skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're presented an extremely cynical viewpoint.

1) IMDB credits are not all equal. If OP received credits for major television shows (which it sounds like), it's obviously different than you make a movie yourself.

2) You view pretty standard networking practices as him being a "slimeball". You have no idea if that's how they interpreted his behavior. More likely, they thought he was friendly, outgoing, and ambitious.

3) The Prisoner's Dilemma doesn't entirely apply here, unless you know exactly what the talent pool looks like and where incentives are at. There are tons of hopeful actors who would probably scab work without SAG membership, but the studios will still be plucking from the SAG pool.
Yes, 1 team 1 project (no overlap, every project is full-time). Project lead is 1:1 too. Practice managers are 1:many, but aren't intimately involved in delivery. Projects generally rotate among staff; staff aren't permanently allocated to clients. Practice managers collaborate with partners and project manager to work out the schedule. We book pretty far in advance.

We don't have salespeople.
This is first class trolling.
This is where I wish I knew how far along the product was. Unfortunately we have no way of knowing whether this is just an email sign up page to gauge interest or if the product is close to being ready to ship.

I hope it's the latter because I am very interested. A blog from the team would be a good thing to setup next.
That's just plain wrong. Only about 90% of humans who have consumed it have died.
> One guy had one bad experience as a game tester (most kids' dream job)

I have a friend who was a game tester. It's not just a kid's job. If you ever see someone who is good at being a game tester do his thing, you will find out that they are very skilled and many have a wealth of experience in terms of where to look for bugs.

EDIT: Now my friend has moved out of the game industry and into corporate life. The pay is better and the job is more secure.
"There is no profit in fighting cave dwelling extremists who want to make sure girls don't go to school"

Unless you are making bullets, guns, body armor, etc. Never underestimate the US government's ability to do seemingly pointless things just to prop up certain businesses. We see that very same pattern of behavior elsewhere in the government; what makes you think the military is exempt?
>Honestly, after going through this list I'm not sure what "Mint for X" even means anymore

I am thinking it is supposed to mean:

* Gather personal data on a topic from multiple other sites so that you can manage/view it in one place instead of on each individual site.

although you are probably right that a lot of people just interpet it as pie charts / snappy web design.
The problem is that you have an entire industry set up to push people into contracting who really should be employees. In other words, there are lots of "independent contractors" out there who have one client they work on full-time, which really does not fit under any reasonable definition of an independent businessperson. The companies just prefer to have these people defined as freelancers so they don't have to pay for the types of benefits (health insurance, retirement, etc.) that employees get, and to make them more easily disposable.

Part of being a freelancer or contractor is that you already have all the power

This is a joke, right? How much power does a single independent contractor have by themselves over (say) Electronic Arts? Especially when they have no other clients to fall back on should EA tell them to go pound sand?
Launch a "Built in" for your own city in minutes
damn! sign backwards! /blush
I wonder what would happen if Google told the FBI to bugger off and printed the NSLs on the web.
So apparently you worked for seomoz, and maybe you currently work for moz. Why not disclose that? http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnfdoherty

Those comments don't make seomoz look any better. Look at the date when doz.com was purchased.
Why has this comment not been voted out of existence? If arianvanp is wrong it's because he's wrong. If his way of phrasing things is uncalled for or downright rude, then it's uncalled for or downright rude. But it doesn't matter if it was Joe Armstrong, Albert Einstein, or Sloth Fratelli who he is responding to.

See masklinn's response for how to avoid stupid responses like this one. Or kvb's. Or even rtdsc's.
> none of this attitude

This is not an actual prevailing attitude in the US.
what a fucking loser
A very important snippet from the comments from Sarah Bird (COO of Moz)

> So, I did what I would want someone to do for me. In January, I called him to give him a personal heads up that we had a problem, that the brand felt too close for us. I told him we had a registered intent-to-use, and that we were planning on launching soon, just like him. I asked him to use a different brand for his future product or that we would have to cancel his mark. He explained to me that his product is different enough from ours that there wouldn’t be confusion. I urged him to talk to his lawyer and get independent advice before he launched his product.
The US government is missing the mark so completely, it is scary.

Does anyone here think that actual, real terrorists are going to be discussing their plans using anything other than highly encrypted protocols, along with code words?

These measures are absolutely of no use in catching anyone that is more intelligent than a gnat that actually wants to harm the US.
I think it was during the second half of the '00 decade actually. I remember 1050 vertical being popular at least until 2007.
Can you elaborate on your comment about why working a weekend as a contractor is a sure way to lose people's respect? I don't understand.
I missed this in the pastebin text, it adds a dimension. My impressions to the OP :

The description of the reason for working the extra weekend, I think reflects well on your motivation. I'm not a games company, but I have hired developers and testers : if I saw this bullet point on a testers CV, that would stand out.

