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Ask HN: How do I find a project to work on?
I've been spending way too much time reading about tech and none actually making something recently. How do I find a project to work on? Most of the stuff thats going on in the open source space doesn't interest me, and I'd really like to just work on a little personal project. Trouble is, I just can't think of any need I have for a project I'd like to see, and its been that way for too long. Any ideas on how I can come up with something?
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That's not true. We were all poor once. Yet here we are. I grew up poor myself.

Where people are not free, where the government or thieves take their resources, they cannot accumulate anything. And in countries that are still largely poor, that is exactly what happens.

But, when people are able to escape these countries to where they can be free, they are then free to improve their situation. And many do.
OpenStreetMap has superior information for my city (Montevideo, Uruguay), especially housing numbers.

Though for businesses and such, Google Maps is better (and I like the maps and the way they render, too).

This thread makes me want to resurrect one of my side projects (mapping apartments for rent and for sale, the Craigslist equivalent here is lacking on several points, although it is better than Craigslist).

Edit: as it says here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151512

OSM has worse data in some places, and better in others.
What are you trying to prove exactly? That I'm coffee-deprived and tired?

Google being a good place to work at really has nothing to do with demanding overtime of employees.

For that matter, Google isn't even guilty of what I'm talking about.

Given those two statements, everything you've just said is null.

What an immense waste of time.
This article brought back some great memories for me.

As a result of reading this, I also looked around for more history on Winamp and enjoyed the post on oldversion [1] that walks through the build history all the way from the DOS version, and a trip to the waybacktime machine [2] to learn about the Fraunhofer winplay3, the only real predecessor to Winamp (packaged with pirated material as a player in the 90's) and now something Fraunhofer wants to deny existed.

[1] http://www.oldversion.com/blog/the-history-of-winamp/

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20080619002511/www.sonicspot.com/...
I had a hidden email. They added an unhidden facebook.com email address for me. I've just gone and hid it.
In the Toronto rental category at least CL is still tops.
Miami Heat owner sues Google, blogger over ‘unflattering’ photo
tl;dr argument: currently existing nuclear power plants produce electricity that costs more than using coal

my comment on this argument would be that I find it less persuasive than the article seems to want it to be.
How Much Longer Until I Feel Better? (Post-divorce Depression)
First thing I thought when I see it: Why!?

Second thing: Why not call it OnErrorResumeNext!?
How would I go about integrating this as a step into my build process?
Experts warn of another disaster awaiting at Fukushima
I'm pretty sure where he gets it. For comparison: Rush Limbaugh, a social conservative, is threatened by any narrative of history that attributes great misdeeds, e.g. the genocide of Native Americans, to the dominant social group (Christian white males of European descent). Any evidence for the narrative that Limbaugh disfavors must be due to a conspiracy of minorities--hence we end up hearing him claim that Native Americans should pay reparations to white people. ESR, a libertarian, is threatened by any narrative of history that decouples the outcomes of individuals' lives from their innate merits, and instead places emphasis on the role of background factors such as race/class/gender/sexuality (viz. Alan Turing's persecution for being gay leading to his suicide). Any evidence for the narrative that ESR disfavors must be due to a conspiracy of bleeding-heart liberals--hence he throws Turing as well as Ada Lovelace under the bus.
he's probably better at making websites than you are at making music.
Show HN: A work-in-progress Bookmarking manager built on Twitter
Valve Hires Economist To Study Virtual Worlds
I like less content, few options and big buttons and bigger sized fonts of newer designs, but coderwall seems to be taking it too far :/ And I couldn't easily understand the typical use cases. Is it a portfolio of your work? What are protips? Actual coding tips or links to projects?
In addition to the doc you may want to actually show the example on a demo page/site. Just copy with a button - have it go red/blue and a remove cookie button to "redo" the test, etc.

