skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The best doctors are the quickest to Google."
"The best scientists are the quickest to Google."
"The best engineers are the quickest to Google."

Are the above statements true? Quite possibly. I would argue that the best in their fields are those writing the answers that are indexed by Google to be found by others.
However, usually the best in their fields are also good at using Google. Unfortunately, the worst in their fields also use Google extensively, so it's not a strong signal.

EDIT: My definition of "best" is admittedly very subjective. The author could define "best" as "most effective", for exmaple. My only point is that you shouldn't use Googling to determine who is "best" because the "worst" also can be quick to use Google. It's a useless signal. More situationally appropriate metrics should be used instead.
Exactly. You said it better than I could in less words. The way I see it there's definitely a lot to discuss when it comes to remote work but as it applies to DHH's criticism I think what he says comes off as more of a way to kind of say "hey we're awesome and we promote remote working" and completely ignores what may be happening within Yahoo! to prompt this change. I wish DHH had framed his post differently because it comes off as very know-it-all-ish and doesn't seem to take into account that there might be anything else going on at Yahoo! other than what he thinks.
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It's an Android World
Call me naive but why doesn't the US simply switch to a healthcare system similar to the UK's NHS? I live in Britain and I live happy knowing that if I get a scratch, I won't go bankrupt.
He is comparing prices by putting it into 2013 dollars. It has nothing to do with availability. You can take a car, computer, or any other good that has a price and easily convert it back to 1865 or 1900 or whatever dollars and this helps understand the cost of things relative to today.

This makes your two middle paragraphs irrelevant.

If you want to just look at cancer here is a place to start: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/economic-impact-of...

Much of the health care costs in America are generated by major medical issues. I've recently seen a number released by my insurance provider that said that 7% of those who use them for insurance generate 90% of the claims by dollar amount. The thing is, no one knows when they will be in the 7%.
I bought my last pair of glasses at Warby Parker, and I did really like the home try on service. You pick out your top 5 choices, and then send them to you with clear lenses in a box. You can spend an evening (up to 5 days really) trying them on and seeing which look best on you. Then you send them back and get the real pair with your prescription. They are real inexpensive as well. It was a nice "internet" experience, compared to trying things on in some random shop.
When I interview a candidate for a hacker-like position, I provide give them the problem constraints and hand them my computer.

I tell them to lookup anything they want.

The portion of time spent on Google directly correlates to their success.
>>>>As I documented in the book, social media is a total loss leader for large corporations, too. They’re more or less there out of obligation

I can back this up with some information. I currently work for a large corporation who has invested a ton of money into social media (facebook, twitter, instagram). Even after several years, there is a huge war being fought between "new media" types in our company and the "old media" types. Our CTO routinely joins our meetings and basically says, "Great, we had 5,000 likes on our Facbeook page, how many more widgets does that sell?"

For them, there is almost no way to track how much of an impact a tweet or a facebook like has on their bottom line. Conversely, when they run a print ad for a certain model, and sales increase x%, they attribute it to the print ad.
The book[1] "Men who stare at goats" gives an insight into some of the, uh, unusual programs the US military ran.

[1] Not the film, which skips a lot of the detail.
FYI I'd be totally interested in more info about how you achieve this in an e-commerce environment. Blog post?
Two misconceptions about paid user acquisition
Here is an article essentially discussing this issue:

http://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4330078/EDA-tools-f...

It boils down to economics: 3rd party companies that make EDA tools for the semiconductor industry can't tweak and sell their tools at a premium to the embedded designers that use FPGAs. The reason is the FPGA designers already get their tools for free from the FPGA vendor.

Moreover, the article states FPGA vendors spend more money on development of tools than on the development of the FPGAs themselves!
Any help how to do this for a Linksys E4200 router with regular firmware?
In France you can get citron pressee in any bar, they just take a fresh lemon, ice, water and sugar (mix yourself how you like). Just keep some lemons in the fridge... it takes seconds.
Research never stops being in play on really hard problems. Sometimes though, the research isn't in search indexes in a way you'd suppose.
I do think sexism exist, but I think the MAJOR problem is as...ole men. I am not a full gentleman but let's think:
1) I think some woman attractive. I will not touch her as first move or even approach or stand too near.

2) There is better ways to extend the conversation instead of inviting to my 'bedroom'.

3) No or other excuses means no, thanks and farewell.

4) conferences are professional places, no place for flirting (they invented bars for that).

5) Ring on the finger? SHE is NOT interested.

