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Kevin Rose recently interviewed Jamie Oliver and he had made a good point where he talked about McDonalds in England and France using organic milk, free range eggs, and "good pork, good beef" because of the pressure there.

Seems like the consumers will have to be the door-to-door missionaries helping international McDonald's to find their soul…

http://youtu.be/VMj98OncYW4?t=52m15s

McDonald's UK talking about it. http://www.mcdonalds.co.uk/ukhome/whatmakesmcdonalds/questio...
The trouble comes when companies pay remote employees less if their cost of living is lower, or when they move to another place so they can pay people less. HP did that when they moved to Boise, ID.
Some quick thoughts:

If you really have a passion for a business that you want to make happen, while the YC association would be nice don't feel that it has to be make or break.

I don't think there is anything laughable about a non-coder doing code: It gives you an edge over C-suite types when it comes to working with coders.

It's also not insane to apply: Even if you fail chances are you'll learn a great deal along the way and make some contacts. Also there's no rule that you can't apply more than once or try another incubator program.
I think Fareed Zakaria makes a good argument from this article in 2011: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03... . Basically, the share of taxes that go to productive investment (like the Interstate Highway System, GPS, ARPANet, basic research, etc.) is shrinking compared to entitled consumption spending (Social Security, medicare). The current political system in the US makes it exceedingly difficult to either (a) increase government investment spending or (b) decrease entitlement spending.
> If a guy has not lived round the world before deciding Ohio is the best place to live, then it's not a very convincing argument.

I would venture to guess that you haven't been to Ohio.

I'm not claiming that it's an epicenter of amazingness, but I can count at least one person that's decided that's the case (Dave Chappelle).
Cool idea. Parsing LaTeX into an AST with awareness of math structure (e.g. taking into account symbolic transformations like x^{1/2}=\sqrt{2}) would be a good start.

Before catching errors, I think an easier target for a tool like this would be to enforce notation, e.g. permutations are always called π not σ, and vectors are always \vec{v} not \mathbf{v}. This would be useful for multi-author texts like wikipedia.
The greatest barrier to entry for me for using Plan 9 has always been the documentation, which I hope this will resolve for me. Sure, the man pages are comprehensive, but reading all of them is incredibly daunting and shouldn't be necessary. I have tried to buy the manual packages that Vita Nuovo purports to sell, but all the pages for it seem to be defunct. I have even tried emailing to custom order a copy, but no success.
I think the main reason the author prefers the midwest is because he was raised there. Property values and migration flows attest to people generally preferring the coasts.

I've lived in a lot of places: The UK, Alabama, Illinois (for a short time), Guam, Washington, New York, and California. Not having a home town, I think I'm better positioned to evaluate these places. My least favorite region is the south, followed closely by the midwest. The reason is simple: overt racism. Nowhere else have I seen such blatant and hateful discrimination. Even if the weather, food, jobs, and night life improved, I'd still shy away from living there.
I'm confused on the point you are making.

Companies that hire programmers live everywhere. Given the disparate perception of a person working at Paypal, etc., compared to a Bay Area startup, even given the difference in purchasing power... Might'n't (?) we conclude that people choose the Bay Area for other reasons than salary and hiring?

Why is the default to believe people in the B.A. are irrational? I say this as someone with no dog in the fight, but have observed each side arguing to defend their bias.
Just pointing out that the reality is more complicated. The research wasn't "publicly available", rather it was licensed (exclusively) from Stanford. There is legislation that applies to the ownership of federally funded research, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

It's also worth pointing out that before this was passed in 1980 federally funded research was typically owned by the gov't.
You don't need to defend the midwest. Most people outside of San Francisco couldn't give less of a shit about San Francisco. The three primary smells of SF are urine, human feces, and weed.

I think Seattle folk are becoming increasingly hostile to the idea of moving down there. Some dream of it of course, but I think they're decreasing in number. Google and Facebook are expanding up here because there's so much talent that simply won't move to the bay. And SpaceX is starting a 1000 person studio soon.

Nashville is a good city. I hope it's tech scene continue to grow. Most west coast folk wouldn't dream of living in country music capital of the world. That's might even be a good thing. More opportunities for new people.

Lots of great places to live in the world. SF wouldn't even be in my top 100. So at least take refuge in knowing you're far from alone.
what is your idea of culture?
NY produces a lot of art / culture, but as with most things more than 90% of it is crap. If you don't feel like shifting through it then living in NY is pointless.
* Same for music. Do you want to be in the place where creation happens, or a pit stop on the tour?

