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You write:

"nobody lays on their deathbed wishing they would have spent _less_ time with their family"

I keep seeing this idea repeated time after time, yet I've never seen any formal study of this issue. I know this idea has been asserted by some people with very large followings. Stephen Covey, in his book "The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People" asserts nearly the identical sentiment that you've expressed here.

All I can say is, from what I've seen, this is just one of those things that varies a great deal from one family to another, and from one person to another. I know that both my mother and my father keenly felt the strain of having children, and both of them wished they'd had more time and money to advance their careers. My dad was lucky enough to be successful as a commercial photographer, but increasingly after he turned 50 he wondered why he never broke through to the top ranks of photography. He made good money but he never became famous. He thought, not unreasonably, that if he had less demands from his family, then he might have more money and energy to reach the top ranks of his field. When he was in his 70s he made several attempts to get into the top galleries in New York City, but he only had one small success in that regard. He died of cancer at the age of 79. Since I stayed with him every day during the last month of his life, I can tell you without a doubt that when he was on his deathbed he did wish that he had had more time for his career - a tradeoff that could only have been purchased by him spending less time with his family.

From what I can see, my dad is hardly an isolated case. When I talk to my friends, and to people older than myself, what I hear, again and again, is disappointment. Many people, perhaps most people, feel that they have somehow failed to live up to their true potential. At least among my friends, most feel that having kids has imposed a heavy sacrifice on them. I can not think of a single one of my friends who hasn't thought, at some point, that they might be much more successful if they did not have kids.

More than that, not everyone is happy with their family life. If you suggest that family life is always rewarding, in a country where 45% of all marriages end in divorce (I'm using the USA as an example here) then you are simply in denial of reality.

I think this is an issue that at least deserves a frank, honest discussion, especially on a forum like Hacker News, where we all expect honesty regarding the tradeoffs of the entrepreneurial life. This is not the right place for sentimental nonsense about the joyous wonders of family. This is a place for bluntness and honesty.

Your attitude about "buy enough downvotes to make this comment disappear forever" is really worrisome.
The article mentions this theory, it says that if life is incredibly common, it would only take one civilization to be curious and come visit us.
I suppose it might be important to mention that the free beta was a closed beta... people had to be explicitly invited to use the site for free.

The target customer is businesses/enterprises or other organizations that was to brand their social media presence in one location (starting w/ twitter and eventually including other sources).

the app is http://get.floxee.com/
Eh, only sort of.

There's two parts to transparency - a feasible way to get information, and the resources/motivation to do so.

This could all very easily play out in a way that individuals have no expectation of privacy in the face of corporate/government scans of all available data, but the reverse doesn't hold, unless people like wikileaks step up to the plate.
I would assume those behind Wikileaks have a system in place such that information they already have will be released one way or another even if something happened to them.
They've been redacting information in every leak so far.

I'm not sure who could get killed if some bank information is public, but if they have a lot of documents, this could take some time.
Well, they have certain features in common, like getting scapegoated a whole lot.
Just remember, it's cheating if you read these and then go to a Google interview where they use the same questions!
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I launched a cool iPad game: http://chopperdefense.com/. Already have a few "paying customers" and even more Cydia freeloaders :) Now working on getting the word out and on a major update that would also bring it to iPhone, hopefully.
Probably not Renai's best bit of writing . . but the point is made. As it was by quite a number of us on the original post.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948436
Maximizing publicity is important, if you actually want to enact positive change as a result of what is being revealed. If everything was released at once there wouldn't be any focused attention and easier for those effected to try and deflect attention.

It's also an interesting way to put all banks on notice for their behaviors, as unless they know more than us they would all consider it's possible that their documents have been leaked.
I think there is some correlation between early adopters and how rich they are.

I would definitely buy more early products if I was rich just because I have the financial backing to withstand the risk that an early product has. E.g. I'm waiting to buy the iPad now in hopes of a better iPad version coming out soon. But if money was no issue, I would buy the iPad now and the new version when it comes out.

But of course, there are some people that would be early adopters despite not being rich. It's just that the statistics of how rich early adopters are would be skewed by the newly rich being more willing to take more risk and spend their money on untried products.
Say what you will about G.W.B. But the man has charisma and he's damn funny.
This sounds very much like the plot of Deception Point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception_Point
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But how often are the ants in the presence of another living species?

If the ants were to one day take note of the living creatures around them they would most certainly come to the conclusion that they are not alone.
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Future leakers may be smart enough not to seek validation from individuals whom the government already has it in for.

