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I've slept under my desk because the couch was already occupied. I think a certain amount of pain in a startup focuses people and I'm very good with that.

As for sedentary, it doesn't have to be. I worked at 100 Hamilton Ave once before it was Palantir. Boring work but there was a gym in the basement. I got my bench 1RM up to 270.

And I've worked at a certain company where the VP of Resources personally adjusted the Aeron to my 6'4" as part of my onboarding. This did not impress me.

It ain't the chair.
At first it wouldn't be but that's just to get an MVP going (queue the blog post about getting a commercial drivers license so you can pilot the first truck yourself).

The plans for a full AI commanding a fleet of autonomous cars goes into the PPT for the seed round.
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Please mark when you make a significant edit of a comment that had a problem. Right now it looks like jessaustin's complaint is nonsensical.
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> If your mental model for how the economy works somehow doesn't allow the situations described in the book or article, I'd hazard to say it's your mental model that's in error.

What situations? People being evicted? People paying rent for trailers? What economic insight are you supposed to take away from those things?

I would say that if your mental model of how society works does not include those things, yeah, it should. If everyone realized what was happening, maybe there would be more support for basic income, Section 8 vouchers, etc. That's my view--raise taxes and give more money to poor people so their lives are better. But that's an entirely different point, and not one that the article is making.

The article is an archetypal example of what I call "well intentioned but economically ignorant liberalism." The folks who campaigned to make tenements illegal were not conservatives. They were liberals genuinely concerned about the living conditions of those residents. However, they were also ignorant about how economics works. So they tried to address the problem simply by making tenements illegal (i.e. taking an option away from poor people).[1] Calls to regulate check cashing places and payday lenders out of existence (or articles that demonize landlords who rent to poor people, like this one) fall into that same bucket.

Reading the article, what kind of solution do you think the article is leading you to? Maybe making it harder for landlords to evict tenants, or limiting the rents that trailer parks can charge tenants. What does that do? Cause landlords to be less willing to rent to poor people, or less likely to invest in a new trailer park. I.e. it takes options away from poor people, and ironically reduces competition and raises prices in the markets that cater to poor people. Making some poor people better off (e.g. the ones that get the trailer park before the rent controls kicked in), but making poor people as a whole worse off.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/the-hidden-war-on-affordable-housin...
>I don't buy it. Increased wealth at lower levels benefits everyone.

That's irrelevant, since it's not "everyone" who decides, but the corporate elites and rich players.

So if "Increased wealth at lower levels benefits everyone" but "decreased wealth" benefits them, they'll push for that. They also don't much care for long term effects -- short term gain is enough (they can always retire when the economy/society falls apart, and they don't have to mingle with the lower classes or send their kids to their schools etc, unless they want it).
I have first hand experience with this. After being swindled badly in the sale of a small business, I was forced into foreclosure and chapter 13 bankruptcy. For roughly 8 years, I was trapped in a situation where I had crippling debt, and had lost my primary source of income. This started in 2008 so finding a job that paid well enough to stop the bleeding was out of the question.

What happens when you get in a situation like this? Every dirtbag on the planet who has an idea about how to profit off it will appear. This was especially true of real estate agents, as well as people peddling legit sounding loan restructuring programs. It is a huge pile on and it really wears you down (besides the stress of not knowing from week to week if you home is going to be auctioned off at the courthouse, not being able to pay for luxuries like basic dental care, and so on).

If you have not been there, you have no idea at all how difficult it is to get out of that trap once you are in it.
Welfare is a typical bugbear of conservatives and libertarians. As someone who has spent most of my life below the poverty line, and never been on welfare, I just can't see it. There are dozens of other huge factors. I agree completely about the mental health system, though. I'd rate that as one of the huge factors.
I still have my email address from them since 1996. Still use it. People still consider me "aged" because of that.
Ask HN: How important is the absence of forced user account creation to growth?
It seems like several of the world's fastest-growing websites/apps grew so quickly because they a) offered value to users without b) forcing them to create accounts.

Here are four examples:

1) Google - Users can get search results and Google can monetize them, all without accounts.

2) Reddit - Much of reddit's value is giving users interesting information, and displaying a conversation around it. Accounts exist, but they're not necessary.

3) WhatsApp - Users technically have accounts, but they never have to sign up and create a username/password. The phone number is the auth.

4) Wikipedia - Search the world's largest encyclopedia. No accounts.

Do you believe these services would have taken over their respective markets if users were forced to create accounts? Any ideas for a resource you wish existed without the need for an account?
Publish hard paper and sell to entreprise. That's where there is a money.

