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Filmspiration – The Only Successful Videogame Movie Ever
Even though I’m a filmmaker by profession, it’s my firm belief that videogames will be the dominant artform of the 21st century. The adaptation of videogame hits into big spectacle movie blockbusters seems like a logical, straightforward and businesslike endeavor with little room for failure. So how come ALL of the videogame movie adaptations so far have been so aggressively pathetic? Let’s not get started on Uwe Boll, bless his heart – he’s too easy a target – it’s just so disappointing when films we think (hope) are going to be at least decent (Silent Hill, I’m talking to you), turn out to be such barely competent, affect-free drearfests.
Agreed, there's even a list in the post of what we want to improve. Scaling up the covers is a certainty. I've also considered the two-column list though we haven't tried it out yet.
This advice worked for me when buying a domain recently:

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-buy-d...
Also, please don't stop adding to the collection. I'm a serious fan.
Thanks! I really appreciate the encouragement. I plan to keep adding to the collection. If you have any suggestions, feel free to post them here. Cheers.
Note the submitter's username...
A cry for Europe
I was having this conversation recently - half the time it appears people aren't sure if this drink, this lunch, this film, this whatever constitutes a "date". Very few of my friends will approach strangers, it's always through mutual friends, parties, etc, and when it's just down to two people it could legitimately be a date or just an instance of everyone hanging out where |everyone| = 2. Things still work out, but traditional dates do appear fairly rare.
Darpa Wants Self-Guiding, Storytelling Cameras
Is Peak Oil Demand Bogus?
Stasis Theory
Canadian Credit Bubble In Pictures
If you had shared the source file, you'd know this was already on HN. :P
Every email I get with a url in it gets hovered over to examine the target of the link in the status bar. I'll never click a link without examining where it goes. This is why I very rarely click shortened urls, because I don't know where they go. It is also one of my pet peeves with flash plugins, because I can't right click on them and see where the content is coming from, of course if it is in my browser, it's already too late.

It may not be in the best interest of my time, mathematically, but I won't stop examining urls. For my internet databases behind websites, I always use random strings for the name of the db, the usernames, and the passwords. I never need to type them directly, so they can be extremely complicated, long, and nearly impossible to remember.

I want to reduce the risk that someone can associate www.somesite.com with the database behind it. If they do that, then they also have to figure out the weird username and pass. but if the database behind somesite.com is somesite_db and the user is somesite_user, then I'm already in trouble. Instead, somesite.com is backed by a database called 3ksxi32kkk329 with a username of 2391kkxkw329049 and a password of asdlkfjl2k3j2ol3iosioci923002309899*7232$!939120012klk3129x9d923lsd923lse923lll212--0342lsiii
A 2 min conversation should fix that.
Where is the link to the source? I must have missed it on the website.
Here we go...

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Seriously. I don't come to Hacker News to read about sex.
The buy and sell orders are matched directly. Orders are filled in order of price (best first) and time (first to place order, if price is equal).
tl;dr ->

...The cost-benefit tradeoff for most security advice is simply unfavorable: users are offered too little benefit for too much cost. Better advice might produce a different outcome. This is better than the alternative hypothesis that users are irrational.
That is quite scary, but I'd like to see this as a per/capita comparison against america and maybe even europe.

We didn't have the 'sub-prime' credit program like the US did, or maybe we just don't realize that we in Canada have something similar, but maybe it just hasn't struck us yet.
Ironically from a user named be.unique.
As always, the government seem to get everything completely wrong with regards to technology.

Certainly not shoddy reporting by Sky, in my opinion. The headline was even spoken with slight irony on TV. haha.
I'm sure it'll blow over in a day or so, plus a break from "N Ways to X your Y with Clojure" every now and then isn't harmful. I think psychology and sociology are interesting to everyone.
He's assuming you're going to raise money.

VCs and their lawyers prefer Delaware incorporations because everything's business-friendly, there's well-established case law, and therefore things like financings are easier to do.
I think you missed the point. I would assume most people on hacker news know how to read urls and do it on a daily basis. For you the cost of finding where a link goes is minimal.

Most people elsewhere do not know how to read urls. Their cost for learning to read urls and remember how to find out where a link goes is higher than they are willing to pay and statistical more expensive than not doing so despite the risks!
My recommendation is always home state OR Delaware--the post is what I would personally do. I'd rather deal with the administrative issues early than reincorporate later.

Also, in true hacker tradition, it's probably easier to hack the available free startup legal document sets if you are a Delaware corporation. Most if not all the docs assume the startup entity is a Delaware corporation.
From all accounts, it still sounds like making 'Rocky' was a risky move. I thought it was interesting that the studio expected 'New York, New York' to be a hit and for its profits to subsidize the making of 'Rocky'. In the end, 'New York, New York' flopped, and, of course, 'Rocky' brought in millions. Picking winners is a hard thing to do.
Absolutely right on that last point. A design contest has, let's call it, two dozen developers competing for the attention of Bob's Crab Shack. 23 of them will lose. That is potentially 23 perfectly good crab shack logos that get shelved, never to be seen again.

