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"Having a child is a lot like running a marathon. An incredible challenge, but a worthwhile and transformative experience."

Yes, except it never ends.

My elderly father's last conversations were filled with concerns about my siblings. The more limited his mobility, the more exhausted he seemed, the more he worried about how they would get along.

I tell people that there are switches in the brain - that when you first hold your child (or any child should you hold it long enough), those switches turn on. You have no control of the switches; they are genetically-controlled hardware passed down from your parents. They have lain dormant for the several decades of your life, awaiting this moment. Once they turn on, they will not turn off.

The "switches" change your behavior radically: you will now react to the child's cry to sooth it, you will protect the child at all costs, you will grieve if it is harmed, etc.

Here's an example. One friend, an animal lover, upon entering her home with her first newborn instinctively commanded "Get the animals outside, all of them, outside, NOW!!" and to the bewilderment of all present, four previously beloved and sheltered pets were cast out into the frozen dark backyard (we did improvise shelter). To this day she remains amazed at what she did. The pets were allowed indoors 18 months later.

When I was young I didn't understand this. I was taught that we were tabulae rasae. Once I started to understand evolution, I saw that it only makes sense from an evolutionary perspective: what could be more important to a gene than producing another copy of related genes? What better way to do this than to program the organism to protect its young at all costs?

But there's another level of understanding: standing there, holding a child as the switches turn on. The experience itself.
Kevin Bourrillion (Guava lead developer) just made an insightful reply on this subject in the issue tracker:

> Saw this bug referenced as "a reason not to use Guava."
> Does everyone understand that Guava is still perfectly
> *usable* on JDK 5, it just can't be *built* using JDK 5,
> and that part of the reason for that is *compiler bugs*
> in JDK 5 whose fixes in 6 were never backported?

http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=36...
How did you read that on my words? That's not even a good comparison. A better comparison was when the original iPhone got its price reduced by $200. It was a blow and Apple acted accordingly. If Siri were to be available tomorrow for iOS 5 devices when most people didn't even get their iPhone 4S I would expect it to be a blow to a good part of the early buyers.
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Imagine if they tried to hold a referendum every time they wanted to put in some street parking...
This hit me really hard when my daughter was born. My mother died when I was 14, and we were really close, but I didn't fully understand until my kid was born just how much she went through and put up with, fighting years of devastating illness and still being the most amazing mom on the planet. I wasn't prepared for it at all.
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Looks good. I like that the paid version has additional playing space as well as removing the ads. Seems to help make it more valuable.
Hi all,

Long time reader but never posted before. If anyone here will be attending, I'll be manning the National Marrow Donor Program booth registering donors this Saturday, October 29 at TEDxMidAtlantic in Washington DC (http://tedxmidatlantic.com/). While the booth is intended to be in Amit's honor, I strongly encourage any minorities to join the registry, as the need is severe across all ethnic groups. I'm an AML survivor myself (though no BMT, chemo-only), and I can't emphasize enough that the decision to join the registry is opening yourself up to the opportunity to literally save someone else's life.
Presumably the part where he is was at best a complete douchebag to several women, and at worst raped someone.
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I agree with you and my company Entrepreneurs Unpluggd is working to increase the highlighting of entrepreneurs elsewhere (including Detroit - would love to get your thoughts on the scene there -> tim at entrepreneursunpluggd).

Personally, I think TechCrunch will be much different in a few years in terms of it's popularity. Right now, Silicon Valley is the mecca for traditional tech startup folks. That is gradually (this is key - NOT overnight) changing though.

Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York, Portland, Boulder, Durham, Miami, Cincinnati, Omaha, Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin....the list goes on and on.

Over time, the scenes in all these cities is going to continue to grow and more attention will be paid. There will be more "TechCrunches" of these areas, and I think the coverage will be much more distributed then it currently is.
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I wonder if this could be used for a game somehow...
Looks good! Though my first thought is that the circle icon doesn't make me think flash cards / memorization. Though it does stand out.
Not really the point I was trying to make, but thanks?
Also

If you check out the AllThingsDigital interview with Jobs he is very aware of what the challenges with Apple TV is.

http://allthingsd.com/20100607/steve-jobs-at-d8-the-full-unc...

But here is the difference again.

He isn't abandoning it. In fact the new Apple TV is an attempt at solving that problem. Or put another way. He wanted to solve it.
>The term is really just a placeholder for the fact that something is providing a long-scale repulsive force

How is that not contrived?

>You might argue that it could just as well be that our theory of gravity is wrong.

As an armchair physicist, I was rather hoping the Pioneer anomaly would lead us down that road, oh well.

>Any modified theory of gravity which explained these observations would not be aesthetic.

