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One thing I don't think enough people appreciate about history is how nothing got invented before capitalism.

If you think I'm the one who brought gender into this, you're either ignorant to the structural realities of our industry, or you're willfully being obtuse. If it's the former, let me be the first to tell you that men have most of the power and it's no accident that in the story this post reacts to, it's the men in power committing the abuse and not the other way around. Not to say that women can't be inappropriate at work or whatever, but if you're looking to promote equality, "both sides do bad things" is not the right way to do it in this case.

If you're working 12 hour days and having trouble with your social life, the problem is _not_ that it's not OK to hit on women in a professional setting. The problem is that you're working too much.

Lots of good advice in the other replies (no screens right before bedtime, create routines, etc) but one thing that I didn't see mentioned yet is that you may have to become more careful about your caffeine intake throughout the day - I have to wake up early due to kids and it's forced me to set a rule that Sunday-Thursday I don't have any coffee or tea after ~2pm (on weekends there's a little leeway and it's more like a 4pm cutoff). Your mileage may vary, but caffeine can interfere with your sleep patterns much more than you may realize -- certainly more than I realized a few years ago.

The maintainers of Bootstrap have day jobs. Bootstrap is not the day job. Insisting someone maintain your idea of professionalism in what is essentially a public service they perform in their free time is an odd way to spend your free time. You want bugs fixed on v3? Get off of HN and fix 'em.

an argument that assumes parenting is about always making the wisest decision is an argument that misunderstands the reality of parenthood

stats on online reading suggest that the inverted pyramid is even more essential here than for print, as everyone makes their own decision when to close a tab, and vanishingly few read the full piece most of the time.

That's a major reason for craigslist's success but not the only reason. Clearly another is network effects. Given that, I wonder whether targeting the largest sales category is a good plan for a competitor -- surely it has to do with your goals, resources, etc., but imho it's worth considering that the best opportunity may be in the categories where craigslist facilitates the fewest sales.

Stopped reading at the speculation that marijuana may have contributed to his suicide. The fuck???

When I was coming up with quick examples earlier, I was thinking more of packaging than energy costs, and most store-bought bread is wrapped in non-recyclable plastic. I do wish we had the tools and information to make better calculations of these kinds of trade-offs. I could also contend that the quality of fresh homemade bread beats the crap out of what $2 gets you at Safeway.

But the point I'm most interested in discussing is the idea of maximizing the economic value of your time. In some cases this can be a useful heuristic, but the trick is knowing where and where not to apply it. If you were to apply that line of reasoning to every moment of your life, I doubt that the results would be satisfactory. Personally I'm more of a Gross National Happiness type. Of course, you're welcome to prove me wrong too :)

This is only true for certain values of most, and even if it is, has nothing to do with the point that it is possible to arrange one's life so that a car isn't necessary. I won't deny that there are many potential obstacles to the sort of widespread societal change you seem to have assumed I was advocating. Mostly I just wanted to make the point that there are plenty of cheaper ways to be "more green" (than an unknown baseline of green-ness) than buying a Tesla vehicle & installing solar panels at one's home. We all get to make choices with positive or negative consequences for the environment, and not all of them are choices about what or which thing to buy.

Except for a practically limitless number of other ways to save money while being more environmentally friendly. For example, buying flour in bulk and making your own bread regularly, or repairing holes in clothes rather than buying new, or, y'know, not living 40 miles from your place of work while commuting by car.

I believe part of GP's point is that, for some sizes of village, there may not be any chance that your counterpart is a stranger. If your counterpart is not a stranger, even if you don't know their exact identity, you might choose to play more generously.

Entertainingly, that page was among those affected.

Gee, I wonder if he has a vested interest in advancing that viewpoint?

Not that there's anything wrong with writing smart essays that advance one's interests.

