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When I used emacs extensively (in viper mode

That's like saying 'when I used a 747 to drive to the corner store...'
I would have asked for at least some of the money up front - especially if the candidate is not an incumbent and not a front-runner. I guess politicians feel that if they didn't place first in the primary they probably don't have to pay any of their bills... their campaigns can just claim bankruptcy and let the creditors get nothing. This says something about the moral bankruptcy of politicians in general and our political system in particular.
Blizzard it taking more control than ever. The users can't tinker with it. The same happen to many games. Of course, this is only possible because those game are are proprietary.

Did anyone thought about free game engines?
We should have told him HREF was a Macintosh type, creator or resource identifier code.... Those were 4 characters in length and there very well could be one by that name, and quite possibly much older than HTML.
I searched for a list of the codes, but found a database that needs a password. "Shareware" like that should be called keyware. I remember when shareware was a voluntary contribution for something that worked... not this locked keyware demoware stuff....
/endrant
There's Iain Banks (The Wasp Factory), and there's Iain M. Banks (other books). Same guy--the latter is science fiction, and always worthwhile; the former is his "experimental" fiction, some of which I can't figure out the point of. The Wasp Factory isn't SF but is good: the story of an average British boy, his odd circumstances, and the odder resolution of his problems.
That figure doesn't reflect the number of sales that hypothetically would happen, if piracy somehow was not possible.
"I know that somewhere in the wide world there must be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius..."

Works of genius that emerge from an openly (freely?) mod-able environment are not hard to find or point out: Consider "Team Fortress", a Quake mod and "Counter Strike", the brilliant mod of Half Life.

The kind of engineering and design effort that went into those two projects would have been impossible in the environment described in this article. Both those projects changed the world [of gaming].
Behind Healthcare.gov: How Washington Is Drawing Inspiration From Silicon Valley
SC2 doesn't have as many characters as wc3 though so it may actually need quite a bit of custom 3d models to be on par with dota.
When Alien-knockoff insectoids are fighting psychic space elves, that's not really a race war in the usual sense of the term...
Have this mindset - your kids are better than you at computers. Accept it.
Their iPhone was jailbroken before it was featured on engadget.

Setup call forwarding on the iPhone itself
Google Voice
Dual boot the OS on the iPhone.
Pre-paid - either just a sim or even a 2nd phone
'Accidentally' leave the phone at school enough times that mom/dad stop bothering w/ the service.
I was six blocks north of the Towers when they fell. The reason it was hard to get the word out had nothing to do with the presence or absence of Twitter / FB / etc. The reason it was hard was because all the cell towers were down (literally down: many of them were on top of the Towers) and the landlines were clogged with several million people making or receiving calls.

Were this to happen in 2010, you'd see the exact same results. It might be a bit better, because more people would be using VOIP and the land-based Internet didn't go down, but that wouldn't have solved the issue.
Well, considering that their infrastructure also prevents you from hosting a game on your LAN or even playing it in an entirely singleplayer mode...
>>It was basically Java, but then dumbed down a bit, as I recall.

C# 1.0 had all the important features of Java 1.4 plus delegates, events, autoboxing, enumerations, operator overloading, indexers, foreach and a lot more.

IMHO 90% of enterprise developers today are using the features from C# 1.0/Java 1.2 + generics. It's not some Prolog/Lisp/Haskel clone, but far from old fashioned.
Ask HN: Guest lecture feedback
G'day HN Folk,

I was asked to Guest speak at the local University last night on how to start / run a technology company and add a little on social media.

The students were first year with only basic understandings of tech and business.

I've been asked to go and speak again so would love the communities feedback on how to better the presentation for next time.

LINK: http://alexblom.com/blog/2010/08/ryerson-guest-lecture/

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Aardvark has an auto-response for questions you can Google:

google

Which sends them a summary of the first Google hit for their question. See: http://vark.com/commands

I get an occasional question you could Google, but it's been rare. You can also just pass. And you can tell Aardvark how often you want to be contacted.

