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Back when the Wii was announced, I knew it was going to be a blockbuster hit. I got my parents to invest a considerable amount of money in Nintendo before-hand and they ended up profiting quite handsomely. They would have done better, but their broker convinced them to invest half of what I was suggesting.

Anyway, the important thing I told them was to not hold on to that stock for more than 2 years because the Wii would fail spectacularly when HDTV's had better adoption rates. I was a bit off on that prediction (nintendo stock took a bit longer to tank), but it seemed so obvious that the Wii would not be able to compete long-term.

I did not predict Apple destroying their handheld marketshare, but neither did the rest of the market. What amazes me about Nintendo is that they felt the Wii could be profitable for so long. I've always looked at the Wii as a defensive maneuver, it was just a device to give the company a shot at following it up with something really great. Since that has yet to happen, I don't think they are even capable of competing in the new market anymore. I have zero confidence that they can compete with Apple or Sony/MS.

The only thing Nintendo has going for them is their IP. I would not be surprised if we start seeing Mario and Link on some iOS title in a couple years. The WiiU will be as successful as the 3DS and everything to follow will be in steady decline. The world is going to move to iOS/Android/windows phone for mobile gaming and pay <$10 for games. Sony and MS are going to own on the game consoles. I just don't see a place for nintendo anymore.
Why not make the ToS incremental so you agree as-and-when you use the relevant part of the service. Click share "Do you authorise Google to share this document yada-yada", done.

Most users will only consume part of the service, why should they have to agree to 100%?
I have found quite a few people recommend this, and never understood the point - if all you want is a "cloud" backup of your opaque data, simply use tarsnap. cheap, easy, brilliant piece of engineering. Or heck, use backblaze with their unlimited storage plan!

The trouble with building a truecrypt volume inside GDrive/Dropbox etc is that this makes the data completely opaque to the service. You give up all integration with google docs, easy sharing via links, collaboration, everything. Why use these services at all if you don't need the features they provide over and above basic backup?
You consistently set off the voting ring detector.
is there any evidence for this argument? would investment just stop alltogether, or would it change to support lots of smaller ventures instead of a few big ones?
the "random punk" is probably a swimming coach ;)
Your downvote was lost in the sea of upvotes making this my most upvoted comment ever...

The process for choosing an Ubuntu wallpaper goes thusly:

* A new, public flickr group is created.

* People bung their photos/art in there.

* The previous 'winners' choose the next wallpapers.
There's been several articles on this topic, and I don't understand why they all seem to ignore this line in Google's TOS: "Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."

These terms are across all of Google's services, and of course they need to state these sorts of things to keep themselves covered.
Something's wrong with the layout on Lion and Safari 5.1.5. http://imgur.com/LapyS
(a) The secondary market (stock markets, etc.) informs the prices in the primary market (stock issues, etc.). For example, when Facebook's IPO happens, its shares will be priced in part based on the stock prices of companies in related industries and in the broader market. Securities prices reflect not only the "intrinsic" value of the underlying enterprise/cashflow/whatever, but also complex second-order factors described by economic concepts like risk premia, liquidity, etc., that are predominately relational in nature.

(b) The primary market cannot exist without the secondary market because no one will buy into your IPO if they don't think they'll be able to turn around and sell the shares at some point. This is obviously the case for securities that generate no income (stocks that don't pay dividends, etc.), but it is also true of other securities for a slew reasons. This is the core of the the complex and amorphous notion of liquidity.

(c) By publicizing the value of the underlying assets, prices in the secondary market inform the wider world about the performance of the managers of those assets. Investors who believe those managers are doing a poor job can put up their money, throw the bums out, and bring in someone who will do the job properly.

All of these things support the efficient allocation of capital and ultimately shape the behavior of all economic actors. Capitalism requires that this mechanism works fairly well.
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omdat elke naam van die mense het 'n oorsprong in 'n spesifieke konsep.
While it's obvious Google isn't planning to rape, pillage and publish your private files, their terms of service are starting on the wrong foot.

Ask for the base permissions you need and work from there. This is even more important when you're not a Google. Explain what you need and why to give them what they want from you, earn their trust and karma.

More importantly, if you sell off your company later, they will protect your users from those who might take a more liberal view of the TOS.
Could not stop reading, good 6-pages.

Finally, an easy to understand algorithm for discovering happiness. Not easy to execute.
It states the obvious, but in a rational, nerd-compatible (VC-compatible) way.

