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That's great (seriously: it is); however, I think it is then important to realize (for others) that GitHub's business model is closer to that of PBS than CBS: they are, in the long run, relying on the fact that they are doing the world a public good, and when competitors with enticing "fair" price points enter this space more powerfully, it will be interesting to see if they manage to "keep up the donation drives" enough to continue subsidizing the world's open source. (edit:) ...especially, to continue the additional point I have been bringing up in this thread, when this competitors are able to "outrun" GitHub, because they aren't carrying around that baggage: they can focus, intently, right where the profit is, allowing them to rip as much of it away from GitHub as they can.
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Yes, people have complained.

And yes, we'll move them to Documents if that's the best option - did you read the whole blog post?
Pretty nice. It's missing the actual content though (the rating), so it's completely inaccessible to search engines, scrapers, screen readers and the like.
No, users shouldn't have to back up 5 gigs of maps to their 5 gig iCloud storage.
I suppose for the same reason that movies and television shows have to license the soundtracks they use in their works of art. I guess it's not transformative enough? Not sure what the legal definition of a derivative work is, but I guess it doesn't include a simple pairing up of different mediums.
I like this a lot. Just one thing:

Not illegal or immoral, but scary.

I would go further. Illegality and immorality are very different. I think people have a moral responsibility to use their power well, or at least not abuse it, regardless of what the law requires of them. Using the law to enforce this kind of morality is dangerous, but it still stands.
you don't think starcraft, the best and hardest strategy game in esports, pushed any boundaries or brought new styles of play?
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I read all the comments in this thread, and it surprises me that so many people have a hard time imagining a case where the user wants to store several gigabytes of data locally - maybe 10 gigs - but not have that data backed up to a cloud.
My rent (which is the cheapest possible in town) is $6,000 (not including heating oil, which is ~$75/mo in the winter) a year for a very small room of a duplex in which each half is shared by 4 people. In a very different real estate market I've been in within the last two years (KY houses are on the order of 1/2 the cost of houses in NH), it's still about the same price for rent. You won't make it on the $1-2k that's left over from that. How long ago were you living on <$7k?
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That there has been so much software written, and content created with that software, and support structures to supply that content to you (like networking or ecommerce) indicates that folks have to be able to innovate - the greater the mass of people that can tinker, the greater the mass of creators you get.

There was a much higher ratio of creators to users in the computer world in the 60s. But there wasn't the sheer volume of innovation there has been since the masses got involved - even though there's a lower ratio of creators, the absolute number of creators is far higher - hell, we're even on a site that is designed to do nothing but cater for this influx of creators, and it's getting one application a minute.

The fewer people that have exposure to tinkering, the lower the number of innovators overall.
He was probably tired and didn't see what he was doing. I was joking about that part. But it does suck
I see. Guitar is something that requires patience, for sure. Someone can play well enough to entertain drunk friends with one year of half-assed practice. To play on a stage, it's way more time of serious practice. It'll hurt, sometimes it'll take days to see improvements. Rehearse and constant practice are the key factors to thrive. If you're lacking patience, get a tutor. He will help you build momentum.
The same 'process' is valid for other moments you may be lacking patience. Get a friend you trust or a psychologist (they help well-adjusted people too), tell them about your projects, and every time you're losing patience, call them and tell them, and listen to them. They should reassure your progress, and help you get back on track.
Do they really need Labs now? Google has grown to a size where they can easily acquire promising young start-ups out in the wild.

One advantage of having Labs back in the day was that projects could have the backing of Google's infrastructure. Now, with cloud services like AWS, the bar is set low enough that anyone has access to this kind of stuff. How hard is it to start a YouTube in this day and age?
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I didn't intend it to be a criticism, just a factual remark.
Then again, I shouldn't have really compared the two. Google labs wasn't really a dedicated research wing at Google, more like cool stuff people from various teams worked on in their spare time.
I don't think it was the intent to make such propaganda cool, but rather more of the mistake of ignorance that it represented such things. It's been updated to something more kosher(hopefully) and fits nicer with the theme/name.
> it was US innovations that led to cars

Yes, Ford invented the production line, he did not invent cars.

