skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His "Garden State" movie and the plan for the new one don't look very formulaic. I stopped going to movies when I didn't need to find a place to make out with my girlfriend anymore and I stopped watching fiction movies when I got bored of seeing the same old stuff over and over.

He should list this in his discussion of risks, in that he never quite explains why its bad to put the financiers in editorial control of his movie, although they clearly do a good job of narrowcasting typical formulaic movies (to the small fraction of the population who likes that kinda stuff and therefore might not like his stuff). Also as per the narrowcasting comment his movies now sound interesting to me although I got bored with movies and stopped watching a long time ago (like most people, looking at percentages). So his risks section also needs a better plan to reach outside the usual movie going public than a kickstarter and maybe the Sundance festival.

He may get more money from the general public if he writes to a general public audience who has no idea who he is, rather than what appears to be indie movie fans. I'm not asking for a major editorial content change, just add another 10% length explaining why would the average dude off the street who doesn't do the movie thing since he was a kid, care, much less send him some dough?

Note that I've personally sent/kickstarted Jason Scott the nonfiction documentary producer enough to buy a plane ticket or two over the years, this isn't a new idea.

Now this is assuming what I got out of imdb and kickstarter has any relation to reality. Maybe Garden State is just another boring romantic comedy or teen fart joke formula movie. Can anyone who's actually seen his movies, comment?
http://play.golang.org/p/k_C8gJ4myB
David Cross was a super early investor in Kickstarter. I think they actually pitched him to do Arrested Development via Kickstarter. It didn't work out but he invested in the company. Don't quote me on the backstory, but I know for sure he's openly said he invested in the company.
...they deserve what they get...

The mayor of a major city like New York has influence far beyond his authority. His statements on a matter like this make a contribution to setting the tone and framing the debate nationally, and therefore have an effect on all of us, whatever we may think the people of New York "deserve."
101 Screen-Free Activities
Apache Struts 1 End-Of-Life
TCP and heartbeats
This is certainly one criterion to speculate on in the absence of a good understanding of conciousness, but keep in mind that waiting for info theoretic death would probably preclude most organ donation.
What locale? The valley will be much higher than middle Kentucky.
Not on a mac. There is FSEvent, but it doesn't recurse down directory trees,
Evolution of an Entrepreneur
Development is only drudgery if you have bad tools
Nice, that JS is a great idea, thanks.

And of course it relies on the download attribute. So, okay, I guess the `download` attribute DOES make this possible with a bit of JS, where it wasn't before, okay, one step forward.

One nice feature of your solution is the user can still skip the prompt with a right-click or modifier-click 'save as' or 'open in new tab'.

Nicely done. I'm gonna use that in the future. To be more strictly legal, I'd use a `data-prompt="true"` attribute or something, instead of a not entirely legal made up 'prompt' attribute.
Interesting idea I must say.
>That made me wonder whether they were paying attention.

That makes me wonder if you're paying attention. Unity is a framework for high-performance 3D games. If you want those games to run in a browser, what do you use? How did the landscape look 18 months ago?
I guess California. What kind of technical skills usually tend to be paid the most? Specifically speaking. Is it still machine language and C++? Or can RoR developers demand more than 6 figures?
This is news.ycombinator.com. I don't begrudge that.
I believe that most people quit going to the gym because they get bored.

So if there were an app that takes several factors into consideration¹ and generates workouts for them, and that would change it up, people would stay interested and gain fitness.

Which works against the business model of many of the chain gyms -- they actually want people signed to yearly contracts that then don't show up.

¹ Perhaps it would consider available equipment, desires of the person (some ratio between speed/endurance/strength/stability), when they last did an exercise, what their feedback was from previously doing it, what muscle group it most effectively works, what the opposing muscles are and when they got worked, and so on.
I don't think we're using the same words to mean the same things.
True, but the smaller ones look like they generated a crap-ton of money:

Pledge $35 x 22997 backers - digital download

Pledge $50 x 23227 backers - dvd

Braff's project isn't offering these pledge rewards, a decision he seems to be OK with for distribution but would probably generate TONS of backers.
Clickable link: http://goretro.co/
I think workbenches point is that he could have just financed the movie directly himself, not just that he could convince someone else to finance it.
> humans are clear outliers

In what sense are humans outliers?
Many of these points are only really relevant to a Python developer new to statically-typed languages. For those points you could substitute s/Go/Java/g and it would be just as true, except that someone new to Java would probably lean on generics more than they should.

As for the other points, it would be nice to have more built-in types like a Set type, to be able to ignore "unused dependency" errors when running "go install", etc.

Oh, and I think he missed the most surprising thing about Go for newcomers: that "if" creates scope!
> This statement needs to be qualified.

