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Personally I think you will be fighting an uphill battle, there are a lot of good free languages available and it is very hard to get adoption for a pay product if it is general purpose. Now there are some industry specific and domain specific languages that companies pay for that deal with such things as avionics and other tightly controlled mission critical systems. That is really the last safe harbor for closed commercial languages that requires compensation to use. So to me, you are going to have to be light years ahead of everyone else if you are targeting general computing and even then you have an issue with adoption that you will have to deal with. Conversely if you are targeting a specific domain, then you will have to do due diligence on that domain and the offerings in that space and see if you can compete.

Conversely you can still get paid if you decide to open source the language. A lot of organizations founded around the designers of open source languages are well compensated through other means, such as books, certifications and consultancy services. Being the authority on the language puts you in the unique position to capitalize on that authority.
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I mentioned it a comment with a great analysis of public unions by the hoover institute - I highly recommend checking it out.
You know, whipping and stockades might have been more immediately abusive, or cynically speaking, more visible to the outside world, but at least they were brief. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out the psychological and physical harm of long-term incarceration was actually worse. (It might be more effective, on account of the criminals being physically restricted from committing crimes in the outside world, but it might also be more damaging.)
So, your advice to kids is:

1. Sit down and shut up!

2. Be a conformist.

3. Keep your head down.

4. Listen to strangers, not parents.

5. Every one is out to get you.

Wow, how original!!!
Also, a related question: Has YC rejected applicants despite impressive early traction?
From your product screenshot it looks like you did a great job building on top of the default styles. I like your use of the bootstrap top nav in the sidebar.
I much prefer Hacker News +:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oieefcckcbbgniifdh...

It includes keyboard shortcuts, too!
The body of the post doesn't follow the headline. (Apparently, I've ragged on the author, Dave Winer, for similar things before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2808050. I came here to comment on it and it just happens to be the same contributor/blog/etc.)

Headline: Which Facebook billionaire will buy the New York Times? (Implying a rich employee might buy the NYT)

Body: an argument that Twitter, Facebook, Google, or another large tech company should buy a large, reputable, news corporation. (Not a rich employee, not Facebook specific)

I also find the argument tenuous. What is the actual cash value to Twitter buying the New York Times? Sure, there'd be more Twitter users, but Twitter hasn't figured out how to highly monetize their users.

The blog post is speculation without articulated rationale.
There's been multiple APK support (for different OS versions, etc.) in the Android market since last July[1], so you could do the best thing for your "main" version in one build and have fallbacks for other versions in other builds (where necessary, of course).

[1] http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/07/multiple-apk-...
licensing programming languages and tool chains is the oldest software business model, but it has changed a lot because of free software

today you have a few options:

a) a variant of freemium, where a commercial arm will sell/license commercial components as part of the ecosystem. see Zend and ActiveState as examples

b) setting up a foundation with donations

c) being sponsored by a commercial entity to work on the language (see jQuery, Python, Erlang)

If you are going to start a company around a programming language, you would want to find a niche for it and market it there rather than trying to be everything to everyone. for eg. is this for web applications, embedded systems, etc. Come up with a list of your 'ideal users' (or customers) and pitch them.
So your ideal legal system does not recognize ownership of information, just whether it is "public" or "private", and has legal protection for private information? I'm just curious how the no-IP theory goes. One thing that concerned me was protection for works in progress, where people need to send, say, manuscripts for a novel back and forth, or tracks for a CD.
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Interesting. It does seem to drop to about 5% if I'm not in front using the computer and not in front of it but otherwise floats between about 7% and 20%. This is on a MacBookAir4,2, based on a few minutes of testing it seems like it's about 65% additional power consumption when the machine is otherwise mostly idle. I'm actually impressed though that you got power consumption as low as it is. Photo Booth consumes about 6.5% so I'd guess that's the lower limit for Flutter, maybe default to disabling Flutter while the computer is on battery?
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Looks awesome, can't wait for a Linux version, so that I can try it out!
Quick Answer: Yes, you can start the company. BUT, you can't work for the company that company. Mostly, work = getting a salary.

If you are trying to start a company, feel free to incorporate it and own all of it. I would suggest worrying about getting paid once you have revenues coming in.

Then hire a good lawyer to figure out your options.

