skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree. For many Americans, car repair is one of the most expensive and opaque processes out there. Most people who drive have a critical need for that transportation, so when their car won't go, they pretty much have to suck it up and pay whatever fees the mechanic pulls out of his ass.

My point being, this type of disruption would be a very big deal for your average joe.
Alright, let's say that business founder gets $60k in seed funding. Would a technical cofounder expect that $60k as salary or towards some specific asset for the company? I don't think that $60k of seed funding is what stands between a businessman with his idea and success.
My fiancée cannot use hormonal birth control for the same reason. Instead, she has a copper based IUD. Your girlfriend has probably considered this already, but if not I strongly recommend looking into it. They're not perfect, but they're very good.

(There are only two real risks/side effects: Heavier bleeding, and it's important not to get Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (which is another way of saying, it's even more important than normal not to get STDs. If she can handle the first, and is in a monogamous relationship - or at least, always uses condoms with people who aren't guaranteed STD free - then neither issue is severe.)

Mind you, vasalgel sounds even better to me. :)
This is only barely more invasive than giving blood. You clearly haven't tried the latter if you would prefer it over the former.
I have no idea what the current regulatory climate for condom manufacturing is.

I just know that I'm going to trust an established brand that's sold by the box in the drug store over a no-name brand sold singly from a vending machine in the bathroom of a bowling alley.
I think the off-the-shelf solution to this is to purchase fuzzies and utilons separately - be Batman if it keeps you going, but maybe also give $10,000/year to efficient charities on the side?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa...
Psh. If I can afford this it is 100% on.
I reread your comment in light of the dry humor. But I am a little confused. A dry sarcastic reading of:

"Because men clearly are not as invested in the possible rearing of a child. Clearly."

Does not seem to mesh with this:

"It's not that women should not have control over the process (perhaps even most of it)"

I think men (especially "honorable/good" men) are invested in the possibility of a pregnancy/child, but they are definitely not equally invested/impacted by a pregnancy/child.
"In 2009, the percentage of sexually active high
school students who reported using a condom the
most recent time they had sexual intercourse was
61%, up from 46% in 1991. In 2009, 69% of high
school boys and 54% of high school girls used a
condom at last sexual intercourse."

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf#073
I am just baffled by the idea that people here think there isn't a huge dent to be made in the universe in auto repair. There are 723,400 auto mechanics in the US alone, making a median of $35k in an incredibly inefficient marketplace that fleeces and inflicts misery on millions of working class families (who get to work and their kids to school in cars, not fixies) every year.
The area method works with non-convex polyons, too. Not sure why he thinks it won't. See http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula.
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Many of those in the examples at the bottom look like trivial work for OCR.
It would not be the case with people that were alive and mature enough at the time to be cognizant of the situation. I think the OP is referring to people who were not around at the time...
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean someone isn't following me.
Ah, I did not read up apparently. I thought this was essentially gluing the vas shut with a polymer that was reversible. According to the wikipedia entry, they don't know the exact reason it works (what?!). Very interesting.. I had overlooked that.
I'm from Canada.

Edit: You fixed it. Funny post :).
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I don't really understand that response. What I'm saying is that if these addresses become one of the actually-checked human-verifiers, it will be easier to circumvent, because those numbers look comparably easier for a virtual classifier to evaluate.

The house numbers are easier for a computer to classify than the messy, weird contorted letters.
"And some old adages will likely fade away, too."

Australia hasn't had pennies since the sixties and we still use phrases like "in for a penny, in for a pound."
I guess she already did, but have you tried switching pills? (after asking a gynaecologist I guess)

My girlfirend reacted very badly to a well-known and tested brand, however she seems to do much better with a local-brand product with different composition (started that one a few months ago).
The U.S. is among the worse ones, but the E.U. is not great either if you're an Indian national trying to get a visa that allows business activity.
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Ditto. Business founders need to be able to pitch to investors and customers, to even garner that initial interest. Since there seems to be an inflation of technical cofounders' "unwillingness" to partner, there's no other choice than to outsource development of an MVP. At least with that, you can get customers, and thus traction. At that point, there's less risk and thus less available equity for a technical cofounder. Nowadays, it's either you have a technical cofounder or you don't.
There are thousands of forums with women discussing all the negative side effects of birth control. Off the top of my head, you can visit http://iud-divas.livejournal.com/, which is women who are considering/have IUDs, and many of them report the negative (often severely so) effects of previous hormonal birth control usage. Otherwise you can visit bedsider.org, which talks about side effects for all birth control methods.

