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Your "facts" are wrong, or at least they date from the conventional wisdom of the 1980s. There is nothing spectacular about "complex carbs" to make them "slow-releasing". Both pota…

This sounds like an excellent way to live with chronically high cortisol levels and ensure that you never retain significant muscle mass.

One critical difference: "I'm in a startup" doesn't work nearly as well on women as "I'm in a band" does.

Right, because buying the long term debt of a nation with absolutely no political will to resolve its fiscal problems is the very definition of "low risk", right? That really worke…

I have increasingly been faced with the "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." message when trying to reply to comments. I have gone as long as 3 hours between ret…

Strange. We did an iPad giveaway last year and the response was significant, to say the least.

We use Wicket for most of our web-based applications. http://wicket.apache.org/ It's Java, though, which is decidedly uncool with the HN crowd.

So it's a less redundant, less mature, less documented, more expensive, 5 year late, and invite-only version of S3 that doesn't have one-click CDN enabling? And it's built by a com…

It's unfortunate that you've been downvoted for this. Just bookmark the post for posterity's sake. When the bubble finally bursts, you have evidence with which to back up a satisfy…

You seem to think that economic and military strength have political freedom as a prerequisitie. I can understand why you'd believe that, since the "good guys" just happened to win…

No. The "America is doomed" folks act as if China has far more productive capacity than we do, and that when trade and currency imbalances finally correct, we will be left in a pos…

And yet, you used the word "hunger" twice.

Strangely enough, not at all. We have a few ec2 instances running in the us-east region, allegedly the region that was supposed to be affected. They have been up and available all …

Completely offtopic, but does anyone know why the author's username is green in this story?

"They were worried about getting girls to like them and annoyed at the athletes who seemed to get all of them. I was usually dating those same athletes." Brilliant strategy to buil…

Well, it's not necessarily true that RoR is prescribed for most projects. A more general statement, which seems in my experience to be accurate, is that $shiny_hot_language_popular…

I'm pretty sure that notion went out the window 3 decades ago, when your grandmother also told you not to go out in the cold or you'll catch a cold. Potato starch is hydrolyzed ext…

You're obviously not familiar with the paleolithic diet, then.

If you don't have the drive or the hunger, then you probably never will. Why not jet around in daddy's yacht for a few months ?

Well, yes, actually. For quite some time, in fact. I learned the other day that questioning the orthodoxy of the virtue of parenthood is disallowed on HN. Suggesting that having ki…

"The 10am-10pm work culture is a market inefficiency. It biases recruiting towards people in their twenties, leaving experienced and capable family people on the table." Having a f…

I'm guessing that the business model expects Moore's Law to resolve the issue of cost of static lifetime memberships. I paid 17$ for a lifetime MixPanel membership several months a…