Recommended reading.
Ask PG: How much time do you spend on HN daily?
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Regardless of the nitty gritty details, I think the most important part about something like this is that places like Grand Rapids are thinking of this. They're putting money, time, resources, and energy into helping propel this kind of entrepreneurial/startup thinking forward.

Its success by itself remains to be seen, but this program's small contribution to the overall rising tide is for sure.
Y no one compares them to skydrive?

«we don't claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don't control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service.»

« we may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to: (a) comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process; (b) protect the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the service; or (c) act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of [ppl]»
Unity has been ported to archlinux a while ago.

https://github.com/chenxiaolong/Unity-for-Arch

Note the insane amount of packages, most of which are patched versions of packages.
maybe they think basic economic principles such as "everyone is an equally informed sociopath acting at all times to consume as much as possible without regard to relationships" are absurd.

economics is a bullshit field.
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Or, young males (I am male but no longer so young) are just generally oblivious when it comes to empathizing with others, particularly women. Blame testosterone.

I believe the problem can be curbed by companies that watch out for this sort of thing, but you'll always have a certain unpleasant minority of "boys being boys".
You could improve your icon. The game has such interesting shapes but the icon is just one plain shape. Making the icon one or more of the more interesting shapes would catch attention. Also, to me those diagonal lines somehow make it feel unfinished or like a placeholder. I'm not sure what they remind me of.

The app name in iTunes could include some of the description: "Polymer - slide to create never-before-seen shapes". That would catch more eyes on a list of apps.
Not that fucking Siri canard again. It was debunked repeatedly. The reason Planned Parenthood wasn't being found by the person's query is they were looking for "abortion provider" or something along those lines and Planned Parenthood wasn't listing itself under those terms. It had NOTHING to do with sexism on the part of the developers.

Shame on the author.
What, pray tell, is jenkem?
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I'm not optimistic. Like Sony, Nintendo's insularity has caught up to them in a way that can't be easily remedied.
The packaged game looks pretty archaic in a world where just about every game is assumed to be seamlessly multiplayer, loaded with social features, easily updatable, easy to share with friends. And yeah, free or $5 if a gamer has some money burning a hole in their pocket. App Store reviews where gamers complain that something wasn't worth $8 should chill Nintendo execs.
Even the "living room" multiplayer gaming experience they seem to be banking on might feel out of place in 2012. Guitar Hero-type games and MS/Sony's awesome Wii competitors seem to have faded. I wonder if social networks and constant mobile connectivity are fulfilling the hole that the group videogame experience once filled.
The nail in the coffin is that their whole approach to their IP has been an extreme vulnerability for years: they've flogged all of it to death. I probably saw more press around Angry Birds: Space than any Nintendo game in recent memory and I wouldn't hesitate to say that a new Blizzard game generates vastly more excitement in gaming circles.
This is not sexism--it's bad taste. A marketing guy that can only use sex to sell sucks as a marketing guy and I'd expect more people to jump on that aspect of the story. (I realize I'm probably jumping the gun, and he could have instances of marketing brilliance).

What Sqoot did was kind of sexist--implying that women were only good for getting beer. What most of these other instances have been are just bad taste.
Fact 1)
If you are READY to sell a product, yes you do not need funding

Fact 2) If you need to sell Stock (crowdfunding or not) it is that you product needs a few month to deliver.

--> strategy 1(sell product) is not versus stategy 2 (sell equity).
Not, those two strategies answer different needs.

Thierry
Yeah, I agree. The results Siri returns are from Google or WolframAlpha, so a lack of information on one subject is not necessarily Apple's oversight. I think that the abortion-directions issue was later attributed to Google's SafeSearch filter.
I think you need to be careful on that line of thinking. We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues. That said, certainly in context the humor wasn't funny -- and SXSW certainly could have asked him to rework the presentation to be less needlessly controversial.

I guess what I'm most confused by is why a talk titled "Adding Value as a Non-Technical No Talent Ass-Clown." got accepted in the first place. Really? I know SXSW isn't a hard science conference, but that seems awfully fluffy for an event that clearly has no trouble filling seats. Maybe it's one more sign we're in a bubble...

Edit: lots of folks are picking on the second sentence above and I think taking it out of context. It was a specific reply to the idea of banning a presenter based on the notion that he "already presented a sexist presentation" -- a fact offered without support. That's just bad thinking. If the guy deserves a career ban, then make that case. Don't throw it out as a tangential point in another post.
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AT&T achieves Zen state of unintentional irony
Not really. How often does telling someone they're wrong change their mind?
> That doesn't however explain why they need such language for drive.

