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This is completely wrong. I am part of an indie team and Nintendo has offered us much more than Microsoft or Sony.

They have changed their stance towards indies significantly in the past 12 months.

No one is really friendly with homebrew communities because those communities have a lot of ties to the hackers/crackers that reverse engineer their consoles. Indie devs != homebrew community. There is some crossover but we are talking about 2 different groups.
As a faithful reader of longform.org's business section, I am drooling all over this!! Looking forward to being a reader and submitter! :)
Pretty funny. I'm sure we'll see it in a movie at some point. Preferably a parody.
It's good to know you're OK after this; a friend was cut off by an SUV while riding his motorcycle and recounts a similar experience, though he still has a steel rod through one femur and 17 screws plus a plate in one wrist (which will eventually stop him from programming).

It's important to appreciate and enjoy the time we have. If we don't... what's the point?
Sure. Also, I felt a bit weird mentioning 6 figure projects - I say it not to brag so much as to give people some indication that you can do larger projects on your own (actually those tend to involve others for additional skills) - it's not all just basic wordpress installs.
Very cool I like it! I like that it adds whatever tag you clicked on to the top, but maybe you should save that between sessions. Also, a lot of the more popular languages will reflect what everyone here has already seen and worked with - which is cool because it does what you advertise, but the usefulness is somewhat limited for us folk. It would be cool to have a year/month/week filter to see what has been linked to the most lately (I just saw that was suggested earlier). Things like node would benefit from that since it's growing so fast, but everyone knows about express. A simple thing to enable a bit more usefulness would be to link to the actual Stack Overflow posts so we can look at the comments. Cool stuff though!
I still do it with the DS versions of the games. It's gotten to the point of catharsis.
> Let him be himself. Let the rest of us be ourselves. Let that be good enough.

_why even said this himself:

> caller asks, “should i use hpricot or nokogiri?” if you're NOT me: use nokogiri. and if you're me: well cut it out, stop being me.
| One could wonder if that's one way Microsoft
| wanted to recover some of the cost of their
| investment

You could wonder, but it would seem difficult to hide $1 billion in revenue for a publicly traded company.
What is your criteria?
You might want to try your landing page on an iPad...
Your argument is unresponsive to the quote.

Read the relevant part again: "All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition."

What Franklin is saying is that property in surplus of what a man could acquire in his savage state is the result of society and therefore society is entitled to direct its disposition as it sees fit. The only moral limit to the amount of taxation, according to him, is the point at which society takes away what the man would have had in his savage state (i.e. he is made worse off by the existence of society and its taxes). Taxing someone making hundreds of thousands of dollars at 28% is of course nowhere near that limit.

Indeed, the change in the economy since Franklin's time cuts in the opposite direction, under his reasoning. Today, people have far more property in surplus of the subsistence level than they did in Franklin's time. Taxing a middle-class farmer of Franklin's time 75% might have taken him below the subsistence level, and have been immoral according to Franklin, but that would not be the case today with a middle-class programmer.

Of course it's probably not, from a utilitarian standpoint, the best idea to tax everyone to the subsistence limit, in a world where people can vote with their feet and countries can compete on taxation levels, but under Franklin's reasoning there is nothing morally wrong with even very high levels of taxes, as long as no one is worse off by virtue of the existence of society than they would have been in the savage state.
part of me wants HN to remain somewhat of a "secret" so it doesnt become reddit.
Well, ok, two things. First, it sounds like we basically agree that legal theft is possible. Second, even in the US there is corporate lobbying to influence government spending, which amounts to taxation without representation (i.e. theft), and moreover there is a revolving door between government and industry, particularly with the military which is where 50% of our tax money goes. At least, it is bad enough that Lawrence Lessig has moved on from fighting copyright concerns to fighting corruption in Washington.
This has thead has gotten a bit out of context. I don't have anything more to add. I was trying to explain why the original post felt the need to point out that dilution is bad for shareholders, and apparently did a poor job.
Hard time arguing with that. :)
A slightly more recent invention that I recall would be Jack Andraka's pancreatic cancer testing. Via Wikipedia[1]:

"Andraka's sensor costs $0.03 (to compare to a $800 cost of a standard test[10]) and 10 tests can be performed per strip, taking 5 minutes each. The method is 168 times faster, 26,667 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive than ELISA, and 25% to 50% more accurate than the CA19-9 test"

Discussion on Hacker News from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265830

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Andraka
IIRC, the Scroogled campaign was put forward by an ex-political campaign guy.
I think I might be hellbanned :/
Quite, though the arrangements vary from place to place.

