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Feeble's Fable crowdfunding campaign
"Atomic Chimp Games" wants to create a cool game called "Feeble's Fable" The Legend of Runes.
"Feeble's Fable™ The Legend of Runes is a whimsical 3D fantasy adventure game filled with intriguing puzzles which are integrated into its storyline, for a totally immersive playing experience.

This mystical land is filled with imaginatively created beasts, shamans and a small unsuspecting hero, named Feeble, who is chosen by the elders to embark upon a quest to save his people from extinction. Feeble's Fable™- The Legend of Runes is the first in our planned trilogy of this adventure series, introducing the immersive backstory, characters, and setting the scene for the future sequels."

The art is amazing, the world is vast and I feel like these kinds of games are the way of the future. The games funded for the people, by the people.

They need some money (38500$) to finish the game so they have organized a kickstarter crowdfunding campaign (with 12$ you will have access to the finished game).
If you can't pledge anything yourself, please, spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and wherever else you can.

If you are interested, here are the links:

Website of the game: http://www.feeblesfable.com/
Crowdfunding campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atomicchimp/feebles-fable
All of us at PlanGrid agree that the in-field use of 3D bim models is still a ways away, which is why our solution is focused on 2d drawings.

Basically, what we are trying to do to paper plans what HTML did to paper documents: Make them digital, make them linkable, make the centrally updatable. This should have been done years ago, but just like HTML had to wait for the personal computer, PlanGrid had to wait for the tablet.

Two of the four co-founders of PlanGrid were construction engineers, so we know how important usability is and have made it a major focus of what we've built. Please download it and give it a try, I'd like to hear what you think about it.
I seriously can't wait for the exercise side of things, do you have any idea when such an update will appear?
Without relying on a third party for an accurate GPS fix on your location?
I think it's less conspiratorial than that. One concept the Ayn Rand fans could do better to consider, in both the private and public sphere, is that of "emergent outcomes".
Woobious (Swombat's startup) has been in this space for while. I am rather surprised that they have not done stuff with the tablet form factor.

WoobiusEye is http://woobiuseye.com/ is practically made for the tablet.

Edit to give feedback on the site:
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It would help to have screenshots of your app to show (Architects are visual)how it is different from any normal document manager. I guess it is, but I do not really have time to download and find out.

It is a good idea, addressing a big market. Good one.
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Sounds like you did a great thing. Keep up the good work!
How do you "just say you're building todo-list software" and not get laughed out of the room? Investors say the space is too crowded, and engineers joke about it being one of their first classroom assignments. And even if you're making traction on the vision to replace the inbox, Y-Combinator's partners will turn you down.
It doesn't fix the appearance of the comments section, but lately I've been browsing the homepage via http://hckrnews.com/.
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I feel like this argument could be made more strongly than "You shouldn't copy code without the license because...don't copy code without the license!"

I under-appreciated licenses for a very long time and only recently realized the very real risk of writing some code, posting it to github without any licensing, it being picked up by some commercial organization, and then them licensing it and (possibly, later) taking action against you for using their code without a license (ha!).

Anyway, I appreciate the spirit of the post, but it didn't make much of an argument...

Edit: I guess he also argues that it might upset the code's author to copy their code without attribution (totally possible), which would lead to their writing less open source code (seemingly less likely). I think the risk of commercialization of your code is more salient, though.
The #2 problem is served by a large, established industry called relocation services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocation_service). Combining this with a job board doesn't really make sense - the reason people are moving to the US for jobs and not vice-versa is because there are a lot of jobs in the US and not in the places where people are moving from.
They do have rate limit requests per any IP. Try hitting F5 lots of times.
Same experience here. I use SSH over a wide variety of ports, and never had it blocked by 3G before...
This is better than TED. It's rare and inspiring to see an engaging speaker with so many good ideas in one presentation. PG's response to the music copyright critic was about right modulo a minor nit that the critic conflated trademarks with copyright and wasn't called on this. Trademarks are a social good. Copyright is ripe for reform--a long discussion.

PG is absolutely right about email. If you ever had a chance to see what the inbox of someone important looks like compared with what they would like it to look like, you would know that the seemingly reasonable recommendation to consolidate email accounts with GMail is far from optimal.
Evidence: All of the people here who can't find work. And there are many.
> I’m generalizing here, but I think that if I’m qualified to work for Microsoft, I’m probably qualified to work just about anywhere.

> Companies shouldn’t be turning qualified candidates.

> I feel like there are so many reasons to hire me

> I didn’t get to talk about the iPhone app I built.

