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Good article. I'm hesistant to talk about it, even in the relative anonymity of my HN username, but swathes of this article read like a script covering the past few years for us. Thankfully, we've had great success, but not withou
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They launched in 2007 during peak brain training [1]. If you think it's bad now, the ads for Brain Age [2] were incessant in the year prior. 1: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q='brain%20training' 2
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>'Either way, let's be careful about speculating about what they could probably get away with versus things they've actually done.' I don't follow. Once you have factual information about what has been done it&
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>'Which basically translates to: We share all the data we want with whoever we want as long as it helps us. For instance, it clearly «assists» Lumosity to share the data on my skills to a paying recruitment agency or university.&#x
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>'The stigma against seeking help for mental health exists and is real, whether you think it's absurd or not.' Absolutely true. Not just stigma, but plain discrimination. Good luck getting an interview if you list Halope
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Part me wants to agree the picture painted here, but bits like the one below make the whole thing out to be an veiled appeal for more naive investment targets without the myriad complications of engineers. Basically, they'd like a lazy
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>'I am not sure how to break into the App Store today except by winning the lottery.' I'm not sure I follow. It's a trio of side-projects, none of which have been available for even a full year yet, entering into a
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>'(a) obviously tailored to the capabilities of a single firm so there was no way to win unless you were them' For what it's worth, this isn't necessarily corruption at work. As I've related on HN before, the p
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>'The project was conceived to replace 54 separate components used in the SSA's disability determination system.' This is the bit that jumps out at me as clear indicator of the sort dysfunction that dooms projects like t
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>'I think it's a little more than an endorsement deal. Sure. He's quite educated, decorated, extremely experienced and I don't doubt there's legitimate product/services ready to be sold. That's not re
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>'What insights or expertise about cybersecurity could possibly justify such a sky-high fee, some wondered, even for a man as well-connected in the military-industrial complex as the former head of the nation's largest intelli
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Awesome, in the more formal sense. Reading about the intended colonization of Africa puts me in mind of something I read about Moroccan phosphate reserves [1] a while back. 1: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world&#
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Well put, you specifically put eloquent voice to a couple of things which I've grown weary of attempting to discuss [1]. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8086619
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I appreciate that this post takes the time to acknowledge a few specific problems along with suggestions for actions. I haven't seen much of the former in diversity releases - just 'diversity' on its own as if the word alone
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It's 1100 words which seems about typical for HN submissions (based on a quick sampling of the current front page) and tech-related is not a requirement per the HN guidelines.
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>"we shared the stats on founders born outside the US. it's not a perfect map to race, but it's not a bad one either." It's pretty well established that there are lots of people who were born outside the US in
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>'In no other job capacity do software developer's subjective beliefs and opinions get applied so directly to business outcomes.' Absolutely. I think several of the responses to this post are missing the key word here -
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Fork and run sed - such is the beauty of OSS. I just sent this a non-technical friend whose 'church is called a mosque'. I'm sure he'd be able to figure this out and I'm sure you could too. No need to be disingenuou
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>'I have driven in many states and never has the mentality that you cannot, MUST NOT, let someone ahead of you been as bad as it is here. Minnesota Nice, indeed.' We don't rule the lists anymore [1], but I'll put th
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>'This goes far beyond "one wierd fact" headlines. Authorship requests and articles published in scientific venues (CFLAS) bring this issue into the scope of things that academics care about.' Not really. Worrying a
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Another article on bisecting which I bookmarked last year, but with physical hardware [1]. 1: http://rtg.in.ua/blog/kernel-bisect-pxe/
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>'Yes, integrity.' I'm confused, do you mean to be so needlessly insulting?
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Am I missing something? It seems to me the best thing this guy and the people who want to 'help' him could have done is just leave the whole thing alone. On its own this is just another in an endless string of 'One weird fac
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>'Now let's not get started on the idiots who purposely rough themselves up and get cauliflower ear just to look tough.' Yeah, you had to expect a lot more of that sort of thing when the sport went mainstream 10 years ag
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>'...a wider jaw is something that is earned.' I have honestly never heard this said or suggested and I'm no newcomer to the sport. A thick yoke, sure - the contour of a jaw used to clenching, OK - the very obvious effec
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I'm reminded of possible the most classic MMA example of both taking punishment and having an exceptionally large dome [1] in Kazuyuki Fujita [2]. 1: http://www.cracked.com/blog/worst-life-ever-the-story-of-kaz...
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>'A better title for this research would have been "Steroids seem to help people win fights"...I think a more likely explanation is the wider faces correlate to high testosterone...' Pretty much, the article bears t
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As the article admits - 'Although, generally, the quality of work is high...' the general quality of these designs is interesting to me. Historically, low-quality art and design was a good (though certainly not conclusive) indic
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I thoroughly enjoyed this article in the Wired years ago. I see that it was submitted way back when, but never gained traction. Beyond the general drama and unique work described the inclusion of a laptop wielding naval architect as part of
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High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace (2008)(archive.wired.com)
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