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Great comment.

You can never go wrong with exercise; that´s for sure.

But I wanted to comment in the activated Vitamin D. People with CKD get this form of vitamin D because their kidneys cannot build it (the last hydroxylation step occurs in the kidney). So, in theory, supplementing with regular Vitamin D3 could boost IQ and longevity.
I don't think that Tim Cook needs to imitate Steve Jobs in order to make the product more compelling. My take-away from the article was that this Apple event focused too much on technical details and not enough on why people should want the product.

One bit that struck me was when the author pointed out that this watch now seems like a gadget for the geekier people, rather than something for everyone. That really could be, Apple has spent much time and money getting consumers excited about these events and, perhaps, squandered some of this excitement.

I am also not a big fan of choice. Sixty options sounds stressful to me, especially with something new that I've never really seen before.
It loads for me, but the video is blank. (He's not livestreaming right this instant, and he doesn't usually have hitbox record his streams)
Usually you pay membership fees in exchange for access to the tools and stuff.
Well, it's a tough job defending the "agencies" in every circumstance, but someone has to do it.
Mining bitcoins on a cloud platform is a net loss even if the CPU time is free: it'll take you more labor time to set up than you'll gain. If you burn $100k in Google Cloud compute time on mining across hundreds of machines, you'll net something like $30.
Asking myself how this makes business sense. Answering myself that it only does if Google hits a homerun based on:

+ Vendor/plat-form lock-in.

+ Data mining startups' traffic.

+ Access to startups' code and data.

+ Ability to pull the plug.

For Vendor/Platform lock-in this could be virtual, ie the burden of switching the code base for administrative tasks to Amazon or Azure or some other provider could be prohibitive. Likewise for architectural layout.

In the bigger picture, is this a first foray into the space where MicroSoft Bizspark lives?

http://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2014/02/...
I really enjoy the dissonance between startup mythology (bold innovators who play by nobody's rules) and the very conservative reality, as expressed in eligibility criteria like this. Think different, in one of the approved ways.

Why this part of our industry is exempt from disruption, while everything else is fair game, is a source of constant wonder to me.
Notch should take some of that $2B he gets from Microsoft, buy all of the doom IP from id/Zenimax and make the next sequel.
Instead of an ACK text, maybe an MD5 hash could be sent as part of the message. If the MD5 mismatches with the concatenated text message stream then you know you have a dropped or corrupted packet.

Unfortunately that does introduce additional complications like knowing which packet failed (maybe there's a better method for checksuming for this type of situation?), but even in the worst case scenario, it only adds a small overhead to infrequently resend the entire stream than to double up each stream with ACK responses.
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Maybe they could use fn? :)
An indictnment is a charge; it is the prosecutors formal presentation of the evidence collected so far that show's that there's enough evidence that a trial should be held.

As such, it's fairly one-sided. It's just what the prosecutor has presented to a grand jury, and the grand jury has said "yeah, that looks like enough evidence that it's worth having a trial." Note also that grand juries these days pretty much always just rubber-stamp whatever the prosecutor puts in front of them.
Driving lessons?
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Seems like Notch could do with a degree of focus - if not through strong discipline from within, than from external influences.

I think the ability to work on what you feel like and creative exploration is fine, but when there's a considerable gap between your last qualified success (or a lengthy period since you last actually completed something you were interested in), it should be a warning sign that you need to knuckle down a little.
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With the near-canonization of Jobs, people forget that his version of the right answers changed all of the time. Remember how awesome the PowerPC was due to the "velocity engine"? Not 18 months later, Steve was on stage pitching the amazing performance of the Intel Mac.

The whole business of iOS devices is shifting away from revolution towards evolution. The first big hint of this was when they shipped the low-margin iPad Mini. Earlier this year, Apple begin talking about how transformative apps are to people.

I think the watch and phablets reflect this -- people who watch alot of video will appreciate the bigger phone, and the watch is a whole new way to deliver app functionality.
As there is another million people bootstrapping their businesses. What they should do is to find additional criteria to augment the startup validation process. A very simple criteria would be to maintain a front-facing service that provides value to consumers, excluding: bitcoin mining, run malware, etc.
It's where you get in lessons in driving.
Bellingham has been the base camp for Mt Baker and Ski-to-Sea for years now - pick a season of the year, and you're apt to see adventurers from Seattle and Vancouver grabbing snacks, equipment, and beer before/after heading into the wild.
> If people really dislike not having e-mail support, they'll stop using Google.

When they are locked out of their account and first realize that support is non-existent? Happens all the time, happened to me once (no, I didn't forget my password).

