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I think what houseabsolute is saying has real validity. As a Chinese American, I've been teased at school for having a last name like "Hung," for speaking a language other than English. We haven't reached a world blind to color, and the faction on HN has a much better understanding of different cultures, skin colors, etc. than the average white American, especially of those in the South.

It's a bit of a catch-22 situation. People make generalizations, because it's a very human thing to do; when we write code, we make generalizations when developing our algorithms. And the reason that the White group is at times marginalized is because a large percentage of that group still has a very poor understanding or acceptance of other races. If you go down to Atlanta, Georgia, you will see two worlds: one white (or honorary white, if you're Chinese, for instance), and one non-white.

While it's of course in accurate to say that all people in the White subgroup are like this, a significant number have triggered a Bayesian rule that generalizations about White group are made, and the generalizations are usually made about their lack of sensitivity to non-White culture.

And there is still hate. My girlfriend, for instance, is Japanese. When she was at UNC Chapel Hill, however, someone pooped in her dorm room and wrote, "Get out you dirty Jap!"
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Thanks :)

I will look into it.
I fail to see how Chris was a "casualty of the system". I have a little trouble buying his stated desire to transfer to a vocational school for training mechanics...in any city there are plenty of mechanics around, and you just need a little guts to up to a bunch of them and say "I want to be a mechanic, please tell me how". Sooner or later, you're going to get a lead. They may or may not take you on, but I find it difficult to believe that you can't become a mechanic if you show at least some of the signs of being worth an investment in time - maturity, respect, willingness to work hard, motivation, some relevant experience like, say, fixing other things that are less expensive than but share some characteristics with cars, etc...

I get the impression that Chris' journal writings have more to do with his gang aspirations than his desire to live an honest life. Gangs are known to deal in stolen cars, and they deal with shady characters who perform a variety of roles to support this illegal business - ripping cars apart, putting together knock-offs, making illegal modifications, and so on. With a little work, I have no doubt Chris will be able to satisfy his love of cars as a gang member.

Being a gang member is a high risk / high reward proposition, but it has a variety of perks: money, women, and cars among them. This leaves the issue of morality untouched - clearly gangs are evil and mechanics are good...but you can't teach someone to be good.
"Why, even when we know that 9 in 10 of us are doomed."

Everyone thinks they're above average?

Or another possibility: startup founders tell themselves they can't question themselves because then they'll fail for sure. Kind of like how many Christians are reluctant to honestly question their religion because they're afraid they won't be saved.

I think for many people, just defying the norm and starting a startup uses up all their mental energy and they don't have much left to actually think about what they're doing in a clear rational way once they've made that decision. People tend to go funny in the head when they start startups. If they didn't go funny in the head, Paul Graham wouldn't have to tell them to build something people wanted.

I'll bet you that fewer than 9 in 10 fail now that

a) starting a startup is more socially acceptable, leaving more founder mental energy to actually think about what they're doing

b) correct memes about startups, like the ideas that you should build something people want and release as soon as you've got a minimum viable product, have spread
>(speaking of wealthy Americans here)

You mean wealthy citizens of first world countries, right?
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Hey, here's a great idea. Let's cut maybe a tenth of the military budget and put it towards K-12 teacher's salaries. I hear the median income in the military is around $120k. One tenth of the military budget could get teacher's salaries up to that amount, and we'd probably be able to throw in some state of the art learning facilities, smartboards, a computer at every desk, the works in practically every school. We'd have top notch facilities and candidates qualified to use it effectively!

Regardless of whether or not we end up using a tenure or merit system for hiring and firing (the benefits outweigh the flaws in the former, imo), schools will, in the end, get the quality of teachers that they are capable of paying for. How many good teachers do you think will work in a run down school teaching unruly students for $30k annual salary? I sure as hell wouldn't want to be that teacher.
Maybe so. He deleted his comment, which leads me to believe he at least as some capability for shame. Anyway, it'll be nice to have that written down, though, so I can refer my non-troll conservative friends to it when the idiocy builds up. It can be hard being a Republican. :(
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Thank you. The original blog post seemed to have been removed.
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That's why you should put it the top right corner, not burry somewhere in the mountain of text :)
"But I'm pretty sure that well over 90% of people making the argument that $450k is not enough money are indeed white."

