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Agreed, I can't judge Jeff. This seems to really hit close to home with him. It's really brave of Jeff to admit he contemplated suicide.

I was taken aback at Jeff for being angry that Aaron's death has become an effective martyrdom. Quite frankly, if anything can be salvaged from this man's death, salvage it. If he is making the argument others will commit suicide to become martyrs like Aaron, then I would consider his argument. Any positive effect of Aarons suicide don't make his actions right, but I welcome them just the same.
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I agree with other commenters here. But regarding PC being required for creators to do their job will also go down as technology progresses. It wont be too long until developers and designers will hook up their tablets to external screens and keyboards and start creating. One great concept could be to AirPlay onto an external screen while your tablet's screen acts as a touchpad, plus a bluetooth keyboard.
Tablets could very well become a terminal to consume as well as a platform to create.
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The Buddhist monks who killed themselves to protest the South Vietnamese government were probably not suffering from a mental illness. Most suicides are not monks protesting repressive governments. There is very little evidence to suggest that Swartz died in a deliberate act of protest, and much to suggest that he died of a terrible illness.
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yeah, and with these streaming services there's also free vs paid users.

And Pandora is not profitable. I believe Pandora loses money with each user-hour, which means more users == more losses.
Agreed. I always make the time of day to talk to high school or college age kids aspiring to be in engineering or the sciences. Paying it forward if you will, because I got the same help when I was younger.
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Yeah I guess what I mean is you should always aim for DRY but who says the code reuse has to happen on the client? Why not do at least some of the necessary changes based upon screen size upstream on the server if it reduces complexity? My guess is this is probably harder for designers than hacking on CSS. I don't buy the argument that it's more or less DRY depending on where the reuse occurs. The only argument is that there is some value in having the browser understand the layout more fundamentally, but the only use case this enables is the "resize to mobile size on my desktop computer" case, unless I'm missing something.
I had this problem as well. Turns out that drip fails silently if you have Java 6. If you get drip from the checkout (very easy and instructions are at https://github.com/flatland/drip), it will work fine. Alternatively you can upgrade to Java 7.

I've filed an issue here: https://github.com/flatland/drip/issues/50
2. There's a big market of people that actually have to get work done, from freelancers of all kinds to big businesses, people that get drowned into a sea of crapware and consumer-related nonsense.

This market is seriously under-served and unappreciated. And in fact it's why Windows 8 will be seen as Microsoft's biggest disaster.

4. I agree and in fact it's why I think today's walled gardens will fail, while the PC will prevail, just like in the console wars of a couple of years ago.
Tell HN: I have a script to retrieve your saved stories - are you interested?
In response to a question asked recently[0] I've re-implemented my scripts to retrieve my saved stories. The scripts are fragile and not pretty - I just hacked them together quickly to get the job done.

However, it occurs to me that there might be more people interested, so I was wondering about making them available "as is" for people to use and improve.

My concern is that it is scripted access to HN, so it might be regarded as "unkind".

Thoughts?

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5067445
Yah... I'm reading this as you wanting to exploit them.
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That blog article was one of the stupidest things I've ever read.

I never got the encouragement or support to pursue my hobbies at a young age, whether from parents or friends, and would've killed to have a community like this that could've praised me and pushed me forward.

To accuse a kid mentioning the fact that he's 14 in his submission title as being manipulative really reflects on how out of touch you are with the way humans operate. A kid his age is looking to show off his work, proud that he's not wasting his time on Power Rangers and Nerf guns, putting his focus and attention to furthering his meaningful hobbies. You encourage that, not dismiss him.

Time and time again, it's just remarkable to me how socially inept the lot of you are. When your child comes up to you and exclaims "Daddy, Daddy! Look what I've done!", you sure as hell aren't going to say "Heh, yeah, I did that too, but I was younger."
Why do you think it is impossible for it to add any value?
Pretty sure things like this: https://twitter.com/Stammy/status/293495292265893888 entirely taint any intellectual reasoning behind invites.
Just downloaded the app and have been playing around with it. Great job dude, quite fun!
I'd wager that most of the people you see bagging on PayPal have:

1) Never used them in a business capacity

2) Have only read horror stories

3) Take those stories at face value

The horror stories usually have an obvious, "duh" kind of reasoning behind them when you step back and think about it from PayPal's point of view. Big influx of sales out of nowhere? That's a flagging. Accepting money for some kind of charity? That's a flagging.

