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Maybe this sounds strange, but I couldn't be happier that people are paying for the privilege of contacting me. In my experience it keeps the signal/noise ratio high, and I'm perfectly happy to let LinkedIn keep the fees as long as I keep getting value out of the messages.

I've been contacted by recruiters from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and many more through LinkedIn. When one of these guys contacts you, it's a free pass through the most frustrating part of a job search: getting someone to even give your resume a second glance. Those contacts have resulted in two job offers I didn't accept and one that I did. Considering that just one accepted job offer is a life-changing event, LinkedIn has justified all the time I've spent on it (not much) many times over.
On a lighter note, what is the physics behind a bird hitting and breaking through concrete walls and ice barriers?
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The down votes on this make me sad, so I'm compeled to elaborate despite my better judgement.

Say you move to France because US taxes increase. It's great in France. Then they up taxes, so you move to Australia. Then Australia goes to war and you disapprove, so you move again. At what point do you stick it out?

I'm not saying your country or city of origin is by default the best region for you to live. But the only reason there are great places to live is because intelligent, creative, passionate people found a community they cared about and they stayed to work through the difficult problems. You could be one of these people... or you could move to a country with currently lower taxes.
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Yes it's 1800, sorry thought it was mentioned in the Wikipedia article but didn't know it by heart. Well there goes my chance of ever becoming a chess boxer then I guess :)
the female plugs in the adapter are not to spec to female
outlet plugs. so it can't be legally sold there. (me thinks.
in Brazil you can't sell outlet stuff that are not up to
government spec)

That's not a problem in the UK. You can sell non-standard-shape plugs and sockets as long as they're up to the safety spec in all other respects. I believe that also means that they have to be sufficiently different from the standard ones that it's impossible to attempt to fit a standard plug into a non-standard socket (or vice versa).
noprocast only stops you from posting. You can still waste hours reading. In fact, you can also post even with noprocast on (figuring out how is left as an exercise to the reader. you have 30 secs).

The only solution I find that really works is to get more involved and make it a point to post good comments. If I feel bad about not participating in HN well, either it makes me write good comments and have new insights or get back to work. I've also started taking notes on my blog from articles and discussions I find interesting.
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I was going to point out that this extra part of Killer Soduku reminded me of Kakuro, but I see that's mentioned in the first line of the Wikipedia entry he links to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakuro
Peripherally related, but too awesome to pass up on. This Is Going To Hurt Just A Little Bit, by Ogden Nash: http://wordysketches.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-is-going-to-h...
I think I might be part of the problem. I came to HN accidentally while searching Google for video post-production tips. I normally get my social news fix on digg.com and have used them for the last 5-6 years, slashdot and ntk before it, but recently got fed up with the juvenile comments and the 'Top 10 x' or 'Catz cheeze' type posts. I think Diggs latest v4 has driven their entire readership to reddit, tumblr and also here. So depending on your view, I think HN will continue to get popular and descend further down the LOLCATs route. I would add that I think today this community is great and extremely insightful - speaking as a director of a web services company.
I worked on Warhammer Online for nearly two years before it left the offices of Climax Entertainment in Nottingham, England. When I arrived the game was already a couple of years in development, but the focus was on the technology not the game. We had no game, just a test area running on a local server.

There was a design department consisting of 10 people, 4 working on environment and level design, 6 working on quests, the magic system, and general game mechanics. There were 10 artists, 4 animators, and 13 programmers.

You'd think we would get somewhere with such a large team, but we didn't other than developing the underlying tech. The main reason the game design didn't progress was a second design team led by Paul Barnett was sitting in the office above us coming up with another vision for WHO without any interaction between the 2 departments other than meeting with the lead designer occasionally.

When the news came of Climax stopping development of the game it was not surprising to most people working on the title. You could see it coming for months before it happened. It looks as though that continued at Mythic although they did at least manage to ship.

I left a few months before the announcement was made and ended up having two exit interviews. The first was a standard set of questions given by the studio's human resources deaprtment. The second was with a representative of Games Workshop looking for answers as to why development was not progressing as they had hoped. They were in the dark about what was happening with their IP and wanted answers.
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There are plenty of places on the internet to find "anything interesting" (see: reddit, digg, youtube). Those places do a great job at wasting time that could otherwise be spent being productive. In other words, those places exist as entertainment portals. There is nothing wrong with that. Entertainment is healthy.

