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This is a survivorship bias article.

- "People are building fantastic free apps. They are finding new and creative ways to make money off these apps" People drop $4 on coffee at new coffee places/restaurants all the time, so that whole I trust this experience thing is really not valid when you think about it a little further than your morning Starbucks.

- "Fact: Starbucks Has No Free Alternative" - This can be interpreted to say that maybe more apps should be $0.99, so that users get used to paying for the apps. I dont think anyone would question the $0.99 price for apps if thats how it was from the beginning.
- "People are building fantastic free apps. They are finding new and creative ways to make money off these apps". This is because the prevalence of free apps has trained developers that people wont pay for apps. So new/creative ways of making money is most likely a result of there not being a way to make money by selling the app itself. Another way to look at it is, because you cant make money just selling the app, the only people who survive are people who can find other ways of making money. If the expectations was for apps to be paid, maybe more people would make apps and we would see a whole different world of apps.

I realize that its hard to change consumer habits, so free is likely to be the dominant distribution model. But its important to distinguish that the current reality might not be the best alternative.
It seems to have changed? Apparently, getting a refund is no longer guaranteed [1].

Also, compare with Kindle, where you can download a sample of any book you like, and it just sits until you get around to reading it. Once you finish the sample, you can decide whether to buy it. I think that model is closer to free with in-app purchases than anything else.

[1] https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2479637?hl=en
No, unfortunately. For employment to count toward the year of qualifying employment for L-1 purposes, it needs to be full-time and the individual needs to be employed as an employee not as an independent contractor.
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But why do you need to run on my PC?

Just add a "insert url here" box and do it on your server.

I implicitly distrust anyone who insists on running code on my PC that they could run elsewhere.

Especially.. code they can remotely update
Same with App Store. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204084
In conclusion, America is a land of contrasts.
What you say is so true even that micro-level.

At my company, we were driven by by high code quality. We would try our best to minimize escalations, we will never release new code on Friday or late in a day because people have lives. We really made sure no one was working late or on weekends. And we were still competitive and profitable business.

Then we get bought by a Fortune 500 company. Slowly new rules come in. Deadline driven projects. Code Quality is no longer important. People are expected to release barely working code just so that we can do a press release. People are working late and on weekends. Code is released on Friday at 5PM because who cares about employee happiness.

The result is smartest people have already left the company. This has led to more escalations and less gatekeepers to prevent bad design decisions. People are constantly leaving. I am still here but I am passively looking, so are most of the remaining people. Right now, market is good, so I might see a pay raise but I have told recruiters, I can take pay cut for a great work-life balance.
The developer market is so much bigger than the valley. I went there and left because, LOL like I'm joining a startup for 150K to live in SF.

If you don't care about brand name then work in other parts of the country, even remote. Easily pull down six figures and live like a king compared to Europeans. Typing this from Europe.
It will take focused, continual political will to invest some of our vast stores of capital in technologies that preserve our standard of living yet have a smaller carbon footprint. Elon Musk and co are proving that we can build luxury and eco-friendly at scale.

Entrenched, monied, existing political ties to fossil fuel and extraction industries still exert control. I'm not willing to take the position there's nothing we can do until we've fully shaken them off the backs of our political system.
15k is nothing and you can buy 'featured' status. Let me know when it gets closer to 500,000.
There's quite a bit of information out there about the various sorts of intermittent fasting people are doing. Some people do longer, less frequent, fasts. Some people combine it with other diets.

My intermittent fasting looks like this:

For eight hours from midday until evening (the exact times shift a little based on my waking and sleeping schedule; 2PM to 10PM is a pretty common schedule for me), I eat like a responsible adult. Minimal junk food, desserts in moderation, try to make my meals balanced, don't eat too much sugar or simple carbs. I don't deny myself anything I crave, generally speaking, but I try not to eat garbage. I am also a vegetarian, occasional vegan, but I've been doing that for 23 years...it is unrelated to my current diet and fasting.

During the other 16 hours of the day, I eat nothing and drink nothing with calories. I drink water and unsweetened green tea (iced or hot depending on the weather; right now, it's summer and I'm in Texas, so it's iced tea). I don't drink coffee, but I normally don't drink coffee so that's not a change. Some people who fast drink coffee without sugar or dairy; I assume it has no or very few calories.

I never stop drinking water and don't know of any evidence that supports dehydration as a beneficial practice. I'm not seeking spiritual enlightenment or going on a hunger strike, I'm trying to maintain good health as I age.

The goal of intermittent fasting (as practiced by the folks I pay attention to) is to force your body to improve insulin sensitivity and to reduce caloric intake by 20-30% without having to count calories or give up favorite foods.

