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That's not really how economics works. The games market (for example) isn't capped by how many amazing games people could potentially play.

It's capped by the amount of money people have available to spend on games. So that money necessarily has to come from other parts of the economy. So when other parts of the economy suffer there is less money to pay for games.
Games are going to be a fairly elastic good, in that as much as I might love video games I'm not going to spend money on them if I'm struggling to afford food and rent. So in a bad market either games have to either become cheaper, or there will be less titles on the market.

Thus the demand for game developers either goes down or they will make less money each and the wages can only go so low before they will be forced to defect to other industries because their game salary won't make the rent.

Other jobs like trash collection will have a more steady supply/demand because even in a bad economy someone needs to take the crap away. I'm sure there are people who love trash collecting, but they are probably a minority of the workforce vs people who would prefer to get a trash collection salary for watching TV or playing video games.

The problem with telling people to "create opportunity" is that starting a business (as I have learned myself) is something that requires more capital than you think it does even if you are frugal. So unless you happen to be independently wealthy you are going to need to take that capital by either working at some other job or persuading an investor that your business will generate them a return.

So you have to find something that is the best compromise between "what I like to do" and "what do I think will make money" and usually the second one becomes the dominant factor.
Hey, just thought I'd take a sec to thank you for making this free. We're faced with so many free apps nowadays that we forget all the work that goes into it to selflessly help the community.
> Unfortunately, there seems to be no option to change the way apps are opened.

If you right click on an app's icon, you can select "Open as window" or "Open maximized", both of which emulate the traditional model. Unfortunately, maximized apps always feature a pair of floating buttons (unmaximize and close) in the top right corner.

I bought my Chromebook in a desperate attempt to satiate my urge to buy a much-more-expensive MacBook Air, and I'd say it's working.

To be honest, I spend most of my time in the SSH app, but web browsing is surprisingly smooth given the machine's price. The extra-wide (and extra tall!) left control and left alt keys are a welcomed touch, and, like Travis noted, battery life has been better than expected.
It's not - though usually you should add a Show HN: to the front of it. Looks great, mate.
I agree. GitHub gives developer access, but at the same time the source can be browsed, linked to, or downloaded as a zip. Too easy.
You have so many self limiting beliefs.
My recollection (though I don't know much about rails and this is just going from memory) is that he attempted to make an argument to the rails team for more secure defaults in parameter parsing and for the framework to steer apps towards more secure use. When they brushed him off and said it was ultimately the caller's responsibility to use it right, he exploited github to make his point.
Hopefully there will be more than one!

I had fun this past November with Snori74's Grep101 course.

I don't think it's open right now, but when it runs, it's a great stab at exactly what you're describing.

Initial blog:
http://grep101.blogspot.com/

HN post:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726827
There certainly are people who are smarter than others, all research into human intelligence backs this up.

Well informed is also a sticky concept, there is a lot of information out there. Much of it conflicting, it requires skill,time and a certain amount of luck to use the right information to make the right decisions.

Sadly not everyone can be great, if everyone were great then nobody would be great. Though you could argue that we are already all "great" in comparison to the bacteria that we evolved from :)
For the vast majority of non-technical (or even highly technical in some area other than software development) users, The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning has a site called MetroPulse, which offers a large selection of open data browsable through a (sometimes) friendly GUI. It's more demographically and statistically focused (though there is a map view), but it's a much more generally accessible platform than GitHub.
On this note, I see a great application for small business to capitalize on knowing where more humans have accessibility to non-car parking so to speak. Having access gives the would be business owner to see ahead where bike access is and provide services to those areas.
"This argument is wrong because it ignores the impact of war and corruption has on our economy. The economy can’t grow when trillions of dollars are lost to fighting wars and bailing out wall street. Inefficiency does not add value to society, technology never killed a job that is of great value to society. Advance technology has not replaced the highly skilled worker, craftsman, engineer or artist. "

Don't Blame Technology
- http://techiroll.com/post/10173031897/do-not-blame-technolog...

The 3 Trillion War
- http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/stiglitz...

