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Great write up, guys. There's some good advice in there, especially the Feature Creation bit. If only more projects had such discipline! I found it interesting to see how you made certain decisions and great to see which articles you used as reference.

I'm glad to hear the project will continue after the competition. I wonder if this could evolve into something bigger than a game. Perhaps an arcade game music community for indie game devs...
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How so? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white
There is an enormous amount of information about science readily accessible to anyone who wants to learn it. Perhaps many people just don't care about science. If that's true, forcing them to learn it probably isn't going to accomplish anything.
Who's this he you're referring to?
You can owe me: http://jamiehdavidson.blogspot.com/2011/09/exploration-of-ye...
The most effective charities spend around 10% of donations on all administrative costs and another 10% on fundraising. The current 9.5% fee for this "service" seems excessive.
> But wouldn't salaries for software workers eventually rise?

No.

Lawyers, accountants, and teachers can make a lot of money because people are willing to pay a lot of money for the services they provide, because those services are very valuable.

Paying a top-notch lawyer US$500 an hour can save you a huge multiple of that US$500 if you're being sued for US$500M. Paying a good accountant allows you to manage your business transparently enough that you can raise money on a stock market, thus getting 20 times the amount of cash you've made in profits. A four-year university education can lift you from the lower class into the middle class, adding millions to your earnings and a decade to your lifespan.

It turns out that developing software quickly is a very valuable activity. In a single day of work, a good programmer can write a piece of software that functions in production for years afterwards, serving dozens, hundreds, or millions of people. Often, this is even the case if the software is buggy; the alternatives (repetitive manual labor, spreadsheets built by amateurs) are often even less reliable.

If you tried to outlaw the development of unreliable software, programmer salaries would go the same place that salaries for nuclear plant engineers and designers of small planes have gone over the last three decades: overseas or into oblivion.

Worse, it would likely be counterproductive. What we need for more reliable software is not books of management rules but better abstractions, better theorem provers, better programming languages, better insights. Those things are themselves software, but they are probably not software that we can develop faster, or at all, under an SEI CMM Level 5 process.
Some how I just can't imagine that a meeting took place "now, how can we capitalise on this"...
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Given that Brian May wrote a guest blog post on Google's official blog today (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/happy-birthday-freddi...), I think that at least Brian May thinks that Freddie would've been ok with it.

Yes, this "advertises" Google, but why can't it also be a celebration of Freddie Mercury's life?

I really dislike the idea that every corporate gesture should have a sinister undertone...
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I haven't found this accessible information. Can you point to some?
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In less than 3 hours he gained 300 watchers, I wouldn't doubt that it'll be become the most popular repo on Github.
What makes you think they are qualified? Certainly there are a lot of unemployed folks, and there is plenty of work for qualified people to do, but that doesn't necessarily back up your point (in fact, the very issue at hand is that it doesn't).
or Pinax :-)
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I use checklists, and they work.

Scientists and engineers have a technique for complicated mathematics, which might work for editing sendmail.cf. Do it twice, and compare your answers. This works best when the "you" is plural, but repeating your own work the next day is better than nothing.
Science education probably does a lot to change people's view of the world. After all, chemistry and biology teach people that they're made of chemicals and cells that, as far as we can tell, act deterministically (or randomly), or at least cells act autonomously. How is that less important than trigonometry?
It's probably intimidating to ask someone like Jim Breyer or Mike Moritz or John Doerr. I imagine that would be a conversation I'd be nervous to have :-).
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> You'd be surprised what happens to the average user when you removes the credit card selection field, especially when you can't accept every single credit card out there.

PayPal handles this gracefully. There are icons of the (four?) types of CC they accept above the field. As you type, the ones ruled out by the first couple digits lose opacity and the card type you've entered remains displayed.
Needs about 10,000 more to beat Rails.
Hotels are generally fairly priced during the off-season.

Airlines: often they have long-term leases on airports (i.e. government favoritism) that give them a gatekeeper privilege. Hence the ridiculous fares .

If you really think that an average person can bring together the means to "launch" an airline, then my advice to you is to stop spending so much time on Hacker News now that the school year has begun. The first rule of freshman-year survival: cut distractions.
I don't think Google posting a Google Doodle tribute is akin to shilling (is it shilling when they have doodles for other world figures?).

I will agree that there is some commercial benefit to Google for this sort of thing, but even I'm not cynical enough to think that's their rationale for doing this.

