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Why would there be such an override system? That's crazy. If there is a need to drive less safely for such a purpose, again, the robot will do better. You push the button marked "Emergency - get me to a hospital" and the robot works out the closest hospital and negotiates with other robots on the road to allow it through at greater speed. The last thing I want in such a situation is a panicky human losing blood and going into shock trying to drive a car as fast as they can.
Maybe. Until iOS or Android can run the whole of Windows x86 software, Windows will continue to exist and earn shitloads of cash for Microsoft.
For those looking for a smaller city and/or more conservative city than Austin, check out Bryan/College Station 90 miles away. BCS is home to 50,000 students at Texas A&M University and also TAMU Startup Aggieland.

If any HN'ers are in the area or interested in the area, feel free to email me (contact info in my profile).
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Maybe not ruined yet, but it was seemingly on its way. I moved from KS.
So I can't deny that Double Fine are having to find additional funds for Broken Age - it's true and they've been using multiple different ways. However, I think that's mainly because the scope of the game increased significantly due to way the Kickstarter blew up as it did - at the time I don't think anyone expected it to reach $3 million and as such, expectations are higher.

However, I can definitely say that judging Double Fine on purely their last game is a mistake. They've created many games that have had very favourable reviews in recent history (for example: Stacking, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend) [1].

[1] http://www.metacritic.com/company/double-fine-productions
I agree. As a life long liberal living in the NY Metro area, I've recently realized the destruction caused by nannyism. I'm done with it. I would move to TX if my wife was OK with it.
No state income tax for Seattle either.
What ruined CA and NY wasn't "left-leaning" politics so much as self-serving hypocritical pseudo-liberalism. Mostly, it's the NIMBY impulse. You have wealthy semi- or unemployed people (stereotypically housewives, but some are men) who have nothing to do but sit on various local boards and city councils and prevent anything that will hurt their house prices, even if it's good for the city. It's either that or sit on co-op boards, which are so full of mean-spirited intrigue that even Cthulhu can't stand those people. That's the kind of stuff that ruined NY and CA.

One thing I have noticed in this world is that hypocritical pseudoleftists do a lot more damage, than real leftists or real conservatives, because they think morality is on their side when they wreak havoc.

Also, Russian oligarchs and third-world despots fucked up the real estate markets in NY and CA. They don't live here, but they buy, and that affects everything and makes it a lot more competitive.

This is not a dig against Austin; but the good news is that the foreign speculator scumbags are not going to take an interest in Austin any time soon.

I don't live in Austin, although it sounds like a really cool place. My personal belief is that it needs some kind of centralized planning to keep inefficient growth that becomes tomorrow's legacy problem. I don't like the NIMBY regulations and self-serving injected complexity that often come about; but some kind of planning that encourages environmentally sound and healthy development is always a good thing.
None of those statutes would stand up post-Fourteenth Amendment. They're about as relevant as "No Irish" laws.

EDIT: hell, your image pictures 8 states and then says "7" right under it. Is this some clever meta-humor?
long time locals are probably feeling the crunch just as badly as long time SF locals though
The worst people to ever move to a location are the ones that get there after you :) When you move there, you're of course strengthening the character of the place, but the riff-raff after you spoil it.
Read about this in 2009, [1, 2]. Anyways, looks like he has a new book out about his journey, called Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom [3]. If you search google for Ken Ilgunas looks like there is a full court press about it.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2009/12/07/living_in_a_van/

[2] http://blogs.newsobserver.com/campusnotes/duke-grad-school-o...

[3] http://www.amazon.ca/Walden-Wheels-Open-Road-Freedom/dp/0544...
These were great tips on gradually desensitizing yourself while building up experience putting yourself out there.

Gradually getting more experience being "on stage" in whatever form can help over time, but it can also be a scary and needlessly painful process.

What desensitization doesn't deal with is the origin of the fear, the event that triggers these powerful reactions. That resides in the emotional part of memory, located in the limbic brain. Studies have shown that this part isn't accessible through conscious thought, intention or will power. If it were, experienced performers with extensive stage experience like Barbra Streisand and Adele wouldn't still be suffering from severe performance anxiety.

Unfortunately, they haven't heard about some of the leading-edge therapeutic technologies that can shift mental and emotional reactions at the subconscious level, quickly and easily eliminating negative reactions like stage fright.

Energy Psychology is one of the best known of these technologies (Quantum Energy Psychology and EFT are two examples). In my 25 years of experience working with performing artists and athletes, it frequently takes only a session or two to clear stage fright, performance anxiety and other barriers to the exciting and enjoyable experience of being "in the flow."

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> unaware that it was those same policies that ruined the states they came from.

Ruined?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-truth-about-california-...

