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No no no not an MMO, please. Just a single player game with a huge world to explore and a nice immersive storyline. Like the original Elites.

Why does everything have to be MMO these days. MMOs usually revolve around doing repetitive 'work' to gain points so you can buy better stuff than other players, I find that boring.

(yes, EVE online is nice, CCP did an excellent job, but IMO we don't need another one of those)
On an iPod Touch/iPhone:

1. Tap Pause
2. Tap Songs, choose something
3. Listen, get bored
4. Tap Podcasts (if you pulled it down to your iPod dock, or More.. Podcasts if you didn't)
5. Tap Play.
Not a disaster quite, but in Houston everyone evacuated from the hurricane and no one I knew reported any looting happening.
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And now, the first few replies to this have been - guess what - destructive, sarcastic, scathing and rude.

FWIW, I don't see HN as a "do my homework" site. I try to offer helpful replies to anyone that appears to have put some thought and consideration into a question.

The OP here does not appear to have spent any time getting acquainted with this site or its norms. Since the days of 300 baud modems I've never seen a site of any caliber that treated people asking for resources from the members with "respect" when those requestors did not themselves show a similar degree of respect.

Your answer to the OP was very well written, and the sort of thing that any halfway motivated person could have found with maybe an hours worth of googling around. That hour of their time would have enabled them to come here and ask much more detailed and targeted questions, and would have saved a lot of people from potentially having to be Google for them and answering the question.

In short, I'm all for helping people that help themselves.
I think you've got the right end of the stick, with one detail missing: yes, there weren't any computer classes in the 1970s/80s. But in some fee-paying schools in England, there were computers around, like BBC Micros.

Thus a few pupils learnt how to program without interference from teachers.
I am not sure an atomic bomb is a good comparison, I have heard nuclear reactors possess many multiples of radioactive material than a bomb.
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I stumbled on to this website: http://www.websitebroker.com/ where people put sites up to buy and sell. Looking at the listings, I find some sites selling for $280, with $26 per month current profits. Another lists for $780 with $160 current profits, etc, etc. You'll make back the price in less than a year for most of those sites...

I feel tempted to buy one of those cheap ones and just collect passive income for a year. But then... why are they selling? Or is it all an illusion and everyone is trying to rip everyone off?
Don't be afraid to be right. I did study music theory and I can confirm that the intervals as we know them are just a way to modelize the natural physical relationships between the waves we hear. It is a way to remeber where to put your finger on a violin to make the two string sound good together in a given harmonic context.

One can alway declare to prefer microtonal or whatever invention, but the level interference (or harmony) between pitched sounds can be determined rationaly. This, for once, is not placable under cultural relativism. That's why it is probable that quater tones in Indian or Iranian music are not really tones, and are more like little bends to the natural scale.

(This fact do not please avant-gardists, because it means there is roughly nothing new to invent in this field, but reality is not supposed to always be pleasant, right?)

By the way, I couldn't read the OP (blocked), sorry if my contrib is not related enough.
In my opinion, the User Acquisition Cost looks pretty high, but I can't be 100% sure as scaling is q question of monetization. I guess it all depends on how you monetize, i.e. what percentage of user become paying customers.

The men/women ratio looks promising though to make it a success!
I don't think all examination of qualifications constitutes a genetic fallacy. If anything it's closer to an argument from authority plus a closed-world assumption (i.e. I only accept arguments from authorities). But expertise and authority has a significant role in science, and not entirely an improper one imo. If I say that I prefer to hear expert analysis of nuclear reactors from someone with a PhD in nuclear physics, rather than from someone with a PhD in another field, that seems like a decent epistemological heuristic. The qualifications don't prove anything about the argument, but in general I expect people with relevant qualifications to know more of the relevant facts, so am more willing to defer to their judgment.

It's doubly the case when the original article author promoted the article as being by an "MIT PhD". If someone is explicitly invoking their credentials to add weight to an argument, investigating whether the credentials are relevant seems reasonable.
Did you ever ask this person why he wrote this code in this manner? Did he trot out the "job security" crap or was there a legit reason?
Ok, you are completely right there. I hadn't thought about that. I was just a bit awash with one of my childhood hero game developers now making shallow toys :)
Once a year it often feels like your business is about to fail until it truly reaches the point of a sustainable business.

