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There's also a self selection bias. I'd never subject myself to open plan voluntarily due to the performance hit. I suspect having personal standards probably has a major influence on general attitude.

"They pretend to house us, we pretend to work" type thing vs being a bit more driven resulting in, on average, more grouchiness.
Stories like this are why I work 40 hours per week at my full time job at an investment bank and then work 20 hours per week doing side consulting. Right or wrong, I believe that "There but for the grace of God go I".

As he says in the article:

I made a thousand decisions, large and small, that seemed reasonable at the time but cumulatively led to our situation

This type of thing keeps me up at night. Should I take the night off watching a TV show or get more work done? Should I go to every single one of my kids' activities or should I spend some of them at home working? Having grown up relatively poor, I don't want to return to that and stories like this are scary.
I happen to know the President of the American Association of Suicidology. Email me and I'll put you in touch. I also mod a Twitter chat on Suicide Prevention and Social Media. Would love to support you.
There are bitcoin transaction fees (that can only increase if bitcoin gains more widespread usage), as well as exchange fees if merchants need to pay payroll, taxes, or buy supplies in their countries currency.

Oh, and the value frequently fluctuates double digit percentages in a day.
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I'm moving to the Bay Area, where should I live?
I just accepted a job in Palo Alto as a software engineer and will be moving to the Bay Area. I'm more of a city person and think I would like to live in San Francisco. With the rental market being so crazy in the area, finding a place has been daunting. I have a few questions and was hoping some local hackers could answer.

What are the best places to live without a car?

Any great local resources for finding a place to live that I should know about (besides Craigslist)?

Any other gems that fellow hackers can offer?
I was wondering if there were any actual specific examples of 'awesome' and 'successful' companies.
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Thanks John. Let me know if you have questions on http://mashape.com/ (I work in Mashape)
He has 8 kids. 6 grown and moved on. Not one of them refused to let him be homeless? Had a couch for him to sleep on? A computer to search for jobs on?
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I'm pretty impressed that you managed to reduce an entire discussion but several dozen parties on a large variety of topics down to "liquid democracy".

I am not a fan of liquid democracy. I think it's an interesting idea, but I don't think it's the silver bullet solution that its proponents have made it out to be. Thus why I didn't bother to even explain it when it was pointed out; I helped make fun of it. (It was never clear to me if the upvoters realized I was doing that.)

If you really want my opinions, then you can read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4493663 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4658896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5998145

I don't spend time on liquid democracy or first-past-the-post or cumulative voting because I think that focusing on the mechanism is useless. It might be part of the change, but making it the centerpiece of any kind of reform fixes a symptom, not a root cause. As you say, "it only outputs one thing, the A or B in a box". It's not a solution to change "How would you like to die, by rifle or pistol?" to "How would you like to die, by rifle, pistol, or machine gun?"

I've spent the last three years learning about how democracies are supposed to work. And you know what? Everything I was taught in school is wrong. Everything people are taught about democracy in school is wrong. To build an analogy, we've been taught that "if you double-click on the spinny E icon, you get the Internet". That's not technically false. It's just woefully misleading.

Of course we're disillusioned with democracy. We were never told what it was; we were told it was awesome and good and we should be very happy about it. We weren't told anything of substance. Our school senates have no power to speak of. Our leadership organizations are only capable of teaching us management skills. Our community service programs teach us about charity.

Where do we learn about civics? Where do we learn about jurisprudence? Where do we learn about legislation? Where do we learn about opinion-gathering? Where do we learn about journalism? As adults. If we're interested. When our biases are fully formed.
Ah, you are right:

> http:// click.shopping.ibemail. com/

Not that it matters, I never follow links in emails and went direct to vbulletin.com

I bet they emailed everyone on their stolen email list though.
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A large part of the issue is that people who contribute to OSS talk about contributing to OSS, whereas people who don't contribute typically just don't mention it.
Why is this on HN? It is a caricature of an incredibly complex issue. Pure politics.
Woah, woah, no need to start talkin' crazy around here.
It will be interesting to see how these "lost" bitcoins are handled long-term when quoting things like market capitalization.

Perhaps we can start flagging wallets with no activity since [date when BTC value exploded] as "probably lost". A crude heuristic, to be sure, but perhaps useful.
To be perfectly honest, and I'm not trying to be personally aggressive here, that kind of behavior makes me want to punch people in the face.

A smile is an involuntary response. Unless you are a really, really good actor with full control over ever muscle in your body, people will spot a fake smile ("if there's nothing specific to be happy about") from a mile away. It's not even a conscious thing, human body language is a way more complex symphony than just curling your lips a bit.

