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The facts presented here are OK, but the facts would be even stronger if they were about: "Don't build a hundred million dollar company; don't get traction or leave an indelible imprint on humanity." (i.e. many of us here are doing far less justified things, statistically speaking, regarding career choices as entrepreneurs. Rather like the physicists discussed in the article.)

Maybe none of us should be building anything. The facts are pretty strong toward that one, as well, and most readers building a company would have a much safer path coding at Microsoft.

It just doesn't matter. Did you know Fermat was an "amateur mathematician" and Wikipedia introduces him as such, after giving his introduction as "a French lawyer."

So what? Was mathematics a waste of his time - certainly. Would you have advised him not to squander it doing that? Would you have told him not to actually study mathematics formally and devote his profession to it? Who knows what we could have gotten.

Thankfully these arguments are never going to affect the bright minds of our or any generation, and people will go and do whatever fascinates them.

Planck, too, was discouraged from studying physics:

"The university's professor of physics, Philip von Jolly, discouraged the young student from studying physics because—as Jolly told him—it was very nearly a closed subject with little left to discover. Luckily, Planck disregarded his professor's advice." [1]

Basically that's all you need to know about the current blog post as well :) :)

[1] http://www.chemistryexplained.com/Pl-Pr/Planck-Max.html
When does expressing judgment help?

If asked, I give constructive criticism, which they can act on or not at their option.

If I believe something in their idea may lead to problems, I tell them about the consequences I see. If they disagree, that's fine. I've been wrong before. Judging or evaluating isn't necessary or helpful.

Sticking with constructive criticism and describing consequences one sees helps in many areas beyond start-up ideas.
...a publicly traded company like Google is not going to comment on acquisition rumors, for many, many reasons. Variety normally has good sources - if they're reporting it, a deal is almost certainly being discussed. Maybe it won't complete, but this isn't some random posting on Secret here.
Why would you drop from university to study the theoretical subjects you mention? Uni should be the best place to learn those, since you will be hanging out with professors and students who are interested in those subjects, which is much harder to find outside academia.
If they do acquire Twitch I hope that they still let it run separately and just improve the back end (as while it has improved it still lags for a lot of people around the world).

I worry if they tried to roll it into youtube that it would turn people away. Their numbers are pretty dependent on a small number of League/ Dota/ Hearthstone and a few other games casters and steamers.
This could backfire hard, if youtube try to enforce same restrictions to streamers as they enforce to youtube videos, a lot of famous streamers would just jump out to another alternatives like azubu for example.
Apparently I'm an asshole because I have no problems telling my friends their startup ideas suck.
There's a related "Basics of Machine Learning" submission here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7762979
It was definitely racially motivated. That's where the schism began; back at the height of Detroit when poor blacks from the South were encouraged to come to Detroit to work the assembly lines.

Also in the disruption of the Big 3 when faced with foreign competition (thought IIRC, this is related to policies and politics because the Big 3 were protected by import controls for a while).
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Same story for me! I started about 4 years ago, when I was 27.

For collaborative martial arts club, I would recommend aikido - the focus of the training is working with a partner to both understand a technique.
Even if this nightmare scenario plays out, I would gladly trade 5-10 years of bad service that would have VCs and entrepeuners scrambling to provide people what they actually want, and thus creating real new alternatives, as opposed to the Net Neutrality détente that keeps customers and providers antagonistic towards each other. Because thats really what the current plan is, to force ISPs to continue hating their customers and solely providing them with the current level of mediocre service by legislative force.
Of course, you don't actually need to uninstall all the crap, because when you install it only once on the system, you don't need to build thirty virtualenvs with roughly the same packages.

Also, choosing system package archives is simple. If you want two-ish years of stabilization for a feature release, and you want bugfixes for two or three years or longer, you can go with Debian. If you pull most things off of head anyway then go with Arch.

Of course, you're entitled to liking egocentric dependency resolution(or no dependency resolution at all, as practised by most), and I'm not going to stop you. But it really is very convenient and robust to handle high-level language libraries in a system package manager, it helps immensely when you intend to actually ship a piece of software rather than fapping off a script that some poor sap will need to update to patch five-year-old known remote vulnerabilities.
ha at Vimeo banning all gamer video content. Didn't work out so well for them.
That’s sad. Less competition, worse both for those watching and making content.

Makers of (gaming-related) content for YouTube – worried about the future of YouTube – have often already been relying on Twitch to provide them some stability, to stand on more than one leg. This competition also insured that YouTube couldn’t do literally anything. Makers of content had a place to go if things didn’t work out.

