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I played EVE Online for a while in one of the largest groups in the game during a time we managed to steal a huge section of the map out from under another rival group. There is intense PVP action, as well as in depth PVE and crafting, just like any other well made MMO, but no matter the gameplay you decide to partake in, EVE really is nothing more than a spreadsheet with a really fancy GUI. And the fact that CCP allows the darker side of player interactions to take place results in some amazing stories coming out of the game, like this. The game is less about the game, and more about the players. Completely different than WoW, or more RPG oriented games.

The only reason that you hear about these kinds of things is because it is what makes this game so unique.
Maybe electrons do not really exist. Maybe none of you exist at all and this is all a dream.
Mainly, I'm looking for some feedback in terms if this is a good landing page. Does it describe our business idea? Do you like the layout and theme?

*note: I know there are few things broken but we are working on fixing them.
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And still they have the world's smallest body font.
I'm still a Canadian citizen, but because I don't live in Canada, don't have assets in Canada, and don't earn income in Canada, I don't pay taxes in Canada.

As far as I know, being taxed on worldwide income is just an American thing.
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I like the idea of an unofficial style guide on github - companies can fork & edit, then new hires can diff against the version they're most familiar with.
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Love the new HTML5 video player, big step forward quality wise.
Check out Compass when you get a chance and prepare to have your mind blown: http://compass-style.org/

As far as Sass vs. Less goes, I think it's great that both projects exist and are being improved and adopted at such a rapid pace.

Less certainly borrowed some early ideas from Sass, and in turn SCSS syntax almost certainly exists because of Less.
MVC like? I prefer the MVHC: Model View Hack Controller
In the Garden of Eden an MVC like architectural pattern was used, but after many thousands years we need a specific place for the Hacks.

Do you agree?
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I think the most important advancements in history were done with a Long Grind before a huge success. Einstein worked away in mediocrity, living what to most people must have looked like a sub-par life on the surface. He toiled away on his own for years, then came his stratospherical rise to the upper echelons of human thought.
Kant is another example; he spent 10 years alone in thought, publishing nothing in that time, before coming out with what turned out the be (arguably) the most influential philosophical work ever.

It seems that the hardest part is not losing faith as you're grinding away. However corny/lame it sounds, people who believe in you are the most important thing during the grind. How many people did you guys (yipit) have that had your back as you were working away for 2+ years?

I'm not in the Valley, but I've heard that this might be the best part about the it; you don't get judged for working on some random project full time(like this article says happened in New York).
If you quit you are not eligible for unemployment.

Let's be careful about this. It depends on the reason you quit. If you were being harassed and the company did nothing about it, or you had unsafe working conditions, etc, you can still collect.

It's better to say that if you quit for reasons that have nothing to do with the employer, you cannot collect unemployment.

I had a co-worker who quit because the raise he was promised (in writing) at hiring time never materialized. The company had to pay unemployment while he looked for work.
If computers can do journalism, why not law?
2-3x more than 5-10 cents an hour is still slave labor.

Call centers may be well paying jobs in India, but I still view it as kicking an entire society while its down.

In a way, its no different than back before the civil war, white plantation owners would have slaves work inside of the house, ie, a "house negro". The parallels between the two are rather scary.

Its almost like the Civil War was lost in the sense that all we did was export slavery to a country where its legal and accepted.
Indeed. Thanks for your response!
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You seem to still be trapped in the ancient mindset that an increment in the most significant version number must mean huge changes.

Isn't it more about personal preference rather than having an "ancient mindset"?
"Posterous Spaces" sounds just like Google+'s "Circles".

I never used Posterous for blogging anyway, but surely this is bound to piss off the bloggers already using their service? Unless "Spaces" is just an extension to their blogging platform, and the title is misleading.
I keep on hearing Foo: Payments Simplified, and yet payments are still complex. Is it perhaps that a lot of what people consider accidental complexity in payments is necessary complexity?
TC Disrupt on stage, live. Arrington discussing fund, among other stuff.
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The limitations of the contest were that it must support current versions of Chrome, Firefox, and IE10pp2, which it does in this launch version. Now that it's working in those browsers, further browser support and better fallbacks are my top priority.

Yes, the fallback is not adequate for a general release tool, so maybe I should have waited before posting it here. But, I thought people might still find it interesting, and I wanted some feedback before submitting it for the contest.

