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Every single one of the opinions in this thread, as well as that of the original article, are completely alien to me.

Dinner in my household is not difficult or fussy or unhealthy or expensive or bland.

We don't buy food every day, but we also don't buy processed food. We eat fresh meat and vegetables, with small servings of simple carbohydrates, going to the grocery store once a week. Our trips come out to about $100 total, which is about $2/meal per person.

I make dinner from scratch almost every night. I design it to leave leftovers for lunch the next day. It takes no more time to make four servings than two for most things. This means that the time I spend on dinner saves time on lunch.

Once a week, I make a meal designed to leave a LOT of leftovers, like a roast chicken or tacos or chili. Roast chicken takes a long time to cook, but takes almost no prep-time. Tacos take a little prep time, but almost no time to cook. Chili takes a lot of prep time, a lot of cooking time (if you want to do it right), but makes so damn much that we freeze half so we don't burn out on eating it for the entirety of the week.

And don't get me wrong: we don't eat the same thing every night. I'm somewhat of a fussy eater. I don't mean there are only a few things that I will eat, I mean I am very intolerant of poorly prepared food. We eat extremely well in my house.

Oh yeah, there are nights where I say to myself, "damn, I'm just too tired to make anything special". That's when we eat the leftover, frozen chili. Or I dice up the leftover chicken from the roast and make a chicken salad out of it and we have sandwiches. Or we have tacos a second night, because we freakin' love tacos (I could eat tacos for every meal, and I know this because I have done it before).

Eating well doesn't mean complexity, it doesn't mean expense. Simple food, the right symphony of spices, and the correct cooking method. It's no different than programming.
These three cases seem to be ill-linked in the correlation/causation department. One was a clear medical condition; another a suicide; and the third was linked to an event involved a relapse of substance abuse. Three deaths of this nature could easily occur in any industry with a presence in a major city like nY, sf, london, tokyo, hong kong, paris etc. How many creatives list similar CODs ? Heath ledger, amy winehouse, peaches geldof and many other creative types at varying levels of success. We can look high-risk activities and see near-suicidal behaviour in the extreme sports athletes (RIP dean potter and 250 others http://base-jumping.eu/base-jumping-fatality-list/). And similar medical related deaths and accidents occur in athletes even in standard sports (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/healt...).

Which is no apology for mis-management. Its just perhaps a larger picture issue than any single industry or particular niche. Glory and all that.
Study after study says otherwise. For various reasons, small teams working in a huddle together for short sprints is the most effective way to organize a development team.
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> I would not use this technique for anything but aestetics.

I agree Loop-Blinn produces better results, and I would like to see it implemented in WebGL, but it adds a great deal of complexity and tightly couples the code with the rendering engine (eg: ThreeJS, stackgl).

The curve approximation is done here:

https://github.com/mattdesl/adaptive-bezier-curve
I live in Manhattan, one of the most walkable places in the US. And I love Blue Apron. It saves me an enormous amount of time in planning & shopping, it's close to the same cost as shopping, and I end up making things I never would have thought of myself.

I'll be the first to admit that it's cooking with training wheels, but I'm a busy professional with a young child. Anything that can save me time and stress is well worth it.
How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their way out of criticism
Good post. How did the founders meet? Was it on one of those founder dating sites? Another thing I am curious to know is could you have done this alone without co-founders? I know the importance of co- founders and I feel sometimes people just want to have co-founders when they can have a go at it alone hence these questions.

I also agree to the Peter Thiel quote. It is just like building a house. A lousy foundation leads to the house's demise no matter how perfect or good it looks.
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I would love to see what the article's copy looked like when it landed on the editor's desk :-)
There Is No Angel Bubble. There Are Many Angel Bubbles (2010)
How to be a better listener
I just sent you a free week to try it out. I've been a customer for close to 3 years and love it.
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I've done this too. I think it is dangerous, maybe even something that could become addictive. I know, the pressure to get the product out the door. If you truly have down time and can truly get away, maybe there is a way. But that is the trick, you may get trapped in that lifestyle and "just one more all nighter".
It was very unprofessional of him to stoop to their level. After receiving such a rude response, he should have either let it go calmly or inquired about what their problems are. I wouldn't want someone who feeds the trolls like that to be representing my organization either.

The whole homophobic accusation was out of place from this context; as was the implication that he was fired for being "misogynist". GWC kept the "misogynist" name after the resignation, and it was unlikely that this person was the one to come up with it in the first place. I am absolutely saying that someone in that position should be more level-headed, and rightfully deserved the resignation/firing. I doubt it had a sliver to do with the ill-delivered complaint in the original reply.
I find it interesting, that instead of on-demand-TV they solved the problem of missing TV-shows by showing multiple shows on one screen.

