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Thanks! Generally speaking, I think you have to understand the nature of "mental" illness that's being discussed. Depression, for example, is taken seriously as a "mental" illness but is quite comfortably discussed in medical terms (hence SSRI's, NDMA antagonists, etc); as well as Cognitive Behavior Therapy where it's been reasonably demonstrated that improving your thought patterns can improve your emotional wellbeing. I'd describe this as the modern form of "mental illness".

The kind of "mental illness" we're talking about here with CFS & the Wessely/UK psychiatry school of though though is old school _neurosis_. You're not sick, you're neurotic. You want to save face by coming up with symptoms. You need validation from a doctor. You remain sick because of the 'secondary gain' you receive in terms of attention. You need to avoid personal responsibility and blame, and so on.

It's horrible stuff. For quotes from the horse's mouth, see: http://www.cfsinfo.be/Documentatie/AA%20%20Strijd%20classifi... , and hopefully you can see why his views have been so controversial.

It's true that CFS is something of a catch-all for a variety of illnesses, from post-viral syndromes (see Dr Lerner), hypothyroid problems, diet and gut-related illnesses (undiagnosed coeliac patients, for example), neurological syndroms (some people are helped by neurofeedback, and Jay Goldstein wrote some fascinating books on the neuroscience of CFS/ME), hormone disorders (e.g. adrenal, but also others), possible retroviruses (XMRV looks 95% unlikely, but a handful of people did well on antiretrovirals), possible hit-and-run viral brain injury (as Australian research has indicated) and on and on. Hell, I recently came across a guy who recovered almost immediately and totally after 30 years of debilitating fatigue by taking a relatively recent IGE-binding drug (Xolair). Plus, there's the potential of an underlying viral or other cause that in turn causes a differing array of symptoms.

The problem is not just that we don't know what CFS/ME is (to the extent that it's a uniform thing), but we're pretty lousy at dealing with all the other surrounding illnesses as well. (Hypothyroid is a great case in point, IGE is relatively new, etc etc,.)

What's pretty clear, however, is the vast, vast majority of these patients, whether suffering CFS for known or unknown reasons, are not neurotic, and for The Economist, or anyone, to insist that "neurosis" should be taken seriously as a basis for medical diagnosis and treatment in 2011 is simply appalling.

edit: ugh, Wessely, not Wessley. my bad.
It's probably higher because America is protectionist when it comes to jobs.
Because you could get a similar and higher-paying job with zero risk by applying to one of the bigger companies.
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>Yes. We have to move "up-market" in the job market, just like the disruptive innovation theory says

You seem to have a lot of faith in the average person's ability to move "up market". Personally I don't see this becoming a reality. Furthermore, the creative and knowledge jobs needed are orders of magnitude fewer than manual jobs to provide for the same amount of production in society. The welfare state will have to become the norm and getting to that point will require major social upheaval.
> Foxconn is an interesting mega-beast. It has a campus that houses 500k people and employees 1 million.

> Apparently living and working conditions aren't great, we all read the followups to the original suicides.

A few dozen suicides over 5 years given a population of one million is significantly below the U.S. national average.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-u...
My phone is 3G only, if there isn't a 3G signal available then I can't make calls or texts. Does this mean my phone is more secure?
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Yes, that would be a lot of money. Do companies do interviews over video-chat at all?
According to the "salary buying power" section, Silicon Valley's cost of living is 23% higher than that of NYC. Having lived in both, I'd be very surprised if that's not actually the wrong way around.
I expect a good game or app to do pretty well on any platform that has little competition and where the average app price is pretty high.
As a Venturer Scout, about a decade ago, I got my advanced amateur radio license and, for a while, started working on Morse code. Never did get the 5wpm Morse qualification, and I forget the code now.
As soon as AI can accurately express the human condition as well as Bob Dylan I'll be worried. Meanwhile, we've got this: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035...
You are correct, at Etsy we deploy schema changes once per week. The code always works against both versions of the schema. We never take downtime for schema changes.

We avoid data loss by doing soft deletes as much as we can. Sometimes we do want to do real deletes, especially for data that is heavily denormalized, but in those cases we keep an audit trail so that the data can be reconstituted in the event of a mistake.
No, it wouldn't throw off the result, but no matter the technique you would need a very large sample to accurately measure a behavior that rare.
It's pretty hard for a robot to throw itself off a roof.
Does it have to be a startup?

There's a huge continuum between fledgling startup and entrenched multinational. There exist smaller multinationals where you can still have a huge impact.
If there's only one way to do it, and anyone faced with the same problem would have to do it the same way, it's a discovery. Otherwise, it's an invention.