And which left-leaning policies are we talking about, by the way? Capping property taxes? Requiring supermajorities in the legislature to do anything?

> I am looking at You CA and NY.

Sure, there's going to be some CA & NYers moving to TX, and they may even be highly represented compared to the rest of the country given they're the most populous states in the nation with Texas.

According to the graph, though, more people are still moving to CA&NY. Guess they're just blissfully unaware.
That's great stuff.

I've always wondered about variation in 'dot' and 'line' resolutions on extrusion-based set-ups, particularly relating to head movement (speed) & environmental conditions.

I've only had experience running (and servicing) an Objet Connex system that uses printing heads & UV curable resin. It used a stainless steel bar w/ a separate motor & cleaning system to 'flatten' each layer w/ each pass of the print head. I've always wondered if there were any FDA equivalents... I guess there is always the option to intentionally 'smear'.

The DIY 3D printing world is totally a trial-and-error art in my mind, as much of making seems to be. I can't imagine the hours that have been spent on fine tuning extrusion settings to produce good prints. I've always been spoiled by prepped systems, but even that lets me appreciate all the aspects that can go wrong.
Someone tell me in plain english: is the procedure to take fresh healthy poo and stick it in your anus?
They're Chinese characters, which are used to write the Japanese language. Just like we use Latin characters to write the English language.
I used to be pissed off when more people moved to Austin. As a land owner I now get excited.
Another site with high quality public domain photography is http://www.pixabay.com
But, unlike the unaffordable areas, texas isn't restrictive with it's land use, which is strongly co-related to housing affordability. Just look at the chart on page 18 here:

http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
Why go through the hassle of selling your photos and worrying about people stealing them when you can make money on ad revenue instead?

Well, for a lot of reasons... if photography is what you're good at and what you enjoy, the make-money-on-ads model makes no sense unless you're also very good at generating traffic.

It also at least partially removes your income from the quality and quantity of your output. Of course the latter will be one important factor in building and maintaining traffic, but the reality of your business then becomes driving traffic, with photography as an ancillary requirement.

Plus you're now dependent not only on your ability to take good pictures and drive large amounts of traffic, you're also at the mercy of changing revenue. Great, you're making a living wage... but now suddenly your ad service isn't paying as much as it used to, so the same volume of traffic brings you less money. Oops.

There are tradeoffs, but I would not say this is a viable alternative at all unless you're also doing other things and driving traffic is as much your primary skill as photography.
If price was the only concern, printrbot simple and junior would fly off the shelves.
3d printing seems like it will be important in how some things are made in the future, but anyone getting in now should do it out of interest, not utility.
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The cause is still in question http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/us/paramedic-bryce-reed-de...
The desktop is still relevant and really its pretty close to as relevant as it was in the 90's. It's just there are more ways to use computers now than there were then and those new ways of computing have been largely dominated by new devices. In other words, the desktop doesn't have to lose relevance just because there are other relevant technologies.
There will always be a market for supporting, rewriting, and upgrading legacy apps regardless of language or framework.
"How does it deal with the ice coming up (and black ice)."

It's been told about it by other robots who have already encountered it, which already gives it a massive head start over the meatbag.
Another important point to consider is that the future won't be available to everyone at once - money will prohibit that. I wonder at what point will touchscreens become "old fashioned", and I'm sure they'll see (limited) use for long after that.
This happens when there are way too many options in the poll
This is the main point why GOG is great. Just save your install media and you can reinstall in 10yrs if GOG goes away, regardless of where GOG is hosted. The same is not necessarily true for Steam. I've also been getting tired of the lag in starting up Steam just to play a few minutes of a game.
BCS is a shit hole.
10 CC photos of an Apple laptop at the top of hacker news...

This is someone winning a bet that they could get anything to the top of hacker news somehow, right?
In Texas, the inspection checks for emissions, windshield cracks, headlight and signal light operation, and tire wear. When I lived in Massachusetts, the inspection wrote me up because my headlights weren't in the same plane (the service station actually had a large cross painted on the wall to see where the lights pointed to). I'm surprised California doesn't have something similar.
My understanding, at least in the case of Texas, is that the lack of a state income tax is largely offset by significantly higher property taxes.
Just as an counter example: I search a lot of Java questions, and there is a guy who has a lot of useful answers. When I see his face in the SERP I often click it without reading the text.
This is quite interesting. I've worked on a number of legacy apps that have been using old versions of Rails, and were a pain to upgrade to the latest version of even just Rails 2. They were so big that upgrading to Rails 3 would've required a full rewrite no doubt.

This definitely has a market, great job!
Indeed - especially given the pace of releases in the Rails world.

As a freelance doing Rails since 2005, I can tell many environments have a hard time keeping up with that pace.
Not all of Texas is cheap. In fact, some areas are extremely expensive.

