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Relevant article from a couple of days ago: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/trend-tracking/The-Y-Comb...

A few snippets:

- "Once upon a time, bright graduates from top Indian colleges took up wellpaying jobs with MNCs or headed to the Ivy Leagues for higher education. That is passe. More and more of them now harbour startup dreams."

- "There is no doubt that India will be the fastest growing economy in the world for the next 10+ years. We will see many more $100M in revenue businesses being built in India"

- "The first startup we funded that focused on building for the Indian market was ClearTax in 2014. The Times of India wrote a story about ClearTax being in YC - and after that we started seeing more Indian founders applying to YC. The increase in Indian companies in YC is likely reflective of the fact that we're seeing more applications from India. After the US, India is the country that sends us the most applications."
One of the co-founders here. If you don't have a BrightWork account, this is a good place to start.

http://blog.brightwork.io/getting-started-guide/
> Because we make our allies in the ME sell oil in dollars?

Petrodollarism has little to do with modern dollar hegemony. This is why we are fine building domestic energy sources, e.g. through solar and fracking.

Dollars are valued because the American economy is huge. This means lots of Americans spend dollars, demand to be paid in dollars, and want to save and thereby invest in dollars. All this supports a deep and complex financial system.

It's network effects backed by our military's de facto role as the global guarantor of freedom of navigation.
When it comes to company structures, I think form should follow function. It all depends on what you really want to do with your company. Sure, it's easier to use a known structure, but actually you can set up your company almost any way you can imagine, and a good lawyer can help you figure out the paperwork. But you need to dig deep and connect with your real purpose and vision to figure out what you want. It is harder than using a well-known template structure - more lawyers, less easy to explain - but your company's structure is its destiny, so you have to get it right.

We became a co-op not for the sake of it, but because it was the structure that best matched the impact we wanted to have on the world and how we worked together best. In fact, it was only recently that I review the Cooperative Principles[0] and was surprised how closely we've tracked to all of them. Many of these things emerged very organically for us because they were just the most effective ways of working in a highly collaborative way. I find it validating that the way we want to work meshes with a much bigger movement. Yes, co-ops are more rare, but actually there's a huge amount of legal and social precedence we could draw on.

We don't have, and have never had managers at Loomio. We all decide together on an equitable basis how to run the company. I would strongly advise you to find co-founders who really match your vision and sense of deeper purpose. We are a very diverse bunch in terms of personalities, thinking styles, and backgrounds, but we all share a commitment to the same core values and vision. If we didn't, it wouldn't work at all. So if you're working with people not interested in your vision, I'd really rethink that.

[0] http://loomio.coop/cooperative_principles.html
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total 3 out of 92 is 3.2% of total.

GDP (PPP) of India vs United States (ppp) is 30%.

So..
Deutsche Bank's business is to facilitate financial transactions. They are not an arm of the government and their job should not be catching criminals. Imagine if a pharmacy was held liable for selling prescription drugs to clients who hold valid prescriptions. Unfortunately, banks are increasingly required to play this role, and this is not in the best interests of their clients. Thanks to FATCA, foreign banks already regularly refuse to serve American expats abroad. The end game of all this will be increasing fragmentation of the international financial industry and higher costs for cross-border commerce and trade.
I'm sorry, but that doesn't actually change anything. You cannot make a tax non-regressive by adding a blanket subsidy. It's like shifting the curve 'mx + b' by increasing 'b'. Everyone gets the subsidy, and then there is still a regressive tax that is targeting the poor.

Not to be argumentative, but based on some brief research, the bottom 50th percentile do in fact cover close to 50% of the carbon footprint, and it's the rich, not the poor, who are in a position to cut their emissions by choosing more-expensive/lower-emitting products.

In short, these are two most disagreeable sentences.
My point was simply whether a population ignoring laws they don't like qualifies as a functioning society. Prison is simply a logical result of ignoring laws. Whether that actually happens, and whether it happens for the reasons GP outlined, indeed remains to be seen.
In the context of this article, I recommend my fellow HN community members to read a wonderful book on the same topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Morning-Not-So-Obvious-Guaran... (NOT a referral link)

Before, here's me trying to plan something, usually stuck on a petty issue, that is dependent on something else, and this task would be put aside for so long. My body is used to talking to clients late night and waking up late. The only thing I became in this process is tired, obese and lost self-confidence (though personal, I am willing to share this openly).

Once I started practicing waking up early on, I realized everything is very clear. My mind knows exactly what to be done and if there's a problem, how I can solve it efficiently.
I could easily grasp new concepts, plan for my future more clearly and efficiently get tasks done.

