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Did you read the article? It addressed that. According to the author many students in these countries pay for additional instruction fromt tutors to make up for the lack of individual attention.
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Isn't it normally distributed? In which case using average is fine.
really? it was meant in a non offensive way but wouldnt want to offend the sensitive..my bad
Ask HN: 3 months in - where should I take this project?
A few months ago I made a prototype HTML5 game called Private Joe. Got tons of great feedback from HN.

I just released a radically improved facebook version of the game at http://bit.ly/rhoHkH . It has everything set up, social elements, invite system, leaderboard, store , etc.

My question is, how do I get to the next level?

Some major barriers that I'm facing:

1) As an indie student developer, I find it very hard to compete with other social game developers.

2) The pros work in teams, have a marketing budget, and iterate very fast. They seem to have all the right ingredients to scale.

3) I can't afford a marketing budget. I can only put more sweat equity in game design.

4) Because I don't have a solid user base, I can't even start working on the 'business intelligence' side of social games (metrics monitoring, A/B testing, k-factors, etc). I'm missing out on that big time.

5) Mobile-wise, I'm working on porting the game to iOS+Android. Using existing frameworks like appMobi and PhoneGap decreases development time.

6) I considered starting a company solely developing multi-platform games. No luck so far (don't have VC connections, no access to talent, not based in the Valley). I also submitted my application to mobile game funds (TinyCo, YouWeb).

How do I get my skin in the game? Should I join a game startup? Can my talent be used in other startups? Should I form one myself?

Honestly, I don't think I can go far by working alone. I need to get into the major league.

PS: Am a grad student in Indiana (international citizen). Non-CS major.
link to the game is http://bit.ly/rhoHkH
As far as I heard, some european studios have their cartoons drawn in North Korea (you can buy a lot of quality and really really cheap work there). Does that count as support? If it doesn't, what does?
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"My angry tweet at wasn’t directed towards you in first place.You Unfollowed me. I insulted your tea. Now go away. " /bigfacebrian

So he insulted the tea itself (which he hasn't even tried) because he was unfollowed on Twitter. That's illegal and you can send him a cease or desist letter telling him to unpublish any unfounded slander. However, just carry and selling your tea any ignore this douche bag.
Resource scaling is likely to be a problem long before theoretical economic maximum anyway. The entire question is just an exercise to play with the math.
The startup grant program was this one: http://www.commercialisationaustralia.gov.au/WhatWeOffer/Ear...

Terms in that program are you have to match the government funding 1:1 so they must have (or raise within 2 years) $2mil to put against the government's.
They also have to pay it back "on success" (5% of revenue once that reaches 100k total) and are monitored closely for "fast failure" (they are expected to succeed and repay within 2 years, they have to repay even if they fail after 5 years).
Euclideon claims to have had a 2010 funding round so maybe that's how they got into this program. It also says this program is not to be used to "Prove to the applicant that a certain technological problem can be overcome (R&D projects)" so they must have shown it as a viable product that just needs to be packaged up for sale.

What strikes me most is anything under a Commonwealth funding agreement has to have the words "Funded by Australian Government through the XYZ Program. An Australian Government Initiative" in all their promotional material. Yet the shining star of Commercialisation Australia's portfolio forgot. Ouch.
Yeah, I recently read that a local district (Cobb country GA) spends 2x as much per student adjusted for inflation than they did 30 years ago. Yet graduation rates and test scores are about the same.
(IMHO) bitcoin is slow and distributed for HFT i think. although technically its the easiest to implement.
This video is not that fresh. I have seen it already last year and the way how this guys speaks has not changed since then (speaks like a salesmen) ;)

Their technique is based on point cloud rendering. My supervisor has proposed already in 2004 how this can be done on a standard PC. Look at his PhD-Thesis [1].

This technique is usable for static objects as well as for dynamic objects; however, using it for dynamic scenes additional acceleration structures are required (besides of the Octrees) in order to dynamically change according to the deformation of the object. To clarify on several comments made here:

- this is a rasterization technique

- they used acceleration data-structures like Octrees, kd-trees, BVH, ... (which exactly they don't tell)

- the graphic "aesthetics" depends actually only on the artists and not on the technology itself, so not a good point

[1] M. Wand: Point-Based Multi-Resolution Rendering. PhD Thesis, Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science, Graphical-Interactive Systems (WSI/GRIS), University of Tübingen, 2004.
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Thanks for the link.

