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Reminds me of this Gladwell New Yorker article of Early and Late Bloomers: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_... (posted originally in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737724)
That would probably save money, but it'd be one of those large cash amount up front initiatives that tax payers wouldn't agree to until every other car already self drives.
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Great game. Maybe include some kind of URL shortner for sharing? Those URLs are quite massive.
Interesting. Many (if not most) of the engineers I met in my earliest jobs were moonlighting. How common is such an anti-moonlighting clause in employment contracts?
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We're smart - the disclaimers aren't necessary. If we weren't smart, they wouldn't help anyway.

I agree they've gotten carried away in their claims and are focusing the pitch on some silly stuff.. for ex I don't think they're going to solve world hunger. But these are criticisms of this particular pitch, and don't change at all the actual product they're pushing: a best effort implementation of medical science's actual nutrition guidelines + some nootropics.
My girlfriend was telling me about Vietnamese culture the other day (her family is Vietnamese). She put particular emphasis on the the vastly different social norms between Vietnam and the Western world. From what she told me, woman are much more forthcoming about their true opinions of another woman's looks in Vietnam and the Eastern world.

Similar to how getting a description from someone on the autism spectrum would product vastly different results, I'm curious as to how the results of the experience would differ in different countries and different parts of the world.
You might also be falling victim to what I call the "Cialdini effect."

After I read his Influence book I couldn't have a normal interaction with sales people for a long time, since every time I'd recognise the techniques I would feel manipulated and angry.

It wasn't until a few years later that I actually could be impressed with the finesse of their execution while evaluating the morals of their actions separately.
I think the student is perfectly aware that his product must be improved a lot before hitting the road. But it's a starting point. Right now it is 94% accurate in simulations, the next version might be 99%. I'm sure in time if he can get a team together to work with him and continues to innovate, he will make it into a product that meets the industry standards.

Or Google might take him to work for them :)
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I have a hypothesis. In general people have poor perception of their ability along any measure X. Sometimes they are better than they think but most of the time they are worse than they think. The former will happen more often if you have a tough teacher or a guide, while the latter will happen more often in tasks with less feedback other than your own thoughts (Most of us think we are better drivers than we actually are).
Small diamonds aren't all that expensive, especially if you get them with flaws (which are usually invisible anyway), and off colors (which can't be seen if the stone is mounted).

Little ones (about the size on this ring) can be had for $5-$20.
A really really powerful post. I wish you all the best, I truly mean that.
After my first horrible miss I didn't think I could possibly win. But I did!

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I had the luck to find a photographer for my wedding who was willing to give me high resolution versions of my photos. He didn't even charge more than the others I contacted before him.

The other thing that bothers me with all the rest of the photographers I contacted for the job was that they all want to sell you their overpriced albums, prints etc on top of the photographer's price. The guy that got the job in the end explicitly told me, he doesn't arrange for prints, but if we want them he can recommend and arrange it for us but we get to pay the printer directly and not him.
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Since rDNS is one of the simplest things to fix, and absent or inconsistent rDNS one of the most obvious signs of spam, I'm with AOL on that one.

If fact, every email server setup I've seen explicitly rejects emails simply due to absent or inconsistent rDNS records.
Google's how-to-prepare-for-an-interview e-mails used to say "give yourself at least 2 weeks to review and hone your coding, algorithmic and problem solving skills."

That's fine if you only want the unemployed and new graduates - how well do you suppose it works out for people with full time jobs?
> charge you for time you spend involuntarily in prison

There should be a Constitutional amendment specifically banning this practice.

Honestly it should already be there under cruel and unusual punishment (obvious), due process (the process eventually said he was innocent so how can he be punished?) or attainder (punishing someone for something other than an illegal action). But since it's apparently not obvious, it wouldn't hurt to spell it out.
Maybe we need to play the role of the monkeys in the apocryphal conformity experiment (http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-exp...) and post it for him:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543
There's a guy on reddit who does this: http://www.reddit.com/user/IFoundItOnGoogleMaps
> Linux being as monolithic as ever

Except for loadable kernel modules which is a pretty big move towards microkernel-like features from the original versions.
As I said in another comment, I believe we are generally very poor at telling how we rate on any given scale, unless we have something very tangible - an objective score (like in a game), lots of outside confirmation, etc. Most of us think we are better drivers than we are. When you do not have as much outside feedback, it's easier to talk yourself into believing anything.

