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300 frames a month? Even if they are key-frames that still only comes out to 5 minutes of footage. No wonder it's dieing. Everyone else (not Japanese) is using animation software to create an entire movie. In this day and age there is no excuse to still be hand drawing cells. Proper wireframing can get you an entire scene rough cut in a day. Even less if you have an asset library built up.
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A little more warning than that might have been nice.
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"I realize that I sounded like a bit of a dick in my post, but that's just how I write"

You know that when you emulate a dick so thoroughly, it's very hard for people outside your brain to differentiate your simulation from a real one.
I am not that sure about the integrity of physics. Maybe with quantum physics, you can also get away with talking a lot of nonsense.

Edit: I don't claim that quantum physics is nonsense, just that in the name of quantum physics a lot of strange ideas have been put forward. My impression is that quantum physics is sound (mathematically), but I remain doubtful about "many worlds", for example.
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Indexing and returning results to search queries is not the same as publishing. The cache feature is publishing, but it is easy to remove it without impacting Google in significant way.
Wow that is just an amazing application. It really enables government transparency. I'm seriously thinking about porting it to the German political system.
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Absolutely - at the end of the day there are only two parties that can make the App Store successful - app users and app developers. Developers overwhelmingly have many misgivings about the way things are being done now, and a "there is nothing wrong, move along" interview with the head honcho at Apple is doing Apple zero favours.

Even a "we understand some problems exist and we are looking into them" is a much, much better way to handle this than an outright denial that problems exist.
Do you have any evidence of this. My search so far has turned up plenty of links to a Liberation.fr article from an anonymous researcher at one of France's research institutes. And every article is from early 2007. Apple denies it, OSHA isn't checking it, and there isn't a follow up response from anyone quotable.

So what is the current issue with OSHA? And where can I find it?
They can't dance for shit though. A gymnast moving into breaking stands out by a mile. It's as if they've left their clothes hanger inside their clothes.
The only real reason I see for the approval process is safety - your phone has direct access to your money, unlike your computer. Maybe Apple could make a "safe mode" which would not allow an app to be destructive, and only require approval process if you the developer want to use some non-"safe mode" features. That would significantly decrease the load on their approval teams.
physicists are smarter than professors of French Literature

I would tend to say the opposite. Paul, you're mixing up here what I would call "savantism" with intelligence. We know that there is no true definition of intelligence, but I think whatever the definition ends up being, it has to be based more on understanding than just knowledge and mechanizations within that knowledge. Who would be more afraid, in your scenario, between the physicist and a Cantonese scholar?

if [Finland] seems that much more socialist than the US, it is probably simply because they don't spend so much on their military

Exactly. So it's not about dismissing Socialism (especially since all modern countries operate on both Socialistic and Capitalistic principles), as much as making an argument as to what the upper tax bracket should be. And for that, I would look at companies that have tremendous bonus systems. (I won't exhibit the obvious.) Are they more productive? Do they take more risks? What are the benefits and consequences of those risks? Personally, I'm not as concerned about the marginal incentive between $10 million and $1 billion as I am that a society, as a whole, functions, and doesn't degenerate into something "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
left to right, top to bottom. other standards exist in the world but YMMV
I guess there's two kinds of attention here: short-term (I can't concentrate enough to do an hour's good work) and longer-term (a few weeks into a project I get bored and do something else).

For short-term, some people love the Pomodoro technique but I found it too restricting. For me, I just have to find something interesting enough (or find a way to make something interesting enough).

For longer term projects, there are two rules:

* Do it every day, or every weekday. You can find the time, just keep to a schedule. I've made a website (www.relayapp.com) and two iPhone apps during my train/bus commute over the past 18 months. It's tough at the start but you get into it.

* Break everything into small chunks. I have a list of unit tests to write in a text file and I can always do something in 30 minutes. If not, I spend my time thinking of small tasks I can do next time. Making it easy to make some progress is what keeps you going.
What do academic economists actually have to say about the link between entrepreneurship and taxation? My impression is that new tech companies start in response to new technological opportunities and have little to do with marginal tax rates.

Hewlett Packard 1939 - Top Income Tax Rate 79%

Intel 1968 - 75%

Microsoft 1975 - 50%

Adobe 1982 - 50%

Google 1998 - 40%
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Actually in many more socialist countries, highways and some urban roads are payed by the people who use them. Better examples are military and police force.
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The interview is targetted at the mainstream audience (not developers) and they've done a good job of explaining some of the benefits of the review process.

