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Alcohol can be a tough addiction to combat. The addict can't be helped unless they want to be helped. I'd reject jacquesm's idea that his drinking is somehow dependent upon your behavior. There's something else going on in his life that he is having a tough time dealing with.

I'd recommend getting him some medical help. I'm unfortunately not familiar with the options that exist in India.

I also think a change of scenery can be helpful, but it's not the cure. It may help him get to a place where he's ready to admit that he needs help, however. Sometimes people need to hit their rock bottom, but other times exposure to healthy patterns can help them along just as well.

I wish you all the luck in the world. My father struggles with alcoholism and I know the effect it can have on the entire family.
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I like it, although reading it at 9 AM this morning just hurt until I could think about it in more detail later.

Pretty awesome really.
Thanks, those are some thoughtful points.

Is this the book you recommend? - http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Addiction-Recovery-Stanton...
How much revenue is Google getting from these 200k Android activations? How much will it get from GoogleOS?

The growth being referred to is revenue growth. Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders.

I believe Google is capable of continued revenue growth, but now they are going to have to fight for it like everybody else. I actually think their one engineer for every non-engineer hire is going to hurt them in those efforts, though.
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critical mass is a good way of describing it, but it doesn't quite cover the nuances. you have to build a good site that has comparable features that lures both the sellers and the buyers at the same time. if sellers don't like your features, buyers have nothing to buy. if buyers don't like your product, sellers aren't making money.

you have to make something that is so just straight up better in all ways that it brings everyone over en masse and in a hurry.
At some point, rushing to "be right there beside him on the off-chance that it would help" may be more hurtful than helpful. As you noted in your first comment, maybe "he's drinking because it brings out the brother in you".

The 12-step world has all sorts of theories about these behaviors, under the titles "codependency" or "enabling" or "rescuing" or "detachment". I can't say for sure whether they're right but someone struggling with these issues, like the OP, may want to familiarize themselves with that literature. A reasonably-sized bookstore will have a large section of books about dealing with alcoholism, as a drinker/alcoholic/friend/child/sibling/parent/spouse/adult-child/stepsibling/etc, in every permutation.
If Facebook, YouTube and Skype were advertised in the 1960's
I used to. I don't watch TV, but I probably spend too much time on the computer. Just a few years ago I would read more than any other activity.
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Augmented reality (and similar vision-AI applications) deserves a mention here. It brings together many things that weren't possible "yesterday" - fast mobile processing, location awareness, new sensor hardware (anything from cameras to accelerometers and gyroscopes is applicable), social/web data...
At the bottom there might be a choice. 100,000 copies in the wild with 90,000 of them pirated or 100 copies, all legit.

If fact, its probably a continuum. Choose your point anywhere along that line. (Of course, you never heard about the one where only 100 sold, the developers decided they'd failed and gave up).
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While these kind of novelty accounts may be karmic gold mines on Reddit, I don't think you'll find the HN community a willing participant in this game.
I believe so. I read it many years ago, but it looks right.
Ye I just don't know if most people care about that though..
What the math doesn't cover is the cost associated with owning 1% of the search market. I would imagine the costs associated with owning 1% and 50% of the search market are pretty close (think all the costs of crawling, storing, and indexing). You may not be able to survive in the space with a 1% share, even if it is worth $1B.
Great article. Just downloaded the Audible version of "The Dip" (btw, only $5.96 at Amazon right now, about half the cost of the Kindle edition).

It seems there are a few points along the continuum of perseverance or personal outs (commandment #4):

At one end, burn the boats Cortez-style (worked ok for Cortez in the long run, not so well for all his crew). Is this for the leader's resolve or for the team's? This is probably the hardest for a founder that currently supports a family with a day job. Quit and make the jump on a founder's salary?

At the other end, the notion that entrepreneurs are more risk averse than most would guess and don't usually bet the farm on a decision with insufficient data. I don't like this end, sounds like paralysis.

Somewhere in the middle is probably where I fit, which is why the lean startup notion of "The Pivot" is so appealing to me. I support a family with a day job, so I like the idea of testing hypotheses rather than betting on a conclusion before the experiment. Plus, I think you can still execute because learning is progress.
I don't see the article either. I think it has to do with the corporate proxy I'm behind. Something is blocked that his theme can't handle. In my book, that's a broken theme.
hmm...seems like the guy took it down...
Good answers. I am the same with photos
I have no opinion of whether or not they should be excluded. In fact, one of the sites listed as "banned" (I have no way to substantiate this) was actually a decent news source with little to no understandably objectionable content: http://www.newmediajournal.us/

EDIT: I should say that I am interested in this inasmuch as it relates to Google censoring news. Having not found any evidence of censorship and having found evidence of actively selecting only quality content, my opinion is that they were right to exclude the blogs listed and it has nothing to do with whatever political beliefs I might hold.

