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You know...I have always hoped that as the older lawmakers died off, drugs would be decriminalized. However, I've since accepted that the huge amount of propaganda being shoved down our throats on a daily basis and the willingness of much of the population to not question what they're told/shown means the system will just recreate itself when that happens. Most voters are simply network repeaters...they happily echo messages/misinformation created by various sources who have a vested interest in seeing us continue to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol and eat unhealthy foods. And the moment any of these repeaters get out of line, the sources simply need to throw up a "it's killing our helpless children" argument to get them back on track.

It's tiring and sad to watch. All of us came into this world on equal footing, in that we opened our eyes and had to learn about what life really means. The fact that we allow a controlling entity to tell us what we can and can't do with our own bodies is ridiculous and honestly downright scary. Why should they know better than I what's right for my own body? And I say this as someone who has a family, loves his children, and doesn't do drugs, but respects and values what I consider a basic human right. What you do with your body, as long as it doesn't impact others, should be your business.
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I'm not sure how long ago you took it, but this book is probably a better introduction than the DCPU-16 since you build the system up from gates until you reach a high level language.

http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/

It seems like assembly programming has become the domain of the ECE department at many schools while CS department has moved on.
I can't talk for everyone, but I would. There are tons of ideas that I have no time to work on and I would like to help someone else do it. It's all for the greater good, after all. That's why people would help, I think.
citizenkeys says no - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850693 - although I've never seen it written anywhere.

No one's been accepted yet ;)
I think I understand what pricenomics does, which you can find similar information (actually more transparent and detailed) on Bizspeaking -- http://bizspeaking.com/item/c2145006f10a4b06ba71856e49e06e02 , then on top of that, Bizspeaking does a whole lot more. (The site is a bit slow now, there seems to be some Redis issue that I'm trying to resolve).
>And how exactly does a corrupt judge work given the appellate process?

Seriously? I can think of a handful of cases, let alone methods, without even resorting to Google.
I think you're right most of the time, but I wonder if there's not also a certain personality type that like that, regardless of their actual competency level, that prefers doing as little as possible.

I wish one of my ex-employers had been better at filtering out that type of people.
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Awesome idea. My guess is the business part is the weak spot, because from a consumer perspective it seems like an easy sell to me.
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I'd prefer taking Wednesdays off. I'd probably end up working from home anyway, but at least I wouldn't have to wear pants: http://dailytannenbaum.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/times-im-...
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This is a critical problem in the Scientific realm right now. Too much emphasis is placed on research that breaks ground - and not nearly enough is put on research that simply didn't work.

For example, suppose I have a hypothesis, and I test it out. To fully reject that hypothesis I might expend a year of lab time. This results in a year 'wasted' if I found no result, and expected one (an alternative would be you got no result and it was surprising - thus you found something exciting, but often this isn't the case).

This is a year wasted for me, but with so many labs focusing on the same areas, it means that many can double up in their 'time-wasting' endeavours. This effectively means labs are trying the same hypothesis and failing, wasting cumulative time on the same dead-end questions.

Every piece of research is a vital piece of an ever-growing puzzle that helps us deduce exactly what is going on. Unfortunately it seems focus has centered on those discoveries that 'cure cancer' or 'find the answer to immortality'. There needs to be a massive re-haul on the way we treat research.

Quality research is quality research - regardless of the results it garners.
I'm one of those weird npm style guys, the thing that breaks my brain is this isn't about writing clever code. it is about treating the (literally) single broken case (in the browser) as a broken case. It is about writing safe and maintainable code, by making it obvious that you are dealing with that one special case. I have written js both ways, and I find comma first/semi colon first I am hit by less syntax bugs. Thats why I do it, any other reason would be dumb.

As for crockford leading the way to sanity, the biggest problem I have with him is that instead of warning and educating he flat out forbids, and then heckles people who disagree. "with" is considered a "bad part", but it is used by literally every js template framework. He recommends closure based object construction, but in a big app that is a memory nightmare. And then there is stuff that basically treats js devs as mindless idiots. Like the "new" operator is discouraged, just in case someone forgets to use it when they want to instantiate something or the function keyword is discouraged, because it hoists.

All of those are opinions, and some are demonstrably terrible. But for some reason The Good Parts is still held up as gospel, while the community just chooses to ignore the parts of the book it doesn't like.

As for minifiers, JSMin is pretty obsolete at this point. If you are using it, as an incredibly easy win you can decrease your page load times by using uglify js, google closure compiler, or yui compressor. All of these support asi fully, but that is probably the least important reason to use them.
I don't see the point in this comment, or why it's getting so upvoted. We 1st worlders still live within market economies where people can build what they like and rise and fall at the peril of the consumer. Both of them have done this brilliantly so I ask, why so mad?