Unfortunately, the interview doesn't address two key points.

1. The lack of transparency into the review process (where the app is in the queue, is the review process going to take one week or ten weeks, will the app be approved or not, lack of response to developer emails etc.)

2. The number of incorrect rejections (i.e. app rejected for a bogus reason)

The second issue is an understandable limitation that can be mitigated, but perhaps never eliminated.
However, imo Apple needs to do a lot better with the first problem - "lack of transparency" problem and related developer-relations problem.
Having had some training in classical lit. and [previously] gone out with a girl reading French Lit. at university I cant help but agree.

I expect a Physicist could write enough to fool a French Lit. magazine - but only superficially. I dont think they could write meaningfully on a subject.

I also know a few literary students who I suspect could write a sufficiently obtuse piece of work in, say, a month to fool some physicists. Again only superficially.

I think the fallacy Paul falls into is the thinking that French Lit. professors don't question what they read in the same way Physicists do. Unfortunately it's a stereotype that does bear out in some respects - but the top guys certainly do question everything. Indeed they will almost certainly disagree by default and go out of their way to find proof.

If you think you've seen scientists bitching and arguing you've never hung round with literature scholars :D
I can understand being cautious about surgery, but what would be the problem with getting tested? Surely donating data to the research would be a good thing?
A note about the second rule: "Break everything into small chunks". This in itself can be a very demotivating task if you do not realize that you don't have to decide on all the chunks in advance. From GTD I learned that you only have to decide what the next chunk will be for a particular project, not all of them.
I'll tell you how I don't - via Chrome. The site looks awful in it. I have to switch to FireFox.
Arguably, 'syntax' is the set of rules to transform code into an Abstract Syntax Tree. Lisp's code directly represnts the AST so you could say there is no syntax (to be a little more precise I might say Lisp is homoiconic, though).
But I doubt it could be made conclusive without manual data-entry.

Thought.. it could be made semi-automated. Perhaps this sort of data could be in a QR bar code that when scanned (maybe even using the webcam that comes with most machines now) results in a program tracking the event as Daniel suggested.
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Did the Xbox break even? This seems a surprisingly hard question to get a straight answer for.

There's regularly stories about it being "profitable" but they generally mean that they stopped making a yearly loss. Seldom, if ever, do they ask if and when the cumulative yearly profits gave a suitable Return on Investment.
He described it - an example is reading captions on the jackets of movie DVDs.
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but semiconductors or light bulbs or the plumbing of e-commerce probably have to be developed by entrepreneurs. Life in the Soviet Union would have been even poorer if they hadn't had American technologies to copy.

semiconductors: it wasn't e-commerce plumbing driving it, but fear from Sputnik and its consequences (mobile computing ...in Minutemen). That wasn't entrepreneurship (no risks taken on behalf of "entrepreneurs") at Bell either: state subsidized monopoly which was somewhat acknowledged a little later with the babies. The Valley had its paying customers before anything to "market" (see HP f[o]unding letter).

light bulbs: that's a dead horse kicked around too often.

plumbing of e-commerce: being in the right circle helps (No Such Ancestors). Btw. Minitel "3615" was there way before on scale with the actual plumbing (net and terminal used to sell services from the armchair countrywide [amazon/paypal/etc do not serve every country either]). Also from State Monopoly. The Kahns in the USA never ran any risks.

And life in Afghanistan is as poor as it was, America has copied the Soviet Union.
But people haven't.

Also worth noting, the last time I went in for an oil change for my car, the computer facing the car was running ubuntu with a terminal open on some type of curses based database app.

I suspect that the wider adoption of Macs by consumers will lead to greater acceptance of Linux.

And looking to the economic forecasts of the next few years, the need for extreme frugality and the availability of cheap IT labor will make Linux a more attractive choice for reasons other than technical merit.
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I think it is a good idea to invest some part of your attention budget into avoiding to become too narrow minded.