No, the reason I think they were excluded from Google was because of examples like I posted. "Goat humping" has no place in a news feed. Likewise, comparing Islam to Nazi germany is not only in bad taste, it makes almost no sense. Framing this as an ideological debate when it is one of quality of information is nonsensical.

As to your last point, I think it's extremely important that both sides of this ridiculous debate get to talk to one another. Hopefully, if everyone is willing, we'll be able to work together and build a nation together that is tolerant of informed opinion and intolerant of those whose only goal is to inflame, incite and misinform.
Have you considered that he's drinking because it brings out the brother in you?

So you are essentially shouldering some/all of the responsibility for the brother's alcoholism upon the OP. That's a big burden to carry, and potentially dangerous + damaging if it is not true.

You're taking a wild guess with that comment, you have no idea, and (maybe unintentionally) your sentence doesn't ask if that could be the answer - you state it as the case (the words 'if' or 'maybe' would have been better here).

When people are looking for answers they can read into the linguistics of things very carefully. What you wrote was very powerful and without any facts or evidence to back it up.

I would be sad if the OP, who already clearly feels worried about the situation, started taking responsibility for this mess that actually wasn't his doing or responsibility.

I'd be even more sad if he gave up his startup and moved home when it turns out none of the trigger factors for the brothers alcoholism have anything to do with him. Many people just self-destruct and even if the alcoholic brother is missing his distant brother that doesn't make it wrong for distant brother to live abroad.
Hello, I feel your pain. My close one was going through this as well but things are good now. Try to find him an appointment with a specialist. There is also some medication for helping people fight an alcohol addiction - it doesn't cure the reason but helps break the habit. Most of all, be there for him and let him know there's so many reasons he needs to stop doing this and enjoy the beauty of this life. Really make sure he knows that if all goes bad, you'll always be there for him. Take care and I hope all will be well...
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this came up recently. most people in real life have more than one social network/graph. facebook needs to support this at some point (ie. work, family, friends, ex-girlfriends, f buddies, etc.)
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If they're exercising such intellectually dishonest and, to me at least, morally deficient behavior with suppressing other stories ("even if you agree with it"), then any content they post is probably of similar character.

Regarding "someone should have asked a conservative", that just goes to show how deeply the "we'll just believe our own facts, thank you" is embedded in the conservative movement. http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page. Not that liberals are always right or anything, but you can ask 10 liberals and get 20 answers, or you can ask 10 conservatives and get 1 answer.
Sorry if the post made you feel that way. I wrote it up after the quick discussion I had with Tyler.

Will definitley expand further upon this in the future and address the questions you have on email.
eSports has always been for real. In South-Korea that is... And once again I believe this will only be big in South-Korea. The CGS tried to take eSports to the public (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Gaming_Series) in the rest of the world but failed. They failed due several reasons but overal it was made clear that people in the world outside of Korea aren't going to watch eSports on television. That's a pity since I own an eSports news website.
I honestly, after seeing what Uno is like on XBoxLive, completely back blizzard in this.
Companies (not: startups) don't have a voice. When they tweet or blog, they lie.
Yes, as I mentioned in my post, I do realize that. My intention of posting here is to find out what kind of specialist help others may have gotten. I'm sorry about the irrelevance of the topic on this forum, but I think there are a lot of highly rational and intelligent people here, who tend to give good advice even on personal issues.
My heart's going out to you here. First and foremost, I've got to say that.

What I'm going to say next is going to sound dreadful. Being there may help - may well help - but you've got to be prepared, because if you aren't, it won't. Love is not enough. Alcoholism is an illness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism_in_family_systems
Part of supporting the next generation of great sites is giving them the confidence to build on top of you.

IMHO, this is "problem" you solve which helps you gain traction, not a problem you solve once you have traction.

Just tell people what happens if they build a great site on top of the service you are offering today. Otherwise you're telling people to wait and see. (which I don't think you want)
Thanks for pointing this out, it's showing up on my phone too. Will look into it
> So you are essentially shouldering some/all of the responsibility for the brother's alcoholism upon the OP. That's a big burden to carry, and potentially dangerous + damaging if it is not true.

No, I'm asking if he thinks that may be the case.

People do the weirdest things to get the attention of others, including getting in to trouble.

> I would be sad if the OP gave up his startup and moved home for this. Many people just self-destruct and even if the alcoholic brother is missing his distant brother that doesn't make it wrong for distant brother to live abroad.

It's not your life, it's his so there is noting for you to be sad about, whichever decision he makes, and whatever the outcome.

