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(Longtime HN participant using a throwaway account.)

I'm half of a two-person startup. I have a wife and child, and my wife is chronically ill, so I end up doing a large share of the child care. And now one of my cofounder's parents has cancer. Given our family obligations and financial constraints, we both work absurdly hard to get everything done.

This is enough adversity to make anyone run the other way and bet on our failure (one reason I'm using a throwaway account). But I don't think it's that clear-cut at all.

I don't like it when people take the "adversity is an asset" argument too far, but in our case it has only steeled my resolve. Having constraints is helpful, up to a point. We deeply believe in our product, we know it materially improves people's lives.

Working more hours is not a scalable competitive advantage. We're going to succeed because we're smarter and have more guts.
No, there is no absolute "moral duty" to anything or anyone.

That is a very limited understanding of morality.

There seems to be many people working on that.

Not enough.

I would say this is a battle you have <0.01% of winning. In such case, the wise thing to do is not to enter in this battle.

By this logic no one should ever work on really hard problems.
You just touched all of my buttons wrt food and economics here.

First of all, just because food isn't used doesn't mean it is wasted. I don't like to go to the store all the time so I buy more food than I may end up using -- but I still consider it worth it.

Second there is not an limited amount of food in the world and there is no reason we have to cut down on our use in order to feed hungry Africans -- we can, as GP correctly pointed out -- feed the entire world.

At this point the only reason there is hunger anywhere in the world is bad governments and failed states -- Haiti is hell on earth (and has been before the recent earthquake), but it borders the Dominican republic, which is much better (if still far from the western world), NK is the worst place on earth with street urchins scavenging for single kernels of rice in animal dung, SK, which it borders, is a pretty good place to live and has basically no starvation.

It is one country today, but the same difference (albit to a lesser degree) could be seen between East and West Germany.

Finally, take the recent hunger situation in Africa -- people had to walk miles through the desert, leaving their dead and dying children behind in the sand because they couldn't carry them. They had to walk until they came out of Somalia and entered Kenya where they would receive held and food -- because the warlords of Somalia didn't allow the food aid into the country as they believed it was a western emperialist attempt to make Islam look bad.
What's wrong with writing a story about the supposed video and then notifying the appropriate authorities? Is not stories about the video enough to get the ball rolling? If these people are attempting to blackmail the mayor, then law enforcement will get involved, and surely the truth of the video will eventually see light of day.
No because 1) There are probably still some people in those cities that can legitimately rent and 2) that would lower revenues. As it stands they can turn a blind eye and put the liability on the homeowner/renter.
The Internet is not yours. If you put content on the PUBLIC Internet, consider yourself to be consenting to any abuse the Internet as a whole wishes to dish out in return.
Clojure at a Bank – Testing
Completely agree with the reason why a user would use a gmail account without OAuth, I'm just surprised that 11% of users actually did it since it requires significantly more work to do so.

I also completely agree with the benefit from social logics depends on the nature of your business. For a B2B play, having users sign up through Google OAuth makes sense, especially for organizations that are using Google Apps to manage e-mail and identity already. Presumably this will also allow an IT administrator to manage the account (though I haven't dived deep enough to ascertain that)

Basically, choose your third-party logins properly to maximize growth through partner channels. If your app isn't inherently social, there still are great integrations out there that make sense.
How is this going to work out legally/politically? Its a good notion, and a lot of good discussion exists on HN for merits/etc..

Can you fathom any sort of political debate on moving towards such a thing in the US (being US centric here, but perhaps certain EU countries would fare better).

Notwithstanding this somewhat exists by way of "welfare" programs and their like, and yet those are continually disparaged/hot-button topics which typically move nowhere in any type of reform (expansion or contraction).
#apple on where?
> .NET Micro Framework

No thanks.
Even more embarrassingly I was thinking of the "scratch" programming language. Sorry. Being able to upload scratch as a sketch to your yun to animate a sketch would be cool.

The desire for a rasp-pi with the shape and form and I/O plug compatible with the arduino shield ecosystem is probably a common desire and I hope it arrives soon. Someday there will be an arduino running sketch with a COTS arduino motor shield (or whatever) plugged into it.
I miss LiveJournal so much. I was so reluctant to leave it but with all my irl friends migrating to Friendster and then myspace I had no choice. Privacy settings were easy, friend management was easy, desktop client was easy (and powerful). RIP

-quasidan
‘Cadmium Rice’ Is China’s Latest Food Scandal
The True Definition Of Wealth: Return On Life
No connection. Just happen to have the same name.
Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
Actually, you don't even need xvfb these days (and I have no idea why anyone is telling people that they do). You could use something like xserver-xorg-video-dummy. Of course, as you have pointed out, PhantomJS doesn't require an X server (as opposed to these other projects, wtf) so that it is "really really truly headless".
There's a wide gap between giving objective, straightforward criticism and being insulting. The latter is not necessary to get one's point across. The latter is also what Linus did, and what many in the programming community encourage, under the guise of being the former. You don't need to be a bully to give pointed criticism. The fact that people don't seem to get this, and rabidly defend terrible behavior, is discouraging.
If you parse the pronouns carefully, you'll see that both the mother and the partner are female.

