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Rationally there's no point in living at all.

I've found it's a good idea to avoid thinking too hard at the level you're taking.
The problem with Facebook isn't about what a user's worth to the company, it's what the company is willing to do to make a user worth $100 or $1000.
All your accomplishments are pointless without your child next to you.

You enjoy all of those things to gain the capacity to enrich the life of your child.

I'm unconvinced. There are many worthy things in life; children among them. Doesn't mean your life is worthless if you don't have them.
I wonder if this is even more valuable (in terms of predictive power) than facebook's data. After all, the latter tries to predict buying behavior through adjacent information, while the former is, well, buying behavior.
I ended up buying a flute from a different maker, who wasn't such an expert player. I could make a good sound on his flute from the get-go.

Awww, you gave up :) But seriously, go back to that first guy and learn to kick ass with his flutes!
I drink coffee out of the 10gen mug because IT SCALES REALLY WELL
HASH(<id> + "static string pad") is how I imagine most people do it. Depends how much you care about a dedicated attacker figuring out that ID.

If this is a thing you're going to use a lot, I'd probably just add a database column and give each record a random unique "public ID" -- then there is literally no connection between the public ID and the private one..
Not quite an accurate quote/translation, and unattributed to boot.

Antoine de Saint Exupéry: "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."

Or in the original French: "Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher."
this is great. "print" is especially horrifying.
You'll notice that later on my comment I said 'I'm not going to say you're objectively wrong on this'. I'm not begrudging the OP his/her opinion, I'm simply saying that without the mental reset that is parenthood, the OP simply does not have enough information to make any factual statement on the matter.

I'm not saying that the OP is wrong or unentitled, I'm simply saying that they're exhibiting a potent mix of naivety and arrogance that they may want to be more aware of. Or, as my sibling poster said in a better way: "Don't presume in your arrogance that you know quite a bit about something you have zero experience with."
This is one of the most pernicious forms of procrastination, because it's hard for smart people to accept that perfectionism is a negative trait. The more self-worth you derive from your previous successful outcomes, the more susceptible your ego becomes to fear of future failures. Your amygdala is telling you that you are successful already, so don't shake the boat. Tread carefully and you'll always have an excuse for why things don't work out. You'll never have to admit you just couldn't do it.

The solution is to divorce your self-worth from outcomes. Instead, derive self-worth from the process. We can have complete control over our actions, but never complete control over our outcomes.

This is far easier said than done.
Well, once you pinpoint a potential mutation on a gene - that gives you a starting point into the pathway that could be possibly producing this particular disease. From there, it's sort of like clicking outwards from a wikipedia page, except instead of wiki pages, its related genes. Every one you go to, you read and find out what people know about it. You then start to form a picture in your head as to what the mechanisms of action are for this particular gene - what it does and how it is regulated.

From there, you build your model for how the gene works, and do some knock-outs / knock-ins, test it in various cell lines, verify the kinetics, try to find out the 3D structure. Really, anything you can do to get a handle on how this actually works in the system. It's quite normal for people to spend their entire PhD studying the mechanism of action for a single gene!
Good to know. Thank you for taking the time to give me feedback!

It's awesome to get a fresh perspective on this.
Facebook shares fall below $30 as US authorities begin investigation into IPO
Despite their claims, MongoDbMug is clearly not web scale.
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I don't think they'll tap any market but motorcycle drivers. The cost -- even their lowered "target" cost of 16k -- will put you in a car of sorts (either a city car or a used one). I sincerely doubt anyone who can afford a four-wheeled alternative would consider this. It's just too small and too dangerous.

Also, the gyroscopes will keep you upright even if you're hit? Yeah right. Let's see how that works out when an SUV hits you at 60.

If it were way cooler -- and remember a Ducati, BWM, or just about any premium bike can be had for under 16k already -- I might consider it as a motorcycle driver. But like the OP said I would feel less safe in it because it's lower to the ground and has much less visibility.
I posted a longer post as a sibling to this before I read your comment. In a lot of ways this is true, and I encourage anyone who agrees with you to not become a parent, rather than being a poor parent.
Thiel is arguing, congruently with the facts, that females are more likely than males to vote for a larger government and a bigger social safety net and you believe that nobody has the right to take others stuff (through taxes) then it is understandable that he would prefer they didn't have the right to vote.

I don't think anyone ought to have the right to vote, except on matters of the military (which cannot work if it was subjected to market forces) -- the rest is just giving groups the right to do things individuals can't.
Allow me to be a little bit absurd, but this strikes me as similar to right-wingers who ask me to imagine what would happen if everyone were gay. Yes, society would cease to exist, but I don't think this scenario has much bearing to the matter at hand.