And in cultures in which artificial smiling is not a common thing that is seen as patronizing at best, and insulting at worst.

So unless you are in a country like the US, where people are used to such behavior, I would go easy on the "brain hacking".
This fascinates me. I find open-plan offices really hard to work in. Meanwhile—perhaps surprisingly—my favorite places to work are coffee houses or college libraries. I'm surrounded by strangers, but their anonymous presence starves off the feelings of loneliness that I can get working from home.

I think the difference between a public place and an office is that it's really unlikely for any of those strangers outside of an office to interrupt your work. In an open office, every conversation and set of footsteps feels like a potential disruption.
But he has a good point. I don't think we can say that "suicide" is a universally Bad Thing, and I think it's fair to say that if you want to help prevent suicide, you could benefit from trying very hard to understand the mindset of a person who is contemplating suicide. Reading and understanding the arguments for suicide strike me as a very valuable tool in accomplishing that. You can't really understand suicide unless you yourself are feeling suicidal, but if you approach if from multiple directions / angles and kinda circle around it, you may be able to gain a better appreciation for it (without needing to become suicidal yourself).

All of this said, and saying this as someone who has contemplated suicide at least once in my life, I don't know much much any kind of app is really going to help. The times in my life that I've been depressed enough to think thoughts like that, I doubt I would have pulled up an app and consulted it.

Same deal with "Suicide prevention hotlines". My feeling is that many people who contemplate suicide don't want to be talked out of it, and won't call the hotline no matter how well publicized it is or whatever. When you're suicidal, you're in a totally different mental state where the normal rules just don't apply.

Which leads back to my saying that you can't really understand suicide, and why I think the GP post was valuable.
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Well, in order for them to arbitrarily raise wages, they'd have to be convinced that it was in the best interests of their shareholders.

Which means they'd have to figure out how to justify paying somebody more money to do the same amount of work, in a position that is effectively fungible.

Failing that, they'd have to figure out a way to get more work done out of each employee for less profit, or convince all of America that they should pay higher prices for commodity goods and still shop at Wal-Mart while doing so.
"Consequently, if you can pay, you get to the front of the line, and if you can't you'll get one eventually, but you won't die."

That's such a great comfort when you are in excruciating pain and can't walk. I think that should be the motto of the NHS "at least you won't die". Aim high.

Actually it's not the little old lady problem. I did a documentary on healthcare in the UK. One of the patients suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, a serious autoimmune disorder, she was told it would take 6 months to see a rheumatologist. She had the means to pay for private care and saw the same doctor within a week. You see arthritis which you probably don't have and obviously don't understand comes in many for from the less complex osteoarthritis to forms that have many nasty sequelae such as lupus or psoriatic arthritis.

I have worked in healthcare for 20 years and my wife about the same but she has worked more internationally. In countries with state run healthcare many times newer treatments such as cancer drugs are not available.

Flawed though it may be I will stick with US medicine.
the board has a duty to their shareholders to maximize holdings, not to be nice.

I think that is a fundamentally biased description of the situation. It isn't necessarily about "nice" vs "profits" - its about corporate responsibility to the community that supports it. Or to over-simplify: short-term profits vs long-term profits. A store in a ghost-town doesn't do walmart any good in the long run.
But they have been ordered months in advance.
How about buying Litecoins? Less than 24h ago it was 1 LTC/$4, right now 1 LTC/$7. You could have almost doubled your money in less than 24h.

People say the Chinese market is driving the LTC prices up. And LTC is not even on MtGox. Imagine how much the prices might go up when it will. :)
Not compared to a stable currency like USD. If you did a ton of sales this week when the price is at an all time high, and when it comes to pay payroll next week and the value falls by half -- guess what, you're out of business.
Hi,

I'm still sorting out how exactly I'm going to structure this and implement it, so as soon as I figure that out, I'll shoot you an email. Thanks :)
I have heard people argue that this design was done first in Firefox mockups many years ago, the Chrome team implemented it, now Firefox is implementing it too.
Firefox has had that back button since 3. http://www.megaleecher.net/uploads/firefox3_beta3.jpg
The thing is, I was responding to this:

> This is a very accurate description

Which you've very conveniently omitted.
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I bought .2 BTC just for shits and gigs in May, and I guess I'll be holding on to it. If there is ever another huge downswing in value then I might buy up some more (depending on how low it goes)
Webflow is great and Macaw seems amazing, but let me try to make the difference clear here:

Frontend vs Webflow:

1. Frontend is open-source (as you mention);

2. Frontend has a databased integration (ORM);

3. Frontend let users create their own components and templates and plugin on the system;

4. You can develop locally (for speed) and push projects to the web whenever you are done;

6. You can host frontend on your own server online and deploy projects from there;

Frontend vs Macaw:

1. Frontend runs on the browser, there is not "preview" process;

2. Frontend is open-source;

3. Frontend let users plug their own components and templates;

4. You can develop locally and push projects whenever you are done;

5. You can host frontend on your own server online and deploy projects from there;

6. Frontend is responsive (mobile ready), with Macaw you need to check if your project will work on mobile first (and on tablet);

More differences will appear on the stretch goals.

