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Definitely agree starting with RoR or Python would be helpful. Just wondering if non-technical folks even know how to setup a wordpress blog, let alone start programming. Thanks for replying!
First, who said "an illegal" or "lazy"? Searching the page I only find your comment using those terms.

Second, "the system is already being abused so lets allow further abuse" isn't really a great argument.

(For the record I'm actually in favor of this I just don't think your tone is necessary and I think it discourages anyone who might disagree)
I felt immediately betrayed by the author and didn't want to believe anything else he had to say. It is fine if the goal was to not have my trust, but I don't know why that would be the case here.
This isn't the first time this happened. I remember this story:

http://slashdot.org/story/06/08/23/1918246/EVE-Online-Rocked...

which was funny because the guy basically just ran a 'bank' where you just gave him the ISK in game. It was a dead-simple Ponzi, pay interest out of (some of) new depositors' cash.

And then when a lot of people started trying to point out that it was most likely a scam, he pretended to be offended and said, "If you're going to call me a scammer I might as well take the money." And he did.

Then he proceded to buy a really fast ship and repeatedly bounty himself for lulz.

This is all what I remember from reading about it at the time, I've never played, myself.
I don't know why people downvote this. There are two problems when you have a democratic system of government (the US is no longer really a republic IMO):

1. Special interest groups
2. Involuntary taxation

The two combined make for some quite uncomfortable moral hazards. If you pay taxes in the US, you are paying for continued aggression. Or education you'd rather provide yourself. Or any number of things that you don't agree with. For every citizen, there are just a few government services they use over and above the common services everyone else uses as well (not listing them, numerous).

The majority of money that the government collects from the citizen is not spent on the citizen themselves.

"Sure", you say, "It's to help the poor!". As Milton Friedman said: if government could solve the problem of poverty, then why are there still poor people?

In my locality, there are instances of local governments spending $60K per poor family of four annually. Only $20K actually got to the family. The rest becomes overhead.

I think it's quite valid to say that the government should not be involving themselves in commerce in this manner because then they become indispensable. Not because they are useful, but because then they fund a set of uneconomical businesses that no one else would invest in.

TL;DR: don't downvote because you don't agree.
Maybe reward them with attention? Have a blog post that features a community member everyday or every week or an interview...
Strange question, but couldn't you always do this?

From my understanding, unemployment insurance only required that you take no/low salary from a company. You were still able to receive money from capital-gains/investments.

Start a consulting firm/startup, pay yourself a $1 salary with stock options. Don't exercise these options for a long time (when you stop UE). I read the UE stuff time and time again in Massachusetts and kept looking for something to say that I couldn't do this but couldn't find anything that said so explicitly. I didn't end up doing consulting (just more learning/studying), but it would have worked and been legal right?
Yes, this is a big deal. I won't go searching to find out what you do when you announce a new feature. I will however read it in the email.

Going a step further, if you haven't seen me in a while (say a year), send me an email reminding me I have an account with you, and summarize what you've done in that time. Remind me of my username too. This is kind of a big deal, because I sign up for everything (can't have username dilution :) ). Just because I don't use your site now, doesn't mean I won't after your new features, so as long as it doesn't turn into spam, I like the reminder.

Amusing anecdote: I signed up for Reddit within a year of it's launch, but really start using my account there until 2.5 years or so ago when I decided to re-evaluate it. I had completely forgotten about my earlier signup and was real bummed when I learned of my username being taken. Fortunately I was smart enough to do my "It's probably me and I've just forgotten" ritual where I try all my password variants and sure enough either I really got lucky and the old sophacles had one of my passwords, or it really was me. I probably would have been actively redditing 2 years prior if there had been a not-to-spammy email reminder once in a while.
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an object is seen as being distinct and different from other objects, with its own unique history.

the best physical understanding of the universe that we have at the present moment says that all properties of all objects are entirely dependent on ... all properties of all objects. so the idea that an object is distinct doesn't make sense. consider: how large is an atom? quantum mechanics tells us that the wave functions of the atom's constituent particles extend throughout the entire universe, which means that every atom is the size of the entire universe.

additionally, our understanding of the nervous system tells us that the only information we get about the world comes from the firing of all of our nerve cells - discrete events that happen or do not happen. because our understanding of reality is nothing more than than a lossy compression of all sensations humans have ever experienced, if you see reality as being the sum total of all human experience, it's fair to say that it's a stream of events, in which our minds are going for a swim.
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Note that much of "society" tells people that they have it rotten as part of a "you'll be so much better off if you {buy our soap, vote for our candidate}".
Not just beta invites and email promotions, but also emails to advisors and early investors. It's more than just a reminder of what the heck you do, it's also handing them language to talk about your business to other people.

