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Peter Thiel Offers His Dick To Talented Teens To Suck Off Which Makes Him More Famous And Wealthy Despite The Fact He Is Just Some Dot Com Asshole Making Shit Up 29385276958 points
The first time I heard of him was when he redesigned the American Airlines website. http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html
He's a good designer and I tend to read what he says because svbtle is just so nice to look at. I suspect that 99% of my decision of whether or not to read something has to do with how easy it is to read it.
I find that a reasonable expectation, but it will not make any difference in the ability of European homeowners to benefit form Africa's surplus of sunlight. Storage only helps when you have a sufficiently high average power in one spot, and just need to spread out the peaks and valleys in production. Fantastic storage does not help if you can't gather enough energy to store in the first place. That may not turn out to be a problem for the average European homeowner if photovoltaics get good enough, but it is the problem that kijin was addressing by suggesting sunny countries sell power to cloudy countries.

One might use excellent storage technology to, e.g., charge batteries in the Sahara and ship them to Switzerland (or, more realistically, synthesize oil in the Sahara and ship it Switzerland), but that's just a slightly more indirect way of addressing the problem of transportation- moving the energy from the place where it can be produced to the place where it is needed to be used.
Ask HN: How do I market this thing?
So I built a music video site called ChartBRAIN (http://chartbrain.com). It's at the point where I think it's ready to try and get some users, but I have to admit I'm a better coder than marketer. So I'm wondering if the HN community can offer me some ideas to get some users and traction. I'd maybe even consider partnering up with someone with a proven record in driving traffic if they liked what I've built and felt it had some potential. I think a lot of people think music videos are old news but Cull.tv just got bought by twitvid and tape.tv just raised 6.5 million.
> the reason most people have moved to cities is because that's where higher paying jobs typically are located

Yeah, and even that's still just a consequence of the fact that big cities offer more opportunities, which leads to competition for the best candidates. I'm still hoping that this connected world embraces remote working and the trend reverses.
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Using the left/right keys is a great idea, but you'd have to have some clever way of making users aware of it.

You'd also have to come up with a solution that works on devices that don't necessarily have a keyboard available at all times (on iOS, for instance).
I think he might even have a shot at getting a scholarship.
Agreed. I visited Chernobyl two years ago, and in all of Europe I've never seen a place so verdant, and teeming with wildlife. The canal especially had many large fish.
Where was Schilling's principled libertarianism when he went begging for taxpayer cash?

/crickets
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Average soiling loss for tilted installations is around 5%, but it can vary quite a bit with location and rainfall patterns, so it is occasionally worth manually cleaning them.
My grandfather was a US Army Air Corps bombardier in WWII... During one of his group's missions over Southern France (he was based out of Corsica) they had a NCO from a ground division onboard, who at one point remarked "boy I'm sure glad I'm up here far away from all of the chaos and hell on the ground." Two minutes later a 3-inch piece of German flak penetrated the NCO's seat and missed his balls by under an inch.

If you were a combat theater of WWII, nothing was safe. In the air, in a sub, on the ground, in a civilian city under attack, on a ship, anything.

I recommend reading Stephen Ambrose's Wild Blue: http://www.amazon.com/The-Wild-Blue-Germany-1944-45/dp/07432... - it gives a realistic portrayal of the air combat facets of WWII and features a lot of George McGovern's personal experiences throughout.
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The reverse graffiti suggestion on Wikipedia is pretty interesting.
Ask HN: How Can I Save The World? 29568725 points

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iPad app for starving children to find food
The fact that he chokes up and finds it difficult that Neil Armstrong has testified against his work makes him so human and makes me respect him so much more.
This seems a little creepy from a code archaeology standpoint? Haven't written any D so I don't know if it's an improvement over what came before, but this looks a little magical for my tastes.
Hopefully, a Lisp implementation that doesn't use tag bits for type & GC.

At those low machine word lengths, every bit is precious. E.g. if you take 2 bits for type and 1 for GC, you're left with 5 bits, or a total of 32 unique values representable by the machine (30 if you take take out NIL & T.) Useful for a desk calculator, not much else.
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Who cares? Those who choose to use Haskell and leverage its awesome win! :-)
It is mentioned in the book but it was referring to a Canadian returning home.

