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My original plan was to use Eventbrite, but we decided to go with Kickstarter mainly because they transfer funds sooner - I wasn't looking forward to floating a catering bill on my credit card.

A Kickstarter also makes it easier for us to scale the event to match the funding. The more money that we get for this event, the more that we'll be able to do. That's something that people who are familiar with Kickstarter understand, but would take some explaining on Eventbrite.

Including sponsors would have also been more complicated with Eventbrite. People just aren't used to paying for a sponsorship with Eventbrite, but it totally fits in the Kickstarter model.

A more subtle benefit is the community aspect. Kickstarter gives me the tools to communicate with backers, give them updates and make them part of what is happening. It's easier to do things like ask people for their address (to mail out post cards) and ultimately, I think that people feel more invested in a project when they use Kickstarter. Which is important, since we want this event to be one where people can meet the original members of the Homebrew Computer Club and carry on their traditions and stories.
That's how muggings happen :-/
Um... Talent pool, networking, proximity to VC money?
What exactly are you skeptical of? The skepticism previously was that this controller would be unusable. This video shows a person playing PC games with the controller rapidly and with skill.

I still want to see a platformer and a fighting game since the best mapping is a little unclear. (Though these a) won't be showstoppers and b) are likely to be workable.) Humans are adaptable and if this controller is reasonably usable in all the main gaming genres then very quickly you'll see people get really, really good at using it.
The funny thing is that entrepreneurship doesn't flourish in socialized countries as well as in capitalist ones
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The truth is that it's just annoying as fuck to speak with someone who insist about signing 10 papers before explaining their omg-amazing-never-seen idea.

YES, it happens, sometimes there are confidential matters but for god sake, just don't talk about that 0.05% part.

Ok you signed an agreement with a big gaming company and you're not allowed to say the name. Fine, just say you have an interesting partnership coming along.

ALSO, maybe it's just me, but last 10 times I've got people wanting me to sign an agreement, their product was terrible and so was the business model. Actually, it was clear they didn't do any market research because if they did, they'd realized their ideas was already tried 10 times and wasn't new at all.

I once signed an agreement to see a wireframe.. it was the most complicated mess of UI I've ever seen. The guy was working on the wireframe for 8 months without showing it to anyone of fear of being copied. Sigh, I was sad for him. (Note that the idea wasn't anything new.. what was ultra-secret was the complicated UI mess.)
Note that the discussion in question dates back to 2010, before the existence of cgo. Go now has quite good C interoperability. And Go can now do unsafe memory access and manual management using the "unsafe" package.
Do Google's managers browse HN? The only manager-type I've seen is Matt Cutts from Web Search.
> 1

I couldn't watch the entire video because of my connection but note that he did say it was in "legacy" mode, i.e. the game has not been modified at all for the controller and the controller has likely not been changed from whatever it's default configuration is. If you use a mouse or trackpad on their default configuration things will generally be difficult if they're not what you're used to. I've gotten so accustomed to the acceleration on my trackpad that there are many things I can do on it without thinking that I would struggle with on my trackball or laser mouse. I agree that this particular set up as they've shown looks very awkward. What could make it great though– assuming no modification to the game– is to treat it like an inverted ThinkPad trackpoint. If it feels just right and the acceleration is either customizable or perfectly tuned, I think it could be a lot of fun and avoid the trackpad/mouspad-too-small issue.

> 2

I imagine this will come up during the beta and probably result in something close to what you suggest. Either a dot like on F/J keys or a small dimple.
But in the 80s and 90s they weren't heading towards big iron.

It was the opposite. 1.5 litre engines with a lot of boost making more horsepower than they do now.
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OK... is this just a complete joke "because you can", hence the name...

...or is there some use case for CSS-in-your-JS that I can't quite manage to imagine? I'm straining my brain to think of one...

Edit: more info at http://davidwalsh.name/write-css-javascript

I guess it's trying to be a more flexible version of LESS/SASS by leveraging the full power of JavaScript. I've never felt that LESS was really lacking in power... I'm curious what others think. But interesting idea.
Same for me; FF24, Linux.
> Because D also allows for manual memory management and unsafe memory access, it means that the GC is not free to move stuff in memory at will

Since I wrote a moving GC for Java years ago, and hence know how they work, I set the D semantics so it allows a moving GC. It's just that nobody has written one for D.
For most big events, it would seem like kickstarter has the right model and not eventbrite. I'm sure the event organizer would rather use kickstarter to gauge demand, and not worry about floating the costs of the event.