The pill is an incredible win for women's health. Unfortunately, not all women can use it effectively, safely, or comfortably.
I get the point, but there's another side to this:

9 out of 10 of all startups out there are a business method, they don't need 10x engineers to build new technologies, and what they want can be done by a freelancer using a CMS and some elbow grease.
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In the US, a vasectomy runs about $400-600 (often covered by health insurance if you have it), and is largely just for the doctors time. Sounds like this should be the same if not cheaper by a very insignificant margin.
I think, and maybe here I'm stating the obvious, that a big problem is how people sometimes think that their idea is the real deal, while the implementation is just a matter of paying somebody.

I think that most people don't realize that most ideas aren't original, and that if you think of something, just by sociological statistics, most likely somebody else has already thought of it.

So what really matters isn't a detailed plan, but a person who builds it well.

Making a very good programmer a technical co-founder is probably the best move.

Giving away 30% of your startup, but locking in a very good technical person, is probably going to give you more success than that 30% that you wanted to keep.

Maybe somebody can point at some statistics, but I feel like that it shouldn't be difficult to have a rough idea of the success rate of technical founders' startups vs non-technical founder ones.
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While it is a big headache to trac, document work and formulate and application, it is most definitely worth it. I've been part of a team that has claimed small sr&ed pieces of work and managed to get back a substantial credit. I agree that there should be a more stringent vetting of applications as this is our tax payer money we're talking about.
Yeah, these magazines exist mainly so that people can place highly specialized ads in them.
Probably because many people want to purchase exactly $X of gas.
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Those are html pages. It's 330 pages as a paperback:

http://jordanmechner.com/ebook/
By definition, if there is negative expected value, simply changing your betting strategy won't help. Any short term fluctuations would be from "luck".

The famous MIT black jack team was able to 'take down the casino' by counting cards and waiting for expected value to swing positive, and then placing large bets at that time. If the game is truly random and negative (like all well-constructed casino games should be) then there should never been an opportunity for positive expected value.
I'd happily have this done, if it were available. Screw what 'guys expect', I don't want a woman to end up 'expecting'.
I was looking for clinical data, peer reviewed research. But thank you I will look at these...
australia did this in 1992. git rid of the 1c and 2c coins. we have 5c pieces. currently living in the US, and I cannot stand pennies.
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Could be to see how reliable the results are for the experiment or the OCR I guess. How well they agree.
> I think you are confused about the post I was referring to:

Whoops.

> How can best be interpreted to mean anything other than a one or the other proposition.

(Simplified)

You said: I think the best thing is X (vs Y).

He said: I disagree that this is an either-or proposition.

You said: Um, "best" neccesarily implies a "one or the other" proposition

He was never confused about the meaning of "best", he just disagreed that it applied.

You missed his point by a country mile, and got downvoted accordingly.
They have to walk a very fine line here though. If they push their own hardware too hard they risk driving the other vendors into the arms of Microsoft. If they're too timid then the current excesses of the vendors go unchecked.

Personally I think they're going to have to bite the bullet and become a real consumer electronics company but that's going to be a very painful transition.
the terms aren't set because $20k is a lifeline, they're set because just-above-starvation is the impetus for you to work your arse off getting to profitability

Respectfully (I don't know you): this is bullshit. The terms are set this way because that's what the market will bear in this specific instance. The idea that the terms of VC deals are structured to align the incentives of founders with VCs is a negotiating tactic and little more.

Misaligned incentives might keep you from taking 6 figures off the table in an A round, but anybody who tells you that they're deliberately calibrating your funding to keep you at a below-market salary is feeding you a line.

There are plenty of founders, some of them first-time founders, who make at, near, or better than market salaries. Most of the difference between them and the people whose boards get them to live on ramen is simple negotiating skill.

This isn't to say that there isn't some "hustle quotient" to be extracted from underpaying founders. Just that it isn't dispositive.
While this is generally fantastic, it seems like it would be a real bummer in an apocalyptic modern-medicine-eliminated need-to-repopulate type of situation (only mostly kidding).
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DSC's was so successful when it came out it crashed their servers until the next morning.

I signed up shortly afterward and am on the wait-list until May. Talk about successful marketing!
Well-written answers to niche questions are inherently worth more than simple answers to simple questions, because there is a much greater supply of the latter than the former.

