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I'm going to be cruel here.

I'm pretty sure you've got no hope of getting funded.

You're three guys barely out of school who are talking about your huge, sprawling vision, and all you have to back it up is a handful of samey-looking coder art. You've got a buggy abandoned year-old demo. You don't feel like people who can even begin to finish a small game, much less this big dream.

If you guys want to be a game dev team, then narrow your scope. Build a name for yourselves doing smaller games, learn something about promoting yourself. Build an audience. Or work on this in your spare time, and produce a compelling, polished first chapter of the story that gets people saying "wow! I want to know how it ends!" when they play it.

When you have fans who are willing to give you a few bucks for a good, finished game of limited scope, THEN you can consider a Kickstarter. Because a lot of what makes a Kickstarter work is ACTIVATING YOUR EXISTING AUDIENCE. Sure, you get people hearing about you and your work through KS, and you get your fans promoting your work because they want the KS to succeed - but if you don't have any existing fans who trust you to deliver on your promises, all you're going to get is sympathy pledges from rich relatives.

Also? Find someone for your team who is actually training to be an artist instead of letting the comp sci major who kinda likes to draw handle all the art duties. Or have that coder who kinda likes to draw go take some serious art classes. The existing art is high school notebook doodle level, those big crude head shots of your different races really screams "amateur" to me. (As do their names. Greens, Reds, Pinks? That's screaming that your world building is superficial. Your elevator pitch is "explore a vast and beautiful galaxy with rich stories at its heart"; what you're showing is neither beautiful nor a compelling narrative base.)

I applaud you dreaming big. But you are not ready for this yet. This campaign is the first failure of many you will encounter on your way to realizing this dream of making a Cool Sci-Fi Zelda; if you stay on this path you will fail many more times. Ideally you will learn something from every failure, and the next one will be an excitingly new kind of failure; eventually you'll run out of easy ways to fail and start finding some modest success. Good luck.
If the government were confined to its proper function, companies would not have to attempt to influence it.
[context: I work at Cognitect on Clojure and community efforts]

I'll start by saying that documentation, examples, getting started, etc could be better and efforts are ongoing to improve all of those to various degrees.

However, there are substantial and rapidly growing resources (http://clojure.org/getting_started) for learning Clojure and other parts of the ecosystem. Some of the more recent beginner resources I'd recommend are "Clojure for the Brave and True" (http://www.braveclojure.com/) and Kyle Kingsbury's "Clojure from the ground up" series (http://aphyr.com/posts/301-clojure-from-the-ground-up-welcom...). There are also many good Clojure books - I'd recommend any of them.

In the web area, the philosophy is different than other languages and it is evolving rapidly (especially on the client side). Luminus (http://www.luminusweb.net/) is a good effort to provide a reasonable set of defaults that tie together the various Clojure web libraries.

So yes, it could be better. However, there are significant resources now and gaps continue to be filled.
The process of applying for a new job while you still have a current job will take time, no matter what the process looks like. The hiring company will want a series of interviews, and either a whiteboard, pair program, or code audition. A small project would perhaps take a little more time than these other methods, but should not take take that much longer, provided the hiring company has put some thought into what small projects they are giving to you to audition. If they pay you for your time, that is also respectful.
Not to mention `yield from`, which is awesome. Iterators everywhere is a powerful tool.
I've used a CSS reset in all my projects (both work and personal) for the last 7 years, and I agree that it's not mandatory for a successful product.

The CSS reset is a convenient tool for the visual layout only. It helps with browser consistency and prevents margin/padding/font-size issues mostly, but it won't turn your idea into a successful product. I think that's the only message the article meant to convey.
I know the article title is kind of big and sensational'y, but I really encourage everyone to look into Piketty's book, it's really a behemoth. A lot of folks are calling it this age's 'Das Kapital". It's well-researched, and very data-backed. Piketty was a professor at MIT until 1995, when he went back to France. Here's Paul Krugman's review of the book (worth a submission of its own, really): http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/08/thomas-...
Without money, advocacy is merely the expression of sentiment, and sentiment is a valueless currency in the modern world.

One the issues near to my heart is environmental protection. The advancements made in environmental protection over the last 50 years have all been accomplished through the expenditure of money. It costs very little money to convince people to adhere to the old ways. It costs no money to convince West Virginians that coal and coal mining is good. It costs no money to convince Oregonians that logging is good. Commissioning studies to show that the health damage from coal mining would double the price of coal if accounted for? Making movies to help people visualize the catastrophe of strip mining? That costs money.

