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I'm sure its nice on a desktop, but it's unusable on a phone. It's probably not your intended audience, so good effort nonetheless.

I think in the not-to-distant-future, especially as mobile browsing overtakes desktop browsing, its going to be a prerequisite that plugins/widgets work on both screens. As people evaluate whether or not to use a plugin, this will quickly become a deciding factor.

Again, not a critique of this plugin. Just a thought I had while looking at this and being kind of sad that I couldn't really experience the demos on my phone.
Yep! I get it now. Thanks for clarifying.

I agree that "agile" teams that group people by specialty are clueless. Done right, the teams are, as you suggest, cross-functional. That was the original intent for the people who coined the term Agile, but much of that has fallen by the wayside as larger organizations decided Agile was fashionable and consultants rushed in to sell them 3% dilutions of XP or Scrum.

I've written more about how that happened here, and a lot of the early Agile types I've talked to agree: http://agilefocus.com/2011/02/21/agiles-second-chasm-and-how...
I'm disappointed by the amount of political commenting on this post, as opposed to what I was hoping to find—discussion of how the fund will actually work and how to take advantage of the various elements of the initiative.

I'm trying to make sense of the press release, but finding it difficult. It's full of announcements, but seems to be missing any calls to action.

There's more information at the SBA -
http://www.sba.gov/startupamerica

It contains this promising paragraph: "…the gap is particularly acute in the so called “Valley of Death” for financing rounds between $1-4 million. Over the past 4 years only 6% of all venture capital has been deployed in that stage … The Innovation Fund will target this gap, providing a 1:1 match to private capital raised by early stage seed funds."

Does this mean that access to money in this fund is only through existing VC firms? Or does it mean something else?

If anyone can extract the actionable information from all this static, please do share.

It would be great to know if new funding methods were actually opening up, or if this is just an infusion of cash to VCs.
That might work for mild cases of procrastination, but not severe ones.

I know all the things I should be doing, like setting goals, making lists, visualizing myself working on and achieving various tasks and goals, checking on my progress, etc..

The problem is that I don't do those things.

Well, sometimes I do manage to make some lists, but I don't work on any of the items on those lists. I don't even check to see what's due next on those lists. I've tried taping my lists to my bedroom door and to my bathroom mirror, but I just walk past or look past those lists like they weren't there.

It's easy for to say things like "just work hard" or "just do it" and give advice on things a procrastinator should do. But what's to be done when someone can't "just do it" or follow your advice? That's the real problem.

I would be the most productive person in the world if I could just follow through on things I know I should be doing. But I just don't.
It's easy really. The person that authorized the bot to work on their behalf is responsible.
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Why should we care about the difference between negligence and malice? Should we respond differently? I would not be comfortable with that.

Besides, let's not forget Grey's Law... (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Greys_Law)
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The above isn't meant as a comment - it was a question that was answered by an edit in the grandparent, but I then carelessly edited this instead of deleting it. By the time I noticed the error the edit/delete window had closed.
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What a guy.

What a complete dick.

Guts and determination is one thing. Risking other people's lives over a petty race is completely different.
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I can't believe that this has been up 8 hours without any mention of Steven Pressfield's "The War of Art" (http://www.stevenpressfield.com/the-war-of-art/)

This lays bare the root of procrastination. It is also provides forceful, direct ways for dealing with it. I don't know a single person who has read it and not taken something positive away.

And it's a really quick read. I went through it in an evening.
Cavemen had to work together for common goal (survival) hence people usually root for each other. In modern world, people compete and try to one-up each other. No common goals. Big difference.
What is "fairly substantial" here? $10k? $20k? $100k? I certainly know people willing to risk the first two but not the third (primarily early 30s professionals). $20k is plenty to participate in the seed round of a software startup. It seems silly to forbid people to invest an amount smaller than they would spend on a car (a guaranteed-depreciating asset over the next 10 years).
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Seems to work fine on my iPhone?
If hindsight is 20/20, then surely we should be realizing the the past sucked and not realizing why things suck today, giving the perpetual impression that we are improving.