Stop right there. You are not generalizing. You are talking out of your ass. I am always shocked when I run across people my age who are so arrogant. No matter how qualified you think you are, there will always be problems tougher than you have faced, hw architectures more delicate and complex than you have dealt with, and people who can blow your mind in ways that you cannot imagine. When you eventually acknowledge this, you should be grateful for the opportunity to learn what you can every day and that someone is paying you to do it. Fast forward 10 or 20 years and then we can start talking about value.
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=140283

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595419

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1078831

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485286

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290590

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467703

Some have more comments than others.
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I'm sure they'd be happy to leave with an extra bonus of a tablet after that. How well does a tablet perform when its screen is caked in concrete?

Repeating part of a comment I made a few days ago:

Folks have been talking about tablets being a natural fit for the construction market, and frankly I don't see it (at least for field work). Construction sites are nasty places - dust, concrete, bentonite, slurries, oil & grease, rain, snow, heat these are not good things for an expensive tablet to be around.

Furthermore, the trades guys are hard are their equipment. When it's time to go to lunch, stuff gets thrown in the trunk bed or on the passenger seat of the truck as they rush off. Even if a tablet survives the abuse, those guys rarely lock or raise the windows of their trucks on the job, so I wouldn't expect the tablet to be there when the contractor gets back from his break.

I think the potential is there, but tablets need to become more "disposable" first. On the other hand, there may be decent acceptance from engineers and supervisors.

Also, it can't be denied that the construction industry is very staid and has much inertia against change.

I would disagree with that, construction is generally such a low-margin business that (IME) contractors are willing to try new things if it can mean lower bids or higher profit margins. But they have to be convinced first that change makes sense.
That's true, but external encouragement can speed up this process. That's a large part of the raison d'etre of YC in fact. We encourage founders and so do the other founders.
To each his own I guess. I actually really liked his speaking style, Paul came across as being easy-going and approachable. It also made his speech with notes not sound so much like a dry and stuffy keynote you usually hear at conferences.
It's back. Had to reboot the server and sneak back on before you guys came back.

Always on the weekend, amirite
I think we disagree on what the conventional wisdom is.

I have never heard anyone successful talking about the state of things refer to a meritocracy actually existing. Lot's of comments about how some method is more of a meritocracy or closer to this hypothetical ideal. Talk to anyone about nearly any business and the advice is to make good connections. The "it's not what you know, it's who you know" is such an old saying that it's a cliche. It's "a saying". It's conventional wisdom.

The aphorism "build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" has only been used, during my lifetime (30 years), as an example of naivete. You also need good design and marketing and the right connections. To me, this is the conventional wisdom.

Nothing about money in the western world is a meritocracy, I honestly can't find anyone serious trying to say it is. Especially with all the number crunching lately concerned with the growing class divide in the US.

Am I ignorant? Outside of some kind of Glenn Beck style "woooo America! Fuck Yeah!" pundit that have I completely missed a meme or school of thought that is claiming a meritocracy exists (even though that's objectively wrong)?
I can't believe anyone is taking this seriously. This was the guy's strongest critic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2...

Regardless of their position on the matter, they are all attention whores.
Another good sales CEO:

http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/our-company/executives/mcder...
Pretty misleading title. I thought this was about a large project and helping people use code from other people.

It should be titled: "How to correctly attribute code you didn't write"
What do you mean by "leveraged" here? I understand it as a Wall Street euphemism for having debt.
What does it mean that "memes are not public domain?" Of course that's the case if the image used in the meme is copyrighted, but does it go beyond that? Can the "pattern" or "recipe" for a meme be copyrighted? For example, would copyright protect the very idea of placing text describing an awkward social encounter on an image of a penguin?
"So maybe, just maybe, if we truly want to end this system, some of us will have to risk our lives."

Or you could just elect Ron Paul. The powers that be would have to assassinate him to stop him from legalizing most drug use.
But in using "exceptional" in the definition, the author basically gets a free pass. You cannot make predictions based on his definition of technical. You only know a decision was exceptional with hind sight.

Ergo, the best CEOs are the "technical" ones, but not in the classic sense where technical means provided ingenious solutions to problems.
There's a lot of debate on this topic. Most people agree that plugins should also be GPL, so most are (even the commercial ones)
I gave this as an introductory read to our junior web marketing team. it would be really nice to have a bootstrap landing page and I am surprised why Google does not provide such resources?
"Morals" are an excuse people use to try to impose their personal interest over others. Honest people use reasoning instead. I'm glad pg is open and honest enough to not include "morality" discussion in his decision. And not even be ashamed to try to hide it in public, as a populist politician would. That got him some points from me.
There are some options out there, from landing page themes on sites like themeforest, to plugin systems like premise and Saas apps like Unbounce to whatever you would call Prosper202 to... well, there's a lot of stuff out there.

