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There are many employees that are as productive working from home, as they are in the office. It does depend on the employee's ability to manage their time, as well as the management structure to manage their workload and collaborate with the team. Our company has half of their employees in the office, and half that work from home. The employees working from home are as productive as the employees in the office but they work on projects together with the team in the office and we have weekly meetings that touch base with the team.
On the other hand I can see how in a large organization you may have employees that manage to get away with doing the minimum amount of work from home and it is obvious to the employees in the office that they do not work as many hours as those in the office. Factor in commute times, you can easily have in office employees spending twice as many hours away from home with commute and work than the home employees. This is a serious drain to morale and overall productivity
While the inclusiveness issue you cite is reasonable enough, the conclusion that "x applies to normally-excluded group y" does not signal "x applies to y in addition to unmentioned but related group z."

If you mean "also," use "also." I don't know if you're the author, but regardless, composing based on your perception of the way your audience thinks assumes too much about your audience and their perceptions of the issues you're writing around without being clear.
Depends on the situation - a doctor can take his time during say, a cancer diagnosis, but not in the ER.

Do you want a doctor who's trying to patch up your innards after a serious accident to look up where your pancreas is located?

Inexperience leads to a lot of wasted time searching for things along the way. The more you know in your head, the better.
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There are team spirit benefits to bringing people together physically, and depending on the type of work being undertaken, remote work may have more downsides than upside.

This "team spirit" argument makes no sense to me at all. What group on Earth has more "team spirit" than the contributors and maintainers on major open source projects?

For someone in Mayer's position, effective leadership means acting more like Linus Torvalds than Bill Lumbergh.
I wonder how well it can perform for amputees. I'm guessing there is HUGE potential here, one that a Leap Motion simply can't compete with.
HP Re-Enters The Tablet Market With Slate 7
This is an incredible achievement, would love to hear more about the backstory and the "curation" process.
Just what I thought!

One thing to point out: there's a fine line between what is and what is not repetition. You may/will find a tool that's perfect for what you want to do sans one or two features. Your ability to adapt that tool to exactly what you want so you don't have to repeat the 99% of things which are already finished is important.
I think the neat thing I learned from my compilers class is that writing a compiler isn't insurmountable. The problem is, however, that writing a compiler for a full-featured language is quite an investment in time and thought.

Given that languages have developed quite significantly since 2006, if you had to make the same decision in this day, what would you do?
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As someone both with a chronic disease, and who works in Health IT -- personal health tracking is something I'd very much like to see (and am working on in my spare time).

Part of the problem with chronic illness is that our (well, my!) dumb monkey-brains don't cope with it too well. I degraded, slowly, over the course of two years -- ending up in hospital very recently. On a day-to-day basis, over that course of time, you just don't notice you're getting worse -- what's an extra minute of cramping, introduced over the course of a month? Having a tool which tracked me, and would let me see (in a chart plotted over time) that I've crossed a line and need to seek help would probably have helped me avoid a week-long stay in hospital, and a commitment to take some (relatively) nasty drugs for the next couple of months.

When I got released, I went and bought a Fitbit Aria for weight-tracking (and am building something that'll query their API and expose my weight data, alongside other data I'll track via a mobile app), and it's excellent. The ease-of-use is the main thing; not needing to manually enter my weight after weighing myself means my data's always there. I'm not sure how I'll accomplish that for the other stuff I want to track, but it should be interesting figuring it out!

So, in short: this is an area I'm stoked to see investment in.
If anything, it gives incentive to follow only people you truly care about instead of the "everybody follow everybody" model Twitter has. Probably a lot less people willing to follow companies and more following users & interacting with a smaller pool of them.
Having been through police training, I absolutely agree that better training for police is important, but there are several problems with your argument.

First of all, accurately firing a weapon requires one to relax, breathe slowly, reduce the heart rate, hold still and concentrate. Almost all situations that justify shooting at people involve imminent danger of death to the shooter, the shooter's allies or innocent bystanders. That pressure produces a physical response exactly the opposite of what's required to shoot accurately. Good training can partially compensate, but it's impossible to replicate the psychological and physiological effects of the possibility of imminent death without a significant risk of actual imminent death.

Secondly, non-expanding ammunition will easily penetrate through a person and retain enough power to kill a second person. In most cases, a single bullet could kill three or four people if they were properly aligned. Ideally, the shooter will try to make sure the bullet will stop safely after penetrating the target, but circumstances that require shooting people are rarely ideal. Using bullets that are easier to stop is better for bystanders.