Wall Street Aristocracy Got $1.2 Trillion in Secret Loans
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-21/wall-street-aristoc...
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You imply that logical thinking is a desirable trait for everybody

It's certainly a desirable trait for everyone whom we allow to vote.
The state doesn't control hiring in the German system. If you can't find someone to sponsor you for your apprenticeship that's your problem. The state does have to regulate the conditions of work much, much more than is the case in countries like Britain though. In Germany becoming a florist requires a three year apprenticeship and you can't open a florists without someone who has done said apprenticeship. Half-arsing it and just trying it out, entry level jobs that can serve as an entree into a good career without much in the way of formal training; these happen much less in Germany than in the Anglosphere.
Direct competition to Sidecar? (Lyft as well, but Lyft schedules the drivers a bit)
There's incentive to use VPN beyond the simple matter of anonymity. I, for example, often work/connect from Starbucks, and their wi-fi is not encrypted, and anything with Wi-fi monitor capability can pretty much scan all the traffic going through. (Theoretically, someone with a malicious motive can scan your traffic at VPN end, but what I'm talking about here is more of an unmanageable risk of someone with Wireshark at the range of WI-fi. Using the same with Tor is probably a bad idea, as potentially, anyone operating exit nodes can potentially log the traffic.)

Especially in the case your work really doesn't offer real VPN to their corporate network, it is the next best thing to have. (Especially when they are affordable) You could have VPN looped through your home, but in this age of bandwidth capping, it is getting a less appealing option.
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You don’t need a separate version, you can check for available features at runtime:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/devel...

http://www.cocoawithlove.com/2009/09/building-for-earlier-os...
35 years? means we won't hear about any entertainingly silly patent claims?
If I'm understanding the characterisation of the bug correctly, I think this implies that memory locations ending in 0xff would not suffer from the corruption.
Looks pretty bad on mobile (http://i.imgur.com/LVhn8uz.png).
I'm not really making a comparison between the industries. I'm talking about how the process and work involved as a producer/COO has an overlap and how my experience making a film can be translated in some ways to my startup.
But isn't the "while John had had 'had'" segment a dangling modifier and hence, this sentence is wrong?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_modifier
Here's a notion for us to think about: why not start structuring a basic-income system in a "capitalist" way by reforming the way companies pay out dividends?

I mean, how does it make sense that, on the one hand, American business corporations are sitting on record-sized heaps of cash, but on the other hand, most gains for investors are made via buy-low, sell-high capital gains and almost all stock is owned by the investor-capitalist class, institutions, and retirement accounts? Why not transform our existing paper certificates that theoretically place a legal claim on a stream of profits into a real, enforceable claim on a stream of profits?

So we could maintain our notions of "labor" and "deserving" by radically shortening the lifespan of a person's mandatory career. You work until you build enough wealth to start living off capital income, then "retire" into the rest of your life with a standard of living that remains linked to the work you actually did. A sovereign wealth fund could distribute social dividends through ownership of society's common assets for those who don't have much else.
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You don't actually need socialism to have a minimum income. Instead, you could institute some form of Georgism. The total land value of the US (not including any improvements) was estimated to have been a bit over 5 trillion USD in 2000 ( http://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/land-values/price-and-... ). Allowing for growth, call it 20K per capita. The distortions in real estate markets are left as an exercise for the reader.
I'm going to go through that in part 2 (part 1 was getting a little long already) - but the guide that potshot linked to is a good start - it's easy to understand and correct.
So we distribute our game client over HTTP and it's something like 4GB compressed using gzip.

When I saw zopfli, my immediate reaction was that it should save a non-trivial amount of money for us while leading to a slightly faster download for our users. Hearing a 100 times increase in compression time doesn't sound like much compared to the number of times the files are downloaded right?

The last incremental patch we did to the game took 79 seconds in our build system to compress with the usual gzip. This is only compressing the files that were changed since the last patch, not the entire game client, so larger patches would take longer. If we changed to zopfli, it would take 2.2 hours.

That would put a serious dent in our agility. When we are trying to deploy a new patch, adding 2.2 hours (or more) somewhere in the middle of it really isn't viable. (It's already maddening when the rest of the process takes ~40 minutes with all the automated tests that we run).

So then lets look at the savings that this would buy us. We distributed about 30TB yesterday. Bandwidth costs 2c per gig. This would save us about 30 dollars a day.

So much for that!
>Do we want to work towards establishing a society where leisure is the default, guaranteed state?

Leisure will not be the "default, guaranteed state".

Slums and ghettos with huge masses of devastated ex-middle class left to mostly rot and a much smaller semi-middle-class and extra rich leave in closed guarded communities will be the default.
That was a good read. Thanks.
There are people who can play chess better than I can, who have higher "IQs", and yet I make more money than they do. Intelligence is not a magic number which increases in one way which allows you to do great things automatically with no effort. An average person (based on IQ points, which do NOT measure all the the ways for people to have potential for intelligence) can do far greater, meaningful things through willpower, and willpower is something we all have only still most people do not understand how to use it effectively. It's just knowledge, not innate ability. We are all very similar genetically and we all have very similar with our potential for greatness. Sure we all cannot be great in the same ways... like many of us here couldn't be NFL quarterbackers if we wanted to, but still ultimately with the things we want and the things we want to do the only thing holding us back are our beliefs.