That said, twitter bootstrap has most of those elements, even down to the hero-unit already built in, so I guess it would qualify for that too.
If there were a God then he would somehow make Microsoft license Gecko and put it on their smart phones and tablets instead of IE.

Or, maybe someone will realize that we don't want giant companies like Apple and Google controlling WebKit and have that turn into another Win32 and so they will use Boot2Gecko on their smartphones or whatever.

I mean I really prefer developing for WebKit and it seems like "the best" but I think if Gecko goes away then progress could stagnate, things could start to suck and we will be stuck with basically one thing and just a couple of companies controlling it.
Is this still in active development? Looks like it hasn't gotten much attention in about a year or so. Wonder if the project has moved somewhere.
Good point. I just added a link to the screenshot near the top of the README.
Unless the robots have guns...
That's a different read of "cleaner" than I had intended, but you're free to fork :-)
Thanks : Updated procedure (for Fedora without chronyd/ntpd running already) :

# yum install chrony

# systemctl enable chronyd.service

# systemctl start chronyd.service

Sorry if the (working) pointers before were horrible. Hopefully this is more useful - the servers used are {N}.fedora.pool.ntp.org.
I realize you probably don't want to give away any ideas by posting the application itself, but you might consider giving a very abstract high-level description of what area your idea is in; some people will be more qualified to comment in some fields over others.
Livestream for writers.

A writing block in the top right rectangle on the page.

A chat block on the bottom right.

A menu on the top left.

An ad on the bottom left.

Make the panes able to be resized, or completely hid, by clicking and dragging on the intersection. Any time the menu or chat is visible, the ad must be as well.

Give the writer the power to control thing, like: can users copy and paste? Can users scroll around freely, or are they stuck with author view? Can the file be read when not streaming?

Eventually take it further, become a storefront. Let people sell their written wares.

Ideally? I'd like to work on it.
I'm an attorney. I did some criminal appointments in the federal system before quitting law to get into entrepreneurship full time. It's tough work and it gave me some pretty amazing insights into the the justice system and the human condition.

In many ways--certainly not all--the plea system benefits the accused. It speeds up the trial, when evidence is lacking the accused tend to get a better result and quite honestly if the evidence is really bad the charges can--and do get dropped. We tend to look at the perverse episodes and not the helpful ones.

That said, myself and just about any attorney I know on either side of the bar feels like you'd rather let hundreds of guilty people go free than put one innocent person in jail.

I hate that criminal law is so politicized. (i.e. you have you be "tough on crime" to be electable or "three strikes rules keep 'bad' guys off the streets." If we can find lawmakers that will fight those mentalities, we will be much better off than trying to halt a justice system that's already terrible underfunded and in the process further hurt the accused, judges, juries, attorneys and citizens in the process.

Collateral charges are awful though. (mentioned briefly in the article--strips rights away of those with felony convictions)

When we take away voting rights, public assistance rights, free speech rights, and others, because someone broke the law (in many cases minor or non-violent felonies) that makes the problem worse because we're silencing folks that could give us insights to make our justice system better. And in most cases further complicating or destroying the support system for people who truly need help. Not to be infantalizing because not everyone needs or wants help, but it just doesn't seem "American" or "fair" to me to kick folks while they are down or prevent them from having a voice in our government or the help that could enable them to get on their feet again.
holy god no...
Larry Ellison seems like the epitome of a sales CEO at a long term technical organization. People like Mark Cuban also count, but that was more of a flip.
Just passing this along - transcripts of videos would potentially make this more useful for low vision, blind users, and the hearing impaired.
Migrating from PHP to Python and Django
Thanks! I added this to the README.
Remember: Twitter Bootstrap's UI is just some default styles. I think Bootstrap is a great foundation, just like 960gs and Blueprint. But it's just that: a foundation. Overload or add your own custom styles, and you can easily break away from the default look and feel.

In fact, just yesterday I wrote a blog post about my thoughts on using Bootstrap in "production": http://www.projectorpm.com/blog/2012/03/10/dont-hate-twitter... (FYI, the blog and the product are both built using Bootstrap)
Stormy Peters (Mozilla) keynote at Pycon 2012
For the record, these examples assume GNU xargs, so they won't necessarily work with the BSD xargs that comes with OS X.
Hmm, The Monetization of Copyrighted Content without any Licenses sounds more like a service than a software product. Maybe try to obtain license agreements from the copyright holders and put the funding for agree'ed to licenses in the Kickstarter campaign.
This app seems to be a blend of native UIKit development and jQuery Mobile. The navigation on the left-hand side is native and really fluid, but on the right-hand side (where the videos and subtitles are) is a UIWebView with jQuery-Mobile-powered pages. That's why the scrolling performance of the subtitles is so shitty (compared to native scrolling) and why the "share" and "download" buttons don't really look native. But an average user wouldn't notice these things, so I guess they're not important.

