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Note that I'm using "often" to mean "happens with statistically significant frequency," as opposed to something like "happens most of the time."

> An analog to your statement would be: "I like movies" often translates into "I want to work in the film industry"

But that's actually true, with the most desired movie-inspired career being actor/actress. The difference is that people give up this idea a lot more easily, because they realize that the odds of being a movie star are incredibly low. Analogous to liking rock music and wanting to be a rock star.
So what do you guys actually do? I mean, it would be hard for me to say that the search results from google have increased in quality at all in the past five years at least.
As a possible weakening of the addiction classification, I'd hazard that what may seem as Addiction is actually just Fashion.

Both Addiction and Fashion can be harmful... anorexia(addiction) and size-zero(fashion), but they are different.

Fashions may be all consuming for a long period, but then they change, often swiftly and brutally. A shift in customs (large,lengthy) is not required for a shift in Fashion.

Fashion and addiction can co-exist, and I'll offer an anecdote. The Dance Music scene in 1999.

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Here there was some people with a bona-fide addiction to dance party drugs (real addicts) co-existing with those who indulged in light drug taking in the fashion for dance parties. Dance parties grew to quite an peak and the associated drug intake too. But when the dance music scene burnt out in favour of rock... the fashion drug element receded with it.
People are usually the highest cost for most companies. Reddit for sure needs admins, developers, sales, marketing, etc.
Obviously anyone making any comment about this article is wandering into a minefield of appearing sexist. While I agree with the sentiment (attracting girls into CS is OK, putting some money at the end of a stick is OK, and CS will benefit from them being there), one of the points did bother me.

The first time I spoke at a conference, John Allsopp contacted me to ask if I would do it. I never would have submitted a proposal. You might say that I should have, but I would counter that I shouldn’t need to act like a dude to get respect.

To which I shall counter, but you should have. This is an attitude of entitlement. "I am not the way you work, but I am a girl, thus everything is much harder for me, so I am entitled to have people bend over backwards telling me how wonderful I am and flattering me by asking me to speak at a conference."

She makes the assumption that all men are speaking at conferences too; but they're not. Speaking at a conference is an honor. We've seen lots of stuff on HN about how people make their own luck. If people are hungry, they will make things happen. She wasn't hungry. She didn't want to speak. That's not a girl thing, that's just her. There are plenty of men in that boat too.

These articles, as alanh described, are almost always strewn with male sexism too. I'm sad to see that this one is the same way.

The wider question is not one of male/female, but of equality in general. Locker-room antics (of which I am guilty), work/life balance, teaching of the sciences and engineering in schools... these are all things that need to be reviewed about equality, not an us vs them, male vs female, attitude.
Dublin's a lot further than Paris, journey time wise. I can quite literally have breakfast at home and lunch in Paris and be back home in the evening (and have done that a few times). Travel to Dublin by rail/ferry is an entire day. And domestic rail travel in the UK is often not a pleasant experience. Even 1st class doesn't insulate you from the delays. And flying's likely cheaper too.

I dunno, based on my own friends, long roadtrips seem to be more of a Canadian thing, Americans seem to fly more :-) When I lived in the US catching the Delta service between Boston and NYC was "normal", that's only what, 3 hrs drive?
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there are plenty of examples in Korea where people have died from "too much internet"

a very sad example: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/209478-Update-South-Korean...
I remember an article on HN a while ago, that partitioned people into "people that are interested in One Thing, Everything, or Nothing." For the people interested in One Thing or Nothing, your comment sounds perfectly rational; but for the people interested in Everything, that's exactly how it is. "I like movies, books, games, music, math, tall buildings, rockets, genetically-engineered plants, [...] and so I want to learn how to make all of those things."
It'll be interesting to see whether they're more hostile to advertisements or not having a site.
If a company is flying someone from A to B to negotiate a hundred million dollar deal, $10,000 for an airline ticket that ensures they can work on the flight and arrive fully refreshed and prepared is absolutely worth it. And that fare also to a certain extent subsidizes the people in Economy. I don't see why anyone would have a problem with it.
Electric motorcycles go racing. This looks like an emerging industry for people who want a go fast electric vehicle. Hopefully a consumer version will be produced and priced at something reasonable.

Should also be disruptive for current rules | laws | taxes. How would the current system equate a high power electric motorcycle to the current internal combustion version?
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I was under the impression (and by impression I mean I have no idea where I read this and thus cannot back up anything I say) that the problem was at the secondary schooling level; girls started out with a healthy interest in science and engineering when they begin at 11 or 12, but that interest level rapidly decreases as they move through schooling.

