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Because I don't like this very much: http://codehs.com/pricing

What do you think about the Khan Academy CS stuff?

It is a tricky business you are in, but could work out very well if you can harness the power of community. You should focus on this idea "give students credits when they help students who are further behind than they are".

I would suggest a slight change in the term "credits" to distance yourself from the money=knowledge associations. Think more "pay it forward" economy where you earn points by helping others. Seeding the economy with a bunch of paid Tutors could get the economy started.
Tutors will just earn "help points" in the system like all other students but they will sell them to you.

To get an exchange economy going you will probably need to move away from the crippleware approach(http://codehs.com/pricing). You should offer the real service (answering questions when you are stuck), and after users use up their free points ask them to help others.
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NextBus has something similar, but it's java, so no-go for mobile.

http://www.nextbus.com/predictor/publicMap.shtml?a=sf-muni&#...
It's the Sugar, Folks
> but Japan also has institutionalized politeness.

Careful. They also have an institutionalized social hierarchy, baked into the language and pretty much everywhere. It's expected that when you start at a new school or a new company that you will be treated like dirt by your 'superiors' on an ongoing basis.

There's a much higher tolerance for hazing and bullying in general. This leaves me skeptical that Japanese culture fosters an environment where people are nicer to each other than anywhere else.

Foreigners tend to get a free pass by being 'out of the system', unless their Japanese(ness) passes a certain threshold of fluency.
>You obviously don't understand the problem, the problem isn't with people who are responsible

That indicates that I do understand the problem. Trying to push responsible owners to harm their pets because other people would let their dogs breed doesn't make any sense.

>I have never heard of "significant increases in a number of health problems" in spaying/neutering at the sixth month mark

That is why I am mentioning it, because so few people realize there is a problem. There has been a blind push to having all animals spayed/neutered before they are mature, without regards to the welfare of the animals. A list of some health problems associated with desexing: http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/201...

>I dont know where your coming from calling it "punishing" the pets.

I suspect you would have no confusion if it were your sex organs being removed.
Yup, ours has you take a short quiz that matches you with a "color" representing a type of dog. We'd assign new dogs one of these colors based off of about 10 criteria that we would evaluate over a 2-3 day waiting period before they were available for adoption; it really helped lower the return rate of the pups.
doesnt do anything for me either.. and i dont have alfred installed... guess this isn't quite ready for primetime yet
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As someone who firmly believes in a start-up's social mission, I would recommend getting on phone with a few Watsi clients (I am sure Watsi does it from time to time). It puts perspective on a lot of things.

You are making a lot of impact in these people's lives and they will let you know how much they appreciate it. On a website these people are somewhat distant story but talking to them is when you really share their experience. It will make you feel good (and somewhat worried) about what you are doing.
well too bad it only supports those two. If I get in Clojure/Javascript before it supports others like Python or PHP I'll try it.
Hey, you're right. We updated the article with your link and clarified the original source better. Thanks for pointing that out.
How is this different than dunking your machine in mineral oil?
Actually yeah, just like a cigarette here and there is not the same in effect as smoking a pack a day, some fructose and other sugars here and there are probably not going to hurt you, but there are noticeable long term effects of constantly having too much sugar.

Further comparison: sugars and nicotine both trigger dopamine cycles that can turn into mental dependence on higher doses, feeding the negative affects even more.

Finally, I can't wait to see all the backpedalling from food companies about how the healthy staple foods they load up with sugar (e.g. whole wheat bread) are actually and 'obviously' just meant to be treats. 'the added sugar should be a give away, its right there in the small print on the back of the label, under the "this is super healthy" label'.
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Wouldn't it be better for us to link directly to the study, rather than to Bittman's editorial about it? I find the study harmonizes nicely with my view of the world, and I'm even ok with Bittman, but he's not a subject matter expert at all. He's the NYT's former food writer who recently decided to write more about food policy.
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> Don't believe me? Restaurants are now voluntarily adding calorie numbers to menus, because the lower calorie stuff is higher margin and people buy it.

Actually, if you are in California then it's more likely because of a 2009 law[1]:

"Putting our heads in the gastronomic sand became a bit harder starting July 1, 2009, when a new law went into effect making California the first state to mandate that chain restaurants--those with 20 or more locations--provide a calorie count for everything on the menu."