There is no "save" button on the younoodle registration form: do you happen to know if the form can be submitted several times or just once?

(The form says "Please only click Submit once" but is this just to avoid double "first submissions" or does it actually mean the form can never be re-submitted for the same applicant?)

Link to the form (EMEA):

https://e.younoodle.com/c/aws_2011/er/aws_emea/submit?lang=a...
Receiving a nominal sum is a symbolic gesture by the CEO to show that the CEO's interests are entirely aligned with the company's, and usually only taken in times of crisis or when the company is/will be making buckets of money (Jobs, Eric Schmidt, etc.)
Yeah. It's often a poor value proposition and can cause a lot of negative fallout if you aren't prepared for and planning to exploit the numbers it generates (see also: Groupon).

It would be very interesting to see what big-ticket participants thought of the process (e.g. Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies).
this is awesome....it's kind of crying out for a bookmarklet....or maybe a "tech news aggregation site" front-end that fires off the "call" request after a small delay.....that way you can politely open a browser to pontificate over some fancy new gadget when said cow-orker sidles up to you...and all of a sudden...."oops excuuuuuse me, I have to take this call"
The technology is available (Adblock for Firefox Mobile) but given that Google controls the default browser and ad revenue is important to Mozilla, it won't be defaulted for a while.

Apple is another matter. Maybe they like to keep their options open, too.
International comparative test scores seem kind of irrelevant.

What seems to be important are the contributions of a small number of members of a society, who are either beaten into submission of forced conformity, or allowed to flourish.
I'm guessing those are placeholders for full fledged web-versions of the iWork suite, and hence they figured it's too much effort to code a preloading mechanism for those images.
I was somewhat surprised what kind of boost in popularity books got from the show (Position 3 in books: http://www.amazon.com/best-sellers-books-Amazon/zgbs/books/ !).

I'm glad I've read them first though because I think that without reading the books character motivations would not be clear. Even in the books all the connections are introduced kind of slow (and don't even get me started on the characters that travel in the far lands for the fifth book now :)

I also think that he killed too many characters too aggressively and by the fifth book he had to slow down. :)

Fifth book took forever to be written. On the light side there is a good chance we'll see last two books within 5 years - most likely contract with the HBO has specific dates preset, they have to finish the series with or without Martin.
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It's really strange how we are told by these articles that the reason to worry about all this is "competitiveness on the world market", yet the bottom 10% will never contribute anything to this and can be safely ignored completely. It's irrelevant what is done with them. What is important is how the top 1% are dealt with, and the stability of the society regarding the middle 90%.
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you mean this kind of frugal ?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/09/exclusive-the-plans-for-st...
But he is not quite as outraged and his points are a lot more subtle than your rant.
I'm not aware of the tax structure in Germany, but if you pay yourself a salary as an employee of your own company, shouldn't you should be paying corporate tax only on the portion left after you've deducted your salary from the profits?
This was exactly my thought. What exactly does this app have that Sublime Text 2 doesn't have?
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Another attack on america.
What Chile is doing makes way more sense.
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Seriously guys, what's up? Do you just not know how to write scalable server-side software? Have you never heard of memcache? Is everything running on an old BSDI 386? Really, it's embarassing.
This is an excellent start. Great way to come out and clearly state "We screwed-up earlier but are now doing the right thing".

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These might cut down on the Tweaker type incidents.
I think you missed this part:

"A new paper on "The Myth of the Sole Inventor" by Mark Lemley, a professor of law at Stanford, reinforces Mr Sanchez's point.

[S]urveys of hundreds of significant new technologies show that almost all of them are invented simultaneously or nearly simultaneously by two or more teams working independently of each other. Invention appears in significant part to be a social, not an individual, phenomenon. Inventors build on the work of those who came before, and new ideas are often "in the air," or result from changes in market demand or the availability of new or cheaper starting materials. ..."

