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I have a basic understanding of how viruses work at the cellular level. The problem is that DRACO doesn't seem to kill the virus; it stops its propagation. There is a big difference in the way it works from a broad-spectrum antibiotic and seems more damaging.

Let's say you're really sick with the flu -- that means a lot of cells have that virus. The virus replicates and the cell eventually dies and releases hundreds or thousands of viruses.

From how I read this, DRACO stops the process by killing cells that are making the virus once they are infected with the virus. If I don't have an antibody for the virus or I have a bad immune system, DRACO is going to end up killing one cell for every one virus that exists in my circulatory system. DRACO is ineffective on the virus when it is spreading. Yes, it stops the spread so your immune system can catch up, I guess, but what if I'm already really sick?
We'd be either a slow loris or a meerkat. Because we are uber cute.
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> In practice, any company using a straight-up IQ test in job interviews is practically begging to be sued.

Not if they secretly use undocumented race quotas.
The duplicates issue is something a little more complicated than just having a canonical answer for everything and it comes down to the naming problem. People understand things in different ways, so having multiple ways of asking the same question, and different explanations of the answers can be very beneficial.
'In Toronto, they could marry, but they couldn’t rent an apartment together as landlords were afraid of “trouble."'

A bit off-topic, but I'm somewhat shocked by this (and my own ignorance). I know about the US, but this was an issue in Canada?
Exactly.

Plus, it probably makes Varnish worthless in this environment (I'm sensing bias here). I suppose the author doesn't like purchasing goods and services over a secure connection either.

Next.
Ah, I forgot that about that part. It were engineered into us that is an interesting and very different scenario than what I was thinking of (simply taking it to cure/remove/kill viruses)
I believe we've already waited 10 years. That's why it's “10+”—the oldest trials are about 10 years old at this point, and the effect is still the same (as far as I've been able to read). More, as usual, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_... , including critique.
Hopefully if it comes to that, he'll consider using a professional data recovery service or paying this guy for his time. It may not be worth a pile of cash to read the disks sitting in your drawer, but it's probably worth the cost for such a priceless piece of gaming history.
If you play that way in Dutch, you can use three letters and even give away that the word ends in 'ak'. That leaves at least BDGHJLMPRTVWYZ for the first letter (A and K give valid words, too, but will already have been guessed)

In general, shorter words are harder to guess in hangman.
In an attempt to alleviate the craptuclar collection of software, RIM gave out free Playbooks to Android Developers.

Having now played with one I don't think it's that bad of a device, and I certainly trust it more than an iPad or Android tablet.

However RIM is missing key software that they should have provided.

1) The PDF reader works, but it's functionality is as bad as the Adobe Reader on Android.

2) The browser experience has thus far been not so bad. Things work for me on the Playbook that crash on Android browsers. A desktop mode for the browser (like Dolphins, but without the crashing) is necessary.

3) A remote desktop client?

4) A VNC client?

5) Busybox!

6) Putty!

7) Python and/or Ruby
What about the money? Most technical people is not looking for a risky undertaking but want just a determined salary. This is where the conflict of interests begins.
The test sounds quite a lot like the ASVAB http://www.military.com/ASVAB with some of the old sections that have since been taken out.
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Hey Stuckk, did you decide on what you wanted to do with your site?

The hardest part is to build enough momentum to have a viable marketplace otherwise you're stuck with a chicken and egg problem where no one posts because no one's buying and no one's buying because no one's posting.

I have a novel idea that I'm happy to share (and work on if you're interested) and that's a classifieds marketplace with REAL identities. I've sold and bought many things on Craigslist and Ebay over the years and I've come to value and appreciate people who don't give me the runaround or try to scam me. I think a lot of the good folks who I do meet when I buy or sell feel the same way about anonymous online classifieds. I personally always feel uncomfortable inviting complete strangers to my house to demo an item I'm selling w/o knowing a bit about who they are and if they're a known scam artist.

Some sites like Replyboard are trying to solve this with reputation and ratings for classifieds sellers but to a large degree they are hidden behind screen names and such. I would love to buy and sell locally to REAL people who are willing to back the stuff they sell with their name/identity. How would I do this? I would require two concurrent identity logins > Facebook & LinkedIn. I know this will limit the number of people who would participate but you would be surprised at how many "professionals" fit into this group.

Let me know what you think and best of luck with Classfy!
No problem, it was our pleasure! Let me address your questions one-on-one.

1. We didn't have any problems disclosing that. In fact, (as you can tell by this little stunt) we are very open about it. We thought it was acceptable. But we also are fallible.