I'm very satisfied with their service. They work to protect your money, your customers' money, and their reputation. If you're an entrepreneur and you aren't sure what payment processor to go with, don't exclude PayPal from consideration.
GMail kinda has it. If you look in GMail Labs, you'll see the option to delay sending an e-mail by 1 minute. That gives you 1 minute to change your mind. I wish more mail clients had this feature.
so, Stripe is eating their lunch then...
Because, from a business perspective, programmers are workers.
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I remember reading an academic article that showed how the
real cost was almost always 1/20 of that

This is the Light and Warburton study. The short answer is
that it's kind of like a freshman saying "I could build Facebook overnight" by wgetting Facebook's CSS/JS. But for anyone in engineering who knows what FB's backend infrastructure is like, they know it would be nontrivial to clone FB.

The best response to Light and Warburton is that if it really took only $43 million to ship a drug, then they should raise the capital and start a drug company. It would be by far the most capital-efficient and successful drug company of the last 50 years. If they have really figured out how to cut all the fat, they would be hailed throughout the industry.

But I hope to persuade you that when someone outside the industry is off by two orders of magnitude ($43M vs. $4B), it is likely that they are the ones who have missed something important. I encourage you to read Derek Lowe's more detailed critique here:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/07/the_costs_of...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/03/08/that_43_mill...
"You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into"

The metaphor I use is that suicide is the end-game of a crippling disease that attacks the brains ability to manage stress. I liken depression to AIDS of the emotional immune system.

This is a very profound way of thinking about depression, and I thank you for sharing it.
It would be an interesting hack to do something like the dup filter for age and indicate when something is a repost and automatically include the previous versions as the first comment in the thread. I agree that sometimes bringing something back for another round is worthwhile, of course some times not.
My biggest question is, what if I publish this game myself? I have a developer account, a game at about 75% completion, 6 apps on the app store, and a decent plan to monetize it already. The only thing that would be nice is the press for winning, or placing. That and a free trip to beautiful California. What turns me off about publishing through this route is the first $1k is yours, and 30% after that. So, after Apple and MGWU, I would be left with 40% of all sales - something I don't think the publicity would offset, even long term. My gut says this hinges on the fact that I'd have to publish through MGWU for it to count as an entry.

I'm also wondering about guaranteeing 10,000 installs. That would be nice, but I have over that on one of my apps and that doesn't really equate to blips on the App Store internal marketing/searching system in my experience.

EDIT: After reading the detailed rules, it looks like you do have to publish through them. And, instead of being left with 40%, I'd be left with just under 50% of the price/prices of items for sale in the App Store.

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This is probably a good deal if you can't make the art for your game, and can make the mechanics/playability fairly quickly.
Why does it add value?
I'm curious to learn more about the decision to keep it invite only. I can only provide personal insight, but I lost interest as soon as there was a link I wanted to comment on and couldn't.
Looks like Twitter is down?
A friend of mine does that with her boyfriend as a sort of solidarity thing with same sex couples. Dunno if that's Aaron's reason, but that was what I thought of.
They already started doing it: http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/11/intel-shifts-strateg...
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Several times. I was told to allow him to interrupt me. :/
It's not that people no longer need their PC's with their big screens and keyboards to do their work, it's that only a small fraction of those people need more CPU power. Heck, my mid-2010 MBA still makes a perfectly good developer machine, and it's only got a 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo. Indeed, Apple was lambasted by the press at the time for putting a two and a half year old chip into the machine. And really it's just a ULV die-shrink of the Conroe core.

