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Right. Name ONE "social game" that is really social - involves personal interaction, trust, risking yourself for others. How many are creative, social AND cooperative? How many could survive lifting the "no aggression rule" for city centers without devolving into anarchy?

That term is the biggest double-speak of this decade - "Social Gaming" operates on OCD/addictive personality snaring, pyramid schemes and plain greed.

My last YC app was to try to reinvent this paradigm. Not convincing enought I guess.
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Enjoy the money laundering investigation, and say good bye to ever leaving your country again.
That's what they say when you point out that college doesn't really -> job anymore.

I went to college, and pretty much got jack shit for an education. I educated myself. I went to a small high, Catholic high school and learned more there in the sense of "enrichment" than I ever did at the colleges I attended (and excelled in). Maybe at some point this was true: colleges enrich you, and college means you can get better jobs. That's not really true for a lot of people now, myself among them.
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Are you implying that you'd give $10,000 to an 18 year old to spend on/at college with no plan and/or major? Seems just as crazy.
Thanks for the feedback.

May be it just me, but it's not that unclear what service is. It's your Blog+Photostream+Videostream. It might be confusing cause its something of a new concept and you seem to have caught the usual/known features like Autoposting and email posting, but that's not where we defferentiate ourseleves.
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Well at least for me it was quite obvious what the site is all about without much effort. Good luck!
What Siegler does is pretend that when people say "Android is open" they mean "Android isn't repackaged by companies for their own purposes."

Of course people don't, but it's a handy strawman.

"Android is open" is used to express the idea that there is competition between Android products (consumer view).

"Android is open" is also used to express the idea that a companies are free to enter or exit the marketplace without permission (developer view).

"Android is open" is also used to express the idea that it isn't "Apple's Gated Community" (brand differentiation).

This is probably the most important, and it's right out of Apple's playbook.
Absolutely. I'm a developer who has hired 15-20 other developers in my time. "talks to himself" isn't a reason not to hire a nice, talented developer.
I'm not really sure what I would use this for. It's nice to have DNS for a box at home, but those aren't usually on a static IP. If my IP is dynamic, I'd probably go with a service like DynDNS which keeps my DNS record updated as the IP address changes.
I wouldn't consider it a factor in an employment decision unless it was exceptional in some way (i.e. it was non-stop, extremely loud, disruptive).
Are you doing a lot of on-the-fly processing of the images? Seems like they're the reason the site is slow. I think things could be improved with better caching (server and client side with http headers).
And why shouldn't there be an open standard for bookmarks? Though this proposal (UMarks) ignores social bookmarking.
Very related, indeed. And a good short movie you can forward to friends that will make them feel good.
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These are really hamster-powered, whatever we could afford :)
Concerts/shows. I rarely buy music but I still want to support the artists I like and its a great experience. I tend not to go to shows that only sell via Ticketmaster or are exorbitantly priced.
What about not paying for college? I'm loving the college life and not paying a dime for it.
True. With such a good IDE, I don't mind the verbosity, but I can certainly see why some people do.
Linq, on the other hand, does quite a bit do reduce the amount of code you have to write to work with collections. I've just started using it in the last 6 months or so. Me gusta.
The saying is not "A bird in hand AND the two in the bush." If he was following that expression he would stay with his millions and ride it for a year or two.

He knew he could lose his "bird in hand" by joining Oracle. This just makes me wonder exactly what Oracle was offering him.
You know, I was going to point that out, but figured it was too petty and didn't add to the conversation. However now that I see you pointing it out, it does seem ironic given the topic. What is more important? Making a solid point in a debate with horrible spelling or spelling things correctly without much to say? Sort of summarizes the arguments for/against education. Some would argue that education values form over function, while others would argue that good form is needed to fully understand the function.
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This. If he hasn't actually revealed any trade secrets yet, why are they suing them? Because he may reveal trade secrets? I understand HP's interest and need to protect themselves, but they are doing it preemptively. As of yet, he hasn't done anything wrong.
No joke - ironic from the Linux crowd to bash how timely some corp releases their proprietary data.

The person writing the article has been in industry and realises what the proverbial "red tape" is, right?
Thanks. This helps :)
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On top of it I was able to create an account on hackernews.ipq.co version of hackers news called blahhah.

Maybe y-combinator doesn't care but I think I would!
So sad, because that could have been the DLL's finest hour.

