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Hey Andrew,

I don't know you and you more than likely don't know me. But still I feel that I have to respond to you because the way you carry yourself here is in my opinion doing a disservice to yourself, to the community and to your employer.

If you take up a position that is going to be this un-popular you should at least try to do a better job of explaining your reasons why than you have done in this thread.

In principle, you have a point. Before Amit Gupta knew that he had leukemia, he in all likelihood would not have been nearly as motivated to improve the state of the art.

But such is human nature. Strangers are statistics, people are tragedies. We can only relate to that which we ourselves have direct knowledge of, and the second best thing next to that is that someone that we know or care for has direct knowledge of.

That is what makes things personal. And I think that is where you're missing the beat here. Amit Gupta is personal for a large enough number of people here (who likely aren't even in the right demographic to help him) that you are wrong about this being 'shameless'. It would be shameless if none of us had ever heard about Amit Gupta in the first place.

And even though plenty of people here (likely including you, but I can't be sure of that) have never heard of him, lots of people have.

We also have a lot in common with Amit Gupta. We're all either working in the IT business, working on start-ups and we're likely all at risk of being blindsided by a disease like this. Which is typically not on your radar when you're a 20 or 30 something working hard on your startups.

So, just like it isn't proper to talk bad about people on their funeral it isn't proper to piss on those that have landed a very bad lottery ticket indeed and that are currently - with the help of some dedicated friends - trying to change the odds in their favor.

Whether it will work or not is unknowable for now, and even if it does work it will likely be a thing with a very significant impact on the lives of Amit and those near him.

If Amit should die you may come to regret your harsh words here quite a bit.

In the meantime I hope that a match will come up and that Amit will be allright and that this will raise the awareness of how fragile life is, even when it seems as though you're doing just fine.

If one day there will be a website titled andrewmoffatneedsyou.com then I will not hold any of this against you.
Who gets this $ that's being printed non stop? Banks - who in turn don't lend shit? Why not give tax incentives for hiring people or something and help out small businesses.
As I have learned, there is such a thing as easy babies and hard babies. I lotteried a hard one, and our friend landed an easy one. It's really unfair, but that's just how it goes.

If you had an easy one, don't expect that all are equal if you ever decide to have another one. ;)
I've managed to survive without debt thus far. I still have a credit card, but always paid in full for everything that I bought on it. Just watching friends and family struggle with debt is enough to keep me far from it.
Because it's not about "doing something useful".

And that's okay.
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Except that people in the State Department are actually pretty pleased with how they appear in the cables.
Just to add to the many other comments here: Having just crossed a year, I swear it does get better, much, much better. Also you will honestly almost completely forget how intense those first few weeks are. You will have increasingly more and more time for yourself. In fact I'm pretty sure this year has been one of, if not the most personally productive and I've refused to sacrifice anytime with my son to make that happen. There will come a time soon where that baby is able to completely refresh you much faster than it can drain you, that first real smile... better than 3 nights of sleep :)
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I created this largely for my own use, but I'm considering turning it a product. It's still very beta and has limited functionality- only the basic widgets are supported at the moment, but I'm working on adding more.

Feedback welcome, thanks.

Clickable link: http://aceto.armhold.com.
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Problem is QE has gone to ensure banks don't go bankrupt but has not increased lending.
> you seem to think that when faced with death, the proper response is to accept one's fate.

I think the proper response is to realize that millions of people are also faced with death, that everyone WILL be faced with death, and to temper your actions with modesty and humility.

> Has this triggered some personal memory?

How did you know...sobs.
For one model. You have to pay extra. And in the grand scheme of things it’s not a very large increase. (Besides, the OP was corrected on that point already – more than once. I didn’t think it was necessary to also correct him or her. That would have been redundant.)

What I wanted to try and explain was why Apple didn’t substantially and across the line increase the resolution of its computers during the last years, option for a bit more resolution on the 15" MBP notwithstanding.
wonder how the world would be now if someone back in 60's patented looping constructs or programming for that matter. :|
"People" problems can be minimized by careful interviewing. Talking to the person, letting him chat with the team, and possibly solve a small problem with them can give you some insights.

Having a rigid process is often an overkill for small companies. You hire people that can communicate, and they keep going together because of that. But if you enforce some process on them, it might be harmful and decrease their desire to cooperate. I've seen that.
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> Jelly was the first "come one, come all!" kind of coworking space.