Inventions are patentable. Discoveries aren't. Or shouldn't be, according to the intent of the system.
If you build a free apps with ads and use the MS mobile Ad Exchange, the eCPM's are pretty good.
I'd definitely contend that a job with a bigger company would not be 'similar'. I previously worked at a "bigger company" and the job was utterly miserable. The startup I work for gave me stock in the company, but I wasn't actually expecting it- I would have worked there anyway.

As long as you're getting decent pay I see no reason to stay in a miserable corporate job if you don't want to be in one.
they sound like smart people. why hobble them with svn in 2011?

i put off the transition as long as i could out of inertia (switched from svn in 08 out of desperation when i started needing a lot of branch and merging). but once you go git, you dont look back, not one bit.
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> Average salary: Software engineer, Java/Web developer, ...

Java developer and Web developer are two very different job descriptions, and are not necessarily mutually exclusive—I'm guessing that's why there's such a disparity between the US-national median and Silicon Valley median salaries for it.

[1] http://www.focus.com/fyi/silicon-valley-salaries/
They are in this case. I think it's probably helpful to distinguish between "old school" mental illness (hysteria, neurosis etc) and "modern" mental illness (e.g. how depression, bipolar etc are treated these days). Wessely has long talked about CFS/ME as neurosis, or suggested mass hysteria with a modern angle.

In Wessely's own words on a related illness "Sufferers from mysterious condition that lie outside conventional medical practice no longer consider themselves to be oppressed by spirits and demons but by mystery gases, toxins and viruses. This is particularly visible in the changing nature of mass hysteria."
http://www.cfsinfo.be/Documentatie/AA%20%20Strijd%20classifi...
There's a threshold, just because of the cost involved. In general, if a startup is big enough to be able to afford it, they'd gladly sponsor you.

A previous company I worked at sponsored somebody after their second round of funding.
NYC to most people includes all the bureaus and sometimes even Jersey City, etc. There are lots of more affordable options (e.g. Astoria) than downtown Manhattan, whereas such options do not exist in Silicon Valley.
Some more DEF CON tips:

* Don't bring your computer everywhere; it's heavy, somebody can steal it, and you'll be worrying about your computer instead of having fun, drinking, and meeting people.

* Go to the hardware hacking & lock picking villages. Everyone there is cool!

* Drink lots of water, especially if you go outside or drink booze.

* Have a QR reader/generator on your phone so you can share phone numbers. I use "QR Flip Flop" on iPhone and "Barcode Scanner" on Android.

Above all, party! You can compute in the comfort of your home the other 51 weekends each year.
I haven't been following this closely, but this morning I spent a couple of hours reading everything. FWIW...

1. There is nothing inconsistent in either of EJ's posts. They are sometimes complicated (e.g. who contacted who when) and I can imagine HN readers imagining inconsistencies as they scan the posts, but there are none.

2. Either EJ is telling lies, or Brian Chesky's post on TC misrepresents/distorts the truth in several places. Indeed, setting the record straight seems to have at least in part motivated EJ's second post.

3. It is just weird for the "niceness" of the founders to be relevant to this situation, except as part of a cynical effort to turn this into an "nasty EJ versus the nice founders" narrative.

4. Attacking Arrington (who, like EJ, appears to be offering more solid information than PG or Airbnb) comes off as another attempt to turn the Airbnb founders into the victims of this story.

Unless EJ is a liar, focusing any attention at all on the "plight" of the founders (e.g PG's message here) demonstrates a detachment from reality. They are warm and cozy in their homes, while she is homeless and shattered.

They got some bad coverage on TC, their exit payday might be compromised and rich people will lose money because of it. But unless she is a bald faced liar, her home was violated, she lost all the precious items (photos!) she spent a lifetime accumulating and she will spend a long time recovering from this episode.

Seems like as good a time as any to focus on the end user. She's not a PR incident, she's a #$%@ human being.
The development experience has been extremely good. Visual Studio + Expression Blend is perfect for rapidly prototyping apps and fine tuning animations.

As for downloads, I've found it's a lot easier to get your app noticed in the smaller marketplace. Also for a while ad revenue was very good. I made $50/day using PubCenter for ads in my games for a few months. After March 2011, however, something in the system changed (or maybe advertisers just started paying less) and my eCPM has dropped a lot.
It's easy to make claims about branches of history that never occurred. It seems like an absurd scenario where computers weren't widely adopted, but it's not really so absurd if you think about it.
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It's generally held that if you serve a webpage you grant an implicit licence to do what's required to the incoming signal to it in order to enjoy what's served. I think it's wrong to think you even need a copyright licence to do it (see above), but there you go.

