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> A perfect example of this is the Indie rock of 15 years ago. That culture has completely been obliterated and replaced by a microcosm of corporate pop music.

Obliterated? I think not. There is still a very vibrant indie music scene that is still truly independent and innovative and interesting -- if anything it is more vibrant today than it ever was (this is a scene I know a bit about). Some was picked up by the mainstream, sure, but much more was not simply because it wasn't palatable to the corporate pop music listener.

And, honestly, I love the indie music scene's response which was largely 'Well that's nice for them.' and on the other side 'We have this backing or audience, who else wants to play a show or two you normally wouldn't be able to'. Rather than being seen as selling one's soul, it is just a thing that happened -- nothing more, nothing less.

But, otherwise, people was just created what they wanted to create and played shows as usual -- and they continue to do so. The indie scene may have punk ancestry, but that reactionary attitude has withered and fallen away which is good IMHO.

Granted, you are always going to have the people that will rail against 'selling out' because their ego is so tightly entwined in being The Other in these scenes but they aren't dominant in as many of these sub cultures as, say, punk or anarchist scenes for two examples.
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This is a great thing to consider, and I think this presumption of stupidity bleeds over into other areas of life too.

Developers: inherited code is considered guilty until proven innocent. Or maybe more accurately, guilty until you've rewritten it. Surely the old developer had no idea what they were doing.

The "other faction": Democrats/Republicans, different religions, rich vs. poor people... most generalizations about the faction you don't belong to start off with thinking "they're so stupid". "Look at those Republicans/Democrats. Can't they see that Trump/Obama is just lying through his teeth?"

Bad actors: The presumption of stupidity carries over into the way people think about computer hackers and terrorists and the like. You'll see stories about how "those terrorists are learning how to use cell phones to detonate bombs!" or how "criminals are migrating online to prey on people with phishing attacks!" The underlying assumption is that they're stupid, but getting (dangerously) smarter.

I think we'd make a lot more headway in most areas by assuming our competitors, detractors, and wrong-doers are probably already pretty smart.
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If you look at 1:56 on the AviationExplorer video you'll see there is little or no pitch change, so it couldn't be a barrel roll. I'm not sure how you can tell that it's heading is changing from that video.

According to wikipedia "An aircraft performing an aileron roll will actually fly along a slightly helical path, and a very light, positive g force will be maintained" so the photographer wouldn't have been on the ceiling.
Old sayings are so much better than young sayings.
smoothies

They are way better than any soft drink. Even if you pick the fruit with the most fructose/glucose percentage you still get the benefit of slower digestion due to fibers which slow digestion. Slight exaggeration, but in comparison, drinks are almost an injection of sugar into the blood-stream.

I would consider them healthy if they are ingested in appropriate quantities, without any added sugars, and along with some additional food that is rich with protein and fibers, like wheat and grains.
I'm not sure what your point is. Turnover is expensive, and the presumption that one can tough it out at a big company before taking a more lucrative offer elsewhere compounds the problem. This is particularly acute for young consultants at big names like McKinsey, where the first Google result is an ad for ex-McKinsey consultants. When engineers leave before they become managers, it forces the company to promote from a smaller pool or recruit externally, neither of which is preferable for long-term stability.
The rigidity is the expensive part. Modeling has gotten easier with parallel distributed computing. Reliability is of qualia that I would only attribute to platinum group metals. If heat causes errors in an organic synthesis, then that reaction mechanism is not selective enough for the desired purpose. The flexible bonds in biopolymers serve as counterpoint to the notion that bond rigidity is essential to stochastic nanotechnology. On the contrary, self-assembly requires some bond flexibility.
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I will add that I feel entropy (disorder) is high in this demo app.

I believe that it is possible to produce any sequence of seeds.

The code that returns 0 - 255 for each mouse-click interrupts an infinitely-looping counter in that range using the DoEvents keyword.

The random number generator in the VC++ library has nothing to do with it.
My question is, has anyone tried YouTube Gaming on Firefox or IE? When the YouTube Gaming coming soon page launched, it only worked on Chrome.

Google seems to have forgot how to test browser compatibility prior to launching websites.
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> Developers tend to assume that the people that wrote the terribly messy code that you inherited were incompetent.

Don't over-generalize.

There is a messy code and there is a messy code. Changing shared data without synchronization is incompetence, but having a 3-page long for-loop is not. In reality though, once you've cleaned stables a dozen times spaghetti code is the red flag of incompetence and the correlation is there.
OT: I love the crypt-conservative community here on HN.
Be sure that you are not substituting the loss of calories with different sources, like slightly increased food portions, more often snacks, picking food from fridge. Your body got used to extra calories it was getting so it might influence you to substitute that.
There is certain irony in a group of people who favor open borders, open and anarchist societies, ect, trying to erect physical, social, and "legal" barriers to keep undesirable people out.
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Yeah. When I first came here, I was shocked how often the comments about some cool tech would be focused on how to monetize it, how to commoditize it.