I'm pretty sure random people could drop in at Spiral Muse. I mean, when I was there, they did a time or two. It just wasn't as well publicized.
Is that what you have to say about King, Ghandi, Castro, and Mandela (amongst others)?

I am not equating Assange with these folks, but I am using their jail sentences to suggest that while going to jail is not winning, it certainly doesn’t preclude winning later on. If anything, it may indicate that they are doing something to endanger the status quo, which is a necessary precondition of winning.
Joe, no-one is suggesting curation, hosting, indexing and the like should be done for free. (At least, I a not!) We are suggesting that the result of this work should be available to all -- including, crucially, the researchers who did the work and the citizens whose taxes funded it. Increasingly, we are seeing the author-pays model work well, with publication fees coming out of project grants.
Agreed, I'd hate to write an application of appreciable size without cut-paste.

I currently hate an application that I'm likely to end up working on that was authored with a generous helping of copy-paste.
I have no idea. I was mostly paraphrasing what I read in John Siracusa’s Lion review: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...
Hi all,

My friend and I recently released our first iPhone game called Outlaw Poker. It's basically Tetris meets Poker. We would love your feedback and see what people like and don't like about the app.

The free version is linked here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outlaw-poker-free/id473306271...

If you happen to like the game, there's a paid version here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/outlaw-poker/id473289162?mt=8

The difference being the free one is ad supported AND the ad takes up a row which means less playing area.
shameless: 2. done without shame; without decency or modesty

modesty: 1. having or showing a moderate or humble estimate of one's merits, importance, etc.;
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Wasn't the Apple computer called Lisa?
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What I hate is that here in Oakland even the private security from the community benefit districts and the police sometimes ride their bikes on the sidewalks. I've even had the security people get mad and me for not getting out of their way. I have to pay a fee on my property taxes for this "security" and they give me a hard time about walking on my own street.
If you're interested in how this works in practise, I recommend reading "Let My People Go Surfing" by Yvon Chouinard, who founded Patagonia, which is run along these lines.
I would agree that most are errors of omission. The most obvious one is that he completely ignores the problem of collective action, for example when he talks about taxes. There are certain problems that private enterprise simply cannot solve for game theoretical reasons. A nice example is in this recent thread on HN on bicycle lanes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3149320

Here is an example of a different type of error, from the part on Minimum Wages:

The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for a forty-hour week is that no one who is not worth $106 a week to an employer will be employed at all.

There is plenty of empirical evidence against this from countries that actually have introduced minimum wage laws. Even worse, not having minimum wage laws perverts economic incentives. Here's an example.

In Germany, people earning below a certain amount receive a basic subsidy from the state. It is a pitiful amount, but it allows them to pay the rent and survive. The problem is that this causes low-end employers to consciously pay their workers a ridiculously low amount, fully aware of the fact that their employees will receive additional income from the state.

In effect, the government subsidizes employers that practice wage dumping. That is clearly inefficient.

Now people react to this in two different ways. One camp says that the government subsidy should be abolished. But the latter is short-sighted, because society always pays somehow when people do not earn enough to make a living. Ideally, they pay via social safety nets, but if such nets do not exist, society pays in the form of increased black market employment and crime.

The other camp (me included) argues that this abuse of the system should be prevented via a minimum wage law. That would cut into the employers profits, but there's nothing wrong with that. It also wouldn't eliminate jobs, because we're talking about low-end sectors where demand is highly inelastic anyway, such as cleaning services. Hotels will still pay for the cleaning service, even if it costs them twice as much.
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Interesting how the core elements of this are similar to what people say about psychedelics.

The whole theme of "People told me about it but I never really understood. Then I tried." and "Feelings/emotions I'd never been able to imagine.", this is exactly the kind of language people use when trying to explain to me why I should try psychedelics. I haven't so far. I don't find it compelling. Wonder if the chemical effects are similar though.
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IGNORANCE:

The concept of donating bone marrow terrifies me. I imagine a doctor drilling into my skeleton and using a large needle to suck out the gooey stuff that makes my blood. It sounds absolutely horrific.

If I were ever to consider doing this, someone would have to educate me to the point where my perceived safety is high. Right now I know that this probably won't kill me, but I don't understand it enough to trust it. I imagine that I am not the only person in this situation.

I also felt terrible writing this. My fear is absolutely petty compared to the fear of being struck down by leukemia. Perhaps that's why I felt obligated to share.
Very little of which is actually taught well by a games curriculum. Most of them are following the "flavor of the month" build environment and platforms, which may be of little use when the student graduates, especially if they try to get a job at any of the more established game companies.

