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I share your concerns. For me it "should" be ~4+ years. But that assumes that I can post at the same rate, which I won't be able to.

I primarily follow HN for news, with the option of discussion and clarification of said news. Many (most?) of my comments are buried deep in the comment tree, as responses to specific comments, and tend to get one or two responses.

And that sort of thing - responses back and forth, clarification and additional questions - are the sort of thing that won't be able to be done. There is no sense in posting a reply to someone with less than a thousand karma if it's buried deep in the comment tree, even if it's something the parent commenter is interested in, even if it is something that other people would be likely to want to have answered. Because it is a niche conversation, and there are so few people visiting it that it is unlikely that someone with 1000 karma will visit it.

If I cannot comment, why stay? Most, if not all, of the interesting articles are crossposted elsewhere, places where I can comment.
Choose the element based on physical properties that are easy to non-intrusively verify - maybe the most dense, non-radioactive, malleable..

Joking aside, I once worked on a device to detect double-photon fluorescing marker that's probably similar to what they're using, once again aimed at anti-counterfeiting of various things. It's pretty neat to hit a substance with IR and have it glow green, and I haven't seen anything similar since. I still wonder how rare/common substances with this effect actually are versus their marketing spiel.
Firefox on Linux doesn't by default. You can change it in about:config by setting browser.backspace_action to 0. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action
I've been working with Haxe and OpenFL for about a year and a half. A year ago I would've agreed with you, but the past year has seen some major advancement in all of these areas. The Flash API is more fleshed out at this point. Setup still has some quirks but I find that once that's taken care of, compiling for multiple platforms "just works" and is incredibly convenient. For example, OpenFL will actually download and install the Android SDK and NDK for you, then compile your application and sign the APK with a single command. The most popular game engines (HaxePunk or HaxeFlixel) are great at smoothing over some of the platform-specific differences in things like rendering. It's not a magic bullet and you still need to have a basic understanding of each platform you want to target, but Haxe and OpenFL make things so much easier.
Absolute rubbish. The node Postgres driver is excellent and has performed flawlessly for us.
Maybe future societies will condemn us for always being so opinionated on subjects that we don't know much about, instead of just accepting that no-one knows for sure yet.
Very interesting UI. I wish though it would take up all the available screen real-estate, instead it feels like I'm artificially constrained by the UI. Other than that its a nice new take on google drive (which certainly needs some improvement!).
Just connected my LinkedIn profile; how are you predicting salaries? Sharing my public profile with others and aggregating their salary estimates based on weighted criteria? I assume those with the closest estimates to actual salary have their estimates rated higher than others (based on your leaderboard here: http://salaryfairy.com/fairy/score)
That's actually what we do with CloudLedger Basic from Efficito.[1]

$7.50/month for your first user. $2.50/month for your second user. In theory you could, if you talk with us, maybe go up to 6-7 users, but really at that rate you are likely to be better off going with our premium service of $30/month which gets you a VM of specific capacity aimed at around 10 simultaneous users (that also comes with it the chance of customization and integration with your business network). That service can scale up and out as needed but with additional cost.

The major differences between the basic and plus offering is that since you get a full VM with the plus offering, you can get direct access tot he database, integrate with your network via VPN, or re-use your LDAP or Active Directory services for single sign-on. Additionally it is possible to customize the offering in ways that are not possible in the less expensive, multi-tenant offering.

We actually thought through that issue. I will admit our site isn't nearly perfect yet but hey we're two geeks trying to make a go of it without as much time or resources as we would like.

[1] http://www.efficito.com
Three things.

First, I'm not sure this solution is actually necessary at all.

Second, endorsing sounds like a lot of tedious work.

Third, the system as described has a number of issues. I would modify it in the following ways:

1. Number of endorsements is proportional to story rank, and changes as the story rank changes. After story rank 60, no endorsement is required.

2. Number of pending comments allowed for a given user is proportional to his or her karma. Users with karma of 1 should have 1, users with karma 1000 should have more, perhaps 5-10.

3. Unendorsed comments appear visually distinct from hidden posts and down-voted posts. Perhaps a shaded background?

4. If a user has exhausted his or her unendorsed comments pool in this 24-hour period, they should be informed of this fact where the new comment text area normally is.
My uncle was a career NSA man. In the 1970s, his job (I learned decades later) was to modify and maintain all the typewriters in the White House so their keystrokes couldn't be used to identify what was being typed on them. Presumably the concern was that something like a Buran eavesdropping system could be used to detect vibrations in windows, and the sound of the typewriter keys then extracted and analyzed to recover the text.

