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Ask HN: what books do you recommend from Google's public domain books?
I just bought a sony ebook reader and I would like to read some good (and free) hacker and entrepreneurial related books from Google's public domain books. What books does everyone recommend?
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Sorry what are you talking about? There's exactly one ingame cinematic in WoW (Wrath gate) and 3 prerendered once (intro video for each addon & maingame). That's it. The 123 people of the cinematic team at Blizzard produce videos for all Blizzard games and are currently heavily involved in Starcraft II, which is supposed to have an hour of ingame cinematics as well as several minutes of prerendered videos.
The path of least resistance isn't necessarily the fastest path to entropy, and the path of most resistance isn't necessarily going against entropy.

A meandering river can go on for hundreds of miles, but only cover about ten miles from start to finish of a section. We as humans will innately wind our way following the path of least resistance presented, however as humans we're benefited more by taking a few bumps and going down the hill.

We'll readily take weeks to do something that may only take hours, why? Because right now it's easier to meander.

Imagine the streams that run into the desert, they'll meander for miles and die off before they get to the ocean where as if they covered the same distance in a straight line it would have reached the ocean.

Humans are innately beings of entropy. Everything we do increases entropy. Our ancestors a thousand years ago levelled mountainsides to build towns, they moved thousands of tons of stone from hundreds of feet in the air, to within 20 feet of the ground in a feat that would have taken nature a million years.
Apple Introduces App Store Resource Center for iPhone Developers
Brack singled out the tools team as a critical component of this group. They make tools not only for the developers, but for customer service as well.

Hey, this is what I do! Well, for a different company, not Blizzard. It seems to be an afterthought for most companies so it's nice to see him point that out in particular.
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I don't mind talking about trees.

The bigger picture behind this concept is urban planning, which is a huge issue to be fixed in the U.S. (if you want sustainable development).
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I have and it's pretty impressive. This is meant to move the focus of your editing to a few lines sorounding your cursor, and nothing else. It's not meant as an accessibility tool.
I both agree and disagree. I feel that unless they are able to get early adopters for 3D TVs and monitors, then it will never be more than a gimmick in the theaters.

While someone tried to make a good point in the comments on the article about the transition from silent films to sound in movies, it doesn't stand up in today's economy. Back then the money that you expected to make back on a your film did not include: home movie sales, licensing for television broadcast, or licensing/sales for video-on-demand. In the 1920s, the only place that you made your money back on a film was in the theater (or advertisements I guess, but I don't know if the filmmakers did that or just the theater owners between films).

Today, movie studios are able to make huge blockbuster movies with budgets to match by using the money they will make from those additional revenue streams as justification. There need to be early adopters of personal 3D displays for there to be any hope of making it mainstream.

As to where this adopters will come from? Well, as someone pointed out already games are a good candidate. Hardcore gamers are a market that is willing to spend copious amounts of money to get a better gaming experience. I don't quite agree with the knee-jerk reaction of the porn industry though. The porn industry is arguably in the midst of imploding. It's too easy for people to shoot their own amateur porn videos, and a lot of people find it more entertaining porn when it's 'real people' as opposed to porn stars (not even mentioning all of the porn piracy that happens).

Now on the other hand, if '3D Technology' starts getting incorporated into the latest and greatest TVs at not much additional cost... People will start adopting it (some without even realizing it I'll bet).
You don't need fancy art to make an interesting game.
Based on what I read, it's probably people devoted to account and billing issues, as well as fraud. There are an amazing amount of gold farmers from around the world who create fraudulent accounts with false credit card information, as well as average people who are trying to get a free ride out of Blizzard. Someone needs to take care of banning these people as well as dealing with any billing problems with legitimate customers, something which can require knowledge that's a world apart (literally) from Game Mastering.
Move it farther from a text-thread format. Explore some undiscovered territory! For example, a slideshow would be a great way to view replies. I love the way people are making little cartoons, but the replies just keep sliding to the right. They should just change, with some way to control the speed. (Maybe the author of the reply can set the default amount of time for the image to appear before the next one comes.) So many possibilities!
> People said the same thing about color - it was really crap for many years.

Color really doesn't add too much to the experience of the movie. You can take color out of a lot of movies and still gain the same experience. By this analogy, 99% of the 3D in movies will always be gimmicky, even once adoption rates in theaters and at home are high.