Apologies to those that are being frustrated by these limitations at launch.
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of http://cocoacontrols.com, which is a competitor to iosframeworks.com.

* Provide direct links to the source code where possible

* License info is extremely useful; I'd hate to find something perfect for my app only to discover that it uses an incompatible license.

* Provide ratings support.

* What's a framework in this case? iOS doesn't support third-party frameworks, just static libs and loose bundles of code.

* What differentiated value does this provide vs. my site or http://cocoaobjects.com/? I'm not trying to be snarky or cut this down; I think there's a lot of room to differentiate and provide value in this space, it just needs to be articulated clearly.
Even as such, using full words is barely any more typing, and more readable.

[1, 2, 3].each { |value| puts value }
Object.methods.each { |method| "Method is: #{method}" }

I consider that a better habit to have than using single-character variables. And style guides should be about encouraging the best habits possible.
A bump like that should be for backward incompatible changes but it actually looks like a makeover to appeal more to serious biz customers that would have trouble getting on to a 1.0 technology.
All the rumors say that Arrington and Ariana Huffington (head of AOL's editorial) were are loggerheads as soon as Huffington joined the company.

Two people that liked each other and wanted to work together professionally could probably have worked it out, but there was no way either of these two would have managed it.
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I'm not making a point that film investing is good or bad. I submitted this to HN because the audience is tuned to startup and business perspectives.

From an outsider's PoV, it is counter intuitive that these major films are technically not profitable. We aren't as surprised by their revenue, and that is the point: in the example of those films, revenue would have been easier to predict than profit.
I agree. As the physicists would say, this little psychological observation is "not even wrong".

Not only does it matter who you ask and in what context, but the very wording of the questions is significant. By priming you properly (e.g. perhaps by asking you to name a bunch of extremely happy and fulfilled people and only then asking you if you feel happy and fulfilled yourself) I can probably make the results come out however I want.
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You're only looking the smallest of expenses. It also depends on how far along you already are with the company. For any non-trivial idea that you're trying to implement from scratch, (especially if you're doing all the work yourself) you're going to want to be able to work on it full time, which means you have living expenses. Depending on where you live, those can be quite high. You might need to pay for training materials as well. There are also software licenses that might be required. I'm sure people with more experience can think of other costs. Hell, if you're just talking about iOS development then you might have to pay for devices, the Apple developer program and a Mac. Not saying these are insurmountable but not as inconsequential as you seem to be implying.
Ask HN (or a CPA): IC work questions
I have worked for a startup over the summer as an intern getting paid as an independent contractor. I was paid $1600 a month starting in June through August. All together I believe it's been $5,700.

This has been the only IC job I've had this year. I have no idea how to go about finding how much taxes I owe or how to pay them (I'm in South Carolina in the US.) I've heard so many things such as you might not have to pay anything to you owe 30% or I'm sorry we cost too much to worry about figuring this out for you.

I am a dependent under my parents and I'm sure that changes things too. I have no idea where to start. I would like to know how much money I actually do owe so I can pay it and not have it haunting the back of my mind. Any help or advice is appreciated.

This can double as a guide for newbies to this kind of work as well.
If you search for a second you'll find bad things about every DB out there, my idea is that it is better to pick a product that seems designed for your use case and try it first hand. Stress it, socialize with it, and in a few days it will be clear if it is worth investing more time or not. After all for every bad blog post about Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, and so forth, there are many good as well, so you can collectively consider this blog posts as personal experiences worth ten min of your time but possibly not so important to change your mind about trying it first hand.
I really don't know how to feel about Posterous at this point.

When I signed up in the early days, it was awesome. They were the simple and concise, yet ridiculously powerful alternative to tumblr - email post@posterous.com, get a blog. I loved showing it to people because it was so amazingly simple.

I understand that wasn't quite enough to draw users in and they needed to evolve the product, but especially with this latest revision, my initial reaction was that I have no idea what Posterous is anymore. The messaging on the home page is terrible - "What's a space? A place for whatever!", and nowhere is the product itself shown.

As an existing user, my first reaction was to check my existing Posterous sites to make sure they were still blogs, and not Google+/Facebook-style Pages. And as a new user, I don't think I'd understand why I'd want Posterous in addition to Google+ or Facebook. (I understand that Posterous is better about privacy, but the competitors all claim that too, and Facebook never gave a shit about privacy - why would a new user believe Posterous?)