Indeed the marginal value of the umpeenth identical answer to the same question is approximately zero, since it adds nothing to any of the earlier answers to the same question.
They're allowed in principle, but in practice the law is so vague that for most companies it's not worth the risk of using an actual IQ test. Thus, we have "puzzles" instead.
I've actually heard a pitch in the last year that was "Facebook, but for college students."

I may have died a little inside.
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"Y Combinator's 'Demo Days' have grown into fixtures on the Silicon Valley calendar, a geek version of the Kentucky Derby, where tech investors come to see and be seen -- and to place bets on the perceived studs of the startup scene."

All that's missing are the funny hats and mint juleps.
Gas prices vary from street to street. People expect that.

On the other hand, a cleaning product from target costs $2.99 (plus tax) no matter where I live.
It's a shot vs. a surgical procedure. It's a world of difference.
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It's difficult finding a comparison since the US only has a two-party system.

Maybe an example something like Ralph Nader suggesting something and Nixon doing it.

Or more modern George W Bush following the advice of Jon Stewart.

Anyway (the far?) right agreeing with the left is odd.
I don't see how becoming an Android OEM can't be a win-win situation. Blackberry keep their brand and don't have an OS to maintain (maybe just a handful of Blackberry Android applications instead).
Which bits?

The impact on sex drive is fairly well known, I think. Google turns up a bunch of references[1][2]. The impact on weight is apparently cloudy; birth control pills almost universally list that as a side effect on the packaging, but studies have failed to turn up a reliable link. (Silly me; never trust drug company materials, even if they seem to be casting the drug in a negative light.)

I understand there's some evidence that birth control may cause depression, but I don't know that there's a definitive answer. (Google mostly just turns up anecdotes from people convinced that their depression is caused by their birth control; not really helpful.)

The argument over which way the cancer risk goes on balance is all over the net; there's a decent roundup on Wikipedia[3]. If you dig into it a bit, it's still pretty unclear, mostly because there haven't been a lot of studies.

The heart stuff is, compared to cancer, much more solid. Again, the internet is full of stuff about this. I don't know of any comprehensive roundups, but google will turn up a TON of stuff.

[1]: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=11...

[2]: http://www.epigee.org/guide/pill_sex.html

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal_contraception#Effects_...
Fuck no. Hormones (and most other injections) has way more impact / risk / effect than a tiny cut.

I cut myself several times a month, badly a few times year. (too lazy to wear gloves when doing yard work, accidents etc). I know what a cut is / does. No idea what putting crap in my body will do.
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I had so much fun playing PoP when I was in college! I lived in a student co-op at the University of Texas, late 80s, and we had a little ‘computer room’ (more like a closet) in the hallway with a Mac Plus (one 400k floppy drive, i think) and I would battle those stupid squeaky bats all freaking night. I loved it, great memories of that game.
I'm curious what it is about Your Mechanic that will make the process any less opaque for the end user?

Ok, so they arrange for the "best" mechanics to come to you to fix your car. The coming to you is cool, and certainly improves convenience. But lessens opaqueness? Not seeing it.

What guarantee is there that the whole thing won't just turn into something like the big car repair chains are now? "Looks like you got a burned out frabulator, that's gonna run you about 14 hunnert." And the customer doesn't know if they do or not, they just have to trust this "best" mechanic. What about this system prevents that, which is the part that most people hate about dealing with mechanics. The big chains already have standardized pricing, that's not the problem here. The problem is trusting that the work being done is what needs to be done.

What's the criteria for "best"? How will they keep the criteria from slipping as they go through explosive growth?

It's not that I don't think the system can't be disrupted, it's that I think it's going to be a lot of work for marginal improvements. I don't see how it's going to be transformative.
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As you like to say, RTFA. They are both surgical procedures and the procedures are _identical_: make a hole or cut in the scrotum, pull out the vas deferens. In a vasectomy, you now cut the vas deferens. In a RISUG, you now inject the fluid into the vas deferens. Push the vas deferens back into the scrotum, repeat on the other testicle, and cover the wound. Both procedures can be done through a very small opening that requires no stitches, in a doctor's office, in under half an hour.
For the older generation, there are also Andrew Braybrook's notes while he developed Paradroid:

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap3/para_birth01.html
I don't think it's ever too late in a tech market as long as your company still has enough funds to launch and market one more product. After all, if you'd looked at pre-iEverything Apple a few years ago and claimed they would be the most valuable company in the world today, most people would have laughed.

