> Here's the original article. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137 Not available without subscription. Even so, the media described in the abstract makes no mention of body composition; without that,…
> Unfortunately, it only takes a few extremely chauvinistic individuals to sour an entire field towards women. They are simply reflecting the social mores of their day. IBM had the socks and garter police -- for…
In my above comment I worked out that there MUST be genetic differences. Even if you start from a point of complete genetic equality in aptitude, all it takes is any kind of cultural or social bias to create a selection…
These studies are nutty. You can't separate diet from activity; you can't treat wide categories of food so indiscriminately; you can't use BMI or weight instead of body composition, and get definitive results. Just for…
I don't think an AI Justin Bieber is that far off. AIs can create pop music in your virtual world if you like that sort of thing. All the other AIs will be talking about it, so you won't need some central source of…
"Aspiring female scientists and mathematicians still have to contend with the inaccurate stereotype that men are innately better at them in their chosen fields." I wasn't aware that this had been definitively…
Eventually, copyright will die off completely. It's just a matter of when. When we have sci-fi nanoreplicators that can copy luxury (flying) cars, food, etc., all scarcity will be artificial. Alternatively, when we have…
It's one thing to nuke links, but this apparently went beyond that. From the TC comments: "Wow, you can't type ANY form of lamebook.com, lamebook DOT com, lame+book DOT com...NOTHING! How can I trust Facebook as a…
Copyright law was originally instituted to cover written works. There is a ton of case law. It would not have been kind to them. Nobody "forced" them out of business, they voluntarily quit when they realized their sham…
2) I'm not criticizing the idea of funding, I'm saying the amount is small. Google got either $100k total or $100k each from David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim, depending on which article you read. Presumably they had…
> I got an email from Paul Graham saying basically that being a single founder put me at a disadvantage, because two founders can talk each other out of bad ideas, but I appeared too stubborn. This applies equally…
We could start a betting pool on the number of years until the government makes it compulsory.
As someone who remembers BBSes and Usenet flamewars, I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to have your real identity linked to everything you do. It also makes it very difficult if you ever need to go on the…
> Sure, but thousands of people phoning in to say “you’re an utter asshole” — leading to the site’s closure That isn't why they closed. Think what would have happened to them if they stayed open, from the ACTUAL…
Actually the so-called "mob justice" was a HUGE FAVOR. I'll explain. How would you feel if your start-up was ripped off? Would you want HN people to rally around you, or would that be "mob justice"? And what if it…
They take a long time if you have to rebuild the indexes, which is what you have to do if you only have a text dump. For MySQL, using the standard format (MyISAM), you can just do a file copy if you bothered to do a…
Fortunately, there is this thing called "science" which means we can understand things about the world regardless of where we live. As Dawkins would say, there is no such thing as "Chinese Science" or "French Science",…
Boxers punching with no tape is a good way to get broken wrists.
You never "win". Having been in a hospital due to an accident, I would never want to put anyone else in there. And if I was put there by someone else, I would probably have been obsessed with getting back at them. So to…
"a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences something vicariously rather than first-hand, or to a casual critic who lacks practical experience" Ironically the most fitting application would be to say…
Your post is a good illustration of the type of attitude we want to scrupulously avoid when appointing someone to be in charge of a database.
> This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard. Well, I'm just going by TFA, which stated: "Newly created users and repositories are being restored, but pull request state changes and similar might be…
> I think the fact that they have been able to recover all critical data soon and will even update the event table over the next few days clearly displays their competence. Taking a few days to restore a table…
They may not be rookies as Ruby hackers, but the evidence clearly points to them being rookies from the standpoint of data robustness. That's embarrassing enough when it's not your core business offering. They even brag…
> If github spent their time so that their site raised absolutely no basic questions, then they'd still be in beta by now. Beta is the stage you reach AFTER you flip on transactions, institute and test quick…
> Here's the original article. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137 Not available without subscription. Even so, the media described in the abstract makes no mention of body composition; without that,…
> Unfortunately, it only takes a few extremely chauvinistic individuals to sour an entire field towards women. They are simply reflecting the social mores of their day. IBM had the socks and garter police -- for…
In my above comment I worked out that there MUST be genetic differences. Even if you start from a point of complete genetic equality in aptitude, all it takes is any kind of cultural or social bias to create a selection…
These studies are nutty. You can't separate diet from activity; you can't treat wide categories of food so indiscriminately; you can't use BMI or weight instead of body composition, and get definitive results. Just for…
I don't think an AI Justin Bieber is that far off. AIs can create pop music in your virtual world if you like that sort of thing. All the other AIs will be talking about it, so you won't need some central source of…
"Aspiring female scientists and mathematicians still have to contend with the inaccurate stereotype that men are innately better at them in their chosen fields." I wasn't aware that this had been definitively…
Eventually, copyright will die off completely. It's just a matter of when. When we have sci-fi nanoreplicators that can copy luxury (flying) cars, food, etc., all scarcity will be artificial. Alternatively, when we have…
It's one thing to nuke links, but this apparently went beyond that. From the TC comments: "Wow, you can't type ANY form of lamebook.com, lamebook DOT com, lame+book DOT com...NOTHING! How can I trust Facebook as a…
Copyright law was originally instituted to cover written works. There is a ton of case law. It would not have been kind to them. Nobody "forced" them out of business, they voluntarily quit when they realized their sham…
2) I'm not criticizing the idea of funding, I'm saying the amount is small. Google got either $100k total or $100k each from David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim, depending on which article you read. Presumably they had…
> I got an email from Paul Graham saying basically that being a single founder put me at a disadvantage, because two founders can talk each other out of bad ideas, but I appeared too stubborn. This applies equally…
We could start a betting pool on the number of years until the government makes it compulsory.
As someone who remembers BBSes and Usenet flamewars, I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to have your real identity linked to everything you do. It also makes it very difficult if you ever need to go on the…
> Sure, but thousands of people phoning in to say “you’re an utter asshole” — leading to the site’s closure That isn't why they closed. Think what would have happened to them if they stayed open, from the ACTUAL…
Actually the so-called "mob justice" was a HUGE FAVOR. I'll explain. How would you feel if your start-up was ripped off? Would you want HN people to rally around you, or would that be "mob justice"? And what if it…
They take a long time if you have to rebuild the indexes, which is what you have to do if you only have a text dump. For MySQL, using the standard format (MyISAM), you can just do a file copy if you bothered to do a…
Fortunately, there is this thing called "science" which means we can understand things about the world regardless of where we live. As Dawkins would say, there is no such thing as "Chinese Science" or "French Science",…
Boxers punching with no tape is a good way to get broken wrists.
You never "win". Having been in a hospital due to an accident, I would never want to put anyone else in there. And if I was put there by someone else, I would probably have been obsessed with getting back at them. So to…
"a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences something vicariously rather than first-hand, or to a casual critic who lacks practical experience" Ironically the most fitting application would be to say…
Your post is a good illustration of the type of attitude we want to scrupulously avoid when appointing someone to be in charge of a database.
> This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard. Well, I'm just going by TFA, which stated: "Newly created users and repositories are being restored, but pull request state changes and similar might be…
> I think the fact that they have been able to recover all critical data soon and will even update the event table over the next few days clearly displays their competence. Taking a few days to restore a table…
They may not be rookies as Ruby hackers, but the evidence clearly points to them being rookies from the standpoint of data robustness. That's embarrassing enough when it's not your core business offering. They even brag…
> If github spent their time so that their site raised absolutely no basic questions, then they'd still be in beta by now. Beta is the stage you reach AFTER you flip on transactions, institute and test quick…