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I know the feeling. I'm 31 and beyond the middleground of fruitless endeavors to the point that so many things that I've felt should've been "what I put my life into" have turned out bad. And I'm not even a developer! (That was one of them, hello student loan.) But, you got to keep going. What else are you going to do, y'know?

Best of luck to you, sir.
All good suggestions that we are already working on :) hence why they are so good!
For your next idea, follow the lean startup principle. It not only works in terms of results, but it works from a morale point of view. When you got people telling you they can't wait for the app to be released, it gives you motivation to push forward. It's an antidote against self doubt, and wondering whether you're just crazy. Start a mailing list, and immediately get email addresses of people who want to hear when the app will be released. Hire a designer, and have him/her design the homepage so you got something impressive to look at. Something you can point at and say.. "This is what my idea is gonna look like".
hahah cause I never finished counting! I think its below 30 though
Shit sorry for that delay, we really worked on making that as fast as possible
What a great counter to HN's (and America's) obsession with youth and instant gratification. Thank you for sharing this.
I just tried this with my gf. She was seating across to me and When she received the text message, she was confused and told me "OMG how do they know my name?". Then I explained to her what it was, she obviously told me she wouldn't have answered it. Maybe it'd be cool to find a way to validate the sender to the receiver without losing the anonymosity. Really digging this though! I always hate having to ask people their sizes, what they like, etc...
Losing the internet would not send us back into the 'stone age of communication'. Losing culture/art would be much more costly. I agree that people will still make music even if they can't profit from it but the best music is made by someone who can invest all of their time into it. Having a full time jobs and trying to create great music will likely result in mediocre music.
Loos nice, but, I'd rather just talk and meet people when travelling.
at least for me, an idea dies quicker when i never tell anyone about it. if i show a working example to someone or even just talk about the idea, there's a sense of wanting to complete it just to show that person even if he or she never asks me about it again. if i keep ideas to myself and they stall out halfway through, i won't look like i never finished them because nobody knew i started. i realized this years ago and is unfortunately why i rarely tell people about my ideas now until i at least have something to show.

there are a lot of "show hn" posts on the /newest page that never even get an upvote and then roll off the page without any discussion. even if they make the front page, they stick around for a day and then we never hear about them again.

maybe if there were a dedicated place to post those early-stage ideas, whether they are just paragraphs explaining the ideas or links to fully-functioning websites, and they were visible for longer than a day, it would provide motivation for others to complete their projects. like forrst.com but less focused on design projects. perhaps this would be better suited as a forum, where one can maintain one long-running thread per idea and update it over time, allowing others to give feedback on it. i've seen this on car forums where someone will have a thread spanning over a year, updating it every week as they build a new car or something. the navigation would need some improvement over a standard forum, but it could work.

i'd be happy to build and host such a thing.
You can't make it hard. People have been trying that for ages and all that happened was that people got really good at cracking the protections. It only takes one "smart cow" to open the barn door for the rest. The situation is not symmetric. The attackers have an overwhelming advantage: the defense must be perfect while the attackers of a protection scheme need just one flaw. That's so massively unfair that we have never yet seen it succeed for very long. And even then, most of the things that weren't cracked were ignored because there were easier ways to get the content. Which is, of course, an observation you were quite correct to point out.

You can't take away the enabling, either, any more than you can turn back the hands of time. Information is information. If I can transmit a message to you, then I can do so whether or not it's copyrighted. I can just encrypt it to block out any middlemen who would otherwise censor it. I can route it through third parties. I can use steganography to hide it. It's not fair, but it is. Like much of life, it's evolve or die.

Even if we ramp the controls and enforcement to police state levels, one look at China's Great Firewall shows that it leaks like a sieve. What you say has been tried already. For my entire life. It has yet to succeed. I don't believe it ever will.
Ze Frank said: ideas = "brain crack"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24prm3XjVgk
I do not care about the 900,000th totally unoriginal song. Nor do I care if they keep on doing it. It wouldn't do a thing to my universe of musics, nor the fact that there are too many songs in the world to consume within my lifetime, or the next lifetime.

In this context, whether or nor the music record industry lives or die have zero impact on my music collection other than when it's about dying time, or rather they think it's dying time, they must poison the landscape and everything else.

The record industry is not dying. They are actually thriving. Nor are they particularly significant. However, they want to destroy the internet in the ways it work. I resent that.
Why would the robots need to recognize voice at all?
Simply have a text menu which could be translated into all major languages and let people pick from that using either their smartphones or wall mounted touch screens.
Happy B'Day!
The spirals don't seem intuitive to me. Do most people really think the moon has a negative velocity during parts of its orbit about the sun?
I haven't been able to get it running on 10.7.2, although the last time I tried was a month or so ago. Is it actually usable/workable/stable now?