Incidentally I looked up the word for German "Fachidiot", and the dictionary said "nerd" :-/ ("Fachidiot" in German is someone who is very good in his chosen profession, but completely clueless about everything else - to the point of making idiotic decisions for lack of broader vision).
The hack here is obvious.
1) Purchase a 50 dollar gift certificate and get a 10 dollar gift certificate for free

2) Use the 50 dollar gift certificate from above and get another 10 dollar gift certificate.

3) Keep doing this over and over.

Here is what happens after each step:

1) Money spent: 50 bucks, gift cert $ 60 bucks

2) Money spent: 50 bucks, gift cert $ 70 bucks

3) Money spent: 50 bucks, gift cert $ 80 bucks

...and so on until you are satisfied.
I like to have a few (maybe 5-10) chunks ready so I can pick up my laptop and start working any time, and not have to decide what to do next. This helps when I'm low on energy - I just pick something easy from my list and I can still make progress.

But you're completely right: planning everything in detail at the start would be suicide (at least for me).
There was a show in the UK where they trained husbands like dogs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4457416.stm

Interestingly, much like Super Nanny (and I believe Dog Whisperer, though I've not seen much of it) they generally showed that "bad" behavior in the Husband (Child/Dog) was often a direct result of the behavior of the Wife (Parent/Owner) and much of the changes involved the Wife (Parent/Owner) changing how they deal with things rather than directly changing the Husband (Child/Dog).

One example was a husband who never helped with the chores. The cameras revealed that every time he tried to help his work was immediately criticized and often redone afterwards by the wife. Confronted with video evidence the wife realized the counter-productive nature of her actions.

This however didn't stop a reverse-sexism backlash as seen in the link above.
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Very impressive imo.
Here's a more informative article on the whole set of changes Google plans to test:

http://searchengineland.com/google-streamlines-search-option...
How much money are we even talking about? And I don't mean the offering to Fox, I mean how much money is Google making for searches for Fox news? My guess is that it would be very little money. What searches (besides porn) are the bulk of internet searches?

I don't think I have ever hit on a Fox web site in a web search, but then I am not living in the US.
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Haven't read all the technical details, but if the idea is to "sandbag" the image, text of all sizes and fonts should be able to flow around it properly? All it does is to create shape out of divs that is a closer match to the visible pixels than a rectangle.
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Ask HN: When to raise from angels
Hello everyone

What is the usual stage for a Web startup to start approaching Angels for investment (50-100K$).

Is it normal to do it during development (Which, for web, mostly can be done on "Ramen"), or do it once you launch and have some traction (not revenue) ?
As far as I can tell, most anime studios these days are using animation software to some extent or another. It's a very rare situation (e.g. Miyazaki) when old-fashioned cels are used, and it's at very high cost.

Nowadays, especially on lower budget stuff, you can spot blatant motion-tweening.
If 95% of the patients would have MS symptoms continue for two years at least, then having only 27% of the patients show symptoms 2 year on, is insanely significant statistically.

Similarly, if the average number of active lesions stayed at 50% for a control group, and fell to 12% for the test group, that's statistically significant.

Even if the group is small if the observed deviation is high then the observation is significant! Sample size is only half the story.
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I find this really annoying about Paul's otherwise insightful and interested articles. Namely that he assumes you know everything he's written and when and what it was called and that you know how to easily find it so you can understand the context.

Paul, would you PLEASE date your articles (and RFS for that matter) and link to whatever it is you're talking about?
Many smart people

I agree with you that many smart people work for ordinary wages. But the point seems to be to ask the question: is "many", enough to keep an economy growing optimally?

Great Depression[1] : 25% unemployment, thus roughly 75% employment.

Many people were employed, but were enough people in a job?

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_the_United_... "Unemployment fell by two-thirds in Roosevelt's first term (from 25% to 9%, 1933 to 1937)"
Yeah they do know how to milk their hits. There are already 9 One Piece movies and another one releasing next month. To top it off the series has been running for fourteen years.

That said, getting a hit series is not really an easy thing for authors (mangakas). They work about 14 hours everyday and have to produce 19 pages of content every week. The gruelling workload takes a toll on a lot of mangaka's health, forcing the series into a hiatus, which further reduces their chance of becoming hits.