So instead of feeling taken advantage of, which you were at $11 an hour.. put a more positive vibe on this and see it as a path from tester to whatever is next.

Maybe your passion is some aspect of developing games, or developing better automated test tools? Is there some open source thing you can work on, that will give you a lot more leverage when the next gig comes around?

Somehow get your CV to stand out from the mass of guys who will work for 11/hr and into the more professional 50/hr skill-set bracket. Maybe that's not happening right now in games, maybe take those skills and put them to use in another industry that is happy to pay better. Or stay in games but specialize and become killer and own your particular niche.

Wear this experience as a Medal of Honor [pun, ouch] that you worked on Halo4.. how many people get to do that? It is money in the bank when gaining street cred with any young person, even your own kids later.

I would rework this story.. put a more positive slant on it, its a great blog post, shows character, yadda yadda. Squeeze a bit of mileage out of the pain and glory you went thru.

I love reading these war stories and postmortems on Gamasutra, you have an audience.
api's comment in this thread sums up the rationale behind the public's opposition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5800001

People don't need to become experts on any particular food innovation to have a very good chance of serving their best interests in opposing it. The people have been continuously misled about health risks.

If GMO saves a million children it will next need to save ten million children, and then a hundred million and so on, until it fails and then there will be greater suffering. Culture and religion are the root cause of the problem; it's better addressed from that angle.
Hilter's rise to power was through an election but prior to that there was lots of violence etc caused by the Nazi's so it shouldn't have been any surprise that he was a violent individual.

Mussolini led a coup d'etat to take a power.

And Soviet hardly had a peaceful start and Stalin played a part in that.

None of these exactly popped out of nowhere from within the government.

Last I checked none of the current 'western' governments rose to power via fear and intimidation.

That said, yes power attracts people who want power. I can't dispute that.
Google invests in 96 megawatt solar project in South Africa
I notice the difference whenever my desktop has quietly switched back to 60hz from 120Hz even in non-gaming applications. I'm not going to claim that it is important. But, the wet-glass smoothness of 120Hz makes me happier :)
I asked for someone to build this kind of service earlier today. Pretty cool to now see it already exists. Looking forward trying it out.
We are at war with terror (and have been, and always will be), just as we are and have always been at war with Eastasia, but that is completely irrelevant to the question of whether massive domestic surveillance with poor oversight and even poorer accountability is a good idea.

Even if your goal is solely to prevent terrorist attacks and you don't give a damn about domestic collateral, it is still not so obvious. The question is whether, with all the data in the world, there are signals in that data that are exclusively correlated with terrorists and terrorist activities. And, secondarily, whether data mining and ML techniques have found, or can in the near future find, those signals. If not, then, in Schneier's words:

"Piling more data onto the mix makes it harder, not easier. The best way to think of it is a needle-in-a-haystack problem; the last thing you want to do is increase the amount of hay you have to search through." [1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/02/opinion/schneier-boston-bombin...
> Potential, yes; but not with massive financial interests behind it.

This is not necessarily true in every case. pvnick mentioned Golden Rice. The Co-inventor of the genetically engineered, vitamin-A-rich strain of rice Potrykus has spearheaded an effort to have golden rice distributed for free to poor farmers. This required several companies which had intellectual property rights to the results of Beyer's research to license it for free. In fact, Monsanto was one of the first companies to grant free licenses. If the substinence farmer doesn't make more than $10,000 per year, he is freed from paying any royalities. The farmers are even permitted to keep and replant the seeds.

This is in the specific case of Golden Rice. Maybe somebody can jump in and tell a horrific Monsanto story.
> basing your argument on an appeal to authority is just a logical falacy

This is incorrect. An appeal to an authority is a valid argument. The fallacy is an appeal to a false authority.

When you make a statement like "it makes me cringe", you are making an appeal to your own authority. Cringe-worthiness has nothing to do with reasoning or logic: it's only relevant if your opinion matters, and your opinion only matters if you're (1) the audience of the argument or (2) an authority. If you do not claim to be an authority, you are dismissing your own argument: you acknowledge its own fallaciousness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Yes, they're patented and copying them is a violation of the "user agreement".

http://grist.org/news/supreme-court-hands-a-big-win-to-monsa...
MSG? Really? What's next, the evils of vaccines?
Yes [1]. But for good reason. It is similar to pharmaceutical companies. They invest millions into inventing products. They should be entitled to a monopoly on the product for some period of time in order to re-coup their investment.