IRC or other chat room software would be too noisy for me--I wouldn't ever want it to be trying to get my attention.
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I know, but it's so much fun to say :)
New Video Sim Bets San Franciscans Will *Heart* SFPark
Marissa Mayer was Right about A/B Testing. Very Right.
Waiting for my client's feedback. Pushed 45 minutes ago.

Going by "ls -lrt ~hacks/", I think I write software, in some form, everyday.
didn't stop every fucking aurora machine from bitching about missing kaplgallant though. heh.
Parents, generally, aren't that overbearing. The ones that aren't, aren't going to pay a monthly fee (assuming that's your monetization strategy), for this. The ones that are, are your customers.
This one is amazing: http://js1k.com/demo/39 (move your mouse to change the colors).

This one is also nice: http://js1k.com/demo/12
For more background and previous discussions see:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1272541

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1578133
Is Apple's freeze-out of Flash working?
Yes, why can't you load pieces of sites in any arrangement you want?

The advertisers will have to get in there and make sure all the div names keep changing, with unique ids on every request, to foil this ability.
But they typically acccept a sub-market salary - which could be considered an investment of the "lost" salary.
Made a cool prototype, but hit a dead-end
hey people. need some advice here. lets say i've written a really cool app. the idea is not original, but the way it has been implemented is different and gives it a definite edge, both from a usability and business perspective. the core of the app is all done and there's a functional prototype. but it's definitely not polished. i'd say that it's 80% there. but i am a geek, i'm not a marketing guy and i'm not into business networking as i don't have the personality for it. so now i feel like i'm at a dead-end. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks a lot.
That makes sense.

The first companies issuing tradable stock were shipping/trading companies. 1/64th shares seems to be about the size that would start to require some more sophistication.
There's always backports.org :-)

I'm surprised how many debian users don't know about backports. The packages there are quite stable and is useful for the one or two things you need updated versions of.
Couchio - Because we just couldn’t not do it.
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I'll admit I watch far too much Law and Order, but the first step after abducting a child? Toss their cell phone. Into the some other kid's backpack, or another parent's car, or a trash can at the greyhound station.

Throw the police and parents off the scent while little Jane gets hurt. Oh, she's still at school. Actually, she was abducted hours ago, and the trail is now complete cold.
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It's not that odd, it's basically building a huge on-demand video library. Since videos take such a long time to download, you have to decide to get them long before you decide to watch them. Thus it makes sense to batch DL them all and then decide later.
I've looked at Slang a bit. It's an interpreted dataflow language running on an in-memory database called SecDB. Untyped, Pascal-ish, single-threaded, and poor support for namespaces. Like a spreadsheet, it only needs to recompute the subgraph that has changed. It was probably innovative 25 years ago (I think it came out mid-80s), but today you could write Java code and use memoization aggressively to speed things up. Slang is not why GS traders are successful. AFAIK, GS succeeds because they listen to their risk people.
Post a demo, and see if you can partner up with someone who completes your skillset.
I know that it is possible to write shorter code in the above mentioned languages than in Java, but my experience is that it is rarely more than a 2 times factor. Some Java haters make exaggerations. Java (the language) does not equal J2EE, EJBs and all the buroctratic frameworks which I also don' like. Java is a simple (a bit primitive) and a bit verbose strongly typed and _fast_ language.
You can even do closures in Java with anonymous inner classes. It is verbose, but it is hard to imagine that it is more verbose than 2 times.

Here is how I calculate greatest common denominator in Java:

int gcd(int a, int b) {
return a==b ? a : gcd(Math.abs(a-b), Math.min(a,b));
}

Maybe the issue is I don't code in Java 'Java-esque' enough.:)
I disagree with #6: "COLLABORATE with relationship group, don’t present to strangers".

