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What you are describing is a possible effect, but there is no way that is the median side effect of standard oral birth control.

This type of claim always comes up whenever there is any story about new birth control. The effects of the hormones cannot possibly be worse than just not having sex since you always have the option to not have sex or always use condoms. I simply cannot believe that it is so bad considering literally every girl I know, even the ones without boyfriends and who aren't having sex or planning to have sex in the immediate future. Everyone I know in person talks just as much about how it clears up their acne as the negatives that are always posted in the comments here.
The parent's point is that some jobs are more likely to disappear than others, for example working for a company that seems likely to fail. And when the risk is higher, the skilled programmer might justifiably require that compensation be commensurately higher as well.

Too often in discussions of risk management, someone points out that I could be hit by a bus.
Have you used the Silk browser? It performs like a pig. Turning off "Silk" is the only way to use it. Even then, it is substandard, in my opinion. If I have my Kindle Fire in my hands and need to look something up online I will usually put it down and reach for my iPhone on the nightstand. It is better than nothing on a device I use primarily for reading books, but I would steer clear of any phone running it.
Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas?
I find I have trouble coming up with good startup ideas (or in my case, ios app ideas). I often think about something that I would want but I have trouble coming up with anything. So, how do you guys come up with your ideas? What do you think of when you are brainstorming, or does it just come to you out of the blue?

Thanks,
K
He wasn't talking about guarantees, just likelihood.
I hear a lot of people say that google search results are worse than they used to be - personally I have a hard time telling. What's interesting, though, is that nobody is doing search better, which suggests that it a very tough problem to solve, and even with all the resources Google has, they aren't doing it as good as it could be.

So my question is - what is google doing wrong?

Has their search algorithm become worse?

Has the web become more complex?

Have people just become lazy and feel like they should never have to dig beyond the first 10 results to find what they're looking for?
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Free and open source are not opposing philosophies. Software cannot realistically be considered "free" without being open source.
It's more so the photograph of my house than knowing my street number.
Hi, I've only been using DuckDuckGo lately and I love it. Search quality is so impressive and the respect for privacy is very welcome. I hope it is able to maintain this independent feel and not sell out like others did.
As I don't speak much in the way of financespeak, that was about all I could understand from the link anyway :) "Non-GAAP EPS" doesn't ring any bells to me... it just reminds me of whatever acronym-of-the-year my last company would use to 'prove' we weren't making a loss.
"Have you ever had sex with someone who has an IUD. Or talked to a woman with an IUD to see her opinion on it? Because it's not all you make it out to be."

Where does the OP say anything about a change of sensation in men?
On the subject of triviality, I've made some discoveries about demoing software to non-programmers. Of course a pretty appearance is very important, but even in just describing features, how hard they were to implement is of zero interest. And what you can sell people on is stuff that is absolutely trivial, or even stuff that is commonplace and every competitor out there does just as well. You feel like you're going to be found out when you brag on the fact that your bike design features a foot activated swing-down ground support to hold it in a vertical position when not in use. But people eat it up.
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No. You should consult Google, perhaps with a query including "vs".
From what I've heard, they're getting rid of tax credits and moving more to an RFP or grant-based system.
Usually if I input an address into Google maps, it places a marker somewhere near the actual address. If I use street view it seems to point me in a random direction and usually not toward the address I wanted. I think this is aimed at that.
I believe it is supposed to be for whatever replaces Firefox/Gecko.
I feel like I've been seeing this for a while, a couple of months I think (TBH I am not very sure). It's been nice to see be able to skip to the result I used before.
I don't think they are suckers, I just have no idea which will succeed and which will fail.

I always try to leverage my expertise to help them but at the end of the day the customer is always right.
I've filed SR&ED claims for multiple years for a successful startup. It was a) incredibly valuable and b) incredibly easy.

That said, I do know there are plenty of zombie companies that filed SR&ED claims with a bunch of handwaving and hogwash in it. In fact, it was recommended to me to not make any project sound like it's finished: that way, you can file again next year.

But if you waste 30% of your credit on consultants, you're the one being an idiot, not the government.
Their crown jewels are its BBM framework. They should simply make a paid BBM app for iphone, android,winmo,etc. I think they will find a substantial userbase of people who would love to pay a monthly subscription to be able to.use BBM on a non-blackberry device.
Normally I'll be having a problem or be thinking about a problem and say to myself "What if I..." and if what follows is a good idea, it gets stuck in my head for months until I actually at least attempt to do it. I've had the same ideas in my head for months now. I'm slowly getting around to all of them. (Don't bother asking, they're mostly locale specific to my location and life situation. Others I don't want to talk about right now simply because I'm not in the mood. And the rest are still in "stored problem" stage.)

