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Given the choice between the following two snacks:

1. A single 0.6 oz Reese's peanut butter cup.

2. A large apple

By your logic, choosing the healthy apple will help you lose weight because it is not "crap", unlike the candy. However a large apple has 110 calories whereas a single Reese's peanut butter cup has only 88.

For the purposes of losing weight the Reese's peanut butter cup is the better choice. Arguably the apple has a better nutritional value, but that's not what we're talking about.
That's true. Once you're at the interview stage, chances are much higher, and consequently the effort you should invest should be changed to reflect that.

In my own case, I think I put to much emphasis on trying to put together a great application and it was a waste of time. I should have put together a decent application and waited to get a bite (ie. an interview), before investing more time.

Thanks for the feedback.
The really distracting part of traditional fundraising is the amount of time it takes investors to make up their minds. Spending a couple hours learning about the people you're going to talk to is rounding error by comparison. It's no more than you'd do for a job interview.
One hopes that the Cocoa rewrite will make things somewhat less miserable.
Building what they should have made.
Right, the analogy between Wiles/Fermat and Perelman/Poincaré so glaringly contradicts what she's saying ("the American model may not be able to produce a breakthrough like the proof of the Poincaré Conjecture" - huh?) that one has to wonder. Perhaps this explains it?

Masha Gessen's latest book is [...] a story of Grigory Perelman and the Poincaré Conjecture.
The big difference is that redout happens at substantially lower G force, partially because there is no way to use skeletal muscles to fight it. This is partially why both the Immelman and the Split S use a "climb" to effect their vertical movement.
51) Do I need capital in the first place or can I bootstrap my startup?
In the extreme case, it can be argued that it is philosophically impossible to establish causation beyond any doubt.

What I'm trying to say here is "correlation != causation"-type comments are boring. Everyone on this site already knows they aren't the same. It's like someone mentioning in every thread that the Web is not the same as the Internet.
Perhaps I am in a niche space, but I have found that there is an endless amount of features and upgrades that can be programmed after the initial launch.
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I think the OP is making a deeper point but the article 'pretends' to be about citizen journalists' incompetence.

It seems his deeper point, which he could've made more clearly, is about the insensitivity and stupidity of the assholes behind the camera and how twitter and other social media has made it easier for this kind of behavior to happen.
You had a bad experience. Thanks for sharing.

I had a bad experience with government-ran health care.

You want we should compare belly-buttons? Or talk about the underlying issues? Because anecdotes are free and plentiful.

Nobody is sticking up for anybody.

The government is currently going broke providing the existing programs. As much as the plan is supposed to be "save $500 Billion in Medicare" it's a historically unsupportable standpoint.

So the same guys that are spending more than they make in retirement, healthcare for seniors and poor people is now going to suddenly become as efficient as ten thousand possible insurers and insurance co-opts? Would you take the largest, poorest-ran insurance company and force another 20x into their customer lists?

If you have anything more than angry hand-waving I'd like to hear it. Perhaps I'm smoking crack. Been wrong many times before. But you're not making your case so far.
You're falsifying the argument. We're not talking about "what you can eat that will make you feel less hungry and so will help you stick to your diet", we're talking about the simple equation of energy out - energy in.

In my experience, you can eat crap, drink beer, etc, and still lose a large amount of weight. You just have to know how much crap you're eating and keep the quantity down.
Not to be trollish or anything, but does Apple have any real presence at all in the field of computational science? I figured that Linux would have that space locked, especially due to its heavy use of high-performance clusters. And I don't see labs spending 3K+ for mediocre workstations.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that Apple is making these tools. I just don't get what their intended market is.
Ask HN: Can someone recommend a good audio transcription service?
Can anyone here speak to a positive experience they have had using an online transcription service?

I have a large collection of audio conference recordings that I am trying to get transcribed for internal business use.

I've tried a variety of voice-recognition software, and they just do not work for the level of fidelity that I am dealing with.

Thanks!
Ask HN: What music alters your state of consciousness?
When you are feeling unproductive/unfocused what one piece of music alters your mind state and helps you refocus?
For me it's Carl Craig "At Les" http://bit.ly/3KfNRh
interested to know what yours is...
Good point. I suppose I conflated interview and application. An interview does demand a higher level of effort than an application.
They found that people were more likely to buy warranties on products that brought them pleasure — what they call hedonic purchases — than on ones that are merely useful

a positive mood makes people more risk-averse because they are afraid of losing that good feeling, which makes potential losses look greater

Gold, pure gold. The best I could come up with so far is to sell "personal customer support" for my apps. Didn't try it yet. Any other ideas?
I always prefer the string and spring version because people can physically see it happening.

