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I'm not convinced that lack of religion and pessimism are correlated at all. In my experience, religious people are as likely to be pessimistic as non-religious people. The latter may be more cynical, but those people were almost always religious at some point in their lives and their darker attitudes are caused by their disillusionment about religion, rather than by lack of religion.

I think you have some deeply rooted misunderstandings about the relationship between religion and fertility. Religious people have more kids primarily because most organized religions frown upon birth control. It has nothing to do with hope or optimism and everything to do with the fact that they are having sex just as often as non-religious folks but are much more likely to conceive. Another reason is that non-religious people tend to be more independent in their thinking and they question and resist social pressures -- and even economic incentives -- to have kids. Atheist couples are much more open to sitting down and having a conversation about whether they want kids and, if they do, whether they are ready.

As for religion and evolution... I don't even know where to begin. Just because you're popping out child after child doesn't mean those children are likely to survive, prosper and reproduce. That is traditionally why people have felt the need to have lots of kids: you didn't know how many of them would live long enough to have kids of their own. It is only very recently that modern medicine has significantly decreased child mortality and increased lifespans. This is yet another reason why developed countries have lower birth rates.

The bottom line is that your entire narrative seems to be that lack of religion leads to pessimism, which then leads to lower fertility, and this is somehow going to have evolutionary implications. To anyone who is knowledgeable about any of these topics, this is just sheer, unadulterated nonsense.
The forward it to someone else is probably what comes off as most offensive if you haven't developed any rapport with the recruiter. I get tons of referrals now from past candidates, but I almost never ask for referrals. I'd rather be the one not asking for them, which differentiates me from most other firms out there.

If they didn't ask you to forward, would you freely respond with what you in fact are looking for, or would the recruiter specifically have to ask that? I usually phrase my intros by saying if the opportunity I presented isn't something you are interested in, I'd like to learn about what types of things would interest you so I can let you know about only those opportunities if they happen to come across my desk. Response varies, even with that added line.
Has anyone tried the 39" Seiki on a Mac? At $389 seems like an easier purchase. Plus it doubles as a TV.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16889522...
Do you really think that drones would be able to take down a F-35?
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No legit technical reason? How about 'user experience'? To my understanding this sort of pilot program is limited to proven-good configurations to keep the kvetching to a minimum before they generalize it for launch.
Fine, then don't give me an option to close it and then ask me to try again later. Just be honest and tell me I have to call a number to close it.
It's obvious this is just another Facebook experiment to see if it sticks. To criticize the idea head on is dumb, I'm sure the people who built it have their own skepticism as well. Probably easy to build and launch, so they did. Criticize their methods (like focusing on photo/video apps in general, or on mass experimentation), not the specifics of experiments themselves if you want to be taken seriously. The least productive use of time is sitting around arguing if you think an idea would work, if it's easy to test.
Professional traders have known this for decades. Watching for signs of insider movement and then jumping on has been a popular strategy since forever. (Of course, you have to know how to read the charts... the signs are subtle and ambiguous.)

I sometimes wonder if we wouldn't be better off without the charade of insider trading laws. We could just drop them and stop pretending the water isn't shark-infested. Ironically, Wall Street might oppose this as it might make it harder to
attract suckers to the game (if I may mix metaphors).
I did a quick search and nobody mentioned pickup, but I seriously recommend it.

I had the same problem with introversion. And people are often surprised because I seem very outgoing. I followed a very clear path to get to where I am and it's outlined below. There are some very simple things you can do right now to make progress. I felt like I had to change my entire wardrobe, personality, and gain muscle. None of this was necessary and just lowered my self esteem.

First, find a pickup group. Just google around or contact me. Then go out with that group and try the following things in order. Do each one several times. If one of them is too easy then just skip it. I had to start at the very bottom. It was that bad for me, but pickup helped me be social and outgoing naturally, so it's not just about women.

1. Go to a supermarket or a mall and just ask questions from a female cashier. Say you're getting a gift for a female friend. Say you don't like her, but she likes you. This is super fun.
2. Go up to 10 random people in a supermarket or wherever and give them a compliment on something. I felt really good after doing this. It taught me that communication that isn't technically productive can bring people a lot of joy.
3. Get used to approaching women -- any women at all. Go into a mall or any place with lots of people and approach the first 3 women you see. They don't have to be pretty; you don't have to like them. They can be old or young. It's important that you do not discriminate. It helps build a reflex to approach women, and prevents you from having to decide who to approach and who to avoid. This one thing has helped me more than I can tell you.
4. Once you're somewhat comfortable approaching women, then just see how long you can stay in the conversation.
5. Then near the middle of each conversation ask for the woman's phone number.
6. Then get used to asking women to go on a date with you, even if you're not interested.