The question is what is happening in the way we're teaching girls that they get so turned off by it? Obviously its not innate, because as you note, there used be a lot more women graduating with CS. I guess there could also be a societal argument as well, but I wouldn't know enough about the cultural norms of 1990 to comment.
Is he trying to be funny or is he making an actual argument?
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Didn't google some time ago have these up and down arrows, like here on HN with comments, which I never quite learned as to what they were for. That is not quite far off from marking sites as spam and I used the up and down arrows only perhaps once in the entire time.

Search is different from sites like this. Here we know we are going to spend some time reading interesting content, but not quite what we will be reading. When searching you know you needs some information and what you want to do is find it, preferably instantly, and get out of Google immediately. It is easier to click on the next link than mark some site for spam or click the up and down arrow.
You forgot to factor long-term risk. If I got caught assassinating Judges/Jurors -- the impact for the company would be worse than losing whatever court case was being decided.
Hence winning is important - but you need to play by the rules to make it in the long run.
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It's strange to me that you use Guns, Germs, and Steel as an example of the virtues of wheat, when Jared Diamond called agriculture "the worst mistake in the history of the human race." (The article itself supports the basic idea that hunter-gathers were individually healthier than farmers: http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...)
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I find that actually focusing is not an issue - it's more the 'getting started' part that I have trouble with, ie. tackling serious issues/features in the code base, rather than just frittering around the edges, tidying up minor things, checking HN, and so on.

I just tried pomodoro today as an experiment based on this article, and ended up going waaay overtime on several of them. As in, an hour or more of sustained focus at a stretch. So I suspect that the paperwork and the "have to stop after 25/35/45 minutes" parts are actually impacting my productivity (by popping me out of 'the zone'), not helping it.
The problem I have with that logic is, why wouldn't men decide the same thing?

The author's reasoning seems to be

1. young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group
2. men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"

but I ask, why? The article seems to be rejecting the idea that men are naturally better than women at programming (and some other ideas) and embracing the idea that women are naturally better than men at finding a suitable career.

I suppose this is just as valid of a hypothesis, but I don't think it is good enough to simply dismiss the other one.
That would be a fairly frightening hegemonic swarm. I suspect that hedonically oriented Kardashev type II civilizations are more likely to use a gentle "Join us and experience the bliss of a thousand heavens." sales pitch; if they have much of a foreign policy at all.
You're completely right, of course—but I have to point out that elementary education is a "vagina fest", and not even a self-selected one. There is definite discrimination preventing men from entering the field—mostly by parents who don't want men around their kids.
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Verizon and Sprint phones don't have a SIM card and they're still phones, ask anyone ;).
We live in capitalism. Communicate or survive.

To address your point though, I think what is new about the article is that some search engine is trying to address a problem which annoys a lot of HNers. A problem I might say which differentiated Google from the then MSN and ALtavista etc. That is irrelevant or shallow search results.
I think you're on to something. I look forward to the day when we are shocked by unencrypted private data accessible on the server as we do un-hashed passwords.
Thanks for commenting, and I do trust that those specifically tasked with search quality would seek it, unreservedly, without ulterior motives.

However, once such revenue-enhancing feedback loops exist, they can lead to self-reinforcing behaviors without any conscious intent. Simply the fact that Google has been so wildly profitable, even with search quality stagnant or declining for many spablum-heavy queries, could mean certain radical avenues of inquiry aren't considered. ("We're obviously doing OK overall, our search share, usership, and profits are up every quarter. Let's not rock the boat by starting a war with these content mills, which would surely include lawsuits and congressional hearings calling attention to our market power.")

Even the choice of overall budget for search quality comes into play. The current level of spending has, with its mixture of both qualified success and failure against spablum, done just fine for Google's margins. But I think Google could spend twice as much on search quality, and still be profitable. So, why doesn't it? Well, I don't blame Google for being profit-maximizing, but that means someone is controlling a relative-effort lever that makes search just so good, and no better, because of a tradeoff in which the marginal profitability of even better search is considered.

Also, what if Google's search quality gets monotonically better given the web it has to work with, but the overall economic impact of Google's ad programs and dominant-focal-point-rankings is simultaneously making the average web content worse? Then, each generation of Google's search tech may be better, ceteris paribus, but the net pollution effect still boosts Google's revenues via the three mechanisms I listed: longer search sessions, greater attention to paid areas, a more difficult environment for competitors.

