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I did. My understanding is that socket.io requires Websocket server, which I am unable to build at this moment. I spent some time researching into phpWebsocket until it turned out that the project has not been updated for about 2 yars now.
Yeah I asked a CSR about this. They said their policy is that they don't offer one but will give one without questions if you ask. I guess it's to reduce costs by charging people who won't bother asking. It is a strange policy, but I can live with it.
Maybe Apple should warn people that when they shell out $600.00 for an Ipad that in about 2 years Apple will no longer support it with their new software. I was looking to buy an Apple laptop. Not now. Not EVER! Why would I? will Apple refuse to support that with new software in 2 years? What a JOKE. I did not know that my iPad would be treated by Apple like a disposable throw away item like a cardboard camera. My first purchase of an Apple product will be my last. I took a bite of the apple and all I got was a worm. Steve Jobs told us it was a magical device. I feel it was more of a rotten apple
In the game each tile gives some type of resource. If I remember right, you had food, shields (productivity) and trade (money). A farm land would produce a lot of food but little trade but a mine would produce lots of gold but no food. You gather this amount of resource each turn but it doesn't tax the land at all. Nukes just cost a certain amount of productivity so as long as you hold land you can keep building them. The game isn't really meant to last much past modern times so the model kind of breaks down in a game like OPs. Its worth noting that in later games special resources were added to help make it a little more realistic. Like you had to have a uranium mind somewhere to produce nukes. It lead to really cool strategies, like wars for oil or iron.

The reason why he had world resources dwindling at all is because its possible for global warming to cause sea levels to rise and take away bits of land and in the parts of land that don't sink their type can change (plains can become deserts, jungles to forests).
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Silicon Valley is a brand. The critical component is building the reputation and mythology of being a "vibrant tech hub."
And looking forward, I wonder what future civilizations think about their future. What kind of science fiction do people on Star Trek read? It's a convenient cop-out that everyone on the Enterprise is a fan of mid-20th century pop culture or Shakespeare.
I started www.sunscanner.co.uk last year. Thought it was a novel and useful way to search for vacations.

And I think it made all of £7 in commissions since then :-(
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You might want to read between the lines. My take is that the style is a bit sarcastic, especially considering the last lines.
In other news, it's summertime in the US and school just let out. People are using their casual time differently at this time of year.
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GalCiv2, with the expansions, has a very good AI and one which isn't entirely focused on total war. There are options to dedicate more CPU time to the AI to increase the difficulty. It's possibly the best AI I've seen for 4x games.
I don't see what's the big fuss here. Maybe a few edgy comments, but nothing "painfully awry". I would say kudos to the organizers for their trust in their fellow citizens to speak out freely without censorship.

Btw, her profile [1] on the project's page is up and straight about her agenda (and her character, as well): "I’m gonna tweet about my thoughts and being me, about having children and living my life and what not."

There may be a day when we become so politically-correct about everything that we can't speak out minds anymore.

[1] http://curatorsofsweden.com/
There are certain market segments that privacy and security are a "must have." That may be a relatively small slice when you compare it to something like Facebook, but since Zimmerman is not trying to scale a free service that "small slice" may be significant revenue.

Having said that I do agree that this service won't sell to a wide audience.
Wow these articles really show how far the hacker community is oblivious to the effects of this kind of thing on their work.
The whole point is that startups are leaving themselves up to litigation and even worse (from the company perspective) is that they will find it hard to attract female programmers and potentially female customers.
I work in a male-dominated field and we're one of the few companies that employ females as skilled labour, some of the feedback i received from a 360 degree review was that some of the women felt excluded by some of the conversations that some of the male crew were having. I cant even imagine how going to a place like this for a work gathering would make them feel.
Thanks for the link (+1). First glance, this requires ruby. My installation is WAMP. I can open any ports and have root to that Windows machine, but I think Ruby would take me too much time to learn right now.
Ask HN: I'm 23 and got a contract to write my first book, on HTML5, any advice?
(I asked this a week ago and got very little exposure. I know that discussions on resubmitting Ask/Show topics have been met with wildly different sentiment, but here goes).

I'll be writing a book on HTML5. I signed the contract last week.

I hope for it to be around ~500 pages, give or take, with the largest part being Canvas[1] at ~150 pages. The book will be in full color with syntax highlighting.

I've never written anything of this scale before and certainly never authored a book.

I'm looking to solicit advice in general. Is there anything you'd wish was in an HTML5 book that might not be present in others so far, etc? Do you have any advice for me on the writing process?

