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I also use spead reading once in a while.
I can read realy fast going through large documents
To be able to find something quickly
I once got a huge document on my desk 3400 pages, and i had to decide if we would do that project, please try to read it.
To their surprice i fineshed reading and pointed them on the hard parts of it, they never thought anyone would be able to read the entire doc in just a few hours for the deadline.
Can you link me to these statistics that you know about? And can you link me to statistics from other fields? And can you link me to statistics which talk about why the women left the field?

What if women leave the field because they can't countenance working long hours with little social interaction like many men can? That could account for the high attrition rate while not being because of any sexism in the sector.
What part of this sounds like shitty nutrition? Fasting is wonderful for your health. I used to do the whole preworkout meal, snack, post-workout shake, all that "bro" science. Now I won't train any other way. If there's one common thread among health enthusiasts, it's stubborn tendencies. Try it before you call it a terrible idea, I think you'd love it.
There are a couple of differences.

Look at that recipe - you have big bits of meat, with bones, and some salt / fat coating. You take a bite, and you chew it, and then you have to fiddle about getting bits off the bone.

Popcorn chicken is tiny. You pop one in, and you're reaching for the next one as you're chewing the first.

The recipe uses big bits of chicken. Popcorn chicken uses the bits of the carcass that would normally have been used for soup.

There are different ratios of fat to meat content - popcorn chicken has a lot more fat, because it has a lot more coating.

Both of them are tasty, but one has been engineered to be maximally tasty at minimal cost.
I'm not quite sure what is so revolutionary about this post. If you don't know something of course you will Google it. However, a good programmer can make better queries precisely because he/she knows more background about the problem than a less experienced programmer, so in the end, it's still down to who has internalized more information.
The thermic effect of protein is pretty much negligible, and food restriction has also been shown to not be the obvious explanation in trials where they partitioned out exactly the same amount of food (2000 kcal, I believe) in different ratios to find that the lower-carb apportioning caused the greatest weight loss.

In short, whatever facts anyone wants to bring up, there will always be more that either disprove, or at least throw them into doubt. But your final point is absolutely spot on -- it is absolutely about what works for your health and your situation. I've found low carb, unprocessed (i.e. paleo) with a sprinkling of IF and cycling works great, but I don't intend to be a militant defender of this approach; rather, I absolutely advocate n=1 experimentation, figuring out what works for you, and doing something rather than nothing. Learning about paleo kicked off a huge revelation in terms of my personal health and I want others to discover this joy.
I would love an invite jm[at]iesta.com
Thanks :)
I emailed to request one. If you're out, thanks anyway!

Edit - got it, thanks a million!
"We will even find important interludes of peaceful exchange and adaptation between natives and newcomers. The historical challenge is to find the ebb of conflict as well as the flow. The full story demands subtlety as well as drama."[1]

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112309/savage-new-world-b...
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So, basically you're going to scan the tweet, if the tweet contains keyword(s) for which you have replies for, you'll reply back, right? It's Awesome!

How many times would the script check for new tweets with handle's mention?
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"Imposter Syndrome", so I understand it, is not even an issue in any regard or form. This is the 'humbleness' that stereotypically exist among Asians. It is a trait that tells us to never be content with oneself and always be on the search for self betterment.

The only place where I see this is an issue is if one decides that himself or herself is worse than other people and loses self-confidence. However, for people with real success and accomplishments I just really don't see this happening. They may deem their success to be lucky, but if they are aware that it was still a success, they will continue to try harder to make it 'not luck' the next time. Dismissing at the same time the false notion that he or she did not achieve.

I would even go as far to call out that Imposter Syndrome exists mostly among perfectionists. They'll get this sort of feeling whenever they sense that someone else is better than them at one particular thing. Internally they try to achieve in all aspects of life. This might not necessarily be a good mental state since it diverges one's attention depending on the current social context one is in. However with a correct mindset then one should be able to utilize this trait to his or her advantage. The idea is to know there are things to learn, but not that I am worse than others.

Therefore I know I have the 'Imposter Syndrome'. However I don't fight it, I use it.
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It's more broad than that. I'm pretty sure that's just what it means to be an expert at anything. You have a set of heuristics at work as an expert. To a beginner, everything has the same emphasis. They won't even be able to differentiate correct from incorrect in many cases.