If you want to restrict usage of your website, don't use copyright, use a standard contract. You provide a service (serving a resource, e.g. a page) if a user accepts your terms of service. Also use technological measures: if your ToS aren't accepted, don't accept requests for that page. If you really want to restrict use of your site, make your site a walled garden; anybody not accepting your ToS before consuming your content then is committing digital trespass or even fraud, contrary to the Computer Misuse Act (UK).
Copyright is redundant here.
Sometimes I wonder if folks like Paul or AirBnBozos, are too smart to be unlucky OR too lucky to not know that they not that smart. .

I think it is the latter.
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This will only happen, when robots will be able to dream. Feel safe!
I didn't say we have a choice. It is what it is. We could try to slow it down by not embracing it and making laws against it, but unless the whole planet agrees on this, then it's pointless and will only end up making the country that writes such laws to fall behind the others.

But I have faith in humanity's ability to adapt. It's not that hard to learn a new job. And I think automation throughout the society helps everyone's job become easier.

The way I see tools are becoming easier and easier, and the barrier to entry is lowered so more people can create websites, or do marketing, and so on.
This is the first argument for using rebase that I've found truly convincing - really worth reading. This will probably change the way I use git.
It is through mistakes like this that the ecosystem will improve.
Ubuntu is pretty close to that...
It's a bad infographic, because it distorts reality instead of making it more accessible. In the mid-years circa 1986-1996 Apple offered more products at a given time than they did prior to that or do today. The tree indicates otherwise.
Somehow, I can't imagine a bored and aimless population of billions building utopia. Bored people tend to be troublesome people, so if there isn't enough Farmville, we might be in trouble.
I don't like D, but Go-lang is no substitute for C or C++: It's a GC'd language.
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>Yes, Windows can be counter-intuitive, but it has enabled millions of people in the world to be more productive. This is why most of the planet is using Windows.

Personal computers have enabled people to be productive, not Windows. And, the reason most people use Windows is largely for reasons other than the merits of the software.
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This reminds me of another technique I learned in a PoliSci class (too many years ago). The prof had been polling people about sensitive topics like race. His survey asked respondents only yes/no questions and asked them only to listen to each question and privately write down yes or no to each question. Then they were asked to count the yeses. By only asking 1/2 the survey group the sensitive question, you get a measure of the true ratio for the sensitive question. You end up doubling the sample size to get the same number of responses, but you allow people to hide behind their other answers.
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>[Lion has a setting] that sets the scroll direction based on the kind of input device you are using.

OK, good to know. The Scroll Reverser app does not, though.
I know effectively nothing about D, but one of the repeated answers was that D effectively requires you to use its GC. (With the qualifier that while technically, you don't have to use GC, doing otherwise will cause pain.)
Good article. Thanks
I did something similar for US. Got there on internship visa (J-1 I believe) for 6 months, and then was offered an FTE on H-1B. Back then in 2006 the yearly H-1B were "released" in late May or early June I believe, and they finished in a month or so, so this might be good to take into consideration when planning. I believe a good time for the employer to file application is in April or May, and then the H-1B is typically ready in September.

After the internship some other option came up for me back home in Sweden so I never used my H-1B.

Note: This was not for a startup, but for an established company with HR and all that stuff. But the timing aspects should still apply I believe. As a side-note I eventually moved to Singapore, and getting an "employment pass" (equivalent to US H-1B) here was extremely smooth, comparing to all the work to get the H-1B for US.
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Ask HN: Should I go freelance? Right now?
I'm considering going the freelance/bootstrapping/contracting
route. Currently very close to resigning a cushy salaried job as
an Enterprise Java consultant. Would love your honest opinions on
whether I'm in good shape for striking out on my own.

I have two reasons for doing so: A) I want to be able to call my
own shots in how I spend my time. The commute is killing me, for
one thing. B) I also want to bootstrap my own products. Have
launched one web application a few years ago (didn't catch on,
but I learned a lot.) I have a long list of ideas I'm eager to execute on, but unable to do so while working fulltime at a BigCo (I'd like to, and I've tried once earlier, but it didn't work out and probably won't while I work a fulltime salaried job.)

I'm 33 yrs old. Ten years experience as a paid developer. Competent
Java/Ruby/JavaScript programmer. Frontend, backend and some
mobile experience. I've done some speaking in the local developer
community, got some open repos in GitHub in multiple languages
and have a couple of public webapps/websites in my portfolio. I'm
certainly no "rock star" though!

I have a decent network, but mainly composed of developers, not too many
product owners/stakeholders/gatekeepers.

I'm a family man, but we've gotten our living expenses down to
the point where we can live well if I pull in at average 3k each
month (take-home pay). Have saved up a nest egg which will carry us for 6 months
if I'm unable to get any contracting work at all. If I'm able to
get work charging around 100-150$/hr I'd only need to work around 16
full weeks a year or on average 2 days a week to get by. This is a very rough calculation and subject to differences in currencies and living expenses from the US, but I think you get the idea: I've done my homework.

