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Suicide rates in populations around the world is much higher than you think. [1] The media don't report on them generally (if they did, there'd be more stories about them than horrific car crashes that the news outlets report on).

Car crashes in the US kill 40,000 people per year [2], and the US has a suicide rate of 11.1 per 100,000. With a population of 300 million, that's over 300,000 suicides in the US per year. 260,000 more than car crashes. Does that surprise you? What do the media report? Car crashes!

Given the number of Foxconn employees [3] (over 1 million) and the average suicide rate in China (13.8 per 100,000 per year), that's potentially 138 suicides of Foxconn employees per year.

Wired did an article on the suicides, there were 11 of them [4], to paraphrase the article "The nets went up after the 11th jumper took their life in less than a year.".

So there were another 127 people to kill themselves to get up to the national average in that year. The whole issue was a load of FUD. I bet you own heaps of junk that was made in China in factories with worse conditions. If you live in a first world country, it's inevitable.

You my friend, in Jobs' parlance, are a bozo!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
[2] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146212,00.html
[3] http://www.zerohedge.com/article/foxconn-employees-exceed-1-...
[4] http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1
Obesity has been an annoyingly difficult problem to "solve". I say "solve" because in most cases the solution is simply to eat sensibly and not be sedentary (ignoring people with genuine physiological problems such as thyroid conditions).

But there is unquestionably a desire for people to be able to eat essentially what they want and to stay slimmer older. At some point someone will figure out a pharmaceutical solution to that problem and make a fortune (probably eclipsing what Viagra did for Pfizer). Current drugs that block appetite and/or fat absorption tend to have nasty side effects and questionable utility.

Killing fat cells is certainly a novel approach, especially considering that relationship between fat cells and weight changes (eg fat cells will increase in size to a certain point before growing new fat cells), one that may even be relevant for people who have lost a lot of weight.
Ask HN: Best SF Bay Area office for a startup?
Planning to quit big co and start my own.

Which area is the true "hub" for startups? Near Stanford?

I saw Plug and Play Tech and 2 Regus offices - both quite expensive (3x the price of a similar room in Redwood City).
Is there a better pick? Different area?

The startup is more like Intuit and we have the first customer who would pay once the app is working.
There's a chance for investment in a few months.
It's not anybody's fault that there's no theory. It's just too hard to "uncover what's actually going on". Maybe wait 200 years when we have the tools (sensors, processing power, etc) to make sense of things.
You either hold yourself and others accountable to a high standard, or you rationalize their failings to avoid the sin of judgment. I'm with the former camp.
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The "RichestOnTheWeb" would then always be the hosting one as they always get the sum of all bids.

Of course who actually cares to bid?
My guess is that it would depend on the project. Some projects are simple to conceive of (it will be like facebook, but for cat-lovers!), easy to rough out, but more difficult to implement correctly. Other projects may require a lot of up front planning and thinking (which data structure to use? what should it look like?) but then end up being quick to code.

I've noticed that when I write programs, the more time I spend planning features and algorithms before I start writing code the less time it takes to actually create. I don't always spend a lot of time planning, though.
I think it's a fun idea. I do think there should be a FAQ or About page or something.
Good job. Very simple yet addictive. Any chance you'll open source this?
"(probably if the NeXTcube could have had 1GB of RAM it would have been fine!)"

That 68030/optical disk/40MB swap drive era didn't last very long.

NeXTSTEP was quite nice with a 16MB 25MHz 68040, and a decent hard drive, as seen in the NeXTStation from 1990. Even the price was competitive if you didn't mind the 2-bit greyscale monitor.

NeXTSTEP 3.3, running in color on a Pentium Pro (or better), or even better a 1994 HP PA-RISC workstation, was SWEET.
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I thought it was fascinating that Google could possibly deny usage of a product due to a third party plugin in a browser, i.e., Firefox.
If only the winner pays, it's just a silly game. But when the losers also pay, it becomes a genuinely abusive exploit of human irrationality which most people are not aware of. Please take it down.

http://www.mediate.com/articles/noll1.cfm

http://www.heretical.com/pound/dollarl.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mind-over-money.html
I was surprised to find people still go for the single player RPG genre. I've been playing Skyrim after its midnight release here in New Zealand.

