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> Kex hostel has some pretty solid dining at their in-house restaurant, and there are a number of 'American New' places sprouting up, both diner- and pub-style.

That's the restaurant where my friend worked...though he has moved on.

Second the recommendation here.
What bizzaro math are these?

First of all, 10X is not a factor of age! "X" was meant as an arbitrary monetary unit, and the cost is the same 10X for both the kid and the 90 year old.

Second, "returning the investment" doesn't mean "reaching 100 years old". It just means "getting more years of life for the same cost".

Even if the boy lived only to 30 or 40, he still lived 20 or 30 years, whereas for the 90 year old living up to 100 or 110 would be extremely rare.
"Top male fighters are wary of facing her."

First of all, that's false.

Gender stereotypes and attitudes being what they are, he can either look bad for beating up a girl or look bad for getting beat up by a girl. There is no good outcome.

Pound for pound, top male fighters are going to be between 50% and 100% stronger than Ronda.

Why? I thought the whole reason men tend to be stronger is that we're generally physically larger. As in more pounds of muscle to be strong with.
Well a huge amount of sport is about mentality, so winning a nice streak really does make people invincible. Also, I wouldn't necessarily characterise Silva as regressing to the mean, just getting old.
So your theory is that men are not almost always substantially stronger than women pound for pound?

It's not a bias, it's extremely well understood human physiology. Men and women are in fact very different in the strength department, men are vastly stronger.
Is the board independent? If so, the board is the boss of the CEO. You owe it to the board to let them know about problems with their charge.
If the board is Buddy Buddy or the company is bootstrapped, then just give two weeks notice and start interviewing elsewhere.
About 40 years ago, when I was growing up in Southeastern Europe, in a place greatly influenced by both the Ottoman and the Habsburg empires, I do remember my grandma lying down in bed (covered) with one-two of her girlfriends after having lunch, coffee, and a cigarette. They were fully clothed and they continued chatting while lying on top of a made bed. The men were all gone to work during the day.

Such a behavior would raise an eyebrow in the US, but it was completely normal in that corner of the world at the time.
Even if it is a scam, I don't see how that is relevant. Most of the article is about things that apply to this kind of grand endeavor regardless of whether it turns out to be realistic and legit, completely nuts and legit, or illegitimate.
Some fellow entrepreneurs had an awesome idea recently to create a jukebox-like service for businesses, where they could get payed per request and pay a monthly fee for the streaming service.

I coded up an MVP and we got a few customers that agreed it was something they would pay for, as long as they had a decent chance to make even a small profit on song requests.

Once it looked like a viable product idea, the financial numbers guy did his magic and researched more details about how royalties worked.

We got conflicting information from different lawyers and royalty aggregators. After a couple months of research we determined it was completely impossible to make a profit, until we hit maybe 5 million in revenue and could start to negotiate better rates with copyright holders.

This assumed extremely cheap tech and bandwidth, and almost no salaries for us three founders.

We killed the project because it became clear how sadly broken the music industry has become. They wanted about 50% of our revenue, no matter how we sliced the business model. We are totally miffed at how pandora or spotify survive.
> Ritualize

No thanks. This is the first thing I started to dislike about being raised Catholic, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Is possible to for MySQL ?
The Millennial Commune
No - it is standard CUPS with some extensions to interact with the MacOS GUI. It runs the same drivers as Linux which is great for old printers or those without MacOS support.

The main change when Apple purchased the project was a license change to allow proprietary drivers when running on OS X.

I suspect you're getting confused with the change from NeXTSTEP to MacOS X where Display PostScript was replaced with a PDF-like system for copyright/licensing reasons.
> Quit. But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave.

Well, that may or may not be true. But even if it is, so what? It's not your company.

You have given them work, they are supposed to have given you money. And you have both agreed that that is a fair compensation for your work, at least for as long as you are doing that work for that compensation. And that settles accounts; you're back to a position where you don't owe them any more work and they don't owe you any more money. There's no obligation in that for you to continue to work for them. You don't owe them any loyalty – that's not the sort of thing you can buy. (Phrased another way 'money is a bad retention tool.')

There are things where it makes sense to have a degree of personal loyalty to some of the people you work with in a company (though having a loyalty to the company as a whole is of course nonsense.) There are people who we might choose to continue working for, despite the fact that we might make more money elsewhere, because those people are good at what they do, take care of us, and we generally enjoy working with them. But it doesn't sound like that's the case here.
You are in an abusive relationship with a sinking ship, and you should leave as fast and as cleanly as you can.

Even if you somehow manage to teeth it through and see the startup succeed, you will eventually be thrown away as an unhappy and unenthusiastic employee and be given a bad review, no matter what your achievements or sacrifices were.