I'm excited about Haswell, but only because it's supposed to come in under 10W. I feel like MBA battery life took a step back with Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge (the mid-2010 model lasts forever on a charge).
I try not to generalize, I know that my representatives take postal mail more seriously than email (I've asked them) but understand the caveat that what politicians say isn't necessarily a reliable fact :-)

And I have received written responses from postal mail but I don't recall seeing any personalized email.
Ragequitting is a videgame term. It is used to refer to when someone quits a multiplayer game when they are losing.
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Technically a tablet can be powered by an Intel processor, as well as a development platform can be powered by non x64 architectures. So the need for a large screen and a keyboard does not mean that the PC will survive, since you could just hook up a TV and a bluetooth keyboard to an tablet. ( Actually one of the underexplored possibilities of UI design.)
That may have been the inspiration... though in Oz it's called The Perfect Match ;)
we use nginx - uwsgi - django and are quite pleased with the combination. between nginx/uwsgi, there are plenty of configuration options to let you optimize for your particular use case, and don't see any potential issues in terms of adding new capabilities to our setup (minus web sockets, but as mentioned in another comment that is coming soon / available with plugins)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093964

And it's fine for me.
Great advice. The most important thing to understand about life is that you don't know what you don't know!

Put negatively, if you're not interested in further educating yourself outside of your direct interest areas, understand that you will have certain limitations in life that you will not yourself perceive.
I've been taking payments with PayPal for 13 years this June. I feel exactly the same. Not only has their service and support always been excellent for me, they're by far the most economical option, at first glance (the effective transaction rate is lower than any other 3rd party processor, or the 3 traditional merchant account providers I've used), and on closer scrutiny (the fraud screening and dispute resolution mean I keep more of the money I get paid through PayPal than by credit card directly).
While this is a nice ad for their site with a novel take on online dating, its claims about other dating sites are pretty wrong. Every dating site sees its primary objective as not scaring away the women, and designs itself accordingly.

The 7pmanywhere concept doesn't really make sense to me though -- why should matchmaking happen using realtime chat? Doesn't that just limit the pool too much, if you have to find good matches from the people who happen to be on the site at the same time as you? Aside from that, at least they're trying something different and new.
Nexus 7? Or for a $100 more, an iPad Mini...
I would guess it has a lot to do with the team, especially the size but also the level of commitment to the work of the other devs. I've never been around a loud team or in a noisy environment (I'm not counting the sound of other people typing). Blocking out 50 conversations in a day, many of the much more inane or pointless, may be much harder for me than 5 business/tech-related ones. But I've never had to try to deal with that.

Though I doubt that it would be much different for me, personally, because when I'm really in the middle of an interesting problem and cranking stuff out, I just don't notice background noise in the same way I don't notice that it's suddenly four hours later... I mean, maybe I'm just lucky in that, but my own coworkers have never expressed frustration with the environment either, so I don't know just how rare it is. (So I guess the key thing is that if the environment is getting to you, don't just keep it to yourself!)

I also have a (maybe overly cynical?) hunch that in addition to the "ease of distraction by external noises" spectrum there's also a "desire to goof off more if nobody's going to notice" spectrum that comes into play. (He says, as he posts on HN in the middle of the day, heh...)

I've never bothered to look into research on it, but I also don't see any trends of companies with private offices outcompeting ones without. I know the output of the team I was on at the company I worked at where I had a private office was not great, but there are other factors involved there too, of course.

I also think the rotating "consulting developers" idea from grecy above sounds like a pretty good idea, regardless of office layout.
Nice concept, I liked the circle "categories" (CSS, Show, etc)

But one things that really bothers me, especially in a design oriented site, when using image only cues, at least add a title / alt for a tooltip:
(1) for accessibility and screen readers (2) for users who don't get the hint of the clock/newspaper/plus icons as the equivalent newest/news/submit concepts from HN.

Good potential, nice MVP overall
I have seen j for current density only so far. But physics are convinced you can tell the difference by context (which is usually true, but probably impossible for a compiler, even if physics is "typed" with units). For handwritten text at least my professors managed to come up with at least two different ways to write each letter to avoid confusion. My (not serious) attempts to use Chinese characters haven't been very successful.
Paul's a friend and I trust his ability to dole out invites. That's why we gave him some.
As I understand--and please be aware I'm only working off public information here--no. North Korea is well aware they cannot wage a war of aggression nor can they sustain a defensive posture. They've been aware of this for 40+ years and have had time to prepare. Their only effective military option is to make the cost of defeating them so prohibitively high that no nation will dare. To this end they've riddled the mountains near the DMZ with tunnels for logistic resupply and as firing positions. These tunnels admit the movement of men and material out of sight of overhead spy planes and, now, satellites. The DPKR easily has thousands of tunnels at its disposal.

