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You wife is underpaid. She cares. The guy in the class right next to her is overpaid at the very same salary. He doesn't care. That's the super-hard to solve problem a the center of this debate.
I believe the paywall will help them get back to their roots of exceptional journalism. Journalists think differently when catering to an audience that pays $250/year for professional news vs. trying to get as many impressions as possible.
Yeah, this is a bit suspicious.

Do you have proof, OP? Pictures?
Do you know of any good techniques to measure teacher performance?
I fail to see any comparison here.

WebRTC is a project building support for things like P2P and Device API support into modern browsers. This is so you could do things such as access a user's video camera through the Device API and establish a P2P stream with another browser, without using any Flash or installable plugins.

Now is just a JavaScript library that enables you to do RPC with browsers.
How can you tell? How can signals propagate through such a system?
I don't really think they guy cheated them. They saw the place and paid for it, the guy clearly isn't running at hilton here. At $500 month in a major city, I wouldn't expect anything less then sub-standard living conditions.
I agree with your overall points, but sarcasm and characterizations of those who disagree with you as communists isn't conducive to conversation.
Wikipedia often links to specific laws for stuff like this, you should read them if you're actually curious.

In the US, it's required that you have a reasonable expectation that your private areas cannot be seen. Which no reasonable person could have when naked in public.
Sometimes it's difficult for the users to see your vision before it's built, and they would reject your idea prematurely. Sometimes the users don't know better beforehand but love the product once they use it, especially for something brand new. It's a rare skill to communicate your vision precisely in words.
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They struggle to teach entrepreneurship for the same reason they struggle to teach leadership, teamwork, business management (no an MBA doesn't mean you'll be a good manager in a large business), etc.

Taught courses can help in all the above areas but only to a limited extent, entrepreneurship is no different.
I'm not claiming non-empty cities are built by crazy investors.

I don't know whether particular empty cities are caused by local or national government in China, or both. I was merely arguing that government was distorting things with incentives or coercion.

Cheap stupid credit's the cause? I agree. But in a free market, government does NOT regulate the cost of borrowing money. That's governed by supply and demand in a free market. The US is not a free market in this respect. Neither is China.

The gold standard was not the cause of the Great Depression; the collapse of the investment bubble created by the Federal Reserve, along with the interruption of international trade by the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act caused the initial problem. Subsequent interference in the economy by both Hoover and FDR extended the problems.

The gold standard merely prevented the government from inflating away the dollar and using inflation to hide the consequences of other bad policies. Its a form of discipline that the founders wisely put in place to prevent the disastrous policies that many other governments have perpetrated throughout history.

But now the constraint of the gold standard is off and much larger bubbles can be created.
So, this may mark me as an old fart, but um, does Spotify play The Beatles? If so, I'll switch from Rhapsody.

But yes, 50M users in a country of 300M does express a certain confidence.
You realize you're not seeing roaches because the rats are eating them, right? (Healthy ecology, healthy home!)
I tried using it a month or so back and had a great time.

Caveats:

* You have to use a special patched version of virtualenv.

* Numpy is unavailable for Pypy. For various reasons the pypy folks are just going to have to re-implement it.

The lack of numpy turned out to be a deal breaker for me in the end. I look forward to using it again once there version of numpy is ready for consumption.
People tend to overlook the 'vascular' part.

I've read some pretty disturbing examples of how some people have their bowels rot due to the blood flow in the artery (arteries?) becoming restricted or even blocked from supplying the bowels the same way arteries in the heart are but it's not as apparent as it is for the heart.
Or ask people in the 90's do they need another search engine.
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Nope, no Beatles yet. Still exclusive (via legal means) to iTunes.
"How many coders do you know love philosophy?"

I'm sure there's tons of us. The author and myself, for two. pg's original degree was in philosophy. I don't know how much coding Neal Stephenson does, but being the author of both Cryptonomicon and Anathem suggests he has at least a deep interest in both. William Gibson seems to have similar interests.

There has to be more. I view philosophy and programming as such closely-linked fields, both resting upon the construction of mental schemas that are logically consistent. Back me up, here.
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Sorry, I should have mentioned IANAL and not even a US citizen. It'd probably be seen as trying to circumvent laws wouldn't it? That'd be bad.

On the other hand, the major investors would lose out even more wouldn't they? Didn't they build any protection into their sale clauses?
no longer true, virtualenv 1.6.1 supports pypy nicely!
Boric acid mixed into simple syrup will control ants as well.
As a resident from Louisiana and now living in Texas, I would tell you that spreading Boric acid is only attempting to address the symptom, but not the problem.