Even your anecdote is not completely reassuring; for an AdSense/AdWords customer, it's not in Google's self-interest to favor those sites in natural results. By ranking highly in organic results, they might not need to buy as much paid placement! So that VP's stern warning can be explained by either a dedication to search independence, or to simply ad-revenue-maximizing self-interest.

Will I ever get an advanced search operator that will filter all AdSense-carrying results out of my searches? (I'm going to make one on Blekko, if possible.)
The in-flight WiFi on Virgin America (and most domestic carriers as far as I know) is a cellular based system, not satellite.

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Lol. Are Landing Pages on drugs now?
Maybe there should be a HN backlash against duplicate submitions :P
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You were down-voted because of your tone, which came across as very rude; certainly an undesirable characteristic of posters.
Because when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail...
> ...it appears that as consumerism and perhaps, indulgence, rise, children become more and more scarce...

Correlation doesn't imply causation. The typical explanations for the lower birth rates are (A) we have pensions, so we don't need more kids as a form of insurance and (B) we have less time to raise kids because all parents are working professionals. Neither of those factors have anything to do with complacency or consumerism.
I only started adderall few weeks ago. For the past five years, I kept myself from going this route after hearing so many horror stories re: adderall etc. But finally, I realized few weeks ago that a pill can't make my life too much worse than it was. So I made the move.

It's been few weeks and my life has completely changed. I haven't quite experienced a "high" nor a crash except the first day. I just feel normal--and not like a bot that adderall is supposed to turn you into. I am not sure what to make of it. And it could completely be placebo.

I really wish I took this step few years ago! Simple things like making my bed, having breakfast seemed like a super pain in the ass. Not anymore. I really hope it stays this way longterm and isn't placebo.
I've heard your kind of experiences from friends too. And that is what kept me from taking it.

Yet, I experienced no high of any sort. I still indulge in timewasting activities while on adderall(I'm on it now:)--but it's significantly less.
Hasn't impacted my creative thinking one bit. I'm not sure if that is a sign that it isn't working on me(though there are plenty of signs that it is working).
> All the people posting dollar figures here and on reddit are drawing from these know costs.

The others are quite clearly marked as estimates, this one not really, and the second estimate from the top in the reddit thread (yielding an estimate of $22,390.37/mo) got the following comment by one jedberg:

> Yes, once again, you are totally accurate. That is almost exactly what it costs to run reddit, as of today. However, with our projected growth, we're looking to be closer to 350K by the end of the year.

note that the comment got that estimate based off 1-year reserved servers, which jedberg's comment suggest is broadly correct rather than 3-year reservations.
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That depends on whether they go on to become doctors, veterinarians and dentists instead of assistants to those. The fact that someone has a certain education does not preclude them from ending up in a more assistive job related to the education. In fact, if women are still underrepresented among new doctors, veterinarians and dentists, that would be a likely explanation.
When I got into college I had no idea what a computer program was nor had I ever been exposed to anything related to programming. Despite that one of my first classes was C programming. Not by choice, but because the curriculum was chosen by my advisor. It didn't really hit me that I was learning how to program until about a week into it. Now I'm a professional software developer. My point is that you do not have to go into college knowing anything about programming to study it.
I'm imagining a complete partitioning of utility functions here. To me, a type-II civilization would be more akin to the planet of the Matrix movies—a symbiotic system involving:

A. a sentient civilization, living in a virtual universe with unlimited possibility, and

B. a completely automated outer reality, keeping the sim running, of which the sentients have (and need) no awareness.

Part of the sentients' remembered history would be that that "we used to live in a much more limited universe, but then we ascended to this one," or something like that. The "reality" that the automated system inhabits would be no more real to the sentients than your fingertip is to your IDE. (And would have as little realization of an orbital bombardment against the automation as your IDE has of your fingertip holding down the power button of your computer.)

The automated system would want only to grow and maintain itself, and would not have the higher-level thinking capacity required to formulate larger goals. It would be more like a plant, having the same sort of relationship to the sentients that we have to bacteria that live in our bloodstreams. (I want to mention both Avatar and [End of] Evangelion here, for oddly-complementary visuals.)
> Ars tries to partially attribute Apple's continued use of the Core 2 to a lack of engineering resources due to a focus on the iOS devices, but that sounds absurd given Apple's recent financial numbers.