Freddie Mercury was one of my biggest heroes growing up, and I thought this was really nice (and maybe will cause a whole bunch of young people to ask "Who the hell is Freddie Mercury?").
Yellow and purple don't look particularly good. Besides, you can make any combinations of color look good.
Post processing isn't exactly new. Not sure what the big deal is. I'm just wondering how long it'll be before we see entire feature length film processed using HDR?
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+1 for the name. LOL!
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I don't think you know Freddy Mercury or Queen all that well. Considering they provided the score for two films (Flash Gordon, Highlander) and allowed their music on scores of commercials (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zr5lZWx9X0 ) yeah, he'd/they'd shill.
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You don't need to spend 12 years in grade school to understand and appreciate those things.
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The Google Doodles have historically intertwined Google and whatever the day's message was. Just as in pre-interactive Doodle days where they would morph images into the Google name, here they are extending that into their new style of logos.

Plus, keep in mind that Google created the video. As a photographer and someone who enjoys art in general, I can tell you that it's not uncommon for artists to incorporate their name (or, in this case, their company's name) into a piece of work. It's a nice way to make the art something with which one can personally connect.
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It never ceases to amaze me what people are doing with these "classic" video games. I have immense hope that the current generation of video games, ten or twenty years on, will have fostered the same degree of love and devotion in their fans, leading to such astounding mods. I can't wait to see how the more advanced physics and rendering technologies in recent games are twisted by the brilliant and insane minds of hackers and digital circuit-benders.

There are some good examples already (the GTA4 negative wheel friction hack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0cUkU9rZyE) or some of the Mario64 Tool-Asisted-Speedruns come to mind), but we're not yet anywhere near these beautifully orchestrated sublimations of classic Mario, Zelda and Super Metriod.
I know them well enough to know that commerical features Dwight Yoakum's version of the song and it aired many years after Freddy Mercury died.
I would say one thing that they miss is the equalization of opportunities between countries. Right now if you are born in the US you have 10 times higher income than if you are born in the Philippines (for equal abilities). In the future, it will get closer to 1 to 1.

Income of highly skilled people in low wage countries will go up and income of low skilled people in the US who are working in areas where low wage countries can compete will go down.

Great that my new business idea is completely built around this trend.
Well, does a strong science education pay off for the student as a career path?
He probably wouldn't join these social networks if he wanted to avoid trolls. And they are probably nice change from LKMLs trolls :)
Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.
So, in other words, I as the user contributing reviews for which makes Yelp valuable, are treated as a de facto ruffian, my time and effort expended to "share" considered folly. So Yelp "filters" these and beyond wasting my time (as I should just collect in my own file of reviews or "share" on my own site) is it not a great conflict of interest going on here?
While the OP's frustration is understandable, I would say that this is simple example on why the UK startup scene is non-optimal. Allow me indulge in some over-generalization. (And for the record, I /have/ started a tech business in both the UK and USA.)

* A culture of over regulation. It's not just the UK govt that does this - you'll find most large businesses like the bank mentioned putting up roadblocks.
* Concentration of talent in financial services. Investment banks pay alot of money for top talent. Heck, when I first moved there I was working for an investment bank and enjoy the cash and perks - I should have been doing my own startup but money in hand now is hard to turn down.
* Expensive everything. I would say that you need at least 2X more cash to start a company in the UK than compared to 2nd-tier-startup-markets like Atlanta, where I currently live. Sure, you can economize in creative ways, but that takes you away from your core mission in a startup: to build awesome products/services.
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This is all fine until level 10. $4M is not easy to achieve, involves quite a bit of luck, and is more than most people will need. It's fine to aim high, but don't frame it as some kind of "level" that you have to achieve or else you've failed.
Pretty much every film ever made on real film is in HDR. What would be "tone mapping" in a digital HDR image is just "developing" a film.
On the other hand, maybe competing against the perceived threats is what's driving us to improve?
You are joking right? You think google inserts their logo into this video three or four times so they can "personally connect" with it? It is so when you watch it, you associate google with the "fun" feeling you are getting from watching the video.
"Testing does not motivate engagement, passion, creativity and innovative thinking"

Obviously there are a lot of different types of testing. But I think Alfie Kohn does a pretty good job covering the literature of competition, intrinsic motivation, standardized testing, etc. Obviously each different style of test has its own strengths and weaknesses, but if we are talking about the types of tests that are most commonly used in school today then I think the statement is generally accurate.