A company will pay 49$ for a book they want. A dude won't.
Everybody here should read the book that this article is reviewing: Evicted by Matthew Desmond. It's an incredible accomplishment in sociology and one of the most insightful works on poverty I have ever encountered.
To the vast majority of companies, poverty is not profitable (prison industry and loan sharks being notable exceptions). In fact to most companies it is critical to have an affluent market to sell things to. It's just not profitable for them to be the ones ensuring that this affluent market exists rather than let it be someone else's problem. It's a classic tragedy of the commons.
> Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I want to employ someone who uses their creative energy for anything except the company's business.

I don't think I'll ever understand that attitude. If you're a founder, the business just may be the work of your life. To expect the same level of dedication and obsession from your employees is utterly obscene.

If you're lucky enough to find someone who genuinely feels that way, great. But to expect or even demand it should never be the case.
I don't think the problem is that people "misunderstand" that notion. I think it's that people who've never been that kind of poor don't — can't — appreciate how few options the people who are actually have, or how much more expensive those options are (not just in terms of the marginal utility of the poor person's dollar, but that things are often objectively more expensive) when you're that poor.

It's a subtle distinction, but it's absolutely real.
is this a stone-throwing related issue?
Totally disagree. Do you think pawn shops, payday lenders, and high-interest credit card issuers would benefit if their customers became wealthy enough to not need their services?
In my opinion, just follow the money trail and relationship net:

Does Mallory have any cousins, dear friends, family members in Carlsbad city govt?

If so, it might explain why they won a contract ($$$!) for which they probably aren't qualified.

And if you want to take it deeper, you ask yourself if the program is even justified in the first place :)
https://pgexercises.com/

I've found it one of the best tutorials of anything on the web. It's challenging and you learn through example.
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same here. Trialling Dashlane, but not quite convinced yet..
I took the claim to be that they're poorer than they might've been because it's profitable for people to extract wealth from them -- that is, it's possible to extract more wealth than you return in value by leveraging social structures. Further, that this profitability in modern times is trapping people in poverty, when otherwise people might not be "poor".

You've done nothing to address this claim, at all.
If you are a political party that champions the poor, it may be in your interest to keep people poor so they keep voting for you. I.e., look like you are helping, but don't actually help.
So I assume that the problem is that SERIRQ is left floating causing too much of a load on the LPC clock it depends on, right?
> Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I want to employ someone who uses their creative energy for anything except the company's business.

What a thuggish company, with such a feudal view of its workers! Hopefully most companies understand that they don't own their employees outright.
there was an article a while back about how any type of exercise movement, weight lifting to running to walking would ease up lower back pain.

Ultimately comes down to strengthening those muscles. Sitting all day atrophies the muscles. I had lower back pain for the first 30 years of my life, then started deadlifting and the back pain is gone. g'luck
Thank you for your comments and concerns. I indeed applied to positions in other countries even though I wanted to stay in my country for family reasons. Some of them were very targeted and indeed they called for an interview, some were more generic. The purpose of the article is to promote planning and putting goals, make choices and dont give up. The title as "finding a life path" was not mine and I do not consider finding work as a life path. However, in order to achieve and perceive your dreams, you need to work. And you need to work somewhere you enjoy. The path to achieve that is the one I writed.
Does it need wildcard?
If doctors were hired like programmers, they would be quizzed on chemistry trivia and then asked to mix their own drugs in vials using raw pharmaceutical ingredients.
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Very interesting. Any links for further info?
Remember, though, Marissa's move came because a very large number of Yahoo remote employees weren't working. I went through something similar at Intel about 10 years ago when "telecommuting" became a code word for not really doing any work.

I don't think IBM is in the same situation, though. Telecommuting works or fails based on a company's culture, work ethic, and employee accountability.
So if you work for a bank and commit serious wire fraud on your own time, can you be sued for breach of contract, conflict of interest, etc? You'd have a lot of experience in doing so from your normal employment.
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That might be true, and happens in lots of areas, but Swagger is nothing like Corba/SOAP specs and JSON is nothing like SOAP.

JSON gives most of the stuff SOAP was actually used for (except for bureaucratic spec-driven edge cases), for 20% of the complexity -- so the JSON generation did something right.

(I'm old enough to have been through CORBA and SOAP).
That's good to know, but I don't see how this stops them doing it from other countries? Maybe it is just to make it a little bit harder to do?
What does it mean to be the terminator of startups? Do you find the Sean Connor of startups and try to kill him? ...Or save him?
Hi Luke,
Thanks for taking the time to talk with us and your efforts on tackling the housing problems.