After a while, I just accepted as fact the existence of a large contingent of "hipster web 2.0 wanks" (well, that's the tag I use internally).

But today I'll start an experiment. I'll adjust the internal tag to recognize them by their true name. An old name... Posers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. :)

I hope this exercise in context will help me be a more discerning reader.
Sam says it right in the interview: the YC community is their #1 advantage/value.

It's also the reason Techstars is #2. Brad Feld has done an amazing job of community building.

Network effects take time.
I stand corrected
It's funny because I think Zero (and original) taste absolutely disgusting and make me feel sick within minutes of drinking them. But I do have a severe weakness for diet coke (aspartame). I've mostly eradicated diet coke over the last year and now I just drink water or black coffee. Water wasn't so hard a transition really, but developing a taste for black coffee took a few months of dedication.
>This is an incredibly arrogant argument for a union to be making. If a union gains membership by forcing employees to be union members

Workers vote to decide on whether to unionize. If you don't like the outcome of the vote, you can quit and go work for a non-union company.

>its claim to be legitimately representing employees becomes very weak, IMO.

You must hate democracy.

>Closed shop tactics are ways for unions to gain power, often at the expense of labour

No, closed shop tactics are a way for unions to gain power so that they can better represent labor. It prevents management from using divide and conquer against the workforce (their primary strategy).

>These things collapsed all over the world for a reason.

Because there has been a vicious campaign against them for decades. This is why wages are stagnant and profits are skyrocketing and the 0.01% own all the wealth.
Aging well in terms of skills, experience and exposure to the best practices and the flow of technologies may be rewarding when teams decide strategies: been there, done that is a way to spot and hopefully avoid common mistakes. That said, reinventing the wheel is a learning process itself and success is more often singular than the result of a plan.
> Was it necessary to make the point as he did when he did? I don't think so.

Feynman was deliberate in his means of communication. Was it necessary? That's a tough one to answer.

As crazy as it sounds, causing your listener to be frustrated can be a very effective rhetorical device. Feynman's goal was to get the asker to think carefully about the question he had asked. Consider that, in a way, he was relaying his own sense of frustration to the asker.

Sometimes, in order to have someone truly understand you, it is necessary for them to shift their emotional state to one more similar to yours. The beauty of Feynman's explanation is that he hits the listener hard, then walks them back to a place of understanding. I thought it was a brilliant bit of teaching.

Was it necessary? I think that a short period of discomfort is a small exchange for a deeper understanding of not just how the physics of magnets work, but an understanding of how to properly ask questions, and just how deep the physics rabbit hole goes.
> I honestly thought that I would feel exactly the same at 40 that I did at 20.

No you didn't. That's why you told your friends to slap you.

So you're now married, live a boring life just like the 40 year olds you saw when you were 20.

Justifying it to yourself in every way possible.

Despite the fact you still long for that 'fun' past.

Grow a pair man. Lying to yourself gets you nowhere no matter how good it feels.
> I fail to see any connection with engineers which can easily move between jobs, command decent salaries and benefits and are more than able to negotiate better conditons individually with their employers.

Easily move between jobs:

Only true currently, and only if you're in certain metro areas. Are we forgetting 2007-2010? or 2001-2004? There are likely more down years than up, but I've only been in the workplace since the mid nineties.

Command decent salaries and benefits:

Decent compared to the median nationwide salary, sure, but decent compared the value brought to the companies? Hypothetical example: Who's more "decently" paid? The $15/hr fast food employee who delivers $30/hr in value to their company, or the $150K software engineer who delivers $2MM in value to their company?

More able to negotiate better conditions individually with their employers:

On what planet? Go ask your employer for time-and-a-half overtime pay and let me know if they only laugh for a few seconds or a whole minute. See if Legal is willing to make an exception to their mandatory IP assignment or binding arbitration clauses just for you.
A known localized metric, level of service, is in the works to be superseded by a regionwide metric, vehicle miles travelled. The level of service is an intersection, corridor, and roadway metric that can be quantified and is was to replicate. Vehicle miles traveled is a poor way to compare where money should be spent to make an impact, but it does provide political cover for CALTRANS to not have to address critical problems, instead, they are perfectly happy to allow drivers to cut through local roads.