> From the Wright brothers' first flight

Flight had been going on for decades. There is some evidence that a New Zealander did controlled flight under power first (which is what the Wright brothers are generally credited with), but did not publicise it. Wing-warping was already under trial in Europe at the same time as the Wright brothers; the Wright brothers' innovation was to get to the patent office first. (I don't share people's kudos of the Wright brothers. They got too much credit for what was going to happen anyway within weeks in Europe. They were extremely aggressive patentors and did much to suppress innovation by competitors.)

> Web

Berners-Lee invented the Web. Pure and simple. Other people made tools that used it, but that was not the claim.
The PS1 was released before the N64 and supported C compilation. In fact, in the early days Sony didn't want people to use much ASM because they were worried about backwards compatibility on future systems. The PS1 port of Doom suffered from a lack of assembly optimization.
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Making an assertion isn't answering the question.
Dividend growth stocks, like PG, MCD, PEP, KO, LMT, KMB, WM, etc. They don't swing too wildly with the market (they even stayed steady during the recent down/upswings), and they generally increase their dividends at a faster rate than inflation. It's a sort of "get rich slowly" scheme, but it's fun to see a growing share of my expenses being handled by passive income.
OK, I get your point, but transcribing e.e. cummings poems is kind of a corner case for voice recognition, no?

What Siri is going to test is whether the 80/20 rule applies to a voice recognition based personal assistant. By constraining it to assistant-type tasks, and with what seems to be the most intelligent design we've seen yet, it has a better shot of achieving it than anything else out there. Previous entrants have been tripped up by the lack of a decent UX, failure to integrate with other data sources, or any number of shortcomings in the long chain from microphone to software back to speaker. Apple is the first company to have such precise control over every component in that chain. (For instance, I wouldn't be surprised if part of the reason Siri is 4S-only is because hardware has been added for smarter noise or echo cancellation, or other subtle design changes.) And the fact that it can learn from the internet, and presumably submit its training data back to the cloud, means that maybe it will eventually be able to handle not just 80%, but 90% or 99% of total inputs.
Imaginative, yes. Possible, yes. Likely, who knows. But Siri could be the first step towards real AI, and this guy painted the picture pretty clearly. Bravo
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I couldn't agree more. Woz is a guy who will talk forever if you give him the right cues. STFU and get out of his way.
GTA3 revolutionized the open world games. And some people think is a genre itself. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_clone)
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Wow, and it waasn't techcrunch? Paul Carr's twin???
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For some reason the results from it just weren't that great anyway. It could never find sets of things that I really wanted to get.
I went to the cooper-hewitt last year and I was bummed out at how lame it was, largely because the two exhibits at the time were fabric and jewelry. I spent about 5 minutes going through the actual museum.

Then I spent 45 minutes in the Gift Shop, which was actually super awesome. They had rad books on typefaces, architecture, Bauhaus and everything related to design.

This exhibit would be cool though.
Robotics. Go get a 3d printer and an arduino kit and start building robots that do things.
>>not to mention the President of the US also uses a Blackberry.

He also smokes[d] cigarettes; not really the kind of person you want to emulate in every way.

Back on topic, I would love to see RIM make a comeback and provide more competition.
Sorry, it wasn't my intention to be misleading. I'll give it more thought next time. I see how "changes" could be deemed with a negative connotation in that context.
> do kids stop learning that things can break, and be changed

Maybe kids lose the expectation that software should break.
You can be profitable and still choose to take on funding for a variety of reasons. Although these may not be the reasons the startup in question above chose to, a few that comes to mind includes:

1. Investors can and should be considered an extension of your own team. The right investors can greatly add value outside of financial needs and greatly help in a variety of areas.

2. While you might be profitable, an infusion of cash can help you grow faster and the investors can help you grow properly so you don't end up growing prematurely. Plenty of entrepreneurs who have previous successful exit and capital to float their own companies, and companies who are profitable, still choose to raise funding.

3. To help validate their company to potential employees and ensure there is valuation provided for the stock issued. I know some people refuse to join a startup if its not backed even if the company is profitable.

That said, profitable is subjective. Is it a lot, a little, ramen level? The above are not the only reasons but just some that comes to my mind right now.
Thanks for telling the truth. I'm at around $18k/y and it's good to have motivation to do better.

Rent is $6k right there. Ouch. And this is a small town.