For beta users, advisors and early investors - these people are going to be your advocates. You need to give them the tools to advocate for you, and a well crafted 3 sentence elevator pitch that describes your business is a huge help.
I think that employers generally don't pay employees significantly above market salaries. Certainly not double, even if they're worth 5x or 10x another employee. Their HR departments won't let them. To do significantly better, you need to be starting a business or contracting. And if it's contracting, you'll probably have to be doing fixed bid contracts, something that divorces your hours worked from the amount paid - so that you don't run into a "we pay no more than $x/hour" clause, where x is whatever the local lousy body shop charges.
While I love this is FOSS, there's is a $1 paid-app that is almost entirely 1:1 with the Snow Leopard (plus features) called "Classic Color Picker". Totally worth it IMO.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/classic-color-meter/id4516400...
There seems to be some strange behaviour with dual monitors.

I have a 27" iMac (2560x1440) and I have an external monitor hooked up (1920x1200) and positioned to the right of the main desktop.

When I move the cursor around on the second monitor, the picker preview window stops tracking and updating when I move close to the top edge (maybe 100 pixels?) or the right (farthest) edge (at least 300 pixels there) of the monitor.

edit: I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.8
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And rule #2: don't ask me to spam with friends for an earlier invite.
Financial planning in a game? Is this semi-required busywork or are most players having fun with it? Why this and not paper trading (or real) investments outside the game?

How much work would it take to turn EVE into a Libertopia? Could an MMO like this exist without griefing and scams being so common?
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Leave the TV.
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I don't understand why you'd think this is annoying. They're asking you to spread the word if it's a service you're interested in, and in return they'll give you a higher place in line. Seems very reasonable to me.
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I'd say only few lucky surgeons in private practice make that kind of money. I have no reason to doubt your good faith, but my BS-detector is getting some signals.

So, what's the business about? Can you disclose?
now you're getting it ;)
You can fix the game of declaring profit, but you can't fix the game of revenue. And therein lies the problem: management risk represents the ability of a business to draw a profit from revenue. Tax-flight and profit-sharing shenanigans represent the management risk of dishonesty, though more often management risk is the aptitude of a manager to run the business well.

The businesses we are working with (I'm with RT, wrote the post) aren't films. They're startups and operating businesses. And we believe royalty financing has more scaling potential in a massive crowdfunding marketplace than equity financing. Removing management risk makes crowdfunding more viable.
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> Strange question, but couldn't you always do this?

No. For you to receive unemployment insurance you must prove that you are actively seeking a job.

I suppose you could have invested the time into looking for a job while spending the rest of it starting a business, but this will provide you with an explicit option to start your own business. That will encourage more people to do so.
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Counterpoint, I think my happiest days were in childhood. Adulthood, at least for someone who's being responsible for himself and family, is far from being the magical "freedom" that kids and teens imagine it is.
Somewhat related: Chris Smith is teaching kids programming using a tiny subset of Haskell, the Gloss graphics library, and a web framework that he built around Gloss, using the SafeHaskell extension.

His experiences can be followed through his blog. Previous posts:

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/haskell-for-kids-wee...

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/haskell-for-kids-wee...

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/haskell-for-kids-wee...

http://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/haskell-for-kids-wee...

Well worth the read, and a good example of how programming can be taught to children.
Slightly off-topic question, how many people got the Paddy Chayefsky reference and how many didn't (and therefore presumably assumed that bit wwas just a direct description)?
Well, there's a lot of people here expressing surprise at the cost of hosting a small user base of simple data in a not complicated problem domain.

It looks an order of magnitude too expensive to us, there's probably some simple thing wrong in the architecture.

Maybe we're all missing a key complexity of the service. The Archival service might be it.
EVE has a very strong economic component. It's sometimes called "spreadsheets online" :) so I think it's fair to say that serious EVE players like it that way. Scams are part of the gameplay, and are pretty common.

I think e.g. Runescape had a very thorough anti-scam system, but for EVE players, this is part of the game.
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It sounds like the OP didn't consider putting the lawyers in the same room and requiring a contract by the end of the day. That way your rights are protected and the back-and-forth doesn't take forever.
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Sometimes 73/100 = 0 (and not 0.73)
Other option for people who don't like it: leave the country.