2. Turnover figures? We talked about it at the interview, definitely.

3. We were extremely passionate about it. And less so about AthleteNet. That was the number 1 thing. The other smaller but still very valuable factors included the market size, social impact, and potential for faster scaling.

Feel free to email me if you have any more questions! wesley@familyleaf.com
Would you rather be accepted into Y Combinator or get 5 million dollars?
Would you rather be accepted into Ycombinator's prestigious program? Where Heroku has made a 200 million dollar acquisition and other companies are poised to become billion dollar companies, but many have still failed to even make a dollar.

Or would you rather straight up receive 5 million dollars in cash. You're set for the rest of your life monetarily as long as you don't squander it.
I wonder how this will affect sales taxation, as the tax rate isn't a multiple of 5 in all provinces, and hence the amount of tax collected on a purchase will have to be either be rounded down or up.
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This line-item is basically a smokescreen for cutting all sorts of other important things (like the research tax credit, SR&ED; various social programs; the budget for our national broadcaster, the CBC; and the salary of the Chief Electoral Officer):

http://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/rjrfn/the_budget_5_b...

Amusingly this particular cut was actually a private member proposal from the NDP (the left-most mainstream party).
Thanks dude. Thanks for giving us some hope for privacy.
The link at:
http://www.iontorrent.com/career/

just re-directs me to the homepage.
I would suggest running your own half rack or full rack at a local colo facility, and integrate amazon or azure into your external scaling strategy using APIs to spin up instances on an as-needed basis.

You should always be in control of your core databases, and never allow an external vendor to be your fallback position or failsafe.

The odds of both Azure and Amazon having an outage at the same time are very very very small, especially if you span your instances across multiple zones.

Allow your local servers to be a fallback to the cloud, so that when (not if) there IS an outage, you have a controlled set of servers to rely upon.
> This isn't true at all. They haven't been shown to be biased, merely that blacks score lower. Extensive research has show that IQ tests have equal predictive power for blacks and whites.

I think you illustrate the danger of making assertions without being entirely informed - that is to say that what you state here is the beginning of the truth, but taken out of context. There was (and in many cases still is) a heavy cultural bias built into standardized IQ testing. Traditionally, most tests were developed and tested against middle-income, white children. Black children traditionally tested one standard deviation below their white counterparts, even when controlling for income, etc. However, many experts agree that this is due to cultural bias and environmental factors, agravated by the strong corelation between income and where you live geographically in the US, including resources (or lack thereof) in corresponding school districts. Example: children in troubled, inner-city schools would often have less access to rigourous IQ testing when compared to their urban, middle-class counterparts.

There is also the complicating factor of single-parent or broken homes and the roll that plays in a child's lack of overall intellectual development. This also correlates to income and geographic area (i.e. innercity versus urban environment).

> I've never understood why eliminating one of the few objective measures and making the hiring process entirely subjective was an improvement.

That's another subject and worth talking about. I'm simply stating that you should be very careful when talking about the black-white gap in IQ scores. There are too many factors at play to make a clear case for IQ differences between races.

For an informative article with really enlightening references, see this: http://theafrican.com/Magazine/IQ.htm
"If the customer has the pennies, they can use them. Payments with debit or credit cards, or cheques, can also be to the penny. But if the customer is paying cash and doesn't have the pennies, the total will go up or down to the nearest nickel."

I gather that's post application of sales tax.
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It just depends on your definition of tightly coupled.

Back in my day, "tightly coupled" was somewhat like the opposite of "modular."
I live just north of Seattle, WA. I worked at VZW for almost 10 years, but early on decided I wanted to run my own business so basically saved as much as I possibly could - my goal was to have 2 years of "wages" which would give me time to get my product (at that time Jamroom) off the ground. The great news was that as soon as I left my job and could devote full time to my own business, things took off - I didn't even end up touching the money I had saved much. However, the last couple years have been a bit hard as things have been more up and down, so I'm glad to have that savings now.
A brilliant decision. Now if we could only get rid of our 1 euro cent here.

According to some inflation figures I quickly found on the internet, a (US dollar) penny had a hundred years ago 23 times as much buying power as a penny nowadays. That means the smallest denomination was then was worth almost as much as a quarter is now! People could get by without smaller coins then and they should be able to work perfectly fine now without worthless pennies.
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Funny haha. Thanks for the comment :)
If you refused to hire even occasional pot smokers (or take investment from them, or invest in them) in the Bay Area, you'd have a really hard time. (This comes up with federal government related contracts and staffing.)
Somewhat off topic, but I am very disappointed in your "ugly retarded kid" comment; both that you made it in the first place; and that nobody else called you out on it.

