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There are sooooo many reasons why these numbers may look like this. You may consider it is because smart people are unattractive, or you could consider it that smart people are smart enough to know it isn't a good idea to have sex when you are fifteen.

the links have .aspx at the end, so I'm almost certain it is .NET.

By the same argument, totlol was helping more people view youtube.

Once this guy, he made a bow and used it to hunt. Then one day, this other guy was like wow, can i use that? So he was like, sure, go ahead.

The new guy was even better at first than the guy who made the bow he practiced all day and night. He dreamed about bow hunting day and night. He shot trees and flowers and deer when people got hungry.

So then, he took the bow back to the builder and said, I'm a real good shot with this bow, let me show you, toss this ball of dirt up in the air. The builder giggled and tossed it as far and as high as he could and the new guy takes out the arrow and before it hits the ground -- he shoots it!

Chuck this rock and I'll show you how to do it. See how it goes uuuuppp and then down? The arrow does that too. If there's wind, you must account for it. Arch your back like the wind blows.

Come with me the bow builder says and I will show you how I make the bow.

There was this one guy, he had a gun and he'd hunt with it. One day, another guy came along and they started hunting together. Eventually, the guy with the gun shared the gun with the other guy who then shot the gun owner and took all the food.

Not only that, but it requires two other .js files as well:

http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave.js http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave-theme.js

And on top of that, A lot of what you see there doesn't work, buttons don't do anything, so to make the UI functional will require a lot more code.

Still, it's a nice looking interface and if you want exactly that look, the .js files can be copy/pasted. It is a lot of work to do a draggable interface like that.

After that, we'll have to send our entire bodies through the x-ray machine.

There are plenty.

There's a classic experiment where people turn some pegs a quarter turn for an hour or so. There were three groups, the first was paid a dollar, the second $20, and third was control, paid nothing. Of the three groups, which do you think enjoyed the work the most?

Well, the one dollar group said they enjoyed it the most and indicated they were most likely to do an experiment like it in the future? Why? You can read more here: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Festinger/

So what this says is, when you get paid enough money, you can admit to yourself that what you are doing for the money isn't that great and you don't like it. If you aren't paid that much, then you have to justify to yourself why you are doing it and this might include that you enjoy it, you're helping a group, "doing your part," or some other reason besides being fairly compensated. Otherwise, you'd say, "I do it for the money."

I wonder if collectively, programmers/hackers/IT people work for less than their value and so they (we) compensate for the lack of compensation with "passion for the work."

Some ideas that quickly come to mind.

Number of bugs caught in test. Number of lines of code written, fewer would be better, but it's difficult to measure this, because more functionality is often correlated to lines of code.

Number of hours of maintenance required after release. Bugs found after release. Downtime caused by code written by the developer. Amount of time projects are delayed due to the developer. Number of hours or days code is ready before deadline. Speed of the application or functionality they write. Longevity of the code.

The real problem here is that there is an incentive for everyone except the donor. The hospitals make lots of money. The doctors make lots of money. The patient gets a new organ. Even the organ transport companies get paid.

But the organ donor gets nothing.

In Iran, they made it legal for organ donors or their families to be compensated and the waitlist for organs cleared out in one day!

How's that for an incentive.

What concerns me, and something I didn't know before seeing this, is that the older generations can only be charged 2-3x as much for premiums as the younger generations, plus, everyone is required to get insurance under both plans.

This amounts to yet another tax on the younger generation, because as it is now, a young person can get by on $100/mo for health insurance, whereas someone 60 or 70 may be paying $500-600 or more for the same plan. The insurance companies aren't going to reduce the premiums for the old people, they'll simply increase the premiums for the young people. With the new law, the young people can't opt out of insurance.

There's a lot you can do with bigger screens. When their screens become touch screens, there's going to be so much you can do with them. Eventually all TVs are going to be computers with functional browsers, so you better start thinking about fluid design as one of your motivating factors.

Do this. Go to the Apple store and load up your website on one of those really high res iMacs and see how much real estate you have.

I think it was acceptable then too.

Are fewer males applying as well? If only 40% of applicants are male, then I'd say the ratio of college entrants is just right.

Otherwise, I don't see a problem. I don't really see a problem anyway. I never saw a need to have exact demographic representation in all fields. The only time exact demographic representation seems to be an issue (outside this article) is when white males are overrepresented.

So white males are underrepresented in college. The world won't end. It may actually be better in the long run, so I'm not sure what the fuss is.

The plot was the weakest part of Avatar, partly because Cameron has shown himself capable of creating good stories that engage the audience.

On a Mac book pro and Opera 10.10, I got: 5260.6ms +/- 0.7% I'll try with the new version and report back.

clicky: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

I don't know why that's in there. I see no evidence for it, either in the article or anecdotally around me in the real world.

For all the doom and gloom around old media. the NYT is doing a great job with the web. Other publications should be looking to them for inspiration.

The NYT hasn't forgotten who they are. They are conveyors of information. It is their job to tell complex stories to the public. The Internet doesn't interfere with that, it enables it. The NYT used to be confined to a static 2d black and white paper to communicate a message. Now they don't have those limits.

And the graphic should be an image map with links to the patents.

If you read enough articles like this, you'll find the following to be the rule of thumb: Do and avoid doing everything possible.

It's like the experiment in Stanford with the prison where the prison guards started doing typical prison guard things and the prisoners started doing typical prisoner things, even though originally, both groups were composed of people who had simply volunteered for an experiment and randomly assigned a role.

The first way you are treated is what you become in a way. When you get to the border and they are searching your car, you are guilty until proven innocent. And I argue it should be that way.

Think of the ramifications of seeing someone in a car at the border and treating them cooperatively. If they are a competitor intent on blowing the place up, then the guards have a lot to lose in this prisoners dilemma and little to gain. They could lose their life, but they gain a happy dude who got through the border easily.

Unfortunately, in this case, the individual crossing the border when treated like a guilty person didn't appreciate it and things got out of hand. That much we know. That's not the desired outcome, but what was the worst that happened? He got pepper sprayed, roughed up, but lived to tell the story. If the other team had lost, they could be dead -- lots of them could be dead -- or even worse, a city blown up. Dramatic but true.

So, let's all try to understand that we are all in this together. I really don't think some border guards are looking forward to beating up a sci-fi writer and I don't think the sci-fi writer was looking forward to experiencing anything even close to what went down there that day.

More speculation... Perhaps it is constricted by the size of the skull? At some point, the skull stops growing and larger neurons could put stress on the existing ones and cause damage.

This is actually just a sample for an open source visualization library. Look through the other samples. They are interesting. Wish it wasn't flash, but still nice nonetheless.

http://www.axiis.org/examples.html

That's exactly why I found the full talks! Haven't watched them all yet, will report back.

Edit: Not sure. He didn't mention it in one of the video clips, but may eb addressed in the full audio.

You can see the full talk here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=3...

Also consider that doctors get kickbacks from the pharmas for prescribing certain medicines, in addition to lots of perks like swag, vacations, etc piled on them by marketing reps.

I could build a much more complex and useful app than that in less than 5 minutes -- including the building of the underlying data store. That demo requires the data store to exist already, so it isn't an end to end solution, it's a wrapper on an existing database.

Elance does the testing method, but it isn't too successful.

I disagree. Nearly every Canadian traveler I met wandering around the world has a Canadian flag on their bag.