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I don't like that this needs your phone to be rooted. That is going to keep it from ever becoming ubiquitous.

The solution?

I don't know, but I suspect that Wi-Fi Direct, which both apple and android now support, would enable complete functionality without rooting.

Can the author comment on why they are not using Wi-Fi Direct? Is it because older phones do not support it? If so, perhaps let it support either rooting or Wi-Fi Direct.

I'm a techie, and I don't want to root my phone, and definitely not my wife's phones, just so I can play with this. If I won't, a lot of other people, especially non techies, won't either. You need the non-techies to get critical mass.
A lot of job listings are actually for internal candidates, and although the employer is required by law to perform interviews, the external candidate will never get the job over the internal candidate (since the external candidate is a higher risk). What hiring managers actually want is a candidate that has been personally vouched for by developers they trust, and ideally an internship or contract period at a lower pay rate so that they can pull out if the candidate isn't as good as they say they are.

So, make friends with people who have jobs in the industry and convince them that you have the necessary skills.
How we removed our Google Manual Penalty for $561.60
Depending on how little of a "subsistence salary" we are talking about (and how little other taxable income the owner has) the increase in income tax may be less than the savings in payroll tax involved in moving from salary to dividends.
I believe most static site generators are "blog oriented". And a blog is still a website.
A little more than a decade ago, I had to do research on capital punishment for a college ethics class. In the United States, at that time, the cost for a death row inmate was several times greater than it was for an inmate in for life without parole.

Additionally, there are the questionable convictions and the legal convictions that are subsequently found to have been innocent but for which innocence is no longer considered (e.g. dobbsbob comment about Rob Will - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7822471).
Yes I have an INC or LLC for my consulting or independent contractor work, but that's like being in a garage band these days.
I do electronics & firmware consulting work as well as my small industrial electronics manufacturing business through an LLC. But it really wasn't primarily for liability protection (as if!). I was filling out a Vendor Qualification form to do business with a large corporation and one of the checkboxes was business type. I was checking off Sole Proprietor and then it occurred to me that being a sole prop. might make it harder to do business with big companies, so I formed an LLC the next day.

Don't take/plan to take investment and probably never would unless it was for a specific short-term opportunity.
agreed. on a cost to earnings to enjoyment level, you save a few hours salary, buy game for $60, and enjoy it for 10+ hours. its still a deal.
Your reasoning for the 2" wafer surprises me because most semiconductor work scales well, and the cost to buy and process larger wafers is only slightly more expensive while the surface area is much larger. A 6" wafer is 9 times as big as a 2" one.
Do you mean SIMR or something another ?
I didn't receive it. greg at gregharrison.ca
It's hard to either agree or disagree with the author here...because it depends on what your definition of "blogger" is.

For most of the technically-inclined, the bottleneck is the writing process. The friction in the commandline-compile-and-push stage seems to me like a minor concern...because if it took you 20min. to 20 hours to write the post, what difference does it make that it then takes 1 or even 10 minutes to push the post to S3?

And consider one of the benefits of most static blogging implementations, in which the writer can choose his/her text-editor of choice, which is especially useful if you are using Markdown? Another useful feature is that with all of the blog posts hosted as flat files, you can easily grep/replace across an entire folder or even all of your posts, in a way that is significantly more difficult in a database-backed site, in which you have to destructure the schema.

What kind of idiot blogger would put something in a bunch of posts only to later decide to grep/replace it all?...well, it could be something as simple as someone wanting to add affiliate links to all their existing URL references to Amazon pages? Or it doesn't have to be a replace function...sometimes I want to use grep to find terms/concepts I've blogged about before (most search utilities on dynamic blogs do not support regex).

My main blog is a self-hosted WordPress site. I'm OK with it but I find that there's a lot of friction to just build out a post. This is my workflow:

1. Draft and write a post in Sublime Text and Markdown

2. Convert to HTML (self-hosted Wordpress does not yet have a Markdown editor, and I'm loathe to install a plugin)

3. Paste HTML into WordPress body

4. Hit Publish

Simple enough, but it's almost never the case that my text is perfect...and so now I have to either go back to the original Markdown file and restart the steps, or edit the WordPress textbox which means that my canonical version of the text now exists on WordPress.

And did I mention that WP is dog slow on shared hosting? I've setup caching, which has allowed my site to stand up to the Reddit and HN front pages, but when I'm editing/adding content, it can take 5 to 10 seconds to move between the admin pages.

All of this friction means that I rarely update my own blog, even though I have dozens of draft posts in my Dropbox in Markdown format...most of that is because I just don't finish those drafts, but some of that negligence is because the thought of logging into WordPress and going through the process of simply publishing is enough to put me off.