[1] http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/Pages/why-does-monsanto-su...
Staged Troll Outs
Well he said he posted it to find out in which browsers the plugin has issues. I just said it is a better idea to test it himself, that it isn't so hard to do. I don't see why I'm being a dick, and I spoke with respect.
I'm tired of people overreacting over this kind of things, we don't need to be extremely polite all the time, it's tedious.
That being said, I hope he gets it to work properly, seems like it could be a very useful plugin...
taking it to computer languages seems iffy to me. i started with basic, and in no way do i think in basic. in fact, i wouldn't say i think in any particular programming language. if i were to venture a guess, i would say this is because no computer language is anyone's first language. when we write a program, we're reducing our entire natural reasoning about the program into abstractions that fit the language we're using, and then translating those abstractions into actual code.
If you want to become a better futurist, there's nothing like lots of practice for improving your calibration. The best way I can think of to get lots of practice at technology forecasting is to sign up for George Mason University's DAGGRE program, which will let you participate in a multi-year prediction tournament focused on science and technology forecasting. Details here: http://is.gd/qHnaOY
The issue that I have is that Monsanto and other food companies fight very hard against GMO labeling. That's a big red flag to me.
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Learn you some Common Lisp

Lisp Koans is a hands-on Lisp learning exercise. It is a port of the prior {Ruby, Python, Etc.} Koans with some modifications to highlight Lisp-specific features.
The project guides the learner through Common Lisp language features.
I'm a Global Associate for Moz and I work for Distilled, who took over Moz's consulting business when they went fulltime in SAAS.

edited because I was a jerk

Next, doesn't matter when the domain was purchased. What matters is the date that the trademark, or the intent to use a trademark, was filed.
In case you're curious, the relevant bit is around here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RFjOec-TI0&feature=playe....

"It's in Chrome 29 canary now, hopefully dev channel within a few days. We're shooting for Chrome 30 as our launch."
Hey, thank you. :) We actually have 300 tennis players in SF looking to play already, if you have an Android (nobody has Android in SF...^^) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tbuddy.and...
Want a job in Silicon Valley?

NO.

You should never lead off with an open-ended question. And I seriously do not want a job in Silicon Valley, but that doesn't stop the recruiters from contacting me. If a developer with tons of experience hasn't worked in SV by now, they probably never will.
I think Irregardless meant that this is a job that a lot of people dream about having when they are children. Landing such a job as an adult would serve to realize that dream. This makes it pretty devastating if the job turns out to be a disaster.
Two clause BSD is the name of a license. A different license would not be two clause BSD, even if it has two clauses.
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifprid...

The data suggests that it is hyperbole to say that Monsanto owns the market, but judging by the CR4 and HHI - standard economics measures for concentration of market power - it's fair to say that the GMO market is very concentrated, and that Monsanto leads the pack by a significant margin.
Yeh you really need to talk about organizing the major studios first. Though BECTU in the UK has success representing freelancers in the TV industry albeit from having recognition in the major players BBC/ITN etc.

Ill point this post out to one of the people I know in BECTU not sure if anyone has got the Games industry on its Organizing list
Is this supposed to work on iPad (Safari)?
This is awesome. What's funny to me, and this is reflected in the comments here, is that people don't think this kind of service can scale. That is completely wrong.

Human-powered backends to internet services should not be nearly as scary to startups as people currently think. From telesales teams to customer support, and now mentoring / teaching it's all proving very possible.

In our market research for http://www.thinkful.com/ we found several beginners who described (WORD FOR WORD) access to experts like that which you provide as "the holy grail" of learning.

Best of luck!
Even with your operator fixed, this is still bull. This only only instructive if you have zero external knowledge regarding the context. Since we can read Joe Armstrong's words, and since we can read arianvanp's objection, and since most of us have brains, we can and should do a lot better than "bayesian probability".
I don't think maeon3 is saying it's the technology's fault exactly. The point seems to be that, since you have control over your stack but not over government regulations, you should probably do what you can to protect your data or your company's data.
I started working with Erlang for work, on and off, for the past year. I had been working with Ruby for a lot longer. I too, liked the Erlang design, but the syntax is a wreck. It's also true, use something long enough and you get used to it. I've noticed long-time Erlang users tend to have this mystical ability to see the underlying elegance expressed by the Erlang syntax while ignoring the syntactic awkwardness.

Elixir brings a lot of good stuff onto the table. I hope the Elixir community incorporates the changes Joe Armstrong suggests.

One in particular: f.() makes perfect sense in the Ruby world because everything is an object (we're sending the '()' message to the 'f' object); but things are built out of functions in the Erlang world, and f() makes more sense there. There are no objects or messages to send them, so 'f.()' gets parsed as an extra dot at the end of the name. I think Armstrong's other suggestions follow in the same vein.

The point isn't to try to make Elixir have a Ruby-like syntax so much as, having distilled the syntax design principles developed in the Ruby community, apply it in Elixir.
A few years ago I was toying with JSON databases without loading, and came up with an idea to cache the parse tree of the documents after the first query, so that subsequent queries would run much faster. I called the technique semi-indexing and wrote a paper [1] on that; on my synthetic tests the speedups were significant (even 10x), but I never got the chance to test it on real workloads.

