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I can address #2;

> If you know the answer to the question, why not summarize it? Is the answer to the question so complicated that it would take more time and energy than the two paragraphs you composed in derision?

Every science article posted on HN gets the exact same treatment where well-intentioned but scientifically ignorant posters fill the comment section with drive-by posts saying "Correlation != Causation" or "Did they correct for [obvious variable]".

It's exhausting and completely unproductive.

If they would take 30 seconds and actually read the source information, they would answer their questions and the comment threads wouldn't devolve into this annoying meta conversation.

Take the post that prompted this whole thing;

> Did they describe how they controlled for behavioral habits? It seems like, as a group, the type of people who would drink large amounts of sugary soda would be less likely to make healthy behavioral choices in other aspects of their life, compared to people who drink fruit juice or diet soda. This could also explain the disparity between soda and non-carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages

> This study doesn't seem to show that soda ages you (as the article states), but instead that sugary soda consumption indicates a tendency towards other activities/habits that may prematurely age you.

So a poster, that later admits he didn't read the article, not only discounts the research that a half dozen PhDs in public health performed, but then provides his own summary of their research that is completely at odds with their results and experience.

How is this helpful?

If one were trying to troll a comment section to waste everyone's time, that's literally the best tactic since anything more obvious would be flagged or ignored.
I've long believed that all compliant compilers should implement all undefined behaviour as an attempt to format the hard drive. It makes bugs much easier to detect in testing. Bugs that ship will mask themselves from customers, and many critical security bugs will be self-limiting and reduce the amount of data exposed.
Partial Solar Eclipse on Thursday, Oct. 23
Congratulations guys! Wearing my #11 beta sweatshirt as I write this. :)

It's been incredible to watch Firebase grow from a glimmering James' and Andrew's eyes. It seems like just yesterday a few dozen of us were all huddling around in a board room being onboarded for the beta.

Excited and optimistic for the future of Firebase :)
The rule on reposts is that if a story has had significant attention in a year then we bury it as a duplicate (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). But sure, if there's something significantly different, a post making that clear is ok. We obviously can't study every story in depth to determine how much has changed.

There were a couple of other problems with this post, though. First, "Show HN: Open Source Firebase" is a pretty baity title on the day when Firebase's acquisition is the top story. Using titles to grab attention that way isn't ok on HN, where we want titles to be accurate and neutral.

Second, this post set off the voting ring detector. I looked at the data and the ring detector was obviously correct, by a large margin. You probably shouldn't protest about being treated unfairly when you're flagrantly breaking the rules.
Well, typically I work under IP agreements that would require that I get approval for this with my current employers.

In general, you don't want to bias your hiring pipeline away from people that currently have good jobs.
My mom was bitten by a tick in Colorado and given a 2 week course of antibiotics when she started to feel ill. She got better then promptly got worse as soon as they ran out. Over the next six months she progressively worsened until she could only get out of bed for a couple hours a day. Finally she found out about Lyme disease - many doctors do not believe that it even occurs in Colorado so she didn't know what was wrong for the longest time. She found a doctor out of state that insurance would cover who would treat her. She was on heavy doses of oral antibiotics for four years and has never had a relapse, some 20 years later.

Good luck on your treatment.
Oh lord, I could not have read this ata more apt time. I am going through such a crisis right now, professionally. I keep interviewing at these places where they just want to know if I can solve 9 ball problems or not. I almost feel like an impostor. Glad I read this.
Russell,

Please don't take my comments as a knock on Mailgun. You guys rock.

It was more the frustration with the idea that 1) encryption is optional for certain network protocols, and that 2) you upgrade a plaintext connection to a secure connection. This simply fails in practice, and we have seen this time and again with HTTP/HTTPS.

1) is changing, which is good.

2) is something people keep pushing for because it should work. Afterall you can configure your server to require a STARTTLS, and have all your client's configured to always use STARTTLS and abort out if it doesn't become secure.

Stop that. You are already making this to complicated. Crypto is hard enough as is. (See lower comment re: Comcast and STARTTLS). Ignoring the fact that you are mixing Layer 5/6 concepts into your Layer 7 application prototol, you are creating an insecure-by-default system. Its plaintext, unless you do these things. Stop that. You are doing it backwards. Make it a separate port, and SSL/TLS happens before the application protocol is even accessed. "Is this connection secure" and tracking state and transition into/out of that is not the job of an application protocol. Make this simple and boolean.
From a document called "Combat Survival and Evasion":

> Depending upon the supplies, there is a worm remedy: swallow a couple of tablespoons of kerosene or gasoline. Kerosene is more effective but gasoline will do. Either will make you a bit sick, but will make the worms a lot sicker.