On the other hand, I use Tumblr on a very regular basis, even though it's simply to post photos and captions. Yes, part of my ease here is because I'm just posting photos, but Tumblr's relative speed makes it a service I want to post photos to...And of course, the tradeoff is now Tumblr owns all of my content and I have an even harder time mass-managing it.

So it's all tradeoffs...the OP is right, but not right for many of the kinds of people who have the expertise to build and deploy a static site.
Maybe skip the gratuitous sharing of financial milestones, and instead update people on the cool new stuff you're building/doing, or start a discussion about the user feedback you've received recently or some interesting results from the A/B testing you conducted recently -- that sort of thing.
Whoops - I feel bad for complaining now, as you say it works without Ad Blocker.
Even when they were marked as sponsored links, they were penalized, according to this post[1].

On a sidenote, my post was downvoted by someone even though it was on-topic. I disagree with you, but have upvoted so we can discuss this rationally.

[1] http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/why-did-my-pagerank-go-down/
If your jekyll generation time is getting too large, you can limit the number of posts it generates like this:

jekyll --limit_posts 3

It makes your site feel like new again :) I made this into a rake task which I blogged about here:

http://scottpatten.ca/2011/11/speeding-up-jekyll-generation....
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FORM OVER FUNCTION.

You have a fiction book. People will want to know what genre it is; what the reviews say; what it looks like; a sample chapter; where to buy it; publisher and ISBN and etc. If you're lucky they'll want to discuss it with other readers or to ask you questions.

If I'm in a bookshop and I see a book, and I websearch it there are a few things that happen.

1) I get a great website. I am more likely to buy the book.

2) I get a terrible website. I am less likely to buy the book.

A terrible website is one that does a bunch of stuff before I get to the information I need.
Thanks!

When you save something on NowVia, you see who else has saved it and what people are saying about it.

So imagine 19 people from around the world save a great design resource - by doing so, they discover each other's channels, and can all discuss that resource in the same place. The 20th person to save that resource also sees that discussion and can join in. The focus on connecting people through interests and trying to encourage discussion is the differentiator.
A second chance to live out the rest of your days in prison. Yeah, I can live with that.
The US already uses the metric system. It is taught to every child in school. Engineers and scientists use it as their default.

What the soi-disant pro-metric faction really wants is to stamp out the English system from the culture. Why can't they tolerate people measuring themselves, their recipes, their temperatures, and their vehicle speeds in their preferred units?
More important than price is engagement value. If I spend four months with a game, I don't mind the $60 price. Some notable examples for me: Skyrim, GTA-V, and Dark Souls 2. However, I have played games with little or no engagement value. BioShock 2 lasted less than 2 weeks (2 play throughs).
> The unit issue has not been resolved however, but nvidia did propose a DSA extension, which so far wasn't taken up by any other vendor.

... which is graphic-developer-ese for "I hope you like branching your render engine some more."
I appreciate both. I looked around the full list on the site for a while, and came back here to read comments. I like that people were posting summaries and quotes, because most of them I missed while exploring and some of them contain a lot of wisdom (or just speak to me personally).

I think if you want to see is as people getting karma off the death of someone else, that's ok and you may be correct in some cases, but I see it as more of a gathering and sharing of information that most people don't have the time to do themselves. Or maybe I'm just not seeing the comments you're responding to and they're truly making a mockery.

edit

Just saw a word cloud in the shape of a skull. I see what you mean...
I'm working on a new version of Gus[0] that will be able to figure out only what needs to be rebuilt and rebuild it.

Another feature for the (not to distant?) future will be generating a TF-IDF index in javascript so that a client-side search functionality could be introduced.

I also find Gus to have a pretty low bar to publishing. I write in markdown/textile/reStructuredText, build, and rsync. Granted I haven't used many other static generators (the ones I did look at didn't seem to have the features I wanted like tag or date indexes, plus it was one of my first python projects).

[0]: https://github.com/jimktrains/gus
What is the current stance of Nvidia and Intel on implementing Mantle support? And what are the chances of mobile GPU makers doing the same? Is it easier to make a better OpenGL 5, or to adopt Mantle across all GPU manufacturers?
Why does the command ":(){ :|: and };:"  make system lag badly
Or because there is nothing to hide?

From the data:

White 231 (44.9%)
Black 190 (36.9%)
Hispanic 92 (17.9%)
Other 2 (0.4%)
I haven't looked at the C# async implementation, but I'd bet it uses CAS operations.

Yup, the C# library is called Interlocked and it provides a variety of atomic operations. C# also has ref, which allows variables to be passed by reference, which greatly increases the power of the library.