When you see one roach, you can rest assured that 25 more are in the walls. See 5, and yes, there are 125 roaches waiting in the wings.
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If you had launched MVP and asked feedback on that, it would have been more accurate. Optimize your time/energy towards validating your idea via MVP. If it takes less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, my bet would be go for it.
Our original hypothesis was that we could share a master bedroom in a house. Craigslist has lots of $500 a month rooms for rent. We are trying to keep costs low.

We learned this was a bad idea and have pivoted, and our planning on renting a 1 bedroom for our office as soon as possible.
Any good exterminator would properly address the outside of the structure. No structure is immune to roaches.
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Also, I think that implicit in this kind of reasoning is the sense that "what I love" is a static thing that isn't going to change a lot over time. It may be the case that, like the author, I love philosophy at the moment, but maybe in two or three years, my interests will have moved on to something else. Feelings can be fleeting things. By the time you are in a position to do what you love, you might love something else.

But, at the same time, I tend to think we are in a little bit more in control of what we love than is sometimes supposed. Even if I don't love what I am doing right now, I think it is possible to think about it differently, to recontextualize it, to find ways to convince myself that it is important / significant/ etc. Feeling can be like a game that you play with yourself, but you can influence yourself with thoughts like "I don't have to feel this way about X".

My point is, I think it is better to find a viable work/lifestyle and learn to love it than to let your feelings determine how you live. My opinion, anyway. This probably won't work for everyone.
Sounds good. Hope all the browsers (esp IE) add support for it.
This is so funny to my partner and I. I wish it was fake and I had my $360 back!

I could put a link to the dude's airbnb profile. I feel like he screwed me and failed to disclose a material defect, but still I'm not sure.
> Otherwise a bunch of crap I no longer care about gets returned in GMail's search

It may be a language issue or a query-building issue, but I feel no difficulty searching through my gmail mailboxes. I often adopt an iterative approach where I build up my query by watching what gets returned.
Thanks, that's good (sad) to know.

Right now, I use a combination of Rhapsody and Google Music to get The Beatles (from CDs I own and have ripped.)
A few things regarding the pricing page - firstly, the text underneath the 'Quota' box makes little to no sense to a native English speaker. I cant even offer a translation myself, whcih I would be happy to do, since I don;t understand what you are trying to say.

Secondly, alot of your pricing package details are in very small fractions of GB. It would be easier for people to make comparisons, and thus realise you may be cheaper, if you used megabytes instead, no?
Don't you think he should have mentioned that there are tons of roaches in his place in the listing? Or on the phone?
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Drop me a line if you're looking for a place to rent, depending on what you can afford, I know a cheap, crime free, close to grocery store/bus lines apartment complex and have lived in nearly every part of the city, so I can at least guide you on where to look. Nothing else, I can pay for a beer.
We've been in two other places so far and not seen any roaches. All the people around here I talk to say it is not normal to see roaches everywhere. Maybe once in a while.
lol, I can't believe you posted this for the hn trolls. LOL, I am giggling so bad they downvoted one guy for being humorous, but the disrespectful trolls go unabated. I love HN more trolls here than 4chan. Only thing missing is nudy pictures to distract the trolls.

Ohh and gl in austin.
"The host isn't returning our calls. He finally comes around the next day.

We tell him that we are leaving and that we can't stay because of the roaches.

He claims that roaches are just a part of life in Texas and are completely normal.

He does give us back $160 dollars in cash though and tells us he will give us the rest later when he gets it. He says he will keep in touch"

Sorry, but I think you're being unreasonable by asking for too much. It's the same as the adage about Fast/Good/Cheap--pick two, you can never have all three. It sounds like the owner was busy, not avoiding you--he comes over the next day and that's avoiding? He gives you part of your money back and doesn't lie about the issue. I'm failing to see a problem here.

I also find the entire story highly exaggerated: An apple that we bought and put on the counter had been cored out by what I imagine was an army of roaches that night.

----

"When I see him he tells me he moved back in and took the place off airbnb and doesn't feel he owes us anything because we should have sucked it up and dealt with the roaches.

I say I will feel it was fair if we pay half, and he says life isn't fair."

Again, this is completely reasonable. He owes you nothing, you didn't sign a contract. You had unrealistic expectations that under any circumstances would have been disappointed no matter what the situation.

Edit: I'm becoming more convinced this story is entirely fake to begin with looking at what questions the OP has chosen to answer/ignore.
Wait.. what?

