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PlayStation Mobile is fairly open at least:
https://psm.playstation.net/portal/en/index.html#register

Console dev used to take special, expensive development kits, although moving to a more PC like architecture will make a public SDK at an affordable price more likely. Probably the easiest way to do it right now is to just use the multi-platform Unity engine.
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More precisely, I happen to think exclusively in dialogues. I imagine talking to a person, and I hear the conversation I would have with that person in my head, and their counterpoints.

I'm pretty much the same way. I'm not sure I'd say I exactly "hear" my "inner voice" but my thinking is definitely dominated by "spoken word" stuff.

Of course, I also talk to myself out loud sometimes, when working on a hard problem. Not sure how "normal" that is, but I can't say I really care a whole lot either.
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There is background uploading and downloading, allowing the console to update game and system items in the background even if the main power is off. [...]

This is enabled by a secondary processor that allows for background work while the main processor is handling gameplay.
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Hopefully one day there will be a time sharing multi user environment, then we will no longer need dedicated hardware for updates.

Aside from this, I am somewhat undecided if the PS4 could be interesting. The Kinect+Move controller sounds good, if it is implemented well ( and the libraries are anywhere close to the Kinect ones). And the hardware seems to me okay, roughly what one would expect from a new console. On the other hand, I do not see anything like the blue ray drive of the PS3, a really compelling reason why I should get a PS4 instead of an xBox ( or an upgrade to the PC that sits next to my TV).
They said something right at the end. Holiday 2013. As expected, really. Sony will try to get it out before Christmas.

In the meantime there is plenty of time to reveal more and more as is opportune. The design, the price, etc. I feel like this is also a cat and mouse game with Microsoft. Who will show their cards first? Now the ball is certainly in Microsoft’s court (seeing as so far, Sony is ticking all the right boxes but has not yet revealed some critical information).
I'd be interested in knowing what news triggered the spikes in traffic.

It's also interesting to see how traffic seems to come mostly from weekdays.
Yeah, what they especially need is to make the development kits cheaper. MUCH cheaper. It is not just about instruction sets and APIs, just the fact the SDK distribution is restricted AND expensive makes it a challenge for anyone to develop for it in the first place.
Options are always great, and a console like Ouya will serve a lot of people better than a more expensive console.

But take a game like space invaders. When it came out, it was new and shiny and amazing. When I played it in the late 80's (My parents were too cheap for a Nintendo, I didn't play one of those until the SNES / Genesis were already out.) It was so awesome that I couldn't imagine any game ever being better. Now, decades later, it's still a good game, but it's so simplistic in comparison to current games, that I can't see myself playing it for hours on end.

Now take a game like Grand Theft Auto 3, represents one of the more complex / graphically intensive games ported to Android / IOS. When it was first released, it too was an amazing game. I spent countless hours driving around, shooting things, and completing the missions. While it was amazing for it's time, in comparison to this generation's games, the graphics are dated and the game play seems to lack depth. Once again, I can't see myself enjoying it now for more than a few minutes.

There are some games that are truly timeless, like Contra, Mario, Chess, Go, Quake 3 Arena, Mario Kart, etc.., but most console and PC games don't age well.
Two points not made here:

1) It's quite common to study for PhD while getting paid for it instead of paying for it - and in that case, it should be treted as a fun and enriching (though not very high paying) job for a couple of years instead of "delaying 4 years". Getting into a huge debt for it is a whole different thing, though.

2) It feels that this problem is partly USA-specific. Sure, other places may have noticed similar tendencies but not as sharply; and science is very, very global - I'm seeing a lot of great researchers moving between countries/universities every 5-6 years based on where the major research projects in their area are happening & funded.

In general, a solution would be to try to decouple research from teaching instead of mixing them all under PhD/professor positions - the future tendency seems to be with much less people needed in teaching (due to changes in society, student funding/loan systems, MOOC's, etc) and thus more PhD's shifting towards research.
Just to be clear, the interviewer asks himself the "Sunday test" about the candidate. They don't ask you if you would go work with them on Sunday.
Looking at the Apple App Store Top Charts today, there is a fair bit of shovelware there - good things too mind, but I think there's something to be said for curation.
And yet they don't have a *nix client...
This is a form of "tonic immobility" in sharks (chickens have the same reaction if held whilst looking at a line drawn away from them)

It's an attempt to feign death / stand immobile whilst danger passes.

Its effective in sharks as they need water passing over their gills so if they stop swimming they are dependant on current.

Of course orcas are big enough to turn a shark over - your average guy in a chain mail suit tries this with Jaws' older brother and it's three months of trying to get steel rings out of your teeth
Yes, or just shouting "Save that!"
It's a metaphor, but only just. I talk to myself in my head, but only at the end of a thought process once I've formed some ideas and I'm trying to crystallise them into an argument that sounds right. Like others have said here, if you switch to thinking in English too early on you cripple yourself -- it's just too slow and linear for dealing with multiple threads, relationships and associations, which our minds are brilliant at.

