skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Patriot Act extends this outside of the borders go the US with respect to financial transactions. Although not directly related, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Sovereign_Immunities_Ac... who is immune from prosecution and that it doesn't apply to individuals. It's going to be up to them to prove that they are "immune".
This allows aspiring game developers to learn and build their own games from the code.

All the repositories are GPL'd, so I'm assuming they meant build in a purely educational setting.

It's a nice move, but why not go all the way and let developers leverage your code in their proprietary code? Insurgent Games only open sourced once they gave up, so they clearly know that open sourcing all your code is not a good idea when you're selling games.
And 18 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579442
Sorry. Is there another word to describe "curation", that tickles your hate nerve less?

And it's not just in selecting startups for batches, but as I mention, communication between founders, etc.

Not a bad thing, just one approach to creating a community experience.
GDB tracepoint in a live running kernel
Actually in my experience it is always the small details that make a product great. Granted, source code indentation is probably not one of them but it was indicative of a group of people that really cared about their work.
You tackle the larger problem by solving small ones. I have always found people that focus solely on the "big picture" then to miss it entirely.
Maybe its different here, but I've been ordering from RS in the uk for years as a private entity. The site is targeted at B2B and makes it seem like you have to be a company but actually you don't really. I think I just put in n/a or something for company name on the registration page. You don't have to have a trade account, they take credit cards. Orders below £50 you pay £5 for delivery.
That is extremely shiny. Can I get that in Vim?
Torchlight is done by ex-Blizzards as well.
How the hell is that possible? Every platform out there has high quality date libraries. It's a cliché that date & time operations are very complicated (leap years, leap seconds, time zones, daylight saving time and so on), every even marginally competent developer knows instinctly to stay away from writing their own date & time code and trust a library instead to do the heavy lifting. In addition, every tester should know that when dates are involved, they should try Feb 29th and see if it breaks anything. How can bugs like this slip through?
> because of the Hulus, Rokus, and Amazons of the world, not Google

I agree with your sentiment, but it's Interesting that you left out Apple in this context - that is the biggest company that is both feared and loved by the media industry. Jobs was the largest single investor in Disney, due to Pixar. Apple also has incredible power over the music industry, and thus the fear.

I think Apple is more likely (in the long run) to shift the TV electronics market than Hulu, Roku, Netflix or Amazon. Regardless, Google is not even really on the scene compared to the other players.
randomly noticed. happy 1000th day birthday on HN!
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Using Capabilities for access control with Spire.io and other cap-based systems
At the same time, a couple of years ago they gave me a HUGE hassle over a fucking snow globe. Even going so far as telling me that I had to ship it because it was banned from checked luggage.
So why is important to get on some blog as opposed to, say, start to get users?
predictions about the future are always uncertain
Isn't Boxee's latest pivot (no longer available as software-only, support for Live TV) a big move in this direction?
EastWest is one that comes to mind.

I aim to write one, but that's a long time coming.
Twitter Bootstrap + Subtlepatterns \m/
This is the same stuff I've been hearing for the past 5 years.

I think a few things are changing though. The new Basecamp's speed is mind-blowing. One thing that interested me about their approach was that they claim to use static HTML whenever possible. This allows them to cache a single file and serve it to everyone.

So I may have to disagree with the age-old wisdom: "It’s important to keep your Javascript in external files where possible, since it allows the browser to cache the scripts and not load them on every page load!"

Why? With single-page apps I think we need to separate out "Javascript" into two categories: Actual code and templates. I've been playing around with the 37Signals approach, where I store the site-wide base template inside a script tag right in the body. Then I send a cache header the first time that HTML is requested to ensure it's only loaded once. Then page-specific (route-specific) templates and scripts are asynchronously loaded. So my actual "code" JS is still loaded with src="..." but templates aren't.
Another good book for Windows is "Windows Internals" from Mark Russinovich and David A Solomon (SysInternals folks).

It's not for writing applications, but rather understanding how Windows works (The Cache Manager section for example)
>It would be significantly more difficult for independents to live from their art.

I highly doubt there is any significant number of independent artists who depend on copyright for their income. Most will have already realized that it's better to seek new ways to make ends meet.

The argument is bullshit. It wouldn't be any different than now. Probably better, because people would stop relying on an entirely broken system of controlling the uncontrollable (the sharing of information).

Oh, and copyright was never meant for the "small, starving artist". It was made by distributors for distributors. That's historical fact, and hasn't changed in the ~450 years this nonsensical system has prevailed.
Pretty much every single hospital that I've visited runs XP on brand new HW. I'm quite sure that large enterprises work the same way on every sector. Standardizing on an operating system has nothing to with upgrade frequency.
Interestingly, you describe in your dream list what I would say many top business schools do: shove people together on intense projects after vetting them. The idea is that the 'cream' has already risen, so bonding is critical. And also, your IP belongs mostly to you in the YC model, that's nice, and sometimes lucrative.