A good theoretical CS degree will teach the same concepts, but in a way that prepares the student to apply the concepts on any platform or language. That's why I think that it's better to get a generalized CS degree, and dabble with game development on the side. That's what I did in college, and it taught me that I didn't want to become a game dev.
Does anyone know if there are tools out there that look at a code base and find "similar" snippets of code?

I would expect such a tool to parse the language into AST form and find branches that are the same except some identifiers and a few other details. It is probably intractable in general, but I think it is feasible for most code bases.
Yup, I'm sure the banking blockade came about because the banks thought WikiLeaks was releasing too little information.
Yep, this true not just for Detroit but for "the rest of us."
agree with bodegajed. I like jeff, but this article falls mostly outside core interest of HN.
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The first question of the FAQ (http://amitguptaneedsyou.tumblr.com/faq) should have you assuaged.
TL;DR:

"Imagine you earned $100,000 a year and you didn`t have any debt. You can go to a bank and borrow $10,000 a year. You can spend, therefore, $110 a year. When you spend $110,000 a year, somebody else earns $110,000 and they can go to a bank and there`s a self-reinforcing process in which your debt rises in relationship to your income.

And that goes on for a long time and that goes on for 50 or 75 years through history. We`ve had 50, 75-year cycles and then you reach a point where you can`t anymore get more debt and the process starts to change."
Last I checked, TechCrunch is not a definitive indicator of local innovation and entrepreneurship. It's a blog. They don't heavily cover lots of places. That's not the point.

Yadda, yadda, "Go Detroit," etc., but what are you talking about? Maybe you should encourage more Detroit and Ann Arbor startups to send their press releases to TC. PR effort is likely more correlated with your exposure than Detroit being the victim of ignorant blogging.

For the record, I've done startups in Ann Arbor and Detroit. It is getting better, but playing the victim isn't going to help.
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Interesting, but almost impossible to read because the scanner resolution is too low.
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I rziaele taht olny the fsirt and last letrtes are riureqed to raed Esniglh, but the ohrtes are ruriqeed to notice the dncfeeirfe between dibuous and damsbus. They are not snoynyumos.
Thanks for your article, for someone outside of Europe it helps a lot to get insight on the process in the US.
Ironically, albeit a super interesting write, it's your link to why it doesn't feel right that got my attention!
Good luck for the rest :-) good things come to those who work hard !
It's a bit of a fun...
I read a lot of economics and policy blogs (Marginal Revolution, Felix Salmon, Brad DeLong, etc...) and have come to the conclusion that the macro side of economics is still so in its infancy that it's can barely be called scientific. What you see is that various ideologies adopt their particular model (Keynsian, Austrian, etc...) and from there, the general lack of empiricism (never possible to run an experiment without confounding variables) plus confirmation bias (all deviations from your model can be explained by special circumstances) fuels a never ending debate.

So I try to remain skeptical of (seemingly polemical) works such as this one.
Yes! And as tempting as it is to think child #2+ later might be 'easier', (because you've already ramped up the learning curve of caring for a baby with #1), you are confronted with the entirely different issue of logistics, especially when both are under 3 and demanding 100% attention when not sleeping. No longer 2 parents that can tag-team to rest, you now have two different schedules and sets of needs that will test parents ability to sleep/get rest/get anything done. The good news is that is is worth it, and it does get much better once they start independent play or playing with each other after 2/3 years.
I dont think anyone is playing the victim. It's intended to be more observational.
Something Linkedin ought to be taken to task for (Which they continue to get away with) -- phishing:

Linkedin will show you a login-like screen with your email address pre-populated and a password prompt. Two dangerous things can happen:
1) a user can absent-mindedly assume they're at their email login page and type in their email password (less likely)
2) a user can absent-mindedly assume that this is the Linkedin login page and type in their Linkedin password.

The problem with (1) (and 2 if your email password is the same as your linkedin password) is that you've just given Linkedin access to your email contact list. Then Linkedin can shoot an email to all your contacts letting them know you're on Linkedin / etc.

To me this is a form of phishing that countless less-tech-savvy folks are getting caught up in and should not be OKAY in the industry.
Yes, and compare the Swedish solution: Let the banks go bankrupt, then QE. Iceland also did this recently.