I propose that hindsight is 20/20, and the fact that we don't think we are improving as a result says a great deal...
Co-founding any project is akin to marriage. Don’t pull a Kim Kardashian and give up just yet, but you do have to take a stand… sooner rather than later. I did an executive leadership program with AT&T and the #1 thing they teach is managing your people. You, sir, need to manage your co-founder similar to how I would have one of my employees or peers. Don’t be timid bc it’s his idea, bc we all know that an idea is nothing without blood, sweat, and tears (which at this point his contribution = 5%, and yours = 95%). To me it seems as though you are quite invaluable already. Take him to a café or pub and ask him how things are going for him. Pull a doctor phil and let him open up a bit and then ask him if HE believes that these issues will affect his ability to contribute to the project. You need him to be honest more than anything else or you won’t know whether he is taking advantage of the situation and exhibiting his true lazy behavior or just needs to get back on track. FYI behavior predicts behavior and apparently your honeymoon phase is over…
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Seriously. I want to live in a country where if you have a 1 in a million disease like this, you shouldn't have to worry about how much it's going to cost to get treatment.

Everybody needs healthcare/health insurance, and we are all the same species. Every single person in this country should be paying the same monthly fee for coverage. If wind up in a hospital, you should never even have to think about how it's going to be paid for.

Unfortunately in this country, we have people that will yell out "let them die" at a presidential debate about what to do with the uninsured, and why we shouldn't force people to pay for healthcare.
I reread it. It still looks like you're drawing a distinction between a person flagging an "infringing" work, and a bot doing the same. I still think that there is no practical use for this distinction. Where's the strawman?
I disagree. My anecdotal evidence as a person who prefers to meditate on code is that many times the person who does quick iterations even beats people that understand the language. A deep understanding of the language, in fact, can sometimes be a hinderance to getting things done. I realize thats anecdotal, but if you have an organization (say 1000 people or whatever facebook has) and they are doing these iterations all day and you can shave 5 minutes more out of each persons day, that 5000 mins per day :)
The problem is, people have been told for so long not to care about Python 3 that it's hard to imagine what could make people actually start caring about it. Practically the only people that have even tried it are Python fanatics or compiler devs.

I understand the desire to make fundamental language changes and why it's cleaner to make Python 3 backward incompatible. I don't agree that it was the smartest thing to prevent any kind of interoperability, though. The way people could begin using Python 3 is if you could still import Python 2 modules from Python 3 code. OK, there would be some tough nuts to crack to get the interpreter to switch contexts gracefully and translate objects from one side to the other. But at least people could start using Python 3 and then begin switching things over one at a time. To ask everyone to keep running 2to3 to maintain a second codebase that nobody uses is kind of silly and unrealistic, and causes this détente where too few people care enough to make a first move.

Also, gripe here. Why the heck is def method(self, actual_first_arg, ...) still all over the place in Python 3? They had a golden opportunity to kick that bizarre holdover from when Python couldn't do OO [1], and they didn't [2]. The only solid argument Guido has against it is about decorators, and it really only applies to @classmethod and @staticmethod, which arises primarily from the stodgy way Python implements these OO features and which could have been nipped in the bud with their own language changes.

[1] http://beust.com/weblog/2008/10/28/pythons-enigmatic-self/

[2] http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-explicit-self-ha...
Actually not, because their commenting system uses flash so you can't search for/link to individual comments. As you can see from a simple Google search, though, I am far from the first to make the comparison: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ie=...
Few years back, I found a bunch of News Apps from a single Developer - http://brajeshwar.posterous.com/one-devs-news-iphone-apps
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Some more about the story:

On Reddit blog:

http://blog.reddit.com/2011/12/3-year-old-lucas-inspires-red...