Food only gets cheaper the more we do our own, and after becoming vegan. I spent $20 on food in the last week on the fridge is stocked for another week to come. Squash is just cheap, etc. We've gardened before but have nowhere to do it right at our place, though hopefully will soon on the deck.
>Don't you do the same thing when you get emails offering you amazing business opportunities?

Isn't this the exact business that VCs are in? Identifying amazing offers?

You make the claim as if VCs are not in the business of looking for amazing deals, vs everyone else who is in infinite other businesses...

Yeah, there is the rule that intros are best - but still, why try to architect vision and innovation out of the VC market?
There are filters for that.
Pity no one wants to discuss this. HN readers would've jumped on if this Was a story about Indians getting H1B visas or Indian community in Edison, NJ

Bring on some nice visual analytics on Indian students in US.
Ex-VFX guy here. For me it's more like "don't let the door hit you on the way out."

Consider all of the issues:

* A toxic chemical process for development. Both the source negative and the (thousands of) projected copies.

* Weave, both during filming and projection.

* Aspect ratio madness because of legacy formats. For example, academy formats have an offset center thanks to the audio track.

* Light leak, and other physical film issues you don't have with digital.

* Film is very inconsistent, and between projects, stock choices can make the source material really bad to work with. Take the legendarily bad Vision 500T that many cameramen would use even on critical bluescreen/greenscreen shots it had no place in.

* For IMAX, going digital has the added benefit of losing weight. IMAX reels can only go about 90 seconds at a time. That'll also help high speed. Filming 500-1000 fps will tear through a 35mm reel in about 5 seconds. Again, pretty wasteful when you think about it compared to using a Phantom.

Now it's just a matter of getting all theaters to use digital projection.
>VC public e-mail addresses == /dev/null .. they exist purely to appease the raging masses of entrepreneurs hanging outside their walls, reading Venturebeat ( fill in another 10 top " blogs " of your choice ) more than mails from their mum.

Doesn't this sound like an opportunity then?

Why have a blackhole at all? Why be so un-innovative? Sure, it will cost you money - but if you claim that this is the reason for NOT doing it - you admit that innovation is not your goal, but profit only, thus it will go against so many supposed charters of VCs out there...

Let's be honest here. What is the bottom line?

Either VCs only want a "sure thing" or they actually want to foster innovation and progress, and receive profit as a result.

If you are in the former, not the latter, then - sorry - but I have no respect for you. Regardless of your success.

Paradigm shift, we need it.
The problem with Caplan is that he fails to prove that signaling is socially detrimental. The signaling theory makes sense, and I accept that it could be at work, but I'm not convinced that signaling is inherently bad, nor that there isn't intrinsic value in higher education.

Further Caplan tends to focus on liberal arts education, and ignores hard science and engineering. This, of course, means that only part of the education equation is being considered.

I fear, (and this is at risk of completely throwing my argument off the rails with fallacy), that what may be at work (Caplan) is more a case of dogmatic adherence to libertarian ideology. With a lack of demonstrable social implications, signaling becomes largely irrelevant as an argument against the system, as it is.
I may be wrong, but I think it's been rolled into the main product. A few times, recently, I've been prompted as to whether I've forgotten an attachment, and I don't recall ever turning that Labs feature on.
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You are clearly on the treadmill. Yeah if you want to buy a new car every X years, and get a mortgage for an overpriced house you are not going to be able to live this lifestyle. You will probably have the lifestyle most enjoy. Maxed out credit cards, no savings, that big oh-shit moment in your mid-fifty's when you realize you've nothing saved for retirement...

Not to burst your bubble, but his health plan is pretty good. I have a very similar one. It's shocked me too that you can get a good plan if you are willing to take a very high deductible..

And ironically if I took my deductible each year I didn't need it and burned it (or gave it to charity) I'd almost break even on my low-deductible 'old plan'. When I left employment the Cobra for my plan (2 people) was 980/month. I now have a HSA-style plan that's $170/mo. It has a ~5K-per-person deductible (x2 for two people). 100% coverage after the deductible is met. I'd about break even each year if we both simultaneously came down with cancer. But since we're healthy I get to pocket the 10K or so I save each year.

Most cities you can get by without a car. I prefer it, actually, it is a lot less stress than driving and a lot healthier. But, yeah, if you are like the folks who got a 'great deal' on a house in Stockton in 2007 and are now commuting from there to Santa Clara, I guess bikes are out of the question. It's all about live-near-where-you-work (or vice versa).