What irks me the most about liberals' opposition to Citizens United is their failure to realize that money being speech helps them more than it helps conservatives. It costs very little money to promote conservatism. People are predisposed to wanting to preserve the status quo. Its those that oppose the status quo that benefit the most from high profile advocacy. The opposition of the tech industry to surveillance Is the paradigmatic example of this phenomenon. The tech industry will have to spend a lot more money on advocacy to move forward from cold war era views then defense contractors will spend to defend the status quo.
The rules are fairly meaningless:

http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/03/28/reid-scandal-deepens-ca...

They are obviously not strict enough or they have no teeth. This kind of thing happens all the time. You read an article here or there about obvious corruption but then you very rarely see follow-through against the politicians. These ethics rules are written, revised, and enforced by the politicians themselves. What do we really expect?

It's kind of like the debacle of insider trading being allowed by members of Congress. Outright criminality that would land many in the private sector in jail (Martha Stewart), but we put up with it from our elected representatives.
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I have to continue to beat the drum of gradual upgrades, Py3 features should and now will be slipstreamed into 2.N, this is a good thing.

https://pythonhosted.org/six/

This isn't disappointing, it is refreshing. Python is dead, long live Python.
A Broken Place:  The spectacular failure that wanted to change the world
Groovy, Guile and Clojure.
The death of the US shopping mall
We have been using codeship for about 4 - 5 months and we are really happy with it. The guys do a nice job. Moreover, they spin up DB instances that can handle our integration tests. It really has been a time saver -- not having to maintain our own CI server.
Python 3, say?
bullshit. i have several large Django code bases to maintain and all of them could move to py3 if needed if it wasn't for boto. As soon as they are ready porting boto my next projects will all be py3.
"This website abuses rawgit.com. You should complain to its owner."
> Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 503 (Service Temporarily Unavailable) http://rawgit.com/chrisdone/jquery-console/master/jquery.con...

this causes the console not to load.
It would be better to host the js yourself, probably.
On both OSX and many Linux distros, Py 2 comes pre-installed but Py 3 does not. If I'm going to write simple scripts that I'm going to give out to people, it's nice not having to worry about them needing to fuck around to get the script to run.
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Dammit - The perfect time for me to pimp http://markdownshare.com/ ;)
To give but one example, if you're having any trouble with loop/recur, do the exercises on recursive functions that implement iteration without stack growth through tail recursion (the latter a feature that's unfortunately not available in the JVM; the flip side is that recur isn't going to blow your stack).

In the last couple of weeks I had to write a bunch of those in Clojure for the first time "in anger" (for real), and that part of it was trivial because of the SCIP I'd done in the early '80s. Learning that and pounding in my head for the first time was a bit hard, but well worth it, back then and of course now.
If the government has any function, actors subject in any way to its authority, whether individuals in their personal capacity or collections of individuals acting for a common purpose like companies, will retain an interest in influencing how it performs those functions.

Not to mention that if government is confined in its function by some external constraints, those same actors will have an interest in influencing whomever is imposing that constraint -- which, in a very real sense, is the most powerful part of the real government, even if goes by some other name -- to align the constraint with the actors' interests.
I find this a bit implausible...

"How much money" exists in the world is not a terribly difficult number to ballpark. When someone stashes money offshore it doesn't disappear, it just becomes unidentifiable. It still goes into TBills, bonds, equity, etc; and that we can measure.

And at a more granular level, the offshore banks in question need to state and verify their assets in order to issue loans, and without loans they can't generate interest. We may not know who it belongs to, but we know it's there.

There's a lot of tax evasion out there. A _lot_. But it's easy enough to do through legal loopholes that few jump through these kinds of hoops.
> “The real scandal is not all these individual scandals but the fact that world’s policy makers who know about this stuff, have basically done nothing.”

That has been going on since the beginning of time. The world's policy makers are friends with the ultra-wealthy.
Thanks! I guess a problem I have is they've been sitting out there a while and my code base has changed a lot since they were posted. Any tricks there or would I just have to go through change by change?
I meant function as in functionality. This is really pointless nitpicking.
Here's what I saw: http://i.imgur.com/4yNB6t4.png

> This page abuses rawgit.com. You should complain to its
> owner.
The plural of anecdote isn't "data."
That philosophy sounds like one that will cause you to wake up one day and realize your skill set is massively out if date.

Python 3, scala, and pearl all give you new ways of solving a problem. You're missing out on a lot of super cool stuff by not exploring! Outside of maybe library support, I see no reason to not to at least check out python 3.
I have enough private money that I can take time off of work to have a meeting with the politician for my district. I might, for example, advocate that government computers use standard document formats rather than proprietary ones. Or I and co-workers may chip in to send one of us to petition OSHA in person, to increase workplace safety requirements.

The National Woman's Party is an example of a lobbying group which worked for decades first for women's suffrage and then for prohibition on sex discrimination and the Equal Rights Amendment. Where was the corruption in that use of money to influence politicians?