I'd mirror the advice of Richard Feynman. Keep problems you want to solve in the back of your mind. Whenever you come across something that seems to parallel it or seems related, do a mental check to see if it helps with any of your stored problems. If it does, great; you have an idea.
Um, read the comment I was replying to for context.
You should talk to you doctor about progestin-only contraception.

Blood clots, heart problems, cancer, bone loss, and sun sensitivity are all associated with estrogen-containing birth controls. From my research, progestin-only methods don't have those drawbacks.

As always, IANAD and this is not medical advice, but you should talk to one.
Contraceptive pills aren't like headache pills - you don't pop them on demand. They require stabilisation time.

There are contraceptive pills that are just pop-on-demand - the morning-after pill - and they're really unpleasant.
Did you read about what's involved in the actual procedure...?

If you read the steps necessary for the procedure and manage to maintain your enthusiasm, you have my awed and confusion admiration.
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COME ON!!! I literally JUST finished downloading and reading the docs for rust 0.1 an hour ago. I mean a new version is cool, but could it have come a day earlier?
Yes; I was conceding that I've never had sex with someone who has an IUD, only talked to them. You'd have to ask nekitamo what exactly one should learn from having sex with someone who has an IUD.
Ask HN: Any Canadians applying for Summer 2012 funding round?
Hi,

Just submitted our application to YC for the Summer 2012 funding round. We are a four person team from Toronto. I was wondering if there are other applicants from here. Be nice to connect and possibly meet up with local like-minded entrepreneurs.
Good luck!
This language makes my knees go weak. A system language with a haskell-like type system? Yes please!
What I can't get is the need to translate the Java code to Python. Ideas, anyone?
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Too bad more places don't use skills based tests like the LSAT. If THAT'S not acceptable... I'm sorry if requiring intelligence is racist.
I would love to see the ROI each of these had for their respective startups. IE, when is it worth it to drop $15k+ and create an adam lisagor masterpiece.
I absolutely agree that there's a huge market for smartphones in the third world, but I don't see how RIM can successfully take on Huawei, ZTE and the lesser-known, even lower-cost OEMs that are already there.
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Its singular goal is to be an awesome language for writing next-generation browser engines. If it just so happens to also be a really, really exciting systems programming language, that's just a plus.

The browser engine in question is called Servo, and initial discussions of its design have only just recently begun. See more here: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/03/28/serv...
As someone who has sex on a regular basis with (one) woman who has an IUD, my experience has been that it has no impact whatsoever if installed properly. The uterus (where an IUD lives, naturally) is not typically involved in the act of sex.
How does this work if there are multiple covering sets with the same (minimal) number of question paths? Does it matter which minimal covering set you evaluate, or does your strategy need to be some kind of superposition derived from all the minimal sets?

Also, if there are some words that are never picked by your strategy, doesn't that open the door for an alternative set of question paths that only covers the now-reduced dictionary? (cue reference to the Unexpected Hanging Paradox)

In many ways, the entropy is a heuristic for finding a good question path given the known probabilities for each word in the dictionary. The formula that I quoted above can be trivially extended for nonuniform distributions of the chosen words. It sounds like the Nash equilibrium would be designed such that (after eliminating dominated strategies), the expected information gain at each step would be the same for all question paths. I wouldn't want to have to prove it, though.
The majority of sites that I've seen using Project Wonderful gave been online comics, and since that's a big market for the site, I personally couldn't recommend it for just anyone. While I do think the idea behind it is really nice and a great way to promote smaller advertisers, I've only been able to sell ad space really cheaply since a lot of markets are just underrepresented. Makes me sort of wish PW was a bit bigger.
> They haven't been shown to be biased, merely that blacks score lower. Extensive research has show that IQ tests have equal predictive power for blacks and whites.

Now, now now. You've forgotten Political Logic.

Political Premise: There are no significant differences in intelligence between blacks and whites.
Empirical Premise: Blacks score lower than whites on IQ tests.
Conclusion: IQ tests are biased.

The first rule of Political Logic is to never question the political premise!
You know, this post had me nodding in agreement up until the last paragraph:

"Note: I could easily switch this whole article around to all those programmers that think creating a company is as simple as launching an app. You’re just as stupid, so start asking for someone to help you grow what you’re working on, ask for a co-Founder."

No. Frankly, we're not just as stupid. It's not as if just because marketers can't figure out how to program, the inverse is true and programmers for some reason lack the creative thinking skills to come up with new ideas or the capacity to market their own product.

