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I just met Ilya a few weeks ago at Noisebridge.

As a community we rarely talk about the darker side of a startup. We make it seem like ancient Roman warriors on the quest to glory. In reality it can be a dark, depressing road. Depression is real and can hit harder than anything you've ever experienced.

How many people talk about how depression? How at times things will seem so hopeless that you won't have anywhere to turn? It is certainly not the most popular topic.
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It didn't really hit me until I stopped by his place. The only sign that something had happened was a paper tapped to a door saying "Party Cancelled".
It's a really chocking feeling. I think I went there to know if it was true...to know what happened. As his death becomes more apparent, I don't care what happened. It's a huge loss. Ilya will be missed.
They pay nothing close to the cost of the cleanup. Exxon paid less than half of the cost of the Valdez spill, and recovered most of that from insurance claims anyway. They have held up on appeal further damages awarded by the courts for twenty-two fucking years. They still haven't paid.

If you think BP is going to pay anything close to the cost of the Deepwater Horizon spill, you really haven't been paying attention. The fact is that buying a stake in the legislature and the courts provides a much better ROI than investing in cleanup technologies.
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Your are saying grand parent is mentally a children, I don't how this is perceived in your culture, in mine it is not acceptable.
Without a baseline, how would I be able to tell if those statistics were frightening?
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Ask HN: Job search advice if not yet a "world class" programmer?
I am 24 and became interested in programming around 2.5 years ago after previously graduating in another engineering field.

I now do a significant amount of programming in my current job at a software startup (both web development and scientific data analysis), but I would like to move to a purely development role, preferably at another small startup.

I have a solid math background from engineering and have spent a large part of the past two years programming, but I still would not be able to pass many CS interview questions. I am studying CS books and online lectures on the nights and weekends to close this gap.

My questions:
- From reading HN, common advice is to publish side projects online. Am I missing anything else that I should be doing to show my value to potential employers?
- What is the best strategy for someone in my position to move into a development role?
And he got kicked out of Apple, and his Lisa failed, and the term "Personal Computer" - the thing Apple created - came to mean their competitor.

That's why he's so inspiring. He's a protagonist you can identify with, who triumphed over setbacks and flaws.
Thanks for the correction kloncks!

Not trying to excuse myself, but I'm simply not good at remembering details. Would have to watch the video again!
And then they say that ideas on their own are of little worth and it is all about execution... and then they say that anybody can execute and that you are replaceable... in the end, the show is run by those with money. The rest are chess pieces. They win or lose because they are playing the game, not you. You are the pawns, the knights, the rooks, the bishops, the king, the queen. You are not moving the pieces, though. I could be wrong, but I'm not.
Devaluation is deflation.

Normally when the government gives a whole stack of money to its citizens, the country's currency inflates. Its exports will then be cheaper to others.

Greece cannot do this; Its currency is fixed with its major trading partners. There is no way to lower prices of its exports... besides deflation.

There's two ways out of it. Quit the Euro (default on debts) and inflate the economy to lower export prices (look where that got the US, I'm starting to be skeptical of this tactic), or cut public spending, start deflation, to lower export prices.

Since in France, Germany, prices are not deflating, deflation in Greece will lower Greece's export prices. While consumers in Greece may stop spending... "Ooo my money goes up in value by simply holding it", importers in France and Germany will not stop spending "Buying from Greece is cheaper than buying from France, Germany. No brainer". They're not going to stop spending because if they stop spending money to import they also stop earning money from selling the imports to their home countries.

Lower export prices -> Increased exports. Eventually, hopefully, it will bring the country back into growth.

I think deflation is more dangerous when your currency isn't fixed with others, because then banks/companies will be able to manipulate your currency to take advantage of the deflation in the country. When the currency is fixed, there is just as much point for an importer to play with currency as US Steel plays with US Dollars. (i.e Not their business).

This is all what I think Germany is trying to make Greece do. I don't have evidence for any of it.
Nice idea but the UI is weird. I have to setup questionnaires, click save on them and on each day. It should sync in the background. Can't input data for past days even if they're empty, only current day. The shuffling around animation between calendar days is weird. Also feels slow.

UX is very important for this type of app. You're using it every day, it needs to load and save data quickly.