Then you haven't been paying attention to how Apple got those recent financial numbers. Apple has held operating expenses extremely low, and hasn't grown its engineering ranks significantly in almost a decade. It's not at all unreasonable to expect that engineering resources are constrained. That's how Apple likes to work.
I believe adderall is very carefully regulated. Our uni clinic refuses to prescribe it. It refers you to a $250/hr shrink who wrote me a prescription 20mins into our session and billed me for the hour. Well worth it though :)
The world is full of creative, hardworking people that benefit everyone they interact with.

Please don't let any more of these type of people in. Its too good here already.
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The difference between them is mainly philosophical (hence why debate can be so heated). OpenGL people believe in abstract 3D principles and grudgingly accept that you need some hardware-specific hacks to make it perform. Direct3D people believe in physical hardware, and grudgingly accept that you need some high-level abstractions in order to be productive.
Slightly unfair to Microsoft. Anyone who relies on Windows for anything important wants firing and banning from being involved in data acquisition ever again. It even tells you in the EULA.
javascript, I believe.

http://github.com/macek/google_pacman/tree/master/src/js
I think that the title used for this item makes a disservice to the initiative.

Also, I don't think people in HackerNews are interested on reading posts in spanish. That been said, I think the project is awesome. Good luck with it!
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Man, this Civilization thing just keeps collapsing all the time.

Like the title, the article too is a bit of a mess. I up voted it however because I agree that free will - to resist temptation that is - requires work and often hard work.

I must say however, could people please stop using the hunter - gatherers as our gods in which image we are made? These people lived thousands of years ago. Evolution does not just stop at some point - thousands of years ago that is. To illustrate the point, those three people that died, that is evolution, their genes were not passed, so their behaviour will occur less.

You see after we lived in caves, we started farming and after that we started to build big cities, and after that we managed to learn how to fly and able to write on here. I think that throughout those stages evolution has continued and whoever was or is not adapted to the environment will just die without leaving off springs and those off springs who are left behind will be better adapted to video games.
http://i.imgur.com/39U4k.png

This is an image representing an average-length human life; each box is one month.
I'm not sure what kind of top-secret lives some of these HN-ers are living, but I enjoyed sharing that my grandma has learned to IM me on Gmail, etc., and I don't think you care enough to read it. :-P

I think I might be likely to pay a yearly fee for this service. Beautiful design, too. Great job all around.
Why would computronium limit itself to a single planet or even a single solar system? There's plenty of matter that could be harnessed to perform ever more calculations.

If you estimate that life at our stage of development is relatively common, but notice the stars are silent, you should then conclude that humanity is doomed. Either we're doomed to destroy ourselves (like 100% of other life forms at our stage) or we're doomed to be stuck in one solar system.

Note: I don't want to spend a bunch of time explaining my view on this, but I think that intelligent life is so rare that we're the only instance of it in our light cone.
> How is that even relevant? Images cost in bandwidth, not in computing power.

Sounds like you need to do some STFU yourself, having clearly never come anywhere near this problem domain. Using standard tools to process and resize user-uploaded images can easily soak up all the CPU time and memory you could throw at it.

I recently spent a bunch of time rewriting a client's image processing pipeline fromt the usual O(n)-space ImageMagick crap that loads the full uncompressed image into memory a few times over to be O(1)-space doing streaming downsampling by exploiting the compression implementations of JPEG and PNG. It was more than worth it — even with the PNG implementation being a bit more CPU intensive now, it's a lot nicer having it operate in constant space without fear of swap and the OOM-killer.
I think rail doesn't get anywhere in the U.S because it makes it to easy for "undesirable elements" to get to places they're not wanted too easily. I think that's the incredibly sad but honest truth of it all.

The class differences in the United States are far more extreme than most people realize, mostly because people stay inside their tight little class bubbles all day long in their private cars, driving to work and back and rarely venturing out to get a latte every once in a while.
Closer to 4 hours, and American cities have rush hour twice a day 8 hours apart, and rush hour usually lasts 2-3 hours, and "no one drives in NYC, there's too much traffic" and we don't like passenger rail, so that explains all of that.

Right now I live 5 hours of driving away from the largest major city. Most of the American West is like that. 8 hours? I do that twice a month. People in built up areas on the East Coast see longer distances differently because a long distance actually gets you across three or four states, not less than one like it is out here.