"most of those studies [of educational policy] don't have random assignment of students to treatment and control groups"

There are several different types of studies used in education. The studies that don't have random control groups are just as useful as the ones that do, they just tell us different things. E.g. compare the psychology research in Alfie Kohn's books with the research in Riordan's book Equality And Achievement. Completely different types of research, but both are essential for determining education policy.
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Has anyone managed to view the Github Impact graph ?https://github.com/torvalds/linux/graphs/impact
My apologies. Would a spot from 1980 suffice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9KDXJ2AlKQ
These correspond to the basic axis of light typically found in the real world (up until fluorescent, anyways):

Blue = natural light (5000-8000K)

Yellow/Orange = artificial/tungsten light (2400-4500K)

Anyone who's shot actual film will know that if you shoot daylight film in tungsten, it comes out yellow, and vice versa. For you young folks who only ever knew digital cameras, that's the "white balance" function automatically correcting for you.

It's only natural for this set of color contrasts to show up in film (try shooting something lit by a tungsten lightbulb in front of a north-facing window).

/professional photographer
Ask HN: Is it worth staying in college?
Is it worth staying in school? I'm in my 30s, have no degree (well, an AAS in an unrelated field) but have become semi-proficient at programming in the past year or so in which I've pursued this career.

I started back to school last fall, and continued through the spring as a part-time student. I decided that this fall I would go full-time, in addition to my full-time job programming in the energy sector.

However, I've lost almost all my passion and drive for learning new things. I don't study new languages anymore, or read blogs, or write blog posts myself anymore. All the time I used to spend enriching myself I now spend doing Geology homework (a science elective..) or taking Computing II. I am taking Discrete Math, and that's interesting and applicable down the road. But I'm left wondering, is it worth it to have, in my early- to mid-thirties, what will likely be 3-4 completely unproductive years? I feel like instead of constantly improving myself at my own pace, I've slammed the brakes on my education by going to college.

All that being said, I want to continue to be employable. I live in a midwestern city, a big one, but not one that is heavily tech-centric. The crunch for developers is very severe here, so I don't take the fact I find work relatively easily as a sign that I'm some super programmer, or that I'm universally hireable.

I just want to know the opinion of those more experienced than me. Is it worth it to stay in college? Or is that parchment more worthwhile than continuing to pursue programming as the passion it is for me?
Sorry but:

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Unrelated, but is anyone else's Google+ name being translated properly? I'm a little surprised at that touch.
For anyone pulling the kernel tree from github - here is how you can verify it.

linux-2.6 $ git pull git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git

linux-2.6 $ git fetch --tags git://github.com/torvalds/linux.git

linux-2.6 $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 76E21CBB

linux-2.6 $ git verify-tag v3.1-rc5

gpg: Signature made Sun 04 Sep 2011 06:45:37 PM EDT using DSA key ID 76E21CBB
gpg: Good signature from "Linus Torvalds (tag signing key) <torvalds@osdl.org>"
It's actually that they don't want people to lose a day of effectiveness to save money. Some quick math - for an investment bank, average wages can be as much as $400K/year. Divide that by 200 days, and you have someone getting paid $2,000/day. If flying coach kills their productivity for a day, saving $1,000 doesn't amount to much. At the senior levels, this is much more true. Of course having one policy for execs and another for everyone else has many negative consequences.
For the claim that 'there is too few qualified people in the US' to be a scientific claim, it needs to be falsifiable. In other words, what evidence do you need to see, in the future, to convince you that yes, now there are enough qualified people? What data-points will you use?

My entire problem is that all of the data-points I've seen used so far are extremely questionable, and there doesn't seem to be enough people questioning them.

The fact that US students have dismal scientific knowledge to a naive person suggests, but in reality in no way proves, that the US has, or will one day have, a shortage of scientifically qualified people.

I hope there are enough intelligent people who are uncomfortable about making the leap of faith from 'US students have bad science grades' to 'the US will experience a shortage of scientifically-qualified people'.

Any redesign of the education system needs to be grounded in science, not fashionable rhetoric.
If you track voting history then you could show quotes that have been upvoted by people that have similar voting history. The actual algorithm probably will end up being rather complex, especially if you want to avoid too strong segmentation. Basically you want to show the users a mix of fresh quotes, "aligned" quotes, and "random" popular quotes.
I found this 20/20 report pretty distressing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw (video)

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338 (text)
This is called "automatic mario", and is very popular on Japanese social video sites like Nico Nico Douga.