I love presenting to strangers as a way to get feedback free of relationship-related noise. I rather have strangers poke holes at my business than have relationships ignoring them.
Interestingly enough, if one goes to votetimgobble.com, the logo in the upper right (which appears throughout the site) shows timgobble.com
Looking around more, it looks like HREF really is/was a Macintosh resource type... but it is still a URL. Basically it's a text track in a Quicktime movie that contains a URL.

To make this interesting enough for you guys to read, here it is described in terms of being used as a Quicktime-based exploit!

http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/backdooring-quicktime-movies/
One of the first genuinely hopeful bits of entrepreneurial thinking I've clicked to on Hackernews in quite a while, something that applies only to people who are thinking up highly original ideas likely to create lots of new economic value, and not to people doing the same stuff everyone else is doing in hopes of a quick cashout.
Clearly, but you might relax a little if you believe that drivers are more cautious due to the insurance laws.
I haven't used paypal via phone, but paypay via the web is free for person-to-person transfers as long as you mark the transfer as such. There is only a charge when transferring to a merchant.
i bought both of those (on source) after playing the original free versions. best game purchase ever, literally.
Good point! I guess I never thought of those games as being quite the same thing, but clearly they're genetic ancestors in the "build-defend loop" family.
Bloom energy - where are they now?
Who knows whatevr happend to this company? I remember a lot of excitement when they launched(Governator, ebay, google, walmart buzz).
Which warcraft were you playing? it was constantly games where the map was just a nude pic. Really annoying.
This is a way of holding drivers to the same high standards of care and attention that cyclists have to hold for their own self interest.

This is precisely the type of attitude I take issue with. One would think that cyclists would behave like the vulnerable vehicles they are, yet a 15 minute observation of the typical cyclist will no doubt show numerous traffic offences, inclusive of some that most motor vehicle operators would never think of committing. This is common knowledge to all who use the roads we are supposed to share.

Cyclists are no better - or worse, to be fair - when it comes obeying the rules of the road than any other participant, be they pedestrian or motor vehicle operator.

I think you actually encourage bad behaviour by removing or lessening liability for a class of road user dependent on their ease of injury. Road safety starts with personal responsibility: understanding that you are doing an inherently dangerous thing with a fast moving vehicle that could result in your death and the death of others.

Asking others to shoulder this responsibility for you because of your vehicle choice is irresponsible, and in my mind contrary to a fair and just law.
Both Philby and Hanssen were agents of their respective governments, with a sworn duty to protect their country's secrets, as was the alleged leaker. People who work in these organizations, who hold top secret security clearances and handle sensitive information, are understandably expected to adhere to standard of personal behavior which does not include making personal judgments about government policy (in Philby's case, it is questionable whether he was motivated by money).

Surely we agree that government agents (in their many forms) cannot choose which directives to obey based on their personal beliefs about the rightness/wrongness of the policy, although they must disobey unlawful commands/orders. This is admittedly a fine line to draw, but most government organizations offer avenues to report concerns without releasing sensitive information to the public.

With respect to your examples of "whistleblowers", I'll accept that designation for Carpenter and Buxtun, but in both cases I think they were reporting something that was clearly illegal (Carpenter) or at odds with accepted standards (Buxtun). And both Carpenter and Buxtun did report their concerns through appropriate channels before "leaking".
Ah right. Thanks for reminding. PerlMonks.
Well it sure as hell isn't structured... I mean, crap is just tacked onto the end of statements any old how :-)
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while there is some validity to your argument, there is a reason for this strict code.

i went to school in San Luis. i know two people who left their cars parked on the street after finding out that fixing the car would cost more than the car itself.

the first two years i was in San Luis, i lived at a place that charged for parking. i would park my car on the street and leave it there for weeks until i needed to go visit my folks in the central valley. i did not have the problem you are describing even when i left the car unmoved for 3 weeks at a time.
I have nothing to say about Axiom in particular, not my domain -- I'm glad it's a cool piece of software.

