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I just had the realization that, regardless of financial need, I am going to be working until I'm 70.

This is based on my observation of dozens of people I have met who have won big in the startup lottery. None of them needs the money, but all of them are still working.

So, assuming that I have 40 more years of work ahead of me, I've come to the exact opposite conclusion as the author of the article: I need to take very good care of my hands, arms, eyes, brain and always be learning.
I like his solution for steering the robot as well. It appears to have a wheel or roller stationed on it's chest laterally so when the front wheels lift of the ground he can rotate the 'bot around the rear axle.
although as their model doesnt require the students to access the site (i.e. have an account) and seeing as most schools I know would never use Facebook to send out assignments it's probably not the way to go.
Thanks-- I must have missed that the first time around. (Not completely surprising, given the low number of upvotes/comments...)
The concern is that this could be a step towards complete oppression of society.
so? slashdot has been using this business model for over a decade.
OP overlooks one critical consideration:

Health math is counterintuitive.

Example (extreme): Suppose you work 12 hours, 6 days per week because that's all you have available.

12 * 6 = 72 hours per week.

Now suppose you decide to add exercise, 1 hour per day, 6 days per week.

You'd intuitively think that would leave you with 6 less hours for work,

72 - 6 = 66.

But the exercise could improve your health (and therefore your effectively while at work, let's say by 10%)

Then you'd have 66 * 1.1 or 72.6 hours of effective work.

So by exercising an hour per day, you get more work done.

I realize the assumptions and the math are oversimplified, but you get the idea.

No reason for a tradeoff when none is needed.
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The name of the product is SIMS.net:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMS.net
Wow -- all with amazing reviews. Kudos!
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Thanks for the feedback. We're trying hard to get all perspectives on this issue since we know we're tackling two major problems at once: designing an awesome web app and competing in an entrenched industry.

Again, the feedback is really appreciated, if you think of anything else be sure to let us know (founders@classlet.com)
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I was very upset when my iriver h140 stopped working it wasn't much more bulky than an ipod and had radio, ogg and flac compatibility and I could use it to record tapes and records with its optical line in something no other player on the market at this time had done and to this time I don't know if anything has changed.
Krugman is a dismal scientist (a.k.a. economist), not a real scientist. His pedantry and demagogy are too much to bear. He can't even predict the effects of economic policy and now he's trying to predict the weather? What next?

Contrary to popular belief, the ice caps are not shriking all the time. Sure, they were shrinking really fast some years ago, and everyone went hysterical because of the rising sea levels and drowning polar bears. But when the ice caps started growing again, no one said a thing. If that isn't cherry-picking, I don't know what is.
If sounds like you have a good handle on what your product brings to market that others don't. Distill this down to some good marketing copy for the website.
I'm not vegan, but now I have to wonder what contaminants are in my food.
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Casein is a huge problem. I went to the nearest grocer (a Safeway) and looked at the ingredients in all of the "vegan" cheeses and psudo-meats. All contained casein or some ambiguously named "milk protein".

Also, soy protein (isolate and concentrate) is harmful and is contained in a wide variety of additional vegan foods:

http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2005nl/april/050400pusoy.htm

Bottom line: For best results eat foods in their natural state or as close as possible, with minimal processing.
Everything above auto-accidents on your list is a disease, so technically he's right =P
I tried to explain the same thing on my blog a while back, I would be interested in getting your two cents:

http://www.nimonik.ca/2009/05/global-warming-models-are-inhe...

thanks in advance.
I read it as a positive.
Krugman should take his own words to heart when it comes to economics.

But if you watched the debate on Friday, you didn’t see
people who’ve thought hard about a crucial issue, and are
trying to do the right thing. What you saw, instead, were
people who show no sign of being interested in the truth.
They don’t like the political and policy implications of
climate change, so they’ve decided not to believe in it —
and they’ll grab any argument, no matter how disreputable,
that feeds their denial.

This exactly describes the way he treats any free-market argument.
plus, no drm or big brother.

it's super easy to burn tapes/cd's and give them to people. i don't have an ipod, but i hear that everytime it gets plugged into a computer it synchs with itunes, so you can't just give a friend some songs. is that true? i remember parties where the music sources were people bringing different tapes and cd's--in this age would everyone have to bring an ipod, or can you still transfer music across machines (to say nothing of different types of machines)?
Your data is wrong. Did you even bother to check?

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic_thinice.htm...

