skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not an explanation for all women, considering the percentage of women who are sexually assaulted, the IUD can provoke fear, anxiety, stress, etc. Some women don't feel at all comfortable with anyone but their husband down there, and even then it's not a gimmie that they're comfortable with their husband at first, if their anxiety approaches PTSD level. The very effective implant (into tissue of the upper arm) is just as effective (or trivially more or less so) than an IUD, but has the potential to provoke less anxiety.

That being said, I'm sure that the implant use is still pitifully low compared to less effective methods like the condom.
That's not what investors in convertible debt rounds do, though, is it?
The Collaboration Paradox: Why Working Together Often Yields Weaker Results
Assume 100 drivers each cause 10 seconds of slowdown.

Assume every driver is equally at fault.

Each driver is causing 1000 person-seconds of slowdown.

Each driver is receiving 1000 person-seconds of slowdown.

Seems fair to me, and each driver is paying their exact cost.

It's wrong to look at the externalities drivers output and ignore the externalities drivers input.
This article has a few examples of basic income experiments, with encouraging results. For instance, when the town of Dauphin had basic income implemented, hospital visits went down by 8.5%, which suggests real benefit rather than just frivolous spending.

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
Provided it has temperature tolerances in excess of 1000° F.
Thanks!

Also, I might have stolen your description as it is far better than mine :)

"better interoperability between 32 and 64-bit numerical types"
It would be interesting if you could correlate that to what the person is doing physically during each sleep type. By way of a video device (similar to what is done with that part of a sleep study) that captures and can be played back or analyzed. I was actually going to set this up for a person with sleep apnea but they passed away before I could get the solution cobbled together.

To summarize: Get a normal video capture (baby monitor etc.), capture video, analyze and play back video and see the differences..
If you're in the US, I think the ADA means your employer needs to accommodate you in this regard.

(To be clear, I'm not suggesting you get "all lawyered up" and obnoxious. Just ask for a meeting with HR, to discuss ways to make it work for both of you. Pointing out that you use a medical device should help get across the point that this isn't a frivolous request to doze.)
Ditto on the latter, get the at home version. Its only like $100 (the big set is like $575 or so)

I was kind of surprised to start reading the article and immediately start guessing he's aiming at either more sous vide in the home or a combi oven in the home and I had to read about 3/4 of the way thru to find yup its a combi oven story.

One little problem with combi ovens is they work really well when sterile-ish but I can see some opportunity for nastyness and corrosion. People letting water sit for weeks all dusty and moldy and then wonder why the kitchen and food smell. Dirty oven walls now with extra moisture for special mold growth what could possibly go wrong. Maybe a vaporizer that uses distilled water would be more realistic. A traditional combi just isn't going to work in a residential setting.

Also a meta observation is he's not talking about getting to a destination, but several alternate paths of getting to a destination. So your oven cooks 5% too fast or slow, a "nest" level of intelligence bolted onto the oven should take care of that. Or most of the fooling around with a combi precision thermostat discussion is to get a sous vide like effect... well most of the time just use a sous vide and be done with it? (edited to add what I'm getting at is its possible thru application of extreme engineering to do something difficult... then again there are simpler methods... for example controlling the humidity inside a working oven is no joke to compensate for massive humidity variations in the ambient kitchen air... wouldn't it be a heck of a lot simpler to very tightly control humidity in the kitchen which is COTS and use a conventional oven which is COTS rather than making a very complicated oven?)

I have looked into the market and small excellent sous vide rigs are available, and cheap, but this article is correct, you are not putting a combi into a residential home without totally freaking out the interior decorator, the electrician, the plumber, probably the carpenter... its like dreaming of one of those 25 horsepower 5 minute steam dishwashers the commercial kitchens use instead of home dishwashers... well, you can wish for free, but its about as likely as mass adoption of a turbine car...
> A clean build for my project takes more than 30 seconds.

Well a C++ clean build would probably take a few hours. I know the projects I worked on did.
Well, it could be, but (1) a commercial site optimizing itself seems quite reasonable, and (2) the public knew they were optimizing themselves, and did not complain in any significant way.
Two consecutive months of negative "growth" define a recession. The "dismal weather" argument has been used to death. We've had very cold winters before, it's nothing new. Labor markets are not improving as you might think. Most of the job growth is in low wage positions.

Regarding the link, the argument is that by 2020 (6 years from now) more people will be working. and more specifically, the paragraph below, is flat out wrong.