This one is bullshit. Plenty of bands came from Ohio, including OAR, the Foo Fighters, and the Black Keys. IMO, the live music scene in Columbus is way better than SF, with a diverse group of talented bands playing every night of the week.
> I think the jury is still out on whether storing all application state in a single state object (as in Elm) scales well beyond toy examples.

I'm not familiar with Elm, but what do you mean by this? Even if all the application state isn't literally in a JS object like {users: [...], messages: [...], ...}, it's going to be in multiple variables like UserStore and MessageStore. There's really not a big difference other than the syntax of accessing them. But perhaps you're hinting at a drastically different approach to application state.
we had used metrics library of theirs for some of our projects while evaluating, quite a while back.
It was worthwhile for minute scale testing and was interesting to note that it had a few things worth abstracting from an instrumentation framework standpoint.

It integrates with all common monitoring tools/frameworks and best part was its JMX integration which seemed to be more lightweight compared to a few other commercial ones we tried.

We then stopped instrumenting for other reasons.
My friend, I have absolutely nothing against you, or the majority of people who live in Tennessee. In fact, the great majority of my family live in the part of the South that bleeds into the Midwest... and I live as far west as I can possibly get from them because there's a fundamental disconnect in terms of belief system and interests between them and myself, and between myself and the greater population of conservative areas such as but certainly not limited to Memphis.

I'm not even all that liberal politically (politics are probably a source where disconnect might come from for some hackers), I'm pretty middle-of-the road as far as extremes to the American right and left are concerned -- but when I lived in the South, I felt distinctly uncomfortable and out of place. In California and the PNW and even Colorado, I don't generally feel this disconnect with my surroundings; I feel more connected to the place and with a fraction of the populace greater than just a few individuals.

This is 100% personal, but I don't think I'm entirely alone in expressing these sentiments. I moved away because I was sick of always being uncomfortable, which didn't contribute to my quality of life, nor to that of the people who were probably mutually made uncomfortable. & again, by SF or NY standards, I'm not strange/liberal/letting my freak flag fly in the slightest. I'm (mostly) white, but therein lies part of the problem I have with the Midwest and the South.
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It's your word against her's. She has been exposed to the internals of many instances of abuse, either by being the victim or talking to the victims as a woman, so I will be believing her over you -- why shouldn't I?
"We remove the penalty from solid articles (and typically reset the clock on them to restore a fair time window for upvotes), but it sometimes takes a while before that happens."

@dang, see how "lack of foo transparency" [0] can trick people into thinking there's intent behind the result ~ https://twitter.com/katylevinson/status/574733784517640192 - working on post.

[0] where 'foo' is moderation, spam filter or some piece of code written for some valid reason.
I notice that - in Firefox - this page now displays a price to me in Indian Rupees after I viewed that link:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/

It shows dollars in a private window.
I'm a student at Ohio State and I work part time as a web contractor. This summer I'll be in Seattle as an intern at Amazon though, so I'm excited to see the difference.
I would more call it a gravitational effect. The SFBA has more +$30mm net worth families than all of CANADA alone for example. I call it the black hole of money.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/21/ultra-high-net-worth...
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Yes, but with low margins. The $465m DOE loan extended to Tesla was repaid, almost a decade before the maturity date, with an effective interest rate of 2.6% (approx $12m).
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WTF?!

It's a struggle just to get gigabit to the home in Chicago.
Better title would be when the "modern capitalism is rewarding value extraction over value creation" argument. Think twitter, starting with "do good" argument attracting devs when they need them, then shutting them out later. Who benefits the value of the IPOS? the public?
You're seeing quite a few big offices in Chicago (Groupon, Nokia, CareerBuilder, Cars.com, Google, Razorfish, Grubhub, etc)
It brings many ideas to the table that are still relevant for new systems being developed now and the future. It is a success through indirect influence imo.
If you're missing Go-like channels, actors etc then check out Quasar with can be integrated with Dropwizard using a library called Comsat.

It's pretty cool to take an existing Dropwizard app, change a couple of lines and every request becomes a lightweight fiber:

http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/comsat/

http://docs.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
Ask HN: Guide to distributing equity for open companies (a la Assembly)
I like the idea behind Assembly[1]. Anyone can contribute and get paid in proportion to their work on open source software projects. I want to apply this model to a traditional business. There may be hourly and full time employees. They could choose to take hourly pay or equity in exchange for their labor. Everything would go into an accounting journal and would be transparent.

Assembly doesn't go into much detail on how this works[2]. I'm looking for advice or a guide on how to distribute equity. The usual advice is to split equity evenly between founders who work full-time (with some period of vesting). I want a more fine-grained method. Say, if you work 20 hours in one week you can get X amount or X shares in the company. Those who choose shares will get dividends at the end of each month. Should there be a fixed amount of shares at the beginning? Should employees get a fixed amount of shares per hour? I have a lot of questions but I'm not sure where to begin because this is such a different approach.

