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I've long known that CocaCola affects me differently than most people. For a long time, I thought it was the caffeine in it, but then I drank Mt Dew (with more caffeine) and didn't have the same problems.

Basically, it's really addictive to me. If I start drinking it, I'll feel the need to drink more and more until I'm drinking enough that it makes me physically ill each day... And I will just continue.

It took me a while to get off it, and other caffeinated drinks do not affect me in the same way.

I didn't realized, until now, that they still used an extract from the coca leaf. That seems like it's different from every other drink out there, and maybe that's why it affects me differently. Hopefully this knowledge can help strengthen my resolve to stay off of it.

It's really sad, too, because I love the flavor. I just can't handle it.
This is just another New York Times "bogus trend story". Why do people fall for this stuff?

https://www.google.com/search?q=bogus+trend+story
Attention to detail matters. Spending time looking at the code, and talking about (and explaining) your solutions matters.

If an engineer misses details and won't spend time looking for a more optimal solution on a white board, I wouldn't expect them to do it in the day-to-day work of their career either.
The door should have metallic arm-slots where people can push the door open using just their arms. People usually don't pee/poop on their arms, so it'd be and appear clean, while removing the need to use paper towels to open the door.
What utter nonsense. The Balfour Declaration was something between BRITAIN and a Zionist organisation (during WW1). How does BRITAIN have the right to give land to European Jews, when said land was the home of Palestinian Arabs, under the then sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire?

Simple answer, they didn't have that right. And the ONLY reason they were able to actually exercise it, was because the Arabs (whom they had double-crossed) were instrumental in defeating the Ottomans.
Isn't that just a psychological thing? I mean, if people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom they might be less likely to wash their hands in general, but they're still using other doors, kitchen appliances, papers and (depending on culture) you shake hands with them in the morning. There's no way to avoid that while not looking socially awkward, just wash your own hands more.

Also, don't you remove some of that bacteria left on the door handle by touching it yourself? The amount of bacteria on bathroom door handles should remain rather constant given that you take some away as you leave some of your own, also door handle not having favourable replication conditions for germs.
My experience was similar to yours. I interviewed at YouTube, and I was flown over from New Zealand for the interview. When I returned the next day, I got my generic rejection letter with Dear {Full Name}. While I got the general solutions to the 5 questions throughout the day correct; I struggled to code them on a whiteboard with someone watching me; I can never think well in those situations when solving problems, but I find that the optimal solution clicks to me when I'm in the shower or wake up in the middle of the night.

It would be good to get some feedback about how to improve and where you went wrong. It's pretty hard dealing with a generic rejection after flying for 14 hours to the other side of the world for an interview! If the rejection is because of technical skill, then I think they could figure that out from a few more phone interviews (although I guess a free trip to the US isn't too bad).

I don't think it's because of the university though. One of my friends from NZ got a job out there and he was from my university, which doesn't have a particularly high reputation for computer science. I think he just knew how to nail the technical questions under pressure, and is more interested in algorithms and low level stuff than me, perhaps.
Yes, but what's in it for them? Vitamin C synthesis uses a lot of energy. Patched microbes that mutated to stop making vitamin C would rapidly outcompete their ancestors.
This just sounds wrong to me.

The territories under question are not occupied, but disputed. Each side has legitimate claims to them, and their status can only be resolved through negotiations, which is what the sides themselves agreed to in the Oslo Accords [1].

Furthermore, by what is the claim that Israel smashes every attempt of Palestinian economic development supported? Over a decade, Israel ceded territory and control to the Palestinian government, aided in tax collection, and continues to supply electricity to the Gaza strip, a hostile territory from which missiles are routinely fired into Israeli population centers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
You couldn't just close your door, or lock it if it came to that? Though in any case simply having space where one can literally be alone is valuable.
This actually seems to paint a nice picture where everybody wins. Content producers win because DRM only needs to work for a short time. Everybody else wins because it can still be cracked in relatively short order.
Nearly every other mammal on the planet can make their own vitamin C. Aren't primates & guinea pigs the only exceptions?
Since when did hacker news became a source for politics? That is what the NY Times, Fox News,and CNN are for. Please don't let HN become one of those sites that entices hatred towards another country or a certain group of people. This post should be deleted as it has nothing to do with HN.
Civil Administration do speak and communicate important documents in Arabic. Likewise nomad tribes living there do understand Hebrew.

Unrelated, but their particular dialect (Rural Palestinian Arabic) still have some Hebrew substratum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Arabic#Influence_of...
I'm trying to make a pattern such that the dots always travel in one direction. Is it possible?
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Try being North African and mouth off to the police in the suburbs of Paris.