I think what separates real entrepreneurs from wantrepreneurs is how they handle the barriers and low periods that are natural with any startup.
I'll have to try that experiment with my 15 month old. He's spent a lot of time on the keyboard, and he and I played with the sampler, but I didn't have him try the drums.

I didn't notice any lag, but maybe that's because my son can't stop himself from making the app go away: the home button is too irresistible. Someone needs to come out with a slip case that makes the home button unreachable.
Yeah yeah, whatever. I don't want to hear about your problems. Having problems is a sign of incompetence.

Just write me a program that always wins. While you're at it write me a program that always prints the biggest number. I expect both by tomorrow.
"Gut level craving" - that is what hit home for me. Enjoyed this. thanks.
I actually recently set up something similar. I use opengateway with authorize.net and it will post to a url during a transaction. I have it post to a local server, that plays a specific .wav file depending on the transaction type.

There are 5 transaction types and I use a slot machine, cash register, bells, and crowd cheering noises.

Got the idea from this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/
> What to Submit: [...] 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
Congratulations on your first sale! Ysd I had another sale on my 4-month old startup, so I know how it feels to get this paypal/gateway emails.

Good luck!
Seems like 2 minutes of intense webserver usage killed his review?

edit the page finally loaded.. and I'm amazed by the sound quality of the recordings! Seems like the iPad can be a great 'on the road' sampler! Does anyone have experience with recording quality on other (tablet) devices?
Sounds great. I like the song. Amazing progress from needing a professional studio to record music a few decades ago to being able to do it on a comic-book sized pad. I'm not sure I see big cost/performance advantages to an amateur musician of using this arrangement ($700) versus a basic dedicated or pc-based recording setup (maybe $1500-$2500) considering the other costs (instruments) that come into play. Convenience, maybe, in terms of being able to record outdoors, while traveling, etc., but how feasible are those scenarios anyways?
What if two applications has checked this box? That's the core of this article.
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It amazes me that there is still talk about paywalls at old media type establishments like the NY Times.

Paywalls are a tried and failed method of trying to get people to pay for content (with notable exceptions) for a couple of reasons (my opinions here ... proceed with caution) ...

a. people don't like to be held to ransom ... "Pay now, or you can't read this article that your friend just linked you to" is hostile and abrupt ... its like having a girl (you) show up with a friend to some guy's house and instead of being a good host and working up to asking you out ... he opens with

"So how about it ... want to screw?"

It might work (law of averages) ... but it usually doesn't.

b. The content that they provide is overvalued in their minds, I forget the psychological term for this ... but because they spend all this time and money to report the news, they assume that people care ... and people don't ... because most news is a commodity.

If I can read the same story with pretty much the same quality of writing on Yahoo news (and I do ... all the time) why would I pay you for that content on a nicer looking website.

Truth is that these news organizations need to start thinking like startups and answer the question

How do we provide more value to the people who read the news?

The Wall Street Journal and sites like Stratfor have figured out how to make paywalls work by gasp providing content that you can't find anywhere else and are willing to pay to get your hands on.

Why hasn't the NY Times learned from this?

The NY Times strikes me as the girl that used to be smoking hot, but hit her thirties and is finding that she's not as attractive as she used to be (even though she is still pretty good looking) ... and instead of constantly being chased by men, she now has to actually initiate interaction once in a while.

I think they're having a hard time adjusting to that, even though they could be killing the game if they got over that mental hump.

oh well
PS: Sorry for the rant, I'm a huge news junkie
I once worked on a game for the Wii using a 7 year old engine originally developed for the PS2. The company had a high turnover rate and the code was atrocious. The engine had been used for several games and each title introduced a new hack in the engine. You had the tipical spaghetti with meatballs mess with 2000+ lines functions and hacked code with comments like: "This code is for the E3 demo of the game xxx". Once I had to extend a 1000+ line switch statement.

But the worst I saw was something like this:

struct weapon
{
#ifdef xxx
#include xxx
#else
...
#endif
}
flippa.com is the one I am most familiar with. Some of these are legit. Others are propped up with paid and black-hat traffic to get the analytics and CPC up until after a sale it made.
When Microsoft itself started a campain against IE6 (http://www.ie6countdown.com/) users should do a small lookup over all those other updated browsers for XP.
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I have the same expierience loading the site on my Blackberry with a it hangiong on a blank page,the site shows when I reload it with Javascript on
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Well i'm 19 and using my student loan to fund my servers, so my budget is pretty low ha.