I do not come to Hacker News, however, to waste time. I come to Hacker News for intellectual debate and a deeper form of thinking. Both of these, among others, foster personal growth and learning. That is the value I pull from Hacker News. I'm sure PG would understand where I'm coming from here. So let's keep "anything interesting" to digg. They're doing great so far.
It's an article that you can tell from the title that you (specifically) don't want to read. What's so hard about ignoring it?

Better this than say programmer barbie...

I click on about 1 link in 10 or 20 as it is. It doesn't mean the rest is bad. It just doesn't necessarily interest me. Nothing wrong with that.

Also the fact that something this simple has a fairly simplistic model is of interest and relevance to many entrepreneurs, hence the rank. It's a lesson in not overcomplicating things.
What was used to create the map visualizer? Any open source library in flash?
I do wonder if at some point they'll become so ubiquitous--and so many YC applicants and companies will be focused on smartphones--that he'll feel he has to to get one so that he can better judge the value of companies focused on mobile and give them advice.

It is possible to own a smartphone but not use it as your primary phone. For example: I have an iPhone 4 that I use specifically for development purposes. I've made a grand total of one phone call with it; to cancel the contract.
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He seems to be nice, honest, and intelligent, if a little egoistic, from his answers in this interview: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/1979-03-01/D...

He himself clarifies that there is nothing magical about this system:
"We aren't claiming to have come up with a revolutionary system ... we're not pushing any "miracle" drugs or anything like that, We are simply offering a commonsense approach to dental health, and the likes of that has never been available to the American people before. Oramedics is nothing more and nothing less than the simplest route to a disease-free oral ecology. And I think that anyone who is interested in regaining control over his or her life and body will surely want to know about it."
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When you say "upward mobility" do you mean economic or social mobility (or both)?

In the UK there is a non-trivial relationship between the two.
Hah! Good point, hadn't thought of that one. Was trying to come up with some way the genderists could be offended.

I think the guideline might be based on that "geek" has historically been a negative label, except where applied internally (as many negative labels do). So when paired with a non-existent or neutral phrase, it takes negative connotations, while when paired with a positive phrase it becomes a new "thing", and no longer holds the negative slant.
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Sounds like a play from the book REWORK: Mobilize against an enemy (or something like that).

It's just words; WePay is not another competing product, it's basically a bunch of features that PayPal can implement and with >80M accounts, they can easily kill it.

Say what you want about PayPal, but each one of you should read PayPal Wars to learn the inside story of how PayPal worked and competed. They basically pioneered the person-to-person payment service and faced a myriad of issues before eventually selling to eBay.
When the icthyologists also gain a history of being circus freaks and get a more general term applied to them - say, "nerd" - then it would be a similar term.

Personally, I don't find it offensive, but there are plenty of people who have had it applied to them offensively who could. It's still a charged word - give it another decade or two.
>There's something like 5000 businesses of this type in the U.S

Don't mean to be rude but the world doesn't end at the US border. There are likely to be other companies in the same market outside of the US, why write them off before you've found out the size of the non-US market.
Yes, for boxing champions, but even there it's hard to say what is caused by the boxing and what is caused by genetic factors. People often say 'look at Ali!' but there's no way to tell if it's really because of the boxing. But more importantly, note that I said 'how much getting hit in the head is required'. See e.g.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502093035.ht...

http://www.bmj.com/content/335/7624/809.full

Both from 2007. First one says that amateur boxers do get brain damage, second one says they don't. (there are the top google hits, I looked into this deeper about 5 years ago; at that time there was very little research done, let alone consensus.)

Point being, the question is: does getting hit in the head pose linear risks/ I.e, simplified, do a number of cells die for each punch or kick to the head? Or does it require a certain threshold of damage for there to be any cognitive effects?

I don't compete in any sport but I've trained plenty of full contact sports over the last 10 or 15 years. I've been punched and kicked in the face a lot, with and without gloves, been knocked out briefly once, been choked out several times. Still my head/brain has taken nowhere near the amount of punishment a pro or even good amateur fighter gets; my brains gets plenty of time between trainings to recover. I can never know for sure if my training has caused brain damage, and if it did, in what form that will manifest itself (or has already, maybe), but I don't have reasons to believe it affected my cognitive functions. Maybe it did and the damage caused decreased intelligence, making me believe that it didn't :)
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That will allow him to try out apps (which I'm sure he does on the founders' devices or on YC-owned devices), but it won't make him think like someone with a smartphone.

