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You make it sound like it's just a few crooks at Citi and BofA. I believe unfettered from regulations, transparency and oversight, this is what capitalism devolves to. I'm a liberal, but I hate too much regulation. I do think, however, the pendulum has swung very far in the lack of the features I mentioned above.

The US is definitely in a weird place. On the one hand, financial deregulation allowed the greed on Wall St to cause the 2008 global meltdown, and no real regulations have been put (back) in place to stop the next one. But, on the other hand, we have the government regulating things like the size of sugary drinks.

The trend seems to be this: more regulation on people and less on corporations. That is a disturbing trend, for sure. Unfortunately, even though I'm a liberal, I feel that neither party will make this better in the short or long term.
I found it most useful to diff the two:

http://diffchecker.com/pX8qoZsE

No doubt having watched so many of his game mechanics become a huge hit in someone else's game gives the author a unique perspective. His point in this response may have been sharper if he had re-done the graphics, rewritten more of the content to be more accessible, etc. -- though the more I think about it maybe that's part of his point!
Sex, love, laughter, babies, books, songs, cars, poetry, etc..., they're too important, too basic to life. Not the kinds of things any company, for crying out loud, should be able to claim to own.

No one claims that Verisign owns commerce just because they manage the .com domain. Or that Google would own all blogs if they get to sell .blog domains.
I really miss this behaviour of 8bit era. I guess that things get soo complicated today and advanced information are soo easy to find that this state is not possible to achieve anymore. You can screw up even a smartphone by "poking" around too much.
See the previous discussion from when this was submitted a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4132931
This is a great point, and this isn't just about Twitter but also about many other sites and services that seem to depend on it. It looks like a lot of people have created a distributed system version of dependency hell for themselves, where they rely on a multitude of third parties not to change behaviour or go down. Additionally, in many cases and perhaps perfectly legitimately from a cost-benefit perspective, the envisaged way to recover from this kind of problem is to assume that people can quickly and frantically hack their way out of it at short notice.
Thank you very much.

It's installed on his computer already. But he's not allowed to use it until he finishes making another adventure for his client (8yo sister).

The purpose was to motivate him to learn Sublime-Text, bash, git, project management, and Lua.

The pay off is his own iPad...
I thought something was up. I like the concept. I've considering trying a SEO contest based on the number of senders or even paying linkbuilders this way.

It would help focus people on quality over quantity.
I think I'll wait on the article for now. But I may ask for a phone call later out of personal curiosity.
Where is the bug report? I'd be curious to read the response from Microsoft.

(The link on the page is just to a Google Group discussion, which doesn't appear to have participation from Microsoft.)
One of the wonderfully vivid images that so enamored me with Snow Crash as a young college student.
The idea of sl being something that you want to run is awesome.
Majority share of what?

MS Dos was popular on many desktops. CP/M was used on some weird systems (especially word processing); other forms of dos (PC dos, dr dos) were available but not nearly as popular as MS Dos. ("Dodgy" licensing deals were available then.)

Windows 3.1 was very popular version of Windows. Windows for workgroups introduced some 32bit kludges. Since these are not operating systems I guess they don't count.

But what was competing with them? GEM? Some Norton commander thing?
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Polish and execution are everything. It's the reason Apple's MacBooks sell for much higher prices (and much higher profit margins) than similarly-specced (but lower build quality) PC laptops. It's the reason people are on waiting lists to buy Nest thermostats when the same people didn't give a second thought to thermostats before.

Rovio took a fun idea and made it much more accessible and marketable to people. That's not an easy job, and the market rewarded them appropriately.
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Even if all they're doing is mimicking, it might at least be valuable in teaching them not to be scared of using the command line. I know too many people (including developers) that are afraid of the command line, and think it will be "too hard" to use.
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>This page crashes Internet Explorer, even version 9 and 10.

That headline sounds disingenuous and somewhat flamebaity given that 10 is still in development and the latest public version available on Windows 8 does not crash.
Perhaps a corollary could be that incubators also follow a power law distribution?
The real foundation for cross-platform code -- from mobile platform to mobile platform -- is whether WP 8 will support OpenGL ES 2.0. The explosion of quality Android games came courtesy of the NDK and ES 2.0, allowing for an almost direct migration of apps from iOS with only minimal I/O changes.

