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You have less free time, in smaller increments, and no longer under your control. Let's say you have no children, and work a standard forty-hour week. I know that's not common here, but bear with me. The thing is, that other 108 hours per week is yours, and you can arrange it as you like. You can choose to work longer hours at a startup, or spend time on strenuous hobbies. You can choose to stay up late and sleep in late. You can choose to work more one day to guarantee yourself a large block of free time another day. Whatever you do, it's a choice.

Now you have a kid. That 108 hours just turned into 80 or less - much less in the early stages for just about any parent, still less for at least the next decade even if you're a selfish parent. What's left is no longer movable from earlier until later, or from one day or to the next, because your child's schedule is not as flexible as an adult's. You practically never get to sleep in past 8am. When you do it's because you owe your spouse a favor - and with everything else in the paragraph it's a big one. It's impossible to do anything requiring intense concentration, because your child is a high-priority interrupt and that interrupt triggers frequently. My daughter (seven) is far better than most at staying occupied by herself, and even she interrupts me all the time. You know that look you give your coworkers while they interrupt you just when you finally got into the coding groove? You can't do that to your kid, so you don't even start anything that intense. You code less, you read less, you exercise less, you game less, you get online less. Your only real opportunity to have a significant block of free time is after the kid's in bed. To take advantage of that you'll be dipping into that 56 hours per week of sleep time and using caffeine the next day to (sort of) make up for it. By the way, I hear all of these factors are compounded when you have more than one kid, and I just can't even imagine what it's like for single parents.

I'm not complaining. There are other things that more than make up for the loss of time and control over time, but it's still draining. Still, I just have to laugh at the childless people who just assume all that time is available and flexible, who don't realize that being able to ride their bikes three hours a day or spontaneously head out for a three-day binge in Vegas is a luxury. Enjoy it while you can. Enjoy it your whole life if that's your choice. Just understand that every parent in the world is going to have a different perspective on free time than you do. Even though the result is worth it, losing two thirds of your usable free time is hard.
hmm, very interesting thoughts - definitely good to keep in mind as i know we're all workaholics
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Seeing photos on your TV, listening to music in your car, sharing wedding pictures with family

I found these examples odd. Yesterday my family was beaming photos and videos from our iPhones to my Apple TV, I listen to music in my car with Rdio every day and there are usually wedding photos up on Facebook before the reception has begun. Granted, Apple TV and Rdio still seem to be early adopter products (for reasons unknown to me as they're both highly polished and easy to use) but this points to the fact that Dropbox will have much stronger competition in solving those everyday problems.
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Because of the greater viewing distance to a laptop panel they should still be able to give it the "Retina" tag.
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That's more due to licensing restrictions put in place by rights holders. Netflix is probably unlikely to be able to get any more favourable licensing terms than Lovefilm.
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Actually, I'm guessing that Google's clean homepage and search results were a huge reason a lot of people switched over to it. It certainly had a lot to do with my choice.
> Society grants corporations certain expanded rights and protections (more now than ever)

What can a corporation do that I or a group of people can't do? What can that group do as a corporation that it can't do otherwise?

Be precise. And, for the purposes of this discussion, assume that I'm rich.

Suppose that the answer is "a corporatioin can do exactly the same as any other group of people". I suspect that you feel a corporation should be more restricted than a group of people. Why?
Worth reading, but I had a couple of quibbles.

First marginal tax rates tend to have less of an effect on how hard people work than you might naively suppose when working from a simple economic model. People are committed to lifestyles they want to maintain, and categories of jobs often demand a certain minimum commitment, meaning people can't just reduce their hours for less pay. A much strong effect is in people deciding whether to spend time perusing more education or enter the workforce immediately, since the extra years would be taxed mostly at low rates, whereas the higher income from more education all comes at the top marginal rate.

Also, I'd point out that a mimimum wage law has less overhead than forming a union, and so when the economy is at full employment it might be a genuinely good idea - though still probably worse than, say, a negative income tax. In our current circumstances, though, it really is about transferring money from the really badly off to the sort of badly off (though the really badly off are less likely to vote...).
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> So if I'm born into a world where someone has cornered the market on, let's say, food

Then you can ride away on your unicorn.

