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Besides beambot's excellent observation ... do the best you can. In recognition of your inexperience, don't hold your opinions too strongly, and don't be disappointed if you decide you're working on something that doesn't matter. Everything you do gives you more understanding.

As you consider what you're doing through the years, consider what matters to you, your employer, their customers and users, and society. You may or may not be able to satisfy all of them, but they're all interested stakeholders.

What matters to you should come first, because you may not give something the effort it deserves if it doesn't matter to you.
I expect everyone on the site to own a real computer too. I interpret the question as "people that use X as their desktop OS" because of the context.
in what way is it similar?
1) It's not a tax. The IRS does not start sending you nasty letters if you don't play the lottery.

2) It's not fraud. Gambling is not fraud.

3) Yes, it would be illegal for you to set up your own lottery. But the state does a lot of things you would be arrested for doing, so that's not a very compelling argument.

Furthermore, a lot of people get genuine enjoyment out of playing the lottery. Who are you to say that's not worth the cost to the people who play?
> and they are relatively easy to miniaturize

Wait, really? How?
> Many opening Hacker News posts are very simplistic titles which don’t answer basic questions, like "Use this instead of press releases". Many even say (WHY?!) "Would you like to read my entire rant about how important I am to not have time to converse with humans about their heart-felt ideas?".

He could have titled this "An email template for best chances at reaching entrepreneurs" and removed the crap at the beginning.
That's an impressive logical jump you've made there. Starting with a man simply writing a blog post with his opinion on software architecture, all the way to implying that he's an authority on writing code.

He never said he was an authority...
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> First, adding coupling is no longer the path of least resistance when you "need to delivery yesterday".

I wouldn't be so sure. More often than not, it's cheaper to set up a new module/library than it is to setup a whole new service, and I've seen plenty of cases where people just tacked functionality on to the handiest service because they needed to get shit done Right Now, and setting up a new service was a waste of time.
> i'm sorry, but conflating the issue of a perceived disparity with 'beliefs' about social gender consensus is unhelpful and only incites issue derailing ire

It's not a conflation, it's acknowledging what I believe to be a causal relation. If I'm correct, changing the beliefs will help fix the issue.

> instead i think the argument should be to fund a state run universal shelter program well enough that specific interest shelters get phased out proactively

Yes. The solution to disparity is enough abundance that it doesn't matter.
The problem with the surgical cric or any other method is that it needs to be lower than the object lodged, which shouldn't be too difficult most of the time but runs the risk of being a futile procedure.

Personally as a doctor I'm surprised they are teaching the heimlich, it's an outdated procedure with limited success, in ANZ first aid you're meant to slap on the back a bunch of times before going for physical removal
A stunned or half dead beaver woudln't have made the cut I think
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What is the "comment_ranking" data you mention in the notebook?
Gut bacteria effects you in every way possible. Changing your gut bacteria may help you avoid Snickers and soda. Your gut bacteria may be effecting your hunger, motivation, mood, and all sorts of stuff.

See also: Why It Was Easier to Be Skinny in the 1980s A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 20 years ago are still fatter. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-was...

>They found a very surprising correlation: A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher. In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans.

Gut bacteria may play a role.
> There were so many things that I didn't know that I didn't know.

I think that puts it very well. It's not just what people know they don't know, it's what they don't know they don't know. That's where it really hits them.
is that true? i thought the gates foundation also invested in new and better ways to transport and deliver the vaccines. i, of course, have no citation for this.
> Yes people want cheap appliances, but once burned,
> they are often converted into wanting quality ones.

Having watched this particular cycle play out many times, I can tell you the problem is that the cheap ones last 5 - 6 years. And that is longer than a company like Whirlpool can afford to make "quality" ones. So by the time the cheap ones start breaking, Whirlpool doesn't make "quality" ones any more, so there isn't one to buy.

You end up doing what most people do is you buy "commercial grade" appliances. These are appliances that are designed to go into restaurants or laundrymats or any other business where they want to depreciate the gear over 26.5 years. And since those people can put a price, in $, on "down time" they are able to justify paying what it costs to not have any.