All of the above is practice and necessary. Then when you meet a girl you really like while going out then you will know what to do. I glossed over a lot of details, but I'm sure you can do this.

Your pickup group can become your first group of friends. It's a little weird at first, but many of them are still my friends. You can tell them things that are too intimate to discuss with even a girlfriend. My group helped me a lot. And you need that positivity because hitting on girls is hard. You'll get rejected a lot. But that negative feedback will tell you exactly what you need to improve.

Women's minds are hardwired to be attracted to men who are socially intelligent. By practicing pickup you will naturally become socially intelligent. This social intelligence has helped me get more friends, land more interviews, negotiate, and even helped me get into events for free.

Pickup is not for the faint of heart, but I'd still be lost without it. I say it's worth a shot.

Contact me
naivegenius@gmail.com

I will do my best to help you.
I haven't written a line in half of these languages, and I got a perfect score.

I still don't know what this says about the uniqueness of programming languages or the ratio of code reading to code writing in the industry.
Why do you show different exercises everyday? Technique is important especially for bodyweight exercises.

How can you call it "HackerBody" when bodyweight exercises are
so much less effective than Weight lifting?
Marine life has dealt with particles in the water for a billion years.

Precisely, and that actually potentially works against the organisms' defenses. It's like the Trojan Horse, it looks okay on the outside. The particles being dealt with for a billion years I imagine have varied little in their molecular construction and bio-reactivity.

Your idea is that we can introduce tons of new plastic particles into the environment having all the disruptive properties plastics have been shown to have, but it's okay because there are already 'particles' in the environment.

Elsewhere you question what studies have been conducted to quantify damage done by these particles.

As you may know, the earth is an immensely complex system. Sometimes it is relatively easy to draw a causal line from A to B. Other times the effects of something are no doubt there, but the interworkings of so many factors make it hard to precisely quantify the effects of any one factor.(see Honeybees and Colony Collapse Disorder[1])

So your idea that we should go ahead and saturate the environment with this substance that has been shown in other realms and at other scales to be detrimental, and then if someone happens to take an interest in precisely quantifying damage that it is doing, then we can do something about it, seems wrongheaded.

Maybe you're just playing the reflexive contrarian like worklogin, "shouldn't we avoid laws?" This is precisely what laws are for, to protect the common good! And it isn't a stretch to infer damage being done based on what we know about plastic.

[1]http://cdn.billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/6729628...
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You sure it's not because of the fact that it's a joint strike fighter and LM has to create one aircraft that is able to accommodate the requirements of each branch of the military?
I wonder about that "overconfident" label, and it might be possible to tease various effects out of the data.

Consider two possibilities:

1) CEOs with large incentive pay are irrationally confident in the success of risky policies

2) CEOs with large incentive pay are behaving like economically rational agents... betting someone else's money.

That is, incentive pay is more like a free pass to a casino where your losses are made good but you keep some fraction of your winnings. Under those circumstances taking large risks may be the most rational thing to do, IF the cash component of the CEO's compensation is sufficient to keep them in caviar and summer homes while they gamble the firm's money away.
I completely agree with the line, "Treat the stock options like a lottery ticket. You should work for your startup because you believe in the founder's vision, not because you think you will get rich". Bad behavior (hopping to startup to startup looking for the pot at the end of the rainbow) leads to poor loyalty and high hiring costs. If you are not passionate about the business itself, then don't take the offer.
Anti-aircraft missiles are essentially drones.
Has anyone tried any of the 4k (or Ultra High Definition) displays with Ubuntu? I'd be interested to know what the results are..
I agree with you but to not give a supporting reason for mentioning it, is in poor taste.

These videos might be poor if this was RethinkDB's marketing video towards non-developers. But this is _for_ devs. Do you really think devs care if a person has a slight lisp? The software is rock solid.