The western world doesn't have food monopolies. The 2nd world occasionally does, but they're created by their govts.

Of course, it doesn't help that the US govt decided to raise corn prices by subsidizing corn ethanol.
Same here... 15" MBA is what I've been waiting for for a long time. I'm on 2nd generation 15" MBPro, which can die any day now. Not sure why this is not considered a priority for Apple, since it would be a perfect work machine (13" is just too small).
Well I'd argue that it is the same with good vs. bad doctors. The bad ones just try to fix your symptoms while the good ones try to fix the underlying problems.
The bad ones can also be driven by selfish greed. If they "heal" their patients, they don't need them as often and therefore they loose potential money.
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What are the arguments? And FYI, this isn't the only interview we do. It's one data point.

I go back and forth on the question of "snags that aren't really technical." The fact is that on a distributed team with multiple projects going, setting up a screenshare and a dev environment for an existing project are not uncommon tasks in their own right.

The first round cross-browser bug was controlled. But then the candidate isn't in their own environment and I'm getting burned out doing the same problem over and over. I want it to feel like we are working together on a problem rather than like the candidate is trying to guess an answer that I am trying to hide from them. This way it is genuine: I have no special canned knowledge of the problems we are working on.

I'm trying to simulate an actual pair programming exercise ... by doing an actual pair programming exercise. ;)
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This is an excellent book, and is also available as a pdf from here - http://www.fee.org/pdf/books/Economics_in_one_lesson.pdf

I could swear there is a free kindle version someplace, but I can't find the source at the moment. ETA: I was thinking of one of his other books "Thinking as a Science" which is available from archive.org - http://www.archive.org/details/thinkingasascie00hazlgoog
And the funny thing is, I remember them telling me "one day, if you have kids, you'll understand how this feels". I didn't take them seriously because I thought I knew everything. Now sort of understand what they meant.

Now friends with older children keep telling me "little kids -- little problems, big kids -- big problems". I hear the words, but it doesn't really mean anything to me now, just a nice saying. But something tells me though, one day I will say to them too "Yeah, I know what you meant..."
Actually, not so much in this case. Open-access publishing is cheaper for researchers as well as readers -- much, much cheaper. The problem is only getting from here to there. There is no question than the grass really is greener on the other side, for everyone except the middle-men currently growing fat on the Proprietary Academic Publishing Tax.
Traditional economics, quite a bit--though most of the principles are still valid as a first approximation. But the various irrational ways in which people make decisions is the fundamental concept behind behavioral economics which has gained considerable attention over the past 20 years or so.
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Irrationality can be seen as an externality, in that when it outweighs rational thinking, the economy suffers.
No, it's not Parenting Magazine. It's also not bodegajed Magazine.

Like many have said before—to others who stress a dislike over an article that made it to HN's front page—if you don't like an article then flag it, ignore it, and/or don't click on it and comment. Move on.

I'm not a parent, but as soon as I saw this article in my feed reader I came to HN to see what other hackers had to say about parenting. I am not disappointed.
An, axusgrad, that isn't it AT ALL. The point is "Look at all the profit WE are giving these people. If we spent it differently we could make massive savings AND give the world free access to our research."
On the other hand, most people just use that usable free time to watch TV. Giving up 2/3 of your TV watching is not that hard.

As for interruptions: I know grudgingly admit that I have to go to CoWorking spaces or an office to work. (Granted, that is also lost time for the commute).

Maybe exercise could be build into the kid time somehow?

Also it might make sense to take turns with the spouse to create more free evenings.

Where I live, most kids also seem to go to kindergarden from age one, which seems rather early to me.
Most people I've known prefer good health because it feels good and wouldn't need to cite lack of insurance, dishonest insurer, etc. as reasons to maintain it.

I think that's a misinterpretation of the article.

Or simple contraposition :-P
Steve Jobs extended the state of engineering art forward, in significant ways. It is a real engineer, and a real hacker, and a real hero.

The need to diminish what he did as "integrating work in useful and pleasing ways" is either ignorance or dishonesty.
This is a huge problem in macroeconomics - and for many years the profession has just sort of looked the other way because they haven't had other good models. This is beginning to change with the advance of subfields such as behavioral economics where psychology is incorporated into the models.