> since it's almost universally known that Google provides zero support for free accounts

Universally known among techies.

This doesn't mean that every incoming email should now be checked and processed individually by a Google employee, the court said. [...] It was left up to Google how to deal with future incoming email.

So Google doesn't need to respond to "How do I change the color of my inbox?" or "New design sucks!". But in case of serious trouble, a customer can expect the possibility of contacting a human.
I feel obligated to point out that Microsoft Bizspark will give you free software/services for 3 years and it is "one guy working from his kitchen table"-friendly. If you're building things, they will give you stuff.

Bonus: You can help support underdog upstarts like Microsoft against uncaring tech titans like Google.
As an adult who reads a large variety of fiction and non-fiction alike within varying degrees of quality,
I find myself enjoying the occasional YA book because they're often such shameless,
reductionist broth that you're entirely freed from taking it too seriously and just take it at face value.
Whether the protagonist is 10, 18, 25 or 40 is somewhat insignificant for me. Anyone of any age
will deal with "struggling to define themselves while figuring out social standing, who their friends were,
how to interact with their parents and managing their obligations."

At the end of the day, I'm just glad people are still reading.
> pretty much all tech.

That's so incredibly off-base that I don't know where to start with the corrections. What you mean is 'the few large multinationals that dominate a few very visible segments'.

You could (wrongly) turn that around just as easily and point to the WWW created in Switzerland (on a network stack created in the US), that Linus Torvalds is Finnish by birth and that his creation powers all those phones and that search engine (he's moved to the united states now) and so on.

The world is a lot more interconnected and if the US economy goes down so does the EU and vice versa.

There is no 'individual success' any more than there will be 'individual failure'.

Facebook and Google are outliers from SV, by your standards the rest of the US should feel about as miserable as the EU.

Where are all the great start-ups from Northern Michigan, from New York, from Washington DC?

Sure there will be exceptions but they're not facebook or google or Apple for that matter.

But neither are any of those BMW, Mercedes or VW. Nor are they TomTom (nl), Logitech (ch), nor Tata Steel (Indian, the world is larger than just the US or the EU).

Economies are no longer disconnected and EU and US per-capita size of their respective economies is very comparable.

It's just that in the US the economic output (and the wealth distribution) is less even and so you notice the outliers. If you cut California out there would be a severe imbalance.

There are three major reasons web start-ups from the US have an easier time going to Europe than the other way around: Access to capital, a very large homebase speaking for the most part one language, and Europeans adapting easier to using English than US users adapting to using a website in a different language than their mother tongue.

Copycats like the Samwer brothers capitalize handily on the discrepancy during the short window of opportunity between a successful launch of something States-side and the subsequent roll out to the rest of the world. And for the local hold-outs who do not wish to conduct business in a language not their own.
That doesn't follow. If backups are for multiple machines to a big file server, the backup machine will have a much larger set of files than those that come from an individual machine. Further, each backup "image" compares the directory for the previous backup to the current live system. Generally it looks something like this:

1. Initial backup or "full backup" - copy the full targeted filesystem to the time indexed directory of the backup machine.

2. Sequential backups:

a. on the backup machine, create a directory for the new time, create a mirror directory structure of the previous time.

b. hard link the files in the new structure to those in the previous backup (which may be links themselves, back to the last full backup.

c. rsync the files to the new backup directory. Anything that needs to be transfered results in rsync transfering the file to a new directory, the moving it into the proper place. This unlinks the filename from the previous version and replaces it with the full version.

So yeah, the result of this system over a few machines and a long-timeframe backup system is way more links on the backup machine than any iteration of the backup will ever actually use.
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This is a head's up that he's going to bail on the project like he always does. When he quit 0x10c it was because he wanted to work on smaller projects. I guess this WebGL project is not small enough though.

It seems like Notch just likes doing the fun initial work on games but gets bored once he's worked out all of the hard problems. I can hardly blame him for that, most of us are guilty to some degree, but he shouldn't market his projects so strongly if he is just going to ditch them.
I'm not sure why I was downvoted. Releasing a phone with a larger screen while minimizing the bezel so the phone is only minimally larger than a iPhone 5S would have stuck with Jobs original philosophy. If LG could do it, I'm sure Apple could too.
I'll create or solve some problem in my sleep and think it's the best thing since sliced bread, then wake up to find the idea not as amazing as I had thought it was.
I don't think it is as big as it once was with frameworks such as Polymer and Ionic.
What if Google had no offices in Germany? Would these rules still apply? Otherwise the rules would apply to every single company with a website, which seems extreme, especially if you don't do business in Germany.