There's a lot distortion and unseemly outcomes that flow from having misaligned personal, capital gains and corporate tax rates.
The most popular link for Android answers is AsyncTask. It makes sense, one of the biggest complaint about Android is that it isn't always perfectly smooth and people notice the jerkiness in the UI. I would say a large majority of the time it is because an Android app developer is running slow code on the UI thread instead of doing it correctly.
You guys definitely have more time for that than I do :)

When I started doing this I had a lot of ideas, even sample profiling, etc, etc. But realized that in order to make it actually useful and being able to trace everything without slowing the crap down of everything I would had to do some sort of plugin or module, ala Firebug. Not a weekend project anymore.

But apparently you guys already did it! very cool. I'll check it out.
> So, you wake up with a hangover, a blackout, some bruises, and an attractive stranger in your bed. What do you assume?

Unless I was out clubbing, taking drugs without knowing what they were, (I am not in the habit of doing this...), I would get myself to a hospital and probably call the police. I'm fairly familiar with what truly excessive amounts of alcohol will do to me and that list of symptoms does not include truly blacking out without the presence of some other pretty extreme symptoms. Of course I have not gotten this drunk in years because I am an adult who knows how to moderate my own drink intake, so I would assume I was drugged regardless (if nothing else, had my drinks spiked)...

Regardless, any drug-induced blackouts that leave you coherent enough to participate in complex tasks (including recall) are unreliable at best; there is a strong chance that the victim will remember that something bad happened. Honestly it would be better to just give up on the "black out" part, drug the guy conventionally, then beat the password out of him. You will undoubtedly have better results by giving yourself fewer restrictions.
A pretty cool concept. I won't call it an HN alternative though. It's more of HN augmentation.
As a dedicated emacs user, I would like to know more about this bug. Is there a bug report or mailing list discussion you could point me to? thanks.
I did the same thing, it is depressing, but even more so that it's often the only way to get a decent digital copy of a book:

http://41j.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-get-a-digital-copy-of-the...
yup, sounds more like the lean startup prototype demo where you ask someone "so how much would you pay for this?" to determine your price :)
Be careful with that one though: You'll get the same behavior when you have a group of people trying to engage in a serious discussion which is being trolled by a single poster with multiple accounts/IP addrs. In that case you would want to somehow distinguish one group from the other rather than penalizing both of them.
What you earn depends on the market, the bargain you strike with other free people. It's not arbitrary.
Is there a license for the code available?
The jump from complete ostracization to having your HN posts hidden is pretty damn large.

What would you suggest that we do with posters like losethos, if not hellbanning? The guy knows he is hellbanned, and has at various times made new accounts (which also get hellbanned). A regular banning would just have him creating new accounts anyway, so you may as well just let him keep his regular account. In elementary school people like him would be removed from the normal student population and given special attention/treatment, but that is not an option for HN.
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That's a much better example, thanks. Still, I wouldn't place the odds very in the title's favor, but at least there are counterexamples...
This is wonderful news! TinkerCAD fits perfectly as a bridge into AutoDesk's 123D family of modeling applications. I wouldn't be surprised to see TinkerCAD integrated with 123D Design in the future. It's also a great way to introduce younger audiences to the AutoDesk brand as a long-term bridge to 3D Max and Maya.
Look, the non-essential details here are all the particulars of this conversation about some religious precepts. The essence is that you and I trying to connect on a human level to each other across the internet for some reason or another. Both the essence and the details are important.

It's not really about what you do, it's about what you see and how you do it; the essence is always there, even if you're fixing idiotic bugs in some obscure corner of your codebase.
I'm somewhat concerned with the blanko recommendation of TOR. As has become clear, TOR traffic is blatantly obvious. Yes, your data is secure, but the fact that you are using TOR.. is not. And there should be no surprise feds employ the low-tech methods like just matching your activity on a chat to traffic on your line and the like.

We really need something like automatically mutating protocols, not the TOR "I'm HTTPs that no one would ever use for HTTPs" stuff.
I think having multiple buttons for making positive votes about a comment might be useful. Something like insightful, agree, useful correction. These could then be weighted differently.

Additionally, if people mark as insightful things that are obviosly inane, that might help to hellban the voting rings, whereas hellbanning people just for agreeing with a particular kind of stupid comment might be less fair.

