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Looking for a co-founder for an innovative dating app
Hi, my name is Julian, i'm from Switzerland and i'm looking for a co founder interested in discussing how a dating app could be cool and loved by the customer and eventually build it.
I studied UX and marketing, would be great having a conversation with a developer.
I'll be at Hacker Dojo this evening, hope to see you there!
1. Ok.

2. Let's say 15 shops in the 10 cities.

3. The third party will undoubtedly need to call the police. But what are you allowed to do until they arrive? And what will they do when they arrive?

4. Y'see, we aren't aiming to go to 289 cities. We're aiming to raise publicity and interact with bike shops in the areas of the country that a lot of bikers live. Individually approaching all the shops in the country isn't feasible and would be stupid. But joe average shop owner in nebraska will be much more likely to sign his shop up for the Bike Index if he knows a shop in NYC that he follows on twitter has.

5. We aren't looking for serious revenue through people paying for registration. Bike shops benefit when you visit them - so they're happy to get you in there. And we're giving iframe forms to bike advocacy organizations (like EBBC) so you can register on their site (for free). We also go to events and register bikes for free. But we think the service is valuable, and people are much happier getting a registration for free that would've cost 6.99 (which to us still seems like a pretty good deal - the national bike registry charges $10 and throws away your registration after 10 years).
True, it look playable compared to what a joystick could offer. The real problem is going to be with platformers, fight games, third person games who relies heavily on buttons.
Yea, I can't remember where I saw it but i think they tried pitting top COD players from console vs PC and even with auto aim assist on PC player destroyed console players. Mouse is just too accurate of a pointing device compared to joysticks (physical or virtual).
Zach, exactly! We think of Balanced as payments by developers. For example: we've got a guy named victor in Taiwan that's completely taken over work on the recurring billing/payouts engine we're building called Billy. Since Billy is completely open-source (just another Balanced API client), he can work on it as he likes. Check it out: https://twitter.com/balancedbilly
You have met an anecdotal few. If you'd like to make the argument that this is a pervasive, generalizable thing, I hope you've brought your citations.
I know that you never said it's true. The problem with all these mights is that they can add to character assassination, without bringing anything substantial to the discussion. Obamacare? Obama might be an egotistical narcissist. Non-violence? Gandhi might have been an egotistical narcissist¹. See what I mean?

And no, it's not because I'm fond of Assange. I welcome information from everywhere.

¹ I hear many people in India say something to that effect these days.
You're right, and Go was being touted as a modern C, not a new C++. Writing "post-C++" was a mistake.
Do you prefer Light Table over IPython Notebook for data analysis?
They're not trying to emulate mouse + keyboard precision neither. I don't think you could have played like that with a Xbox/PS controller (I know I couldn't have, it would have looked more smooth but not as precise for headshots).

For me it seems like FPS with this controller will be somewhere between Xbox/PS3 controller and mouse+keyboard.
thanks for the feedback, @msutherl. passed this along to our designer.
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It would certainly be open to the user to argue before a court that as the plain English version was more easily understood and avoided obscure legal terms, then that is the version that is enforceable against them.

This is particularly the case in the EU where legislation requires consumer-facing agreements to be in language that users are able to understand.

As far as I'm aware the issue has not been directly tested before a court. In part because the two-tiered approach is not adopted by many companies, and also because disputes over company's terms rarely reach court. It would definitely be interesting to see a court's take on the two-tiered approach though.

Speaking of plain English terms, at my workplace I recently re-drafted our main consumer-facing agreement to use exclusively plain English. This is likely to mean we would be more likely to enforce it, and also, I don't feel any certainty has been lost or if there has been any reduction this is outweighed by the benefit in making the terms more digestible by users.
Funny, but not actually good filler text - too many capitalized nouns.
Your comments on Blogger are fair game already. They are not private in any way.
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There's nothing in the Estonian law that compelled them, since as TFA says, the court was not looking at Estonian law. All the ECHR did look at the decision of Estonian courts and say, "this does not violate essential human rights".

Personally, I don't see why we should blame them for stupid Estonian laws and/or judges.
The complaints he's referring to do apply to both, though.
I'd like to see a traditional platformer like rogue legacy played with this, and how the left pad compares
I feel it was a somewhat poor demonstration of the controller. Each demo was set up for a game without, or as if the game did not have, controller support. Games with controller support would make it feel more like a traditional console controller. No idea why did not show that aspect of it.
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.