"Until recently, the majority of Arctic sea ice survived at least one summer and often several. But things have changed dramatically, according to a team of University of Colorado, Boulder, scientists led by Charles Fowler. Thin seasonal ice -- ice that melts and re-freezes every year -- makes up about 70 percent of the Arctic sea ice in wintertime, up from 40 to 50 percent in the 1980s and 1990s. Thicker ice, which survives two or more years, now comprises just 10 percent of wintertime ice cover, down from 30 to 40 percent.

According to researchers from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09, reached on Feb. 28, was 5.85 million square miles. That is 278,000 square miles less than the average extent for 1979 to 2000."

And yep, parts (but only parts) of the Antarctic ice cap are growing -- but guess why? Warmer air creating more snowfall.

You people are hopeless. Data, facts, evidence -- none of it sways you. It's like some religion.
It's also interesting that faulty research from almost 100 years ago is still affecting the way we eat. Humans are not rabbits -- they have very different dietary requirements. Apparently nobody has managed to show a link between dietary cholesterol and health in humans. (though they've tried, which provides evidence that there is no link)
"I'd be interested to know if someone who believes that global warming is something that requires our immediate attention can explain why arguing against it so dangerous."

Because the global warming hysteria is an ideology, not Science. You can't argue against über-dogmatic fanatics who know nothing about Science.

If they knew about Science, they would know that "global warming" is a meaningless, stupid name. Understanding the global climate is an infinite-dimensional problem, and one just can't reduce all that complexity to one single bit.

Moreover, "climate change" is also retarded. Call it "global climate crisis" or something.
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Oops, let me rephrase.

While car accidents are the leading non-accident way to die, you're 45x more likely to die from a disease.
Good job guys. This is very helpful to students and to teachers if they are willing to adopt it. Keep it up.

I work with one of the biggest "supplemental education" companies in US on a regular basis to design / develop their software solutions.

One thing I have learned is that teachers and students don't have control over what system the district/university wants them to use. The sale has do be done at the higher level. In some organizations the teacher's employment contract forbids them from introducing new tools that is not "supported" by the organization.

This is how companies like Blackboard, etc. have made it big because they sold their system to the decision-making groups and circumvented teachers and students.

You need to think about this as you market and sell your product, find a school district or university willing to give your service a shot.

Good Luck!
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11. Flash
12. slow
13. horizontal scrolling
14. scroll within a scroll
15. desktop widgets that don't act the same (menubars)
16. broken Back button
17. slideshows
18. articles on 9 pages instead of 1 page
19. exposing private info "anonymously"
20. moving ads that require mouse yoga to hit the "X"
automobile accidents is the first non-disease on the list, so i think the original claim is correct, even if the lack of statistics blow it out of proportion.

IMHO, people underestimate the risk of death and injury from driving. while inciting fear is not really a good educational tactic, i can understand the frustration. my response is to wear a helmet whenever i go for long highway rides. and to avoid transportation as much as possible. (*obviously not for everyone)

edit - disease effects a different crowd than motor vehicles, which i think is part of the risk/cost evaluation.
They are SSL-encrypted. They cannot identify Tor connections unless it is to a publicly known Tor node.
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For the most part I agree with you. But I'm a big believer in "better safe than sorry" and in that spirit I'd like to see some sensible change. The problem with an extreme position like "the world is going to end" is it makes those who don't agree with you instinctively jump to the opposite extreme.

The truth is the United States had been steadily making progress on reducing our impact on the planet all the way through the Clinton administration. It was only when the Global Warming nuts popped up that the Conservative side felt the need to throw on the brakes.

Now we have two irrational extreme's competing against each other.
Funny, but the data I had told a rather different story. Gonna look for the URLs to back it up and I will be right back.

"None of it sways you" -> please spare me of your attacks. They don't add anything to the discussion and they only weaken your point.
Vegan and vegetarian always fascinated me why do they, or you if you are among them, seek out normal foods that should not fit their diet, such as lets say vegetarian hamburgers bacon etc.

Or even from the article why are they searching out quesadillas, cheese pizza, pancakes things that me seem to clearly not be vegan other than that they may have found a way to make remnants of them.

It just seems counter-cause to me.
All interesting deadline-based work involves some degree of overworking at one point - not just startups, but journalists, project managers & many others. But the problem with asking 'successful bootstrappers' whether it was all worth it in hindsight is survivorship bias. They survived & got successful. Ask someone whose great idea failed because they fell ill & you get a different picture - especially in the US where leaving a job to startup can mean foregoing medical coverage.