1. https://assembly.com/

2. https://assembly.com/help/revenue
> But most people don't subscribe to your consent based definition of rape. I think the majority of people would lean towards the force based definition of rape.

You are wrong; see for example Wikipedia, which represents a broad agreement of many editors and includes both coercion and abuse of authority as types of rape.

Edit to reply to swatow since I've hit the reply limit: that's a good article and I hope you read it carefully and think about what it says.
If you bought your house at 2010, it's not that bad.
shouldComponentUpdate is nontrivial to implement when you're using mutable application state. I feel like all React tutorials should at least mention this, but sadly most seem to say something like "do not worry about performance until it becomes a problem, then just implement shouldComponentUpdate."
California teacher found hanged in classroom
Did you read the article? It's written by a 12 year old girl pointing out that many popular games lack an option to select a female character.

Nowhere does it imply men are chauvinist pigs out to further a male-dominated agenda. The fact that you have extrapolated as such is probably more indicative of your own personality and prejudices than anything else.

No one is saying men should be sorry for being men. My takeaway is that the world would run a bit better if we all had a bit more empathy and more awareness of how our actions might perpetuate institutionalized biases.
Everything you say about DOM performance is decidedly not true on mobile.
In no way is it true that the CA bar exam is an exercise in "trivial questions."
Nobody gives a fuck about you, nor your hipster definition of culture.
Yes, and interesting: the human hardware, despite being apparently self-aware and adaptable, is always limited by the software the operator loads in to it. The hardware has limitations too, of course, though it seems most of our limitations are self-imposed.

I wonder if self-awareness and self-conciousness can actually be decoupled? I think that's what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is on about when he talks of 'flow state' - where 'awareness' becomes decoupled from the 'self'.

Can we program a machine to be better at that than we are? Is that actually an ideal state to be in permanently?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9085680

Jon Ronson must have a really good PR team, or Hacker News really loves him. This is, what, the 5th time he's had an extract from his new book on the front page of HN in the last 2-3 weeks?
> Architecturally, it feels more like an east coast city, but culturally it feels more midwestern.

I grew up in Illinois/Missouri and lived in Pittsburgh. This is spot on.
It puts her in a stressful situation because now she has to contemplate things like going into debt while she takes the time to secure another job. Or if she doesn't have any credit then she would have to lean on her husband, or an extended family member, or worse of all end up living on the street and putting her children into foster care. She would have to calculate her odds of how likely that situation would be to transpire and whether or not it would actually expose her or her children to physical danger.

What if the woman knows that her rural grandparents or great aunt would probably look after the kids while the mom was looking for a job (perhaps living in her car part of the time) ? In that case then what you're talking about is not a threat of violence, what you're talking about is a threat of having to leave the so called middle class lifestyle and fall into a diminished or poverty-stricken lifestyle.

It's a horrible thing to have to contemplate because and the lower you fall in the socio-economic todem pole the more physical dangers you're exposed to during the course of everyday living, but that doesn't mean her situation is the same as rape
Who cares? Honestly.

If that's decides where you move... I honestly feel extremely sorry for you.
Hm, looks like I can find examples of using kotlin with guice, and kotlin with dropwizard, but no examples of kotlin with gwizard... After recently looking at java8 and alternatives, I've tentatively come to the conclusion that I'm rather happy to use kotlin for stuff that needs to be (almost) java (eg: Android, or just mapping closely to java, eg: dropwizard?) -- and clojure for everything where java feels too constrained (but where perhaps performance isn't much of an issue). For myself, I don't see much use for scala -- it feels too complex, and in many ways less powerful than clojure. Note that I don't have any legacy java/jvm code, and so I probably just use ocaml or even standard ml where others might reach for scala.

Perhaps kotlin doesn't make much sense wrt dropwizard -- it might make more sense to just stick with java for dw, and use something different if one wants something higher level?

Anyway, some related links I've come across googling a bit:

clojure+dropwizard (example, with leiningen):

https://github.com/stevensurgnier/dropwizard-clojure

Experimental (old) repo for dropwizard+kotlin:

https://github.com/arteam/kotlin-dropwizard

Combining kotlin and guice:

http://java.dzone.com/articles/kotlin-guice-example
I spent the first ~10 years of my web-dev career in Los Angeles / Orange County area, and South Florida tri-county area. Since 2009 (with a brief stint in Atlanta) I've been an independent consultant in Ohio. Not just the midwest, but a town of only a few thousand. The larger local businesses don't just have parking lots. They have built parking structures for Amish horse and buggies.