There are an awful lot of places where they legally cannot become spouses.
> "I doubt there would be a scene, only me embarrassing myself by probably dragging out some kind of justification of not wanting to hand over my details. Perhaps it's down to being schooled in implicit compliance, and it feels a little weird!"

I've been asked and politely declined probably hundreds of times by now. It's never led to any further interaction beyond my simply smiling and saying "no thank you".

The cashiers don't question it, or stare, or even miss a beat. (sometimes a 'new' person will hesitate for a second; thrown off their muscle memory pattern). But surely they hear it from more people than just me.

And I find making a shopping list beforehand, based on what I've actually used since the last trip, is more effective than coupons or loyalty cards. The coupons did start getting more properly-targeted, but they also entice purchases I hadn't previously had on my list. Which calls into question the notion of having 'saved' any money.

Similarly when I would be 'saving' money on things that are only useful when I purchase its non-special-/non-coupon-priced complements (e.g. a coupon for hotdogs leading to a purchase of regular priced buns; or a coupon for peanut butter leading to a purchase of regular-priced jelly).
Eh, Gawker is kinda bottom of the barrel, if they declined the offer maybe the people with the video would get frustrated and/or bored and just post it to WSHH or YT or whatever.
What were you problems with SystemTap? I've only used it for some minor tracing but so far it actually worked quite nice. Except for the long compile time.
It is the same with any artistic endeavour is it not? Putting it into technical terms, anyone can write a bit of code but not everyone can put together a product. Lots of people can fix a problem in a piece of code, and yet a lot fewer of them can fix the fundamental issue.

As with most things in life there is an external view which cannot see the nuances, and an internal view which sees all or most of these challenges.

Trying to evaluate the 'value' of something without internalizing the challenge of providing that something doesn't work.
Both direct and indirect tools are absolutely equally necessary, and my apologies if that sentiment did not come through -- I would never debate the usefulness or effectiveness of these tools, but instead their fitness for achieving a specific goal.

The parallel to curing cancer was mainly drawn from this paragraph:

I could've become a doctor. All signs pointed to me likely being a very good one. In doing so, I would have gone to work and done my best to save lives every day. In that context, how is some programming environment a greater contribution to the world? Truthfully, it wouldn't be if I just set out to build an IDE. But that's not what I did - Light Table is just a vehicle for the real goal. While an IDE probably won't directly save someone's life, the things people are able to build with it could do exactly that.

To your main point:

If a new "text editor" ends up providing us a much more efficient means of creating things like Watson, in what way is that not just as important as curing any one disease?

Absolutely. I'm not arguing its importance, I'm arguing its effectiveness at achieving a mission, which I interpreted as curing cancer / saving lives. If you "increase everything by 1%", that is fantastic! And it has furthered many different missions 1% closer to their goals. This is very much important and necessary to the advancement of society, but its mission specifically should be put into context.

A microscope is a fundamental tool to help scientists do their best work. Thus, a person setting out to build one, in my opinion, has the opportunity to profoundly impact science's understanding of the human body and the world we live in. This understanding, further, can help scientists achieve their missions of curing disease, et cetera. But while the microscope plays a very important role in science, I believe it is unfair to the scientists for the microscope maker to believe that he is accomplishing his mission of curing disease by inventing one. Rather, he should be achieving his mission of helping our understanding of science, and/or furthering the missions of his users.
I can't help associating it with the "ducks" in Old City and those obnoxious quacker things they give everyone. They used to drive me nuts when I was working by their route.
I've heard people insult Dave's last name many times over the years. You are the first I've seen that meant it as Winer == Whiner. It is more commonly trying to call him a reference to the male anatomy, which is dumb and offensive. I think that's the way many would have taken your comment.
I suppose maybe one day we will see people eating insects as a regular part of their diet.

But personally insects on food makes me vomit, not salivate.
It really was not, unless complete eradication of unfortunate language usages is the goal, which it is not.

There's a constant ebb and flow of bad usage and pushback. I only mentioned it's a losing battle because I think there should be a bit more ebb and a little less flow.
> I don't think there has to be a rational argument against AirBnB.