You wouldn't know it listening to most people complaining but unemployment insurance was not something implemented in 2008, it goes back to the 1930s. That should have been plenty of warning for you to find a place with a tax rate and entitlement system to your liking. Sorry, there aren't a lot of options in the 1st world without taxes and entitlments, but that must just be a coincidence.
Since you brought it up. My experience is that the Mormon church is a very laudable charity.

Humanitarian efforts relieve suffering for families of all nationalities and religions.

-In 2010 the Church provided relief to people affected by 119 disasters in 58 countries.

-Over 7.5 million people now have access to clean water because of Church efforts from 2002 through 2010.

-Since 2002, over 193,000 health care workers have been trained in Neonatal Resuscitation Training. The World Health Organization estimates that 1 million newborns die each year of breathing difficulties.

-Since 2003, over 550,000 people have benefitted from Church vision projects throughout the world.

http://lds.org/service/humanitarian/church?lang=eng
Right. Let's say I was searching for a job, but doing Rails work on the side (not a startup per-se, but you know... doing startupy like work). I could spent 1 day per week looking for a job, and 4 to 6 days a week coding for people. All the proceeds go into a consulting firm which I hold ownership of.

But yes, it is good for this to be official now.
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Game companies make absolutely sure that in-game currency isn't the same as IRL money, because then players would have to declare in-game property on taxes etc. and the game servers would be like banks or something. It's much better for everyone if you can't do that :)
Could you give some details on how you tweaked the GC?
Back-of-the-envelope math:

Suppose Google were to implement the same policy. Their quarterly profits last quarter were $2.5B, and had approximately 30,000 employees. So 10% of $2.5B split among 30k employees means an average quarterly bonus of $8,300, or a yearly bonus of $33k.

This seems like a pretty good bonus, particularly since if Google used salary.com to define their salaries, an incoming software engineer in the Bay Area would make $70k.
I don't know what kind of startup it is but I wonder why this subscription thing isn't automated.

Anyways, you have two options

1. Continue with your education and take a risk of losing customers which may (or may be not) lead to failure of your startup.

2. Drop out and give your full time to your startup and take a risk of getting bankrupt with incomplete education. Still, you will be educated enough to earn more than your bread and butter. So that's not a big risk but there is also great possibility of a very successful venture and tons of money.

I am a risk taker, so my suggestion would be to drop-out if you aren't able to give your 100% to your dream project. Best scenario, you get to work on your dream project and earn millions and billions of money. Worst scenario, failed project but still educated enough to earn a decent livelihood.
Huge congrats to Robbie and team!
> A third is the right not to be coerced to work, except in life-threatening circumstances.

do you have an example in mind here?
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This isn't intended as a response, but actually the opposite of those two are like the defining characteristics of me.

I came to the first one after reading journal articles about 'inherency' (debate jargon for the reason a problem continues to persist), where I started think much more in terms of external causes of problems I had rather than internal ones. That's also made me much more empathetic

The second one came to me through an old debate coach, my first mentor. I've actually found that 'seeking the truth' is a really fantastic experience, and contagious too; its the reason my roommate comes home from class and reads academic studies about fitness and nutrition.
Headline buries the lead, $4 million round! Great stuff. Very exciting.
I don't have enough cash on hand.
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"Some" real estate holdings?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_The_Church_of_Jesus...

My point is that a person donating 10% to an inefficient charity like the Mormon Church is not as laudable as, e.g., a person donating some fraction of 10% to one of these: http://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities
That's interesting. I recently ported Todos to KnockoutJS[1] and straight jQuery(as a counter-example)[2] for a Knockout presentation I gave yesterday.

[1]: https://github.com/statianzo/KnockoutListTested

[2]: https://github.com/statianzo/JQueryList
Also, make sure you put it on your front page. A lot of times I see a link to someone saying "look at my cool project" on HN, and it takes me a long time to figure out what the project is actually supposed to do.

Also, make sure you explain it clearly. Once I went to a site that had pictures of food all over it and it said "like AirBNB but for food". I could not remember at the time what AirBNB was.
I don't know what to do with it, but it seems pretty cool.
I downvoted it because it was a horribly written political cheapshot. I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment but the quality of the post was terrible. Politics doesn't really belong on HN anyway so if you are going to inject it into a discussion it has to be intelligent (ignoring my snarky response to him that will likely garner downvotes as well).
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That's not true at all. SBA and SCORE offices help entrepreneurs all over the US get outside funding. Silicon Valley may have the largest numbers, but it doesn't mean the rest of the country isn't investing...
yeah, exactly, the 'usual connotations or implications of God-hood'. all these 'usual connotations' is what people came up with. omnipotence in this perspective is meaningless - if everything is you, why would you need to have any 'power' over yourself? you is you and you are what you need to be :)

and if you're after thunderbolts and other gimmicky things, then sorry, single electron theory doesn't cater for that IMHO...
Testflight releases new SDK
Do the young minds need to learn the pointer concepts?
> Social Security and Medicare are earned benefits.

