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I do particularly enjoy the mostly civil posts here. I've always held out HN as an example of an open community commenting system that works. I personally disagree with the new policy.

Since I don't comment often, this probably doesn't mean much, but this is the last comment I'll post on HN until the policy is reversed.

I didn't even know HN had a commenting problem until HN told me. As is often the case, the comments are pretty informative on this topic too.

Well, so long everyone. Logging out for now. Someone please let me know on Twitter if this gets reversed.
If you are referring to the model and not the amount, it will simply be private repo management.
I am going to be a @henchgoon
Every store I've heard of refunds credit card purchases to the card in question, not cash (although with a no-receipt you can sometimes exchange it for store credit, & possibly sell that at a smaller discount than the rewards payoff), and every credit card I've ever heard of doesn't give you rewards if the charges are reversed (either because of a refund or a chargeback).

Many stores (eg, Home Depot) also track their customers' refunds and will stop allowing you to return merchandise if you're an outlier.
While this works with many basic firewalls, this does not work at the IP routing level.

The IP address is in a binary format long before it hits the routing tables on the Internet.

[edit: cleaning up wording]
Enlightened self-interest does not usually achieve preservation of the commons. It is not clear from this article, what specific additional insights into the community an investor can expect to receive as a consequence of their investment. i.e. over and above npm being a public resource available to all (including free-riders).
Perhaps it is better to think of these infrastructure services as baubles of the VC. Much as a Venetian merchant might have "invested" in opera or a cathedral.
Anyway, I don't think the hit-and-miss nature of VC justifies this type of investment; where it is known in advance that a particular company does not make its 10X return.
I guess my main question is what is pg seeing that he doesn't like? He stated that comment quality was 'higher' after he turned this on briefly. I honestly have no idea what this means as it lacks specificity. From there I went with what the main complaints of posters in this thread and the other thread were complaining about. Vacuous comments, puns, and the like. I must admit to a high tolerance and enjoyment of witty zingers, so long as they don't dominate the discussion, so that colors my view re noise/signal.
Y! Indeed!
Same as other unsecured creditors, unless the company convinces the bankruptcy court & the other creditors it's to the benefit of the business in the long run to give them what they paid for.

Most corporate bankruptcies are restructurings, not liquidations.
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Using good old pen and paper or adobe ideas are a good starting point. Don't worry if your sketches look like crayon scribbles by a 3 year old, the act of putting your thoughts down will likely lead to more thoughts/tweaks to the original idea. And the more you do this, the better your design skills will get.
After that, and acknowledge that you had said not to actually build it, I'd move to putting together a basic prototype with any parts that you can get your hands on - trade/building supplies/art and craft store/daiso/discount store etc.
The benefit of doing this is that once you/potential customers can handle the product, you'll learn more than any visual mockup will provide and the design will likely change again. Going through this cycle several times will lead to a much better design.

List of visual mock up tools (free and paid):
http://i.materialise.com/creationcorner
http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/supported-applications
Thank you, a similar subject, much updated. This discussion of relativistic mass reminds me in some ways of the debate about whether the concept of force is overused as well.
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There may be an aspect of confirmation bias at hand. I would suspect that sociopaths--being narcissists--need validation and seek to advertise their success much more than successful non-sociopaths.
or youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mArrNRWQEso
I can attest to that. I met Steve in the summer of 1976 when he was a barefoot hippie who'd just started a computer company with his buddy, and we got to talking about some software they needed, a 6502 disassembler. I told him I could do that and it was right up my alley.

We exchanged phone numbers and shook hands on a "deal" - no money involved yet but it just seemed like an interesting side project to do for the fun of it.

Steve called me back a couple of days later and chewed me out: "Mike, I've thought about this, and I've decided you couldn't possibly do this project. This is a microcomputer. It's nothing at all like the mainframes you've worked with. It's completely different, and you couldn't possibly do this project. So forget it."

I tried to persuade him that my eight years of experience in machine language programming in a variety of architectures just might mean that I could tackle a simple instruction set like the 6502. But no, he knew I simply couldn't do it.

Of course he wasn't a programmer and had no idea. But he did know for certain that a mainframe programmer like me couldn't possibly understand microcomputers.

The sad part for me (besides the possible billions of dollars I might have made!) is that I didn't get a chance to meet Woz before Steve dissed me. A few friends have told me that we probably would have gotten along famously - if I could have somehow gotten past the doorkeeper. But so it goes; you can't second-guess history.

