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Google's Android One Smartphones Could Further Its Dominance in Emerging Markets
Very nicely done! Scored 165 from the first try. I used to play this game on my friend's console, long time ago.
Do people get prosecuted anywhere for fatal traffic accidents, except when they are severely breaking the law?
Just wait a few days until things settle down before making any decisions. Seems the stress of the events is still fresh, don't make any final decisions just now.

That's a general lesson in life. Know yourself and know when you're being afraid, when you're being irrational. And postpone taking decisions that can wait a few days.
A transcoding FUSE filesystem for music
Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness (Feb 9, 1956)
That's a false equivalence. Someone's bad driving can kill me. Someone's bad purchasing decisions can't ( at least in the short term).
I'll buy a 4.7. Then I'll buy a saw and make it a 4.
I agree with you on the "blank spot" issue the more I think about it. I don't currently have any on my resume so adding one by my own choosing in order to give greater focus to my career path and passion for what I do should be an easy explanation.

As for my pride, when I wrote that comment I had in mind doing an unpaid internship alongside recent college graduates. I'd inevitably feel old in that scenario but you're right, it would help me determine if that path is still one I want to go down and is low-risk/commitment. Thank you for the feedback Dave.
Looking at something indeed doesn't mean paying attention to it. That's why head-up displays can be dangerous (just like handsfree phone usage).

Daniel Simons, a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois, says this in his episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2012/04/24/yanss-podcast-episode...

Head-up displays are discussed starting at 12:31.

If I remember correctly, pilots were at danger to miss planes on the runway while using a head-up display.

"Even pilots use it – it's safe." Is it?
> Ballpark pricing and schedules.

They explain both on their How It Works page: http://sandwichvideo.com/how-it-works/
This doesn't address your questions, but does address your comments.

I know someone who managed to obtain a lethal dose of the drug they prescribe in Oregon. He believes in the right-to-die movement but lives in a state that will probably never allow it. Before anyone asks, I don't know how he got his hands on it.

"How to Die in Oregon" is a heartbreaking documentary on the right-to-die issue that brought me to tears (I don't cry easily). The assisted deaths that occur at the start and end of the film are punctuated by the patients reassuring their family members that they are in no pain as they say goodbye. Both had low quality of living due to their respective illnesses, but they got to say goodbye on their own terms and with dignity. Very touching.
Instantly clear to me that this is for internal tooling use only.

"For what would I use TinyCert certificates?
Any place you would use (or should have used) self-signed certificates. Don't leave admin panels, such as phpMyAdmin, a CMS or a webmail install without some protection to keep your password from being intercepted. Use them to protect your test and development installations. Use them on your local POP or IMAP servers. Or use them to test your own code involving certificates." - https://www.tinycert.org/faq#use
I love the application and the design!
Is there a way to subscribe so as to be informed of 'new' competitions?

Minor things -
* Would love to go read 'about' the app
* Add activity to top menu as well
* Possibly change 'Users' to ranklist!
This ship is a delivery drone for the open sea
I did the same, but made lead sinkers for hand-line fishing.
Two Blind Sisters See for the First Time
This guy: Steven Don (@shdon): https://twitter.com/shdon

Same nickname as the OP and tweets about tinycerts.
This funding seems nuts to me.
This obviously should not be added to the list of trusted CAs in any browser, and these certs should not be used in the public web. Unfortunately, neither should many certificate authorities be trusted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ
Don't Take Your Vitamins
Nice game. Looks to me like a modern slavehack. Keen to give it a try.
Sorry for your honesty. OP here.

Some people don't think only on money. I created this game as a fun project, for fun, without expecting any revenue. (If I did, it would be pay-to-win).

I tried to kill myself last year a few days after I gave a talk at a FOSS conference. Some people can't handle pressure, email volume or too much social contact, specially if they have something called social anxiety, depression, and other things that I do.

I understand your suspicious.. However you are assuming I'm a crazy-for-money guy like... many people.