I've once or twice realized some longer term implication of something overnight after reading an article on HN; unfortunately, I don't remember at this point what the article was or what I realized in terms of the bigger implication. But in general, it seems like HN's structure makes it unlikely that you'll get a discussion if you comment on the article a day later. The solution may be to write a blog post and try to get it upvoted at the story level, but I'm not sure if that's the right answer to preserving the structure of which things are related to which others.
What do you think CloudFront is for?
Security wise and feature wise, they were. Stability got better, but even KDE2 was better at that point in time. Same goes for IE6 vs. Netscape Navigator/Mozilla Suite. Once they got to the top and locked the corporate lock, it was over. It took years or awesomeness until Firefox got big
I believe the term Grugq used was "fail-closed" (at least that's what he said rather than wrote). By that, he didn't mean that Tor was foolproof, but rather that you should use a setup that sends information through Tor by default (opt-out), rather than using something where you have to activate it in order to use it (opt-in). The idea is to reduce the potential for silly mistakes like engaging in activities with Tor off by accident.

Also, one of the questions he answered at the end of the talk was about whether Tor could protect you against determined state actors, and he talked about a certain flaw where if you have control over a certain percentage of the Tor network you could infer people's source IPs. He also speculated on what levels of government Tor would or would not be a viable means of protection against, so I think he'd agree with you about the risks of Tor.
The problem is that when you are a startup founder, most of the things you deal with on a daily basis are confidential.

You're doing it wrong. Either you're too paranoid, or you're focusing too much on confidential stuff. It's not like your company develops stealth technology for the military ("Swedish one stop bargain shop on the web"). There must be an infinite number of industry insights that you can share.

As a CEO, one good reason to blog is to be perceived as a thought leader in your space. One of the reasons Silicon Valley is a successful technology hub is all the shared knowledge. Many successful entrepreneurs here may not blog that much, but they do share insights through interviews or talks. Others (like Paul Graham) enjoy writing, and they share unique knowledge. Are you keeping this kind of knowledge to yourself because you believe it's a competitive advantage?
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wow your friend has it so much worse than me, and it's harrowing to hear what basically could have easily happened to me. It really is miraculous that I'm most likely going to have no serious physical repercussions post-recovery. sucks to hear that his wrist injury is going to hamper him in such a grave way.

a friend of mine told me about a famous emacs contributor who has a keyboard that is only the "left half" but has a toggle key which switches it to the right half keys with one button, and that he is lightning fast with it. do you think that's something he'd be interested in using? he could also probably hand make something like that, like the custom keyboards that keyboard.io is making.
It really depends on what you're doing. The NSA doing something like breaking GPG/PGP encryption would be like breaking the Enigma during WW2. You don't want to tip your hand to your opponents that you can read their communications. IIRC, the Allies sometimes had to not act on information that could save lives because those actions would reveal how much they knew to the Axis powers. So basically you only end up acting on really valuable information.
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It's not a problem. I was after as much detail as possible. Very helpful, in fact!
They're just low budget. There's a difference.
I think you summed up the problem very well. The next step is how do you get a COMMUNITY of people who value that and will vote accordingly?

Really, the problem isn't filtering / upvoting articles; that is a really well solved problem. The problem is creating a community that values what you value, and ostracizing those who don't (or at least ensuring they don't have a vote).
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Elon commented, I think in the Foundations 20 video on Youtube, that the raw metals that go into a battery pack cost about $80/kwh.

That means that putting the battery pack from an 85 kwh Model S in a landfill is equivalent to putting a stack of over 300 $20 bills in a landfill.

(He was actually trying to make a point about how cheap battery packs might be to buy new in the future, with more efficient techniques for turning the raw materials into battery packs.)
It is too good to be true. It's not a graphene supercapacitor it's a H::TiO2 with a PANI core based supercapacitor, which is quite difficult to synthesize, especially mass produced. Every reagent required is considerably more expensive than a comparable Li-Ion battery. They also have a significantly lower energy, so while they may be faster to charge and have longer life spans they wouldn't fit in modern phones.

http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~ncu7020/Files/Phd_Repord/93/Engineeri...
Looking at the results for C++, it looks like the text santizing you're doing on link titles is losing the "++". All the titles seem to have C instead of C++, e.g. "Boost C Libraries" should be "Boost C++ Libraries". You're also losing the # in C# and the dot in .NET, and probably others.
I like this idea. I've noticed that on The List, users tend to leave comments about their article, right after posting it.
If the URL is scraped from the message as it passes through Microsoft's servers, then Microsoft's servers have direct access to your chat text (i.e. not an encrypted channel from client-to-client).

If the URL is sent from the receiving client to Microsoft for analysis, then Microsoft has a list of all URLs that have been communicated to you via Skype.