You may not think so, but I certainly hope laws are made by rational arguments.
There are different standards for public discourse; you should try to conform to the rules laid down by the community we're in, not impose your own standards on others. Also, given that Dave Winer reads and posts here, you could think of your posts as talking about him in a room when he's present. Perhaps you would moderate your tone and insults a little if he were actually present? This sort of incivility is what destroys a community, drives off positive contributions, and lets the trolls take over (see 4chan, reddit, kuro5hin), so I'd urge you to reconsider your use of such a hostile tone in public. There's nothing wrong with criticism, but making it personal, name calling and condemning someone as 'toxic' is not what I've come to expect here - frankly I'd expect better.

As to the upvotes you received, I suspect this happens mostly because there is no downvote on articles, and people use upvoting the first negative comment they see as a quick and easy substitute to announce their disagreement with the article in question, or even the title if they haven't read the article. I'm not sure I'd see upvotes as validation of your views, tempting as it is to do so. I've come to think voting either way here on HN should subtract karma, to make people really think about their decision to upvote and stop the flamebait and snarky comments floating to the top.
Just another Paypal phishing attempt
Poll: have you used Redis as the primary data store?
> no-one stepped forward and it was ultimately removed from the project

Here's the source code, if you are interested:

https://github.com/kanzure/pyphantomjs
I am pretty sure he's more interested in payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, welfare dollars, Obamacare. I won't pretend I've read the ledgers, but when he texted me yesterday to say '49 states left', I hadn't heard about the devastation in Oklahoma and I started scanning the internet tubes to find the news that Texas finally seceeded over Obamacare.
Your definition of "partner" is very limited. You might want look at some other definitions before making potentially offensive statements like that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner

In this case, the mother's partner is another woman, implying that the woman is in a lesbian relationship. So your joke about 'meant to say spouse' could be quite hurtful if they would actually like to be married but can't because of current marriage laws.

Not to mention that your comment simply sounds ignorant and/or homophobic. Just thought I'd clue you in to why you're getting downvoted, in case it wasn't obvious.
Yes. I hope more cities follow the lead, before more people get scammed into putting themselves and their property in danger.
Piping it in allows the build driver to be agnostic about the physical location of the container.
Making fun of some guy's name?

Pretending to not understand the importance of blogthis! in a world where Yahoo just bought Tumblr, or where the subscribe to rss buttons mostly work to allow the user to choose an rss feed reader of their own choice, or where Microsoft was told to make sure users could pick their favorite email apps, firewall apps, etc.?

This danilo is how you squander your capital.
Tell me - is everyone else as nervous as I am clicking on a .pdf from a .ru domain?
##apple, FreeNode.

EDIT: +m has been lifted. Nobody is mentioning the issue at the moment.
Could you explain to me (either here or corbet@lwn.net) what "I can never load LWN stories" means? Needless to say, we're not pleased with the idea that somebody is having trouble reading our stuff and would like to fix the problem. But to do that, we need to understand it...
I agree with this a lot. LJ by its nature encouraged writing, not just status updates. It was a much more interesting - if sometimes drama-filled - read than my Facebook news feed is with many of the same people.

Also, LJ groups have not been successfully replicated by any of the other major social media networks.
As the author of one of the "negative" comments yesterday -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738748 -- I'll scurry out of the bomb shelter long enough to offer a counterpoint.

I view this entry as a bit of a tantrum, by someone who cares so little about the comments on Hacker News that he has repeatedly slandered the site and its regulars, and while encouraging others to post this very link in a comment earlier today simultaneously demands that this site not link to him. This strikes me as a little childish and bizarre for someone who, as I think we all know, understands a bit about the internet.

He is attempting to bully a group, using tactics more commonly found in grade school, and is threatening to cancel recess for everyone.

If you are a public figure, which Winer is for his contributions to the industry, "you" become bigger than the person. You become a message bus and a context. That comes with a lot of benefits, which includes that every opinion gets broadly spread regardless of merit, but it also means that context becomes a legitimate target for criticism, and a persistent wrapper around all messages, because your opinions are broadly spread regardless of specific merit. It is not reasonable to demand that each message be evaluated outside of that context.

And I'll reword what I wrote yesterday to fit this particular entry, which is that many of his posts have become deeply depressing. Many follow the pattern of aggrieved entitlement and disenfranchisement (and to repeat what I said yesterday, fit the bigoted stereotype about older developers. As one of the only people who even mentioned age -- and as a 40 year old developer -- I find it bizarre if Dave thought that was an insult about his age, when in reality it was a comment about him seemingly veering towards becoming the cliche).