Given that the mobile GPUs are targeted to that, I have to think it will. Having portability between the desktop and mobile is less valuable, really, given that even the most impressive mobile GPU pales compares to a miserable desktop GPU. The limitations would render such an exercise much more prohibitive.
Try EggDrop, it does basically the same thing and has been around longer.
> I'm curious why you wouldn't feel flattered that your creation was noticed and worth copying?

Because I'm human, I guess. Sometimes I'm flattered and sometimes I'm not. It has a lot to do with the nature of project, how it has been copied, who copied it, why they did it.

Understanding this, I'm now trying hard to position myself in situations where I'll be flattered when it happens and disappointed when it doesn't.

> Do you believe ideas can be owned?

I do not, hence the entire premise of my parent post.
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> In a corporate case it's hard--both legally and practically--to pinpoint someone of guilty mind performing guilty acts beyond reasonable doubt.

What? We solved this problem a long time ago. Corporations are beneficial because they provide liability protection to the employees. That's it.

In the case of fraud, we decided the corporate veil should be lifted.

So all you have to do is go through each individual in the corporation, see what laws they broke, and go after them. It's very straightforward.

The problems occur when the corporations received ungodly amounts of money from the government, when a government "appoints" individuals to positions within the corporation, and when there's quite a bit of collusion between the corporate entity and the government.

At that point, the government has very little incentive to prosecute and the corporate entity has even more incentive to commit fraud.
Surely these guys were perfect anarcho-capitalists. They bowed to no system of external rule, while making as much money as possible.
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These are entirely different things: .com is managed for the benefit of all commercial entities (and Verisign). Google's intended use of .blog would only be to assign domains to Blogger properties.
I don't think this provision will work. In practice software developers would then be required to keep the equivalent of lab notebooks and write down everything they do so if there is a lawsuit it can be proved that the invention is independent. While developers are already forbidden by most companies from looking at patents so as to prevent claims of willful infringement I can see legal departments forbidding software from reading papers and using much of the internet so that in case of a lawsuit it can be proved that a developer truly arrived at a solution independently.

Now the novelty claim is a somewhat separate issue. I don't have a good solution to this and there is a lot of ambiguity that arrises here.

It seems to me limiting the duration of a patent is the best solution. There is some precedent for this with the adjustment of how time for pharma patents are measured.
It is odd when people hold subjective aesthetic opinion as fact. Personally I prefer ICS, by leaps and bounds, over either iOS and WP8, but that's just my personal taste.

And what accounts for all of the fawning over the Lumia devices? Those things are terribly ugly in my opinion. Subjective opinion again.
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Do you think so? I think they would make far more money by selling subdomains.
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I don't understand this.

Was learning how to use the VCR everything that is wrong with raising children?

How is the iPad limiting? Aren't you confusing the Apple ecosystem with the apps on there?

Give them a piano app and see them fail, Give them a drawing app and see them fail. Let them play some of those gravity games and see them explore and fail.

I understand what you are trying to do. I too am thinking (and overthinking) how to best allow my kid to become great. I see no problem in you doing it. I would encourage it. But you seem to be overthinking your principles.

But that's just me. My son loves hammering at the computer too. (He is working he says) but he also loves playing games and music on his iPad.

They aren't mutually exclusive. For a child the iPad is not a walled garden and if they think it is then just jailbreak it with them. Actually now that I think of it, that seems to be a much better lesson in teaching them how to become a hacker.
The storm has been coming a long time. But with Occupy Wall Street, the 99%, etc, it seems to me it is already here. The question in my mind: What are we going to do to make things better?
I care about my data too. I think it is NOT acceptable that Amazon was down last week and all of the services were also down - they should have a backup plan.

This is why I LOVE NoSQL - it promises to disrupt databases by allowing easy replication and sharding. It exposes the fact that CAP is for ALL databases and you can make the choice if you want Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance
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If you look into [Kim Schmitz'] history, you can see that he is a total sleazebag.

His achievements are still impressive though.

Edit: clarity
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I think it is likely a pretty solid idea to not teach kids how digital circuits and whatnot work, but rather to tell them. Make them aware that the knowledge of how they work is out there. Humans have a tendency to fill in gaps in their knowledge with superstition, though even the most basic of naturalistic frameworks should be sufficient to keep that tendency under control.
Yes, but they were jokes about the iPad. Do a twitter search for 'surface' and you will see a significant number of tweets which are unrelated to Microsoft's tablet in anyway.
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And hope your static files still match the API behavior when your done...
"If your TV crashed would you blame the TV program you were watching at the time?"