And the original posting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/comments/muvuk/everywhere...
can't really look it up quickly since it doesn't seem like there was systems in the email address...but probably did email them since I went through the NACHA list of ebpp providers, which should be fairly complete.

Anyways, the final price ended up at $10K, which is pretty close to what I wanted
I had actually applied a few weeks back and got a reply from Zac that you don't have any internship opportunities.
I think it is a great idea and I love the way it works. I look forward to you expanding the database. I am the worst gift-giver in the world and a site like this definitely gives me ideas through simple tags that I can classify the recipient by. Keep up the great work!
Remember that the primary power the average HN reader has to fight abuses like this is simply not to work for the companies that engage in this chicanery. Good hackers are valuable, and companies fight for them. When companies do things most hackers consider evil, it should hurt them.
Well, actually, I think it has slowly become more tyrannical since about day 1. Maybe that's just a natural consequence of having a bunch of people whose whole job is to invent new laws.

I don't want to go all ad populum, but if people have been saying something for a long time, isn't it possible they've been right for a long time?
Ask HN: How often do you have to update your project manager?
I'm interested to know how often everyone has to report your progress to his/her project manager or client.

Do they typically ask you for updates? If so, how often?

How often would you say you give an unsolicited update?
DMCA takedowns are done under penalty of perjury. I can't imagine a judge or a bar association taking a liking to a lawyer whose defense is "I was just rubber stamping these things."
I hate to harp on you here because you're clearly just attempting to help, but I think the statement

> Seems to work fine on [the] iPhone?

is representative of the main issue with the mobile web. Most people only build with iOS and maybe Android in mind.

Thankfully Android's browser is bad enough that it's raised awareness of how difficult it is to build complex cross platform web applications.
The payments space gets confusing. There are gateway providers that serve merchants yet process payments through an underlying provider. At the end of the day there are multiple types of companies which can serve your needs.

I am bias since I work at Litle & Co. My team implemented the chargeback upload API years back, it's great to see it catching on.

Litle has some neat features including a JavaScript API for tokenization that we call Pay Page.

I won't go on self promoting, however I can answer questions if you have them. I follow hacker news because of my personal interest in software development.
Somewhat off-topic: the author repeatedly suggests that prefix notation isn't as pleasant to read as infix because natural language uses a Subject-Verb-Object ordering. Most human languages actually use a Subject-Object-Verb ordering (e.g. Japanese, Turkish, Hindi, &c), but I've never heard of anyone from any of these other cultures implementing an SOV programming language[1]. Does anyone know whether this kind of reasoning (i.e. "This is more intelligible to me because my natural language does it as well") has ever been actually researched? (Unfortunately, when it comes to things like language, someone's gut feeling can be deeply and remarkably wrong.)

[1]: As far as I can recall, this and Perl's Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun are the only languages I've seen that really have postfix functions. I could be wrong.
I just bought your app out of curiosity. That is a very interesting concept -- would love to see how you keep innovating further! Good luck! It took a few tries/a darker room to get just the right effect. I don't actually know much about image processing -- I figured you would try to detect the face/cheeks/nose and "extrude" those when rotated, but it seems like it's doing something more sophisticated.
Genuinely curious. Why would you want to program in Javascript on a resource constrained device? Seems like shooting yourself in the foot before you start to me.
Yeah, there should be a law where you can't transfer patents like a bank note. And trolling should be illegal. Reform.

We can't blame Apple with out knowing the full story, as I'm imagine the Troll threatened to sue them if not complying. It's not like Apple needs the money, but another potential law suit could be bad.
Here's a cute, interactive visualization of these lawsuits: http://bl.ocks.org/1153292 (might be a few months out of date)
In five years, we may look back at Facebook as a has-been. But I am confident that it will enjoy a long life, at least relative to the Web.

I don't care much for Facebook for my own personal enjoyment, but there's money to be made in Facebook. There are no doubt plenty of HN readers who can testify to this: huge amounts of money are being spent by companies around the world every day just to have tabs or full-blown Facebook apps developed for them. This amounts to a simple window (an iframe, really) within Facebook itself, but it is a gold mine for some of these companies, and they'll gladly pay to participate.

