skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people may not have the detailed info you have, but they aren't even acting on the info they have.

Like 94% of parents (not that I am a parent), I've never heard of that specific AAP recommendation and I don't even know what AAP stands for. I do, however, know that I shouldn't expose my kids to much TV (I'd stick to an hour a day, tops).

Similarly, I don't know off the top of my head how many calories I should be eating. I do know that fusilli with broccoli == good and ravioli with cream sauce == too much. That fat guy with the potato chips knows they are making him fat (even if he doesn't know the exact amount), but he chooses to consume them anyway.

Most likely he also knows he can use the google to learn more information.
I hate to complain about titles, but couldn't the title have been "See a Volcano Erupt from the ISS"?

I mean I still would have clicked on the link. It's an awesome article.
No, the Redditers are right. Well, more or less right. The CPI is entirely subjective. There is no objective way to measure quantitatively how much quality of a product has improved.

More importantly, from an investment perspective what you care about is monetary dilution, not consumer prices. If the currency dilutes at 10% a year, and productivity grows at 7% a year, then CPI inflation would be a nice and easy 3%. But that dilution rate is really high. If you own a asset that dilutes at 2% (gold, stocks, oil, real estate), you'll earn a return of 8% a year.

I really recommend this article for understanding the problems with CPI: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2008/08/de-gust...
Your summary matches what I read.

The blog post was rather short, and the only thing the author seems to dislike is the naming scheme. Very odd.
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We're going to get to pay for Bubba's heart surgery because he couldn't control how many cheeseburgers he ate in one sitting.

No, we're not being made to pay for Bubba's heart surgery because of his overeating. Don't lose sight of who's making us pay for Bubba's surgery; direct your anger, should you feel it, at those who are making and enforcing this, rather than at the bystander whose issues are used as a pawn to justify it.

I'm also against public health care, but the solution isn't to outlaw and punish anyone who does something less than perfectly healthy, but to strike at the root of the problem. In this case, of course, the only way to do that may be to move to a cheaper jurisdiction; I don't think there's any way to stop the expanding juggernaut without collapse. All things considered, I'm staying for at least a while.
I'm more excited about the dropbox iphone app. When can we get that?
Of course there is! Shame on the journalist who gives us what we want! Who's traffic spikes when they practice what we consider sketchy... right before we ourselves go read the article.

Sometimes I even read the terrible article before I complain about it's integrity.

I really wish these guys would show more integrity than me, and simply ignore the fact that I lap up whatever they post.
We are faced with difficult times, and I will stress the word difficult. People are still losing their homes and jobs; our troops are at war overseas; the financial sector is forced into a rapid transformation or will become extinct; and worst of all, we do not seem to be even close to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Although all of this is unfortunately true, there is still the law of duality which states that every negative occurrence has its positive counterpart. Opportunities will come to those who remain positive and optimistic. These individuals will attract success in all facets of life. We can not allow the surrounding environment to control our destiny. We are too strong, too committed, and too diligent to give up on our dreams. We can do everything that we focus our intentions on because anything is possible.
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Keep in mind that the mainstream, professional economists did in fact lead the economy of the cliff. So mainstream views of economics are not exactly error-free. Blogs, reddit, etc. are full of populist myths. But the blind squirrel occaisionally finds some nuts. Or an elephant. The CPI is the elephant.
Points taken. Hopefully we can come up with a better formula in the future. The game needs change, and iTunes needs to finally have a viable competitor. Its been great debated with you on here on this topic. By the way, what do you do? Keep posting.
So... you're saying I won't be able to fax from facebook? Crap.
That's correct. Now Zeldman is lovin' HTML5:

http://www.zeldman.com/2009/08/31/loving-html5/
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From the article:

"Although our high-calorie, sedentary lifestyle contributes to the approximately 10-pound average weight gain of Americans compared to the recent past, some people are more severely affected by this lifestyle than others. That's because they have inherited genes that increase their predisposition for accumulating body fat. Our modern lifestyle is thus a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the high prevalence of obesity in our population."

Which basically gives you the answer to your comment. You've read the article, haven't you?
May I ask you what your cultural background is ?

No.
If I remember the interview from Founders at Work, with Max Levchin (PayPal), correctly, PayPal's investors trusted them enough to radically change directions, and it of course payed off. I think this is probably dependent on who you and your investors are.
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You guys still using django for everything under the hood? Much optimization work been done if you are? Be interesting to know, if you care to share that is :)
I'm sorry, I don't buy that.