I don't know if it's the optimal practice, but it seems to be working OK for me, so far. I have lost about 15 pounds (and I'd lost about 5 pounds before that on a reduced calorie diet), which averages out to a little less than a pound every week since I started. Weight loss has slowed somewhat in the past month or so. I have begun lifting weights a couple times a week, though, so that may be offsetting my weight loss with regained muscle.

You probably need to come up with a fasting schedule that works for you and fits your existing daily routine. Skipping breakfast was easiest for me, and I know I have trouble sleeping well when I'm hungry, so eating late in the day is the right schedule for me. 16/8 is a reasonable balance, for me, as well. I find it's really quite easy to maintain; I go to bed two or three hours after my evening meal and then sleep through the next eight hours of the fast. Then I've only got five or six hours to go after I wake up before eating. I sip tea through that time, and most days barely notice my hunger.

I don't know if I'll do this forever but, assuming evidence continues to mount about the benefits of caloric restriction and improved insulin sensitivity, it seems like I'll keep at it for the foreseeable future.
anon354987 10 minutes ago [-]

If you're so anti-Mefi, why do you continue to take advantage of the site's resources, including posting questions to AskMe? Why not just disable your account?

Funny how mefites who want to attack me some more never want to do it in their own name. Whether harrassing me on my blogs or here, it is always anonymous.

I rarely post anything there anymore. I did post something yesterday. I am kind of regretting it.

I dislike letting assholes win by default. I like to imagine that taking the high road will work. I am also medically handicapped, so sometimes I just do stupid things because I am feverish or whatever.

But, I participate less and less. My profile there bears that out.
I use to read hacker news and feel that all the articles were by people infinitely smarter than me. Nowadays I occasionally hit something like this. The fact that this makes it to the front page means many programmers are equally misguided...
Follow up question based on "value not being limited to cash compensation"

So it'll work well until getting accepted into a program like ycombinator, but I'll have to explore the O-1 visa options after getting accepted? Thanks.
Could you give some examples of the exploitation? Years ago I had a chance to live in France. I've watched French life pretty closely, and regret not going years ago.

At the time, I really believed our system was the best. Had a few life hiccups, and realized my great country, really had some serious flaws. And no--the wealthy look over the flaws, or don't ever experience them, or buy them away.

It's beyond the free/low cost college. It's the culture. It's just so many, common sense, stuff we just assumed we were stuck with. I was watching a movie the other night.

Employees in the French picture were inflamed over being surveiled by video while at work. I was confused. Here--I just assumed I'm being recorded.

Anyways--just curios?
> Says who?

Says the burden of proof. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof
Without knowing more about your background and the basis of the application, it's impossible to say but for NIW GC applications to be successful, the applicant needs to show a history of achievement as well as future employment in service of the national interest.
Is it not possible to import all my existing Chrome bookmarks? Seems like a good first step.
From reading the article, it seems the health benefits may, primarily, be attributed to having lowered blood sugar? I've also seen a number of references saying just eating less has the ability to extend life. So, could it be that sugar, in general, is really really bad for us? If you don't have diabetes, could you get the same benefits Metformin provides simply cutting as much sugar out of your diet as possible? The article reads like a distraction for the masses from the research being done for billionaires to extend their lives. "Hey, don't feel so bad about all the billionaires working on super fancy life extending treatments you can't afford. You can take a cheap little pill to live longer too."
If you are not planning a career in academia, wouldnt it be better to patent it?

Just wondering...
No, we stick with fossil fuels because they are cheaper (at the scale we need). More expensive energy -> less energy use -> lower standard of living.

This is what I was alluding to about technology. If we can make clean energy significantly cheaper to use at scale than fossil fuels, then the world will use it.

More realistically, we need to make it cheaper to build new renewables than to keep using existing fossil fuel sources.
We can always ask people to not be jerks. Free speech is indeed a societal concept. In the context of This conversation on this subject however, it is a legal one. We are asking what Paypal should do. Paypal is a corporation. They should do whatever benefits them and their shareholders the most. They are currently doing that. Even if you don't agree morally, that is what they are doing. Therefore, our societal definition of free speech does not match with our legal one.

Thus we must change our legal one. Therefore, I claim that our conversation is implicitly and inherently about the legal definition of free speech and what that should be. Paypal has no obligation, no requirement to do anything unless the law is changed accordingly. Otherwise they will continue to operate in the way that benefits them and their shareholders the most.

My point was simply that you're not explictly asking to change the law when you should be. As the law is currently written Paypal is doing everything right. If that is still wrong for a moral and societal perspective, how do we change the laws to match? Specifically, how do you change the laws in a way that upholds our previous decisions and court cases because these have served as bedrock principles.