This is a potentially great move for Google and more specifically YouTube, but I don’t see any upside for anyone else (ignoring those profiting from the sale for the moment).
One will argue that 'e-sports' already peaked in 2002.
My son watches a lot of Starcraft tournaments on Twitch and his immediate response was that YouTube might actually improve the infrastructure so that they could handle streaming to everyone who wants to watch.
Thanks. I realize that my analogy was a stretch, but I didn't realize it was that much of a stretch. ;)
Agreed about the growing e-sports market. Plus the Twitch Plays Pokemon experiment showed how it could break in to the casual market as well.
Indeed, anyone who can seriously grok all the material in the entire series will gain a very deep and wide understanding of theoretical physics that very few people possess.
Twitch has rapidly become the site I stay on the longest, mostly for Hearthstone and Magic the Gathering streams. It's the first time I enjoy watching a "sport" live. Just a few hours ago I decided to pay for a Twitch account in order to not see ads, something I wish YouTube would allow me to do (I don't want to use AdBlock, because I think it's unethical).

I hope that if this is true, it's a feature that YouTube will copy and not one that will be disabled in the future.
Antimatter production/storage is an old subject.

This is a book from 1988 by a favorite author Robert L Forward (the worst author from which I regularly bought books in hardcover; I just read them for the physics).

http://books.google.ro/books/about/Mirror_matter.html?id=GS4...

It was based on his report for NASA. I read the review: "He took the giggle factor out of antimatter"(!).

The main point was that if machines were built to create antimatter (instead of Nobel prizes), it wasn't so crazy to produce.

But as people are explaining to you, storage [of "large" masses like microgram] is still not solved. Afaik, at least.
IF this is true, I would think a lot of due diligence and legal counsel was discussed before moving forward. Especially with a deal this size. And if that's the case, perhaps YouTube would be adopting Twitch's less restrictive copyright policies. Because otherwise, what else would YouTube get out of Twitch?
This is disappointing. YouTube's 'community' is extremely toxic, I can imagine if Twitch is rolled into it, it'll die a long, slow death.
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"linking with nofollow set" != "not linking". Repeatedly equivalencing the two does not lend the author much authority.
I disagree. Games like Dota 2 and League of Legends are filling sports stadiums and giving out multi-million dollar prize pools these days. If anything, at least in the United States, they are on the rise.
>>Many of the suburbs are very affluent.

They are also gated communities that have the worst "Fuck You, Got Mine" mentality. Mostly white and heavily racist, to the point where companies require their delivery-people who serve those areas to be white (because people in those neighborhoods won't open their doors for blacks).

Seriously, a very small part of the city core may be rebounding, but Detroit as a whole will remain a hell-hole for at least a decade.
I agree, Twitch livestreams is unwatchable for me most of the times I have tried to use it.

Youtube on the other hand, while available, have worked quite good.
Justin Kan is now going to be pretty rich. Good for him. Congrats!
Matt - I would be happy to share any details about this specific situation. I removed the links from my post because I find it poor taste to reprint details from personal emails for public consumption. I'm on Twitter @jeremypalmer.
What are people "pointing out" exactly? This is a ridiculous argument.

If you don't care about what Google's view of the internet looks like, then ignore them, and ignore any emails from people asking you to change things on your site for them. Done. Simple.

This issue crops up because people usually do care what Google's view of the internet is and would like to help make it better. Marking links as nofollow and so on is entirely optional: only people who want useful search engines do it, and others don't care.
I've been hearing this every year for a while. The year Detroit turns it around seems to be the same as the year of linux on the desktop - this year, but then not.
Sure, but that may have been just a local peak. "e-sports 2.0" will hit really big, at the scale of social networks. We just need a killer game for the post-pc era.
Twitch community is also pretty toxic.

Most of the time the biggest streamers put their chats in sub mode (paying supporters) to avoid it.
Semi-related question... Do you know who came up with an idea of allowing companies to own other companies (and when)?
>First you say that you're an engineer, which means you're an "applied scientist".

I am.

I think that's just a ridiculous way of referring to engineering. If we're going to be strict about the term engineer, we might as well be strict about the term scientist and pounce on anyone calling themselves a scientist, applied or otherwise, if they haven't submitted articles for peer review. How many members of your graduating class of applied scientists have been peer reviewed?

They're not.
At least, not in Canada. It's against the law to call yourself an engineer if you don't actually hold an engineering degree from an accredited institution.

Protection of the term engineer in Canada, for any old BSE, is ridiculous and is inconsistent with conventions in most of the rest of the developed world. It's largely ignored by industry, frequently 'violated', and protects no one - certainly not the public at large, at least. What really needs protection is the title P.Eng, which actually is important to the safety of the public.

The term Engineer is protected in my country due to very real issues of public safety

P.Eng. yes - but a BSE? Should the full force of law really be brought to bear on someone who might be confused with having earned a BSE by calling themselves an engineer? Who does this protect?