There are times when a burst of excessive work is both necessary & beneficial - but it's not universal.
2. Email

Unfortunately it works. We have found the majority of our audience likes the email we send and rarely uses the website (working on that one). So I might change this one to:

2. Emailing with no easy method for unsubscribing.
Some of these are actually good :) Nice idea.
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This linking debate is analogous to the perennial protectionism versus free trade debate.
Haha nice suggestion :) Thats one of the perks of having assignments viewed in the browser, everyone sees the same thing and no one can claim they didn't know it was corrupt.

Thanks for the compliment too.
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Very cool, but I never saw it actually walking. It rolled and scooted, but no walking.
Thanks for the feedback. Yea, the two things we're really missing on the front page are "Why should you use this?" and "How do you use this?". We're talking about adding a video and some concise copy like you recommended.
Wow, this is horribly bad advice and the examples provided to bolster it appear disingenuous.

Sure, Mark Cuban lived on bar food and crashed on a single couch in an apartment shared with a number of other guys, but that was before he'd even started as an employee selling software at a small tech shop! As soon as his means let him live better, he did.

The example provided for Penelope Trunk is even worse: The temporary blindness, stress-induced pain, and apparent psychosis seems to have cropped up just as her latest company started accelerating down the road to ruin ( as told at, http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/05/7-things-to-conside... )

I don't know how long the author's been in business but, if you follow your own advice, your body is likely to give out before your company has an exit.

Your company exists for your benefit, not the other way around.
well my university used blackboard chalk so I don't really see a need for this
scroll="flow" would be the default, and for backwards compatibility.

Wherever page designers want to put a section stop AND ONLY THEN they use scroll="stop" so users enjoy a better surfing experience, like I described earlier: going pic by pic, topic by topic or section by section.

Don't like the spacebar? use any other mechanism. I am pointing a users need worth being considered.
I think the likelihood that one of our 'solutions' creates a greater problem than we had in the first place needs to be factored into the risk/reward analysis.
<the problem has to do with the breakdown of the rule of law, disregard for property rights, and neglecting to observe the hidden costs. Free markets have nothing to do with this.>

I agree, 100%. I phrased that badly. The chump's game is blithely accepting the markets we have as "free".

<it's easy to forget that if we keep out X Indian individuals, some Y of those individuals might go on to build the next Cisco -- and if they're excluded from America, that company might be built in India.>

That's true. But the US takes 1.2 million immigrants a year. I consider that to be a high number, but that's really just a matter of opinion. But we (almost) all have our limits. Should we increase it to 2.4 million so we don't lose the marginal cases? Even if we do, there will still be marginal cases. So then should we increase it to 4.8 million/year? I'm sure we could find takers. Eventually, we have to accept that as a practical matter, some of the people who want to come here aren't going to get to - and some of them would have been truly excellent Americans.

<The other governments of the world would love it if we further closed our borders (to any degree).>

On this one, I completely disagree. Seven of the top 10 users of the H1B visa are actually Indian outsourcing firms. They use the visa to cycle a worker through the US to learn the job, then bring that worker back home to outsource the job. India actually gets quite angry with the US when we talk about limiting H1B visas.
What makes a pancake inherently something 'not vegan'? The ethical concerns which led me to veganism in no way removed pancakes from my desired diet. As such, I make them on a regular basis.

Just because somebody doesn't eat meat doesn't mean they don't like the concept of the meal in general. I make vegan versions of tacos, hamburgers, chicken salad, and egg salad because I like everything else about the meal other than the animal product. If I can substitute the animal for a plant based alternative I can enjoy the meals I've always loved, why wouldn't I?
As a non-vegan, these recipes truly baffle me. Why on earth would anyone eat that? Surely there are some nice, simple dishes you can make using fruits and nuts and vegetables, rather than these massively processed soy products pretending to be meat or fish or cheese? Seriously, what's the point?
seem to not want to debate the topic much

Let's say you are a pilot in an airplane at 30,000 feet and the fuel gage reads 20 minutes from empty. For how long are you willing to debate with your copilot that we need to declare an emergency and land right now? What if the gage is just broken and you think you have 20 minutes of fuel left?

At some point people that feel there is a problem will want to act. And the global worming debate is 20+ years old.

PS: "IPCC First Assessment Report 1990" The panel was established in 1988. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific intergovernmental body[1][2] tasked to evaluate the risk of climate change caused by human activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPCC_First_Assessment_Report
Ask HN:  What happens to your consciousness/self-awareness as you age?
When does consciousness peak? What is it like to be 80 years old?

Is there generally much of a difference between consciousness at 20 and 40?

How do you measure consciousness at these ages?