My grandfather (also career NSA) used to tell me that it would seem like fiction if people knew some of the things that technology and a good cryptanalyst could do. I think he was right.
What are some modern day intelligent investor books?
As a web developer/quasi investor - I'm looking to learn more about investing in our current times.

I've read both the Intelligent Investor and Peter Lynch's 'One Up on WallStreet' years ago.

Whilst they were both fantastic reads - I'm looking for new reads on investing that are liken to the above books but are more geared towards our current times.

Open to all suggestions, thanks!
I wonder what/if his drug regimen is (testosterone replacement therapy, steroids, etc.).

Not being judgmental, as most Americans who are 70+ are on a litany of drugs for various chronic conditions anyway.

I recall reading that most/all men over the age of 40 would basically qualify for testosterone replacement therapy, albeit perhaps only with an accommodating doctor.
It doesn't seem like they move a lot of product, but Apple stores actually have some of the highest sales-per-square-foot in the entire retail industry.
But that's not a substantial threat for the average user of the service. They only unmask or 'dox' someone when they think there's enough entertainment value in it, but the percentage of people to whom this happens is almost negligible.
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I agreed with your comment until I realized it was critique against smartwatches in general. I'm very happy with my smartwatch and can't imagine a life without it.
Is it possible to disguise that the game was built with Unreal Engine 4 or is that something that would always be obvious?
Healthy snacks are fine. Nuts (cashews, pistachios), fruit (as long as you don't overdue it).

Just don't go through 2-4 cans of Mountain Dew a day.
I only need to charge mine once a week.
A link to a discussion including industry insiders. [1]

I made this [2] with Haxe/OpenFL (NME) a year ago (W.I.P. that's gathering dust now). Music's not mine, just stand-in from awesome Hotline: Miami.
Didn't have much luck in trying to get this to run on mobiles.

[1] http://forum.starling-framework.org/topic/flash-is-dead-long...

[2] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48356497/vizard/index.ht...
Rise of robot reporters: when software writes the news
Ask HN: How long did it take for your startup/side project to break even?
> I could try HTML5, but that precludes releasing high-performance desktop-ready games for Steam.

We develop Construct 2 (https://www.scirra.com) which is an HTML5 game engine. It can export to EXE via Node Webkit with very good performance, as well as the ability to export a multitude of mobile platforms as well.

One game we're excited to see released in the near future made in Construct 2 is "Penelope":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaynOYy2O54

The author is developing this game in Construct 2 for PC/Mac/Linux.

Some of our users have also submitted their games to Greenlight, here's a couple:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=184459...

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=929949...

These are all HTML5 games!
I think I'll skip the debate over "the size of things" and just suggest there's a significant problem with our current rate of utilization and fair distribution. If your argument is simply that we have room for optimizing the worlds resources, then sure I can agree with that, but frankly I doubt that's going to work very well under a model that's really dog eat dog and has a hoarding, power hungry society that uses money as the means to manage the distribution and ownership of things.
This is really great advice. One other thing that has helped me immensely is getting a dog! It automatically forces you to take breaks.
However, it will prevent being able to post multiple comments in a burst (which is true of a lot of people - lunch break / etc). I think this will overwhelm that effect.
I worry that this could be even more succeptible for a 'bag of tricks' AI to win than a traditional Turing Test, after looking at the rules[1].

Chatbots that perform the best on a traditional Turing Test are all extremely specialized 'bag of tricks' approaches. They can be surprisingly convincing, because they often use huge databases of real human responses to construct their own -- if you haven't already, I'd recommend giving Cleverbot a try[2].

However these chatbots often fail when an important continuity of facts is being discussed in context, where their parrot-like nature is exposed. Therefore I think this "TED XPRIZE" will be much easier to fool in this sense, because there's only two questions from the judges. This essentially removes the most difficult AI challenges of a traditional turing test.

Of course, succeeding at the "TED XPRIZE" would without a doubt require legitimate and significant advancements to the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Synthesizing a convincing talk/essay with an engaging narrative and central theme is no easy task (though limited successes already exist [3]).

But even now computers can beat humans in very specialized areas (and specialization is a key requirement to this). For example, we already have human level-facial recognition[4] and superhuman character recognition[5]. Similarly, while it would indeed be a legitimate AI advancement to be able to construct such a speech, I do not believe this would be any more a holy grail of AGI than character recognition and facial recognition. Instead, it would be incremental progress disguising itself as having already arrived.

