skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely disagree with OP. While SXSW did not "make" Twitter, it certainly helped get things rolling. To say that Twitter was well on its way with tons of traction is a gross overstatement. What SXSW did was provide a logical testbed for Twitter in an environment that made sense. If anything, SXSW was the first large scale event that helped legitimize Twitter.

What I would agree with is that every startup needs to assess whether SXSW makes sense to attend. Several founders I am close to attended and each come back with at least a few tangible takeaways. Some met and secured investors for their seed rounds, others clicked with potential future hires/co-founders, and then some left with solid biz dev deals that moved the traction needle.

As with any event, you make of it what you put in. If you just go to drink, eat, and party, then chances are you are wasting the opportunity. If however you maximize the networking by setting some objectives, showing something tangible, staying sober, and meeting as many people as you can, then maybe you can have a positive and worthwhile experience that more than covers the cash expense and lost productivity.
> But it's the SUM of all of those things.

This is not how copyright works.
A conservative economist says to not worry over a raise to $9 an hour: http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2013/02/please-to-calm-down...

I do worry that we are eating away at low-pay jobs, which are often necessary steps for mid-pay jobs for the middle class. This is a tiny little step away from that, but probably not too much worth worrying about, given all the other things we have (like huge marginal rates on the poor as they rise out of eligibility for welfare programs).
I struggle to imagine why a business that cannot employ someone at 10 dollars and hour, is suddenly a Facebook style gangbusters when they pay 7 dollars an hour.

If your business model is so thin that 3 dollars cripples you, really you need to re-think.

(As an example, do we really think that the Comet/Currys/Circuit City sitting in a big car park miles out of town is running a sustainable business model for buying the latest gadgets? )

And on the demand side, do we think it is likely that the law firm that has five floors in the office block will decide that since all the cleaning companies costs have gone up, they will just leave the bins overflowing and ask the clients to wipe the toilets before use?
Your examples are incorrect. The Route's model is set as the content of the controller, so all you need to say is #each item in content. Your model is set as the "content" of your controller, so your model is not "nowhere to be found"
Then let's raise it to $1000 an hour. We'll all be rich.

To respond to the above comment, yes, it does lead to higher unemployment for those with lower skills, particularly in an environment when unemployment is already high.

Who would you hire for $12 an hour? A teenager with no experience or someone who was laid off but has 5-10 years of experience? We already see (at least in the United States) that teen unemployment is the highest of all age groups at 23%, when average unemployment amongst all age groups is 7.9%. [1]

For comparison, Germany has no statutory minimum wage (except for a few specific employment groups). Not exactly a bastion of poverty and destitution. [2]

[1]: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
[2]: http://www.economist.com/node/21536648
So this isn't really anything like the employee perks at Pinterest or Google. This is a group buying discount. It's not a bad thing to offer--I've worked in big companies and it's occasionally nice to be able to buy discounted tickets. Nobody should confuse this for a benefit that a company would brag about, though.
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Mostly it just means that Gruber is a clueless one-note hater.
This is great. Beautiful design and gameplay. Congrats on the launch.
I wish more projects would document the more "macro" knowledge about their code - the infrastructure and organisation, for instance, or the metaphors used throughout the code.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. So I guess its only a matter of time there are electronics stores accepting BTC online
That Costco isn't doing this purely out of goodwill needs to be mentioned further.

If Costco already starts all employees at $11.50, increasing the minimum wage to any point less than $11.50 doesn't initially impact their own bottom line, but just serves to increase their competitor's costs.
What happens is they get paid below minimum wage, and under the table, so they aren't paying taxes on their wages. I don't know if that is good or bad for the economy...
Philadelphia City Paper's Isaiah Thompson has been covering it for quite some time.

A quick summary:

The Nutter administration is asking the city's legislative body to pass its Actual Value Initiative (AVI), which would base property taxes on a city-wide reassessment that is supposed to fix years of screwy property values across the city. Many residents would wind up with a lower property tax bill, but many – including longtime residents of more affluent neighborhoods – will pay more, in some cases much more.

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity/Behind-the-curtains...

http://www.citypaper.net/blogs/nakedcity?search=y&search...
When you don't know what you don't know, you end up wasting countless hours trying to rediscover the solution to an already-solved problem. I know I have.
For more stories like this, get the book by David M. Harland, "Space Systems Failures: Disasters and Rescues of Satellites, Rocket and Space Probes"
So if you can aggregate more than one source, you're not blogspam anymore? :)
Look at heavily unionized industries like hollywood and the writers guild for guidance. They effectively have a "minimum wage" where if you're part of the guild, you must be paid a MINIMUM of $64k for an original screenplay.

http://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/writers_resources/contracts...