It's amazing how the wording is very similar. This document is from sometime in 50's I think, written by a Korean(?) war vet (talks about his time being a POW and "stealing" a wooden house board by board until it was slowly gone altogether. The Chinese guards were confused but weren't amused.)
Haha, working musicians are hardly upper class. Intelligentsia, maybe.
AWESOME!!! Congrats to the team, Firebase has been a pleasure to use from day one. The Angular fire integration has allowed me to prototype ideas in hours as opposed to days. THANK YOU, for creating such clear documentation, clear video presentations. The google acquisition makes it a easier to sell to some of the higher ups now, :P. YAY!
This has been something that fascinated me the first time I heard of it, the North and South poles of the planet shifting. Recent work on sediments in a lake have given a much better estimate of the time it took and reduced it from "less than 1000 years" to "less than 100". Further, the lack of sediment showing inter-pole positions means it might have been practically instantaneous. That would be a pretty wild thing to live through.
They drill into crevices in muscle tissue and are able to avoid the lymphocytes. It's hard to effectively become immune.
How to Start a Startup – W04
Gov. Rick Snyder signs 'anti-Tesla' bill into law
My understanding was that restaurants in the US are required to provide free tap water. It may be a very small cup, but it should be available.
She's not software developer, but "Customer Experience Associate", which apparently consists in taking calls from customers. 30k seems very low for NYC though.
I don't think that's a good example. For all the angst around them online, they both have their redeeming qualities if you actually interact with either.
I love the user experience description, here. This is an intelligent user of software describing their mental model of what is going on. It doesn't map cleanly to the discussions about software among software developers, because of course it doesn't, but it's also not just plain wrong or misguided.

This is the kind of feedback I would kill for on a product.
I Just Left My Startup – Here's What I Learned
Just for clarity, they know the poles change slightly, the "end-of-the-world" view is based on the theory that once they shift a certain distance, there is a pole swap... not a shift, that causes all kinds of havoc on the ecosystem. I have never seen any good papers on the subject though, so am inclined to agree with your skepticism.
Gene expressions are not binary. Code may not necessarily need to be modified-- merely activated or deactivated per expression levels. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if code does in fact get 'modified' over time (but there is the problem of separating code from data in your model even then).
Thanks, I guess we'll have add something like "features" page.

Basically other solutions are made for teams, they are complex and have a lot to setup. Staply is simple and made for all kind of groups.

Moreover we focus not only on real time sharing. We've made it super easy to find and understand content that was shared even few months ago.
I was on antibiotics for a year - in retrospect it may have been a tad stupid, but I had felt so terrible for so long I was prepared to take the risk - given the opportunity, I think most people in the same position would do likewise.
This also blocks GM/Ford/Chrysler from selling directly to the consumer. This isn't specifically Tesla focused, but is favoring the auto dealer network which wants to remain relevant and get their cut.
Hey this looks a lot better. Excited to dig into it!
The discussion here is far more interesting than the article. "I don't like jigsaw puzzles, therefore I'm not supposed to be good as a programmer"? "Facebook and Google aren't looking for people like me, therefore I'm not supposed to be good as a programmer"? It seems to be intentionally narrowing the definition in order to make a somewhat whiny point.

What I like about programming is not problem solving — it’s design. How do I design an application in such a way that people will understand it?

Or, to put it another way, 'what I like about programming is not problem solving, it's problem solving'. The author somehow distorted the term 'problem solving' into 'puzzle solving'. Improving the usability of something is solving a problem. The author is tilting at windmills.
Should building hardware be your next act of voluntary insanity, here are the people who can help you survive the asylum.
The complication with such short doses, and the discussion of them, is that they provide a short bout of relief, and then the infectee stops taking them - then the bacteria can reinfect them. It often isn't mentioned which specific antibiotic was used. It is typically azithromycin - known as Zithromax. Could you verify this?

There is no magical barrier. Some young children have been infected with extremely virulent Lyme after only 15 minutes of nymph tick attachment. More (experimental, not rhetorical) research is definitely necessary.

The comment about fungal infection destroying one's body badly needs a citation.
For me, it's a huge signal when a founder or exec at a startup mentions an ivy league school or a "marquee" name. I've worked for big names in tech, I don't go around bragging about it.

Only time to brag is if you were a cofounder of the company you're referring to.

Who hasn't worked for a Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple/Facebook/etc?

You worked at goldman? Ok, so I'm to take from that the assumption that you're entitled and incompetent to be leading a tech startup? Good to know.

You went to Harvard? And you think this is relevant? So you care about pedigree more than competence? We can expect nepotism as you hire your friends? Good to know.

These are great services they are offering-- you know not to take the job.
To your actual question yes and no. In the past, yes. Currently no.

I think its more the principle. Nicotine, like caffine was evolved by planets as a pesticide. Animals (like parasites) that don't normally come in contact with it, likely don't have resitances to it.

