Ask HN: What's your favorite HN post? - <AUTHOR> Been asked several times but interested to see references to more recent posts.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3996652 <comment><USER2> Here are a few that I quite like, digging up from my bookmarks.

      - #define CTO - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8516777
      - Ask HN: The "I want to do everything but end up doing nothing" dilemma -  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9049208
      - Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10395046
      - Ask HN: When you feel stuck in life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12143266
      - How to stop feeling lonely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044690
      - We only hire the trendiest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326940
      - The days are long but the decades are short (my personal favourite post and comments all the time) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9454440

<comment><USER3> Thanks for your list! I tried the first link but it is giving a 404. I looked it up in his blog and found this: [https://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out- the-cto-role-at-s...](https://blog.gregbrockman.com/figuring-out-the-cto-role- at-stripe)

Could you please confirm if this is the same one?

<comment><USER4> YC post was 688 days ago. date.today() - timedelta(days=688) is 2014-10-27. Blog post you linked was published October 27, 2014. I'm gonna go ahead and say it's the same one!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> This comment still makes me chuckle and its pretty much true: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287767](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287767)

 _So, you 're gonna code the whole thing, do the servers and work for sweat equity...

anamax 8 years ago comments

If they don't have the money to pay you, you're not an employee, you're a founder and you get the same deal that they get.

If they balk, suggest that they find another code monkey while you find another biz monkey and let the market decide who ends up with the bananas._

<comment><USER6> A good biz monkey is worth at least as much as a decent code monkey but a bad biz monkey and a decent code monkey won't do any good. Two sides of the same coin. I recently met a true hustler who I would totally do a completely secure, air tight partnership with as long as it had a shotgun clause.

Yes, you can't trust the good biz monkeys.

<comment><USER7>
        Yes, you can't trust the good biz monkeys.

My experience as well. Sadly, the only really good biz person I know does not share the same values as me. Very intelligent and good at what they do, but they'd fuck you over in a second if that meant them "winning". Don't care for a second what business they're running, as long as it's a money-making business. Whereas I have to feel like I'm working on "important" problems, that person couldn't care less.

Pretty sure that person is sociopathic - at least borderline.

<comment><USER8> _> Don't care for a second what business they're running, as long as it's a money-making business_

Thank you, I think I needed to hear this. The person I'm talking to seems exactly like this. While I want to be working on important problems (hell if not important, atleast 'cool' ones), they just want a money making 'thing'.

I've been mulling for a while on how to go ahead with it, but this has made me more than certain our wavelengths do not match even though he's great at connections and selling hard.

<comment><USER7> My personal strategy is to acknowledge this type of person exists, and act accordingly. This means, unfortunately, not putting too much trust into that person in areas they don't deserve it. You need to evaluate carefully both of your interests. Any divergence is a weak point that could be used against you.

I know I can put my faith into that particular person for some specifics such as writing business research and collecting market data, for example. But I could not, for example, leave my computer unlocked with that person. Nor would I use their internet connection to do bank stuff. Nor would I discuss certain things in certain rooms of their house. Some things I'm paranoid for, others not. The point is, some people need to be kept in check ;)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> When the favorites feature was introduced this year, there was mention of maybe aggregating it to see which were the most favorited types of posts. I wonder if enough people have used it since? I use it and find it to be a great filter on top of what I normally upvote.

"RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed" basically solidified the effectiveness of using HN as a complaints forum: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956658)

Ask HN: Just got an innocent man out of prison. What now? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12010760)

Aaron Swartz's initial appeal for help: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484)

And the difficult discussion when someone pointed out that thread after his death: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5056279](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5056279)

I enjoyed this discussion on Margaret Hamilton, particularly because it for me epitomizes how anonymous the comments usually are. I remember reading Peter Norvig's comment about working with her and thinking, "Wow, this HN user must be pretty senior" before I looked at the username [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735912](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8735912)

edit: In terms of recent, this discussion about "Strange bug workarounds" was just a day ago but had a lot of great laughs in it: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476855](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476855)

<comment><USER10> Google's long-game response to RapGenius: [http://imgur.com/a/TLOuX](http://imgur.com/a/TLOuX)

<comment><USER11> RapGenius (not genius) is more about the annotations than the actual lyrics.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> That time when John Nagle ("Animats") responded to a comment about Nagle's algorithm in TCP

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947)

( \- "If I'd still been working on networking at the time, that never would have happened. But I was off doing stuff for a startup called Autodesk."

