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Former member of the Visual Studio ALM team here.

ALM is that is where the money is. Higher-ups in orgs are much more willing to pay for oversight and management features than language features.
Based on the first video you link (F9t3FREAZ-k), it seems Notch has a very distinct advantage already (a game-like element). In that video, he wanders around the cave systems for a long while, and always finds a path through. I assume that 'Cave game tech' demo is generated (not static as the Skycraft demo appears). But it's not just randomly generated. It's generated in a way that always affords a path through. This isn't even common IRL. Spelunking real caves is partly about finding ones that are non-trivial and traversable by humans (vertical faces and narrow sapces tend to inhibit that).
Interview with Dan Pink: Why Selling Yourself is So Important
I think the point is that, as a kid, no. Because children are still developing their abstract thinking skills, stars are just pretty lights.

They might "know" that stars are other suns with other planets, but they have even more trouble truly grasping that than you or I- and even I struggle sometimes to "see" the planets and suns amongst the twinkly lights.
Rogue beer fridge caught by Telstra 'robot'
What meaning of speculate do you mean? There are two that are nearly the opposite of each other (making this an almost-Janus word):

1. To meditate on a subject; reflect.
2. To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence.

If you mean 2., the article doesn't do anything of the sort. It lays out specific pieces of evidence based on observed historical fact and draws specific conclusions from them. On the other hand, the top-level comment above is pretty vague in its rebuttal.
Changing the packaging saves thousands of lives
It's only now that people have had years of believing a narrative that we're exactly in that situation where stating that the atomic bombs were necessary is a view that can go unchallenged.

Indeed. Those throwing around accusations of revisionism need to question whether the history they accept is not actually the revisionist one.
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In all seriousness, I think his points are valid and well-articulated. This just comes across as a tech demo and nothing more. I can't imagine what advantage re-creating Minecraft in HTML5 would have in and of itself. There's just... nothing new here.
Every country creates bad laws: CISPA, HADOPI... Every country infringes in freedom of the press and freedom of speech. The individuals laws/acts can't be defended, just like the country/system as a whole can't be judged on them alone.

If there really is a pro-SG movement on HN, it's probably just reactionary. We think people think SG is some brutal dictatorship, so we're hyper-defensive (sensitive?). I'm surprised this surprises you...it's pretty common. Muslims are quick to point out not all muslims are terrorists, catholics that they aren't all pedophiles, whites that they aren't all bigots...
Us in particular, or just in our direction?

If you mean us in particular- doubtful. Hell, out of all the stars in the sky, I can name maybe two? Three?

If you mean in our direction, that depends on whether we are part of some cool space feature, ala the Horsehead Nebula. So maybe- but I have no idea what the odds of being in a cool space feature vs. not are. Only that they are better than Sol being picked out individually.
Agreed, and thank you for your posts. The amount of knee-jerking visible in this discussion is astounding and disappointing.
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No, it's not just you. I'm genuinely curious to see how HN's pro-Singapore members will respond to this — particularly, as you observe, the ones who are otherwise ostensibly very libertarian.
As a Singaporean who reads HN almost everyday for the last couple of years, I can't say I've seen Singapore related topics pop up so often.

I had a feeling this particular issue might come up though.
> And there's definitely a strong case to be made that there's a demand for games like Minecraft that have a different vision

Minecraft-GTA mashup, maybe? That is, voxel-based riff on GTA street-view topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810285). Or maybe iCEnhancer-based Minecraft? I'd pay cash money for that.

EDIT: typo.
Ask HN: Have you slept with a co-worker?
Have you ever slept with a co-worker at the company you work at?
The Hubble orbits at about 600km. Getting something many km in size to orbit the earth properly might be difficult.
No I feel the same way at age 21. It's quite hard to follow the quick-cutting nature of most videos. The ones I tend to like the most are comedy videos that have really quick setups and punchlines.
Even if you fire your early employees, don't they still retain the equity earned up to that point?
Censorship masquerading as system maintenance
Can the issue of who pays for healthcare be adequately separated from the issue of its cost? I think so -- given how wide the disparity in health COSTS (put aside the payer) are between not only countries, but even counties in the US [1].

It would be great if we can talk about the origin of these health costs without getting entangled into who should be paying them. But maybe that's an impossible task.

The Libertarian-in-Chief Ron Paul himself a Physician who claims that the exhorbitant costs in health care are a more recent phenomenon. He quotes how much his costs were to do house-visits (remarkably small), and compares that with the ballooning in costs more recently. While one can argue that Libertarianism is a Utopic view, the rapidly escalating prices of healthcare are not something that is espoused by Libertarian philosophy. I.e. Low health costs and individual responsibility for health paying are not incompatible. Then again, neither are low health costs and universal health coverage. Right now, we have the worst of both worlds: high health costs and individual responsibility for payment.

