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Couple of things. First, I didn't say that mere creation was useless. I said it is not enough to make money. The distinction is significant.

Second, thanks for the links. They are very good. However, I'm not sure if he's saying what you think he's saying. Throughout the second page is the tacit acknowledgment that you have to work and make money in order to live. His "most radical advice" is to not find a job that you love, but rather one that supports you with the least stress - which, by the way, I have no problem with.

Indeed, he even links to this wonderful essay, which expresses my point far more eloquently and with more erudition:

http://incharacter.org/archives/self-reliance/old-mac-donald...
I see this negative claim on HN quite a bit. R&D CS labs where D is in service of R do exist. I work at such a lab. We expect fresh PhDs to lead their own research project. Spend some time perusing the ACM DL in your area and try to find labs that have high publication-to-researcher ratios (many of these labs are quite small so it does no good just to do a raw pub count).
According to the American Physical Society the same is true for Physics PhDs. Sure we're tiny relative to the life sciences, but we've got 4% unemployment one year after graduation (data from 2010, 2012 isn't available yet).

http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/reports/phdinitial.pdf

I'm extremely wary of this guy's data part of which come from his "own calculations". Bleh.
You can have that with any console or TV by getting a pair of wireless headphones. I can recommend Sennheiser, they aren't cheap but worth every penny if you ask me. Excellent sound quality, build quality and UX. (I've got a pair of RS 170s, they've been serving me well for two years now.)

http://www.sennheiserusa.com/wireless-stereo-headphones-home
So the guy with idea does nothing until first MVP is built. Does his or her work really begin once MVP proved its worth ? It looks like technical guy can be 100% busy building the MVP while the guy with idea can explore other opportunities at the same time.
Did you read the rest of the article on what "sharing" means?

The new PlayStation 4 is also highly focused on offering social experiences. You’ll be able to stream your play sessions to allow input, including your friends taking over control to help you out with a rough patch, for instance. You can also quickly share video clips to friends and the PS network.

Gaikai’s technology is also behind the spectating feature of the PS4 which allows you to share your gaming session with a button push and allows friends to jump in and take over control to help you. Some games will allow people to give you items that will help you in game play like ‘health potions’.

Having friends take over sounds pretty cool to me.

That being said I liked Andy Levy's Tweet.

I hope I'll be able to turn off all of these social features on the #PS4. If I wanted to be social I wouldn't be playing videogames.
$200m is a lot to throw at a company that only has a lot of users.

They have little to no revenue at this point and no current revenue streams that point to being able to generate anything worthy of a $2.5b valuation. I guess my point was that I'd like to know what revenue streams they are anticipating creating that would warrant such a high valuation.
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I thought that was the point. ;-) I know what you mean though, usually when tampering you give up some niceties.
While I'm sure these are completely valid truths in some startups, I can't help but feel that the author doesn't really know what it's like to be successful in that sort of environment. You can paint things a hundred different ways depending on your perspective, but if this sort of "culture" works for so many people and they're happy with it, I don't really see an issue. OP was simply not a good fit for the startup scene's culture, and that isn't a BS statement meant to bar out anyone who doesn't fit the mold.
I've been playing PC games since the 80's. Every time a new generation of consoles come out, people claim that PC gaming is going to die. It hasn't thus far, and many developers still openly admit that hardcore PC gamers are a large part of what's driving the entire gaming industry into the future.
"Think outside the box"
It might be that three traits usually represent an arbitrary number of dimensions sufficiently well (factor analysis, PCA). Or that thinking about more than three gets very hard (number of distinct combinations), so we just resort to three. For that matter, two dimensions, or even just the poles of one, are enough for most people (2-party politics, a/theist, occidental/orient, etc.).
They said the same thing about Instagram when it was purchased by Facebook for $1 billion. I'm starting to think that's not a good metric.
A startup is not its code, just like an auto manufacturer is not its factories.
Absolutely not. Look at the publication record of any tenured professor at a non R1 university and you'll typically find that it's dropped to almost nil.
Is there any document that details how ripple works? Something like "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Currency"[1]. I browsed the site and right now it looks like a lot of individual wiki pages. Surely there is a defining document?

[1] http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
And Call of Duty. And Modern Warfare. And, and and..
Yes, job scheduling and queue... Could you please share more details regarding what are you looking for?
That's not how the game works:

The investors at this stage still don't care about revenue. The main question is whether or not they can flip the investment to some other firm later (that is to say, will the picture look rosy enough in the future that someone else will buy in at a higher valuation).

Revenue starts to matter in the last round before the IPO (if it goes that route). If the sequence ends in an acquisition, revenues won't really matter..
You are completely right, randomdata: there is a minimum threshold of social contact required to maintain oneself, and there is no reason to go beyond that threshold if you don't want to.