> The postwar result for the Allies, at least, is suggested by one returning Canadian soldier, wounded three times in Normandy and Holland, who recalls (in Six War Years 1939-1945, edited by Barry Broadfoot) disembarking with his buddies to find on the quay nice, smiling Red Cross or Salvation Army girls.
>> 'They give us a little bag and it has a couple of chocolate bars in it and a comic book. . . . We had gone overseas not much more than children but we were coming back, sure, let's face it, as killers. And they were still treating us as children. Candy and comic books.'
I was just responding to his "it's a public good so it should be provided by the government". In economics, public goods are automatic things that should be done by the government because the market would fail miserably. I wasn't using jargon for jargon's sake.

Your advocacy for universal health seems to have two parts:

1. It would be nice for someone else to pay for my health care.

2. Universal health care in other countries is better than what we have in the U.S.

My responses would be:

1. Everyone would like this, but it doesn't make us any better off in aggregate. (If you want to redistribute income, it doesn't have to be done via healthcare).

2. Is debatable. There are trade-offs. Look at wait times in Canada. What about innovation over time. Maybe other countries are free riding off of our innovation. Just because costs aren't as visible don't mean they don't exist.

I'm not against all government intervention into healthcare. But, we should understand why the market is failing and how the government is correcting those failures. That is the only way to make good choices about the trade-offs involved. Otherwise, we are just setting ourselves up for failure in the long run.
I really like the message next to the comment box on this site, makes you think twice about what you are going to say.
can I crack the top start ups of Silicon Valley?

Sure. But, why wait? If you've got a year left, that means you've got this summer to go. Would another internship be possible?

And I might consider sleeping on the couch :P

Working at a startup doesn't (and shouldn't) mean working for charity or for low/no pay. You'll be able to get your own place, with a mattress and everything :P
unfortunately, it's a complete violation of the youtube api terms as far as i can tell:

these are all prohibited:

separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

promote separately the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API;

access any portion of any YouTube audiovisual content by any means other than use of a YouTube player or other video player expressly authorized by YouTube;

store copies of YouTube audiovisual content;

https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms

i dont work for google or youtube or anything, but it seems that it should be common sense to read the terms of an api before using it.
My impression from the page is that they send you a code specific to a threat (or whatever they end up calling them) when it happens, then you make a decision to add it to your site or not. Rather than dropping in a code and letting them add banners and blackouts whenever they please.
Where do you think the horseshit is?
I've been noticing this effect lately in my business where people don't NEED to buy many things anymore, there are almost always a much cheaper alternative that will satisfy their needs, but people are willing to pay a considerable premium to get an experience/emotion.
It's true for common failure modes. Three Mile Island, for example, did leak less radioactive waste than a correctly working coal plant.

The problem is that it's so politically difficult to build new nuclear plants so that old ones can be retired, that we're still using poorly designed plants from the 1960s that are already past their design lifetime. And then people are surprised that they're problematic.
It sounds like you are suffering a mentally illness. You need to see a doctor and get medication for it. What city are you in? If you leave a question at Ask MetaFilter and Reddit about where to find financial aid and resources for someone in your city, you can get lots of answers.

In fact, there may already be answers you need there. Do some searches and check it out.

Look, I have been homeless several times in my adult life (I'm now 40). You can survive and get out, but you need to get help for your mental condition first. That should be your #1 priority.

Please: get treatment for your mental condition ASAP. You need a functioning mind to navigate your life to a better place.
Show HN: WebGL Enabler for iOS
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Haha, I'm enjoying the anticipation.

Working on the blog post now. :-)
Funny that this degenerated into a discussion about healthcare. I can almost guarantee this will be a business school case study in the very near future.

The thing is, companies are still putting out MMOs. Guild Wars 2 - Not out yet but looks to be an awesome followup to Guild Wars. Tera, just released in North America and getting some praise (was previously in South Korea). Star Wars The Old Republic also just released and had a pretty successful launch even though now it is seeing it's user base decline.

I would be very interested in seeing how these three titles perform over the next 5 years but it's safe to say that you can still produce an MMO as long as you (a Have actual experience in the game industry (b Have some successful titles under your belt or a publisher willing to bankroll your talented studio.

Also, really great followup article that goes over some of the failures:

http://kotaku.com/5913492/curt-schillings-big-huge-38-studio...
FWIW, the google service mentioned in the article works via https as well. [https://www.google.com/s2/u/0/favicons?domain=css-tricks.com]

I think the best way to handle this would be to remove the scheme from the background url. So it would look like `background: "url(//www.google.com/s2...")`. This would accommodate both schemes.
>And if you're seriously injured and it is an emergency, you can go to any private hospital and they are forced by law to treat you and payment is decided later.