Yeah, "seems to be correct" is a little wishy washy... I'd argue that Go has enough syntactic sugar to be easy to learn from a Python background, but enough structure that it encourages good software engineering practices.
Is he not getting any more of those sweet residuals checks from 'Scrubs'?
Pretty sure its a nod back to the old apple colours? http://edibleapple.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/apple_rain...
It is your choice.

Some people return from a coma. Some people even return from a coma alive and well, thanks. Now we know that some neurons can recover and regenerate some parts and make new conections, and that this is a very slow process. We are talking of several milimeters/year. It depends on the grade of the damage received.

To me to loose two years dreaming for, maybe, to win the rest of your life and see again your love, sons or friends seems a good deal; even if you lose your (replaceable) money, work, car or even house in the process.

Nobody knows still who will recover and who will die. This situation is still an economic problem for the family, mainly. The "not resuscitate" option seems coward to me, and even dangerous if you find yourself in a multiple accident with a lot of victims to care for, but is your choice.
That's a really good point. Often, the best way to get a sense of someone's character is to see that person in a stronger position.

As a long-term career strategy, it's a bad one, but that's not what the OP is talking about.
Celebrity is more or less orthogonal, I think.

Obviously being well-known is important, but it's about reputation more than anything. Zach has a reputation for have a strong creative hand in film and tv projects which have had a very strong connection with fans, as his work on Garden State has demonstrated. The same goes with the Veronica Mars team. Had Rob Thomas or Kristen Bell tried to use Kickstarter for some non-Veronica Mars related project they may not have received as much enthusiasm, because Veronica Mars as a project and as an entity on its own definitely has fans and definitely engenders a significant amount of trust that they'll deliver a product that is worth the investment.

Also, I don't think you have any concept of Zach Braff's reputation or following, and I suspect this project will probably exceed its goal faster than the Veronica Mars project did.
Hacking debt
Ask HN: What's the best way to design a multi page website in Photoshop?
I've built the homepage for a website but now I want to create the secondary page design in the same PSD. What's the best way to handle this?
Encryption absolutely solves the problem. Otherwise any kind of online security would be impossible.

You might need to use an actual strong password though and not the 4 digit passcode.
This strikes me as a very good point. I've read How to Win Friend and Influence People, and the 48 Laws of Power. Do you have any books you can recommend that take a more nuanced approach to negotiation and working with people?
>I'm 29 and already experiencing age discrimination. I'm losing callbacks because I have "too many jobs"

Sounds like you are just not applying to senior enough positions
Zach has a huge following on the internet, his reddit AMAs have over 10,000 comments (makes them some of the most popular) and he has almost 200,000 comment karma just from them. Photos and clips from Scrubs are a daily occurrence on reddit and he has an engaged Twitter following. Melissa Hart by comparison is relatively unknown, her Twitter followers don't seem to be engaged at all with 10 - 40 retweets per tweet and Zach has anywhere from 200 to 2000 for his tweets. He's in a different league to her and that doesn't even consider that ZB has a previous successful project, a cast of people that also have a big following and the project looks cool.
Other people giving him $2m means he has some idea that people will at least watch it.

It also means he has some of his own money available as a safety net if he needs it.

None of the reward tiers mention "being allowed to watch the movie" - I wonder how much piracy there will be of this?

If I'd paid $20 I'd feel okay about downloading it.
How to Replace iPhone 4S Broken Screen?
Before you plan to remove iPhone 4S broken screen, the very first and the most important thing that you need to do is to take backup of the entire data...
Another One Bites the Dust has a better bpm.
Or, psychologically speaking, it puts you in a strong position.

Think about poker. Do you really know the other player knows all your cards when he/she bluffs?
Looks promising. I will try it and let you know my impressions.
I don't have a dev gig yet. I work in my spare time outside of my regular job.

I'm just focusing on my personal projects and taking classes at my local community college. :)
Agree that it's not just celebrity - it's also campaign on Kickstarter. He's not offering as many obvious reward tiers (download, DVD) which are more tempting for backers which Veronica Mars did have.
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We will be taking questions from Google moderator
A job where I can swing that type of contract and have the onus completely on me to prove my worth sounds perfect. The sad reality is that it seems like in my field of work the dependencies on others is enough to make such a move very risky. From my experiences I can imagine a few situations which of results in a "you didn't have a good year" kind of reward even though it wasn't my fault and I truly did the best that anybody could have.

When your work in a job that requires leverage and you have dependencies you need your entire dependency chain to do their job so yours can be judged accurately.
Well done. For people whose Firefox's Acrobat won't print or for people who tried printing using IE8/9/10 and received the JS error, browse to the page using Chrome and print. You can easily save as PDF.
Oh...fudge. I'm a moron who can't math.
How about this for functional programming in C? https://github.com/cioc/functionalC

It's got some of your primitives (map and filter but no fold, but I'm assuming that it's just a matter of getting bored before implementing it) and closures.