Maybe there's enough medium sized events out there that could make this an interesting startup idea.
> Or if you're Mark Zuckerberg - you could be a developer hired to help develop ConnectU - and then lead the brothers on, pretending it's almost ready

That is actually not true. Contrary to the cinema depiction, Mark Zuckerberg was not the only remaining PHP developer on the planet, and Winklevosses quickly brought in additional talent to finish up ConnectU as well as launch Jungalu.com, StallScribbles.com, DigitalFlyers, ConnectHi, ConnectGroups and numerous other Internet properties

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winklevoss_Chang_Group#The_...
How are strikes different in any way? Strikes are when people stop working as a way to negotiate. If you're going to prevent them, then you're going to force people to work when they don't want to.
Go back to Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1o8dc0/best_customer_...
Also:

Samuel L Jackson Ipsum: http://slipsum.com/ (NSFW language)
I'm kinda baffled by all the people in these threads talking about platformers or fighting games. That's completely missing the point, which is very obviously not to replace traditional gamepads, but to complement them.

Even talking about competitive FPSes or DOTA sort of gets it wrong. Among the few games Valve prominently displayed in their announcement were Europa Universalis and Football Manager, turn-based mouse-driven games. That is where this controller should shine. It allows you to sit back and relax while playing thoughtful games that would be impossible with the typical gamepad.
It will be interesting to see what happens if Switzerland tries out this policy. Thus far there hasn't been much mention in this thread of an author who has written a whole book about how a basic guaranteed income policy might work in the United States. Charles Murray's book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236

goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States, and suggests some probable effects that would have on everyone's everyday behavior. I read the book a year or two after it was published.

Murray's own summary of his argument

http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc242a.pdf

and reviews of his book

http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/poverty/in-ou...

http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.p...

http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focu...

http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=296

may inform the discussion here. The policy proposal of a basic income guarantee is interesting because

a) no country has ever tried it, really, so there isn't a real-world experience case to look at yet,

and

b) a remarkable variety of people from otherwise differing points of view have proposed it over the years.

I'm still trying to make up my mind how the trade-offs of a policy like a basic guaranteed income nationwide would compare to the trade-offs of "targeted" social welfare programs for elderly, disabled, and poor.
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Looking at this, I'm starting to wonder why trackballs on console controllers never became popular.
> that it's /better/ to find a product through paid advertising than through 'organic' search results, as if an advertiser has an interest in giving the customer the lowest possible price, or the best possible service for a given price.

Nope, I said no such thing. Of course some strawman statement, that you hypothesize that I support, would be seen as laughable by a hypothetical population outside the advertising industry. But let's stick to what real people have actually said.

Considering that, and looking at my original statement, perhaps I should have said "can be useful for user and advertisers", like I said "a good ad can benefit everyone". That's a little more clear that there's the potential for this, and hopefully less Kool-Aidy.

I'm pretty sure this has been stated by actually official company representatives at some point, and I think it stands as relatively obvious, depending on what your definition of "good ad" is. If you're optimizing for the short term, and you're an ad marketplace, then a good ad is one that sells for a high commission - that is, one that has relative high CTR and bid price for a large total earn. But if those ads are scammy, then users will eventually either not click those ads, not click any ads, stop using the marketplace or the sites that display the ads, etc. So if you optimize for the long term you want users to be glad that they clicked on an ad, so that they'll continue to do that over the the long term, and that means making them good for the user. This means that a "good ad" has some usefulness to the user: if highlights a product or service they were looking for, it educates, it offers a good price, etc.

Yes, it's idealistic, but not overly so. The premise is just that built right, an ad system can produce good results for everyone. Good free content; relatively useful ads; revenue for content producers, ad marketplace, and advertisers; etc. I think this ends up being the case at least some of the time, and it's important to realize that it's not just by accident, it's by design. And it's not strictly capitalistic or benevolent, but a case where the two can coexist if done right.

Again, no where did I ever say that an ad is better than an organic result. Please don't claim that I did. It's simply not true.
You can take almost any two consecutive words from this and create some kind of hipster indie/electro band. Vice Portland. Mlkshk letterpress. selvage swag. Future squid art party. sartorial scenester. fashion axe. Brooklyn Thundercats. and on and on. It's hipster gold.
> I don't know why you assume that 50/50 is the desired ratio when acceptance is supposed to be self-selected and merit based.

I was not trying to communicate my desire. Rather what is optimal? I need strong evidence to operate far from 50/50.

> Specifically this quote.

This counts as evidence, but not enough evidence to get me to think the optimum is close to having 14-18% female CS degree recipients(2010).

