skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, that is the major thing that it is lacking. Agreed that iTunes accounts are magic dust that nobody else can touch (not even Amazon). Also, it's not installed on just about every Mac on the planet, that's a big one too.
Very hacker like, I was excited about the pilot of his show, Trial by Fire, that ran a year ago but unfortunately it didn't catch on so it never went beyond the pilot episode.

The approach of looking at an end result, deconstructing it and then rebuilding from scratch (even with a few shortcuts to expedite the process) is a great way to reverse engineer a product, behavior or as shown in the pilot, a new skill.

The trailer for Trial by Fire if you missed it last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09_YaUw9Rm8
No you say that you would like to look at the piece before you can decide on a price. And then you meet and then you price it.

If you take a look at any rural population, you'll see that every price is negotiable.
Oh, I understand that. I just remembered some childhood experiences.

But while I certainly do not want to move back in with my parents and let them tell me what to do, I'm doing some things now that they tried to teach me when I was young and I thought those things to be stupid at that time.
It's not necessarily a contradiction. Example: we used to get regular doses of minerals from our water supply. Today, we largely filter these minerals to make "hard" water "soft."

Doing what our ancestors did ≠ ingesting what our ancestors ingested. Supplementation can close these sorts of gaps.
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How about Links at http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/ and HOP at www.hop.inria.fr in the tierless category. Also, why isn't there a tierless JS since we can already run JS on the client and server side? I asked this question here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2068395
"You will begin to get the (objectively) best candidates"

If "it's [everyone's] job to say no-hire" when they're "not sure" about a candidate, I'd like to know what is done to avoid systemic bias in hiring decisions.

Anyone here from FB able to comment? How diverse is the work force, especially compared to applicants?
I've only noticed this past the new year. Perhaps some of the "learnt" filtering has an expiry of some sort?
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I think the reason for the ESP is that people can decide to stop while they are ahead. The only legit way to do it would be to present a predetermined number of pictures and throw out the results if the entire sequence is not finished.

This is the same problem as testing for statistical significance too early.
They aren't mature because they are taking external funding rather than funding growth from profits.
Portrait of the Gamer as Enemy (another reason creators should avoid their fans)
That 2GHz dual-core processor must do a number on battery life
Think about it this way: you want someone to design a website for you so you go off and find someone to do it. Now, you don't know how to program, don't really know anything about computers aside from how to perform a few functions (certainly nothing about how they actually work), and don't really have a professional frame of reference for evaluating the developers skill level.

This is basically what you have to deal with with doctors. There are doctors who are very, very good and doctors who are just barely bright enough to continue to practice. The major problem is how you distinguish between the two or, in other terms, how do you find a good programmer if you don't really know anything about programming? Honestly, I don't have an easily cut-and-dried answer. I generally rely on my family (a large subset of my family are highly skilled physicians) to use their professional expertise and circles to find a very highly respected physician in the area. Similarly, I generally help in evaluating technical issues for them.
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Would love to hear what the HN community thinks about the concept. Thanks!
The example "bloodletting as a life-extension strategy" refers to donating blood. In this section of the book (one page), Ferris references Drs. Eades who make the same recommendation.

At that point, it becomes a matter of different writing styles for different audiences. Ferris writes short sections, as if the book contains hundreds of blog posts, while Drs. Eades' books are more scientific and verbose.

The section on the Philips goLITE is the same way. Ferris spends 200 words telling us how he uses it and why. In his book, The Vitamin D Solution, Dr. Michael Holick spends pages covering the same material,

Is it really "ridiculous" to make this information available to the public in different formats so people can choose the one that fits best with their reading style? It seems perfectly reasonable that some people just want a list of "try these things" while others will want to do extensive research.
I think you're both in agreement. I believe the point about tools was not to enshrine any particular tool, but rather, to create a culture where internal tools are viewed as being the most important technical contribution.

This is backwards from many technology companies where internal tooling is often given a lower priority and the work assigned to less skilled engineers. This is often done with noble intent, like to try to create the best value possible for customers via improving customer facing features. But I think that proves a short term strategy rather than focusing on enabling your organization as a whole. You'd be surprised how many resources become free for feature work when your tools and infrastructure are so good that you don't wast effort on what could be automated or prevented.
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Perhaps it's just word definitions you and the author are disagreeing on.

Making the organization more efficient is a big win, we can probably all agree. Making the people more efficient through improved systems is a big win, we can probably all agree. Letting the people who perform the process figure out how to make it better is a vitally important part of that, though, as you point out.