Any kind of creative person who is great is not born that way. It is not innate ability. Watch and listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnflBERf2zM It is the same with anyone who has "intelligence" - like I said, there is no smart people, only people who are exposed to more and work harder to learn more. Yes, people can be brain damaged with real limits, but even they can be greater than lazy people who waste their potential. Even people with extremely limiting abilities can use what brain tissue they have, expand their mind, and blow away all we thought we knew as impossible.

>Well informed is also a sticky concept, there is a lot of information out there. Much of it conflicting, it requires skill,time and a certain amount of luck to use the right information to make the right decisions.

Yes, so, be exposed to as much as possible, and think. That's what I'm saying it takes.

>Sadly not everyone can be great, if everyone were great then nobody would be great.

Yeah, no. Wow. This is like saying not everyone can be happy, because we need some unhappy people for the rest of us to have some perspective. Or that we need ugly people to feel good about how good we look. Or that we need gold stars to gloat over how others don't have gold stars. No.
It's a fine line sometimes. I think your commit is mostly defensible. It's really an open question. What do you do when you point out a serious security issue and it doesn't get the attention it deserves? I think your commit definitely proved that the issue was being downplayed far too much. Is there some better middle ground? If proving a vulnerability results in it getting fixed overnight and merely describing it results in it getting fixed never then what's the right course of action?
Thanks for the feedback, I just haven't had time to cook up icons yet :)
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All of those are great suggestions. Ill add them to my TODO list.

Do you know if there is a standard share icon or do I have to create one myself? EDIT: looks like using NSShareTemplate does the trick.
I love these types of stories on HN... wish we had more of them.

(And look, no snark in the comments!)
No need to be pedantic?!? This is the Internet here.
I feel like this it just one assault away from hurting Uber's brand big time.
Agreed. I've added that to the TODO list :)
Not really, I simply took an econ class.

I think realistic management of expectations is important, the world simply doesn't work in the way you suggest it does though I agree it would be preferable if it did.
Did you get noticeable compression from zopfli though?
Going back to the classics, is port knocking still a thing? (I've been out of this discussion for a while, serious question)
Sure, the film industry is tough to break into. But making a good indie film to get a crack at a studio production (or a crack at a higher budget independent) is very similar to making a startup to become a talent acquisition for example.

If you don't like the analogy, pick another one. But more broadly, there is a lot of similarities between the types of people involved. I've advised creative, driven indie filmmakers who fit right into the creative, driven mould of startup entrepreneurs.
That's an interesting legal conclusion. Can you cite any cases that support this assertion?
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We all work remote so you can be anywhere but we'd love to have you in SF, if possible.
Compensation is 80-110K based on your experience and location. write to me at limor.elbaz@peerlyst.com
Can we please get some variety in the word "Closure"? This is kind of getting out of hand:

Closure (the construct)

Closure (Google's thing)

Clojure (lisp dialect)

ClojureScript (converts Clojure to JS)

Clozure CL (another lisp dialect)

Every single time I say one of these out loud, I have to explain myself. Ugh.
I'm sorry but where did the jobs go, did they get taken by computers or robots? No, they didn't.

Is capital growth decoupled from job growth? No it isn't: all the jobs are simply being shipped off to places with forced/slave labor, abysmal working conditions, and don't even think about benefits.

Green jobs might help, sure, but why can't we manufacture clothes, computer chips, smart phones and tablets in america?
How and why LinkedIn is becoming an engineering powerhouse
U.S. Weighs Risks and Motives of Hacking by China or Iran
I have high hopes for Ops School (https://ops-school.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
"This will always happen." I am dubious. It seems a lot of econ people hold this notion with almost religious faith. And I may be mistaken in my doubting and you may be correct. But I wonder if a paradigm shift is on the horizon that will wash some old truths away for good.
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Ill check that out :)
(to both corin and vahe): That kind of shell scripting is the horrorshow that motivated configuration management tools* in the first place. Shell scripts require a lot of added complexity to manage multiple heterogeneous servers, or to be idempotent.

* Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, CFEngine, etc.
Unity seems to work on 13.04. Using it now on my C7.
Commenting from the app. Great so far!

