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I don't think anything but a campaign finance reform, that will cut the tie between companies and Government, will work.

Currently the strongest relationship is between Corporations <-> Government, and not People <-> Government. That's what's creating the whole mess. In other countries such strong ties with companies and so much funding from them would be considered illegal, and taken as bribing or corruption. But not in US. In US their crimes have been legalized.

So I think the only solution is to outright ban companies from donating to campaigns (that includes SuperPAC's and whatnot). There's an argument that what if a company needs to preserve its rights or something? Well, I don't see why a few people at the top of that company should decide that. If everyone working for that company thought their company is in danger because of a new legislation then they should all donate to their preferred candidate.

Of course such individual donations need to be capped to a few thousand dollars at most, too. Otherwise rich individuals can still donate millions at a time, which could easily make their candidate win a state or two. Do we really think that allowing one individual to completely change the outcome of an election within a state, is what's "normal"?

The democratic vote is supposed to give everyone "equal power" to vote, and that's still true when you're literally talking about the vote. But there's also this virtual parallel vote, which is the money you can use to fund a politician, and right now that "vote" can dramatically skew the results, when cast by a few rich individuals or corporations. So you can see this as a loophole in the voting system. Even if millions of people have their vote equal, this parallel money-vote is not equal in power, and what's worse is that it's also used to influence the real vote.
I can't imagine using gmail for high-volume email; I've used it at various times due to being lazy about setting up something better, but ugh.

mutt is so much better, using maildirs synced with imap (with mbsync or something). Totally customizable, per-folder triggers, and works in a terminal.
some say that the future will be app-based and that domain-names and tlds will be a thing of the past, we'll see.

I know a lot of people who say they hate squatters, then they have an "awesome idea" for a project, they'll register 10 domains, the project is never finished and they put their page on sedo in the hope someone clicks on an ad or buys the domain and they won't let go because it's just $10 a year and maybe they'll someday finish their page.

I honestly don't get the hate for squatters, they registered the domain, they were quicker than others and why should they sell their domainname just because someone else wants it badly? that's not how business works.

if you really want or even need a domainname then offer $3k and you'll get it, otherwise look for alternatives, but stop whining
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I would boil it down to one simple requirement:

If you do not have an excellent track record and/or functional prototype, don't ask for my money!
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I have been hired largely on keyword matches before, it was a bad move.

Think about it: most everyone you're going to be working with will have been selected on such a basis as well. Not so much bad people, but on the whole a thoroughly uninspiring workplace where creativity was actively discouraged.

Unless I was really desperate, I would prefer not to get hired at a place that used that sort of process.
Research and experience show that of all the people who say this (I would pay X more for animal-friendler meat), few follow through. I pay around 25% more for meat that is produced with the animals having better lives and the relative amount of such products available does not line up with the amount of people that say they would buy it.
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most, if not all of the big players in the industry own their own registrar(s)
Why is it not morally correct? He is just speculating as speculators do in all different industries. And kudos to him - it's technically non-trivial, carries a lot of risk and clearly requires a lot of business acumen to work.
Looks similar to the "Mikontalo Lights" project in Finland. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ril6OYSKD3A
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This reminds me of when people complained about the new facebook design.
Great article.

A team composed entirely of production people, with no
“business guys,” may not fully comprehend the total costs
involved in creating a game.

Has any startup succeeded with nothing but engineers as founders?
I "coped" with it by switching to sparrow as my gmail frontend.
Ask HN: What is the best tangible benefit of social networks?
What is the most compelling tangible benefit that you can think of Social networks like FB or Twitter.
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I agree that we could look at it as simply a case of a bad match in the skillset.

But that's also the point right? Everyone with more than two years experience in software development knows skill sets are changing continually. This story is speculating that data analytics will be next the long history of hot/baseline skills for the developer. It does so using the powerful narrative device of not saying directly at all.

Is data analytics going to be the next critical skill for developers like relational databases, object-oriented, or internet technologies has been in the past? Or is it going to be (or already is) the next bioinformatics, an interesting subspecialty but far from being the primary source of demand for software development talent?
This study is as insightful as those "studies show sleep helps you think better".
Yes of course. There are startups just started almost by accident with no money. Game development projects are nothing like that though.
Is this the solution..?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_desk
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I'm glad The Phantom Tollbooth is on the list, but don't overlook Norton Juster's The Dot and the Line.
I love it when it comes to make new ideas.
I'm obviously in minority here, but I don't stress too much about the design as long as unread messages are in bold text. But this might be due to me working mostly in terminals and text/code editors, where design never was a top priority.