I told a longer version of this story, with a few links to interesting stuff from the old days, here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h4n5w/i_was_one_of_the...
OpenLayers 3 dev here.

All these mapping libraries are great.

Google Maps comes with great data. Leaflet has a really nice API. OpenLayers 3 comes with loads of functionality built in.

Please check out our OpenLayers 3 examples at http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/

Interesting ones include:

Full screen rotate and zoom: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/full-screen-drag-rotate-...

Animation: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/animation.html

60fps heatmaps: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/heatmap-earthquakes.html

High quality KML rendering: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/kml.html

Detailed geometries: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/igc.html

Canvas effects: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/layer-spy.html

Canvas, DOM and WebGL renders: http://ol3js.org/en/master/examples/side-by-side.html

Full application with OpenLayers 3, Angular and Bootstrap: http://map.geo.admin.ch/
We think most users are searching for stories, but maybe we're wrong. Btw, we're currently working on an analytics feature that process all queries performed on an Algolia account. I'll use it to count the number of queries performed on comments/stories/all. Data-driven isn't it? ;)
I haven't used it but have heard good things about http://www.saasu.com/
Why would the public setting, or even context matter? If you are only "displaying" and not "brandishing," you'll be fine.
> I've found that among people that actually met him they either looked up to him and saw him as a bold and charismatic character or they hated him with a passion.

That's a common description of how people react to a narcissist. Consider Jim Jones (the French Guyana Jim Jones, the poisoned Kool-Aid Jim Jones) -- his followers thought he was the greatest, and it seemed as though they would die for him. Oh, wait, they did die for him. But others saw him as dangerous.

Consider David Koresh. Same blind devotion among his followers and complete disgust elsewhere.

My point is that a narcissistic enabler is as deeply twisted as a narcissist, but with a different focus.

More here: http://arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus
There's a good paper about how some geometric hallucinations are formed: http://people.mbi.ohio-state.edu/golubitsky.4/reprintweb-0.5...
Seriously. I was expecting this article to be completely awful, but skimming it over - it actually seems to be worth a real read.
"60 years after his suicide..."

appreciated they didn't say "death". Would have preferred "apparent suicide", but it's a step in the right direction.
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Good point, but I can't quite square that with the article, so I don't think that's what it has in mind.
The purpose of this piece is very simple: dang, WhatsApp was just bought for 19bn, someone please buy Kik, we are also a mobile instant messenger! Problem is, it does not work that way: you cannot argue that if Kik has 10% of WhatsApp's number of users it should be bought for 1.9bn: social networking/messaging is sort of winner takes it all game.
People have been saying that for decades, but there does seem to be a huge uptick in people basically parroting that view without going any deeper, and making it sound like this was something they recently learned that was surprising to them and assuming that other people aren't aware of it.

Maybe that's true? When he passed away there was a lot of press about him for a while, not to mention the Isaacson book and the movie(s). So maybe this really is just a bunch of college-age or younger people who just read the Isaacson book, and the #1 shocker to them was, "OMG guys, Jobs was an asshole and Woz is so nice! I had no idea!"

It's kind of annoying because, well, everyone already knew that so who cares, and I think what's really interesting about Jobs and Woz aren't those qualities but their accomplishments and philosophies. So many comments on places like HN are so binary and reductive, ignoring the actual enlightening things that can be learned from studying and thinking about the decisions that Jobs made (good and bad).

I don't think there's as much to learn from Woz as far as succeeding in the tech industry goes, but he's a great example of someone succeeding in life. Woz is absolutely someone to be emulated in terms of his fundamental decency, enthusiasm, interests and generosity, just not necessarily his business leadership (which he would probably agree with).
No, they were for a woodworking hobby (well, hobby for me, profession for the pros). Don't want to be more specific because I really respect all the moderators in the forums.
This is, essentially, the position of LINE in japan. Started as a funky messaging app with stickers, became a host for many pay to play games & fortune telling etc.
Hah you got me, I'm 36. I also agree that consulting can be a trap, but for the reason that it's not scalable. A consulting firm is only worth about as much as its employees, so there's no real exit strategy. I guess I'm kind of lucky that I don't live in a big city so can afford to dabble in it. But it does sting sometimes to not receive residual income for past work.