As for the linguistics, I'm not an English native speaker/writer but I though that it was pretty clear that I did not intend to suggest that he is at fault for his brothers drinking, that's a ridiculous suggestion to begin with. Everybody is responsible for their own lives.
I have the Lisworks 32-bit on my Windows machine, and Lispworks 32-bit for Mac OS X. It wasn't that expensive - about $1300 for both of them.

What's great about them - I can quickly iterate ideas, and the CAPI user interface is so easy to use.
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Oh yes I did. :-P

I don't actually feel as strongly as this comment might sound -- use what you want to use -- but I wanted to get a dig in :-)

When I used emacs extensively (in viper mode, before Vim really was popular and good vi alternatives with filename completion existed), it really blew as a text editor without viper, and all the customizations never really worked well with one another. (Viper didn't work with anything else, typically).

In particular, the shell mode you refer to was just awful. Most of the time it would get confused by what came out of the pty -- lord help you if you happened to echo the wrong thing (e.g. binary data) by accident to the terminal.

Meanwhile, scrollback/rect select are basic features of any terminal emulator (or gnu screen), and re-replace/bookmarks in the history is a basic feature of modern shells.
Build what had previously not been needed.
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I personally draw the line where ones success becomes dependent on the misfortune of others. From that viewpoint I don't really know of any systems or societies that does this, except maybe estate/inheritance taxes.
I find it odd that I can't find anything about BornDigital on Google. A web design firm without a website? Also, they spell their name differently on the page ("BornDigital" and "Born.Digital")- something seems off to me.

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Here's the official response, by the way (via http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_181227.asp)

"This former volunteer did, during the early stages of the campaign, assist with website construction and maintenance on a strictly voluntary basis as no contracts or agreements were ever entered into. This is not uncommon, and FEC guidelines do not require payment for these types of services.

"For a variety of reasons, this volunteer is no longer with the campaign. Several months after this volunteer departed the campaign, he sent a bill for more than $30,000 for his previous volunteer work.

"We do not owe this volunteer any money, and we are currently hosting our full website at votetimgobble.com.
If that's the case, why does one need to use a graph library to construct simple graph data structure? It looks like JGraphIt is used as a strawman argument to exaggerate the difference.

BTW, Java does support some notion of literal construction using array.

e.g. new Object[] {"abc", "xyz", 1, 2, 3, new Integer[] {4, 5, 6}, new Node(2)};
I'd redirect the page to his opponent. Admittedly, it's unprofessional, but a lot more fun.
15 mins ride is barely enough to get warmed up, you might as well run to get some exercise. 10-20 miles from work is a nice distance for cycling.
When can we have such CSS3 effects in Mainstream?
assuming specialist = therapist/councilor, I doubt they are going to be able to help you work out the solution for your brother, although if you want a neutral and private sounding board to talk the issue through then yes this might be a good course of action.

I've commented many times on HN how much I enjoy seeing a therapist once every two weeks just to rediscover the emotional side of my being and balance out the uber-logicalness of my life.

If you see a therapist do be clear that they are not going to give you the answers, only give you a safe place to talk out the issue. My point is you might be better off doing that with parents, friends, partner (romantic, not business), etc if you have them around you. They know you better and may be more familiar with the specifics of the situation.

EDIT: if you are in SF and want a recommendation, my email is in my profile.
The Everything Engine which runs E2 wasn't much related to Slashcode at all. It did come from the same company, but it was completely different code. A fork of that still runs PerlMonks today.
Yo dog, I put a drop on your pebble.
> At some point, rushing to "be right there beside him on the off-chance that it would help" may be more hurtful than helpful.

That too is a possibility, but not a certainty. That is exactly what makes these things so hard.

> As you noted in your first comment, maybe "he's drinking because it brings out the brother in you".

Yes, but I have absolutely no idea if that is the case or not, and even with my own brother (Maurice, 12 years my junior) I'd have a very hard time to figure that one out. Let alone that I could know which way that coin landed for someone else. I haven't a clue, to be frankly. But I thought that saying that might open the OPs eyes to some of the weirder possibilities.

In the end almost all addictions are a from of escape, the question is from what and why and if it can change, and the first step will have to come with recognising there is a problem, which for the moment the OPs brother does not seem to agree with. So that makes it a very complicated and tricky situation.

Unfortunately alcohol addiction is a subject that strikes pretty close to home for me and I could tell you some stories that would make your hair stand on end. This also means that I may not be the most rational person when looking at this as an issue, personally I'm instantly more worried about the brothers nearest family (wife, kids and so on) than the brother himself. Scars like that heal only very slowly.
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Nice to know that is the first result when they google his name.

edit: Why was I down voted? If someone screws you, you wouldn't want other people to hear your side of the story?

edit2: Seems like gkoberger might have dug up details that make it seem like a shakedown.
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> If that 90% figure is accurate, that's really fucking depressing.