One of the best applications of this is to be more positive and happier.
I don't like that Google killing some great technologies, like Reader or push-email for iPhone (especially last one). I was Gmail user for a long time, but switch on iCloud recently, because i'm looking something fresh and easy-to-use and still want to have push in my iPhone.

iCloud mail interface not just "pretty", but simpler and especially settings. So, after iCloud Gmail looks very cheap, if you don't use iCloud, you should to try.
Honestly my greatest fear is that my account would be shut down for some obscure infraction and their support would be so terrible I'd never get it back. What would be the recourse then? Storming into their offices and demanding an answer?
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Someone should check that thing for back doors!

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
NewsBlur is the best of the web-based bunch I've been checking out recently, but it's still... not quite there.

For example, this glitch has been around for weeks:

http://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/files/newsblur-glitch.png

I'm also not sure it's quite fast enough yet. I've used FeedDemon and Reeder (and NetNewsWire before that) for so long I'm really used to low-latency feed UI. I think web UI can match that, but NewsBlur isn't quite there yet.

I also think the new design, while much better than the old design, is still quite heavy, in the sense that there is a lot to take in, lots of little details. Personally, I really liked the more sparing design in for example Reeder for the Mac. It would be great if there was an option in the NewsBlur UI to point to a stylesheet (or an inline <style> block) that would allow me to play with customization a bit.

Of course, I also haven't found anything better so far, so it looks like NewsBlur will still be my reader of choice for the foreseeable future.
3/50 is I think a meaningless failure rate. If the system overlooks 3 out of every 50 pedestrians standing on the road by themselves and happily runs them over, then it is certainly unacceptable. If there is a test, in which the system is shown groups of pedestrians, in total 50 and it mistakes a group of 3 for a large immobile object, then it is probably acceptable, as long as it always labels pedestrians as 'do not run over.'

And for the entire fleet of autonomous cars, the system does not need to be safe. It just needs to be better than humans driving. Realistically to gain acceptance they would need to be an order of magnitude better, which translates to roughly 1 fatal accident per year per 10^5 self driving cars. The current numbers for the US are 36000 fatalities and 250M cars.
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Very nicely done. I like the interface. I would suggest that you should let the users play with it without asking them to signup.
I thought that was cheating, just like looking on the map for terrain that matches, until I saw someone on HN post "Challenge mode: 20 minutes and no zooming on the map". I was already doing that lol...
There are several parties in the game - the "normal plebians", and the upper eschlons. Guess who benefits the most from inflation? Guess who decides monetary policy that leads to inflation?
It doesn't happen nearly as often, but I also cringe when I hear the word "stability" used as a euphemism to indicate a desire for someone with a mortgage and family. Discrimination comes in many forms.
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For better or worse JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web, so if you want to go home early instead of tracking down compiler errors of the translation tool, the best way is just to use JavaScript.

Dart will never take off if the other vendors don't offer VM support on their browsers. Almost every language has JavaScript transpilers and as a Chrome only solution it won't work.
AFAIK, loadable kernel modules has nothing to do with microkernels. Those are still running in the kernel space.

Maybe you meant something like FUSE.
Isn't that the original link? (I ask because I'm terribly curious about your first miss.)
Hey, no need for scientific rigor here when you're crowdfunded and are operating a startup. Move fast and break things, right?

In all seriousness, kudos to these kids and their ambitions. However, the software model of iterating fast doesn't always translate to the physical world, especially when it comes to items ingested by human beings.

It's one thing to "pivot" on your Instagram clone, but taking some experimental goop that hasn't been rigorously tested with good unbiased science (not to mention with a sample size larger than one 24-year old) and deciding to market it is another thing--especially when none of your "team" are nutritionists by trade. There's a reason we have the FDA. I get that this is the "startup culture", but let's take a moment to realize the physical world doesn't allow us to recompile and try again very easily.
What if one uses cameras set at different sensitivity, kind of like how one makes HDR photos?
> Somebody comes out with an idea to drastically transform the way that we consume food

No. Liquid feed has existed for a long time. You can walk to a shop and buy it. There's a small convenience store across the road from me selling it next to coca cola and pepsi.

We are polite to people who are sincere, even if they are foolish and ignorant. We are rude to people who are engaged in blatantly dangerous scamming.
Recently some ignorant, nescient C++ programmer called me a Java programmer, because I use K&R style and not his preferred Allman style. Even Stroustrup uses hanging braces (with the exception of function body opening braces)!
The biggest challenge with a dating site is attracting your first few thousand users simply because no-one will be interested in your site if there aren't any members to browse.