It is --- I assume this goes without saying, but this is HN and we're talking about the police so here goes --- much easier for the police in France to invasively search the people they detain, as well.
Making music with computers and Clojure - Sam Aaron at Clojure/conj
In heading to the restroom I know that I'll have the opportunity to wash my hands after, so the handle leading in is of little concern to me.

In my admittedly anecdotal experience, the rate of full grown adults who casually ignore the sinks after finishing up their business and leaving a stall seems to be disturbingly high. It just kinda gets my ick-factor going. Granted, I'm something of a germaphobe (I wash my hands many times/day) so I might just be more inclined to notice those who don't vs those who do--- regardless, I'll almost always save a paper towel or something to turn the door handle when possible.

Anyway, I don't think the lack of a trash can nearby excuses those who would dispose of it on the floor though. I just hold onto it until I find the next closest trash can outside the bathroom. That usually takes less than a minute, depending on where I am.
I hate the US agencies probably more than you, but don't you think it's a little disingenuous to blacklist the whole country over it? Or were you in favor of starving the Iraqi people with UN sanctions because of Saddam Hussein?

As an American, I'm totally against giving Israel any US support at all. Same goes for the Palestinians. Same goes for Pakistan and any other country - hell, even all the way up to the UN.

"Continental Europe and Brazil are the only reasonable places if you want to live in a civilized world."

You should contrast the behavior of the Israelis evicting Palestinians to the Brazilians evicting favela dwellers. Also, the destruction of vast swathes of rainforest to make room for urban developments. Might make for some cognitive dissonance for your example of a "civilized" country.
> With this trick the viewers are distracted enough to fail to realize that they've selected the same person with the continuation of same agenda every single time.

And what agenda is this?
Have you ever actually had a run-in with members of a gang? The idea that you'd equate incivility to gang behavior suggests that you probably haven't.

Incivility and even hostility is an unfortunate fact of life when dealing with urban police. You might just as productively complain about the weather. Or, if you're of a mind to see the other sides of issues, read a couple police blogs to get a feel for the shit city cops have to deal with.

They are, to be sure, authoritarians. The people that tend to post on HN, myself included, are not wired to be particularly tolerant of authoritarian behaviors. But they are not intrinsically bad people. They're doing an important and very difficult job, often under shockingly bad circumstances.

At the very least, try to remind yourself that when dealing with the police, you can get 1000x more power and control over the situation by being polite and (at least superficially) compliant than you can by being firm and unyielding. It is rare for people to be polite during police confrontations. Belligerent? All the time. Terrified? Sure. Calm and polite? Almost never. There's an exploitable vulnerability in police ability to handle calm, polite behavior.
Yuck. Wikipedia on the Middle East. I tried helping out with editing that area once and gave up in frustration. Lots of crazies on both sides, but I got the distinct impression that the pro-Israeli side was better organized, perhaps even funded. In any case, it looked to me like they were gaming WP for propaganda purposes (yes the other side was doing it too, but not in the same disciplined way) I'd never cite Wikipedia on anything controversial.
On the bright side, there are still plenty of very sharp people here, if you look in the right places.
Flagged. Not sure that he was arrested, it doesn't seem like such a nightmare and, unlike a recent article which was more relevant to YC-aspirants, it isn't really that relevant to HN. There would be countless stories on the net like this.
I love my coke here in Australia, and a few years ago Coke Zero came out promising 'Tastes just like regular coke!'. Tasted nothing at all like it.

Similarly, the cola wars never made sense here - Coke tasted far superior to Pepsi, how could there even be a competition?

Then I visited the US and only had access to the corn-syrup coke, which I'd never had before, as we have our own sugar industry. Tasted much more like Coke Zero - it seems we'd just imported the US advertising slogan there. And the cola wars made much more sense... well... not in themselves, just that they could have happened.
Interesting. I would like to point out, though, that The pathway for L-ascorbate (Vitamin C) synthesis is not trivial http://www.genome.jp/kegg-bin/show_pathway?map00053, but in first world countries, ingesting sufficient amounts of the vitamin is trivial.
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Personally the phone interview was much easier for me and I guess much lenient on any initially sub-optimal time complexity solutions, this doesn't mean you should relax though :). All the best for your interview.
Much of the zune visuals live on in the xbox and windows 8 as well. WhileMS had some terrible design in the past they seem to be entering a new phase where design is at the forefront.
Just like you can't give out the questions to us here on HN, Google won't give you the feedback!
Nokia (Microsoft) we have a problem
Step 2, unfortunately, is more likely to be "axe these useless dead-weight middle managers who waste resources on turf wars and lie out of their teeth to screw over everyone else" than some neat technology.
It's all just a play on the Zune desktop software. http://i.minus.com/iDQRFmra9Ayqs.PNG
I would assume so, just because I've never seen a shark eating a lime.
Two questions:

(1) Why do you think Israel should be obliged to supply electricity to a hostile territory, ruled by a government that explicitly states it's desire to destroy it [1], backed up with routine rocket fire into Israeli population centers?