A lot of code uses ATL. Imagine if Microsoft had been able to update a few ATL DLLs and close the hole for every app written to dynamically link to ATL. Instead, the dynalinkers were no better off than the static linkers. No wait, they were worse off.
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What's your major malfunction? What are you doing about it?
For example, mine is that I'm passive-aggressive (and that's a trait that I absolutely loathe). I'm doing something about it by 'growing some' and speaking up whenever I'm put out instead of just sulking about it. I've asked a few of my closest friends to watch out for it and tell me if I'm doing it... when they do, I'll take it as gospel no matter how I feel, as I could easily be doing it again in my reaction if I decide case-by-case. It seems to be working so far.

So, what's wrong with you guys?
You're paying a premium because this guy has talent... well, $5 worth of talent, at least.
awesome! as some have suggested..."next video" would be nice, and the title and description so i know what im watching.
Ask HN: hacking and getting high, do you do it? (man)
There was a poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=710994

A while back but it focused just on 'do you smoke pot.'

Numbers did not surprise me there. Some of the best and most driven hackers I know are also huge potheads, but as a longtime smoker myself that's somewhat self selecting.

My motivation for asking is recently switching from a long history of freelance and entrepreneurial endeavors to a 9-5 gig. My best work used to be in the wee hours of the night chain-smoking spliffs, and now that is basically not an option. I have largely adjusted, but being a huge dopamine junky, it was a less-than-pleasant transition.

I can't really say I am better or worse when high, but I certainly find my flow much quicker and distractions less of an issue.

Do you mix hacking and ganja?
In the past I have used Kawa and SISC Schemes a lot: good projects. However, Clojure has the momentum, community, etc.

I wrote a Scheme book for Springer-Verlag back in ancient history and I still use Gambit-C a reasonable amount and Racket is pretty cool also. So, I am not biased against Scheme, I am just saying that Clojure might be a better place to start if you want to experiment with Lisp languages on the JVM.
The non-compete is not a non-disclosure agreement. The second he gives a command to someone at Oracle he is using his knowledge of HP's competitive position to inform his decision making process. It is impossible for him to perform his role at Oracle without competing with HP.

EDIT Although, upon closer inspection they are saying it isn't a non-compete agreement and are calling it a "confidentiality pact" whatever that is.
I think I'm going to make it my job to ask the following question every time someone announces their "startup" or "business" on HN:

Where's the money?

Seriously, if it's a startup business then their must be an expected revenue stream. If not just saying this as a pedant but as a consumer it's something I consider whenever I'm about to invest time/content in a new site. If there's no business then there's not much chance you'll be around in a year and all my investment will be wasted. It's one reason I pay for sites like Smugmug instead of choosing free alternatives.
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But how is it going to integrate the magical stimulating experience with the magical iPad experience? A fleshlight and duct tape?
I think the argument is more that Hurd is in a decision-making and strategy forming position. He is privy to all the inside information that HP has to date, and as such, he is in a unique position to make decisions that can do serious damage to HP. As an co-president of Oracle, he has a duty to make decisions that benefit Oracle, as ex-CEO of HP (and with a non-compete), he has an obligation to not make decisions based on information he attained during his tenure that would harm HP. This is a decisive and likely unresolvable conflict of interest.

What is most interesting is the politics of it all. Oracle's CEO (Ellison) is a friend of both Mark Hurd and Steve Jobs. What if this farce is designed to undermine HP's foray into the tablet space with WebOS, which may compete with Apple? There is probably a lot of scheming beneath the surface.

Any conspiracy theories? I love conspiracies.
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Unfortunately, it's a problem which is surprisingly hard to solve for code that uses CRT, MFC or ATL. And it is especially hard, if you link to the code which in turn links to some other version of these libs.
Given that there is no "non-compete" and only a confidentiality agreement, I don't agree that HP is 'right' to sue seeking to bar his employment elsewhere. If they felt this way, it should've been negotiated in the severance agreement.

Perhaps HP can do what IBM did with Mark Papermaster when he went to Apple - make him check in with the courts from time-to-time to swear that he's not divulging confidential information.
You don't get hired as a big wig in 1 month. That process takes quite a while, so the one month was probably just the ending part, the culmination of many months or even a year of recruitment effort.

That he took the $23m anyway just means that he would rather have a chance at keeping it than no chance of keeping it, which is rational.

Plus, that amount of money makes enough interest to pay for its own legal defense, so he really had no down side to accepting it with every intention of breaking the agreement then getting sued for doing so.

If he loses, he breaks even, if he wins he gets $23m. Makes sense.
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50 +/- 50 or so years from now, maybe.
its all situational, at least right now.

in some cases, it probably is smarter for an individual to bypass higher education. or, instead of going to a 4-year college, it would be smarter to go to a 2-year tech school or trade school. in others, its smarter for someone to go to the prestigious, expensive university.
There seems to be some kind of timeout for responding to people who respond to you. I had to wait over 15 minutes to respond to someone yesterday. I get the feeling it has something to do with thread depth (e.g. prevent us from getting replies instantly nested 10 deep).