Again, this may all dry up within the next few years. But AOL and Myspace never got close to this kind of user base, so the fall may not be so swift.
> There is a difference between malice directed towards MegaUpload and (willful) negligence.

It's a difference that doesn't matter in the slightest. The organization is acting illegally, and people are rightfully angry about that. Who cares if someone's twirling their mustache? And why would a stereotypical corporate villain be worse than a system that is set up to screw people with the least resistance possible? It makes no difference whatsoever - only the outcome does.

edit: and I have to say that your insistence that people leave the legal stuff out of this, because you didn't explicitly mention it, is laughable. You realize that the DMCA is a law, right? And that this article is about a legal matter?
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Apple most likely isn't in this camp, and has enough cachét and goodwill to still be a desirable place to work, but those kinds of companies usually can't recognize good hackers, or even know that there's a difference. They will execute on their harmful and odd undertakings with whoever they can find, quality or not.

This is how we end up with things like spyware being distributed under the guise of marketing.

And patent troll/patent hording companies don't need to hire hackers.
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> Sounds like a lot, but all this stuff was just a gentle, slow, very gradual change in habits over a long period of time, years really.

This is the key. I like what you've said. So many people want a quick fix, but if you are looking for a quick fix, then most likely it's temporary.
Did the Samurai API have much weight in the decision making process? I understand if you can't share details here publically. I work for Litle and we are always interested in feedback we can use to improve our offerings.
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hey guys! stackoverflow and stackdeveloper doesn't seem to want me to ask this question there. So I guess here is the last place where I'll be able to find answers!

I'm struggling to find a VS between emacs and sublime text.

The only difference I've found is it's easier to use sublime text. I don't care about easiness but efficiency. I've watched a bunch of emacs video and it seemed really efficient, played a bit with it but didn't really dig into it as I found a lot of people talking about sublime text.

Also I'm on windows, is emacs the same as on ubuntu or is it limited in some sort?

I'm thinking about programming in c++ with it. (I've also seen people using emacs to browse/post on HN, how do they do that??).

Thank-you!
I've been on a few Facebook vacations, and I've always been disappointed to see how many people use it as their sole means of keeping in touch with friends (meaning, I don't exist if I'm not on FB with them). You won't get emails from some of these people, even if you write to them. It's as if they either aren't checking, or can't be bothered to write more than a few lines anymore.
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The title is a little sensationalist, isn't it?

I mean, this would be annoying to encounter and should be fixed, but I don't imagine it'll cause the end of the world, as the title might suggest.
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Are you saying there's a conflict of interest between finding the best solution and preserving his investment/legacy?
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Hehe, that second video (voSUCz) returns "This video contains content from WMG and UMG, one or more of whom have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
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How much progress has been made in reforming patent software laws so this kind of shit stops happening?
> Does anyone know whether this kind of reasoning (i.e. "This is more intelligible to me because my natural language does it as well") has ever been actually researched?

Researched? Not that I know of. But I know that Larry Wall tried to do this with Perl (i.e. the @array vs. $array[item] distinction as a parallel to the use of plurals in natural language). I'm not sure it really worked out well. Part of it could be due to bad interactions with all the punctuation and Huffman coding, but I think another reason is that programmers expect a more regular and mathematical notation from a programming language, rather than a linguistic notation.

> As far as I can recall, this and Perl's Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun are the only languages I've seen that really have postfix functions. I could be wrong.

PostScript has postfix functions, due to its nature as a stack-oriented language.
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But doesn't this eliminate the possibility of investing in an outlier altogether for the less wealthy?
Procrastination is also because of a tired mind.
I get spaced out after a long/hectic week and lose a day or two without realizing.
Then I just work on something else which dosent need too much brain-work [read: blogging]