That works exactly the same in the U.S. You can't be denied emergency treatment.
it looks like the Indian government is targeting file-sharing and Tamil nationalism?
the sad answer is because 38 studios had a famous CEO
I agree that its higher than 5% but if you think that your product is the majority of running a business then please explain the Snuggy.
wouldn't that translate into a swipe?
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I would say you put yourself at risk to have wasted the 5 to 6 months of programming. For some applications the risk is low or the possible loss acceptable.

A preferable approach is if you can test the business/app soundness before investing 5 to 6 months in programming effort. If you can test two or three app ideas in that same period you significantly increase your chances to hit gold.
Nice. The protocol is completely insecure and the server trusts everything the client does, so "Joshua" is just getting all the food every turn (by sending "eaten-snack" messages) and drawing random stuff.

The client should only be able to send the direction it's turning and on which turn, and that's it. The server should allow for some slack in the turn numbers, but not much.
No, his response is to actually lower health insurance costs.
>> Look at wait times in Canada

What about them? Wait times are only an issue for urgent care situations, and you can't assume that wait times are problematic for all cases. The urgent cases usually get shorter wait times than the less urgent ones.

Most Canadians are pretty happy with the health care system and get a good laugh at how US politicians like to point out the flaws in our system. It may not be perfect, but it's pretty damned good.

As a Canadian who has had cancer twice, I can tell you first hand that the time between diagnosis and treatments were never a problem for me. I received excellent care, and have had access to all the diagnostic tests that I've needed.
Haskell may lack the promotional aspect.

I'm a casual Haskell enthusiast and have no trouble finding interesting useful Haskell apps. But that may be because I now know where to look. Or have taken the time to find things.

So Haskell has a culture of making things but may lack the "show it off" part.
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He fell for the lie that the government "invests" when it spends taxpayer dollars on projects doomed to fail.
I haven't seen a way to edit CSS on the before and after pseudo elements in the web inspector. If I'm missing something I'd love to know about it.
I really hope he gets an apology from Neil Armstrong and other critics if (when) SpaceX actually delivers on its promises. It must be very tough to even have your heroes root against you, and like you say it shows a lot about what you stand for.
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Check the story of dropbox. This is one approach to test your idea. If it succeed, things get much easier.
Snuggy? Google didn't help.
It's a delusion on the part of everyone involve. Management can't see past the next quarter and hopes beyond hope their company won't collapse. Employees don't see the warning signs and just accept what management is feeding them. Management has bad news but isn't willing to share with employees for fear that the employees will leave, even if that bad news means collapse is imminent and all employees will leave anyway.
I think his exact number, 5%, may be a little low, but the sentiment is right. The article is addressing the change from programmer to entrepreneur, and I think it is very common for technical founders to care too much about what they are most experienced with: the code.

He even acknowledges the importance of code quality ("It has to be high quality code that isn't filled with bugs or is insecure.") but his point is that, as a first-time entrepreneur, you will be overwhelmed with the other aspects of a business that have to developed, and you will tempted to focus yourself in the area that you have specialized in for years prior. As a founder that has recently began the transition from programmer, I can certainly say there are times that I've failed at this, and I'm sure it happens a lot.
The sad reality is that Neil Armstrong will probably die before SpaceX does anything seriously significant, if it does. He's 81 now.
Immune systems are also prone to serious problems - see autoimmune diseases, for example, or problems with transplants, organ donations, etc.
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A certain level of contrarian dialogue is healthy for any community; I do, however, agree that there's a lot of negativity for the sake of being heard.
I haven't either.

As I'm going through the deck, I'm studying each slide and note. It's loaded.

ACID, simplicity, culture, documentation, TDD, prioritization. And more I overlooked I'm sure. Each has nuggets of wisdom.

This is Good.
You have an idea ? There is a patent for it! Apple.
I find it interesting that two of my favorite programming languages are complete polar opposites: C and Clojure.

On the one hand I love the high-level abstraction of Clojure. I love its homoiconicity. I love functional programming, being able to map, reduce, apply, etc.

On the other hand is C, where I can handle the raw power of the computer. Where I know exactly what I'm doing. Where I can play with single bits and dribble pointers around. Where there is no magic GC or dynamic type systems to fuck me over at just the wrong time.

I'm constantly trying to reconcile those two worlds; making my C code as functional as possible (libdispatch and blocks are a great addition to the language).
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Bad reputation, I suspect. "This organization was funded by black-market currency."
League of Legends had budget which was 10x less , and it is profitable , launched 2009/2010 but I agree it is hard to make good hit MMOORG.
Got sold for cca. 500Mil to Tencent years or so ago , so yes you can make money but it is not easy
I ran across this piece because Paul Fussell died this week and posted it because it was so shockingly enlightening. Nothing to do with Memorial Day; apart from not keeping track of these things, I'm Canadian and we do our remembering in November.

