skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also possible that it was based on the potential damage done to Google by Facebook's talent acquisition, or if this isn't a zero-sum game, to prevent any gains by Facebook.
While those studies are useful, you can't argue with results, even if you have only tested it on yourself, it at least is true for you, even if you don't fully understand the mechanism.
You make a good case for trying a lunch that isn't (simple) carb laden then. =)
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Thank you, I kept expecting Googly to be some new product they were unveiling related to side-step the fight in some way or fight it.
Thanks, but I find this a much better place to discuss than in blog comments :)
"better search" is Evolution. If Google is able to create precedent invalidating the software patents system, that would be a Revolution (not that a Revolution with all its mess is always, or even sometimes, a best thing though :)
I agree with you on everything except the following sentence:

> What kind of economic incentive could Facebook afford to give you that wouldn't make you feel like a worthless cog in their machine?

Must the incentive be economic? Facebook provides value to its users through a social incentive. Likewise, the incentive to share an article on HN or Reddit is your Karma score and to engage in a lively discussion on the topic. Neither of the two is economic.

An interesting point that you failed to make when discussing the economics of the situation is the following, regardless of whether or not a user contributes to TripAdvisor or Qype he can still peruse the site. So my question is the following, what incentive does a user have to contribute reviews to TripAdvisor or Qype versus simply reading others' reviews?
And you get paid whether you win or not.
Interpreted programming languages (especially ones with a REPL) are great for their low barrier of entry. However, once someone wants to make an easily distributable executable, they have to jump through numerous hoops.

The only exception to this problem are VMs which are often clunky and restricted to code precompiled for a specific version of a VM. I would like to see more solutions to this dilema, examples of which can be seen in py2exe and pyinstaller, for Python.

Edit: This is a general thought, and not a dig against Lisp. It is made clear by Stack Overflow answers that many implementations of Lisp have easy ways to make executables which are well documented.
As someone who also reads a lot of fiction, I think this fic is in great need of a good editor... but that after the normal publication process it would be as good as anything Asimov or Heinlein wrote.
Doesn't work for me in FF. shrug
I've been using RackSpace Cloud Servers for over a year now and am happy with their service. I only run 1 server, the smallest instance, but have hosted multiple sites without any issues. When I heard of Amazon's Micro instance I decided to give it a shot but I did not have a good experience. Seemed much slower than my RackSpace equivalent and so I switched back to RackSpace.
Even though we targeted broadly over several English speaking countries, we were still getting a big chunk of impressions (judging by the resulting registrations) from the more competitive markets like USA and Canada.
I don't see any contrast. How is the fact that Apple takes a consistent stance toward third-party platforms "toying with the tech press"?
From the point of vew of graduate jobs, becoming a dev in Quant or Algo is definitely a pretty high paid start in line with other IB Front Office (£50k ish). That said, I don't know how well Google pays grad software engineers.
A lot of people do have that reaction to it, yes.
This seems reasonable, until you consider that there might be other factors at play. Maybe he eats food that is hard to digest or causes a sugar rush and then sugar crash, and simply not riding the sugar roller coaster felt better, but he'd feel the same or even better by eating meals with less simple carbohydrates.

The point of these studies is to remove these other factors and test one thing at a time.
Hmm, all those different stories.. this is the thing I saw passing by @ Urbansurvival.com

Wednesday November 10, 2010

Missile Firing Solved?

The reader who sent in the link to the Notices ot Mariners Report found this entry which may explain
the missile launch

earlier this week from SoCal waters
near Catalina Island. Check this out from Page 55 of the current Notice to Mariners report ( http://164.214.12.45/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/NAV_PUBS/UNT... ):