(I don't want to clutter my laptop with various versions of PHP, Apache, etc. that I need for work, so I run a VM - as of late, I've been using ~/projects/workProject1 as my working folder, mounting it via VirtualBox's shared folders, but the read/write speed on the VM is pretty atrocious. Which is sometimes great for testing, but not so great when I accidentally type "git status" in the VM instead of the host machine, and wait a full minute before realizing my mistake.)
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Is it really respectful of privacy rights to allow me to opt-out of tagging? People should be able to photograph me, attach my name, and share with their friends without my intervention. What happens in public is public.
+1 on this.

I'm also over 30 and am still motivated to try and learn to do lots of new things well. I expect this to last my entire life, I'm just too curious to stop. Needing to reassure myself it's not "too late" is a sad consequence of the group-think you're describing.
> This is not a new invention - it's called a multi junction solar cell.

The photon absorption mechanism of multi-junction solar cells is still energy-transfer via electron-hole pair production.

This paper is utilizing excitons for the energy transfer, which truly is a different beast.

[One liner description of excitons: It is a positive and negative charge bound together by electrostatic attraction. It acts a lot like hydrogen with a hole taking the role of the proton.] (OK, that was two lines.)
There is one really good point in there. If you want to be a successful artist, make it so that people want to support you. That's what Louis CK was doing the other day. That's how Howard Taylor operates. It's just good business. You have happy customers. That makes you happy. Good times all around.
That's 99.99999% of the world too. It's okay. Create. Create. Create. Paint for the love of painting. An artist creates art for art's sake. Keep creating and FINISHING.

P.S. I counted the 9's :)
We have a roadmap to a truly comprehensive base set, based on peer review from nominated libraries on hackage (which hosts around 4000 libs now). Assuming eg snap or yesod servers are proposed, you might well see them in the next release.

For graphics, OpenGL is already standard, with a medium term plan to add Cairo/GTK.

Finally, all of hackage is a 'cabal install' away, reducing the need for a large core set.
Maybe it's all true, but there are many ways to look at things in life, and I think the OA is just being too hard on himself.

Look around. Most people never create much of anything. It's easy to focus on "great art" that the Internet shoves in front of us and be demoralized. Our brains just aren't designed for the kind of sensory overload that we experience today, and even the greatest artist would feel belittled by the scope of what is at our fingertips today.

But if your goal is to create great art, then first you must dedicate yourself to just creating art. It doesn't matter if these attempts are abortive, so long as you keep doing it. Just keep honing your craft. This is the only hope of ever creating anything great. It's not a guarantee, but if you give it your all then you should be proud. Reflecting honestly on the past is useful for course correction, but beating yourself up never helps.
Hey, I'm not accusing you of anything. I know @addison is happy when people use those characters. They work!
I do care about the artists. I don't care for the labels. In a world where listening to music is as easy as downloading a file from Amazon they just don't add any value.

You want me to find a copyright enforcement law that is better than SOPA and DMCA? I'll do you one better. I want you to find an artist compensation mechanism that cuts out the fat middle-man (the labels).
Or the business model changes, perhaps we revert back to patronage. Or they make money by touring and through merchandising; isn't that how most artists earn money anyway?. Or better yet, their fans still buy their stuff even though they can get it for free because they want to support them.
What parts of what humans do in restaurants would take that long for a computer to be able to do?

Of course I'm not talking about proper restaurants here,
I'm talking about somebody who creates a fast food joint based on what can be automated as easily as possible. If something requires a human to make then it doesn't go on the menu.

After all Mcdonalds was basically designed to emulate a factory from the era as much as possible and factory production processes have moved on substantially.

The supervisor role would basically be replaced by a technician, but since humans need allot more supervision than robots, if there was enough reliability and redundancy built in then instead of a full time manager these chains could simply rotate engineers interchangeably between sites (since they are all using the same equipment which does not have human quirks like loyalty).
SOPA message to copy everywhere
Hopefully a viral message may help people actually think about SOPA more. If you feel a different message needs to go viral then set up an alternative viral message.
I wanna find some hacker bros but don't need help with anything in particular. Can we get a location based search?
FWIW, my book is 3.something MB. I don't care that much, though most people assume that revenue splits come after costs. It turns out that most/all book contracts give everyone's cuts out of the retail price, then costs. The rest, if any, goes to the author.
I'll restore British pride by beating Andre Ward, ~ Daily World News
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Arguments based on "most people" are not compelling to me. To me, the correct standard to measure my performance against is my potential. And I know I fall far short. I feel I should have accomplished more by now, I could have. I know others have.