Like you suggested, I also think in spoken words when I'm questioning myself, playing devil's advocate. "Why does that matter?" "Is such and such really the case? Prove it." "You're ignoring some really important factor over here."

I find thinking AND trying to record stuff frustrating. If I'm dictating to a recorder I'll always speak in fragments of sentences, or talk ridiculously fast if I'm on a train of thought, because I can feel the next three or four links & associations coming, and I'm scared of losing them while I finish the one I'm currently talking about. Of course, being scared of losing them pretty much guarantees that you do.

Regarding the "inner voice", I find it's always self-directed. I can keep thinking, but choose to talk or not talk in my head. I suppose, if ever you get words in your head that aren't self-directed, pay very close attention.
YADA, the concurrent fetcher featured in the article, has extensive benchmarks on many Perl WWW User Agent libraries, also: https://metacpan.org/module/AnyEvent::Net::Curl::Queued#BENC...
> teachers are forcing children every day to go out and play.

until eventually they don't have to. I don't think they ever managed to quit doing it for the OP.
> That's more or less irrelevant to to the legal code.

Complexity in the society the legal code is designed to govern is irrelevant to the complexity of that legal code?

> What really leads to complexity in the legal code is the level of institutionalized corruption. AKA only companies owned by someone living within 50 miles of X and 30 miles of Y may do XYZ.

Do you think that's what laws actually look like?
No price. No release date. No hardware. What is this? A Microsoft product launch?
I thought the problem with Pinterest was that "intent to buy" was actually really low compared to other traffic sources.

I know its an old article, but has anything come out contradicting it? http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/07/13/new-data-show...
Exactly. You could 'git blame' the law.

Tech is so far ahead of government and industry it's mind-blowing. What is the D.C. Council paying Westlaw for, again? Having version control and a database?
Interesting! Do you have any benchmarks?
The rumor that they would be using Gaikai to run previous games (PS2, PS3) was actually true. This is no where as good as emulation, though, since there will always be a tremendous lag during play, unless you live next door from the big servers and have a flawless, fast connection with almost zero ping. Net, for most people out there, this will be a terrible experience.
Great reply. I'm always so happy that the comments on HN seem to be so reasonable.

What stood out to me is your comment about moving...I myself have picked up a lot of unhealthy behaviors and habits by being trapped in a city where people are distant and flaky. I've forgotten that not everyone is like that. I myself have thought that my only other options are SF or moving abroad, so it's interesting to hear someone else voice that.
> I generally agree with you about the necessity of complexity, but the "law" of the internet is actually a counterexample: Nobody enforces it.

It's a counter example in the context of a discussion about alternative ways to enforce (or not) rules, but not in a discussion about the complexity of the rules themselves.

As for enforcement, I agree it's interesting to look at examples of cooperative processes, but a relevant distinction is that breaking rules on the internet don't usually have consequences to other people. When they do, we do get calls to "enforce" the rules, e.g. in the context of net neutrality.
Purdue is B-tier?

Yes, without any doubt.
How many PhDs have $40,000 to their name, as opposed to $4.00?

How many MTV or NYC Google engineers have $400k to their name after 5 years, as opposed to $4,000 and a bunch of money torched on rent? Google pays well, but not as well as you seem to think.

I'd say that (2) wins, if only because someone who sticks with Google for 5 years is probably one who made Real Googler and now has a fair amount of freedom. Google is pretty nice once you're above the Real Googler Line.
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The key to the technology seems to be https://ripple.com/wiki/Consensus, which is the problem Bitcoin elegantly solved. I like this solution as well. But Bitcoin is relatively battle hardened (both theoretically and in the field), and I trust the work I have seen done on the subject.

Is there some forum like bitcoin.stackexchange where I can ask/read theoretical questions of Ripple?
In addition to miniKanren, there's actual Kanren. http://kanren.sourceforge.net/

What Kanren does is show how functional programming and logic programming can be viewed as roughly the same thing.

It's interesting that generalized parsing is also more or less like logic programming.

So functional programming w/delimited continuations == generalized parsing == logic programming. Sorta.
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I've heard believable claims that "here professors don't write research papers, professors write grant proposals" - quite a few of them advance research and get paper authorship by leading a lab and procuring funding for the team that does the actual research and writes the papers.

And I'm not dissing them in any way - getting a grant requires the senior/experienced guys working on it. Getting the funding is a must-have (since without it researchers and students would be dismissed and the research would not exist); but spending your own time researching is a nice-to-have thing that you can do if there's any spare time left after teaching and bureaucracy.
So, ripple authors keep 20% of it all. That sounds kinda shady to me. Like someone wanting to score a quick instabuck using the valuation.
Always great to hear about success coming from humble beginnings:

Pinterest used Hacker Dojo as their primary workspace in late 2009, and hired both of their first two engineers from the Dojo's membership.