\- "Are you John Nagle, or was that a quote?" )

<comment><USER13> Remembering, he's also the "little tin god" guy whenever a Python post comes up.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)

<comment><USER15> "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."

Yeah... that would have been a lot easier than Dropbox!

<comment><USER9> That's funny...I always remember the response to the Dropbox post as "Why don't you just use rsync?". Which is something I actually do for things I don't want to put on Dropbox. Not sure how that FTP solution is manageable, though.

<comment><USER16> It's navigable on the web. Most browsers can navigate through an FTP server.

<comment><USER9> Ah, I guess I see Dropbox purely as a sync between my multiple computers. I almost never use the web interface. IIRC, Dropbox was announced mostly as a synced file server. It didn't have all of the features that I take for granted now, such as third-party interoperability and public-file sharing.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17>
      About five years ago I imported a kilo of "Neotame" sweetener from a chem factory in Shanghai...

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440566)

<comment><USER18> Oh my, that is a great one! The pullout quote doesn't do it justice. Definitely recommend reading the whole thing. It's almost like a Carlos Castaneda story:

> ...a small cloud of powder erupted in front of me and a hazy layer of the > stuff settled over the kitchen. Eyes burning and some mild choking from > inhaling the cloud, I instantly marveled at how unbelievably sweet the air > tasted, and it was delicious.

> ...about 12g of personal (somewhat heavy) usage for two people in that time. > Probably nowhere near the LD50.

What a relief! It is _probably_ unlikely to kill half your family.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> My favorite is PG's request to limit the fluff and get back to technical discussions like posts about the "Innards of Erlang": [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145)

Which lead to the famous "Erlang Day", making the HN homepage look like this: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/stilist/3348380060/in/photostr...](https://www.flickr.com/photos/stilist/3348380060/in/photostream/lightbox/)

Interestingly, this day is what personally introduced me to Erlang, and it's been my primary programming language since.

<comment><USER20> Brilliant! First good laugh I've had today - thanks for sharing :D

Is pg still active on HN? I can't remember seeing any comments by him in the past year or so...

<comment><USER19> PG doesn't appear to be active any longer ([https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg](https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg)). Looks like 2 comments in the last 2 years (and last post is almost a year ago).

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397797)

<comment><USER22> First comment is wonderfully deadpan as well:

> Don't feel bad, you just fell into one of the common traps for first-timers > in strong AI/ML. I know some lawyers in Silicon Valley with experience in > this sort of thing, and they say that usually by now the code has rewritten > itself so many times that the original creator can't even claim partial > ownership;...

<comment><USER21> True -- very similar tone to the parent. conrad24 appears to have been a throwaway account, maybe bo1024 is the author of both?

<comment><USER22> In that case I'd vote to pardon the sockpuppeteer anyways. :-)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> This is the only HN comment I have bookmarked: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7932261)

<comment><USER24> Am I stupid if I don't understand that post?

<comment><USER25> It's riffing on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY&t=1m24s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY&t=1m24s)

(I "got" what the post was about but took a minute to dig up the actual scene, I didn't know what the item was in the movie)

<comment><USER26> Wow, that video also has one of the best comments I've seen:

> Slime green, Comic Sans, all caps. Oh my god, it even has clip-art.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> I really enjoyed the comments in this thread from one of FedEx's first employees:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281466](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9281466)

<comment><USER28> Thanks! I remember this now! That is one of the all-time great threads.

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> Not a post, but a comment.

I can't find it right now, but it lead me to purchase the book "Permutation City" which is now one of my favourite novels because of the way it comings CS, philosophy, and writing that isn't stilted like a lot of the stuff you find in this realm.

The reason I can't find the comment is that there are pages and pages of them that mention Permutation City on Google. See for yourself, Google:

permutation city site:ycombinator.com

<comment><USER30> > I can't find it right now, but it lead me to purchase the book "Permutation > City" which is now one of my favourite novels because of the way it comings > CS, philosophy, and writing that isn't stilted like a lot of the stuff you > find in this realm.