Companies such as http://www.whitelabeldating.com/ provide a white label platform that allows you to launch a dating site with a shared user-base so that from day one your site has active members to search.

Even with an established user base, it's incredibly difficult to build a successful dating site due to the amount of competition. It requires a catchy niche and some seriously heavy PR & marketing to make any serious money.

Caveat: I work for the company that owns whitelabeldating.com
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It's the worst method out there--except for all the other ones. The problem with the "here's my portfolio of work" screening method is that companies generally expect a certain level of productivity (and IQ), and there's no way to tell how long you worked on your portfolio. Did you write that code in two hours or two years? Any code can be made to look good given an infinite amount of time to polish it and test it. Behavioral interviewing questions, on the other hand, just don't work for coders; too easy to bullshit.

The arguments against coding interviews seem weak, to me. They appear to be rationalizations for not getting the job--an insult to the ego that must be rectified by bending reality. They essentially boil down to, "I shouldn't have to sweat these details; they're beneath me." But all of the greats sweat the small stuff, almost obsessively, and pay their dues.

For the vast majority of mindless coding jobs out there, you don't need to hit the high notes. But when you're moving the state of the art forward--indeed, civilization forward, inventing what has not been invented before--you need complete mastery. If you just want to build stuff, on the other hand, these skills are unnecessary. But that's not engineering. That's construction work, for construction workers.
Ugh, every discussion about soylent follows the same pattern.

person #1: But he hasn't proven it's safe!

person #2: But you haven't proven that it isn't!

person #1: But he doesn't have a PhD or any qualifications in food science!

person #2: But you don't either! And anyway the real experts admit they don't know what they're doing anyway. The fake experts are busy pushing colon cleanse products and miracle diets.

person #1: But he's playing with people's lives! Think of the children!

person #2: But so are the guys who invented the Doritos taco shell, the twinkie, and the super-sized french fries. Why the double standard?

How about injecting some reality into this debate and admitting that nobody is going to actually eat nothing but soylent every day. OK, maybe possibly the original inventor will stick to it for a while, but I can't imagine anyone else possibly doing this. Most Americans can barely make it between meals without grabbing a snack. Do you really think someone is going to eat nothing but green snot for a year? All these arguments are irrelevant, really.
I have some ideas that would help address this problem and improve hiring in general. I might take a stab at it eventually, if I'm ever no longer running my current venture.
I presume because the relative permanence of the printed word relative to the spoken, leading to its potentially greater exposure.
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It does not bring any advantage to the plethora of languages that already compile down to JavaScript.
Yes, some startups are actually exercises in programming. Real talk.
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Do you mean Faraday?
I like the idea that people can use the Internet to noodle about with weird ideas. That's great.

What's not great is moving from "This is me, noodling about with my own personal weird idea, and here's the information so you can join in" to "Hey! I'm going to solve world hunger, and obesity, and you can live off this with no problems no matter who you are!!! (only $200 per month)"

Rest assured, if Ben and Jerry had a crowdfunding website and claimed their food was balanced for optimal nutrition I'd be very critical of them too.
Awesome idea! I was thinking of doing something similar using an energy scavenging IC with the coil and only pulsing the LED for brief flashes when enough charge is stored.
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Always coding and landing a job are kinda opposite in my opinion. If you are looking for a job, then you have to look for the job and that means little time and interest for coding.

You are not also guaranteeing a position where you'll actually code something or help develop something if you happened to get the job.

If you want to code, do agency consulting. Agency brings the work, manages the clients, do the accounting, marketing and the stuff. You code.
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Audience? I know plenty of programmers who hate JavaScript for not having classic object model. I make my living as PHP programmer and hate JavaScript too for exactly that reason. I did only jquery with plugins and inline code mostly with effects and ajax load coding.

I tried DART and did multiplayer online game http://shipsonline.org/ as my first "hello world" without any external code. Epic win for myself. It has more than static typing, please try write simple app and you will see. Eventualy it became stable and then became mainstream popular i hope.
This should be "GIF originally intended to be pronounced 'jif'". Gif (with a hard G) seems to be the accepted pronunciation now.
There are still a lot of externalities that people are cutting corners on, even in the suburbs: proper insurance (by not declaring that you're acting as a hotel), tax (by not declaring airbnb income on your income tax), safety regulations (fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, floor plans etc).