[1] http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/hospital-procedure-cost...
Thanks cup! I could start by categorizing article by the province they reference, then display them on a map as you hover over a province.
Sorry, I should clarify. I'm looking to use the for a new logo.

What raised the question was a friend of mine who is a designer who blasted me for using their service. He said its branding that I'm after, not logo design. To that, I disagreed so I wanted to get the communities thoughts.
HN is better looking than Reddit, which is much more popular. Both sites tend to give lie to popular (among us nerds) theories of how well-designed a site needs to be to serve its audience.
I absolutely agree; I'm not saying that it's irrelevant, but rather that there are still people alive and in power who have a demonstrated interest in lying on the matter. This is far less true in other countries.

What confuses me about this debate is what purpose is serves. Minus patriotism, why does it matter? I've maintained a neutral stance on the matter precisely because I don't understand this. (But I'm also a relatively non-nationalistic person, and I also have seen people who still think we need to get revenge for Pearl Harbor (4srswtf), so maybe it's just me.)
Won't this just give us 10 rehash comments and no good replies?
>My girlfriend, to pay her bills, is a journalist.

I'm glad she can make that work!
As a former cognitive neuroscientist, claiming that a region as large as the neocortex has a single underlying principle that explains it all sets off my oversimplification alarm bells...

I'm sure the code is great for machine learning purposes, but I doubt his theory has much bearing on how brains work. The brain is one of the most heterogenous and complex structures in the solar system.
The future of software, the end of apps
Peopleware is fairly timeless. You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but you should probably read it if only to baseline the decisions you make.
Chrome users need their settings to "allow sites to disable mouse cursor". Just an observation: this wasn't obvious to me.
Pixel Qi's displays look very interesting, solving that problem well. Never actually seen or used one, though.

http://pixelqi.com/
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It is used for FGTech Galletto 2-Master:

1. Original BDM adaptor: easier for customers to connect the ecu for delphi, siemens, marelli, bosch, and so on.

2. OBD truck connector: Used for VOLVO TRUCK and RENAULT TRUCK
Ah, you are exercising the first rule of the wumao party:

1. If someone criticizes your country, just point out how no country is perfect to deflect the criticism.

SG is a dictatorship, it is well known that the Lee family have been running it as their own little fief for awhile now by controlling the press so they can continue to win elections. The dictatorship is completely benevolent, non-brutal, and very business-oriented, so the people tend to be relatively happy (not free but rich!). Honestly, I'm not sure real democracy would have worked given the context SG is in. But that still doesn't excuse reality.
I think it's from the days where flight-sims ruled
Observations on the Seventeen-Year Cicada: A Citizen Scientist Reports from 1824
So, you agree that outsourcing causes negative wage pressure but don't think it leads to any stagnation in real compensation?

How does this make sense? Are you saying that all negative wage effects are offset by an equal rise in other benefits?

Because that's not what the article you referenced states. And even to the extent that it does implicate benefits, it attributes only a small difference to this cause.

In any event, the far more salient point in this discussion is that the relative income (and wealth) growth of the working/middle class has dramatically paled in comparison to that of the wealthiest. That is, as the economy has expanded, the former group has not--by any measure--participated proportionally in the rewards it conveys.
I read a real article about this. Basically, any news agency that discusses Singapore more than N times a month must indemnify with a $50K SGD bond and follow the laws of the country in all of the content they report.

So even CNN, if they report Singapore stories, will be subject to this, though I doubt they will try to enforce this on international news agencies.
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> It's also annoying that it requires fullscreen to play.

It's probably because Firefox currently requires fullscreen in order to engage pointer lock.
"But somehow I don't think letting surgeons choose the tools used for a particular surgery based on their own expertise and understanding of the needs of the particular surgery, rather than having one standard kit used for all surgeries regardless of the specific details of surgeon and patient, is the difference."

In isolation, your intuition is correct. But, with thousands and thousands of surgeons performing hundreds of thousands of surgeries a year, we end up with a logistical nightmare. This doesn't scale.

It's perhaps not the main difference, but I'm willing to wager it is at the least a symptom of whatever the underlying problem is.
"You aren't going to be able to protest or stuff, but ... there aren't huge issues to protest."

If history has taught us anything, it's that statements like this _do_ inevitably come back to bite you very, very hard.
Thanks, I just entertained myself for several minutes imagining jwz's reaction to being told he's "not a real hacker on HN"!
Undoubtedly, you're correct :)
it doesn't mean your email has been scooped it only means a computer algo sorted it automatically
What does "Schleps are good" mean?
Today with the US-based insurance system, there's usually at least one whole employee at every doctor's office whose only job it is to figure out who pays what, and do all the related phone calls and paperwork. For example talking to every patient's insurance company and turning medical procedures into ID numbers.