If you haven't already, then don't wait to buy the rest of Greg Egan's œuvre. It was "Quarantine", a lovely plot but arguably one of his weakest stories, that got me into his work, and since then I've found no-one except possibly Ted Chiang (whose work is very different) who comes anywhere near him in the world of hard sci-fi. Almost everything of his is rewarding, and I believe a lot of it was relatively recently (within the last 5 years or so) released as e-books after a long period of unavailability. He also has generous excerpts from selected books and stories at his web-site, and—my favourite—proves his non-fiction science _bona fides_ as a regular contributor on the n-category Café ([https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/MT-3.0/mt- search.cgi?Inc...](https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/MT-3.0/mt- search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=3&Template=category&search=Greg+Egan)).

<comment><USER31> Greg Egan and Iain M Banks don't seem to have equals. Greg's stuff is incredibly hard (in both ways: he says to use a pencil and paper while reading). Iain's stuff is ... uplifting, but still coherent. It's not hard, but it still feels coherent somehow (unlike some books that just start making up weird shit just to put the "fi" in scifi).

<comment><USER30> My first exposure to Banks was The Wasp Factory, which remains one of the only books that has ever literally nauseated me. It was excellent, but it's been hard for me to pick up another book of his since.

Oh, actually I did read The Business, which introduced me to the delightful question "how do you count to 1000 on your fingers?" (without using 'intermediate storage' like keeping track of 10's in your head). I still use that when teaching elementary number theory.

<comment><USER32> That means you are in the lucky situation of not having read _Use of Weapons_ yet - I'm jealous. It really is very very good!

<comment><USER30> Is that your recommended entrée into the Culture universe?

<comment><USER32> No - definitely not. I would recommend publication order.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER33> Maybe not favorite but "most memorable": "CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash" [1]

The top comment when I first saw it was, "If you are responsible for the security of any system, this is your immediate, drop-everything priority." [2]

Shellshock just kept going, and going, and for days you didn't know what was coming next. I suppose it's unfair to real PTSD victims to say this, but sometimes I feel like I have a little PTSD from that incident. I can only imagine what people at the center of it were going through.

My favorite blow-by-blow account was David Wheeler's essay [3] [4].

[1] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361574](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361574) [2] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361871](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361871) [3] [http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/shellshock.html](http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/shellshock.html) [4] [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428644](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8428644)

<comment><USER34> I enjoyed it because it was one of those times you realize none of us really know WTF we're doing. Everyone is just pretending they have a good understanding of how things work. Software is just too large to really understand how things are interconnected.

</comment></comment><comment><USER35> Using a throwaway for an obvious reason, but this post on how to fight debt collectors has literally saved me close to a $100K:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833)

</comment><comment><USER36> This is my favorite comment of all time, in reply to an, erm, prolific engineer. A great take-down of the cult of vain productivity: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816010](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8816010)

</comment><comment><USER37> I can't think of a favorite post... My fav comment was from a few years ago I think? And I can't remember everything, but one commentor said something like "You can't brag unless you won The Award" (the award being some bit deal contest or award. Was it math or programming?) and then the response was something like "Oh yeah, won that when I was 14" (sorry, wish I could remember the details, but the thread was funny)

<comment><USER38> The legendary "Did you win the Putnam" comeback.

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079)

</comment></comment><comment><USER39> "My Livecoding.tv account deletion saga", likely for different reasons than other examples in this thread (enable showdead before reading): [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486476)

</comment><comment><USER40> This isn't recent, but it is my favorite:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4247615)

</comment><comment><USER41> Alan Kay AMA: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851)

<comment><USER42> That's what I was going to say too, and that makes me the fourth person to say that was their favorite!

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle (vimeo.com) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591298](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3591298)

Alan Kay has agreed to do an AMA today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851)

</comment><comment><USER44> [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9561314](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9561314)

> The feeling of having a genuinely clean butt gives you the confidence you > need to go crush it in the boardroom.

I still laugh about this sometimes.

<comment><USER45> Have you read some of his other stuff? Like the legendary Alameda-Weekawken Burrito Tunnel?

</comment></comment><comment><USER46> This is my current favourite:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558)

<comment><USER47> Even more recursive !