For example Whirlpool top load washer for consumers $499 [1], Whirlpool commercial grade top load washer $699 [2], so "long term reliability" costs you 40% more up front. That is the one you buy right? Because if more people bought that one the volumes would go up and the price could come down. Except no. People buy the $500 one instead of the $700 one because they don't look at the cost of a washer capability over time (which is what a business does). A laundromat will say "It cost me $70/year to have a $700 washer that lasts 10 years and $100/year to have a $500 washer that lasts only 5 years." But 90+% of consumers don't think like that. They think "Gee same function but $200 more? Screw that!" And here we sit with the double impact that most washers don't last long, and since the volume has gone down on reliable ones they cost even more extra than they should.

It sucks.

[1] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Whirlpool-3-5-cu-ft-High-Efficien...

[2] http://www.homedepot.com/p/Whirlpool-Heavy-Duty-Series-2-9-c...
I hope the same applies to your proposals and agreements.

A one page, fully specified, document would be preferable.
Popcorn time is an open source piracy app with bittorrent streaming and a nice UI. There was a dustup among the developers, and no one seems to have access to the domain anymore.
If there were, then fusion would be much easier.

Consider a reactor that consists of two colliding beams. Should work great, right? Well, the reaction rate is minuscule, so you're wasting a whole bunch of energy in the ones that don't collide. It's a numbers game; in the sun there's a process that has a reaction rate of something like 1 in billions of years, but it's okay because there are orders of magnitude more protons in the sun.

The point of tokamaks and stellarators is that the field lines are closed, and you won't have leakage out of cusps like in mirror machines. You prop up the energy distribution with techniques like neutral beam injection and electron cyclotron resonance heating, since the ions tend to dump their energy to the electrons.

In other machines, mostly inertial confinement devices, the claim is that a pulsed mode of operation will be effective. However this remains to be shown, and some work (see Todd Rider's PhD thesis) claims to prove that such non-equilibrium schemes cannot reach breakeven.
Nit-pick: the problem with the Z-machine fusing D-T is that the D-T reaction kicks out a ton of neutrons. Once you turn a plasma research experiment over to actual fusion, you end up with secondary activation of the machine's core components, thereby turning them into high-level radioactive waste. This stops you tearing it down and poking around inside and reconfiguring it.

This was the fate of the UK's JET experiment at Culham (the Joint European Torus, predecessor to ITER): once they finally bit the bullet and went to actual fusion containment experiments, the "hot" reactor became a lot less accessible for tinkering and reconfiguration. So you don't take that step until you're real sure you don't want to play with your plasma containment experiment any more.
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That sounds very appealing. I'm sorry it didn't do very well; I'd buy it now if it were still available.
>There is a such a strong anti-government 'libertarian' streak to US domestic policy, that is essentially anarchism though.

This is patent nonsense. "Anti-government" libertarian types (who aren't actually anti-government, by the way) have no interest in throwing masses of people in jail. Only 10% of the prison population is housed in a private prison - if the libertarians were in charge they'd all go broke.

No, the problem is the big government people who want to incarcerate everyone who spits on the sidewalk - the very antithesis of a libertarian.
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The one thing people don't tell you about "do the thing you love" for a job is that the people who make decisions and decide which projects to work on usually won't be you, unless what you love to do is be a manager or business owner, which I really don't (I can be project leader, but I don't want to stop programming entirely).

So yeah, I've worked for several companies where I've absolutely loathed the project, but that's what I was assigned to do, so I have to program for it, even though it bores me to tears.

Even when I was making games for a living, I sometimes ended up working on games that I knew were awful, but I wasn't in a position where I could switch to something else easily (I live in the Midwest, where gamedev jobs are scarce anyway, which is one reason why I got out of that industry anyway).

What do I want to work on? Whatever game or app concept I came up with that excites me at the moment.

Who's going to pay me good money to do that? No one.

So instead I'm currently working in an enterprise environment to help pay down my school loans while working on my own stuff with what little energy I have after work hours.
Supply and demand only influences prices when there is actual competition out there.

I'm bracing myself too for the inevitable Tesla battery revolution and see how power companies handle the competition. Municipal utilities are very dusty parts of industry and local law; desperately needs a shake-up.

How do you reconcile the greater incentive for efficiency and distributed generation vs city profit motives?
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I'd assume that there is some automated testing happening to make sure things are working, and I bet there's some manual testing too -- but I also bet that the automated testing doesn't do visual comparisons (I've never seen a company do it), and I bet that standard issue computers were macs. You visit the page on your dev computer, your phone, check Jenkins -- everything looks good, publish.