Wow that sentence sucked. I hope you get my drift.
Maybe I am mistaken, but it seems to me that California's private sector is strong despite its backward government, not as a result of it. California is an extremely desirable place to live. This attracts business owners and highly qualified employees alike. I would be interested to hear which of California's policies you believe play a significant role in the success of its resident businesses.
When I interviewed, I was asked exactly one of the given software engineer questions. And a lot that weren't on the list.

Also if you do well on an interview question, a lot of Google interviewers will then choose to dive deeper on the question, and start to ask more difficult follow-up questions.

Anyone who thinks they can memorize a few of these and then breeze through the interview process will have a nasty surprise coming.
I'm sad they didn't release this first.

Despite all the shouting, I haven't hear of anything terribly scandalous in the diplomatic cables.

I strongly suspect that despite the revelations of 2008, the banking system would yield some notably juicy tidbits.
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High-profile wikileaks leaks which don't fit your pattern include:

"On 25 November 2009, WikiLeaks released 570,000 intercepts of pager messages sent on the day of the September 11 attacks."

Clearly a gross invasion of privacy for many individuals involved.

"In September 2008, during the 2008 United States presidential election campaigns, the contents of a Yahoo account belonging to Sarah Palin (the running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain) were posted on WikiLeaks"

An astoundingly clear violation of an individual's privacy. One gives up a certain level of privacy when entering public life, but that was ridiculous.

"After briefly appearing on a blog, the membership list of the far-right British National Party was posted to WikiLeaks on 18 November 2008."

If anyone's the "little guy", it's the British National Party, a hard-working group of political idealists fighting for what they believe in against tremendous odds. Of course they also happen to be a bunch of openly racist jerks, but they're also an oppressed minority.
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Because your comment reeks of "startup romanticism", not startup practice.

The most successful "Startup Guys™" that I know aren't the ones that spend 23 hours at the office and an hour commuting. They're the same guys that appreciate you staying late, but understand the importance of a life outside of their project and encourage you to get out of the office.

It is unhealthy for you and it is unhealthy for your company.

What's the point of being the boss if you can't take advantage of being the boss? Having enough money to live on an island is worthless if you don't get to spend any time on the island.
I don’t get it, I don’t hear anything. Am I supposed to hear something?

Edit Okay, there are Flash “Listen” buttons you can’t see if you don’t have Flash installed.

And yet, even in a browser with Flash, I hear nothing. All I see is a button that turns light blue and dark blue. Which is “play”? This is why I always rant about piss-poor UX from Google.

I still don’t hear anything. Anyone have an MP3?
A pollster once said you vote for the guy you would want to have a drink at a bar with. Was it Gallup? That's always something GWB had, he was likeable on a personal level.
Whether or not that's the case, this is something that's being investigated by government agencies who have the power to order the handing over of whatever documents they need, so leaks aren't really a big issue here. (no pun intended)
This question seems to be pulled straight from the classic 'Fermi estimate' [1]. However I have to say these are actually very useful in quickly assessing options given limited information. I remember doing something like this when discussing a claim about total information produced in history that another person felt was outrageous, I quickly threw together an estimate to show this wasn't outrageous and a physicist friend of mine pointed out the proper term for this. I can certainly see where the ability to do this on the spot would aid a product manager (and in this case I would say the ability to perform this estimate is independent of ever having heard the term 'fermi estimate')

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem
Okay, I'm bored with the wikileaks hype machine now. If you're gonna leak something go ahead and leak it, don't build it up for months on end and then reveal something disappointingly prosaic, like you have the last few times.
It probably doesn't have to be repeated here, but most of these are just random apocryphal interview questions - not anything representative of what would actually be asked at Google. There are good sources for actual Google interview questions if you care to look for them.
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Agreed, I feel he didn't present his arguments clearly.
He's at the top of the thread, so those other comments will appear to be duplicates of his post. :-/
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Hookers and blackjack tho.
I know a little physics, and understand that the physics of double-pendulums is well studied (the case where it hangs with a stationary base is a standard grad school dynamics problem), but what little intuition I have tells me it can't work and would just collapse. Would love to see an illustrative/graphical/animated example of how it works.
Back in the day, I was a huge fan of IntelliJ (when I was still writing Java). I'm so tired of slow and buggy IDEs built on top of Eclipse (cough Zend cough) so I'm hoping that this makes my life easier.
The representatives will, in practice, make decisions under the system you're describing.

