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>Those that want to learn, will learn.

I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. In fact, it seems like the study you mention supports the exact opposite. Those that wanted to learn (as evidenced by being first to apply) didn't show signs of being better able to learn given the same environment and resources. Wanting to learn isn't enough, but requires an environment in which to flourish.
Trillions of dollars controlled by a few hundred men and women in the lower house of the Congress. And even fewer on the subcommittees that controls each of Pentagon spending, welfare benefits, and salary budgets.
As well, non of the screen movement commands and some miscellaneous commands aren't working. It really took out almost all of the flow I have when I'm editing files.

Vi commands: ^D ^E ^B . J and probably more that I haven't tried.

Possibly Vim commands: * #

U is functioning completely incorrectly. Try dd, U on line 3 in the example.

It also wasn't allowing me to hit <ESC> (OSX 10.6, Chrome 19)

(All this isn't Filepicker's fault. It's whomever's that wrote the choppy JS version of Vi. But if you want to show off Vi in the browser, you can't make me feel like a broken machine when I try to use it.)
You arent stating the obvious, just a misunderstanding of the standardisation process

"HTML5" is not a single thing, and it wont suddenly be released in 2015, there is a lot to it and a lot of people are using various parts now and have been for a long time.
This costs money and I can’t really test it before I spend a substantial amount of money (for an app, common!). Any chance to get a trial version or something like that?
Corporations are standalone 'people'. An employee can free speech whatever they want, they just can't do certain things and attribute them to the corporation. They can use the corporation's equipment, even.
Genetics don't have to be involved for traits to be passed on between generations. There is more to a phenotype than just the genotype.

It is not a stretch to think that natural selection could apply pressure to traits that are passed on through culture and exposure to ideas.
Of course, I disagree - I call that being taken advantage of. If I could depend on the employers honoring the same thing - employing people "through thick and thin" - I'd believe it, but it's almost unheard of.

Unfortunately, I worked for five years through "when things got tough" - random layoffs, no raises, decreasing benefits. How loyal does one have to be to satisfy your definition?
As long as the slides are legible, then thats perfectly fine. My concern there is really the same as yours: to get the whole story together.
Ask HN: Can you make decent money from niche mobile apps?
Hello. I'm evaluating a few startup ideas and some of them naturally lend themselves to mobile apps. Because the market is not used to paying by subscription for standalone mobile apps, or paying more than a couple dollars for an app, is it possible to make decent money from niche mobile apps, or do you need to target massmarket? Any opinions, examples, insights and advice would be greatly appreciated.
Yeah that was literally the first thing I tried, and I was disappointed it didn't exist.
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And was linked here back then: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1763663
As a Microsoft employee, I'm strangely disturbed by this headline.

Anybody who regularly reads the tech press -- or any journalism, for that matter -- needs to understand the structural biases of "the news". In particular, journalists are biased in favor of novelty and of anything which can be categorized as competition. There's not much to write about Apple's new hardware, for instance, but the Microsoft announcements of this week are like a gold mine of source material. Tech pundits will have weeks' worth of stuff to write about. Editors don't have to try very hard to come up with linkbait headlines. It's a circus, really.
You might like my book, Practical Vim. It's now available from the Pragmatic Bookshelf as a beta book: http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
These sorts of points are silly, and wrong. If the general tendency of life under evolutionary processes is "diversity", through whatever natural processes are at play, then its reasonable to say in common language that "evolution encourages diversity".

Personally, I disagree that evolution encourages diversity. It seems to me that diversity occurs in spite of it, as a result of our ever changing, dynamic, earth.
not necessarily. even if the expected value of taking a risk is positive, taking the risk can be undesirable, e.g. due to large variance.

statistical distributions that include a risk aversion parameter exist precisely to model this kind of problem (unfortunately their names have slipped my mind, otherwise I'd provide links)
It wouldn't surprise me if she had the responsibility for keeping order but not the authority or support (from administration and parents) to do so.
I have to admit that after reading the post and not getting any responses to emails or phone calls, and seeing other people experiencing the same thing 3 months after acquisition, we assumed the worst. I'm glad you guys are still working on the product and I hope it survives and becomes something even more powerful.
Yes, that was me. I get stuck sometimes. In this case the key insight is that the recursive algorithm is much easier to get to work than the iterative one. There was also the added complexity of two mammoth egos attempting to collaborate.
I authored a Windows shareware game in the early 90's that involved spaceships shooting rocks and flying saucers. It had a number of neat features, including ray-traced sprites, multiplayer, a tournament mode, customizable ships, and so on.