It's not a serious project, but it serves as a counter-example.
Thanks for your feedback. There is many reasons you would like to reuse the same template. Indeed, some customers might not want to have the same design, but some don't care if they pay less (small companies), some websites already have a list of available templates. The other main reason would be reordering, another one would be to avoid some revisions (like change in the job title).

About validating my idea, it's what I am trying to do, quite a tricky task :/. Any advices on how to do that would be really appreciated.
In this project, the tee is $40. In VM the tee is $25.

But I think the soundtrack was seen by Braff as a Big Deal, which is probably why it shows up at a lower price point ($20) than the tee.
Thanks. We will appreciate it of course.
Garden State is one of my favorite movies, and even I'll admit it's a pretty formulaic bildungsroman, very much in the vein of Cameron Crowe. The strengths of the movie are less in the overarching plot and with the details, such as the soundtrack, cinematography, and excellent script.

At first blush, this new script looks remarkably original. That being said, everything's relative: there's the old cliche that every possible story has already been told, and I think the trick is less to put forward something new and more to put forward something great.

In terms of the strategy behind the campaign: it seems very much in the vein of the Veronica Mars kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/559914737/the-veronica-m...), in the sense that its appealing more to the fans of the original work (I'd imagine the cult of Veronica Mars fans and the cult of Garden State fans has some significant overlap.)
He replied about the personal financing here: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1d02a2/help_zach_bra...
You are confusing access to the computer itself with access to the data it contains.

Given physical access and "unlimited" time (i.e. no more than a million human lifetimes, say), then certainly an attacker can gain access to the device and make it do what he wants.

However, if the data on the device is securely encrypted, then physical access and (reasonable) time doesn't matter. He won't be able to get at the data.
Looking at the numbers he probably wont need to go looking to recruit people who havent heard of him, Scrubs is one of the most popular comedy series of recent times and Garden State was a pretty big hit.

Garden State was a good quirky indie romantic comedy, it wasnt particularly formulaic in execution but if you can dislike entire genres for being the same there are probably plenty of things to find in it to not like.
In my humble opinion, the patient were not "unlucky" (which to me suggests that most would have faired much better on average), they were a very good representation of how the situation is/was (~10 years ago now).

In all the cases, not a single patient had been given CPR prior to our arrival. So right there, you can assume at least 5-10 minutes without any circulation. The (very rough) formula they taught us back then: every 1 minute without circulation -> 10% less chance to a successful CPR. When you go into cardiac arrest, you need CPR immediately or that's it.

In Germany the statistics at the time suggested roughly the following success rates:

- < 3 % with no CPR prior to arrival of EMT/paramedic
- ~ 20 % with immediate layman's CPR, fast emergency call, fast response
- ~ 30 - 40% when EMTs where on scene during the event (immediate application of drugs, intubation, excellent ventilation, good CPR)
- up to 70% when the patient went into cardiac arrest while in intensive care unit

Now, here's the thing: "Success" in all those cases means nothing more than 'Return Of Spontaneous Circulation' (ROSC). In layman's terms: the heart would start beating.
That - of course - tells you next to nothing about brain damage.

The elephant in the room is, that when you end up being CPR'd in the street by the EMS after no circulation for 5 - 10 minutes, you better wish that you don't end up with ROSC. Because in all likelyhood you will (if you don't die after a few days in hospital / they kindly pull the plug) end with about as much brain activity as the chair you are sitting on right now.

Again: YMMV and I personally know a guy who was successfully resuscitated and became a paramedic after that. But I try to base life decisions on statistics and not anecdotes, so I personally prefer having a living will set up.
Twitter has a direct impact on the markets:

There are news services that are dedicated to delivering important information that could affect markets as quickly as possible. I heard the news from one of these services directly before the market seriously dropped. The important question is why the markets reacted the way they did. There seems to be a sentiment that these sorts of moves are catastrophic and avoidable, but the reality is that these are movements reacting to real information from the environment that will affect the future state of economics. When bad news develops, more efficient markets drop faster in anticipation for this current or future event. This means that the information, or the bad event, has been diffused among the population.

With the AP situation, the news of such an extreme terrorist act would surely cause unbalance throughout Western economies; disrupting peace, supply chains, and many companies. This would have a direct impact on equities like the DOW. Within two minutes of the fake tweet, it was reported as being fake and the markets rebounded. In fact, I would guess that the majority of people hurt by this volatility spike were market making or algorithmic traders. They either were directly linked to twitter text feeds, selling on the way down and buying at the top of the retracement; or dump positions put on earlier in the morning. Of course, if the event happened, these traders would have been the winners.