>My experience has been that while Paypal definitely have problems, a lot of the reported problems are exaggerated or lies.

Again you make the claim with nothing resembling a citation. What do you mean "my experience". Do you work for PayPal and actually chase these? Do you just hear things around the water cooler and have this impression? What is your experience exactly?

>So are you contesting that Paypal would get away with stealing everyones money all the time?

All the time? It's relative. Relative to the amount of transfers they do, I suspect it's a very minuscule amount. And I don't think they steal the money per se, just freeze the account.

Personally I think the problem is just that PayPal has near non-existent customer service. So if your account gets frozen you just have no way of getting something done about it.
I agree, web site owners should be checking the host. Most of them don't.

And yes I could easily create a CNAME record to do the same thing but you have to have a reasonable amount of knowledge to do so. Unlike this tool.
It seems to me that all of those arguments could be applied to Woot, which did quite well before Groupon. They're at least following a once-proven model.

(Woot has always had a tacked on community, but so does Groupon.)
I went to a huge land-grant university in the south and my ex-girlfriend went to a private college in the mid-atlantic. She left school with $8000 of loans and mine was double that.

How is that possible? The state backloaded the additional costs into university "fees". And my scholarships, though easier to get, were much smaller (public schools are misers about the grant money). Her school had 3 itemized things: tuition, housing, meal plan. Tuition was $40,000 and the school paid for 90% of it, Pell, Stafford, and workstudy covered the rest. Since the majority of her fellow students came from rich, mid-atlantic families they were generous with the endowments.

The point is if you ask your colleague from MIT how much he paid he might have even paid less than you. Those that can get into those schools have no problem affording them. I believe for Harvard any family making <$70,000 are fully covered. It's probably a similar scheme for MIT.
I run BitBuffet.com where we enable end users to sell digital downloads and we use PayPal exclusively. These horror stories are somewhat uncommon (we've never experienced one or heard of a customer experiencing one).

My advice: go with PayPal until you are making well over $2-4k a month, then switch to a dedicated merchant account once you have proven volume. There are 100 other more likely points of failure than not getting your money from PayPal.
I am a lazy fucking bastard who has never really had to work to get by. I made it halfway through a top-ranked engineering school with >3.0 gpa when it was just an afterthought, getting f'd up all the time.

Same with post school, found easy money playing poker or some little scheme to make a grand here or there.

It honest to god never occurred to me until I was ~25 that in order to make it in this world with the life I wanted to have I would actually have to work.

I took a 9-5 job that would force me to do more than the minimum needed to survive, moved out to the country, and am spending most of my time now learning and writing code, while saving money.

When I finally realized I was going to have to work, I thought to myself, "shit,.. I don't know how to do anything that well". I am trying to remedy that.
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Libraries are still shared among multiple instances of the same process, and just how big are libraries anyway? Most servers run only a handful of (very busy) processes...
And possibly economies of scale will kick in when the high-end mass market starts to transition.
Well, it wont stay free for long. Paid themes, extra storage and premium features are coming soon.
Nothing durable, though.
This was my Irish education:

1 degree, 1 postgrad + 1 MSc later. 7 years of university.

Total university fees: Roughly 5000 euros.

What would be the equivalent in the United States?
Ask HN: Any way to disable scroll wheel acceleration on a Mac?
I've Googled this and found lots of people asking the question, but nobody answering it to my satisfaction.

I'm simply looking for a way to have a linear scroll wheel on my mouse instead of one that takes into account acceleration.

Thank you for your help.
Not to mention http://www.horriblelogos.com/testimonials/
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why then is the Milestone (international Droid) locked down even worse even though the phone is sold in multiple countries without any carrier lock or even just carrier branding?
Yeah, I had the same internal dialog. His point was about the equivalence of the cheap degree to the MIT grad, but he undermines his own point by correctly stating that the MIT grad will far surpass him in the years to come.

The reason I ultimately decided to post the correction was that the reason the MIT guy will win is probably the "collage" vs "college" thing -- the MIT guy is polished, and credentialed. I'd rather hire a "college graduate" than a "collage graduate" regardless of what school he attended, but I think that maybe MIT produces more "college" than "collage." Does that make sense?
How is groupon doing everything wrong? That doesnt make sense. Responding to the points in order:

1. "No Customization" -> I've certainly never seen a rule saying that everything needs customization. If anything, the advice for startups is to focus on doing one thing right, and NOT have options and customization.

