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I've heard that in Korea, there's one national standard exam for English that's always been graded incorrectly, so everyone learns the incorrect answer when studying for the test.
Yes. Portal was also an amazing use of modern game tech without being destructive.
These are not the clients you're looking for. I'm serious, these people are not your clients. If you stop piracy, they won't buy and their piracy (which you can't realistically stop) isn't hurting you. You should acknowledge the fact that they aren't going to be your clients for now and let them live.

Or, if you are dead-set on actually getting that market, you could get a local localisation firm to localise your product for the target market, using local resources, so the cost would be lower, then sell the localised version for much less than the US version. This still has the high potential of not working out, since people can just pirate the US version and get community-provided subtitles.

In short - if you can't think of something really ingenious, don't bother. When they reach a better level of economic development, you can start thinking (if you're still alive then, that is).
I'd love to see +1 buttons to share content to Google+ on the public beta. Great work!
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This is pretty offensive to anyone who actually plays FPS games and isn't just bitching from the outside.

There are some great FPS's with amazing stories that make up a large part of the bedrock that is gaming as a cultural medium.

They are not retellings of the same story any more than Oscar-bait movies are retellings of other stories.

It's like saying "don't look at Harry Potter or Star Wars or Lord of the Rings as separate stories, instead think of them as different interpretations of the monomyth. It's the same story over and over, but if done well it can still be entertaining".

When all's said and done, I'd like to call them separate stories. Identifying the common plots and tropes doesn't make them the same at heart.
This is a really great setup tutorial that I haven't seen before. Thanks!
I suggest they acknowledge that business realities are driving them to do the same thing but that it would be better for everyone if they could find a way to cooperate.

Painting themselves as somehow superior while they engage in the same behavior doesn't seem likely to engender trust.
I don't get the whole "aliens are incompatible with religion" bit. I was raised in a Southern Baptist church (yes, I got out as an adult) and AFAIK there's nothing in the Christian Bible that says we're the only planet in the universe with life. Please post book, chapter, verse if I'm wrong.
Love this idea! I need to get more familiar with a lot of these frameworks
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Just wanted to give my 2 cents:

What you are doing is really dangerous. "In an effort to refine my design skills, I’ve decided each week or so to redesign the landing page of a YC company I dig and whose website I don’t feel so similarly about."

Doing a facelift on just the landing page, or rearranging elements around a page is not design. It's a subset of design. What's worse, is that these redesigns you offer gives zero context, no interaction, no brief, no reasoning. It's purely visual reformatting. Every placement of content, layout has a reason – you need to provide those in order for us, the reader, to understand your thought process and why you did the things you did.

I'd suggest taking it a step further to give more 'meat' to your posts. Use services like Invisionapp to create clickable hotspots to allow users to explore the redesigned site. Offer your thoughts as you go through the process.

A simple image with a few words on the product and why it's awesome doesn't really tell us anything about your process.

(Design is about solving problems – you also need to identify what is wrong with the original design, then offer your solution and explain why they are better)
Razor blades seem to be another thing supposedly often counterfeited on Amazon. See http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000277P5E for example.
What are the odds that people actually:

1) use the advanced features and not tripping themselves

2) use it frequently

3) and got a lot of productivity boost out of those features

I would imagine most people will download 3rd-party libraries (open source or not) and tools to become productive. Not so much on the C# advanced features.
Absolutely. I hope they do Python next.
In some ways the tech encourages that, unfortunately; the huge numbers they quote for the Xbox 360 (which incidentally is 7, not 10) are only achievable with heavily vectorised code which implies heavy graphics work rather than AI. I guess they'd say that's what the market wants though.
Could this not start as a Sublime text 2 plugin? Much of what I see should be possible there
Such as?

And stronger by weight or by volume? Stronger in tensile strength or by compression? In resisting flexing? Can it handle vibration and bending without cracking? Is it tough enough not to be abraded? Can it distribute stress (by giving a bit)?

The word "stronger" by itself has no meaning in engineering. You need to specify all those things I listed when describing stronger.
Not true at all.

We're currently in the beta testing phase of our game where you get to shoot mechs until they're dead. http://mwomercs.com

Totally different than people.
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Judging from the price page, it doesn't actually look like this does that. The price tiers are still some combination of a fixed amount of storage and RAM per tier, with no mention of number of cores. Maybe this is because their EBS clone isn't ready, yet?
Still, I'm glad someone's doing it.
Definitely, but I think it is a question of scale.

It's one thing to construct some ad-libs, but to actually create a piece of art (i.e. an entire verse) is a whole different ball game. It would be like if someone took fragments of Picasso paintings, constructed an entirely new painting, and called it a Picasso.