Just a suggestion
I post a continual stream of links to Twitter. LinkThing organizes tweets & links, turning your twitter stream into a bookmarking service. In a nutshell, its like Delicious, but using your Twitter stream, not another separate service. LinkThing will pull in your tweets and index them. You can then sort them by hashtag, keyword, @user, or whatever.

Here's the site: http://linkthing.co

Here's a screenshot of it in action: http://imgur.com/Etgkc

Here's the stub of a privacy policy: http://linkthing.co/privacy.php

I really created this to scratch an itch (the need for an easy, low overhead bookmarking service), and to take advantage of what I perceived to be an untapped resource (the collection of zillions of links that I've already tweeted).

Note: LinkThing is work-in-progress. For instance, there's no way to delete or re-order bookmarks yet, and I haven't written any of the verbiage around the site, etc. etc. The look and feel is obviously boilerplate bootstrap

In that screenshot above, you can see I'm viewing my tweets with #coding or #reference hashtags - this is my quick reference list for things I commonly look up while coding. Note that its in my Bookmarks bar too - for super quick lookups.

Since I started using LinkThing, I've gotten a bit more disciplined with my hashtags, so that I can make good use of the bookmarks. An example would be the #commentedon hashtag: whenever I comment on a article, I tweet a link to it with that hashtag, so at a later date I can follow-up on it from LinkThing.

You can also surface pages publicly: http://linkthing.co/public/qaaab

I'm using LinkThing to share links about the Kettle Valley Railway with some folks that I'm planning a big bike vacation with: http://linkthing.co/public/0haab

Let me know your thoughts, and thank-you for taking the time to look.
Is Diaspora still around? If so, I figure that one could build one as a thin layer on top of that.

I think the harder problem in dating services is search/recommendations which would involve a good deal of custom ML to get good results for everyone. This in turn requires a huge time investment before it becomes good. All this would have to happen before the thing came out so as to make sure that early adopters don't get put off by the network.
Show HN: My startup lets you bet on sports for free.
Timeline was rolled out to all accounts. Are you using a plugin to approximate the old look or something?
I just checked, and this has not happened for me. My email address on Facebook is still my personal one.

Interestingly enough, even though I have an actual username set, my @facebook.com address is still the numbered user ID.
I only wish that when Facebook gave away my email when I connected with other sites that they gave away the Facebook email address. As it is, I almost never give permission to sites because most require an email address. I do not wish to share my real email address just to read an article that has shown up on my newsfeed, but would gladly share my @facebook.com email address
Lonesome George, last of the Pinta Island tortoises, dies
this article is garbage at best. clear bias from the very first sentence and only argues from a current cost structure perspective.
Yeah, he could most likely get away with charging higher. How do you suggest a company test out pricing though? I mean I think that's exactly what Amazon has done and they get criticized for doing so (since they do it in a A/B fashion)

I guess he could just bump all the songs to $10 and see if sales increase/decrease/etc over a period of time. Pricing is definitely an interesting problem, for all startups.
Indeed. And how does a currency with demurrage prevent users from investing in gold and storing it in a vault instead of investing in something that provides "longer-term sustainable growth [of the economy]"?
I still use Winamp (with an old-skool theme).

There's no better mp3 player for Windows.

It's light, has just the right amount of interface, no media library bull crap (doesn't force you to use one, anyways).
Wrote a (rough) clone of this design internally based off a slide deck[1] Netflix put out a while back. Kind of (gladly) surprised they released their tools.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/netflix-velocity-conferen...
and you are definitely not good at human interactions. the website might not be great but there is worse and also i am not paying for the website but for the music, which is actually great
Yes. I get the same result with or without the "prod" argument.
I wish you the best of luck but how do you plan on contending with some of the large stock music sites? I won't give names.