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496902](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496902)

<comment><USER48> Oh, that reminds me of my highest up voted post ever: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902) \- but I didn't get any karma for it :(

<comment><USER47> I remember that, it was fun.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER49> I refer to this one as DarkShikari's law: "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012082)

It explains the death of so many communities, and also sorta works for 4chan, despite the perpetual state of undeath that 4chan is in.

</comment><comment><USER50> 1\. Ask HN: Urgent connection to Twitter support

\--[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006869](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8006869)

The admin of an automated twitter feed alerting followers of rockets launched between Gaza and Israel appeals to HN for help getting in contact with someone at twitter who can relax rate limits on the account to prevent it from being suspended during a sharp escalation of conflict.

2\. Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery

\--[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417511](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6417511)

Research from nanex using the speed of light to prove that results from a Federal Reserve meeting were leaked early. Ultimately led to policy changes at the Fed.

</comment><comment><USER51> * There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=970945)

* The Socratic Method: Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3578807](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3578807)

</comment><comment><USER28> There's an HN feature for this! In the timestamp line under the title of your favorite story --- and, after clicking the timestamp, in the same place for comments --- click "favorite". HN will bookmark these stories for you, and let other people see them.

</comment><comment><USER52> I don't have the posts handy, but I very much appreciate patio11 and tpacek's posts on how to bill for consulting. They helped me reduce a lot of stressful administrivia and increase income. One of the handful of times reading internet comments has measurably improved my quality of life.

<comment><USER53> After using HN search, I suspect you're referring to the comments in this thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679956](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679956)

</comment></comment><comment><USER54> Postmodern comment:

My favorite HN post is now this one because it lets me amalgamate all the best posts that I missed.

</comment><comment><USER55> This one - because it's now a meta aggregator of favorite links. Thanks!

</comment><comment><USER56> Getting into a PhD program with a low GPA - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072923](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1072923)

</comment><comment><USER57> Wisdom from Bane:

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7283133](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7283133)

</comment><comment><USER58> Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay edition: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836832](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11836832)

</comment><comment><USER59> Here are my (tagged) bookmarks, have fun:

[http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/hacker-news- bookmark...](http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/hacker-news/hacker-news- bookmarks.2016-09-14.txt)

Keep in mind that the timestamps are when the bookmark was created, not the timestamp of the page itself.

I use [https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch](https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch)

<comment><USER60> In pinboard.in[0] you can search for via:hn

(Happy user, otherwise unaffiliated.)

[0]:by our (more or less : ) own idlewords

</comment></comment><comment><USER61> Right around the time I started reading HN, someone found a timing attack against news.arc and posted a really interesting write up about it:

[http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976)

</comment><comment><USER62> Bain's Law is a classic. Unfortunately, I don't have the link. The entire thread for SleepSort is great (just google it).

As for more recent stuff, I enjoyed the thread on QuakeWorld ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934608](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11934608)) (full disclosure, I posted the article, and participated heavily in the thread). And just today, I saw QuineDB ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12492812](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12492812)).

Sorry I couldn't give you something better.

</comment><comment><USER63> First employee of startup? You are probably getting screwed [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323)

</comment><comment><USER64> G is for Google - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157)

</comment><comment><USER65> Some great anecdotes in the comments for Paul Ford's article The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retrocomputing

discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565459](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8565459)

article: [https://medium.com/message/networks-without- networks-7644933...](https://medium.com/message/networks-without- networks-7644933a3100#.urhh2shsi)

</comment><comment><USER66> [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7423626](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7423626)

>. . . And yet: the money guys are offering money. Just swallow your pride, play "Stairway to Heaven"[1] at the wedding, and pretend you've never had crazy eyes when talking about homoiconicity, and the rent will be paid.

> [1]Nothing against the song.

</comment><comment><USER67> "Running a Software Business on 5 Hours a Week"

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206649](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206649)

Patrick talks about techniques he learned to streamline his business when selling Bingo Card Creator.

</comment><comment><USER68> I don't know if this is the Raymond Panko, but if it is this is my favourite comment.

[https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=panko](https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=panko)

</comment><comment><USER69> Favorite of all time I'm not sure but my favorite today is this: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12498230](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12498230)

Simply beautiful!