I've noticed that when people compare San Francisco to Texas they are almost always comparing apples to oranges. They'll pick an area of Texas which is not at all analogous to San Francisco and point out how cheap it is. But if you look at areas which are more analogous, like nice neighborhoods in the center of Houston, you'll find that decent houses are now $800k-$1M.

There is absolutely no way you would get even a plot of dirt for $75k in the nicer neighborhoods of Houston in the middle of the city. The dirt alone will cost you $300k at least. And that's a low estimate.
As a nomad, those address questions would be impossible for me to answer. This is particularly relevant because in 2013 I've started using Airbnb 100% of the time. Any others like me hit by this requirement will have to stop using Airbnb altogether, and while it's certain that we'll be a very small minority of users, we might still add up to a significant percentage in lost revenue.
You are extending Apple way more rights than they actually have. Trademark and copyright don't exist to keep people from saying negative things about you.
I've been saying this for the last 2-3 years now. I'm taking my startup to Austin for sure (after we get cracking here in London/Barcelona). So many reasons to go there that I've lost count.

They're still hands-down the best place to find money.

Yet there are so many VCs in TX! From what I've been told, many VCs in TX only deal with TX companies. I think there is some law about owning a large plot of land that allows for many VCs there to hide their earnings there well.

Anyway, we'll be looking for Rails and front-end UX guys in about 1 year time in the Austin area. So any of you ambitious people looking to join a startup, and want to be part of a tech+athletic (triathlon+endurance athletics) culture, feel free to get in touch with me now just to get the ball rolling. I know things can always change over a year, but happy to start the convos going now. My company is http://www.competehub.com
I live in Houston rather than Austin, but I can say that in Houston the lack of state income tax is easily made up for by the extremely high property taxes.
My thoughts exactly. Even for people willing to move to Rails 3 at some point, but having issues finding the time because of many apps to migrate, it can still be useful as a temporary solution.
On average an individual's tax burden will still end up being less in Texas.
Third: There is oil money here. Lots of 'old' money. If you know how to use that advice to your advantage, you'll win the Texas game.

Intriguing. Explain.

I've been studying geography for a few months to try to pick out where the future is. Austin seems a strong candidate. Boston and Seattle could also swing back into #2.

What TX has going for it is that (a) it has a lot of money, (b) it has a lot of smart people, and (c) it's actually not that conservative in the cities. (I grew up in rural PA, so I know all about the fact of red/blue being meaningless, except on a few issues, at a state-by-state level.)

Fifth: Texans do not like leaving Texas. My university colleagues have settled for SQL CRUD jobs in Austin/Dallas. Data science and bioinformatics is a common degree around these parts. They would rather do CRUD than have to leave Texas.

Seems like a great place to move when you're ready to be a founder (i.e. if you can raise money) because there's a lot of talent. However, this would go against people who are looking to be employees, because there's more competition.

Is that an accurate assessment?
I moved to Austin from Raleigh and got a 7.5% raise because there isn't a state income tax.

However: property taxes are significantly higher here (about $2-3 per $100 value, depending on location.) And you'll pay full sales tax on vehicle purchases (NC has a 3% highway-use tax only).
BTW: 120kW = 160 horsepower, so it's providing the power of your Honda Civic at full throttle for 20 minutes.

That's nuts!
IT Managers should demand more help...
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Nor do they care about AWS, Linode and anything related to servers for that matter.

Yet those domains earn a lot of cash for everyone involved, billions of dollars. There are a shitload more things that matter 10 times more than Angry Birds devices.
>fraud is totally cool because we're programmers and entrepreneurs

No, it really isn't. This is not a kickstarter to make a game, this is a kickstarter to help pay for the game they already made a kickstarter for before. It isn't about risk, it is about fraud.
Would you mind sharing which printers you've used? I'm looking at alternatives, but so far it looks like I'll have to wait at least one more generation before they get to the "just click print and wait" stage…
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We are comparing to acting hopefuls. Is the crem-de-la-crem of the programming world- the ones that get top salaries at Google/Facebook/Twitter- really the right people to compare?
That's literally been said about every big cultural city in the world.

Berlin, nyc, sf, Toronto...

Gentrification in Austin is not at all unique.
Oh man, I've never heard of their printers before. The multi-color $2500 version looks really cool. Now if this Kickstarter project could do that for $400 I would be all over it.
Steam is just another game rental platform. The difference is that with Gog you can't be screwed over later if you break some arbitrary rule or they change the ToS. You truly own the games.
"Chances are good that you have more control over the computer you type your messages on than some server"

Wow really? I don't think those chances are good at all.. I'm not sure how often it happens that a running server is tampered with physically but I don't think that chance is as high as my client system running any malware beyond my control.
While the way you say it is a bit obnoxious, I think there is some merit to the sentiment.