Oh, but then production notices how not-good it is.

It's really easy to miss these kinds of things, and the solution always seems obvious in hind-sight, otherwise clients would never find bugs.
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Sadly Apple stopped updating Safari for windows a while back, and there never was a Safari for Linux. I am certain a sizable fraction of organizations/people are not prepared to buy a Mac for the sake of testing in Safari (depends on size of org & target demographics)
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Kazinator is making a fair point. But yes, I was making a joke ;)
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Overall web browsing is already 60/40 in favour of mobile though, and mobile is high 90% using WebKit or some flavour of it.

Not that this justifies skipping testing on Windows, but it's not impossible to see how it's no longer a top priority, since all of the growth is sitting on the mobile side.
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If you break environmental regulations they'll just seize company assets, which just involves contacting your bank and such. No violence involved at any time, even hypothetically.
It's also given us "an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system." (Tyson)

Many(imo most) evolutionary solutions are clearly local maxima. Try s/solar powered/wheeled in your comment. I encourage you to learn more about evolution.
You move in a circle of fools. For every person cheering the rioters there are ten people turned off to anything with which the rioters are associated.

If anything, the riots (along with the recent surge in violent crime) are going to end the nascent sentencing reform efforts that have been wending their way through Congress. We may have to wait another generation before we can try again.
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>> "Work on something that matters to you more than money."

> This is incredibly naive.

It is incredibly challenging - given the economic and social constraints of 'modern' life.
I'd say the "source code" for your designs is hand-crafted, but the material coming off the CNC machine is not. It may not be mass manufacturing, but if additional copies are essentially a button-push away, I'd say that it wasn't hand crafted. Now if the setup time on the CNC machine took longer than making it on a manual mill/lathe, then we might have some grey area. BTW, what are you using for your "desktop CNC" machine? Do you have any recommendations? And what materials are you machining? Steel? Brass? Aluminum? Plastics?
People have a really hard time looking at time in a third perspective. It's hard to grasp and imagine daily habits over couple years, not to mention a decade or two (or even millions of years as shown in science examples). So naturally, they're surprised that their daily bad choices multiplied by 7 days a week, 4 weeks a month, 12 months per year, 10 years per decade are "suddenly" showing somewhere. It's making a bad decision multiplied by time.

Then they try to change this and are even more surprised that it's hard and it takes long. Well you can't just erase a decade of bad choices in couple months. Hell even if you suddenly get a streak of excellent persistence (which people in such situations usually lack), you could take a year or more to completely revert the change.

A person is a result of his choices multiplied by time. Victimizing itself is easy and a non adult way of dealing with life.
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Note that a chunk of this can be laid at the feet of most pre-demographic transition cultures' expectations of female work roles -- "barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen". A necessary first step is female education and provision of family planning services. A second step is for the society as a whole to transition to low birth rate/low death rate from the typical pre-transition high birth rate/high death rate mode (in which situation it's economically unrewarding to invest in educating children, never mind women of childbearing age).

But if you can double your skilled workforce through simple social measures? That's got to be worth doing.
Fantastic info, thanks for sharing. Great example of a pivot.
Can someone explain how this works?
Ask HN: How to find local hackers for fun projects IRL?
I'd really like to find some local hackers/coders who would enjoy hanging out and hacking on small, fun projects for an afternoon or a day. I have a bunch of things I think would be fun, but I'm not super particular and expect everybody I find will also have project ideas (although interesting/fun/intellectually stimulating is important). Meeting people, having a good time, and learning stuff in a hands on fashion is the primary goal. I'd like to do this regularly (say once a week), but I would expect most people to be interested in only a subset of the projects. Ideally then I'm looking for maybe 20 people with lots of different experience levels across a wide array of technologies, so one or two people would be interested any given week.

Things I'm considering:
1) Craigslist. Geared for finding people locally, it works well for musicians, but I've never had responses for anything else.
2) Meetup.com. These tend to be focused on 1 technology, they meet infrequently, they tend to be lecture oriented rather than hands on hacking, they tend to have lots of people, and without a corporate sponsor they tend to go nowhere. This seems like a bad fit.
3) LinkedIn. Paying for the kind of LinkedIn account that recruiters use seems promising. It costs money, but lets me search locally by interest/skill set. It requires me to send "cold call" emails, but since I'm not hiring or selling anything, I'm not worried. It's just a lot of work; I'd have to send out hundreds or maybe a thousand emails.