Your credentials mention that you are a project manager. Take your non-technical experience and bigotry and get the fuck off Hacker News. Thanks.
I don't disagree that the F-35 is poor in every respect (read up on the South Korean procurement vs the F-18), but I am a little puzzled at one part of the video. Is there an actual source that current stealth is easily beatable by long wave radar? I acknowledge the expertise of Pierre Sprey, but I have my doubts on how easy it is to beat.
[citation needed]

There are pros and cons to bodyweight and free weight depending on the desired outcomes. Neither strictly dominates the other.
In a similar vein, there were news articles a while back that talked about how moms using Pinterest felt inadequate when they didn't do enough "creative" things for their children.
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If you used megapixels it wouldn't be any worse than camera sensors. I'm honestly surprised this hasn't been done as an alternative to VGA, SVGA, DVGA, WSVGA, XGA, WXGA, SXGA, WSXGA, UXGA, WUXHA, WQSXGA, WXUSXGA, qHD, HD, FHD, QHD, UHD, FUHD, etc. (several resolutions omitted)

A number of megapixels and an aspect ratio would give all the information you need, while boiling it down to easily comparable numbers.
It's the missiles, not planes, that kill aircrafts, and drones are much cheaper ordnance carriers.
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I haven't been to Tokyo. But I have been to most of the largest cities of North America and Europe. The NYC subway system is extremely inexpensive ($2.50 for as long a ride as you need - as many transfers as you want), has incredibly wide coverage, and is quite reliable. It is one of the largest subway systems in the world. It is old and somewhat dirty if that's what you're referring to? I don't think it's sad.

In addition there are commuter trains that cover most of Long Island, Westchester county, Southwest Connecticut, and North New Jersey that connect to stations serviced by the subway and many run hourly or half hourly. NY buses aren't the best - but no system is perfect.
Coincidentally, I was researching this model last night, and the general commentary of this device as a computer monitor is that it's bad (due to the slower frame rate with HDMI at the native resolution).
Ironically, the F-111 was the only model/mission of the TFX development effort to survive. The TFX was the '60s version of the F-35, except it also tried for the air superiority role the F-22 now fills.

Nominal peacetime is when the bureaucrats try to save money with a single weapon system that "can do everything" ... but it seldom does more than one thing well. The M14 rifle is another '50s example.
There's a world of difference between being approached by recruiters who have been retained to find talented people, and being hounded by recruiters who are trying to place their allotted candidates where ever they can.
Auth is always a challenge. Simplifying the design of an application's auth solution is a great way to make clear the risks and tradeoffs it presents.
I like this one much better. There are many more options, and the choices are much more closely related.
I like this analogy. Silicon valley generates random mutations of existing ideas, without thought or direction, and occasionally lands, by pure chance, on something slightly better, which survives at the expense of other inferior mutations.

I guess that maybe the developers working on "a new way to share photos and video" kid themselves that they're making something different; something that really is revolutionary. But no, what they're really doing is tweaking the shape of a beak thinking it'll make a better finch.

So I do kind of have to ask: is making random tweaks to the genome of the photo sharing application in the hope they'll be successful really the best use of the talents of all those developers?
You're welcome.

Initially it was put together as a learning experience, but I can see that it is useful enough to remain live indefinitely.

I can imagine several way of monetizing it, such as adding the MX/SRV/TXT/CNAME records, etc. But the one that seems most useful would be allowing custom domain - and sadly I can't see how to do that easily.

(I can't imagine somebody would trust me with their root-domain, basically. And having *.foo.example.com seems like it would be long enough to spoil the utility.)
I wrote an article a while back on how to find a decent recruiter (http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2013/08/09/pretty/). You really can't control who contacts you, so to find a good one you'll likely have to do some outreach.

In my eyes the main thing is experience. Young recruiters who haven't made any money yet get tied up in trying to recruit everyone and they don't discriminate. They waste everybody's time - the candidate, the client, and their own. Wave 5K or 10K in front of someone a year out of school and they go bonkers - wave that same amount in front of someone who has been in business for a while, and they know how valuable their time really is.

The recruiters that are trying to squeeze round pegs into square holes haven't figured out the time management side of things yet. If they figure it out at some point, they could have a long career. If they don't figure it out in a couple years, they have to leave the industry (or bounce around between companies until they are unemployable).

