something else...

Waiting for your answer, and thanks in advance,
Ahmed.
Ask HN: The continue of that Digg and Cassandra story?
Recently I've visited http://cassandra.apache.org/ and the front page remains the same - Proven! Digg uses it! and so on. No mention of an epic failure, of course.

So what is new? Did they manage to figure out why it cannot work under a heavy load? It that Cassandra's or general Java issues?
I hadn't heard they were C&D'd, I'll have to ask jbp about that.

Thinkgeek apparently still has some stock of them: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/db91/

Also these sticky variants apparently haven't been C&D'd yet: http://apps-on.com/
"If the best practice for a merchant is to suspend an account when someone doesn't pay"

no it's not!!!

i prefer that my credit card stays active if i'm late. I prefer that my health care is active if my payment is late. I love that my cell phone is reachable if i miss my bill.

Stop making excuses. 99.9% of the time, i don't want the merchant to cancel services if i miss a payment.

Simply stopping payment is a bullshit way to indicate you want to stop paying for a service.

This is hacker news. Thing about building a system where you had to account for people breaking a contract every time they wanted to cancel service. That's an edge case and shouldn't be encouraged.
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I have a somewhat related question.

You see, I buy used hardware. Mostly from ebay, sometimes from craigslist. I always walk if it smells funny. (if it seems fishy, I often offer to exchange ID, and if the other guy refuses, I walk. Once someone offered me a good deal on a laptop but wanted to meet me on a freeway offramp. )

Really, even just exchanging ID every time wouldn't solve the problem... you see, many people buy things used, use them for a while (or not) then turn around and sell them, either in hope of turning a profit, or simply because they got bored with the item; I can imagine many ways a stolen item could come to be owned by someone who had no idea that it might be stolen.

My question is this: Is there some sort of publicly accessible stolen goods serial number registry or the like that I can check my goods against? I mean, even after I got the thing, if it turned out to be stolen, I'd be cool with returning it and eating the loss. I buy enough stuff to amortize any losses... but both from an ethical and a liability perspective, I'd really like greater assurance that I don't have stolen goods laying about.
He might get carried away with his writing, but I liked this little gem quoted in the article: "If you have never seen a blonde society editor kicked in the ass by a flaming wastebasket, you have missed one of the rare experiences of journalism."
> Cut out vegetables from your diet, for example, and you will experience serious intestinal distress when you reintroduce them.

I've actually done that[1], and experienced the complete opposite. I found myself dreaming about eating broccoli, and absolutely craving all kinds of vegetables. When the diet ended I ate lots of vegetables -- and certainly no intestinal distress when eating them.

[1] - "Velocity Diet": the very definition of fad diet, which basically consists of drinking a protein shake 5 times a day for 4 weeks, with 1 solid meal per week. It worked, but I'd never ever do it again, nor recommend anyone ever do it.
The interesting thing is that the places where they got a lot of votes hardly have any immigrants at all - it's a splendid example of being afraid of the unknown and how that fear is used by extremists.
I have a an unstarted startup idea that basically looks at the hiring process as a series of steps in a value chain, then works out how to bust that up to break up the job-agent market. Anyone who has done freelance contracting has a grab-bag full of 'bad agent' stories. There's massive scope for connecting potential employees and employers together and eliminating the agent in the middle. But someone has to weed out the bad hires and process all the information, so the solution is crowdsourcing the bits and pieces that go into hiring-having a trusted resume sorter, an effective job-ad writer, etc. I think the existing hiring model is extremely outmoded given the technology available, but the right 'new' business model hasn't emerged yet. We're pretty much still at the point of putting newspaper ads online.
I graduated from CMU CS in 2009 and chose to start up instead of doing grad school (http://www.shoefitr.com). We were funded by AlphaLab and are still based in Pittsburgh.

I, too, was looking to work on something cool and new, and you can certainly find projects that meet this criteria in both startups and academia. The decision for me was easy because I was passionate about the idea, and I was excited to start building. The serious thesis work in grad school would still have been a couple years away, and I wasn't as excited about taking more classes. I wanted to get started immediately.

If you'd like to grab lunch and talk more about the start-up world, I'd be happy to try and lend my perspective. (My co-founders and I live in Shadyside).
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Great article, but I feel like the new logo is a little "WordArt" like, with the flatter gradient. I appreciate they were going for something lighter, agree with the typography, and love the thought that went into this, but the finished product really leaves something to be desired for me. I think it's primarily the colours, but also with this much thought into the logo it was also an opportunity to rebrand a little.
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From what I've seen of Cassandra, it was started by people who confused MySQL with the general state of SQL implementations.