He's a pretty talented developer, i've been viewing his code on github. He's happy to come aboard, but we haven't agreed on any terms yet. I'm not really looking to outsource work to developers, i'm looking to build a team together.
>The problem that is being solved is that if Twitter or Zynga leaves San Francisco and continues to grow and hire people in their new location, that will be used against the current politicians in upcoming elections

Maybe, but what you're saying is politicians are more interested in the politics in and of itself than really serving the citizens. They should do what they think will benefit the majority of the citizenry with disregard what it will do to their political 'career'.

One other pet peeve I have with the city is its requirement that construction jobs must include a large percentage of city residents. This is a city which prides itself in being open and welcoming of the whole gamut of locals and all immigrant types. How does that reconcile?

What if San Mateo county got the itch and said, you know what, anyone not from San Mateo working in San Mateo will be levied a non-resident payroll tax.
Like Theseus's ship, their bodies & minds are gradually replaced by Lisp functions.
Agreed. If anything, none of these sequencers make sense to me as iPad apps. The small form factor combined with the inherent imprecision of a touch interface makes all the fiddly detail work that full-fledged sequencing requires extremely tedious.

Tablets make a lot more sense to me as control surfaces and novel instruments, not as DAW alternatives.
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Sorry mate, I am new to Hacker News; I will remember next time :)
Yes, I am serious. I said the plane falling happens more often, not that it is worse as a singular event.

Unfortunately it is a problem with human psychology that we respond more strongly to a singular large event than to consistent low-level events.

Some of the discussion on this page has suggested Chernobyl killed around 60k, directly and indirectly. Certainly a tragedy, and a huge one at that, but it is also the only major nuclear disaster. The second worst (until we fully understand the current Japanese incident at least) remains Three-mile island, where there are no confirmed deaths I am aware of.

So, we're comparing approx 60k deaths, over the course of approximately 60 years, which works out as about 10k deaths a decade, against aviation accidents of, as you said yourself, approximately 15k a decade.

By those numbers, approximately 50% more people die each year from aviation accidents than from nuclear-power-related injuries. It's just that Chernobyl is a big story, but we hear about plane crashes all the time.
I'd do exactly that, and work up to evolutions. Some handholding may be useful when working on logic, but apart from that most developers don't need anymore to get up to speed. That's assuming they know the underlying technolog, otherwise I'd start with tutorials for that tech/language/platform.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851851/)

FYI, it supposedly fell somewhere between the T2 & T3 movies in the timeline. Mostly good episodes with the story picking up (and frankly getting crazier in a good way) by the second season.

It's worth a watch if you can handle knowing you won't get all the answers due to its cancellation.
How do you tell the difference before the sale? What are things to look for?
glad you think so ... just remember that idea comes from failing often ... being burned numerous times by people who took advantage of my free labor :)
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I think physical keyboards should come with a "post/submit" key separate from the "newline" key, like the iPhone keyboard does.
I don't think "simplified" is the right word. Simplicity can foster innovation, by leaving more space to fill. The word is "restricted".
Hmmm, nobody seems to understand what ";-)" means.
Start your own project. Something you love. Come up with an idea. Execute it well.

And unless you're rich and don't need money, do not work for free.
"RT @pkedrosky: Polite, patient, purposeful founders fail. http://bit.ly/gXA282 /via @cenedella" http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/statuses/48017595332440064
On my iPad 2 I also have seen this behavior if you wail with ten fingers on the drums just 'button mashing' style it keeps going for several seconds after you stop as the iPad is catching up with the inputs.

My six year old found this :)
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GarageBand for iPad is the most complete and capable all-in-one music creation package available anywhere.

Not sure exactly what he means by "all-in-one" but if an app running on a distinct, general purpose device counts I'd take Ableton Live on a Macbook over this a million times over. There are certainly some appealing things about this but it's still a toy compared to the alternatives.
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I agree. At first glance, I thought that the NbrofA/AA/etc names were just gibberish. The most nonsensical part to me is starting the for-loop iterator at zero, and then only executing the function if the iterator is non-zero.
I feel the web-specific stuff like frameworks, AJAX, etc., is a greater stumbling block, as many people are already familiar with general kind of programming through school/previous jobs.
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Happened to me in a college course - fortunately I haven't seen it since. However the CURRENT codebase I'm working on is a whole other set of nightmares.