It would make more sense if the rule just applied to paying customer and not random users.
>In one case, we have a socially decent person (fuck "law abiding", in this context) who is wronged by "justice". In the other case, we have someone who got away with something wrong, only to be nailed for something else. One person is a "solid citizen" (placed in quotes because, again, who knows what the fuck that means). The other is Al Capone.

No, if "everyone that powerful has done something illegal" then the other is what we call a scape-goat.

Al Capone was in criminal business through and through, not someone who had a legit business and also "had done something illegal", much less something that "everybody that powerful" had also done.

Intent matters too. Catching Al Capone for tax evasion was meant to punish him for his larger serious crimes. Whereas in this situation (if it's as described), the caught the guy for "insider trading" to punish him for something else he did RIGHT.
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(1) Google also offers other services, such as GMail and Google Docs.

(2) This is a requirement for anybody who offers services that are generally provided for a fee, even if in this particular instance it is offered for free (e.g. because it is financed through advertising or a freemium model). See §5 of the German Telemedia Act [1].

[1] http://www.cgerli.org/fileadmin/user_upload/interne_Dokument...
I would guess it's a cheap way to try to target the offer to people actually trying to build companies (vs hobbyists or established companies)
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> it's almost universally known that Google provides zero support

I don't think that fact is widely known among the general public, especially in countries where people assume (due to the law requiring it) that any company can be contacted and will reply to reasonable inquiries. It wouldn't be odd for someone in that case to assume that Google also has an address where they respond to inquiries, since every business does (or should).

You could make the same argument you made in the other direction: If Google really dislikes responding to email, just don't do business in Germany. It seems so far that most companies value doing business in Germany more than they value the right not to respond to email. It's almost universally known that companies doing business in Germany must provide a contact address where they respond to inquiries, so this isn't really a misleading or unexpected feature.
Wow that sounds really promising.
Who cares? This is just a side project, it's not like there aren't a ton of other doom engine implementations based on the GPL code.
Maybe it's different for the cloud platform, but while I love Google, and Google products, i'd never trust them to support my business. Support matters a lot, and Google hasn't established a good reputation there.

Azure is my choice for the moment.
Points 2-4 would involve Google violating (likely) their own Ts&Cs with customers and (possibly?) state/federal law.

But I think your Point 1 is highly likely. How many startups are going to build on Google's Cloud Platform, then after a year port everything to AWS, particularly if Google can prove that they're cheaper or at least cost-competitive with similar feature set. (Assuming that's true, of course, and that you don't need something specific to AWS)
I think given Mojang is making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and they're reportedly in talks to sell the company to Microsoft for $2billion, he can probably be forgiven for not 'knuckling down' and just following his whims.

Edit: spelling.
Context: "'Minecraft' Creator Markus Persson Notches Billionaire Status On Rumored Microsoft Deal"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/maxjedeurpalmgren/2014/09/10/min...
So boostraped startups, like mine, that would need /profit from it the most, are explicitly excluded.

Well, Google, we didn't need your money anyway.
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Fart noises as you scroll, because the Onion
Check out Customer.io and Trak.io.
Just as 'Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder' is simply 'Shell Shock'

Language changes depending on how you want the person to feel about a subject.

if you want people to hate and revile someone for doing something you do call it something strong and fierce (blackmail) if you want to do something yourself make it sound lawful (IE; parallel construction).
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Wow, did they change the name of their thing again?

I am really leery of these various clouds. They are like architectural catnip-using them requires you to use an order of magnitude greater resources than you would on a single server, but it's really fun to assemble the moving parts.

I feel like some people don't fully recognize how much you can do on a single tiny machine in 2014 if you don't have 29 abstraction layers under you.

It's not just that the cloud stuff is inefficient, but that it's so much fun to write services across ten ephemeral nodes and play with all the cool tooling, instead of hanging your head and learning the simple apache config that will enable you to do the equivalent stuff on a budget linode.
In Germany, at the bottom of almost every website there is this thing called the 'impressum link', (example: http://www.spiegel.de/impressum/a-941280.html ), where the party operating the website lists their address of business and ways to contact them.

This is a requirement for doing business online in Germany.
It's just the way you phrased it, core.logic for Clojure, various Kanrens for Scheme, as opposed to, implementations for Kanren in Clojure and Scheme such as core.logic.
That is one of the stupidest diatribes I have ever read in HN.

Success is a thing in of itself, it doesn't require repetition for validation. If notch is in a place where he never needs to meet your criteria of success ever again I'm sure he would be quite happy.