Youtube might not be much of a problem within Japan, but it certainly hurts the overseas profits. Also Japanese studios are incredibly lax when it comes to enforcing copyrights. They usually let fansubbers and scanlation groups get away with pirating weekly chapter releases in the hopes that this would encourage people into buying the volume releases when they are available.
I've heard about this before and have thought about the problem, but even if I hadn't, hearing the same superstition repeated many times does not make it real. I'm willing to bet a small sum of money, say, $100 for 75%, but as I said, I tried to come up with a good experiment and I find it quite hard. I think that a more productive continuation to the discussion would be a collaborative attempt at inventing such an experiment, rather than just throwing spewing inflammatory rhetoric.
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Huh, I was gonna say "They thought of this, you can probably only use one gift card at a time, which is why they sell you two $25s instead of one $50". But it turns out that you can use two gift cards at check out time.
Income tax rates are a red herring. In general, entrepreneurial activity is taxed as long term capital gains. You can see those rate are more attractive.

Hewlett Packard 1939 - 63% (1 year holding) to 23% (10 year holding)
Intel 1968 - 25%
Microsoft 1975 - 20%
Adobe 1982 - 20%
Google 1998 - 20%

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_United....

If at any point I experienced a tax rate of 98%, I imagine I would not be highly motivated to earn more money.
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It's not so much what the upper bracket should be, it's about what the threshold for the bracket needs to be!

In Belgium, the top bracket of 50% starts at about 32,000 euro's. In addition to that, there's a separate flat social security tax of 13%, meaning that my marginal tax rate is about 60% - with a mediocre salary.
The simple rule is: do it as late as possible.

The longer you can delay fund-raising, the less of a share you'll be giving up (or the more money you'll be getting for it), and the stronger your position (presumably). Some businesses raise money on an idea. Others raise money once they have a product with traction. Others never raise money at all. None of those approaches are wrong, but the cost of funding definitely decreases if you wait and decrease the risk on the table.
I'm not entirely sure (my physics days are a few years back), but I think the most nutjob papers are probably published in particle physics. (leaving aside metaphysics, which is philosophy, not physics) I doubt you can publish a QM paper which doesn't use any fairly involved maths, and the maths is probably the easiest giveavay.

In particle physics, you might be able to get away with postulating particles you just made up if your justification is long enough and you have pretty diagrams showing where in the hierarchy of particles it appears. As a bonus, come up with yet another model to explain the existing particles.

In fairness, I'm partly basing this on my experiences with professors in the subjects, all of whom managed to publish papers in their fields. :)

The other strong factor determining your success would be the choice of journal you're submitting to. You're hardly going to pick Science, Nature or Physical Review Letters (PRL).

In any case, my money is still on physicists getting published in French literary journals.
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I always wondered why name obfuscation is thought to add meaning to the brand. I think it is just the opposite.
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In addition, I think it's wise to wait with approaching investors (be it angels or VC's) until you have some actual stuff to show them. People (and especially investors) are hard to get enthousiastic with only an idea, whereas a pilot/demo can really trigger them to see the success in your startup.

A friend of mine did the same thing and simpy used screenshots of a static HTML-version of their web-app to show the VC's, and even that was enough to get them to invest.
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That's a funny link, but you really, really don't want to open up the "are physics or computer scientists smarter" debate, a lot of people here probably don't want to know the truth.
If Apple are using compressed air to blow dust from components and their workers aren't wearing dust masks, then that's already likely a OSHA violation, whether the dust particulate includes carcinogens is largely a moot point in terms of liability at that point.
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No worries. If you don't know, just ask on here, and one of us will know. It's not like you don't read HN.

but I'd have to agree about dating articles and blogposts. It's not just pg, but everyone.
I'm still trying to undo the damage my parents' overprotectiveness has done. I certainly appreciate their efforts to keep me safe from whatever harm they imagined was out there, but it didn't do any favours for my social skills to be sure.

I still feel bad that I learned most of my high school lessons in college - and some I'm still learning now that I've entered "real life". I feel woefully behind sometimes.
If it's just preset google searches, then it's no more useful than the current top-bar, and introduces clutter into the results page, which will make me switch back to one of the alternatives.

However, if they're stealing a little bit of inspiration from MS/Apple and having definable 'libraries', that the user can specify, say "site:www.example.com" or "type:image filetype:png size:large" then it will be of quite some value.
you are missing that Beeb IT was "outsourced" to Siemens, which in turn has a patent-tech X agreement with MS: no place for free (as in freedom) vendor lockin-free tech here...