I gave my age in case that was relevant, at least to me it seems uncommon for technical books to be written by "young" people. I'm not sure if my age in itself will hinder or help, but its offered in case it changes your advice.

Also, do you have any pet peeves about technical books, or things you wish authors did more or less of?

Thanks for reading!

[1] Canvas is easily the part of HTML5 I'm most knowledgeable about. I've answered about 10% of all questions ever asked for Canvas on
StackOverflow (and am top answerer for both the Canvas and HTML5 tag). Many of the usage examples in the Canvas section will be from real world problems that were solved during my time on SO.
Yes, as I note elsewhere, what might be nice would be a "MacMini Pro", with appropriate CPUs, RAM slots, reasonable default graphics, and a couple hard drive/SSD slots, in a sleek, compact box with adequate power supply and cooling.

I'm sure Apple could produce extension chassis at a lower price point than 3rd parties, if they wanted to, but I doubt they want to get into that business.
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Agreed 100%. To me, it seems silly -- not to mention cynical and fatalistic -- that the sole purpose of diplomacy in Civilization games is to add a strategic dimension to warmaking.

Out here in the real world, war is a continuation of politics, by other means.

Same thing, really, as your description of Civ II. The goal of diplomacy/warmaking is for one's side to come out ahead of the other.

See Clausewitz, Machiavelli.
Ubiquiti makes excellent products. We have been buying and installing their products for five years. However Mr. Pera really must hire a supply chain expert: frequently products are not available/delayed shipment/EOL/ etc. We have to purchase from other manufacturers out of necessity.
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OK, I see your perspective now. I agree that our understanding of how genes encode for proteins is well developed, as are our techniques for "transplanting" a gene from one organism to another.

What we have very little handle on is gene regulation. All those "non-coding" genes that scientists used to think were junk? They are actually used to control gene transcription.

Controlling this is infinitely easier in a simple organism like a hookworm, but the complexities of in human borders on obscene.
In Athens, GA (home of UGA) it is the predominant laptop in all of the coffee shops as well. Sometimes I bother counting and it is about 90% Apple laptops or iPads.
The guy is definitely getting questioned by authorities at an airport if he comes to the USA.
The sad fact is that at large companies at least, not only is it often perfectly OK to slip into perpetual mediocrity mode, but also, far too often -- given the way these companies treat their employees -- downright necessary, in order to maintain one's health and sanity.
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They're still accepting accounts... Very odd. Stripe is a lot easier to use, IMHO.
When competition makes more than half of their revenue from ads, shutting off that revenue source by copying that UX and striking out pages of advertisements isn't very economically viable.
It would be $40 to add a phone now ($10 for the line, and $30 for base data plan), but you'd get 2GB of data with that $40. So realistically it is more like $50 to add another smart phone under the Share Everything plans. But if you have to bump up your minutes when you add the line, then it's probably $50 in all to add the smart phone on the current plans. There is also the possibility of more cost with a texting plan under the current plans as well. So $40 is in line with what it costs now I think. It's just distributed differently.
What you say is completely incorrect.

Linux distributions (keyword: distributions) have often shipped in a default configuration which can result in damage from overheating. There's no need to accuse the OP of "messing with something he doesn't understand."

Vendors often perform QA on hardware to ensure that it operates properly in conjunction with an operating system. When hardware is designed such that it requires particular operating system behavior to prevent damage then it is absolutely reasonable to require that operating system be used to maintain the warranty. Closing the lid of a laptop is completely normal behavior -- and it's a fact that many linux distributions ship with a configuration that will not properly suspend the device, leading to potential damage.

This is not a matter of "user unfriendliness." This is primarily a matter of hardware vendors limiting their testing to the behavior of certain operating systems (and thus limiting their warranty -- you can't warranty what you haven't tested; what isn't well-specified). I wouldn't be surprised if Apple refused to warranty a device which had Windows installed on it.

There's no need to get religious here. It's merely an issue of vendor support, and hardware which relies on particular OS behavior to operate safely.
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What Google doesn’t tell us about Bounce Rate and rankings
Bounce rate isn't a Google ranking factor but pogosticking might be.
I totally agree with you. If I had to guess, I think it's going to be the way you described it — pick one of these socks from 5 pairs, great, Blake approved!

A celebrity's face always goes a long way.
Even if you're not that much into videogames, I recommend you give it a watch, especially if you're striving to build something by yourself at the moment (eg. a startup).

The movie goes through the process of starting something from scratch, with its (high) ups and (extremely low) downs, and most people on HN will likely relate in one form or another.
How do you make multiple cursors that are at the exact locations you need?