I use a pomodoro timer and I noticed that tasks that would take 2 hours in the night would take just 45 minutes or less early in the morning. At least for me, it just feels like my brain has access to all the information it needs so quickly. Combining this with another book "30 days of discipline by Victor Pride" I was able to reduce my body weight, finish an Saas prototype and finally live a structured life and gain back my confidence.

Posting this hoping it will benefit someone. Cheers.
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On Android FF has this functionality built in. I use it all the time.
I have two kids and do basically this. I usually work from 11 am or so until 5-6 pm, then from 11 or midnight until sometime between 2 and 4 am. If one of the kids needs before 4am I usually handle it, after 4am my wife usually takes it. Kids are usually up between 9 and 10 am (I guess we're all late risers - not sure if it's genetic or learned) but if they're up earlier my lovely wife lets me sleep.
It would be awesome if you have a blog post or another resource that contains some of your work experience that you can link? I'd be very interested.
Just reading through your handbook:

"We determine what proportion of the surplus is reinvested into the co-op, what proportion is directed to socially beneficial projects outside of Loomio, and what proportion is distributed to co-op members. Being a member makes you eligible to receive the distribution, but does not mean any distribution will necessarily be made."

So you have all of the responsibilities of an owner, but you may or may not even get any distribution of the overall profits, if the company sells.

These decisions are also above the heads of the members. This means it's technically not 'worker-owned'.

"Members are the ultimate decision-makers for Loomio. While we often delegate decision-making, such as to diretors, coordinators, and leaders of work areas, all mandate traces back to the members."

Another important aspect to owning anything, is being able to make a decision. It seems most decisions are delegated to a directory/coordinator, which isn't much different than having a manager/boss above you.

This isn't much different than a standard corporate setup in a startup, with the hopes that your small percentage of the company will pay out.

I look at actions rather than words and although you call it 'worker owned', the details in your handbook don't really portray this.
I think the author implies that 9 (unique) crashes are with limited number of executions due to slow speed. Besides, all 1800+ crashes might not be unique.
Is there any remote hope for a way to have this happen while preventing abuse? I am not in a very creative mood right now so I can't imagine a scenario where it's not quickly being used incredibly selectively (to "just contradict anything that might be used against the City of Baltimore"), or used to catalog protesters, bulk shipped to the nsa, or many other obvious forms of abuse.

Edit: and of course, where is the countersurveillance guide that examines easy techniques to evade a persistent and widespread aerial threat?
I meant the risk of being reported to CPS (or being called out in general) rather than the risk of CPS overreacting. Once it gets to them it sounds like they go by the book, but fair point.
Did you file bugs for python?
PyObject *arg = PyTuple_GET_ITEM(varnames, j);

> ... can be null if varnames is an empty tuple (which it can be if the pyc file is malformed).

This might be a case of "program works as designed" if the dev team thinks that's an acceptable reaction to malformed pyc input. But, hey, it's worth reporting because I would probably be inclined to fix it if I were the BDFL.
I'm currently working on an unofficial interface for Readability because they aren't working on it anymore and their Android app is really broken.

The webpage needs to work offline (whole point of the project) but should be able to work without js if need be.

I create templates server-side and serve them to the client,

If js is available, it takes over and renders any further client-side interactions.

Does this sound like poor design or a valid reason to be able to render on the server and client?
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It isn't. I'm saying under all circumstances the house is less safe for the child based on my assessment of the parents actions. If you were to ask me to rate the risk to a child in their house given only the information that the parent left them to go to work then I wouldn't know they are a drug addict. But if you say one child is left home alone mistakenly by a caring parent versus a parent that intentionally left them home alone to play pokemon go, then I'm going to assume the willfully negligent parents are leaving their kid in a house that is likely less safe.

This research is saying we shouldn't change our assessment of the risks to a child in a situation based on our moral assessment of their parents. I'm saying the fact that the parents are drug addicts or willfully negligent is likely indicative that the child IS at higher risk that the statistical average.

Not sure how I can make this any clearer in any of my responses.
He says he would have made more money with desktop apps but I think people buy even less apps on the desktop appstore. I download apps on the iOS appstore all the time and sometimes even purchase iOS apps (including Vesper), but I would have never bought vesper if it was a Mac app (I wouldn't have bought it even if it was $5, but he's saying he would have put the price at $20....)
I find this part somewhat surprising: "iOS 7 was introduced at WWDC 2013, just a few days after we shipped Vesper 1.0. [...] So we spent the summer of 2013 not building a sync system, but rather building an iOS 7 version of Vesper."

Didn't they know, before the launch, the look-and-feel of iOS 7? I don't believe Apple would have launched iOS 7 without telling developers beforehand the changes required to make their apps compatible with the look-and-feel of iOS 7.