More likely, due to the pressure, you will just burn out, start doing mistakes and avoiding work, getting yourself fired with a bad rep.
Is there a guide somewhere that shows me how to disable all these "features" and make W10 as private, lean and fast as it can be?
"What else surprises me? The fact that what every one - I mean every Tom, Dick, Harry - knew was seemingly unknown to the G+/G leaders. Many of their decisions brought universal reactions of a metaphoric "really?" and they would do that all over again as there was a total communication gap with them and the rest of the world."

This more than anything. And it was not just the external observers either. As pointed out in the article, Vic ran roughshod over the entire company to push his agenda. As is well known, a very large fraction of the rank-and-file employees were up in arms over the real-name policy. There were petitions against it signed by thousands of employees. None of that was heeded by the leadership.
We did something similar in our Tarantella product many years ago. However we quickly discovered that many companies operate network infrastructure that verifies protocols. For example they would check that whatever happened on port 443 was valid SSL and nothing else.

In the end we modified our clients to include a decoy cipher suite in the SSL negotiation. That kept the network happy, and was enough for our multiplexer to then internally route to the correct backend.
> U.S. Facebook engagement was actually dropping in 2011 and the Zynga games were the reason why. People hated those games.

That doesn't make any sense. Facebook goal is to have people staying connected to Facebook as much time as possible. Be it to check their friends status, the fan page of their idols or to play whatever game is trending. If Zynga's games are popular, the better for them since they monetize that popularity, and the better for Facebook since people spend more time on their platform, and they can water their virtual crops or whatever in between checking the cat pictures some friend posted and reading about the new thing some other friend's baby did. If Zynga's games lose their popularity, someone else will overtake them (it was King with Candy Crush) and Facebook will not be impacted.
I would not be so sure or call it a fantasy. Ronda's grappling is at another level. Watch footage of her sparring with BJ Penn (the extended version). It is with the Gi and obviously not an actual MMA fight, but gives you an idea of what that looks like if she could take it to the ground early.
We a species have finite resources and can't sink all of them into every patient. Every time we treat or don't treat someone (and it's not possible to treat everyone of everything), we're making implicit statement in the form of a mathematical inequality about how we value money against human life and quality of life. The question here is whether these statements about how life balances against resources are self-consistent or not. And if they're not consistent, then that means you can re-arrange your decisions to save more lives at the same cost, or alternatively save the same number of lives at less cost. The route the NIH apparently went was to try to make their decisions consistent by explicitly giving a dollar value to a year of human life.
Yep, and because ASCII is strictly not enough to write text in most human languages — or, well, even in English, if you would like to use proper punctuation — we have to use some other non-unicode encoding. And because it won't be enough to type in several languages at once and will cause all problems with collation we still have — we are soon building our own Unicode. Let's hope it will turn out better…
Puns aside... you can'd do social without having some kind of face.

Facebook really has face(s) (puns aside again): it has Mark Z's friendly looking face, it has the faces of all your friends and family that are already there, it has a warm-looking humane-looking brand (not with a damn mathematical sign like "+" in. its. freaking. name.), even the annoying-to-most-geeks UX has a "face" that you can recognize. Even when they do their ubercreepy stuff we all complain about, they do it with a face, you viscerally hate it or you get freaked out just like you would get freaked out by a stalker watching you naked... you don't just feel like your privacy is invaded by a mathematical equation. Facebook, the company, really feels like a "person" and not a "thing". (Yeah, to me at least it feels like an ubercreepy person for whom I want a restraining order and maybe a vicious guard dog too and few extra alarm systems to keep it as far away as possible... but it's still a "person"). And it's not a reaction, Facebook wan't born out of a reaction to MySpace, it "authentic" and people can feel this about a brand. That's why corporations can spend millions on buying a brand that "feels authentic" instead of "manufacturing a brand".

Facebook started with a bunch of cool faces and a cool story. They even made a movie out of that story! And a totally shitty technical platform, but that didn't matter. The gargantuan effort to make Google+ succeed looked like some folks' effort to make Esperanto into the de-facto international language instead of English. You needed the literary face of a Shakespeare, and the military face of a British Empire to make a language succeed, an beneath them an authentic foundation (English was not invented as a reaction to Latin!).
Go produces a single static binary. Consequently deploying go apps is as simple as copying a single file around, that just works.
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.

For all we know the ScaleWindowExtEx did have a domain check that disallowed negatives, but it put it after the division.
Of course, given the quantum nature of light, this breaks down: at some (admittedly very large) distance, a star will be emitting so few photons in a given direction that it will be effectively black.
Well, we're gonna be downvoted to hacker hell, but I agree.