Google just recently went through a unification of their disparate privacy policies, terms of service, etc. I also don't see why Google wouldn't want to add services to Drive down the road...
I installed and configured 11.10 from scratch last night. Now I'm going to do it all over (no upgrade) just out of spite.
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Of course they don't, they're a fucking startup. They don't have pointy haired bosses or 900 page corporate manuals outlining when it's OK to take bathroom breaks.
Here are a few that were not mentioned:

- If you have a lot of images like in a product catalog, try lazy loading the images - http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload

- For sprite-ing your images, use some tool which will automatically generate the css for you: http://spritepad.wearekiss.com

- Have a git commit hook for compressing images. (It could be part of your build, but then you are doing the work every time and the build will be slow if you have a lot of images.)

- If you are using LessCSS or something similar (hint: you should), have your compiler compress the css for you. - http://wearekiss.com/simpless

- Have multiple hosts referring to your CDN to facilitate parallel downloads in the browser.

- Compress your HTML too before deploying - http://code.google.com/p/htmlcompressor/

- Have proper versioning in the name of your JS/CSS files and then cache them for ever. Whenever you change your files, the version should change and only that file will be updated in the client. We normally take the hash of the latest git commit on that file:

cookie-wrapper.js -> cookie-wrapper.bb9303b809210674.js

- Offload whatever you can from your cookies to localStorage or things like that to reduce request size.
This is a K-12 Initiative - so a different target audience than MITx.
there are a hell of a lot more girls in frat culture than there are in programmer culture.
I don't agree that "popular" is an appropriate word to describe that state of affairs, since popularity implies choice.
Google Kils Google Reader

Is an interesting thought experiment. In one stroke Google could wipe out a large tent pole for the RSS eco system. Wouldn't that effectively make RSS dead?

Not only do people use Google Reader as means to read RSS,
way to many RSS Readers use Google Reader as the crawling infrastructure for there app.(Newsblur being a notable exception). So killing google reader would pwn a large number of apps.

After the main support is gone, why would you build RSS into your product at all? Can RSS, that is propped up by one tenuous pole, last forever?
I know it sounds crazy, but I think we've actually reached a point where the console is dying. The Wii is cool and all, but the prospect of split-screen Minecraft is not warming.
>"Crowd funding is a way to lower your risk."

A large number of naive investors as partners increases the risk of an investment.

It's the reason that professional investors tend to put together deals with other investors they have previously worked with. It's the reason they form groups.

As I've said, crowdsourcing will attract dumb money. Smart money will tend to prefer not to become legally entangled with it. People with lower inhibitions will enjoy a feeding frenzy.

Don't misunderstand me. There will be widely trumpeted crowd source success stories.

It just won't change the fact that most people will lose their investments - heck that's even the rule for smart money investing in startups.
No, but they openly embrace digital downloads. Nintendo came kicking and screaming and with a pretty poor end result. The Wii pulled a Blackberry – alienate your base audience and fall short on expectations.

I was once what you'd consider a die-hard Nintendo fan, but like a Blackberry user, one day you have to shed the melon collie and realize you're endorsing a company that can't pivot.
I would dare to guess that women are underrepresented among developers PRECISELY because of this culture and the underlying assumptions and attitudes.

Gender is irrelevant to logical analysis, which is the foundation of programming. If you don't have parity in your pool of candidates, there's a cause, and it's probably social.

Nursing and teaching used to be men's work. Women weren't thought to be capable of it. Too weak. Too sensitive. Too illogical.

Women aren't going into software development? Then there's a problem. Don't be part of it.
This [1] was a joke.

This [2] was for real.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qi_AAqi0RZM#%21

[2] http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2012/03/how-casual-sexism-put-sqoot-in.php
One of the biggest justifications for HFT that I see is that it increases liquidity. However, did major markets ever really have a huge problem with lack of liquidity, 20 or 30 years ago before HFT?

I can't help but wonder if this level of liquidity is only really useful to HFT, if it is something that HFT is both the primary provider and beneficiary of, and if they're sort of using their existence to justify their existence, so to speak.

Chris uses mom and pop trader examples to explain the concepts here, but the fact is that Algo trading now accounts for much of the volume on major exchanges, and HFT is probably a decent portion of that.

I'd love to see Chris or any other HFT trader's take on that. He sort of does near the end, but would be interesting to see a more in depth discussion:

>Although the latency competition provides little to no value to the end consumers, all HFTs must play the game. If they don’t, a faster HFT will beat them to market and their order flow will be reduced.

