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Can you give an example of past "watch ads for coins" businesses?

This first concert in my mind is that while programming core concepts have not changed much in 30 years, the stuff you put on your resume has. Laws don't change very often and only in small details ways. A lawyer can still reference a law passed hundreds of years ago and it's relevant in a real world in the job scenario. Programming on the other hand, is far less stable. Furthermore, employers are always looking for key words in the resume. Do you know this language and this framework? I don't think they care or evening look for core concepts (maybe a problem in it's in right).

Estimated rewarding time is 12 minutes? Who reads that fast!

Login via Facebook? Come on! See you next app.

"The polygraph, for example, which measures physiological changes such as blood pressure, respiration and skin conductivity, only achieves an accuracy level of around 50%..."

Where does that statistic come from? I've definitely read that polygraphs have over 90% success as long as you account for obvious "counter measures". Basically, the person administering the test can clearly see if you are pulling tricks to defeat it.

Probably because the trigger would be sensitive to such low amounts of radiation that many sources could set it off.

We are not living in the video-game age. We are living in the nerd age. And it's awesome!

How many minimum wage workers are there? If you only look at the number of current minimum wage workers there may not be many, but we are talking about raising the minimum wage to $15. That means everyone under $15/hr is affected. So, I think the real question is how many people are making less than $15/hr. I skimmed this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_S... and it seems that median personal income is somewhere around 30K in the US. Well, $15/hr of full time work is about 31K. Therefor the number of people who will see a rise in their wages is potentially very large. So, I think that the problems with price increases are a real issue.

Another issue I thought of is this. If min wage workers all suddenly have wage increases by law, then businesses like fast food chains might just replace many them with machines. I mean, you already know your McDonald's burger is disgusting, so probably wont mind if it gets pooped out of a dispenser like pudding. So, this policy may simply lead to layoffs.

How can they possibly know the accuracy of health predictions based on Facebook likes? I don't see any info about when data was collected, but I would think that you need at least a decade of data to make an accurate determination. That would be the entire history of Facebook.

Seriously? You've heard of engineers being hired for 2M? I want that job! This is a serious question. 2M is just unthinkable for me.

"..same quality level as Yahoo circa 2002." Are you serious?

Have you ever seen the movie PI? You sound like Max, the main character.

I think startups usually want young employees because they usually don't have families. It's not really about age, it's about time commitment. All those startups with "epic snack rooms", beer coolers, ping pong tables, pool tables, etc. have all that crap because they expect you to live at the office. They want you to work 12 hours a day. Not all of them, but a lot of them. It can't really give that many hours if you have a spouse and kids to take care of. Most people can't, anyway.

It's not age discrimination, but it's still crappy.

"Sometimes I wasted hours and hours just becaue there is one charactor difference." Oh thank God! I thought I was the only one.

I'm casting my vote for "Screen Size Too Big!" I can't imagine using a device larger than the Nexus 5. I'll test out similar size phones in stores, but it looks like the size is a deal breaker.

This is all very interesting. I love a good grammar battle, but um... we're talkin' about bombs here!

Great article. Isn't it obviously that Ebola or any other deadly virus is unlikely to become highly contagious via air simply because we don't see mass airbourn infections very often. (Do we ever see them?) If such mutations were likely, then we would see them. Massive plagues, wiping out something like %50 of the population would be common. There have been mass plagues in history of course, however, they are somewhat rare and often the result of poor sanitation. That's not as much of a problem in the modern world, although the third world still struggles with it. Worse yet, if airborn mutations were likely, then we would probably not see them at all, because evolution would not have brought about highly complex creatures. We would always get killed off by disease before making that far.

"Comcast doesn’t monitor our customer’s browser software, web surfing or online history." That would imply that they don't even have a log of what requests are passing through their system. I find that extremely hard to believe.

I love the concept, but every version of the song I looked for gave me this message "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public..."

Maybe they are hoping that it will attract more attention from hackers who might do something cool with the data. I'd like to make an app that plots all of the purchases on a map, or finds all the military gear ordered near you. But I don't have the time.

I wouldn't call that title linkbait or embarrassing. It's clever, fun, and obviously a joke. It doesn't hurt the article either. IMO in order to be linkbait it must pump up your excitement with very little substance. For example: "French Guy Goes To America. What He Learned About BuzzFeed Will Blow You Away!" would be linkbait. It excites the reader by over promising that they will have a strong reaction to the piece, but the article can never live up to the hype. We are rarely "blown away" by a blog post or news article.

Your title dips below inciting the reader; It's totally drained of any color or interest. It doesn't excite the reader at all. That is also a problem because reading should be fun AND informative.

It's only a title, but I think titles should have fun too.

I'm glad you made something you really like and use. Congrats on getting on Hacker News too!

However, I love the smaller compose box. I can't tell you how many times I needed to look an another email while writing one. I was ecstatic when gmail added the feature!

And let's be serious, the "tiny Gmail compose box" really isn't that tiny.

Your demo video is too small to read any of the words and there is no sound. So, I couldn't learn anything from it.

This was a clever comment and arguably a hack. I do not appreciate being down-voted for it. Can we lighten up a little?

Well, of course I don't have permission. I'm a dude, and there are already too many dudes in STEM. /sarcasm

I built a treadmill desk a few years ago and I love it. It's tough to get myself out of my chair to use it, but once I get started I like it.

It's definitely not an all day solution though. I usually start feeling tired after about 45 minutes. I start sweating at about 1 hour. After 1.5 hours, I need a break. So I go back the my sit down desk.

The basic idea is to avoid staying in one place for a long time. Treadmill for an hour or so, then site for a while. Repeat.

"results to true if the length of 'hello' is zero." I'm glad they cleared that up. Otherwise, I might have assumed that there was no case where 'hello' had a length of zero. Joking aside, it is a useful syntax guide.

That would be an excellent bet for the person betting that the temperature will increase. However, it doesn't prove that human actions are causing it. I think most deniers do believe that the climate is changing - even that the temps are going up. The problem is that causation is hard to measure. I'm not a scientist, but I think theories explain causes, and you can't directly measure a theory, only the observations that support it.

So, maybe a bet that includes more measurements (green house gas emissions, etc.) would be needed to prove man-made global warming. The outcome of the total of those bets would either support or not support the theory. But that might be a lot of bets and a mixed result could complicate things.

I imagine that the policy must make exceptions and involve a cost benefit analysis.

Any one with Kotka's level of experience must know that many companies don't rewrite their legacy systems because it is extremely expensive. Otherwise they would do it all the time. You might save in maintenance costs, but the cost of rewriting is much larger.

You usually rewrite software when it no longer does what you want it to do, or the cost of improving it exceeds the cost of rewriting. It can certainly take more than 13 years for the scales to tip in favor of a massive rewrite, especially for backend systems upon which many other systems rely.

I was thinking of a 2d canvas context. Basically, I would expect battery consumption to be lower when WebGl is rendering 2d than it would be if it were rendering 3d. It just seems intuitive that 3d requires more computation. But I really don't know. I've never seen any battery usage comparisons.