The article demonstrates the reality versus pie in the sky comparisons with level of service versus vehicle miles traveled: The emergency vehicle response will have a more difficult time in the new mobility plan.

Also, this reporter is on board for the plan, just wish he would do a little more due diligence; what will a 170% increase in bicyclists look like on roadways: 100 to 270 bicyclists on a corridor does not justify removing a vehicular lane which can transport 880 vehicles. Walking up by 38%, walking is a localized transport method and does not address long distances, transit use up 56% with 147,000 current riders brings the 2035 value up to 230,000 individuals, or 90,000 less trips.
With a 10 million population and an estimated a population of 2.5 million between 18 and 64 and an estimated 75%, my estimate, you get 1.9 million drivers per day. With 1.9 million trips, 90,000 does not make a significant difference.
I wonder how hard it would be to implement something similar on the JVM (e.g. for Clojure games) or in games/graphic apps that embed V8.

The tricky part seems to be estimating how long garbage collection will take and/or the ability to stop GC if vsync is approaching.
Yes, there is a lot of overlap. But there used to be, too. Burning Man was the place where the weird and the tech came together.

These days, with $600+ tickets, it is just a rich kids place to go. But there are still all those warehouses full of weirdos that burn and remain in the Bay Area. Just because Burning Man is now frequented by rich frat people doesn't make it too much less weird and anti-puritanical, the way the SF Bay Area used to be.
>But there's no reason why an airport holding area can't both a) look like a spartan hostel dorm room † and b) be secure.

Heck, real prisons for murderers in Nothern Europe and Nordic countries often look better than Best Western rooms...
Your water bill seems high. You sure your pool and/or irrigation aren't just dumping into the ground? That's pretty common out here, things age quickly.
To generalize: competitors in a market usually behave rationally, and what looks like "stupid" behavior from afar may actually be unseen incentives.

Which suggests a test for your understanding of a market: can you map out the incentives and explain why what looks like apparently-irrational behavior is happening?

For example, in healthcare, we waste 30%+ of the $3T we spend each year. Much of that waste is due to hospital readmissions for an ongoing condition like heart failure. Startups sometimes try to fix this by developing a special machine learning algorithm to predict readmissions and apply an intervention. But even when the technology succeeds, the business fails: hospitals charge for readmissions, so there's an active disincentive for the hospital to buy the product. (That is now changing with ACOs, and a change in incentives is an opportunity for new companies.)
Do 20 year olds feel lost when their next big thing is a derivative work from the 70s[0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Ask HN: Resources for microbusinesses
I've been developing an interest in starting my own microbusiness. I've got several books that I am working though, such as The Lean Startup, $100 Startup, Millionaire Fastlane, Choose Yourself, and the Startup of You. I was looking at Peter Thiel's Zero to One, but that seems to be aimed at a startup that's looking to grow into a bigger business than, and not the individual startup I am interested in.

What are some of the resources that people in the solo or very small startup scene use?
To me, it seems lots of the "big ideas" dreamed up by the 20-year-olds seem to only cater to the 20-year-olds. I'm upper 30's, lots of kids, married a long time. Too much of the new stuff doesn't interest me. Maybe I'm just bored of it all.

I felt a little more comfortable doing what I do when I was younger, but mostly because I had tons of energy, no fear, and little to lose. Responsibility has made me move much slower. Plus, I've made mistakes, learned from them, and now fear the thought of new problems.

Also, I used to think about business 24/7. Sleep 4 hours a night. Work because I loved it so much. I couldn't keep up with the new ideas, and I had to implement them ALL or I was a mess!

Now... I need 7 hours of sleep, and I have a little fishing boat parked next to the house. I'd rather be out on the lake with my wife, or the kids, and a pole. These are the moments that make my life feel full. If I don't make the "next big thing"... I'm good.
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Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10033517

> Is Silicon Valley built on engineered/bought hype and no real substance?

Erm. That's a tough one.
This would be very welcome. Also having SQL load files ready to go would be something that could be very easy to become dependant on and start paying for more frequent updates.
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That's really not true at all. Traditionally, the centers of gravity for strong unions were around skilled trades.

Engineer mobility is mostly a myth. You have a short shelf life, as generations of engineers can point out. Engineers get laid off en masse when the economy tanks, and as the most cursory google search would tell you, get gamed extensively by the companies they work for. Demand curves are bent by importing labor; salaries are capped by illegal agreements; seniority is avoided by purging.
Agreed. In fact this sounded a lot better than "YOLO".
> Inherited code is considered guilty until proven innocent. Or maybe more accurately, guilty until you've rewritten it.