2. "Anti Social" -> Wrong. It IS social, but in the GOOD way. Those facebook and twitter buttons rarely cause people to share something. Instead, I've had lots of people (via email and real life) tell me about groupon deals because of: A. How good they are, and B. There is a time limit, so it's an implicit call to action.

3. "Anti Tech" -> I'll give you this one. It's surprising that there is basically no technology behind it, only because, well, why didn't someone else think of it first? This is also leading to their major problem--lots of competitors because there is such a low barrier to entry.

4. "Anti Posterity" -> It's like those TV ads "If you call now, we'll through in X and Y!!!". The two approaches are mutually exclusive--if deals didn't expire, why should I bother sharing it with my friend right NOW?

5. "Anti Targetted" -> Nope. They're targetting a demographic that is willing to make an indulgent, instantaneous purchase. That's exactly the same people who buy cupcakes, cookies, and donuts. It would just be more expensive to get high quality photos from all the local cookie sellers in each city, that's why the image is the same, but people never see groupon for another city, so it doesnt matter.
In this case, it's because HP was dumping Hurd because of the controversy. You can't sever ties with someone but keep them on the payroll for 5 years. Even if it amounts to the same thing.
No, I agree that it's rational. Just that the saying doesn't fit. ;-)

Also, in this case, there wasn't a long recruitment duration. He was kicked out by the board somewhat abruptly due to a scandal and Larry Ellison went on record saying he thought it was a stupid move. Within weeks he was hired.

I think Larry respected the guy, didn't care about his scandal, saw an opportunity, and jumped on it.
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While you're small, you can use a combination of PayPal, Google Checkout, or Amazon Payments. His mistake is not upgrading to his own merchant account once he started making a bunch of money.
Just a tip, if someone tells you that something is unclear to them, a response just telling them that you don't know why it's unclear to them is both unhelpful to that person as well as to yourself.

I also find the homepage unclear as to what everything is and why I would use it. I basically think you need one clear message rather than a rotating message, plus screenshots or links to live or demo "sprreds". You can also consider a demo video, ala Dropbox's homepage, that explains in a fun way what you offer.
Ask HN: Rate my App Tracku
We are wrapping up a big revision for the app Tracku. It shows participating friends' locations on iPhone, and we have just added the ability of sharing location marks between friends.

The previous version hit the App Store about a month ago. With almost no advertising and being a free app, it now has around 1000 users, most of them are in the U.S(of course), but Singapore scores second. We never understood why Singapore users like it so much, maybe someone has a clue?

For a preview of the upcoming version, visit: http://blog.trackuapp.com/post/1092494885/sneak-preview-upcoming-features-in-v2-in-app-store

And the current version is at: http://www.trackuapp.com/

Thank you!
It is good at lock in ("sheesh, I've been here for 8 months, I've only got 4 to go. If I leave I could be leaving $20k on the table"), especially since bonus payouts are often months after hearing the number so you've already began earning the next one before you get your current one paid.

The problem is, when you get that "big" bonus and it's not big then you can't help but be disappointed. I recently saw a company lose about 5 key people at one time because of the disappointment caused by this. Before bonus time those people were happy with their job and even their pay. But they all got nice bonus the year before.

In my estimation, that's 5 people they lost by a non-existent problem they created themselves.
That doesn't work on mobile Gmail or Gmail via IMAP (like on iPhone Mail, for example). So it's a non-starter for me.
clickable:

- preview of upcoming version: http://blog.trackuapp.com/post/1092494885/sneak-preview-upco...

- current version: http://www.trackuapp.com/
By viewing the source code you can see that the author intends to add a "More Videos" features, but it's currently commented out. http://feross.net/instant/instant.js

I'd personally recommend not finishing this "More Videos" feature. I think the simplicity of just 1 video per search is awesome and creates beautiful serendipity. But, I know such a suggestion is very subjective.
I didn't get a college degree and I feel like I'm doing relatively well. Sometimes I wonder if I'll regret not going, but it is what it is.
Zero to about $400k. Depends on university, grant aid, academic performance, and family ability to pay.

Edit to add: technically, cost could be negative. Mine was for a few semesters due to aggressive pursuit of scholarships. I know at least three people paid to study.
...it's a joke, albeit a kind of stupid one.
I'm sorry but this feels like a me-too amalgamation of a grab-bag of other services, a little bit of Tumblr, a sprinkling of Posterous, a dash of Flavors.me but without the secret sauce of any of them - the social elements of Tumblr, the beauty and editing tools of Flavors.me or the rah-rah early users of Posterous. I don't see a USP.

It's also achingly slow.
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