That's something that a macro is useful for. His macro is less useful because for some reason he did his search outside of the macro. Maybe the search is not for "def", but for "def prefix", so ctrl+d is not applicable to form the multiple cursors.

It could be nice if you could record your movements to form the "next" cursor and immediately see all future generated cursors given that movement (similarly to the "recursive draw" web app). Then you could perhaps truncate the infinite list of cursors at some finite point somehow, and then operate your multiple cursor operations.
Do you have plans to mine the salary data? you will have access(though only system based, not human) to large chunk of salary information which you can mine to build either user profiles (e.g. identify people with good disposable income, who is paying how much for insurance, number of people submitting medical expenses) etc.
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It's 30% plus the payment processing fees. It varies because Apple is clever about charging multiple purchases at once (which works to your benefit), but it's closely in line with processing PayPal, SimplePay, etc.
"Being #1 is heavily underrated. People want the best; they don’t want to settle for anything less."

And the other type of people--those who want the cheapest--are generally not worth having as customers.
I analyzed the chords to 1300 popular songs for patterns. This is what I found.
The argument against 403 is that the server might not get to the resource at all, so it doesn't get a chance to refuse the response. A router with filtering capabilities might also terminate the connection and return 451 if the target server is censored and won't be reached. (wether that's practically likely to happen—e.g., at the Great Firewall, or for ICE seizures—is a different matter entirely)
I'm a die hard NBA fan and have never heard of anyone hating the Thunder.

Why do people hate the Thunder?

I can see the argument that some Seattle fans would resent that the team left, but I think their anger would be directed toward the owners involved or David Stern - not the team itself.
I just recently bought the Display Port model. I just couldn't justify the additional expense of upgrading my MacBook to a Thunderbolt-supporting model.

It wouldn't be as bad, if it could easily be daisy-chained off a Thunderbolt monitor.

Unfortunately it appears that you need another Thunderbolt device after a Thunderbolt monitor, before you can connect a display port monitor.

(ie, Thunderbolt Display -> Thunderbolt Hub -> DisplayPort Cinema Display)
Apple's the one that has strong ideas about how you should spend your money. PC makers listen and deliver a diversity of products.

Now, I'll grant that Apple products have advantages in terms of stability because there is less finger pointing when things go wrong -- you could get a mac laptop that sleeps correctly about 3-4 years before windows laptops got it right.

I don't see any real U.I. advantage on the Mac; if you try to put your photos in a movie, for instance, the Mac will drive you absolutely up the wall because it wants to make you look like a Shmuck who can't turn off the Ken Burns effect.
I think their customer base of people who use Linux, might want to use Linux, or who are just plain disgusted by this behaviour is way way more than 1%.

Remember that the people who will be upset by this (techies) are the same ones who put NewEgg on the map to start with.
Great post. I'm in London and started freelancing a few months ago and I'd agree with everything you've said. Only things I would suggest:

* Contracts. Watch this talk by Obie Fernandez[1] and take a look at his Master Services Agreement + Statement of Work bundle (paid for, but totally worth it). Not only does it protect you to some extent legally but you come across as a lot more professional to clients.

* Charge more. I have a comparable amount of experience and I'm charging around double what you've listed on your price card. Many good things fall out of charging more. Even if you don't intend to charge a higher rate, I would at least quote higher on your price card page for more negotiation room.

Good hunting!

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/fernandez-sales-do-the-hu...
Seems like the opposite, at least as far as returns go. See this recent example of a customer's experience returning an item to Amazon: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4091840

Also, I think few would agree with you that Amazon is annoying to use or that wanting to be like Amazon is a "bad thing".
I'm not sure I share your enthusiasm for Windows 8. I tried a rough beta awhile ago and it was pretty bad (that's coming from a guy that grew up on Windows and didn't switch to Mac till 2007). And even then I still use Windows for development testing here and there.

That said, the thing that really nails it for me, and I suspect many others (putting aside development reasons), is the integrated experience. I love the fact that my iPad, iPhone, and Mac work with each other, etc... And once you're in that type of environment, and you have money invested in Apps, etc.. its incredibly difficult to want to move away especially when the experience is great (we can argue the semantics of what constitute as great but lets keep it simple and say good enough for most people).

The move from Windows to Mac was not a difficult one (at least for me). There was no integrated environment and as far as software, new software releases come out all the time so an upgrade or new purchase was going to happen sooner or later. I suspect that a lot of adopters that will be adopting Windows 8 will most likely be existing Window users. They will still dominate the shares in volume but I suspect new Apps on Windows at this point will be a challenge getting Mac users to switch off.
What kind of salary were you offering for the more senior position?