Are you going to open up to other composers to sell through your service?
Yay... I'm always looking for more reasons to NOT use Facebook for any communication whatsoever. Thank you, Facebook!
Well, we do. I'm certainly going to spread the news. I like the spunk!
I've seen several feeds that are still on the old layout. Not sure how that's possible, I don't think a plugin can do it.
José Mujica en Universidad de Lanus discurso (completo)
No mention of thorium fission reactors, that would be far cleaner and would consume 232Th which is far cheaper and more abundant than 235U.
... and lets you charge much higher rates...

At the risk fo stating the obvious, this is not automatically true. Specializing makes for easier marketing, but not necessarily higher rates. Some clients just don't have a lot of money to spend.
If anyone is interested in our little community, it's mostly on irc.globalgamers.net within the following channels: #tdmpickups, #iPug, #mlut, and #mlig. Basically you join pickup games (aka pugs) - 4v4, 5v5, etc. - using an IRC bot that keeps track of everything, captains choose teams, select a server, everyone enters, ready-up, and may the best fraggers win. And of course hilarity ensues on IRC afterwards. ;)
The software license is the best part:

"If you are caught in a dire situation wherein you only have enough time to save one person out of a group, and the Author is a member of that group, you must save the Author."
And I think of that every time someone mentions ReCAPTCHA
let's make a theory about what this will do to the cost of rent in an area.

In the UK at least, the option for landlords to spend £20 to advertise their rental (in our case on Rightmove), obtain a contract, conduct referencing, handle the deposit and other traditional agencies services, is resulting in landlords being able to lower their headline rental fees.

Our landlords have traditionally listed at far below what the same property is listed at with a traditional agent. So these savings are, in part, passed on to tenants.

One must remember that agents will charge landlords 5-11% of the annual rent just to find a tenant, plus the hundreds of pounds they charge tenants in admin fees. This does not even include management fees.

Removing these unjustified fees, and creating a fair marketplace, can only benefit tenants rather than harm them. That is at least what our intention is with OpenRent.
As a local, I hope Arch Grants increases the specificity of their grant offering. It is currently a challenge to recommend Arch Grants as a funding option to prospective entrepreneurs as their process is very opaque.
This is NOT shocking enough to be posted every fucking time you see a newspaper write about it.
Amusingly, facebook dropped 2 out of 3 test messages from the other address facebook knows about. Seriously, if anything should be whitelisted, it's that.

I understand that they want to read my mail. They want to know who i interact with.

Why make such a shitty mail client? No POP. no IMAP. Can't view headers. It's not clear how much html is allowed, because they're dropping to many messages.

They're not even pretending it's a serious offering. They're just screwing around with settings.

edit

-- mail lag is 30 minutes now --

<b> <u> and <i> work, <font> and <span> failed.
People saying it's no big deal either never used Facebook to grab e-mails for parties/weddings/celebrations.

All my friends have emails, and most of them have Facebook, but not all of them check Facebook that often or only have Facebook to not become a social outcast. You either need to contact them by phone or by email if you need something from them in some immediate time frame. Add to that the fact that there are more emails listed on the site than phone numbers so your primary option is email them.

So now those people who haven't bothered checking Facebook cannot be contacted because that email address just routes back to Facebook. It negates the whole point of having your email listed, which is for your friends to contact you in some non-Facebook way.

And Facebook just has a fetish with mucking with your personal settings. It's the only company that routinely does this kind of thing without bothering to say anything about it.
yeah. Nice addition, should make Guava etc. much nicer to use, but I'm also sticking to Scala.
I think that's a great idea and a service that needs to exist, but for me personally I think that would be biting off a lot more than I could chew.
This is somewhat of link bait. Yes, they changed the wording on their site, but what do you expect them to do in addition? Plan a press conference about the change? Have a press release? Of course it is "quietly"; Apple has product upgrades that they do not feel worthy of a press release.