"it was good for my dear old daddy / and my dear old mommy too...i don't need nothing new"
This need to be worshipped is what I found to be the most bizarre characteristic of deities. Seriously, why would someone who can create space, time, universe and everything care the slightest bit about whether or not a bunch of Homo sapiens perform all these weird acts that worshipping entails? Too needy.
It's worth noting that the opposite problem exists, and is frequently referenced in sayings such as "having a hammer and seeing everything as a nail" and "using nukes to kill ants". Or as my father said: "A knife is the most expensive pry-bar you'll ever break". I have a very well-stocked toolbox and I can't explain how much of a pleasure it is to use the right tool for a job. Specialized tools exist for a reason, and repurposing things is often a bad decision.

I see this in pop psychology a lot: people find a few cases where a common human heuristic fails, and assume that the heuristic must be bad, when all they've proven is that it's flawed. Of course it's flawed: it's an evolved behavior and evolution is essentially a hack that solves problems it doesn't really understand. But these heuristics evolved for a reason: at least at one time, they solved more problems than they caused. It's worth understanding where common heuristics fail, but be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The bias that men tend to be physically stronger than women, pound for pound? The 50-100% estimate is probably an exaggeration, but from my quick glance at competitive weightlifting results, 25% seems well-supported.
Yes. Binaries killed Usenet.

I ran a Freenix-competitive Usenet server for a popular ISP in the mid-1990s (by way of bona fides: we were competitive because I hacked a history lookup cache into INN, a concept we apparently co-invented alongside Netcom). Usenet was by far our most expensive and most time-consuming infrastructure.

The reason for that was binaries. The amount of storage we were required to keep online for binaries was staggering. We ended up buying those ridiculous chrome-plated NetApp fileservers to handle the load. The hardware was expensive, but more expensive was the admin overhead: things went wrong with the INN filesystems regularly, and there was nothing you could do to recover from them quickly; simple filesystem errors that were really just an fsck away from repair could mean 4-6 hours of downtime. Which, by the way, tended to happen at night.

File-sharers sprayed multiple copies of huge files across several newsgroups, in little chunks. If any of those chunks went missing, our users screamed bloody murder. ISPs that tried to host no-binaries Usenet became the target of PR campaigns. Hosting discussion groups on Usenet was cheap and easy. Running a competitive full-feed server, on the other hand, required nearly full-time attention from an admin that could do light filesystem hacking.

The result was a death-spiral: as Usenet got more expensive to host, fewer ISPs hosted it; many outsourced to other providers. They could easily have hosted just the discussion groups! Usenet could have been kept alive and decentralized, and maybe even evolved alongside the web. Instead, software and pornography pirates coerced the network into a few centralized providers, who eventually decided not to waste huge amounts of money hosting infrastructure for those kinds of users.

Not that I'm bitter.
HN does not need more substanceless, generic discussion.

Such comments invariably sprout up when there isn't enough actual information to discuss anything concrete. They're like fireweed, except fireweed is pretty.
It doesn't really. He doesn't provide any counter evidence to Roche's claims. He just confirms one (the 75% donation of media fees) and claims it didn't affect his wife's chances. Though, logically, of course it would since she's one of the most media-present candidates.
Show HN: Exploring the Tap Hypothesis with LibGDX
Beautiful work.

Is it ok to embedded this (and the full Iceland map) with an iframe?
Exploring the Tap Hypothesis by building a simple game with libGDX
I think he meant more along the lines of "having a wedding" or "having a funeral" than "sacrificing a cow" (but pardon my ignorance of Catholic rituals).
As I alluded to below, the power of this feature should probably not be underestimated.
No, men are stronger at the exact same weight than women are, by a significant margin.

I can't believe this is even an issue of debate or misunderstanding on HN.

Go to any gym and watch a 5'6", 165 pound guy bench press, and then watch a woman at the same size with the same experience do so. Men can also jump higher and run faster than women at exactly the same physical measurements.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8477683

"Strength and muscle characteristics were examined in biceps brachii and vastus lateralis of eight men and eight women. Measurements included motor unit number, size and activation and voluntary strength of the elbow flexors and knee extensors. Fiber areas and type were determined from needle biopsies and muscle areas by computerized tomographical scanning. The women were approximately 52% and 66% as strong as the men in the upper and lower body respectively. The men were also stronger relative to lean body mass."

http://www.quora.com/Are-men-generally-physically-stronger-t...
Eh, I always want one of these secular communities to take off and flourish but they never seem to.