The things I care about most in gmail are:

1. reliability, speed and lots of space
2. good spam filtering
3. web view of various office documents (I used to cringe when someone sent me .doc or .xls, not anymore)
4. fast search which also includes gtalk conversations (invaluable)

If one or two of these things goes away, then I'll probably switch.
This makes me feel much better about my standing desk, gluten free snacks, and free range chickens.
I am also a huge HC fan, have his books and owe him a great deal for the inspiration that he has given me.

And although I agree with many things that you have said in your post I really do disagree that there are less generalists than before. I think the industry has matured to a stage where there is much specialization but there are many mixing business and creative skills ( I am lumping together producing code and design because they are both creative skills in my eyes).

In fact for the 10 years it's been easier than ever to mix these skills.

Anyway I am very saddened by his death.
I wonder if buying lots of domains in the hope of making it big is like buying lottery tickets in the hope of making it big. Does anybody know if this business model actually works?
Well I'm specially not good at calculus, geometry, probability etc. I can do algebra and statistics after some practice.
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Unfortunately I don't think that a "continuous body monitoring device" will help. I'm no doctor but I have read enough on cancer to safely affirm that the number of "markers" associated to the plethora of cancers will trigger so many false positive to make the device useless.

Recently there was a very interesting article on HN about the mindblowing complexity of cancer: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/personalized-m...
> The short version: Ubuntu 12.04 is the best release they’ve ever had and
> absolutely blows the upcoming releases of Windows and MacOS X out of the
> water in just about every way that matters.

The second half of that statement may be a touch hyperbolic.
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Why was my previous comment marked as "dead"?
Title says it all. I have included the text of my previous comment below. Why was this comment marked as "dead"?

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A few years ago a URL was posted to HN which linked to a page containing several web page layout examples with each example followed by real-world usage examples. It was notable in my mind because it covered much more than the standard n-column, grid, n-boxes, and gallery layouts my current web searches are turning up (I am fairly certain the title of the article was not the "{number} Ways to ..." or "{number} Rock Solid ..." blog spam my searches have turned up so far).

Does the above description prompt anyone's memory?

Or, can someone please reply with a link to a similar encyclopedia of website layouts?

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You should take one of the free online courses from Udacity, Coursera, or even University of Reddit, on algorithms and machine learning (separate topics).

A pure math degree will not teach you the skills that you are specifically after: it is pure mathematics.
The effect you're noticing is that it is a lot easier to get variety into random content when you don't have to provide graphics for it. It's also easier to make a world feel real (w.r.t. the baseline the game is establishing via its interface).
It seems the main complaint in this blog is with unpredictable "pauses". Here is a simple solution then. Let the GC run on a worker thread of a different core. That should eliminate these pauses right? Pauses are more likely to be caused by context switching between processes anyway. I have never heard of programming language with GC being used on a Real Time Operating System for obvious reasons. This sounds like a rant of jealousy or anti GC evangelism.
Certainly, but by and large, the GPL does make this a lot more difficult if you're not planning to do it from the outset. With something like Linux, it'd be completely impossible.
Consumer app.
We guess that we need to spend more time on 'getting inside heads' before doing too much more.
If we better understand the pain points then we should have a stronger argument for building our MVP.
Recently I started getting interested in math and science after connecting the dots using systems thinking. Several stuff in math is interrelated to different pieces within it. I didn't knew that at the time when I was in school. Yea I can become better at math, but I'm not sure if I should just focus on my strengths or improve my weakness i.e maths which can take alot of time. Maybe I can focus on things which will have big impact in my life ?

Yea I didn't had good instructure. I also changed alot of school during childhood, that may had changed curriculum alot of times and my basic math skills were messed up. Here in India they don't teach you much. Students here are more interested in getting that piece of certificate(graduation degree) and showing it to the employer rather than thinking about what to do with the knowledge they have. Sometimes they don't even have knowledge cuz they just do rote learning without connecting the dots or understanding the concepts.

I downloaded couple of ttc lectures, and they explain these stuff in a awesome way.
IMO, you are not a cog. Working a 9-5 doesn't make someone a cog. You've evaluated your options and made a conscious choice. Who can find fault in that?

Going through life on "auto-pilot" is what would someone a cog. That's how I would define it. Though, personally, I don't like describing other people with words like "cog" or "sheep".
It feels to me that the article is packing a lot of FUDge...
You are not disagreeing with anybody.