Discussion of sexism has been very prominent on HN lately; I strongly suspect if that comment read "it's like the ugly wife that you want to divorce but can't afford to" then you would have got some kind of reaction. Perhaps we should remind ourselves that people with disabilities are worthy of the same kind of consideration and respect as everyone else.
If you're only hiring employees from the top few schools, you're not even vaguely typical as an employer. Which is fine, but it does mean that your response on this topic isn't much of an indication as to how the broader employment market will react.
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If the customer has the pennies, they can use them. Payments with debit or credit cards, or cheques, can also be to the penny. But if the customer is paying cash and doesn't have the pennies, the total will go up or down to the nearest nickel. For example, $1.02 will become $1 and $1.03 will be $1.05.

Something just feels wrong about rounding. The customer would always get screwed. They should solve this problem by using the federal sales tax to round up/down. $1.25 + 5% = 5¢ of tax instead of 6.25¢.

That said, it would make sense for merchants to round down for cash purchases. It would be a tiny incentive to use cash rather than credit cards (which cost the merchant 2-4%)
Can I just say, I'm incredibly excited for the (new) show!
The best birth control in the world is one that allows women to have control (and peace of mind) over the process/efficacy.
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It IS addictive. It can't cause withdrawal symptoms, but absolutely is addictive, like gambling or sex or any other activity that triggers your reward system. I know I felt addicted to pot, failed to quit smoking many times after making the decision to, and kept smoking daily for a year after I had stopped enjoying it. If not addiction, what would you call that?

If you can be sure that someone is reliable, then you are right, there is no reason to have a problem with their drug use. When you are hiring someone or making the decision to invest money with them, you rarely know enough to be sure. Using drugs is a HUGE red flag there, and should say think twice before hiring this person / giving them money.
You said correlation, not causation, and that's an important point. Wealth is also correlated with what's presumed to be "innate intelligence", as is education. We don't know what the direction of causation is - whether intelligence causes education which causes wealth, or whether intelligence causes both education and wealth, or whether wealth results in more education which result in higher scores on IQ tests.

The measure we usually associate with "innate intelligence", the so-called "G-factor", is actually defined as the correlation between several different factors (education, grades in several subjects, various standardized tests including IQ, career success, socioeconomic status) that all trend in the same direction. It's basically a PCA on the observed metrics. There's no way to measure intelligence directly or even know for sure that it exists as a separate innate "thing" - all we know is that a large number of observable metrics are positively correlated, and then we give a name to the correlation.
You're really putting YC up on too much of a pedestal... for $0 you can build something that attracts investors and sells for more than $200m. With or without YC you have an almost 100% chance of that not happening.
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I read that the total number of woman living in silicon valley is extremely low compared to the total number of man living in silicon valley. And that woman account for less than 10 percent of the total number of board directors in the valley. What can we do about that?! (well, at least there is one advantage: as a startup you won’t have to waste your time on visiting hundreds of Weddings every month :-))
If someone hires me to write something for them I write that for them, if they ask me for advice I give them advice. I don't get into arguments about how their idea won't work, or call them 'stupid', I charge them my rate for the work they ask me to do and I thank them when they pay me.

You think the guys at the general store in 1849 told the gold prospectors that they were stupid and would lose their money? Or do you think they smiled, told them about the guy who just discovered millions in gold, wished them luck and sold them tents, picks, and levis?
This is a great summary you've written here and worth a second read. In deed there are confounding cultural factors built into standardized IQ testing. You wouldn't expect a white European student, even from another English-speaking country like the UK, to arrive at one of our school and test as highly as children born in the US. There will always be some exceptional cases, but in general environmental and cultural factors make IQ testing highly culture-specific.

What we need to ask ourselves here in the US is why some children get left behind culturally, or why some children live in disadvantaged environments, broken homes or single-parent households. Solving those problems would quickly close the IQ gap by giving more equal opportunity to all children.
Unbelievable. How is this amendment even controversial?
I hope so, and I sincerely hope he is successful. I contacted a few data recovery companies myself, but they were changing over UK£60 per disk.
Interestingly, I bet there were people saying similar things about Steve Jobs when Apple was going down under and when he returned.

It's easy to hate on anyone by comparing them to someone phenomenally successful. But even Steve Jobs had his share of epic failures. And most certainly, doing things Steve Jobs style is not the only successful way to build a company as your post seems to imply.
They already have that. It's very nice that there's also something men can have, both to supplement female birth control and to provide peace of mind for the man. It's not a "one or the other" proposition.
Hmmm, interesting. Here's a concrete example:

I've got an 'Organization' model and a 'Person' model. I want to use them interchangeably in some templates, so I need to be able to get their names in a consistent way.