"But that is medium term - in the near term, the reasons for a pickup in economic growth are still intact:1) the housing recovery should continue, 2) household balance sheets are in much better shape. This means less deleveraging, and probably a little more borrowing, 3) State and local government austerity is over (in the aggregate),4) there will be less Federal austerity this year, 5) commercial real estate (CRE) investment will probably make a small positive contribution this year.
Just curious, how does that work?

What happens if you use all your sick time, it dont sound like you have too much of it, happens happens if you get really unlucky?

Where I come from you dont have a number of sick days like that (if you have more than 3 consecutive days you technically need a doctors certification) but if you have more than 120 in a year they can fire you.
If these people are first-time founders, what (characteristics) will you or other good angel investors looking for in them?

Is it convenient to ask if you invest in some decent proportion of first-time founders?
> I have been on a few non-commercial flights, and they always make me step on a scale before I get on the plane.

The weight variation makes a big difference for smaller airplanes. Big airplanes can use a statistical average for weight calculations, but small ones cannot.

The weight calculation is necessary to compute fuel load and takeoff distance, for example.

As I recall, there was a major airline crash once because the airplane was overweight compared to its calculated weight. Since then the airlines revised the average passenger weight upwards.
I'd seriously love to own his books but I refuse to give any cash to patent trolls directly.
I think it's worth mentioning. Propagandistic terms such as "entitlements" frustrate discussion and make it even more difficult to communicate. It belittles and trivializes the opinion that poor people are entitled to things like healthcare or food, making people who hold that opinion unwilling to discuss it.
Task-manager app turns e-mail exchanges into simple to-do lists
Ask HN: Please review my 8 month old bootstrapped startup
I have been an avid reader of HN for as long as I can remember and I am truly grateful for everything this community has taught me. 8 months ago I decided to take the plunge in the B2C pool and we(team of 6) have been working on an app that solves a problem in the Social Media space. We are 100% bootstrapped and I would be most grateful for any feedback I can get on our startup( https://www.getStacker.com/early-access )

Long-story-short: We built Stacker because we found that Replying to incoming messages across multiple Social Media accounts was a major pain point and as a result most brands only use Facebook and Twitter to blast out messages rather than having meaningful conversations with their fans. We believe that Replying to incoming messages should be as easy as Publishing them and thats what we've hoped to achieve with Stacker.

1. At first glance, does our website convey what we're trying to achieve?
2. Do you think adding screenshots on the homepage would help?
3. Is the problem we're trying to solve something that you've faced personally?
4. What are your thoughts on our pricing? Would you consider using such a product? If yes, why and if no, why?

Thank you very much for your time!
> should we be charging people more (effectively punishing them) for something outside of their control?

Car insurers charge young people more money, despite their youth being outside of their control.
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Yes, I know, I'm a member of Archive Team, and I use "wget -e robots=off --mirror …" quite a bit, and then I upload those WARC's to the IA. But major content providers like the Washington Post that explicitly choose to block their entire website and its history should be named and shamed.

Authors don't get the right to go around removing their novels from public libraries just because they would rather the books be available only for pay in bookstores.
Ohio Startup Receives FDA Clearance for Operating Room Augmented Reality
Yup. And as such I do not feel we ought to be promoting any work of his on Hacker News.
His writing was fairly disorderly, even in his best work. Conversely, a lot of insight is compressed into his 14 points.

I think a lot of the issues he explains go way beyond manufacturing. When I think about the problems with performance reviews, I go back to him. Same with training and leadership.
As an answer to the question on entanglement, the FAQ posted above had this to say:

In contrast, Bell’s Theorem can be formulated without even speaking
about hidden variable theories: the theorem states that some predictions
of QM, well confirmed by several experiments, can not be explained by
any local theory. And BM is nonlocal, as well as QM is. In fact BM inspired
Bell to investigate non-locality, finally leading himto discover his famous
inequalities. Bell was one of the most prominent proponents of BM and
wrote many articles explaining it in great detail.

Also here's a wikipedia article that talks about Bohmian Mechanics and entanglement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory#...
So are we only talking about Major metropolitan areas? Because to completely displace car ownership I think it will take more then that. Also I would guess that the percentage of people who own cars in large cities is already significantly lower then most other places.
Censorship states will probably buck the trend due to the politics of migrating.
>A large component of 70's stagflation was just supply shocks for oil. Why this never gets brought up, or is just brushed aside casually is beyond me.

It's politically expedient to forget it - just as it's politically expedient to forget that the people causing the oil shocks and the people who benefited from them politically seemed (and continue to seem) to have some interesting relationships.

Keynes is in danger of being written out of history, in the same way that dissidents like Henry George were.