I just don't understand why the developers didn't do everything natively. What are the advantages of using - in my mind - inferior technology like jQuery Mobile in an app that's completely custom-built anyway? It can't be that much more work to do the whole interface with UIKit.

Other than that I think it's a really good app (and great content, too). So, congratulations to the developers and Sal!
I suppose that main point in node.js is asynchronous execution, and in c# we already have all these features. I actually can’t see a point of this library in production app.
Again. I will wait to hear the facts before making the mistake of assuming that they, "threw out the 4th amendment"
Ideally that could be classified as a derivative work, which one could argue is fair use. But, that argument will happen in a court after you have been sued. The "Kind of Bloop" affair should give you an example of what I'm talking about:
http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

Honestly though this is just couch-analytics from me. I'm not sure how copyright applies to meme pictures and am fascinated by related court cases. Anyone else have interesting meme/copyright-related court case suggestions?
> For SQL, I would say question about "which kind of joins there are and why" is like this - if you don't understand this, you don't understand relational databases.

This is like saying if you can't write a controller in Ruby on Rails off the top of your head, you do not understand programming. SQL is a vendor-specific technology, and while it is related to relational databases, is not tied to the underlying theory. You can have a relational database that does not use SQL at all.

> if one claims to be SQL expert with 5 years of experience and don't know what inner join is - he's probably lying.

I agree with this. If you want to hire someone who understands the inner nuances of, say, MySQL then it may be a good question. This is quite a bit different to understanding relational databases though – one is theory, one is application.
Absoloutely love the theme. I use http://hn.gethifi.com/ on my phone for Hacker News, so this theme makes the desktop experience a lot more consistent with my mobile experience
"There is no way to rule an honest man."

I wish that were true, but it's not. Laws are not the only source of unfair leverage. Private enterprise can and does have lots of ways to rule (and screw) even honest people. e.g.:

http://rondam.blogspot.com/2011/12/cosmo-and-me-part-3-how-w...
We do not know what the "means" were. We have only heard one side of the story.
Thanks, looks nice.

Does anyone else find the font type and size more difficult to read? The size seems smaller but it's 2px bigger, hmm.

Edit: I increased the font size to 18 px inside of Stylebot to better fit my needs.
I've found that once I've converted all the tabs to spaces, moved the { and } into the correct places, removed trailing white space, added spaces before and after operators, changed all strings to be surrounded by ' or " depending on their use case, changed comments so that // comments are on their own line, and /* */ comments are formatted neatly, I'm ready to go.
Glad you like the idea! It does seem a bit like one of those all-encompassing "boil the ocean" ideas, but PG's last post made me think maybe those ideas are worth considering after all!
Does something like legal insurance exist? I mean for most small start-ups having a lawyer and money to pay him when needed might be hard but I imagine most don't have problems with this all the time and pooling money to pay for lawyers when needed might be possible.

Just an idea.
http://blog.medusis.com/dont-tell-stackoverflow-im-a-hacker-...
It depends on your life circumstances.

I think it's easy to choose an ambitious startup once you have a success under your belt, and aren't worried about paying the bills (ie. have a small exit/cushion already).

On the other hand, if you still got to pay the bills, and have a family, it makes sense to pursue a smaller idea that doesn't require $10 million in venture capital, or a team of 20 people.

You say that you can start small, and go big.. but I'm not so sure many people here have the luxury on working on any project for 2+ years, and still not have any profit to show for it. It makes more sense once you have some cushion as OP does with his first success.
> Can entropy ever be reversed?

I might not be understanding the science correctly, but due to the specific phrasing of the question, would "Sure--here's a schematic for an LED that converts waste heat back into photons[1]" be an acceptable answer?

[1] http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-efficiency.html (Previously discussed on HN)
Excuse me if this is a naive question but I'm kind of confused on using just a few lines of code. I know you must attribute the original creator when the license calls for it but where? For instance lets say I have 500 lines of code and 10 lines of borrowed code at lines 245-255. Whats best practice in that situation?
Not only that, but one of the main selling points of Node.js is using one language (JavaScript) for both client and server programming: the holy grail of Web application development.
People on reddit or 4chan getting upset because IP rights are not being respected? Sorry I think my hypocrisy meter just exploded.
All the article says is "cell phone electromagnetic signal may be harmful in prolonged exposure, Wi-Fi is a similar type of signal, so it's also harmful [note the not-so-subtle shift there]; there is no evidence to support our thesis, so naturally we conclude that OH NOES TEH SKY IS FALLING11!1!!!" Pure FUD opinion piece.
I have experience in many countries and can help.
Interesting book review: NYT: "Ayn Rand’s Revenge": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Kirsch-t.html