Cool to hear about your earlier escapades. My business partner and I were just getting a foothold in Mac OS 9 shareware games when Apple switched to OS X and antiquated the code we had worked so hard on for 5 years. I took it really personally and suffered several years of depression. Things didn't turn around for me until I stopped using my own code. Now I don't maintain an "engine", I just scavenge commonly used code and find that it shields me from the whims of proprietary APIs.

I guess what I’m trying to say is, I also look back on what might have been, and sometimes wished I had been born 5 years earlier, when things were “booming”. But it’s an easy trap to fall into, because at least for the time being, programmers’ leverage is increasing faster than competition can fill the niches. Kids today, what with their supercomputers and megabit internet connections and being able to stand on the shoulders of giants’ open source projects! Get off my lawn! In my day we didn’t even have the internet! We had BBS’s, and floppy disks that stopped being readable, and books.. paper books! Imagine such a thing! And girls didn’t even use computers! Neither did teachers! Can you imagine?

I too have often wished the geeks and hackers of the world were better at networking. Generations of potential have been lost to reinventing the wheel. It’s kind of ironic that we’re so able to communicate in this distributed fashion and solve problems but have so few interpersonal and professional relationships.
a16z is almost certainly doesn't own a majority of GitHub, so it's not entirely their decision.

I think it's about trying to take the question of acquisition off the table completely. The people who put money in to a16z's fund might be unhappy if they turned down an offer. The other people/groups (employees and angel investors) who hold shares of GitHub might be unwilling to turn down a big payout, when, in this case, a16z wants GitHub to keep existing and working closely with them. If the company is essentially overvalued from this investment, no one's going to make that offer.

To your point, I don't see how that benefits GitHub's management, though, unless they value independence over profit (which is entirely possible, but I have no idea).
I'm wondering what three's sales trajectory looked like after 2048 came out. It'd be interesting if it

I just bought it because of reading this article, not because I felt bad or like it was right, but because I've been really interested in the various plays on this mechanic.

K. Played it for a few minutes and I'm definitely going to give it more time, but so far I agree that they're really different games.

One thing the 2048 clones have made me realize is how a minor tweak, or a minor miss in the recreation can dramatically alter the tone or fun of the game.
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Is this a performance-sensitive exercise? Is the naive python implementation good enough? How frequently would you need this, and under what kind of load?

I take it the point is that Julia is generally faster without the optimization step, but the article seemed so heavily focused on this particular problem that I have to question whether it matters in this case.
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> Scribd is a YC-backed company.

Well put. :)

> Every PDF submitted to HN gets auto-uploaded to Scribd.

Yes, except the link is to the original PDF, so the scribd tag is misleading.
I was speaking to him within a day of when he was last heard from. I got the feeling he was getting sick of the 'fame', I know he was getting a lot of flack from products he measured / reviewed from creators of high-priced, low quality manufacturers.
That's a really dangerous takeaway. I've wondered, too, if being an asshole is a business advantage. Here's what I've learned:

1. This approach only amplifies whatever ideas you feed it. With the right vision behind it, you may end up becoming a force to be reckoned with. And people will endure your tantrums because you deliver them success.

2. But if your contributions aren't good—really, really good—this will only amplify your failure. And no one will endure you.

3. Most importantly, being an asshole may help great ideas get powered through, but it's not the only way. The people I most admire have found success while still being amazing human beings to work beside.
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Thank you, this looks interesting. Also, a guy named Kent has a book on this called: Psychedelic Information Theory. There is a web print of the book floating around.
> Also interesting, Wolfram mentions none of their work in his book, "A New Kind of Science".

There's one of the most blatant and ridiculous lies I've seen today, with such an obvious agenda. It's disgusting.

Turing and biological pigmentation patterns: https://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-1003g-text

Detailed summary of von Neumann's work in self-replication: https://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-876b-text

An index entry on Zuse and modelling the Universe as a cellular automaton, although the text itself is not freely available: https://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/index/z.html?Search...

Please don't use bald-faced lies to propagate hatred of anyone.
marktangotango is lying, and almost certainly deliberately. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451765.
Probably something about Viaweb being bought by Yahoo.
You are right. Developer is just labor. Not too much different than a server in an resturant.

So how did a server become an resturant owner? You need to think about that.
What would make the story even better would be to have learned that Steve sent the guy out to suggest the "fix".
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Well, yeah, since Kerberos stubbornly hasn't re-invented itself to use HTTP over port 80.

Another option you could have said was client-side SSL certificates, though they're simply not portable enough for most uses.