Actually my family had cable TV and a Grundig television in the early nineties with such a function.
Why is the salary of Haskell, Lisp and Clojure programmers lower than others?
If you want to eat better without breaking the bank and without wasting food to rot: buy the cheaper, bulk packs of meat. Optimize for price per pound. Pork loin, chicken thighs, beef roasts, in as big of packages as you can find. When you get home, split them into single-meal proportions and repackage them in good quality ziplock bags, remembering to squeeze as much air out as you can. Put them straight in the freezer.

Then, when you want to have a meal, fill your kitchen sink full of hot water, maybe half-full, and throw one of those ziplock bags in. In 15 to 30 minutes, the meat will be completely thawed and you can cook whatever you want.

Given the right recipe, you might even be able to work the thaw time into the vegetable prep time.

EDIT: There are three other options for defrosting meat: in fridge, on the counter, and in the microwave, in order of speed from slowest to fastest. In the fridge takes extreme pre-knowledge: you practically have to do it the night before, and I am too fussy of an eater to know what I will want to eat a day ahead of time. On the counter is same-day, but has to be done in the morning, plus some people might be squeamish about leaving meat out at room temperature for several hours. Using the microwave takes 15 to 30 minutes, but is imperfect and often ends up cooking the meat to a certain degree. In short, the waterbath method is the most convenient defrosting method.
What people from 1902 thought “women of the future” would look like
So you have someone to do the dishes? Not everyone has children or someone else around to do it for them. There's also the extra laundry it makes if you don't use paper napkins/placemats. It's nice to have the time to do it, but it's not the quickest thing you can do in an evening.
> there is no evidence that the incidence of suicide by young professionals on Wall Street is higher than in any other industry.

Doesn't this undermine the premise of the article? The deaths are tragic, but if the suicide rate of Wall Street professionals is no higher than normal how can the suicides be tied to the "grueling pace" as opposed to whatever causes suicide in the general population?
> You may not care for an ultramodern brand's style, but that only tells you one thing: it's not for you!

One of the reasons I minimize my use of web apps (e.g., Gmail) is because I got tired and frustrated with the re-styling every 6-12 months; where I was no longer comfortable just because it didn't look the same; and I was no longer efficient because it was all re-organized; and I was annoyed because I was having conscious thoughts about the interface, instead of just using it to get stuff done. (This happens to a lesser extent with desktop apps, but at least I can avoid updating, etc.) Did someone consciously decide their product was no longer for me, so they didn't care what I think? Will they care if their decisions make me stop using their product?

I'm hesitant to accept the opinionated, brusque ideas about design being thrown around here, but even if I did, they don't seem to account for the effects of evolving the product while the userbase stays the same. I get the idea of incremental progress, but can you seriously believe that every change is good and is worth the costs? Yesterday, we missed the mark with skeuomorphism, today we know we need to throw it all out, and then we will have achieved perfection!
This is a comment made at Yahoo news page:

Driving trucks has been a good paying job for lots of people
in the past. Between robot trucks and robot burger flippers,
everything might be cheaper, but still people won't be able
to afford anything.

We are certainly moving to uncharted waters now.

After all the automation—both mechanical and software affecting service (brain?) and labour (brawn?) industries—would there be need for humans to get things done?
Wow, you can't even 'muster empathy' for people like this? I can understand how you wouldn't want to work these hours, but when the article is detailing someone who dies and your first comment is 'Meh.', that's absolutely abhorrent to me.
> go out and get ingredients, prep the food, then clean up afterwards

Plan food for the whole week. Buy the ingredients in one trip. Clean as you cook.

Take one day a week to pre cook and freeze as much as possible. Cook three or four nights a week and eat leftovers for the remainder.

Build a repertoire of around ten meals you train yourself to bang out quickly and without thinking.

If you're cooking for your kids, make them help with the cooking and the clean up. (This is how I learned to cook.)

It's not rocket science.
New Technology to Capture, Convert Carbon Dioxide
If it can't be applied for anything useful, was it really a scientific breakthrough?
For the most part the financial industry doesn't give its people much of a choice. Finance is much more hierarchical than tech. You either work 120 hour weeks for 5 years straight and make it up to the VP/Director level or you stay as an analyst/associate (or burn out).
This is a weird comparison though since they're separate issues.

When you go to a theater, the cost of driving/gas can be more than the movie ticket. It's up to the user to weigh the costs.

I think this really highlights the mobile data ripoff that currently exists more than ads/cruft but both are real problems, just orthogonal. Then again the majority of mobile data is over wifi anyway so it's not as bad as it seems.

Zero-rating / sponsored data does seem to have some potential applications here though. Not many scenarios yet but might become more common.
You got probably one chance to be featured on front page of YC news. No prices, no updates from owner, no support in the thread. Seems like you missed on an amazing opportunity.
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Perhaps I'm revealing my ill-breeding, but people actually use placemats on a regular basis?