Somehow some men think that if the woman is NOT interested she has be 'wrong' or deserve more 'strong' signals.
I support more woman at the conferences and I wish more woman take some stand at this cases and say it loud:
'TAKE OUT YOUR FILTHY HANDS from me' Saying that loud will teach a great lesson and avoid some posts.
The main problem is not sexism is lack of politeness and manners.
This seems like a controversial topic. Some people seem to think that if you don't know something code specific without Googling than you're something like a Duct tape programmer (although I may be stretching the term away from what Joel talks about http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html). Being a college student it's interesting to see articles like this, that I agree with, and then hearing from my professors "anyone can google you can never be a good _computer scientist_ if that's all you do!"
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So...if you're working on a really obscure problem, I'd consider you a researcher before considering you a programmer. (Or perhaps a programming researching). That skill set is immensely different from the standard programmer's skill set. Google skills are still vitally important, but interpreting the results quickly become the dominating factor when you're doing something no one has done before.
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My doctor said "I don't know, I have to go look that up".

He's probably going to stay my doctor for a very long time for that one sentence.
Oh dear, intervall training.
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/stead-state-versus...

Spillover can be very significant, regardless of training. It depends on the makeup of the trainee. The body doesn't work like that (first muscle, than fat) for most people. It's a constant flux in and out of the cells and the overall trend over weeks and months matters for your body composition.
For that reason muscle gain (as a more advanced trainee) tends to require some with fat gain if you want progress at any decent speed (Leangainers often don't).
Why wait for a couple hours btw? There is no magical switch flipped, which prevents fat gain after waiting a bit longer. You probably misunderstood how important some of the processes after a high intensity training session will be for body composition. Read the article above for an explanation.

Depends on caloric density. I have no problem overeating vastly on good ice cream or nuts& dried berries. Easy to get down an additional 3000kcal.
Cool! Looks great. Best of luck!
The horrendous interface is likely a symptom of the poor quality of the codebase he developed for Dwarf Fortress.

Look at his other projects, such as Liberal Crime Squad (http://www.bay12games.com/lcs/). The code for LCS available on that site is atrocious. I know, because I helped to convert the 38K lines (yes 38 THOUSAND LINES) of code in a SINGLE C++ FILE into something that is actually maintainable when he open sourced the game (fun fact: the IDE I used back then would crash when opening that file).

The reason for this is clear, like you say, Tarn comes from a physics/math background. He does not seem to be very experienced at software engineering (at least he wasn't 9 years ago when LCS was open-sourced). I would not be surprised if the Dwarf Fortress codebase is just as inscrutable as the resulting game.
Responsible to their shareholders to avoid the deluge of lawsuits that will come; it will be like tobacco, you can see the tide turning. That was their chance to change course.
I wrote a nbody gravity simulation that allowed this at one time. http://code.google.com/p/stableorbit
Fucking right it's evil. That's because actions get moral consequences from results.

Once a year or so I end up in Vegas for a weekend. Every time, I look at all the electronic games and think, "Man, I could build something much more engaging and compelling than slot machines." And then I start thinking about cool products.

After about 10 minutes of this, I wake up and say, "But that would be wrong!" because I've finally gotten as far as thinking about the moral consequences of making Vegas even stickier.

I've turned down lucrative offers from entrepreneurs for similar reasons. If I get rich by making the world worse, it's just an elaborate scam, taking advantage of weakness and ignorance to fill my bank account.
The more people buying up bitcoins, the bigger the price is, the more early buyers sell some portion of their stash, the more bitcoins dissolve into the market. If at some point, everybody who wanted to invest, already done so, the price will stop rising. Some guys will sell, some others will buy more and realize that now much more people own some bitcoins and are ready to participate in exchange.

Therefore, "investors" build a market among themselves as a side effect of "hoarding". And since there will be non-zero amount of people willing to exchange directly rather than sell, the price will rise further, attracting even more people. And so on until everybody who needs BTC gets some. And then nobody would need fiat.
I'll skip the gender issues in this discussion, not because they aren't central, just because I only have so much time in the day :)

I'm not sure I agree with the OP on this:
> So to all the girls learning how to code, and not sure where you stand: screw it, and just call yourself a developer already.

Replace "girls" with "people" for now (again, I'm not saying gender is irrelevant, I'm just focusing on a tangent for now)...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)...and that's a good thing. But there's something in me that wants to say, "Well, you have to have built something, and watched it either succeed or fail". It doesn't have to be something big. It just has to be something you invested your time in and that you put out there because you thought the world might be interested...at that point, even with a small project, you know what it's like to "ship" and be invested.

To me, that's the difference between learning to code and calling yourself a developer.