In your example of a poor single mother working two jobs, that mother is very unlikely to have the private money to take the time off. Thus, private money will always have an effect on politics.

There are ways to limit its effect. For one, tax the richest people and most profitable companies much more heavily than they are now, and increase social support for the poorest. But by your criteria that's still going to end up with corruption.

The people should be able to influence a politician more often than just at the ballot box. The question is, at what point is that extra influence inappropriate? I believe your use here "corruption" is too strict and binary, such that no government can meet that standard.
Captain hindsight then to the rescue, py3 shouldnt have existed and a 2.8 should habe been made.
That's a very good reading. Thanks for the hint!
This is the most pathetic internet toughman-ing I've ever seen. I can't believe you thought it was a good idea to post this, unless you are trying to make yourself look stupid.
The sports analogy is partially correct, but college prospects in all the major sports have to go to the talent recruiters before they are signed. (NBA tryouts, NFL Combine, etc.)
Nobody's going to go looking for paper organizers and end up on a programming website or vice versa.
A pay-to-post/view social discussion site.

Reddit starts out cool, then slowly becomes 'dumber' (discussion-focused articles turn into quick reaction images) as it becomes more and more popular.

Hacker News avoids this by purposefully not trying to be as popular as Reddit -- UI remains minimal, tries to stay out of search engines' ways, etc.

But, in this way, HN is discussion focused through obscurity. What if you filtered out dumb crap by making it a cost to the user for posting? In that way, the user would have to really care about what h/she's posting about before h/she posts it. I.E.: thought-provoking discussion and not cheap images.

That way, you can mass market and accept huge gains in popularity while being sure that the people who are posting/voting on the stuff care enough to pay for it. Want cheap (often not even funny) images? Go to Reddit.

The best posters get compensated with the money that the voters paid. This creates a network of "I pay to post and I pay to vote but I get money from posting which incentivizes me to post but I only get paid if I get voted on a lot which means I'll want to encourage voting which means I'll have to vote a lot myself" : the voters and content contributors conflate in one genius network of money movement.

It still wouldn't ever get as big as Reddit, simply because people don't like direct payment for services on the Internet. But it'd be an effective way to get a bunch of smart, dedicated people who would kill for thought-provoking discussion on the Internet, and also pay them for just that.
So, if that would tank the company noone gets nothing. If he doesn't fire the CTO, he gets nothing and company may or may not get anything. To me, pretty clear situation what would I do. I would risk the company to save myself from certain loose.
but the CTO wouldn't be saying that unless there was another "conversation" out there. Why is this guy CTO anyway while a Co-owner is left at coder? You don't bring somebody in as "CTO" without a promise of a cut of the pie... and that cut is going to come from you obviously.
But what about the spread between the actual issuer of the security and the actual investor looking for a long term value store? How does that change? Isn't this minute spread just a result of speculators trading amongst themselves? Pardon me for not making it clear, but I assume that at least one simple market maker is required for the transaction. I'm talking about it passing through more hands than theirs. How does it magically reduce what the fundraiser is willing to sell at and what I'm willing to buy at?
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Yeah, saw this alert after switching between 'Console' and 'Compile'.
I think the problem is manly IE vs Chrome vs Firefox.. (and of course Opera). Example: Why would you want to have by default a padding of 10px in IE, a padding of 5px in Chrome, 7px in Firefox and 0px in Opera? Of course is easier to make a default for all those browsers to 0px or whatever you want.
Considering Py2.7, Py3 is actually an "other language". Why would all these people throw out their Python expertise?
tl;dr: It was a hoax video, with combines actors and computer generated graphics.

Can we add a [hoax] or [cgi] to the title?
Bribe Gnome to let me remove a calendar, mail program, time tracking tool and whatever else I want without getting rid of GNOME shell.

Wow that'd be so rad.
Sadly the console seems to be missing and the compiler doesn't emit errors.

The second is more sad since so much of the dynamics of programming Idris comes from the trying to get its statics to compile. In particular, you will spend an inordinate amount of time staring down collections of type holes trying to solve the puzzle they present.

None of that gets reflected in the compiled Javascript.
> You could also imagine a page type that would only be readable to certain code segments (would take CPU support to do it.)

Isn't this what TPM is supposed to provide? It received an unfavorable reputation because of its association with DRM, but it addresses the same problem.
I wish Theo and his colleagues would create a fork of OpenSSL that was up to OpenBSD/OpenSSH standards. It would be a huge level of work, but I'd happily donate to help fund it.
Would be good if your statement was backed by some statistics because I could easily make the exact opposite claim: You only know some names that hit the news on that list. These names might be 1% of that list and hence not representative.