I suppose it's conceivable that someone might try to do it, and it's apparently technically possible, but I think it would be roundly rejected.
Is it hard to make sure you get the most out of relationships from advice-givers?

In my experience, yes. I would assume you're seeking advice from successful people. Successful people are busy.

Just curious to know some methods you use.

I send weekly updates (same day and approximate time so they can expect it) on progress, challenges/solutions, and next steps. This is so they can be "in-the-loop" without actually being involved in what's happening. It keeps what I'm doing in their minds so they can think over things as time permits and not get a dump once every quarter.

Then I meet once a month with them to discuss strategy, results, and how we're going to move forward. This is a discussion that's scheduled for the first Thursday of every month. They do their best to be there and it's easier for them to accommodate because the day/time is known well in advance.

Is it a perfect model? No. But I don't seem to run into the same problems I hear from others in my city (not a startup town, others have problems with feedback/face-time).

The greatest thing I've learned from this is: your success is up to you. Don't wait for their feedback, don't rely on their feedback for the answers, and don't get frustrated if you're not getting what you hope for. It's your business and its success is your responsibility. Keep going and focus on what you can deliver to your customers.
I don't think there is anything wrong with what you are doing, but I hope people understand that there are many, many talented designers out there working for companies with horrendous websites. It's very easy to make a PSD mockup of a single landing page working in a vacuum. However, see how that pretty PSD looks after making its way past meddling founders, overworked devs that don't give a damn about aesthetics, and technology constraints. Building beautiful websites in a business environment is hard.
This is targeted towards 10-12 year olds?

Sounds like exactly what I need to get over the beginners hump with programming.
You avoid the code spaghetti problem that you can see with multiple levels of callbacks, but you still have the problem that doing a blocking operation in a coroutine (even something cpu bound like a long calculation) will block the entire lua process.
It's my opinion, baddox. Look at this video (from the atlantic jonathon blow article), then tell me the state of video games is just fine: http://bcove.me/vf4eof01
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Thanks I will look into it.
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This isn't at all my experience, and I buy from Amazon quite a lot. Can you cite any specific examples?
I am not saying that he is not correct or that he is wrong in trying to enlighten Felipe, I just think he could have been more respectful. If his explanation of his reasoning and logic tends to look more like flame than an explanation I think it should be time to save the email and go do something else for a bit. I also think that posting this and getting it attention as a 'look at this guy, he got flamed!' bit is silly as well.
Be careful they don't drag each other down if a number of them sink.
When it comes to JS, Eclipse is definitely shaky.
It's interesting you say "I'm an Android user" instead of "I have an Android phone".
Listen to the middle days of the first StackOverflow podcast and you'll hear that for a long time they ran StackOverflow on a single server. They were serving a million uniques with the web app and database running on a single box! It wasn’t even a very big box.

As a former .NET guy, I think the hosting part of deploying .NET wasn't well addressed by this post.

Jeff Atwood built and colocated a dedicated 2 or 3U server to run Stack Overflow. I certainly wouldn't call that an easy or recommended thing to do for a startup, especially if none of the founders have enough hardware and system administration experience.

Compare this to signing up for EC2, Linode, or Rackspace and spinning up a Linux instance to run Rails, Django, or Node. Even easier to just spin something up for free on Heroku. These are mature, solid solutions being used by many startups today.

There are a few providers like AppHarbor that are trying to make .NET hosting a bit more startup friendly, but there weren't any mention of those in this post.
It's good to see the option of SSD-backed block storage in a major cloud provider like Rackspace. Block IO is a killer for a lot of apps. Though, we'll have to see if the benchmarks support their claims though.
As a Pythonista, I beg you to leave me out of this. I love Python's syntax but I can see Javascript's semicolon insertion is awful.
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Well maybe I had it backwards. Maybe FPS's are trying to tell different stories but for some reason they all try to use the same tools to do it. Really, shooting people is not the best way to tell most stories. The creators of the Drake's Uncharted series, really great FPS games, are complaining that it's hard to get any serious dramatic emotion in a game that has you getting shot at most of the time.
I really like the clean design and simple color palette, the one thing I would address is the Typography. You've clearly chosen a non-standard typeset, however I think it's extremely understated in this design.

There are some really good points about not highlighting both iOS & Android as supported platforms (Android has a much larger user base). One of the really cool things about the Pebble, is that you can grab apps for it or build your own and this is really lost in the design you have.