"Earned" maybe, but the relevant question is the relationship between the payments and the benefits. For some folks, it's a good/great return. For others, it's a lousy return.

> the money is invested (albeit in government debt at low interest rates), and even now (well, maybe not with that idiotic payroll tax break they enacted) more money is going in than coming out.

The problem is that current cash flow isn't the right way to determine whether such schemes are economically sound.

For example, Ponzi schemes have good cash flow initially.

The right way involves balancing the current "contributions" against the NPV of the benefits "promised".

No, I'm not saying that SS is a Ponzi scheme. No one is forced to participate in a Ponzi scheme and the only folks who lose money in a Ponzi scheme are folks who bought into the promise.
I think it's time to face up to the fact that the guiding advice for 30? 50? years of, "keep your head down, go to college, get good grades, you'll get a good job" is practically dead.

Now, I advise these things:

* go to college - you need to go to college because it's the best way to get a wide education.

* get a degree - this needs to be in something very difficult for people to do. Math. Engineering. Accounting.

* expect that your future job will not make you happy. Presume you'll hate it a bit. Concurrently, realize that your life is more than your job.

* go to internships and find local networking events. Learn to drink responsibly.

* save money. You probably have to take out student loans. Don't be afraid to put money by from them, because you will need to do things like move, buy a car, pay for car bills.

* assume you have to move to get a job. Most jobs are going to be a place not in your college town. Get used to the idea. (Aside: I've known many people who go to college near their parents, and don't want to leave the area, just because they want to be near their family. That's not a productive idea. You are your own person. Invest into your future by finding a job you like, even if it's a country away).

* grades matter to some people. I've been turned down solely on the basis of my GPA. Accept that if you don't have a 3.9+, you didn't jump high enough for some people, and there's no way to get around that. Either get the high GPA or find hiring people who don't obsess about that single metric.

* learn business. Business is what pays your bills, if you know something about it, you'll understand the 'why' into seemingly irrational decisions.
No no no no please no. Don't teach them to code. Teach them to think first.

If you give someone a hammer without telling them how to use it, they are going to hit some fingers and get frustrated.

I think we should teach children to understand mathematics at an algorithmic level and let them see that programming is a tool/hammer for executing those algorithms. Unfortunately current educators tend to concentrate on the pure mechanical aspects of mathematics such as arithmetic and punching numbers into off-the-shelf formulae which is the real problem.

Personally, they should just throw in valid use cases that map to reality like calculating GCDs or Newton's method and let them knock up the programs in TI-BASIC on their standard issue TI-84's.

That's enough for school, even to A-level.

Footnote: For reference I was brought up at school in the UK on LOGO, BBC BASIC (6502 and ARM), LEGO Dacta and TI BASIC. Life was good for me, but I know that my peers found it frustrating when they just wanted to solve a problem and go home.
Camus is talking about Absurdism. [1] How it's related to the Nietzsche's quote depends on how you see it. (Nietzsche was a kind of absurdist himself)

It is a broad theory. It says life is basically absurd because the world is meaningless and indifferent to man's desires/prejudices/beliefs. The world just doesn't care about man and we can't apply any universal laws to human life. Life is full of randomness/surprises. Loss/defeat/death can come anytime in any form but man continues to be in denial about them. This makes man vulnerable to boredom/pessimism/nihilism. I think this situation is what the article's 80% of people represent.

The solution Absurdists give is, man should create his own meaning in life and live for it but by being constantly aware of life's absurdity. Instead of denying it or seeking permanent happiness in some supernatural world or after life, we should embrace this life and all its absurdities. This attitude makes us live life to the fullest and as Nietzsche says it leads to the 'celebration of life'. I think the article's 20% of people fall under this.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism

Also see:

The Myth of Sisyphus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus

Eternal Return - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_recurrence#Friedrich_Ni...

Amor Fati - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amor_fati
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Very nice. Great to see a newspaper company not flail and panic and put all its design resources into native apps because everyone else is. Also, one of the least ad-centric front pages I've seen in awhile.
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Congratulations, it looks and works great. Spent 5 minutes just resizing the window and watching all the different permutations of the weather info.
For new-ish unix users, just pointing out that cat ... | grep ... is a classic mistake (it's in the faq). Grep can do line numbers with -n.