I've never in my career felt more productive and fulfilled than I have since doing this. It was the best career choice I've ever made.

The only complaint I have is that not just my local area, but Ohio and surrounding states in general seem to still be in the equivalent of the dark ages when it comes to technology and the web. I've lucked into some really good, steady clients who appreciate my work, so I know it's out there. The ratio of tech-savvy businesses is definitely obviously lower than you would expect to find in New York or San Francisco. I imagine it's only going to get better though, which I'm really looking forward to.
Part of my standard phone screen approach is to open up an etherpad or other collaborative coding tool and ask the candidate to perform a Fizzbuzz variant (variant enough that memorizing Fizzbuzz wouldn't save you). This is entirely intended for failing people who can't code at all.

Yes, I've had people fail this. Yes, I gave them an extra day post-phone-screen to complete it. No, they did not complete it.

While I loathe the alpha male dance of software engineering interviews, I fully support the Fizzbuzz test, having encountered those that fail it.
I can't find the article now, but I remember a quote by Brianna Wu expressing frustration at having the characters of her game said to be "promoting anorexia" because of their wispy tall character designs (just recently she ended up changing them in the PC port of her game, in fact, after endless criticism.) The characters are exaggerated, but honestly to the point that they (intentionally) aren't realistic.

Anita Sarkeesian's graduate thesis and the subject of more than one of her videos is an extensive criticism of how "strong female characters" in fiction reinforce binary gender stereotypes by requiring that their definition of strength conform to masculine ideals of it rather than feminine alternative models (strong female characters have to be "badass".) I don't think she's wrong, but the argument has been leveraged often enough that it's made even me wonder what would be good enough to satisfy some people. Please note that you can trip this criticism simply by adding additional female characters, which is exactly what some people here are complaining about. You add a female sprite, the female "acts like a male". It's not as simple as just adding female characters.

Women's portrayal in video games is an ideological battleground, to an extent that men's portrayal is not. This is why it's potentially a risk. You can't even win by not playing, because lack of women is a problem too. But you can lose the least by not playing or not caring. I think that is why the two default states for female representation in games are "nonexistent" and "terrible".
> Most guys would be down with it

Sure, at first. And who's to say that the young associate in the original story wasn't originally pretty flattered by the attention from the partner? Successful, powerful guy in the law firm, let's say he was also confident, good-looking, and well liked.

And one day, you're not in the mood - it's been a stressful day, or you've just had a difficult work appraisal with the person in question. And you get called in to the office, and the boss says "You know what, my shoulder hurts again. Get to it! You've gotta make a good impression after that shitty appraisal! (smiley face)". And it crosses a line to where it's no longer really consensual, but what can you do? And over the next few weeks, it becomes more and more sexualized, more and more about the power play, and you become increasingly distressed, unhappy, and don't know how to pull the plug, because this person holds significant commercial and social power over you...

And hey, you can't talk to your coworkers about it because "most guys would be down with it", and you know that Bob, your friend the dev-ops will laugh and say "You're pissed off that you're getting some ass off her?" and you certainly can't tell the girl you started dating three weeks ago, and who you'd really like to be faithful to...

> most attractive women can get sex easily. Unatractive women
> on the other hand

Nobody - male or female - 300lbs overweight or with a dripping facial sore - relying on male sexual discretion has any difficulty getting laid as long as they're not choosy.
And they don't do it semester after semester, which of course can be a bad thing or a good thing, but if anything surely hones an instructor's understanding of the student body.
It is not clear if the reliance on external resources is justifiable when existing computing resources are cheap. For example, how do we stream a 4k screen or perhaps why would we stream a 4k screen? Does a Plan 9 system require desktops wired to an infiniband?

While the distributed features in Plan 9 are inspiring, they were unsuited for desktop of the 90s, or the laptop of 2000 or a tablet today. Recall how people used to call Solaris Slowaris, despite defenders saying that it was faster if your computer actually had two processors.
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To add to the horror, realize that the vast majority of Americans will adamantly defend these bombings as well as the atomic bombings, using verbatim talking points taught to them as children in public schools.
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I grew up in Akron, Ohio and now live in the Bay Area.

Everyone points out the obvious differences like the weather, seasons, and cost of living (housing in particular).

But one thing I rarely see mentioned is it seems that people in Northeast Ohio seem far less judgmental in general. Whereas here, I feel like every third person you meet is trying to size you up or “demonstrate” how smart they are.

Granted that’s probably a side effect of an overall higher bar of success for the region…

But it’s still refreshing to get a break from that attitude when I visit family back home. Unfortunately the there’s such a severe lack of tech jobs in Ohio that I doubt I’ll ever be moving back.