It's very common that ideas multiple people in the same time throughout the world, and that multiple businesses are working on it in the same time. Even the light bulb was invented by many people in about the same time, without knowledge of Edison doing the same.

The world consists of 7 billion people. Surely, quite a few of them manage to see where some technologies are going and try to work on the next step in the technological progress.

Also, don't forget that as human beings, we've always used prior knowledge to improve ourselves and our technology. No technology can be invented in isolation from other technologies right now. They are all invented in the context of technology that has already existed.

Patents don't seem to account for that. They act as if technologies are born in isolation, and also they act as if only one person in the whole world (or country) can invent something at a time. Both are flawed concepts.

Check out this video here about how inventions are born:

http://vimeo.com/25380454
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I launched http://www.placeguitar.com - a placeholder image service in the style of placekitten, but with guitars!

I also launched a grammar application of iPhone that's in review.

Don't know if it counts as a launch but I rededicated an old domain to be my blog and put a fresh coat of paint on the stylesheet. http://twentyeighttwelve.com
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Well, they might be right, if they are referring only to the money that are invested in the company itself (i.e. by issuing new shares, not by buying out existing shareholders).

Out of the $800M Twitter investment, only half of it was an actual VC investment, so we are looking at $400M.

Let's see the others:

- Groupon got $950M, but I think 3 quarters of that went to buying out existing shareholders

- Clearwire got $900M from Intel and Motorola. Even though Intel Capital is an actual VC fund, I am not sure about Motorola having a VC fund, and in any case this sure sounds like a strategic investment, rather than a VC one

- Western Intergrated Networks got $889M, but if you like at the investors, they are private equity rather than VC: Blackstone Group, Madison Dearborn Partners, Oak Investment Partners and Providence Equity Partners

So, I think they are right if they are referring to traditional VC investments. The only problem is that I am not exactly sure what a traditional VC investment means.
I am no expert, but I am guessing it is because many startups are pre-profit or even pre-revenue. Whether you consider Twitter to still be a startup is another question. However, consider that until fairly recently, much effort had been devoted to scaling, quite possibly at the expense of new features and strategies to drive revenue.
Not that I'm complaining about how there would be an offical 'break netflix' programme (I think it would be cool and am an unabashed opponenet to DRM), but I think it would annoy Netflix.
Yeah I think so. A tree-lookup can make things easier, but then you have to estimate the bounce direction.

But overall it's a great demo. And you see more and more games using voxels for surroundings. So ofcourse you could combine this technique with polys.
I don't know about other posters, but the reason I want everything to run through my Linux HTPC is because of the level of integration I can achieve with my custom UI, or with something like XBMC. I don't want to have a semi-reliable system with multiple boxes, IR blasters, etc. when I should be able to integrate everything I want into a single box, with the features, speed, low latency, and UI that I prefer.
Because businesses by their nature are generally serving the middle class, but the money is concentrated among the top .01%.

This leads to big valuations and relatively low revenues. As wealth continues to concentrate at the top of society the trend will continue. This would not have happened 100 years ago when the top tax bracket was ~90%.

Money is worth less to those with wheelbarrows of it. Ownership matters more. Call it inflation if you want.
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thanks, i'm not all that worried, considering its something that isn't incredibly original as a concept, but rather something missing.
Thank you for your input!

>>But I see no point in putting up extra barriers for your potential-might-be-interested customers. The previous thread did a fine job explaining that having to do currency conversions will put many people off. An uncommon currency for most of the world will just make it worse.

I created this poll because I wanted to know if this really is a barrier for a product that you only buy once. I completely agree with you that for a SaaS product CHF would put many people off.

For me the currency doesn't matter if I only buy it once. Now I want to know if this is also true for other people who don't live in Switzerland.

>>I'm not sure you realize this, but it's possible to travel to Switzerland and never pay anything in CHF. Almost all shops accept EUR. Selling a product online and not doing so is weird at the very least.

I'm fully aware of this :-)
My first advice would be that Hacker News is not the best place to get tax advice specific to Germany, but I'm sure you already know that :-)

You could register your company in Ireland and pay 12.5% corporation tax, pay yourself a low salary and make the company buy/rent things you need (a car, office + living space, etc).

