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I don't think the examination of either bragging or lying for individual benefits and group cost are just "so what."

Both require a careful analysis of whether a greedy behavior will be adequately penalized if you are designing a social network to not immediately become facebook.

Doesn't using that information to make unsolicited contact violate German Law? (I ask because of this english translation: http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/literature/heidenreich.htm#D6)

I just thought I'd through this out there since it would be perfect for anyone thinking of the Berlin scene, and I'd really like to see a stronger European startup scene!

I'm a poor source of modern information like current consumer ones, and never did build my own.

I used to follow the openeeg mailing list, which has tapered off in the last couple years: http://sourceforge.net/p/openeeg/mailman/openeeg-list/ (http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/)

building one yourself was usually around $200 in parts but there were always interesting ideas to do simpler devices. You will find references to consumer ones people were considering, and responses that are helpful for figuring out which specs matter. I would also look for the names of new projects people are developing and maybe some of the hobbyist communities that are still active and debating the minimum specs for a budget device today..

Using the example of exercise, there are a million recommendations you will get on not just how, but whether to do the pull-up or a push-up or jumping jax. If your goal is to maximize general health then you monitor your heart rate, breathing rate and duration and quietly ignore those people and their absurd arguments to get to the top of some advice pyramid.

In meditation you also need to ignore your mind imitating those people which is easier if you start by not reading all their opinions. If you really want to know how you are doing it is increasingly practical for anyone to buy an EEG.

Define modifies the prototype, so `cat define 'x' x` should apply to every cat (the docs have an example for making it a local property instead.) I think the larger barrier is that most libraries have functions with optional arguments so you would need to consider how to wrap each one.

But I really don't get the "for JavaScript" mentions. Without at least a pre-transpiled script to download and use as you would any JS, it is "for JavaScript" much like it is "for x86-64 assembly."

> Any increase in productivity will be compensated for by an exact opposite later.

But mammals work that way, we have a sleep and wake cycle because in our average state we would be luggage. Similarly, many engineers have a few fruitful hours a day together with meetings and administrative things where sleepiness and passivity are better than awareness that could lead to aggressiveness and impatience.

My own experience is that colleagues that strategically drink lots of caffeine are good on new development projects. I would be more cautious on other roles as caffeine inhibits peripheral thinking. For example, on caffeine, you may too quickly discard causes in a core analysis or overlook a compatibility issue in a change. You may also make mistakes in new development but mistaken progress is on average better than over caution in new development.

I would hope this is the same asker (or someone interested in the HN response to the question):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9496813

IMO, risking everything for the big payout and good odds of ending up in a good position at one of the top big techs would have been the reason to quietly select Zenefits or similar. Uber is unlikely to cash out and unlikely to offer much equity to the fair weather friends that are knocking on its door now.

The reference to the warm/cold beverage study reminded me that in the last few years there have been experiments demonstrating that many of these priming studies got their desired results by failing to double blind.

I don't see an article on the flaws in that study in a quick search, but here is a similar one: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/01/1...

Well yes, collusion is grand.

Retail stores are happy to charge everyone 2% more that they can pocket if the customer isn't using amex as long as all the others will too. (They can't give a cash discount without violating the vendor terms and they shouldn't sell at a loss.)

Smaller businesses may offer you different terms verbally and other businesses will risk not having amex to have the lowest prices. But until amex is more like discover that carries brand risk instead of pure shame for the user.

Interesting. My first experience in undergrad with LaTeX, I submitted the paper over 3 weeks late with a grade per week penalty and got a B+. I never asked the teacher about my impossible grade, but I would assume I had one of the best papers in the class; usually I'm not good at structuring papers.

I don't think they are targeting anyone, I have always seen a few hundred a month on company websites. Some small sites simply aren't found yet by these spiders.

If you are seriously using analytics then you aren't really working in absolute numbers and the only problem is sporadic noise.