It's interesting to think of you running a business school, pg.
Why do it in one shot like this? Why not lay people off incrementally?
This is a follow-up to http://www.spire.io/posts/web-capabilities.html - My only regret is not calling the server that holds the capabilities the "mothership", in hopes that this can be someday called the Mothership Pattern.
The Morality of The Rational, and How We Shape Meaning from The Void
>> It's fills the use case of "I love my iPad, and I love my Mac, but I really hate that I have these two devices."

It's an interesting point, but if this is the target, then I think it's hopeless. Indeed, I don't think that people are ready to ditch there Mac/iPad setup for a unified windows setup. And if MS wants to conquer the tablet market, then I'm not sure that the "unified" argument is a key selling point. People won't buy any tablet over the iPad just because you tell them: "hey, you can find everything you (don't) like about windows on your tablet too!"

Note: I'm sorry if I sounded anti-windows, that's not the case, although I'm not a big fan either
In the lisp universe the future was in the 80's, thats when we tried the whole "structural editors" idea and concluded that they didn't work out as nicely as we hoped. I believe the sgml people tried them too, with poor results as well.
I would participate in this, but not given away to folks for free.

I think having startups work/live in one really cool space can be really interesting and valuable, but they'd all have to pay rent. A "frat house" but for startups & geeks? I dig.
You are missing the point. Libya can totally trail someone for hosting any porn site under Sharia law. It is completely irrelevant what the TLD is or were the servers are hosted. The only thing that is important is that it is accessible from within Libya. If you want to protect yourself from this you need to block out all Libyan IPs. At least this is the case for many laws in many jurisdictions, I obviously don't know anything the Libyan one. However, if the site is hosted under a Libyan TLD this gives them additional power to block the site. This is a very unfortunate situation for website owners around the world, but this is the way it is.
The demo only works on chrome :(
Stands as an example of how to shoot a bird with two guns.
I think the improvements 37 Signals has delivered on speed have a lot more to do with recent database optimization and hardware upgrades than anything to do with static js file serving.
It isn't a meaningless statement. Unions, at least where I am from, are legally allowed to force individuals to join the union. Corporations are not legally allowed to fire everyone from the union, or demand non-unionship from their employees.

Corporations are the way that contracts can exist between parties without relying on the location or livelihood of individuals. Corporations are the reason you can sue, 40 years after the fact, the organization that polluted the river that brought about your colon cancer.

The Taft-Hartley Act was fucking retarded, but that isn't anymore reason to create further law against corporations (besides banks, since the fractional reserve system is moronic and introduces huge risks into the system.

I wasn't directing my comment at the article I was answer the person's question: Why are there negative sentiments against unions. The reason is that many of us have dealt with them at one point or another and they artificially aided by government law. All of them.

Most CEOs are not.
Take off, eh!
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"but in practice the few attempts at this have failed, mainly at the hardware level. See the Motorola Atrix, previous Windows Tablet Laptops, etc"

I am typing this response on an ASUS Transformer laptop, which I don't see as a failure at all at the hardware level. The only downside of the ASUS Transformer is that the Android software ecosystem has a long way to go to catch up to the idea of being run on a laptop-like device. This is something Windows 8 should have a big advantage on, which is one of the primary reasons I'm really looking forward to Win8.
Please don't do this. It does not contribute to the discussion.
The next revolution? analogue computers
I haven't tried this yet, but it would seem like a good option: http://uu-computerscience.github.com/uhc-js/
Thank you. I knew that it was an editor feature I'd seen before for lisp code, but didn't recall the name of any one in particular.
>I had to register a LIVE account to login to the OS - what if I don't have an Internet connection?

I believe there's way to create a normal user account as well. Also your live credentials are cached for use when the PC is offline.

>I still don't get why Microsoft had to make it an all-in-one OS for tablets and desktops when they could've packed Metro only for a tablet edition, but whatever..

Because you'd be able to dock the tablet or connect a monitor mouse/keyboard and have the full Windows desktop experience on a x86 tablet. Metro only will limit its power.
http://www.firstrowsports.tv/

They moved to http://www.firstrowsports.eu/
If we have to choose between helping failures become small successes and helping successes become big successes, we'd prefer to work on the latter.

I have a lot of respect for this viewpoint, and the clarity with which you state it, though it is almost exactly the opposite of what I would say myself. You should write an essay on this if you can find time. It would be incredibly interesting, at least to me.
No, not a bad thing at all, it's the natural state of pretty much anything where a person selects a set of things from a larger set. Which, given the finite nature of a great deal of that which surrounds us, is... well, a lot of stuff!