Well aesthetics do invoke subjective qualities. Relativity, modifying Newtonian physics, could have be seen as ugly by some. E = mc^2 is so elegant as to seem improbable.
Can you give an example to substantiate your claim?
Fair enough. I don't know much about Peripheral Blood Stem Cells in particular, but I am under the impression that stem cells in general are not serving much of a purpose besides waiting around to become differentiated into other cell types.

But I wouldn't be too worried about giving up any of your cells, besides brain/nerve cells.

Almost all our cells have the same genetic information (Red Blood Cells are one exception), so it is theoretically possible to turn one type into just about any other. Shinya Yamanaka's team made a huge step in that direction experimentally about 5 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_Pluripotent_Stem_Cell

I'm not saying that this is a viable option if you run out of PBSCs (just as it is clearly not yet an option for you to donate skin cells to help Amit), so one thing you may want to find out is if your PBSCs are limited in supply--I don't know (and I am also not in the right demographic for this donation).
I believe what's going on is that the choice of calling it "shameless" brings in a number of connotations that you may not have intended. In the adverbial form it ends up bringing upon social and moral connotation beyond what you seem to be intending[1]. What I wonder is if there's a better way to put this.

[1] http://www.thefreedictionary.com/shameless
... and everything old is new again.

The solution, which (unsurprisingly, works!) is how you did stuff in Fortran-77, APL (circa 1958). There were no iterators, so all you did was pass around one big array that contained all the data, and indices into it.

In a couple of years, they will realize that even structs are inefficient, and will go to parallel arrays - at which case the transition to Fortran/APL/J/K would be complete.
Great timing, something I need to learn more about.
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This may be Apple jumping the shark, imo. Why not spend that time and money making Apple TV better without having to include the T.V.? There is no way they can get much market share of the T.V. business. The economy is down and when people go to BestBuy they are going to choose low to mid tier.
There are several methods, here is one:

http://www.marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQ...

And here is another:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apheresis

The second one is the more likely one to be used, the other is quite rare. In this case it seems it is 'only' the second (which is still quite bit more time consuming than a normal blood donation in duration).
Your arguments make sense in an environment where cycling isn't deeply inherent in a culture. I've cycled across NYC, Chicago and LA, and also Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London, Paris and Barcelona.

Amsterdam and Copenhagen are amazing: as a cyclist you feel completely respected and the sheer numbers of you give a sense of legitimacy. Your own traffic lights and true cycle lanes lead to really safe transport, and you feel like a separate part of the system: not a car or a pedestrian. As such, you feel like you give the proper attention to car and pedestrian traffic and will stick to the proper safe rules.

Now the US cities? You feel like you are part of a dangerous new thing, the cars are out to get you and pedestrians don't even consider you might be there either. Pedestrians walk on the cycle lanes (because there are so few of them I guess it's not part of city consciousness) and yes, it is easy to have the feeling like you've got a certain right to run lights and weave through a couple of lanes (because more often than not there are potholes next to the curb).

My hope is that US cities just barrel forward with making more cycle lanes. The safer you make it for cyclists the less risks they have to take, and the more cycle traffic there are the more awareness in general, making it even safer.

I'd say London, Paris and Barcelona are somewhere in between, I mention them as examples of cities moving towards greater cycle density which I've seen transform over the last 10 years with my own eyes, for the better.
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Wow - I saw one of the monitors I currently use in their "Photos" section.
The implication is that QE has not been sufficient, if we were in a deflationary scenario. But we do seem to have avoided deflation for the most part.

There is a lot more to the economy that is out of the control of monetary policy. Companies and large organizations (Apple is a prime offender, hoarding $70B+) are sitting on a lot of cash. They are unwilling to invest it, spend it, or even to return it as dividends. Instead, they buy large amounts of treasury bonds* (which has pushed yields on them to unheard of lows).

The obvious solution to that, then, would be to use fiscal policy - to spend the money that is being dumped on the treasury at rates well below inflation. The treasury is paying negative interest, in real terms (and for a very brief period, in nominal terms!). If private entities won't spend it, the government should - provided they can step back, and reduce the debt when things get going well again.

Strangely enough, more deficit spending might be the solution to a problem caused by too much deficit spending to begin with.

One other caveat; there can be still more causes to unemployment that are not monetary in nature. Labor markets are notoriously inflexible.

*: I don't mean to imply that Apple literally holds treasury bonds (though they might). Apple might have its money in a bank, and the bank might deposit the money at the fed, or buy treasuries itself, but the net effect is the same; the money sits somewhere, unused, where the government could use it. In fact one suggested solution was to stop paying interest on federal reserve deposits, or even charge a negative interest rate on deposits above a certain threshold.
I think you need to do two things

1) calm down

2) get over yourself

You aren't that amazing, even if you have more internet points than I do.