Non-technical founders may have some purpose, but to a coder with marketing ability they're redundant, and worse, in the way. So no, you can't just flip it around; to say that a programmer who goes it alone is "stupid" is, above all, a very stupid comment.
how is this even remotely a smokescreen? it will save money and lower costs for businesses in the long term.
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Er, it was actually five days overdue. :P

Fortunately, most of the changes in this version were internal rather than user-facing, and the few user-facing changes (classes, regions) are still somewhat half-baked. Not much new to learn at all. :)
Python does has a nice clean grammar if you have to generate code, but yeah, if they already had a Weka model it's not clear why they aren't just evaluating that in a JVM. The only exotic thing they're doing is calling a Python module that can read Win32 portable executable files, though there appear to be similar Java libraries. Maybe they want end users to install and run something, so they avoided requiring the huge download footprint of a modern JRE?
They are the same, and they both fail at their purpose.
The Nexus One did get two major upgrades: Froyo and Gingerbread (after launching on Eclair). They just happened to be numbered 2.2 and 2.3.
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It might be interesting to write a sing-like OS with rust (sing#) as well.
Starting my YC app....right now.
Just decided to go ahead and apply again. Cutting it a little close I suppose :)
actually, it'll be $20.00
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"People don't want to hear that for the same reason that no human wants to hear what goes against their religion."

I think a lot of the time people's worldview literally prevents them from seeing what's in front of them.

E.g. there seem to be three types of treatments in medicine:

A) Treatments that will never work regardless of how much you believe they work, like intercessory prayer.

B) Treatments that will always work regardless of how much you believe they don't work, like antibiotics.

C) Treatments that legitimately work but only if you believe they work, which seemingly include many psychiatric drugs, meditation, probably lots of treatments relating to chronic illness, etc..

Despite the fact that (in my humble opinion) this seems to be the most reasonable interpretation based on the evidence, 99% of people literally can't even see it as a possibility because it goes against their worldview in one way or the other.
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So very right. This is why I charge by the hour and refer clients who don't like it to India. They come back eventually, defeated, but you know they're worthless dorm room hacks. Some of them will end up on wall street, and a few of them might eventually find jobs where they actually have to work to, y'know, make something. The rest will live on daddy's trust fund. We're towing them, not the other way around. Screw 'em. Let them beg on the street.

If God had truly blessed these people with big enough brains to come up with brilliant ideas, He would have given them the capacity to learn, at the very least, enough PHP or Ruby to build a wireframe. I don't see how anyone who can't do that could have an idea that would be worth wasting time on.
I sure wish it would. I never really understood the supposed psychology behind .99 and .95. To me, three nines looks less welcoming than three zeros.
Step one for the developers of ANYTHING... Security is KEY.

When you make the code, you also need to be able to break the code...Its the only way you can progress to something bigger & better. So, like Google, you can flex the power of the ENTIRE hacker community to outsource your quality assurance.

When you think of it on both sides of the business spectrum, the black hats are in it to make money, and the white hats are in it to make money, its a constant circle that feeds from one another in a symbiotic tango that is the life SOME if not the MAJORITY of us here live.

If there is more incentive for one to conceptualize an unexplored spectrum of possibility then maybe, more people would.
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New Zealand removed the 5c coin form circulation in 2004, leaving us with $2 ,$1 , 50, 20c and 10c coins. Electronic card transactions are charged to the nearest cent and cash transactions are rounded to the nearest 10th.

The transition was straight forward and I didn't hear any complaints.
I should have clarified; yes indeed, Silk does perform like a pig currently, but I like the idea behind it, and I believe that Amazon has the engineering chops to pull it off.

Immediate access to the mobile phone market along with a huge amount of data that can go Amazon's way if they fix Silk, might make a partnership seem mutually beneficial. (Also, since the mobile phone market is still carrier dependent, Amazon will have a harder time penetrating that market segment on its own)
I love this story because it shows how important it is to be persistent and stand up to authority. Lois had to challenge the principal not once but TWICE, and she was smart enough to get her male relatives involved. Gwen had to fight for her job application TWICE - once to receive the test paper and again to be credited for her answers. This persistence is even more impressive because in each case it involved personal confrontation with someone in authority.

This cultural element of success is underrated. People understand the importance of intelligence, hard word and luck, but don't realise that 'culture' is also vital. Without a family culture of standing up to authority going back three generations, Gwen would not have got that great job. (Malcolm Gladwell devotes much of his book, 'Outliers' to this theme).
Now is a good time to buy up all the pennies for cheap. Melt them down the day they're abolished and sell it all as scrap metal (or don't sell if you think it'll hold value like gold does).
> A black southerner of voting age was usually either a former slave, or the child of a former slave, and slaves did not have access to basic education. So a literacy test was, at that time, a racially biased test.