"Most of the people in our office were curated by my old boss before he moved to another division"

"The few, the proud, the...curated"

"I curated my wife from amongst those on offer in the mail-order catalog"
I like the idea of the ranch in Hawaii. I agree with you--my experiences traveling when I have couchsurfed or volunteered have been orders of
magnitude more memorable than when I stayed in a hotel.

What's your plan re: ranch?? Sounds like a fun project to build.
Most of the memory used by programs are pointers, and if you double your pointer size, it has a negative impact on the efficientcy of the L1 and L2 cache.
It's very nice of them, and I don't want to sound harsh, but this is more of a gesture than anything else.

They don't seem like very experienced developers (looking at the game complexity, time they were in business etc) so it's likely that you wouldn't really want to use much of their code, even for an example for your own coding.

My first iPhone app was quite the mess, and though it doesn't have bugs, there were many regrets I had a few years down the road in the general structure (even just the names of things). I definitely wouldn't hold up to anyone to prove anything more than it gets better.

If you want to make a simple game like they have, you're probably better off looking at example code the for framework you're using, and not the hacked together first few projects of a coder who is learning objective c.
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What kind of work do you do? Moving the work from what language? Do you not worry about having to pay huge licensing fees to run your code elsewhere?
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Last I checked, Adobe had a deal with Google where when the user installs Flash for Firefox or Opera on Windows, Adobe also installs Chrome by default, in addition to Flash itself, unless the user opts out.

Now how much money this brings in, who knows.

Note that this is NOT the same as Flash being bundled with Chrome. This is Chrome being bundled with Flash.
http://www.spamhaus.org/definition.html

Unsolicited and Bulk is usually the going definition. If's it's a targeted, relevant, personalized email it starts to be not-spam.

And I'm definitely a proponent of cold emails. However I couldn't help also resonate with this from Banksy today:

https://twitter.com/#!/negativeneil/status/17468993380458496...
The quality of the code is terrible. They don't follow the objective-c naming guidelines, calling -dealloc directly, ...

Please be aware of that.
You forgot to include these services: character name changes, character race changes, character transfers, guild transfers, vanity pets and mounts. I'm not proud to say that I have spent money on all of these except the guild transfer service.
It is odd that in the third screenshot there is no visual differentiation between the true and false blocks of an if statement. That's one place where I still kind of regret the genericness of Lisp syntax.

Perhaps place a green outline around the true block, a red outline around the false block (if any), and indent them both slightly or otherwise connect them to the predicate block so that the connections are clear.

Of course one issue with treating constructs like if specially is that in Lisp you can create your own macros that act just like if but then don't get the special visual treatment.
Well good god that was awful. I agree with the Author's final points; that there are less wars, disasters, etc, and that the world is a better place than before. But it seemed like he just wanted to go on a long-winded pleasure cruise telling us how much happier people are who don't know how happy they are.

What an obvious attempt at pulling at our heartstrings. Instead I just wanted to vomit.
>If Microsoft was serious about building this as the future computing experience, they should have built the hardware and controlled both the hardware and software. But then they'd be no different from Apple and they'd alienate their hardware partners.

Windows On ARM tablets do exactly this.
Resets attempt to make a site look the same in all browsers by resetting them all to the same starting point. They give you a blank canvas.

Alternatively, Normalize attempts to make all browsers behave how you'd expect by resetting their inconsistencies, but it doesn't bother trying to make them all look the same. It just gives you a predictable canvas.
What if instead, your co-inhabitants were musicians, sculptors, writers, scientists, designers, mathematicians, philosophers, economists, architects, dancers, and so on, connected by their abundant creativity, passion, intellect, and curiosity?

PS: nice architecture. PUMA also did some cool stuff with shipping containers a few years ago. http://inhabitat.com/prefab-friday-puma-city-container-archi...
Let me tell you about this new product of mine. It's called Rhinoceros powder, and it does - you guessed it! It scares away Rhinos. As long as you spread Rhino powder everywhere, you will not be attacked by a Rhino. It works particularly well in urban areas.

It clearly works, too! I've been using it for decades, as have many of my customers, and wouldn't you know it! None of them have ever been attacked by a Rhino.

$60b a pack.
I... love... this...