On another note, I've also noticed the Mac App Store is selling the new Batman Game. Is the Mac App Store a viable competitor to Steam?
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actually its both "thanks" to his attitude and other traits (intelligence, etc. putting it all in the same bag)

if you aren't an asshole, at least a little bit, it's difficult to manage a company successfully. you'd be seen as weak and/or other sharks would eat you anyway.
I've owned almost every kindle up to the current and experienced one crash- while using the "experimental" web browser. Not one of my 3 kindles has ever crashed while reading a book.
For some reasons these questions don't attract much attention:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2492343
If anyone believes that Steve Jobs was "devoid of any kind of feelings towards anyone else" they are only fooling themselves. Painting him in a universally negative light is just as naïve as painting him in a universally positive one. Few things are black & white, and fewer humans are 100% good or bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulo...
You would have a point there, except that the zoom button, as I believe it's called, behaves differently in different applications.
An example, in some browsers clicking zoom will zoom to the page width, however in iTunes clicking zoom shrinks you to the miniplayer.

The different behaviours are confusing and difficult to remember, and not only goes against user expectations but isn't user-configurable.
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But it isn't entirely dead is it? It's simply stopped advancing under Adobe's care. More importantly it'll be under the Open Source community's care thus keeping it alive and moving forward (hopefully). It isn't entirely terrible is it?
A better question is if you would sign up for data online on your phone or voice-only :P
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Ah thanks, I missed that. So 180k a year? That's honestly not a whole ton for a startup that big...
The simplest answer: because he could.
No. More like if you wrote a toolkit for displaying ui items in canvas (I think Mozilla did this with Ace/Bespin/Skywriter/whatever-its-called), then it would be equivalent to flex.
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If the money went to charity, this could actually have some potential.
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Anyone else wonder where they got obese monkeys from? I guess they feed them up terrible diets or something...

And because the article had no pictures of obese monkeys, and I was curious to know what an obese monkey looked like... heres a google search : http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=obese+monkey&um=1&i...
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" mature OS and framework set with a wide variety of actual deployed applications, cross-platform support, tooling."

And had been used in important roles in industry, particularly the financial industry.
In fact, that they split the company 50/50 when Jobs could have likely easily talked his way into a 70/30 split, is proof positive that the stories about Jobs being an asshole are bullshit.

When you have high standards, a lot of people are going to call you an asshole. When you produce fantastic products that are hugely successful, you'll get scores and scores of stories on hacker news from jealous people who want to tear you down.

But anyone who looks at the facts will see the truth.
Even if he is indeed out of the norm (and I'd imagine he probably is; most doctors don't get written up in the newspaper for having lawsuit after lawsuit), there is still a certain limitation in what he can say.
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"but they’re not indexed by Google"

...yet.
This is exactly my experience of trying to use OS X, thanks for putting it into words! The Home and End thing is by far the most annoying one (for me, but only because it's always the first one I run into whenever I find myself having to use a Mac).

It's so ridiculous that there's this mentality (everywhere) that "power users" are bad people whose needs always contradict those good, "average" users. That mythical "average" users are more noble a target audience than "power" users and so software should be made to ignore the needs of "power" users, because that's what's required to satisfy the needs of "average" users. It's nonsense and doesn't help anybody.
> All operating systems manufacturers need to understand that the vast majority of users have used Windows and are used to Windows' UI conventions.

That sounds like the worst way to innovate. I'm not saying that Apple's way is innovative but I say we are all better off if OS manufacturers try difference things to come up with better way of presenting UI.

For example, if apple followed the Window's way of displaying every single window in its Dock, then application based taskbar in Windows 7 would have never come about.

Trying different things should never be criticized for just being different. If that different way of doing things is bad, criticize it but don't point finger just because it's different.
Theirs a similar problem with putting in a flat tax. You'll have lots of accountants and their employees being out of work.
never actually used freemind myself but yes, it would be considered a freemind alternative.
Aaron, in this case you can't beat 'em. I'd recommend joining them instead. (Dwolla, not the gov)
In 30 years, I've never seen the kind of people who hate Steve Jobs or hate Apple be honest about either.
Discovery has a program called "Into the Pride" with Dave Salmoni, where he tries to live closely with a pride of lions to decrease their territorial aggression against humans in a safari zone (because if they don't bring in tourist dollars they get put down and a new pride gets brought in).

The lions certainly seem to understand that a spear is something they don't want to get close to. Even the overly aggressive seem to respect it, which seems absurd for a stick.

The question is how long it took before animals started recognizing weapons.

It could simply be a product of a stick increasing the persons silhouette, which makes us 'bigger' and the speed we can move it around at. Similar to why you're supposed to hold your arms out and wave and shout if you see a bear.
The article states they were spontaneously obese and did not make them obese. They were fed the same foods as other monkeys, they just exercised less.
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Betting on proven technology with established communities is a safer bet than gambling on new, unproven, and unloved tech like flex.
Might want to update the title to highlight that this article is from 2007. :)
All these negative comments are a good thing. You've made something that polarizes people. I'd take that any day over something that makes people say "meh".
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Spreading a bunch of lies and engaging in the politics of personal destruction is not "holding him accountable".