I wonder if would be useful to integrate the semi-index code [2] in this json_fdw; thanks for sharing the code, I'll try to see how feasible this is.

[1] http://www.di.unipi.it/~ottavian/files/semi_index_cikm.pdf

[2] https://github.com/ot/semi_index
Right, I get that. What I'm saying is, failure isn't final in startup-land. Unless you're dead, you can try again. This isn't at all like the analogy presented by TFA, where you get one shot with the key and you either win or lose. Also, in Real Life, there are degrees of success, it isn't binary where you either win or lose with no in between.
God damn lawyers with their god damn copyright crap. Eh, you get what I mean.

I'm disgusted by this behavior. What happened to innovate?
Pin Payments here. This is obviously some great information from our friends at Braintree on traditional banking relationships. At Pin Payments, we actually introduced some new ways of doing things which are different than a traditional aggregated merchant account (like Stripe) or a traditional sponsored merchant account (like Braintree). Pin Payments is currently unique (as far as we know). We onboard merchants instantly for local and foreign currency and we do not handle the money (Perpetual, our custodian, does). We do not operate an aggregated merchant account, each dev/customer is actually represented individually with each banking partner. We actually abstract the bank from the relationship, so we can provide a redundant banking model. We also have SLA's with our banking partners to ensure as-close-to-immediate on-boarding as we can right now (aiming for realtime of course). It's taken us around 18 months to get this model up-and-running in Australia. We think this is pretty awesome for Aussie devs and we also think it will scale well beyond Australia (where the financial regulations are obviously amongst the strictest in the world). Just sayin'
I should also have been more precise. By food "innovations" I meant synthetic alterations in the composition of food itself such as the introduction of chemically altered oils, flavoring additives, preservatives, and similar. Borlaug changed the way food is grown, not its composition.

I personally am not particularly afraid of GMO foods. I was pointing out the sociological and political reasons for opposition to them. Look into the history of health advice and you'll find the same pattern: something is said to be healthy and people are told to do it. Later it is found to be unhealthy, often dramatically so. Cigarettes and margarine / trans-fat are probably the clearest examples, but there are many others and many outside the realm of food.

Every time you say something is good then reverse yourself, you lose credibility. At some point people actually start taking your pronouncements as a contrarian indicator. "Oh, the experts say GMO foods are great... they must be on Monsanto's payroll and they're probably worse for you than cigarettes."
everything you posted (except Tokyo) is satellite imagery only as far as i can see - so where is your point?
Such a label does indicate danger to the uninformed masses, even if it's unfounded. I would say it falls under free speech. Let the market forces dictate the risks vs benefits.

Once completely organic chicken breast becomes as unattainably expensive as beluga cavier I think you'll find nobody gives a shit how the cheap stuff is produced.
I never said that you denied it. I said that you failed to disclose it in your comment. My earlier comment was just a friendly reminder but since you went uppercase on me I'll add that you should know better because of the industry you work in.
I hope he's right, I certainly think about my company that way. But it's still a bold statement with no evidence given. Yes those founders might have said those things. Did they?
Interesting, certainly. That said, I found this article frustrating to read because of the many spelling and grammatical errors; I don't want to start on stylistic issues. Does Wired not have a copy editor on staff?

For example, two that quickly caught my eye:

* "... just a plain boring capacitor." should have a comma between coordinate adjectives.

* "... the case were stuff is in the middle ..." should be "where" instead of "were".
But nobody suggested it wasn't an option. That is the point.
True. See "The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops" at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1082559/The-GM-genoc...
Pulling over my comments on the matter from Inbound.org. Anji mentions a partnership in his post that I wanted to put come context behind.

> When Anji reached out to us initially, they were CapSEO. At the time, I had no idea Doz existed, or that CapSEO was rebranding. As Anji and I talked, the discussion was around the functionality of CapSEO, which I saw as complementary. Later the discussion moved to their plans to rebrand to Doz, with a fuller focus on inbound marketing services (and software). This too is complementary, but not with the brand of Doz, as Sarah alluded to. There's obvious confusion and brand dilution of Moz that can come as a result, and it's our duty to protect our trademark.

I think it's important to have this context. It feel into our lap with no other option than the action we took, we didn't seek this out. We've taken every step to be transparent into why, and hope, still, that we can resolve this in a civilized manner. I've spent the past 8 years of my life doing startups, the last thing we want to do is derail a startup from their mission.
Other People's Failures
Right, also trying to reinforce the fact that we're talking about actual gameplay testing and not something code related (a lot of people might assume the latter since this is on HN).

I'm sure testing games is far more demanding and tedious than kids imagine it to be.