In fact, many of these database implementations produced by NoSQL movement aren't anti-SQL, they're anti-MySQL; and the authors don't realize it as they've used PostgreSQL or Oracle in depth.

I seriously doubt this is a Java issue, and it might not be a Cassandra issue either... it could very well just be a an issue with how Digg is coded.
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Well that was definitely my experience, I'm not sure how well it generalizes.

I think there are probably some deeper factors at play in this. I think in most fields of computer science its hard to articulate the importance of the research in itself. That is I think my vague outsider view of Maths and Physics research is that its easier to quantify the significance research on its own. In CS I feel their is a stronger need for outside justification - that is this research will do x faster or better - but that research tends to be divorced from industry to the extent that it rarely contributes directly. Fundamentally there just isn't as much need for academia in lots of fields of CS - it doesn't take expensive equipment and its not so abstract that it can't be undertaken by a profit seeking concern. Add to that most universities want to take good research patent it and spin it off anyway, and you might as well just start a company and keep your equity.
Ask HN: Using S3 for personal data backup?
Hi HN,
I would like to ask whether anyone has experience using S3 for personal data backup (documents, photos, video) and work.

Background: Just experienced an external hard drive failing on me. Traumatic and irritating =)

Hope that you can share how you've set it up (rsync?), some examples of the data you've stored and the costs that you are paying each month.

Luckily for me, Amazon just opened a data centre in Singapore =p

Thank you!
Ryan
OK, that is a valid data point. In my own experience, when I increased the amount of vegetables (mostly green vegetables) I was eating, I felt bad for weeks until I adjusted.
The problem with HFCS isn't that it is necessarily worse than other forms of sugar. Rather, the problem is that it is usually an indicator of other problems. It's like Van Halen's famous brown M&Ms.

The band Van Halen had a term in their contracts, buried in the section of technical requirements that specified things like power requirements and structural requirements for the stage and such, that required the venue to provide a bowl of M&Ms for the band, with all the brown M&Ms removed.

This was there not because they had anything against brown M&Ms. Its purpose was to provide a way to see if someone had actually read the technical requirements. When they arrived to set up for a show, they could walk backstage, glance at the bowl of M&Ms, and if they saw brown ones, they invariably found on closer inspection that other requirements had also been ignored--including safety requirements.

Same with HFCS. If you find HFCS in the ingredient list, it is usually a sign you are dealing with a food that has had a lot of processing applied to it to try to "improve" it, or make it cheaper at the expense of nutrition, and so on. A food that has not been processed like that almost never will have HFCS.
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Java is everywhere. Berkeley CS162 course uses Java language to teach OS Design and Internals - they wrote a pseudo-code examples in Java, a-la SaveRegisters(). It is a madness, Isn't it? ^_^
I just read the first 100 messages in my Gmail spam box. Five had unsubscribe links that were highly suspicious -- misleading .ru domains and GET parameters that could not possibly identify me. Four had links that were paired with US addresses and worked. Three had seemingly legitimate links that led to broken forms. The other 88 had no unsubscribe link in the body of the email.

I think the author's claim is correct. For emails that aren't patently absurd and contain a mailing address, clicking unsubscribe links seems like a good idea. Unfortunately for me, I'm stuck with the other 96%.
See, here's the issue isn't it? How much is enough? I do think the tea-partiers have a point. There most definitely is a level of taxation that greatly reduces people willingness to take risks in the hopes of future wealth. Is it 40%? 50%? 90%?

I don't know. I'm just pretty damn sure it's not what we're taxing the wealthy at now.

Disclaimer: I would be affected by these tax hikes.
Just curious: Define "modestly". Do you own your house? Is it a big house? Is it a nice area?

I'm always fascinated by the varying definitions of living modestly. I don't mean that as an attack on you in any way. I find that people definitions really do differ quite a bit. What's yours?
Ask HN: Corp-to-Corp Contract Gotchas 
For the experienced contractors out there who do corp-to-corp deals, either directly with clients or through recruiters, what are some of the contract gotchas that a newbie could avoid?

From your experience are there terms you should always ask for? What terms have you accepted and later wished you hadn't? Which ones do you always reject?

Thanks in advance for helping me out!
The Kitavans are an isolated tribe that eat almost no grains (though lots of carbs - fruits & vegetables) and are virtually free of cardiovascular disease. All while smoking excessively.

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I strongly agree with this point. See http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2009/11/why-i-left-math.html for how what I saw in math supports your point.

Worse yet, we have not just specialized, we have lost knowledge as well. My favorite example of this is a result I rediscovered. Every mathematician knows that, for instance, sqrt(2)+cube_root(3) must be the root of some polynomial of degree 6. (This one turns out to be x^6 - 6x^4 -6x^3 + 12x^2 - 36x + 1.) I came up with a construction for answering questions like this. I showed it to a number of mathematicians, and none had seen it until I showed an older one who said, "That looks like a very old way to do this. Go to the library, pick up an algebra book from the 1800s, and see if you find it."