I'm not sure how many people realise the extent to which anti-Keynesian narratives were deliberately promoted and funded after WWII, especially in Chicago.

The fact that Keynes is no longer considered an orthodox policy source is not an accident.
> then there's no real security.

Is there no middle ground? Doesn't a device that changes your threat model from 'passive dragnet' to 'active compromise by a nation state' have some value?
No, I advocate efficiency as a goal weather it be cars, public transit, or something else. Personally I'd like easy access to both. But public transit is only viable with high density and I don't like the way we do dense either.
Taxis are too expensive to use casually for most people.
The 25-year-old supernova that could change the speed of light forever
Some fuel saving measures now studied by airlines are:

-slower speeds to save 100kg of fuel at a 2 hour flight
-lower flap setting for landing, requires less thrust for the last 4 min of flight. But it requires more landing distance.
-less water on the tanks for the toilets. 60kg less for 100 flights means a significa t saving.
-ipads instead of 40 kilos of flight manuals for the cockpit.
-taxing with only one engine (this is an old trick)
-higher cruise level.
-better radar control coordination. A direct vectors can save you minutes of flight. In aproach up to 10min
-cleaner aircraft, to avoid drag.
-adjusting the lubricating grease for the landing gear and flight controls. Excess uneccesary leaking grease means more weight.
-lighter seats
-lighter cabin apliances
-even more important are newer aiplanes. It used to be normal seeing 20y/o+ airplanes flying in USA and Europe. Now anything older than 12 years is using 20% more fuel than newer versions. This is specially important for long haul airliners like jumbos a340, 767, 777 etc...
Taxis are expensive and slow. There are relatively few of them, so you spend 20-40 minutes waiting for them to pick you up, and then pay them 5x-10x as much as it would cost you to drive yourself.

If self-driving cars were even half as common as regular cars, there would be a dozen parked on the street by your house. You wouldn't need to wait more than a few minutes, and cost could be lower than standard car ownership due to better utilization of the vehicles.
Orkut, MySpace, Ning and other social networks had support for apps using OpenSocial around 2008. You had access to friends, FoFs, and several other social features.

For some time people ignored this platform, which meant that you could make a few million dollars per month porting successful FB games (Colheita Feliz, a FarmVille clone, comes to mind) since you faced virtually no competition.
Cryptocat: Private Instant Messaging for Everyone
I am mostly of the same opinion as you are, but really what they are offering is an easy way to expose your data source as a service, and to provide a simple already established user interface over that data source.

So it does have its place but probably has a limited sweet spot. Is your end user already familiar with spreadsheets, possibly might want to view/edit the data in bulk, not going to pay you to build ur own editor over the data, not really that concerned about performance on a large scale? Then this might be a good solution for them.... Its basically MS Access in the cloud...
I think the responses you're getting are ignoring the key question: How will high debt-to-GDP or government spending send the economy into a recession?

Many have been forecasting complete collapse and hyperinflation for these reasons, and it hasn't materialized. It seems there is something flawed with the models people are trying to use to make their economic forecasts, or their reasoning doesn't apply to this situation.

One reason government spending would be bad is that it is crowding out private investment by driving up rates. But he indirectly recognizes this isn't the case due to rates being low enough that they should be encouraging investment.

He doesn't say how government debt should be reduced, and where government spending should be cut. He also glosses over the point that we're at a zero bound. The post is basically a bunch of graphs while expressing concern about government spending and debt. He doesn't really connect these to the GDP and go into detail about the reasons for that quarter. I could go on.
As someone whose social media life began after Orkut was pretty much dead, I've been wondering about the origins of the word 'fraandship' for a while now. So it goes back to Orkut, at least. Hmm..
Unfortunately, the article isn't very clear about what the problem statement is for which basic income is the proposed solution. But assuming it is something like "people are having trouble participating in the economy, which is a drag on our society's standard of living", I don't see how "increased federal income" is a solution. What do you propose the government do with its newfound wealth to solve these problems? "Tax the rich" might be a decent tactic, but it certainly isn't a good strategy.
Are you arguing that, because other industries also face exploitation, we should not be concerned about it in software development? Just because there are others who have it even worse doesn't mean that we should ignore exploitation in our field. That argument makes it very difficult to take any action, because you can almost always find someone else worse off.
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Interesting. Maybe this will discourage chuckleheads and ne'er-do-wells from citing "quantum physics" as the justifixation for their particular variety of woo?

Probably not, but one can hope!
My wakeup time is flexible so I have tried the whole spectrum, going to bed earlier (10pm) or later ~12am, ~2-3am.