More to the point, as long as there are real viable alternatives in the market, open and closed ecosystems can be fantastic complements, actually producing a deeper diversity. Flash, though controlled far too much by one company, was an excellent bridge that showed people the possibilities of a future internet. iOS has always had some shocking limitations, but it's set standards of stability and interface quality that everyone benefited from. The videogame industry has thrived in every respect by being on both tightly controlled platforms (think Wii's tight hardware/software pairing) and wide-open platforms (think Minecraft). Vigilance is good, but this kind of mix looks optimal to me.
Wanna see something cool? Put FB and ZNGA side by side on the graph:

http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&...
Ever since FB has gone public, I've noticed so much 'negative' stories/comments, and I really wonder why these are only coming out now... FB has been around for a long time and nothing has changed in its marketing strategies since it seems.

Personally, I don't have a FB account, or own any stock but this targeted 'bashing' seems useless and has the smell of targeted anti-FB propaganda. Why don't we focus on the real issue being people rights to privacy and the shady practices of FB?

More focus on the real issues please, do not get distracted by the 'anti-hype' of the week.
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Yes, the CEO will not be able to handle the bandwidth. But Zappos, the company, has made a billion dollar business out of it.
I'm looking for this myself. It's not easy. Most major job sites have a telecommute option (so you can search for these kinds of jobs). Craigslist is another good option.
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On this point, Facebook were forced to go public.

Normally a private company cannot have most than 500 stockholders. Facebook obviously has more than that number of employees. They previously applied for and got an exemption from the SEC on the basis that most stockholders were employees.

That all changed early last year with Goldman Sachs' "investment vehicle" of holding stock on behalf of clients (a move the SEC will see through). That was deliberately done in January as it put a clock on filing for IPO by April this year, which is what happened.

Now they may have wanted to go public anyway. Whether or not they wanted to they signaled this event over a year ago.
Just like how your microwave maker doesn't support running different software on it. Apple is an appliance company hell bent on putting the user experience above all else. If this means 100% complete and total control over every instruction ran on the device, so be it.

That said, the motivation isn't malevolence, it's obsession.
I typically work around this by having dual monitors and having one mounted vertically and the other horizontally.
With all due respect, it's one of the basises of Buddhist philosophy.

Don't be such an egotist! Try to come up with a clear demarcation of "self" and you will find it impossible.
>But make no mistake: this is bad for Facebook. Sure some investors, Zuck and (maybe?) some employees made a few more dollars but Facebook doesn't need the money and neither do most of the investors. But that's incredibly shortsighted.

>Facebook's ability to retain and attract talent and make stock-based acquisitions is in large part determined by the health and outlook of their stock. If they'd IPOed for $20-25 and jumped to $30 then they would have a lot of momentum behind them.

Why do you think the momentum of their stock has an effect on facebook's ability to attract talent? That's certainly not something I'm looking at (future stock price, yes; current momentum, no). Facebook's stock performance thus far has not changed my view of the potential future success of the company, and I think anyone who has actually done their homework regarding the Facebook valuation would feel the same way.
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Also worth noting there are several patents relating to Microsoft Agent.

e.g.
http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5682469
http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5880731
Windows' market advantage is hardly a result of its simplicity or ease of use. And the ton of settings isn't done through toggles and switches, but through Registry settings. Which is sort of like changing gears by taking the gearshift lever to a shop and re-shaping it on a lathe. In the dark, by informing a deaf-blind paraplegic through Braille.

The non-technical user has no clue, and the power-user bristles every time they have to deal with it.

"Sane defaults" is the best way to accomplish ease-of-use. A mix of autoconfiguration to task-at-hand and reasonable interface expectations.

At least CLI and assignment-based config files are both scriptable and manageable in version control (and hence, through configuration management systems such as cfengine / puppet / chef / etch, and source control (git, Hg, etc.).
Not that I care one way or another about Zuck getting a reputation for being cheap, but when my own wife and I were planning out honeymoon to Florence and Rome we inquired about tipping habits overseas and were told it wasn't usual there and it really came about due to American tourists habitually tipping. We were told if we we're really happy with the service to leave a Euro or two at the most, which is what we usually did.

Tip in the wrong context and you risk offending the service provider. I've been told never to tip a British pub keep, offer to buy him/her a drink instead. Not sure if times have changed though.
From the looks of it, the hivemind has already taken over.
If you did your research, you'd know that salts are insufficient protection. Heck, read your own link, the first link has as #7 that you need to use a slow hash function. Or you can just read http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ which lays it out in black and white.

