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An entire generation grow up in isolated lifeless suburbs where every facet of its life had to be planned and scheduled around traffic. Of course young people are sick of the suburbs and moving back into the city, the suburbs are boring as hell.

Even India, Australia, China, and other countries experience suburban sprawl. Oh did they move away from black folks too? Humans, like many other animals, like having territory, land, peace, and quiet. So people work in the city but live tucked away in the county. And that the fact that in St. Louis, we have Belfontaine (the black county which has nicer areas than many of the white counties) just proves that everyone likes living in peace & quiet.
He only has an obligation to refund if he decides to cancel the project. As far as we know, the project is still continuing so he has no obligation to fulfill the refunds.

In the faq you linked, here's a choice quote:

>It's not uncommon for things to take longer than expected. Sometimes the execution of the project proves more difficult than the creator had anticipated. If a creator is making a good faith effort to complete their project and is transparent about it, backers should do their best to be patient and understanding while demanding continued accountability from the creator.
We're not aggregating other content. We let user create content on iPad and publish it on our platform. Apple was content with having us add a Report button.
How about shortening it to Anal.js

(seriously, that would be a great name. and, ya know, in reference to being anal retentive. get your mind outta the gutter people.)
I'm not in the industry, but I believe uranium reactors produce plutonium as a byproduct. Plutonium is useful to make bombs.
> that amount of money (300k+, for a family)

What's that number intended to represent? It seems (1) too small to be the cost of a house in SF suitable for a family, (2) too large to be the annual (still less the monthly) cost of renting somewhere in SF suitable for a family, and (3) too large to be the salary you need to be making in SF to afford the rent or mortgage on a house suitable for a family. Is it intended to be the amount you need for a realistic downpayment when buying a house, perhaps?

(It looks to me as if you can rent a pretty decent house in SF for, say, $6k/month, which is certainly a whole lot of money but far less than $300k/year. If you want to buy, it seems like the figure is somewhere around $1M.)
Exactly, the 'genetic' part of the term implies some sort of breeding, not that you can transform your search space into a vector which you call a genome. In fact, the algorithm used seems to be exactly what is described on the wikipedia for 'Random Optimization' [1].

I would expect that a true GA might work better, but not be the best choice. In my semi-related experience, Particle Swarm Optimization [2] works much better for continuous valued problems.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_optimization

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization
Yea, my school's schedule is extremely confusing (it's a two week schedule, each day is different) so this makes things much easier.
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In the event Kickstarter is not a valid target, it is very unlikely that it will end up with 1000 small claims since the target left would be insolvent and only a few irrational donaters would bother going down that road.
This goes back to the idea that there is a set of "natural" search results that Google is deviating from. I don't think this is a realistic way of looking at things. Google's results are essentially a list of sites curated by an algorithm to be maximally relevant to the interests of the person searching. Curation implies discrimination.

Assuming Google is behaving as a rational business, discriminating against nudity means that Google thinks most users don't want nudity in their search results. This may or may not be an accurate assessment of user preferences, but the idea that Google should be "neutral" just doesn't make sense. Google will always promote some results above others, and it will always view some sites as irrelevant to the user's intent. It can't not do that. Discriminating against nudity is not inherently any more "false" than discriminating against Viagra spam.
OpenSSH is produced by the OpenBSD Project, but OpenSSL is not. That's a different organization.
Useless is the wrong word, but the point is that publications can no longer capture the value of the distribution itself.
I guess his "most common pricing mistake" is price discrimination. But price discrimination is one of those things that sellers love and customers hate. "Why was I charged more than someone else?" is a sure way to piss off a customer. Tread carefully.
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About 3 years ago, Dan Ariely presented "Are we in control of our actions" [1] which demonstrated, among other things, that when offering 3 graduated choices the middle choice has a strong orienting effect on the decider. That is, the middle choice points the way towards which pair should be considered - the bottom two or the top two.

The prices of the author's packages are $39, $79, and $169. The differences are $40 and $90, respectively. According to Ariely, in this situation more people will consider the $39/$79 pair (because they are more similar, in this case based on price) rather than the $79/$169 pair, and, in fact, this is what the author reports.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI
Many industries have strong union presences that negotiate wages. But there is only a statutory minimum wage for 5-6 different jobs--painters, mailmen, etc. But in general, the best protection against low wages is the high mobility that low wage jobs offer.
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Let's not get into discussion if tornado is better or not than twisted. Both have similar mechanism to flatten generators and both mechanisms are much more complex than one could expect. Also, both of them heavily depend on python exception handling.