Obviously it's the early prototype but I'd expect a simple app like this to be as snappy as backbone.js todo example, it's not much more complex.
I think he means he doesn't understand how the $800k will turn into $8m for those investors...
hypomanic?
Excited for a this exact thing. Is there any other resource which lists Australian Tech Startups in a readable and up-to-date manner?
I was surprised that the culminating example was a climate change guy. Until I realized which newspaper this was.
Art? You mean to compare iPhones and other manufactured consumer gadgets with art masterpieces like Mona Lisa or Mahler's 5th?
I just hooked up WebTouch support in Chrome on Windows. Unfortunately, I don't have a touch screen on-hand, but I'd be very curious to know if it works in Chrome canary with the --enable-touch-events switch.
I wonder if the metallic sounds during the ride were added after, or if they're the result of reducing other sounds from the video. If they're from just turning the volume down, I can't imagine these would be very widely used. Given the street sounds in the beginning of the ride, I'm thinking they might actually be that much louder than a car.
I don't know about the "not clever enough by definition" part, but I agree that debugging is harder than writing new code.

If you're debugging your own code, you're trying to find something out about it that you didn't understand when you wrote it. You're looking for one of an almost infinite variety of side effects or subtle misunderstandings of interfaces, and you have to find which one it is. There are usually more ways to go wrong than right. You then have to change your brain to add this understanding, which is difficult, while writing code is likely to take advantage of existing mental structures.

When you're debugging someone else's code, you have all the same problems, except you don't have the benefit of knowing what the writer was thinking at the time, that initial understanding.

So yes, you have more time to do it, but that's because it takes longer, and it's more a wrack-your-brains time than writing code.
I read it somewhat metaphorically, equivalent to "side project" with a connotation of a smallish off-hand side project, as opposed to a big multi-month investment. May or may not have actually been done in one weekend, though some probably were.
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RIP. So young :/ not that it makes much of a difference now, but I hope it was peaceful.
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I'm no engineer, but I imagine there would be substantial energy loss through the movement within the wheel. Not to mention lack of traction with the road.

Looks like another solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Bicycle wheels are light, cheap and can be adjusted easily by changing the air pressure.
Well, my Android phone and most of the ones I see around are not feature phones, and are not controlled by carriers. Maybe we live in different worlds?
Just so you know your contact form is broken, "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method."

Since I couldn't post it there I shall here.

Sydney based here. Currently running http://searchco.de/
mostly unrelated but: could the parenthetical after the title of a post be modified to include subdomains? Seeing (google.com) made me think Google was saying "No matter what price we choose...", whereas if it said (plus.google.com) I'd realize it's likely just a "blog" post by somebody.

edit: or is there a good reason we shouldn't do this?
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Speaking of uptimes - where I work, in our data center Cisco switches and load balancers for some reason always become flaky after 300+ days of uptime - weird resets, close_waits and other such things. Older Sun OS releases (8 and below) also get flaky after 200+ days uptime (we have had apps doing zero size reads on log files in a loop, processes hanging on startup etc.). Linux boxes have so many updates that they hardly cross 60+ days uptime. The only shining stars of rock solid uptime are all heavily loaded HP-UX 11i DB Server boxes - 1000+ days uptime and literally work like they were freshly booted!
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The site is mainly promoting Microsoft's new magic-mouse-ish touch mouse range. It doesn't even work properly with touch; a pinch to zoom operation in chrome simply zooms the page content, it doesn't scroll you through the content like the mouse wheel does.

The drawing tools are very cool though, considering how simple they are to use.
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Indeed, I grabbed this app to record things I'm already recording. But I think a mobile app will be a big win. I have found that, if I record data points (mostly my weight) in a spreadsheet, I have trouble remembering to record every day. But if I do it on a whiteboard on the wall, it's easy. So salience and ease of use are key here.
Step 5, domain settings, completely killed the flow for me. Thought I'd be able to have a page up and running instantly, but nope, you need to wait for DNS/CNAME to resolve.