My concern for Ken is that his essay describes him as so isolated that he's well below that threshold, and in danger of self-harm through negligence. I don't want that to happen.

I would add that, non-trivially, Ken has expressed a desire to "set the world on fire!" which, in general, has social requirements well above the minimum. (Indeed, the only way to really impact the world in isolation would be to, say, take up a science hobby while working for the Swiss patent office.)
> a lot less PC games produced every year

> The PC gaming market has simply become smaller

I'd argue that the second half of the 1990's was actually something of a bubble. 3D-ness and CD-ROM's were the hot new thing, and everyone tried to make their games 3D, increase polygon counts and texture resolutions, add cutscenes, fill an entire CD with assets -- which meant bloated art and development budgets, and a loss of focus on innovation.

In short, new 3D and storage technology, dotcom-era funding of big publishing conglomerates, those conglomerates' control of retail channels, and a lack of alternative distribution for smaller developers, led to an unusually large number of big-budget games.

IMHO gaming's "natural" state is more similar to the era c. 1975-1995, where small studios and innovative gameplay were a big part of the industry.

There's still a market segment today for big-budget "A" titles, but c. 1997-2005 was the heyday.

Anyone in the world who can make a game now has affordable access to a number of digital distribution and payment channels like Steam, Gamersgate, Android/Apple Apps, Facebook, HTML5, or plain old downloads on a website with payment provided by Paypal/Stripe/Dwolla/Amazon/Google Checkout/Bitcoin [1]. There are plenty of open-source and commercial tools and libraries for developing games. This means individual developers and startups can enter the industry relatively freely, with minimal upfront costs, can restore innovation to its rightful place, and can exert downward price pressure with their small costs.

I believe the number of games/developers/publishers in the ecosystem is larger than it ever was [citation needed], as is the revenue of the industry as a whole [citation needed], but A-list console and PC titles have given up a fair amount of ground to the "long tail" of modestly successful indie games.

[1] 1990's connection speeds, and the pesky business of tying up telephone lines for hours or days during long downloads, made yesterday's Internet an unappealing distribution platform.
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You forgot "PC Gaming" which is not only Steam. It's always been there in the corner and has never disappeared because of consoles. In fact the best looking games are always on PC, and they usually target the most demanding players, while consoles are clearly mainstream.
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Who are these people, if not PC gamers?

Steam is fantastic, but it's a name that is totally unknown to almost all console gamers. Just the presence of a Steam Box isn't going to magically convert people, they have a huge uphill struggle ahead of them. Most of their market, IMO, is PC gamers.
I largely agree with you even though I have written a lot on the superiority in my opinion of (J)Ruby, Clojure, and Scala as JVM languages.

The reason I agree with you is that last year while on a vacation without a computer I spent some time thinking about languages and made a guestimate that if I had stuck with Java and never spent any time learning new languages, then my productivity would have been a bit higher.

However, and for me this is a large issue: I really enjoy learning new languages, and twisting around how I think about programming.

I mostly retired in January except for helping some customers in emergencies, and for my own retirement projects I use Clojure exclusively. In retirement, I am damn glad I am not doing my passion projects in Java :-)
The Red Delicious apple underwent a similar change, being bred mainly for size and shelf appeal rather than taste. People stopped buying them in favor of other varieties, and the Washington apple industry, which heavily depended on the Red Delicious, had to be bailed out as a result.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08...
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I'm not so sure, and if it is, it's happening slooowly.

Oh, absolutely. But this isn't entirely a case of wishful thinking with no foundation. I'd have to stop and spend time to dig up the links, but there have been more than a few analyst reports and what-not, including by the big boys like Gartner and so-on, saying the same thing.

We've also heard this from customers. Just to give one example... we sat down with some people from a major bank (they're in the Fortune 250) and asked them some of these questions. What we heard was "5 years ago, OSS would have been a non-starter. Now, we're actively looking to use more OSS because we believe it delivers better value".

That said, we're not saying that Oracle is going to go away anytime soon, but there are a lot of signs there. Going back to Oracle for a minute, their acquisition of MySQL says something. And Red Hat breaking the billion dollar mark in revenue last year is also an encouraging sign.

All I'm saying is beware of that cognitive bias.

Well said.
Ouya is not even out yet, and just because it found 100 000 clients on Kickstarter does not mean it will be much bigger once it reaches the market. And it's probably "too cheap" in terms of hardware to motivate anyone serious with gaming to buy it.
I'm with you on this one. I own a PS3 and for the past 3 years I've only purchased 3 games. FIFA 11, 12, and 13.

I will probably buy a PS4 just for FIFA XX
> Again, you're only giving credit to google for the first year of their product. NASA was nowhere near the moon in 1959.