I'm not positive, but I believe that it's possible for TV shows to crash TVs, which is why there are standards in that specify what kind of content you are allowed to broadcast:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast-safe
But only .com and .net have no real meaning attached to them. It doesn't really make much sense to register amazon.es or amazon.biz for the Amazon rainforest, now does it?
We did some ROI calculations on purchasing and distributing t-shirts. Do you guys think that we missed anything, or made the wrong assumptions?
Thanks...I honestly question how much reliable advice I could give, as I've arguably overspent, even as I'm not caught up in the arms race. Someone did point out that iOS has special apps that do allow shutter speed control, so I'll have to come up with a few other different usecases.
Yep, I'm the same. I do however jump 5 or perhaps 10 lines or words in the general direction I want to move in and correct from there. Other times it's less keystrokes to just hit / and search for the next location.
I think he's referring to high school, where the selection of computer courses is far more limited. At my high school right now (in the United States), the only computer course covers using MS Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Absolutely no programming courses whatsoever.

(As a side note, I self-studied AP Computer Science and it isn't much better. Its pretty much all Java syntax and logic with a few sorting algorithms thrown in so that they can call it "computer science").
Thanks for the feedback, we actually never set out to compete with Craigslist. We built Yardsale as a way to list and sell for all the items that don't get posted on Craigslist or eBay, because it's too painful. So really, at least in my own personal experience, the choice is to get nothing for an item, or to list and sell it to a neighbor and make money that I wouldn't have otherwise.
Plus ICANN was setting the entry barrier so ridiculously high, that generic domain names are almost exclusively landing in the hands of these corporations, who are already strong in a particular market. It is in so far not stimulating competition but strengthening already successful market players.

The next step is most likely that Google returns the favor to ICANN and puts a stronger weight on the domain extension for search result relevance - just another step towards making a more corporate internet.
Only if you are Bruce Lindsay and you invented Joins would it be comparable. Directors or VPs often get quarterly options
That already happened with second-level domains, it's not a new vector.
>"Reverse sexism"? Check your privilege.

"Privilege?" Check your cultural Marxism.
Most VC's perform miserably, financially speaking, with the profits piling up at the very top firms. Why, then, would it be surprising to see that most accelerators fail to produce notable results? It's basically the same business, and the same things contribute to success.
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I would argue that giving them something that simulates things in the real world is less valuable than showing them something they can't get in the real world.

If if simulates something in the real world, why not just let them interact with the real thing?
If the startup is profitable and self sustain itself, does it count as success or failure?
At the same time, a successful chemical compound might mean tens of billions in sales. A modest software innovation might have a very niche application with much smaller sales.

Is a small research team less entitled to protect their novel work than a big corporation?
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I use both, often without noticing. I think I tend to be more likely to use treble or trebled at the end of sentence and triple or tripled in the middle of one. Note, I am not claiming this as any sort of sensible usage, am just commenting on how I tend to use the words. My pronunciation of words like grass or bath is also similarly scattered. This confuses folk when they try and work out what class background I am from, which is something of an obsession for many people here in the UK.
"Limited liability" and "corporate veil" refer to shareholder protection, not employee protection. Traditionally shareholders, not employees, were on the hook for lawbreaking.

Anyway, you say something like "go through each individual in the corporation, see what laws they broke, and go after them" as though it's easy. In practice prosecutors have a hard time doing this even when they want to for the reasons I just said. Some of the Enron guys were acquitted by a jury, for example.
That's who I switched to.
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Have you tried running vimtutor? It goes quite a way towards teaching the general philosophy (or 'zen' if you like) behind using vim.
That's why 0x10c and the DCPU16 are gaining so much popularity
Yes that's true, in the US people seem to view driving stick as some advanced technique, here in the UK even the crappiest drivers learn with a manual (this may start to wane as modern autoboxes get better).

I don't think it's very constructive to label something as "advanced" or "hard" because this can cloud people's judgement and make them scared of things that are in fact relatively straight forward.
Not sure if others share the same view, but I view many startup accelerators as startups themselves -- heck, nearly the entire industry is a startup. We should assume that startup accelerators themselves can fail.

The Y-Combinators and TechStars are the Tier-1 players in this space, but that's only getting their members to reach funding -- certainly nothing about exits.