But I feel my comment still holds; Axiom is obviously a piece of research software with a research interface (e.g. a programming language as an interface) that was developed to help people do research.

It is not a typical example of software in "industry" where "industry" is implied by the OP to be software in a general sense over many domains. But perhaps the argument is weaker than that...

Anyway, I don't have enough of a stake in this to argue.
But I do think the characterization of lisp as something that is suitable for "industry-blub" is inaccurate. I don't subscribe to the view that there's this strict hierarchy from lisp down to blub. Rather, Lisp is a prototyping and template language, and in products, shows up in areas where the product itself is continually a prototype. Research software fits this bill, as does the scripting interface to a larger product.

pg thinks rapidly changing web apps fit the bill -- I think that might actually be true in the early stages, and less so later on. That seems to be where the evidence points, at least.
thanks for the reply. i hadn't even made a demo, which shows how dumb i am in this regard. anyway, i'll start making a demo now :)
Well, I've heard that rationalization, but the people I'm talking about tend to have literally hundreds of movies on hand, most of which they'll never actually watch. Actually watching them seems to be far less important than just accumulating as much as possible.
Here ya go:

http://blog.asmartbear.com/marketplace-business-model.html
The sad part is the evolution to "can't trust the public". So DRM or "can't play unless connected to our servers" becomes the norm.
The iPad: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you…
Clickable:

http://alexblom.com/blog/2010/08/ryerson-guest-lecture/
>Somewhat misleading. It's also very easy to copy all the super-DRMed games.

Sure, if you like your machine full of trojans and malware. There is no honor among thieves, and honestly I view people who pirate executables (particularly cracked), running them anywhere but in a tightly-bound VM, as either naive or foolish.
I agree with sdurkin's comment - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1582087

Let me add this - I'll bet you're a lot less than 80% of the way. When you get non-technical people to use your app you'll find that they don't understand, they do things you don't understand, and you'll end up in despair thinking "Why are people so stupid?!? Then you'll have to redesign the way it works so they don't di the stupid things, and then you'll realise that what they did made much more sense, so you should make it work differently anyway.

Realise now that this is the case and you can throw yourself into the work with enthusiasm, rather than despairing at the stupidity of "damn users". It's users you need, and they are (almost) always (nearly) right.
On the other hand, I'm not stealing someone's car when I duplicate it, am I? Suddenly there's this third party (the car manufacturer or retailer) who cares a lot about what I do with me car. They'd say, "No, it's bad for you to copy other people's cars" and do what they could to stop me.

It's not the copying of other people's cars that's the issue. They'd object just as much if you copied your own car multiple times and gave them to your wife and kids, or friends, neighbors, colleagues or customers. So at that point, they decide that it's no longer your car, all the cars are their cars, they just rent or license them to you in order for them to get around what common sense says you should be able to do with a physical object that you have paid for. Then they'll realize they can go further and stop you taking your car abroad, or stop you modifying it, or running a taxi service, or using generic fuel.
The most concise language I know is Joy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)

The 100 factor must be an exaggeration for most problems. In 100 lines I can put lots of information or quite complex algorithm even in Java.
Some things are quite concise even in Java. See the greatest common denominator code:

int gcd(int a, int b) {
return a==b ? a : gcd(Math.abs(a-b), Math.min(a,b));
}
Most of these youngsters probably haven't heard of Hypercard either. Links before HTML... (but they were local)

Too bad there's no Hypercard app for the iPad. That could be fun if done right.
Focus more on the resources at your school than on the degree. You want to attend a school that has good entrepreneurial resources, such as student start-up incubators, business plan competitions, mentoring, etc. Regardless of what degree you have, these are resources that you can use to learn about entrepreneurship and build a company while still in school.

Stanford, Duke, and University of Texas (Austin) are schools I know of with good entrepreneurship resources. Since you're about to graduate in a few months, you may have already picked your school. In that case just make sure to seek out whatever entrepreneurship resources are at your school.