Finally, why bother implementing a sign-in service at all? You could follow the AccountChooser model and simply allow users to sign in using their own existing email address. Details at the recently redesigned http://www.accountchooser.net/developers ... though to support email providers you don't already have IdP relationships for, I guess that means letting them sign up for a password via email validation after all.

Well, if nothing else, I think it points out that Kerberos was designed for one institution, but today we often want multiple identities on the web, and that better fits a decentralized, browser-stored model of "SSO" or login, e.g. AccountChooser screens.
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no doubt. ...ive been meaning to read venture deals myself. my impression of brad feld and jason mendelson is a very positive. Even better I've heard founder devs speak very highly of them.
Games are like porn - is the best way for people to procrastinate and delay facing the real life issues.

This industry will die the last.
Debunked numerous times on http://www.reddit.com/r/MH370/ -- a good resource if you like armchair neckbeard analysis
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Personally, I wish Tim Cook would actually fix some of the problems. For example, the Google and Samsung attacks.
Will the CEOs ever go to jail for this. This is clearly more than a TOS violation, which can land people in jail.
I recently started working my way through the C++ Primer after years of avoiding C++ and its reputation for complexity. My first impression is that it has actually matured into quite a nice language which strikes a balance between simplicity and programmer power which just isn't all that bad, especially given its genesis.

There are some annoyances for sure -- lots of mentions of "subtle" differences in how certain concepts work are already cropping up in introductory chapters. I'm sure there's some reason that "auto" discards top-level qualifiers while "decltype" does not, but trying to ingrain so many of those distinctions is a pain.

I'm also glad to have learned both Java and C before trying C++. The former so that I know some OO mistakes to avoid (I would not want to discover the pain of over-enthusiastic use of generics while knee deep in compiler template errors), and the latter because learning manual memory management and the stack/heap distinction is enough of a cognitive load without layering all of C++'s extra features on top. It's also good to have a bit deeper understanding of what's really going on with the memory and pointers under the hood, before handing over control to automatic resource management and smart pointers and such.
There are two ways to identify signals on HN, upvote and downvote.

There are actually three. Upvotes, downvotes and moderation. The moderators seem to be very active on HN. Turn on the "Show Dead" option on your account and you'll see a half dozen people every day that post comments, blissfully unaware that nobody is ever seeing them. Many of them are actually insightful comments, but because they posted something that rubbed someone the wrong way at some point in the past, they're hellbanned for eternity.

This particular account of mine is about a year old, has almost 4,000 comment karma and it seems to have been slowbanned a few months ago. I have no idea what I might have done to get a slowban and honestly just suffer through the 10-12 second page loads when I'm logged in. If I'm not logged in, I get subsecond page load times. If I'm logged in with an alternate account, I get the same subsecond page load times. It's only when I'm logged in with this particular ID that I get 10-12 second page load times.

From what I can see, moderation is the far bigger influence of identifying signals on HN than up/down voting.
Pending comments may not be the ultimate solution, but it's a good idea and worth a try. The comment threads used to be the best part of the site; maybe they will be again.
I think with Lion they even added support to the Mac firmware to boot directly from Apple's servers.
Morals tend to come from a body of ethics. It seems like what you're saying is "I think they should be considered equivalent" and therefore if you were to propose a set of morals that some society would adhere to, being mean to people would constitute property damage or something. Of course, that's bonkers, but you should distinguish between what you think should be the case and what is.
This is unfair to 2048.

First, Threes might sell more because of 2048. Also, the games are different in many core ways. I think people will be inclined to download Threes after they get bored of 2048.

Also, casual games aren't about mechanics but presentation. (There are plenty of successful games that are shameless knock-offs.) 2048 went viral because of aesthetic intangibles. I would call its aesthetic "Spartan", but that actually works for a game where you have to think (at least, superficially) about powers of 2.

Finally, the fact that 2048 is free-to-play is not a major threat to the integrity of the game industry or the quality of what is produced. The game industry is shitty because most corporate executives are useless, bikeshedding idiots who subtract more value than one could add in several lifetimes, and the game industry is not particularly worse or better than any other in that regard.

It's not 2048's fault and, besides, I doubt that 2048 hurt Threes in the long run.
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How does it do networking?

All I see in docs is a simple GET/POST request. Realtime multiplayer game would be very slow using it.
I stand corrected, I recall searching the index for Zuse, but did not review it for the others. I apologize.