For an illustration suppose we have two springs A and B connected in the middle. A is tied on the other end to the ceiling, and B is tied to a weight. The springs each expand 1 cm/newton of force, and the weight exerts 100 N of force pulling them apart. So each spring is 1 m long, and the whole arrangement is 2 m. Let's attach two "safety strings" of 1 m in length. One is attached from the top of B to the ceiling and the other is attached from the bottom of A to the weight. Cut the tie in the middle and the weight will rise up 50 cm!

People are shocked to see that cutting a string makes the whole arrangement stronger, but it is really easy to replicate.

According to http://www.maa.org/mathland/mathtrek_11_10.html this visually startling version of the paradox was developed by Joel E. Cohen.
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I kind of like reading ‘slow,’ or at my natural reading pace. I've experimented a bit with reading faster and it kind of takes the leisure and enjoyment out of reading for me. Probably because I haven't practiced it enough, and as I do it'll come more naturally and leisurely.

But what helps me most is to try and read not letter by letter (as we did while learning to read as kids), nor word by word (as I think most people do once they learn), but phrase by phrase. Or at least chunk of words by chunk of words. Whatever the line width and word size of what you're reading has to be taken into effect: but I find reading goes much faster when I only let my eyes focus at {1,2,3,4,…} distinct points per line, absorbing a group of words at each point instead of sliding along the line one word at a time. Maybe this is a stupid tip and everyone already does this. And I haven't read the speed reading literature, this just seems like common sense, which when mixed with diligent practice, can develop valuable skills.
This is really cool. And I have a question about HTML5 video in general: how would an HTML5 player prevent users from messing with ads if it were used by a site like Hulu?
Today there is no software that could understand(well) that there are birds(or small planes) on the way that are going to be eaten by your engines, and damage it.

This is just fearmongering. Birds, sure, but airplane engines are designed to ingest small birds and for the most part can handle it reasonably well. Small planes still must have a transponder, and TCAS systems will identify and warn of ADS-B signals ("squawk"), even if the smaller plane has not been equipped with a TCAS transceiver.
My bad experience refutes your claim about what the insurance companies are doing. They aren't simply minimizing costs by saying no to unreasonable treatments. Way to move the goalposts there, friend.

We should stop discussing this. You'll never convince me of anything. I know what your politics are. I'll never convince you of anything. You know where I stand. Fortunately for me (I believe), my side's winning.
This underlines to me why it's essential to have technical founders.
They're a useful alternative/addition to Kerberos infrastructure, especially with PKCS#11 smart cards.

I think that x509 client auth is probably underused due to the lack of good, free implementations of CA software to manage those certificates.
I tend to find (and have read that this is a common occurance) that long, hard runs actually suppress my appetite.
It's true! I saw it in the movie The Faculty!
No. You are not understanding the difference between humans and computers. The equation simply makes no sense for humans, it is an ideological statement that only makes sense for machines (and humans living like they're a computer).

What matters for most human beings are how hungry they feel, because that is what controls how much energy that they take in.

Oh, and you forget that the "miles per gallon" for a human body is not constant. When the body gets less energy, it can improve the milage.
I've spent a lot of time thinking and learning about this. Speed reading doesn't seem to be a "myth" exactly, but you are making a big tradeoff between speed and comprehension. There isn't a magic technique that can enhance your ability to retain information, which is arguably the most important part of reading.

Proper reading conditions are very important for reading and comprehension ability. Despite the difficulty of achieving this, an extremely quiet environment is best. You just cannot focus, absorb and retain the information nearly as effectively if you're reading in front of the television or while listening to music.

I also don't bother reading non-fiction/educational material until I'm actively trying to implement or learn the technique/language/software/idea I'm reading about. This is because I forget the information too quickly to make it useful in my job unless I use it right away. Reading on a regular basis is important to keep the skill up, though, so I read lots of fiction and magazines with long-form content (Scientific American, The Atlantic, NYT Sunday Magazine). The New York Times is the only newspaper I read because most others are severely lacking in depth and quality. This isn't a political persuasion, it's an intellectual/taste concern.

Re: the so little time problem. If you set aside regular reading time, even 20-30 minutes per day, it's amazing how fast you will be finishing books. If you can read a page per minute (~average depending on the text). That's a 200-250 page book every two weeks.
No it doesn't. Geesh. We can compare stories until the cows come home. The only thing it'll show is that people have unique experiences with both government-ran and insurance-ran healthcare.

Insurance companies are rational actors. If they are acting in ways that are socially unacceptable then define the market such that they are unable to do that. It's called governance. Not control, but governance.