If your school doesn't have any entrepreneurship resources, go make some! Start a business plan competition, or a business incubator.

Good luck!
Yeah, you can create a map and distribute it for single player vs. the AI.

- http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/

- http://sc2.curse.com/downloads/sc2-maps/default.aspx
Apple Designers Tell All: How to Make Your Product Sexy
BornDigital clearly doesn't understand basic SEO.
depends how you define the invention in question or even "dead".

with voip and mobile phones are we taking about the same invention? because talking-to-other-people will likely never die. are you calling that the "telephone".

vinyl LP's are not "dead" as in non-existent, 0% adoption, etc, but they are a lot less prevalent than they used to be. cd's too.

what if electronic ink supersedes regular ink in newspapers? is it still "print".

inventions evolve they don't die.
> To a large extent this is also the Debian model, which is a lot more integrated than many Linux distributions (...)

Is there anything that Debian does with regards to integration that Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS/RHEL, and even Gentoo don't do?
Machinarium is actually available on Steam. I guess I'd like to think that for a lot of people piracy is simply easier than the legal alternatives - this is true for a lot of people outside the US for movies, for example. If I want to watch movies at home I either have to buy them or walk 15 mins to a video store to get a scratched DVD from a lousy selection. I'm pretty staunch about not pirating but it tests my patience when with bittorrent I'd be watching anything I like in far less time.

However due to being on Steam buying this game can't get much easier and people still pirate it. I agree the focus has to change but it is still a shame, this game is beautiful. I think the amnesty sale is a great way to draw attention to the issue (and the game too).
(defun gcd (a b) (if (= a b) a (gcd (abs (- a b)) (min a b))))

Declaring types makes it longer. There is not much an advantage for that type of code. Unless you go to specific languages like J, where even the math code gets quite a bit shorter. But my personal goal is not to write the small stuff even smaller. My goal is to get rid of the larger structures and hide them.

The big win comes when one uses higher-order functions and macros in any non-trivial piece of software.

Imagine all the boilerplate code that one writes for class definitions can be hidden behind some macros. If one creates the code from domain data, you can get very dense code. Then all kinds of combinations of control structures can be hidden behind macros.

In large software systems Java developers were/are doing the same using XML files to describe the code and generate code from there.
I always wondered how binary conversions worked with a floating point.
Don't forget that Blizzard plans to rake in some money off of content creation (for Blizzard and the developers).
Art Term Paper words  can describe visual Effects
Art term paper expects the students to critically evaluate, analyzing the iconic specifications and skill of the artist to use his media to deliver the representation. Textually describing a visual or ocular piece of art may be a very difficult task.
Right a mortgage is 5% or so. So around 0.5% per month, roughly.

Rule of thumb #1 for rental properties is that if it can get 1% of its total value in rent per month in rent, you can get positive cash flow. 1.5% is worth your time. 2% is what you want to aim for.

Rule of thumb #2 is that the crappier the property, the easier it is to get a higher % of rent vs price. Multifamilies are in general more profitable to rent than single families.

Don't hire a manager when you're starting out. Do it yourself, invest close to home.

SF is too expensive, anyways. Everyone has their own comfort level trading off profit vs crappiness of neighborhood. I'm drawn towards slums, myself.

Richmond/Concord has some nice cheap properties, is close, and has good rents. Oakland is even cheaper but slummier.

The default first step would be to fire up realtor.com and craigslist, and compare prices versus rents. Start with the cheapest single and multi families in Richmond, Concord, and Oakland.

How much cash do you have? This is important since it defines your options.

Join bigger pockets, it's a great forum with lots of pros.

Always try to buy below the market price set by the MLS.

You can get away, but you'd need to get someone trustworthy on call to take care of emergencies.

Shoot me an email at foreclosurevision dot com, once I know exactly what you're looking for I can offer more targeted advice.