You should be glad. You learned something important today.
Yeah I think you read the title and nothing else, which should be "Facebook Backer Wishes Women Voted Libertarian."
I doubt it. Apple's stance is that _all_ developers must stay in line, not most. What they think would happen is that _some_ developers will supply their own store, cloud implementation and slightly different UI, separate update method, because they think they can improve upon Apple's offering (maybe rightly so), it is cheaper for them, easier to integrate, more inline with their ideals, or whatever. End result would be that users will go from "I know how to update my stuff/control who see my data/manage hi-score/etc" to "you have to be a nerd to do that" mode.

I think they are right; some developers wouuse noose to be different. For example, Adobe would try and use something AIR-based and there would probalby be more than one Linux package-manager-like thing that allows you to get a 'special-for-you compiled executable with exactly the features you want')
Cool! i will have a look :) Thanks 7gramroxg!
are you into freelancing ?
Same with the Mercedes COMAND navigation, it'll just announce the next turn whichever way you are going. I generally like the way Mercedes do things in this regard.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite strategies / tactics around launching?
A few months ago I did a talk in Japan around the topic of launching a product. The goal was to discuss different actionable strategies and tactics that will maximize the impact of the launch.

Impact doesn’t just mean “how many users sign up”. It also means what is learned from launching.

I’ve been asked by True Ventures to teach a class on this topic at True University. The general framework of the talk is this:

- Setting the Right Goals

- Choosing the Right Metrics to Track

- Visualizing Metrics (dashboards)

- Promoting the Launch (Press strategies, baked-in-virality strategies)

- Gathering User Feedback (inside and outside the product)

The examples I use in the talk are based around my experience launching 5 products over the past year. While I could just deliver the same talk, I wanted to involve more members of the community to contribute to the insights that will be passed along to a group of about 60 founders and entrepreneurs.

I’d love your stories. I’m looking for more examples to include in my talk and potentially a future TechCrunch post.

Have you every done anything that worked really well (or totally failed)? What have you done that has allowed you to maximize the launch? What’s the best way you’ve learned from your users? What are your favorite strategies and tactics around launching?
I think what you're missing is the emotion, the meaning, and the beauty of having children. And sure, if you leave all that out by willfully ignoring it, then your point makes sense. One could argue that, by the same token, living is just to protect and create the next generation and rationally has no point.
Yeah but if he'd said 'we disagreed over x but we're still going to be friends' then we'd all go 'oh well he can't have been that out of line'. Sometimes the uncomfortable discussion is worth having.
A non-parent could similarly argue that you don't get to pass judgement since you are under the influence of cognitive dissonance.

Regardless, I have met parents who feel that way, and it can often turn out poorly for the child, though it really depends. One person I know who feels this way is a DBA who earns more than enough for his wife to raise the kids. She works part-time more to escape cabin-fever than to earn money and seems happy with the arrangement. His long work hours means he doesn't have to deal with the kids any more than he wants to.
I continue to be surprised at the slack people are cutting Gruber here. He doesn't owe anyone anything, and we'll likely never know what truly happened (or didn't happen) between him and Dan, but he should still be accountable to his audience.

He waited a week to say anything about it, and in the end didn't really say much of anything at all. Maybe he was 100% justified in what he did—we'll never know, and it doesn't really matter.

What jumps out to me through all this is that if the roles had been reversed, Gruber would have very quickly and publicly called Dan a 'dicknose'.

His lack of regard for listeners, the people who pay his mortgage, is very, very surprising and ultimately disappointing.
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Consider that the alternative is splitting your ribcage and prying it open with a car jack.

Been there.

Done that.

Not fun.
I've tried all the shows on 5by5 and with few exceptions if Dan doesn't cohost I'm not as interested. He dumbs himself down at times and acts as a foil, it works and extracts more from the cohost. From his writing he is a really smart guy but he plays the role that he has too.
Isn't that just the templating library (Hiccup iirc) that Noir defaults to? Check out Enlive, it's a nice alternative that addresses your concern:

https://github.com/cgrand/enlive

https://github.com/swannodette/enlive-tutorial/
On the other hand, the vast majority of facebook users aren't out there trying to game social gaming mechanics, so I can't imagine that the overall number of fake accounts could be huge. A million at the most?
The day a libertarian realizes the world is not comprised of sets of well meaning rational actors is the day they get a clue.
It seems like we have come a full circle to use travel agents in some form again.
>We need more freedom from the "tyranny of the rich and their whims and fancies" and less toys and consumer products...