Evaluating accelerators should be akin to evaluating venture capital firms -- return on investment. Last I checked, I think VC firms were down over the past ten years, yet I don't see anyone calling them failures.
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wasn't beck the person who couldn't solve some basic problem recently? it was mentioned here. [google...] ok, here it is - re-formatting some text (in a very basic way - just clipping lines) - http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/04/20/Why-Is-Estimat... the hn discussion is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3880522

(not sure what my points is; the article here seems quite reasonable - very good advice, in fact, imho. i guess it just stuck in my mind as being so odd.)
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Weird acquisition. FeeFighters didnt even build Samurai. And Samurai had nothing to do with Groupon grabbing em. It was some other thing they were building apparently.

We're (Fleapay.com) getting ready to integrate with Braintree. So far, they've been very helpful. Nice people.
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Why list the EV adjustment of the photos? The effective EV is apparent from the capture settings and listing how much you adjusted the photo based on your camera's meter isn't that useful. Each camera meter has its own quirks and it seems strange to include such a subjective setting.

On the other hand, I dig that you include lens and focal length. Both are nice to know when viewing photos.
Yeah you are right; I use c more than d. The a command is also very useful.
Assuming it's actually making good money not just breaking even, its true valuation will be high (though it can't be measured using the 'latest round' method)
Certainly, but the point is still very good and balanced either way. Good advice.

My example comes from using a point-and-shoot pocket camera, not my phone. Very little control over shutter speed and aperture and such, but I've used it with great success for landscapes in good-to-low light. I've probably sold more prints from the P&S than my SLR, all because I had it in my pocket when the light was right.
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"While this may not please everyone, it does allow us to provide the most consistent GPU experience to our customers, regardless of platform or operating system."

Consistent is not the same as good.
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Wow. This interview is SPOT ON. So applicable to pretty much every industry. Thanks for posting. Worth resharing through other networks. Hopefully more people will read stuff like this that actually explains the hiring problems employers face.
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Nothing. However, wealth concentration makes it more likely, all things being equal. Your claim is that wealth concentration doesn't matter in this case. I disagree with that.
Nice. This is much better than Metrotransit's mobile website.
At some point you end up outside of the scope of testing, but you can build bootstraps to make sure that your mocks match whatever they are mocking.

Obviously, this does you no good when something like an API service goes down, but that's issue is irrelevant to the question that was posed. Having some static file to test against whether it is accurate or not will instantly tell you whether it is your code or the third party that is breaking.
At that age they are afraid of nothing :)

My son uses the command line. Just not for anything but hammering in random text.
> "Even if every person working for Citigroup had been basically moral (in the sense that they wouldn't have committed fraud alone) this still could have happened, and probably would have."

When you consider the compensation and review structure at financial institutions, it was absolutely inevitable.

Those who didn't participate, even in the tiny slice that was their domain, would have been pushed aside or replaced in favor of someone who would.

Big Business simply doesn't allow for under-performance. Even on legal/moral grounds. Those are long-term concerns in a world that measures only short-term performance.
I like the visual style and even the home-screen but I am not sold on Metro actually being a good UI toolkit for applications. It may just be the immaturity of the platform at this point. It's just not even in the same ballpark of flexibility/power that you get for 'free' with Cocoa Touch. As a result a lot of the Metro apps I've used are just very basic and lacking features -- or they have to jump through hoops to make a UI workflow for powerful features. If you have any recommendations for Metro apps that are really pushing the limits of the UI framework I'd like to check them out.
I didn't imply at all that all failures can be prevented. I'm saying that most peoples' assessment of risk are usually wrong. And the occurrence of a single point failure that can take down an entire system that is deemed low-risk seems to happen an awful lot.

It not only occurs in the technology industry, but also even in things like financial risk analysis. For example, people could mitigate the risk of a bond defaulting by buying a credit default swap. However, most people failed to assess the risk of their counter-party going belly up, like AIG or Lehman. This failure in risk assessment is in large part why the financial crisis was so widespread.
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Thanks for posting! I live in Minneapolis and rely on the bus system for transport. So far it's easier to use than the NextTrip website on my phone.

For my usual trip each day there are several buses that work for me, and what I was hoping for is a site that centers a map on my location (from my phone gps) and shows me all buses in my general vicinity. I would use this to select a route.
Why is the Twitter outage being burried on HN?
What are you talking about? FeeFighters is a Samurai project. And Groupon bought them out.
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