An Organization just has a 'name', but a Person has a 'first_name' and a 'last_name'. I've been using a 'displayName' method to encapsulate the difference; would it make more sense to do something like:

var Person = Backbone.Model.extend({
initialize: function() {
var name = this.get('first_name') + ' ' + this.get('last_name');
this.set({ name: name }, { silent: true });
}
});
What happens with the survey? Are you affiliated?
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i wonder if Canada has that bit, where the prices you see in the store are the final prices(i..e with tax already calculated in)
I'm not very familiar with canadian politics. Why is it amusing that the NDP proposed this?
mm like the supreme court ignoring the will of the elected head of state makes the house of lords look democratic
Good point, but I'd argue for both people. The best birth control in the world is one that both parties know has actually been administered.
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Bigotry against the irish in the US did eventually collapse of its own accord.
It would depend on the type of floppy. My Commodore 64's 5¼'' floppies from the mid-1980s still work mostly perfectly. These store about 170KB on each side, as do the earliest "single density" DOS floppies. Later "double density" floppies had twice the capacity, and "high density" twice that.
The lego analogy is good, the Punch Buggy is not.

Here's the thing: words (as opposed to physical violence) are very curious insofar as they can only hurt you as much as you let them.

I'd suggest that it'd be better to try and cultivate thick skins, and to publicly shame or ignore people who are acting like idiots until they knock it off.

Racism, sexism, genderism (is that even the right word?), and agism are all stupid biases, and by treating them like a valid threat instead of a silly self-limiting arbitrary preference we are doing well by no one.
Often in games, numeric error is OK as long as the error is completely consistent. It's OK for your character to float half a cm off the ground as long as it's difficult to see. However, if you check edge AB using "A + x(B-A)" then later edge BA using "B + x(A-B)" the floating point non-associativity will cause tiny gaps between polygons even though they reference the same vertices! This can cause your character to intermittently fall through a perfectly water-tight floor mesh --leading to heated arguments between your testers, level artists and AI programmers...
When I quit my full time job in 2005 I can't tell you how many people thought I was seriously crazy to leave a "stable" job to do something on my own. For me however, it really wasn't a choice - it was something I had to do.

I've always believed that there are millions of people in this world who would be willing to work harder than me if only they had the opportunities I have been given in my life. To not take full responsibility for my life and work as hard as I can to achieve something feels disrespectful to those who WOULD if they had the chance. I know that may sound a bit cheesy, but it's been an important driver in my life since I've gone solo.
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Totally, and I am definitely addicted to caffeine. Luckily this only improves my work :)

The difference is that I think very few people would say "Let's remove the stigma from alchoholism."
Let's not trivialize birth control with a title like this.

Good birth control comes from empowering both partners, and protecting those who are unwilling partners.

For women, an IUD is a great option. For men, barrier methods have been the only reliable, reversible methods until now. This is exciting, but let's not forget about the whole scope and meaning of self-control over reproduction.
He has a family to provide for which does need to eat and their well being probably plays a huge role in his decision making. Giving up a comfortable salary to pursue something ambitious may be an easy decision on a personal level, but it may be very difficult on the rest of the family.

The connection to old salary is simply family expectations/lifestyle. That's a real decision and I can imagine dissuades a lot of people. I would be more risk averse if my outcome affected other people I cared about.
I think there was a study (do not know if it had agenda or was neutral) that indicated that most of the disparity was attributable to socio-economic status rather than culture.

That is to say that general knowledge spread btwn cultures (ethnicities) was less pronounced than non-culture based tests (such as abstract concepts). Again, I don't know how valid that conclusion was.
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My friends and I hung a golf club with cardboard hanging from it across the TV so that you couldn't see past your half of the screen in team mode. Suddenly, recognizing the sounds of particular doors became a valued skill.
I'm no hacker. I've applied to a few startups in marketing and writing friendly capacities, given my experience in journalism. But I've never attempted a startup, or by extension applying to YC...

Even considering the insight gained and the contacts you make, I'd rather have $5M. It alleviates my immediate problems and gives me freedom to do as I wish.

I just can't imagine it being so amazing that I'd say no to the freedom that comes with money. I can't imagine most would.
No, the prices are before tax. I think there is even a law against showing prices with tax for whatever reason.
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Why is the best birth control in the world so one-sided?