Back to the subject: this possibly/partly is a response to the outcome of a complaint at an advertising complaints commission in the Netherlands (correlation is present, but the Dutch Apple site still had the original text while the US site had the updated text). They got the short end of the stick there, but the commission cannot do more than naming and shaming (https://www.reclamecode.nl/webuitspraak.asp?ID=76881&acC...)
Even if the article is right about the cost of nuclear energy (for which it provides zero evidence), it is ignoring some major points:

- peak oil: eventually (probably not in a distant future) oil is going to become too expensive. What then?

- coal causes horrible pollution

- natural gas is non-renewable, just like oil

- nuclear power technology hasn't stagnated in the 70's

On a more empirical note, I live in France and energy here is much cheaper than anywhere else I lived (and this includes public transportation, which runs mostly on nuclear power in Paris). My home country, Portugal, has destroyed its industry with a government-subsidized windmill scheme. 70% of your energy bill there is tax.
I've still seen some people who don't have Timeline yet. It is rare though.
Tomi Ahonen: A Few Thoughts about Microsoft's Tablet PC, the Surface
dont' give up! Remmeber your friends.

Hoogle is your friend

the REPL is your friend

(typeclassopedia, too, but that's for later). The point is to get into the REPl and start defining the contours of the type system, monomorphism restriction, inference, etc, in your mind
As a Perl and Python developer, I would have to say that my limited experience with Ruby gives me the impression that it's closer to Perl than Python is.
Are you sure? I still don't have it (thankfully). I'm probably on the tail end of their rollout though. Might help that I hardly ever use Facebook anymore.
Hey! Thanks for the support, I've actually played Snakes!
I also got the all-white window on first startup - MB Air with Lion, fwiw.
Dr. Google and Mr. Hyde
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Wow, thoughtful youtube comments!
find something in your life that need improvement. Might be anything, seriously.
Need to get faster to work? make a script to calculate the distances and an app to track the times with each routes.
You like to cook but never have ideas? make something to get a random recipe from a website.

It's all about solving problems, even small problems are often important. And if you can find a problem that might effect you, be sure that in some way other people will gladly use your solution.

Also working on something that directly involves you give emphasis to the project and it's a nice moral booster.
I didn't set a Facebook username, and Facebook force-assigned me one for this email address.
I mentioned several reasons on the launch page, and made it as clear as possible.

Its reliable.. its scalable.. you pay only for what you use without any commitment.. and its very, very cheap.
jfoutz appears to be joking.
Basically, the problem is you are creating a conflict of interest by appending the affiliate bit. It's hard to take your advice as being unbiased when you stand to profit from it.
This post misses exactly half of the problem.

Amanda talks about Craigslist from the perspective of the seller (new sites have nobody to sell to).

What about the other half, the buyers? Same problem -- users on new sites have nobody to buy from.

The whole problem is the network effect. And the reason there aren't Craigslist killers is because it's insanely hard to overcome this. Your product may be 100x better, but sellers won't use it until tons of buyers do, and buyers won't use it until tons of sellers do. Craigslist didn't have this problem because it was basically the first decent online classifieds site. So now Craigslist can just sit there and not innovate.

This is why people are so upset with Craigslist, and why supposed Craisglist-killers are failing. (It makes normal product competition, like getting an app to be #1 in the iTunes store, look easy by comparison.)
He's probably in a control group.
In other words it's some kind of bureaucrat or something?
No. Not flexible enough for what we needed to do and, in some ways, limited in performance. For the right applications phase change heat transfer is fantastic.