You don't want someone certifying a skyscraper as safe, only to find out they are an architect, not an engineer

Yes - and that would be a licensed, legally entitled, and legally cupable P.Eng., not some random BSE.

Edit - for the uninitiated, P.Eng. or Professional Engineer is a legally protected (in Canada and the United States at least) title given to a graduate of an engineering program who has been through an industry mentoring process, has taken competency exams, and has taken a professional oath of ethics. These are the men and women who keep our bridges from falling down by saying 'no' when someone wants to cut corners or reduce expenses. Many projects, especially in civil engineering, require the sign-off of a P.Eng. A P.Eng. is also legally culpable if they knowingly approve of something that they shouldn't.

A BSE is someone who graduates from an undergraduate engineering program.
Are you suggesting that thus far that Twitch somehow was exempt from copyright claims?!
Compared to recent other aquisitions, 1 billion somehow seems like a bargain. Twitch has clear potential to play an important role in the future in TV and entertainment. Compare that to i.e. Snapchat...
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You now need a Google+ account to spam Kappa

And in before every popular channel gets shut down for copyright infringement...
$1 billion but all in cash. Sensible sellers...
They have taken an environment of sharing, and turned it into a paranoid world of fear-based strategies. It's not all their fault - people are responsible too, crappy marketing works - so it has to be stripped out. They way they did it was to throw out all the babies with all the bathwater.

I think some inside Google get this already, but there's not much they can do short of AI. I'm sure they're working on it.

Disclaimer: I most likely have the most traffic of everyone here (give or take) - Have lived off Google publisher cheques for 10+ years. I realise what they are doing is damn near impossible, and that they are not 'evil' but probably a bit overwhelmed.
Sure, THIS CONTENT IS UNAVAILABLE IN YOUR REGION
No matter what you have to say about Detroit, good or bad: It's not that simple.
wow, I thought you meant "million"? You don't just buy a company for $48.5 billion, and have a tiny matter-of-fact headline like this.

What's the last company that got bought for even $30 billion!

This is a mind-boggling sum of money.

Check out the largest mergers and acquisitions of all time:

http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/largest-...

(Do bear in mind inflation - add 45% since 1998 according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/)

This deal must still be way up there. I wonder if someone can find the largest acquisitions of the past 2-3 years.
Now now, I think you're the one being disingenuous. Google's algorithm is not "everyone elses problem". If someone doesn't care about what appears on search result pages, they can just ignore everything search engines say: all their guidelines, all their advice, just chuck it out the window. Your website will still work fine.

This blog does not indicate some fundamental breaking of the web. It indicates a guy got a random email from a random website, that he is free to ignore if he wants (and in fact should ignore, because the webmasters in question don't even need to contact him, they can use the disavow tool).

No work to do? No problem!
ESPN3 access gives you access to all espn channels including regular espn. I use it every day for sports center and baseball.
Perhaps more importantly, there's the messy consequence that those external fields only work on charged particles.

You could (in principle) keep positrons and antiprotons together in a very hot plasma under magnetic confinement, but every pair that binds together into a neutral hydrogen atom can immediately escape and annihilate - turning carefully-stored fuel into gamma rays...
Ir seems like there is often a breakdown in communication between upstream and distro package maintainers. It may also be that authors don't have time to talk with ~3 (Debian, Fedora, ???) distros, each with different packaging processes and rules.
The most likely situation is that the company who sent the letter hired a shady SEO. That SEO did spammy things that got them penalized. They brought in a new SEO to clean up the mess, and that SEO is trying to undo all the damage the previous one caused. They are trying to remove every link they can find since they didn't do the spamming in the first place and don't know which are causing the problem.
It's much, much harder to exert copyright on live content, in contrast to YouTube's ContentID system.

Twitch has taken down streams of unreleased games (which is fair because Twitch makes this rule very explicit), but that's still on an ad hoc basis.
I found the section about why more companies for do A/B testing particularly interesting. It's true, when outside marketing firms suggest something like A/B testing to executives, they get upset. They wonder, "Why should we devote engineering time/resources to some testing scheme? Isn't that what we hired you to do?" This is one of the problems with making marketing and engineering too modular and not supporting enough communication between the two.
I always give my advice for nearly anything in question form. It lets the person figure it out for themselves. I try to put in as little judgment as possible, so that they aren't in a "defensive" mode but more in a "contemplative" mode.
Well, looks like it's time to start another competitor :)
I didn't find pricing on the Twitch site. But for 9$/month (looked it up), i'd probably pay for YouTube to, if that means more copyrighted content is available to me with no ads
Biggest out of any incubator ever, if it happens -- beating out Angelpad's Mopub being acquired by Twitter for 350M.
If you're updating it, could you note that the PageKite client and server are open source?

https://pagekite.net/wiki/OpenSource/
Several places in the world have shown that to be effective. And that would be real physical harm.
What really needs to be changed is Google's algorithms. The number of links to a site may be correlated with content quality and relevance but shouldn't be taken as an indicator of such, since it basically promotes large sites with lots of links - but not too many - while penalising the "less developed" (in terms of linkage) parts of the Internet, the parts that in my experience also tend to have the most interesting and valuable content.

