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It also wouldn't have $0 ROI because there are people who will pay for advanced services built around the law-making process.

Here's an example of a service built on Ontario laws (disclosure: I made it): www.ontariomonitor.ca. It emails people when a bill passes a committee or when new laws are introduced (+ lots of other stuff).
No. That's complete nonsense.
"Balanced"?

Florian Müller is an obvious anti-Android/anti-Google trolling FUD-ster and on top of that he currently has a consulting relationship with Oracle. Reading his side of anything Google related for "balance" is sort of like watching Fox News to "balance" the supposed liberal slant of mainstream media.
Great idea! (Now let me pimp my own project that nobody cares about so I can make myself feel better and convince myself I'm relevant)
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So we put one individual on the wall, but close our eyes when it comes to corporations which are doing the same thing more or less?
It's the saw you'd most commonly use to cut irregular or curved shapes.
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You know, I have the same complaint. It seems there are too many who find it more fun to berate and humiliate as opposed to offering help when someone has a problem.
You might be surprised to see what hobbyist-grade gear is capable of today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zogJ-hIM-90

and some discussion of it:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1650766

That's only a few hundred bucks worth of off-the-shelf equipment (and a fair few tens or hundreds of hours worth of acquiring the skills needed to make it all work together)
This is basically what highlight.js does indeed :-)
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> Should you spend $100K to live another 10 years or would you rather your grandchildren go to college?

I'll take "false dichotomies" for $200, Bob.

Or, to put it less facetiously, how much money do you think you could make with 10 years of healthy lifespan? And how much value do you think you would add to society in that time? Life is not a zero sum game.
The individuals referred to in the OP calling people morons probably aren't very concerned about that either.

Some might argue that they don't need to be concerned about that.
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I wouldn't have called Brita low cost. Anything but. The reason they switched from the cylindrical refill to the rectangular one was to put an end to the cheap third-party cartridges, which had become endemic for the cylindrical ones. Cynical marketing was used to make it sound like a benefit for the consumer.

I use an old Brita jug with cheap third-party refills, about 1/2 the price. You can also re-use old cartridges and refill them with activated carbon (google for it, there should be plenty of hits). Not quite as good as a new cartridge, but good enough to remove chlorine and bad tastes.

An alternative is reverse-osmosis filtration. Marine aquarists use them as a matter of course as the chemistry, especially water quality, of a home marine aquarium needs to be tightly controlled. You should find that you can get a reverse-osmosis kit aimed at marine aquarists set up for a couple of hundred dollars, much cheaper than a consumer kitchen set up.
But it's a lot of money tho. If your goal is marketing, then isn't it a more efficient cost per user acquisition to just buy adwords or whatever online ads instead?

$3k is a lot of ad impressions.
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Be careful, some people don't like it when that kind of thing is mentioned.
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I'm genuinely curious as to how much music $6000 bought. That can afford quite a decent-length soundtrack.

For not-very-well known composers, I've been quoted in the range of $150-250/minute for music. I assume that if I went a bit higher up the chain (small-time, but established) that the price would rise.
I'm talking about government regulations in general. Environmental regulations are, by definition, authoritative because the government enforces that law. It's very hard to create laws, eg the right to enjoy backyard without smog, as even people breath out pollution. It could be argued that by creating a law prohibiting smog in your backyard, it's far more authoritative than a law to regulate the levels of smog.

It doesn't mean that authoritative laws are bad, really. Some laws are mildly authoritative (anti-littering) to heavily authoritative (anti-terrorism). People's positions tend to be relative to the country they're in. For example, a fiscal-centre-liberal person in USA could be seen as a fiscal-far-liberal person in France.
Depending on your situation, a a usable range, for a useful length of time might mean "around that corner 1 meter away, for 10 seconds" (As anyone who has played a first peson shooter will tell you).
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Some of us who genuinely create useful things (as evidenced by existing users) still have a difficult time getting traction in the PR world, myself included.

It's a frustrating realization that crafting a thoughtful and engaging product isn't enough to "make it big". A lot more to the story, but still.

The web startup scene + typical tech blogs is an old boys' club - all that matters is who you know. And that's why it's all bullshit.
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907879
>>They simply don't have the time to do research on each one. As with anything, you have to find some way to stand out, but in a way that doesn't require them to visit your basement.