I love that you are taking on these types of projects/exercises! Don't get caught up in all the negative bias, you'll never please everyone... Would love to see an update to this design, to see how you execute with this type of feedback. Keep it Up!
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That's correct. You could use:

!isActive && ($parent.toggleClass('open'), do_something_else())

but I don't think anyone would advise it.
To provide just one example, at least one branch of Christianity (Mormons) believes in human-like aliens as a matter of doctrine. If first contact is made with an intelligent species that doesn't believe in the Christian God, they'll probably just send missionaries on an interstellar journey rather than change their faith.
... an Eternal Silver Knot.
You just said: Kids can handle unrealistic violence fine but unrealistic sexuality is a problem.

That makes no sense. None at all.

Either your kids can distinguish reality from fiction. Or they can't. Right?
A very nice read from someone who's passionate about Lisp. The take-away I got was the mention of ISLISP (http://www.islisp.info) which I didn't previously know about. From the site, it seems to try to bridge the gap between a lot of different Lisp variants while focusing on real-world application (as opposed to academia). Worth checking out.

Thanks for the interview!
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You do know that pretty much every page has a search box:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=green+usern...

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I know that here on HN it's generally regarded that if you start with "I know I'll get downvoted for this ..." then you simply shouldn't say it.

Having said that, there are times when unpopular things need to be said. I'm genuinely not trying to be snarky, I'm genuinely not trying to be rude, and I'm genuinely not trying to be superior. I genuinely think people really ought to do some homework before asking questions.

When we create a web site we often provide a FAQ, and we hope that people will do some homework and check the FAQ before calling the support line, or sending an email.

Why don't we ask the same of ourselves? Why shouldn't we ask that people at least wonder if the answer has been asked before.

So I'm not providing the fish, I'm trying to teach you how to fish. I'm not going to give the answer yet again, I'm telling people how to get the answers for themselves. It shouldn't be necessary, and yet it is.

So yes, downvote me, but understand that I'm actually trying to help the community. The question is, and it's a genuine one, how can we say RTFM without sounding snarky?
Reminds me of a certain hardware company.
I think hackernews is overloading the cloud. I can't load the video.
Kind of ironic that the title of the post is written in an extremely tasteless font.
Could have been worse: it could have been Miley Cyrus.
Okay, I'm going to bite.

&& is logical AND, and it operates on boolean expressions (or types).

So "a && b" evaluates to true if both a and b are true.

How can that be replaced by "if(a){b;}"?

Is it "r = a && b" being replaced by "if(a){r=b}"?

Using Chrome's javascript console:

> a = "asdas"; b="da"; a == b;
false

> a = "asdas"; b="da"; if(a) { b };
"da"

Could you (or some other javascript expert) explain it to me?
> Nobody has urges to commit violent acts in real life unless provoked by an external (or even internal) force.

This is wrong. People have always been violent.
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A while back I was looking for Thinkpad batteries on Amazon and literally every one was counterfeit (even though half of them were called "Genuine Lenovo", they'd have plenty of comments disagreeing). It's pretty sad.
Searched for several major areas of Florida and their where no listings, there was no indication that their where 0 results for that area which was not intuitive, I just received a message that said Search results for Key West, click to view listings. I broadened the search to just Florida and saw that their was one listing for St. Augustine clicked on it, there was no photo rates where hidden, when I clicked to view rates it then told me that the owner has not provided rates.

My suggestions to make the experience not suck, indicate that their are no results for that area. Maybe even have a stats block on the front page that shows inventory in major areas based on my current location information.

Most people want to see rates immediately, they don't want to dream about something only to find that they cannot afford it. In the listings you may want to consider providing a rate range for the property. You need to provide a mechanism to search by rate as well.

Finally, I have been doing travel tech for 15 years, I have exited two companies one to hotels.com and the other to TUI travel. You should set aside some time to talk to me, I can give you a lot of good travel related info that can help you guys succeed. My contact details are in my profile.
Good luck everybody. Hopefully one day I'll be ready to submit an application.
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Well, an audience that doesn't look for variety, that instead only wants to hear the same story told over and over again - that's an uncultured audience in my book, no matter what story.
I disagree. Musical preferences aside, this took place during a performance by Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre and given their history and the Southern California location of Coachella, Tupac was the right choice. Not sure that either Snoop or Dre ever collaborated with B.I.G.
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I agree with your observation but let's remember that we are talking about Linus. He usually replies with a flamethrower - mainly when he believes in another way of doing things, but in the end he has a point. And that point is flame worth (IMO).
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Even if you get the spelling right, the "Tribute to _" albums from "Cover Nation" or whoever are pretty clearly designed to trick people. I've noticed the scammers tend to cover artists whose music is not available for download, so they don't even have to compete against the original artist.
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Amazon doesn't do much to filter out counterfeit items, it seems. From personal experience, a non-trivial number of shoe merchants on Amazon sell fakes.
"using the same naming convention on server as client means our JS doesn't have a mix of camelCase and under_scores for things received via JSON"

Couldn't that almost be viewed as a feature, rather than a bug? I mean, this way you can instantly tell if a particular variable was received from the server via JSON or was defined in the client code itself. I would consider a naming distinction like to be a benefit, rather than a harm.
Somehow Total Recall (premise of the short story[1], as illustrated by the movies) seems a good starting point for this discussion: what do you want to remember for the first time? and have it unique to your experience?