Also, I'm tired of seeing Apple haters say "I love me some iPods, so you must know I'm being objective when I say Steve Jobs murdered a man! Stabbed him in the back, even!"
I was appalled when he claimed to have pitched 'OneBox' without having a clue about what it was.

This description sort of reminded me of the way Sean Parker was portrayed in 'The Social Network'. Arrogant, irritating and fairly useless.
The conditions under which Google gave Wave to Apache weren't ideal in my opinion. It was a 3/4 effort with some bits staying with Google. Flex however is being given over entirely to the community. It makes a world of difference.

Also, Wave wasn't a development tool. There's a big difference in Open Source communities when it comes to dev tools and product with the former flourishing a lot better.
This is still a valuable skill. Not the only one but a valuable one. Who wants to tie their money or career to someone who can't get you paid on the other side?
Switched to a Broadcom chip and still can't resolve all the silicon-level bugs. http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook

Broadcom may make Tim Cook happier, but Atheros is more the "Steve" of wifi chips. However, the 2007 MBP uses Atheros - yours is actually a different issue.
To me, the iPhone backside suggests a compromise between aesthetic properties of a "clean" backside and engineering, manufacturing cost, and user experience properties of not having an ordinarily-operable battery cover, and is in fact quite interesting to think about. Consider what would have had to change had Apple wanted the logos off the backside but to still comply to relevant regulations. Do you think someone hadn't said "screw it, lets spend the money and do it the proper way" about an Apple-grade cover that would allow for the logos to be hidden? Is it not interesting to think of why that decision was not made?
Slightly offtopic, but those who wants to move on with HTML5, I found http://www.html5rocks.com/en/ is a very good resource to learn about HTML5.
"Internet-based" could still imply "The server in the basement" to someone non-technical, as long as they access it via the browser.
All time is planning. While I'm writing code is some of my most productive planning time.
Thanks! Just realized it.
Regus in Mountain View is nice -- many places nearby within walking distance.
To be fair, $850M exit should impress almost anybody.
Very similar to http://www.thebigballer.com/
What struck me is that he pimped out Color as a Facebook killer without, according to this article, having really used Facebook before.

Then of course to turn around and say that Facebook is the answer to all things is pushing the irony very far…
LinkedIn could be used to facilitate this feedback loop.
Point taken. I honestly didn't even think of putting it up as a public poll. Thanks for the feedback.
Because they're cheap.
I think the book is Freakonomics (don't have it here to check).
Thanks very much for this, I've updated the post and hopefully it will help somebody in the future.
> It's not 1990 anymore.

All the more reason not to have a maximize button. Displays only get more pixels year to year.
Absolutely true. However the article leans toward framing him as a visionary capable of superhuman feats:

"IBM didn't survive the PC, none of the PC guys survived
the web, and I don't think any of the web guys will
survive the post-PC world,"

Bill Nguyen is implying that Color.com will do what IBM, Microsoft, and Facebook can't, and survive the post-pc world. And there is no evidence he is capable of this since he flipped every company he started.
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You should rename it to dumbestontheweb
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If I treat the file as one big integer and each pass through my compression simply decrements by one, eventually ill achieve one bit or zero bits depending on how you look at it.

Uncompressing simply requires knowing how many compression steps I took. :)
A classic bad sales technique. I'll put up with a lot of things, and under some circumstances I'll accept someone acknowledging what I've said and saying they can't provide that, but if you give me the impression that you just plain don't listen at all, you've just ended the conversation, permanently.
I'm curious how this recruiter would earn $15,000-$20,000. Is that the going rate for a full time hire? Is it usually a percentage of starting salary? Does it vary widely from firm to firm? Is it %20 of the starting salary?
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Yeah I was reading this article and started to really get the feeling that it was written by a tech journalist who was a few years behind the times, then quickly realized that it was written in 2007. Interesting to see the sidelining of sites/services/platforms like Mechanical Turk and Second Life, with no real momentum behind any alternative in their respective arenas since that time.
They have of course spurned your counsel about catering to windows users throughout the last decade, all the way from "close the stores and give the money back to the shareholders" to somewhere in the neighborhood of the most successful company ever. All the while thinking it is still 1990 (the significance of which is a little hazy.)