Nice graph over time:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/sites/computerworld.com/files...
from article:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/it-careers/21993/women-comput...

Summary statistics:
http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/legacy/pdf/BytheNum...
Data is available here: http://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership.aspx. It ought to be cited more prominently!
100 day goals are pretty effective when you make the right goals. They are pretty dangerous if you're aiming the wrong direction.
Can you please provide the definitions of "socialized" and "capitalist" countries that this claim is based on and the evidence that it is true?
This would be an interesting substitute for both basic personal income tax deductions, welfare, EI and disability programs. Think of how much government complexity could be streamlined.
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I don't know a ton about how it works (but there are articles out there), but as far as I do know, the quality, CTR and bid amount are all considered in the ranking so that an ad with a lower bid amount, but higher quality can easily show above the lower quality ad.
Because those people aren't saying "pay us more or we quit", they're saying "pay us more or we'll stop you from functioning". In many cases where people strike, the employer could quickly replace them if they quit (maybe not if they all quit, but they're easily replaceable individually).
Depending on the bandwidth you wanted, the first thing I thought of was having the output orders on one computer - perhaps using something with a higher data density than plain text - aiming a webcam at that computer's monitor and using some form of image recognition to copy the orders across.
Another way of analyzing the data might be to see which station pairs have ridership between them above-and-beyond what their total station ridership would suggest.

For instance, adjacent stations might be expected to have less ridership between them, because in many cases you could walk or bike between them.
When you can only +1 or like something, then the bad reviews do not exist. Advertisers win.
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America knows everything
If you're interested in Clojure but want to avoid the JVM, then I would think Scheme would be the better choice than Common Lisp since it's functional like Clojure.
Anything that is relevant to what I would be doing. Please also explain WHY it is relevant.
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Why are your links focusing on the right-wing perspective on these ideas (Charles Murray of Bell Curve fame, von Mises institute)?
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Couldn't see from the article, does it support more than 2 computers on the video chat, aka Hangouts style?
Increased demand for basic goods and services increases the expected yield of investments in areas related to producing and selling those goods, and therefore would be expected to increase investment in that area.
Can someone address the actual usefulness/fit of Haskell as a general purpose programming language for development of complex systems?

Most of my career (roughly 30 years), I've been a Unix server-side engineer, writing code in C and C++ with a smattering of Java every now and then. With my latest job, I've picked up Ruby, Javascript (including Node.js) and Go. Of the three, I tend to prefer Ruby for small utility code and Go for serious server code.

In addition to the relatively clean syntax of these languages (and Go's awesome concurrency paradigm), one of the things I really like about the modern crop of languages is the library and 3rd-party support. Need to talk to mysql? There's a gem/package/module for that. Redis? Same. Pubnub? Same. Stuff like http is baked into the standard libraries. Need to implement a high-performance logging subsystem with file rotation based on age or size? These languages all provide library access to the necessary OS fundamentals to do that. In short, I haven't found very many problems that I could solve in C++ that I can't in Ruby or Go (or probably in Node). And with a lot less effort and (at least in Go or Node) at close to the same performance.

I hear the whole "functional programming is better" pitch, and I have very limited knowledge/experience in that area. What negatives does a paradigm shift from "imperative" to "functional" programming introduce? Are there some classes of problems that aren't appropriate for a language like Haskell? Are there real-world examples of high-traffic services where the entire backend is built in Haskell?
Let's stop the craziness of 50 different programming languages which all bundle slightly different sets of features. Can't we just put all the features in one language?

The reason to use one icon set on a web page is that the icons look good together. Putting a bunch of different icon styles in one set defeats this. A good designer has the skills to bust out Sketch and make another icon in the same style if they need it, and then contribute it back to the set for consideration.

If you're not able to do this, there's always http://icomoon.io/app/ which lets you bundle icons from different sets into one font.
If you want to buy good book on the topic: "Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk" by Bruce Jacob, Spencer Ng, David Wang
In the fact that it detects repeated properties and makes the code DRY, that feature could be absorbed into LESS or SASS, and become useful.
Or, "Lorem Hipsum", for those into Latin puns.
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I think there is a lot of truth to the statement, but not to the extreme. There are implementation issues for many claimed features, some because large and in your face, some edge cases, others due to language design.