If some people voted it up for Memorial Day, so much the better for an impassioned piece of good writing. Fussell obviously deserves to be better known.
One thing he misses is that a not insignificant number of webcomics will let you click on the comic to go to the next page. Biggest target you could ask for.

Sadly it's not a default on the very common Wordpress+Comicpress combo. Well it wasn't for a while, I just checked and there's a switch for it in my installation but I can't remember if it defaulted to on or off.
These days I trust more the index of popular languages in GitHub: https://github.com/languages

I like to see it like an index of "in which languages are we innovating" or "which projects are worth forking"
The current directory was removed from the LOAD_PATH, so you have to change "require 'mycode'" to "require './mycode'", or use require-relative, or add "." to LOAD_PATH yourself. It was changed for security issues apparently. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2900370/why-does-ruby-1-9...
I'm sure he's talking about the Snuggie, a ridiculous looking blanket with sleeves, known for its ridiculous infomercials in the US.

http://www.mysnuggiestore.com
I think he is referring here to setting the priorities straight: focus on growing the business and what people want/appreciate; code only the most important part (the entrepreneur himself)

Also, this reminds me of the "nail it, then scale it" approach. Don't focus on scalability when you don't have customers.
That's for a single coal power plant many areas have dozens of them near coal rich areas. Also, they dump most of this stuff in the upper atmosphere so the majority of pollution ends up more than a thousand miles from the actual plant. Is it a big deal? probably not. Sure, statistically speaking radiation exposure from coal power plants has probably killed more people than from nuclear accidents. But, impossible to track who specifically was killed which limits their liability.

PS: Of course this is also because the nuclear industry has killed so few people.
I was talking about the part you put in quotes:

"Numbers don't mean anything anymore they say"

Normally quote marks (the " character) are used if you're quoting something, so I was wondering where you are quoting that from. To be pedantic, what I'm looking for is a citation (of the quote, not of the fact).
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Nothing can’t spawn something REALLY? Says who? The illiterate? The stupid?
Nothing can’t spawn something! REALLY? Says who? The illiterate? The stupid?
If one doesn't want to follow politics, one should not complain that people who do follow politics beat you at it and make it according to their interests. Somehow people have no trouble following latest exploits of some Hollywood starlets, latest developments of TV soap operas or the intimate details of the careers of their favorite sports personality, but when it comes to things that directly influence their lives, their prosperity and their liberty - they don't want to know shit, just give them some red button and let somebody else decide when to push it, anything more is demanding too much. That doesn't work if you want to have liberties. Society of free men can not be built by only delegating your civic responsibilities to somebody else. Otherwise pretty soon it would turn out you are not free anymore but completely dependent on those to whom you delegated your responsibilities.
I'd maybe even consider partnering up with someone with a proven record in driving traffic

Anyone fitting this description would be more of the mind "I might even consider partnering up with you." The world is sort of your oyster right now if you can do that. If you ask the kind of person you need what their next best alternative is, you will not hear "I got offered 5% equity and all the cola I can drink from an unfunded startup and am pretty darn tempted by that."

The traditional way to get traction for music sites and video sites is to turn a blind eye to folks stealing things that the established players can't turn a blind eye to. This lets you perform, essentially, visibility/legal-risk arbitrage. That's the on-the-ground reality, I personally wouldn't endorse acting on it.

You then use your early adopters to promote it to their friends, focusing feature development resources on implementing and optimizing things about the site which encourage social spreading rather than ones which merely encourage passive consumption.
That you've said it before isn't a very compelling argument. Just sayin'.

Reducing requirements by half isn't that big a deal. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_con...

There's huge variation. We can support a better standard of living with much less energy.
You can use a title attribute that displays the shortcut. Desktop applications (such as GIMP) do that all the time
I hope you guys enjoy this. It's a little hack I've been wanting to do for a bit, but I had to wait for the iPad 3 jailbreak, as that's the only iOS device I have. Let me know what works, doesn't work, etc, and have fun with it!
> With Google pursuing Microsoft's Xbox via Motorola Mobility, all the cool kids are doing it.

Well, that was Motorola (at the time), not Google. Google may have done it if they had the chance, but it wasn't them.
I switched from ActiveRecord to Sequel about a year ago because I needed good support for composite primary keys, and I've never looked back. It's a phenomenal library, highly recommended.
Actually a very good profile. Good find!