Is it just in your nature to try and insert as much friction as possible in all interactions where you disagree with somebody and hope to win by exhausting what you perceive to be your opponent? Or is it just possible that some of what you say it right and some of it is wrong (likewise for myself)?

So far you've called me a fool twice and insinuated that I'm grossly incompetent, then recognized that you are being tactless. With all due respect, go troll someplace else. You know that HN is not the kind of place for this.
The foolish popover "SHARE" thing makes the lower half of the article unreadable on an iPhone. That's pretty annoying.
Tech.li is trying to do that. They've got a long way to go in terms of quality, but they're collaborating with local bloggers writing about startups.
>> rewrite the firmware so that the car stereo controls all of a sudden are the only way to actuate the brakes

Aside from some minor pulsing of the ABS module, it's a purely mechanical/hydraulic system. You push the pedal in, the master cylinder creates pressure in the line, and the brake caliper pistons get pushed out onto your brake rotors.

On the other hand, as seen in the Pruis nonsense last year, an increasing number of cars do use a electronic throttle which can lead to some interesting failure conditions.

The 'firmware' your discussing in your hypothetical situation is hacking the CANbus system - not the ECU firmware. One could, in todays systems, remap any CANbus device (even as odd as a headlight switch) to manipulate another CANbus device (such as the electronic throttle). Doing such nepharious things are possible today, but would take days worth of hacking and proprietary diagnostic hardware.

ECU controls, on the other hand, have been reverse engineered in nearly all cars being actively tracked/raced today. Bosch (BMW/Porsche), GM PCMs, Honda/Acura, Mistubishi, etc can be modified to control timing/fuel...add additional I/O and features (such as traction control, launch control, antilag, etc ...even when not equipped by the OEM).

Of my vehicles still running an OEM ECU, all have been running 'hacked' firmware without incident for nearly a decade. Even my ABS controller has been upgraded for better threshold braking performance.

If you're intersted in such things, please check out EFIuniversity [0], Ostrich, and persuse Motec's manuals for an idea of what's possible.

[0] www.efi101.com

[1] http://www.moates.net/documentation.php?documentation_id=24

[2] www.motec.com%2Ffiledownload.php%2FM4_M48_M8_Manual_A5.pdf
Remarkable how much of that has come true now ... and how unthinkable most of it was then.

Even those predictions which haven't happened are more by choice than by ability.
Agree completely. Tech is becoming decentralized slowly but surely, and we're witnessing the emergence of startup hubs throughout the country at a rate like never before.

We aim to be the Techcrunch of our region, but it's so much bigger than that. It's about fostering community as it starts to develop in your region.
Economics in one word: Scarcity. The rest, is as they say, commentary.
Well said. There is no doubt TC can be a breath of fresh motivation, yet its almost like watching Cribs on MTV!
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that its not good keyboard.

I love Thinkpad keyboards I even profess my love publicly (http://www.janezstupar.com/the-best-keyboard-for-programmers).

There are two major beefs with Thinkpad keyboards. First the positioning of fn key and lack of option to remap it is inexcusable. Second the page keys you mentioned.
I live and bike in Cambridge. We have separated bike lanes in some places, but pedestrians generally don't respect them in my experience. I used to think pedestrians that walked in designated bike lanes just didn't know it was a bike lane. But the lane on Vassar Street has a bike icon every 30 ft or so and is a different color than the rest of the sidewalk. Yet pedestrians still seem to prefer it to "their" sidewalk just to the left or right. Same thing on the Southwest Corridor, which has designated bike and pedestrian lanes, which are not respected ignored by pedestrians at all when I've been on them. If they are going to ticket cyclists, it seems only fair to start ticketing pedestrians walking in the bike lane too.
Thanks, you're probably right. I went through a lot of different designs, but this is the only one I really liked. The idea is that it is fluid and accepts any kind of content (multi-colored). Also I wanted it to really stand out in the list of apps in the store.
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It's 36% larger, which is fairly significant - and of course you have to pay more for it - you're getting more.

My point is that I don't think resolution independence has a great deal to do with it. Very few Windows laptops offer much option either (the Dell ones I've just looked at offer 1366X768 and that's it, and from when I last looked round at laptops this seemed to be pretty standard). The reason is simply that companies like to limit the range of products they need to manufacture. Making the same size screen with 15 different resolutions would be hugely costly compared to sticking with 1 or 2.
very cool - adding to RSS reader now
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The problem that I have with Assange is that he doesn't practice what he preaches. Wikileaks is an organization that promotes government transparency. Assange, on the other hand, does not seem interested in just providing sources. Wikileaks, under what I assume was his direction, has turned into more of an editorial service, cherry picking information that they present to make certain parties look even worse than the actual source does.
You leave DNA everywhere you go. Every time you sit in a chair, every time you drink from a cup, pee in a public urinal, open a door handle ... You give blood tests to your doctor, and don't demand to see the privacy policy of the lab and all the handlers in between.