If I were to try learning guitar, does that make me a musician? If I read the works of George Carlin and think of one-liners of my own during the day, does that make me a comedian? I would argue 'no'. But once you practice and refined yourself to the point that you book a gig, or even do an open mic, then the labels of "musician" and "comedian" seem more applicable.

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OK, now for me to be really catty: Why does any modern blog (this is not the OP's fault, obviously), in this day and age, think it acceptable to use 13px as the body font for articles? Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
Not sure why your comment is being upvoted, since it offers no evidence whatsoever to support your claim that Taubes is a cherry-picker.
Because there are thousands of Canadians every year that go bankrupt because of health care costs.

Actually, there are. They go the US to get care that's not offered in Canada. The care here is about as good as former soviet bloc countries. If there was a chance that an illness such as cancer could kill me, I'd get out of Canada in a heartbeat and embrace poverty if it meant keeping my life.
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Feed your pet from your phone
Why Marissa Mayer Told Remote Employees To Work In An Office Or Quit
How to fight feelings of impostor syndrome:

1. Look back rather than forward. Consider where you were even just 2-3 years ago. How much more you know now about X,Y,Z. The next goal will always stretch out in front of you. When looking forward so you'll never measure up to 'future you'. 'Past you' is a much easier comparison.

2. Look down rather than up. Consider how much you know about your domain. A Stanford CS student is probably in the top 0.0001% of people with CS knowledge. Don't compare yourself to the small number of people ahead of you, think of all the people who are behind.

3. Examine your track record. Remind yourself of all the challenges you've overcome, the hard problems you've solved. Think of how rarely (if ever) you've failed when the chips were down. Even if you can't solve [current problem X] right now, be confident that you will solve it.

tl;dr Even if you're the slowest runner in the marathon, you can still run a marathon.
Application process energy consumption monitoring?
With the current limits of battery technologies and growing orientation to greener technologies, is there a way of monitoring the energy consumption of a process like we monitor CPU consumption?

It could be a target for our future products, if carbon tax becomes a reality. It could be another thing for which we test.

It's a bit more than just cumulative resource consumption, because different resources use different amounts of energy and energy consumption is not linear sometimes. Given we had a way of monitoring, we would discover why battery is so crappy with Mountain Lion for example.

What do you think?
> (White) men in general are given the benefit of the doubt. They are assumed to be competent until proven otherwise.

Based on everything I have ever seen in my life, you are either completely off-base or overstating your case so wildly it's almost unrecognizable. If this were true, I could walk into any company around here that is hiring, tell them I'd like the job and instantly land it without so much as an interview because I'm white and male and thus "assumed to be competent." That is very much not the case. I have to prove competence first.
Other countries are pretty diverse with how they implement single-payer. Britain has NHS, Canada has private hospitals with government handling the insurance.

One thing in common: They all suck, yet are all much better than our system.
I hope FS grows up more and more. I think the future of outsourcing should go this way. Good luck to you guys
Yes and no. I'm a co-founder of http://devbootcamp.com so I see this every day in the context of people learning to be programmers.

"The best programmers I know understand how to architect and build large projects piece by piece. They can focus on the macro because don’t get hung up in the pieces. They know how to use Google to find solutions fast. DRY."

I agree with the first and second bit and strictly speaking the third. That is, when students first watch me code they're surprised both that I'm looking up this-or-that ActiveRecord method and at the speed with which I do it. They assume expert programmers have a book of magic spells they've memorized, so to see what I haven't in some ways makes it more magical.

What am I doing, then, if not memorizing every last little thing? What makes me a "better" programmer?

The key to becoming a non-beginner are the first two bits, not the third. It's developing that filter experts have which separates relevant information from irrelevant information. Lots of beginners use Google in a backwards sort of way, having been trained to "look for the solution." Google is like the great universal answer key for them.

It can't be about memorization, then. Being an expert is more like having this amazing compression algorithm at your disposal and we can evaluate very quickly whether some piece of information is compatible with that compression algorithm.

It's made worse by the fact that they see experts do it, sometimes. Or worse, that experts tell them, "I use Google all the time, you should, too." But Google is worse than nothing if the beginner finds code, copies it blindly into their project, and shuffles characters around until it does what they want. They are robbing themselves of the opportunity to abstract out common patterns, recognize similar problems in different guises, and generally setting an impossible bar of having to memorize too much.

Lots and lots of students have been trained to see software development as THAT.
Just for my own curiosity, I'd love to know how much faster the round got to closing after rumors leaked out that Google was partnering with WP to create some Glass concepts.
I'm paying an email-first startup £2k a month right now. In fact, it's not just email-first - it's still email-only. They don't even have a website.