Source http://www.hackerdojo.com/InvestinStartups
Pictures are all moving to video streams nowadays anyway, like the recently announced HTC One. Just keep a stream going and have the voice prompt tag a place in the stream three seconds earlier.
http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/users/85/david-schwartz?tab... ... ctrl-f, ripple
There were quite a few true innovations shown off in this endless whatever:

-- silent preloading of games you may be interested in

-- immediate local play of digital titles while they download

-- OnLive/Gaikai style video streaming of full disc games you haven't yet purchased

-- rolling video replay of your screen as a core system service

-- Mobile-style instant system hibernation

-- continuously streaming your display to remote friends

-- allowing remote friends to assume control over your currently playing game

All of these are welcome, but "play the full game as a streamed demo" and "preload digital games of likely interest" are brilliant, wiping out so many pain points from digital software purchasing.

(and back to cynicism: every game they showed off was pre-rendered nonsense, their target market is plateauing at best, mobile's strangling them, etc etc etc)
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I bootstrapped my first company the whole way and sitting here today wouldn't have changed it. It forced us to be smarter and work harder. We also had more time to figure it all out with little pressure.

Now the second time around (Stackify) it is nice to be self funded. But its easy to spend money on things that aren't always necessary. Definitely not optimizing the cash as much.

As an angel investor I prefer smaller companies who slowly figure it out and get some traction before raising money. So many people raise money to experiment if it will even work.
How big do you have to be?
Nice. I considered selling a house this way about six months ago, but I ended up selling it to a neighbor. Edit: One idea I had: allow people to reserve a spot on the calendar, perhaps with a deposit. You'll get the benefit of a traditional rising auction that way and it might avoid hard feelings if multiple people jump as the price falls a notch. Would you mind putting your code up on Github?
There was sudden spike in traffic (both unique IPs and pageviews) in the months of July-Aug last year. I'm curious to know what caused that spike?
Not so with the Xbox 360, I'll cite Wikipedia on this one:

On February 8, 2008, during the Game Developers Conference 2008, Microsoft announced that the "Failure rate has officially dropped", but without mentioning any specifics.[28] The same month, electronics warranty provider SquareTrade published an examination of 1040 Xbox 360's and said that they suffered from a failure rate of 16.4% (one in six).

Personally I'm on my third Xbox 360 after the first suffered a Red Ring of Death failure and the second had a faulty DVD drive that killed any inserted disk, destroying my copy of Rock Band. It actually convinced me to switch to gaming on the PC, as I refused to trust my Xbox and I didn't want it to fail until I had finished the Mass Effect trilogy.
Pinterest is in a great spot. Everybody pins products - they'll be able to monetize. I'm betting this'll be a decent investment. I see why Tapiture is doing the same thing for the men's market here in LA http://wp.me/p1fNUP-gK
Wow, that second link was a really good article. Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize crows were that camera shy or observant that people were watching them back.

Makes sense though they they would be paranoid when someone or some thing is paying them too much attention as 99% of the time it means something bad will come next.
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Descubre cual es la campaña que usted y su empresa necesita para crear recordatorio de marca en redes sociales y en internet, "no siempre lo que crees es lo que de verdad necesitas."
You mentioned outsourcing your comments to HN (by way of submitting your own post and then linking to the discussion HN thread). Is this considered kosher as long as the topic is relevant to the HN community? And does it just so happen that bloggers who do this only write posts that are HN-worthy?

This may work simply because it is self-policing, since self-submiting on a topic in a gray area would risk hell-banning. I am curious if you ever choose not to exercise the outsourcing for a post that wouldn't be of interest.

Related discussions as to why people prefer HN as their commenting system here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5247226
I got these from someone on reddit: http://204.83.72.148/themusicgod1/doc/ripple/
Also, the research that people are writing grants for and doing is dictated by what is fundable, which is not necessarily exactly what they'd choose to be doing were there no constraints.
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yeah it's weird, especially since you can't be sure they will make money in the end, but that's how the incestment money works
It's ironic in its own way, given how many (not all, but many) of the indigineous groups treated animals and their ecosystems with more respect than they were given by other humans. In a lot of ways, it seems like we're having to relearn a lot of the values that cultures with longer histories have known for hundreds of years.
Who wants to write code for some exotic chip that's only used on one gaming platform? If I'm not mistaken, making effective use of the cell processor requires you to manage the cache by hand. This is the kind of totally unportable feature that requires expert treatment and lots of fine tweaking.