Watch a lawyer scan through a contract or a copyeditor edit your essay -- same thing. They catch in a second something you'd never catch in hours and hours, if ever.
Probably, but they needn't advertise the fact. I go to a specialist for Cystic Fibrosis, and when one of my doctors responded to a question I had with "I Googled and learned that..." it didn't sit well with me.
I live in western Quebec, home to two of the worst hospitals in the country (those in Hull and Gatineau). Getting a family doctor here requires years of waiting, and many will go across the river and pay out of pocket to see a doctor in Ottawa. You'll no doubt find some Canadians who live in areas where things are working out pretty well. People in the US don't often realize that the Canadian system is not monolithic, and is based more on your province, and sometimes where you are within a given province.
You still shouldn't get spammers - if all of a paid member's invites go to people who get blacklisted as spammers shortly afterwards, that member shouldn't get any more invites to offer.
Does anyone else find themselves Googling the same question over and over again? How do you deal with that?
Can someone spare me an invite? arturtsurkan@gmail.com
I have been using emacs org-mode to do something like this. It's great that it's now part of the language!
I am, admittedly, handwaving here. "Best" is so subjective that's hard to define, so I define it as "the ones who move the field forward with original work." In other contexts it could mean something completely different.
I believe that the purpose of randomize juries could be said to exist because while there are parameters, no one person or entity knows all the parameters.
>Most importantly, Lulu revolves around talking about repeatedly shagging your “sexy CEO” male boss up against his desk and then rating him on his performance, looks and pong (yes, his scent) afterwards.

I don't understand women.
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Exactly this. It's silly to expect people to buy several devices and subscribe to several 'pay monthly' services because everyone is signing exclusive content deals left right and center.

We've seen what happens with Sports deals on Pay TV and people don't like being taken for fools. The remaining moral barriers to piracy dissolve very quickly when people feel cheated.
Slick website and nice service providing first world convenience, but still Made in China.

SZDaily: "It is said that at least 60 percent of the spectacles on the earth are made in Shenzhen... At present, there are nearly 500 spectacles manufacturing companies in the city, mostly in Henggang Subdistrict, Longgang District, producing nearly 200 million pairs of spectacles a year. Ninety-five percent of their products are exported to more than 130 countries and regions, accounting for more than 70 percent of market share in Europe and about 60 percent on the global market."

http://www.szdaily.com/content/2012-07/20/content_6962497.ht...

WarbyParker: "We design our frames here in the US, then source our material (high-quality cellulose acetate) from a 150-year-old, family-owned Italian manufacturer. Our frames are then crafted in China"

http://blog.warbyparker.com/post/12789294212/i-have-a-questi...

As for the Italian manufacturer, it's likely they are referring to Mazzucchelli founded in 1849 and famous for the tortoise shell look. Well, it appears they may have outsourced acetate production to China too!

http://www.optiboard.com/forums/showthread.php/47085-Acetate...

http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/CN/mazzucchelli-acetate...
One question : just how would you prioritize actions to turn heathcare into a real market, or as close to it as possible ?

I would go for:

1) full price transparency

2) making price discrimination illegal

3) attacking the information asymmetry by providing a free, subsidized first line triage

Whether treatment is taken or the patient decides to do without it, making sure tests and diagnosis are performed could help proper self regulation of consumption

It could also be made as a public service since it seems very close to a natural monopoly (due to the subadditivity of the cost function - see for ex http://www.clt.astate.edu/crbrown/eleven1.htm - having big labs to process blood test gives economy of scales but require high fixed costs)

It could therefore be politically defensible on grounds of efficient pricing (ie pricing at the marginal cost, which requires subsidizing for natural monopolies since average cost are above marginal costs), to avoid deadweight loss.

The first line triage could then provide full price transparency (diagnosis -> probabilistic DRG), from which the patient could either decide to "wait and see", or to browse a catalog of hospital offering services (DRG -> prices) knowing the price paid would be no different with or without insurance.

At that point, it might be possible to remove all price caps and floors, and let the market work.

So basically, we could get a working market on the treatment side.

Traditional monopoly and oligopoly management (watching the HHI before allowing fusions) could then keep it that way.

I'm a bit out of idea however to have integral pure and perfect competition, at least until we get user-operable "all-in-one diagnosis devices" (like Star Trek tricoders) to remove the information asymmetry.

My last rants on this topic were posted on
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5261137
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Can the new (free tier) members also invite other people?
Google is vehement about not forbidding remote work, at least during the hiring / interview process.

(That's part of why I ended up at Mozilla. No two of my immediate teammates even live in the same state at the moment.)
Now that you ask, I realize it's really hard to put into words what I connect with a hacker/hacking. In my eyes it's not something you work towards. Rather, you might become a hacker while doing what you're interested in and what you think is right.
A concrete advice I'd give concerning many other topics as well: Read a lot. It's the best way to get a feeling for whatever thing your interested in. Hacker News is great for this.
One thing about being a hacker that seems broadly accepted: "You're not a hacker until you're called hacker. By other hackers." This in particular makes it hard to become a hacker "on purpose".
> Isn't the game 11 years old? What is a reasonable amount of time to spend before moving to stage 2?