Do you think you would have been more successful hiring a Jr dev at a much higher salary? Say, 120K? That would still low for a graduate of a top law school.

I know this will cause sticker shock, but that may be what it takes.
"propping the whole economy up" ?

But that isn't what big migrations of guest labor has brought us ....

Median income is stagnant. It clearly lags GDP growth.
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/09/gdp...

The rich are getting richer on this deal and that includes Bill Gates (who may or may not be the multi-billionaire chariman of Microsoft and largest stockholder).

Regardless, if this hypothetical "person who could migrate" is so good, he'll earn big bucks and pay taxes and spend his income on services and goods ... some of which will come from America. If we need tax money so bad in order to "prop up the whole economy" then maybe we can have some modest import taxes like we did for the first 160 years of this country.

This "trickle down" theory using Guest Workers doesn't seem to be working for dedicated American Moms and Dads.

To put it in perspective: Grow the damn tomatoes in Mexico, no need to subsidize California agriculture. Pay the local pickers the market rate.
Nice article - btw, if you haven't checked out HelpJuice we use it for our KB at Adzerk and it is pretty awesome. (http://help.adzerk.com).

All the search data is used to create article stubs and reports that help us create better articles and documentation.

(this is totally unsolicited - I just genuinely like the startup and Emil has been awesome to us)
Ask HN: What are the most insightful new books about internet?
I was reading Mark Suster's blog and he mentioned how Chris Anderson's Long Tail was an influential book. It's true - long tail and how it pertains to internet businesses is widely understood nowadays. However, it was published 2006 and a lot has happened since: for example the raise of iPhone and smartphones in general, Facebook becoming the de-facto social network, internet retail hitting mainstream (Zappos etc.)

Are there newer books that take similarly insightful look on the internet of this decade?

Suster's post as a reference:
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2012/06/06/the-power-of-torso-tv-why-media-is-racing-to-the-middle/
Sorry I didn't read your comment properly. If nothing else works, maybe you can develop with a Linux VM with a platform that already has a good websocket server (say, node.js), and host on any VPS. Good luck.
Well, there's 3 diplomacy phases: Phase 1, when everyone ignores you. Phase 2, when everyone is friendly. Phase 3, total war. You go through #1 and #2 quickly, then all that remains is #3.
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This is a really good idea, nice work! Making this work internationally will be very important if you want to be a legal competitor to movies.io. At the moment, none of the links work for me on any of the movies I tried. I saw links to iTunes/Amazon, but they are not available in my country (Netherlands).

Setting up country-specific links shouldn't be too difficult. I'd be happy to discuss implementation details with you, here or by email. Essentially you need:

- A way of identifying the country a user is in (GeoIP)

- A way of looking up country-specific links for each movie

Have you thought of doing something similar to http://takemymoneyhbo.com/? "This movie is not available legally in your country. How much would you pay to legally watch this movie right now?"

The resulting tweets could help growth, and you could become a standard-bearer for the people who want legal access to movies (which they are only denied due to moribund business models).
I hope for it to be around ~500 pages

Too long.

It takes more work, but try to make it shorter.

The best value I've gotten from books is being able to avoid the slew of occasionally useful factoids and be told what stuff I should really care about.

The endless details I can find on the Web if I need them; the problem a tech author should solve is in helping the reader know what to care about and when.
I keep the thought in my head of freelancing in the future, and whether I will do it or not, it is always nice to read about the starting of the business.

I will follow your blog to see if you give more details about how you found your initial contracts, why should you ask to be paid daily, and how your enterprise will evolve on the mid-term.

Thank you anyway for sharing these details.
Indeed, it seems that way. The world of bloggers is to me, as we would say in Sweden, ointressant.
Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles
I would ask that the unknown mysterious moderators of this site stop changing post titles long after they hit the front page.

The guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html state: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." but this should not apply just because the title submitted does not match the article. When the actual article's title makes no sense or provides no context, it should be allowed to stay changed.

A story is currently on the front page with a title of "Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots" which was just changed from its previously edited title of something about visualization.

"Where the Heat and Thunder Hit Their Shots", while actually the title of the article, says absolutely nothing about the content of the article. Is this an article about weather? Photography? Nope, it's about basketball. Why is it on Hacker News? Oh, the submitter liked the visualizations, which is exactly what the previously edited title said before it was changed.

Another example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3875857 was a story about Light Table and the title was edited to reflect that until it had at least 100 points. Then a moderator changed it to the story's actual title of "On concepts and realities" which said absolutely nothing about it and probably caused lots of people that had already visited the link once to read it and think it was something else.

Moderators, please stop doing this.