I did, it was there, and it turns out that two of the mathematicians I had talked to were in fields that had gotten their start from the very construction I rediscovered! (One was in number theory, dealing with things like algebraic integers. The other was in combinatorics, and did a lot of stuff with symmetric polynomials.)

If you're curious, the observation behind the construction is that any polynomial expression that is symmetric in the roots of a polynomial can be rewritten as a polynomial in the coefficients of that polynomial. So if a1 and a2 are the roots of x^2-2, and b1, b2, b3 are the roots of x^3-3, then (x-a1-b1)(x-a1-b2)(x-a1-b3)(x-a2-b1)(x-a2-b2)(x-a2-b3) is a polynomial in x and the coefficients of x^2-2 and x^3-3, which means that it is an integer polynomial.

All that said, this point doesn't support your argument. It is true that if information were better presented, people could learn more about more subjects than they could otherwise. It is true that trying to do this would have tremendous value. But if you want to learn about multiple subjects then you need to deal with how information actually exists out there in the world, rather than how we'd like it to be organized. The disorganization that you point to is a significant barrier to learning. (This problem does not look like it will improve any time soon.)
Wow. Don't think I've ever been as disgusted with anything posted on HN; if you don't think you're rich when you're in the top 1% of earners, then you are an arsehole or stupid. Pure an simple.
My question is how did he unlock your computer in the first place?
I'm impressed by the honesty. Doesn't seem to be the arrogant guy many people play him up to be.
I don't know Arrington personally, but this articles makes him sound very arrogant. Is this how he is normally?
Who is the xenophobic party?

(Sorry, as an American I'm a bit out of the loop on most European politics)
The government providing those services is what allows jobs that pay so well to exist. Most of the function of government is protecting property rights, and the largest part of that is creating a stable society where the poor don't have an incentive to murder the rich.
That's nice to hear. I'm nowhere near the upper tax brackets at the moment, but I like to think that I would be okay (and even encouraging) of the taxes I did face in such a situation.

I know many people who make lots of money and are bitter about paying so much tax on it, but very few people who realize that the taxes they pay make a real difference in everyone's lives (especially the lives of those who are less fortunate). Or that the taxes they pay make possible all of the benefits the Federal, State, and local governments offer.

Sure, the government may not be the most efficient of entities, but I think it's difficult to make a serious argument that we would be better off without most of the services provided by the various levels of governments, or that they could easily be replaced. And none of these would be possible without some form of taxation (though how the taxes should be structured is up for reasonable debate).

While I believe that people should be fairly compensated for their hard work, and that we shouldn't penalize people for working harder, I also believe that it would benefit most people to stop and think about how much their taxes help to make this/any country a great place.

*disclaimer: this is mostly about the US, as this is my main experience, but I'd guess most of it applies to (at least some) other nations as well.
Here's a direct link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yghiC_U2RaM
Doesn't seem arrogant, just seems to be quite the introvert.
I don't know, but that seems like the kind of snarky one-liner that doesn't add anything to the discussion. Because davidw said it so well, I'll just inline quote him here:

This is exactly the kind of comment that I feared we would see when articles like this start gaining traction. It's a cheese puff comment: it's got some taste, but it's empty. It has nothing to back it up, no content, no reasoning, no well crafted argument. It's just an empty "rah rah" type of slogan of the type that politicians regularly regurgitate. There is nothing new or clever about the comment, it's the sort of thing that's made the rounds elsewhere 100's of times. Being such a cheap, throwaway comment, it mostly/usually doesn't lead to particularly interesting discussions, as we can see here, despite a few good comments, but more zingers, one liners and similar "go home team!" cheering for one political side.
Argh, the "special edition" appears to no longer be available on Amazon!
CyberDuck (free, for Mac) otherwise JungleDisk ($$) to connect your machine to S3.

Don't backup your data to Singapore even if you are local, it will cost you more (compare costs across S3 DC's) and you don't need backup data to be close to you in the network.

S3 can work out expensive if you want to host a lot of data. Sometimes it can be cheaper to buy one of those 'unlimited' backup accounts with Mozy/etc as after a while the cost will be cheaper than Amazon.
Funny ..Funky NoSQL vs SQL
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I think I've seen that once (not a big Gmail user yet).

Would love to see it in all mail clients, and useful for all subscriptions. A 1998 RFC and a basic attempt from one webmail provider is a bit depressing in 2010 when most of us get hammered by these sorts of messages.
very impressive that he's moved to Seattle and is still as effective as he is...great article
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