(2) How exactly is Israel preventing the generation of electricity in Gaza?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant

EDIT: grammar correction
Agreed. I like this visually, but the title is misleading.

I don't see a new "UI Concept" here.
I wrote this! Sweet! It's from my email newsletter, http://dlewis.net/nik -- GOOD republished it w/my permission :) Love seeing it discussed here!
Hacking "Social Proof"
I didn't make it as far as you did, I just had a phone screen. I was quizzed a lot about how I would set up a server architecture (something I've never done before) so my answers were obviously a bit basic. Then I was given two algorithms to describe. One of them I knew and described okay, the other one I didn't really know at all and did poorly.

I wasn't asked about any of my previous experience at all. I never felt like I had a chance to show off any of my skills and it didn't seem like they had even read my resume.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800538
Having been on both sides, what the applicant often forgets is that you are being compared with the other candidates. It's not about reaching an absolute level. Maybe you were very good that day, but another candidate just was so amazing that she got the job. But you can't know, you just don't have enough information.
While I'm pretty sure you already know this, I doubt many people on this thread do:

The BD+ scheme that protects Blu-Ray disks was designed by very, very smart people (outside the content industry) to make it maximally easy to update the protection scheme, potentially on a title-by-title basis, without ever having to ship new players (and ideally never having to update player firmware).
No-one from the civilized world should go to the US, unless it's necessary, and then you just do your business and get out, and not wander around waiting for something to happen to you.

So critiquing the practices of US agencies...

That's hardly a critique...
Life is exactly what you make of it - For most people, this is a bad thing
Liskell is pretty much dead in the water. The site is still up but the code (in darcs repositories) is no longer accessible. Searching for another place to find the Liskell code lead me to this project.
http://earslap.com/projectslab/circuli?q=11811v6819v2052811_...
The Treaty of Sevres, which adopted the Balfour Declaration, was signed between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire, which, as you so pointed out, had sovereignty over the territory at the time.
You're making the same mistake as the author of the post -- thinking that the technology of today is the way it's always going to be, and that the ideas of the past are gone forever.

In fact, these things are cyclical. Mainframe->microprocessors->network computing servers. Floating-point emulation using integers on the CPU->External floating-point coprocessors->on-chip math coprocessors->external GPUs. Manipulating gigantic data sets on resources like Amazon S3 has many commonalities with classic tape storage (arguably more than it does with rotating disk storage -- retrieving a big object from S3 brings it in as a stream of data. Reading the whole glob and processing it as a stream is reasonably efficient but random access sucks. Sounds like a tape, no?). IEEE 754 isn't necessarily the last word in floating point arithmetic. I can go on and on... :-)
This article seems to imply that you can never change people's behavior by law (i.e. like posting a sign on a door saying not to throw towels on the floor) because people will always do whatever they want. I don't think I agree with that--I think the quesiton is to what extent are entities willing to impose penalties and enforce the law to sufficiently change people's behavior. For example, obviously if the company in the hypothetical hired a guy to sit in the bathroom to make sure that people threw paper towels in the trash can and then fired people who disobeyed, far fewer people who throw paper towels on the floor.

So, the issue as related to piracy is not necessary that people would never change their behavior, its just that the cost of monitoring behavior and enforcing currently existing law/creating new law to effect such a behavioral change ("don't pirate stuff") is extraordinarily high. Right now, the strategy of the media industry appears to be to spend money under the presumption that the amount of money they spend enforcing/lobbying/trying to pass laws to prevent piracy makes economic sense: they will gain/save more money than they spend. This seems unlikely, but probably people have punched the numbers for these companies and concluded that this is the case. The radical alternative approach is to completely rethink the distribution and pricing scheme, and focus less on margins but more on quantity--distribute the content to as many people as possible, but make fewer $/product. To impose that would require either some fairly revolutionary thinking in companies that have repeatedly shown a hesitancy to innovate (and would require them to abandon a strategy now that still makes hefty profits), or to make media companies hurt to such an extent that they have no alternative (which, right now, does not appear to be happening).
Is the process to convert glucose into Vitamin C understood? Would it require something that could be seen as a tradeoff in our case?
Dude, it's OK that you 're an extrovert, take it easy.
good rough process:

1. what is something that sucks?

2. how would you improve it?