Right. But the .com bubble was ending the first year of Google's product in 2000, while commercialization of space technology through things like Space X (which are leveraging NASA's developments) is happening 50 years after 1959. If you're going to give Google credit for internet uptake, you have to look at how relevant Google was at the time that internet uptake was happening. Something that wasn't relevant until into 2000's couldn't have been a "catalyst" for a phenomenon that roaring by the late 1990's.

> Those 100 million weren't using the internet with any degree of the pervasiveness we see today.

Because of Google? Or because of smart phones connected to internet 24x7, because of increased bandwidth making Hulu and the like possible, because of Amazon, because of Facebook, etc? I don't see why Google gets credit for all these things.

Do a thought experiment. Say we don't have Google, or its clones like Bing, etc. And say we don't have a replacement. Say we just have Altavista-level search technology. How much of your daily internet usage is still possible? Probably most of it. Most internet usage is on sights that everyone knows that are wildly popular: Facebook, Twitter, etc. Now, do the same thought experiment for the iPhone, again assuming nobody "would have invented it anyway." Say we just still have Palm Treos. What's the impact on Facebook, Twitter, etc?

> Sure, if you co-opt anyone who used steel at all into "the steel industry" and hence make them defacto members of US Steel for your argument.

You're co-opting everything that has happened on the internet since 2000 and attributing it to Google for your argument. And U.S. Steel is arguably a much better example--they invented a lot of the core steel production technology that made all the other uses possible/practicable. Google's search technology didn't make Facebook or Twitter possible.
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There's something I'm doing that Github doesn't like. For example, I just removed the CNAME from oscin-es/oscin-es.github.com and added it to one of my repos called oscin.es.

But all I'm getting at http://oscin.es is a 404.

I can see it works for you, not sure why it doesn't for me.

UPDATE: Now it's working! Ok, I need to update my blog post. Thanks!
I think Pinterest is in a great condition ... at this time.

Like they have tons of users who religiously use their product, and it's actually coupled with intent to buy, which makes monetizing easy.

However, you can't change the fact, that pinterest is riding on a "trendy" wave right now. There is not a whole lot that keeps you threre. Just in two years, there can be another spot where all the women in world woo about their lives.

It's an inherent social problem which accounts for the so far pretty short lives of social companies. You gotta have to be able to tie/commit your users much like Facebook does (owning your diginal private life).
I have always thought travel is more than a change of external scenery. Travel forces you outside of your comfort zone, away from people/places/things that are known.
True, I really just meant "at R1 universities." Which isn't fair to all those other tenured professors at non-R1 universities (and I may possibly even be one, someday).

Of course, I have heard of R1 tenured professors who claim to spend 50% of their effort procuring funding (though I think 10% is a much more representative estimate).
Most people don't find software development "interesting" at all. And let's face it, the kind that pays well is usually rather boring, while the kind that is interesting usually doesn't pay very well, or at all in the case of open source.
https://ripple.com/wiki/How_it_works (RTFA)
Any ideas on what format the games will come in? I haven't bought a ps3 because there are no pirated copies sold here in Bolivia and 80$ for a game is entirely too expensive for a third world country budget.

I have a 360 because I can buy burned games on a dvd-dl for 3$ a pop.
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I absolutely see what you mean about releasing polished projects-- you're saying I should spend some time getting products launched for real instead of just taking on learning projects repeatedly. That's a good message to take to heart. :)

Not overly harsh at all! Thank you for the valuable advice and the heads-up on the dead domain.
In general, it breaks down into "less time discount," "more of what other people want," "more of what I want". That's a simplification, but broadly speaks to the tensions in the system. I used to like this system because it helped identify the tradeoffs, but what I found most surprising about it was how often it didn't apply at all, in business/products/jobs but what was most in egregious violation of the principle were people. Some people just don't have a lot of upside to knowing; other people walk around with some nominal flaws, but for the most part are inspiring.
I'm from Ohio, too. And I started my career there. And as you know, it's not easy. I hope you're in Columbus or Cincinnati. I grew up in Toledo: Not exactly a tech hub :)

You should relocate. I can tell you this without a shred of reservation. I first went to a payment processing startup in Boca. Lots of money in South Florida, wonderful weather, quite a few more startups than you'd guess. Then to the bay area for a wider range of work.

If you're good, you will get flown out for interviews and given an offer with relocation. You should seriously consider this.

As for your other concerns, when I was younger, I was less of a collaborator and more of a "screw this, i'll do it myself, you'll see, it'll be great." And I'm talented, and often it was great, so i got by. But I eventually realized that for me, being more humble, reaching out more, it just makes life easier. And if you want to be humbled, go to where the best and brightest in your industry are.
Surprising, they didn't even show the console.
This is a complicated question with many angles. First, Reddit is now apart of bigger company. Obviously, this changes anything to do with valuation. Do investors want a "piece" of a company that is within a bigger company? Maybe, but if they do the valuation is going to be a lot lower compared to if Reddit was independent.