You worry too much. :) No one wants your DNA - and if they wanted it they could easily get it. Take the test and possibly save a life.

Edited: to add a smiley face and improve the tone, since this was intended to be a "don't worry be happy" message and not "you're a bad human being". Sorry about that.
Congrats! How did you manage the graphics? Was it outsourced, did you hire someone? Can you give any details? I've built a few apps but I'm always lacking on the design side.
Thanks I deeply appreciate it. We will show HN first before everybody. So I'll send you an invite once we launch.
A PBSC-based donation is preceded by a few day's worth of treatment to activate the bones' BSC reproduction, so that they're numerous enough to outgrow the bones and actually become "peripheral". So they're really taking away cells that you usually don't have with you.
Your conclusion is well-founded. The micro side of economics is one part science and one part logic; the macro side is one part logic and one part hand-waving.
if you want a blog that covers detroit start ups, start one. techcrunch has always been a silicon valley site, i'm not sure what you expect to change by posting a rant like this.

if you want press, the most important thing to remember is that journalists are lazy. most of them would much rather publish a story that is almost written for them than they would research and write their own stuff. do something newsworthy, do a write-up, and submit it to as many journalists and bloggers as you can. this will get you coverage. if you're not getting the coverage you want, it's either because you're not doing anything interesting or you're not promoting yourself enough. getting angry at bloggers won't change that.
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Yeah, it's pretty amazing what it does for your long distance transfers. Also a reminder that (while insecure) arcfour is ridiculously faster than the default cipher.
Thanks for clarifying. I can see that better now. Pointing the finger (at a news source or particular story) seems like a poor starting point. What are some new sources you can recommend that focus on startup activity in Detroit? I feel that should have been part of the article.

Without recommending a better place to look, that's just throwing stones.
I'm not sure the original ZX Spectrum editor qualifies as "full screen" as selecting a line and visually editing that line are separate tasks. It has more in common with RegEdit than with Notepad.
Well, while he does seem a bit scummy, innocent until proven guilty and all that.

The reasons that i have are not directly tied to the substance of the accusations against him there.
It's widely accepted that this was a smear campaign to detract from the release of a massive amount of diplomatic cables.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/julian-assange-wiki...
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Way to go, Jeff! Congrats on twins!

I had twins born just over 10 years ago, and can clearly remember the doctor pulling up the ultrasound and circling a little dot and calling it a baby. There was another dot just like it on the other side of the screen, and I thought "this guy has no idea what he's doing", because he was missing the other dot.

Then he said, "here's another one". I said "another what?" He looked at me, and calmly replied, "there are two babies in here. You're having twins."

At that point, everything changed. Nobody believes me, but I bet you do. And everyone else on this thread who has kids gets it, too.

I had a boy and girl; the boy is named Henry. Small world, brother.

Keeping with the hacker theme, my kids are easily the best products I have ever shipped. :-)
Yes, consider this an IOU. I have to run and give a brown bag, and I will enumerate my reasons when i get back.
Still holding out strong I see :).

Permit me to explain how I see this. You may disagree strongly with me but I hope to convey why your comment aroused so much passion.

I don't see Amit as considering himself to be more important than anyone else. I see a man who is trying to save his own life (with very little time to spare) and I have sympathy with his cause. I don't expect him to take this cause further when he is well, even though I know that many people in the world are suffering.

My position is very different from yours. I find it difficult to agree with the sentiment of your comment because I don't expect Amit to be looking out for anyone else but himself at this moment. In this case, I suspect that many others here have similar views.
a brief perusal sets off my crank alarms

That's what I was going to say, too. And I got more convinced the further down I got. The weird, convoluted wording was a big tipoff. And then this sealed it:

When a star explodes and its mass is combusted into radiation, conservation requires that the number of quanta stays the same, whether in the form of matter or radiation.

There is no conservation law limiting the number of photons. This is obviously observed any time you turn on a light bulb.
I'm almost certain LinkedIn doesn't try to use your username/password you use for the site to access your email. Triggering millions of password failures on gmail/yahoo/etc. is not something that they would risk.

During signup, if you are on one of the major webmail services, it will explicitly ask you to authorize yourself on them so it can get your contacts however.

Having worked there and specifically as product manager for the Who Viewed My Profile portion, I can tell you that they take privacy very seriously.
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