3. bonus: how can you monetize that?
I really identify with those first two paragraphs. Leaves me with a huge list of ideas and an incredulous reaction when someone talks about not being able to come up with an idea. I only wish I had just one on which to concentrate.
In other places, such as the UK (the dialect of which French students are taught), "high" means "drunk".
That doesn't really seem applicable. Google is more than big enough that they can hire both people if they are both good unless you're applying for a particularly specialized role which it didn't sound like was the case here.
I guess, to the extent you're right that police should be held to a standard of "unfailingly professional while issuing open container tickets to drunk people who are taunting them". We also obviously don't have the full story. His friends apparently were arrested. Arrest is a big deal; it takes cops off their beat or patrol for an hour or two. What did his friends do to make the situation worse?

Open container enforcement is a quality-of-life issue. Tourists and bros won't appreciate it, but you should be aware that in many places, the residents not only do appreciate it, but get angry if it doesn't happen. I'd be pissed if people were wandering up and down my street drinking in the middle of the night.

Finally: with regards to "making excuses", you should get over it. Getting mad at the police for being assholes isn't going to get you anywhere. You can be "message-board-correct" about this all you want, but there is zero power to be had in standing up for your right not to be verbally abused by the police. You are the least of anyone in the NYPD's problems. There is, on the other hand, tremendous power to be had in being able to come back at abusive behavior with calmness, politeness, and appropriate compliance (don't consent to searches).
Could Google ban this app from the Market? I mean even if they change their policy to say that, would it be legal for them to ban it? I suppose if Apple can ban political satire...
Well if that is what they expect, then they should make it clear. Something like don't say you are finished till you have verified your solution. They didn't.

"If an engineer misses details and won't spend time looking for a more optimal solution on a white board, I wouldn't expect them to do it in the day-to-day work of their career either."

What a foolish generalization. This is exactly the kind of attitude that I don't like. Just because someone starts with a sub-optimal solution doesn't mean he can't/won't improve it. Also my approach was to start with a sub-optimal solution so that we have a foundation to build on, which I think is much better then spending your entire interviewing time thinking up a dynamic programming algorithm and leave a blank board at the end.

Optimizing a solution is an art, and can take varying amount of time, and sometimes even your sub-optimal solution might be better than a more complicated optimal solution.
I'm going to recommend watching Cool Hand Luke. While many folks love being rebels as they are youngsters, there is a cost to being "cool".
"Illusion of control". It's more a way to tell the user that the photographer doesn't want it to be shared than an actual control.
Why do you always defend/rationalize your government's or police force's bad behaviour?

Surely you can't think the police officers' behaviour in this case was impeccable? Not the least bit rude or authoritarian?
The interesting part is that I found this paper (actually a list of references: http://kruhft.dyndns.org/item?id=151) through reading the the editor-people newsgroup/mailing list circa 1981 (through nntp://nntp.olduse.net). Its quite a lively discussion about editors, lisp and human computer interfacing in the days of ed with the new up and comers vi and emacs expanding the horizons of state of the art editing software.
This is incredible.

Says more about what people should do to grow their network than countless books have by so called "experts".
Apparently, Pinboard copies the actual image to their servers and serves from there. Barring fair use or a license, it's copyright infringement.
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The point is a good one though - has nothing to do with extroversion VS. introversion.

Being a connector is about adding value selflessly. Thinking of others first, and yourself second.

I would argue that at the root of all true connectors is a deep sense of altruism.
Whenever someone mentions that they want to learn Vim, I send them this tutorial. It's the only one none of them have ever complained about. And from first-hand experience it's as useful for intermediate users as it is for beginners.
Copyright does apply (but only because they copy the image - even if a scaled version - to their servers and serve from there). Whether it should is a different issue.
I love visual design exercises like this, but it's one thing to throw it out there and a completely separate (10000x harder) feat to actually have this implemented. If you usability test this interface, it's going to fail all over the place. Remember, Windows is probably the only piece of software with EVERY SINGLE segment of users.

http://cdn.robszumski.com/share/file-copy.png
The file copy window that's tacked on to the explorer window contains way too much information. A skilled but non-technical user is going to see "164 MB/s" and "72%". Where's the time left? You have to remember, people don't read -- at all, ever.

"Hey user, how do you tell when this is done?" "Funny you mention that, I never have any idea. I know that the percent is there in the squiggly bar, but what does that mean? Each week my podcasts seem to take different amounts of time to copy, but I never really know."

http://cdn.robszumski.com/share/copy-worst-case.png
"Sometimes I can't even read the number because the line goes straight through it." Obviously this could be designed in a much better way, but when you look at these perfect screenshots it's impossible to see how it would act. This is where designers make their money for the company.

There are a lot of people in the comments of the article saying the author should be hired by Microsoft. I don't think that's going to happen.