I wasn't attacking you mate, my bad - just trying to get you to be more specific.
Horrible article. Networking doesn't mean asking someone for her email address or exchanging business cards.

Networking means creating meaningful relationships based on mutual benefits. If you are in a position to help someone, help her. She will then help you back later on when she can. And this is by no means overrated. If anything is underrated.
I'm asking why these records were held in the first place. If they didn't store the data in the first place, there'd be nothing to preserve. The government could send preservation orders all they want and Dreamhost wouldn't even have to go to court because they could comply without hurting their customers' privacy.
We started with extension as developers/designers found it especially handy for a quick look-up while working on their projects. Not to worry though - we're working on something for the web as well!

Also, our counterparts got a majority of their traction from browser extensions which made it our obvious priority (even though it wasn't the easiest of options).
Fair enough, but that means I have to find someone who has one of those phones ;)
"If let" leads to code that is hard to read IMO. I'd rather be able to easily tell the difference between conditional statements and assignments.

Another Swift feature that I think leads to very poor readability is trailing closures.
Are the people who applied for research positions and got the job staying? I guess so. So, those who didn't get the job weren't the "brains" that the US needed? And apparently, China is paying big compensations for him because these are the "brains" that China desperately needs. It seems like everyone is happy.

What is the point of this article?
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> Enabling anyone with a borewell to sell water to anyone else.

What happens when the neighborhood loses its water sources due to overuse?
In fact, this is SO true, that I think if an app were to charge $2/mo rather than 99c once, I'd be more likely to buy it. As a consumer, and especially as a tech-aware consumer, I know that something costing 99c is a cheap throwaway piece of plastic from a gumball machine. Anything worth having needs recurring updates, server-side maintenance, etc. 99c once I view as "free", which I view as "junk", which I view as "something I don't need". Rough analogies: "anything that's free, you're not the consumer; you're the product", and "here, you throw this away" -Jim Gaffigan (I think) on flyers and free samples.
Why do you think PhD is a waste of time?
Being a non-profit or a government would not help solve that.

Those organization types are just as motivated to save money as for-profit is.
It's a bit more nuanced than that, meaning that a work visa isn't necessarily required.
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the real issue, unanswered by the article, is why didn't linsen li get job offers here? because the premise that we want to keep all the smart people here to generate more economic value for "us" rather than "them" is hard to disfavor.

1. was he deficient in some way that makes him unsuitable for the job?

2. did the university not provide the needed skills for the teaching positions he was applying for?

3. is the supply of qualified applicants so high that many receive no offers?

4. is there just not enough funding to employ every qualified academic?

5. is the regulatory environment such that we force many qualified jobseekers to look elsewhere?

...and so on. these seem to be the more pertinent questions in this case, not the political "trump is xenophobic and his policy sucks" slant of the article (whether you agree with that sentiment or not), because the uncertainty around imiigration policy doesn't seem to have had direct bearing in this situation. li didn't get a job in the US, so he's going to china, where he did get a job. pretty straightforward.

with that said, i believe we should allow much more immigration, not less (contrary to trump's position), but the light and disjoint reasoning in this article was a head scratcher.
Yes, just making it clear that it's a good idea to collect the sales tax regardless.
That's a really great point, and bottled water is actually the fastest growing segment of private water in India (growing 30% year over year). My co founder and I have been living in India for the past 6 years and we both own personal home water filters and carry around a reusable water bottle. We are fans of companies like Unilever who are trying to produce low cost water filters for emerging markets. We think that if we can get the cleanest, cheapest water to people, and by eventually partnering with water filter companies, we can tackle the bottled water problem.
Just eat enough raw/runny egg yolks [1]: "Eggs contain 0.89 micrograms of vitamin B-12 per 100 grams, or 15 percent of the daily value of 6 micrograms. Each large egg contains 0.44 micrograms of vitamin B-12, or 7 percent of the DV. This makes eggs the most concentrated source of vitamin B-12 by weight when compared to milk and chicken."

[1]: http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/vitamin-b12-eggs-milk-chicke...
Honestly, I am loving these posts on Alpha AXP - based on the book, The Old New Thing. Very knowledgeable and insightful.
I did this on purpose ;) You are the exact kind of user I was writing about — the vast majority cannot tell the difference. So I suggest you read it to the end :)
inescapable if you use Facebook. Pretty easy to escape otherwise.
This greatly depends on what type of app it is (e.g. social vs. utility).
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one reason to sell income generating sites: to raise some capital to use on growing other site.
I don't agree with the article's titular thesis or the rather extreme examples it uses. I attribute the majority of my career success thus far to my ability to make conversation and present my (often highly technical) ideas in an engaging and compelling way. Raw technical ability is excellent, but it's an inefficient method of capturing opportunities.