But making tools and systems improvement a priority doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to elevate the systems to the point that they become sacred cows even when they get in the way of getting things done.
That's not something any revolution I have ever heard about has been started over, so while it's bad, in this context it doesn't matter.
Usually when you put a word in quotes, you are quoting something. I didn't use the word 'code' at all.
The foods our ancestors ate don't exactly exist anymore. Animals are smaller and we eat fewer wild ones. Fruit is sweeter. I'm not big into supplements, but I do recognize it's hard to get the right nutrients even eating paleo.
What do you mean?

Somebody read about an experiment with surprising results, found out that it would be possible to turn the experiment into a website and did just that. I think that’s great.
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Sorry, I didn't get the email, just read the FAQ.
you can do it with seeks...
http://www.seeks-project.info/
http://www.seeks.fr/

on your local machine and/or remote server... and it's free software.

blekko ? try this query, http://blekko.com/ws/?q=debian
duh ?
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His thoughts on internal tools and support are very insightful. It's why I am typically sad when a company outsources its support.

When a company does its own support with internal personnel, it has a vested interest in making the customers happy and also serving them as efficiently as possible.

When a company outsources its technical support, there is no real incentive for the outsource partner to let the company know how the processes and tools can be improved and automated. In fact, quite the opposite. If doubling the business means double the support costs, that works out great for the outsourcing partner.

Perhaps it's still possible to outsource the support work, but still care deeply about the details of how that work is done, and how the process can be improved/automated with systems. I haven't seen it work that way, however.
I think there's a lot of quality in your comment, but I think you're making a whole bunch of broad, generalized assumptions about the state of the entire SO community.

Yeah, it's really hard to analyze the communities/applications that have sprung up on the Internet. A generality is a view of giant table - it's won't tell you everything but it's better than nothing. When an internet community gets seriously big, it can be highly functional and highly disfunctional at the same time.

Among other things, SO's current quality probably varies a lot depending on the language you use. I went from using Ruby to using Matlab and finally back to using c++ in the time I was writing about. That might have biased the sample I had of the infinite dimensional SO-space. SO/Ruby might be great still for all I know.
Clearly from the letter your respecting his decision is of little consequence. He wrote the letter so that you might understand him, not so that you would approve.

As for finding a reason where he is wrong, I'd say his dismissal of the counseling community was a bit swift because I know the difference between a good therapist and a bad therapist; but really that's beside the point.

The bottom line isn't about the acceptance of some "objective" truth. The only thing that would have mattered is if you could have guaranteed to Bill that there was a way for him to fix the problem and feel better. If there wasn't a way, then it's cruel of you to think he should have forced himself to endure a tortured existence just because you have an axiomatic objection to suicide. The truth is no one can say for sure whether there was a better solution for Bill, but since he spent 23 years dealing with it and wrote a pretty compelling piece, I'm gonna take his word over yours.
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If the disseminating body were to uniquely sort the list of bullet points for every recipient, one could perhaps determine the source of the leak.

Strangely, I don't see this mentioned as a suggestion in this document.

I suppose this could also work if one were to programmatically insert typos or synonyms to act as unique watermarks.
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/09/24/buffett_i...
Why do you have a problem with them? They made money and now they hack word poverty. What's wrong with that?
Amazon recently added this. I just published a book, which is why I noticed.

You can see "Amazon Verified Purchase" on this review, under the name: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3VSS8V2NFX1NB/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...
I'm not sure why this comment got so many up votes when I can't even begin to see this book as any sort of con.

Ferris released free content (at least two blog posts) that garnered a ton of responses, followers, etc. He built on that to make this book. In regards to the book, he makes the table of contents and a sample chapter freely available. Want to know if this book is for you? Read the table of contents, read the blog posts that came before the book and read the sample chapter. That should clearly let you know if this book is worth your $15 because it's just hundreds of pages of the same. I honestly cannot name one other advice book that's given me such a preview before I bought it.

On top of that, with the low price point and pre-order give aways, I actually saved money on other things I had planned to buy because Ferris gave them to me for free with a pre-order.
I think you're right about the options not seeming real, but I don't know if the reason is primarily risk aversion. I think the majority of CS graduates just don't realise it is an option.