One second thoughts, having been on the sidelines of gaming communities for a number of years, I imagine that not having to feel like you need a success ever again is probably the best possible outcome as an indie game dev.
Some countries do indeed have cities where things are in walking distance, or a working public transport network. In those cases you can get by without a driver's license just fine. (In the city where I studied getting anywhere with bike and/or public transport was often faster than by car.)
Well, it's not like the governments cannot either manufacture a case to send an innocent man to jail or cover-up a wrongdoing -- they have been caught doing those things time and again.

Heck, there are people that had the death penalty due to planted evidence and/or witnesses in favor of them ignored, only to be found innocent decades later, through newer findings like DNA.

So who really knows, especially in particularly charged cases with special interest like this.
No, but at the same time I've never needed their CS. The one time I've called was to inform of international travel. Total time spent on the call was less than 5 minutes. Did the same thing for my Visa card and that took over 15.

My only other interaction with them is when they send me new cards to activate, like if my card is going to expire or they want to issue me a new number. Activation is all automated and takes 2 minutes.

Fidelity brokerage I think is a separate service organization, and have had no problems with them either about account questions.
Just what the world needed, another way to play Doom. How many more chances are we going to give to Notch before we admit Minecraft was a lucky accident?
I will never check my email. Mwahahahaha!
BizSpark is called BizSpark since a long time.

BizSpark is not their cloud offering, it's simply their program for giving away software licenses to startups
Service providers must render the following information easily, directly and permanently
accessible for telemedia which are offered commercially, generally in return for a FEE:

2. details which permit rapid electronic contact and direct communication with them,
including the electronic mail address

( fee is emphasized by me )

I would argue that free services do not fall under this rule.
Is a rather brief blog post really strong marketing? Other than this and his stream, I've not seen anything but other people ascribing their own defined importance to what he does with his time.
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I guess he means that libertarianism is mainly anti-statism, with statism being the imposed/de-facto religion nowadays.

On the other hand, the blind faith in the 'forces of the market' is another politically deistic stance, so i don't know how 'politically atheist' it is.
Instafall – Location based multi column viewer for Instagram
Of course, the share price stagnation is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the share price rises too much, bond holders will convert and cash out early. Even the understanding that this is possible puts a damper on peoples' assessment of the stock's upside potential.
It applies to every web site that targets Germans.
I have been using Instafall quite a while and it was continuously being improved. For the time being besides a viewer like TweetDeck i.e adding users or tags as columns, it also supports nearby posts and locations as columns.

Instafall also has a Twitter account[1] and as far as I can see they listen to their users.

[1]: https://twitter.com/instafallapp
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Here they are:

Post on declarative style: http://talk.commonmark.org/t/571

Syntax diff: https://github.com/vfmd/vfmd-spec/wiki/commonmark-vs-vfmd
Decent jet engines!

Seriously, you typed this statement and thought what? "Now we'll finally have a fruitful discussion on the hacker site"?
I'm working on a CI service for PHP & GitHub, Anorak - http://anorakci.com

It's similar as to how HoundCI works, but it's for PHP and will provide repository owners with a lot more information regarding bad pull requests etc.
Can we hurry with the electric buses already...
Are you serious? Have you considered that maybe he's not interested in making another "hit" game, and just enjoys making games?

Life isn't all about money (which he already has a lot of) and pumping out products.
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Oh yes, that is my ultimate dream!
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Your calculations are horrifically wrong.
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It's effectively a subsidy to accelerators: $100K of risk capital being matched by $100K of hosting, doubling the initial runway for a startup which needs that level of capacity.
And did the people who passed this law thought of businesses who have millions of visits per second and what the consequences of replying to every single email would cost to the company and society? Seems like Germany have some really backward laws when it comes to the web, starting with all their spying laws and making Google Street View close to illegal.
Sounds like a good cross section of the tech press. Only half kidding. There have been mentions of this kind of thing (cheering, gasping, feverish typing) in live blogs of these events from The Verge and others.
They are not required to do real support.

But since they openly state that the email address is not monitored, they do not fulfil the requirements of the law.

It's perfectly fine never to respond to any email sent there.

They just have to accept that mails sent there can have legal effects.

The problem is basically that by telling everyone "I don't read it" they are suggesting to others that they cannot successfully (in a legal sense) contact Google using that email address. And that's wrong.
My biggest objection is the "approved VC" rule. Being from Washington DC, if I were to create a startup and get funding, am I on the approved list? I doubt they would have heard of the VCs out here (I don't know of many tech VCs).

Seems like it will be really easy for them just to pick big names, change/bend the rules for them to ensure they make a lot of money. It is good for their bottom line but bad for most out there.
Fascinating. Notch is going retro in his own unique way!