Basing ranking on characteristics of the page content is also going to pose its own problems, since instead of linkfarming, the SEOs will just focus on generating useless content (they are quite good at that already.) Without very strong AI, it's difficult to tell whether the content was there just to spamdex or if it's something that may be equally low-entropy (for example) like tables of useful information. In my mind, even a totally random ranking (not one that changes every search, but maybe ~monthly) would be better than one based on links or page content. At the very least, it would expose many users to more parts of the Internet that they might not otherwise experience if they stayed within the first 1-2 pages of search results (if I'm looking for something that happens to be relatively obscure, I routinely go into the 100th or more page of results, since there is often good content there too!)

I haven't received any such link removal requests (the sites I have a relatively small), but I do not care about SEO that much and if I did receive any my response would basically be "go complain to the search engines, not me."
Wow, congrats to the Twitch team!
Well, the buyer also happens to have plenty cash laying around in offshore locations, waiting to be used for things like this.
Don't forget Kamcord, the other player in this space (and another YC company). Twitch isn't everything.
Don't see a YouTube ownership changing that, I assume it'll still be about live streaming.
It's bouncing back big time. It's going to take 10 or more years for the whole city, but it will be unrecognizable in the central city in the next few years.

I say this because when I go riding my bike in Detroit on Monday nights 2,000 people ride with me. That's the kind of thing that makes people move in.

Hole in the wall restaurants have an hour wait. Big name restaurants take reservations weeks in advance.

Minor minor minor minor league soccer teams draw like 2,500 people.

The brand is strong. People are going to use it. There is a ton of energy down here and a shit ton of people who live right around the city who will move in once conditions are right, and they are becoming right for the hipsters and college kids.
Yes I agree totally. Not to mention the crazy growth of eSports.
Even though I find his political beliefs repulsive, and am sure that his beliefs have put him afoul of the academic groupthink (which leaves me in a weird place, because I dislike his beliefs but also dislike the leftist conformity being brandished against him and breaking his career) I don't think any of this stuff is relevant.

Standing alone, everything he says in this essay is correct and insightful. So I'd rather discuss that than him.
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Uhh... I voted you up for the first part.

The second part was simply naive. Please consider game theory.

Yours (and mine) moral is from a society with a functioning police force, rule of law and state violence monopoly. Without that, there is a clan society, where your only security is that others (generally relatives) will revenge you. A form of terror balance. Out moral just doesn't work there, since to avoid violence you have to make people believe you are ready to inflict it.

(I am unaware of a third alternative to state violence monopoly and clan societies. There are obviously places in between, with organized crime (south Italy, Mexico?). Please educate me if I miss something basic?)

Let me take an example:

There is no world police since Obama seems to be abdicating USA's partial role, countries now live in an analogue of a clan society (e.g. do alliances for protection from aggression).

Consider how Russia and China are starting the jingoism garbage again. How do you know other countries/species won't?

tl;dr: Don't take your moral instinct for logic.
Yes, if it was the custom malloc that allowed memory issues to go undetected, what else is doing that?
On Windows, I may install pywin32 at system level, but I need a virtualenv with different versions of requests [1] for different projects.

For .NET, NuGet is the only game in town - decent dependency resolution, a good package selection and if you do things right, no binaries stored in source control (except eleventy copies of NuGet.exe but I don't think they can fix that bad decision now...)

Even on Debian I might go with a virtualenv or rvm because I don't necessarily want users to have to apt-get a whole lot of stuff just to run a simple script.

>The fact that this got upvoted so heavily is not surprising, given that judging by the current frontpage of HN, much of the userbase doesn't even know ^R does reverse interactive search in most terminals since the '80s.

That worries me too, but then I remember I don't have a clue about the functional programming articles that turn up here. It all balances out in the end.

There may be a fair few people here who are making the shift from GUIs to CLIs for the first time, so it may not be a bad thing.
You work in property data -- tell us more. Are you buying? Selling? Neither?
I think this is missing half of the problem, that is connecting the package with the build system. I know there is no "standard" build system for C, but still. Go for instance does both; once you "go get" a package, it not only downloads and pre-builds it, but makes sure that it is available for transparent usage in your program.

I personally bias towards CMake, so I would appreciate a C package manager which also makes sure that the package is included in my CMakeList.txt somehow.
"Wingnut-Repuliblican-nomitated" would refer to the president. "Wingnut Repulican-nominated" refers to the justices.
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