Bonus points for the fact that they don't let me fix it...
Unpaid internships are legal in the United States. I know of a few businesses that build these internships into their model as a way of keeping costs down.

The Department of Labor has a smell test for them: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
"In the real world you probably wouldn't want to have a dob field on the unicorns table. Instead just use the timestamp embedded into the _id field."

The real world unicorns are not born on the same second that their db record is created.
1. The story about Obama' Os makes it seem so easy to raise $32k. Of course it does not always pan out the same way.

I don't think he meant that it was easy. I think he meant the exact opposite, which is why it's so impressive.
The article and the comments here remind me of a great article on how to write unmaintainable code:

http://freeworld.thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
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> I don't recall which company, but in the last two weeks, one of the big name startups put out a competition to solve a problem regarding log file parsing.

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Wikipedia has some details on the typical interactions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corium_(nuclear_reactor)#Corium...

The summary is that yes, typically concrete would melt at temperatures anywhere in the range that you'd expected a molten core to be at.

My understanding is that newer designs have a "core catcher" under the reactor made of something more resistant than concrete, but this unit doesn't.
Just the tarball for now, though it will probably make its way to GitHub soon.
Don't sell yourself short either. If you can't get paying work doing what you're doing, take the startup advice and pivot.
I have a theory that Asteroid was actually the Apogee Duet. It's essentially what Asteroid was thought to be (a Firewire breakout box with integration built into Apple's software) and was released in roughly the right time frame.

http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/duet.php
That's what "they" said about Netflix.
This is a classic arms race - an escalating conflict over a positional good that by definition can only be enjoyed by one entity at a time. Other positional goods include popularity in high school and military superiority (from which we get the term "arms race" to refer to the escalating efforts of multiple agents to achieve the good).

Generally, the only effective way to address an arms race is regulation: an encorceable arms treaty, say, or a strict school uniform.
> you're contending that this is a matter of deliberate policy by Obama

I don't see where he's saying that. Where does the buck stop, anyway? Does Obama get a pass because he's an ineffectual leader, a gold star for trying?
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I used Gambit Scheme to create a full 3d iPhone game called Farmageddon. It is a very powerful Scheme system, with its focus on being very portable and low-level. Because of this, it lacks certain features you might find in other languages, like a module system and a large community.
>If there had been only 35 or 4000 deaths then Chernobyl would not be considered a catastrophic event up to this day. Instead it would be considered a testament to the safety of the technology.

Doubt it. Nobody says Three Mile Island was a testament to the safety of nuclear power, and the harm was pretty small, unambiguously less harm than 35 dead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Heal....
Two points:

1) I was referring to portable all-in-one units like the Boss Micro BR, Tascam field recorders, etc. Maybe I should have been more explicit about this.

2) Ableton is great for recording and processing, but for creating virtual instruments without external hardware, I'd prefer the iPad interface.
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We do. Your post is still noise. This is a valuable article that most people here have not seen - I hadn't, even though I have seen others from this author. Which are all excellent, by the way. I upvoted this submission because I love seeing such detailed systems articles on the frontpage.
It seems like the draft of NoSQL database solutions has made people think about databases, and thus also bumped up innovation in the SQL domain. Many interesting projects around MySQL these days.
When did streaming become part of Netflix's core competency?
"I'm a single parent"

Respect.
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Moviefone is not a news organization. They emailed TechCrunch and they sounded skeptical that TechCrunch would oblige. TechCrunch received email and utilized it to create an instance of classic attention/pageview whoring.
Lol, the affiliate application I'm making plays a beep for alerts, the main type of alert being extra commission earned. I suggested to my cofounder that we change the beep volume depending on the size of commission.
Really? Log onto a Windows box and run:

ps FOO.EXE | kill

(Yeah, ps is an alias to get-process, kill an alias to stop-process)

Notice how you didn't scrape text anywhere? No greps, or seds? No 'pkill' type alias apps?

That's because PoSH actually returns real objects. It's a much neater design.

I'm a *nix dude, and I still don't think Windows is ready for servers (the OS still needs restarts for application installation, eg, Office Web apps a few months ago) but PoSH is damn neat and there's been quite a few projects to clone it on various nixes.