Highly evolved Apes like us, are simply to big and evolutionarily advanced to be killed by such a small dose of poison.
Thank you, Andrew. I guess I can also see why I could be downvoted, though it is sad that those with downvoting powers don't let not-so-thrilling comments "just sink" to the bottom of the page instead of downvoting, which in my mind should be left to destructive, offensive or just completely unrelated stuff. Best regards.
All of my comments in this thread started with negative points from down votes then stabilised. It seems that whenever there's a controversial topic, there are a few people who down vote every comment that goes against their viewpoint.
Well, do you have links to the open job positions for 'traditional jobs'? Are they in nowhere, midwest? Are you sure they really exist? Are they advertising entirely on the bulletin board of nursing homes? Are they just advertising for 'secretary' without listing salaries and benefits? Lots of reasons why they might not get applicants, but I don't think any of those reasons are 'kids these days'.
How Amazon Solved the Problem of Work
Maybe confusing what people actually feel, with what they post on HN. Righteous indignation feels good, is easy to come up with, and gets upvoted quickly. But does it reflect sober reflection? Probably not.
I think they are actually referring to geomagnetic reversal, believed by some to be a likely cataclysmic event, in which the poles could reverse entirely and it is supposed that the protective field would have a dramatic reduction in power for enough time to cause serious problems.
Why do we need to give programmers such punchy titles? I haven't heard anyone doing this in any other craft. In my view, calling someone a good, great, excellent, skilled, or top programmer as appropriate is more than adequate.
Actually, there are many integrity levels for user's processes in Windows: untrusted, low, medium, high and system. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625963.aspx)
iPad Air 2 Benchmark Points to A8X Chip with Triple-Core 1.5 GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM
I think a wilderness therapy company marketed toward Bay Area techies would do pretty well.
The results probably vary due to the different classes of beverages, it's not like they make a Coke Zero-Carbonation.

I'm actually having a hard time coming up with non-carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages as I don't drink any, but I'm picturing stuff like Honest Tea or those Starbucks Frappuccino things.
Introducing Consul Template
Wow, 5 years! I still recall my first laser cut I did there and the joy of popping out the pieces and seeing if all of my finger joints fit together as I had planned. I think a fan wasn't working because it got pretty smokey in the laser room.

Really a nurturing place for people to just try something. Kits and servos in the vending machine, old free junk in the corner.
Have you actually looked at any advertising lately? Billboard? Magazine ad? TV commercial? This is the mildest tongue-in-cheek 'hire somebody with talent you lack' ad I can imagine.
Super cool; this a great win on the path to U2F acceptance. I ordered a key to try it out; I've been meaning to anyway. I want to try out the using U2F via NFC on Android and see if I can hack something together using Apple's private NFC framework. Wish the tokens had BTLE compatibility though.
So I Googled it. It seems to not be true, plenty of fruit juices beat coke for sugar content. Though it does seem to be more or less true for other non fruit juice drinks.

typical grape juice has 50% more sugar than Coca-Cola.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juice

Orange juice 170 calories from sugar vs 150 for cola (12 oz)
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/how-sweet-is-it/

Googling "sugar in apple juice" turns up 170 for 12 oz as well.
Breast-fed infants don't typically have exposed teeth subject to tooth decay, do they?
It's because skeuomorphism worked when you had screens of a consistent size. Ie, iPhone 4s and below. Because skeuomorphism is so bitmap heavy it doesn't scale to different screen sizes.

Imo flat design came largely from responsive web design. It's just easier to build nice looking ui which adapts to any screen size when it's flat. This of course was why it suited android, because they have hundreds of diff screen sizes to cater for...
The article talks about being a "Customer Experience Associate". It also talks about her job being to handle sales, customer support, and act as liaison when necessary between customers and "service providers".
The relationship between organisms, ecologies, and the planet needs a more nuanced treatment in the classroom, as well. We didn't evolve on some static geological feature -- we evolved to live in a fetid stew of the waste products of previous generations of life. We are merrily terraforming the planet in our turn, and other lifeforms must now evolve toward success on a planet that has been thoroughly infested with homo sapiens sapiens. Of course, whether we will successfully adapt to the changes we have made is a (rather important) open question.
Is it simple to create the future? With this app, YES
Creating the future has never been that simple.

Pendilly lets you send texts, pictures and videos which become available to the recipient at a time you choose. Before that time, the recipient will simply receive a notification that someone anonymously sent them a message with a reason why it was sent. How the content should be viewed, the name of the sender, and the type of content, are displayed when the message is received.

Pendilly dares to do things out of the ordinary and believes sharing differently can add more value to messages, pictures and videos.
We aim at empowering people to dare to create the future. We do that by using time and tags to send messages into the future with more emotions and more fun.

Time is a precious and powerful emotional medium which connects us on a deeper level.

Pendilly is a French based startup which dares day in day out to build a new temporal experience in messaging and remains laser-focused on delivering ever-increasing emotional value to its community.