Guess how easy it is to get a job writing screenplays as a member of the guild? It's actually incredibly difficult and the vast majority of prospective writers are effectively unemployed, working jobs at coffee shops instead.

Putting a price floor on labor creates unemployment, period. The writers guild is just one microcosm of this effect.
Why do Kindle images look so bad?
rising minimum wage makes for more spenders

I don't see that at all. Raising the minimum wage results in people at the bottom losing their jobs, hence fewer spenders. I can't imagine why on earth you'd think there would be more.

Nor do you explain why you think the idea that it raises unemployment is 'intellectually stunted'. I find the argument that we would expect the minimum wage to increase unemployment, and the data indicating that it historically has done just that, to be persuasive.

(A good presentation of the argument; I honestly find this video persuasive)
http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/does-minimum-wage-hurt-wo...

(Historical data)
http://www.learnliberty.org/sites/default/files/Davies_0.pdf

What do you think I'm missing?
In Angular HTML is the view so that's where ng-click and friends go, while other MVC frameworks have view js files. I know people like to be 'unobtrusive' but many JS MVC apps would be useless without JS so there's nothing to fall back to (other than a plz turn on JS message).
In other words, Security through Obscurity does NOT work.
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Making a concrete Go To Market Plan
It's designed to induce overconsumption (sugar+salt).
Regardless of whether it remains a dump or doesn't, the reported valuation of the dump for 2014, according to the linked application, is $92k, while the nice place has a valuation over $5m. So the dump is paying over 1% while the mansion is paying .2%
http://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19/bigZips/

~800MB for human genome
Again, you and LayerVault don't seem to understand copyright.

Here's an example. There's a famous iPhone game called Fruit Ninja. There's another game called Veggie Samurai. Total ripoff in every imaginable way, but completely legal.

Copyright means you can't make direct copies or derivative works of my stuff. It doesn't mean you're not allowed copy all my ideas.
AFAIK, the DMCA notice did not list specific images. Have you found the specific images that were copied?
I don't think that's it... Woz talks about internalizing and owning his own thoughts throughout the article, then implies that computer programs (that presumably the student could / should build) ought to be tailored to everyone else's mental models. It seems contradictory. I'd much rather hear something like, "Build something you love using... that's easy for you to use."
Then let's raise it to $1000 an hour. We'll all be rich

Ridiculous arguments are ridiculous. The rest of your point is more than strong enough to stand on its own without that kind of nonsense.
How do you feel about GitHub's pricing?
I thought the modern upvote/like/favorite systems are the replacements for the flawed 5-star system of ratings. Looks like things have come full circle?
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Very nice! I beat the ten demo levels too quickly, and found myself wanting more. Two things:

* An iPad version is needed. The graphics seem to be high res enough to make an iPad version feasible, and if this is on the iPad I'd buy it for sure. I don't really like the idea of trying to trace out the paths on the tiny iPhone screen.

* Charge money for it. I'd definitely be willing to pay personally.
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So like a new line item drawing out something like

Naturally occurring sugars - 10g
Added sugars - 20g

?
I love this game!! Once I got past the second level, I really got the hang of it and loved the mental challenge of solving levels.

One thought: I'd consider making the first few levels much easier. This article on Yoyodyne's trivia games is along those lines:

"As Yoyodyne got busier, we had less and less time to write each game's questions. Finally, one day, we launched a game that had very little effort put into the questions - a rush job, as I recall. The questions were factually correct, but there was no witty writing, no twist, and the questions were really easy to answer.

When the game ran, we were surprised to see that the response rate, instead of hovering around 30%, actually exceeded 60%. We had put less work into crafting the experience, and there were more players who wanted to participate. ... [u]sers wanted two things from their e-mail game experience:

1. POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT: Users wanted to be told that they got the answer right, and that they were winning.

2. NO INVESTMENT: Users did not want to pay for that positive reinforcement in any way. They didn't want to think, work, get up from their chair, or otherwise make any effort to get the reward."

http://www.goodexperience.com/columns/04/0513.slots.html
It wouldn't hit Walmart at all, they don't pay minimum wage.

Nationally the average full time Walmart associate earns $12.57 / hour. That has increased by roughly 30% in seven years.
"Privacy" is not the problem set I'd pick to compete on in this space unless you are going full crypto like Silent Circle.

Instead, I'd focus on GV's actual weak points (instead of some invasion of privacy suggestion which ends up sounding like FUD, usually).

Weak points like no real team set up, no good multi-number international support, etc. There is a huge laundry list of things you could be going after.