Let's not forget the amount of money the film industry relied on from home audiences at the time of the B&W->Color transition... and the cost of owning a television at that time... and the penetration rate of televisions (b&w or color) people's living rooms (not even like it is today with multiple TVs per household in a lot of cases).
Thanks for the details!

Though, I can see Apple's wiggle-room still. The image talks about rejecting a 'binary'. The boilerplate text, rejecting a 'version'.

So picturing myself seated on Apple's (self-interested, self-serving) mental furniture, they may interpret things as: "We've rejected a version, and rejected a binary, but the app itself is still (and perpetually!) eligible for further consideration."
I agree that it should not be in contrib, but it might be useful to have a doc page listing useful tools that ease development (DDT, South...)
This really puts the Bat-mobile to shame.
http://xkcd.com/382/
Only port 80 traffic is bound by net neutrality... ;-)
I can never seem to get past the "buy a marginally clever domain name" phase. So I can go down the list of my domains on GoDaddy:

Yakrazor.com: time management app. I can't remember exactly where I was going to go with it, but the basic idea was to bring some order to the process of Yak Shaving.

ToShove.com: provide a nice REST interface on top of Apple's push notification service.

CarZero.net: TSD rally site; mostly an online scorekeeping app. Still considering building this out with an iPhone-based front end.

SportsCarClub.net: basically WordPress for local car clubs, plus postal-code search for nearby events and clubs.

And then I have a half dozen more that I'm actually doing something with or seriously plan to do something with.
The poster is talking about things like 'Lich King stands around talking shit' and (the now defunct) 'Marshal Windsor takes an excruciatingly slow walk through Stormwind' scripted bits. They're still quite few and can't possibly require anything close to 123 people (Red vs Blue was done by two people, after all and probably has more machinima in two episodes than the entirety of WoW).
A sundial app for the iPhone, the semi-useful side effect of which would be a true solar time and local mean time display.
I suspect that the studios want 3D to be no more than a blockbuster gimmick. Right now 3D can't be pirated, which probably sounds like a good thing to every studio head in the world. It's an experience that 60" tv's and home surround can't emulate. It's a reason to go to the theatre, and they probably want to hold on to that as long as they can.
I also like Kragen's Ur-Scheme as a concrete readably-small example of a self-hosted compiler to x86, inspired by the Ghuloum paper you reference. [At http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/sw/urscheme/ ]
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I picked my application's look and feel from a stack of tuna cans at the grocery store.

http://www.woolworths.com.au/woolworths_select_tuna.asp

They look so beautiful IRL (specially #2, #3, and #4); polished light gray can with shiny rounded corners for the container at the top and a flat bottom with sharm 90 degree angles at the bottom; centered content area with a brightly colored header, white space, and a big bright logo on the upper right hand corner. Compare this to any other Tuna packaging you have seen, which usually looks ugly and you will see why I loved it.

I am programmer, not a designer, but recently I made habit of photographing things that I find attractive and using them for inspiration.
As somebody with non-stereoscopic vision, I sincerely hope that this (3d) fails miserably.

Going to the movies is one of my favorite pass-times. If this becomes normal, that will be ruined for me :(.
Can I get a success story for ClickTale or CrazyEgg from someone who doesn't have a straight-up web app?

I've been a happy $20 a month user of CrazyEgg for years prior to introducing my web application, mostly for working on the visitor-to-downloadable-trial conversion. It works wonderfully. If you search my blog you'll find a few examples of where it helped me.

Example: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2007/04/20/crazyegg-vs-google-analy...
My guess is it's a Django Reinhardt song. :)
> Part of it is couching it all in the right terms. You aren't doing this for them, you're doing it for yourself. I don't like cheap vodka, I like the good stuff. I don't like Motel 6. Then don't bring it up again.

That may be, but it depends on the people. There are people that could resent this and see it as you rubbing your money in their face.
> And if some random person wrote, say, a feature-request feature for HN, I'd probably have to spend more time cleaning it up

In open source projects that's certainly true the first time, but if that process of correction is transparent to the person sending in the patch, then they eventually learn the ropes well enough that you don't have to correct their future patches, and in fact, they can correct the patches of others.

There's a pretty big gap between wrangling a small group of people sending patches and being a full-time project manager. For the couple of widespread-ish OSS projects that I've started they took maybe an hour a week until I handed them off to new maintainers -- another nice possibility that arises from having additional contributors.