It was called the "spoils system" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system), it turns out to be a major vector of abuse by elected officials, and is the reasons the US civil service has safeguards for dismissing civil servants.
Something I have to remind myself often when starting a new hobby. I have a taste for RL projects but lack the experience in most areas so often the initial iterations suck.
Not sure what value the derogatory comments about Microsoft brings. Exporting data from a PST is trivial, whether using the supplied tools or using script access. They obviously use PSTs because somehow it works for them.
Australia has a good system (at least here in Victoria - different states vary). The ultimate goal is to produce a percentile ranking of students (as opposed to an absolute GPA), and to that end, classes are weighted by the quality of students taking them (as measured by a state-wide general test) and the final exams are all standardized. Plus, only the top 6 scoring subjects taken count (and only the top 4 scoring count fully), eliminating that issue.
I take issue with:

It is work if it will impact something that will be evaluated by others, and if their reactions will have consequences for you that you care about.

And:

Take 24 hours, subtract sleep time, subtract the time you are focused on doing something where there is no customer. The rest is work.

I believe it is more useful to divide between leisure and occupation, as Seneca (1 BC-65 AD) did in On the Shortness of Life. In this sense, one can be preoccupied entirely with his own thoughts and affairs and still not be at leisure.

The post's author, Venkat, appears to consider that a third party is necessary for an activity to be "work" but, as Seneca argues, would you consider "that man leisured who arranges with anxious precision his Corinthian bronzes"? Indeed, the first commenter on the article - `dybyedx` - similarly argues: We sometimes do not realize how much work we do to satisfy our toughest customers — ourselves. In that sense, it is much easier to define relaxation and not work.
The article says Manning had a Top Secret clearance, but everything released thus far has topped out at Secret.

Perhaps the mysterious insurance .torrent has the Top Secret stuff?
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/marc/learn_ctrl.html
But no one pays attention to information that isn't released with careful fanfare. Assange handles the media quite well, and most organizations would be better off releasing this stuff voluntarily so no one pays attention.
I love intelliJ products.

I use RubyMine for ruby, phpStorm for php, and pyCharm for python.
So, are you with me here on the principle?
Ever heard of anthropic bias?

The question is not whether it's possible, but whether it's common.
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This makes the most sense, especially considering Level 3's very careful wording in their press release.

This kind of thing happens all the time, relatively speaking. There's really nothing to care about here.

If you get upset over this, you're just playing into Level 3's hand. They're exploiting the "net neutrality" concept to try to get a better deal out of Comcast, even when this has nothing to do with it.

How extremely disappointing of them.
It is FUD. Why hasn't Apple attacked Google for using Webkit in Chrome? This isn't too terribly dissimilar than what you are suggesting.

One could make up doomsday scenarios all day, but the fact is that Apple has nothing to lose by wider adoption of Objective-C and similar libraries.
If you think a party the size of netflix is going to use the likes of tor to stream their video I suggest you use tor right now and try to view a netflix movie through it.
That's what entrepreneurs are or have to be, optimistic. =)

All the best though. Would love to see you turn it around and make it to what you want it to be.
I'm in Melbourne, Australia. I've emailed your complaint to Australian Customs with a copy to my local Member of Parliament (Congressperson).
Not all of the quarter million cables have been leaked, if I recall correctly.
I'm pretty sure the reason you hear 'skeptics' hoot every time it snows is because 'alarmists' hoot every time it gets hot. The celebration of colder weather is probably equal parts mocking sarcasm and genuine belief that cold weather means the end of global warming.

To me, it's always been a way of saying 'you can't have it both ways'. But then, I don't know what people are thinking when they say these things, so that's just my opinion showing through.
It's a tie with Germany (allPAY,bruNET,Neven Vision Germany )
"there are ways to handle that as well (tor networks come to mind)"

That's not a viable solution. Unless the TorProject has made MASSIVE gains since last I checked, it's simply not viable for low-latency or high-bandwidth use. It's not like everyone on Comcast could feasibly switch to getting their Netflix through Tor.
As long as nobody is maintaining that type of code by hand, I don't care what makes the JVM happy.
While I agree with you that the content of the last few releases have been fascinating but mostly inconsequential. The reason given for staggering the releases is a good one: if you released it all at the same time, each individual issue would not get as much attention. Assange also states that Wikileaks makes a promise (among other promises such as to protect their identity) to its informants to try to achieve the maximum possible impact on the world due to their leak.
As Comcast subscriber, I'm more than happy to switch the minute I have a viable alternative. Whether its a constant barrage of billing issues, poor connections, terrible customer service, abusive monopoly actions, the list goes on...
It is equivalent to going to a media site that uses the like button, where it shows your friends who liked the page.