If no one buys the game I'll probably shut it down. For my own mental sanity.
Oh yeah and while we're at it we should also jam people's devices at protests and large gatherings as well. /s
Thanks, this is something that I should try.
$6m is not a lot of money. It's big for the average series A for YC, and $6m is a 4 year runway for a 30 person team if they don't blow it on a fancy office. High quality traffic + a job board. The $22m valuation seems high though when you think about what they think that company will be worth.
I think Boiron and Hyland are pretty trustworthy, but I agree that maybe there are questionable manufacturers out there. The same applies to supplement manufacturers, but that's a whole another chapter of this discussion! I recently found (thanks to my ConsumerLab subscription) that one of the leading vendors of organic raw cacao actually had pretty high levels of cadmium (way above the norm) and I've read in the news feeds that even strictly controlled pharmaceuticals have recalls, so, it's all a matter of luck.
Tim Cook Interview on Charlie Rose
Nice but I cannot play on iphone4 Ios7 safari - bottom buttons are hidden under the toolbar.
Actually the word robot was invented by his brother Josef Čapek.
My detector's going off based simply on the fact that you're unwilling to tell us more about your idea. Do you believe that there are people out there who would beat you to the pinch?
If there is a concrete correlation between trace amounts of Lithium in the water supply and lower suicide rates, surely there are other effects? The studies done seem quite one sided to me (or more likely, this article is). For serious consideration, not only do more studies have to be undertaken for other cities, but other factors have to be measured as well. Other psychological problems, rate of divorce, physical activity (sport etc), unemployment, debt, other drug use, education etc. Perhaps there's a lower incidence of suicide because people are much less active? Unemployed, no ambition, but not enough drive to end it all as well?
Don't sell! Hire someone who will take salary as a profit cut. If I had any money I would have totally bought it though.
Congrats on the success. Allow me to give you some advice before you sell, having been in almost your exact position at your age:

- Lots of emails/press attention is a good sign and no reason to give up on a project. Focus on improving the game and ignore the emails if you have to. They don't matter

- I too had a game go viral (0 to 3 million accounts in about 6 weeks). I was getting multiple acquisition offers but up until that point it was the most exciting and stressful time of my life. I got absolutely no sleep for days on end. But it paid off and I learned more practical knowledge in those short few weeks than my entire college career.

- When the time was right I sold, not because I was tired, but because it was the right time for the game and for my future

- Shortly thereafter I developed another game which I considered selling early on like you are doing now because I wanted to move on to something else. I decided to continue improving it and it ended up lasting 5+ years and grossing several million $s, far more than I ever thought was possible with the initial version

- This is your baby. You are by far the best person to nurture it and turn it into something you're extremely proud of.

- Your growth is promising but the traffic right now is too low for you to get any serious offers in my opinion. Keep on grinding, it'll be worth it
It used to and I did for a while but the prices for work are so low you either have to work yourself dead or never get hired. I would really like to freelance, but it seems to be pretty hard to get work and sites like this don't work to make a living.
> distilled water is acidic

Distilled water is neutral, it is the reference point against which acidic and alkaline solutions are compared.

Technically one could argue that it is acidic, because any concentration of [H+] is acidic, but this is like arguing that Jiminy Cricket is tall because he has height.

However, rainwater will naturally absorb CO2 in the air (and since the industrial revolution, NO2 and SO3), making it acidic.
I don't mind a few massive assholes; what I fear are the non-human capitalists, mandated to be sociopathic by law: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...
Where do you live? Not arguing you are wrong, just curious.
How to add Gamification to your content in 8 steps
An interesting analysis from a self study if you haven't read it already: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#lithium
Thanks! It's a great project and better transparency will definitely help its adoption.
This is the same actor that appeared in the original Coin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Sx34swEG0
Good work Renato and credit to plugging at it for 2 years. If the social friction this game has bought your life is the reason you are selling it, let me ask you a question: What happens if you cold turkey on the game for the next few months? No answering emails, no bug fixes, nothing. If the game continues to run well and give the players some joy (keeping the money aspect aside for now), why not just let it be?
Your solution is in this message. Oh,I need some feedback also
I believe I should not lie. But sometimes I lie. I find this hard. It is a personal struggle, something I meditate on and genuinely try to improve myself. When others lie, I want to say that lying is wrong and simultaneously acknowledge that it's difficult to do the right thing.

I preach X and behave !X. But I don't think I'm a huckster, nor trying to sell anything. I'm just me. I'm not vying for credibility. But I still encourage people not to lie, even though it's hard.

Is there anyone who lives in perfect accordance with their ideals for how people should live?
audit2allow and friends have really come a long way since SELinux's introduction. I have a RHEL7 virtual machine running a node app and it works really well. If permission is denied for something, I just look at the audit log to see if it was selinux's fault, then audit2allow will either tell me what permission I need to turn on, or give me a custom rule to allow that behavior.
Cool game. If anyone else is as confused as I was, you have to use up/down as well as left/right. I only figured this out after trying to use the console buttons.
Who is closer to the dad? Revealed
No. Texting, like IM and email, is an asynchronous form of communication. There are, however, plenty of people who do not understand that and might demand a more immediate response (as indicated by my own experience and the experience of other commenters here). Such pushy, demanding people have no place in my life and acquiescing to their petty needs should never come ahead of my own and others' survivability.
It's learnable and takes a lot of practice mixing colors and you need the right teacher. I picked up this ability in art school and it absolutely makes a sunset more beautiful. But to keep seeing this way you have to practice regularly. Use it or lose it. If I'm not painting regularly, it's gone.