You should have it subdomain off launchrock itself, ie. myapp.launchrock.com, and allow Step 5 to take place afterwards.
Sorry but the openess of a widely used tool as the iPhone is of paramount importance to hackers, by definition.
Saying they are "very different" because of closures is hyperbolic, but at any rate, yes, AS1 had closures like JS.
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I know I will.
Ohey, I used to make TI-calculator programs too, when I was 12~ish. Most people at school had a TI-83+, and lunch hour (amongst the geeks) was spent trading apps.
Looking forward to reading the blog. It'll do a lot of good to give the Aussie startup scene some exposure. We've just formed a team, with one founder based in Melbourne, Australia and me in Boston, US...

Good luck!
"All models are wrong, but some models are useful".

Even though the axioms (assumptions) for rational choice are rarely met completely in practice, understanding their implications were they to be met is still highly useful.
> The Werther effect not only predicts an increase in suicide, but the majority of the suicides will take place in the same or a similar way as the one publicized. The more similar the person in the publicized suicide is to the people exposed to the information about it, the more likely the age group or demographic is to commit suicide. The increase generally happens only in areas where the suicide story was highly publicized.

(From Wikipedia which turn quoted Meyers, David G. (2009). Social Psychology (10th Ed). New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-337066-8).
Different dataset - For starters: "all of china" includes a lot of unemployed people. "All of Foxconn" includes only employed people.
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I was under the impression that most programmers hired these days get paid more than managers and analysts with comparable experience, often by a good margin.

Evidence:
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-analyst/q_1-sof...

I'm surprised few have pointed out that this entire conversation is based on a generalization that could easily be false...
No.

Detailed version: there's too many types of bots seeking too many different paths into web sites to be worth your time trying to write code to block each currently known bot method.

They're hitting the form for multiple reasons:
- probing for potential XSS/CSRF exploits
- probing for places to publish spam content
- probing for potential SQL injection exploits
- probing for exploits no one can foresee at the present time

You could try:

- the hidden field route #1 - if the field is filled in, assume it's a bot and reject the content with a 4xx, maybe a 400 or 410

- the hidden field route #2 - assuming the form is dynamically generated, fill a hidden field with a unique key, like a uuid derived from the current time and IP address. If you get a form submission with a duplicate key to one you've already received then reject it as a bot.

- if a preponderance of bots are originating from specific networks, ban the networks using mod_security or your preferred method

Do you echo back the content of the feedback form? If so, stop doing this as the bots may be checking to see if what they submitted was published on your site and marking your site as either good for publishing spam content, or possibly exploitable through CSRF/XSS, or both.

Or you could just publish an email address.
Well, if the Park at handicapped place thing is true, then asshole seem to be adequate, even if SJ invented a way to bring water to Sahara.
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Check out FilterSquad (makers of the Discovr apps), they are based in Perth.
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A friend of mine is a cofounder of Rome2Rio.

They are in Melbourne, nominally. At the moment I think they are in LA, or Florida or somewhere.
Our society is "fundamentally agreeable"?

Seriously?

Let me counter with: Two land wars in Asia, thirty (!) years of cancerous deregulation of the private sector leading to an economic implosion, 9/11, OWS protests, raging unemployment...

Having said all of this, I would agree that PORTLAND, OR is a fundamentally agreeable society...it is difficult to communicate this in writing, you really have to visit the place to understand.
Unfortunately, an outgoing personality is a great way to protect yourself from people asking you the very painful question of "what's wrong"...I know now, after wrestling with depression for years, that sometimes it's harder to face your depression and explain your pain to others than it is to simply be depressed in the first place. What better way to defend yourself than by acting exactly opposite of how you really are?
It's probably just vocabulary. We think startups as tech-related, but there's probably just as many new companies created in the restaurant sector as ours -- and they have their own restaurant investment companies.
I would love to see more sites like this. Please don't let it end up in a graveyard of empty wordpress sites like I have on my server!
you won't gain muscle doing crunches and pushups. your two best options are either joining a gym and doing a proper routine, or find ways to add weight to bodyweight exercises. creatine won't do much for you. make sure to eat a lot of calories and get your protein.
I have also heard that if a person is all of the sudden talking about buying a gun or telling others how they would never commit suicide, out of the blue, one should be very worried about them.
As someone who has written a game (To The Stars 3D on iPhone) and as someone who has gone through many different routes, I would suggest taking a look at Unity3D. They have a free version and they really take a large portion of the pain out of creating a game on basically any platform.
they send emails expecting an immediate response because they know you will respond immediately. i respond to emails within 24hrs. people know this, and don't expect anything faster. if somebody does expect a faster response, that's too bad. you need to reassess your understanding of rude and manage people's expectations of you. if somebody expects me to interrupt what i'm doing to answer their email, that's rude of them.

if anybody requires an urgent response from me, they can try a synchronous method of communication. in the meantime, i've got things to do.
Most people in this world are not hackers. Apple is not going to make a product just to cater to a tiny % of the people. Also there are Apps.