In my university, the big software houses all do serious recruiting on campus. The cream of the crop are generally offered jobs before they graduate (some are also hand picked by the faculty for postgraduate research). The careers office goes out of its way to try and ensure a seamless transition between school and work. In that sort of environment, somebody wishing to work for a startup would have to consciously reject the idea of working for Google/microsoft/IBM/whatever and actively seek something else (and you won't come across most startup jobs on Monster).

I think it boils down to the job offerings being good enough. Microsoft, for example, offer a fancy graduate program with a lot of travelling to interesting places where they certify you in all their main technologies. That training is supposed to seem like an extension of the college life, except it pays well. And its being offered to you before you sit your finals. Just about everybody you know thinks it's a great opportunity. Why go digging for hard to find jobs in companies that might not even exist tomorrow? (Rhetorical!)

Then again, my university is in Dublin, where we have a real shortage of programming talent, a few big name computing companies and almost no startup culture whatsoever. YMMV.
Way to go man, I'm happy for you. but...

Sorry if I don't understand, and I don't mean to sound condescending - but apparently I pay you $15 for:
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<img src="<%=twitter_img('myName')%>">
</a>

or am I missing something?
Hmm. The handful of times I tried it I always got a smaller number for the girls than the boys. Just goes to show sample size is important... :)
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As for the second statement, if doctors aren't up to date on the research about any given condition, then it shouldn't be that difficult to learn more about your doctor about any given condition. Almost all of the academic research in medicine is written for a lay audience, unlike in physics or continental philosophy where you really can't understand it unless you're an expert. Plus there are tons of other resources to help you make sense of the research, everything from wikipedia to academic search engines that show you which papers are cited by which other papers.

Heh OK why don't I make you a deal: you read this paper[1], tell me what it studies and what the consequences are, and then I'll forward your response to my father and he can tell you all the things you got wrong.

If there's one thing I've learned reading papers it's that the way the author phrases things or what the author conspicuously leaves out is worth just as much as what's there. Even in my domain area I'm nowhere near qualified to judge academic papers as an expert.

[1] http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/21/6/1203.abstract
I would suggest figuring out what you want to code as a starting point. For example, if you want to build a web start up it might be better to focus on articles in that community as opposed to say articles on how to code better in C or for windows application.

Next, there are lots of articles out there on how to be a better programmer, I imagine its a combination of working on your own things, talking to other programmers who are smart, and reading about some of the people out there who have put time into figuring out what this means -- Joel Spolsky comes to mind.

Of course with anything practice makes perfect, so that's a must. After you've decided on some philosophies, maybe you could work on a few apps every month until you accomplish your goal of 'stepping up.'
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I'm curious if he has a 4-Hour hack for curing his male pattern baldness.
If you are still afraid of crossing some sort of invisible line where your doctor/counselor is required to report you, then I would suggest that you research that a bit so that you know where that line is yourself. Then you can evaluate whether or not you think that you'll be able to fully open up without worrying about crossing that line. It may be worth the time/effort that you put into the research.
I also had three years of electical/electronics in college before I started programming. I have been a java developer for eleven years and just recently started programming in groovy. Both of these are native to the jvm and have extensive apis for client and web programming. The grails framework which harnesses the power of groovy, spring framework, and hibernate is like rails in concept but it is its own. If I didn't know these languages, this would be my next move.
Does anyone know if non-googlers can work on Gmail apps/plug ins? I have some cool ideas that would benefit a lot of people in their daily email writing.
You're not missing anything, this is "The Million Dollar Homepage" all over again.

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
This is a great idea and the execution is just short of perfect. Two complaints:
1. The app icons load very slowly, I have to sit there for a minute sometime and wait for the placeholder icons to go away. The icon is the first impression users have with apps, they should always load first. If downloading little icons takes a long time, how's the bodega going to handle serving me a 100mb fart app?
2. The apps don't have the prices marked next to their icons on any of the main screens. Show me the money.

Yes I made a Jerry Maguire reference.
It predates their business.
No, he then tried to use a $100 adwords giftcard and got rejected...then he declared G eval.
Considering the weight has not returned and
I've drastically increased my physical fitness in the process, with an overall 100lbs over a longer term?

Yes. On a statistical and personal level, I am happy with my performance. I didn't think I had it in me, to be brutally honest.
Very true. He knows this too well. Why he tested the top searched content. Brilliant from a marketing perspective, saying nothing about substance.
So, have you seen this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
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In Australia for a number of years -- the largest mega-church Hillsong would have the nationwide no. 1 CD for one week every year.
Essentially -- they had a massive conference and launched a new cd there. The sales where enough to top the charts. Just to be clear -- this is the overall charts - not just the religious ones.
No, he isn't. Tools need to be a high priority, or else they end up being crap. Amazon, Disney, Northrup Grumman, SAIC... all of the big companies I've worked for had the same problem: their tools were terrible.