Disclaimer: I'm not an App developer (either iOS or Android). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Exact same here for all your paragraphs. Perhaps even closer to 26 hours. And during the same time of a couple of months without any obligation at all that you described, I found out that I should skip one 'night' (if I may call it so, let's rather say a sleeping period) every 7-10 days, to 'resynchronise' a bit with the classical day. Because you sometimes have to go shopping, see someone, do a bit of gardening work in the daylight, etc. :-)
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There have been a lot of Pokemon core game sales and 3DS sales. That's what he's talking about. People are interested in the original games again.
> Whatever you do to your direct reports will probably flow down the chain. If you disrespect their time, they will disrespect the time of their direct reports.

'Everything flows downhill' is one of the fundamental truths of organizational culture and management. An indecisive CEO begets flip-flopping, stressed-out managers, which begets unmotivated employees. Act the way you want people in your organization to act and things will take care of themselves - well, it's not quite that simple, but, you know.
This is exactly what I meant.
Ugh. I hate this. My son has ADHD, and the public school just couldn't cope with him. He was bored so often, and had no release for his energy because they rarely gave them recess (it got taken away if the class was too noisy, because teachers are idiots). When he was diagnosed, we made the difficult decision to give him medication. It made a big difference to his behaviour in school, to the extent that if he ever forgot to take it, the teacher would call me and have me take it in for him.

Now we're coming to the end of the summer, more than two months where he hasn't taken his medication, and he's been completely within the limits of what we can cope with. But I guess we're not trying to control 30 of them. He's starting at a private (Waldorf) school in a couple of weeks.

Ironically, we can now barely afford it after I just got fired from my job as a software engineer, because my own problems with ADHD were hindering my ability to work quickly.

Now I have to decide whether to start him at his new school with or without his medication. I mean, did it really help him, or was it just helping his teacher? Should I let him be himself, or am I doing him a disservice by not giving it to him? He needs to do well in this school, and students there start with a month-long probationary period.

It's a really tough call.
I can totally see how that may be the case and I agree. Unfortunately I can't edit the original, but hopefully my intention was clear enough in the following sentences - that these feelings do arise but are not warranted on the basis of even a cursory inspection of the facts. We judge ourselves relative to our usual context and environment (which in SV means knowledge work with a lot of super smart people) so it's easy to miss the macro view. But my point in addition to that was that intelligence shouldn't be how we measure ourselves anyway.
That proves we come from another planet which revolves more slowly :-)
Would you not build a web version first? I mean, you can use that on both a phone and a desktop.

While I'm reading this I can't help thinking that this is a great example of a bunch of developers who are more interested in building an iPhone app and are using a product idea as as excuse to do so.

But hey, if you don't try you certainly fail. I have been there too. Live and learn.
Implementation of this feature wouldn't require much in terms of processing power or storage. It would just be a more interesting and engaging way of getting to pokemon beyond the current "click it on an overhead". Game programmers and designers could definitely work with this description to make a feature.
I agree with everything you say! Notice I'm not saying that the 12 Factor App is incorrect or bad - I think it's quite the opposite. It just concerns me that people treat it as gospel, and quote it like it's some holy work that cannot be disagreed with.
They do seem to have a thing against unsanctioned map apps/enhancements. It was true in Ingress as well. I always assumed it was because they wanted to distance themselves from anything that could be construed as enabling some kind of stalking behavior - or at least construed as "too much" stalker-enabling (Ingress is already pretty stalker-enabling without map enhancements - but the map enhancements definitely make it many times more effective).

If that was at all a reason for their reticence to create capable ingress mapping tools, it must be doubly so for PGO - a game that will attract many more minor age children than Ingress.
You're painting an awfully dark picture of scientists' skills. Having been on both sides, I believe the deciding factor is simply the availability of libraries.

If you're doing web development you have an insane amount of languages to chose from because after String, Array, and File are implemented, HTTP is next. Having done a bit of web development, I'd also say a typical project only uses a subset of libraries that is surprisingly small.

Scientific computing is quite different: a paper in structural biology (my former stomping grounds) can easily require a few dozen algorithms that each once filled a 10-page paper. These could easily be packaged as libraries, but it's a niche so it rarely happens. Newer language quite often don't even have a robust numeric library. Leave the beaten tracks and your workload just increased by a magnitude.

That's also why science, unlike "general purpose" programming, often uses a workflow that connects five or more languages or so: a java GUI, python for network/string/fileIO, maybe R for larger computations, all held together by a (typically too long) shell script.