I'm in SoCal, Hollywood area. There may be local services I'm completely unaware of. So anything I'm missing, other services I should try?
Not necessarily. See [1] although there are better sources out there. But one of the things that makes fusion much more interesting is that it is theoretically practical to do direct energy conversion. This is much much harder in fission systems as the only thing fission generates is massive amounts of heat, whereas fusion can generate massive amounts of magnetic flux.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion
I tend to agree that there are a lot of fools there. I think most of them are just romantics who haven't learned that what feels right and what is right are not always the same.
Okay, I see what you're saying now. Your original comment was a little confusing because it wasn't clear what you meant by "non medical".

That would be a cool app but I doubt many people would able and willing to keep entering the data required to get meaningful results. Medical records would conceivably "skip" that process and you could just peruse your historical data. So it's a matter of convenience, I guess.
The Dwarf Fortress guys remind me of this kind of obsession. Not that both have to do with dwarves, but that both need a world for their obsession to live in. The DF guys created a world for their incredibly detailed simulations, while Tolkein invented a world for his languages.
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I am currently homeless and have been for closing in on four years. I have 23 cents to my name today and will not be eating today. But I work on things that matter to me, while also trying to solve my financial problems and the health problems they are rooted in.

Your rant sounds incredibly petty and insulting to me. You seem to be confusing momentary pleasure for love. They are not the same thing.
Personal Health Records are a nightmare, the whole system doesn't make a lot of sense and is solving the wrong problems in the wrong ways in the first place (and legally mandated to do so). I think he's totally right that he just dodged a bullet.
I think the choice of monolith vs microservice should be largely driven by the size of your team. Some guidance I heard on a podcast recently (can't recall which) was to only consider microservices if you had more than 50 people trying to deploy code in the same app/system.
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A charitable interpretation of what he said is that if you have to spend your days working to earn a living anyway, try to find or make a job that delivers a fulfillment beyond just money. I'm a big believer in making the job you want. Build up a reputation for getting things done, and then nudge the organisation to assign you the work you want to do that also benefits them.
> What matters to me? A very small number of people, a lot of solitude and a lot of learning and playing with my mind. To do this I have a job at a very small company with a custom contract to work just four days a week - for this I have taken a cut in pay of course.

That is interesting, and something I would want to explore in the future (I am currently a college senior). How did you manage to convince your company to do that?
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yeah, that could be true. But starting a company is a huge risk for him as well. He felt like this idea wasn't something he was willing to put his time for yet and backed out of the arrangement.
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People with chronic illness who take metrics regularly or people who are interested in optimizing their performance are both groups that can and will keep such data, if given a good means to do so. Sometimes even if they have really terrible means to do so.
I was totally with you until this part:

> we've really only used the bits of Keynesianism that happen to be convenient to our ruling class.

where I would remind that it is not just about convenience to ruling class; much of it is about populism (paying out popular social transfers from state coffers, and not collect unpopular taxes) which is rewarded with votes.
I find this program very interesting because it is used, among other things, for medical device embedded software; ie, perhaps the most challenging high stakes programming environment. The author makes maximum achievable software quality an explicit goal.
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Does this help?

http://phys.org/print364829979.html
Kudos to the author for doing the right thing. But his post highlights just how frothy the market is and just how much weight founder resume and social proof are being given in seed rounds today.
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The suicide by drinking pesticides were happening for a long time, especially since mid-90s. The rate of increase has more to do with public policy , price controls and sub-par pesticides, fertilizers and seeds. The cock-tail of GATT, WTO restriction on farmer subsidies coupled with price controls and adulterated products, has created the farmer suicide hell.

ECommerce and logistics have nothing to do with it.
The amount of map data available for free these days is amazing. I remember saving up to buy those maps in high school.
callous? i'd say you're offering a proven solution

but i'd wonder, how does one 'make some more of it'?

stalinism? you're arguing with someone else

my complaints are against the bureaucracy of the problem

there is more to this conversation than a binary of stalinism and some undefined other

what do you mean by 'easier'? seems to the suffer the same ills as using vague language such as 'fair'

and i'd caution against utilising the concept of 'fact' when discussing subsets

what of a generation born into wealth that fails to make any more if it but their life remains, or even becomes moreso, by your own definitions, 'easier'?