I'm guessing you don't program?
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Videos:

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Ha! How interesting. I didn't know that; thanks for the update.
Just wondering if you have any thoughts on solving the problem of "institutional bias." It seems to me that specific incidents get focused on because it is a thread to pull so we can start to unravel the whole mess. "Institutional bias" seems like a framing of the problem which makes it harder to find a starting point, not easier. So I am wondering if you have thought about what to do/where to start to solve that.

Thanks.
Have you read Steven Pinkers "The Better Angels of Our Nature"? In it, he argues that even though violent crime is on the decline, and is at a historical low, the perception of violent crime is at a historical high, because we are bombarded with stories about the few violent crimes that happen across the globe.

Could it be the same pattern at play with blogs on the internet?
Any more invites floating around? I'd love to have one :)

silentreign at gmail.com
A "serious gamer" takes gaming too seriously, pretty much by definition.

Then again, I say that, but I've been tempted to try this game out multiple times. What does that make me?
This could really be something else. I signed up and am #777 in line. I'm assuming this will be more worth the wait than Mailbox - and probably delivered about the same time.
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We actually have good data on this. 4 studies have been made on the prevalence of the impostor syndrome, none of them revealed any difference between the genders, even in fields considered to be heavily male dominated. Beegee posted references higher up on this thread.
Anyone who is interested in an honest discussion about sexism in the tech industry can easily discover the data, which exists in abundance. If you can't be bothered to do a modicum of research before insulting and belittling a peer who is trying to have that discussion, then you are part of the problem.
The interesting thing here to me is that this represents a failure of Google to present you with relevant information and only the relevant information.

It's an opportunity. Not an easy one, by any means, but still an opportunity.
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Having to depend on Universities or any other institution for security's sake seems to be a little bit restrictive. Individual or non-institutionalized research should be acceptable. Responsibility with project backers shouldn't depend on that, don't you think? There should be a legal contract anyway.

However, I don't think that this will be the most common profile looking for funding.
more precise: It's a recommendation-engine with a new approach. It allows users to explore the web without being stucked with Facebook and Google. :)
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> This is probably the same person who agonizes over
> class names, so maybe you're already used to this

Bingo. I think that for programming languages where clarity is already a common virtue (think, Ruby, Python, Clojure) -- folks already need to be writing clearly when they program: making the code clear to read, naming variables and functions very well, doing logical ordering of sections of code etc. That's already about halfway towards what you would do if you were accompanying the code with a bit of essay. I think the two worlds aren't as far apart as one might think.
I can't speak to the author's intentions, but it feels like a typical HN-baity title to get eyeballs on the blog. The real estate dedicated to the startup's call to action (on the bottom and sidebar) is almost as big as the blog post. I, like many, have similar "blurbs of brilliance" that I'd love to post, but I feel that if I don't have at least several paragraphs with substantive information then I'm merely adding noise to the Web.
wow lots of people got invited. If anyone til got a spare invite, please send me [at] tuananh.us .Thanks a bunch.
Oh, I believe it happens, I just don't believe that it is as pervasive as you suggest. If it were millions sitting on good patches for no reason other than a few people in the "in crowd" being caustic, then the developer-power represented by that group would rival the developer power of the big meanie "in group". Seriously, if that is actually the case, organize.

Here is my perspective though: for the past week I have been sitting on a few commits for git that I would get flamed for if I aired them publicly. Why am I so sure I would get flamed? Because if I am honest with myself, it is because the change is shit. The change is not backwards compatible, has only hypothetical use-cases, and has questionable support in the UI. Until I resolve those things I know it would be flamed (or worse, and more likely, ignored). Now, I'm not sitting on it because I know it would be flamed, I am sitting on it because I know it is shit. If I fix those things, and I don't conduct myself like an asshole when my baby gets curtly shot down, I am fairly confident that I won't be verbally abused. If I am, who gives a shit?

I suspect most people sitting on patches for fear of being flamed, if they are honest with themselves, are so sure that they will be flamed because they understand why they would be. Are there a few who have good changes that are irrationally afraid of being flamed? Yes, I am certain of it. Are there some projects currently headed by people who flame good patches? Absolutely, glibc a few years ago was such a project... but Linux is not one of those projects today.
Just a thought in this field of motion controls - could be cool to use gloves/finger/points of contact tapping as part of the motion/gesture control aspect - ie: tapping my thumb and forefinger together is 1 gesture, thumb and middlefinger another, thumb and ringfinger etc. So on top of using motion and speed, you also detect commands when points connect together.
Yes, definitely.