The field was advanced tremendously by people like Daniel Kahneman who won the Nobel prize in economics in 2002. The field of economics is being transformed, but as with all big changes it takes time.

Kahnemans nobel prize lecture is worth watching if you want some insights into how people are irrational in predictable ways: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/2...
Right, and if what you do is engineering, then you respect engineering on the level that Steve Jobs brought to the world.
I would say that having a kid to me seems like a lot bigger change than getting married. But of course I am married already, so maybe that in retrospect doesn't seem like such a big change...
@conesus: how cool that this is also open source. How is using SQL + NoSQL working for you? Also, Django: most folks say you hit a wall and its hard to swap components... but you seem to be doing fine with it?
You're right, but the OWC upgrade is fairly pricey at $629.

I was thinking that if Apple supported it right from the store, it would drive down third party prices?
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But he didn't become CEO. He stayed on as a consultant. NeXT was acquired in 1996. Jobs became interim CEO a year later. He didn't become permanent CEO until 2000.

edit: I highly doubt he would, he would have moved on as soon as his contract ended. Reading this latter sentence, perhaps you didn't mean that he was CEO right away. But I'm not sure. :)
We are now living in the Golden Age of Content Piracy, what with the proliferation of instant exchange and transfer methods, but piracy of intangible goods has been around for over a century, ever since the invention of the gramophone, or even the printing press before it, and the people in control of said goods were always making a fuss out of others "stealing" them. I don't think the problem will ever be solved - it's not even a problem, it must be integrated into the economic model.

The only reason why governments would extend the copyright of intangible content is because, as always, corporations and people with money are pushing for it. Indeed, the original authors may not care (because they have other problems, like being dead), but when the copyright holder is an immortal entity such as a corporation, which sees an opportunity to make profit and maintain control, they will do whatever they can, even if it's against society and against progress. Maybe we should have stricter regulation of corporations or even an "expiration" date, but that would be nigh impossible to implement...
You make two errors. First, you're wrong to assume he was in it for the money. He could have made a lot more money, and its clear from interviews that money is not what drove him. Secondly, you erroneously presume that capitalism is not a heroic venture. It is. Capitalists like Steve Jobs benefit mankind more than all the efforts of all the charities you could name. This wouldn't normally be so heroic, but in a society filled with people like you who want everyone enslaved to marxist ideology, it is. The idea that he "land grabbed" comes from a lack of understanding of economics, probably due to your education which taught you that an economy was a zero sum game. It isn't.
I'm not convinced they perform no useful function. At the least, they curate the collection. Who will do that? For free? Reliably?

Its disingenuous to say "Lets have X for free" without examining the economics. Why not cars for free? Free movies! I'd like that, Netflix is expensive.
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I can never agree that publishing of academic papers is closed to subscription journals.

Isn't it in the best interest os science to have knowledge fully accessible by anyone?

It's just one of the cases where there are some people making a load of money out of a completely bogus business model that they manage to continue to lobby into persevering while there is no logical purpose for it to even exist.
I acknowledge London is in many ways a fantastic place to live and grow a business. Its great for the UK if we can have a growing startup hub based in London. However, while many startups will flourish in London, so many others would be completely dead in the water if they tried to grow while facing London costs.
Living just outside London is surely more costly than living in a comparable area of a city further north, when you take into account a rail season ticket? Also, commuting times get silly.
There's loads of talent scattered across the UK. Whats the point of trying to get that talent to move somewhere where everyone else already wants to live, and quality of life in many ways is poor as result? Silicon Valley is different because they actually pay enough for people to live there. Maybe that's the answer - startups need to start paying £70k to developers in Shoreditch when the same person would have been happier being paid £20k to live in Derby?
Thanks for the response though- its interesting to debate these things. :)
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I would generally agree that historically universities have not been as focused on teaching as research, but I believe there might be a shift in this. Many top-tier engineering schools, such as Purdue, have engineering education departments (https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/AboutUs/) looking into the pedagogy of technical education.
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Franchise might have been the wrong word to use - maybe it would work better as a "co-operative" with the original people in general control rather than a directly paid franchise.

That way customers from any country go to the same place (saving each member of the co-op on advertising budget/time) but get the work done by someone more local to them so hopefully pay less due to local delivery and lack of customs charges.