If a new facebook feature is reason enough to throw all reason and caution overboard then how can we ever trust anything TechCrunch writes to begin with.

Surely the world does not lose anything critical if you verify if what you see is not an anomaly but an actual released feature ?

No press release ? No statement on a blog somewhere ? No verification from FB ?

Run the presses, we've got a scoop!

It really does sound ridiculous, 24 minutes for 'something like this' makes it sound as though the appearance of a new feature in facebook is of earth shattering importance.

By falling for this prank you may have shot yourselves worse in the foot than you realize.

First you lost a bunch of respect about the Twitter documents, now you prove that you do not care about the accuracy of your stories as long as you get them out first.

TechCrunch depends on readers believing that what TechCrunch writes is true, and verifiably so.

I'll bet you the next feature that facebook launches will be thoroughly researched by you before you hit 'submit'.

Or did you not put some procedures in place after this fairly good example of a social engineering hack ?
My business knowledge is slightly above knowing the differences between an LLC and an S Corp, but below having created one or knowing what to do with it if I did. I've been slowly becoming fluent in business lingo, but usually if I have a choice between hacking and reading about business structures I choose the former.

Everything you mention in this paragraph about "business knowledge" falls into my category, "Details to worry about later."

You omit, however, the single most important business issue of all, the only one of concern for now, and in fact, one the you must be concerned about now: consumers. Whether you call them customers or users, someone will be using your software, right? Then you better find a way to get to know them now. This is a critical component of application development, every bit as important as the technology.

Lots of things about your consumers could change between now and deployment, but you have plenty of time to incorporate them into your plan. So make sure you do.
Ok:
1. How can you know that you still want to do this same startup in 3 years? You might get married. Get a kid. Get a great job. Loose your legs. Google might have launched your idea and killed your chances. Just saying.
2. A project that takes 2 years to launch is a recipe for failure. Really. A startup should take, say, 6 months to launch first beta, another 6 months to get really going and get users, during the second year you slowly realize it's not going anywhere, try some alternative approached, in the 3th year you shut it down. That's typical. No way you can work on something for 3 years, launch it and not be hugely dissapointed by its reception on the market.

So taking 1 and 2 together:
1. Accept that you won't know what you're doing in 3 years.
2. Accept that you can't plan a successful startup 3 years in advance.
3. Start a small project, one you can launch in 6 months, and consider it a learning experience. Then, by the time your 3 years are over, you'll be ready to start a new startup, fulltime, having learnt a lot.

Do NOT plan a 3-year commitment in advance for a startup.
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Still unsolved, P versus NP is one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance is growing as computers become more powerful and pervasive.
And everybody else.

I figure that pulling a TechCrunch will go down in to history as 'getting an online publication to write something terribly wrong to teach them a lesson about journalism and fact checking'.

Let's see how long it takes before someone else pulls a stunt like this on TC.

Hair trigger journalism.
There are ways the body can burn though extra calories. You can become restless and agitated; it can activate brown fat; etc.
simple: your gameplan is to sit down and start working. push to get the minimum viable product - the minimum product that will bring in users/feedback/revenue. plan your initial timelines around this instead of the time you need to do everything you want.

learn more about the things you need to know when they come up. you don't need full-time availabitlity to make a startup happen.
We once pulled a stunt like this on a remote co-worker whose IP we figured out. Eventually we did get to be on speaking terms again ;)

Maybe at TC they'll learn the value of cloaking and a pc that is not on the 'known corporate network' to fact check their scoops ? If not I expect there will be a few more pranks like this.

They must be howling with laughter in the Twitter offices right now, and plotting their own version, the subtle part here is the timing.
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One of the benefits of top tier angels is their knowledge and experience in knowing "things often change". If you get angel investors who don't have that much experience as entrepreneurs in the web space, let alone the angel space, they're likely to flail their arms around in fear.
You can argue that a law achieves a good end (on utilitarian grounds, for example) without arguing that it ratifies any particular Natural Rights.
If being in two places at once is merely being 'multi-talented' then I think I'm going to have a little lie down now.
I think you miss the point of the article. The article doesn't say that this won't work. It says that obese people have genes which tell them to eat more than they should. For example: You need 2200 kcal a day. Your genes tell you to be hungry until you've eaten 2300 kcal a day. The consequence is obvious: You will gain weight.