(Note: I don't mean to imply that things necessarily should go this way, just that the process can be somewhat more rewarding than it would seem at first.)
Break the project into milestones and give a tentative price for the first two or so milestones.

You can quickly figure out who is a dick and who is not wrt to contract employers based on how much they talk about the project, how involved they are and how bad they want it. There are people out there who fancy themselves software "owners" and are just in it for the sake of saying "my programmer .." in polite conversations. Avoid people with Big Ideas and work with people who want a problem solved.

Also beware of wannabe software vendors and resellers; people who will pay you to write software they intend to resell, and not use directly. Those tend to over think it and they're swayed by the slightest shift in trends; a blog post they read somewhere can bring the project to a halt. It's good to be paid, but it's even better to know your work is being used somewhere by someone, instead of it sitting in someone's My Documents folder.
Society is not the state, and the state is not society. The state can and does create arbitrary rules that are actually harmful to society. I consider this one of them.

Real criminals are people who do harm to others, not people who simply break bureaucratic rules.
What the heck a Chumby is, for the lazy:

http://www.chumby.com/pages/learn_overview
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What I don't understand is why a bunch of entrepreneurial types (or at least this blogger for a web start-up site) would be in favor of more government regulation.
Sorry but I agree with Swelljoe. I added dental to our health plan earlier in the year. It was a joke. It was weird coverage and there was a cap that my wife hit after a root canal. After 3 months we were paying premiums and receiving zero coverage.

I've since dropped it and just pay out of pocket for routine cleaning. If something expensive is required, most offices will let you get on a payment plan.

Make sure you read all the details/fine print. A $100/year plan will likely have some serious limitations and a cap.
And still none can compare with a paperback.
Apple is not even close to a monopoly in cell phone hardware so there is quite a significant difference. There are many other alternatives to the iPhone. Apple rejecting Google Voice doesn't preclude anyone from getting an Android phone or BlackBerry instead. As long as that healthy competition exists Apple has nothing to worry about. If they were to build a monopoly in cell phone hardware they would have to drastically change their business practices or face the US DOJ and EU.
Stonemetal, what would you do if you discovered that you were actually born in, say, Ethiopia, and were brought to the US illegally as an infant?

Would you simply leave for a foreign country you have no knowledge of, abandoning your life, severing your relationships, giving up all of the property that you earned through your own endeavors, just because the law is the law?

Any rule that would compel you to do so is simply, unequivocally _wrong_, and deserves to be violated.
Sometimes, though rarely, government regulation helps the entrepreneur more than it helps the entrenched players.
This article, if you can call it that, is really pointless. Filling out a captcha isn't working for google or any other website that requires it. If the five seconds it takes to complete the form are too frustrating for you then don't utilize the otherwise free services being provided. Captcha's prevent spam and are therefore better for everyone.
Because many existing laws & regulations are bought and paid for by big business to preserve their dominant position through the use of legally sponsored anti-competitive tactics. You can't undo the past but you can make new laws & regulations to level the playing field some.
Many discovered facts that are known today did not have any evidence years ago what does not indicate its absence today. Absence of results of searching industries is not an indicator thus it takes many years and many intermediate discoveries before some hypothesize are proven. Keeping mind open to possibilities is the engine of progress and discovery.
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How would a suggestion that corporations don't enjoy constitutional protections infringe on the individual rights of those shareholders?

Let me rephrase. I believe that corporations are not persons. But I believe that the owners and operators of a corporation have the rights of persons, and they have the Constitutional right to use their corporate funds for political speech. There have been court rulings that oppose this view, and I'm guessing that Sotomayor agrees with those rulings (although you are right, she has not said this explicitly, I read the original article too fast and attributed views to her by association, since I know she's generally a left-wing judge.)

Presumably, even if DownWithPedro Corp is forbidden from advertising on the eve of the election, I could still write an impassioned screed on the same subject in my own name.

If the first amendment means anything it protects the right to pay someone to speak for you, to organize as a group to speech, to organize as a group to fund the printing of pamphlets, etc. Freedom of speech is not limited to me as individual yelling off of a soapbox. It protects my right to organize with others to print newspapers, make videos, promote videos, etc. If I'm going to organize with others, I'll often need to setup a contract to guide the organization - ie a corporate charter. Court rulings that limit the political speech of people in corporations are essentially banning one particular form of organization from speaking, and allowing others (NYTimes and Harvard Corporation get free speech, Exxon Mobil does not). Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of speech for organizations that Congress likes. It means freedom for everyone.

to be honest, I think the reason this particular company (in the lawsuit under discussion) exists is not to make a profit but to protect its investors from the financial risks of being sued for libel if they released the film as a group of individuals without the benefit of limited liability.