Tbh your comment just reminds me of the people on music boards who spend all their time arguing that music died after Led Zep....
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Rejected as well, anyways three weeks before I didn't know about the accelerator, but had an 'idea', gonna keep working on it. Didn't have my expectations high but still, it is a blow,may be got a reality check
----------> need to work hard and I supposedly will.
anyways long way to go,afterall I am just 17.
That's kind of where I see it.

An Arduino Uno costs $30, has 2KB of RAM, and runs at 16 MHz.

The Raspberry Pi costs $35, has 256 MB of RAM, and runs at 700 MHz. It also has two USB ports, ethernet, HDMI, composite video, a great GPU, SD card, and more.

You only get 8 GPIO pins, but you also have I2C and SPI. Plus they were developing a board to help with that.

There are quite a few projects you might want to do that would take quite a bit more horsepower than an Arduino, but a Raspberry Pi would do great for. Think of using something like a Raspberry Pi with a serial breakout board for running a Reprap or Makerbot. Enough power to run the machine and provide an amazing 3D GUI of the object being printed during the process.

It still has less IO than a Beaglebone, but it also costs 1/3rd the price.

I don't think many people will be using the Rasperry Pi to replace netbooks or most desktops, but I see a ton of hobbyist uses.
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BTW I liked your previous headline more. (thanks to Google cache)

"It's everything you are, in pictures" is clearer and easier to understand than "your autobiography in graphic novel style".

I still think you miss something unique and diverse at a feature level (what your app can do that other don't) and not on a concept level ("IT'S ABOUT YOU! NOT YOUR FRIENDS OR FAMILY, BUT YOU!").
Seth Godin talks about this in "This Is Broken" (http://www.ted.com/talks/seth_godin_this_is_broken_1.html).
For now, at least. They have signaled the intention to use the launch abort rockets to make powered landings. I am not sure if they'd try to do it straight from atmospheric braking or if they want to use parachutes to slow down and then use the rockets to land.

In any case, it's very 60's sci-fi style. Quite cool.
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If you have an engine like CryEngine3 you need hoards of people creating content to make it look good. If you have hoards of people creating that content, you need to sell a lot of copies to pay their wages. To sell a lot of copies, you have to make something that appeals to the mass market. The mass market, at least for those who care about the kind of graphics attainable only through top-of-the-line game engines, wants straightforward mechanics where they kill things, providing a black-and-white scenario where they can feel that they have won.
MDMA isn't -that- harmful. You're assuming when you buy Ecstasy you're being solid pure MDMA, which often is not the case.
NASA once had the job of putting man on the Moon and bringing them back before 1970. The mission is much broader now, the budgets much smaller and everything seems designed around generating as many jobs in as many places as technically possible (and frequently beyond that boundary). I'm not surprised at all.
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Sure. On the flip side of my argument there is also something to say: quite a few startup designers could learn a lot from following such a process at some point. There's a lot of "copy this guy's design, it converted well for his product!" that ends up leading people down roads that aren't exceptional for that product.

But can we say there's really a "devolution"? Is there not progress in not following Morville and Garrett to the letter? I find a lot of dogma in "UX" practices that make designers feel comfortable, and I just as often find many UX designers to overstate their impact on things because it is not as easily quantifiable as an engineer's impact.
I think it would be manageable if they had a few generic templates. When they reject the app, have some check boxes for "Don't see the profit model", "Single founder", "Already exists", "Seems like too much of a 'startup idea'", etc. Those could generate a paragraph in the email.
Making shit work is everyone's job

Would someone diagram "shit work" for me?

Is it noun verb or adjective noun?
Musk started Space X at 30...and I seriously doubt Zuckerberg will be doing anything on that level in the next 3 years.
Rejected. Not overly surprising given our team's lack of wow factor and demo. We had only heard of and decided to shoot for YC a few weeks before the deadline, and it took on the same mystical meaning for us as some others have mentioned. It wasn't until a week or so that I really came to grips with how slim the odds are. It was disheartening, not because it meant there was going to be more work to do before something like YC could really be possible, but because it meant we wouldn't be quitting our jobs and making it happen right now. Part of the reason is the obvious financial obstacle; student loans are expensive and the Bay is the most expensive place to live in the country. The other part is a kind of vindication. We believe in our idea, but there's a difference between believing in it yourselves and having the kind of validation that YC provides. It's far easier to go all in when the house tells you you have a winning hand. The greatest disappointment for us is that it will take many months for us to get going instead of a summer.