But these workflows are getting better. There's a build tool that formalizes the pipeline somewhat (I forgot the name) and APIs are surprisingly common. The reason why csv will never die is that the data fetched from APIs is usually more static than it is in a typical web app (-> local cache needed) and that scientists often work with data that just isn't a good fit for a database. Postgres just doesn't offer anything that enriches a 15MB gene sequence.
Given that FB's bot identifies itself, no, eventually some websites will present og: markup only to FB's bot.
Another 3000'nder. Would be great to see this turned into a talk somewhere.
But for a totally different reason. C++ is hard (to me, anyway) because it's gigantic and people tend to make it into a mess. BF is hard because it's intentionally obtuse.
> Would you not build a web version first? I mean, you can use that on both a phone and a desktop.

And provide an inferior experience on both. I'm just one user, but I would have been reluctant to buy it.
But that's only about 12% of the world's population. And even less are below the tropics.
Does grad school qualify you for a different visa? As far as I know, a bachelor's is sufficient for a TN or H1-B.
> Also, Node.js with Nginx is more scalable out of the box than Ruby on Rails, Python/Django, PHP, etc. Hell it's comparable to Java, which is incredible for a dynamic language.

Citation or link to any benchmarks ?

> The difference is, you can write a Node.js web application 10x faster than the equivalent application in Java, and with a drastically smaller codebase

Building a prototype, maybe; But's it's hard to believe that Node.js give a 10x boost in programmer productivity in the long run. The recent success of typescript is an indication of the limit of dynamic languages for big projects
I was going to ask what is the minimum requirement to be considered "worker owned". It seems you of a similar mind
WWDC is the developer launch event, so that's the first time any non-apple developer would have seen the new UI.

It generally isn't released to the public until september-october ish.
If we didn't ignore the fact that we have biases, at least part of the time, wouldn't we be far less productive?

I've seen people who reflect daily on whether their breakfast egg is cage free and what that means for us as an ethically omnivorous species and our corporate agribusiness food economy... and by the time they're done it's dinner. I have better things to do with my day than think logically about everything all the time.
iOS is always revealed at WWDC in June, and launched in September, so you're both right.
I think you are being a bit dismissive of what is a widely accepted mental disability[1][2][3][4][5]. If you want to spout some nonsense about how you feel about the field, that's fine, but note that you are falling into the same category of people that don't believe in climate change because winter was "pretty cold". It just so turns out that the world is not all about you, and while it may be difficult to understand that this may be a real issue for some people, you shouldn't say that this is a substance abuse problem. To say that is at the very least ignorant.

[1]: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/121/1/65/
[2]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856709...
[3]: http://www.mednet.org.uy/~spu/wp/WPA_2_2003.pdf#page=42
[4]: http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2000-00431-006
[5]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0387760406...
Hiring and firing happen through our Employment[0] and Membership[1] processes. The most important concept to get is that ownership and employment are the same thing in a co-op. If someone is no longer employed, they will cease to be a co-owner and give up their single worker-member share.

We have had to let people go before. We got together and talked honestly and openly about what was best for the co-op and the mission, what headcount we could afford to budget, and what skills were most needed going forward. And the people who weren't required anymore decided to step down of their own volition.

We did have one case where someone who clearly needed to leave didn't accept that at first, but through a series of conversations and mediation we worked it out and the agreed to step down. We now have a better conflict resolution process[2], developed out of learnings from that situation and others. If there's a conflict that cannot be resolved through this process, the result might be the person no longer being employed. This has yet to happen.

People could theoretically be forced out. Section 11 of our constitution[3] talks about the power of the Board to surrender shares at the option of the co-op, under certain circumstances (basically if someone is no longer employed or acts in bad faith). This has never been used so far.

We have a separate system to acknowledge the work people did for free or under market rates in the early days, and the risk they took giving their time to an early stage startup with no guarantees. This is called Loomio Points, and it's kind of like sweat equity (which we don't have because we don't have equity in that way). People keep their Loomio Points even if they leave the co-op, and we really hope to be successful enough to pay well on them in the future (currently everything is still being reinvested in the business).

[0] http://loomio.coop/employment.html
[1] http://loomio.coop/membership.html
[2] http://loomio.coop/conflict_resolution.html
[3] http://loomio.coop/constitution.html
Do you have a insert a dumb celebrity fan page? Or what do you do to consume that bandwidth?
This is an awesome list, I find the drone defense an interesting one too. There have been reports of drones near Moffet being commandeered and then sent into the Bay. Seemed like it would invoke a lawsuit, but if law enforcement was doing that, I could see it working out.
Is it really just the iOS App Store though? People expect everything to be free nowadays: news, email, productivity apps like Google Docs, games. Don't think you can pin this problem on Apple.
Mathematically speaking, happiness is equal to reality expresssed as a number divided by expectations:

H = R/E

The higher the expectations, the lower the happiness. This also means that:

lim(E->inf) = inf

The conclusion is inescapable yet profound - expect nothing and you'll be blissfully happy.