Thank you for the comment.
If this difference is in fact real and actually represents a difference in emotion or happiness, then I don't think climate has much to do with it. Alaskans have always struck me as overly cheerful people and they get similar cold and darkness.
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Really? Damn! I was thinking about buying a couple of days ago. I think I actually will do that.

Assuming you've bought some yourself, where would you recommend buying?
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So I think a much better solution would be to collect more in taxes and subsidize the wages of poor people more.

We already subsidize the poor to the point where everyone's consumption is $20k/year, even if they earn $0-5k/year.

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2011/income.txt

Is $20k not sufficient? What is the right number?
There are only two things I would ever like to contribute to Firefox: revert changes to the UI made with 4 and after; use libavcodec for video and audio decoding.

I'm sure both are way out of my league.
400 million dollar websites that don't work?
I'll play devil's advocate to your devil's advocate, then. You are a callous human being who encourages countless needless deaths to justify your personal experiences, especially deaths of teenagers.

So, now that we've got the hyperbole and name-calling out of the way: Many suicides are based on a misguided notion that the suffering is endless an interminable. I happen to actually support assisted suicide and "the right to death", but I'm painfully aware that the decision is rather irrevocable and requires strong safeguards.

If an app or a book convinces you to not commit suicide, the likelihood is high that what you're experiencing is strong emotional pain that is quite likely to subside. If your ideation is based on actual incurable physical pain, or merely the idea that you have lived a full life, a simple app or book will not convince you otherwise.

To the OP: Work with a suicide prevention organization. The Trevor organization is a great place to start. (Disclaimer - I've worked with them for a while, presenting to LGBT youth)
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I'm not really picking that up from the comments. Most of the discussion I see is debating the root causes and/or the validity of sweeping generalizations of different societies.
I don't know about any "face-saving ruse", whatever that means. But couldn't he have known he was just purchasing "good fakes", for future usage as threats, should he need them?
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He explains this in the article. Two children are in Germany with their mother, and the other children are still in high school or college. He hid his homelessness from all of them.
Doesn't it have major scaling problems? I've seen many recommendations that it's not yet ready for anything with complexity.
> Well, I think we can agree that a company that encourage their employes to use food stamp is not a company that value much their 'associate' & that's clearly not sustainable full time wages.

I'm afraid I can't agree with that. Raising the minimum wage either increases costs everywhere or makes jobs less available. In short, I don't pay the guy that mows my lawn enough money to live off of. I don't expect that I ever will. I have no idea whether or not he makes enough to live off of between me and his other clients, but I also don't really see that as my concern.

I pay him what I think it's worth for me to not have to mow my own lawn. If it cost substantially more, I'd mow my own lawn. If he were the only game in town, then presumably he could name his own rates -- but only to those unable or unwilling to mow their lawns at any cost. He's not making any more money off of me, at least, not without it being an incremental increase.

I don't know why Wal-Mart should be expected to pay their employees a 'living wage' at their own expense. They can either find other jobs or find additional jobs if they are unhappy with the arrangement. My niece works at Wal-Mart and loves it. I can't imagine that she would love working there in her thirties.

The level of pay at Wal-Mart probably isn't meant to be paid to bread-winners, and I don't fault them for that. I would have a pretty hard time paying somebody $50k to put groceries in a bag knowing that I could pay somebody else far less for doing so without subjecting them to hardship.
Jobs are hard to find. No doubt. But the truth is of course the manager at Trader Joe's knows he's not going to stick around for a long time. If you do hiring (in a traditional business) you will always run across people who are desperate and overqualified. They will tell you anything and everything to get the job. But a business is not a charity it's a business. And it needs to hire the person that (from experience) will stick around more than a short period of time. Doesn't mean the manager was right about him. But we have to assume that his judgement was based on what he ran into in the past in similar situations.

And the example he is giving is for dramatic effect anyway. We have no statistics on how many jobs he applied for that he was overqualified for but more on the mark that made sense for the person hiring (like writing for priceonomics on a per article basis).
It's live :)

My knee-jerk reaction is that I like the old UI better... I do feel that the tab layout is preferable to Chrome's tab layout because the inactive tabs are faded and not round.