[1] http://www.xprize.org/ted-rules

[2] http://cleverbot.com

[3] http://www.geekosystem.com/journal-accepts-nonsense-paper/

[4] https://www.facebook.com/publications/546316888800776/

[5] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.84.1...
Yes. We display anonymous profiles to our users and aggregate their predictions. Predictions based on weighted criteria is coming soon.
Thank you Roger for a well written post. It captured my sentiments in an analogy about complexity and chaos and value.

I've been a reader of HN for a long time. I am not am industry thought leader. I'm one of the nameless horde of programmers that have been integral and famous at companies you've never heard of. I've had an account for over 2200 days, but have less than 250 karma. You know why? I only comment when I have something to say that I think is pertinent. When I do comment, I spend 5-10 minutes getting my wording good enough that I won't waste anyone's time.

I will watch how this plays out, but I suspect this will be my final HN comment. This change confirms that PG does not want people like me participating in his forum. I hope I'm proved wrong; HN had been my main RSS feed for like 5 years. There's always lobste.rs
With such a system in place, writing comments is not much fun. Even right now I wonder, whether someone is going to approve. I hope I conform to the common opinion with this comment, so others can read my thoughts.

Luckily this is not the only tech/startup forum on the web.
I can definitely call it essential. There have been days when I've forgotten it at home and it's crazy how much you miss it.
For http://letscodejavascript.com, I spend about $1000 per month on various services. The biggest expenses go to PayPal, credit card processors, and Recurly, which all charge a percentage of revenue. Other than that, it's SendFaster, which hosts my videos ($200); Heroku, which hosts the site ($66); and Pingdom, which monitors my sites for uptime ($9). I also spend a small amount each year for TypeKit (fonts).

Edit: I should add that Let's Code JavaScript isn't a side project; it's my primary revenue stream.
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Hey, guy who wrote that article. The Web Platform is going to become the dominant platform for games and performance is going to be just fine. Wanna bet? :-P
>the definition of surviving has gone from not being eaten by a tiger and not knowing when your next meal will be to having a large screen TV with 5000 channels, air conditioning, and free food.

It really hasn't. I don't know anyone my age (24-ish) who considers air conditioning or cable TV to be surviving. They're considered luxuries. Food is a necessity, but most of us, you know, pay for it.
Following this logic, all the options in the Accessibility settings panel should be on per default. Which I guess would make some sense, but I can see why they're not.
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Excellent work. Something to consider would be to constrain salary estimates to the same industry based on LinkedIn profile endorsements my profile contains.

For example, I'm an IT professional. When I clicked "Predict salaries", a profile for someone in the financial industry was displayed. I have no idea what they should be making.
I chuckle when people boldly declare something as poor UX without acknowledging that there could be more than one true way. We have different kinds of computers, different kinds of users, and different preferences. It's subjective.

> Add this all up and you have a recipe for users unintentionally and unexpectedly losing data.

That sounds like a fixable problem, and one worth fixing no matter what your shortcuts are. I hit back and then forward in Firefox, and look, all the text I wrote is still there.
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The worst feeling
I understand your point, but for a long time the tougher nut to crack for online forums has been quality, staying on topic, and not derailing the discussion by being uncivil or hostile.

One of the nice things about HN is that users are rather blunt in their critiques. I think the gatekeepers (>1k karma) will generaly do a good job separating frankness from hostility.

At any rate, it's an interesting experiment and I'm truly curious to see how it plays out.
Approximately 6 weeks for Bingo Card Creator (counting from launch and assuming my time is free). Appointment Reminder took longer -- off the top of my head, it was cash-flow positive after about 3 months and had paid back R&D costs (exclusive of my time) after maybe 6ish.
Check out Stencyl 3.0+ [1]. It's a GUI game-creation toolkit and IDE with a game runtime written in Haxe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stencyl
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He said "let them add value to society", not the economy. The two are not synonymous. If the economy is unable to make use of them under present conditions, then giving them a job is useless. Giving them a basic income lets them make non-economic contributions to society.
> I'm opposed to rewarding those who sit around and do nothing period, including the current system.

Excellent! Welcome to the Socialist Party! Time to put the lazy, nonworking ownership class up against the wall!
Make sure to spend some time with your family/parents/friends.
I know this is completely tangential, but I am hoping someone can enlighten me. What's the best way to think about or explain the prevalence of grammatical errors in the Indian English-language press?