The bluer states are trending down population-wise and the red states are where the most economic and population growth seems to be happening.

Normally when you hear talk of "1-percenters", the vitriol is directed toward Wall Street and business. I think it's counter-intuitive for those people and many in the media to consider that the huge income disparity and decrease/stagnation in effective wages for the middle class are the result of government over-regulation and over-taxation rather than any forces originating from the business/capitalist side of the equation.
"I find it completely disingenuous that you denigrate an entire industry and portray a pittance of images as the salvation."

Huh, where did he denigrate an entire industry?

Lots of hate in this thread, which I don't get. Granted, you can find a lot of free stock photos on the internet, but I find the idea of curated list of photos targeted for product landing pages valuable. This was clearly an MVP and for some reason HN audience found it valuable and voted it to the front page, but I don't see how it deserves all the negativity that is shown in many comments.
I often wonder if entrepreneurs will start to flee silicon valley for similar reasons. While we have the best assortment of resources in the valley, the competition for them is getting more intense by the day. It applies to everything - even rent prices. It may be easier to raise money here but the problem is that you need to spend a whole lot more too. Does the easier fundraising make up for the increased burn? I don't know. Burn is a very bad thing for a startup.
More anecdotal evidence that the value of America arts degrees is far less than their over inflated cost
Affordable Care Act provisions spark a tech and app gold rush
unnecessary cost and unnecessary reduction in space efficiency / maneuverability?
"Usage Rights" at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

You get there by clicking the gear icon on the right side of the image search results page; 'Advanced search' is under that. Yay for Google making one more tool more difficult interact with.
Crowdtilt seeks summer intern to hack on our open-source tool, Crowdhoster.com
Crowdhoster, a Rails app built on the Crowdtilt API, started as an experimental showcase for our API (in beta). But now, it's starting to take on a life of its own...

It's a free, self-hostable, themeable, international, and customizable crowdfunding platform. We think of it as a WordPress for crowdfunding.

You may have unwittingly come across it in the past week here on HN: Soylent's pre-sale campaign has raised $375k in 8 days, and it's fully built on Crowdhoster.

We don't know quite how big this project can get, but it's clear that it deserves more than being just a one-man side project (we currently have over 600 invite requests from project creators around the world waiting for beta access). And with the inbound demand, there are tons of feature requests and updates we'd love to push, but we haven't had the time.

If you want to come and own a Rails project over the summer, and work with an 18-person engineering team (with a hacker-focused culture and all the resources, free meals, hardware, and perks of a young, rapidly-growing startup), send an email to interns@crowdtilt.com and get paid to work on an open-source rails project with us at Crowdtilt (YC W12).

-James / Khaled
Hesitant to "trust these guys" -- the same guys that pointedly stated in their video and materials that the DoubleFine adventure could be a wild success or complete failure?

They made it very clear from the beginning that this was new territory, something not done before, and the risk was high.

As for starting another game before finishing another, that's a silly argument. There's this mistaken belief amongst the general populace that software companies can only work on one project at a time. That couldn't be farther removed from reality.

The reality is that any large software project requires the efforts of dozens (and sometimes hundreds or thousands) of people all of which perform different tasks. There are many parts of software projects where not all of the staff can be involved or working on it, or where their portion of the work is done.

At that point, you're left with the choice of firing the people you don't need, or paying them to sit around and do nothing. Isn't the more logical choice to start another project so you can keep those people employed and pay them to do something meaningful?

The fact that the source of their funding for one of their current projects was kickstarter should not restrict them from starting another project using kickstarter.
Perhaps his plan is to ultimately add an option for a paid model once he builds up a user base? I've found it to be challenging to find professional-quality stock-like photos on Flickr amidst the millions of pictures of vacations.
You can get ~2000 sqft single family homes in the Montrose area of Houston for around $400,000. Still a hell of a lot cheaper than SF.

I grew up in the Bay Area and moved to Houston (now San Antonio) about seven years ago. No desire to move back.
At some point states are going to start taxing for electricity going into electric vehicles to make up for lost revenue for their road and highway funds.

Or they'll increase gas taxes to make up for the lost difference until everyone is driving electric cars. Mission accomplished!
What I'm imagining is click a button and have it create and deploy fully configured apps for me, similar to what I can do with all the add on services. They might be paid or free or tiered etc, it might be a once-off fee or a monthly/annual subscription or an on-going charge like some of Amazon's AMIs.

There's lots of commercially licensed, self-hosted software (blog, forum, ecommerce etc) and hosted-as-a-service (wordpress.com, discourse.org, duelapp.com etc) etc that would be applicable.

Enabling that by API or in general would be awesome.