They are actually moving to email-first-and-now-a-bit-more tomorrow - from tomorrow onwards, there won't even be any email, as the data they're providing will go straight into another system through an API. From email-first to not-even-email.
I couldn't help but read this and think about technical interviews that involve the candidate being asked to write code on a whiteboard - no Google, no code linting/hinting/completion etc.

I'm very much in favor of candidates being asked to write some code under more realistic conditions, including finding solutions to parts of the exercise online. Of course, they should then be able to explain to the interviewer(s) why they chose a particular solution and walk the interviewer through the code they borrowed/adapted.
Interesting read as bypassing the same thing was needed for this hack: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-four-critical-security-flaws-...
The file system is the original "database". I solved an interview question recently using a few Linux utilities, pipes, and flat files. It was a bash one liner that impressed the interviewer, but then he asked me to solve it the "real" way.

Both databases and file systems use B-trees to implement fast read / writes, it's just that SQL databases enforce structure. OTOH, using flat files moves data checking into application space and losing certain ACID properties.

Similar trade offs are made between NoSQL and SQL, dynamic and static languages, but I digress...
Company finds out what people want and offers to sell it to them: News at 11!

Seriously, this hand-wringing is ridiculous. Excellent article here: http://reason.com/archives/2013/02/25/frito-lay-wont-make-yo...
Perhaps you could provide some, I don't know, facts or reasoning or something?
Thanks, just took it out!
I enabled this at some point in time, it's amazing how many services I use that rely on Google. After I got over 20 application specific passwords, which I guess are tell alls, I decided it wasn't worth the complication. The real problem with this was apps implementations of the two-factor auth. I haven't looked at any of the APIs (I know they don't exist for some services like Reader) but if the entirety of the auth was only typing in a code sent to your phone I would've stuck with it. It's when you get into these application specific passwords, especially when you have to create new ones on your phone, that I think it's more trouble than it's worth.
Exactly this. As a full time remote worker, I fear the "monkey-see-monkey-do" fallout that could come of it. Yahoo may not be a "leader" in anything, but their CEO is one of the most respected people in Silicon Valley. When she makes a move such as this one, people notice.
That's not really enough information for us to help you. The only differing factor you've given us is dollars and cents. So, in the absence of more information, I say go with the one that gives you more dollars and cents. Or choose the one that requires communicating the least amount of detail.
You could probably make a company distinctive by not appearing on any social media platforms. Not having to kludge all those little [f] and [t] share icons onto every ad would probably make the creatives happy.
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>WebOS has negative mindshare

I wouldn't be so categorical about that. There's at least a minority of users, most of them technical, that really appreciated WebOS for its capacity for multitasking and the UI, if nothing else [1]. (How relevant would this be in a TV OS is debatable.)

Even today WebOS remains a good platform for hacking with an unofficial app marketplace [2] that's still actively maintained and offers, among other things, two "real" Linux distributions (Ubuntu and Debian chroots). I keep a Palm Pre Plus with Debian myself for use in various experiments (like making a time-lapse camera). I got it for cheap when it was clear that WebOS is in decline but now I (along with many others who did the same) would be in the market for a new WebOS device if one came out, though probably not a TV.

[1] See, e.g., comments right here on HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=webos+..., http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=webos+....

[2] http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:Preware
This is awesome! Thank you so much. I write in CoffeeScript and then Codekit takes care of it, as if Coffee isn't fast enough, now I have autocomplete for it.
Comparing medicine in 1900 and 1970 is just silly, full stop.

Regarding everything about 'government' vs 'free market'.. do you feel like you're in a free market healthcare system in America? I sure don't. I feel like I have no idea what's going on with medicine and the only difference between my insurance bureaucracy and a government bureaucracy is that the insurance company is actively trying to fuck me rather than just passively doing it.

I'm not saying big government bureaucracies are great -- they're terrible. Yet every other industrialized country's disaster of a bureaucracy is miles better than our private-public system. They have the same cost issues and also have cost inflation, but it's less inflation on a lower cost.
Events don't exist.
It is served from S3 (this was not entirely clear).
Cool idea to use Markdown's code snippet feature for literate programming :)

I guess you could do this in any language by incorporating something like the following into your project's makefile:

sed '/^\t/!d; s/^\t//'
I really think that this game could use some people from the demoscene to create emergent algorithmic graphics for it. It seems like it'd be a good match.
Oh we do have answers on many questions. Just not 100% sure, because detailed experiments on humans are kind of hard to get through the ethic committee.
Reading the available Pop science books/articles on nutrition however will probably just confuse people than help them.

What kind of questions do you have?
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