The end result for us is that we continue to build, but at a slower pace. We're positive and determined, and probably more focused for having gone through the YC application. We'll be hacking on it nights and weekends, we'll see where we can go on our own or with a different angel, and if we think it's right, we hope to be in the running with the rest of you for YC W13. So until then, ladies and gents, good night and good luck.
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$1m / 5200 = $192 average order.

With a conservative estimate of 3x markup on product (seems way high, especially if these guys were just middle men), $20 shipping (national, Fedex) and 0 hosting costs they're making 192-(64+20) = $108 per order.

$108 * 5200 = 561,600 / 2 / 8 = $35,000 per person per year, or $16 an hour if it was a full-time job.

Considering that anyone with the skills to set up an anonymized marketplace site should be able to find work that pays far more than $16/hr this seems like more an ideological exercise or hobby than a money-making cartel.

Whether or not you consider it to be worth spending probably $3m+ on investigating, trying and imprisoning these 8 people is another ideological question...
Maybe because I'm not used to java anymore I constantly find myself wanting to do things that are "bad" in Java. I want my function to return more than one variable and then accept it on the other side like x,y = getCoordinates(); Yes I can do something almost like that in java with an array or collection but it's considered "wrong."
Sometimes, I want to have a module with just functions, not an a class.
Writing the long list of setters and getters that just return and set themselves is really frustrating to me, knowing that in other languages I would just have properties. And working around this in java by making them all "public" is considered "wrong."

And while I agree that java has excellent tools, the one tool that doesn't work as well or as easily for me is the interactive console. Perhaps it's java's verbosity, or maybe this tool hasn't been as fleshed out as it has been in python, javascript and even php (phpsh), but I haven't found one that works as easily for me.
Noun verb. You could replace "shit" with "stuff."
You could follow soundcloud's business model and offer premium services like more uploads and things of that nature.
He should get into ruby. 99% of the time all you get is an uncommented generated API doc that is more confusing then helpful, the only choice you HAVE is to "read the source"
Rather, the only compromise is price and for 100% of consumers that makes the choice completely obvious.

There isn't Windows 8: Productivity Crippled Edition, or Windows 8: Red and Blue editions where both have pros and cons. You don't have to labor over the difference because you're not losing anything by picking one over the other.

The kicker is that even if you bought Home and find yourself needing one of the extra features (BitLocker or joining a domain), you can upgrade to big company edition for the price difference without making any real changes but paying the price (no need to reinstall, etc).

For a given consumer there's literally zero reason to choose Pro until you need one of the features, and at that point you upgrade with Windows Anytime Upgrade and pay the price difference on the spot, and get your feature.

Because of this there's literally zero compromising, or decision making at all really. You just get Home and keep it until the day you need Pro, a day that will never come for most people.
What a needlessly narrow-minded and judgmental post.

For better or for worse, Facebook has completely changed the way we socialize, both online and off. We now have means to share and consume information about our acquaintances and friends that we never had before - and based on simple observation we know that people are eating this up. The demand for Zuckerberg's product is massive.

Impact? Being the man who invented Facebook isn't impactful?

We can spend all day spinning this - I can claim that the Dragon is a billionaire's toy, an elitist device which burns boatloads of cash each launch while others suffer through poverty, illness, and death.

But I won't, because that'd be stupid, because the value of any such venture is inherently many-faceted and difficult to ascertain. By your logic anybody who isn't actively curing cancer and malaria is just wasting his/her time.
Which is why rags like The Verge are rewriting articles like:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/16/2952030/user-interface-des...

and sites like BGR, MacObserver, ExtremeTech, ITWorld, Bostinno and probably plenty of others maintain a presence here dumping their links.
Got rejected as well, I agree re: how useful it would be to even get just a sentence or half sentence. Maybe even just a round number, i.e. round 1 (intern-reviewed) or round 2, etc. Then you'd know if you got a 1 that your application has a lot of problems in it, at least.
I think he's saying that everyone creates work which others resent, hence "shit work"

Oh wait, no, he's describing his software as shit, and saying that making it work is everyone's job. Got it.
Actually this is why I'll likely use GDrive and it's one of the few things that leads to frustation for me with Dropbox.

I use Dropbox for two reasons: backup and sharing. Almost everything I have in Dropbox is documents. I mostly use Google Apps for my document editing needs but I sometimes use Office b/c I prefer Excel for complicated spreadsheets. I also use Word when the folks I'm sharing with aren't hip to Google Apps and/or I need to do a level of formatting that Google Apps doesn't support. I prefer Google Apps to Office because the collab is so good.