Instead, this looks like less of a service for more money.

Offered in the spirit of constructive criticism. I use GV all day every day and am very happy with it, but it has a several glaring flaws (privacy isn't one of them as far as I'm concerned). The next step up to a full service vpbx system is a HUGE leap in terms of cost and complexity. The gap between those two is wide open.
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I am curious to know how would one network at sxsw? Last year I was there, it was so hard to meet potential hires/investors. Is there a guide to network at large events like sxsw?
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You are totally correct about this. As a developer generating these labels, I implemented the rounding rules

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformat...

and it is really mind boggling
Alas that's why there's so few beings like Woz.
AFAIK there is no empirical research to support that claim.
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Well, clearly, they are crazy people.

Nah, kidding. So they're totally right that there's a significant amount of state in the router, in that that's where you define which model and controller (and, depending on how fancy you get, what views and templates) to use on a given page. So those are essentially state.

The state that can make a controller fat is essentially state that's too important for a view but doesn't need to be universal to the page. For example, with my Dropbox controller, the controller has a state property that handles the various permutations of the state of syncing (i.e. it could be doing nothing, currently saving, done saving, failed saving, etc.). This state is set by the controller on the controller, and used by multiple views to determine things like which label a progress modal should have.

For example, if you had a controller representing a list, you might want to keep track of which item is selected on the controller. That way, if there are multiple views that can act on the currently selected item (for example - you might have a list item view that has a template that renders the item, and then a separate view that are buttons that trigger actions that act on the current item), they all have access to it.

Plus, I always think of state defined in a router as being limited to specific pages/routes, whereas some of my controllers are used on several different routes.
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We are in agreement. Orthogonal means the two issues (unlocking being legal under DMCA vs unlocking being prohibited by contract in exchange for a free phone) should be treated separately.
> There's an active/repetitive component ...

The persistent/active component is in having the personal constitution necessary to engaged in the action in question. The type of person, for instance, who files a false DMCA take-down request -- censoring another person's speech -- without understanding or appreciating the ethical and legal implications of what they are doing.

"Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown" -- https://github.com/designmodo/Flat-UI
Rand Paul filibustering over drones
>Oh, and when it comes to press, I really don't have any good advice.

I recommend contacting local newspapers, they are usually very willing to write stories like "local programmer quits day job to pursie his dream of creating games etc".
> Just responding to and dealing with a DMCA notice like this would cost hundreds or thousands of dollars in attorney fees

No, responding to and dealing with a DMCA notice takes 5 minutes and a couple keystrokes. You send a counternotice, a simple e-mail you can copy and paste from any number of examples. There are no attorneys fees until there's an actual lawsuit, and there's never going to be one here.
I seem unable to reply to others in this thread but I would like to take a view on the two comments that frame this : basically let's raise the minimum wage to $35 or to $1000 / hour.

Now we should reasonably assume that there will not suddenly be an increase in jobs that can afford to pay 35 (or 1000!) - so those jobs will remain steady roughly. And those jobs below will either vanish or will find they can employ peoe at those rates.

So there will be an increase in unemployment.

But that's not the point - we are seeing a massive structural shift in jobs - technology is displacing at the White collar middle skill level. There are going to be less jobs no matter what.

The share of GDP captured by wages is the important measure here - not the individual wage rate but using employment as a means of distributing wealth how do we spread the wealth around.

If half the jobs vanish then we may simply find a social balance in women staying at home and men earning double.

(nb I am not advocating this back-to-the-50s as a social good, just that minimum wage increases do not have to mean the share of the wealth diopps - we just need to find ways to share it out that we as society think are equitable)
In this case, the "state" that we're talking about is "what state are you in". In other words, the router manages high-level state ("I am looking at a post now"), and provides long-lived controllers with data reflecting that state. So even though there is information about the current state in the controller (and the view), the source of truth about the current high-level state is in the router.
True! I'd forgotten all about that.
nothing comes for free ;)
Hi Paul. I work at Stripe and just sent you an email about our Connect product (https://stripe.com/connect), which is used by many e-commerce platforms such as Shopify and Goodsie.
Consumption spending is what we want to get out of a recession, but long-term you want to encourage investment spending.
Livegrid.js - Handy tool for displaying the grid
Yea you really are hitting on the best case solution. What we are doing though is for whoever uses our service, we are generating qr codes for every item, so smart phone users can scan the entry and get detailed information. But that would really be limited to the restaurants which use our service.
The labor market is governed by the law of supply and demand, just like any other. If you arbitrarily increase the price of something, in this case low-skilled labor, surpluses are the result.