With this innovation in the business model, those 23 perfectly good crab shack logos aren't wasted: indeed, they can be applied to hundreds of crab shacks over the coming years.

Econ 101 suggests that if the supply of a good which was previously perishable a) vastly increases and b) is made nonperishable and c) sees transaction costs dwindle (because picking clothes off the rack is easier than detailing your needs to a tailor), well, price comes way the heck down.
Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. But as you said yourself, just because I think YC is a better choice for me does not mean it's true, and it's certainly does not mean it is true for everyone and YC > FI. So I'm not sure why you feel this way...

Thanks for your advices, I will consider both programs carefully. One of the aspects which make me prefer YC so far (as an European) is the "Silicon Valley adventure", I just don't want to miss this chance :) So again I'm not saying YC is better than FI, I was just wondering if it's worth the money if I don't go to the end of the program. And honestly I think it is, I just wanted to have some input to assess my decision.
Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics
I wonder how I can short animal sizes.
You misunderstand PEGs.

In the simplest version, each rule can be seen as a function that calls other rules, passing along a memo table as it goes. It's entirely stateless and functional, except for the memo table. In addition, each function is only a few lines.

Backtracking isn't a hack--it's the natural result of statelessness. There's no cursor that needs to be backtracked.
Over the years, hundreds of published papers have warned that science’s love affair with statistics has spawned countless illegitimate findings. In fact, if you believe what you read in the scientific literature, you shouldn’t believe what you read in the scientific literature.

"There is increasing concern," declared epidemiologist John Ioannidis in a highly cited 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine, "that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims."
If you use the assumed par value capital method to calculate your franchise taxes (instead of the authorized shares method), your startup's franchise tax bill isn't likely to be very much.
Actually, I've been captivated by this book and I'm planning to buy it, thanks to this pirated version.
Or just ask the source.

Ask if you can have it under the license that you want. GPL3 may have been an arbitrary choice and the creators of the copyright work may be happy to either apply a dual license or allow you to apply BSD license to your derivation.
If it's completely untrue, then I'd like to hear about how your computerized trades ever "discover" a good deal.

I'm fairly sure this is the answer: They don't -- instead, they're just good at noticing, very quickly, the actions of the market actors who do. Which is just another way of saying that they're about beating others to the deal.

(I'd also guess that they're probably also quite good at handing recreational day-trader's asses to them.)
Keyword arguments via hashes is certainly not a best practice for "Beautiful API Design". Sending messages is part and parcel to good OO design. Code that deconstructs hashes to emulate keyword arguments is invariably hideously complicated.
Poll: where do you comment?
When you comment on something you found on hn, where do you place the comment?
Always on hn
Always on the site
Always on both
Mostly on hn
Mostly on the site
Depends; on what?
Free Opensource Ruby Best Practices Book (Complete)
I've had Godaddy, Server Beach and The Planet. I wasn't that happy with the Godaddy because I found the management interface a real pain to figure out. Same with the reporting tools.

I just bought an SSL cert yesterday from GoDaddy to use on my Server Beach server, and that brought back the memories of how difficult it is to get around inside godaddy's products.

I really like the reporting features from The Planet, and the pricing was good. I just figured I'd try something else, and I've been pretty happy with Server Beach, but find I just run mpstat/ps to get server stats, rather than looking through a management console.

As far as php mail(), my understanding is that it isn't the server that is necessarily the issue, but rather domain, and spam filtering.
I'm using http://swiftmailer.org for mail from php, and I've been quite happy with it (although I haven't actually launched the service yet, so I'll have to see how it goes).

I can't comment on Rackspace because I haven't tried it yet, though I'm thinking of going Cloud if the project I'm currently working on gets traction.
Thanks. I guess I have a problem reading closely.
I agree, but in my experience it doesn't - primarily because the candidates are getting tons of conflicting advice from friends, family, and other startups they're interviewing with. Respectable-sounding number of options = safer.
People don't think names matter - I'd be interested in the perspective on anyone who believes that in marketing/product naming this is true.
Kids are a major vector of flu. In fact, vaccinating school age children actually prevents more deaths in the elderly than vaccinating the elderly directly.
His confusion at the younger generation seems mostly due to his trying to piece together the reality from lingo, pop culture and conversations overheard.

E.g. sexting is no more a substitute for physical interaction than the phone was/is. it's still all about contextualizing and coordinating actual physical interaction.