But I guess a German tax advisor would be a wonderful investment for you.
The article describes and understated 5br home replacing a 13br monstrosity at a price tag of around 1/3 Larry ellison's.
Perhaps make a blog post about this (more detailed, with proof of this scum attempting to extort you) and let the tea lovers know to not follow their recommendations.

I'd like to think if anyone ever tried to do that to me, I'd be replying back with a response 10x fold.
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Windows everywhere, or Windows nowhere? What is Microsoft's "single ecosystem"?
That was a pretty tame bug report! Probably the mozilla guys are embarrassed at all their bugs. What kind of a project bans people for filing real bug reports? Losers!
Compiler != IDE.

I don't know much about the WYSIWYG parts of VS, I only write textual code.

If your machine is too slow, get more RAM and an SSD. It's your daily tool, it's worth the investment.

"I don't think the IDE makes a difference" - Huh? Then why are we having this discussion =)

I myself spend the vast majority of my time in XCode [writing a database], using VS only to maintain the Windows port and C# client libraries. I find that I'm roughly equally productive in both, but if I had a choice I'd take VS over XCode.
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Well I hope AirBnB is thinking about the worst case scenario because it doesn't appear they were thinking about it in the past.
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Maybe it wasn't a heart attack.
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No it's not, because even if he took a salary from Apple, that would be on top of his income he's getting from Pixar dividends. So it's no 'strategy' because there is no trade off - the two income streams are independent. (I guess it could be called a 'strategy' if the goal is to pay as little tax as possible, but it's not - the goal is to maximize net income, otherwise one could 'win' by not making any money at all).
I remember reading years ago that id was considering using vortex graphics for Quake2 and Carmack had even started to work on it, but they abandoned the idea seeing that industry is heading into "more polygons!" thing (the context: it was a time when 3dfx released Voodoo2, nVidia was starting to gain popularity (Riva TNT2) and first Unreal was on a horizon).
Hm. I don't know much about American government positions, but I do know that here in the UK the government positions tend not to be very attractive. On top of working in a very constrained environment (can't use any of your own hardware, can't buy tools that are not vetted by security and IT, ridiculously out-of-date technology and low standards for development and achievements), the salary is bobbins compared to private enterprise and things take an age to get done.

Almost certainly, you do not choose to take a government job to do with technology - it's the only thing that you can get. All the interesting projects seem to be outsourced to external consultancies, which can charge a fortune for a poorly-implemented system that gets delivered behind schedule.

Is it any different across the Atlantic?
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Yes, and he's probably already doing that in part, but the total tax pressure doesn't go down all that much because income tax is high in the higher brackets, and they have low floors.
While true (I got a response on the original blog from the author that makes me feel confident that he is, in fact, not being paid the 20%; Britta also managed to find a few other reports of people not being paid), the reason I deleted it was simply that I realized that the first half assumed the 0% was vs. the 30%, but the later "to me" paragraph decided that the 0% was likely for the promotion, which meant that the entire comment was confusing and I realized I was just making things worse by posting it.
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Did you say "People won't every word" on purpose just to make a point that didn't work on me? :/
Yes, especially for software there are many ways to pay much less, but you'll need to find specialized people to do that and maybe be willing to make some trade offs. I'm not comfortable talking details, but search for companies who specialize in offshore companies and go talk to them - first talk is usually free. Also look across the borders (West, in your case - there are some hidden gems there).
It seems that the only reason why capitalistic company would give out money is fear.

AirBNB is going to fix a problem which is obviously not caused by them because they are afraid of repercussions.
Apple is not afraid of anything, therefore they're going to sit on a pile of gold like a dragon and that's it.
Because railroad tracks without trains may not make money, but are still valuable to the train owners.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize that of the three pure voxel problems (rendering, animation and collision), rendering is probably the low-hanging fruit - Though I'm not sure if creating a hybrid poly/voxel engine is any harder or easier.

Here's to at least getting a hyper-real Myst someday :)
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refreshing to see definitive idea selection and validation stages in your process. too much of the if-you-ship-it-they-will-come ideology on hn.

does the $5k price tag factor in the value of time you and your partner spent on this project? at the minimum you had to live somewhere and eat something...
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