At most of them it just meant that HR ended up wasting time dealing with crappy tools, which is no big loss, since HR is a usually a waste of oxygen anyway. At Disney and Amazon, it meant that the people producing consumer-facing content wasted a lot of time fighting the tools that were supposed to enable their jobs, and a lot of developers had to waste a lot of time supporting the tools that weren't doing their job.

For example, just two and a half years ago, one of the buyers at Amazon showed me how she set up the relationships so that when you look at an iPod, you get a collection of compatible accessories. She had to create relationships for EVERY permutation between each accessory and for each accessory to the iPod. By hand. In a spreadsheet (Excel, I think.) Then she uploaded it to the site, and every once in a while a relationship would mysteriously fail, because of another relationship managed in another tool that she had no access to conflicted with it.
You are more likely to quit after finding porn. That is the trick.

It is reminiscent of the Martingale gambling strategy.
The clunkiness of the iOS store has to play at least a part. Compared to using a music player on your computer, Cydia is a pretty user-friendly and elegant way to install applications.
Possibly just a marketing tactic for starting more conversations on the book.
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According to its website, Caterpillar has 63 dealers within the US. For these facilities, the company prints a quarterly publication, highlighting “amazing"
I would suggest measuring the work hours you have in a day, and understand at 9 pm you have to start thinking about going to sleep, and getting tired. It's hard to jump from active to sleep, you'll fail. So learn to push yourself to stop at take it easier gradually. By 10 PM, maybe you start actually winding down more. With practice you can probably get to bed quickly, and take advantage of your work hours during the day. Try practicing this regimen for a while and you'll get into the habit of ending your day, not working til exhaustion. In fact you probably functioned that way before you worked too hard =)
They're not passing the "best refrigerator" test yet:

http://blekko.com/ws/best+refrigerator
Honestly, I'm beginning to wonder if it is actually an experiment in the extent to which the scientific community will accept or at least consider ludicrous claims because they come from an authority figure.

EDIT: And I'm not saying that these claims shouldn't be tested. But it would be interesting to see the way people react. Hesitation, for example.
If you'd call that an "idea".
It was hilarious, especially the puppy enthusiasm statement.
Needs a better logo. Might I suggest a nice white tree?
I'm going to try RoR, I hear it is a lot of fun, and as a programmer I want to have fun with my work :)
> What do you base this on? Wishful thinking about the capability of modern medicine?

It could be a personal belief, just like your belief that "he is free of this demons forever" or the fact that he somehow "found peace". I don't see anything wrong with someone believing that suicide is never a good solution.

> It annoys me that so many people will take a person who finally found peace from a life of intolerable pain.

There is something about that statement that is bothering me and again, it is just probably because it clashes against my belief on life, death, etc. matters (so don't take this as a valid reasonable disagreement, just another point of view). The idea that somehow "he" is better now. I emphasize "he" because somehow it implies his continued existence, and that is quite strange. What if "he" doesn't exist anymore so there is nobody to feel at peace?

Does that mean that I would have preferred for him to still be alive and be suffering? Would have that been a better way? I don't think so either, so I am just another confused person.

I guess the best scenario would have been been if he sent out what he sent out but he didn't actually kill himself.

Perhaps naively, I believe that would have helped him, it would have let others know about his problem, and others , maybe even strangers like us, discussing his actions here, could have shared our stories or tried to do something to help.
And fortunately counselors and doctors are humans as well, and you can find ones that will care personally about you. In this case "friend" is a loaded term, because of course it is true that you are paying for professional services, but on the other hand, friendship is not exactly a well-defined term, and there are some pretty tenuous and abusive reasons underlying a lot of real friendships.

I've had a couple really good counselors, and the sense of trust and genuine caring is actually better than with most friends. Part of it is that there are no social dynamics to worry about within a group of friends, and another is that this person is a professional who has a much greater chance of having the tools and experience to deal with what are very difficult and private issues.

Now my issues were not with trust, so I'm not trying to say that trust is easy. All I'm saying is that there are counselors out there who are worthy of your trust.
Did you try adding /reviews ? Sometimes we can deliver better results without the user doing anything different from what they're used to doing, but not always.