> Reclaiming memory is a visible side effect. If you don't do it, your program leaks memory and dies. Very visible. It's just a resource like any other.

And you are failing at reading comprehension.
Much of the business knowledge required to launch a successful startup can be acquired in a few months of dedicated studying. So it's no surprise teams of engineers have launched successful businesses, and do so routinely.
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How important is it to have the .com name, is there any research available on this topic? I known that common sense says that mydomain.com is better than mydomain.cc, mydomain.io, mydomain.to or whatever, but is this really the case and how big are the differences? (For example how much more likely users remember a .com vs .io name)
Very interesting.

What's the difference like?

I mean, what kind of responses do you see from people whose world view is driven by pride/courage/joy/compassion ?
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At the end of the day every startup needs to consider 'business fundamentals'.

Without knowing how your product will build value and profit, you are pretty much sailing on a sinking ship.

Taking funding too early in the process also puts your future ownership at risk. How hard are you willing to work with no or minority equity?
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I suspect you have a very limited (that is, "it's all arithmetic") notion of what math is. You cannot develop software without some kind of mathematical thinking.

Then you would suspect wrong :-) I have a friend who was a career mathematicians briefly, before ambling off into finance. Personally I stopped math after A level (roughly equivalent to the first year university math at university in the US as I understand it - calculus, etc.).

I know math isn't just doing sums.

From my mate I know that many mathematicians are bloody awful at coding - which is a PITA now that computers are much more a part of how mathematics are done in many fields. From personal experience I know that a large chunk of the very best coders I've ever worked with don't have a math background beyond basic numeracy.

What I think people experience is actually the opposite connection. Some of the problem solving skills that developers use are the same sort of skills that folk get from being good at mathematics.

You can get those skills in other places without learning higher level math. And being a successful developer needs much more than the skills from the mathematics toolset.

Nothing against math. Math is great. Moderately good at it myself. If you're a good developer having it will help more than it will hinder. But having it won't make you a good developer, and not having won't stop you being a good developer.
Having worked with Pure Data before, I can tell you that it is pretty painful to use for anything substantial. When you've got 3+ lines crossing other lines and coming into the same terminal, it's next to impossible to keep track of how stuff works. You spend a lot of time wiggling components to see how their attached wires move.
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Careful - don't rely on fastmail for XMPP. I switched to them based on them having that, since I used it a lot with Gmail. Then I found out that fastmail is running some super wobbly XMPP server which kicks you off any time you really get going really quickly in a conversation.

I've opened multiple tickets, and all they can say is "sorry" and "we know about it" and "we're working on it", but actual fixes still haven't come. Having a solid chat experience obviously is not high on their priority list.
The ads that use CPU are generally calling flash or some HTML5 canvas type of thing. Actually that's a good question, I wonder how js.js handles that sort of stuff?
I'd throw in The Great Brain[1] books, any of the Tom Swift Jr.[2] books, the The Three Investigators[3] books, and the Encyclopedia Brown[4] series.

Edit:

Remembered a few other suggestions... Pretty much anything by Jules Verne, especially The Mysterious Island. Definitely some HG Wells, and definitely some Choose Your Own Adventure books (anybody remember The Cave of Time?)

Glad to see A Wrinkle in Time and The Mad Scientists Club on the list. Those were awesome reads as a kid.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Brain

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift,_Jr.

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Investigators

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brown
I guess one could always find a justification. But the fact of the matter is that no other big US company managed to do what Apple did years ago: give money to non-US companies/individuals selling IP.

Google's AppStore still supports only a limited number of countries.

Amazon don't support sellers outside the US for any of their offerings (be it, selling books via Kindle Direct Publishing or selling apps in their Android store or selling EC2 images).

This is not a feature that's too early to talk about because AWS Marketplace is new. Supporting non-US sellers is something that Amazon just doesn't seem to be able to do it or doesn't care.

Frankly I don't know if it's a matter of red-tape (they would need a single EU presence, for example, to cater to the 27 member states) or just some kind of weird protectionism.
Unfortunately this is typical of the Wall Street Journal: if ever one wants a lesson in how to spot bias in the media, reading the WSJ's editorial output is always good for a quick refresher.
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No Jules Verne?