I too feel the call of new ideas all the time, and have the same lack of discipline. I've brought precious few of my ideas to state that could possibly be called "done", and none to the glorious state I had imagined. I'm not even talking about making money, just making good stuff for people to enjoy. Perhaps the biggest difference between me and the author is that I'm still only 20 and still in school. To accomplish half the things I want to before I die, I'll have to grow a ton more self-discipline, and sometimes I wonder if I can do it.

To tell me and people like me "relax, other people are lazy too" is not that helpful. It's true, "most people" never fully realize their potential. They have all kinds of bad habits and issues. When have other people's mistakes been an excuse for mine?
I believe that this sort of sentiment is a symptom of not having answered for yourself the question: "what makes a good life good". spking is likely operating on a temporary definition imparted by his upbringing that goes something like this:

"a good life is a life which, when seen from afar, appears to include a string
of successful and well-respected achievements, each one better than the last".

This perspective is, according to some of my friends from other continents, very "American".

An alternative definition that is more conducive to well-being and productivity is one in which your subjective experience of life is considered more important than your life as seen and judged from afar (i.e. by others). To build such a definition, you must first analyze and become aware of how most decisions that you make are made with respect to how they are perceived from afar. Once you see this, you must realize that you are simply mistaken in privileging this perspective. How other people (and systems) judge what you do should only be of consequence to you to the extent that it impacts your life concretely. These judgements have no intrinsic meaning. For instance, spking's post is lamenting a self-inflicted anxiety about how his life appears from an external perspective. He does not mention how his failure concretely impacts his life, only how it impacts his feelings (which are based on his unconsidered and ultimately mislead beliefs).

Following the recognition of this, you can then begin to make sense of the question: "what makes a good life good?" A good life is not a life that appears good, it is a life that, to you, feels good (i.e., you may remark "life is good"). So, to answer this question, you can begin by finding out what activities, situations and dispositions lead you to this sort of feeling (i.e. things you enjoy). You can then re-structure your life so as to maximize these things (rather than structuring it around only externally visible achievements).

(A quick hint: more than 50% of these things have to do with your past, your friends, your family, significant others, significant locations, food, music, art, etc. You have a career and you do projects in large part to support these things. Taking a vacation and doing psychedelic drugs are two great ways to remind yourself of this.)

That said, spking's projects are failing for a simple reason. What he truly desires is not for his projects to succeed, but to connect with people through his projects. The solution to this problem is to first focus on making a connection as soon as possible. A successful idea is one which takes a life of its own before you get bored of it. In the case of websites, people must begin using your project before you feel the desire to give up. Given this insight, it is best to start with a simple idea that can be deployed in a useful form quickly. Once a platform has been established – ideally with money coming in – more complex projects can be executed within that framework (if you're lucky, with the help of friends and investors)!
THELIST.txt update (THENEWLIST.txt)
http://zitstif.no-ip.org/?p=570
Oh I'd still be running xmonad. Just the launcher, theme setup, and file manager from kde.
why not come down to SFLA and check out one of the upcoming events http://miamitechevents.com

there might not be a haskell meetup or riak meetup yet, but you are welcome to start it and my group RefreshMiami will help you promote it/jump start it.
No rule to make target `me'. Stop.
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Carl Friedrich Gauss and Richard Feynman both did great stuff until they were old. I knew from an early age that I would probably not even know what would be my career until I was at least 40, and learned the basics of art, math, computers, and music from about 10 to the present day, to be prepared (didn't know what for exactly). So now I'm 47 and making sax mouthpieces (I'm in the very center of my target market). I'm not sure what my point is with all this, but I guess what I'm saying is, just try a lot of stuff and eventually you will find that there is a demand for what you love to do. And make sure you maintain food and shelter.
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let all the domain names go so that other people can use them (same of anybody else who is hoarding domain names)

setup a site to give them away or to sell them (theres an idea!)
Anyone who disagrees, frankly, can go fuck themselves.

Well consider me fucked.

What the author doesn't realize is that he's fighting against an organic phenomenon. Even if SOPA passes, piracy will continue to thrive. There are thousands of eager engineers begging for the chance to prove that they can produce an elegant hack around this poorly considered attempt to control the internet. There is also a culture that has now adjusted its formula for content value, and those people will demand piracy, just as they demand jailbroken phones and modded xboxes, and someone will rise to meet their demands. A new file sharing solution will emerge, and the media companies will have to spend another decade trying to lobby for a way to whack the next mole.