Seriously though, I wish that emacs put effort into a more modern rendering architecture. So that you could implement this sort of visualization in a more flexible way.
It blows my mind that the word "paltry" would be applied to WoW's subscriber base. It dwarfs even its biggest competitors by an order of magnitude!
Don't know why everyone downvoted. I'm only stating the legal reality, not making a comment on whether that's "moral" or "right".
Surly you don't mean Microsoft Paul Allen, right :) ?
I can see your point - I'll have to see if I'm a fan but I think it's a decent step, nonetheless.
You can't apply startup methods blindly
First thing someone should do is make the iOS apps ARC compatible. I saw Cocos2d in at least one. Version 1.1 works with ARC.
Except for all the people who will be happy to get it for free instead, which they couldn't do previously without breaking the (copyright) law. If you were able to walk into your local Barnes & Noble tomorrow and everything was free to take, I'm sure you wouldn't be ponying up the money for everything you walked out the door with in your arms.
(Following on from the last paragraph) I guess the thing to do is to have a little DSL declaring how to prettyize any sort of block (which I assume already exists for this project to work at all), and then allow the user to customize it to add his/her own.
I might take a shot at it tonight or tomorrow. I have been meaning to learn how to build stuff like this into Gems...
There is no NPAPI/IE/Windows, for what it's worth. It's ActiveX/IE/Windows.
The key is the last line of the press release.

The accounting charges associated with Blizzard's reduction in workforce are not anticipated to be material to Activision Blizzard, Inc. and were included in the 2012 financial outlook that was provided on February 9, 2012.

I worked at 2 BigCo's while they went through layoff periods. What people don't know unless they've worked at a BigCo is that a significant number of its employees are interchangable or in some cases just dead weight. For every department of 10-20 people, there are 2 or 3 that have the bulk of the knowledge and do the majority of the work.

There is a lot of hassle with firing a single employee at a BigCo, even if that person contributes very little, is a detriment to the team, or is abusing corporate policy. There is however an upside to getting rid of a bunch of people at once, especially when it is around the time of the anual report, and it mitigates a lot of the downsides you have when firing just one person.

Except in the cases where an entire department was eliminated, I would say about 85% of the people who were let go during a large layoff were not really a surprise.
> I put thousands of hours into D1 and D2 but have zero desire to keep playing the D3 beta.

I'm not sure I understand this comparison at all.

Keyword at the end there, "D3 beta". No one expect you to spend thousands of hours into a beta.
Interesting. I've often read discussions about how S-expressions could be made more readable. I never contribute much to such discussions because I've never had a problem with S-expressions. This is a neat idea though.
I'm sure YC is well aware that they could be like Google (which has all but the kitchen sink where housing is the kitchen sink). I'm glad they chose a more meetup-y route instead.

https://docs.google.com/View?docid=dg2z5whw_41cb322p

Besides being a less well-rounded experience, it would be setting up for a more difficult transition out of YC.
Bad redirect. Here's the URL: http://blog2.easydns.org/2012/02/29/verisign-seizes-com-doma...
I've been in a situation where the company was laying people off incrementally over the span of 18 months. I hated going to work, didn't give a shit about the company, and I was not unique or alone in that opinion. If you have to lay people off, do it as quickly and with as much dignity as possible.
If I have a million dollars I care less about $1. If someone is being tortured I care less about someone working 12 hour days.

utility functions are not linear.
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Hi, I'm Ian, the author of the blog post. Thanks for taking the time to reply. I'm a little late to this thread.

I'm a fan of your posts and listened to the the interview you gave (eh the link escapes me) and found it super interesting.

After listening to your interview, one thing that I thought of was the advantage you had in at least starting with an industry that you know exists. You can speak their lingo already, you may have some theories on their problems, etc.

But what if you are starting from scratch? In my case, I'm going totally blue sky and just contacting random industries. I contacted farm inspectors, CNC milling companies, elevator repair companies, OSHA consultants, and other random companies. And how honest would you be about your approach, and your ignorance of their industry?

So far I've taken the approach of being as honest and authentic as possible. Perhaps to a fault, I should probably fake up some confidence.

Another thought I had, I think you may have mentioned this in the podcast interview, is in addition to "making it about them" is to offer something of value in return. I have a background in IT support and consulting. So one thing I was thinking to offer was a free IT assessment of their network. Maybe even include an attached invoice with the amounts zero'd out.

I know that the cold email approach is inferior to calling, but I wanted to dip my toe before I took the plunge into cold calls. For what it's worth the one on-site interview I got just lead to a second interview with a different company last week. So I wouldn't say these emails are totally worthless.

Also, what's your workflow for finding cold prospects? I found the most time consuming task was just creating a spreadsheet of contacts, and googling for companies. Maybe I should go to a business library and work with a librarian or something.
Morale wise it's probably better to do it in one large chunk instead of smaller servings where people are wondering if they are going to get cut in the next round.
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The fact that they interview the workers is a big plus from my point of view. From your "About us" page:

> Anyone can join the site but we are currently only focusing on the London and the surrounding area so this is probably where most of the jobs will be. However, you're welcome to sign up and create an alert to notify you when jobs become available near you.

That doesn't sound like there's much vetting. A service like this lives or dies on being able to convince the buyer that there won't be any trouble that ends up costing even more time and money.