I guess he's not very popular in the states, and thus my Soviet upbringing is showing, but I can't imagine growing up without him. I learned pretty much all of the geography that I know from him.
This is amazing :) I expected it to do BPM analysis, pull out the tempo, then just cut back and forth between the original song and some classic WUBWUBWUUUUBing, but it's surprisingly sophisticated. I fed it one of my songs in 5/8 with no discernable beat, and it generated quite a listenable dubstep track with cut-up vocals, a bassline in tune with the original song, and a nice looping section of one of the guitar solos.
There's plenty to go around. This isn't the only guy sending out automated DMCA notices. They've infamously been sent to networked printers, which were misidentified as part of a torrent swarm by some bot.

There are also more than a few people who fill out Google's DMCA form and list the infringing work as their own work, which is pretty weird too. One time I saw, it might have even been intentional, as the guy appeared to be trying trying to remove his own logo from Google images.

You might be surprised how much you can learn about what's going on on the web if you trawl through the Chilling Effects list of DMCA notices.
I dislike the killing as well, and so I haven't eaten meat in 29 years. But I'd eat in-vitro meat without hesitation.
"Generalists like Hillman Curtis, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are becoming more and more uncommon." "Nobody cares anymore."

Where I am coming from this is certainly not true. At a small company I know they (still, traditionally) hand out copies of MTIV if you succeed for your internship. And I am coming from a school where you can also specialize in Experience Branding and Nathan Shedroff. A lot of young people want to become the next John Lasseter, _why or Kevin Kelly.

The names you are talking about are special though. They were pioneers, but not only because of their own merits but also because it was just the right time.
A lot of indie game studios start out this way.
I'm not sure whether belief in NLP is a matter of taste : The techniques are basically a distillation of what therapists (notably Erickson) have uncovered during hypnosis. To further amplify your point, the unconscious mind doesn't seem to be any good at parsing logical statements - so things that one 'says to oneself' should be cast straightforwardly.

At its most basic, the command "Don't think of a pink unicorn" brings to the surface exactly what you don't want. Drilling yourself to process 'bad stuff' unconsciously is (as you said) counterproductive.
His point was that in the Bible Belt there are probably other (religious) priorities when it comes to curriculum.
You can do development on a laptop just fine if you plug in an external keyboard and one or two external monitors.
Dropbox is the obvious example.
>We tend to live our lives thinking as we go that we should be striving to end up at some optimal place and that the purpose of our lives is desperately trying to keep us exactly on that course.

This is very US (and now occidental) thinking. Many cultures in the world don't have people thinking like that. You've got to have a family and integrate well and support the community. The rest is not as important as our current society wants us to think.
Thank you for the feedback! This is exactly what I was looking for :)

I heard this request a couple of times now - why not simply have the option to type tweets through the site - so I might really consider to implement it.

Thank you!
Yeah, Jules Verne was awesome. His stuff is fairly popular here in the US as well, although I can't compare to how popular he was elsewhere. I read several of his books when I was younger. The Mysterious Island was always my favorite.
Linux is fine, it's just a kernel. Innovation goes into the user space, between /sbin/init and /bin/sh. I, for one, would start changing all the configuration files of /etc/ to a standard format: json, yaml, scheme, lua, python, it doesn't really matter, just abstract that part away.
Not computer scientists. Programmers themselves, based more on their experience than theory.
Both (lottery tickets, domain names) have working business models. Google it.
Can you clarify, perhaps with some examples, of doing something one might want at large scale and not doing it on a smaller scale? Thanks
It's a great way to keep track of the latest news and happenings in the world and in my local community. I admit I wasn't much of a news reader when I was younger, but now I'm much more plugged in and social media helps me do this.
You can use Exchange rather than Imap with Gmail.
Depends what your dreams are. One of my dream was to fly planes. I did learn all that without getting burned out - would not help me much keeping my medical certificate for flying!!! Actually, this was quite some time taking learning, but that doesn't made me put my other social activities aside. How do you define a dream? Do you define your dreams compared to the others, so you have to better than anyone else, and so you have to work like crazy? Or do you define your dreams by achievements you would like to get to yourself, in which case I'd ask you why you can't just adapt your pace to your life?
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I live in India, I have a 2mbps connection at home and pay about $40/month. Not sure what lag you are referring to. I dont have any problems talking to people on skype wherever in the world they may be.
There are a lot of indie game developers who come from an enthusiast background rather than a business background (some may have been professional enthusiasts but someone else gets them a check every two weeks), which causes a lot of this. Enthusiasts don't understand that salaries for engineers chew money really, really quickly.

HN is not exactly immune to this: see people commenting like that $20k for a ruby project was more than a few week's wages.