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I'm tempted to not upvote this just due to the snarky nature, but there is the kernel of an interesting discussion here, so...

Has "Silicon Valley run out of ideas" in any literal sense? Of course not. All this article really points out is that one particular conference (TechCrunch Disrupt) chose a "winner" that seems, at first blush, a somewhat frivolous and non-disruptive app. Whether or not that is the case is a question I'll leave to the philosophers.

OTOH, you could argue that this is just one more echo of the kind of argument Peter Thiel was making when he talked about being "promised flying cars and getting 140 characters" or whatever. And it remains an interesting question whether or not the boom in SoLoMoGeoCatPicGroupMsgDailyDealRideSharing apps actually means anything in terms of the emergence (or lack thereof) of new companies based on more fundamental innovations.

My own feeling is that there are plenty of companies doing "really interesting stuff" and the frothy wake around the silly apps is just a superficial aspect of the way things are reported on, and a reflection of what's trendy. The negative to this, if it exists, would be if the cat-picture startups are actually drawing away investment and resources that could otherwise be going to fund fusion research or something. I don't actually know if that's the case or not, but something analyzing that aspect is a story I would find interesting.
Are you certain that you can donate them? Did the incubator not place any restrictions on their use?
I use slack, and I think it's pretty cool. Can you tell me what I'm missing out?
It was a spammer.
1. Regarding the placebo/nocebo effect, cultural and other differences matter. I can't find where I read about Americans being generally more affected by it, but I won't be surprised if it's related to powerful marketing of pharmaceuticals on media. Trying to find this, I just read that Americans are the most hypochondriac - maybe it's related.

2. I agree with what you said on second opinions and doing your own due diligence, but my point was different - I'm not a doctor, so, I'd take his advice on PMS with a grain of salt although I personally doubt that the placebo can help with that. Hyman's main theme is reducing sugar intake and I honestly haven't found a doctor so far who argues with that. I've only found people living in denial, because they are so hooked up to that substance.

3. As I said, I personally don't believe that the placebo effect of homeopathy can help with PMS and many other conditions, but maybe it does work better for women who look alternative therapies.
It looks like a clone of one of Nintendo's earliest video games: http://www.mariowiki.com/Egg_%28Game_%26_Watch%29
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It is as bad as that. Distribution, marketing, awareness, etc., are the mechanics AFTER research.
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Gwern's writeups on nootropics are some of the best you'll find on the Internet.

Honestly, his writeups on most things are pretty spot on.
Maybe a different name would be in order, since there's already a popular Twitter app named Birdhouse? http://birdhouseapp.com
There have been at least a few kernel privesc vulnerabilities, for example, which have apparently been mitigated successfully with SELinux (I assume that the SELinux policies prevent the necessary pre-conditions of the exploit being met, like denying certain ioctls etc. before they can do damage). I guess it depends on the nature of the exploit.

In any case it sounds like libvirtd can automatically assign a unique category to each VM guest's resources in a way which inhibits guest-to-guest interactions by default.
Their videos are indeed excellently made, very slick, very polished.

However, I'm not sure this style really works well with all their clients. I watched a bunch of their example videos, and in some cases where the startup's fundamental concept is... welll.... kind of weak, the combination of a super slick video with a dumb startup idea tends to make the latter's flaws reallly stick out. It ends up seeming as if the video is mocking the startup rather than trying to sell it....
I have a hard time reconciling these statements with the study referred to in this article: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/truth-wo...

"In the largest prospective study ever conducted for alcohol, involving nearly a half million subjects, sponsored by the American Cancer Society... The overall death rates were lowest among men and women reporting about one drink daily."

There are other findings from that study which support the health benefits of regular, moderate consumption as well. All levels of alcohol consumption (even 6+ drinks per day!) were found to be associated with lower overall mortality than abstinence.
I doubt anyone will want to buy your game. It is not that it is not good but without you in the price it is not worth it, they will not be able to improve it or even maintain it. The learning curve in order to maintain that game will be very expensive. Also success is not guaranteed yet, now is the time your game is growing do not let go. Just take a trip somewhere to relax.

Also find a partner, if you were working on this with someone else, you would have much less stress. Working alone is very unhealthy and extremely stressful. Either partner with someone or balance life and work which might be hard since you have to study too. Go to forums where other programmers that love making games are and find someone to become your partner.
Hiring a developer will increase your stress. Bad idea. Find a partner that knows how to code.
Square rumored to have walked away from $3b offer from Apple
well the lack of a safety net also greatly increases the risk of life-altering injury if something happens.

You can be as careful as you want, but driving is a collective process, and if the guy next to you messes up, you can suffer a lot.
Europe (Czech) already has several limitations, and it works well. It is illegal to cross reference some database and so on.