I'm facing this dilemma right now, and I find it a whole lot more nuanced. The previous dev definitely had the right ideas, but he also produced XXXXX lines of code. I would take me years to wrap my head around the reasons for all these lines. Is this a bug or a feature? It would take me weeks to rewrite it, drop 75% of the corner cases for which I have no test case / clue why they have been coded. Then become the grumpy old dev that says "no" to 95% of feature requests and keep things simple. At the risk of my job.
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Got to wonder how this will effect the ongoing water shortage in the west.
The Tekkan and Hachiwari remind me of warhammers and claymores that were used against armored opponents in European warfare. It seems once you rely on armor someone has to always figure out a way to deal with it. In Europe, it was the "spam in a can" approach that won out. The hachiwari looks more like a "peel the shell" approach. Either way it seems to be an effective approach.
After grad school I moved to NYC, and your description was apt there: a place for millionaires or a sea of fresh graduates who'd willingly or unwillingly have to move on after a couple years.

After three years I moved to SF, but in terms of cost and general atmosphere it's starting to feel more and more like the population is being split between the same two groups as I saw in NYC.
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No, Manhattan is becoming Mall of America East.
Look, you can construct whatever narrative you want about power, people and the ebb and flow of capital, but it's pointless.

People like nice things. There I said it. Most people like nice cedar lined floors, expensive drinks and well cut clothes. And when you have those things, it's marvelous how quickly your disdain for the 'institution' evaporates.

Most of us aren't really hackers in that nostalgic sense. We're normal people, yuppies, kids, nerds, dorks, that one dude really into Aphex Twin in your office (everyone has one). We just happen to be good with computers.
Agreed.

One example I see all the time is my more liberal/left-leaning friends assuming that their conservative adversaries (especially on the internet) are motivated solely by stupidity.

This trips them up when they are confronted with evidence of intelligence and solid reasoning from the people they had presumed to be capable of neither.

The reverse also happens of course, with the conservative person characterising their adversary as the stereotypical "Dumb Hippy".
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Sure, it's not equality in all respects, but they aren't allowed to discriminate purely on the basis of union membership. If they negotiate a pay level for a job classification, that's for everyone. You don't join a union workplace and then negotiate your salary separately while everyone else is on a scale.
That was why I put "(as well as other countries)" on the comment; but I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been.

I specifically mentioned America because that's what I had the statistics around belief in evolution for. Also, I feel more qualified to comment on the "stupidity, ignorance and/or anti-intellectualism" of American's because I see/hear it every day.
Still this wasn't an answer :) And no it's not that obvious to me. While some people certainly would benefit, it doesn't mean that all of them should get this benefit, and some other people would lose on that.

In a nutshell - if someone gains a "right to be forgotten", you're losing the "right to remember".
>The whole write up can be summed as "What do you mean 'Ignorantia juris non excusat'?!"

Well, ignorantia SHOULD be "excusat" in some cases.

That idea of "Ignorantia juris non excusat" ("you're not excused for not knowing the law") is one of the worst and most undefensable aspects of the legal system, especially since modern law has become so vague and all-catching.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487044715045744389...

It should be checked on a case by case basis, and actual ignorantia should be taken into account and count as a reason for a lesser penalty.
> As hackers, do you feel like you can hack life and get more years out of it then the average joe?

Yeah, sun screen, good diet, meditation and exercise.

> Or do you feel lost in a culture that hails 20 year olds that are dreaming up the next big thing?

I feel there's a rift.

The market is more competitive and requires people to go to school longer to stay on edge.

For me, it seem you trade your social life, kinda, for a secured or better future prospect by chasing the money instead of enjoyment of life. So the rift I'm seeing is that there are younger people that are poor but more genuine in characters and sociable. I find myself stuck being jealous, not envious mind you, but at the same time working on this aspect of myself. I'm also using my money to buy experiences such as trying new things and creating opportunity to experience things.

As I am closer to 30, soon to be 30 this year, I find myself less risky and more conservative in actions. In term of I now rather have a secure job with better work balance life than a startup job with lots of overtime.

The next big thing for me is not the big thing anymore.

It's what is good enough to bring in passive income with minimum amount of upkeep.

It's not, oh I want to be the next google, but more of I want to create a service that people want -- at the same that enable me to work little so I can enjoy more.

Sometime I feel lost or rather frustrated, the young kid in their 20s adopt bleeding edge technology recklessly and they move on to new job and somebody are stuck with maintaining their mess. Google have Mesos or Kubernetes or Big data, we need it too!

If you young people are reading, please adopt boring technology. Or research more throughly, I guess taking a risk in adoption can pay out, RoR senior are making bank. I chose the PHP route...