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The problem with making the "training wheels" optional, is people will leave them off. All of a sudden your code is not useful or readable to anyone unfamiliar with your code. Even yourself. Sure you might know what the parameters in `ellipse 60 50 50 100` do right now, but what if you haven't worked on drawing code for 6 months?

It seems to me like what he's talking about is less a bicycle with training wheels than it is a self-balancing segway. A bicycle with training wheels is annoying to anyone but a beginner... what he's talking about is something that isn't annoying to a pro... even if they don't lean on it as much.
> interactive UX, which to be clear, Smalltalk environments never really had

Smalltalk had an interactive UX in 1986 or so when I used it first for some CAD stuff. Or is there a special definition of 'interactive UX' which would rule out what smalltalk offered back then?
Just to further overload the name, here's a paper making a case for calorie restriction / fasting to be thought of as a form of "benevolent diabetes":

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/06/benevolent-diabet...

Calorie restriction (CR), which deactivates the nutrient-sensing mTOR pathway, slows down aging and prevents age-related diseases such as type II diabetes. Compared with CR, rapamycin more efficiently inhibits mTOR. Noteworthy, severe CR and starvation cause a reversible condition known as "starvation diabetes" [and] chronic administration of rapamycin can cause a similar condition in some animal models. ... Here I introduce the notion of benevolent diabetes and discuss whether starvation-like effects of chronic high dose treatment with rapamycin are an obstacle for its use as an anti-aging drug.
Earn my reply next time.
The one big issue I see is lack of a small concrete goal.

> Like a blog that allows publishing of content of any size or type (long-form, mirco-updates, videos & photos using oembed, links, quotes) via a single textarea.

Take any one of those things, and you can find entire sites devoted to just that.

A picture is worth a thousand words - so a mockup of the screen layout would be helpful to envisioning this product.
Right, which contradicts the title of the article.
And what's to be said of perfectly healthy, fit elderly people getting it? Is it like genetic high cholesterol, where you would never guess the person is a ticking time bomb?
Your first point is something covered in the article. When you evaluate a candidate's social skills, you really end up evaluating whether they're a good "cultural fit" or not, which usually means you aren't hiring a very diverse team. Wouldn't want things to be too awkward around the office by hiring someone too different.

Investing time in learning a completely different stack for every job you apply for seems like a very inefficient use of time, especially when it could take you weeks to get a really good grasp on the nuances of a particular stack, but it only takes about a second for an employer to drop you from consideration.

It's "possible" to be upwardly mobile, particularly in the tech field, nowadays, but it takes a certain personality type to do so. Upward mobility for driven, workaholic, A-type personalities is a pretty narrow path to success though, especially when even those personality types, given certain life circumstances, are extremely constrained in how much they are able to accomplish. So much for the meritocracy; capability counts for a lot less than the resources one already has available.
Says he in a thread about wifi problems? I'm regretting upgrading and not because of the maps. My work wifi has become completely unreliable.
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Scientific Reproducibility: Begley’s Six Rules
What matters is the ratio of reads per write. Blogs with multiple authors have a higher ratio than blogs with single authors.
You bought them and sent them to your CoinBase wallet, or did you actually buy them from CoinBase? (I didn't think that had started selling coins themselves yet.)
This article is barely readable.

The block quotes throughout don't make sense. They are extremely confusing. Further, not only does the article NOT describe strategies contrary to those "wandering on the internet," it trots out trite platitudes as though they're new and interesting. Bits like "So be an adult, and show your interest." aren't merely juvenile and shallow, they're also obvious and unhelpful.

How did this make it to the front page?
You're being pedantic about the definition of culture. Many companies "cultures" are held together by a single personality, or a select few. When that person or people leaves (or stop beating the drum), the "culture" dies.

GitHub - much like the tool chain it's built around - has done a remarkable job of decentralizing culture. Far better than most companies of any scale, even ones much smaller than it.

You seem to have read past the connection between their goal as a company - which is easy to say but hard to practice consistently, otherwise more companies would succeed at building a culture that attracts an retains like GitHub does.
Most of the workers in Ancient Rome were slaves, motivated with whips.
Damn that animation looks fluid!

I don't have an iPhone so I can't check it out - just thought I'd offer some encouragement

Also are you planning to make an API around the handwriting engine?
Bitcoin services are unique in the fact that it is very easy to send the money to yourself, be in your control, with out having it be attached to you identity in anyway. This seems unique to me, if there are other cyber crimes that make this just as easy I am interested in hearing about them.
Security alert: phpMyAdmin backdoor found in source on authorized mirror
Prior to there being a transcription in the comment, there was an offer to do the transcription.
Myspace’s iLike Rises From The Dead To Block An Apple Trademark Request
I understand the motivation for this kind of stuff, and it's neat, but I'm wary of it because of the additional complexity it introduces for a relatively small benefit.