This CS professor from MIT explains why fewer females choose engineering studies like CS.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science

Specifically this quote.

> What about women? Don't they want to impress their peers? Yes, but they are more discriminating about choosing those peers. I've taught a fair number of women students in electrical engineering and computer science classes over the years. I can give you a list of the ones who had the best heads on their shoulders and were the most thoughtful about planning out the rest of their lives. Their names are on files in my "medical school recommendations" directory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TJwrjxyf9g
Does it really top out at $80k? I just moved here from Toronto and I was expecting ~$110k as an iOS dev with a couple years under my belt.
1. It's like having your mouse on a tiny mousemat. As someone who once had a tiny mousemat, it works great for turn based games but anything real time is no fun at all. You can simulate this feeling right now by using a round beermat.

2. Something as simple as putting one tiny raised dot at each of the 4 main positions would make a huge difference.
Is this not true...? Don't get me wrong: I've disabled this too, but it's with the full knowledge that my friends are potentially losing a useful surfacing of my relevant review at a time when they indicate they would be interested in that information.
Interesting perspective. I like the look back to the beginning juxtaposed with the look to the future.

I think the current state of payments is seeing a "payments 2.0" renaissance, if you will, akin to the "web 2.0" movement that started in the early 2000's. Now, obviously the web is going the way of mobile, and it will be interesting to see where payments goes next. There will only be more volume for more players to take advantage of, and the only way to "lose" is to fail to grow, "miss the mark", or lack of innovation because the (online) world is evolving faster than ever.
when your picture is used to advertise nsfw content
At what level of traction would you recommend entrepreneurs start pitching for a consumer series A?

If an app has, say, one million (non-transactional) users, is that interesting? 100k?

One of the hardest things I found with fundraising was calibrating expectations for each stage. My last startup was enterprise, and there were investors who told us we needed one hundred customers to raise a series A and investors who told us two enthusiastic customers were enough. Nowadays, the expectations for enterprise have gotten clearer, but in consumer there's new ambiguity since you hear people say things like "10m users is the new 1m users."
2. It looks like the pads are "pressable", so whilst they can react to touches, you can configure them to only react to presses. Not quite the same as buttons, but it might be good enough.

You might be interested in looking at Tommy Refenes thoughts on his testing of the steam controller prototype. He discusses using it to play his difficult platformer Super Meat Boy:

http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with...
I'm a huge F1 fan and this is the best wrap up of what red bull are probably doing:

http://blog.axisofoversteer.com/2013/10/so-how-is-red-bull-r...
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Close the loopholes, end the subsidies, enforce fair play, absolutely.

But keep in mind that there is no set of rules which can prevent, much less detect, all forms of cheating.

Any non-trivial game can be "broken".

Said another way: Locks keep honest people honest.
We're already doing all the above (except magazine ads, which we're working on).
The developer of Super Meat Boy, which is a very precision-platformy game, talked about trying it: http://tommyrefenes.tumblr.com/post/62476523677/my-time-with...
I think the problem is not legalese but the concept and scope of TOS (at least in US law)
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I think the point is that there are only so many hours in a human lifespan. While I'd love to read everything that the world has to say on the subject, I'd like to focus on books that will be the most enlightening (or entertaining).
Literally an absurd.
It wasnt an amendment, it was a clarification.
It's broken on Firefox 24.0; I see only the top part of the circle diagram. It works fine on Chrome, however.
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Very cool! I couldn't find it anywhere - where does the data come from?
The video was called Steam Controller Demonstration 001. One might expect that some of those complaints will be addressed in later demonstrations.
JS is, in general, a relatively poorly designed language which is forced upon us (thankfully, not me). Given the choice people would jump ship in a heartbeat.
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The fundamental misunderstanding that has developed is that there are "systems which are secure", and "systems which are not secure". This is false. Security can be thought of as "how long it will take for Attacker A to compromise this system". All systems can be compromised eventually.

Thus clearly security through obscurity is a valid tactic to increase security. You just have to regularly alter your structure based on how quickly your attackers work- but this is no different from any other form of security. All forms of security have a time limit...
No one uses more registers just to use more registers - in OoOe designs the main reason to use more registers is to reduce spilling and reloading. So in effect a compiler isn't going to use a register it has to save, unless in doing so it saves a spill+reload, which would result in the same number of load/store as without the additional register.