Many would say the two go hand in hand, or are ultimately synonymous.
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It's funny, it seems that many (most?) whistle makers aren't very virtuosic players. For the most part, I don't think it does their whistle-making any favors. Whatever they win in "ease of novice use" they lose in "ease of serious use", if you know what I mean.
I really like the idea of pretending that all customers are Mick Jagger and think that it is fantastic, although I now have an image of a pregnant Mick Jagger in my head and I don't like that at all. It is all bulbous and wrinkly, like some grotesque anime demon. I may not sleep well tonight.
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And how much of your own money are you putting where your mouth is on that one? If you're right, you could make a lot of money with that bet.
1920x1200 LCDs are still available, e.g. the Dell UltraSharp U241x, which are also very good displays overall (it's not a TN panel for starters).
Considering Google's ARPU is ~$30, and Facebook's users aren't nearly as valuable as Google's (IMO), that's a big hell no.
The designer of Clippy gave a speech at ROFLCon a few years ago and gave some insight into how Clippy came about. There's a video of it here http://blip.tv/roflcon/it-looks-like-you-are-giving-a-keynot...
Is Silicon valley is loosing its mojo?
As not a parent I will not even pretend to relate with what you are going through. But this is one of the most moving and amazing things I have ever read. A book could not contain the details of just how incredible your story is.

Science does work. The confluence of technologies - search, websites,email, computers, bioinformatics, pharmacology, medical technology (and if hirenj's* advice proves useful then forums, it should be at the top), such that someone can identify, diagnose, commision/customize medication and possibly treat a completely new disease in the span of a few years..The future really is here. An ode to the open source technologies and not so open research that made this possible. Of course it is worth pointing out that the skill required to research, evaluate possible leads, try then untry possible treatments, contact and manage communication with the researchers is also not to be underestimated.

*http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038495
Agreed. Saying children are not worth it is an extreme position, but saying that life is pointless without children is perhaps even more extreme. It's like saying life is pointless without a wife, or without God.
The switch happened more than 2 or 3 years ago. My ~$600 2004 LCDs had similar or better color, the same DPI, and a response time that was fast enough for anything short of FPS games, and that was against my beloved FD Trinitron. My ~$800 2007 LCDs beat CRTs on pretty much everything by a large margin.
Hook two of them together, watch them lase.
Forbes.com: "So, what do you do?" An Entrepreneur's Answer
Right, the schemaless and native JSON are the main reason I switched my products to MongoDB. Scalability is not an issue for 99% of the projects i've worked on.

Easier mapping between my domain model (I mainly use Smalltalk) and the persistence is a huge win.
The mind doesn't create the whole reality. Most of the time, it's operating on stuff that comes from out there in The World (hallucinations, dreams, etc are exceptions). The position that the mind creates the whole reality in Western Philosophy is called Idealism and is associated perhaps most famously with Bishop Berkeley.
this problem is new to me as well, both as a user and a developer. Usually, data that is sent between events is very simple, and if an application registeres for an event that it does not handle well, then it is mostly transparent what application has to be replaced.
Rationally, there is no point in a lot of things (up to and including just sitting idle as a respiring organism). Do you get your sustenance from an IV bag of the basic chemicals your body needs to survive, or do you eat food that you enjoy the taste of? Do you cover yourself with a burlap sap, or do you wear clothing of a design you prefer? Do you get to work on your own locomotive power (walk, ride bicycle) or use a vehicle?

Variety is the spice of life. We do things that we find intellectually and emotionally stimulating.
As ever a useful analysis, however what may I ask is it that you do at Google of relevance to armchair generalizing like this, that causes you to disclose your employment every time you post? It seems to me it detracts from the merit of otherwise consistently excellent write ups, and almost encourages suspicion of bias.
To my knowledge both FastCGI and Unicorn are not free. This is definitely an excellent alternative to those - and probably even easier to use for some use-cases. I am glad and thankful that Stripe decided to make it open-source.
it kind of doesn't have a point. your only option is to believe it does and convince yourself that you have a reason to exist. yeah, it's a glum perspective - you're either depressed or irrational.

expecting a child in 2 months. i'll see how that will affect my view on the world ^_^
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Oh, don't worry, the bears consider it out of whack and a good short as well.

I'm not exactly sure what the deal is with Amazon, but their p/e was much more realistic in the not-so-distant past:

http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/pe_ratio
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Rationally there is no point in having children at all.

Rationally there is no point doing a startup.
If you count Zuckerberg as an employee, then I'm pretty sure he owns more shares than were issued in the IPO.

Even if you don't, a huge slab of the company is owned by current and former employees.
I have to admit it caught my interest and I am not even really looking at the moment
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