I may be misleading myself, but it's rare (on a desktop browser, at least) that it's the page rendering time that I really notice: far more significant is usually the latency, or the time taken to transfer the significant proportion of a megabyte of HTML that's smothering a few kilobytes of text.

On the downside, it replaces something that just works with something that ... mostly just works. See elsewhere on this page: "Loads blank white screens in firefox 15" / "This is now fixed". And that's the problem: you've replaced something that works in every browser with something that you have to (or someone has to) test in every browser, and whose failure modes must all be handled. What happens when you click on a "turbolink" on an overloaded server, for example? My experience so far has been that this kind of enhanced link is usually faster, but the probability of nothing happening in response to a click is not insignificant.

I'm aware that I probably sound like an old grouch.
"Aspect Oriented Programming"
It always irks me when someone refers to a "shortage" of potential employees. There is no such thing as a shortage in a free market, by definition. No external force is artificially constraining the supply of engineers or the wages that employers are allowed to pay them. Thus there is no shortage. QED.

Sometimes recruiters and employers use the word "shortage" as a code to indicate that they can't find highly qualified employees who will do excellent work for low wages. But that's just a mismatch in expectations, not a true shortage. I've done a lot of hiring over the past few years and have always been able to find the engineers I need.

Despite that flaw it's a good article with some helpful insights. Although it kind of comes across as a bit of a PR puff piece and advertisement for that particular recruiter's services.
We just need to design better IDEs and languages. Ya, large code bases suck but not that much. We can actually compile code pretty quickly, and we are only just beginning to study memoization techniques (which you are alluding to at the end of your post). Also, language is a very big deal: you can't really expect as much from the IDE on C++ as you can from C#.

It can scale, we have plenty of smart people to make it scale. The important problem here is "scale what?" I think that is the genius of Bret Victor's innovations.
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LibreOffice. It's old-school local app though, not cloud.

There are several other Free Software tools that will provide spreadsheet compatibility, Gnumeric being among my favorite. Also the KDE office suite, KOffice.
While I agree, the problem lies, as in most cases, with our education system in this country. The general public has proven time and time again to have a very tenuous grasp of mathematics.
I'm only implementing textual content at the moment (long-form and micro-updates). Think about the textarea like Facebook's status update box: You usually add text, but if you add a link it figures out if it's a video, etc. Think even Twitter's web interface does this now.

Note to self: Finish mocks ASAP.
That isn't fair. Khan implemented a working system, compared to a vague idea.
Once i get some more immediate concerns taken care of and out of the way, i want to start doing some rent-a-coder type stuff. I'm not really eager to interview for any full-time jobs anywhere anytime soon though. You can only receive so many rejections before it takes a big psychological toll. I'm not really eager to be back in the place i was mentally when i was actively searching for work and meeting with constant disappointment.
Yeah, I know about trackback (and trackback spam).

Nelson's version didn't require any special stuff, though. His idea of the hyperlink was bidirectional by default. He also had a scheme that would let you "transclude" text from other documents. This was different from quoting, in that the transcluded text was live (i.e., when the original source changed, the transcluded text in the other document would also change).
Well there isn't a current focus because I feel that you never know what new genre of music you could discover and fall in love with. If there is a need for a specific genre, then it could happen. I am trying to keep this as down to earth and lively as possible, so any recommendations are appreciated!
"Believe it or not, the interviewer cannot care less about your extensive knowledge about the company. She simply does not give a damn about it."

As someone who has interviewed many people, I strongly disagree. I've interviewed people who admitted (somewhat tactfully) that they didn't really know what the company was or what we did. It demonstrates either that they don't know how to do the most basic research, or that they really don't care. Either way, not a good sign.

He even seems to admit this later on, but in other contexts: "So be an adult, and show your interest", and: "The interviewer will appreciate the time and effort you’ve taken, because by conveying a well-prepared answer you’re also showing respect to the interviewer’s time."

Bingo!

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone, because I know of cases where we had a recruiter/HR select an otherwise unremarkable resume from the pile for us, when it had a cover letter that mentioned our office in-jokes (which were on our company blog). That shows that you care, and that is perhaps the single most important attribute I'm looking for in a candidate.
It's interesting to me the awareness Munroe has about creativity, inspiration, and working environment. He sees that some things are purely distractions (E.G. Reddit, cleaning the bathroom floor) while no distraction (E.G. a room with blank walls) is detrimental to his creative process.
I see. I think we can implement an event submission form, that should take care of your use case.

Yes, there are several ways we can go about monetization. But I think at this point our focus is on content quality and user experience.
Ask HN: How do you keep the best talent?
I've seen a number of posts here and elsewhere on recruiting top developers, but it seems one of the great challenges of building a strong dev team is keeping talent.

