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by lunchbox 14y ago
I'm very curious who gets hired to write the code for a project like this. What caliber are they, what kinds of backgrounds do they come from, and how are they recruited to these positions? Is this more likely to be done by a government age
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by lunchbox 14y ago
this story is about California, not Nevada. (though Nevada did previously pass legislation allowing driverless cars.)
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> Non-programmers will likely not be poking around on Google's engineering blogs This is the central "Official Google Blog", not an engineering blog. From the other articles on the blog (most of which are written by marketing and other
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by lunchbox 14y ago
"Things, not strings" does not seem like an effective tagline for marketing this to the public. Are non-programmers used to the term "string" in the sense of "text"? And even for those who are, I still think the tagline is too abstract. I w
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by lunchbox 14y ago
I fully agree with the principle, but note that these numbers indicate the market rate for salary, not necessarily cost of living. The two are correlated but not the same. Here is a table that lists cost of living as calculated by the US Bu
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> And the popular narrative is that Zuckerberg is the asshole? Huh. Not sure what Zuckerberg has to do with this story, so bringing him into the discussion seems like a red herring. Whether Zuckerberg is a good guy is a separate questio
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
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by lunchbox 14y ago
That's a good question. Would be interesting to see if someone can dig up any studies on this. e.g what % of the country's wealth is owned by founders (and their heirs), divided by the % of people who are current or former founders. My argu
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by lunchbox 14y ago
The point of a lottery is to generate income for the government/company running it, which would not be possible if players collectively won more than they spent.
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> In the exact same sense than a lottery has a "higher expected return that a conventional job", just with slightly better odds. A lottery has negative expected return, so I disagree that it's "higher expected return that a conventio
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by lunchbox 14y ago
> on average you'll make less money [in a startup] than if you take a "normal" job I disagree. If he's using "average" in the sense of "mean" (not median), then he's saying that starting a startup has a lower expected return and is hi
42.
by lunchbox 14y ago
Enjoying socializing (extraversion) != being good at it (social skills)
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by lunchbox 14y ago
I don't know whether he has low social skills; I'm making a judgment based on his pic (as if I had seen it on judg.me).
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by lunchbox 14y ago
The authors conflate "extroversion" and "social skills". For example, based on his pic I'd rate this guy high on extroversion but low on social skills: http://madconfessionsofaman.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/douc... Similarly, being intro
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by lunchbox 14y ago
Inflammation is extraordinarily common. It underlies hundreds of diseases, from asthma to arthritis (in fact, any disease that ends in "-itis"). It often occurs inside the body (not just on the skin), so you could have inflammation right no
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by lunchbox 15y ago
I used the term "downvote" figuratively -- I don't mean literal downvotes on this poll (I don't think anyone can downvote a poll option anyway, and even if you could I wouldn't be able to isolate upvotes from downvotes since we just see the
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Here are the languages ranked by likes/dislikes ratio (I compared the above poll with the "dislike" poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748961 ). For example, for each person who downvoted Clojure, there were 28.8 who upvoted it. Th
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by lunchbox 15y ago
This looks like PatientsLikeMe ( http://www.patientslikeme.com/ ), but specialized in Crohn's disease. I wonder how this site differentiates itself, and what aspects of it are unique to Crohn's vs. what could be generalized for other health
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by lunchbox 15y ago
The keyword is human genome, not some other organism. Also the $900 product has not been released yet.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
http://www.genome.gov/pages/der/sequencing_cost.xls It's off this page: http://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Here is a graph that shows the fall in human genome sequencing costs over time: http://www.genome.gov/images/content/cost_per_genome.jpg It's surpassing Moore's law. Looks like pretty soon we'll reach the mythical $1000 mark.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
The patent is expired.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Double Click to zoom in; Shift + Double Click to zoom out.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
One of the two main cited reasons people prefer Macs was this: > Many of today's corporate PCs are saddled with management, backup, and security agents that can bog down a PC. Employees want their PCs to boot in 10 seconds, not 10 minu
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Facebook also tracks what profiles I view. Looks like that data isn't released here.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Similar concept to PatientsLikeMe: http://www.patientslikeme.com/
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by lunchbox 15y ago
Yes.
58.
by lunchbox 15y ago
After your comment, I changed it to be random.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
What's your Browser/OS? It is supposed to have pictures.
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by lunchbox 15y ago
I just changed it to be randomized based on your comment, and reset the ranking. Before that it ranked them based on average score, which has the problem of creating a winner-takes all situation. Thanks!

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