"434/10(18).
EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
CALIFORNIA.
MISSILES.
1. INTERMITTENT MISSILE FIRING OPERATIONS 0001Z TO 2359Z
DAILY MONDAY THRU SUNDAY IN THE NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER
SEA RANGE. THE MAJORITY OF MISSILE FIRINGS TAKE PLACE
1400Z TO 2359Z AND 0001Z TO 0200Z DAILY MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
34-02N 119-04W, 33-52N 119-06W, 33-29N 118-37W,
33-20N 118-37W, 32-11N 120-16W, 31-54N 121-35W,
35-09N 123-39W, 35-29N 123-00W, 35-57N 121-32W,
34-04N 119-04W.
2. VESSELS MAY BE REQUESTED TO ALTER COURSE WITHIN THE ABOVE
AREA DUE TO FIRING OPERATIONS AND ARE REQUESTED TO CONTACT
PLEAD CONTROL ON 5081.5 MHZ (5080 KHZ) OR 3238.5 KHZ (3237 KHZ)
SECONDARY OR 156.8 MHZ (CH 16) OR 127.55 MHZ BEFORE ENTERING
THE ABOVE BOUNDARIES AND MAINTAIN CONTINUOUS GUARD WHILE
WITHIN THE RANGE.
3. VESSELS INBOUND AND OUTBOUND FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PORTS
WILL CREATE THE LEAST INTERFERENCE TO FIRING OPERATIONS
DURING THE SPECIFIC PERIODS, AS WELL AS ENHANCE THE VESSEL'S SAFETY WHEN PASSING THROUGH THE VICINITY OF THE SEA RANGE
IF THEY WILL TRANSIT VIA THE SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL AND WITHIN
NINE MILES OFFSHORE VICINITY OF POINT MUGU OR CROSS THE AREA
SOUTHWEST OF SAN NICOLAS ISLAND BETWEEN SUNSET AND SUNRISE.
If I were FB, I'd go with the latter, just so that I can say, "Fmail - it's one better than Gmail!"

Your view is exactly opposite from mine. I viewed it as higher is better (where A is 1 - or 0 if you're binarily inclined). You have regular email, and Google's GMail is two higher.

Facebook using FMail, to me, feels a bit like saying "it's better than plain Jane email, but still not quite as good as GMail."
I agree that contacting the 'marketing firm' would be mistake, but I think that there might be benefit in involving Yelp. My view of them is mixed (at best), but I have to presume that they have people within their organization who are willing to distance themselves from extortion attempts.

So while they may be indirectly involved, I think they'll respond by taking down the negative reviews if they appear to be suspicious after a short review. As they are unlikely to be the direct source of the fax, I think it's unlikely that further repercussions would be triggered.

I also don't think there is much to lose in contacting the FBI and seeing if they want to treat it as extortion. Perhaps they have 9 such fax's already, and are waiting for a 10th before they take action. I think they are unlikely to tip off the marketer the source of the complaint.
I think the review scene is going to be open to data mining for fraud detection (or some kind of karma), and I think the HN community should pay attention to this as a problem that needs fixing.

In your case, I would rally friends to place positive reviews to counter-balance the forces of evil. Involve the patients of the practitioner (usually works when the operation is smaller and the relationships are stronger).
certainly feels pretty full-time to me
I wasn't responding to a comment on language quality, I was responding to a comment on language readability.
No, the brain can only use ketone bodies after days of carbohydrate deprivation. You can't achieve ketosis overnight by skipping breakfast.

If there's not enough glycogen in the liver and/or muscles and you are not getting any sugar from food, the body starts degrading your bodies' protein to convert glucogenic aminoacids to glucose, and thus maintain blood glucose levels and avoid fainting.
Depends how well you structure your Adwords campaigns and how fast your website is ... etc. Basically with a quality score of 10/10 keyword you can get 0.01 cpc
I don't think WebObjects has a lot of internal system hooks, does it?
What's the best advice to take? That from a doctor, dietitian, or nutritionist. Not some yahoo on the internet.

Well, that's a good advice in theory, but did you notice how many doctors, dietitians and nutritionists have contradicting points of view?
Unless your startup is targeting teenage girls in third world countries, you shouldn't be trying to simply optimize for low CPC.

You need to be thinking about traffic quality and conversions. The beauty of a fluid marketplace like Facebook Ads(or AdWords, for that matter) is that the cost of traffic will eventually approach its value.

The people clicking these ads are not going to be spending a lot of money on your site, that's why the clicks are so cheap.