Citation needed. I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree with your opinion, but stating claims like this without some kind of reference seems questionable.
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Your money might not be stashed offshore, but your periods and commas seem to be safely hidden.
Having a press conference is not exactly "silently".
There's no way you could kill a physically capable person, dispose of the body and dispose of the evidence in a few minutes without the very nearby people noticing anything funny. A trained professional would find that challenging.

But my saying this won't help, because the problem was never that there was a logical reason to believe you killed somebody. The problem is that your brain is slightly broken when it comes to this subject, which can only be helped by therapy. Trying to disprove it logically won't work, because that train of thought goes through the currently-broken part of your mind. The sooner you accept this fact and stop feeding the sickness, the better for you.
There is no "50% tax bracket". Obama's proposed plan would raise the 33% and 35% brackets to 36% and 39.6%.
If the site owner is going to make money of that, then the only reason it is economically feasible to do so is if the brand owner gets at least that from the value of showing me their ad.

The only way to do that is if it works.

So yeah, I am concerned.
feedback has been slow to come (we have a B2B app for a niche market)

What's your sales process been like? I assume you're not sitting back, waiting for customers to come to you.

How do we know if we have built something that people want?

Surely you know people in this niche, right? I mean, presumably you didn't just pick a niche at random. So, go to some of those people, and ask them to be beta testers on the software. Give them a free trial, and ask for feedback.

If you can't get people to use it for free, you're going to have trouble getting people to pay for it.

It's definitely possible to educate the market-- but to do so, you've got to refine your pitch. Ask yourself, "What is the pain point my product solves?" If you can't describe the pain point and your solution in a couple sentences, you aren't there, yet.
I'm totally not in the market for InDinero but I've seent his happen on multiple sites before. How do people agree to give the credential info of their bank account ?

I can't imagine giving out a login/password that is not restricted to just viewing my banking info. It seems to me that they are asking for full access to your bank account just to retrieve your data.
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This is more like a series of truths disguised as flying unicorns made of happiness and sugar. Very nice :)
Whereas I'm all for experiencing how others live, and thereby gaining a greater appreciation and experience of how the world works :) My argument isn't that Americans should be taxed more, just that Americans should come and see how the rest of the world works before having a good old whinge ;) (which is basically the theme of all the objections to this article -- I'm just expanding it out from rich/poor). 'tis the same with socialised medicine -- if those against it lived in Europe/Australia/Canada/etc. for a bit and saw how well it worked and how well loved it was in these countries, they'd probably have a different idea about it for their own.
I know HN etiquette dictates that my comment should add something to the conversation, otherwise a simple upvote will suffice, but I have nothing to add: I just wanted to state that this story is awesome.

OK, maybe a few things to add. Snarks would point out that this was overkill, that insurance would have covered most of it (most of it was recovered anyway) and self-sleuthing can lead to dangerous situations. But as someone who's had their house robbed several times, a modern tale of vengeance well-told is much appreciated.
Yes, that's not unusual.

Were you really planning on taking the signing bonus, and jumping in less than a year?
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My father is the chapter president of his club in Connecticut. He swears by it. I have been to his club twice and plan on going to one in San Francisco tomorrow, the rhino club I believe...

My father is the best salesman I know. He could sell noise-canceling headphones to deaf people, and I want to earn that confidence by going to toastmasters.
That probably won't fix what kids are and aren't learning. At best, you'd get evidence for teachers hitting or sexually abusing children (a small small minority). At worst, you'd get lots of parents being backseat drivers about what the teacher should and shouldn't teach and how.