The situation is better and greatly improving. Many things have a work around. It is just one of the problems with a language full of tools and little full-time man power. Java and Go are rather simple languages so there aren't as many features to boast (e.g. not supporting shared libraries is a feature of Go, yet "broken" in D [lots of good work in git HEAD])
Reminds me of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
Yes, it supports multiple people -- we probably should have mentioned that.
I really wish he didn't have access to Internet; let's see how that would go
I agree the Civ5 demo didn't look good, but did you watch all the way through to the Papers, Please demo? I think using both pads to control the mouse cursor could end up being really good. In fact, it could be even better than a real mouse in some ways, since you sometimes have to lift a real mouse but you shouldn't ever have to lift both thumbs at once.
How are they stopping a business from functioning? If they are sabotaging it or trespassing, that's already illegal and doesn't need to be made more illegal. If they're merely protesting, boycotting, encouraging people to go elsewhere, etc., that should remain legal as a matter of freedom of speech.
It seems that every day new reports are published talking about victims that are denied to enter the USA because of the wildest reasons - even with legal papers.

But it's not only the arbitrariness that every report seems to claim. It's more than that the behaviour of the officials towards citizens of other countrys and nations.

"America knows everything" - and you're not welcome any more.
I like the t-shirt idea.
What a mean-spirited thing to say, and to upvote. It makes me sad to see this kind of snark as the top comment on HN threads.
> The skepticism previously was that this controller would be unusable.

Who really thought Valve making a controller would make an unusable one? This was never a concern. The concern here is that it might work well with FPS, RTS etc... (or good enough)... but might not work as good as button based controllers for other genres.
> I think using both pads to control the mouse cursor could end up being really good.

I don't know. I've tried using two hands on a big trackpad once and it just gets confusing. Maybe with more practice but I felt like it was more a brain confused problem than a material one.
> People are slowly leaving Facebook as they seek out more privacy control.

No they aren't. This is just baseless nonsense.
Startups (ones that will eventually grow) need funding. There's arguably more startup-accessible funding available in the bay area than the rest of the world combined.

There's a half dozen other factors, but most of them end up relating closely to funding sources.
> Medicaid is much higher (~6% I think) because it is so targeted and is really administered by 50 different agencies on top of the feds.

And because, while Medicare is usually a primary payer, Medicaid is the payer of last resort, so Medicaid has a lot more expense in verifying that there isn't another payer with an obligation to pay (including Medicare -- there is a substantial population eligible for both programs) that should pay before Medicaid, or reimburse Medicaid.
and IIRC he says he will keep playing with an Xbox Controller eventually.
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Actually, the "ultra paranoid" would live in a cave without computers.

You didn't really explain what was wrong with using Windows.

Don't be like, "Jesus christ, and he is using Windows !? WTF." without explaining why using Windows is insecure, and how the other OSes you claim will be any better.

Don't think that because you're not using Windows you are secure. If a well-funded entity wants what you have, they will get it.

Schneier, IMHO, is paranoid for no reason. I'd lay a wager that the US government cares very little about him or his air-gapped systems (lol). He just wants to be heard.
I like the idea. People should note that this doesn't mean mixing your CSS into your JavaScript necessarily - you can precompile CSS just like you would with S*SS.
This is startup management 101. As a startup, you don't have a large HR team, so you need to engage in practices with strong selection bias.

In other words, "we run 100 day dev cycles with 20 days of an intense crunch" will cause people who thrive in a fast paced, results-oriented startup environment to self select.

It'll also eliminate people who don't like this environment.

The practice of 100 day cycles with 20 day crunches is tangible, real, and allows people to make a good decision about whether or not this company is a good fit.

It's much more effective that asking, "do you work hard", "do you work long hours", "do you enjoy a fast paced environment"...

"wear the team down until people quit" should be refined to: wear down people who should not be a part of our team until they quit, thus opening a spot for a someone who's a better fit for our fast, paced, result-oriented, win-at-all-cost environment.
I would be very surprised if my name, photo and review appeared in advertising.

Who wouldn't ?
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I appreciate the discussion around this. I'm not too knowledgeable about hardware, and wasn't sure about this part in particular. I did pass it by a friend who did hardware professionally for a long time, and he ultimately agreed with my assessment. However, I think you've convinced me that I was wrong, and that it's purely about cost, not power consumption. I'll have to see about editing the article accordingly.
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Yeah, I avoided any other changes to avoid confusing the issue. But any reordering I could have done, the compiler could have done too. Your point about branches is fair though, as the 'active' renamed registers after a branch can only be known at runtime.

Still, I wonder whether some of the features of modern CPUs could be dropped if it wasn't for legacy code. On the other hand, Itanium tried to push the parallelism work onto the compiler and look where that ended up!
There is a natural rights argument for Georgism, a political philosophy which would suggest that land (as a natural resource) being originally unowned, everyone has the right to an equal share of it.
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