Finally, bullets do a surprisingly bad job of instantly physically incapacitating people. There are a number of cases on record of violent criminals continuing their attempts to murder police officers after being shot multiple times, even after receiving wounds that aren't survivable even with immediate medical treatment. Most people stop fighting when shot for psychological, not physiological reasons; they didn't like being shot and don't want it to happen again, the pain is too severe to continue resisting or they hope that giving up will lead to medical treatment and a better chance of survival. Barring that, there are three ways a bullet can incapacitate a person: damage the brain or spinal cord enough to prevent movement, cause enough blood loss that the brain shuts down, or damage the heart enough that it can't pump blood to the brain. Expanding bullets have a higher probability of causing these effects than non-expanding bullets.
I feel the same about App.Net. They're constantly coming out with new things, such as the hugely-more-powerful-than-Twitter Messages API and the Files API, and they're enabling devs to build apps for ADN that are significantly better than the offerings for Twitter. All in all, I enjoy using ADN far more than I do Twitter, to the extent that it's worth paying for.
Thanks for the clarification, all! I learned some shizzle.
Check if that site is functional/not. I mean, if the domain is in use or not. Check the WHOIS for the expiry date, and wait if you can. Or just email the owner.
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I might have to step back from my statement. It applies to formal relocation. If you informally move from San Francisco to San Jose, there would be no compensation adjustment. Similarly, if you informally moved from San Francisco to Winston-Salem, N.C. there should be no compensation adjustment. If your work from home agreement has no in-office requirement then there should be not problem, but I would expect a work from home agreement with no in-office requirement to have a base salary compatible with some average cost of living base.
The truth is, you guys are both right. The only people I know who think obesity is complex are the people who still believe in calories in = calories out. Calories DO matter, but only at a certain point. Fat only makes you fat if you are also consuming a huge amount of calories. But in that case, anything can make you fat, including carbs and protein.

If you stick to a paleo/primal diet, it's very hard to get fat because we feel satiated since leptin is being properly regulated. You can also lose weight with caloric restriction, but if your diet consists of pizza and other gluten-containing foods, you will constantly struggle with it due to the addictive nature of these foods. You'll probably be skinny fat (skinny everywhere yet have visceral around your waist). And you won't be precluded from getting diabetes or another disease of civilization.

Like anything, the devil is in the details and the truth is in the middle. But this stuff is not a mystery. Industrial food producers want health to be a mystery for us, so they can sell us their junk. It's actually very simple. Stick to foods that can be obtained by hunting or foraging, and don't eat anything that comes out of a package. My dad followed this advice for a year after getting heart surgery. He went from being pre-diabetic to having normal biomarkers. His doctors are amazed. I'm glad I didn't let him follow their advice of loading up on statins and drinking Ensure shakes.
Keep a blog where you "document" any issues you keep running into. By the time you're done with the post you'll either remember it or if you don't you'll know exactly where to find the answer if you need it.
I agree completely, but I am curious what your answer to his question would be. What would you have done in that situation?
(Shrug) What's more "necessary" than being able to build cool stuff?

There's more to life than self-denial.
In order to understand how misguided advice this is, lets do the following:

If You’re Thinking of Launching a _____________, Please Don’t

Now instead of "Social Media Startup" write an actual business idea.

Nobody starts a "Social Media Startup". People start companies that might involve social media to more or lesser extent or might have network effect, organic growht and so on. But starting a social media startup is not what people do.
Which storage format did you use for Hive? This is very important to how performance plays out, are you using snappy or LZO compression? Also, this is a relevant comment from a Hive committer (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5248485).
You want to spend your day solving problems. OK cool. Which ones? All of them?

In terms of work efficiency, you generally want to focus quite tightly on a specific part of the solution space. The part which adds value and is novel or advances the state of the art.

Everything else is fodder for judicious library use, outsourcing to third-party services, and occasionally recipes or gists.

Google is just the user-interface for code re-use in 2013.

On the other hand, recreationally, why yes I do enjoy inventing a better wheel from time to time :)
That's mostly irrelevant. Code is often non-deterministic in its output, so its merit as a medium for configuration is highly dependent on context.
I don't think it's mindlessly easy--if it were, nobody would be obese. I just don't think American obesity demands a conspiracy theory or a lot of outrage to be explained. It's adequately explained by: there's no shortage of food and greatly diminished need for physical exertion.
This is entirely true, but App.net's model relies on a healthy third party app ecosystem to drive new users & keep existing ones. The Twitter API limitations aren't a point that can be paid for or anything of the sort. As far as we've seen, once a client hits the magical 100,000 token limit, no client has come out of the process with more tokens.
Actually, I think the lack of active users was proven recently.