But limitations usually apply only to commercial companies, state agencies have several exceptions. What I really miss are limitations on government usage of data. We already have:

* national medical registry (with all prescription purchases),

* public transport ID cards,

* bank history and financial records,

* cell phone location history (tower based +-1 mile),

* phone calls registry...

And 2% of population have unrestricted access to all of this. In theory you need court permission, but in practice it is just a few key strokes away...
Why not take the modest income and pay somebody to improve the game and or it's traffic?

Seems to me, you could find another University student looking to grow traffic as part of their studies. Collaborate on this.

Take another small share and pay somebody to do a little support for those users worth responding to.

As others have said, you could potentially benefit from this in the future.

Right now, you are just a programmer. Continue that. Do well, grow.

But, a programmer who understands some business has serious potential. Seems to me you just created the perfect lesson plan. This little project won't take that much to treat like a business and if you make a couple of friends, who knows where you all might go in the future?

You would be able to learn how to better execute on an idea, get a lot of very interesting user metrics, have a following, show income, etc...

Consider this. I would in a second. A few hours here and there just isn't going to impact your studies. However, those few hours here and there could really educate you in ways you will find difficult to realize in a strictly academic environment. This is worth more to you than you currently realize.

Nice work :)
As a non-Silicon Valley non-American this is unbelievable to me. It would take a lifetime and you still wouldn't get this kind of investment money in Europe for a site like ProductHunt.
at your link: the game was released on October 9, 1989
Nu pogodi: released in 1984
I too advice you not to sell it. Branding is a hard commodity to come by. Give it a week or two before doing anything hasty.

The Flappy Bird guy ran into similar situation, but he kept it running. Perhaps there are some lessons to take away from that.
"but I guess while a gold rush is on you sell pickaxes right?"

Translation: anything that doesn't seem useful or profitable can be analogous to selling pickaxes during the gold rush
> In places like Tijuana, police don’t make any pretense about this sort of thing.

Just from a purely statistical point of view, in a place like Tijuana any substantial amount of cash in a car probably is proceeds of illegal activity.
Most people have difficulty with it initially, but it's not difficult to make it harder. Try doing all that while rotating one leg clockwise.
This brings back so many memories of sitting on the steps playing those old hand-held LCD Tiger games. I was absolutely addicted to the batman one: http://www.handheldmuseum.com/Tiger/Batman.htm
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I think selling it would be more stressful than just keeping it running. Lots of buyers flake and lots of things could go wrong.

Also, how much time do you really need to put into this project to keep it running?

This is also a reason why I prefer working on PaaS's for solo projects.. For the most part I can do other things and not put too much mental effort towards it.
Besides school, what should I be focusing on right now? (CIS Student, 2nd year)
I'm currently going for an AS in Computer Information Systems at my local community college and plan on transferring to either RPI or RIT (my community college has excellent articulation agreements) in 2015 to continue on for my BS. I'm currently looking into what is necessary for an internship over the summer of 2015 and am working on a few personal projects (two sites and a mobile game) as well as learning and getting solid grades in class.

What should be my focus? I'm looking for a general outline by those who have been in a similar position to mine (I imagine there are at least a few here on HN.) My main concern is getting to graduation and realizing that I've neglected a critical aspect that was necessary for all job seekers.

Thanks in advance!
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I wonder what measures she took to simulate network latency. That's one of the things, that's going to immediately rat you out, if you're not where you're supposed to be.
If you want to see the ultimate method swizzler in action, check out rollout.io, swizzeling everything :)
I had the real Nu Pogodi as a kid, and once invited half of my class and served them lemonade while they were taking turns to play it. It was a big thing to have in Bulgaria, and the rest of the eastern block in the 80's.
FWIW the Airbnb video stars a very talented Airbnb employee, Venetia Pristavec, who ran video efforts there since the early days.
The semantics of "your suffering brings my life meaning" are particularly vile.
definitely this. Can get more expensive quick too, especially if a video requires multiple locations, multiple actors, multiple actors speaking, etc etc.

Also I can't remember if Adam does this, but most the industry will have different price tiers based on what you want to do with it. Running something on your homepage is a whole different ballgame compared to homepage + TV ads.
Unfortunate phrasing it seems 1989 refers to the Game & Watch Gallery 3 release. The original Egg was released in 1981. [1]

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games
For what it's worth, I remember reading two things:

1. Driving is one of those activities where people actually use a lot of their brains functions to do. This is partly why it can tire you out so much.

2. People speaking to a passenger drive as poorly as people otherwise impaired but the fact that they're both in the car (grounding them in the fact that they're in the vehicle) and that both of them pay some attention to the road helps mitigate the negative effects.