If you want to help people, find a way that doesn't destroy the incentives to hire them and the incentives to become a more valuable employee.
Exactly what i was thinking as soon as i saw this one. Isn't urlbox free?
They will always fuck this up because they don't really care. Content owners are being dragged kicking and screaming into this sort of thing, and it shows.
You aren't thinking at the margin.

In general, you are right, but at the margin you are wrong.
Your argument assumes that all the increased that all the extra spending from people at the minimum wage goes to good produced by minimum wage workers, which I hope you would agree isn't true.

In theory you could find that the minimum wage could raise employment with tenuous assumptions[1], but there's no need to sit back and theorize in your arm chair when you can go out and collect actual data. And most studies show that the rises in the minimum wage do increase unemployment, though there have been a few studies that showed the opposite. But still, the consensus among economists about minimum wage is about as strong as it is among climatologists about global warming.

But that isn't the same as saying that a minimum wage is bad for poor people. If many people see their wages rise for every person who loses their job then maybe that's something we want. And the evidence does say that wage gains to the people making the new minimum exceed the wage loses of the people thrown out of work.

But since ~90% of the money for those wage gains ends up coming from higher prices, we'd be much better off just raising taxes and handing the money to people earning less than we think they should. That way the costs would fall progressively rather than repressively, and we wouldn't see any increase in unemployment at all.

EDIT: And while it's true that Australia has a very high minimum wage and low unemployment, most industries that would be minimum wage in the US have special exceptions from the minimum wage in Australia. The number of people earning 7$ an hour in Australia isn't that different per capita than in the US.

[1] That minimum wage industries are monopsomies and have similar cost structures.
Don't give up! Ember has a steep learning curve but once you've got a bunch of it memorized development gets much easier.
Already discussed, and denied, then Nelson himself joined the conversation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5219765

TL;DR "You may have called your project Chrome OS at some point (though it sounds like you called it "Google OS" consistently at the time). But it did not turn into today's Chrome OS. I was there for the genesis of that project, and it did not happen in 2007. If your project got headcount in 2007, that's definitive proof that it isn't Chrome OS."
For those who haven't noticed, a single bitcoin is worth almost 47 dollars now, over 30% more than two days ago:
http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg5ztgSzm1g10zm2g25...
Regarding the top 25 meaningful revenue... this all depends on your team size, does it not? If you are solo or a team of 2-3, you need a lot less revenue than a big company.

We're almost done with our slot machine game for iOS (lame, I know), but we only have 2 people, and we definitely don't need to be in the top 25 to make some real money (that can fund new, "real game" projects).
You don't "give" more disposable income, you pay people for work. Pay for work is accounted for by receipts (prices paid for goods or services), causing prices to rise to cover the increased costs, or margins to fall if prices remain inflexible due to market price determination.

The artificial rise in wages will not help, as it will be met with a corresponding increase in prices to cover the costs of the wages.
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So your charge is that Costco is engaging in the practice of capitalism. In that case, I reckon they are guilty.
Thanks. I'll have a look.

This is off-topic, but it always interests me how someone trained in the arts approaches argument and discussion compared to someone trained in the sciences. Sometimes I feel like you do; people seem to interpret what I say very differently, emphasising different parts of my argument.

I had a feeling we were still not understanding each other, but we'll leave it at that.
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So, this might be a stupid question, but I'm curious: Where does the money of the fine actually go? It's just being collected by these EU regulators and sits in their bank accounts?
Hollywood screenwriting is an atypical labor market for all sorts of reasons. The fact that they are heavily unionized is only one small factor.
Instead of controlling the view directly from the controller, the view uses the controller object (proxy to model) in any way it wants allowing you to change the view without changing the controller and same with the controller. I think the issue you are facing is thinking that you are tightly coupled to the controller by using the controller object, depending on what you think about how much coupling is too much coupling you can argue that just using one object might really be decoupling. I'm not sure if I was able to get my point across.
One of my favorite features of Chrome is that if you start to type "amazon.com" in the URL bar, and then hit Tab when it autocompletes, it switches the URL bar to an amazon.com search bar. I don't think I've typed anything in the actual search field of amazon.com in years.
How big of a family are you talking about subsidizing?

1 child? 3? 5? Radical difference in cost.

So which target is the cost basis? If you say one child, who are you to say one? If you say seven, who are you to say seven? And it is thus the moral hazard presents itself: forcing tax payers to pay for other people's optional life choices (specifically ones so easily avoided as having children that you cannot afford).

It essentially gets into a scheme in which the claim has to be made that being able to afford to have children is a right (a right paid for by someone else that is more responsible and more productive).