Team Pendilly

www.pendilly.com
I wish I had more than one upvote to give.

I work with a bunch of smart programmers who would, by the "if you aren't a 12 year old coder and you don't spend all your free time buffing your github profile" metric that pops up on HN, be unemployable. They are deeply, deeply clever people who speak assembler like a second language (or understand the bits of the JVM that most people don't think about, or what have you). They have lives outside their job.
It's the margins. Merchants will always push you to get soft drinks because that's where they get the biggest margin.
Do a search - the poster frequently recommends adding refined sugar to the diet; and responds to requests for cites with abuse. In this thread they've called citing your claims as "a game for retards".

The poster holds a view which is so weird it may as well be shilling. (And I say this as someone who has said that Lustig advocates go too far).
based on the other comment, i see you're the submitter? I like the username - i guess thats the next show-nh we should expect? :)

I think the opinions given are very relevant - people just feel strongly about unnecessary stereotypes, most of which either disappear or become a fixable "skill" by adulthood. It would seem that advice given here is: focus on the more mature audience.

As an aside (based on your username and in my humble opinion), party-with-a-local/personal-guide-to-city is a much better idea - in fact, i recently got a related domain name in NYC.
Evernote with chat?
There's a version of Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda, but Coke Zero is sweetened with aspartame just like regular Diet Coke. The Splenda Diet Coke isn't bad, but it does taste a little different than normal Diet Coke or Coke Zero. Look for the Diet Coke cans with a yellow label to find the Splenda version.
Cuckoo Filters, Practically Better Than Bloom [pdf]
Successful companies are full of dysfunction; just like powerful empires. Their competitors are dysfunctional too.

I've known coworkers to suffer daily humiliations while I'm treated with absolute respect. They'd quit, often causing obvious pain to the bosses, but the company kept growing. The bosses could replace them eventually, as the corporation is structured to treat them as cogs.

Higher-up priests & bosses are treated well. Those nearer the bottom are miserable.
Agreed. This is not the first such article posted to Hacker News. My take is that there appears to be a subset of evolutionary biologists who, as in far too many fields, are unaware that qualitative research is possible (or not allowed by their departments to practice such), and try to force reality to fit their computer models, to which then there has to be a constant "reaction" to the oversimplification.
"Word’s intellectual model is effectively timeless: you paint the text with its attributes. WordPerfect’s is active and progressive: you change a setting, continue typing, and then change some other setting"

Umm... those are the same basic model.

WordPerfect's model is simply more primitive markup. The only difference is, unlike a structural document editor, the markup isn't containers, they're just control directives. In essence you "paint" a region of text with a directive by changing a setting, then changing it back.

Word fails for a very simple reason: they've shoehorned structural editing functions, with styles and sections and so forth, into an editor that traditionally worked like WordPerfect. The result is a complex mishmash of ad hoc and structural document markup, and you end up with confusing rules in order to reconcile the models.

Personally, I prefer LyX: powered by LaTeX, it's purely structural, while providing a rich editing environment with a visual approximation of the output, where the final document is typeset to the desired format. The result is simple and freeing: I concern myself with the content and the structure, let LyX manage the underlying markup, and let the typesetter decide how to lay it out.
Is it just me? or I see this website over and over and oooover again? :/
It looks like a chat/im web client with robust file and link support. It reminds me of Slack at first glance (http://slack.com)

Also, you have a typo on your page:

> Attach it. Send it. Never loose it.

change "loose" to lose.
I've met a copy-and-paste C++ developer myself, though he ended up losing the job eventually.

Blew me away to discover this when I sat down to help him debug an algorithm that he had, in fact (correctly) copied from somewhere else, but then he'd slaughtered it trying to "make it work." Most of the fixes involved reverting his changes, and then making a couple minor modifications that WERE actually necessary.

He'd been fighting with it for a couple days. I had it streaming sound in about 15 minutes. Based on his words to me after the fact, he was really just not understanding what the code was doing. Pretty much at all.

That said, he did have some good insight into user interface design. I could see that he did have some important skill sets, but understanding how to manipulate memory in C was not one of them. Whether he was a "successful" developer is debatable, since he didn't hold the position, though.

I'm sure that "copy and paste" developers exist for most common languages. I've heard from several sources that finding a non-copy-and-paste developer who uses JavaScript is a real rarity. I've also been told that Google in particular is looking for that skill set. Sounds like you could write you own ticket. :)
But it doesn't link to the versions of the paper.

You want to save one click of the mouse. I want to save having to reverse-engineer the parent URL.
Do you have any documentation or links on this?

I am in no way doubting you, but this is such a common occurrence I hear about that I'd like to have a few links in my pocket to give people who either a) think this is a good idea, or b) have to experience this.

The other angle is understanding at which point an interview turns into an illegal full-day interview with actual work.