In that case they shouldn't look too surprised if they end up hiring wrong people. Or they end up hiring a person with a lot of paper degrees but can't move a coin on the table.

Because you ultimately get what your truly ask for. You asked for degrees, you got it. Why is this so surprising?

Ask for innovation, creativity, hard work and productivity and you will get it. If you want to hire such people, you may to have to visit their basement or look at their github logs. If you can't do that you shouldn't complain you can't hire such people.

People often ask why do great hackers, nerds and other geeks don't gel so well large heavy bureaucratic corporates. Its because the rewards vs performance incentives are all badly messed up. More often than not somebody who has a degree from X college, with Y GPA gets the money.

We recently hired a guy straight out of college, extremely good marks on paper. He seems to know every other data structure and algorithm in the book. But doesn't last more than couple of hours. On the other hand, I've known people from ordinary background with medium exposure, able to last through tough deadlines and crisis situations with enthusiasm. The latter people make far more better hires than the previous ones.

Your degrees are of no use if you can't perform. That fact doesn't change.
A lot of it comes down to the risk vs. benefit equation. The FDA decides to approval/deny new drug for marketing by (attempting) to balance the benefits of the therapy with the drawbacks.

This is why a drug like Tysabri (used to treat MS) can cause a potentially fatal brain infect (PML) and the FDA still gives it an "OK" to be marketed.

And it's also the reason why it's so hard to get obesity drugs approved. Huge population + small risk = a lot of patients harmed.

The FDA considers a healthy human to be the "optimal outcome". If you want to improve an aspect of human health beyond that, you'll have to show that there are zero risks associated with it.
> Ahh, gamers, they're so cute. Poorly-informed over-entitled misanthropes, but cute.

As a gamer, I completely agree with you here. The entitlement has grown rapidly over the past 2-3 years, and in my opinion is only hurting those in the industry looking to be adventurous.

Something like Minecraft might be the exception, but look at the shenanigans surrounding the Mass Effect 3 ending (which was not as bad as some would have you believe)—BioWare is releasing DLC to re-work something that was just a clash between (entitled) gamers who interpreted advertising in their own way, and the artistic direction of those who made the game. Considering the backlash, do these gamers think a studio like BioWare (or publisher like EA) will risk a game that isn't just a Call of Duty sequel again? Sure, but the chances are less, and the resultant game is going to tread a significantly less-risky path.

The comments regarding the $1000 (nothing!) spent on iPad hardware are just inane.
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When I was attending BYU back in the mid 90's, my tuition bill was about $1200 a year (I'm LDS & it could have been per semester - I can't recall). Regardless of whether I paid per semester or year, that's an incredible lack of inflation 20 years later!
I worked on programming cutting robots and I can that they were extremely computationally intensive. They needed to constantly perform SVD to find stable solutions. There is a lot of innovation in this field (applied robotics).
Those studies treated business students, STEM students, and liberal arts students as one cohort.

STEM and Liberal arts students do make significant gains. Business majors actually show a LOSS.
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That's why the DoD loves RedHat so much, they let you pay them money for their distribution, and then you can use all the libraries that come with it.
This isn't inspired by it. It is a copy of it.
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I put this together as a node.js-learning project. Did you remember to call your mother today?
Why did you not take the introductory calculus courses then?
Looks fantastic, though I thought they only used Backbone for their mobile site.
Vaguely, but it sounds like it was a fairly 'manual' sort of tracking: they attached GPS devices to the vehicles, so watching them on CCTV just meant switching to feeds based on the GPS location, rather than some kind of automated vehicle-following algorithm.
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Of course it's creepy, but it's not new, either. The UK went Big Brother long before even 9/11, their CCTV obsession has been making international news since the 90s.
It does say "BS Computer Science or equivalent" -- so they're asking for a certain level of education, which doesn't necessarily have to be in the form of a college degree.
The issues have very little to do with the age of the OS. If someone was asking how to get Firefox running on an embedded Linux machine operating a saw, I would expect most people to be saying roughly the same thing: Don't mess with a sensitive piece of software, buy a dedicated machine to run your timecard system.
I dug a little deeper after seeing this and came across this: http://airbnb.github.com/backpack.js/
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Ask HN: Startups, what are your most pressing needs?
I am working on a startup, and it seems that I could use all kinds of help, e.g. honest feedback, introductions, testings, beta testers, and the list goes on.