If you don't feel like doing the dishes every day, you can just stack them up and do them once a week...
Both seem like horrible people
For one thing, the people that work on Wall Street are highly educated, mostly Ivy League types (from the article). I guess the premise is that if you were smart/rich enough to get that, society expected you to succeed spectacularly, not jump to your death. i.e. the expectation is that the suicide rate be negligible.
We have a dishwasher and run it once every other day. The pots have to be washed by hand, but if you aren't burning your food like a newb, pots are the easiest thing to clean because they're optimized for surface area versus volume.

Hell, some things like knives and cutting boards, I clean while I'm cooking. While I'm waiting for something to finish roasting or frying, I'm already cleaning my work area. Usually, the only dishes that are left over are plates, forks, and glasses.

And it's part of the day. Brushing your teeth takes time. Taking a shower takes time. Getting dressed takes time. You have to decide that you are a person who takes time to cook, not spend 15 more minutes on Twitter.

I'm not some rural hippy who has no real job, living off of the land, disconnected from the pace of life. We live the DC metro area. And by that, I don't mean we live in a mansion in Herndon or Reston, I mean we live in an a small apartment in Alexandria. I'm the CTO of a technology consulting firm. We have only one car between my wife and me, which she drives, and I take public transit everywhere.
You mean any given gun in Reflex?
In America these are called "rest on red" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6EBUR8sPmc
I really wish GC had some sort of client facing VPN service so that I do not have to create VM instances that have SSH open to the public. This is a good first step, but from what I can see it does not give me access to my LAN just the gcloud cli.
I can't figure out what they're implying about Norman Borlaug's award at the end... that it was a mistake too? Either way, the NYT had a much better critique of why big scientific prizes are bad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/opinion/the-folly-of-big-s...
Finally, a phrenology from firmer foundations!
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You can think this through a few ways. One is that they see finance jobs as desirable jobs, focus their whole lives up to that point on getting the job, get it - and find it's horrible. What do you do then? Do you go back to all the people who were really proud at your achievements and tell them you're a failure?

Another is that they really do think it gets better. If they can just make it through the first four or five years, they can go from 80 to 50 hours, and then if they get to MD, they can get down to 40-50. In the meantime, they're making great money, they can enjoy what exists of their personal lives, if they just get past that first couple years.

Characterizing these folks as "spineless" is perhaps accurate for some, but in the end, reductionist. A better conversation to have would be to ask:

- Are the same number (proportionally) of people committing suicide in finance today the same as 15 years ago?

- If not, why today? What's different about today?

- What's to be done about it?
I think it's less about who owns the hash and more about who refers to it. Think about how git works. If more than one place refers to it then it's like it was copied. If you remove a hash from a directory, it's gone from that directory. If no other directory has it then it can be garbage collected.

The key would be to convince publishers that removing the hash from their directory tree counts as deletion. Maybe the hashes shouldn't be that prominent?

I don't see how the Internet Archive policy is naive. Yes, they're assuming whoever owns the domain owns the files and maybe sometimes that means someone deletes some files when they didn't have the right. But taking a stand against domain owners who want the files gone would probably land them in court.
If you had to do these things every day, you'd get better at them and the kids would get good enough at them that they could do some things without your direct supervision all the time and you'd get used to them that they wouldn't be a significant distraction from your day.
Like all automation (the wheel, the combine, ...) it pushes humans up the value chain. There is no market for coolies any more either, just like there won't be for truck drivers in 15 years.

The thing that is different is this time is that we have run the course on almost all unskilled labor now.

The implication of that is that people need to move up the value chain or perish.
I'm sorry, this really isn't true. The diminishing returns on a complete bike are real but that really starts at 2500+ where the drop offs are extreme.

A dedicated TT bike for your triathlon is a status symbol if you're not a pro. A quality steel frame and fork, 105 groupo and well built wheels with good hubs is not and can easily run you 2000 and I would say there is a huge huge huge difference in that and a 750 dollar entry level bike with crap hubs.
How does that add any security? Anyone with access to your root AWS credentials still has your IP addresses and your EBS volumes/snapshots and can do whatever they want.
My bullshit detector is pinging wildly on the linked diet. Gluten-free, measured salt intake, 6 glasses of water per day, and the list goes on. No thanks — I'll take my diet advice from people that follow the science, not pop trends.
The near death experience that created a tech millionaire
Double meh.

I think you're pretty much on point, until your last paragraph, which seems pretty childish itself if you ask me.

Lots of people make all sorts of bad choices, and yes, sometimes they result in terrible outcomes. It's important to analyze the choices of others (which you have done, fairly well) to learn from them but it's also always important to muster empathy regardless of whatever path they have taken.

Choose not to do so and you may find yourself blinded by the allure of logical oversimplification as you walk a path down towards some pretty maladaptive behaviors yourself.
I used OVH and had a terrible, terrible, demanded a refund experience.