If the doctor sends you to get lab work, the lab has its own person that fills that role. If the doctor sends you to a specialist, ditto.

Of course the insurance companies have their own hordes of employees who write all the rules of who pays what under what circumstances, keep the books of all the patients' deductibles and all the providers' bills, etc.

None of these employees does anything economically productive. They just move money around.

Obamacare requires that people buy health insurance, which protects this bureaucracy with a legal mandate to purchase their services, and creates more bureaucracy, on the government side, to administer the law.
Technically, the GIL is a "flaw" in the implementation. The language does not specify a GIL, it's just an implementation detail in cpython.

I don't necessarily agree that it's a flaw, but that's another discussion entirely.
Yeah. But.

The VS keyboard macro system has "overengineered" written all over it. Really all they had to do was record some keystrokes. Instead they probably had a team of like four engineers, a bunch of Q/A and several PMs on it, and it took them over a year. And the result /stinks/; it blows dead exploding goats.

Sigh.
Ask HN: How do you overcome perfectionism?
How do you overcome the feeling of perfectionism?

I've always wanted to learn more about software development. However, whenever I try, I self-criticize myself into giving up -- the icon sucks, the app is not innovative, the UI sucks, etc.

How do I stop the self comparisons? How do I find enjoyment in something I'm not "wonderful" at?

I'm 27. I know that's not old, but it feels like it when people half my age are 6x better.

Help?
> there aren't huge issues to protest

Aside from the issues mentioned in the OP?

Or if you are gay?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377A_of_the_Penal_Code_...

Or immigration policy?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21485729

Or...

I live in Singapore too, and while there are plenty of pluses there are also plenty of minuses and they shouldn't be minimized or ignored.
Did you mean forward compatibility?

No, I really did mean backward compatibility. Specifically, I was thinking of the degree to which MS have supported even very old (by IT standards) APIs and file formats and protocols even in much newer (again by IT standards) systems over the years, and the lengths they have sometimes gone to in order to maintain that support despite the potentially breaking changes not even being their fault in many cases.

However, I would also agree that they are better at forward compatibility than a lot of other major software developers today.
Elon Musk has to sell 540,000 Teslas a year to justify projected market cap
Can (some of) the ballooning costs be attributed to the costs / time investment in medical school? When Ron Paul went to medical school how much did it cost (adjusted for inflation)? How much more knowledge are doctors expected to have now than then?
Well hold on now; there are a lot of times when using threading is easier and faster than using multiprocessing. It depends on what you're doing.

Threading creates new OS-level threads, but whenever your code is being run by the bytecode interpreter, Python holds the global interpreter lock. This is released during I/O operations and a lot of the built-in functions, and you can release it in any C or Cython extension code you write. If you're running into Python speed bottlenecks, you can usually get significant speedups with very little effort by moving the bottlenecky code to Cython and maybe adding a few type declarations.

Multiprocessing spawns a pool of worker processes and doles out tasks to them by serializing the data and using local sockets for IPC. This naturally has a lot of overhead, and there's some subtlety with the data serialization. So, be aware of that. The nice part, though, is that you don't have the GIL, which can sometimes speed things up.
Care to go into greater detail?

The thing is, the hypothesis that there is a more-or-less basic neocortical algorithm wouldn't be disproved by modest amounts of variation in the neocortex.

And position that the neocortex is rather uniform is fairly standard neurophysiology as far as I can tell.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/01/02/1221398110.abst...
Really great presentation during the loading sequence.
I'm about to be 32, and I only started really studying programming (via online tutorials and physical how-to books) a little over a year & 1/2 ago. I was already solid in my html and css, picked up ruby first, then jumped to a bit of php, then back to ruby and rails, and finally some jquery and responsive design. I did this over a year, and was supported by my loving fiance (also unemployment comp and a part-time job after that), which was a tough financial struggle for that yea . I came from the construction sector (repair services) for 8 years. My fiance works for a successful startup, who were gracious enough to allow me to spend my studying time in their offices (and occasionally ask questions).
4 months ago, I was contacted by a recruiter via an online job site for a jr. rails dev position, in which I now am gainfully employed. I'm working with rails, and being utilized for my knowledge in responsive design with our overhaul project. I'm now able to help save for our wedding and honeymoon and provide groceries of more than soup.
Hey, maybe Zynga's next mobile game can be B-Scan 360 with Friends? I think there are 500 or so people who would willing sign up to beta test right away...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12PSYCHO.html?_r=...
Not necessarily. There are a number of ways in which you can lose the rights to your shares, including clawbacks, or clauses in a contract that may stipulate changes to the status of your equity post termination of your employment. A number of equity contracts I have seen also have clauses that state that the board may change the terms of the equity grants at their sole discretion. In other words, until you see an exit with your equity, it's not really your equity.
That's a pretty rude response to a fairly moderate comment.