One of the most impressive examples is an 11-minute medley of video game and cartoon themes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0PaPpmGa8
These bills keep coming back like zombies and they will until the political climate is right. We're already paying taxes on CD-Rs as if anyone in the world burns music to them
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There are tons of free textbooks available. Google for physics or math textbooks. There are also tons of free lectures available on YouTube and Khan Academy.
I would argue that biology without equations is just as useless as physics or chemistry without them. Yes, its interesting to know about evolution and how cells work, but to interact with a cell or guide evolution in any meaningful way you need to know the equations that describe flux over a membrane or evolutionary equilibrium. Just like its interesting to know the order of the planets and that rubbing a balloon against your head will make your hair stand up but if you actually want to send something to space or use electricity you need to add the equations.

The advancement of biology is driven by the development of algorithms and equations and to suggest that it is somehow less dependent on them than other branches of science does it a disservice.
Maybe framing your argument in terms of the direct value (or loss) to their business would have helped.

Maybe something along the lines of this:

"Of course, this is entirely your call. I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page about why I disagree with adding a separate pulldown.

By adding a separate pulldown, you're asking the user to make a choice. One of the choices they can make is to not complete their purchase.

Would you teach your retail cashiers to ask each customer if they were really sure that they wanted to buy today? Are they certain that today is the day to give your business money?

Because that's what adding an extra step to the checkout does. The only possible effect will be to decrease the number of customers that will complete a checkout.

That's why I'm against adding that pulldown."
It will also depend on how independent the board member is. Some board members are relying on your companies success. Others may be just there for the ride.

It should less of a problem for startups, where all the board members will be investors.
fundamental formula to pretty much everything in macro biology, its equivalent of the Newton's second law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
I never said that was the entire reason, but if I were one of the artists involved (not that I'm any good with video), that would be part of my reason. When I take or edit a photo, although representing myself individually, I incorporate a part of me or my family in it–my name, somewhere, or sometimes even something that alludes to my company.

Now, I'm not saying that you are incorrect in what you perceive to be some of their reasoning for this. Of course Google wants to associate the work they do with their brand identity, and this video is indeed advertising. Anything a company does is advertising, to be fair.

That said, I don't personally believe that advertising and showing support for something are mutually exclusive. Just as a company is able to get their name out there while also donating to charity, Google is capable of spreading the Google name while also paying tribute to Freddie.
I see pages of commercial textbook companies on Google, and videos wont help non-visual learners.
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This rejects TLDs (e.g. http://io/) and IPv6 URLs.
Not a Lakers fan eh? NY's complementary sports colors of choice seem to be orange blue, pretty close to the palette the OP hates (Knicks, Mets).
This book was one of a small list on an informal sales training class that I took. After reading it, I started to get impatient when people didn't follow it. Every time I'd get a monster slide deck sales presentation on a firm, I would think, "They have an hour of my time, and they're not asking what I want."

Great sales really does add value to a customer.
I disagree. The effect of illumination temperature does take place, but in the article the stress is on color grading. It is that color grading that makes faces orange under both daylight (Transformers example) and tungsten light (iron man example).
That we don't know what it is, and that it isn't predicted by our current models, doesn't make it "impossible."

I was indulging in a bit of poetic license with that one.

I'll agree that we don't currently have a good theoretical alternative to the dark matter hypothesis. Much smarter and more qualified people than me have tried and failed to come up with one. But it still seems unsatisfying to me.
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One cure for feeling lonely while staying somewhere else: CouchSurfing

You don't necessarily need to stay with someone on his couch to take part in the community and participate in the activities held or organized by its members (or organize one yourself!). Just meet up with people, go out for drinks or watch movies, do weekend trips and so on..
This is utterly amazing. I have never been so excited for reddit posts...
Linear extrapolation of trend X.

Horrifying conclusion!

seriously do the commenters on HN have to debunk an article of this format every day?
I'm reasonably sure that the background video[1] is also used in the Weather HD[2] app for iOS. Anyone know who created it first?

1: http://www.rainymood.com/video/RainyMood.mp4
2: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-hd/id364193735?mt=8
Some companies also take the view that cramming folk who fly 20+ hours a month into economy is a health risk.

(Nobody's told this to FIFO miners, however).
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Ever since I saw the first of these articles a few years ago, I've occasionally paid attention to this effect (and a little before then). It's not when teal and orange occur that's distracting, it's when nothing else does. You sometimes see scenes with orange trees and teal shades, with no other hues.

The best example of this, to me, is the CSI franchise. LA was light blue, NY was straight up blue and Miami straight up yellow.
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