You still need a server, but instead of your server generating the full html for each request, it only needs to generate a json response for some percentage of total page views. This is just lighter weight, and the architectural approach we are heading to with backbone.js et al...

Basically you offload as much of the computational load to the client side AND the batch rendering process as possible.

One reason this was important for my purposes with streamjoy is that even though 92000 movies isn't Big Data, it still takes a long time when you have to run 10 kinds of algorithms on 92000 items AND deal with the restricted API limits of a big API like Amazon (about one request per 1.8 seconds unless you get special permission or are doing a lot of revenue)

So for streamJoy I had to do a lot of computation and network queries, and I had to respect the 24 hour period that Amazon wants for data freshness.

So the batch jobs I had to run had to be as fast as possible, and that means the fastest CPU + SSDs + ample RAM.

A dedicated i7 server with 32gb of ram and SSDs is $180 at the cheapest data center I could find. Thats way too much for a portfolio piece!

So I offloaded all the batch computation to my own local workstation and then just push the rendered results to the cloud.

Thats one of the big benefits of the flat file approach.

Thanks for the compliment!
Sounds like a cool app, I'd love to hear any tips or tricks you've learned along the way
Sorry for being off topic, but what resources would you recommend to someone who wants to learn everything that is taught in dev bootcamp but cant attend?
"which merges two sorted arrays without allocating any additional memory. Aside from having no real-world value, it's not actually possible, and his solution code clobbered most of the data in the first array."

This is referring to me.

The author has misrepresented the truth.

(1) The problem does not state that you may not allocate additional memory; only that the memory allocated must be constant relative to the size of your input.

(2) Given #1, this problem is absolutely possible.

(3) The problem explicitly asks you to merge the two arrays "in place". If by "clobbered" you mean changed, then that means that by definition one of the arrays will be "clobbered". We can certainly have a separate conversation about whether modifying structures in place is a good coding practice, but it is generally more efficient and highly widespread in non-functional languages.

I'm sure it wasn't purposeful, but I'm disappointed that the author misrepresented our conversation to make a point. Separately:

(4) This problem is extremely applicable to real-life programming IMHO. It does not use any esoteric data structures. It does not use any complicated algorithms. All you need to do is iterate through two arrays at the same time. A great majority of candidates have solved this problem.

In general I agree with this post's thesis. Facebook's general philosophy with interviews is to allow each interviewer to ask whatever questions they want, and the consequence is a variance in the type of questions getting asked. However, based on internal conversations I know that Facebook is trying to move away from "puzzle" questions by explicitly "retiring" a number of questions that we consider to be unproductive.
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Indeed, it's well illustrated by the caption "Is the iPhone in this picture, taken at this year’s SHOT Show in Las Vegas, an AR-15 accessory, or is the AR-15 an iPhone accessory?"

And other gun designs are taking more and more advantage of this. The dimensions of the rails are standard so I can e.g. put sights like the holographic EOTech you can see in the first photo on my originally designed in Switzerland, parts from Europe and the US and assembled here "semi-automatic assault rifle".
I need a Dribbble invite.

I will trade an app.net invitation for one ;)

Portfolio: http://davidhiggins.me

Dribbble: http://dribbble.com/davidhiggins

Send me an E-Mail:

david@higg.im
Let me try some reverse psychology: No one send me an invite at adamnemecek(shift+2)gmail.com.
"Statistically means it's just an inductive argument for guilt, but so is being caught on camera. So I suspect that you just don't mean to use statistical at all."

I don't understand what you're saying. The fact that being caught on camera is an inductive argument for guilt is ultimately based on statistics or probability. What is the probability that the person on camera is the defendant?

Where do you draw the line? The American legal system, for criminal cases, draws it at "beyond a reasonable doubt", and provides no numerical guidance for what that means. But there is a line, and not wanting there to be one doesn't make it go away.
no invite sent!
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/10/health-costs-how...

US healthcare is broken. We are fools not to follow other countries.
People willing to have a blood transfusion already have plenty of options, so factor them out of your analysis. (They are already 'cherry-picked' by every other doctor.)

Among those who would prefer not to receive blood, should the doctor be experimenting with this novel approach on all patients, without regard to a risk of complications? How would that be more ethical?
It's unfair to brand all women like this... just the ones who engage in such activities on Lulu.

Obviously we all want people who are great in bed, look stunning and don't smell, but there's no need to publish this info and make people feel terrible about themselves.

All this bitching goes on in private, perhaps we just ought to leave it that way? Certainly don't need an app for it. Just degrading.
Seems like a move to inject some momentum into a stalled growth.