If they didn't follow this advice when they were on life support, what would possess them to follow it now? It's hard to imagine that one could overlook the evidence (here, and everywhere) that if success is the goal, mimicking windows should be closer to a prohibition than a mandate.
The SJ30 can do it. It really is a remarkable aircraft, but it has gone through three bankruptcies so far to get there. That said, no other 10 million dollar airplane can go 2500nm with 8 people Mach .8, particularly on such a low fuel burn. If your budget or patience aren't sufficient for the SJ30, The PC-12 is the king of the long range fairly fast turboprop. The earlier models have a 2000nm range.
CS:S has higher requirements, and the gameplay changes pissed off a lot of the hardcore CS crowd. I know people who still kvetch about Valve nerfing deagle-hopping.
Well the design is good, simple to use, and most important: effective. Unfortunately, unless you and I have a different definition of viable, this idea isn't very lucrative. I've seen a lot of different websites with this same idea, how is yours different?
It looks like this was nearly contemporary with the Adams Platform video compression scam. (The scammer claimed he could transmit streaming, high definition video over a 56kbit dialup modem, and he somehow collected $27Million from gullible funders.)
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/cornered/41010-th...
Spectacle is an awesome open source util for this too: http://spectacle.divisiblebyzero.com
Whois info can and does easily get falsified. So the basis of his entire research which was built on checking whois is incorrect. In other words there is nothing preventing anyone from registering a domain name using someone elses contact info. Which is actually done quite frequently by web designers as only one example on behalf of their customers for legitimate reasons.

Separately, this is also incorrect:

"and it’s the administrative contact, which means he owns the domain"

The "registrant" actually owns the domain. Not the admin contact. Of course the admin contact can own the domain. And all the info can be false anyway as mentioned.

For example in the case of the domain "ycombinator.com" the admin contact is "Kirsty Nathoo" who, according to linkedin, is the "VP Finance and Operations at Y Combinator". The registrant is Ycombinator LLC and of course that makes sense that they are the owner.

Geo locating ip addresses also produces far from gold standard results.
On the other hand, we're talking about a drug that selectively turns off blood flow. That it affects fat cells was only visible because subcutaneous fat is rather obvious.

But what other cells did it affect? It's not well known yet. For all we know it's stomping on some neurons, or diddling with kidneys, or weakening the left ventricle of monkey hearts. It's too soon to get excited.
Be a lot better if Germany, France, and the US were on there. You'd see how tiny Greece is in the big picture. A lot of people are going to get hurt just to teach a few Greeks a lesson.
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Yeah, viable in this context means that you can graph names and there are ads on the page. All the times we've tried to look at names for popularity when naming our kids we haven't had just simple visualization tools like this, so I thought I'd build one.

Then after I started I saw those guys but saw that you have to pay to visualize it, so I thought "hey, I'll disrupt them " :)
That's a good idea. Thanks! Also, I have only crawled the SSA site for the names, so if it's not in the top 1000 for some year in the USA since 1880 it won't be in there.
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The more I read and hear about the debt problems of the Eurozone, I wonder how France and Germany ever got duped into joining in the first place.
That'd be a fair statement if Flex wasn't mature, proven, loved tech with an established community.
To those of you who are just dying to type your credit card information into a website right now, I'd like to suggest http://www.kiva.org instead.
To do the work that I want to do, or know needs doing, but could never get approved by my management. SOMETIMES it's tedious work that just has to get to do move the project forward, and SOMETIMES it's going to result in significant, measurable benefits to the company. Either way, it's a great way to get to know a developer before officially hiring them.
I stopped reading when I read:

Just put the IP address in the box and hit “search”. Here’s what we find.

Region: Washington
City: Spokane
Postal code: 99205

So, we’re narrowing it down.. we now know that it’s Spokane, Washington.

Erm, no you don't know that he lives there, it just means that the IP address he happens to hit the internet with belongs at that address. If I geoIP myself it comes up about 300+ miles from where i live , I geoIPd some of the public wifi connections I used and it's not even the same country that I am in.

I blame google analytics for this, I often hear people say stuff like "hmm , all our visitors seem to come from London, let's optimise our site for people in London".
I agree with lemma, I think it's Freakonomics. I have some basic stats/other demo graphs that I think might be interesting. This kind of Celebrity type graphing would be fun, too. Thanks for the idea!
Hey, thanks for the tip! I'll check it out.
On most other OSs, ctrl and arrow keys will move you a word at a time.
For the record, YC doesn't push any particular ideology as hard as 37signals does. And if you were to ask PG, I think he'd say that different things work for different companies and founders. Running out of money before capitalizing on a profitable business model is the most common way that startups die. So launching quickly, raising money, and pivoting are all good things.
They didn't join anything. They created it to extend their markets with a common currency. The others joined in.
Good call, I'll add that in. Thanks.
They address this in the article, noting that treated monkeys used 50% less insulin.
"I don't think it's fair to blame him for his behaviour."

Then who should we blame?