Possibly the principals of "think for yourself", "relative and perspective", "freedom of association" are antithetical to these kind tight knit groups. It's a shame in some ways and definitely more lonely. But, looking at the types of people some more radical religions attract, possibly lonely is the better option.

In the meantime, if we really need a community support group without the superstition and hoopla, I guess there is always the possibility of joining a street gang....
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Yes, the meaning of the gesture of holding hands is important. In the U.S., as far as I can tell it almost always indicates a romantic relationship (or adults chaperoning young children, obviously).
> As someone who has trained in MMA extensively, "the greats" tend to be those who embody this for long whiles in their careers before eventually (and generally, inevitably) regressing to the mean.

You can make the case that both age, and the sport evolves around them and they regressed towards the mean.

Except for Anderson. I attribute his decline simply to no longer being motivated to train hard. In many of his later fights, he would "play around" and toy with fighters. With Weidman, that cost him a brutal knockout. The psychological damage compounded with his next fight, which was immediate rematch that ended up in brutally shattering his leg.

For BJ Penn, there were a lot of questions about his motivations, and by time it seemed like he was properly motivated, the sport had passed him by. Despite all that, he is one of the few fighters that have belts in multiple weight classes, and beat Matt Hughes, and Gomi in their prime (you could argue he beat the piss out of GSP in their first match, despite it being a loss). Full Disclosure: BJ Penn is one of my favorite fighters of all time.
> The real facts and evidence should be evaluated

Yes indeed, and neither the OP nor the commenters in this thread have access to it. That's why threads like this degenerate.
This is true, although I suspect that the reluctance to change the set of values in traditional religions may have a lot to do with subconsciously (or consciously) fearing supernatural retribution. e.g. God will punish you for being sinful. In principle, this shouldn't be a problem for a secular community that does not accept the notion of a supernatural governing force.
Orkut was released pre-Facebook. It was actually a lot more successful than most people give it credit for, but its primary success was in countries that most Americans are unaware of. Years of neglect meant that when Facebook finally expanded into those regions, it didn't really stand a chance.
You only have to look at half the discussions on HN to know that humans are still very religious about subjects despite the rejection of the supernatural. We joke about language or editor wars being "religious", but really, that same thought process exists.

On the same topic, but contrary to what you are saying, organized secularism with rituals, values, expectations may only draw out this natural propensity towards "religion" in people even further.

Touching on your point further, Protestant churches actually fare pretty well with some of these cultural issues that force change. If someone disagrees about gay marriage or another controversial topic, they just start a new church and half the congregation goes there. It makes Protestant churches at the same time possibly more extreme but also much more varied in their belief systems and allows for religion to evolve. (This is not an endorsement of Protestantism, just an acknowledgement).

I dislike the notion of organized secularism because it creates an us vs them attitude. You have churches and then secular churches when the real solution (whatever it may be) should be a less dogmatic form of outreach that grabs at people from all walks of life and engages them. That's how people change, that's how they get better.
This is a key point. If you three all started from a coffee shop, why are they co-founders and you are the first employee? Even if the other two persons worked on the company a few month before you started, after 4 years, you'd been there (and hopefully contributed) 90% of the founders time and contribution.

Startup life is hard, and it's a lot easier to sacrifice with significant ownership and a sense of purposes.
> But this would burn a lot of fingers/relationships and put the company in a spot since I'm pretty sure most things will break if I leave.

I've seen friends in a similar situation say the same thing. It's important to remember that it's not your job to manage succession planning or handling disaster recovery (unless it is). You can warn them about issues and provide suggestions, but if they don't schedule that work for you or give you time to do it, then you're released from that obligation IMO.
If you're not being paid on time, you quit, and then you report the company. There is nothing left to discuss here.
Crazy Canucks heat their lab with muahaha-capable server
Using Windows 10? Microsoft is watching
Why is this behavior tolerated across all of Europe? Seems like they run the same scams in each country. Why don't the police run stings and arrest them? Or is it because the police are also on vacation when the tourists come in summer?
I'm the opposite - I miss the community and its events. There's a growing Humanist community where I live precisely for that reason. The vast majority of the population are Catholic so life revolves around Catholic rituals, whether we like it or not. It's great to have secular alternatives for marriages, funerals and baptisms.
There is no love for Emacs, I see.
All of these things, although unpleasant, can be worked with except one: "Does not pay properly or on time."

There is no option. You owe them nothing. Quit. Immediately.
A comparison of Olympic weightlifting records in comparable weight classes suggests men are around 30% stronger at the same weight.
Such behaviour would be perfectly normal in the UK at the present time as well. Are you sure it would raise an eye-brow in the US ?