</comment><comment><USER70> A day in the life of a startup founder: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4166183)

</comment><comment><USER71> What's your favorite HN post? -[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558)

:D

</comment><comment><USER72> Fishing for Hackers: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7705443](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7705443)

</comment><comment><USER73> I'm browsing from a dumb phone, so searching is too much work, but there was a guy who got into an argument with Colin Percival (spelling might be wrong), and the guy aske Colin a supposedly dismissite question along the lines of "Have you won (major math prize)?" As it happens, Colin had actually won the thing. That was amusing. In my mother tongue, we call such an event "being thrown back to the bottom of the gourd."

</comment><comment><USER74> This one, of course. Bookmarked.

</comment><comment><USER75> This may well get buried and I had to hunt for about 10 min to find it. This post from 3,127 days by fiaz is my all-time favorite HN comment. And I've read hundreds of thousands of comments.

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121413](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121413)

> fiaz 3127 days ago | parent | favorite | on: Ask News.YC: How to re-motivate > yourself?

APOLOGIES for making this post so annoyingly long, but I really hope you find value in the words below. \</comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment></comment><comment>-----

I'm going to first share a personal experience from my early trading days to illustrate where I'm coming from. I used to wake up at 4:30 am everyday in the Chicago suburbs to beat rush hour traffic and make it into downtown Chicago at 6:30 am. In order to wake up so early, I fell into a habit of sleeping at 9:00 pm and like a robot waking up at 4:30 am. This simple routine was indirectly helpful when things seemed darkest.

For the first six months, I lost money and was ridiculed constantly by other traders who were more successful than me (which was about 20 other guys CONSTANTLY using me as a punching/whipping bag). The only thing that kept me going was the fact that some of the very same traders that would be making wise cracks at me for losing money were some of the most successful people I knew at the time. For better or worse, if I needed a trader to model myself after, it was the same people that were telling me how bad a trader I was - and although I was not open to really hear what they were saying, they were right about my skills in every way (but their feedback was always packaged in some sort of insult).

After racking up some rather hefty losses, I was determined to quit at one point during month four, but because I had a habit of waking up at 4:30 am I simply "forgot" that the night before I told myself I would quit and spare myself further humiliation...by then I was warned that I was now on the red list of traders ready to be cut. Also, my personal savings were starting to approach zero (the base "draw" for house traders was enough to pay for food; you usually make your money on a percentage of your profits, and I was deep in the red at the time).

To say the least, there were many excellent reasons to be "reasonable", forget about my dreams, and quit. After 4 consecutive "failures to quit", I realized that I didn't quit because somewhere deep down I was hanging on to a dream, however remote at that point: that I could somehow be as successful as the other traders that I knew. At the same time I realized that I had hit rock bottom in that I couldn't even succeed in failing! Very tough times indeed...

An interesting point to note here is that although my losses were starting to get very large, the people who were funding me as a trader kept me because I had one redeeming quality: EFFORT, and this helped build tenacity. Other traders who barely traded but had a fraction of my losses were cut much faster because they didn't put forth much effort. They were not willing to take losses and be bold/brave and fight it out; I was willing to take risks, and this saved me from getting cut faster than others.

Slowly I began to reinterpret the constant humiliation I was suffering: perhaps the other traders were right about their "jokes" and there might be something in what they are saying that will help me get out of the red. I also realized that since I had failed at quitting (which was now the ULTIMATE failure), there was no further failure for me and that if I took baby steps they were surely to succeed (this translated into taking smaller trades/profits).

Only after improving upon my abilities as a trader and channeling my energies appropriately did I succeed and earn everybody's respect as a trader (and you have no idea how this made me feel!). I quickly made enough in commissions to be trading my own account, and be successful as an independent trader onward. When I look back at those final months of 1999 (yeah that's right, I was losing huge cash at the end of 1999 when the entire market was going crazy UP!), there was more good than bad even when I was getting my ass handed to me. It's just that I was intentionally creating my own feedback (I'm right everybody else is wrong) instead of seeing the results I was getting (losses/insults) as feedback and information that would help me be successful.

I kind of snicker every time I see somebody ask for feedback on their startup on YC.News only to end up justifying themselves by telling everybody why they did what they did when they get negative feedback, which is the feedback of greatest value. If somebody tells you how crappy your idea is, thank them that they even spent a few brain cycles considering your idea.