One question, is the main focus of the business to manufacture and sell the Box houses or offer then for renting with AirBnB or similar sites?
If the latter do you have some planed strategy to lower the high CAPEX needed for scaling?
This is a really, really good comment. Book reviews are sometimes so deep and thoughtful that they are themselves worth reacting to, but they're never equivalent to the work reviewed. The presence of a positive-and-stupid book review does not invalidate the actual book (and conversely, a positive review does not guarantee a thoughtful book).
> landlords, rich investors, for example... all to some degree just rake it in based on what they already have.

This is a simplistic view that is demonstrably incorrect. For example, I rent out part of my house but do so to help pay the mortgage. So technically I do not fully own the property I rent. Furthermore, maintaining a property and assuming liability are not free.
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Having used all sorts of Amazon automation programs, that's pretty hilarious if someone actually used AZ to counterfeit their own goods. Like printing more 3D Printers with a 3D Printing service or something. It's pretty cool that we can reserve entire warehouses and have books printed at the click of a button these days.
I don't want to seem sarcastic, since this is a genuine question: What are the positive aspects that would induce you to work or stay in such an environment?
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sounds like evidence of a cover up to me :)
Your post appears to characterize any such IDL as a "mistake". What makes attempts to formalize an API in this manner inherently problematic? Or did you just mean that it's a mistake to do a different IDL for REST-specific APIs instead of using an extant one? Does your complaint extend to non-web IDLs like Thrift or protobufs?

In my experience, there is nothing inherently wrong with this type of IDL. Like all architectural decisions, it comes with its own tradeoffs, but there's no reason the tradeoff profile is inherently wrong.
"Human trafficking" has one advantage: it can be very broadly defined at law, allowing police, prosecutors, and legislators to look good and like they're "cracking down" as they aggressively prosecute people for relatively innocuous activity compared to actual forced prostitution. For example, you arrange an encounter with a prostitute at a hotel and on top of the usual fee, you pay for her cab fare to the location. It doesn't matter that the prostitute chose this line of work and is not doing it under force or duress. You have "transported" a person for "commercial sexual activity" and are guilty of human trafficking in Massachusetts, a state widely praised for its "comprehensive" human-trafficking legislation. That's a five-year mandatory minimum sentence and a mandatory sex offender registration.
Why is every time I see this law referred to people seem to have only read the first clause, not the following clauses

> a) Any provision in an employment agreement which provides that an employee shall assign, or offer to assign, any of his or her rights in an invention to his or her employer shall not apply to an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information except for those inventions that either:

> (1) Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer;  or

> (2) Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer.

So no, it's not just things you did at home on your own time and own equipment. They must also not be related to your employer's business etc ....

What's related would be up to a court/judge if it came to that but there's certainly a spectrum. You work on Call of Duty 27 and try to make an FPS at home. Certainly related. You work on Call of Duty and try to make a Candy Crush Clone at home. Probably related (seems like it would be considered competition for game market). You work on Call of Duty and try to write your own game engine at home. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . You work on Call of Duty and try to make a Tinder clone at home. Now , maybe we're getting in the unrelated territory? You work on Call of Duty and sell baked goods at home. Probably not an issue.

If you work at a giant company like Sony that does ISPs, Health Insurance, Movies, TVs, Cameras, Video Games, Batteries, Music, LCD displays, etc etc well then you're probably going to have a lot of things that are in that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ spectrum

Of course IANAL.

If you want to do something outside of work that's even possibly in any way shape or form remotely related to your company's line of business get them to sign a contract saying they won't claim any rights in your project. If they won't consider working for a better company.
markets prefer efficiency and using best of breed 3rd party software/libs etc is efficient vs. everyone re-inventing the wheel (inefficient).

So much of programming these days is glue code, even with IOT, devices and sdk's and libs are getting better and better.

The creativity of today comes from ingenious ways of developing new processes the arise from gluing together existing ones.

If you want to be doing greenfield algos go get a PHD in comp sci...and stay at the uni.
At the same time, it's also reasonable to ask how much of it is just SXSW getting past its Sell By date. I don't really have an opinion one way or the other but a lot of events seem to go through a certain natural cycle even when the environment they're operating in remains basically healthy.
Turning $100 into $500 is easy. You can do that by selling lemonade for a week on the beach. The hard part is to do it in a way that scales more than linearly.
It isn't 1000 seats, but I know of a Win98/NT4 shop. It is an isolated network supporting mostly phone sales and pick-and-pack, runs some ancient copy of MAS90 and some home-grown software.