This "goodwill" move seems to reinforce that. This smells like Second Life's PR all over again.

edit: OP changed #1. Used to say they had a ton of users.
Me too. dan@mdpatrick.com
Yeah, I think having more options (like 5-item Likert) would be worse for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

It's a good point that you can't do a slider in email, I didn't think of. Unless email allows embedding an html form that you can submit? I've never seen anything more than static html in my email so I guess it must not be possible.

Anyway, thanks for your explanation, it makes sense. I think I'll make myself a 0-1 floating point favourites tracker and see how I like using it.
Its now a crime to not have committed a crime when you've been investigated. DOJ has to justify the overtime.
What's so bad about made in China?
Bitbucket's free private repositories is a godsend to academic and other small-time projects. Github can keep their hold on "public code repos as social networking".
I liked the part about "The truth is that decisions like this one get made based on data".
Advising someone not to launch a startup in any industry because that industry is broken is an oxymoron.
People should be launching a startup to disrupt that industry, not running away from it! Does social media equals ads-only revenue? Why a social app must be all about being also a media vehicle?
Ok, maybe all founders are adressing the wrong pains, are not trying to disrupt anything, just jumping on the bandwagon. And that would be a good point to make. But as I see it, the whole post is about promoting his book, not a point (the book may have a point, not the post).
I thought the same thing! I will probably do something like this, I was hoping to find a js library that would make waveforms from an audio file. I couldn't find something exactly like I wanted so I will probably end up writing my own.
Do you 'invalidate' all files when pushing an update or do you use a low cache expiry value for CloudFront?

In particular, I am thinking of edge cases where a news story has a typo/other important correction and you want to update just that story. What is your strategy? How is it impacted by caching done by CloudFront? Thanks.
There is a great deal of argument over that theory of terminal ballistics vs. the "permanent crush cavity" favored by Dr. Martin Fackler, who I follow.

I'm sure some organs are subject to serious damage that way, but he believes that in general tissue is fairly willing to be pushed and squeezed and snap back, without significant damage compared to what is crushed.

He's also the guy who figured out the significant wounding mechanism of the original AR-14/M16 FMJ bullet: if it hits at enough velocity, as it tumbles the bullet breaks at the cannelure. The higher the velocity, the more the back half disintegrates.

Now, he was doing this in calibrated ballistic gelatin, but it seems to match the observed in the field results, which is how he got started in all this as a battlefield surgeon.
Both sides in the sad Aaron Swartz case dug into their positions early, and then let the sunk cost fallacy guide their later decisions about how to negotiate with the other side. Swartz had plenty of friends who would have advised him how to gain publicity for the issue of access to old journal articles without taking the risk of imprisonment, but he didn't seek their advice. The Boston area federal prosecutors treated imprisonment, however brief, as the only outcome of the case that would signal the correct gravity of the offense, but miscalculated that Swartz could not be deterred by other dispositions of the case. Everyone involved (other than on-lookers like Larry Lessig) paid too little attention to the other side's perspective on the case and its trade-offs.

EDIT TO REPLY TO QUESTION IN REPLY COMMENT:

Yes, nothing that was proposed as to sentencing Swartz during negotiations before trial would have prevented his gaining full restoration of civil rights later, and even being able to expunge his record of conviction, if he had been convicted. His lawyers calculated (correctly, it appears to be the opinion of most but not all on-lookers) that the actual facts of what he did could constitute an offense for which he could have been convicted. So the facts, once Swartz made the facts by what he did, were not fully on his side. But what view a jury or a trial judge or a later appellate judge might have taken of the overall circumstances of the case wasn't put to trial before Swartz killed himself. Impulsive, all-or-nothing thinking is dangerous when life-or-death issues are in consideration.
Since I run an email newsletter startup (not quite the same thing as the OP is discussing)it's fair to say I believe in the value of email.

Surprises me how many people though tell me we should build and sell an App instead. Which market would you rather gain traction in - people with smartphones or people with an email address?
10. The author complains that is not possibly to reinitialize arrays to a new length in C#. He admits that he has been told that, "I should be using lists and not arrays anyway." But he retorts that, "The point is that - as so often - Visual Basic makes something easier to code than C# does."