BTW, this is brilliant:

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The question is, how much shelter, healthcare or food can you pay when your job is replaced by a machine or an offshore worker because your wage is now too high (relatively to the alternative) to be worthwhile keeping you employed?
...there's actually little empirical evidence that minimum wages, at least at the level contemplated in the U.S., actually do have an impact on unemployment in the world...

Minimum wages are usually set at rates well below market. I.e., it's a law that says "keep doing what you are doing" for the vast majority of workers.

In the rare cases when the minimum wage law changes behavior, unemployment is the typical result (see American Samoa's recent troubles, for example).
Awesome. Great description of being a developer and of being a founder.
> Companies shouldn't be able to set wages at an arbitrary low.

Why not? You seem to think that there is only one big company setting wages for everyone. If company X needs good workers and is only willing to pay $5 per hour, but company Y is willing to pay $12 per hour, company X is not going to get the good workers. If they want better workers they will have to raise their wages.

> without any regard to the standard of living for the employees making those wages.

The clients who pay me do so without any regard to my standard of living. They pay me with regard to the value I provide. If you are suggesting that low skill employees need to be paid based on something other than the value they provide then you are suggesting that they be given charity rather than wages.
care to extrapolate on the legal quagmires? Haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere.
I'd rather take the machine.
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Can you provide your personal perspective on the cost of living and quality of life in Dallas, as opposed to SF or NYC?
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Since I just started the blog for my new startup about a week or two ago, I'm focusing on targeting some long tail keywords to get initial traffic. I don't optimize the blog for SEO though, I let Wordpress handle all of that for me.
Exactly - my biggest complaint about ELB on AWS is that they relied on people honouring a TTL that was ridiculously low, and as such now honoured by many clients.
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The distribution market is very unevenly commodified. Hence, Apple is able to take a 30% cut of The Magazine's gross, in return for distributing it.
I think we're beginning to see the major disadvantages of using KickStarter and crowd-funding.

"Dealing with People"

Things fail by default. Look at how many companies have been started by geniuses, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars, mentioned on blogs all over the internet, and still the majority of them fail. So you can only imagine how the average person running a kickstarter feels when they can't reach their deadline. At least VCs understand the success/failure ratio.

VC investors are giving, few in numbers, and understanding. Crowd funding backers are the opposite: large in numbers, a pain in the ass to deal with, and irrational. If they give you $5 so help you Jesus/Alah/Buddha they will find every reason imaginable to yell at you for spending those $5 incorrectly. (see Amanda Palmer's kickstarter backlash story)
Each of the pledges has an "Estimated Delivery". While those have passed, I don't think there's anyone here who doesn't understand that there can be a sometimes tenuous relationship between "estimate" and "realistic" when dealing with a "prototype".

The communication issue is, agreed, his own worst enemy.
I'd like to comment that the title should probably be "Why founders shouldn't be developing/programming". This title makes it seem like being a developer excludes you from being a founder/CEO
In the rare cases when the minimum wage law changes behavior, unemployment is the typical result (see American Samoa's recent troubles, for example).

Well, while we're exchanging anecdotes, we've got an $18/hr minimum wage here in Denmark, and unemployment is quite low. The main effect is that wages are more compressed than in the US. It does help that there's an aggressive upskilling program, so people automated out of a job get free education to move up to sectors with more demand.

One way of thinking of it is that a higher minimum wage, coupled with technological advancement and a strong education system, just accelerates the automation curve. Today's $10/hr labor will be tomorrow's automatable-for-$2/hr labor anyway. So people in those jobs are going to have to switch to something else in the near future. Why not automate 'em a few years earlier, and get a jump on both deploying new tech and moving people into something better? Then you can export the resulting tech, too.
You're right, because no successful tech companies have ever been started by programmers, with programmer-designed UIs.
Absolutely, as we see from the numbers, most iPhone apps aren't making a lot of money, so $400 + $100 for the app store access is simply dumb for an indie dev.

Miguel is a very smart man and completely clueless at the same time.
I'd also like to see underemployment / multiple job stats too.