Waking up without alarm for all these sleeptimes feels roughly the same so I'm not sure if I'm a "lark" or "owl".

My focus is definitely the best in the evening, just hate the slow fogginess in the morning and would like to switch to "lark" mode, unsuccessfully.

Waking up with alarm makes me more sharp than without alarm but as the wakeup time is flexible it feels stupid to do so and I fallback to dizzy mornings and late-night work against ma inner will.
You are, obviously. But isn't that the way tons of founders market their start-ups? That is, write blog posts, loosely (or slyly) related to the whatever product or company they are running?
Because women suffer the most of the consequences of an unintended pregnancy, I'd think most women would want to take control of the situation.

That being said, I'll be meeting Citizen Snips right after child #2 is born, whenever that happens.
"In other words, if they can't use data to generate enough personalized content to target people, maybe they can use data to generate vanilla people within a smaller set of emotional states. Once you have a set of vanilla people, then your American Apparel ads will work on them without customization."

This point of view is a bit ahistorical. Madison Avenue's success during the latter part of the 20th century (and still today) lies in exactly producing 'vanilla' people, with brand new 'vanilla' insecurities, that broadcast media can then target to sell them mass produced 'solutions'.

However, I still find the prospect of advertisers doing so more efficiently at scale in today's fragmented media environment (which has been making things more difficult for them for a while) rather disturbing.

Incidentally, this sort of manipulative A/B experiment is a key element of a plot point at the beginning of Vernor Vinge's 'Rainbows End': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
Well, Modafinil can lower the potency of the pill, but it doesn't totally ruin it -- especially if you take your pill at the same time each day, etc. I say this from personal experience. But yes, most people don't realize the impact other drugs can have on the pill.
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I don't think the writer ever said that a high Debt-to-GDP / government spending will send the economy into a recession. it means the government's ability to fight a recession if one comes will be extremely constrained; furthermore, having high debt prior to a recession makes the pains of having the high debt extremely painful as revenues will decline significantly.
It's also critically wrong in understanding technology:

"one run of a time machine, with a printout of Wikipedia, would be pretty much all the real 1950 needed. Send the technology back to 1945, and you'll have iPads by '55 at the latest. Those guys got things done."

That kind of thinking betrays a common misunderstanding. The limiting factor on what we can build at any given time is very rarely ideas. In 1950, people already knew enough physics to build an iPad. The idea of integrated circuits had already been proposed. The first one was demonstrated in 1958 -- only three years later than Moldbug's alternate history.

And yet no iPads in 1960. Because there's a vast global capital structure that needed to evolve first. Technology is not an external factor. It makes no sense to argue whether society is better after factoring out technology, because technology cannot be factored out. It's all part of the same web of interrelationships.

Edit to add:

I had to add this, because it's so wrong it's perverse: "At the base of the pyramid are air, water and food. How does 2013 do at supplying oxygen, hydration and nutrition? How did 1950 do? Just fine. Gentlemen, a draw."

Only if you limit yourself to the wealthiest 10% of human beings. Out here in reality, global food security for everybody else is dramatically better than it was in 1950. Much of the developing world is starting to worry more about obesity than starvation. Moldbug is simply ignoring the biggest economic story of the last 40 years, presumably because it didn't happen in The West.
Whoah, this is a really good article. It's not a pitch for a specific better kind of oven Myhrvold came up with (which is what I expected it to be, and the reason I didn't read it until just now), but a survey of all the problems with current oven technologies and what modern tech can do to solve them. If you haven't read the whole thing, do check it out.

What's interesting to me is that everybody and their cousins have done DIY water baths, and there are even people doing DIY rotary evaporators, but nobody does a DIY CVap. Is it that hard?
Nope. Still not understanding.
Secondmarket who were touted as one of the biggest potential bidders who also ran a bidding syndicate just announced they were outbid on all blocks:
https://twitter.com/barrysilbert/status/483692873855299584

Very bullish news. Still waiting for someone to announce the prices they bid at though.
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That's the difference that I think about re angel vs. VC.

I think that outside of SV, this distinction is more valid, as the hybrid "we're a VC that wants to look/act like an angel" isn't as prevalent. Probably because the trend towards angels isn't as pervasive outside of SV. But I'm not really up-to-date on the inner workings of raising capital, so I could be wrong.
If the linked list has a loop, but you don't know it, how do you figure out the length of the list to allocate enough space for your array? How do you copy the list into the array without traversing the list? How do you traverse the list without hitting the loop and looping infinitely?
This article isn't promoting Myrvhold's work. It is a collection of well-explained facts about the flaws of current oven designs.