Legally, I am pretty sure libel would not protect against libel committed by the management or shareholders.

In the Pfizer case I mentioned, one sales manager got 6 months of house arrest plus a $100 fine, which I frankly thought was just as unfair to Pfizer shareholders as to consumers.

I don't know a whole lot about the Pfizer case. But it doesn't seem like the crime was fraud in the common law sense. Rather they failed to comply with FDA administrative procedures. At least that's my impression of the case ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/09/for-med-free-speech.ht... ), correct me if I'm wrong. Six months house arrest does not seem lenient for an essentially administrative violation. I don't think that represents the sales manager getting special treatment because of limited liability protections.
Now we're playing semantics. The problem with redefining "rejecting an app" is that the phrase already has a perfectly good meaning: "dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate, or not to one's taste." Rejecting doesn't (have to) imply permanence; I rejected non-Newtonian physics for much of my life, but I do so no longer. If showing a red stoplight, the word "Rejected", and Phil Schiller calling you to say the app's not in the store doesn't mean the app was rejected than the phrase has no meaning. (Again, don't have any insider knowledge here; just inferring what happened based on my experience with app rejections).

Further, even playing by Apple's own semantics (which I take strong issue with), there's clearly an "Application status" called "Rejected". So even if they were to suddenly become nihilists and apps are never rejected, that's not consistent with what the iTunes Connect interface actually says, which (IANAL) I presume is legally actionable with respect to what constitutes an official Apple communication.
"In 10 years, we'll look back on the current round of 3D films and say, "Remember that 3D gimmick? Whatever happened to that, anyway? Hey, giant robot, watch where you're throwing that building!""

Annnnd history repeats itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film#History
It's a little late, but apparently they did know about yubnub. From bunny1.py:

# these are three good choices for default fallbacks
YUBNUB_URL = "http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command="
GOOGLE_SEARCH_URL = "http://www.google.com/search?q="
GOOGLE_LUCKY_SEARCH_URL = "http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q="
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_...

A decent article discussing why Craigslist won't change.
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We've had very good luck with making our system an invite only beta. The main site is setup to very clearly explain our product, and it has a form to fill out requesting an invite to the beta.

Then we go through the requests and slowly grant access to the early stage product. We can both filter users (to make sure they're our target group) as well as convey to them that this is super early stage of development.

Plus, there is definitely a psychological influence of people getting an invite to a beta; we've had a much higher percentage of invited users create beta accounts compared to just allowing anyone to create an account.
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I feel compelled to link to some prior work in this area, 2002's A Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation by Zammuto et al. (I can't find the books, they must be in La Jolla: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books/_/A+Dead+Fish+Gains+the+P...)
What sort of movie would only work in 3D? Current so-called "2D" movies actually provide an approximation of 3D--the eye perceives depth from parallax and other visual cues just fine.

I'm not sure what sort of movie there is that would require it.
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then http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=772012
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Reality only requires 2D (you can see everything there is to see just fine with one eye.) You could definitely encode important information into the depth-of-field of the shot, but I'd call the result of that "psychedelic."
Then you should unwind the existing laws and regulations, not add a new regulation that will inevitably favor narrow interests. And if you cannot role back the existing detrimental regulations, what chance of success do you have making new positive regulation?
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It loaded much faster this access. Must have been something on my end temporarily.
Hey, here's a novel idea: how about we stop defining what is and isn't "something good" to use local garages for!

Your wife's comment wasn't funny; it was pompous, pretentious and shortsighted. I don't do meth myself, but apparently it serves as entertainment for millions of people. There is value in that -- if there wasn't, Meth Labs wouldn't need nor could they afford all that hardware to run such "wasteful" operations. Your local Meth Lab may not be feeding the whales or saving the homeless, but it's fun for a lot of people and that is something.

And if you simply can't sleep at night thinking what a waste it is, remember all the people who are employed to run and calibrate it, not to mention the people who buy the cough syrup that fuels it all. And all the technological innovation required to make it possible, a large majority of which was funded by Robitussin, due to its lucrative nature. There's a forest among all those trees, believe it or not.