For anyone who is running a team (or has), what have you done to keep talent?

For everyone else, what entices you to leave and what can be done to keep you on board?
You could also link to your website in your user summary, and have it easily accessible for tangential conversations.
I wouldn't necessarily pinpoint the Javascript community, but yes, I would agree that there does seem to be an awful lot of really young and frankly inexperienced developers who seem to have ridiculous delusions of grandeur and are completely ignorant of the rich history of brilliant and accomplished people who have explored the problem spaces they are also exploring.

I blame the whole Silicon Valley "10x hacker" mentality. There's a whole lot of young and frankly pretty mediocre developers strutting around thinking that because they (a) live in the valley and (b) built shittytodoapp.io they're at the same level as Knuth.
Tent is a work in progress.
bush is mentioned in mirowski's "machine dreams", and it's not very complementary. that book is one of my favourites, but it's a post-modern, opinionated, soft-science (he's a history / philosophy / economics guy) take on post-war economics (and a whole pile of surrounding subjects). i suspect most people will hate the book as much as i love it, but you might be interested (perhaps you can find a library copy to check out....)
Odd, I thought one of the main reasons they bought Quickoffice was the deep knowlege these guys must've had of .DOC, .XLS etc
"Or do you really think these users will care if the ads come from Doubleclick or MegaAds?"

Most won't, which is why my point was never about the end user anyway. I think the website owner whose ads are being replaced should be part of the equation, others don't. It's a matter of ethics, perspective and where they intersect for you.
Oh yeah you are right, my mistake!
Have you tried Open/LibreOffice? I also find the latest versions of office too flashy, and the open-source alternatives much smaller and simpler.
When Go was announced it had a spec, a significantly larger standard library than Rust, two compilers (and a parser in the standard library), and much, much better documentation. While the language had changed until the Go 1 release from a few months ago, it had changed less in two years than Rust changed in a few months. Go also introduced a tool that would automatically rewrite your old code to adapt to the new language changes.
in the short term, We will include a facebook share button soon so your friends will know about your interests and have conversations about them.
The bold text looks blurry, very confusing.
I signed up - A few thoughts:

* Get rid of the FB like counter unless you can inflate it. It looks like a ghost town.

* Music is one of the most polarizing items in existence. Use that. Something like 'once you sign up, you can add a song to our list'.

* Sign up page looks good. The footer could be moved to the bottom of the page, but no biggie.

Good luck!
Bought them elsewhere - a friend of mine who started a local BitCoin drink-up did the buying for me.

http://www.meetup.com/BitCoin-Drinkup/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZRAvsZf1g
wow what a douchebag response. Its not this guys fault that he has hearing problems. Its a valid comment to make. The guy said he wished there were subtitles because he cannot hear whats being said and that he feels that people who don't add subtitles are missing out on a much larger audience. This doesn't sound ungrateful to me at all but a valid observation.

Can't you be grateful that the author shared something of value

Why should someone be grateful for content they cannot consume?

Should they give up on sharing it, because they do not have the time to invest in making it better?

He never said they shouldn't share it at all, he only said he wished they would add subtitles. Nowhere did he say "if they don't add subtitles, you know what, fuck it, they shouldn't share the video at all".
If Word 97 does everything that you need (and why wouldn't it?) why do you care what Google Docs does and does not support?
I know. As I said, Nessus can and is used to attack third-party servers, but it's not considered malware, and it's in fact a commercial product openly used by companies and governments (like the US gov).

I've never seen a definition of malware that includes hack or DOS tools.
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No. Cells affected by Alzheimer's disease seem to undergo a metabolic slow down, and reduced insulin sensitivity is a consequence.

My bet is that Alzheimer's disease is a viral defense run amok. Most cells simply destroy themselves to defend against viruses, but most neurons need to last a lifetime. Therefore they must have a way of choking off viral replication and signaling their neighbors to make their own preparations. This fits with the metabolic collapse and with the fact that amyloid beta spreads to nearby cells and propagates the collapse. The mystery is why it becomes self-reinforcing.
"E-mail newsletters are so 90s, nobody reads them." .. "You can't charge $500 for an online course." .. "Video sucks, is a waste of time, write stuff instead."

Those of us in the business hear such false maxims all the time and just get on with doing what works, whether it's video, charging tons of money, sending people morse code, making people sign up for e-mail, or whatever. Do what works, not what people say they think works.

Amy Hoy did a great talk about this with lots of similar examples: https://vimeo.com/39750688
You know, people sometimes say Visual C++ is interactive UX because of the freaking form builder. I guess my argument is more about a certain level of interactivity that is missing; its not black and white to be sure.
I'd argue that this is largely due to the lack of standardization within our industry (note that Im not arguing for standardization for other reasons I think we all know)...