But I have something that approximates bad luck. See my earlier posts about Project Fi.
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It's tough for publishers.

I run a directory-type website. Most visitors probably spent 30s on the site, getting the information they need right away.

I decided to change from 2 to 3 ads per page, make them bigger, and more in-line with the content, rather than just beside and below it. The ad network was a major search engine.

I managed to 3-4x CPMs. Traffic went down by 25%. Effectively, users encouraged this type of behaviour by publishers.
In general Ettus is the best around unless you have a really large budget and want to get something with a backplane (which I highly recommend you avoid unless you have really specific requirements). Ettus is about to come out with a low cost B200 mini which could be a good option. I think it's so they can compete with the BladeRFs and HackRFs of the world. Ettus boards aren't perfect but they've really come a long way since the USRP2 days when I started using them. The UHD is also a really nice library to work with.

The RTLSDRs are definitely the best value (get one with a metal box around it). Also look for the HackRF Blue.

Finally, think hard about what you want to do. You mention decoding TV signals but the RTLSDRs can't do that (in America at least) since they can only do about 3 MHz of instantaneous bandwidth and TV signals are 6 MHz wide. You could try using 2 or 3 RTLSDRs for that but then you'd have put them all on the same clock, which can be difficult.

If you can spend around $1500 I'd go for a B200 with a GPSDO. GPSDOs let you accurately timestamp signals and time evens (i.e. start transmitting at some specific time). In my eyes the 210 isn't worth the bigger FPGA and dual transceivers. The isolation between the transceivers probably isn't great (but I could be wrong) and a bigger FPGA isn't worth anything to me.
Agreed. The whole thing just seem unprofessional. Bad judgement on both parts.
It's actually addressed in the paper; that's a real oversimplification of what people "hearing voices" are actually experiencing.

Listening to people talk about their voices, one is struck by the variety of the human voice-hearing experience. People experience many phenomena (Tuttle, 1902). They hear scratching and whispering and murmurs loud enough to hear but too indistinct to under-stand. They hear noise that resolves into voices, so that words seem to slough off cars as they pass. They are sometimes clear and precise about exactly what they hear and some-times frustratingly vague. They report voices they clearly identify as external and voices they hear in their heads but do not experience as their own thoughts and thoughts and images that seem neither internal nor external but feel somehow impressed upon their awareness from outside. They talk about recognizing a single voice that seems to come out of more than one person, and about real people who say things they hear, but are not the words those people spoke. (“I know you are not speaking words of sex,” one man said, “but when you speak, words of sex are what I hear.”) In each of our settings, people reported this broad range of phenomena.
Perhaps you are mistaking empathy for sympathy? I too cannot empathize with the people they are describing. Not only would I not let it get to that point, I could not. My personality is such that when overworked and over-stressed I naturally screw-off for a while to release stress. It doesn't always help my deadlines (which is sometimes a good thing. Sometimes you just need to say "I need more time"), but it does keep me from getting overworked for the most part.

So, I feel bad for these people (I sympathize), but I don't understand them (I don't empathize).
Not the OP but I struggle to sympathize with someone who takes that kind of job. I can't think up any other motivation other than greed or addiction to money/power.

A friend of mine just turned down an insanely high paying Wall Street job. She told me that there was no way they could pay her that kind of salary without taking every second of her existence and every joule of her energy. A couple of week ago she went to London for less than half that salary (but still a crazy high salary considering how young she is).

Only a fool would think that a WS job at twice the salary of a top London law firm did not come with ridiculous sacrifices.
Many people work long grueling shifts in stressful positions for years and don't see the need to binge on alcohol and cocaine to manage. I feel sorry for anyone that dies, but I see this as a situation where this person suffers from symptoms of a weak character and/or mental issues.
Reader and Code are the only ones that had traction.

I object to the idea that it is, "a Google" when we could make the same argument of many tech companies. I object specifically here because it's been shown to be a talking point in a whole deck of talking points written for an MPAA smear campaign on Google.

And it's not particularly fair. They should call it, "Pulling a startup" given how often we fail at them.
Pigovian tax?

Tierney writes:

It would be much simpler and more effective to impose the equivalent of a carbon tax on garbage, as Thomas C. Kinnaman has proposed

I already pay to have someone haul away my garbage, yard waste, recycling.

How is what you, Tierney, and Kinnaman propose different?

[Kinnaman's paper is paywalled.]
Not to nitpick, but fuel is the most expensive part of trucking. [1] And Level 4 automation ain't happening in long-haul trucking (in the U.S.) for a while [2].

1: http://news.trucker.com/trucker-jobs/equipment-driver-pay-pu...

2: http://news.trucker.com/technology/long-road-autonomous-truc...
I think it's all about habit forming. Our household mirrors your description.