This article opens with a strong claim and several distasteful examples of desperate behavior associated with networking. But I wouldn't consider those "networking" in the general sense of the word; rather they are one stunt-based manifestation of it. Contrary to the article's point, you do not need to abandon networking to focus on being so good that you're attention getting. The examples given - Bieber and Adele being "found" through raw wow factor - do not resemble the way that networking organically occurs in the real world, and are very dependent on luck. Bieber and Adele would still be impressive successes if they had networked for it, and indeed the article concedes that many successful startup founders had a pre-established network in addition to their skillsets.

I think there's too much baggage attached to the idea of networking. You don't want to try and network as though it is a high-pressure sales tactic. Instead, focus on developing social skills and charisma. You also don't need to wait until you are extraordinary to network with people. There's no guideline for networking because there doesn't need to be one, it arises organically if you talk with people who have the same interests. There's another principle I have found with regards to networking - it is better to prioritize network quantity instead of quality. You want a minimum "quality" per contact, for sure, but you will find that access to extremely high quality contacts emerges in your network once you've hit a critical mass of people you can email on a first name basis (for example). If you're constantly trying to "collect" high-impact contacts without bootstrapping your way towards it organically, you'll be more pressured to pull the inane antics the article talks about.

In other words, and for practical advice: people seriously overthink networking and these examples of e.g. pitching a VC at an open mic event are not examples of organic networking. Just talk to people for the sake of talking to people. I have had incredible opportunities come to me and met awesome people because I wrote insightful Hacker News or reddit comments. Whenever I can I try to email someone who is talking about something I'm interested in.
The mis-delivery of green cards and work cards isn't uncommon and can really mess up the process so it's better to be conservative.
Do you see the population clamoring to reduce fossil fuel use, only to be stymied by lobbyists? I don't. I don't see the people clamoring at all.

I agree completely that tech investment is a much easier political sell than reducing the standard of living.
Right? When I read these kind of posts I always imagine a carpenter saying the equivalent "After over 10 years using a hammer as my main tool, I have moved on to the screwdriver." Which is nonsense.
Unfortunately it's easy to forget that what you have is not a backup until you have tested it.

I remember setting up a pair of NASes for a customer, units I hadn't used before. I found that the configuration restore did not work at all and the two built-in backup tools a) would only allow a full restore of any backed-up folder and b) were unconscionably fragile, respectively.

Luckily this was blatant in testing and as the rest of the units' functions worked nicely, I decided not to send them back, and rolled my own backup. Which is tested, and has much better alerting/monitoring.
Some of the other comments here focus on the poor examples of networking.

What about the larger point: that networking is an effect of achievement, not a cause.

If the author is correct, even "good" networking is not as effective as making something worth making. (I assume that this "maker" bias is intuitively appealing to the larger HN community.)
23andMe says they don't sell your data.

> We will not sell, lease, or rent your individual-level information (i.e., information about a single individual's genotypes, diseases or other traits/characteristics) to any third-party or to a third-party for research purposes without your explicit consent.

(https://www.23andme.com/about/privacy/)

I would really hope other sites like ancestry.com have the same policy.
>can I and my family survive by wearing gas masks for 7 days?

Methane isn't poisonous, the only way it can kill you is by displacing oxygen. Gas masks can't filter it, you would need an oxygen mask. Sheltering in place is slightly more practical: sealing doors and windows, using CO2 sorbents to absorb CO2, and oxygen canisters to replace consumed oxygen. Would be pretty expensive-- I wouldn't bother unless you lived next to Lake Nyos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster
> Pharma companies develop drugs with US subsidies and make their profits off US citizens while European countries put price ceilings on their drugs.

You conveniently forget the European drug companies who develop drugs—and completely pay for the research—while negotiating price ceilings, and then export the same drug to the US, selling it 5x the price for pure profit (minus distribution/marketing/lobby costs).

Disclaimer: my Dad managed research at one of those large European pharma companies.
For better or worse, a number of countries are going to be churning out far more people with PhDs than can fill their academic or research positions. That will probably include China, given the trend of education there.
Skimming through the article, I think it does not include cost of labor. In a developed country, my guess is that the cost to have a human worker collect, clean, setup, connect, etc. all the 84 phones would be actually higher than buying a new server.

In third world countries, this could be a different story. I would be happy to send my old phones to Africa to be used at schools.
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