Career longevity could mean that the recruiter is the best at sales and skilled at convincing candidates to take any job. But doing that isn't sustainable over years and years - your reputation will eventually catch up to you.

Find someone who has been in the business for a while with a steady work history and experience in your industry. They will be thrilled to hear from you.
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Show HN: Area301.com – Free Intelligent Leads Aggregator for Web Developers
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Maybe this is specific per country, but in the Netherlands 'HD Ready' always referred to 720 instead of 1080.
My experience of recruiters is mostly good. I spend almost no time saying no to offers that I don't like. For offers that might be good, I have a better negotiating position than if I applied for the job - I still have my current job, so they have to make a really good offer, otherwise I won't switch.

I am mostly contacted on LinkedIn, and I think, on balance, that it works well there. I've written about it here: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/08/21/linkedin-good-or-bad/
About the project (From the Author)

History:

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I am a web developer finding new clients on job listing websites (CL, Elance, Guru, Smashing Magazine just to name a few) and I find it time consuming to go from one site to another looking for leads. Most of those sites do not have good search functionality, and reading new postings via RSS does not fix the situation.

There are also many spammy posts on all of those sites and over the years I learned how to easily spot time wasters and fake postings.

Execution:

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I decided to create a site which will:

get data from job listing websites ==> analyze this data and try to eliminate suspicious posts, detect quality of leads etc. ==> store this filtered data in a database ==> display it in a user friendly format

I created this tool and called it AREA301 and I use it myself when searching for new web design clients. I have opened it up to the public and let other web developers use it. It is free to use.

I already have more than 100 active users and I address any issues they find as fast as I can.

I am looking for feedback about the idea, landing page design and the functionality of the tool itself.

Link: http://www.area301.com/
We have ~20 of them. They're fine. They 30Hz is a little bit annoying if you drag windows around, but it's not really a problem for scrolling.
I'd say Snapchat is the comparison, and yes, you literally could. It's almost as if people and companies create products to compete with other products. Multiple types of bread, what madness is this. I could literally use the same type of bread from this other company!

> "Neat" does not justify the money or engineering talent invested in it. If I was a Facebook share holder, I'd be confused as all hell.

lol i wasn't trying to justify them creating it. I don't give a shit why they did. All i care is that i am a consumer of it, and enjoy it more than Snapchat. Vastly more than sending pictures via SMS/Facebook/etc.

I'd love to continue a discussion, but this feels much less like a discussion about a product and more like i have to try and sell you on the concept, and on the product itself. Frankly, i don't have the slightest care if you like the product.

Funny how Liking something on HN is so often a mind blowingly crazy concept. "But the numbers don't add up!!" they cry. Well, make your own Facebook, become far more successful than FB, and don't make their mistakes. Since you so clearly know something they don't, you should have a serious edge in the competition, right? :)
clojurescript run in node? is this on the roadmap?
Project leaders, primarily. As in, "This is what I want, and this is how you are going to engineer it."
the actual production design must have involved hundreds of engineers. Sprey seems to have been on the pre-production design team that developed the theory and concept that was later realized as the F-16. specifically, the idea of a specialized fighter that was focused on aerodynamic performance above all other concerns.
hey guys, it's ok. The chinese jacked the f-35 designs. Removed the VTOL aspect, narrowed the chassis, and now it's a much MUCH better aircraft. Hopefully they're cool and let us buy them back from them!
Why target anime in particular instead of (for example) all TV and movies? Is it more about having a beachhead, or is it that there are important characteristics that make anime unique compared to other media?
Founders don't know how to employ capital profitably because for any individual startup the best course of action is to return the funds to the shareholder because it's a virtually assured failure.

However, in aggregate the serious performers outweigh the losses from the 99% failure rate.

So given that I am about to give 5 years of my time to something that is most likely a failure I'd like some compensation for my time, just like every VC takes 2% to flush the LPs money down the toilet, and 20% when they return.
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This would indeed be nice and this is precisely what we intend to code next.
The treasurer of my nonprofit who worked the short book at a hedge fund for a bit, commented on using this effect in his analyses, although usually for him it was lavish compensation packages that don't count stock-based compensation.

I'd worry that the inclusion of stock-based compensation introduces a different sort of artefact (a time-bias). By the nature of our bubblicious economy, CEOs in general are going to enjoy abnormally high stock-based returns in the 3-year run up to a stock market crash.