The problem with this current situation is that the high-speed news delivery services spread this fake tweet without any verification (except trust that the AP feed is trust-worthy), and people with direct access to these services were most likely individuals with access to trading accounts, allowing them to drop a variety of assets, most notable the DOW or S&P.
You're assuming that he's not and that $2 million is the total budget for the project rather than the additional money he would need to make the project a reality.
Ask HN: What hardware network topology do you use for big Hadoop clusters?
I am wondering if any of you use some "advanced" topologies (like tree/fat-tree/mesh/torus/hypercube [1]) that is used in the HPC world, with commodity hardware and scale-out properties.

[1]: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/hospodor-mss04.pdf
It wouldn't bug me if it didn't decrease the utility of the PDF links.

EDIT: as pointed out below, it doesn't. Belay this comment.
that's so garbage, I remember back in the early days, they were closing down accounts used in bitcoin exchanges. Getting money into bitcoin exchanges was a huge problem.

Besides, with bitcoin, why use paypal? Is paypal going go try to act as an exchange between btc and usd?
The power of one wrong tweet
It's interesting they showed paypal.com screenshots from early 2000's
Are you and your friend working in the same field and having the same capabilities? I'm pretty sure a brilliant "doormat" programmer will make more than, say, an average "maximizer" salesman.
Functor: Function object
I never felt like playing this game until now. The AI sounds very interesting to try for myself! Game producers should release such documents upon launching the game, it makes it that much more interesting.
Comic experiment
Come on, those are the two weirdest things about go syntax, especially for new comers.

(Honestly, why can you not 'for var x = 0; ...'? and only 'for var X := 0; ...; ...' but immediately below var x = 0; is just as valid. The := / var syntax in go is just plain weird).

Go is also the only place I've ever seen this syntax:

if blah {
..
} else {
..
}

Maybe that's popular in some obscure places, but it is weird they made that the only valid syntax.

I mean, fair enough, Go has its own syntax, but these are pretty valid gripes.
this? http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-exec-10-things-i-hat...
[Update 15:30 ^TM] Achieved is the first company to get on stage. Achieved is an online professional development plan for ambitious professionals and the organizations in which they work.
[Update 15:37 ^WK] Next up Ingrid Sloots of Beautybookers, Booking.com for beauty salons. They aim to solve the problem of finding & booking of (perfect) beauty salons for women.
"Besides, with bitcoin, why use paypal?"

If you have a bunch of Bitcoin money but need to do business with people who will only accept fiat currencies, you need some kind of exchange service. I suspect that is what Paypal will do.
An indie developer’s strategy to sell games: insult fans and raise prices
A link to wiki article about the Martingale system involved:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
Skycatch is currently hiring, they have an open position for a drone engineer: angel.co/skycatch/jobs. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but isn't that the coolest job title ever...
> like TF2, it's not very playable unless everyone in the round is amenable to being a team player

Amen. TF2 and L4D are two games that I consistently play years after the fact which is unlike other games I have.

Unless you're playing with people you know, both games are equally frustrating. Specifically in TF2, it's those who go and play support classes when there are already enough of those in play on the map on your team that makes it frustrating.
From a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5497896
Sure, but the point is that if you maximize on the wrong things, you end up losing overall.
The article suggests you can teach everything a $150k programmer knows to a fresh grad $60k programmer. Damn I want to know about these training techniques. It's usually 5-10 years depending on domain.
Can't click this link right now. Abbreviated transcript please?

It's weird to see Paypal and Bitcoin in one sentence on the domain bloomberg.com... Bloomberg is one of the biggest financial companies and entirely against Bitcoin. I can't rhyme this; what are they saying about it?
>>Imagine the one thing that you wish you could change about shopping online.

I think it's about time we (consumers) can test out clothing online. Upload our picture, or better yet 3-d render us. Make sure we can move around, to see how the clothing looks like when sitting, walking, whatever.

If you're selling a car, let us drive it in your virtual space, let us drive up to some other cars, and take a look how our car looks like compared to others.

Since you're letting users match outfits, will there be an option to match current items of clothing? Lets say user has a skirt and shoes, but not a matching top. Would they be able to find matching top using same mechanism for skirts+shoes your site sells?

Personally I never bought clothing online. To me the most important thing is if it fits, and if it's a shirt than how it feels (I don't care how pants feel). If you can take my measurements over built-in-camera, find matching pants, and send them to me for a low price, I might use the service. If you send it to me with a return-bag (just in case pants don't fit), I will use the service. You don't have to target me though. Good luck.
From the slicer point of view, I find it useful if the layer tree contains a part for the general look of the website (header and such) and then per page a layer tree. That way it's pretty clear which parts you intend to be consistent across the website, and which things are page-unique.

Since not all pages are equally long, the footer doesn't work that way, but if you want the footer to be the same across the website, it could be enough to just put it on the front page and name it as such. That'd be clear enough for me, but I suppose it depends on who's taking the PSD to build the HTML out of it and how much you get to instruct them.