It is fantastic that he is working on new, interesting stuff, but the message that percolates out continues to be rather morose.
I think the outrage is a bit misplaced here. On one hand you have the elected leader of one of the most populous regions in Canada, representing more people than many of the premiers do. He lacks the credibility and leadership to even directly address the accusations, instead hiding behind a single-word shrug off.

The (alleged) dealers are being opportunistic with what is potentially a very valuable asset. They're acting pretty exactly as you'd expect. Unless you spend all your time outraged that drug dealers exist, it makes more sense to be outraged that the mayor is stalling instead of responding.
Gawker paid like $5000 to get the prototype iPhone4. That is $5000 in an industry worth millions for component and accessories makers.

Whoever these guys are I think they severely overestimate the worth of their material. A prototype might be worth $200k a video of the mayor might be worth half of that.
One of the main reasons it doesn't work is that people don't ask questions to clarify. They jump to conclusions

It's funny to see Winer complaining about commenters being too quick to criticize from a limited background... when the whole issue starts from an article he wrote "in 15 minutes" criticizing Melissa Mayer based on a single short conversation.
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Ending hunger is quite likely to lead to a nice profit as dead people don't buy anything.

The only reason we haven't ended hunger yet is that the poor people are too poor and have too horrible governments to be able to produce things we value enough to buy from them.
Seriously. Just the other night I had an Uber ride from a guy, he had previously spent years working as a single taxi operator. Within the past year on Uber, he's been able to expand out on his own, and now owns 6 additional cars which he leases to other Uber drivers. He's also training all of them on how to do the same thing, and one of them is soon going to likely strike out on his own with 2 cars to start. These are small, independent business people, who would not have these opportunities otherwise.
Ask HN: Who is working on a medical startup?
I'm wondering who is working on a medical startup and what is the problem that you are trying to solve.
Really?

So if a person decides to post a picture of themselves on their blog, they're consenting to having that picture photomanipulated onto hardcore pornography then emailed to their family and co-workers, for example?
Have you considered getting a job in Wall Street type finance? Like quant trading or something?

The prospect of finance may not seem appealing, but it pays the bills and a lot of it is pretty fascinating. The same why you studied a lot of the phenomena that make the physical world function, finance and economics can satisfy the same curiosity that physics did for you, since it often involves macro and micro laws of how the economy, firms and people function.

And if you eventually feel dirty for being part of that machinery, you can always leave after 1-3 years with more skills, more employable and with a greater understanding of how the world actually functions behind the scenes.

Even if you start at the bottom in the finance world, you'll still be making great money. You'll also find more of your physics and natural sciences cohorts among your new colleagues that you would expect, especially on the quant/analysis side of the industry (not on the trading side).

(FWIW I studied physics for 3 years before switching majors, ended up in finance after college and switched to software engineering and product management after leaving finance).
Usually I do that. Sometimes I get bored.
So you determine value based on mediums (PDFs) instead of the outcome (learning how to self publish)?

I don't think anyone who reads Nathan's book and ends up doing something because of it is going to bemoan the format they read it on.
The boxes are by a company called Zotac. They're like $200 without drives and we put cheap consumer SSD's in them. The monitors are USB powered, and driven by USB - they are from a company called DoubleSight.

Funny story - given the amount of people at Disrupt that were not at all interested in databases, we had probably just as many people ask us detailed questions about "those cool little computers" as we did our database :)
Don't look now, you're human.
When I got married and we hired a photographer to document the event, we had to stipulate ahead of time, when we were interviewing prospective photographers, that we wanted the digital copies included. Several balked, one offered to provide a DVD with the images for 3x the price and one offered the DVD as an included service. Guess which one we picked? In the end the photos were great and we got over several hundred digital copies of all photographs taken.
Thank you, sir. We'll have some even cooler demo videos coming in the future!
How is it meant to be pronounced?
If you hire a programmer to do some work for you, who owns copyright to result of the labor?
Google is working on making a general search engine like Watson. I wouldn't be surprised if they even recruited someone who worked on Watson.
"Partner" is acceptable english usage for "significant other".

There are plenty of occasions when one parent of a child may be with, but not married to, someone who is not the parent of the child.
No, but the Apple legal team has been informed about it so you're technically downloading illegal content.
Yahoo + Tumblr: Some Thoughts
We disagree that Daves established behavior in different situations is relevant to the discussion on the submission here. I think this is relevant to his comments about HN, you're not.

Attacking people, getting push back, getting personal and portraying himself as a victim is a pattern that can be found over the last decade. Talking about this pattern is relevant when we discuss the behavior of HN posters here. Especially if Dave provokes this behavior in others with the goal of getting attention to himself. Then people agreeing on HN behavior in the comment of the second submission just play according to the book.
Having a sick parent can make running a startup about 10 times harder. Big props Chris. I know how hard it is.