In-order designs have more reasons to use more registers, but again they aren't going to use more registers unless they gain something.
Long time self supporting programmer here. With a company around it supporting a bunch of other programmers. We write in C so that may cloud your opinion of my opinion :)

My opinion rarely resonates with HN because HN is full of programmers who are well into the top 5% of programmers. The last thing any of those fine folks want to hear is anything bad about their favorite language, be it Lisp or Haskell or Clojure or $SOME_OTHER_LANGUAGE_IM_TOO_DUMB_TO_USE.

I'm the dumbest guy on our programming team. I'm also the lead. My main service to the company is to try and keep the code base debuggable. I do that by limiting clever things as much as I can.

Haskell strikes me as very clever. It's sold as if it will produce less buggy code; I've not seen real world evidence that that is so and I highly doubt it is impossible to write bad Fortran in Haskell.

So perhaps the reason that Haskell hasn't taken over the world is that it seems to be something that "smart" people like and more average people don't understand. Any business that doesn't worry about how they are going to support their products (and hence their source base) down the road isn't going to survive very long. The rockstar leaves and everyone else starts rewriting his code.

This story is as old as the hills, it's been the same way ever since there have been programmers. A really great programmer can get the job done in any language and a true rockstar will write code that even I could understand.
Legal question: Google sent a notification instead of email for this change. Is it acceptable legally to send notifications for this kind of legal change?
Thanks chli. It sounds like Switzerland is in great shape for this, then. I'm really rooting for their success here; it's hard to overstate how important successful examples of these policies are going to be for the future of our societies.
An NDA is usually pretty ridiculous for a tiny company that hasn't even built anything wanting to prevent people from stealing their idea. But in my experience, that's not what people use them for.

If you're in the middle of developing a product, you should have others sign an NDA to control the launch of your product. You don't want someone else to publish anything about what you're working on until you want it to be published. And there are lots of people out there who are stupid enough to do this kind of thing without consideration of what your company wants.
i would be curious to learn more about you, Pavel. what do you study? are you from Bulgaria?
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Why are all the startups in SF?
There are so many startups in SF. What is the advantage for a startup being in SF? The rent is crazy high, salaries need to be higher due to rent, lot of competition for a skilled developer, etc.
Could your parents see this +1 before? Then they can see it now, besides an advert(although id think that unlikely). Could they NOT see it? Then they'll STILL not see it. Not besides an ad or anywhere else. RTFA
Aw man. That is not a fun note. I spent quite a few fun hours there.

It's being demolished? That makes me sad.

Don't worry, I'm not shooting the messenger!
which company pays $110k in Vancouver?
That's only the DSM-IV definition. Psychology is a lot bigger than that, and the English language is bigger still. The difference between passive aggression and aggression boils down to whether the anger is being expressed directly or indirectly. It isn't solely determined by inaction, and there's a spectrum in-between the extremes. Letting air out of someone's tires is passive aggressive because it avoids confrontation while causing harm, whereas going up to the driver and punching them in the face is aggressive and does not avoid confrontation.

Faking niceness is similarly passive aggressive because it avoids confrontation while causing harm. Adding sarcasm into the mix, admittedly, makes it more aggressive, but it's still more passive aggressive than being straightforwardly aggressive in the first place.

Regardless of whether or not I'm right, regardless of whether your comment was disingenuous, passive aggressive, aggressive, or sarcastic, I'm unhappy that you're openly and unapologetically being uncivil on Hacker News, it's against the guidelines, and I'd like it to stop.
From the site: "P.S. If you want to ask us to uncapitalize a word — or all of the words — save your time and do it yourself."
Not really even a close metaphor, since human speech isn't a internet standard I could build devices against and sell to customers as compliant.

Considering that DPI devices are already sold to parse json-desribed protocols dynamically, I think you are a bit uninformed about my statement. It is not hypothetical.
Box was unchecked for me. Have you been +1ing?
There are haptics, so it feels like you have a button on the trackpad even if one is not actually present.
Forget the editor, what I'd like is a browser that reloaded the DOM every time it saw that a source file change.
json.org:

> JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write.
These ads will only be shown to people that were ALREADY ABLE TO SEE your +1.
Nope. That is unrelated and is an incidental mention within the cables.
Mutexes are only ugly because few languages properly support them. It is not difficult to ensure at the language level that no object is accessed without owning the the lock associated with that object (read/write locks can be a bit trickier), but for some reason hardly any language implements something along these lines.