Like if you play chess for hours and hours every day, eventually you start to experience everything in terms of chess moves. It's the same with color. Look at just about any flat surface long enough and you'll notice it has a hue, saturation and value. Just go into Photoshop and you'll see that boring white wall has variations in hue, saturation and value, it's no medical mystery in my opinion.

This part is a tiny more green, that part is a tiny more blue. I'm not giving you an art lesson here but you get the idea. Artists know they can make things look farther away by painting them blue/gray, decrease saturation with distance, etc. The painter learns to exaggerate because she just has a 2D surface to work with. Anyway, through the process of painting our perception of color improves, even when we're not painting.

K-12 the goal is just paint the sky blue and the grass green, color inside the lines and get your grade. But if you want to be a serious painter at some point, you may want to look at things fresh, more intently. When people see your paintings, don't expect them to care how long it took to mix the color. Only a few artists will notice and they're not the ones buying your work.

So even for artists, seeing color is not terribly useful, because mixing color is very time-consuming. It's more a hindrance than anything because I can finish an ink wash in 1/100th the time and sell that for the same price as an oil painting of the same subject.

If you have all the time in the world and don't need money, I say go for it, buy some expensive oil paint and send me an email, I'll tell you what to buy. Stretch the canvas yourself and go all out.
The reason given was leeching. Neutral is not good enough for that sometimes; you need slightly basic. Some things will corrode at pH 7, but not higher.

Good call though; distilled water is neutral.
Not cool. Private keys generated on their servers and then the idea of inatalling the certs as trusted in your OS/browser is mentioned. Also 1024-bit keys. Is this some kind of test to see who falls for this?
Hey Renato, good job you did here, but I would honestly don't sell and I'll definitely don't buy.

See, I've been wandering on HE a couple of hours yesterday, and your project seems to have some serious execution flaws (bad ui, downtimes, social based income, etc).
Nothing serious for a side project but these are definite blockers if you ask for a 50k something.

Not mentionning the stack: slackware (honestly?), php and python (why two langages?), no framework. The last one could be the main reason you are struggling to keep it afloat, and that at least throws a big red flag: "I'm gonna head troubles if I'm gonna buy".

And the business side doesn't seems to be worth it.

My 2 cents on selling/buying webapps : I would be keen on paying 10K on a website-based business with 10 long-time customers paying 100$ each month.
That's not the kind of deal you seems to be after, but I think this is somehow the standard for serious buyers on the market.
Why so low you may ask? Because if I understand your project to the point I could buy it, then that means I can replicate your little business.
I'm only buying time, and I think it would take ~10 months to build that webapp and gather some ~10 customers (maybe yours, now I know your flaws...).

And that means buying a strong problem solving webapp, not a niche online game.
If the webapp is very well executed then I would maybe push to 15K per 10 recurring customers, not more.
And I don't care the market size: it's for the potential 100 recurring customers that I would be in, not for the seldom social viralisation peak with an only 1 or 2% conversion.

In a nutshell: don't loose your time trying too hard to sell it.
If it sells then congrats, but you should spend your time fixing the UI to keep your players onboard, writing a great FAQ that handle the tickets, and boosting your infra so you that you're not needed around when it collapse.

Because after that you're done: let it live alone and enjoy your 1000$/month.
Based on my experience there's little chance you'll reproduce that for the years coming.

But that's still a good feat for your age and experience, kuddos and congrats to you ;)
Pretty cool that you made the forum automatically create account when the game account is made. It's the small touches that make the difference between something people will use and something people love to use.

Like other people commented, I don't think your user numbers will hold up in the long run -- not because of the game, necessarily, but because people naturally try stuff out and then never return.