This eventually led to a legal setting where I had to answer questions like "is it true that when you shoot a large rock it splits into two medium sized rocks".

The answer to the above question is yes, for more than one game.

However, if I asked the question "is it true that you press Left and Right to rotate, Thrust to accelerate, Fire to shoot, and Hyperspace to jump to a random position on the screen", the answer would also be yes, for more than one game (Spacewar, 1962 would be one correct answer).

It'd be a sad world where my game didn't exist, because there was no one willing to make that exact game for 16-bit Windows in 1991. It would also be a sad world where we never went beyond Spacewar on the PDP-1.

This particular sword cuts both ways. As a fan of creating and not a fan of litigating, I'd rather err on the side of more and better games, rather than lock up ideas for decades with copyright law.

Pandemic 2.5 seems to have done well and is even going back up the charts. For games, doesn't a rising tide lift all boats?
"Because almost every single widget is that way."

Pure unadulterated BS. Carry on.

Edit: The mod down is funny. So "almost every" Android widget has "far too attention grabbing and obtrusive- silly animations of clouds moving in front of a sun, nonsense like that" now? Almost every single one? Because that's what he said. I actually have several Android devices and it is absolutely not true that almost every widget is like that.

And furthermore, who says weather widgets with the sun and clouds and whatever else are silly? There are a lot of people that actually like those widgets and it seems a bit arrogant to condescend their tastes just because you think you know better.

This brand of partisan hate and mod-bombing is why I avoid the comment section on almost every tech site these days.
Let's assume your investments keep up with inflation but no more, which is very easy to do. Then essentially you are just living off of your principle. 5MM goes a long ways. 75k a year (in today's dollars) will last you 67 years. That's more than most people make. I'd take that.
Not too many ideas but one really good one. I think the biggest obstacle is probably lack of a really good idea. There shouldn't be any excuses for lack of capital or resources. There are just too many options especially for a software based start-up to get the resources they need - assuming it's based on a great idea. You also need the right team to execute on it.
Consumer protection laws are independent of the country where stuff is made or where the manufacturer legally resides. Every company selling to EU consumers must abide by them. For examples, google the complaints about Apple using "4G" in their iPad marketing materials, or discussions about the usefulness of AppleCare (most of what it promises you already is a consumer right)
Cherenkov radiation is so freaking cool. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/plum-brook-nuclear...
I just fixed C. ciw doesn't work since I've only implemented vim stuff for now but I may slowly add in vim features if there is demand for them
It's pretty simple: Humans are diverse. Evolution created humans. Therefore, evolution created human diversity. "Encourages" is perhaps the wrong word--evolution really produces diversity because it responds to the diverse conditions of the earth.

However, this is just background color, it doesn't change the argument. As long as humans are generically and epigenetically diverse there will be differences in fitness. In capitalist societies it makes people more or less wealthy; in other societies it makes them more or less powerful, or influential, or with more or less social status. There are other factors that can make someone poor but this one seems impossoble to completely remedy.
Don't focus on what it doesn't do for the unmotivated. Focus instead on how it can improve the motivated. A smart, hardworking student who is hungry won't learn much. A smart, hardworking student who is exhausted after walking miles to school in winter on an empty stomach will learn even less.

In the mid-80's I went to an NYC public school that used to be one of the best and by the time I went there, it was... Well let's just say it was quite subpar. The school had an honors program where I spent almost all my time, and I didn't really think it was anything special, just OK. Never had to work hard to get A's. Then Senior year they realized I couldn't graduate without taking Music Appreciation(!) and the only way to do it on time was to take that class with the "regular" students.

Bedlam would have been calmer. It was simply impossible to learn anything in that class. There were students constantly screaming, throwing things, walking in and out of the room all the time, etc. Maybe 5 people out of 35 paid any attention to the teacher. Hell, once he realized I was one of the better behaved ones, he guaranteed me an A just for coming in and cleaning the blackboard every day and then sitting there quietly. I'm not an idiot; I did it and got my A.

I could go on, but suffice to say that one experience opened my eyes to the difference in classes in the same school. I shudder to think how some of the really bad schools were.
> I lucked out to have this come to a head early on, with only 25 cards vaulted. If you have 250 or 2,500 ... :-(

I'm stuck with a merchant account provider I detest, that's raised my rates just about every month for 3 years, because there's no way to get my customers' info back out of the payment gateway. It's either keep wasting money on rates nowhere near what I initially agreed to, with lousy support, or lose even more money by asking every customer to re-enter their billing info. Just a few percent deciding to ignore the mail and let their subscriptions lapse would be more costly than the fees.