It's not fundamentally different from having bound checks for array indices. You can either do that pretty easily at runtime or use a simple type system to do it at compile time (e.g., Boyapati's [1] or Flanagan's [2] work). It's been done, e.g. for Cyclone [3]. This is decades old stuff, not rocket science. Honestly, Monitors had the basic idea right in the 1970s, except as Per Brinch Hansen lamented [4], language designers keep screwing it up.

[1] http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/~chandra/publications/oopsla02.pd...

[2] http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~cormac/papers/esop99.pdf

[3] https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djg/papers/cycthreads.pdf

[4] http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1999b.pdf
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You still need OoOe to execute your second example optimally since you didn't schedule the instructions, which points to why OoOe isn't going away - there are going to be code sequences that the compiler cannot schedule optimally, particularly around branches. Additionally, cache misses are impossible to predict statically, and OoOe helps hide those.

And no one does OoOe without register renaming.
Resolved after public shaming on Reddit:

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Probably because this controller is meant to allow you to play games with a controller that you traditionally couldn't.
How are you distinguishing this from the person just not having a significant incentive to sell out?
That is the best Good vs. Evil story of all!
I like Amazon's best rated 5 and 1 star review comparison. I don't mind when one of my ratings comes up at the top either. The most truth lies always in the honest "bad rating" reviews (well, almost always) that others found useful. I really hope that Google does not just please their advertising customers and only show praising reviews but also the critical ones too. Let's wait and see if it's awesome.
Sometimes you need to work with people you can't trust. Sometimes it's your only shot.
I remember first reading about it on a Zed Shaw's article:

"Ever seen the Korean alphabet? It’s called Hangul and it is probably the most advanced alphabet humans have right now while also being simpler than most of them at the same time. It can be stacked like Chinese characters, but it’s also built more like ours with an ability to construct unusual vowel sounds. Get this, it was invented in about 1443 AD and even mimicks the way the mouth is constructed. That’s right, the characters actually look like how the mouth, jaw, and glottis form to make the sound. It’s brilliant and a gorgeous piece of work that demonstrates how something simple can also have incredible complexity lurking under the surface.

Did you know that Hangul is so good at mimicking other language constructs that some anthropologists want to use it to record near-extinct languages? It takes an average person about 3 days to learn it, whether they speak Korean or not, and they can use it to write down their own language even if it’s completely different from Korean. It’s that universal. Imagine being able to get native speakers of dying languages to actually write down how their language is pronounced. Now that’s power.

I’ll give you a great example. I was walking around Seoul one day and drinking this soda call “Pocari Sweat” (said so in English on the side). Yeah, it says it’s got sweat in it but damn it was good. I turn to a Korean woman, point at the Hangul on the side of the can, and ask in bad Korean, “Can you say this?” She reads each character of Hangul as:

“poh car ee sw et”

That’s right, the English on the can was mimicked nearly exactly by the Hangul and it made no sense to her either. But, she could read it and we both said the same exact verbal noises even though we read different alphabets. She thought it was funny too."

http://zedshaw.com/essays/fortune_favors_big_turds.html
Well, you are certainly correct about exploit having neutral/positive meanings. But either way its a complete red herring.

I still feel you're intentionally evading the point here. The salient point is about the intention of the laws and the morality of circumventing intention. Circumventing the intent of the (justly applied) rules of a system is decidedly negative. This is why hacking is wrong (not because its illegal... really, everyone please stop citing laws as if they are the ultimate arbiter of truth) and this is why tax avoidance is wrong.
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If you don't have a Google+ account, this link forces you to create one. So I can't access these settings and I do not want a G+ account.

I'm unsure if they still can use my info on shared endorsements...
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Yes. Sadly that is very true.

There are sporadic posts on HN about people trying to sell domains. One of them jumped out at me as being "quirky", and although I didn't have a use for it I figured £200 would be enough.

The reply I received was "Sorry, I'm unwilling to accept offers of less than $50,000."

The post in question? Said "Make a reasonable offer". I guess we had different ideas of what was reasonable.
Its just a matter of using the right tool for the job. Plug in an xbox 360 controller for games where it makes the most sense. Use this steam controller for any game which you'd normally use mouse and keyboard for but want to play from the couch.