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There is no context to this picture, and a whole lot of assumptions.

Let's add one potential context. Over 80 tornadoes hit the Midwest yesterday. (Reference: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-tornad...) I've seen friends on Facebook asking if everyone is okay, going out and helping people and towns that have been hit, and more.

Perhaps this picture is from a Wal-Mart in one of the affected towns. Perhaps it is not. Without context, we are left guessing. The article author has taken that lack of context and jumped to a whole boatload of conclusions that are not necessarily supported by the picture.

This is not, in any way, representative of "Hacker News." I flagged this article.
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If you prefer text, you can use the official getting started guide here:

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>If you want Wal-Mart wages to go up, invest in them.

So your saying that if we buy their stock, driving the price up that Walmart would take this a signal to invest in employee pay and benefit increases, and not a validation that their current minimum wage, weekly hour cap, and lack of benefit model is working?

I have heard of people who believe that voting with your wallet / investments is a way to apply pressure to change a companies practices (somehow dolphins and tuna usually gets brought up). But I have never heard of a theory in which investing in a business you think has bad practices will encourage them to get better.
>hey, we're going to cut our profit in half, but pay our employees double, he'd be shown the door //

Doesn't that just show how the current system of shareholder control of companies is broken.
I found it pretty easy to install zpanel on a Digital Ocean VPS, which suits my purposes fine: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta...

Zpanel is free as well.
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So my view may not be the consensus, but it is based on one of the major criticisms of BTC. It's a deflationary currency, and it (presently) has a strict upperbound on the number of available coins. As evidenced in this thread, there are also many "missing" bitcoins (lost wallets), which further increase the scarcity of whole bitcoins. Assuming BTC gains traction. As it does, the limited resource will be spread over a larger and larger group of people. Each person will have a smaller amount than what would have been possible were it still limited to just thousands of people in the economy. If only 21 million people participate in the economy, 1 BTC would be the average per participant, 10x increase and 0.1 BTC would be the average. The median will be much lower as bitcoin itself does nothing to address wealth distribution issues, so if you retained 1 BTC from the early days, only considering the number of participants, its value is directly proportional to the number of participants (individuals, businesses and states).

TL;DR - 1BTC is not quite infinite, but assuming the bitcoin economy becomes established and grows to a reasonable size, 1BTC today will be a small fortune in just a few more years (possibly sooner, but that'd be due to hype, IMO, rather than real value as a currency).
In the obituaries of the baseball manager Earl Weaver this year, he was quoted as saying much the same; curiously, he dated it from his divorce.
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I don't think you can just write it off as sun exposure. Alaska has fewer suicides than Nevada: http://dhss.alaska.gov/SuicidePrevention/Pages/Statistics/ag...

I think there genuinely are different norms for human interaction in different cultures. Why should people in "The South" be so much more famous for being insincerely pleasant than, say, people in Arizona or southern California? The climate in the deep south is absolutely miserable a large portion of the year, with oppressive head and humidity, yet they are infamous for being pleasant on the surface.

Looking at the map on this page, I see no casual correlation between how artificially pleasant a states population stereotypically is, and their suicide rate: http://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures Notice New Jersey and New York beating out any Southern state.
"....tell us lot to go hang"

Perhaps not the most appropriate choice of words
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Quite simply? The quantity of political content on HN seems to have been growing.

Couldn't tell you why though.
or you know, into a top-ranked comment..

>It's because they are genuinely more cynical miserable people.
I'm with you. I'm not a proponent of fake smiling.

Another way to think about it: try and be more like the Dalai Lama. Notice how he's often smiling? Notice how when he greets strangers, he takes a genuine interest in their well being?

You may want to punch Tony Robbins in the face, but I doubt you want to punch the Dalai Lama in the face.

That's the goal I think. Not to brain hack by fake smiling, but to brain hack by practicing real empathy and finding inner happiness.
"seeing years and years of unemployment / odd jobs is just a giant red mark."

Guess what? In that case you have to be smart enough, for survival purposes, to make something up. For god's sake you can say you are a consultant. Or say you worked at a company that recently went out of business. And if you get caught later? Who cares by then you will have hopefully used it as a stepping stone to something else. Of course if you want to be honest you can continue to live on the street and hope for the best.

I am not doubting that it is difficult if you are living w/o a home to present an image that is consistent with that (so maybe you need to get a job care taking a property in order to have a place to live and using a po box) but it is not impossible. Very hard but not impossible.
I think you should learn from his later conclusion: He realized that people matter much more than money. Don't miss your children's childhoods for a few extra bucks, it's not worth it.