[1] http://www.examiner.com/article/calorie-count-california-res...
thanks everyone. I'm going to give it another go. I'm overthinking it. No matter what happens, I'll always have HN for feedback and guidance.
Not too damn many, because of the pressing needs of running a business. If I can hit 100/month I am doing well.
Is there something special about sugar compared to other carbs? If I had to choose between eating bread or cake for the same calories will cake hurt me more?
I agree with your general sentiment, but one thing you said bears correction:

>We can manage the dangers of sugar toxicity pretty easily by exercising.

No, not really. Our bodies run on glucose yet our diets are rife with fructose which must be converted by our livers into a usable form. The metabolic pathway responsible for this conversion is a bottleneck and has nothing to do with how much exercise we get.
No that's not the entire problem. The author rightfully points out the issue with buying from large scale breeders - especially when so many adoptable pets are living in shelters.
I mentioned this before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4816337), but I haven't seen it implemented and think it's worth repeating:

I love what you guys are doing and hope you can fund hundreds of these at a time. But, right now there's only six people who I can donate to. I want to support the organization as well, to make sure you guys can keep helping people.

How about a "fund our operations" button, or at least some pool that I can donate to if there aren't any people left who need a treatment right this second (as occurred the last time I left this comment).

Otherwise, cheers. I just made another donation. I think what you're doing is spectacular.
What is suspicious about it?
Funny this comes out, when only last week this research was released http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=1049...
"Neutering, and the age at which a dog is neutered, may affect the animal’s risk for developing certain cancers and joint diseases"
It is also worth checking out Nathan Winograd, who is campaigning to make ALL shelters in America no-kill. It is worth looking at the statistics and reasons why shelters kill animals in their care, as most often, it is not simply that there are not enough homes.
http://www.nathanwinograd.com/?p=10627
Educate then, don't attempt to socially engineer. Smoking was reduced through education, not taxation. The more people understood the long term consequences of smoking the less people smoked.

I share the views of those who are not fans of processed sugars or fructose, but I am entirely opposed to social engineering.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10225598

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12433723

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9691849

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3506104

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11202221

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15577502

http://avmajournals.avma.org/doi/abs/10.2460/javma.2004.224....

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11787155

http://www.grca.org/health/bigfour_hypo.html

>In general, only the more "old-fashioned" vets have qualms about early spaying and neutering.

Is "old-fasioned" a code for "actually believes in that do no harm nonsense"?

>As to magic spores... well in a shelter environment if a puppy goes out intact it will likely not be fixed by the new owner

Yes, but my dog is not in a shelter, it is in my house. So the constant "you are a bad owner because your dog has testicles" bullshit really doesn't help save anyone or anything.
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Yeah, we are definitely planning to switch to more of that system for a pricing model, and we are not happy with our current pricing. It was kind of an MVP for pricing to get something up there that is fairly reasonable as we're getting going. Thanks for the ideas!

In terms of the Khan CS stuff, I think their editor is really really cool. They have a lot of cool real time features and number scrubbers and color pickers. I think it's just a very different approach to teaching than we have, where theirs is very much based on tinkering, which I, personally, don't think is as good. Definitely a really cool tool though. We've gotten a lot of ideas from it for how to improve our editor.
C99 has array and struct literals:

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> Balanced is Level 1 PCI certified, so you can pass card data directly to us without worrying about compliance.

That's a perfectly valid statement. Typically the capture is done from the servers of the IPSP, not on the servers of the merchant. Hence the 'directly'.
Again, this is not just some blind data cherry-pick, "zucchini-eaters live longer". Robert Lustig has written and spoked extensively about his hypothesis for why fructose is toxic for the human liver and metabolism[1]. It's a controversial idea, but IMO he has made a compelling argument and is now gathering data which supports the hypothesis.

If you want to argue against the hypothesis, please do.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...
I for one find this kind of cognitive dissonance extremely upsetting and a bit perplexing. People are easily able to compartmentalize their feelings about various animals. This leads to neat little groups - food, pet, science experiment. It's very frustrating to me.
I just donated and was quite impressed with the process. It was painless, no sign up, just direct to Pay Pal. Good job.
Is there a societal problem of people having massive fruit intake?

It seems both logical and effective to just worry about the 'added' sugars in processed foods.
it actually uses neither, and doesn't rely on any specific implementation. You could fairly easily wrap a swank client to make it work, or an nrepl one (which is something we'll probably get to soon). One of the nice things about the way we architected it is that there are very few assumptions when it comes to "clients" and that will allow a ton of freedom in using established stuff when it exists.
This study doesn't do the impossible and prove causation, but it goes beyond mere correlation in several key ways; follow Uhhrrr's link to http://epianalysis.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/sugardiabetes/ . It's not something you can casually dismiss with a wave of the "correlation is not causation" mantra.
I think the point that is left out by the article, but emphasized by Robert Lustig (Dr. mentioned in the article) is that sugar, in nature, is almost always accompanied by large quantities of fiber, which prevent it from being absorbed too quickly.