Parents are notorious for thinking they know what's best for their kids, even though they never studied education. It also doesn't help that historically and by reputation (not necessarily the case now), those that can't cut it in other fields ended up in education, so those parents think that they know better.
I'm not trying to offend with this comment, but I surely will regardless. Those states that had those low numbers tend to be the ones where people on the whole would not choose to live unless they had a specific reason to do so. A job, for instance.
Unproductive labor (poor education, lack of human capital), few natural resources, zany state economic policies. These are my guesses.
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OK, I see your point, and I think it is a fine one. Not very practical because of immigration policies and whatnot, but definitely of an idealism that I can subscribe to.
5:56: "So Eventbrite is one of your customers?" "They are one of our customers"

Truth value of this statement: 10/10. And it's a video interview, so you don't add caveats like "oh, and they heard about us because their CEO is an investor" to everything you say -- Eventbrite is just a representative of a customer archetype. If Evelyn had asked how Jessica got Eventbrite as a customer, it'd be a different story. But she didn't, making your comment misleading at best.

RE: web design, I side with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=989295. I remember when Scribd ripped off Xobni's jobs page almost verbatim, at Xobni we had a laugh and moved on. It's not like they duplicated the core product.

This really comes across as trollish nitpicking to me. What's your real beef?
Could you please share how exactly you do the "jump to file foo.bar" functionality? That is the only part of vim I still find a bit laborious, probably because I haven't found a good workflow for it.
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Well said. This morale of this story is in line with an old adage - Nothing goes for nothing.

When you don't pay for a service, you shouldn't expect anything in return. A guarantee of perpetual free access has to be paid for somehow and if they are not making money from ads presumably because nobody's seeing or clicking on them, then all bets are off!

You get what you pay for. Next time look for a price tag.
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Look faster, but still buggy. I've tested it on latest chrome dev and the ball doesn't render well.
The button could probably say "Launch missiles" and I wouldn't even notice.
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What about having a "Go" button, but making it wider by setting its width via css?

That obsoletes half of the article's suggestion. This leaves only one reason to have "Search" instead of "Go": saves you a label. This isn't a big deal IMO. Also, I'm not sure, but it's possible having a label is better, since it comes before the search bar instead of after. This might make it more obvious for users (but then again, maybe not; someone should run some A/B tests on this issue!)
And you can only buy these clothes in your local mall's Chess King outlet.

(There I go dating myself; Wikipedia says Chess King went out of business in 1995.)
Premium-grade FUD, really interesting to observe (I live in Germany). What I find interesting is that while no direct legislative action is being taken by politicians on this front, they generate so much noise in the media that people are opting out all by themselves. Sneaky because you can't even actively arbitrage against this.
Thanks for that. This was actually the first I'd heard of this tax hike, since the little bit of news I get generally comes filtered through HN.

I've modified the number in my comment for you.
Another article in the same vein

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2010/09/obama-bush-...
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They don't know more about a subject. They may have more practice at it.

I can do fairly delicate work with a soldering iron, and I can puzzle out simple circuits, and I can work out various values for a circuit if I have pen and paper and a book to refresh my memory. I've also been an output smoothness tech for http://www.specsensors.com/ . There is no way I know more about the field than any electrical engineer, not even close. I've worked with those guys. Their college backgrounds actually taught them stuff.

I'm less certain about the programming example. There are plenty of stories among hobbyists and professionals of the CS kids that can't code up a linked-list. Then again, there are also lots of non-degreed hacks that can't do that, either. Considering that part of MIT's CS program is to write an operating system (and I know a guy who did that in a weekend, and slapped in a GUI for extra credit), I question whether it's true that the best programmers don't have degrees.
That is really a point of courtesy - nobody ever says no.
This likely because a lot of people (the majority?), like me, find VLC to "Just Work" (TM) and don't find any reason to sign up for the forums. I try and make it a point to thank authors of open source software I use, but often times I don't get around to it.

Me, my family and friends have been using VLC for about 4 years know and the only we've needed is to occasionally update to a newer version or download an installer for a new system.

So, thanks for that :)
Interesting post.

Another post that I'd like to read would be: How Many Objects Does Scala Allocate (while executing some random code).