Come now, you know more than to take your experience and extrapolate it to an entire society, right? And even if you did, why the need for demonization? Just assume things need tweaking and find where the adjustments need to be made. If my doctor got drunk and paralyzed my grand-dad I'd look for cross-checks to prevent drunken doctors from operating, not demand that all of medical care would need overhauling.

To answer my question -- nope, not more than hand-waving. You are indeed correct: I know exactly how this goes. You'll keep up the snide and personal barbs in an effort to draw me out to say something stupid. Either you'll win or not, but in either case you're not interested in what I'm saying, only in the inevitable rebuttal that you'll make.

C'est finis.
Yes, I would choose the apple if I had the choice between the two. The Reese's cup is less caloric, but high in sugar and fat. The apple also has a considerable amount of sugar as well, but has health benefits. Also, the apple will keep you full much longer than the Reese's. Let's face it, who only eats just one Reese's? The key is balancing eating good foods with less calories.

Also, I think it is important to not to focus on "losing weight", but living a healthier lifestyle.
I strongly agree. Client cert auth is also harder to screw up than most of the alternatives, and, let's face it, the alternatives are almost always "shared passwords stored in configuration files".
uhh...the point is that whoever is running your network is going to come across your browsing history at some point and that they dont care. i run a squid box with dansguardian for content filtering and, sometimes, it blocks things it shouldnt (if it were my choice, nothing would be blocked). as part of diagnosing what is wrong, i have to look through the logs...which contain ip address. im not snooping, im just trying to fix it for you.
You're right, Daniel. I wasn't particularly interested in what you had to say. I don't think you can say you weren't warned.

Threads like this (and, be honest, most of the other threads on this article) are why we should keep topics like this the hell off Hacker News.
You have to reasonably expect any work communications to be open to monitoring, be it accidental, intentional, or ancillary. The "IT guy" could be monitoring the DNS cache logs for the purpose of debugging, and if your request for www.russiandancingdolls.com comes along, he'll see it, and if he has any sense of decorum, ignore it.

Given that, if you have something to hide, don't do it at work. It's no use being pissed off about it -- it comes with the territory of shared infrastructure.
> What matters for most human beings are how hungry
> they feel, because that is what controls how much
> energy that they take in.

No, what matters most is how much energy they take in, and how much they burn. You're simply claiming that if people are hungry they will eat more. That's just saying they'll take in more. You're also saying that the body will "get better mileage". That's just burning less.

The long and the short is that if you absorb less energy than you burn, you'll lose weight. There are a shed-load of "strategies" to try to stop you from feeling hungry while you do this, but the truth is that if you want to lose weight you have to starve yourself. If you accept that, then you can make whatever trade-offs you like.

Of course the body is a complex thing, but the physics is easy, and understanding the physics makes the mental side easier too.
Nowadays with free cloud computing, is there any reason why a service like this would shut down?

One could run it in a limited demo mode for free indefinitely.
People who are not doctors could treat themselves too, if only it were legal.
That's what IT people say when they're asked about it. When they're joking with friends or in anonymous BOFH posts, that's clearly not what they're doing.

I'm not saying IT people shouldn't have access to logs. I am however saying that maybe this isn't a great thing to joke about.
You're right. Just don't joke around about it. Privacy matters.
Not math, mathematicians. And the reasons didn't have to make a lick of sense for Stalin to want to purge you and your entire field.
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One common report of these interviews is that it becomes a super intense brainstorming session for ten minutes. Are the applicants allowed to record the session? Certainly they are not trying to write it all down in real time, and it seems that some good ideas might get lost in the flow.
My girlfriend is a trained court reporter and does freelance transcription on the side. She charges by the audio-hour. Interested in getting in touch?
The point is that making it a crime to refuse to buy something is what violates the Constitution. It doesn't matter if it costs 2.5% of your income or 25 cents.
Good find, BTW. I'm looking forward to Douglas Crockford's presentation on JSconf.eu :)
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I agree. If you have a privileged position, it is your responsibility to ignore anything personal you come across -- insofar long as it's not illegal or forbidden by established company policy.

I wouldn't hesitate to reprimand and/or fire a system administrator that repeated (much less joked about) any personal information they came across in the course of their duties.