I find Interlocked absolutely essential for getting maximum performance -- like in implementing lock-free data structures.
get a open source contrib on your resume - something they will recognize by name, and hopefully quote something cool - "sped up rendering by 99%"

get a good past job that they will recognize the employer name

and you will have an easy time.
I don't develop in Java (outside of Android); I'm afraid I'd need you to clarify what you mean to answer the question. Are you referring to JNI?
As early as during the period of Gemini project (50 years ago!), the engineers wanted to put in computer controlled flight system and not add in any human controllable flight control. The test pilots who were going to sit in them objected though.
Log4j 2 (next gen logback): http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
I've been saying this for years. We used to pay $30-45 for NES games, $50 for SNES games, and I remember several PC games in the 80's being in the $45-50 range. NeoGeo games were in the hundreds. C64 systems launched at $595, which makes buying a Wii U, Xbox One and PS 4 together look cheap. Maniac Mansion for NES was $54.95 when it launched!!!

Also, the amount of content in most games these days is absolutely huge. Per hour, they are an incredibly cheap form of entertainment.

Check out a catalog from 1990 for example: http://www.huguesjohnson.com/features/sears_catalog/sears-ca...
I bought (well my parents bought) FFVI (III in the U.S.) and Secret of Mana for I believe $80 each in 1993-94. That's $127 in today's money. The standard SNES cart was like $50, or $80 in today's money. Games have gotten a lot cheaper even as game budgets have exploded.
If you want to talk about low value for a high price point, look no further than X:Rebirth. I'm hard pressed to believe the developers didn't know what an absolute mess they were pegging as a top dollar game; more than any question of price I'm wondering what happened to the demo THEN buy procedure that, at least for the games I cared about, seemed to be the norm. Nowadays it's prerendered trailer after prerendered trailer, and you may not have any idea what you're buying until the money has already changed hands.
I constantly miss having my upcoming calendar items floating there on most of my home screen. It was a quiet little ambient reminder of things coming up in my life every time I took my Android phone out and poked at it.

I like nearly every other aspect of the iOS experience more than my old Nexus One, but this keeps on bugging me.
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And $89 in Europe :/.
I'm surprised that nobody has posted any answers to your ASK.

You'd think that those having Kickstarter, freemium, or seed funding experience, especially all 3, would contribute their opinion.

Anyway, I think Kickstarter can not be the BEST approach unless you already have enough backers lined up in advance of your campaign launch to reach 30% of your funding goal if not more.

These need to be established Kickstarter backers of other projects, or supporters who will run right out, register for Kickstarter, and immediately back you financially at their anticipated level as soon as you let them know your campaign
is going live. You need to be up-to-date with each member of both classes well in advance, so they can all pile on at the very beginning to give you overwhelming momentum.

Probably best to have all of these well-engaged preseeding supporters not only invited to look at your Kickstarter preview, but giving you positive feedback on your preview and serious encouragement to launch launch launch so they can fund fund fund.

And then after you go live if there is not enough appeal to the general Kickstarter audience even with your early-adopting insider momentum, your insiders then should be capable of each recruiting at least two new serious backers who will commit before the deadline is up. If each only brings in exactly two new supporters, that would only get you to 90% if you started at 30%.

But what do I know?

I would hope it's not frowned upon to post the link to your
Kickstarter on HN, but then again who's paying any attention anyway, maybe just do it.
That seems to be the thesis of Chmielarz's remarks - not that $60 is an insane price to pay for a game, but rather that gamers in 2014 expect so much out of their $60 that it's difficult to deliver without very high volume.

Thus the industry bifurcates into low-cost, quality, smaller-scope games and huge-volume annualized franchise games like CoD and Assassin's Creed, leaving no room for high-quality, mid-scope, "middle-class AAA" games like Bulletstorm.
What is up with all the man hating on Hacker News lately? Or am I just new?
Entanglement in a Quantum Annealing Processor
Get a two-wheeled electric unit, very easy to ride, no need to train, learn in under a minute for an average person, better than walking, faster, safe, reliable.

The fastest human footspeed on record is 44.72 km/h (12.42m/s, 27.44 mph), seen during a 100 meters sprint (average speed between the 60th and the 80th meter) by Usain Bolt. Maximum human sprint speed is strikingly slower than that of many animals.

e-Unicycle rider could easily ride at 25 mph in full control, safe and go for up to 40 miles range, great commuting, outdoors, large industrial warehouse distances covered in seconds, could ride as slow as your walking partners, compact, places off road, narrow walkways, along the road, or sidewalks - where cars and bikes don't go, e-unicycle goes.