That is the statement of the article, nothing else. It doesn't say "obese people cannot be lean" or "diets won't work on obese people." It simple states that obese people are obese 'cause their genes tell them to eat more than they should eat. And that we shouldn't prejudice people because they have 'bad' genes.
It's a crime this isn't on the Kindle. A book about hackers? When I emailed the author, he was not so interested. Books I bought for the Kindle last quarter: 20. Books I bought on paper: 0.

Update: It's also hasn't been submitted for Amazon Search Inside scanning or Google Book Search. If authors retain their digital rights, they can submit to both (plus Kindle) services quite easily from a variety of source formats -- circumventing ancient publisher pipelines. Alas.
He's also done it at least twice on Reddit in the past 3 days.

Though you're right that my wording was pretty awful. I'd edit and rephrase, but apparently I can't edit.
That's how I read it. With a bit of a bite to it.
it's interesting to watch Nina Paley's interviews on YouTube. For example, on credit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyH3UvfjGag&feature=relat...

Incidentally, I started watching these interviews because when I got to the end of Sita Sings the Blues, I was a little miffed to see the following note while the credits flashed: "it took me a long time to make, so please tell me what you think."

I thought the use of "I" was a little jarring, though possibly reasonable. Nonetheless, it gave me pause. I don't expect "fairness" [see interviews] to be possible until everyone uses "we" fairly.
Doesn't give much of a sense of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZqQWfGIJg
Amazon provides the tracker, but you do have to keep a copy of the files you are providing on S3, increasing your liability if you are doing something illegal.
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> [T]he union of the two can read both!

Don't you mean the intersection of the two?
50-60 direct reports per manager sounds hard to believe. That's worse than a California student/teacher ratio.
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It doesn't solve the context _switching_ cost.
So goes the conversation...
What user groups are extraordinarily resistant to subscription models? How do you know this? Not to get all [citation needed] on you or anything--heck, I am resistant to subscription models! I just figured you have some data (yours or someone else's) to back that up.
There is also the asymmetry. You can gain in one day what you lost in a weak.
use it in unicode mode, that kills performance
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which would do nothing to give you access to your emails already stored at google.
As others have mentioned 3 years is a long time, especially in web technology. You say you can't commit full-time for 3 years, but what happens if you launch the 4-6 month one and it takes off (but is not profitable) and demands your time? I don't know if your other obligations can be set aside. The 18-24 month project may be better, since you can work on it for so long, but external forces on that timeframe could either work for or against you. For example, if your idea is so advanced that the market is not really ready for it then waiting would be better. Conversely, the market could be so ripe someone else is bound to release something similar before you.
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Also keep in mind that your estimates may be way off (on the optimistic side).

For my startup, we initially thought the idea would take 2 weeks to do. In reality, it took closer to 3 months. In my case, once we started working on the idea, we discovered it was quite a bit more complex than we anticipated.
Oakland A's performance shows that 'moneyball' doesn't always pay off
It's kinda ridiculous to try and extract personal investing lessons from Buffett. He cultivates this image of some grandpa who is just good at picking stocks, but it's baloney. He has always operated with an edge. Information advantages or super cheap capital from insurance companies.
Am I better off working on a a project that takes 4-6 month to build and launch or one that takes 18-24 months?

Why not have both? What I mean is, take a big project, break it into smaller pieces of 3 months each (features 1-10 in first iteration, 11-20 in the second and so on). Since you'll be releasing early, you can gauge the response to your app, and adjust the next iteration according to the feedback (or even drop the project completely if needed)
[personal information redacted] edit replacement: amichail's posted his own information fairly prominently; I think his refusal to explicitly state his cultural background was rhetorical. I consider a psuedonym like "cousin_it" to be private, but a real name like "jaquesm" or "amichail" a public statement of identity. end edit replacement. I was curious enough to look it up because he posted the exact same comments on reddit a day or so ago.
I wonder if this is also true for the Google Ads group. In some regards they might as well be a separate company.
Good catch--I edited it to correct the wrongness. Fingers going faster than the brain on a Friday morning...
This debunking article is convincing. However, it begins by calling the news story a hoax and then continues to establish why such a device would not work as advertised but never shows any evidence that the story is a hoax.
Someone chime in here if I'm wrong, but evolution is not a refutation of the claim that an untestable, magical ur-Id skulks about the universe.