All I can recall is that I read #1 in a BBC News article and the latter on something I found on Google Scholar. I feel they're relevant. If you're interested, I hope it helps.
After having a product - Traction (book) - hit #2 on PH a few weeks ago, I can say that PH drove more and higher quality traffic than several other well-known blogs we were mentioned on.

PH is great and Ryan is awesome - really excited to see where PH goes after the raise!
Pretty good time to sell, given that all that traffic will be gone by next week. But I think the dev and any potential buyers know that.
Simpsons Did It: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It
http://youtu.be/K59eMpWsyNE
Did it on the first attempt, switched hands and legs without difficulty either. And I usually suck doing anything with my non-dominant limbs. Must be all the piracetam.
I have to agree. I do drive like this too over long distances. Anything else would just be too tiring. Maybe we expand the zone of perceived predictability. Fascinating stuff. Good point about having to focus in and out.

This plus Highway Hypnosis [1] show that some of us at least drive without full conscious attention.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_hypnosis
> There are two main ways to earn money with this game. One is using Google Adsense.

> These values are estimated, but I believe one can get at least $20–$25 per day. That’s about $750 per month.

Until you actually see your first payout, the estimate is meaningless. I've heard of many cases where people saw significant estimates and google turned around and shut down their accounts before the first payout.

There is an ongoing class action lawsuit against AdSense for this behavior. Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776282
Librarians are no slouches.

Educational Requirements for Becoming a Librarian: http://www.ala.org/educationcareers/education/paths/libraria...
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I just watched The Congress --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film) -- and WOW, it was excellent. Quite different from the book The Futurological Conference that it's based on: for example, it had cockroaches playing poker instead of sewer rats playing bridge. ;) But well worth watching for its unique take on the entertainment dictatorship. If you liked Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Looker, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you won't be disappointed! Something weird happens in the middle of the film, that's all I'll say...

>According to director Ari Folman, some elements of the film were inspired by the science fiction novel The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem in that similarly to Lem's Ijon Tichy, the actress is split between delusional and real mental states. Later, at the official website of the film, in an interview, Folman says that the idea to put Lem's work to film came to him during his film school. He describes how he reconsidered Lem's allegory of communist dictatorship into a more current setting, namely, the dictatorship in the entertainment business, and expresses his belief that he preserved the spirit of the book despite going far away from it.

It took longer than its length of two hours to watch, because I had to stop and rewind to replay and and freeze frames frequently. (Check out what's going on in the fish tank while she's saying "I wish you could see me animated, it's pretty sick. It's like a genius designer on a bad acid trip. Oh my god, I don't know, I look like a combination between Cinderella on heroin and an Egyptian queen on a bad hair day".)

I'm going to have to watch it many more times, because there were a lot of details to absorb -- time will tell if it's up there with Blade Runner as one of my favorite movies very loosely based on a great book.

http://culture.pl/en/article/ari-folman-on-the-genius-of-sta...
I find that a lot of Canadian startups (specifically those in Kitchener-Waterloo) use Arc Media: http://www.arc-media.ca/
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I think it's just that we all suck at multi-tasking but underestimate how much we suck at it. I have never actually met a good multi-tasker. People who do lots of tasks sequentially, but never anyone who does a satisfactory job at two things that are done simultaneously.
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Your speculation is mostly right. Our brains are pretty good at automating repetitive tasks such as driving, so most drivers regularly don't pay complete attention.

The trouble is our brains primarily adapt to repeated stimuli eg driving in good conditions. Since no one spends most of their time driving narrowly avoiding accidents, that activity isn't one the brain can learn to automate ( well, maybe it's possible with a realistic driving simulator), so dangerous driving requires everyone's full attention.

Since we don't usually have advanced warning of when dangerous driving will happen, the best we can do is spend as much time as possible paying attention to road conditions.

Studies have found hands-free phones are just as dangerous. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hands-free-phones-just-as-risky-...
I am a bit late to the conversation, but apparently Mosfilm has made Solaris available online:

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9Anstjlro&feature=youtu.be

Part 2:

http://youtu.be/yOGHMmKpASk

(Links are from:

http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html

there are more Tarkovsky film links there).

Word of warning: do not expect Star Wars or Inception type special effects. And this is Tarksovky's reading which, if you know Tarkovsky, he was concerned more about the human condition, than technological aspects of Sci-Fi.
Because hopefully we've learned our lesson from the release of those products?
> when extremely tired on a very familiar route

WTF. People shouldn't drive when they're extremely tired.
Get some sleep bro. Shelve the project for a while, work on something else, then come back to it in a couple of months when you're feeling energized again.
Let's hope this gets somewhere before all UAV hackers move to Canada.
Usually "the middle" makes up the vast majority of the scale.