Thanks :)
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I really like the app so far. A few feature ideas - adding a preference to load the story or comments first. That might fit in a bit better with some people's workflows of looking at the comments first.

Also - I found myself wanting some "read/unread" feature of the story column. I'd love to know if I've already seen a story or not.

Keep up the good work. I assume you plan to sell this on the App Store?
Those researchers also were unable to find any trace of the virus, prompting them to determine the baby had essentially been cured.

I am hoping for the best, it would a gift of life for millions, and drug cos can't hold this even if it cost them billions to make. Horrible PR and all.

However, could the virus still be there but under the test's threshold?
Is there a way for me to make it default to view the "Comments" tab of the story first (instead of trying to load the story from the source)?

I sometimes judge a story by its comments first.
What about the possibility of simply sending the gzip version until the zopfli version is ready, then switching over? Seems like you'd get the best of both worlds.
People are measured relative to others, if everyone were what we currently deem as attractive then many who are currently attractive would certainly seem ugly for example.

You suggest that willpower is important, which all things being equal innate ability is still important. If 2 people dedicate their lives to running 100 metres in the fastest time then eventually one will be faster than the other due to innate genetic factors.
Someone else suggested this earlier. Its on the roadmap :)

EDIT: just pushed this. Check for updates via the Application menu or by restarting the app.
Works great for me...Thanks
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For #4, wouldn't the only change when someone leaves the organization be to remove their key from authorized_keys for the shared account? Why would anyone else have to be updated?
Go ahead - use bananas, the math is easy.

It's obvious that a cyclist will use more calories than someone not moving. The calculations are done using only the extra calories, not the baseline.
Well it uses the same deflate algorithm which is used by zlib, gzip etc.

There are many much more capable compression algorithms which will get much better results with alot less cpu time (lzma comes to mind), however the big deal is that deflate is supported by all browsers and thus it is a standarized means of compressing content.

With that, being able to squeeze out 3-8% more compression for compressed web content can likely be attractive if it is a decent part of your bandwidth usage.
It may seem like a waste of $20 a month if you aren't doing anything big with it.

But you can setup a linux virtual server on linode and go through all of those steps on your own. Also test out your setup.

http://library.linode.com/
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Thank you :)

Seeing the comments first is a popular request so Ill try todo that one soon.

Grant Paul (of the newsyc iOS app) and I were discussing making all the read/unread state work via iCloud so the iOS and Mac apps sync up nicely but we haven't agreed on it just yet.

Yes, I am planning to sell this on the AppStore when its in a state I'm happy with. I'm thinking of making it free and make Readability/Instapaper/etc functionality an In App Purchace.
ARP is missing for a truer match to LANs. It's a decent primer on the high level details of how the internet works.
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Love your service sfard. Keep up the good work!
According to NASA, "Curiosity is now operating on its B-side, as it did during part of the flight from Earth to Mars."[0]

Presumably, it retained some programming for recovery (as a backup) from the flight, and they didn't have an exact replica of the software A-Side had on B-Side. That being said, they probably have debugging/test software on which ever is serving as the backup computer in order to diagnose and fix the other one in the event of a problem.

[0]: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-078
What do you about all of those chinese hackers hitting your sshd server.

I have 30 different ips and fail2ban doesn't seem to ban them.
Practically, how would a minimum income even be feasible? There are ~250m adults in the country, and ~150m are employed. If all adults got a minimum salary of $25k, you'd have to tax every employed adult $40,000 to pay for it (in addition to the normal taxes that pay for government). It wouldn't be worth working, so you'd just drop out and collect the check, which would increase the burden on those still employed causing even more to drop out.
Before you start with Growth Hacking
To me, this is creepy beyond belief.

"OMG This is SOOOO cool" should not be allowed to trump privacy interests.
Sadly, there isn't any money in curing diseases. Pharmaceutical companies make money on recurring treatments.
Egor, if you're ever in Singapore, please hit me up. I'll organize a meetup via NUS Hackers at the National University of Singapore. Would be interesting to let other university-level students hear about your experience.

(My email address's on my personal site (which, in turn, may be found on my profile)).
Ok, the c runtime and compiler is not written in assembly.
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Get a GED and apply to community college if the alternative is homelessness. Present it as a fait accompli. High school sucks ass but homelessness is worse. If you're not in the US, sorry I think you're pretty fucked unless they have something in the same line as community college.
Imagine it's your job to fiddle around remotely with fuel pump electronics (or whatever may create that water hammer) within a time window of maybe 20 minutes or else you've just sunk a 100M investment somewhere in the ocean. Must be lots of fun o.O