These days, in the US at least, there's affordable options for both payment info vaults that can connect to multiple gateways, or gateways offered by merchant companies that will give you your data if you decide to leave them. A few years ago, that wasn't really the case.
Thomas... don't you have a startup to be working on? :)
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Apologies if the wording wasn't clear in the original comment.

The students who applied for the program performed about the same, regardless of whether they went to the "good" schools or the "bad" ones.

I'm not arguing that an environment which promotes learning isn't better. I believe that having the resources and support probably motivates people to learn more. I was just saying that for the already motivated, it didn't make much of a difference.
This is ~2,000 new TLD's.

No, this is ~2000 TLD applications. We have no idea how many of those will ICANN approve.

But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.

My point wasn't that they won't sell domains, but that many or most won't sell them to any random shmoe like .com/.net/etc are sold, but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege, which doesn't describe scammers.
NatWest bank+RBS debit card/wire transfers down (not just a social network)
really confused by the description of their issues, yes you need to be online to access and download the game the first time, no you shouldnt need to be online to play it, yes an app packaged for offline still has access to a server.

Congrats to them to opening up the source and publishing this, html5 gaming is still a pretty new field and everything like this helps.
it's called hacker news. but for starters, "hacker" implies not being spineless or giving a fuck about peer groups. hackers also don't like censorship; so you see how hacker news is anything but. it's an involuntary joke, nothing more.

the word has been appropiated by those who are needy like that: you don't call yourself hacker, just like you don't call yourself saint. only mediocre people to whom it never applied and never will would do that. the end.
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assuming losing 30% off the top for taxes, taking 3% of the principle every year for "salary" is $126k. That seems like more than enough for me, too.
By "difficult" he doesn't mean "technically non-trivial."

He means world hunger, building spaceships, developing new sources of clean energy, etc.

I'd rather have spaceships AND spam than no spaceships and no spam.
we have sub 3% IE usage at https://www.blossom.io and most of them (56% use IE 9) so it depends on your target audience I guess :)
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No one will ever have the same experience as anyone else.

The point is, we are all minorities, depending on which way you cut the population. It doesn't really matter, unless you let it matter. especially in this industry.

What about "whites in tech"? Would that be racist? What about "blacks in tech?"

Or are you of the opinion it's impossible to be racist to white people, sexist to men, etc?
You'd be surprised how many serious projects aren't all that interested in IE7 and 8 users.

Edit: I work for a funded startup. Let me give you some numbers:

3-5% IE users, a fraction of those using <9. Demographically, very few/if any of those are our customers.

Disproportionate effort for very little benefit to our users who care about our product.
Major UK bank hit by technical glitch impacting cash
This isn't a huge story, but IMHO, people living week-to-week not being able to get their child tax credit and buying food kinds trumps "people couldn't post what they had for lunch for 2 hours".

The HN discussion about the Twitter story was "twitter doesn't lose any money when they're down for 2 hours, so full uptime isn't essential". So what happens when a bank's wire transfer and debit card infrastructure is down for a day or more? Could they afford the fix that would prevent it? Will they publish a report on what went wrong and how they'll prevent it in the future? Seems much more interesting to me...
Publicity stunt or righteous outrage? I'll have the salmon.
Business::OnlinePayment is one of those standup CPAN libraries that may not be well known but solves real(world) problems. I'm using it in a line of business app at work and when we ditched authorize.net I migrated to ippay by changing a couple lines of code.
that's what you get for not using RSS.

also, "us in the media", what kind of whore talk is that even? twitter is correctly referrerd to in w3c docs as medium preventing intelligent discussion. so it was down? GOOD. people are inconvenienced? even better! it cannot possibly have hit anyone or anything that was worth fuck all.
I'm not sure it would be such a good idea to implement a hodgepodge of random peoples' mappings.
1) These kids aren't evil and certainly aren't beyond redemption. They do need to be disciplined (i.e. they need to see there are bad consequences for their inappropriate actions).

2) I can't understand why the wealth of the parents is a concern. I don't think this behavior is correlated with wealth.