The other issue is that Reddit makes money therefore the valuation is based on earnings. Their earnings might be low for the amount of traffic they get. Sometimes it's better to not generate any money because the valuation would be based solely user growth+engagement.

With this being said, if Reddit was an independent company then they too would have a crazy valuation. I am sure the founders think they sold way too early but at the time, it was the best option. Kudos to the buyer who didn't let it enter the M&A dead pool.
> The car's price will start at $23,000 on Monday, Febuary 20, at 12:00 am

1) Today is not a Monday.

2) It's currently higher that the stated starting price, at $23,300.

Other than that, interesting concept.
renownedmedia and I are two of the developers of the Copy product. I can assure you that he is not a "PR minion" - he can sling code better than most.
I completely agree. I think this is the reason why bluetooth headsets haven't really had overwhelming appeal (except with certain marked segments, such as businessmen). If a product isn't sexy, people won't use it – and that's especially true with wearable technology.

For me, it's not the asymmetry of the projector but the massive back-end. You can tell even Google knows this is unattractive because their model is wearing a hoodie to cover it up.

While I respect the attempt to make a standalone device, I think Google would be better off introducing this as a lower-cost peripheral for those who already have android smartphones. I think this would get them market penetration and slim down the design (but that's just speculation).

Also, it's probably safe to say that early adopters would already have a smartphone, and if they don't it could be a game changer to get people on Android.
i download the mac app and created the account, still its not able to login
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Sooo..... Standard PC hardware but with a locked down software stack you can't run anything but approved software on.

Why? I can't think of a single reason to buy this... unless there are some really good exclusive games.
I don't see that. I think that someone who complained about $250k would be laughed at, and even mocked openly. Especially keep in mind that we have international readers.

The relative compensation in many companies between engineers and useless managers is another issue... but anyone who complains about poverty at $250,000 can eat it.
The headphone jack on the pad ! Finally someone noticed the excellent idea of the 3DO back from the early 90s. Why did it take so long to copy this feature??
Sony shouldn't worry about MS. imo this is why Apple and Google or some Android variant will be a major contender. It's all about developers.
No. The idea is for the "business" guy to do his stuff before, during, and after development.
The Ouya is too slow to make a dent in the hardcore gamer market.

It might very well sell ok, but not to replace PS4's or any other "real" consoles.
Did you read my comment? When I referred to a bunch of wiki pages I was referring to (among others) the page you linked to. Are you saying that page is on par with the bitcoin paper? That's a little flimsy for a specification. Are people supposed to refer to that page's wiki revision number[1] and the fifteen other pages that are incorporated by reference/linking?

RTFA? Cool your jets bro...

[1] https://ripple.com/wiki/index.php?title=How_it_works&old...
And, of course, the government if it's stored on Google's servers.
Haven't heard of the Foundation Podcast before/will definitely take a look at it. Thanks for the heads up!
For the average end user, it may not particularly matter that Mozilla's PDF implementation is open source and Google's isn't. However, for people like me who want to implement PDF-related functionality in their web/desktop application, it matters a great deal.
Two things.

First, when something is always available and you are always aware of it and taking data from it, it becomes part of you in the same way that your eyes or your clothing are part of you. It's part of you when you're talking to people in the same way that your computer is part of you when you're having an email conversation. It's entirely possible that you with google glass is generally less socially adept or more distracted than you without google glass, but I don't think the effect will be as extreme as you fear.

Second, and more important, is that Glass doesn't force you to break eye contact or change your body language. Having worked for years with people that wear head-mounted displays religiously (look up a guy named Thad Starner), I can tell you that those two features actually make a huge difference. Instead of imagining a person using a cell phone in the middle of a conversation, imagine a family talking around the latest episode of Star Trek or across the dinner table - you aren't really looking at other people, but the conversation feels perfectly natural anyway.
Curious. You can contact me at news.ycombinator.com@thirdtruck.org to exchange notes if you want to pursue the root cause further.
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The Xbox button and PS buttons are not "specific" since they have several functions - they pop up a menu where you can access a long list of functions. Having a single button for sharing to your network is borderline stupid, since it will flood the social networks with useless crap nobody cares about.
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Can someone enlighten me - there choice of x86 processor, does this mean it's a 32bit platform? not a 64 bit one? And if so, how does this affect them with the imminent change that's happening on desktop moving towards 64bit?
Chuck was offering one interpretation and trying to help. That's no reason to snap at him. Of his many comments here has even one ever been mean?
Thanks, for the feedback. I will change that!