I think that, especially once you start asking for cross-language, cross-framework standards, you're simply asking for the impossible. I know that feeling, wishing some kind of authority could help you determine the One True Way but there is almost certainly no such Way that is equally True and Singular across all possible languages & frameworks.

You're using "i.e." incorrectly in the title.

As a member of that age cohort (but not a founder, much less one funded by YC), I feel qualified to speculate wildly about this!

We were exactly the cohort who got facebook off the ground - I joined in March of '04, spring of my freshman year - so while we may not be "social web natives" depending on your interpretation of such a noxious term, we're definitely well-acquainted with it. Probably well enough acquainted to feel that we know what features are missing, what niches are underserved, or something along those lines, with existing social services.

I also especially loved his credulity wrt the 1-hour integration estimate.

Show up.

My initial reaction is that very little good can come of allowing someone to sign someone else up for these reminders. The potential for abuse is high, and even in the intended use-case I don't see folks being all that pleased.

Nobody has said this here yet (though it is mentioned in the github comments), so I guess I'll be that guy.

Considering that Soundcloud gives uploaders the option to allow downloads, it's a pretty gross violation of the artists' intent to download tracks that aren't already explicitly downloadable. Many artists even offer an alternative download location in the track description for cases where Soundcloud's limit is exceeded. And, as zmitri has pointed out, it is perhaps of greater concern that tools like this make it harder for entities like Soundcloud to justify their existence to stingy music rights holders. I'm not saying you're the reason we get things like SOPA, but this is the kind of thing that allows the grinches at the RIAA to feel justified in asking for sweeping changes to the internet we know and love.

So, nice little piece of work you've done here, but as a reformed music pirate trying to stay clean, I'm going to have to stay away.

tl;dr - This is why we can't have nice things.

1) incredibly poor rollout strategy (imo) 2) what problem did it actually solve again?

forgive any appearance of snark; i just wanted to be concise, and i don't think that "the ideal marriage between email and IM" is something that people were - or are - desperately crying out to have.

Possessing both versions, I can confirm that the paper in the anniversary edition is thinner, but I think if anything the type is easier to read. YMMV, of course.

If you want to play this game: try growing up as a liberal, atheist geek from out of town in a rural bible-belt town of ~7,000. Then, try becoming an adult and getting over it so that you can perform your civic duty.

Are you really saying that high school was so bad you'd rather not vote than go back there for an hour or 3?

Yeah, really offensive how someone ripped off Monster Galaxy's completely original concept, which sprung fully-formed from the untainted mind of Mike Sego. (note: not ripping on Mike, he seems like a really nice, cool guy who's worked hard to build a successful business.)

When will this "rip-off" meme finally die? It's entirely absurd and usually reeks of sour grapes.

Reality TV killed music the same way it killed being young & drunk - not at all. And if you think there's a significant difference between, say, TC Disrupt & Idol, I think you're giving Disrupt way too much credit.

I do agree with you, though, that nothing would be a more foolish way to kill your reputation (and most likely your startup) than to submit it to the additional stress of reality TV. At least, it sounds like you're making that point in the second paragraph.

As I understand it (which is to say, poorly), one of the more pressing reasons is this: the SEC requires companies with 500 or more shareholders, whether or not they are publicly traded, to publicly disclose financial information - exactly what financial information, I'm not sure, but the types of things that publicly traded companies are required to disclose. So, since they're going to have to deal with the regulatory/disclosure stuff either way, it often follows that they may as well take advantage of some of the benefits you listed (rewarding investors & early employees, add'l cash, etc) by going public.

While googling to double-check myself on this, I discovered that the SEC is considering raising the shareholder limit thanks to Facebook. And of course, I'm sure FB is weighing this stuff very carefully. Personally I'm really skeptical about the choices that might get made at Facebook out of concern for their obligations to shareholders as a public company. I used to say that the IPO would be the beginning of the end for them, but I'm not so sure anymore. Last I remember, though, they were already close to the limit of 500 and may be considering going public next year, so we might find out soon enough.