Here's a useful comparison:

Before we were iodizing salt, most people were actually in "the middle" of iodine-consumption. Anywhere from "nearly none" to "tons and tons" was "the middle"--your body can work miracles to create homeostasis from random inputs. But some people were getting no iodine at all, and these people would get very sick.

So we added just a little bit of iodine to salt. The iodine-deficient people--the people who were previously getting utterly no iodine--stopped getting sick, because now they were getting a little bit of iodine, and that was enough. Everyone else was getting slightly more iodine--but this didn't push anyone from "getting a tolerable amount of iodine with the excess just excreted" to "having a hyperiodine problem." There was nobody exactly one dose away from having too much iodine, because we just don't consume that much iodine.

This same story holds for any vitamin or mineral. Calcium, phosphorous, iron, etc. are all things most people get the right amount of--but "the right amount" is almost any amount, because the body knows how to take just the right amount from the stream of input it's getting, and throw the rest out. The only wrong amounts are either zero, or more than exists in any human-friendly environment.
thank you for taking a look at the service.

You can use your own domain, just not automatically..yet.
There are several aspects to consider, DKIM & SPF would have to be handled by the customer and so it is tricky to guarantee the same results we do now.
Regarding which specific points I made all over this thread do you want me to back with a study? The whole modern CVD prevention is based on a hypothesis (Lipid hypothesis), which itself is based on scientific fraud committed by Ansel Keys (he ignored evidence that didn't suit him well), and most of America and the world today eats the semi-dwarf wheat, which was created with prehistoric genetic engineering means, has never been studied on humans, and is not even wheat as it's a mix of wheat and a weed, and has twice the chromosomes of the other wheat cultivars. In science, the simplest hypothesis wins and there are competing ones, and the winner should be the explanation that we're eating foods that we're not adapted to and due to the oversanitization and many infection diseases of the past being eradicated, our immune response needs time (generations) to tame itself down. So, our hypothesis should be the winning one, not the one made with fraud for political and geopolitical reasons!
Yes. It'll be there soon. Thanks. :)
Don't make a decision either way until you're less excited about this. Sit back, take a deep breath, and then go through with it tomorrow after a good night's sleep.

You know the rule: Don't make any decisions hungry, angry, or sleepy.

I wish you luck and happiness. Nice work.
> At that point, Katasi generally doesn’t block the messages on the assumption that the passenger will prevent the driver from texting.

Yeah, like that's going to work.

This whole thing seems like an over-complicated, over-engineered technical solution to a cultural problem.
Ask HN: Can I actually make a living from sites like freelancer.com
Hi Guys,

I want to leave my job and focus on my startup, however I need some income. Is it possible to get 2-3 days worth of income as a web designer and developer on sites like freelancer.com? They seem filled with indian development companies charging almost nothing?
Yes, that is exactly what it is. I'll create an 'about' section soon. Thanks :)

EDIT: http://erdos.sdslabs.co/about
First of all, congratulations for finishing your game and getting some success with it.

A few thoughts:

- 6000 registered users in a couple of days is hardly going viral. It's a promising start but too early to use that adjective (and the numbers are also pretty low).

- The fact that you are trying to sell something you worked on for more than a year just because you can't keep up with the email volume is... suspicious. Especially if the income estimates you give in that article are accurate. Why not just ignore your inbox for a few weeks and come back to it later?

- I think the answer to the question above is obvious: you know your success is temporary and you're trying to cash out while you can. Sorry for my cynicism, just being honest.
Okay, I agree with you on the proof, but, again, he's a doctor and his focus and moral goal is healing patients, not doing research by the book. If he was purely a researcher, I'd agree with you, but, again, he's very actively practicing medicine, and his conclusions are not based solely on the cases he references, I'm sure.
Argh. But I am not surprised. I was kind of hoping it would be an old Soviet original. But yes, it looks pretty much like a clone of that game.

I guess since the 60s or so, Soviets just started to copy all the CPU designs and electronics from the West. Apparently it included children's games.
I had to laugh at the revenue estimates based on the peak of a brief social media buzz. Most of that traffic will disappear over the next few days.
Mostly a reasonable and interesting article. But when you talk about adding something psychoactive to the drinking water, it's just a horrible idea.

It doesn't matter if it's otherwise natural. Nature is inconsistent in dosages (so diverse perspectives can flourish) and doesn't have ulterior motives.

Maybe it brings down suicide rates, but what other effects does it have? Does it affect the likelihood of voting for a political party or cause? Does it affect the likelihood of political participation in general?

It's kind of like CO2 levels in the atmosphere. Higher levels will have some effect; we're basically arguing over the significance of it, what to do about it (if anything), and whether politicians can be trusted with the power to make those changes.

Similarly, mind-altering substances will affect aggregate political behavior. Once someone finds out how, they will use it to their advantage.