In the meantime, those of us who understand that you can't prevent a bit from being copied have learned how to create content that people feel good paying for. Of course, people don't have the right to download content without paying for it, but you can't stop the spread of 1s and 0s without giving the media companies an authority that goes beyond what is reasonable.
You could model after the pharmaceutical companies where
the drug gets a waiting period before generics can compete.
Use 12 months, Require downloadable files be zipped with a header that can be searched and automatically deleted.
Yes, they'll shift to different business models just as buggy-whip manufacturers did. Whether or not you take it personally, history has spoken.
I've been working on a dribbble for the Game Dev community, http://www.metroia.com, hoping to launch Jan 1.
The wifi thing is just plain bad design. But the language detection... it amazes me that this complaint has ever come up.

I experience this a lot and have for years during my travels. It's impossible for me to even care about the mild inconvenience because the population is almost exclusively people from the country I'm a guest in. It's not even worth checking the headers to better "guess" what language or destination a person wants on the off chance they're a tourist, visitor or expat, it'd probably be wrong more of the time from pirated copies of Windows in English.

The country extension of the domain is, like the rest of the domain, an irrelevant detail - why make them google for facebook.dk or twitter.com.ar and remember what site uses country extensions vs .com when in almost all cases they don't need to?
"There is a plan to murder 6 million jews. Some of you have written in to ask me to condemn this plan. Unfortunately, I cannot condemn this plan, because none of you have come up with a reasonable alternative."

I don't think you can use the excuse that we don't have a way to support your business model, to turn around and support fascism.
I don't think the problem is so much contextual logic as it is failing to make errors easy to recover from.
Or an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad.

They all (ingeniously) use the sudden-drop detection that prevents hard drive head crashes to double as an accelerometer.
People who say they've never seen anyone do y after x didn't look hard enough. You'll live longer if you stop stressing over arbitrary points on an imaginary curve and focus on the long journey ahead of you and all the potential it offers.
He forgets that in most countries Copyright, IP, etc are public commons 'licensed' to private companies by the laws passed. It is not an automatic privilege and does change over time as the public adjusts its laws to match reality.

In other words MPAA and RIAA do not have an automatic right to their business models because as technology changes so than to how much we the public grant in rights to companies in form of copyrights, etc.

Remember this dumb fuck MPAA and RIAA when DCMA was passed it got redefined by negotiation and court cases. When SOPA gets redefined we do not have to be nice about it..fair warning..
Divorced fathers face state-imposed poverty if not being caged for the sin of existing in a bad economy. Divorced mothers, after a decision that's wholly up to them, can free ride on half of the child's mandated "standard of living" which has almost no relationship to the actual cost of raising a child. We urgently need less unreliable, primitive, unpleasant contraception for men.
I'm not saying "relax, other people are lazy too". That's the other extreme.

Not all of us are Jeff Bezos or John Carmack. But we're not all Homer Simpsons either. There's a healthy, realistic middle ground in there somewhere.

If you feel you are a Bezos, then by all means go for it. I'm sure many on HN feel they are that and many are probably correct, too. But I'm also not sure it's healthy to cut ourselves down and hate on ourselves because we might not be living up to an unrealistic standard.
It took me a minute to figure out how the site achieved its sorcery, but then was reminded of the Sudden Motion Sensor.

For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor
> I feel I should have accomplished more by now, I could have.

Perhaps the I could have is the little lie we tell ourselves to soften the blow to our ego. Something to think about.

The problem with living inside your own head is that unlike everyone else, you judge yourself by what you think you could be rather than what you are. It's a sort of self deception at play.
DNS blacklisting is useful and has its place, but I would expect a secure-by-default browser to not load any resources from domains outside the one in the requested URL (like lynx) and to provide a simple way to selectively whitelist external resources for that domain only (like the RequestPolicy Firefox extension). That's one important omission from your otherwise impressive list of features that will probably make me stick with Firefox + Vimperator + RequestPolicy.
I’m very pleased to announce that we have just
signed contracts with a developer, Jen Yates,
to develop the iOS versions for us.

That name gave me a turn, as they (used to) say, since Jen Yates is also the name of the woman who runs the site cakewrecks.com, and I'm pretty sure I would have known if she was a programmer. I'm still only pretty sure...
Many years ago, 2006, I was using the sudden-drop detection in my iBook G4 to know when people were walking down the hallway to my office.
The last three versions of Firefox have supported the W3C device orientation spec. Before that, and going all the way back to Firefox 3.5 more than two years ago, Firefox supported a vendor prefixed version.
> The "30 freakout" is one of the great undiscussed traumas in our society.

Must be, because I've never heard of it, nor did I experience it; I don't expect 40 will be any different.
di.fm. Electro House, if I'm not mistaken. Superb programming music, in my opinion.
I'm not even sure how to respond to this. I'm going to go herald my well-functioning website now.