Oh and I live in a Scandinavian country, near one of the
capitals (where most of the web/software work is going on).

So. How does my situation sound to you? I think this should work
but I need some outside validation. What are my chances?

Really, one of the biggest things holding me back is a small fear
that the current debt situation in the US turns into worldwide financial armageddon - would I be better off on my own or continuing work at a BigCo in that case?
Yep, I'd say most creatives live in Brooklyn due to affordability. Over here, would an equivalent be Oakland?
My wife has used RRT quite successfully to gauge the amount of illegal abalone fishing in California. Before that, the Fish and Game department did little more than guess (and of course, underestimate) how much illegal fishing was going on.
The big thing C++ has over D is momentum. Lots of stuff out there in C++ land, whereas the D ecosystem feels a bit sparse.

Also, D doesn't have an equivalent to the RAII/Smart pointer paradigm (being a garbage collected language) so it might not be as good for realtime stuff where a g/c pause is unacceptable. If anyone uses D for realtime/high performance programming please chime in though ;)
App development is great. Unfortunately, I've only ever seen 2 WP7 phones in the wild.

The low resale value of WP7 phones on eBay and CL suggests things aren't good, either.
Thanks! Actually, I've been learning from this incident as well as a bunch of different incidents. I've put together my observations and lessons learned that can apply in my particular scenario, of which I hope there will be few, if any. So, however this particular case resolves is not entirely material, unless I can learn something more about what to / no to do.

However AirBnB resolves this issue is really their matter. I'm hoping to learn along the way what seems to work and what not. And on that count, I've already learned a lot.

As for votes, that's not my primary interest. My primary interest is to see what others might have learned as well.
So, something like taking some time off before you start at the new job would be frowned upon?
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I'd disagree. The OS's capabilities are actually pretty good imo. I used my wife's HTC Trophy for a few weeks and was a bit bummed to go back to my iPhone. The apps story is night and day though -- there just aren't as many high quality apps and that's where WP7 is hamstrung.

As far as developer experience, I don't do android, but it's so much easier writing and debugging WP7 apps than iOS, from the tools to the simple managed/unmanaged aspects.

That said, Mango isn't going to change things dramatically. It's a good update, but the apps and perception are the problem. Going to be a long haul for WP7, but I hope MSFT sticks to it because it is a good mobile OS.
True, but you are still loosing a significant number of human workers. You don't need 1000 humans to maintain 1000 robots, and those jobs won't be attainable by most people - especially the people the robots were designed to replace.
The downside of the utopia is the sheer amount of things that the robots can produce. Then what do you do with all that stuff?? That is a theme of the story "Midas Plague" by Frederik Pohl.

"The Midas Plague" (originally published in Galaxy in 1954). In this new world of cheap energy, robots are overproducing the commodities enjoyed by mankind. So now the "poor" are forced to spend their lives in frantic consumption, trying to keep up with the robots' extravagant production, so that the "rich" can live lives of simplicity. This story deals with the life of a man named Morey Fry, who marries a girl from a higher class. She is unused to a life of consumption and it wears at their marriage. Morey eventually hits on the idea of having the robots help him to consume his quotas. At first he fears punishment when he is discovered, but instead the Ration Board quickly implements his idea across the world."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas_World
These stats are outrageous and the presentation is misleading:

1) Please do not go thinking that $7.5B in VC deals * 46% are seed/series A = ~$3.2B in seed money. The bulk of that money is skewed upward to the other 54%. If we assume the average size of a deal in the 46% is around $300k (since series A rounds are more and seed rounds are less), then you get about a $100M market for early-stage investments.

2) The section titled "Average Salaries in the Valley" is actually a graph of median salaries. It worries me that the infographic uses the terms "average" and "median" interchangeably, though at least they chose the better statistic for the chart. They also make no mention of stock options or equity that you get with those salaries, so it's not really a total compensation number.

3) The buying power part is completely off base. Having lived in San Diego for 3 years before moving to Palo Alto, I can definitely say I would rather make $92k here than $59k in SD. I imagine they are including all of San Diego County, which is huge and has vast differences in quality of life. Compare that to Silicon Valley, which is generally nice everywhere you go. If you're living in a comparable part of San Diego, I would imagine you are looking at no more than a 10% difference, tops.

4) The cost of housing is also ludicrous. Either the average is getting skewed because of some super expensive listings or they are simply talking about the average price of a lease. I just moved out of a 5 bedroom house in Palo Alto which cost $3300/mo. I was paying $650/mo for my room, which is about $150 less than what I was paying to live in UTC in San Diego and about half the cost of a beach-front apartment rental there.

In summary, there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. Just move here. You'll be glad you did.
I like that layout, its readable. But why not make the default text-color #000 instead of #444 for maximum contrast and readability?