Because I use both Office (files) and Google Apps it means that my docs live in two places. Dropbox (my local hard drive) and Google Apps. That drives me crazy. Where does that doc live again? Why doesn't it show up in Spotlight searches? I want them in one place. I could manually import/export but I'm lazy and can't be bothered.

Also GDrive could make for a great leaver to get "normal people" that use Office to start using Google Apps.
kudos to you for pursuing your dream; even if you do go back to a job again, I'm sure you'll keep pushing forward somehow, some way... wishing you future success!
Interesting tidbit from the announcement about this on SpaceX's website:

>In fact, Dragon has so much interior volume, that we could place an entire three-person Russian Soyuz capsule descent module inside Dragon’s pressure vessel.

That is just awesome.
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I don't recall saying anything like that. Don't worry, I'm not going to eat your children.
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Musicians typically don't have a lot of money, so I wouldn't introduce premium features.

You do have a very niche market, so targeted advertising should work nicely.

That said, you know your market best. Your question is a bit like asking us what kind of pants you should buy. How the heck should we know? If you've got a fat butt, go with cargo pants. You know best.
Wow thank you! We are located around the Sacramento area and were looking forward to calling sf our home this summer. We are a team of 3 best friends, two of which are coders, and myself, the designer and somewhat of an inventor. Here's two of our portfolio pages.
http://kennygibbs.com/

http://seenazandipour.com/#/about

Thanks for the kind words. Its always nice to hear positive feedback on a project after receiving a letter like ycomb's today.
That's all well and good until you're the only one who makes "shit work" - and then you can't do your job because you're doing everyone else's job.

Sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is deflect the person away from you and towards the code's owner just so you can get your own work done.

Sincerely, jaded (nearly ex) large company employee
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" The higher a journal’s impact factor, the two editors found, the higher its retraction rate."

This is not necessarily evidence of misconduct, however. High impact journals also tend to publish new techniques and surprising results, both of which are more likely to contain subtle, unintentional errors.

I haven't been in science long enough to say whether the pressures really are getting worse over time, but my sense is that it's almost always been pretty competitive.
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I think the whole "you must have a cofounder" thing is silly. There's no hard and fast rule, except for the one where almost every startup is going to fail with or without cofounders, with or without YC.

Applications and acceptance don't mean anything. Applying isn't helpful for 97+% of applicants. Rejection doesn't really mean much either.
I hope I didn't seem to be implying there weren't hard problems in both fields-- but I do think there's a bigger gap in the current state of the art than you claim.

The path to realism in graphics is pretty clear because the real-world behavior of light is well-understood. There may be equations yet to be perfected, and challenges in efficiently simulating that behavior, but the direction is never in question; you can always tell if you've made it look more realistic or less.

By contrast, AI in games has reached a local maxima; the combination of pathfinding, scripted cues, an elaborate finite state machine, and a few basic heuristics is capable of simulating human behavior well enough, and with few enough glitches, that it presents a realistic universe to the player so long as they don't exceed the scripted bounds. However, if they do exceed those bounds, the whole thing appears paper-thin. You can extend the bounds with additional effort in scripting, but not infinitely, and with diminishing returns-- and doing so gets you no closer to having real AI which would be able to make those same decisions on its own.

Striking out and attempting to make an intelligent NPC-directed world from scratch... I'm not saying it's impossible, but I haven't seen anything, from AAA titles to indie games to tech demos, to imply it's coming soon.

But maybe that's just because I haven't seen the Minecraft of AI-driven gameplay yet.
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In California it was $50,000 for the 08-09 year. But if you read the footnote it states "since 2000-01, the average annual cost has increased by about $19,500." Almost a $20 thousand increase in 8 years, I'd hate to see what it is now or worse in another 7 years.

We have to add in the cost of Correctional Officer salaries and the Wardens who can easily make over $220,000 a year.

http://www.lao.ca.gov/laoapp/laomenus/sections/crim_justice/...
iTunes has a preview button for all tracks, right? (Besides, "Julia bieber" gives the cover two stars)
I have no financial stake in the New England Patriots, nor do I know anyone employed by them. I still hate Peyton Manning (OK, poor analogy this season, but still).

The final sentence seems ridiculous on its face. Read simply, it sounds like you think Google shouldn't be doing product development at all. There's a word for tech companies that stop "joining new tables": "stagnant".
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