Not that all these laws make sense for airbnb, but by not respecting them you're "unfairly" undercutting hotels.
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it would be a macro call
You're splitting hairs. Microkernels do offer practical advantages by virtue of their architecture, while suffering from other drawbacks again caused by their architecture.
So you pair up this student with the high schooler who created the supercapacitor, and they'll disrupt a Google-Tesla alliance years before it's even conceived.
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I have scrolled through hundreds of apparently dead serious comments to get here. Thank you.

I'm just dumbfounded. I can't comprehend what is going on in this comment section. It seems quite clear to me that the HN community is being parodied, and yet either everyone here is so gullible they have never been on the Internet before, or they are dutifully playing their part in the parody.
Apple's calling a single digit tax rate a "reasonable rate"? You've got to be kidding me. Apple's profits have astounding for years and it's not like the taxes have hurt it (to be fair, they've been legally sheltering money offshore in low-tax areas). This is a completely self-serving suggestion on Apple's part. This won't benefit the US economy; it will benefit Apple shareholders.
How are zoning regulations "violent"?
I managed to install mine, and if I can do it anyone can :)

The fact that it's fixed in one location often isn't that much of a problem, given that ceiling lights are traditionally mounted in the center of the room, which is just where you want the fan.

(Traditionally: if you have recessed LED or halogen lighting that would of course be a different matter.)

One warning: if you don't use it all winter, make sure you clean it before you switch it on the first time in spring...
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I'm not sure, but that sounds unenforceable in the state of California (where a lot of HNers are). If you work outside of California, sucks to be you, I guess.
Ha, you forgot this list:

"disrupt!"

"only the beginning"

"ninja"

"agile"

"seamless"

"social media"
What resources did you use to implement gif89a?

You already mentioned the specification ( http://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt ). Did you use anything else?
I was contacted by Google without them knowing I had a degree, although they knew by the time I was scheduled for an interview. Apparently washing out in round one of Google Code Jame 2012 was enough for them to seek me out. I performed to expectation by similarly washing out of the interview.

Steve Yegge wrote that you should apply to Google, no matter whether you think they'll take you or not, because it's a desirable position and the cost of failing is low. I spent $200 on a hotel room (not reimbursable), $150 on transportation from and to the airport (not reimbursable), $50 on baggage fees (reimbursable), and two days of my salary (since I wasn't at work when interviewing) (not reimbursable) in order to apply. This could be described as "significant".
We have more a news filtering approach. If you select for e.g. "Ruby on Rails" we will analyze your twitter feed and only show you stories from people you follow on twitter that have curated this kind of stories. You can of course set multiple topic filters.

Prismatic has a different approach, where they try to figure out your interests, then they suggest you stories. Those are not stories curated directly from people you follow on your social networks.

With Flipboard, you follow blogs or curated magazines. No detailed filters.
This was posted to Metafilter about a week ago. I have spent well over two hours everyday with it. I spent about 4 seconds on Tumblr in the last year so I guess geoguessr is worth the GPD of the entire planet.
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The LibreOffice guys have told me hat ICU has security concerns and is, for all intents and purposes, no longer being developed. They are switching to another engine (hard buzz? Name escapes me).

Anyone know if this is true?
And the ability to get health insurance without being under a megacorporation's umbrella.
Damn, you beat me. Right down to the line too. The last one--Czech Republic--made all the difference. Perhaps you know the language or something, you got it dead on.

We both bombed on South Africa and Australia, but I beat you for Utah and Russia :>
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Too late. Ken Thompson already put the back door in his B compiler.
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This is all very well if you have a friendly, high level scripting language like Ruby, but I'm definitely glad I don't have to write a C compiler where functions can take arbitrary blocks of code.
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I would actually say "she probably knows less than the locals and can do much less than the locals".

I studied Medicine for two years, and was surprised by how much advanced and knowledgeable our ancestors were.

Pharaons did brain surgery to remove cancer tumors a thousands years back successfully. This alone, shows the degree of sophistication and technology they had.

Now I'm not saying before is better, but today we rely a lot on technology (IRM, Radiology, Echography...) that we don't keep much of the details and don't even need to learn them.
US turning into lawless police state and even some people even on HN are more than okay with it. Very scary.