The important thing is to know the truth in order to make the correct deductions. Can we find a such a list? How a person on that list if chosen??? etc.
Ask HN: Predicted YC S14 Interview Dates?
I'm trying to figure out a rough date for when the S14 interviews will take place. The app says that companies will be invited out on the 15th of April, but it does not specify when the actual interviews take place. Historically, what have been the interview dates for previous batches?
You're never seen a router have to do NAT for two subnets that it's routing between?
NextWAVE : Smart Microwave project for HackIllinois 2014
http://kashev.github.io/nextWAVE/
You need a degree for any technical occupation under TN. The only category for which a degree is not necessary is "Management consultant". Honestly it is best for someone in your situation to work remotely from Canada for a year after the company gets set up, then go to the states under an L-1 Visa[1]. Do not attempt to go under a TN-1 visa as they are very strict, and if they do not let you in, you could be barred from entering the US at all.
Thanks for verbalizing this. There are a slew of talented developers in the Valley, all of whom can do the technical work. The paid audition is a chance for both the hiring company and the candidate to make sure their values are aligned.
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This certainly won't win Marc any friends in the "non-SV" private equity shops and will certainly cause many to question his motives.

However, what has happened over the last several years to the credit of PG/YC [1], Naval/Nivi @AngelList/Venture Hacks et al is to create a much more transparent and founder friendly fundraising environment here in SV. With transparency comes accountability and reputations can quickly spread both for the good and bad.

The "culture" of fundraising in SV is one with more open communication of how investors behave. Word spreads quickly in the valley and kudos to Marc for raising the flag on what have most likely been firsthand experiences with such issues. Not many individual founders/companies are in positions to see broad market behavior over a broad data set like a16z portfolio companies.

So what's the downside of taking a "sky-high valuation" and then getting re-traded after you've told other, potentially better firms w/lower valuations, that you're going into exclusive negotiations? I see the options as follows: 1) non-SV investor holds their word, does confirmatory DD and company ends up executing a great deal at terms better than other firms or; 2) said investor comes back and re-trades any number of terms (valuation, control, preferences, board seats etc) and company feels stuck thereby having to take the now worse deal or; 3) investor re-trades and company walks. Result #1 is potentially great, #2 could be a pretty bad deal but in the end company has the capital, and #3 could be a killer - company is now damaged goods and has to come back to other firms, tail between the legs asking for another shot.

This happens all the time in the investment real estate world where I came from and I see a ton of parallels here. Oftentimes there is a full marketing process that ends in a best and final bidding process. A buyer is selected based on the terms/price/timing of their offer and they begin their DD process. Buyers that behave and honor the terms with only material changes coming due to material issues uncovered in DD earn great reputations and their offers are usually considered first from the seller's perspective. Buyers that go into contract and come back with ridiculous re-trades very quickly reach the bottom of the pack going forward on all future deals. So as a seller, you either take the now far inferior deal, or walk from the lesser deal and chance going back out to market as damaged goods. Not a good situation.

Again, sure there are some self-serving motives in Marc bringing this issue up, but as a founder of a company leading our fundraising, I certainly appreciate being aware of all the issues currently in the market. As fickle and at times irrational fundraising can be for startups, the more knowledge we can arm ourselves with the better.

[1] - http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html
Well, I'd revise that to say: If the government were confined to its Constitutional restraints, companies would have much less reason to even want to influence it.

It's the very size and scope of the government and acceptance into all aspects of our lives that gives it power. That power is what lobbyists broker for companies.
I was a tutorial presenter — I have a startup and a tiny tiny salary, so my company was not able to subsidize the trip. I did however get a big financial aid grant from the conference/PyLadies.
Nice! http://markdownshare.com/view/b311d9a1-76a8-4007-bda3-ff9a9b...

I'd recommend adding some more metadata (when was it posted, maybe a nick/Anonymous) and a clear distinction between "frame" and "content".
But ahh, as I found out on HN the other day, it actually is: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-an... ;)

Seriously though, after working at a prestigious institution and seeing how often lunch and dinner conversations between peers involved talk of how "my daughter can work in your group!" and "your son can work in my group!", my intuition tells me this is just the way it is - nepotism is pretty much everywhere. Sure, more anecdotes, but that's all I got until someone does some solid research on it.

For now here're two more articles, that may have some more information: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/01/3...

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/07/in-prais...
"She was the first female president of King County’s United Way, the first woman to chair the national United Way’s executive committee where she served most notably with IBM's CEO, John Opel, and the first woman on the First Interstate Bank of Washington's board of directors. Mary's son Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft."

Yeah, totally self-made, first-generation. And her connection to IBM didn't help with this MS-IBM contract at all. Anybody could get this contract with enough hard work and dedication.