Either of these scenarios chips away at / tears down the idea that Skype is a 'secure' communications platform.
Taxes are theft precisely because we don't tax ourselves. In America, taxes are set by the majority choosing to not tax themselves very much and instead to tax a rich minority. It's two foxes and a chicken voting on what to have for dinner.
One thing that I'm keen on someone trying out is this:

Instead of having upvotes (or likes or +1s or whatever), separate the concept out into different notions. You have a different goal in mind than I do, but my list was "Agree, Eloquent, Beautiful, Laughed". You might instead have "Agree, Promote, Eloquent, Useful".

The principle is to have a small list to capture the different ways someone reacts positively. It's a short list to prevent the paradox of choice, but it's descriptive enough that you can still meaningfully express your upvote in more than one dimension.
Definitely compelling, and as about engaging as an older gentleman rambling at a camera in a field can get
Fortunately, the direction we're heading in doesn't require him in a development role (we're both programmers, but that's more my specialty, and he's better with clients). Hopefully, by the time it gets to that point, programming won't be a concern of his: Either our business will have gone far enough that he's entirely done with development or the business will be done and he'll be looking for consultation-only or team management roles.

That'd fit his tastes far better anyway. :)

It is hard to hear about that... it's worse to see it. I sold my motorcycle after he got in his second accident. I'm not excessively risk-averse, but some things just put too much on the line.
All the things I tried were either too slow or didn't start at all with open-source drivers. With fglrx everything works. But I hate installing/upgrading them, because they either mess something up, or uninstall incompletely.
The profit that Google makes on UK revenue should not be taxed by the United Kingdom - it should be taxed by the United States. Google's profit is due almost entirely to its fantastic computer algorithm, which was developed in the US. Tax should be based on the jurisdiction where the value was added, not where the sale took place.

Another way to look at it would be to imagine that Google headquarters auctioned off the rights to run Google UK to the highest bidder. Google headquarters would have such a strong bargaining position that the successful UK bidder would end up with very low profit margins.

But what annoys me are the loopholes that allow Google to transfer profit from the place where the value was created (the United States) to some other low-tax country.
"Around six months ago, Graham brought on someone else, who he chose not to name, to moderate the site. He says the individual is affiliated with Y Combinator and is a 'prudent and thoughtful guy,' and has been doing a great job ever since."

I didn't know this. I think the prudent and thoughtful guy is doing a generally good job. I don't think anyone can read every thread here exhaustively, but there is some good signal:noise ratio here even after all the years of growth.

"I wish I could get people to stop posting comments that are stupid or mean" is pg's summary of what still needs to be fixed. I'm on board with that too.
Oh wow, you're right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Penn#Microsoft_Corporation
>> Microsoft has the luxury of failure also, but when they tried to compete with Google they failed. Microsoft are in the same markets that Google makes a huge amount of money from and yet they failed on most fronts.

You figure, basic economics says that if the cost of failure is low, you should expect lots of failures. It's not the "luxury of always succeeding."

>> There are unknowns that could completely disrupt Google's business models for example what if all search became voice based (siri-like) with better AI. Or what if a competitor develops much better AI capabilities into their search.

Google has fended off serious competition before, and if a start-up came out with a better search idea, Google would acquire them.
Wow this looks great. Thanks for sharing I will take a look.
If it weren't for government force, those credits that netted Tesla millions would never have been purchased. Therefore, they have the same net effect as if the government had taken the money from the buyers and given it to Tesla. That is logically equivalent to a government subsidy for Tesla (or any company in their position).
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Sorry to burst your bubble, but the oil industry is far from just being gasoline and diesel.

Tesla will have to move down market, that will seriously restrict their profit per car. Where they are now with the S is in a price range which is less than twelve percent of the market but provides the majority of many automakers yearly profits. Get down to that below 40k mark and they are going to be in the same boat with everyone else. I doubt we will see a sub 40k car from them for years.
Isn't losethos proof that hellbanning doesn't really work?

If a hellbanned user is supposed to get frustrated by the lack of replies to their posts and then go away, then it doesn't. You're not supposed to ever know it's there, after all, and you're not supposed to be willing to put up with it.

In the case of someone who might not care about being replied to, or who just doesn't notice they're never being replied to (entirely possible if they don't post often), being hellbanned doesn't work. It's security through obscurity.

And as a result of hellbanning, people can become paranoid about speaking their opinion because they never really know if they're actually participating in a conversation or if the system has decided to make a silent mockery of them.