Basically when you start a job there is a relatively long learning curve. The technology, business, and interpersonal relationships are all unique and they all take a rather long time to develop. Usually the beginning part of that learning curve hurts the most (ex. learning how not to break the build and speak with some competency about the code base) and the rest is called personal "growth" and is usually satisfying and can run for many years without plateauing. The problem is that once you get to this middle staged growth, you dont want to have to go back to beginning part that comes with getting a new job (although I do recognize some people are different).

Now on the flip side if we were assembly line workers building light bulbs, the moment you heard the light bulb shop across the street pays 20% more and desperately needs people you'd probably be running across the street in a flash. And the next day at the new place would probably be about the same with 20% more pay.

The fear within tech is that, without standardization of work places, you can end up realizing you stepped into a big pile of crap. Crazy managers, incompetence, long hours, shady investors, etc etc.

Its not my desire to suggest we should turn the industry into light bulb manufacturing but I think the non-standardization has probably lead to the strangeness in hiring.
Probably the 1000th person to name themselves "import antigravity", but I'm still giggling about it.
He named it hypertext, but Vannevar Bush described essentially hypertext as part of his hypothetical "memex" system in this 1945 article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-ma...

The hypertext description starts in section 7, and continues in section 8.
You are correct that I should not claim that the entire JavaScript community is like that, but that's where I've seen the most prevalent delusions of grandeur problem.
From the article:

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1) Were studies blinded?

2) Were all results shown?

3) Were experiments repeated?

4) Were positive and negative controls shown?

5) Were reagents validated?

6) Were the statistical tests appropriate?

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Let me add:

7) Did the published work address the same topic as the original grant proposal?

8) Did the researchers commit to publish regardless of the study's outcome?

9) Did the granting source agree not to interfere with publication regardless of the study's outcome?

10) Did the researchers publish their data along with their results?

These are all serious problems in current research practice.
Most debuggers are technically not omniscient because they don't trace history. IntelliTrace is better in this regard, but you can see projects like LightTable taking that to the next level.
Scrypt in PHP
I had never heard of teledildonics. Thanks for the link, I learned a new word / concept !
Agreed - I currently do a lot of my work in a shared office space and I don't always have headphones. This is the place where I would watch a lot of videos (or at least take a peek, and if they're good, make a mental note to watch them later). A phenomenal number of videos don't get watched because I happen to not have sound for whatever reason at that specific point in time.
"But how is processed meat any worse than any other sort of meat?"

It's thought to be because of the preservatives and other chemicals. If you look at studies of meat eaters vs vegetarians, vegetarians tend to be healthier. But once you correct for differences in processed meat consumption the difference is much less large. (At least according to Michael Pollan in In Defense of Food.)
> There is no such thing as a shortage in a free market, by definition.

Nonsense. Supply and demand are not perfectly elastic. Consider a simplified hypothetical world where Alice harvests carrots that magically fall from heaven, Alice and Bob need 10 carrots per day to survive, and a total of 15 carrots fall from heaven every day. There is no other source of food. Alice eats ten carrots, and sells five to Bob. Bob's carrot-demand is at least ten carrots, but he can't buy them at any price, no matter how desperately he may need them to keep starvation at bay.

Yes, there is such a thing as a shortage.
Ethics are irrelevant as to whether it's malware or not, and I don't see it fitting the widespread definitions of malware.
Someone should digitally archive all those old Mondo 2000 issues as a public service.
Maybe I was unclear but I'm not asking to educate people about PaaS.

I'm proposing a button like [Create OStatus server]. It goes and provisions you a Heroku or DotCloud or Amazon account, creates an instance with everything installed, you get a link. Done.

We can make it way easier than installing Wordpress. The account provisioning part is tricky but all it takes is a good will partnership from one of the many PaaS providers, in exchange they get to upsell the owner to beefier paid servers.
You really think the recruitment model is a great model? Just curious, great for who? I've been a recruiter for 15 years, and there are some glowing flaws with the model that are being exposed right now. I've written two articles about it recently, both here on HN. Search 'disrupt recruiting' and you'll find them. Here is the first http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555165
Wonderful talk about where good ideas comes from says basically the same thing - where different minds meet (HN, Reddit etc.) there creativity happens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb0ssmoXG1I
I like to scan articles quickly for keywords/key phrases/diagrams/code snippets. I'm often put off when something is in video for simply because this is not easy to do. Together with the sound issue in my other comment, this means that I often end up never watching videos that provide content I would otherwise have enjoyed or found useful.

Am I the one missing out? Probably, but I also pass a lot of content that I do like around to lots of people, so the authors also lose out on a potential fanbase/readership/whatever.