EDIT: My comment has to do with phase change cooling of the type implemented with sealed copper tubes moving heat from one end to the other using a phase change fluid inside. This full-immersion phase change cooling setup is a something entirely different. I don't know anything about it.
the website looks nice and the idea also, is it there money involved in any way or is it 100% free? is it a sort of "fanta-games"?
Yes it's a protip - that's a thing I like most - It's simply a blog like too we can share some stuff away. I like it - It's easy and good looking
...making it the best spam filter yet discovered
I think a part of the point is that there is no such thing as the measure of inflation. Every measure of inflation measures some basket of goods; what if I want to buy something else with my inflating currency? Then this measure isn't relevant for me. Also, how can we know whether prices rise due to an increase in the money supply or due to something else? Consider the following example where p, q, r, s, t, u and v all denote a certain good. m denotes the monetary good. At first, the relationship, in price, between these goods is the following:

p=2m, q=0.7m, r=1.4m, s=8m, t=0.2m, u=0.6m, v=4.5m

after a while the prices change and now the relationship is the following:

p=2.5m, q=0.5m, r=1.2m, s=7m, t=0.2m, u=2m, v=4.6m

What role has an inflation in the monetary supply played in the change in prices and what role has factors such as scarcity, difficulty of production, labor costs, etc. played in the change of prices? The answer is it's impossible to tell. Sure, you could calculate an average price change between all the goods, but who is to say that this average stems from monetary inflation and not an increase in wages or an incrase in energy costs, for example?
1 full-time developer, 1 full-time operations, 1 part-time design contractor put this app together in 5 months. Mobile coming soon!
Here, here. I've been considering options for adding ambiance to my game, and I think this paulstretch thing is very interesting.
The idea behind nuclear power isn't "cost-effectiveness", you fucking idiot. It's about staying away from energy resources that fuck up our planet and our atmosphere. This world's thirst for energy has gone far beyond the capabilities of oil, gas and coal to provide without seriously damaging our planets infrastructure. Nuclear accidents can be prevented with proper care and maintenence, whereas "the moment we stop being able to produce oil" (whatever you want to call it) is GOING TO HAPPEN at some point, and we've seen the horrible effects of coal and gas on our ozone already.

Regardless of your views on nuclear power this article is a load of BULLSHIT and I wish I could vote things down on HN.
Very cool resource and there are some great tracks here. I'm excited to see how you expand the library to accompany all kinds of different projects, even beyond games.

I'm quite a fan of royalty-free music, actually I just finished up a project using 100% royalty-free music from Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com/). He uses a creative-commons license for all of his work, but makes the bulk of his money through private projects brought on from exposure.

Our project was for an immersive reading experience for The War of the Worlds, which meant we needed lots and lots of different types of music for all the story arcs. Shameless plug if you want to check it out: http://e-mersiv.com/apps

Again, I think you could definitely have a market for more than just game devs out there, your pricing model is attractive enough to be used for short videos, ebooks, etc.
I couldn't browse at all - kept getting knocked back the loading bar. I'm using Firefox on linux. As others have said already, I'd suggest making a javascript-free version for people like me who aren't able to listen for whatever reason (and I see quicktime mentioned on the page - please please no quicktime, I refuse to install it).

For my purposes, a plain HTML page with download links to a low quality sample for me to listen to would be enough. (and obviously a shopping cart or some other way to buy the full quality versions)

Having said that, I love the idea and hope I can listen to some of your music soon.
Your facebook.com email address was exposed with the same permissions as your profile. My personal email is still visible to my friends only, and my facebook.com address is exposed to only me when I check just now.

Also anyone who can see your profile knows your facebook.com address already, as it is the same as the URL to your profile.
As a musician and former gamer, I think this is a great idea and interesting discussion about pricing and business models. Have you thought about a commission/share model? I don't know the real market, but I think most musicians won't think about the games industry as a business, so you have probably less competition there. On the other hand, lately I've seen more and more indie games, so demand seems to be growing.

With such a low price, I'll have my concerns with the lack of exclusivity. Maybe you could add a premium price to remove the audio from further selling?

Regards!
I don't think that's true - I don't have it.
> The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States in 30 years is that they have proven to be poor investments

Uh... no.
The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in the US is because 3 mile island and chernobyl scared the shit out of people.

Both of those incidents were caused by people going outside the safety protocols. Nuclear power, just like anything else, is VERY dangerous if you ignore safety.