You built something that was supposed to be an Excel clone, but you didn't implement the editing functionality?

Isn't that pretty much 99% of the point of Excel? I mean yes, people do use Excel to share data as well, but most scenarios involving shared Excel spreadsheets involve multiple people editing the same spreadsheet, and then generating reports out of it.

That's where the pain is, and that is what I had assumed you were aiming at. If not, then what did your system do exactly?

(Also, build lists from web based API's with only a handful of lines of Javascript isn't Excel, either)

Edit: I see further down you noted that your system was desktop based software. A web-based Excel/database hybrid isn't a big requirement list, but I'm not convinced you are covering a whole lot of it..
The nice thing about boric acid is that it will kill them later when they are in the walls etc... Roaches will eat their fallen, and ingest the boric acid again killing those ones too.

Winged ones you will need to control with screens and closed doors but believe me when I say that's easier to do then get rid of the ones crawling around.
Do you feel the program is flawed since it only has 3 programming courses before an OS course? I think the major reason is that students don't do well is because of lack of practice.
Don't worry too much about grades. Take on the challenge.
Before taking up OS course, make sure you become proficient in C and understanding pointers.
That's one thing I enjoy about living in Seattle, I've yet to see a roach (or mosquito).
How does it work? How does it handle configuration and installation?
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So I keep hearing about Spotify, but as an American I've never had a chance to use it.

I use Grooveshark a lot though. What is Spotify offering over Grooveshark?
I agree completely with your sentiment, but it's important to note that US music consumption makes up, I believe, more than half of the worldwide market. So, in fact, the US is a larger market than all of Europe. That being said, 50 million registered users by some gorilla math, maybe. Real, active engaged, users - no way.
He should.
Well, there's a need of a balance. But it's a good idea to first ask people if they want something you would like to make for them. You are making things for them, so ask them. I don't believe any more in the idea of 'you make it and they will come'. They will come, only if they want it. So asking them is a good way to save yourself wasting a whole lot of time based on your own assumptions.
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People get scammed all the time; this is newsworthy here only because it indirectly involves a Y Combinator startup. I doubt you'd find another journalist interested in the story.

I feel for the people in the situation, but you have to use common sense particularly when you're using up the bulk of your runway in one payment. Part of business is sizing people up and making a decision about whether to trust them or not -- and when you make bad decisions there are consequences you have to live with.
As a former NYT developer (I left a month ago) but still in touch with my colleagues I can say there is a drop in Uniques and Page Views.

However, nothing like 40% and also within the internal predictions as far as I can tell.

I don't know that the Subscription policy is a run-away success for the NYT but it's certainly doing well.

I say this as a person who originally thought it was a bad idea.
Energy does not replace early stage money. Angels, of which there are thousands in the valley, provide early stage money.
The catalog of mainstream music is larger, it's fully legal (plenty of Grooveshark's content is only provided under shaky DMCA compliance), and supposedly its very easy to use. But that's the point...it's not that different from a whole slew of services that already exist here and don't have anywhere near the kind of traction they're forecasting.
I just hope that Google+ keeps the "Google Takeout" feature and doesn't close up. "Openness" was Google's selling point for Android when it first came out, and yes, it's still "open", but nothing like what it once was. This just seems like a deja vu waiting to happen.
Why didn't we hire an exterminator? I never even thougt of it. Thinking now I don't feel it was our responsibility to exterminate this guy's place, and he said he would refund our money which was airbnb's policy.
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Perhaps we need to talk in scales or include some comparators here. I completely agree that difficulty does drop some with more subject knowledge, teaching experience, and familiarity with the subject and types of questions and students, but by how much really? To me it sounds like it's being suggested that teaching becomes "easy"? Effortless? Not necessarily mentally taxing? Not necessarily time consuming? I can't see how one could _effectively_ teach and think this.

Again, I don't see teaching as simply "transferring" facts/knowledge. Students can test well and have no conceptual understanding whatsoever. Or, students can show understanding but have underlying mental models untouched (making them even more confused than previously). Both of these cases are failures.

The book "What the Best College Teachers Do" has amazing insights on how involved, dedicated, knowledgeable, and wise very successful and effective teachers are. The amount of thought and effort they put into their courses is staggering, so I'm approaching this discussion from that frame of mind, rather than what the average teacher (or student teacher) does.
When I was in college several of my friends majored in early childhood education.

Without a doubt it has to be the easiest major out there. While I was writing papers, my friends were learning how to make name tags with construction paper and crayons, and learning kiddy songs (this is not an exaggeration).