If you try this same approach targeting, for example, middle aged women in the US, who have much more purchasing power, you can expect to pay closer to $1 per click.

Note that this post doesn't say anything about conversions or sales.

And if you think you can build a successful business around dirt-cheap clicks from African children, well I've got a few million guaranteed visitors to sell you :)
iSoftStone = Microsoft's partner to bring health IT to China

iSoft = Health IT supplier that brought the UK NHS national IT program to its knees

Hmm, no potential for confusion there, then.
The key may be in the casual mention of 'coffee consumption'.

Many creative caffeine users do their best work while all jacked on caffeine. I know I do. That's often first thing in the morning, and sometimes even before I eat. Caffeine is anorexic, as well, causing loss of appetite as part of the effect.

It's still a better idea to eat. Many years ago, when I took prescription amphetamines, I would force myself to eat at noon, grimly and efficiently munching down a sandwich or burrito. Otherwise I would start hating life.

Normally, I eat a piece or two of fruit with tea for breakfast, followed by second breakfast (often a bagel with hummus and avocado) a few hours later. This gets me through the creative rush I think Scott's referring to, without the obligatory post-lunch hard crash.
I expect it will be allowed only if you ship the JVM and runtime with your app. (And then I suppose Apple might reject you for your app being unreasonably large.)
Just being pedantic, curveball is closer to swing. Perhaps the closet too googly would be a splitter. That said, from the perspective of the language/idiom, curveball would be appropriate usage in the context ...
I'll throw this one out there: "Barstool Blogging"

It's like conversations you have with some random person in the barstool section of a bar. Subject matter varies, but generally it ends with you both talking like "experts" about some random subject neither of you really knows much about, besides maybe a few "factoids" here and there.
As a lisp nerd, I always like seeing lisp articles on HN, but this one lacks... substance. I know there were qualifiers at the beginning of the article, but I just got the feeling that if I didn't know what he was talking about, then I wouldn't understand what he was talking about.

That said, I'm always glad to see people interested in lisp, so I'm not too unhappy with the article.
I think its an interesting piece, but his leaps of logic are a bit alarming ... in a funny sort of way.

I just think that people who are creative or actively creating stuff don't have time to eat much or sleep for that matter.

Not to put myself in that category, but I often forget to eat and when I do, I wolf down my food so I can get on to more 'interesting' things ... also ... sleeping annoys me ... it seems like such an inefficient way of recharging my body/brain (inactivity for 30% of the day ... wtf?!?!), at one point I'd only get 5 hours of sleep because it felt like such a waste of time ... after having some health issues because of it, I'm closer to 6/7 now ...
I don't have a Facebook option to import from. I originally click a link entitled:

"
An easy way to import your contacts
Automatically bring family and friends into
Yahoo! Mail, from Facebook and your old
email accounts. Get your contacts now."

Then arriveat a page that doesn't have Facebook:

"Step 1 - Select Source

Importing contacts from your existing address books is easy. Just select the account(s) below where your contacts are stored.
Default Accounts

Another Yahoo! Account
MSN
Live.com
Hotmail
Gmail / Googlemail
AOL
A desktop email program (Outlook, AppleMail, etc...)

More Services

Comcast
EarthLink
Laposte
Verizon
Web.de
Orkut"
Agreed. The reason I said economic is because that's what the OA seems to feel like he deserves, but to be fair he does leave the door open for more clever incentives. However my thesis would be that the OA is already a lost cause and not someone worth pursuing.