Yes, hearing gets worse as people age thus reducing consciousness, but I'm more interested in changes not directly related to the senses.
If you're arguing about science using words like treason and betrayal is out of line.

Sure, if you're just arguing about science. Once words like "hoax" and "conspiracy" are thrown about, however, we're not talking about the science anymore.
Does it get worse after the login screen? Is the rest of the app usable and workable?

The article had a great start.. but then one point of why its crap.
I'm not a climate scientist (though a big problem with this issue is it requires lots of non-climate scientists to formulate opinions about climate science), but this post definitely doesn't deserve to be downvoted for linking scientific research, even with the commentary in the last paragraph.
If my point is correct, and the evidence, facts and data all align with it, then anything else I say is irrelevant.

That's the problem, though -- people make these decisions based on emotions, vested interests, or what they wish were so, rather than the real evidence. If global warming/climate change is harmful to capitalist greed (and I don't think all capitalism is greed, or vice versa), then it prima facie must be incorrect, in some folks' view.

Not saying you are guilty of that, but so very many are.
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Lastly, a big problem I have with the current visa situation is that it creates a market distortion by bringing in hundreds of thousands or engineers/programmers while leaving other fields completely protected. Imagine if the united states banned all foreign grown lemons but allowed in all foreign grown avocados. Well, you could say that by removing all tarrifs from avocados, we've increased free trade. But you can bet that any farm outside the US hoping to access our market that can shift production to avocados will do so, and any farm in the us that can shift to lemons will do so as well.

This is what we've done to engineering. If you make it easy to come to the US as a programmer, but not as a lawyer, you distort the market. You should absolutely expect this to deter americans from engineering and encourage them to go into law.
Why are your attacks on Krugman more constructive than the GP's attacks on you? Because Krugman isn't posting here?
Do you like using Blackboard though?
No, you shouldn't do this.

Balancing in exercise will only help you. You're better off reducing the number of features you create and focusing on your core feature.

While you're exercising, you can think about how to make that core feature even better.
I traveled to Africa a few years ago and I remember being floored and a bit annoyed that after driving three hours into the jungle and the locals had perfect cellular reception. At this point my service back in the states didn't even work properly at my house in the middle of town.
I'm a vegan primarily for health reasons, so I generally agree with you. I eat mostly 'plant-based whole foods', in the words of Joi Ito.

At the same time, it's nice to be able to eat a variety of foods. Some people who are vegans primarily for ethical reasons rather than health or taste reasons may miss meat and/or cheese a lot (especially in the early stages). In this case, these products provide a substitute for the foods that they may remember and enjoy but no longer choose to eat.
Conceded

Guess a google search /does/ cut it and I /was/ trying to troll the conversation

thank goodness I didn't make any points worth discussing!

/me is a bitter and sarcastic little troll today
pancakes: milk and eggs is why i say it isn't vegan
from the pictures the vegan pancakes are not what I would call pancakes and maybe there is another way to make them though

I can understand lets say tofu salad or tacos, things that the meat isnt really the ruling taste I do not understand tofu burgers, cheese pizza, quesadillas.

Thank you for your reasons though.
If that's true, you should have no problem posting an example rather than just asserting.
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When I first saw the game, I though it was sungka from the Philippines.

Apparently, they are very similar, if not the same, games.

http://www.wikimanqala.org/wiki/Sungka
For pancakes, you can use soy/rice milk and substitute apple sauce for the eggs - this works in most baked foods also.
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Make sure to spend time on the copy. A video is a nice sell from the emotional aspect, as it can engage your senses and build excitement, but good copy is a much faster way to communicate key features.
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I think the question is akin to asking "When does your taste in music peak?" That is, I think it's an interesting question, but that the quality of what you're measuring is not absolute and changes in odd ways over time. I think that there's a significant difference in my self awareness (and taste in music!) between the ages of 20 and 28 (now) but it's not absolutely better or worse - just different.

Yes, hearing gets worse as people age thus reducing consciousness

If you're saying this, this emphasizes the differences, since I don't think even being rendered blind and deaf would reduce my levels of "consciousness" as I consider the term.
this one walks:

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/wr-07-a-real-...
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I think both you and Mel missed Brian Kernighan's old adage:

"Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?"
"I'll never understand why those who argue that there's such a serious problem with climate change also seem to not want to debate the topic much."

Debates just make both sides seem reasonable. Witness how many people in the U.S. take creationism seriously, for instance.

ETA: Robin Hanson once wrote about this effect:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/04/why-refuse-to-debate.h...
This isn't being maintained since last year. Great place to see some django anti-patterns, though.