It won't help him think up RFSes with mobile apps at their core, and it won't allow him to say "wow, that app you're pitching to me would remove the annoying 3-step process that I do whenever I do X on my phone." The importance of him truly thinking like someone with a smartphone will grow over the next few years
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Do you think the future might happen again someday?

Only if Jules Verne happens again someday. If he does, ask him. Nobody's ever matched that guy. Dude predicted we'd literally use rockets to literally travel to the moon at a time when literally the only common application of rockets was for fireworks; they weren't even reliable (in any/every sense) enough for military applications. Every self-proclaimed technology soothsayer there ever was can pretty much suck Jules Verne's dick.
How much of a problem for what? It's not awesome if you want VC, but it's great if your plan is to bootstrap growth. Why? Because with such a target audience like that, your route to market is going to be really clearly defined and as a bonus, pretty low cost. Phone calls, email and direct mail to a market of 5,000 is cheap. Industry gatherings (conferences, trade shows, exhibitions) are likely to be few, easily identified and prospect dense.

I agree that for very niche products, $25 is too probably too low. Do you have a solid analysis of the value delivery?
Surely interacting with other people presenting their great hacks is a good way to get inspiration for your own hacks and to get a feel for what your group considers a "great hack". Kicking people out and telling people to work in isolation until they stumble upon something that meets your requirements seems both elitist and pointless.
I actually thought that this was interesting and useful ... not very interesting.

It's a partly deconstruction of one of the most succesful mobile games and probably the most succesful iPad game. If you are a Hacker the probability is high you are thinking about iPad games at the moment.

Odd articles like this one together form a coherent picture and might help develop new ideas.
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It does look like that, though you do end up wondering why. Even 10% equity in the company that owns the patents on efficient solar energy generation is going to be wealthy beyond their hopes of ever being able to spend the money.

Maybe its just that he likes being the boss, and not having to answer to anyone, including investors...
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Given Facebook essentially just creates a single product on a fairly unique platform there seems to be little chance that anything would really be directly integrated into there product.

I can see acquisitions in future that may be more centered around removing competition such as something like foursqaure if they rendered Facebook places relatively unused and possibly events type startups to push their events platform more.
What are these mini plugs? Everything I've ever seen has either the BFO plugs or the wee razor type plugs that go into the BFO ones with an adaptor. I've never seen a socket in a house for razor type plugs (although hotels do have them) - I guess new properties might have them.
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Sounds a lot like what we're doing on http://pappd.com plug
i worked for the organization (www.showroommama.nl) that helped this artist to realize this. it was a really interesting project!

the artist had a title battle in amsterdam back then, fighting an amature boxing friend of his. after a heavy battle, the artist, iepe, won by the flag on the chess clock.

funny fact: "kung fu" has sometimes been called chess-boxing, as there was so much tactics to it.
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Good question. Monday night's meetup had these presentations:

John Britton: Dinevore (http://www.dinevore.com/) mobile app, built on Titanium Appcelerator (http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-appl...)

Nathan Hamblen: Pilot (http://www.github.com/n8han/pilot/), a web interface for Simple Build Tool (http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/). Also mentioned SPDE-sbt (http://github.com/n8han/spde-sbt), a plugin for sbt for SPDE projects, and SPDE (http://github.com/n8han/spde) a library for using Processing from Scala. (There was certainly some confusion related to this project, so if you were confused, be sure to checkout all the links to piece it together)

Sean O'Connor: Touralope (http://touralope.com), a Twillio (http://www.twillio.com) based cell phone tours app, written for AppEngine (http://code.google.com/appengine)

Zack Lieberman: EyeWriter (http://www.eyewriter.org), a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.

Sergey Chernyshev: UserBase (http://github.com/sergeychernyshev/UserBase), a user management tool to be used in on-line projects which includes an admin dashboard and support for various non-local authentication schemes such as Facebook Connect and OpenID.