This is a very real social cost of HFT - many very smart people spend a lot of time and effort reducing the latency of trading systems. I’m no fool, but when I worked as an HFT I often felt like one. The field contains a lot of very smart people, and the world would probably be better off if the stock market had a little more latency and those smart people were building products for the world. For example, after leaving HFT I built a useful consumer product.

But with current market mechanics, the global optimum where trading is marginally slower and smart people build useful products is impossible to reach. The latency arms race has us stuck in a suboptimal Nash Equilibrium which is similar in character to signalling competitions (e.g., the education bubble).
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Much like warfare, the race to trade is a zero sum game. Either Leela or Bender is going to provide liquidity, but no one (besides Leela and Bender) cares which one does.

There is no compelling social reason why we should reward smarts in this case.
Liquidity has gone down with the advent of HFT:
http://opusminimax.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/ardent-support-f...
Sometimes, like in this case, quick fix is sorely needed to even get started with long fix. If you are sleep deprived and have hypertension, there is just not enough energy to do exercise or seek or cook healthy food.

As for the weight - I can only offer anecdotal evidence: OP's problems are likely aggravated by weight, but it may well be that there is a muscle problem as well. My BMI (weight in kg divided by height in meters squared) during different periods of my life hovers around 25 - just between healthy and overweight. According to my wife, once my BMI is below 25 I stop having episodes of snoring at night and the more my BMI goes over 25 the more snoring I do.
Sure, but your missing the point. RSS is also an ecosystem. If there are no producers, or readers, there are no consumers. If the ecosystem goes away people won't use RSS anymore. Making it effectively dead.
How often do speeches like this actually happen? My guess would be that it's pretty low, but that people have nothing better to blog about, so I have hear about it like it's an epidemic. Are there any real statistics?
A blog post saying "We have 20 petabytes of data in Google Drive" would be promoting the service with your data. Lawyers are always going to argue for the vaguest terms possible in situations like this.
There's a radical difference between a grown up workplace that sips a couple of high quality microbrews at Friday happy hour (my most recent workplace), and a frat house doing keg stands.

And there's a lot of room in between the extremes.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a social culture that enjoys a few beers after a hard day of work. On the contrary, it builds bonds between co-workers and leads to better work product.
Sometimes jokes can go too far. Jokes are only funny in the appropriate context to the appropriate audience.

More so, there is only so far you can go with irony. If you're a hipster and you drink PBR ironically at the end of the day you're still drinking PBR. The same thing goes if you are projecting the image of a misogynistic workplace.
I don't think anyone seriously describes themselves as a brogrammer. It's all a big joke that some people just don't get.
It looks like that specific card won't work for three monitors, because output #3 is hdmi and not displayport.
Is it the same though? If your start-up gets money from Kleiner Perkins, do you really pay attention to everyone who gave money to Kleiner Perkins to start the original fund? I had in mind that HN would be more of being a provider of capital than an active investor. YC would be "investor."
Money is a means, not an end (unless of course you’re a rare coins collector.) I don’t consider myself a Silicon Valley insider by any measure, but from the outside it doesn’t seem like there’s an “It’s not about the money” culture. Billion dollar acquisitions and multi-billion dollar IPOs certainly reflect Silicon Valley’s acknowledgement that money is fundamental in any business process. Which brings me back to my first point: to reach any meaningful scale, anyone who wants to solve a problem or make the world more interconnected needs a myriad of resources. It would seem that making money is not only OK, but up to a certain point necessary; not to splurge on yachts and mansions, but rather to acquire the best tools and talent said money can procure.
I'm interested in finding out if it's the one who is at my school, but like you, I'm hesitant to dilute my own anonymity.
Doesn't allow me to access my files on my Android device. I sometimes like to access a PDF, or word document :(.
:)

Well, the idea is that he won't reach the end of the list. So, two more items at the end will make no difference except add only more backlog!
Whoa, that link looks like a pretty incredible resource. Thanks for sharing!
Maybe my comment helped make it the most popular comment ever. If so, I'm glad I could help!

So, you had two of your photos chosen for this release or no? Is that rare?

Thanks for the context in how it works. Do you see any trends in what gets picked over what doesn't. I assume more abstract is usually better?
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> It seems to me that there are two ways one can approach this subject. On to proclaim that these are intentional acts of portraying females in a negative light and keeping them out of the tech industry.

I'm not sure I've actually seen this interpretation being presented here or anywhere else (though I veer off blog comments, they are sometimes good, but not worth the risk of reading the Facebook-quality ones). I think it's pretty well recognized that this is the product of both immaturity and stubborn ignorance, which makes it acceptable for too many folks in this industry to just trample over women nonchalantly with their attitudes and ``jokes''.