3) Be a parent and not a friend to your children. Discipline them when they mess up (and they will mess up in big and small ways). Don't feel bad about it, feel good that you are reigning them in before they show up on YouTube.
Same with me, I just completed my merchant account with Feefighters to be able to use Samurai. I've tried all the support emails, including calling the phone # and leaving a voicemail. My original contact was Sheel and Sean but they are not even replying to their personal emails @feefighters.com. It's good that I haven't switched to their service yet but I am assuming they are NOT continuing this service anymore?
Wait a second. Isn't Neil working on a realistic sword fighting video game? Kind of hypocritical, don't you think?
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I really hate to bring up the generics point, but I did really miss them when I used Go. Sure, you can ignore their absence, but every time I saw a API that took or returned `interface {}`, I felt like the type system was being wasted. Other than that though, Go is definitely on favorite languages to watch from afar.
And I should be held accountable to dig up personal contact information before publishing zingy blog posts.
Just did one myself using a X-keys pedal (http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xkfoot.php) - https://twitter.com/juokaz/status/215915867895119872 Works brilliantly. Main pedal to go to insert mode, left one to save the file and right one to switch tabs.
I am not a programmer, so hesitated to reply. I have a serious medical condition. I have been trying to develop some things for years but just coping with my health took most of my time. Given the number of complaints I read online about difficulties concentrating, organizing, etc, I have to wonder if underlying, unrecognized health issues acounts for a lot more of wantrepreunerism than people realize.

I seemed to have time but spent most of it zoned out in front of a game or piddling on the internet, etc. I looked to other people like I was merely lazy, unfocused, and so on. But I wasn't. I was ill. Getting healthier is gradually paying dividends in terms of productivity. I hope it eventually pays off with an adequate online income as I am currently homeless and deeply in debt and, given my medical condition, I think an online income is probably my only hope of staying healthy enough to keep working full time when I am supposed to be too sick to work at all.
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So let's say I don't care about compatibility, what is the real differences between Peity and jQuery sparklines?
You know that there is a gazillion of articles out there - we have the internet now! Why should I read this particular one, which from the outset seems to have a dubious hypothesis?

Would liberal arts help some African child in a remote village? I am asking because I think I wouldn't last long in such an environment, despite of my capability to read...
What's even stranger is that that same company is probably offering a higher starting salary to someone with 2-4 years experience, but they won't adjust someone to that same salary if they start at 0 and get 2-4 years experience on the job. I've seen this firsthand, and heard similar stories from friends. Not all companies, certainly, but it seems common practice.
The difference between "applied first" and "applied last" in motivation is probably dwarfed by the difference between "applied last" and "didn't apply".

If it was being used for a study, though, it was probably a lottery out of those who applied, not first-come, first-served.
Very interesting, but most of these examples look like they would be fairly nonsensical to someone without JavaScript enabled (especially the line chart). To say nothing of those who use screen readers.

Is there a handy way of providing some more meaningful 'alt' text? Perhaps just ignore text in the element? (I didn't check -- you may already be doing this, but I didn't see it mentioned).
At least a good school does provide the opportunity, from stories I've heard from people who have worked at or attended bad schools it would be an environment where it would be basically impossible to learn anything even if you wanted to.

OK, this is just one anecdote, but...

I grew up in a fairly rural, poor part of North Carolina, went to generic, poor to below average public schools, came from a dirt-poor family that most people would describe as "white trash" or "redneck" or whatever... my father dropped out of school in 8th grade, and my mom finished H.S. but never college.

But, despite not going to a "good school," or growing up in a household full of academics, or living in an affluent neighborhood or anything, I always managed to keep learning, and things turned out fairly well for me (to date). I went to college, gaining (over the years) 3 A.S degrees, and not quite bothering to finish my B.S. I've worked professionally as a software developer for the past 12 years, and have broken the 6 figure / year salary margin (while still living in NC, mind you).

When I look back at my own travails, I agree with the sentiment that "people who want to learn, will." If the classes I was in were boring as %!#^ (and they were) I went to the library and checked out books. Even my poor ass rural public school managed to have a library, and there was the local public library. And even though my family was poor, we went to things like the once per year "library book sale" at the main public library branch, and bought books for $0.25 / each... I'd go and bring back boxes of books on science, math, electronics, software, etc. And I read, and I hacked on shit in my spare time, and read more, and pursued the stuff that interested me. Honestly, I'd say my school (I'm talking elementary school through high-school here, not college) had little to nothing to do with what I learned, and my outcome in life.

Again, just one anecdote, and admittedly a personal and biased one from one limited perspective... but I don't put much stock in the idea that it's "impossible to learn anything" pretty much regardless of what school you attend.

I guess it's one reason I get annoyed when people talk about "Horatio Alger stories" as though they were a myth, or believing in them was some kind of logical fallacy. I %!#^ng lived that story, so I know first-hand that it's possible to ascend from poverty to a decent lifestyle through a lot of hard work and determination.