Gregory Tomlinson: A photo viewer (http://github.com/gregory80/photo-viewer) which does dynamic, but cached, resizing of the photos, built on Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/) and MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/)

Andrew Schaff: keyjson (http://keyjson.org),an order-preserving binary encoding of most JSON values

Andrew Gwozdziewycz: Text Please (http://textplease.appspot.com) and Thumb Through (http://github.com/apgwoz/thumb-through) a web service, and Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs) providing "just the text" for online articles.
From the guidelines:

What to Submit

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.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This comment was ranked 0 when I found it. It's exactly right. Startups are risky enough without having to hire a team of Lua developers. An async server that supports a mainstream language is awesome. Lua? No.
I think the most compelling thing about Lua (to someone with no Lua experience), is that its appears (from examples, and what people have said) that its good for embedding inside another program (size wise and good FFI).

In a video I saw, by one of the designers of the languages stated that this was the original purpose (engineers using this instead of C, with the low level details done by programming team in C).
Sorry to disappoint, but this is not from Mint - it's actually my team's presentation for the Stanford West Coast Venture Case Competition when I was an undergrad at Berkeley (I am Victor, listed on the first slide).

It's a funny story but we won the competition with this presentation, in part because Shasta Ventures, one of the judges there, happened to actually be funding the company (which they announced 3 days after we pitched it). For the questions regarding the financials, I don't know how closely they match reality but we were told by the judges that we won in part because the numbers were conservative/realistic and were in the same ballpark as their own figures.
Growing up with a younger brother I can testify to this last statement.
$25 total per customer is way lower than most non-commodity SaaS applications. How many users do you expect each customer to have?
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There's some interesting comments on that(as well as the inevitable trolls)..
Why are you twisting my words and what did I make up? You said something about the homophobes you know and I added the fact that marriage doesn't stop someone from flirting. This might not make him a playboy, but it's close enough in my opinion.

As for cheating, if a man cheats, it doesn't necessarily mean that he's treating women poorly, it means that he's treating a woman poorly.
Thanks for looking this up, but I think it's reasonable to note that "anything that good hackers would find interesting" is not necessarily the same as the vague category of "anything interesting".
What does 'pro-business' mean?
I think every startup should look at the slide about the problems that Mint solves for its Total Addressable Market, even if it isn't the original Mint deck. The interesting thing about this presentation is it looks at the problems people managing their money have experienced, and the ways they solved the problems, and quantified the solution in numbers (the bottom-line for any business, not a free open source project, is to quantify the solution in dollars). So Mint saved users time (consistent UI) and matched the buyer to the seller of this data. Before you try to make a dime off any good idea, look at these slides and see if you can answer many of the same questions Mint did.
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>Microsoft has sanctioned Mono, and no court in the world would let them take the CP back and say "nah, we were just kidding."

Microsoft is an entity independent of the people who currently work there. It's not about MS going to court and saying "We had our fingers crossed", it's about new management coming in and claiming previous management did something crazy. Do this promise protect against that?
realistically, you need to learn how to code or earn enough money to pay someone.

No one who is able to is going to want to write an app based on your idea for partial equity. People who can program have their own ideas that they are more passionate about.
We use it all the time when researching prospective hires. It's surprising how often they're linked to somebody we know, so we can get references they weren't expecting.
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From the article: "if your criteria are productivity, efficiency and consumer satisfaction, it makes perfect sense to withdraw funds and material support from the humanities".

I think I've said it before: if we'd let engineers design our homes we'd all be living in barracks. Education isn't supposed to be about about creating jobs alone. I for one hope that the current economic crisis & utilitarian backlash doesn't strip away all funding for the arts & humanities.
See APB (All Points Bulletin) for an even bigger recent MMO game fiasco. In development for 5+ years, cost over $50 million to make, closed 2 months after launch.

Over 250 people were laid off, including those working on a different game.
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I dont have an ELO, but had a USCF of about 1900 when I used to play as a teenager. It took me about five years of lessons and tournaments to get to that point, dedicating about 5 to 10 hours per week or so.

Really the best way to improve your game is to play opponents MUCH stronger than you. It can be disheartening losing most of the time, but you will improve much quicker than you would by playing in groups of your own strength.
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Leave them alone?? Why would you want to DO something with them?
I'd rather be optimistic than so cynical about such important inventions that have huge potential, even if the probability of success is very low.

I mean, if he had even a small working prototype, he could be on the news and gaining investors and traction.

You mean just like all the great inventors of all times? If only life was so fair and rosy.
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