If you see huge growth getting paid should be easier with investors (IANAL). Alternatively, you can have it run on the side with the company collecting the revenue that you can eventually retire on.
Flutter seems to keep the camera on 100% of the time which prevents apps like Skype from using the camera for video chats. I'm not sure if there is a good workaround for that?
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But what if our system is actually erring in the other direction?

There are undoubtedly quite a few Americans who are in correctional supervision but shouldn't be. There are also quite a few Americans who should be in correctional supervision, but aren't. (For a bare start, suppose we believe the commonly quoted meme that there are 1 million gang members in America.)

In either case, I think the most basic question is: why are there so many criminals? What about the present-day American system of government is so amazingly criminogenic?

For instance, one commonly quoted "root cause" is our proverbial callousness to important issues of social justice. Is an absence of social justice the problem? Let's consider some evidence.

Robbery is a pretty good "index crime." For instance, in 1900, there was about 1 robbery per day in all of England (source: http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99...). This is roughly a factor of 35 lower than current reported crime rates (same source) in the ol' Sceptered Island - assuming you trust HMG's statistics. And all crime statistics in all countries everywhere are generally admitted by all informed observers to be utterly buggered to hell. (example: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-05-04/news/the-nypd-tapes-i...)

In any case, you may compare the public concern for social justice in England, in 1900 and 2000, and note precisely the reverse of the correlation predicted by the hypothesis.

Japan has extremely low crime as well, and is probably the least Americanized of all First World nations today. Clearly, it is physically possible for the State to eradicate crime. Clearly, the American system of government, at home or abroad, seems to carry with it unusually high levels of crime and disorder, at least by historical First World standards.

But why? If what we need isn't more social justice, what is it?

(edit: I just checked and this parliament.co.uk link isn't the right one for my robbery numbers - I'll have to look. Still, money graf - "The number of indictable offences per thousand population in 1900 was 2.4 and in 1997 the figure was 89.1." Two orders of magnitude any way you slice it.)
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Yet, there are many examples of making prisons more humane having a positive impact on recidivism.

And conversely, there is plenty of evidence that severity of punishment does not have a significant impact on crime rates.

The simple "heavier punishment -> less crime" appeals only to simplistic logic, but in general is not observed in reality, either in the US or abroad.

The odd thing about many people in the "deterrence" crowd is that so many don't seem to actually be concerned about lowering crime rates, and are concerned moreso with exacting their pound of flesh for the injustice committed by criminals.
The compiler is already open-source.

Now, as to domain, the domain is systems programming. Competitors on equal level: HASP/Habit (whose lab I may well work in soon), Ada, D, Rust.

Competitive advantages: state-of-the-art expressiveness, static checking and typefulness up the wazoo, applying research that most folks outside PL labs haven't heard of. I would say (to condescend unjustly to my esteemed colleagues) that Rust and Habit are the only efforts worth competing with in this space; the rest are just hackers playing around without much rigor.

I am again thinking: "TypeSafe does it. Why shouldn't I be able to?"
I'm not sure where you came up with any of these assertions, as they are all simply false.

First, plenty of Google projects allow outside contributions. There are over 1400 open source Google projects (The number is actually much larger, but i've only counted those that wanted to be identified specifically as Google projects), and >98% of them allow contributions the last time I looked. In fact, it's easier to simply list the ones that don't than the ones that do. I have to imagine you have your own list of what you think are "Google projects", and are working off of that when you made your assertion.

Second, there is definitely no "attitude pervasive at Google that open source is a great marketing tool, but that it's a one-way street". As the guy generally responsible for helping teams that want to open source stuff, I can tell you that in 6 years, I've run into this attitude maybe 5 times out of the (again) 1400+ projects that got released. That's not to say everyone open sources stuff at Google for the same reason, but there is certainly no pervasive attitude like you describe. The reality is a lot of folks at Google have released open source projects for a lot of reasons, and of those reasons, "marketing tool" is pretty far down the list.

BTW, none of this is to say I agree with Kevin's approach to running Guava; I don't, for various reasons. But in the end, he (and the rest of the guava folks) are the ones doing the work, and the issues here will work themselves out in the normal way (either people will grudgingly accept it and keep using guava, or some fork will become more popular eventually and take over). In either case, Kevin making a clear statement on the situation helps move things along one way or the other, and is a lot more than you can get out of other OSS projects that do something similar.
Well, according to Chris Rock, the only black people in Minnesota are Prince and Kirby Puckett. What percentage of the white population is in prison there compared to other states?
Andrew - great observation. On top of your menubar, there's Flutter icon. Click on it, and it will give you simple flutter on and flutter off capability.
Probably pretty true. I think the type of idea someone comes up with it greatly depends on the individuals personality, which also greatly impacts the success rate.
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I think your mention of OS drawn widgets brings up an interesting point of discussion.