Sugar isn't toxic, but refined sugar, or sugar that has been separated from the fiber it sits with (fruit juice) is indirectly toxic. Dr. Lustig's research has demonstrated this, and he has some very detailed lectures on the subject. He isn't some quack: he is a leading researcher in both understanding AND TREATING pediatric Type II Diabetes, which is a newly occurring disease.

When I drink a beer, I understand that the alcohol I love so much in it is essentially a toxin, that in low enough quantities won't hurt me. I also know that regualr, periodic consumption of it will negatively effect my health. Oddly enough, Lustig's research has shown that fructose, in quantities which are completely normal for someone who has just consumed a moderate amount of refined sugar or fruit juice, has a very similar effect on the liver to alcohol. Not completely identical, but similar. I suggest you watch the video.

I have a 6 year old son and a second child on the way. The only fruit juice he gets to have is extremely diluted with water. This isn't me overreacting as an ignoramus. I've looked at the data, evaluated the research, and found it extremely compelling. Ever use a juicer? Think about how many oranges it takes to make an 8 oz. glass. (It takes several, and if you tried to eat that many, you would be full halfway through due to the fiber.) Refined sugar is just juiced sugar cane with extra chemical preparation.

Oranges are good for you. Orange juice is bad for you. I know it screams out BS, but I assure you, look at the science. You will, as I was, be shocked. How the hell can this stuff I've been eating all my life be THIS bad for me, without me knowing it.
Yes, its an indiscriminate expression. Sort of like saying metal can kill you when its actually bullets.

Its isolating fructose from its natural packaging that is the problem. Metabolizing large amounts of it must be done by the liver and it has side effects.

The other half of table sugar is glucose and it is handled by releasing insulin. Insulin releases leptin as a side effect, which makes you feel satisfied.

Starches break down into glucose. And glucose can be used by every cell in the body.

Lustig's video on this goes through all the biochemistry.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300255
> We can manage the dangers of sugar toxicity pretty easily by exercising.

The assertion being made is that that's not true:

"The study controlled for poverty, urbanization, aging, obesity and physical activity"

(emphasis added)
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> Overhead is what would it cost for the business to exist, but to create nothing and ship nothing.

OK, taken to an extreme this means a few hundred dollars a year to simply exist as an LLC. I know that's not what you meant.

> "how much of the capital will NOT go to create value for the investors?"

In the case of a typical minimal startup one could easily argue that nearly every dime you spend is going to go towards creating value for investors. In other words, if you need to rent a small space for three people to work together than create the software, well, that's creating value for the investors.

Now, if you decided to spend money buying fancy desks, printing unnecessary business cards prematurely, installing a large flat-screen TV in the office and more along those lines clearly there would be a number of line items that are not directly involved in generating investor value. I guess I am arguing that this is not the case for the vast majority of startups. In fact, most of them do (and should) not spend a dime on anything that is not directly related to what is needed to launch the product.

Not trying to be obtuse. I am actually trying to figure out if there's a reasonably objective way to define this for a web/software startup. So far everything I've been able to dig up is nebulous and non-conclusive.

Maybe the "proper" analysis is in phases. On the assumption of responsible management, during the pre-launch and launch phase every dime spent is spent to build the software product. Overhead, in this case, might be limited to rent, utilities, capex (?), marketing and a few other things. Once the site is launched you could easily argue that a portion of developer cost as well as infrastructure (server) cost could be allocated at a per-user rate to the cost of "making" the product. In other words, that would be excluded from overhead. If you lost users you'd need half the servers, therefore anything past one minimal server just to have a website falls outside of the definition of overhead.

Perhaps the judges wanted to learn something akin to your other comment: "how well have you planned to spend what you hope to raise in this round?" Or, during pre-launch and initial launch, are you going to spend any money on anything outside creating direct value for users and investors alike.

I am somewhat surprised that such a simple question can have so many tentacles.
OP here. I don't think I'm implying that a car factory worker should let it's employees work from home. ;)

Maybe I should expand on this part here:
"Yes, every job, product, and company will have certain constraints. The point is to create as much job flexibility as you can so your people can succeed."

What's missing from a lot of manager-employee relationships is conversation: figuring out what works for individual employees within a given context (a specific culture, specific product, etc...).