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Motorola's Texas plant is shutting down
This is how opposition to the death penalty should be sold instead of pretending that the perp is the victim.
The main thing I hate about Go's template package is that it makes it difficult to define base templates without adding the base file to your ParseFiles arguments. I want to be able to say that a template extends another from within that template, not the code.
A new indie game is funding on Indiegogo
Talk to a CPA. Seriously.
Wow. I feel like an idiot for not finding that. Thank you!
I fail to see how your comment is the least bit relevant.

in the days of Ellis Island and had just enough education to work as bakers and butchers

So in other words, for the time in which they lived, they were pretty skilled.

The immigration system of the old days wasn't meritocratic; it was simply exploitative

That's irrelevant to the parent comments claim that societal meddling has left some population groups behind. It's also irrelevant to my point distinguishing between people who were already here and pushed out, or forcibly brought here, compared to population groups primarily composed of modern, legal immigrants.

However, it doesn't matter. Coming here in "the days of Ellis Island" required a tremendous amount of dedication and daring, and the places they were coming from were likely even worse off. It was self-selecting for driven people.
Funny, I looked at the same tech stacks and came to exactly the opposite conclusion.

I want to be able to write on my computer, in Markdown, using the tools I want (I blog in either Emacs or iA Writer, depending on whether I want to be in "programmer brain" or "writer brain"). I guess I spend enough time in Markdown that I don't need to preview that much, so I don't find the switch to the browser and reload the page cycle especially frequent or onerous. Definitely less onerous than the click preview and wait for it to load cycle I had on WordPress.

Having to log into a browser and type into a crappy little rich text editor would lower my (already extremely low) blogging frequency to non-existence.

But hey, that's my choice -- you should use whatever works for you. I'm just glad that we have the plethora of options.
As of the 2010 US Census, the racial distribution in Texas was as follows: 70.4% of the population of Texas was White American; 11.8% African American; 3.8%, Asian American; 0.7%, American Indian; 0.1%, native Hawaiian or Pacific islander only; 10.5% of the population were of some other race only; and 2.7% were of two or more races. Hispanics (of any race) were 37.6% of the population of the state, while Non-Hispanic Whites composed 45.3% [0]

The Hispanic portion is difficult to parse, but it certainly seems that African-Americans are very over-represented.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Texas#Racial_an...
Some of them get to go out as innocents.

What's disgusting is a nation that sinks to the level of those it holds the most in contempt.

The death penalty is wrong on so many levels. And all those safeguards aside there are still innocent people murdered by the state.

It's funny how you'd use 'candle lit vigil by those against capital punishment' in the same list as 'witnesses to the execution'.

And 'to rot in obscurity would be greater punishment for these people' lumps you right in with those against the death penalty.
The New Era of Low-Fi Sci-Fi
I've not seen programmers hired like carpenters, but I worked briefly at a place where programmers were represented by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters.

That was Hughes Aircraft. That weird union representation came about because Hughes unionized during the construction of the Spruce Goose [1], which involved a massive amount of carpentry, so it made sense for the carpenters union to be the union that represented Hughes employees. That representation stuck long after actual carpenters became rare at Hughes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules
You bring up a very nuanced point regarding the direction of liability for single member LLC.

As you state, it is correct the owner will generally be protected from the liabilities of the LLC. With the exception of piercing the corporate veil, alter ego doctrine, ect...

However, single member LLC can be liable for the debts of the sole owner. Meaning the business assets can be attached, charging orders issued and ownership can even be foreclosed. To distinguish if I own stock in say Google or Apple, and I am in a car accident and kill someone and I can't pay a judgement obviously the judgment holder can not collect against Apple/Google even though I am an owner; however, they could collect against an LLC I own if it is single member. Alternatively, if the same LLC was multi-member generally the judgment holder could not satisfy the judgment against the multi-member LLC.

Edit: In fairness, Patio11 expressed concerned about the liability from his LLC flowing to him personally. Nevertheless, I always feel it is relevant to consider personal liability flowing to the LLC.
I wonder how much of this sticker-shock is due to psychology and the new market of cheap games? In New York, as far as I know, Broadway theater prices haven't really changed...and you are paying $60 for 2-3 hours of sometimes crummy seating, for an experience that, visually, doesn't compare to a $20 IMAX screen. And yet not many theater goers really cringes about having to pay that fee because there is not a mindset that non-discounted shows should be any cheaper...Hell, I even paid $200 for nearly the worst seats in the house at "Book of Mormon" (back when it was new and really really hot)...of course it helped that BOM was actually worth even the inflated stubhub price...

I remember back when I was in grade school, me and my brother were so excited that we saved up enough to buy Ninja Gaiden...for the NES, not XBOX...and someone then stole the game, which was our first new game in a loooong time (we were not a wealthy family). $50 had a lot more value in the the 1980s...and that game was very primitive by today's standards...so thinking about that stolen NES cartridge makes me laugh with a bit of a wince
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