As far as the incentive to write a review on TripAdvisor, from personal experience I'd say the overwhelming incentive is to either benefit or stick it to an establishment you visited.
Yes, for at least one definition of magical: beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life.
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Sounds like he's perfectly positioned to help people transition from X-Serves to whatever gives the best migration path.
My Common Lisp (SBCL) isn't interpreted; everything you type in the REPL is compiled before running it. And there aren't many hoops to jump through to make an easily distributed executable with buildapp for SBCL.
This isn’t actually “speed” though, is it? It’s bandwidth. Google’s Mike Belshe released data this year showing that network latency rather than bandwidth had a greater affect on the speed of browsing. I’d be very interested to see how each country lines up in terms of network latency, both in country (to popular sites) but also to the rest of the world.
That's like saying a windows app supports OSX by installing a Windows XP VM in Parallels.
Consider the advice on conversion rate optimization:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1860130
It's actually closer to 10% if you look at the most recent numbers and discount machines that are not actually part of the market in any reasonable sense (e.g. nobody's going to be installing your software on their old cash register).
What struck me here was how effective facebook proved to be for you on the Weekend! To the contrary, my facebook rep encourages me NOT to advertise on weekends because of ... ? what? lower traffic? Or maybe she's trying to keep this a secret?
I do not normally make this sort of comment on this sort of post but I am here to simply say that I love, love, love Linux Mint.
Great, clarifying talk at Startup School 2009:

http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/24/startup-school-gmail-frien...

Honestly, a large part of that talk has stayed with me and kept my main outside-of-work project quietly in the background. I'd like to think I had the confidence and motivation before that talk. But somehow that talk just clicked for me. And has encouraged me to keep at it.

His approach is sort of what we all, I think, aspire for. A really clear, honest core outlook. And then entrepreneurship as bottom-up programming. It's actually much more difficult than it seems -- because you have to look ahead compared to a lot of people and then insist on relearning things in a bottom-up approach. You see it with all great founders (Zuck, etc.). On the outside, they seem lucky. But if you look more closely, they have a habit of putting themselves in the right position by looking two or three steps ahead (as I think Adam D'Angelo's talk @ Startup School 2010 was partly getting at). But then they insist on revalidating things from the ground up (e.g., Paul B's 'winging it' and deriving the overgeneralized nature of advice without a particular context, etc.). Anyway, they all make it look easy. But if you're smart, I think you look at them as real inspiration in terms of getting things done the right way.
So every windows only company can claim full Linux support ...via wine.
1. Change to the classic interface. The button for this is in the "options" drop down in the upper left under the yellow web search button.

2. Click on the "Contacts" tab.

3. Select the "tools" dropdown from the royal blue menu bar.

4. Choose "Import...."

5. You should see clickable logos for facebook, gmail and hotmail.

ALSO:

It worked for me with firefox 3.6.9 on ubuntu. It didn't work for me with 3.6.9 on CentOS. It appears to be very fragile.
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where are you going with this invite idea? I'm working on a phone based invitation product at http://televite.totalengage.com
I'm just curious what your plans are :)
Boo height
Easy enough with Perl arrays using push and shift.
I also spoke at the conference, and its great to see Travis out speaking about his experiences. Lots of good stuff in there, even if Travis is clearly just getting his speaking legs under him.
One liner

def fact(n): return n*fact(n-1) if n>1 else 1
This ignores all research already done on the brain and nutrition, and also common sense.

On Common Sense:

The human brain/body evolved to run on minimal glucose. Of the past 2million years of human evolution, only 10,000(from the agrarian revolution) of those years have we consumed excess carbohydrates in the forms of grains etc. Prior to that we were hunter gatherers and ate copious amounts of fat and meat with some vegetables (very low in carbohydrates) and every now and then fruits when they were in season.

We also didnt have the luxury of eating as soon as we woke up, we had to hunt for our food, so missing breakfast would have happened more times than not. Again our bodies adapted to that.

On All Research:

As mentioned in comments below our bodies run perfectly well in states of ketosis. With ketone-bodies providing a much more efficient longer energy burn than carbohydrates. (Think of carbohydrates as kindling and ketones as the logs). Many athletes (particularly the CrossFit athletes) run on ketogenic diets and get better performance. Here are some papers/articles etc. I dug up quickly, but there are many more.

[1] Your brain on ketones

[2] Weston price Foundation, Lots of references

[3] Ketogenic Diets and Physical Performance

[4] The metabolic effects of low-carbohydrate diets and incorporation into a biochemistry course

[5] Report picking apart the latest dietry guidelines.

[1] http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2010/08/your-brai...

[2] http://www.westonaprice.org/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC524027/

[4] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.2005.49403302...

