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One of my university professors always said: "No metrics, no movement."

The opportunity to add value is by intersecting the metrics. As a software engineer who likes to work in cafes, I'd like to know at which cafe I have the highest commit frequency. As a coffee drinker, I'd like to know at which cafe my resting heart rate is the highest (strongest cup!)

Haven't signed up, but https://gyrosco.pe/features/helix/ indicates there's a "Pro" version.

How will you measure Glucose levels?

A word on their customer service:

WPEngine has demonstrated exceptional technical support for me over the past 3 years, but this post demonstrates a serious shortcoming. The address consists half/half of "what we did (or didn't do)" and "what you now need to do." Had they had better customer support, the ratio of the former to the latter would have been much larger.

Reading this made me realize: it looks good read because there are no ads on the page. It's crazy how obtrusive ads are these days..

Unrelated: Facebook notes look good. I wonder if it's a direct competitor to to Medium / Svbtle.

You're right in that a lot of this is common sense. But I think the strength of the message is in making the implicit, explicit. It's the same reason people suggest "writing things down" rather than letting thoughts/plans live in your head. When times get tough, or things go sideways, you have a manifesto to fall back upon to keep your vision clear and to hold yourself accountable to your original intents.

> It would be nice if YC Combinator tought people how do what Paul Graham does, the whole package.

Paul Graham is NOT the whole package when it comes to YC - as stated in the essay.

Categorizing people and power as separate entities is the traditional political battle that has been going on forever. The people are the power, and the technology they have enables them to exercise that power. From this perspective, the battle is for access to better technology. What Moxie calls "power" should be ignored; they won't matter when technology outlasts them.

Great article by Moxie, thanks for sharing.

> If I absolutely have to frame my choices as an either-or, I’ll choose power vs. people.

I would not have expected him to say that.

This is truly amazing. Indie-tourism could power a new wave of jobs. Not to mention it's uniqueness make's it incredibly more desirable than traditional tourism. Can't wait!

It's easy to criticize a figure who has made mistakes over his/her values that are unrelated to those mistakes. It seems that may be happening here.

Lots of friction when it comes to financing just about anything nowadays. But everyone has pockets so if you connect them via a platform, it becomes possible to crowdsource anything: project financing, student loans, stock ownership, etc. A less relevant but interesting point is that the future job of a broker will be entirely automated.

Also non-Apple hardware in the photos on their site.

(from the article)

working over 21 hours continuously is equivalent to being legally drunk

Specific to the realm of programming, I wonder if the conclusion factors in Ballmer peak performance gains ;)

People criticize 80 hours and then I wonder about all the financial analysts in investment banking... aren't they putting in 100+ hour work weeks, at least for the first year or two?

Silly for digital media to try and leech off of the more successful tech cos. In general, digital media is scrambling with various monetization strategies. But they're thinking about the problem wrong. They obsess over how to monetize people already on their site. Instead, they should start asking how they can monetize people coming to their site. I think the proposition linked by OP is a very premature recognition of that. The proposed solution is way out in left field, but there are saner approaches, such as the use of interstitial advertising. Of course, now adblockers become relevant to the discussion, and I won't go down that rabbit hole (here, at least.)

Disclosure: I operate a link shortener [1] that pays people based on their traffic using interstitial advertising.

[1] https://credhot.com

[0] http://peninsulapress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2_lands...

I think many founders echo his motivations. The one that he implicitly suggests is misaligned is:

I wanted the best odds I could possible get at attaining the tipping point of financial stability.

And that this is due to the corruption of investors. So I guess the takeaway is that if you raise money, choose your investors wisely.

The blockchain's distributed consensus algorithm manages the network tokens (e.g. Bitcoins) very well. These tokens and their corresponding transaction data are small in size. Storing large web documents in the blockchain will blow up its size and consume significant network resources. If you wanted to mitigate those effects, you could restrict publishing based the tokens you spend - e.g. you can store 4kb per "coin" - but such a system would have nowhere near the capacity to publish at the rate of the internet today.

Regarding the last point on continued access to account information: opting-out from this is much worse than opting-in. Think of all the people who used homejoy and don't read HN - wouldn't they want the same?

I agree that less competition is bad, but isn't the primary reason for expensive drugs is because of the Pharmaceutical companies who discover them, not the pharmacies that distribute them? Regardless, this change certainly won't help.

People do it for the reputation. It seems the only solution is to have one's identity linked across separate places on the Internet. Many are opposed to that for reasons such as the negative exposure you're giving people in your article.

Since it's on GitHub, you could fork the repo, add any resources, and submit a merge request! Or create an issue that brings the omission to everyone's attention.

First, I am not a lawyer, and you should probably consult one if you're worried.

Second, I would "cease and desist" running that service (as stated in the letter), be it a torrent proxy or whatever. It's possible for files you torrent to be traced to you (it's traceable at the ISP level.)

That settlement letter is very curious, although accessing it may constitute a form of receipt - and be somehow binding.

Talk to a lawyer. Also I'm sure others on the web have been hit with this sort of thing before.

In addition to intake during consumption, I wonder how much "human" we intake during respiration, with all the dust in the air.

Google just partnered with General Assembly to get more Android programmers [1] which is odd given the pay is so low. Does anyone know if the Android platform is considered "untapped" compared to Apple's? That's the only explanation I can come up with.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/general-assembly-and-google...

The diminishing earning potential means there are more resources capable of fulfilling what role you're performing. Hoping to remain exclusive is not in the best interest of the field, is it?

I see relentless ageism as the result of the flood of new computer science talent. It biases recruiter expectations to seek out a certain type of candidate. Your experience as an older programmer is unique here and this could be an important opportunity for you to disrupt the status quo (eg. affect HR.)

Regarding lack of respect, I'm assuming you mean respect for the field of Computer Science? I think this is the result of the explosion in industry/applications of programming. Dollars drive attitudes, which has resulted in Ruby on Rails being the pinnacle of many programmers' fascination in computer science, as an example. Not that I dislike Ruby on Rails, of course!

This is a very interesting hypothesis. I've noticed my hearing has degraded in recent years and I'm definitely prone to anxiety in social settings - particularly in settings of new and/or recently acquainted people.

But, I've also been listening to deadmau5 for several hours each day since the summer of 2012.