Is it because Indian English is its own distinct dialect or variation with different rules, similar to differences between American and British English?

Is it because English is fundamentally a lingua franca in India where nobody is expected to really master the grammar, including the press?

Is it because the press in India doesn't consider it important? I know in my local press in the US I've seen many more typographical and grammatical errors creep in since newspapers went into decline a few years ago.

Or is there something else explaining it which I have not imagined?
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Did you even read the article? you can keep using the Flash authoring tool and its native flash vector animations if you like

And the "dead" from the title refers to support from Adobe. The entire post is about how you can still target flash using OpenFL, haxe, etc.
I'm not disagreeing but your comment makes it sound like you think OpenFL is still plugin based?
I’ve started the same process as you; left a comfortable, well-paying job two weeks ago so I can pursue other ways of making a living and doing contract work to meet basic needs.

The most important thing for me is to make sure my health is in check, since that’s the foundation for everything. My mental checklist - things I go through my head every now and then to make sure they are at healthy levels - is food, fitness, sleep, stress and sun. I try very hard not to compromise these in pursuit of doing other things.

Another thing I’m doing now is treating every project as a client, including personal projects. I had been using FreshBooks for keeping track of client work, but I also use it to keep track of the open source projects I work on. Obviously I don’t charge these people, but I find it helpful to see in one place where I’m allocating the time I spend designing UI and writing code. If I notice I hadn’t been putting enough time yesterday, I’ll let go of other pursuits to make the time.

As for saving money, having a budget that you can easily refer to helps. I use You Need A Budget becaus - unlike mint - it forces you to really look at each transaction and “give your money a job”.

What I haven’t solved yet is the social interaction I had while working in an office of people I knew. While I have access to a co-working space, people tend to keep to themselves. Same thing with coffeeshops. I’ve had to just rely on friends and meetups to balance this instead.

EDIT: my contact info is on my profile if you ever want sync up and share further tips and experiences. This goes for anyone else trying out this type of experiment. :)
There probably is something you have done lots of times, mildy complex, but you know how to write it in the languages you have done before. With the new language you take that example and try to see how it would apply to the new language. You know what you want to do and what to expect for output so most of your brain is occupied by implementing in in the new language.

I've read folks who have some game such as tetris or some other as an example.

Also since I know various language commands and methods, I'll read through the language reference from ! to z and see how it compares to what I know and probably take notes along the way.
>I will watch how this plays out, but I suspect this will be my final HN comment.

Might be a better idea to test the system and see how it affects your posts in actuality instead of relying on anecdotes from others though. Just a thought.
This is a very old idea. I recall that in the 1987 book "Spycatcher" Peter Wright wrote about listening to typewriter keystrokes through a microphone bug in some embessy. He was the head scientist in British intelligence and the book caused a bit of a stir at the time, being the subject of censorship attempts. I think this audio bugging of keystroakes may go back to the 1960's.
Another example is ImpactJS, which allows you to write high-performance mobile-ready games!

http://impactjs.com/
To me, there is a major difference between this:

--comment A (1000 karma)
--comment B (2 karma)
--comment C (1 karma)

and this:

--comment A (1000 karma)
--comment B (999 karma)
--comment C (1 karma)

Consider if A and B have opposing opinions.
There's really no need to freelance on a "pay what you want" basis. Just set a rate and stick to it. If you don't need the money, set the rate higher, not lower, because it will filter out projects where a) people don't understand the value you're providing or b) you're not actually providing enough value for them to justify paying you your normal rate. There's no need to do work like that, especially when you can be pursuing your own passions and investing in yourself rather than someone else's project. Save your precious time for those projects where everyone is winning from your involvement.

Also, that might sound like a lot of savings now, but for most of us life gets a lot more expensive, so you really do need the money, even if you don't need it right at this moment. :-) I'm not saying that means you need to be working now... just don't squander your valuable time on someone else's priorities because you "don't really need the money."
His 3 principles of growth and his idea “The most powerfully growing products,” he says, “do three things at once: they make you look smart to the people you invite. They give real value to you when the people you invite join. And they give real value to the people you’ve invited once they sign up.” are all fine and good and true for things like SnapChat but really there's a huge number of GREAT things that are used and loved and don't need to have a billion users to be awesome. And for all those things growth hacking works.
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It would be nice to see a sample so that I know what I'm getting into before I give you access to my LinkedIn.