It ripped the band-aid off quickly. More pain short term but their economies emerged quickly from the downturn. Too bad our gov't is so captured by the financial interests that such a solution is deemed unviable.
I agree, in particular the one with the stick arms/legs (http://www.childsown.com/frame/images/bigheadguy_04.jpg) and the Ferrari (http://www.childsown.com/frame/images/car_04.jpg).

But I like the idea.
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I think this is a very concise way of putting it. This is essentially why I don't think further stimulus or monetary policy tweaking is going to help us.

We have gotten drunk on overspending. Drinking more won't remove the hangover. We just have to sober up and wait.
Traffic from TechCrunch might crash your server (if you've got a cheap VPS) but it won't pay your bills.

I used to feel bad that TechCrunch ignored me, but then I realized that I need 20 times as much traffic as I could get from TechCrunch ~every~ day to be profitable. Therefore, getting into TechCrunch just isn't an important part of my marketing plan.
hmmmm ... the car in front of me stops suddenly and I'm following a bit too close.

"Slam on the brakes AND swerve into the empty lane to my right"

Let's change that per the advice given in linked article ...

"Slam on the brakes OR swerve into the empty lane to my right"

If I choose the first, I'm not going to get stopped in time, but swerving without braking means I still clip the rear corner of that car due to inertia.

I think the core advice is sound ... make sure the tasks you call dependencies really should be blocking your goal. But there are times when you really just need to get your butt in gear as soon as possible. Yes, it's still better to do one thing at a time but the real issue is identifying those tasks which really are time critical.
Looks cool, such a natural extension of the match-type games that I'm surprised this is the first time I've seen such a thing.
I don't think that it's an error, in fact the argument he is making about minimum wage exists in a world without a state provided safety net.

The main argument he is making in the book is that economics is a complex system and is hard, and that we always need to look at the forgotten man. Those that think policy decisions are simple - have a minimum wage or not - will cause a whole host of unintended side effects as your post describes.
It seems to be taboo to talk about one's children in any way other than describing how incomparably wonderful they are. Talking about the bad stuff is allowed, but only in relation to the incomparable wonderfulness.

I think it's really unfortunate. It gives people unrealistic expectations and makes it that much harder to deal with the bad bits.
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I would love to see that as well, and it would make me much more comfortable with donating to them if I knew that my money was going directly towards supporting their operations(which I support), instead of Assange(whom I do not).
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It really doesn't, sorry. I have no idea what any of that means, and I don't even understand what exactly my bone marrow does, never mind how much of it I can lose before something bad happens. I have lost blood before, like when I scraped my knee falling off a bike. I have never had my blood filtered for stem cells. Don't I need those?

And I am a college educated person. If I got through school with this level of ignorance about the bone marrow donation process, there are probably millions of other people with similar ignorance about the issue (and likely, those people are not as quick to do research, as I am doing now). I don't think a few sentences in a FAQ is enough to combat this.
> how much of its edifice is built upon the dubious notion of a "rational actor"

This is not a tenet for the Austrian school of thought. In Human Action, Ludwig von Mises establishes that humans reveal their preferences through action. There are no hangups about whether these preferences are "rational" or free of mistakes.
Yeah this came out of my desire to play such a game but couldn't find one. Definitely one of those scratch your own itch type projects. Now I can play it.
You know we've turned a very dangerous corner when the 'land of the free' is choking the free flow of information.

http://www.wikileaks.org/support
You're welcome. I'm like most pilots, my favorite subject is flying. There's an old joke: how do you know if there's a pilot in the room? Because he'll tell you.

You know, the hands off 180 definitely something I'm going to try next time I'm up with a CFI/I. Also if you get the opportunity in this life to learn to fly, do it. It's expensive as hell but it's also a very rewarding and fun challenge and is a great way to travel.
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Refreshing point of view on funding/investing in today's startup market.
It's cute and it's cool but I'm not convinced.

My daughter's drawings things are her interpretation of real things but I'm not convinced she'd want a real interpretation of her artistic interpretation of a real thing. After all, her drawings are often down to her limited skills rather than an intentional artistic choice.
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Just last month I bought a shift kit for my Dodge Magnum. You tap into the two communication buses and into the transmission control module. I bought it to firm up a sluggish automatic transmission, but the guy recently added a firmware update that lets you do a 'line lock' -- effectively, it tricks the car's computer into thinking it's lost traction, locking -only- the front brakes... until your speed is > 5mph. He added it for 'perfect burnouts' - something I have zero interest in doing, but it's pretty wild that he's got programmable firmware that has that much control over the safety-robot bits in my car.
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