In desktop environments for the most part windows apps look like windows apps and osx apps look like osx apps. A consistant look and feel across applications on a platform gives users a familiar and comfortable experience. This has been a detriment of java desktop apps for years as they appear 'foreign' to the end user.

Is there perhaps an argument that the web as a platform is missing out on this benefit of consistency?
The Windows Help format dates back to Windows 3.0.

It was superseded by HTML Help when Windows 98 came out in 1997.

Instead of hating on Microsoft, why not hate on whatever clown decided to distribute their documentation in a format that went obsolete before the turn of the century?
I'm not in the mood to rant on about Facebook, but I must say Facebook allows this to happen. If it didn't it wouldn't.

Facebook gives users the illusion of control and will only extend that illusion when someone makes a loud fuss (or a lawsuit).

When Zuckerberg states that Facebook has a hacking culture, I think he meant social engineering.
Honestly, these link bait or bait-and-switch articles should be down voted. This article is without substance and is total crap. Nothing at all was explained... rubbish!
These are the guys who left Enthought (http://www.enthought.com/) to start Continuum Analytics:

http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2012/01/transition-to...

http://continuum.io/
While it is not a totally Clojure native IO lib, there is clojure.java.io http://richhickey.github.com/clojure/clojure.java.io-api.htm... which gives you more LISP like syntax when dealing with common IO functions. That being said, it is just wrapping much of the same stuff you would do with the Java libs directly.
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I have been in you shoes in the past (and left America due to frustration of the complexities of the process). Also, I am not a Lawyer - caveat emptor.

Short answer - get a US citizen to act as the Majority Partner in the business if at all possible. Do not accept even a cent from your new company if you go this route until it is set up and Generating Payroll. Once founded then transfer your H1 using your new company and then become employee/partner.

There are still ways around the stringent H1-B rules for employment that you can use to start a company in your name. However I must advise extreme caution in using any of them. The USCIS (citizenship and Immigration) might take a dim view of people who enter the US for a "Specialty Occupation" visa and then switch to founding companies.

I wish you the best of luck - it takes a lot of work to get a company going. Doing it while dealing with the complexities of the US Visa system is just adding to the mountain of difficulties you need to overcome.

If you do pull it off legally, maybe you can write a blog post that tackles this issue for other aspiring entrepreneurs who would love to tread in your path.
I think the problem is systemic in nature “More African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began”

"Growing crime rates over the past 30 years don’t explain the skyrocketing numbers of black — and increasingly brown — men caught in America’s prison system": http://www.laprogressive.com/black-men-prison-system/

"As a consequence, a great many black men are disenfranchised, said Alexander — prevented because of their felony convictions from voting and from living in public housing, discriminated in hiring, excluded from juries, and denied educational opportunities."

I read this and think there must be something more complex going on than just graduation rates. Too many interest groups are getting rich trying to fix a perpetually broken education system and the same goes for prisons.
I nthe land of the free, there is an entire industry built around destroying freedom.

Fuck the prison industry. Every single politician who cohorts with the prison lobby should be called out and shot.

Yes. Shot.
We could have ownership of a sort without copyright. Copyright lets you tell other people what they can do with a copy of a work after it's released. I think the only right the law should protect is the right to release a work or not.
Works great once I realized that I couldn't be so close to the camera, but does anybody have any tips on disabling the green iSight LED on my macbook pro (short of covering it)?
Sometimes I think the way HN should work is not that you can't both downvote and comment, but that you can't downvote and not comment.
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Expected reaction, having just a blurred-out image on your landing page: "Sure, whatever, it probably doesn't work that well...".

Expected reaction, having a video demonstration of the product on your landing page: "THIS IS FRICKIN' AWESOME!".

Please, please, but a video on your landing page. You will thank yourself after checking your conversion rate.
My own preferred solution: ankle bracelets with GPS for felons convicted of non-violent crimes.
Would be nice if we could get this to work with other media players by emulating the media keys (really want to use this with vlc on my macbook)
We would include VLC very shortly. On the list.
I love the lookup answer. Ultimate runtime efficiency!
Would you want that as a feature? Keep camera on but turn off the light? Hmm...
Are Emotions Prophetic?
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Hey guys, long time no see (we met last summer).