Nonetheless, I'd consider buying it, but not at any price that would make you feel good about spending two years coding the thing.
I have not looked at PH for months. too US/siliconvalley centric. hopefully the cash means they can deal with this problem now
You might make more in SV but would you make more after accounting for cost of living differences? It's a very expensive area to live in. A quick Google search tells me that your 48k Euros is equivalent to over 100k USD in SV. I used Berlin and San Francisco as the locations for comparison.

http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?coun...
I'd love to see how this goes. :D

I recommend having a read of this other discussion thread further up the page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312701
Alternate title: how to sneak a For Sale listing to the top of HN.
While I don't disagree, I think such people are wrong. Even if you're at my door and the doorbell is broken, if you don't call, I might miss your text. I won't apologize because you didn't call. To me texting is asynchronous and if you want real-time, synchronous responses, you should call. The expectation of any kind of timely response is ridiculous, IMO, and is completely inappropriate. I could be doing any number of things that require full concentration (work and sleep come to mind), be out of cell range, have forgotten my phone, have a dead battery etc. I have seen people get upset over not having their texts responded to and I judge them, rightfully and harshly, as being inconsiderate, demanding, and selfish. If it is indeed a cultural norm, it is an extremely inconsiderate norm indeed.
I would say that if you're riding on rough terrain (e.g. rocky, boulder-strewn, heavily rutted, etc.), you would be shocked at what you can do on a full suspension bike. I know I spent the first couple of months with a F/S bike just riding over random obstacles out of sheer amazement. If you're riding mostly smooth dirt trails where your primary obstacle is occasional tree roots and ruts, then a hardtail is probably fine.
You are not your customer. Your advertisers and affiliates are not your customer. Your advertisers are there to fund the customer’s needs. For every decision you make you have to stop and ask yourself: Is This Best For The Customer?

This part I disagree with--in how many business models is it true that advertisers aren't the true customers? There are many businesses that are predicated on delivering actual value to actual individual customers, but it seems as though most content-farming sites are giving away value specifically to serve their true customers, the advertisers.
I would argue that the best science fiction is about putting humans in unlikely places and seeing how they adapt. Great sci-fi is definitely not about technology, with technology merely being the instrument to set a stage that couldn't exist in a non-scifi work. See asimov's foundation or leguin's left hand of darkness as examples of technology being just a stage-setting device to tell a great story.

I have read a lot of non scifi literature, and I would argue that quite a few of those books are more about impressing with linguistic marvels than about telling a great story. For example, I had such a hard time getting to the story behind the writing in books like Ulysses and The Satanic Verses that I didn't even finish reading them.
Hey, thanks for the feedback!

* About the app: http://erdos.sdslabs.co/about
* Added 'Activity' to topbar.

Subscription to new problems is a cool idea. I'll add it to my to-do list.
Here is some math:

The formular for the present value of a perpetuity is just

present_value := cashflow / discount_rate

Given 750$ per month (9000$ per year) and a 3% annual discount rate, then an infinite stream of 750$ monthly payments is worth today 300.000$.
If only it was as simple as using personal time and emotion invested as a large part of the equation that determined a softwares value... we would all be rich :)
OPhone: Scent-based mobile messaging
Maybe it would be a bit off-topic - but why these kind of startups doesn't support WindowsPhone system?
It is more dangerous to not look at the road than to look at it. Surely.

This is safer than looking at a phone. I agree that it has the same inherent problem of distracting the driver with other tasks and making it easier for your mind to wander. But it's still a step up.

Perhaps they should make it a "driving tasks only" device. Speed, navigation etc. But unfortunately the law allow devices in the car that provide other information and services as long as they're hands free and they're not playing video. While the law allows it, people will fill that gap and these guys would fail miserably by ignoring that side of the market.

Edit: I read comments further down that enlightened me to the point of view that this creates the illusion of safely texting while driving, and people may be texting and tweeting more while driving, distracting them more rather than less. The laws need to change.
there isn't really a $400 category for mountain bikes ... then there are the $1000+ bike store bikes.

That's not quite accurate. Here's a random example:

http://www.rei.com/c/mountain-bikes

You should be able to find plenty of decent hardtail low-end mountain bikes in the $500 - $900 range, particularly if you wait until the off-season to do your shopping.

My personal advice would be to buy your way into a decent frame and upgrade components as they fail. If there's one thing I found from several years of avid mountain biking, it's that parts wear and break much faster than they do in road riding, giving plenty of upgrade opportunity. :-)
Quote: "But there are undoubtedly other reasons for its neglect. Pharmaceutical companies have nothing to gain from this cheap, ubiquitous element."

Ah, of course. This is why lithium is ignored or actively disparaged, while drugs whose ineffectiveness has been demonstrated in a now-famous meta-analysis --

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

"Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance." [emphasis added]

-- continue to be aggressively marketed.

This is not to say that lithium is a panacea or not dangerous if mishandled. It is to say that it has measurable beneficial effects in the right doses, on the right people. No one knows why this is true, but that's true of all such medications.
Problems should be arrived at by computer? Some of these are very much non-computational, at least from a mathematician's point of view. For example http://erdos.sdslabs.co/problems/45 for which the answer is immediate if you understand the dynamics of irrational rotations.
Shut it down and release the source.