"go places in a group of friends" is more a precursor to a traditional date. It's the meet-and-greet stage, without being explicitly paired off to lower the pressure and expectation. It's also (in large part) a side effect of suburbanization. When you need a ride from a parent to get anywhere, it's a lot simpler and more discrete to say "group of friends" than "this girl I want to get to know". The goal of most kids in any such group is still to ditch the friends.

At least, in my day it was. Which wasn't all that long ago, but technology makes social behavior a fast-moving target.
Good advice. I'm very tied to the design community (my wife is a brand identity [i.e. logo] designer as are several of our friends), cheap logo services and contests boil their blood. Tread lightly :)
Neurosurgery medical coding
Microsoft: IE9 Won't Support Windows XP, Period
That's only part of what he says, and the rest doesn't seem really valid to me.

He said:

>1. Flexible Laws.

Yes, this is slightly more attractive for VCs. But I imagine, unless you are in an odd state, that VCs can handle corporations incorporated in, say, California.

>2. No Wildcard Juries.

If you're sued in Delaware, which you don't have to be.

>3. Precedence = Less Litigation.

Ditto.

>4. It’s Free! (Well, almost)

Foreign corporation registration may end up making it more expensive.

> A little bit cheaper than California ($100..but they nail you for $800 every year in franchise fees)

You don't get out of California franchise fees by incorporating somewhere else. See California's Franchise Tax Board document FTB 1063.

>5. Privacy

Since you may have to register as a foreign corporation, this anonymity in Delaware may be moot.
Lie detector to fight smugglers and terrorists
3 Different Schools of Thought for Managing Production Tomcat Infrastructures
I ran the exe and it seems fine. The music is great and this really captures the look and feel of the old BBS experience. Well done.
Would you prefer a *rest argument? An options hash is the best way to make your ruby API flexible.
Could you explain a little bit more about the "logistical nightmare" aspect of self-publishing? I'm thinking about self-publishing a book of my own, so I'd love to hear more about the obstacles you came across and how publishers make it easier.
Graft Git History Together with git-replace
Just tried master screens. Did exactly what you said it would do. Nice feature. Would be nice to have a poor man's layer system where you can quickly toggle the visibility or at least dim the master screen(s) so they kind of become the background/grid.

Suggestion - include some sample screens built to your best practices and a couple storyboards using those screens.
Also, a minor point, the heading for the last graph talks about the increase in credit from '99, but the legend shows '02, so I'd be hesitant comparing those numbers to the rest.
Ask HN Startup Idea
A website where you can browse between startup seeking money and have the possibility to fund them yourself. For instance, startup X might need 50 000$ . You could give them from 1$ to 50 000$ if you think the startup would be a success. Of course, there would be a way to give back the money if the startup is really a success. It might be a part of the company (such as 50 000$ = 5%), or a simple: 1$ now will worth (1$ + x) in 1 year.

Does is already exist?
Let me google that for you
I'm sorry, I of course meant low GI. Which is in line with "less of stuff that has [...] too quick energy" and "keeping you from having cravings", i.e. keeping your blood sugars stable. But I didn't write that, so good of you to call me out on it!
Worth noting that, last I heard, CoffeeScript is using Zaach's Jison: http://zaa.ch/2o
"Not INconsistent"

FWIW if I said "how is it not inconsistent" (as you appear to suggest I should) that would suggest I believe it is inconsistent and was asking in what way I'm wrong.

"how is it not consistent" means that I consider a clock in a photo reading 1 minute different to the expected time is entirely consistent with expected observations. I'm asking you in what way my affirmation that this is consistent with expectations is wrong. I could have asked "how is it inconsistent" but that would lack the emphasis and fail to indicate my view of consistency in the situation.
Here, read this:

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/05-09-114

In particular:

"Yes, this is "the" problem with PEG's. / implies ordering of the search (parsing) space. You need to order your / operators so that special cases (e.g. longer matches), so that they appear first. Unfortunately, if you don't do this, nothing will tell you you have a problem with your grammar, it will simply not parse some inputs. To
me this implies that if one wants to use a PEG to parse some input, then one must exhaustively test the parser."

Hopefully the thread therein will describe my issue better than I have thus far.
It is not morally inconsistent for someone to seek compensation for creative works while ignoring unjust copyrights.

Doubly so if their compensation isn't based on selling copies.
Yes, I've had other requests for dimming masters. For now you can overlay a semi-transparent panel to achieve the same effect.

Better samples, better screencasts - all this is on my list. But like for any coder it takes some great effort for me to spend my time on website/marketing. But I'll get there I promise.
I agree with you from a language design standpoint, but seriously, I doubt you have much Ruby experience if you're saying this. And if that's the case, you really don't have a basis to be commenting on my book in such a critical and dismissive way.

Using positional arguments for more than two or so things creates connascence of position, which quickly becomes annoying.

Using block based DSLs so that you can break things down into small functions that each do their part is a good way around this, but these tend to be hard to extend dynamically.