([1] - We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, but everybody knows it as Total Recall.)
Seen the trailer, looks awesome! Keep up the good work :)
The && operator short circuits. It evaluates its second operand only if the first is true (becuase if the first is false, then the expression result is known to be false). It thus acts pretty much exactly like "if", but with an infix syntax. This trick is used pervasively in shell programming, where the native if syntax sucks.
I was going to write about this very thing a couple of hours ago although itunes not amazon, but I think the principle is the same.

If you go to itunes and search for any popular song (pre-released songs are the best for it) there are always a lot of shadily labelled covers that are there to trick buyers into purchasing them. I've been caught out by it once before (not paying much attention, see the title matches and hit "buy").

It's not like these songs aren't making sales, quite a few have a large number of reviews (some asking wtf?) and because the character limits in itunes allow for you to cleverly disguise the songs they are a great way to make quick money. For example for the new Justin Bieber single "Boyfriend" there is a group called "Justin Bieber Tribute Team", their name shows as "Justin Bieber..." because of the cut off and they have a song out called "Boyfriend", which is just an instrumental version of the real song, it has ~40 reviews of people saying they love Justin and this is an amazing new song, or saying "wtf is this".
> "Carefree" fly-by-wire preventing dangerous manoeuvering

Note that this caused the crash Air France Flight 447 because it trained the pilot to react incorrectly (too aggressively) in an emergency.
This happens in every marketplace. I used to be a marketplace seller on Amazon and they are so strict (more strict than every other marketplace), that I would be very surprised if the company you bought it from is still selling.

I wasn't selling counterfeits or violating any rules and got kicked. Many people get kicked if their automated system thinks you are somehow selling counterfeits or violating any rules...and there is no real way to appeal it.
I'd constrain the description of what it's good at even further. The kind of data processing parallelization it's designed to support is map/reduce. That's only one out of a wide array of possible ways to organize a distributed processing job, and not all tasks are well-suited to it.
Probably not, actually--although that's a fair guess based on both the content of my post and the fact that it resides on Hacker News. I'm swamped with my own business currently. I'm more of the "consumer interested in the looks and apps" category.
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If you know physics, think of
a release (and the tag is associated with it) as "collapsing the wave
function".

What does ontological fabric of reality mean? (besides being a good headline)
Same problem happens on iTunes, to be honest. There are a lot of karaoke albums out there, and if a song is out of print, or not buyable by the song, they might be the top hit on a search.
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You may want to look at the paper: "P-packSVM: Parallel Primal grAdient desCent Kernel SVM" from ICDM 2009. It presents an extension of Pegasos to non-linear kernels. Evaluating the pairwise kernels <x_i,x_j> and continuously updating the estimate of the norm of the implicit weight vector w seem to be the main hurdles to achieving the performance gains seen with linear kernels.

The key takeaway from the paper (for me) was that the computation time on a single processor was not significantly better than that of the standard implementation provided by SVM-Light. However, with a variety of tricks permitted by the use of an SGD/Pegasos-like method, the authors were able to get significant speedup when using a compute cluster, allowing a good reduction in computation times (e.g. ~200x reduction on 512 processors).
The slight difference is that Throne of JS is targeted towards the client-side and the frameworks discussed on nodeup are targeted towards node (server) frameworks.
There are plenty of people that could work now, but don't because:

1) They just don't feel like it
2) are getting government handouts (more than a minimum wage job)
3) Have a spouse or other family member supporting them

Unless the government takes full control of our lives, there will never be 0% unemployment.
I love this quote. Everytime i read it, it reminds me that it is fine if i feel that i am producing crap. I just need to keep on working at it and eventually i'll do fine
Yes! A Paul Krugman column. I think its worthwhile for anyone to try to understand his economic assertions on the crisis.

The most important part is understanding what is aggregate demand and what things like interest rates tell us.

Actually might change your worldview. For example that sometimes individually rational behavior (deleveraging instead of investing in a crisis) can be disastrous for the economy as a whole.