I feel like this case in particular captures the essence of a cultural difference between C# and Visual Basic. However much it's grown over the past 20-odd years, VB's roots as a RAD kit - a platform designed to let people slap together code without having to worry themselves overmuch about engineering concerns - are still with it.

It leads to things simply being seen differently. To the author, the point is that it's easier to do X, as simple as that. To the kinds of programmers who tend to gravitate toward C#, on the other hand, Redim Preserve is a code smell that indicates it's time to rethink your choice of data structures. The idea of having a language-level feature whose only purpose is to make it easier for people two write bad code is anathema.

I don't want to hate on VB.NET too much, because overall it's a very good language. I personally prefer VB's switch statement, for example. Deciding between a jump table and a sequence of conditionals should be the compiler's job, not the programmer's. However, I do have one huge complaint about it in there are some features that it never should have inherited from VB6 in the first place. Phrases like 'Redim Preserve' and 'On Error Goto Next' always make me shudder. And when I'm called in to help figure out performance and stability issues in our VB projects, they play a part in my findings with alarming regularity.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5240089
I wonder if they've looked into adding an NFC chip into MYO. It may seem crazy for a gesture control armband but it could add potential functionality to the armband and also improve communication among the masses.
Awesome startup pack! Keep them coming!
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He may see Mayer as eminent, too. But maybe that would be more properly "whom he sees as eminent".
None of the above, IMHO.

In San Francisco, Kaiser could electronically share patient data with every other system running Epic with very little technical work and price. We're talking hours of work here. That would let them share data with UCSF, PCMH and every other Epic site.

They don't. Why not? It's because sharing patient data makes it easy to poach patients, and that's bad for business. There are similar situations in other cities too.

I don't blame them because the government hasn't made data exchange required yet. It's coming, with some of the requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 2 & 3 and the work done by the S&I framework. APIs will help too, because HL7 is confusing to newcomers and costs money. Vendors could make this easier too, but it's not like Epic or Cerner could compel anyone to share patient data.

I have a more in depth answer about this topic here: http://www.quora.com/Electronic-Health-and-Medical-Records/W...
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The saddest video I've seen in a long time ;-)
Hello HN! This is Adam and Pulkit, the co-founders of Swapidy. We heard what you said the last time we launched, particularly your worries about our business model and "Honey" virtual currency. Since then, we have made significant changes tailored towards the user in mind.

We are 19 and 20 and grew up in an age when new devices get released every day. We've hated waiting for them till we had enough money to pay for them. Using eBay and Craigslist to sell our old stuff to upgrade for better things became a hassle at times with all the fees and driving around. So, we created a better alternative to getting new things.

We've rebuilt our site to ensure transparency in every transaction. You can now swap for a wider variety of products, get instantly paid in dollars instead of virtual currency, and use the service nationwide.

Yes, we will make money, but only to find ways to give you better deals than you could get anywhere else. If you're like us, and always want the latest phone, tablet or macbook, give us a chance to let that happen.

Thank you,

Adam and Pulkit
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That's a question of poor moderation and admin control instead of a problem with the concept in itself I think.
>I know there is virtually no concept of "licensing" for the fields of "developer" or "hacker" in the way lawyers and doctors have it (i.e. you can't call yourself a lawyer just because you're reading case law for fun)

Very rarely will you hear an attorney/lawyer so tongue and cheek refer to themselves as a such, more generally they will reference "I practice law". I know the term is used for Doctors as well, "practicing medicine". The idea is the medical and legal professions and their standards are constantly changing, but the professionals are constantly continuing their education of the profession as well as incorporating the latest advances/techniques. If a CS student described what they do as the "practice of coding" instead of describing themselves as a coder/hacker/developer I think it would be a clear and professional description.

However, I see your point unlike a "practicing" doctor or lawyer, whom you know is licensed from the very term, "there is virtually no concept of "licensing" for the fields of "developer" or "hacker" in the way lawyers and doctors have it". I do not know how practical this is, but perhaps there should be licensing for various programming languages like MS has certificates for MSCE, after all lawyers did not always have to go to law school to become members of state bars and in fact some of the best US Supreme Court Justices, and most well written, never went to law school - nevertheless bar requirements evolved to raise the standards of the profession.
You might be confusing Android with WP8. Both iOS and WP8 do that. Android doesn't. You can embed V8 in your app in Android.

The security reason is mainly BS to keep off competing browsers from the platform.
A closer look at the performance of Google Chrome