I'm serious--the theory that we are talking about has absolutely nothing to say about your "first Intelligence".
Whatever the "real cause" of the recent prevalence of obesity in the US may be, it isn't either gluttony or genetics, because those things don't change that much.
The Haskell community is fond of mistaking research papers (in PDF!) for documentation, it's quite likely you've found all there is. Just as they are also fond of mistaking a list of function names and type signatures for documentation. (On good days, they may deign to add a sentence about what the function does.)

(Haskell guys, I love ya, but you have some of the oddest blind spots sometimes.)
The Facebook/TechCrunch litmus test of feature design:

- come up with crazy ass feature
- implement in the minimal possible way
- enable feature for techcrunch network only
- see if they write about it
- check comments on techcrunch
- response bad -> yank feature, nobody the wiser, response positive -> implement feature by pulling an all nighter.
It also sounds like you're describing the Odeo->Twitter transition. There's been a lot written about that, so reading some of those articles might answer your questions.
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Those people are definitely aberrations, especially if they have managed to keep the weight off for 5 or more years. Also, isn't the second paragraph of your comment doing the exact thing you were criticizing in the first (using "anecdotes and vague references" to strengthen your stance)?

I don't think the obese are looking for an easy way out. I think they are looking for a way to lose weight. How many obese people do you know that haven't even tried to lose weight?

It is certainly true that it is physically possible for most people to lose weight (I personally took off 110 lbs and kept it off for 2 years now), the fact remains that most people who want to lose weight and try to lose weight fail. This suggests to me that it requires some trait that the average person simply doesn't have enough of.

I view the situation as very similar to drug addiction. Everyone who suffers from one knows what they need to do, and most of them try, but very few are successful. The difference is kids aren't provided drugs like they are crap foods, and you don't need to take drugs every day to stay alive. So in some ways obesity is even thornier (although I think the brain chemistry a dieter is up against isn't as strong as that of a drug addict).

Ultimately it is easy for a non-obese person to say "this is what obese people need to do and they are choosing not to", and maybe that feels good to you, but it accomplishes nothing.
media exposure to underdeveloped countries?

i'm just puzzled because right from the start i had the strong impression that this was a hoax. it always is, at least when kids from some random country claim to have solved major problems.
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what? if you agree that such a device can't work, how can that "news article" NOT be a hoax?
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Surprising. I always thought that people found their own gender to be more childlike. (Children are open books, but the other gender is always mysterious.)
I've been doing the nights & weekends thing for exactly 3 years today (9/11). My project is http://www.obsidianportal.com

We're profitable but I still need a dayjob to pay the bills, so take my advice for what it's worth.

1. Shorter release schedule is always preferable. Like others have said 2 years to launch is a really bad idea. However, my question is: Where did you come up with these numbers? Do you have 2 different projects, or are you setting arbitrary timelines and want to fit a project to that timeline?

2. Going all-in is not a bad thing. I'm currently a "parallel entrepreneur" and it's very hard. It's much easier to focus on a single thing and hit it 100% rather than focus on a lot of things at 20%.

3. Sysadmin is easy: sign up for a service where someone else handles it. As a Ruby on Rails guy, I heavily recommend Blue Box hosting. It's like having a sysadmin on the team, and it's not much more expensive than Slicehost. It's a good skill to learn, but I'm with you: let someone else do that stuff.

4. It sounds like you need an idea. I know everyone says it's the execution, not the idea, but you need _some_ idea to execute on. I would suggest using your time now to try and find 2 things: an idea and a co-founder. Going to local meetups, talking to people, and such would be good things to do at this stage. Find something you can be passionate about, or else you'll never find the motivation to spend your nights & weekends on it.
Probably smart, you wouldn't want anyone making assumptions about you based on prejudicial stereotypes. Ahem.
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Ask HN: How best to structure a "start-up" of 25 people
I'm in a software engineering class, and the class is being run like a start-up (theoretically). We have a customer, a summer camp that wants to move from a paper based sign-up for art classes to a more automated system.

Currently we have 4 people who volunteered to be managers, and about 20 other folks.

As a class we have to decide how to structure the teams. Since the product can be divided into 3 groups- teacher interface, student interface, and billing- the managers are considering dividing students into three groups.

However, to me this seems like a suck way to do it. I was wondering if any HNers have any ideas (or links) on how to structure a group of this size.