Again, I get they need to change their core product (or at least how it's positioned). I'm just really not sure a psuedo-social-network is the right way to go about it.

Even more than that, I miss the simplicity of "E-mail us anything. We'll post it for you."
all those sound like fairly valid concerns. if somebody isn't pulling their fair share, somebody should say something about it. if you actually should be making more than somebody else, you should be able to say something about it.
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I don't have it registered with the α unicode character, only the normal roman a -- http://alphapun.ch or http://www.alphapun.ch.
For all of you complaining about "spoilers" - an interesting bit of research was published last month that indicates "spoilers" actually increase enjoyment of the story. http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/spoilers-dont-sp...
So, being aquired by google seems to involve being kept in the dark and fed, well, free food.
I could easily see such an enterprising law firm becoming the type of patent trolling law firm that everyone here dispises. While this is an extreme case of someone not getting a dime when he clearly deserves it, I am sure there is enough book doctoring out there that simply going after $STUDIO/$FILM/$TVSHOW could become profitable if the threats are there and the fear of where the monies should be gets uncovered.
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I think this is great advice for actually producing things, but the analogy to startups is too strained for me to get anything from it.
Facebook is winning the war for our online attention
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Give this man a medal. This is exactly the problem with this planet.
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yep, either use an ODM (or some system that guarantees correctness) or make sure your raw queries are well tested.
For the initial launch, my intention was to build something interesting using new HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript features and techniques. Now that it is launched and working in the browsers targeted by the contest (current Firefox, Chrome and IE10pp2) my goal will be to expand it to work with browsers that don't support all these features.
> if there are pockets of antimatter in there, they'd [...] be separated from normal matter early on in the process (leading to huge gaps between the cells)

Thanks to inflation, I suspect that something like this might indeed be possible. Any cosmologist around who knows enough about ΛCDM to give an educated guess?
The people willing to pay $10k/month for data are hedgefunds planning to trade shares of Groupon. With the Groupon IPO postponed, it may be hard to retain and attract new subscribers.
From my reading of the article, I think what the judge is saying is that Facebook isn't public. It probably should be treated as a public forum, but most people don't.
I just interpreted the article an imprecise way of saying " they're both functional, but one is statically typed," by assuming Lisp as the canonical example of FP (rightly or not).

Not the most apt comparison, to be sure.
It's fascinating to see FP being used in the "real world" rather than academia! I absolutely love OCaml and use it all the time to write major projects. I've always loved the type inferencing and super strict static typing of the ML family of languages. I wish people would embrace statically typed languages more...there's a lot to be said for code correctness and OCaml does it in a very natural way. That and the compiler can usually generate significantly better performing code.

I always notice those at Jane Street rip on the OO aspects of OCaml. The place I found classes/objects to come in handy are when you write extensible software frameworks...though I agree, usually you can do without. However, it is worth taking a look at how OCaml approaches objects...quite different from what you would find in your typical C++/Java/C# style language.

The lack of concurrent garbage collector is really becoming a limitation with the trend towards higher number of cores on a single die. However, because the GC and compiler are so simple, OCaml is one of those languages where you can look at object code and understand what the compiler is doing. What's even more interesting is that even though the compiler is really simple, it does a fantastic job at optimization. The creator of the language, Xavier Leroy, is often quoted as saying that "worst case 50% performance of C code".

Oh one other thing...for those that have not tried a functional language, I think OCaml gives the best introduction. You can code imperatively with it if you want, but you'll ween yourself off of it in time in exchange for more declarative, functional techniques. Oh and you won't look back! ;)
A sizable chunk of cash is a big commitment. And if they aren't risking a sizable chunk, they aren't worth dealing with.
It's not a bad advert, honestly. You offer a rough outline of what you need done, you mention some technical concerns (throughput and stability) but you don't list a ton of libraries and other tools you demand experience with, and you're up front about the salary. If you're looking for someone to work full time, the salary seems a bit low, as contractors need to pay their own benefits, but it's not unreasonably low, which is a breath of fresh air.

HN does hiring posts on the first of every month, and they seem like a great place to advertise. I found my current job with a startup called ThisOrThat through one, and I like that my coworkers read HN and seem to actually give a damn about the business side of "software business" instead of just focusing on the tech. If you can wait three weeks, that would be a good resource for you.