You migth find many peopel who are capable of making something like that from a pattern but maybe no capable/comfortable making a good pattern from the kids' designs - there would be a value add" there having that stage done for you. I know a few people who make things (and make them well) as a hobby but who do not make their own designs - I could imagine one or two of them being interested in getting involved at that level just to make the hobby pay for some of itself.

Obviously any controlling company would have to give some quality assurance to the customer, which would be part of how they justify their cut (as well as providing the design stage if they are) though could be a bit of a nightmare. This assurance might be why people go to this hypothetical cooperative rather than one of the smaller groups (or individuals) that try under-cutting them.
You're being dishonest by quoting that one line, and ignoring the fact that I'm an electronics and software hacker. I guess, in your book, because Woz used drugs, he doesn't qualify as a hacker, eh?

This is just childish posturing on your part, since you're not an engineer. Your idea of a hacker is someone who jailbreaks their phone or installs linux on their PC and thinks they are "elite".

My idea of a hacker is someone who spends their lives designing and building hardware or software and has significant technological skills.

Your "hackers" hate Apple because Apple doesn't compete at the low end of the market selling cheap gadgets, and since your "hackers" have day jobs at retail establishments, they can't afford Apple gear.

My hackers recognize the significant engineering effort that it takes to make what Apple does look easy.

Your "hackers" hate ability and think too much is being made of Steve Jobs, because anti-capitalism has somehow become cool on a sight ostensibly about people who want to start star ups.

My hackers recognize the difficulty in making a dent in the universe with your startup, and applaud Steve Jobs as for doing so.

Steve Jobs' has hundreds of patents. I have a few. How many do you have?
Here's my review from last time this book was mentioned on HN:

Economics in One Lesson is a horrible book for people with no background in economics. Within economics there are several schools of thought, and this book is little more than an outright attack by a proponent of one (fairly niche) school on another (far more prominent) school. Despite its title it isn't an textbook, but a manifesto, and as such Hazlitt's goal isn't to educate you, but to convert you. Hazlitt sets out to do this with great skill, employing every rhetoric tool at his disposal.

And I'll admit he's really good at it as well. He presents theories as gospel truth, making no mention of any caveats or qualifiers that you'd find in a more serious work. There is a complete lack of any sort of critical analysis of the ideas present, or any notion that they may be anything other than universal truths. He greatly misrepresents the ideas of his opponents and loves to use quotes out of context. He makes great use of leading rhetorical questions to lead the reader to make incorrect conclusions, without having to stick out his own neck and make the incorrect statement himself.

So in my opinion the real problem with this book is that it is so convincingly written that a naive and uncritical reading of it will lead the reader to come away with the belief that economics is really simple and that all economic problems have trivial solutions, as spelled out in this book.

That being said, the ideas present in this book aren't completely without merit, it's just that the few actually useful and interesting nuggets are buried in far too much polemic brow beating.
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an important question to ask is, what about the students who now have a high school diploma who otherwise would not have one, and are not going to attend college? I bet they are better off, and, unfortunately, are likely a large portion, if not the majority, of high school graduates in that region.

I agree there is a problem here, but am afraid it is not as simple as "durr, their high school is too easy." There are kids in those schools who will _need_ that diploma; of course, making things easier will devalue the diploma in the long run, so making things easy is no solution, but you can't entirely fault them for focusing hard on getting the students to pass exams. It's more like a symptom of larger system we live in, where having that diploma is simply far, far better than not having it. (whether it carries any real meaning or not)
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No, these are people who think that because they run linux and compiled a kernel once, or jail broke their phones, they are "elite". These are the people who inhabited slashdot in 2001 and said, upon introduction of the iPod "no wifi? lame". Who said the iPhone would be a failure because it didn't have a physical keyboard, who denigrated the iPad is "just a big iPod", and who complained that Apple sucked because they had no marketshare, until Apple stared dominating and they used that as an excuse to claim Apple sucked.

In short, just the kind of posers who overwhelm hacker news.
As far as I know PLOS editors are unpaid just like reviewers. People keep saying that there are costs to a scientific journal, but don't say what those costs are exactly. Sure, the costs are nonzero like hosting, but what costs more than say $1 per article?
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