So what's wrong with the dictatorship if it is "completely benevolent, non-brutal, and very business-oriented"?

I realize that "all asians may look the same"[1], but Singapore isn't China[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigotry

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
You also can lose your trademark if you aren't shown to be actively defending it. This is why Google, for instance, resists efforts to turn their name into a common verb.
This is an awesome list. Learned this one the hard way:

<i>Pay a lot of attention to the relationship between cofounders, especially if both/all of you want to be CEO.</i>
There's a famous line from the 2008 Batman film "The Dark Knight" in which Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred Pennyworth is trying to explain to Bruce and help him understand the Joker, his new sadistic and unpredictable archenemy:

"Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." [1]

Maybe this makes me a bad person on par with the Joker, but I don't want Mark Pincus to be bought out, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. I just want to watch him burn.

(metaphorically speaking, of course)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc
i believe in this case ex-employees did not get to vest their stock
It's hard to know which side you're arguing for. The iPhone is likely faster, there are a plethora of apps that burst shoot, it can switch to video in a moment and it's faster to start taking photos. By the time the SLR has been set to P mode and auto iso etc e iPhone would have already shot the photos and uploaded them to the server.

The wifi/cell part of the photo is not to be ignored, GPS stamped images uploaded in seconds. The SLR can't compete yet. In a year or two when wifi is prevalent on SLR cameras, maybe, but for the moment is speed counts the iPhone will win for photos and video.
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People use EC2 not because of price but flexibility. A good example: When we launch a product and expect lots of traffic, i can quadruple my server count in a few minutes. Once the event is over with, i can spin them down. I can't do this with traditional hosting.
These are appropriate considerations to have; and the concerns about performance are very well-founded.

Nonetheless, the values I see in EC2 and AWS come in the API, role management, and the centralization of services. Being able to automate everything is outstanding (even if many of the APIs feel very young). Allowing anyone in the organization access to the management console with appropriate privileges is helpful, and something that I haven't seen available from other providers - at least not with the level of customization that AWS provides. Also, knowing that just about everything is handled in one place makes things easier logistically - it's small overhead, but managing DNS and CDN and Hosting all in the same interface is convenient.

Hosting decisions must be made on a case by case basis; but it's wrong to avoid EC2 (and AWS) simply because you can get better performing servers elsewhere at a lower cost per time period.
I love baby pictures, they're really cute. I love seeing my friends' and family's babies grow up through pictures on FB because I can't always be there in person.
Ok, you and zainny make fair points. I guess I was looking at it from the perspective of, say, Turkey right now..or Somalia. But even if it isn't at that scale, freedom of speech is important and I was wrong do dismiss it so casually.
"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security,
deserves neither." --Benjamin Franklin

This is a quote we all need to take to heart.
sounds a bit like Dubai. people are relaxed and happy because all the shit is swept under the rug so it doesn't concern the priviledged. gotta embrace 'ignorance is bliss', accept things how they are, take what's yours and don't look below the surface, otherwise you'd probably go nuts.
And if a soldier gets to a new unit and they assign him a weapon he's not familiar with? The military definitely deals with life and death stakes.

Their solution: Frequent and continuous training.

What kind of ongoing training do hospitals offer their doctors? Who trains doctors on new equipment in hospitals? (honest questions)
No. I have found there is rarely a good result from this. In the one case I've observed, the guy courted the girl and quit before they started a serious relationship. This worked well.

This may be different at larger organizations. I have only worked at small companies where gossip travels fast and doesn't need to travel far.
great presentation and vibrant discussion. I wonder: how much attention does this article owe to effective use of highcharts, a clean palette, and freight sans pro? Not knocking, just wondering.
A lot of games run fine under Wine these days.

You can also run Windows as your main OS, but run Linux under Virtualbox or the like, so you can switch between them without rebooting and have the best of both worlds (Linux for programming, Windows for gaming)
Out of interest, how many hours do successful startup founders tend to work? Does anyone have a solid view on this, and is there any anecdotal evidence out of YC to suggest any sort of correlation of this kind?
On top of paying 8x what it cost before/after I moved from/back to Softlayer, AWS services just didn't work right. EBS failed often. RDS, which runs on top of EBS, would fail often too. When an entire AZ failed, despite paying double the hourly rate for "Multi-AZ" instances that were supposed to automatically fail over to another zone, nothing failed over, it just failed.

If I need on-demand instances these days, I'll do it at Linode. They bill to the day, so you don't need to commit to a month for temporary instances. It's not as scriptable, but it works and doesn't cost a fortune over renting hardware either. More often, I just get servers with more CPU cores and more RAM than I need so there's plenty of room to absorb spikes.