It's entirely possible that the US and its allies have mapped the endpoints of these tunnels and _could_ simultaneously bombard them all, but if even 10% were missed Seoul could be absolutely decimated. (There are reports that South Korean and US special forces make incursions into the North to discover and map tunnels, so I'd be willing to bet that the percentage of unknowns is much higher than 10%.)

Interestingly, if Seoul and other populated areas were to be moved--that is, its 15 million citizens collectively abandoned the city and rebuilt, say, 100 miles away from the DMZ--this strategic advantage of the DPRK would be voided. Ignoring the staggering cost of this, it's probable that the North would view such action as provocation to war and act accordingly.

From the field of possible responses to North Korea it's entirely possible that waiting for it to burn itself out may well be the least costly tactic, measured by unnatural human deaths. That means, of course, that the DPRK's concentration camps and system of repression must be tolerated until such horrors lead to the destruction of the government from internal forces. Personally, I find this morally repugnant and I pity any world leaders that must choose the waiting game.
I'd like to think I consider myself more than a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder.

Also, if this takes off, I am sure people will find ways to game the system six ways til Sunday.
Really, I just wanted to borrow your css and because frustrated that I couldn't because you don't have any css files. That should be fixed.
Explain how you implement this in a standard way across providers first.
"As the brain is one connected whole, it is neurologically important that the cortical and thalamic processes remain coordinated."

You have two things you have to prove. One, that it is neurologically important that these processes remain coordinated. Two, that unscientific thoughts somehow cause them to become uncoordinated. I'd settle for any sort of proof that thinking unscientific thoughts has any sort of detectable physiological effect. From there, I'd want to see that the effect is meaningful.

I expect your definition of "logical" is gerrymandered to include certain kinds of illogical thinking of which you approve and ignore others. People engage in superstitious behavior constantly despite it being illogical, even after having the illogicalness of the behavior explained. This doesn't seem to cause them physical harm. Your allegation that people are always being logical seems incoherent in the face of your allegation that holding inconsistency in the mind is detrimental--either we can do it or we can't.

I'm not especially open to continuing the debate. If you have proof of whatever these effects are bring it, but I'm not otherwise interested in continuing a conversation about your weird pseudo-scientific mysticism. I'm happy you found something that works for you, I guess.
Good but there is no option to share the links like Hacker Node offers. I like to email links to myself to look over later on so I can focus on them more.
Oh this is like an old tv dating show in Germany called "Herzblatt". Stopped 10 years ago but was very popular.

Its the same concept.
$200 today. I'm willing to wager that Grandma will get by just fine with a $100 tablet in three years.

Geeks tend to forget that a vast portion of the population just needs a web browser, a handful of popular games, chat, and email.

With everyone hopping on the Facebook train, it's not even clear that chat/email is really that required anymore.
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Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5067445
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There's never going to be an end to the "normal" PC market until people find a way to get work done on all the devices that will purportedly take the PC's place.
I like the overall scheme. If information overload for women is the hard part, that's the thing to focus on.

That said, how will you attract men to a site where they are likely to be filtered into oblivion? The mainstream dating sites may, in reality, be useless to many men, but by giving subscribers the ability to actively do something, they may feel like they're making contact.

Conversely, how will you handle women who "shoot too high" ? (i.e. If female subscribers filter too hard, they may not get the response rates they desire.)
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MTP is a complete trainwreck. The main problem is that the support in Windows is absolutely useless. Copying a big file and want to continue exploring the contents? Nope. Any kind of simultaneous operation will just plain not work. There is a very odd warning if you copy over plain old data like zip files - it tells you that the device might not be able to play the content. You can still copy them over, at crappy speed. But then trying to read them again will often fail with a weird error that amounts to "The connection broke".

Oh, and Explorer constantly locks up when dealing with MTP devices. It either plain crashes or waiting for data that is never coming, no matter, its blocking the GUI interactions for fucks sake, in 2013.
There is a reason why there is an age of consent, why there is a youth criminal system, why there are age limits.

Some of you clearly lack empathy.
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Anyone know what % of Intel chips go to the datacenter/server market? It must be higher and higher all the time. Perhaps it'll eventually be the majority!
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