That said, RIM clearly has an uphill struggle ahead of it. They need a smash hit, which means they need people with vision at the top. They have limited funds for repeated attempts, so unlike the Microsofts and Googles of this world they can't afford to keep throwing stuff at the wall until they find something that sticks. They've had a string of PR and management disasters in recent years, which matters far more to a business-based market than to consumers. And with the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon all now heavily invested in mobile technology and competing for most of the biggest market segments, it's going to be tough to find a niche that is small enough to make a defensible foothold and yet big enough to expand out into a serious player again.

My guess is that they need a new kind of device, some novel form factor or combination of features that creates or brings credibility to a whole new market the way Apple has done more than once. There are pain points with a lot of the current generation mobile devices, and in particular those devices that rely mostly or entirely on a touchscreen are always going to be primarily consumption devices, which means mobile content creation is an area with potential. RIM actually has a very good track record of, for example, combining real keys (albeit mini ones) with great displays (before the turkey that was the Torch, the half-height displays at the top of high-end Blackberry phones were pushing the resolution frontier long before Retina came along).

Another possibility, and one that is not mutually exclusive with the above, is that RIM could aim for a clean, professional, businesslike UI. Not everyone wants Facebook integration and iFart apps. Personally I don't even want those on my personal phone, and I certainly have no interest in having them in my business devices. On the other hand, I would love to have some mobile gear that started with basically nothing preinstalled except for an OS and comms tools, that had tools available to interoperate with whatever grown-up systems I want to in an easy and secure way, and that had an "app store" with professional software that did useful things. If the same organisation supplying that mobile gear also happens to provide useful back office products and native and/or web-based interfaces that let me talk to them from my desktop/laptop/other large-scale devices, so much the better. Again, RIM probably have more talent in-house in this sort of area than a lot of companies, if they can figure out how to harness it.

Oh, and if RIMM shares are at $500 in five years because they've cornered the "in-house cloud" market, someone please let me know so I can tell them where to send the cheque. ;-)
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Lets not go overboard - I'm sure some customers have their complaints but your making the car repair industry sound equivalent to today's Wall Street. I genuinely rarely hear people complain about car repair - now if we were back in 1970 or 1980 Id have a different opinion.
This is kind of a weird explanation of g.

What g really means is that you can't design a meaningful intelligence test that doesn't correlate with all the other intelligence tests - with slightly divergent axes for verbal and spatial/mathematical skills. Thus, for instance, backward digit span correlates with Raven's matrices, even though these tasks have nothing obvious in common. Someone who's good at one will be good at the other.

It's also very hard to produce training/educational effects that show an effect on g, though dual N-back perhaps has some promise:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back

However, these kinds of brain exercises have very little to do with education as we know it. The obvious null hypothesis is that we're looking at a physiological effect, such as the quality of myelin insulation in neurons.

Obviously, we see the same correlation effect in CPU benchmarks - any benchmark at all will reveal that a Xeon is faster than a Celeron. The obvious null hypothesis is that the Xeon has smaller transistors and more of them. The causality behind neurological g is probably something just as crude and straightforward.

One could argue, however, that when we compare Xeon motherboards to Celeron motherboards, we see faster DRAM and the like. Perhaps it's the fast CPU's environment, rather than its lithography, that makes it faster.

But... this isn't an argument anyone would make without a strong prior conviction that all CPUs are created equal. It's unclear where such an idea comes from in the case of the human brain, but it doesn't seem evidentiary in nature.
I don't know if it's fair to say it's like Telephone. From what you're describing, she's reading exactly what the lead investor in these companies had to say about them.

I mean this in the best way possible, but if the descriptions don't sell the vision of the company, maybe that's something that needs some attention?
Also people bought Tek (a digital drug) by connecting two USB-like devices to transfer credits which I assume going by the context are like cash not credit or debit cards. That's very similar to what Bitcoin is attempting, I wonder if the mysterious creator of Bitcoin was a fan of TekWar?
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...and eBay sold trinket-junk at first. I wasn't at demo-day but it's easy to see a path of iterations that goes from mechanics repairing cars today, to plumbing, to other trades to people designing and building real-world houses from their computers tomorrow.

I'm not saying this is where it is going, and as an investor you can not value a business based on these far-out ideas. But as a hacker/entrepreneur I imagine the founders are having dreams every bit as lofty as the one I just presented.
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