[5] http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/PIIS0899900710002893/fu...

edit: formatting
Please stop linking to stories on sites with random pay/registration walls. 90% of the time I can't get to linked nytimes stories. If no one links to them, they might take a hint and start opening up. I don't care if its free or not, I'm not registering for yet another account just to read some random article.
I found Lucidchart to be pretty clunky.
> Please whatever you do and no matter how much it may hurt in the short term: completely and utterly ignore these people.

Exactly.

A bit of game theory. You contact them, workout a deal, pay them off or whatnot, and guess what? You leave them with the incentive to pull this stunt again. It's a never ending cycle that will only stop when they realize that you couldn't care less about the negative reviews that they are flooding you with (at the point you will not give them any reward for stopping). If you won't reward them for stopping then they have no reason to continue wasting time and money flooding your business with negative reviews. There is no incentive for them to continue.
I know a lot of work is also outsourced to Hyderabad... so probably lots of tech people/events there also.
Well, he was at FB at least 1 year, so there was some vesting I assume? Not entirely incidental, is it?
I've had the experience of getting completely stuck on a coding problem, wrecking my brain for 3 long work days.

When did I see the solution?

At the end of day 3 when I was cycling home, right at the moment I was crossing a very busy and dangerous road.

It's amazing how the mind works and you'll always remember that moment. This particular moment was 10 years ago.

Anyone else waking up at 3-4 AM and knowing exactly what 1 to change into a 0 or the other way around in 50K lines of code and suddenly getting things to work in the desired way? :D

Our brains are coding, compiling and testing in the background all the time. ;)
Without giving too many details away, my friend was chosen by Jobs to take this role, pulled away from one at Apple where he was very happy, given a promotion and a raise, then fired 6 weeks later. The quote is from his blog (which I'll not post due to his desire to be discreet) but I trust him, and he says it's verbotem, and knowing his speech impediment very well, I find the story very believable. Further corroborated by having worked for a friend a few years back who had this same position as well (more successfully and for a longer period of time, neither knew each other btw) before he got fired on the spot while Jobs was outraged over something (my speculation is he spilled some spinach goop on a mock turtle neck and decided to take it out).
Without giving too many details away, my friend was chosen by Jobs to take this role, pulled away from one at Apple where he was very happy, given a promotion and a raise, then fired 6 weeks later. The quote is from his blog (which I'll not post due to his desire to be discreet) but I trust him, and he says it's verbotem, and knowing his speech impediment very well, I find the story very believable. Further corroborated by having worked for a friend a few years back who had this same position as well (more successfully and for a longer period of time, neither knew each other btw) before he got fired on the spot while Jobs was outraged over something (my speculation is he spilled some spinach goop on a mock turtle neck and decided to take it out on somebody).
There's a big difference if one product line that used to take 70% of business is down to 25% because of declining sales OR if it is because of fact that some new product line got to be so wildly successful that it overshadowed the former champions.

I believe that iPod was supposed to be a complement of Mac but then it and its siblings grew so big that actually now other products are selling Macs.
People using brand-new untested technology for security purposes are doing it for fun, not because it's a good idea. So releasing the source code to break it should not cause any problems.
I believe that study of the diet was also severely caloric restrictive, and the food the kids were given were vegetable franken-oils etc.

You can go on a ketogenic diet and eat plenty of healthy fats and some vegetable produce.
Does anyone else think, that this was the main reason behind the "GMail blocks import" story (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1877845)?
Next they'll want 40 hour work weeks!

I get his point about VCs not doing due diligence, but the rest just seems to be a capitalist complaining about those damn workers with their demands. Pretty much the same gripes since the dawn of agriculture.

edit-add:

For too long management and investors have been skimming way too much off the top. I think it's nice to see the nerds refuse to be taken advantage of.
Forget about Facebook, etc, YC is the news. I've been following it (and HN) for close to three years now, it went from a locally cool incubator to a place where people look up for world-class innovation.

Someone should write an in-depth story about the rise of YC, would be an excellent read!
Or use bookmarklets like Readability: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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