On the other hand, as an employee, I think it's also your responsibility to assume that any of your communications may be monitored by someone less polite than you would prefer, and to act accordingly.
So my company http://castingwords.com provides transcription services (based on Amazon's Mechanical Turk). We've been doing this for years and have gotten some excellent reviews for our transcription (not just our technology) including a nice one from the Wall Street Journal - we've got a quote from that on the front page.
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Losing weight is something you can quantify and measure. Living a healthier lifestyle is fuzzy and open to interpretation -- allowing you rationalize almost any behavior you choose. For certain kinds of people the certainty of calories in vs. calories out is comforting, especially in the world of weight loss where feel good reasoning and pseudo science are everywhere.
I would expect the market for extended warranties to be competitive. At least as competitive as the market for the product the warranty is slapped on. How can stores make so much profits on warranties but so little on the associated products?
It's possible, but the culture is not conducive to it. According to Simon Singh's book on the subject, Wiles had to go as far as stockpiling several years' worth of conference papers in advance in unrelated areas so he could submit one occasionally while he was really working on FLT, just to affect the appearance of productivity. He also taught a phony graduate course in which his main collaborator enrolled and most of the other students dropped out, just so they could use the class time to thrash out some of the details.
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Then use the LTS releases.
There are no PPA in Debian, so staying with an old distro really means using old software.

Debian has http://backports.org/ ("Backports are recompiled packages from testing (mostly) and unstable (in a few cases only, e.g. security updates), so they will run without new libraries (wherever it is possible) on a stable Debian distribution.")
Launch is the starting point, not the end. Until you've launched something you have no idea what people actually want. It's a very rare startup which launches with the right product.
I didn't do any downvoting. I only suggested a possible reason why.
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Generally, sites that serve longer video segments (like Hulu) use flash streaming (so the video is not a single file but many fragments served via a special media server), so swapping out the client player would be considerably more difficult.
Very nice! Just watched Did you Know 4.0 in HTML5 and the activity on the CPU on my MBP was super low, unlike when watching it in Flash. Thanks for staying up the night!
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I have launched my product many times, and it's always more crazy after the launch than before. In addition, the feature requests just keep piling up: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AhL0igVI9HVNdGpaS3U1...
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Google/youtube beat you to it in April: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Must be viewed in Chrome Also show a video of their O3D technology, similar to WebGL.
From that link:

"Block evil Adobe Flash"

Great, more ideologists.
sexy!
thinking it would be nice if you also let us view a random video link rather than find/copy/paste.
For a big-ticket purchase people tend to act more rationally and thus margins are lower but for extended warranty people tend to make snap decisions.

The effect is amplified by two factors:

1. When the product is hedonistic, anticipated pleasure undermines rational thinking, and anticipated loss of almost-real-already pleasure (brought up by the sales agent) leads to excessive risk aversion

2. Timing. To pony up a large sum of cash one has to go through some emotional upheaval, and the moment right after that is the moment where a person is likely still convincing himself how valuable the purchase is. Anyone who didn't convince themselves is not buying, thus all buyers are either indifferent (not enough money) or momentarily very attached to the product. Timing is very important here and commands 100% higher margins as demonstrated by the 2x different between in-store and after-market warranty costs.
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"Any public plan is likely to have a relatively narrow scope, as it would be offered only to people who don't have access to coverage through an employer."

If that is what ended up in the bill, then I agree that it will be mostly harmless. I was under the impression that anyone would be able to enroll in the public plan.
That's a really good point. When early-stage founders aren't technical, the time/ability they have to "[build] what they should have made" is essentially constrained by whatever change budget is in the contract they have with their outsourcers. And in my experience, a change budget is set based on an (optimistic) estimate of the time needed to add a few unexpected features. It's certainly not enough to allow for major shifts in focus.
Part of me agrees with Vixie's horror at fundamental internet infrastructure being abused for profit. Wildcarding to show adverts on mistyped addresses is just evil.

But when the rules are broken slightly to give the user a better experience which is consistent with their intent and expectations, such as CDNs, isn't there room for a little innovation?
There's also the case of short term versus long term energy spikes causing hunger and plenty of other psychological factors. On paper, yes, if you eat 100 calories of sugar a day versus ten apples, you'll lose more weight. But humans are not a transparent in vs out system. Plus there's also the fact that if you eat too little, your body reacts differently, making it nothing like the straight-line effect (eat 100 cal less, lose X; eat 1000 cal less, lose 10X) that a simplistic view would expect.
If anyone's wondering what it's like to work as a programmer for a wall street firm, check out the book 'So You Want to be a Wall Street Programmer' by Andrey Butov. Very informative and insightful book about the field.

Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Wall-Street-Programmer/dp/184...

I work for a small options-market making firm, and I love what I do and the people I work with. I get the impression I'm very lucky to be in that position - most programmers working in finance work like serfs and make nothing compared to the traders who use the software the programmers make.
I guess this was mostly low-intensity aerobic exercise so not so relevant, but the factor of muscle gain isn't to be overlooked either. If I trade 1kg fat for 1kg muscle, my scales are disappointing, but I'm ultimately healthier.