The problem is that once you get the degree and jump through the hoops, you're in. That's all there is to it

If any idiot can become a teacher, and a bad teacher makes the same a great teacher, then the pay is going to end up as the average of what you'd pay a bad teacher and great one.

Side-note: my mom, who also has a degree in early childhood education, tells me that when she was there 30 years ago it was much more academically rigorous.
I just want to say thanks for the great post. I thought your comment on the other thread was particularly good, I'm glad to see you expand a bit more on it. Honestly, I was a little disappointed to see patio11 reference yummy's comments, since they really leave the impression that he has a horse in this race - it's nice to see a more even handed treatment of the matter.
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I think some people are just jealous our startup is getting traction.

I can't believe people are thinking it's fake. Its funny.

I am going to leave the thread now and get back to work. I was just mad and wanted to share. It made me feel better.
That's the point of the nix package manager, it manages that complexity for you. The libraries are centralized in that each is stored in a path that is the checksum of all it's inputs. It really is an interesting system, they've published several papers on it that are worth reading.
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Not that I have any reason to doubt the BLS data, but does anyone know of any other data on the issue? Everyone seems to be citing the same pdf.
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> if your shares were to rise above the transaction price, would you not be subject to capital gains tax on the gain?

Yes. The way the IRS views it, I was given a an ordinary income bonus which consisted of new shares, and which was valued at $Z during the grant (and taxed as such, at that second). From now on, I own shares, so capital treatment goes into the future. If the stocks drop, I will have capital loss when I sell them -- but I need some other capital gain to net against.
Good story, good life lesson. You tried to game the system and got jacked in the process.

Let me tell you, I hate bugs as much as the next guy and I feel for you. I lived in some dumps, but never with any roaches. I went to college up north in Minnesota and we used to all pitch in and get bug bombs for our house. About once every 6 months always did the trick.

You don't say in your article why you needed to move to Austin in the first place. What was it about where you were living which wasn't conducive to your start-up succeeding?
> (its not toxic to humans, or comparable to salt anyway)

This is FALSE, and very dangerous advice for people with infants.

Quote from NSW Food Authority [1]:

"Borax, also known as sodium borate (Na2B4O7.10H2), and boric acid (H3BO3) are colourless, salt-like substance that can also be a white powder."

"What are the symptoms of Borax poisoning?

Some of the symptoms of Borax ingestion include headache, fever, nausea, vomiting, and red eyes.

Symptoms may appear 2 to 4 hours after ingesting Borax.

If you have ingested Borax, or come into contact with someone with these symptoms, you should call the NSW Poisons Information 24 hour hot line on 13 11 26 and seek immediate medial attention at your local doctor’s surgery or hospital.

If large amounts of Borax are consumed, acute kidney failure and death may result."

Not to say it isn't good at killing roaches, but please don't use it believing it's non-toxic.

[1] http://www.foodauthority.nsw.gov.au/consumers/other-food-top...
No, there can be a cash at the beginning, no larger than 20% or 50% of the deal (depending on whether it is reverse or forward merger. Get a tax specialist if these details matter to you and you are in the driver seat)
"Everyone that procrastinates (so that means everyone)"

When I find myself unable to work, I generally make a conscious choice to take a break so that I can be rejuvenated by my down time to the greatest extent possible. Does that count as not procrastinating?

"My argument only holds if you believe the brain is functionally logical, which... probably isn't true."

Yes, of course it isn't true. The best example of this is the fact that people sometimes give up (succumb to learned helplessness). If people were purely rational agents, having their plan fail would be an indicator that they need try something new. But in real life, they tend to do things like feel depressed and watch more TV.
This seems to be sort of a catch-22.

If the quality of teachers was uniformly high, we could pay them all what they deserve to be paid and not have to worry about leeches so much.

If good teachers were paid what they deserve, the quality of teachers would be uniformly high.
What is your startup? Post a url..I'm interesting in checking out what you're working on.
Couldn't agree more. The nonsense at the end is a disappointing postscript to an otherwise thoughtful comment.
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There's a certain nuance on how to ask the questions about a possible product that your attempting to build and what part of the feedback you should listen to.

If your new to this kind of thing, you'll mostly hear what you want to hear. An example would be the focus group study that was done for the aeron chair - no one wanted it.

To learn from people doing customer development in the field and for clarifying your own experience I would recommend http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/topics?pl... .

Also follow SK Murphy's blog. He seems to have this down to a science when building B2B applications.