That wasn't the whole problem. The literacy tests were only administered to black voters in the first place because of a "grandfather clase"--anyone whose father and grandfather both had the right to vote had the right to vote automatically, and since the literacy tests were only implemented at the end of slavery, in practical terms they only applied to the black population. Naturally, since the test itself wouldn't disenfranchise whites (except for immigrants, but fuck them too) they were free to make it as difficult as possible.
In a similar vein someone once told me that they'd ran Unix on a TRS-80. (In case you don't know, older *nixes required a mainframe to get running.) The TRS-80 ran a BASIC prompt.
You can make a video introducing yourself and partners that quick? Or is the video optional?
I once wrong a hangman game that did this in reverse. The computer made sure to make you be as wrong as possible, while still ensuring your guesses were "correct".

It had one problem in that it always tried to make sure you guessed wrong, but by carefully choosing your letters you could cause it to exclude tons of words because they contained the letter you guessed, leaving only a small number of possible words.

It needed a refinement to occasionally allow you to guess correctly if that maximized the number of possible words remaining that still fit the prior guesses.
I haven't seen this, and don't see it when I search for pages I visit frequently.

Maybe it's some Google+ thing, or some other "feature" of a Google service you use?

Personally I would find it creepy and/or an invasion of privacy.
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They seem to have removed their page detailing ARM support. The debian ARM repo still has an older version, I wonder if they've stopped support?
First of all, it's still in trials. Second of all, what should set off an immediate alarm is the claim of "100% effectiveness" (and safety for that matter, what if the doctor screws up and cuts your tubes?).

No, thanks.
The US military also uses a 24-hour clock (2000 hours instead of 8:00 PM) and consistent little-endian date formats (29 March 2012 instead of March 29 2012).
name definitely.
Like dollar coins and $2 bills, 50-cent pieces never went away. People just don't spend them because they're "rare", and hence they appear to be rare.
In New Zealand our lowest denomination is 10c but retailers still use that pricing tactic. Electronic card transactions are very popular here and they are charged to the advertised price while cash transactions are simply rounded to the nearest 10th.
Good on ya! I too often people saying - oh, I'm not in my 20s any more so I can't give up my job making $$$ and supporting my family. News flash!!! It's all about priorities and what's important to you. If your dream is to do a startup but you feel hemmed in by your house, car, etc, start thinking about what is important.

On the other hand, I'm working for a small non-startup software company as a salaried developer and love it. I get to focus on developing software and not running a company :)
"pretty much all Android users in corporate environments will take a free iPhone if that's cheaper for the company than also supporting Android; the reverse, no"

I say this while fully acknowledging the obvious superiority of iOS devices with respect to touch responsiveness, app look and feel, etc. but I'd have to disagree. I would resist taking an iPhone over my corporate provided Android, it would feel almost impossibly crippling to go from what's effectively a fully functional portable computer to such a restrictive "consumer only" managed environment.
Hey! We are two 17-year-old best friends also applying for YC S12. We are from Montreal.

Good luck for your application!
I would buy it, if the price is low enough (less than or equal to the money I have in my account).
Stop minting pennies, nickels, and quarters; start minting 20 cent pieces and mint more 50 cent pieces; let the free market sort it out. I'm not being flippant, it would actually work, at least as far as not wasting money producing low-value coinage is concerned.
> It doesn't matter. Everything dies.

"Why do all companies die, wheras almost all cities survive? You can drop an atom bomb on a city and it will survive".

http://www.ted.com/talks/geoffrey_west_the_surprising_math_o...
The logo reminds me of how the 256 color palette was augmented by combining them in patterns.
I participate in the math SO. I find it a nice challenge.

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I figured as much. You'll have to ask nekitamo what he was on about.
compared to other means of male birth control, it is quite tame as I see it.
That was a very inspiring story about your mother, raganwald. Thanks for posting it.
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...an outpatient procedure under local anesthesia that takes 10 minutes and lasts 10 years? It's hard to imagine how it could be better unless they literally just waved a tricorder over your junk.
Out of curiosity what did you say?
Yeah, I never realized he was the same guy that made Karateka. Played the crap out of that back then.

I still remember Time Zone, that multi-floppy time-traveling graphic/text adventure.

And Swashbuckler! And Aztec! (Nerd boner.)
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always knew this as "surveyor's formula"
Very interesting. I did my honours research in engineering grasses (Medicago) with a complementary RNA to a commonly occurring virus in order to trigger a similar defense. Unfortunately, somehow a few generations later the plants just stopped expressing those genes.

Plants don't have an immune system per-say but they do actively defend against double stranded RNA.