These installations exist, and (outside of tech startupland) isn't even that strange, although he is probably pushing things. The owner of that business is proud of how long he's made his IT investment last; his main concern is that dirt-cheap second-hand replacements that can run 98 are apparently getting harder to find.
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Music production/performance. The iPad does few things objectively better than Android and touch responsiveness when it comes to playing music apps is one of them. There's a 100-400ms delay with Android for some reason. I had heard they'd gotten better recently but it's not as good as the iPad.

The iPad has a lot of great emulations of older synths and exciting new apps that aren't available anywhere else. Some big names have also made apps, like Korg, Propellerheads, and Native Instruments. Check out iPolysix, iProphet, Animoog, DM1, Auria, E.L.S.A., Beatsurfing, Impaktor, BIAS Amp, Audiobus, Swoopster, Sparkle, Galileo, Thumbjam, Steel Guitar, Arpeggionome, Orphion, Xynthesizr, Glitchbreaks, Loopy, and Gadget.
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After 4 Recent gen MakerBots and the whole Print head issue, MakerBot is on my list of products I simply won't buy regardless of their innovations.
it ain't the chair, but it's a nice perk to have as far as perks go. I'd probably pick a nice chair over almost any other office amenity.
what is your hesitation with dashlane?
I actually am very interested to know if SpokenGrowth grows. I think it's a great idea. Will it become successful depends on a very specific combination of skill set and determination and persistence and having the financial means to persist.[edit] Saying "if I can do it anybody can" is not actually fair since even though you used a pen name you did bring your considerable marketing experience to promoting the idea and site.

But you see there lies the big dilemma. Great ideas are dime a dozen. The question is how big is the market for the idea and how do you reach that market and finally how do you monetize that market that results in a decent ROI. It doesn't have to be mind blowing ROI but something that generates passive income is good too.
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Can you please provide some references to the "high number of vulnerabilities"? I've only heard of one or two, but those were promptly fixed.
Not only that: poverty ensures a steady supply of cannon fodder for the military. So there is a big %age in keeping people poor if you want to have a large military.
>The capitalist system writ large would much prefer that these people made $40,000 a year instead of $20,000

The captialist system finds local maximums, not global ones. This is a classic coordination problem. As a business, your path to profit maximization from poor people is to keep them impoverished (make the poor part with the most money possible).

Of course, if every business adopted models that were less predatory, overall wealth would increase, poor people make 40k a year, more stuff is sold, and everyone profits more, poor and businesses alike.

But as a single business, if you adopt less predatory business practices, you are not maximizing profit, AND you are opening yourself to be out-competed by a business that does.

The regular customer-satisfaction competition does still apply, of course. But the power of the consumer is significantly blunted if the consumer has limited choice, which is what happens to the poor when they have limited options caused by low economic security. Perhaps, the poor have so few options, businesses are allowed to create predatory cycles of poverty.
It was a combination of both. I still remember my dad coming home from a talk that he considered the "best yet" on the Y2K issue.

The speaker warned that traffic lights would stop working. Maybe someone more techno-literate than me can explain why that would be a genuine concern, but from my perspective at the time it seemed like the guy was making money from fear mongering.
Ain't no "what if" about it son. Every economic transaction between two parties benefits the seller slightly more than the buyer; that is the definition of profit. Sure, the buyer is getting whatever good or service they paid for, but they are ordinarily paying slightly more than it's absolutely worth.

If that element isn't present (i.e. if the transaction does not incrementally impoverish the buyer and enrich the seller by some amount), the seller won't continue to sell that good or service.

Edit: except non-profits, subsidies, and Uber
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It's a math problem. It doesn't really have anything to do with furniture movers, that's just a hook to fool people that only care about math that has applications. Most modern math falls into this category, and math that applies to the real world is pretty well established and handled by the applied mathematicians and engineers.
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One step closer: this is the summary by the author http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/forced-out
XBox live as well. I'm guessing it's all across Microsoft
Musicians get a lot out of the touch interface which can be programmed to be any set of controls and parameters with something like TouchOSC or similar apps.

The iPad has a lot of great emulations of older synths and exciting new apps that aren't available anywhere else. Some big names have also made apps, like Korg, Propellerheads, and Native Instruments. Check out iPolysix, iProphet, Animoog, DM1, Auria, E.L.S.A., Beatsurfing, Impaktor, BIAS Amp, Audiobus, Swoopster, Sparkle, Galileo, Thumbjam, Steel Guitar, Arpeggionome, Orphion, Xynthesizr, Glitchbreaks, Loopy, and Gadget.
Both, balancing the capex needs for the latter via sales as I scale:)
Regardless of the merits of the suit, taxes are not regulations in the same way taxi union rules are: they are a way to provide the government with revenue. People may disagree about whether government should involve itself in the taxi business, but as long as we have one, we need a way to fund it somehow.
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