All this talk about minimum wage, haven't seen mention of living wage.
I've been following this story closely, and I can confirm that McAfee's story checks out with independent witnesses, recordings of conversations, and everything else.

If anything, given how his friends have been sticking up for him (friends that have been thrown in jail and have been threatened), indicates that McAfee is not the person the media is making him out to be.

There was no meth lab, there were no bath-salts involved, McAfee hasn't even used drugs in 30 years, the bluelight thread was a hoax, the pictures used of him were cherry-picked from a group of 100s normal ones to make it seem he had a gun/drug fetish, he's girlfriends were not under-aged, etc.

No matter how much he has tried to clear things up, to tell the real story of corruption, everyone ends up ignoring the truth and reports sensationalism.

But what surprises me the most is the quantity of people (that don't really seem to poses a single insightful detail about this whole ordeal) posting comments on how they are certain he is an - egotistical drug paranoid delusional murderer that needs to get what is coming to him.

I expected that much in the comments section of the major news networks, but seeing it here, composing 90% of the comments on McAfee related submits, is an eye opener for me.
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okay. you're missing the point. I think it was implied that I meant they don't necessarily scale. It's quite obvious that sometimes you have large altruistic projects that are successful.

Kickstarter has funded plenty of large projects.

The point is that the threshold-pledge-system isn't a viable substitute for ALL funding. Therefore getting rid of the copyright system would destroy the potential for a lot of project (like my James Bond example) because they wouldn't be able to be funded through altruistic schemes.

The burden of proof - that it is viable to substitute to the copyright with the threshold pledge system - is on its supporters
I figured you would say that about chickens. Basically, if you pick a definition which only works for humans, then sure, humans are going to be the winner. You might as well say that humans are the most optimal because they are the only ones to have put satellites into orbit around Mars. True, but not a useful species comparison.

Tell me, can you even apply your concept of "wanted to" to any other species? Which are the most successful fish species by this definition? Could any species of ant ever "want to" kill all humans? If they really wanted to, could they succeed?

As it stands then, your definition is useless, and propaganda for the supremacy of the humans species.

If we go extinct tomorrow - pretend this is the height of the Cold War and WW3 starts, with 50,000 nuclear weapons going off across the surface of the planet - then would an alien observer say that we were a successful species, because of our massive effect on the ecosystem, or would they say that we were a dismal species, which only lasted for a few hundred thousand years?

If we go extinct next year because of a hyper-virulent virus which kills only humans, would you say that that virus is more optimal than humans?

Your answers probably say more about you than provide a useful guide to how to measure evolutionary success.

As to the amount of genetic mutation present, that's just silly. There's 844 million tons of maize harvested each week, with plenty left as chaff. Assuming an average human mass of 65 kg and a population of 7 billion gives 460 million tons of people. Corn DNA is slightly larger than human DNA and plant cells tend to be smaller than animal cells. By the mass or count definition, corn is more successful than humans. There's 651 million tons of wheat harvest each year, but wheat's genome is 5x bigger than humans, so there's certainly more wheat DNA in the world than human DNA.

In any case, you're again too focused on the individual. Evolution only cares about genes, not individuals.

That's why your correct extrapolation - "the most optimal human would theoretically attempt to turn all of the matter in the universe into copies of his/her genes" - shows that that definition of optimality is invalid. Individuals aren't relevant. There's no guarantee that duplicated genes in cloned copies of a single individual are better at survival than having a mix of genes spread across a heterogenous population.

And your last paragraph shows that you don't understand the effect of mutation in evolution. All you are thinking of is the weeding out part.

Mutations occur all the time. Humans have about 0.003 mutations per genome per generation. For every 4000 births, there is a mutation. Few are improvements. Nearly all have no effect or are negative. Suppose one mutation has a really good advantage, and the only child from that person both 1) inherits the gene and 2) has a brand new nose picking mutation which confers a slight negative effect. Then that person's children will inherit both mutations. The really good one is going to spread, and the new, detrimental mutation will also spread -- even though it doesn't help improve survivability!
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Excellent analysis above.

This is also why I facepalm when people suggest that most regulation can be replaced by private litigation.
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Who covers the difference between the $7/h gas station attendants currently make, and the new $100/h? How do they do this without raising prices? Where does the farmer buy gas so as not to have to raise the price of food to match?
What? That doesn't make any sense. Why does the right of owning something present any kind of guarantees?