To be honest with you, this sounds like something I'd like to work on, except I don't live in the UK. If you can live with a contractor based in the US, I'd like to talk more, because the project sounds interesting. My e-mail address is listed in my profile.
isn't there yet - hope they put it up sometime tonight
I can remember the post that finally pushed me to unsubscribe from TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/why-we-often-blindside-comp.... It's by Michael Arrington, and it's one step short of a hatchet job on Caterina Fake. It's not the only dirty laundry airing I've seen on TechCrunch, it's just the most fetid.

I liked TechCrunch when it primarily carried the underdog and captured the optimism and energy of the valley. Whenever Michael Arrington used it as a soapbox to air dirty laundry, it made me uncomfortable.

To the future leaders of TechCrunch: Less ValleyWag, more GigaOM.
'Can' being the key word, there. There's no way to buy into Monopoly and get more money.
Yeah, you're missing something. It's 2011, and we're in the middle of a huge bubble. The only thing that matters to most new startups is "getting funded". Making money is merely a sideshow to the main event, which is growing traffic and conducting round after round of follow-on financing.
Yeah sorry if that wasn't clear; I meant on the article's page on the original post, not here.

And I agree, it's a terrible argument for OR against the improvements. The abuse isn't so widespread that it should stop (what I conceive to be) a great way to improve it.
"The beauty of social insurance is that it is actually unsound. Everyone who reaches retirement age is given benefit privelleges that far exceed anything he has paid in...How is it possible? It stems from the fact that the national product is growing at compound interest ... More important, with real incomes going up at some 3% per year, the taxable base on which ebenfits rest in any period are much greater than the taxes paid historically by the generation now retired.

Social security is squarely based on what has been called the eighth wonder of the world--compound interest. A growing nation is the greatest Ponzi game ever contrived."-- Paul Samuelson
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> fatal

vital? I can't make sense of your post otherwise.
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As a 31 year old with a full-time job to pay the bills and a family to raise, I feel like there is not enough time to act on my ideas so they just continue to collect dust. Stories like this give me motivation but I still haven't found the answer to the question: "how can I focus on my ideas full-time and still pay the bills and support my growing family?". In other words, I don't have the savings for two and half years of hustling on no salary and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I will continue searching for the answer. Thanks for the story!
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There was no legit service. It was a ponzi scheme. Profits paid out where paid from income coming in. If at any point everyone had pulled their money out, there would not have been enough.

The scheme probably could have gone on longer and pulled in more money, but they had a goal and met it.

You know why so many people lose so hard in Vegas? They don't cut and run when they're ahead.
If you need living expenses, save up. If you live somewhere too expensive, move. "If your idea is too expensive to start with a laptop and cheap hosting, think of another idea."

Sorry to be somewhat flip, but starting a tech company isn't complex, it's just difficult. These start-up costs are the easy part and if you can't solve them on your own, then a 10K infusion from the government isn't going to help you solve the actually difficult problems down the road.
That corresponds to what I read and good to have confirmation on that - but that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
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I put this together for the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It's pretty fun when people are on it, like any social service.
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I am yet to hear anyone give a compelling argument in favour of parenthesising arguments to a method:

def method_name(arg1, arg2)

instead of

def method_name arg1, arg2

especially when they do not like empty parentheses for no args

def method_name()

and they just love to omit the parentheses when actually using a method

puts "odd"

Why the inconsistency? Unnecessary parentheses are unnecessary! When in doubt .. let the args out!

edit:

> Avoid hashes-as-optional-parameters. Does the method do too much?

And I'm totally against this. This is an extremely useful pattern and can be key to increasing readability. I basically insist on opts hashes on any method with more than 2 args. Wow, you can see what is intended rather than Model.do_something(3, false, false).

Any big application has methods that take a lot of switches. The opts hash pattern lets you at least label them, rather than rely on obscure argument order. And it lets you set defaults on the args in a sane way (rails' famous reverse_merge!). Why would anyone be against that?
Yeah, also I think that instead of number of casualties the amount of news coverage is the more important factor.
Machine learning in OCaml or Haskell?
In essence, the president’s plan will create a guaranteed source of startup capital...

Is that necessarily a good thing? I was under the impression the whole "trial-by-fire" of a business plan looking for funding was a valuable testing grounds for the business-to-be.