I know there are services that specifically target these needs, but I wonder if there are more opportunities out there.

So, startups, what are some of your frequently occurring needs, and how do you usually solve them?
You are committing an argumentative fallacy. That other wrongs are being committed does not detract from the wrong being talked about.
I ... wow. Did they have you sign an offer letter?
Not for Google products.

If you are not Internet famous I imagine you could do a lot worse than HN comments.
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I feel that it's mostly the American mentality of civil liberties. CCTV's are ubiquitous not just in UK but also in Japan, China, Taiwan, etc
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Your link doesn't support your claim. Worse, your link doesn't even consider the idea. All it says:

> Obviously the number of students didn't grow by 511%.

Why is it obvious? Show my a source.
I blogged about it here:
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I'm surprised that there hasn't been a movement on U.S. college campuses to form Pirate Parties. Behind OWS and the Ron Paul phenomenon you'd think it'd fit right in as a grassroots youth movement.
> If not, of course they aren't motivated. Most of them won't be using calculus in their daily life, they don't see it as valuable.

But that's my point, and I'm attempting to bolster the original article's point. I have a room full of calculus students, many of whom don't terribly need or want to learn calculus.

Then why are they there? In many cases you can trace this back to some ambition for which calculus is a prerequisite for some reason or other. But in many cases, they are there because they feel they are "supposed" to be there, or else they feel that a college degree will get them a better job.

Hence the concerns about a bubble.
How many job postings for the tech field actually make sense? Most of them are written by people who have no idea what they speak of. Shoot, most recruiters have no idea either. If the job seems interesting submit anyway and just hope to get someone who understands what's written on your resume. Can't get the job if you don't try.
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He nails the key issue - cheap easy money that can be flipped later for a high paying job. Of course the job may or may not be there. It's worth it for Harvard, but perhaps not for Bradley.
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Quite a feat. I think a big key to Ford's comeback is, like you said, enabling engineering to drive the company forward. It probably helps that Mullaly was once an engineer himself.
I am looking forward to "Show HN: Punch card emulator implemented purely in CoffeeScript and node.js"
And why does making a game cost more than $35k? Because you need to pay the people making the game so they can eat and pay rent. And what do we call the money that we give people for that purpose? Income. Which is taxed.
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Haha, good digging.

That's the gross/first-draft/would-this-work version.

I'll be talking about why I think that approach is undesirable and some ideas for making it better.
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Hype is what drives anything up. You just have to get out before the hype dies. The problem is that most people ("suckers" as you call them) get in late and don't get out in time.
That was our first project that used Backbone. Since then, Backbone has made its way to the web site all over the place.
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It's virtually impossible to make AdWords work for their business model, and if it were not impossible it would require someone intelligent to implement, and unlike game developers SEM specialists expect to get paid on a regular basis.

This is largely a function of the unit economics of indie games being terrible compared to e.g. the unit economics of a free to play MMORPG.
Not trying to complain since it looks like a good program, but why does Dev Bootcamp lump Jquery, Coffeescript, SASS, HAML, AJAX, and others under Advanced Rails Technologies? Shouldn't that be Advanced Web Technologies or are they just simplifying things for their Rails program?
Really? I did not know that! Are they as ubiquitous as London's system? (ie. literally every street and corner in the city is covered by a camera)

The only use of cameras in the US that I know of is for red-light cameras, and even those are hotly debated.
The John Cleese video is a must watch. Thanks for sharing.
I'm an armchair theorist on this topic, but I suspect you get more benefit with an event booth, especially if the people that attend the event have already been self-selected into your target demographic. There's just so much more room for engagement in person, as you can answer questions, provide clarification on the spot, and even obtain advice (perhaps some passerby has a cool idea they want to see in your game). This is drastically harder to do with a website.