A hurricane can come by today and destroy your home. It doesn't mean you don't have the right to own the home.

The protection from damage is a separate right from that of ownership. That's all I'm saying.
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No, it does not defeat the purpose. Instead, it just lessens the effectiveness of the status page. It really depends on what tumblrs most common error scenario is. 95% of errors may manifest themselves in manners which do not affect the status of the status page.
The article was kind of confusing to me..

Does "release" in this case mean they are going to push the button to allow users to download it from the app store tonight? Or have they just submitted it and they are awaiting approval?
Spectroscopy can certainly help - but for me would bring to mind the various times putative signs of extraterrestrial life have been found - the Martian meteorites of 1996, or the current Mars rover "organic materials" findings - leading only to controversy and uncertainty. But hey, c'est la science.
While I totally understand your feeling, you should be aware that this strategy wouldn't work if you wanted to start a company like Tesla or Intel.

No offense, but what you call a startup might be more considered like a business by the HN crowd, and this is why you can operate this way.

Not every type of company can stay out of the now traditional pitching/VC game.
Why? If hiring costs the same everywhere, companies would probably relocate back to the developed countries for other reasons (less shipping, better justice systems, etc), while the developing countries would face massive unemployment.

If anything, it'd make poor people much poorer and increase worldwide inequality.

Not to mention that such countries would have new "castes", between the relatively well paid employed and the majority of unemployed or black market workers, leading to more social instability.
It doesn't seem to be working very well. I googled tit (it's a bird) and the only birds that showed up were of the human variety, sans tops.
> there's actually little empirical evidence that minimum wages, at least at the level contemplated in the U.S., actually do have an impact on unemployment in the world world, except on part-time work by teenagers.

There are unemployed people today who would like to have a job. Isn't that sufficient empirical evidence?

> No, because lowering the minimum wage, empirically, does not produce new jobs.

But it does. As the minimum wage goes to zero, I could personally create a larger and larger number of jobs.
"This may be a worthwhile debate but it will never see the light of day in a courtroom as a class action unless it defies all odds of how such cases work."

If only there were some novel funding mechanism that could enable a large number of people to each contribute a small amount of money to back some project that wouldn't be economically viable otherwise.
Curious whether it'll actually have the voice nav, which was (apparently? allegedly?) at issue in the first place.

I guess we will (might?) find out soon enough.
No, because lowering the minimum wage, empirically, does not produce more jobs, aggregated across the economy.
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Am seriously not trying to be rude to Carl Sassenrath, Rebol's inventor. Just discovered Rebol lately so am not very tuned in to the ecosystem. But Red has been open source for some time, it appears to be dramatically faster, and seems to be free of Carl's understandable urges to keep some kind of control in an anarchic world?

I say this as someone trying to decide which one to invest my very limited non-work time in one of these two very worthy projects.
"after spending it recklessly"

I'm really curious as to how Dustin came to this conclusion - given that many people have stated the project has had multiple developers at times, and nearly a year or more of development.

It's a claim with serious implications - wonder what the backing for it is?
That too! Every one of those apps that has write access to one's timeline can now send money wherever.
No one should ever expect that an investment will provide any specific return. Especially when it's not SEC regulated, audited, or otherwise credentialed at all. And extra-especially when the platform on which the funding is made explicitly disclaims any expectation of project completion saying "Kickstarter does not investigate a creator's ability to complete their project. Backers ultimately decide the validity and worthiness of a project by whether they decide to fund it."
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Yep. I once had a page deleted within a minute or two after creating it for (as I recall) "duplication" and "not enough content". It wasn't a duplicate at all (it was about a metalworking tool that might look superficially similar to a woodworking tool, if you don't know anything about tools, which the editor didn't), and one reason there wasn't enough "content" was that I was still uploading the original images that I'd shot myself specifically to illustrate the article. I did get the delete rolled back, but got chided for "incivility" along the way (funny, I would have thought that deleting someone else's work when you don't have a clue about the topic of the article would count as "uncivil").

I lost enthusiasm for contributing to Wikipedia after that and haven't done much there since. Occasionally I correct minor-yet-annoying spelling errors, but that's about it.