What was sad about the Yahoo edict was that it was broad and general: "Everyone needs to stop working from home." That's a big culture shift without any interaction.
Nope, its actually a correlation of 0. All the people who didn't get diabetes had the same DHMO consumption. If you want to be snarky, do try to at least make sense.
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Thnk about that for a moment, because it's not even possible. How are you going to finance a second building when the first one has the ability to suck up all the cash flow? No bank would do it. No equity partners would do it. Throwing out limited liability is a huge deal.
Very happy to see this on HN. I have never understood why people are willing to purchase dogs. Between the conditions of large-scale breeders and the amount of animals waiting in shelters, it's just absurd.
sounds like an opportunity to me.
The title is pure linkbait. What they are trying to hide behind their typical populist wording is that the confidence levels linking increased sugar intake to an increase in diabetes are just as high as those linking cigarettes to lung cancer.
One advantage of platforms like KS is that they allow originators to validate their concepts far earlier in the process, giving them more leverage in negotiating with financiers who can no longer demand exorbitant returns from highly speculative investments.

Generally, the more risk you can remove before accepting outside capital, the less you'll have to pay for it.
There are many ways to have influence. A few, for example

- They can limit the company's ability to raise future funds

- They can convert equity to debt if it's convertible. If the company can't pay back the debt they can gain more control

- They can have rights to control hiring and firing

- They may have voting rights with the equity

- They have a voice with the public, press, customers, hiring candidates

- They have rights as minority shareholders

- Various clawback and other provisions may raise or lower their equity stakes, giving them more or less control

- They have access to information they wouldn't have otherwise

Besides contractual and legal rights, they have relationships with management. Presumably they can just talk to management and influence them that way.

Also, power can also be used to act in concert with the company, which is augmented by their inside information and made more credible by their shared interest. They can

- Recommend candidates for hiring

- Recommend clients

- Inform about competition

- Advise

- Reinvest

- Recommend other investors

Etc etc
On the plus side, unlike many judges and prosecutors in various copyright cases at least he didn't get on the payroll until after the verdict...
An expert in intellectual property and one of THREE judges in the appeal. While it does seem incestuous, I don't know how niche this area is in general.

It is like reading about people jumping ship between regulators and industry, it certainly seems "wrong" from a common sense perspective but how many experts are there?
It just so happens that I started playing with Clojure yesterday! I didn't quite manage to get anything to work in LT, however.

E.g. if I do Cmd+Enter on a definition, I get this:

clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to
resolve symbol: defn in this context, compiling:…

If I click 'Make current editor and instarepl' I get errors like this:

clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to
resolve symbol: subs in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:9)

It's all rather confusing. Maybe there's a manual somewhere I should read, but I couldn't find it.
It looks really good, and seems very simple and intuitive. You should add Polls or ramifications or both. Imagine if there are 3 options to make a task. You should be able to show those three options, and let the people vote on the one that should be made.
Just a thought. Good luck.
I'm seeing this as yet another attempt by people to justify their own poor health. Clearly it cannot possibly be their portions that are to blame, but rather society, big bones, genetics, and now the food itself being "toxic". Anything to avoid reality.

Fructose is not the problem. Too much fructose is the problem. I think it is no coincidence that the sensational spin the news has put on this story also happens to be a spin that makes their readers feel better about themselves.
That's still pretty damn good! Congratulations!
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Shelters in Massachusetts are very picky about who they adopt out to. My wife and I looked for a younger large breed dog for nearly a year, and were turned away at every local shelter because our yard wasn't fenced and we both worked full time. A few years earlier, living in an apartment disqualified us from adopting a cat in Massachusetts. We drove 3 hours to adopt a cat from New York, and 2 hours to buy a dog in New Hampshire.

Looking at petfinder for my area, the only dogs in shelters nearby are "imported" from Puerto Rico, and even those only go to homes that are worthy. I'm saddened by the conditions in shelters in other parts of the country, but I'm not going to fly to Alabama to find a dog.
What do they mean by sugar "availability" in the study? How is that measured, by the price in a given country, imports?
Thank you. It's frustrating how much ignorance there is related to the blind "a calorie is a calorie" and "calories in = calories out = health" lunacy.
Pets are simply the sad side effect of humanity.

What exactly is that supposed to mean? Pets can give their owners all kinds of health benefits, emotionally, and otherwise. Humanity isn't all bad, last I checked. I do enjoy my dog.
More than 300k raised? Isn't that way too much? How much is a developer getting paid in the valley?
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