Now, instead, you get 8 x86 cores, with multithreading, and quite probably a GPU you can also use for general purpose computation if you want to. Simplicity is going to be an advantage.
Even when you factor in transmission losses, charging losses, etc. and assume you're using 100% coal power, EVs beat ICEs by a wide margin.

I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. Do you have a particular study/calculation in mind?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/automobiles/how-green-are-...
Great to see you and other companies head in this direction. If you have revenue early enough it's a game changer. Glad TechStars is supporting you in this decision.
In Korea and Japan, people wear glasses to look cool, and they are cheap. People who don't need glasses either just wear glasses with either no-prescription or no lenses. It's not nerdy. It's cool. Think jewelry. Not utility.
I wasn't aware that competitive StarCraft had ever banned anything that was intended by the game engine, and Google isn't turning up anything. Could you provide a source?
Happy birthday, HN! It would be neat to load this data into StatWing (YC S12) and let the community explore trends and such.
I can't remember how I found HN, but it has hands down affected my life in a positive, tangible way.

Here's to another 6 years of awesome links, insightful commentary and no-nonsense commenters.
>You're speaking a lot of romance.

Epic events tend to lend themselves to romantic speech. I would stand on a soapbox but then my keyboard would be awkward to reach, and they don't make soapboxes anymore, except out of cardboard.

>and shortly after, we packed up and went home, never to return.
True. That doesn't at all negate the impact of the initial event though. Just means one we got to the moon we discovered it was dirt, dirt and more dirt.

>Sure, it was a milestone in human history, but it's not like it really changed the way our societies work.

I'm not arguing that it necessarily changed the way our societies work, just the terms by which humanity could view its own potential. Before, we weren't a species capable of landing someone on the moon. Afterwards, we were.

I'd have no problem putting the advent of the World Wide Web up in the same category as the moon landing, or even ahead of it using your terms, but that still doesn't put Google in the same class as either, in terms of technology or revolutionary achievement. Yet. Glass may, indeed end up pushing the envelope of human interaction somewhere incredible and transformational. Or maybe it's just a gimmicky new UI. I don't know. But I guarantee fifty years from now nobody's going to be telling their grandchildren where they were when Google came out with anything unless at some point Google becomes responsible for strong AI or maybe a working teleporter.

>Seeing the moon landings on television changed people's lives": How?

They saw people landing on the moon on television. Live(ish).

>Edit: I also find it weird that you're characterising the social effects and fallout of WW2 as being less powerful in terms of civilisation change than a photo from the moon. Really, this is just geek romance talking.

I'm not. I'm suggesting that there weren't other, prior examples of being able to see the Earth from standing on another planet. It was a unique event, and its impact (however you choose to measure it) was likewise unique. Wars are not unique events, and my other point was their impact is bound by politics and geography, whereas the moon landing and the picture of earthrise wasn't.

And yes perhaps it is a bit of geek romance talking. It's also a bit of geek romance to suggest that Google is more important in social and technological terms than the moon landing. My geek romanticism just happens to look a bit further back.
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6768395.stm says there's a 30km/h speed limit and an accident in 2006.

Hm, they could just restrict driving to golf carts and be the first fully-electric-car nation ...
twitch.tv and Machinima claim that more than nobody cares about sharing of video game clips.
To be a little more explicit than coderrr, Ripple is directly on-topic on Bitcoin.SE: http://meta.bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/346/adjustin...
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For mine (chemical engineering in an American university). I hear it varies quite a bit depending on where you are and what you're doing it in.
It's perfectly legal to use someone-else's idea, but it is a bit of a jerk move take someones idea and walk off with it.

Just be upfront about it from the beginning - agree at the start of the weekend that anything (ideas or code) that is made over the weekend goes into the public domain (or alternatively everyone in the team gets a non-exclusive licence to do whatever they want with it.

Alternatively find your own ideas or find a co-founder who brings equal value to the table.
Given how massively prolific the humble bundles and indie games in general are, I disagree. There's a very long tail on PC :).
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banks are very heavily tech oriented (as in they use a lot of tech and also make their own tech). and yet you won't call a bank a tech orient ed company because a company's model determines the 'orientation', not what sort of tools they use.

many people agree that Google is an advert company. it just that they are different from the traditional Madison avenue style ad company. no one is saying that being an ad company is bad. nor are they disallowed to invest in tech. but they are not like the old research institute like the old palo alto xerox style company.
What you just said is very different from the first sentence of the comment I replied to. Let me repeat it, "Rails ... is no longer better than the competition."

I think rails is better than the competition if my goal is to make fairly standard websites. It would be a rare exception where I think something else is more suitable.
OnLive has shown there's surprisingly little lag with most above average connections.

We'll see how it goes here, but I'm pretty sure it will be a good experience (that will only get better as internet infrastructure and their servers expand).