The author states he's got a $100K in savings - That's a lot more safety net than your average American. Do you have that kind of safety net?
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No, Gmail Labs is separate and is not being shut down.
Since 2001 and up to now.

Are you positively sure you have the cheapest rent in town? We lived in the same city for two years before we found a place that was 30% cheaper. Go to craigslist and set up an RSS feed. The underpriced places don't stay on the market for more than a day before someone snatches them up.
Unless that role were an engineering role, I don't think he'd be interested.
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So, sorry to be snide, but that's why I thought you hadn't read it though. I noted we plan to do just that - move everything to Documents and then have the user click off syncing.

We don't think that's a very elegant solution though, and we can't even provide a button or something to effect the change. We literally have to instruct the user how to drill down into a Setting 5 clicks deep.
Yeah, it doesn't get a hair more than $500/yr cheaper and would exclude bus access. (note the shitty living situation) Part of the reason is that NH has a high property tax instead of having income tax. That's passed on to the renters.
If you are serious about wanting to connect with Woz he is remarkably accessible. He's a hopeless educator at heart - reach out to the guy.

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For some reason I initially assumed $300,000 plus was your retirement target. I am now assuming $175,000 in savings is what you define as "financially independent" That makes sense given your $7,000 per year expenses. ($7,000 divided by 0.04).

1) Starting from zero (because where else would we start for this analysis?)

2) We save $26,000 per year (2,166.7 per month).

3) Assume 6% return.

4) It takes about 5 to 6 years to get to $175,000.

Makes sense, a retirement fund that covers 7,000 per year in living expenses (i.e. about $175,000), takes only about 5 years of saving $26,000 per year (and conservative investing).

Quick and easy math here: http://www.math.com/students/calculators/source/compound.htm
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On the other hand, I am hoping people won't be storing content in proprietary formats without a spec, or heaven-forbid with some DRM restrictions, or you might not have the proper software (or the proper rights if DRMed) to play it back 50 years later.
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It was excruciating to listen to the interviewer's little interjections. These little affirmations are what you're supposedly "supposed to do" in conversation, but boy does it sound _awful_ for an interview.

It was eye opening for me in this regard as well - know your setting.
I sat next to Woz during the keynote where the iPod with video was introduced (I believe the event where Madonna was called, as I was working on her project at the time).

The guy had such enthusiasm for everything around him, especially while Steve was on stage. It was inspiring. He also had time for everyone, which was equally so.

I like to think of him as evangelist in chief. I mean, the guy checks in wherever he is on Foursquare and from what I understand is really kind to anyone that says hello.
There are plenty of books and blogs and sites about this. Gamedev.net is probably as decent a place as any to start. But I sincerely ask you to reconsider the level of importance you're putting on doing everything yourself. Unless you're okay with probably never finishing a project.
> He has a team of artists who help realise the (visual) potential of the awesome new tech he has developed. The gameplay itself comes second. Heresy, I know, but this has been the pattern for a number of releases and if the id team are happy with that then more power to them.

What it really comes down to is that id games are basically showcases for their latest engine tech. The licensing income from the engines (which they call idTech if I recall) probably overshadows the games within a year of release.
Some of the most critically acclaimed games, as well as highest selling games, have stories.

He's not saying games don't have stories, of course they do, he's saying that some game designers get distracted from making good mechanics, which I agree, is a huge mistake. Mechanics is the core of the medium, and shouldn't be put second on the list.

Valve gets that. Their attention and talent put into storytelling and art direction is top-notch, yet that has never distracted them from making sure their mechanics are excellent.
Um, where did you see those? I think I used curly braces for a lot of the Renee { .. } examples, and use the do..end once I'm inside there. That's just my style, but, you can use which ever one you prefer (and of course, if the precedence is correct.)
My goodness. This type of thinking is going to shackle you from ever doing something new and untried.

That's the most important lesson you don't learn in college: how to do something completely novel. And it's the most important lesson one can ever learn.
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They are buying 60 lotto tickets for $50,000 each, because it's cheaper than the opportunity cost of missing out on the next big one.

I wonder if $50,000 even gets you an in-person meeting.
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Isn't PARC pretty much a consultancy now?
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