I think the focus needs to shift from, "This sucks," to, "This is what it is, how can we deal with it?" Like a lot of other industries, games are going to need to evolve.

Server-side data and good online connecting is a way. Platforms like Steam that take the hassle out of online buying is a way. Alternative monetizing might be a way. Tasteful sponsorship and in-game advertising? At this point, piracy is what it is, and it's not going away. Time to start thinking about ways to monetize those pirates.
http://www.borndigitalwebdesign.com/

I assume it's this company. Not sure if BornDigital is a local company or not.
Thanks for your concern. jacquesm's comment did make me pause and think, but I tend to not get carried away when thinking about taking responsibility. I have seen my dad take responsibility for a lot of his relatives' shortcomings all his life; all parties involved end up being miserable. So that history makes me a bit wary of compromising on my life for someone else.

But, I really do want to help my brother, which may involve some compromises.
I think that's kind of a woeful generalization. The most vocal members of the population certainly have something like that, but plenty of people who play games (myself included) bought SC2 because they were happy enough with the content and not dissuaded enough by the downsides - I'm sure plenty of other people quietly went about their business, passing it up because of the various issues discussed in this thread.
Striking a blow against jerk customers who don't pay their bill, I like it.

Also, obligatory "lol, Gobble"
Just wear lycra. People don't wear it because of how it looks. It's fast wicking. Even in mid 30s celsius I get to work far less sweaty than taking public transport.

Most people who complain about sweat are trying to cycle in cotton. Just change when you get to work.
Ask HN: Any project to determine bias of newspapers by their tweets?
I would like to have a bias classifier of newspapers based on the titles of their tweets.

Have you hear of something like that?
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For every parent that uses this service responsibly, I'll be there's another 5 who set the 'where are my kids map' as their homepage and obsessive watch their every move.
There market cap is currently 159.07B world GDP = ~61.06 Trillion.

So, they are currently worth about 0.26% of world GDP.
Or more specificly Google's revenue is 23.651 billion (2009) so they represent about 0.039% of world GDP.

PS: Not bad for a 12 year old company.
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That sounds like this story: http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=935 I would like to know the name of the company or hear more war stories.
The candidate placed third in his primary - so it's not looking so good for the firm.
If you think of a language as merely a bag of syntax, than Perl 5 and Perl 6 are very different. (You can make the same argument about a lot of versions of a lot of languages.)

If you think of a language as a design philosophy expressed in semantics and syntax -- and a guide to choosing to make the corresponding tradeoffs -- then the "The syntax is very different, thus it's a different language!" argument doesn't work.

Various implementations of Lisps and Schemes are recognizable as Lisps and Schemes for a reason.
HN: If you don't agree with the collective, gtfo.
Fair enough.

Good luck with this endeavor. (no sarcasm)
I don't think you understand what country I'm in ;-)
Maybe surfing the net is more addictive than reading a book.
how about 4k intros?

ah, oh - those need C/ASM ... something almost no one of you knows.
A friend just sent me an SC2 map. We're going to try to make a small custom game together. I'm at work so I can't open it, but I was surprised to see it in my mail box after reading the article and comments.
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I'm in the same boat, although my wife works I pay the bills on the house/gas/electricity/etc.

If I'm going to burn the boats, I don't want to do so while I'm still 10 miles off the coast (some debt from the wedding/honeymoon).

I'm confident I could raise from angels but pre traction it's a tough sell.
They're also doing some very sloppy journalism in general. They had Gerry Adams do a piece about civilian killings in Afghanistan by the British army.

Gerry Adams was for some time head of the IRA and responsible for many civilian murders(amongst other things) during "the troubles".
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The kind of comments that will get ignored on Django's Trac
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I'm not suggesting that a car driver should not be at fault. I'm suggesting that all individuals on the road be held to the same standard.

This is a way of holding drivers to the same high standards of care and attention that cyclists have to hold for their own self interest. The same standard is not enough when the power balance is so skewed and defaults towards cars.
Somewhat different motivation, but Disney had similar issues making sure no one got harassed on their servers either. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581628
You're right, it is. The whois info matches up.

However, look when that site was registered: "May 03, 2010"

TimGobble, on the other hand, was registered on "May 21, 2008"

And it's barely ranked on Google. Seems like the official version is right, since the company was created very recently. Looks to me like a shakedown due to a volunteer-based relationship gone bad.

[Note: Person below me might be onto something.. and if he is, it makes the argument that its a "fake" company even stronger]
In Germany Australia technically belongs to Oceania which includes Australia, New Zealand and all those tiny islands. Could be the same in France.