This is even more important for smaller indie teams where the developers are the ones manning the booths. I'd be way more interested in discussing the product if I knew I were talking to one of the developers. I found this reflected in my behavior at the vendor booths at pycon this year. When a booth was manned by salespeople, I'd just go take their free shirt and if I was interested in the product I'd only ask a few brief questions and leave with a brochure. When the booth was manned by the founders and three-quarters of the dev team, I was more apt to discuss further, asking about their software stack, or their thoughts on competing products, or the future roadmap of the product. This type of perspective a salesperson doesn't have and usually can't officially speak about.
The "nice guy" who speeds does so in reckless disregard for the fact that his speeding can easily cause an accident that could kill people (depending on how fast he's going, obviously). Cars are freaking dangerous.
As someone who's worked in independent film and has been involved in projects that have spent $10k's and $100k's in music, I dont see this as lavish or irresponsible at all. Musicians are hard workers, and deserve to be paid for their efforts. Just because the developers couldn't hack their way to a great soundtrack and paid for decent/professional work doesn't mean they misappropriated funds. I'd counter that they rightfully spent the money in places that weren't their core competencies.

Edit: I know that film isn't the same as game development, but I feel that the multidisciplinary aspect of game creation incurs costs in a far wider arena than traditional software development.
i hated math when i entered college despite having passed the AP calc exam in high school. i didn't see the point and couldn't understand why i was learning about functions. i had no idea how to even think about the subject beyond what i had been told to memorize.

the second semester of my sophomore year i decided that my interest in computers and desire to have a job lead to me changing my major from psychology to computer science. i signed up for calc II as my first college math class and felt exactly like you did, getting an A+ despite not having taken math for almost 2 years.

i hated high school math because it felt like pointless memorizing of stupid facts. i loved college math because it was about describing and reasoning about these conceptual objects and i didn't have to memorize a thing if i could just remember how to derive it. they explain how to think about these objects, and once i understand the framework behind the subject i enjoyed it much much more.

the fact they were reasoning, explaining/proving why the math worked, and presenting the logic behind their thinking was enough to make me love it. i went dual math/cs and eventually got a MS in pure math.
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That's news? I know Sydney did the same thing back in the 90's. They didn't have as sophisticated a system - I think it involved people phoning in locations of the delegate's convoy as it drove around.
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Not just specific vehicles, the London camera system is setup to try and automatically track all numberplates of all vehicles moving in the city, which is how the congestion tax is implemented. It is run by IBM and Seimens, so they presumably have gathered a lot of valuable data there between them.

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Reading this it wouldn't surprise me if the whole kickstarter idea came from some shady t-shirt manufacturers as a way to drum up more business. ;-)
This may be great on a touch device, but usability suffers massively with a mouse or track pad. The effect looks nice enough, but I am rarely in favor of sacrificing usability for style.
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> the event's costs have expanded from an original estimate of $3.9 billion to $18 billion, according to Vanity Fair.

This was the most shocking item in that report. That blows away my usual "double the estimates" rule-of-thumb for govt related bids. Now we even have rule-of-thumb inflation.
It's great, isn't it?
Last time I did an Adwords Campaign I was paying about 30-50c a click. I'm doing web games at the moment so really don't have any figures for buying adds on mobile.

I have heard anecdotally that a click in a mobile game costs a lot less.

Fully agree that spending a small percentage of your marketing budget on shows is great. And as I said before, they are heaps of fun and a great holiday for the team. You get to rub shoulders with the press and meet other devs.

But, I think somebody else mentioned these guys aren't even paying themselves a salary yet.
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What’s the perspective, though?

Mass protests (ala OWS) were never really a focus of the Pirate Party. They were always about direct political participation (i.e. competing in elections). That’s not so realistic in the US where majorities are necessary to win seats and offices.

The Pirate Party very clearly represents a minority and has no realistic perspective of ever representing a majority. They are also not very geographically clustered. In democracies with proportional elections that’s not so much an issue.

The Green Party in Germany very clearly also represents a minority and has no realistic perspective of ever representing the majority, nevertheless it has been phenomenally successful during the last decades, not only as a opposition party but also as a party with government participation, both on the state and federal level. (The Greens were Gerhard Schröder’s coalition partner on the federal level.)

In the US, much of this has to happen inside existing parties with a realistic perspective (consequently, parties in the US are quite a bit less organized and there is much more fierce competition inside parties). Ron Paul tries to be different within the pre-existing framework of the Republican Party. The Tea Party Movement tries to be different within the pre-existing framework of the Republican Party.

Also, remember that this is only happening in Germany. A very special set of circumstances seems to have conspired there to create that success. This isn’t even happening elsewhere in Europe (at least not yet), not even in countries with political systems very similar to that in Germany. It seems like Germany is the special case here, not so much other places.