No one is forcing anyone to buy any phone. If you want to invent your own smart phone then you are free to do so.
Another big question is going to be its tendency to injure people whose extremities get caught in it or are scraped by it. Bicycle wheels are relatively benign compared to this design which looks like a grater or cookie cutter. Sure, you could round things, choose less nasty materials, etc., but the price is going to go way up.
you don't need to live till they discover immortality, you need to live till the rejuvenative rate of extension of existing lifetimes crosses one year per year. (i think i stole that from nancy kress)
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I'm not sure about how it is in USA but a lot of countries have strict rules around the media reporting suicides, so it is deliberate that the topic is under reported.

Naturally a lot of people disagree with this and there's constantly heated debate on the future of the media's role.
It sounds louder. It looks heavier. Quack.
so because he's in 6th grade, it is inherently great? forgive us for analyzing human development.
Please, this is not the time.
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In particular they awarded a "Best one-liner" that year (sykes2) if you want something that'll only take an hour or two to figure out. :) (Shorter if you don't miscount and get thrown off by the distractor like I did...)
How do you know you can restore your system to a working state in the event of an unscheduled outage, cruft or not?

You should discriminate between services and systems - make your service available 100% of the time, but you should be able to kill and restart/reload/replace systems for maintenance or other reasons at nearly any time. And you SHOULD do that, because without proof that you can do it, your DR solution is simply a best guess.
I agree with you about Jobs and even about Jordan. They most likely have probably made the world better than when they came in. But there has been a sacrifice made in that achievement. On a personal level. But to be considered great that is always going to be the case.

And I also add Bill Gates to that list as well. His enemies were more competitors than personal but he has gathered a lot of bad will over the years. But he was able to place computers in a lot of homes at a reasonable price. He sacrificed a lot of good will in the tech community to accomplish that.
Not really. There are several causes of death where this is the case, though admittedly suicide is one of them.
Maybe he doesn't live in the USA -- other countries (like china) seem to have less percentage of bike injuries compared to here in the USA. People are blind to anything but cars here.
The US loses about as many troops to suicide as combat. :( http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_...

I think we'd have a much more harmonious society if we put lithium in the water rather than fluoride. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/194/5/464.abstract
The evidence is personal experience. I'm not trying to publish a peer reviewed article, just convey personal experience that may be insightful to others as to why things appeal to people.

If you'd like to run a study to falsify my hypothesis you're welcome to, posting vaguely relevant stats is not such a falsification if you want to go all theory of knowledge on my statement.

It's the idea that to a large segment of the populace that when they turn the age of majority they should go consume large amounts of alcohol simply because their now "of age". Or that when they consume alcohol before the legal age they should consume as much as they can because they may not get the opportunity again in the near future.

Instead of looking at alcohol consumption per capita you'd probably want to look at alcohol poisoning per capita near the age of majority. (I have no idea what the stats on that actually are). In my personal experience not too many people consistently binge drink much past the legal age for drinking (because they discover it's actually quite boring).
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i think i've found a way to hate it. the author is spot on, but entirely misses the point by labeling us "generation sell". it's not about the selling, it's about working for ourselves. the band as a self-promoting, self-managing independent entity isn't doing it to make money, they're doing their own sales so that their music remains their own. small-time independent entrepreneurs are very specifically not selling themselves. they're selling a product so they don't have to sell themselves to an employer. being a small business owner isn't about selling something, it's about not selling out.
Is there any more background on this and how it is done? Awesome, if there would be a ready to go library for this
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What would the equivalent of a popped tire look like? I couldn't help picturing shrapnel..
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