But we are still debating on whether to keep it or not because it significantly increases the time it takes to load a page.

Thanks for the feedback.
I'm currently learning 370 assembler ;)
That's a large understatement, only a few hundred have been leaked.

Update: "Currently released so far... 278 / 251,287"

http://cablegate.wikileaks.org
No because the client is on my machine. See how truecrypt works if you want to understand this.
You write:

"Because your comment reeks of "startup romanticism", not startup practice."

Surely you realize that I could make the same kind of assertion about what you have written? I could write: "You comment reeks of sentimental notions about family life, not the actual reality of family life."

If you want to argue that all people, everywhere, enjoy their families then you are simply in denial of reality.

If you want to deny the fact that some people are deeply bitter about the sacrifices they have made for their children, then you are simply running away from the truth.

As for the startup romanticism that you mention, I've been working with startups since 2002, which is long enough to have some idea about what habits work over the long term, and what habits do not work over the long term. From what I've seen, it is a bad idea to have a child during the first 2 or 3 years of a startup. You can have kids before then, or after then, but not right during the most intense phase of the startup.
Yeah I noticed that too. More than once recently. I think it's the name that's going to blow us up. "Hacker News" is way too sexy.
This is kind of related to an article I read awhile ago that I found very interesting. It talked about how the more people ran, the longer telomeres in their cells were:

"When the researchers measured telomeres in the middle-aged subjects, however, the situation was quite different. The sedentary older subjects had telomeres that were on average 40 percent shorter than in the sedentary young subjects, suggesting that the older subjects’ cells were, like them, aging. The runners, on the other hand, had remarkably youthful telomeres, a bit shorter than those in the young runners, but only by about 10 percent. In general, telomere loss was reduced by approximately 75 percent in the aging runners. Or, to put it more succinctly, exercise, Dr. Werner says, ‘‘at the molecular level has an anti-aging effect.’’"

from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/phys-ed-how-exercis...
Wikileaks has had an encrypted file on their server titled 'insurance' for a while now. See: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/wikileaks-insurance...
He is a recovering alcoholic so I'd think it's reasonable to see him as someone you could have a beer with.
Sure, I actually use both Truecrypt and Tarsnap for other things. They are both excellent tools, but Dropbox with client-side encryption they are not.
They actually have quite a few that people don't have.
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Why get so defensive? PG was merely stating a fact.
One good interview trick I learned:

First, you only ask one of these silly questions during the interview. And it should be one that makes the candidate sweat and think out loud a lot, but one where they'll eventually be successful -- I like the one where you ask the candidate to think of as many uses as possible for X and you just keep going until they run out of ideas.

As soon as this question is over, the candidate is relieved. This is when you take the opportunity to ask them the key question of the interview, whatever that may be, while they're at their most unguarded.

So watch out for these questions: sometimes the interviewer is just trying to soften you up for the next question.
No, clearly it doesn't.
It sounds like the biggest impact WikiLeaks has had is to help INCREASE our homeland security by exposing these gaping security holes in the defense information networks. The information leaked to WikiLeaks is pedestrian compared to what COULD and probably IS leaking to people who could use it to do bad things.
FYI, I believe interview questions are covered under the NDA, so if you did interview (and presumably had to sign an NDA at the time) you shouldn't actually be talking about the questions you were asked.
No, not really. I'm not one for protecting the little guy from the big guy, I'm one for treating the little guy and the big guy equally.
That's not all there is to it, Assange has a 1.4G timebomb out there, the passkey to which will likely be revealed when he decides or disappears long enough.
That was hard work reading that article.
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I'm going to join you or at least offer a personal example.

The best programmer I have ever met programmed medical equipment in assembly when he graduated undergrad. I met him in graduate school and he was scary good regardless of the language.
Does it matter? Most significant discoveries have little (if any) impact on the average person's life. The importance of many discoveries can take decades to become apparent, and are little-understood when they are discovered. And if that doesn't matter, sometimes just knowing something instead of not knowing it is reason enough to be excited by it.

And if nothing else, it helps to close a gap (well... turn a big one into two smaller ones) for those who like to make leaps of faith between points of understanding instead of looking for answers in the middle.