In my Java shop, we try to write ultra-efficient code. Avoiding the creation of numerous small objects in critical sections is one of the best ways to achieve that.

I'd like to start a couple projects in scala or clojure but I'm afraid that the simplicity and expressiveness that these languages bring come at the cost of performance (or at least on control on what the JVM does).
Mobile devices here are devices that can connect to the Web over 3G. That's not just mobile phones, but smartphones, tablets (like the iPad), netbooks, and laptops. Heck, I know people who connect to the internet over 3G from a desktop.

Building a different set of JavaScript because it's running over a 3G network seems a weird approach. I would have thought it would be more logical to build a website that works in the context of a Web, rather than an over-simplified view of it.
In Denmark you can get 95% of the cost of a public school child to offset payment for a private school.

Which means you can get a child in a private school for less than $200/month, which is what people pay for cable in the US.
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There is a significant difference between refusing to support progressive enhancement and not getting in the web developer's way of this best practice.
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>I mean sure, losing half your income to taxes is a problem

This is a big issue I see in America (being American myself). Money spent in taxes is always considered "lost" [1]. Consider somewhere like Sweden. Tax rates go above 50%, but for that money they get health care, college for as high as they're capable of going (even room and board while they're attending!), etc., etc. So those are all things they don't have to spend their own money on. At the end of the day should we care about how much of our money the government touches, or about the quality of life we can have?

[1] Of course in America there may be some truth to it given the kinds of things money gets used for by the US government.
"The '90k dev', by definition, is happy simply to get through the workday and pay his debts. If he was reaching for more, he moves into the entrepreneur class."

That's not really true. There's tons of interesting work going on within large organizations, and they often let you work on problems that you can only dream about. The difference is that as an employee, you're usually contractually obligated to keep your mouth shut about your solutions and let others rediscover them on their own.
I thought their list of adjectives was too long; half of them boiled down to "performant", too, which is not too useful (of course you're trying to be performant; calling out throughput or latency specifically is useful because it helps people evaluate your work for their needs, but having both gives very little information...)
yes, and no. Whole program optimization kinda changes that. So do precompiled headers etc. Also chrome is C++.
I think c00p3r makes a valid point.

PHP makes it very hard to write "beautiful" frameworks like Sinatra. There's a whole bunch of crufty looking stuff in PHP that is unavoidable.

That doesn't stop me from writing PHP and getting-shit-done. That's an entirely different argument though.
Well, Mongrel2 sort of acts like a common web interface, but only if the other side adopts it.

It really depends, frameworks like Agavi do not use $_GET etc. and explicitly disallow their use.
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Hi Michael, thanks for your quick response.

We are currently in Beta and not charging yet. Our typical conversion funnel involves getting traffic to our website (mainly so far through blog write-ups, directory submissions, and our own blog articles), getting them to try our demo, and then getting them to sign up. This has not been a major issue, but getting those who register to actually use the product (at all or for an extended period of time) has been difficult.

We actually have had a few excited Beta testers, but they stopped using our product after a while (it's obvious because we're an onsite widget). Our "niche" is the consumer ecommerce/online retail market.

The pain points we are aiming to solve are arguably well-documented in the ecommerce industry: traffic and conversions. We are trying to leverage the power of social networks to optimize the sales funnel as well as drive organic word-of-mouth marketing on social networks. We have published several resources documenting how this would be plausible (e.g. white papers, blog articles) in order to educate the market, and it seems that the market cares about what we're talking about.

But excitement frequently turns into quiet indifference once they see that our product doesn't work up to their expectations. In other words, I suspect that our product is the problem here, not a misjudgment/illusion about the pain point.

My question is how do I tell if I'm not addressing a real pain point vs. the pain point is real, it is the product/execution/marketing that sucks?
Some blindness can help you find better candidates - not telling the recruiter whether the candidate is a member of <minority> may actually help quality (while decreasing information), for instance.

Of course, in many/most cases, more information does help. But it's not automatic.
This really doesn't indicate any policy change, as apps with similar functionality have been approved for a long time now.
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