Typically well designed Ruby systems provide both: Pseudo keyword arguments for dynamic needs, and some DSL-type syntax for pleasing the eyes.

Yes, it sucks that we don't have real keyword arguments. But no, it's not nearly as bad as you think.
Not taking it personally, no worries. Just want to make sure the FI doesn't get disrespected. Realize I might not be in the right place for that though :)

I certainly don't understand YC as well as I do FI, but I would think a lot of it comes down to how far along you are with your company. FI might be more valuable if you're less advanced - have a great idea, maybe a prototype but not a ton else. YC is probably more suited for companies that are further along. YC grads can feel free to correct me on that.

Whichever you choose I'd make sure you really, fully, totally, unequivocally understand as much about the details of the program as you can. As others have mentioned here and elsewhere, there are bound to be surprises no matter which program you enter. The goal is to minimize the impact of those surprises.
Thanks for the link to brandstack, looks great. Is there any way to gauge a fair price for a custom logo?
GoDaddy is great for domains and SSL certs. I don't deal with them for anything else, and I hate fighting my way through their upselling checkout process.

I can't comment on Rackspace, but Layered Tech is in a similar space and I've dealt with them for years - great, great and more great :)
Obviously in this kind of pure arbitrage situation, the world would be a better place If seller A and buyer B are matched up directly. But rarely would this kind of situation come up. There was this nytimes article a while back that describe something similar to the above scenario in context of a 'flash order', and I think everyone thinks this is what HFT is. For a normal retail order this should not happen. But for the flash order described in the nytimes article, the truth is a little more complicated. The buyers and sellers were not immediately matched up in that case. Why? The buyer was trying to hide the fact that they were trying to buy, by using a flash order. The gamble is they could find another pocket of liquidity before sending it to the open market. But in this case the gamble failed-- they would've been better off sending it directly. There are many controversies about flash trading and how it skirts Reg NMS. If you read the flash trading page in wikipedia there's some good info by the BATS people in the Forbes link.
I like the idea of voting to show how much people like a certain item, but if you use it to influence the rotation, in the long run you'll keep seeing the same content over and over.
Look up the term accredited investors and why you would only want them investing. Here I'll help you out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor

http://thestartuplawyer.com/convertible-notes/life-is-too-sh...
I think you don't understand my objection. It's that backtracking is very seldom necessary at all in the first place, whether or not you get rid of the time cost of it. It's like doing something inefficient in the name of source code elegance, then patting yourself on the back when you got rid of the big-O inefficiency. My point is that you needn't have been so inefficient to begin with, and that the more efficient approaches don't suffer unduly from inelegance, and to top it all off, they have a lower constant factor.
I think it is a neat idea and I have not seen such an app yet.The idea can be called micro-investing or micro-entrepreneur.

What would be the business model of the company facilitating this transaction (the startup)? Commission on transaction or commission on profits or both?
The more likely translation of 本 is "book".
If your story post links directly to a PDF, please include a bit of meta-labeling (e.g. [pdf]) in the title.

Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1198116
Thanks we got the report and are on it. We do have an approval process for these logos, but sometimes things like this slip through the cracks. We take reports seriously and act on them as quickly as we can.

- Lachlan, CTO, 99designs.com
Thanks for the correction! For some reason I had thought the change to Hangul was earlier and more complete than it actually appears to be. The fact that I mostly encounter Korean online, where as you note it's almost exclusively Hangul, might be part of the reason for that perception.
YC is probably more suited for companies that are further along.

No; we've funded groups that had been launched for a year and others that didn't even have an idea yet. Our threshold is simply whether the founders are ready to work full time on the company.
Software-Controlled Networked LED Lights Can Save Tons of Power
Apple bans protective screen film from Apple Store
Most students use Wikipedia, avoid telling profs about it
The codes themselves are cool, I've got some idea for projects using them. Sticking them on t-shirts is a novelty though. Sticking them on business cards I'm also not quite sold on, the benefit over a short url eludes.
I knew you were going to react that way to that wording, but I had to get out the door to meet Erin for lunch. No matter: I found the perfect Patrick McKenzie logo anyways:

http://99designs.com/logo-design/store/143
Touchy: "rather than going by the logic that vegetarians turn dumb when they stop eating red meat". Do you deny that a vegetarian diet, without supplementation, often lacks in key nutrients?

Don't ever comment at reddit whatever you do you'll be apoplectic with rage in no time.
Can you give a reference for that?
I'm somewhat encouraged by the way that cervical cancer has been approached as a model of prevention. We've seen huge declines in death rates because of effective screening and management, and hopefully the HPV vaccine will push this even lower.

I'm also hopeful for the results of the whole-genome analysis of cancers that are going on right now. Hopefully we'll have some better ideas of the factors that might predispose you to a given tumor, and can find ways to manage the risk and catch this earlier.