Have you ever considered using your sort of opinion-measurement tech to build a disruptive electoral system?
Maybe we should only let Ph.D.’s, Mensa members and Jeopardy! champions vote? At least require a passing an IQ test before you get to cast a ballot?

This is where these type of ideas invariably fail. The author and everyone else has a different metric in which the gauge intelligence. Someone can be very strategic and have an average IQ as such the have a specific form of intelligence. Secondly just by the mention of a PHD as a requirement shows that little care was taken in such a flippant comment. Amount of schooling is not an indicator of intelligence, is any PHD good enough to qualify? from any school? The whole idea of requiring intelligence before and individual can cast their lot is absolutely backwards to the idea of freedom. Part of freedom is the freedom to be stupid. The solution is education, we should educate people on the issues and incentivize people for getting that education. The problem is there is no incentive for politicians to incentivize the education of the population.
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Hi, thanks so much for letting us know. We will put the video. The one on YouTube is old, but we will do it very soon. thanks!!
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I don't really track Hot Topics current inventory, but the same page you link to says they unwithdrew it one day later.
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I think the article got Alito's position in Jones wrong. Alito was deeply worried about the rise of a surveillance state in areas where the 4th Amendment doesn't apply today. The thing si that a warrant is not required today in these areas anyway due to other doctrines. Statutes may impose such but that's not a Constitutional consideration.

Warrants are not required right now. Alito was seeking to tighten these up.
'Sovereign immunity' (states are liable only for what they choose to allow themselves to be liable for), waivers for private prisoners, and probably some sort of 'reasonable precaution' clause in liability legislation would be where I would start looking for the reason why not.
Wait, is it April 1 already?
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Hey, I never said anything about it being easy, let alone possible. I just think that would be one very impressive hack of the system.
Interesting/cool project, though I do wonder how you plan on keeping it simple when you expand and add additional actions?

The UX of controlling media using the Xbox Kinect leaves a lot to be desired - it's cumbersome.

I've had my mac mini connected to my tv for awhile and am very interested in the Internet TV space in re: what will become the standard way we control such technology? Will it be thru gestures, airplay on iphone/ipad type technology, voice driven or a mix of all?

For many years I've been using a wireless gyration mouse/keyboard (demo of Internet TV setup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IryK4wsUM) and recently I started to use Chrome's voice search to quickly bring things up especially if my wireless keyboard isn't reachable.

After seeing this and my years of enjoying the Internet on my TV I'm thinking a few short gestures like this app uses and mix of voice driven actions might provide the best UX.

Based on the views and comments of video I link to above people want the Internet on their TV and all it provides. We just haven't figured out the best UX for it.
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So if I get my hands on a copy of a work that's not released, and start handing out copies, what happens to me?
Not the same. Look at Tea Party vs. Neo-Cons, same party, very different agenda.
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This post should be publicly visible without being logged in (at least it is for me). But this is the second HN thread in a week where I've seen a comment like this, so can you send me your details (web browser, etc), so I can debug, please?
The 'con' in neo-con stands for 'conservative' (unless I'm horribly misinformed). I'd say that it's less of a matter of 'there can be only two parties,' then it is of them being associated with each other by trying to use such a generic term to describe themselves.
The author clearly doesn't understand the concept of a "social entrepreneur". Just making something conducive to sharing and socializing is a gross distortion of the term social entrepreneurship.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't social entrepreneurs creating and managing a venture for social change, not enabling people to share pretty beads and sexy dresses.

While the word "social" get's thrown around in every possible way, we are losing our semantics by labeling any blowout success in "social media" as a force for positive change. While Pinterest is a very interesting step forward for creative expression, it is hardly a product of social entrepreneurship.
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Paul - that is a great observation and feedback. We believe that future will be about us using touch, voice, and gesture all three depending on context and circumstances. We do plan to keep it simple, and we have some great ideas for it.
Violent crime in the US and around the industrialized world has been on a long downward trend for literally thousands of years. Trying to analyze any current system without at least looking at how much things have improved over the last 20, 200, AND 2000 years completely misses why things are the way they are.

PS: There are far more laws to break now than in the past which again shifts the picture greatly. Also, Island nations have less drug crime because it's harder to bring the stuff in.
Ironically, shooting people is one of the activities that freedom is taken away for.