The lessons I learned from this that are perhaps relevant to your questions:

\- Determine if you believe in yourself to succeed as an individual (I know this sounds odd, but for a moment just examine your thought patterns and your actions and see what message you are sending to yourself; do you listen to the voice that says you can't or are you paying attention to the feedback from your efforts and the results you are getting?)

\- Search deep down inside and see if the project you are working on is something you believe in or not. If you can't sell yourself, then you shouldn't bother trying any further...

\- ANY attention you get for your efforts is good attention. If you get LOTS of negative feedback, then be grateful - you've jumped the first hurdle of getting people to give a damn about what you are doing! :)

\- There is responsibility and accountability that goes with both success and failure. You need to be ready for both because they can be equally painful in equal ways. The amount of accountability that comes with success can be more unbearable than the accountability that accompanies failure. I personally know of some very talented people who enjoyed phenomenal initial success only to find just as fast that they were in over their heads.

\- The more you resist the possibility of failure then you are less likely to recognize possibilities that will help you succeed. If you are afraid to fail, then most certainly you are afraid to succeed. This sounds counterintuitive but it's based upon the fact that fear makes your mind less supple and less responsive to the changes that will push you out of the game - or conversely it will lessen the impulse to jump on the opportunities you need to succeed.

\- The results you get has everything to do with your users/market and less to do with you as an individual; it's sometimes hard to separate these two. See the other side of the equation and what side you are on before trying to solve it. Don't ever think you are above the feedback of your users...EVER!

\- Don't have expectations (this is just setting yourself up for failure). Because you are starting out you may not know what is best to help you succeed - ESPECIALLY if you're lacking motivation. Keep in mind that whatever results you get from your efforts will lead to more possibilities (in the form of additional information).

\- Have some behavioral "context" within which to exercise discipline and structure. Seek to grow your efforts within this context. My context was my sleep schedule. It was a routine that was so ingrained that my drive had a laser focus. This might not work for some, but it worked for me.

Finally, I will add that in my opinion failing hard and fast is MUCH better than failing slowly. The faster you know for certain something isn't going to work out, the sooner you can cut your losses and move on to your next idea. When you eventually succeed, you will look back at all the times you were quick to cut your losses and get to where you are...

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Please do NOT contact me asking for advice in trading/investing. This is a VERY personal thing, and it has everything to do with who you are, NOT with how much information you have, or which tools you use, or who you know.

</comment><comment><USER76> [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423)

Dear Lumber yard 1 point by daniel-cussen 3348 days ago | hide | past | web | 1 comment | favorite | yes | maybe | no

Dear Sirs,

I write to solicit; we sell termites. We provide termite adoption services for lumberyards.

While termite adoption may sound terrible at first blush, we believe it to be adviseable. The termites can dispose of wracked beams without requiring burning. The termites can also eliminate small pieces of discarded wood, and partly take care of cleaning the sawing site in your stead. They can also easily consume stockpiles that are no longer useful. This may be especially valuable in sight of the housing downturn in your area and subsequent inventory surpluses you may be dealing with. Any surplus inventory you give to the termites will largely be metabolized by the termites, and therefore decrease in volume. From a practical point of view, a termite nest can perform in your lumber yard the task it performs in nature; that of a recycler. At this point you can exploint the large amount of fertilizer left over and sell it.

You are in a position at which you can begin to sell natural fertilizer easily. Consumers relate your core business to fixing homes. You provide beams for home improvement purposes, and while that segment of the housing market is falling, the gardening market is holding up because desperate sellers will try to improve the curb appeal of their house in order to finally sell their house. This means home sellers are improving their gardens, which involves the use of fertilizer. As the housing downturn has affected your core business for the worse, why not hedge these losses by entering the fertilizer market?

Not only will termites reduce costs and expand your business, they will also provide excellent public relations. Ecology is in these days; Whole Foods can charge about twice the usual price for its products solely because they are organic. This despite any evidence the food the sell is actually better in any way. Many consumers may want to reduce their carbon footprint. By buying your fertilizer, they effectively stop about half of the carbon in a plank from reaching the atmosphere. This will provide cheap and novel marketing for both your core business and your fertilizer business.

We'll be the first to acknowledge that termites pose a serious risk to wood. They can devastate a home if left unattended for a few years. A simple "moat" around the termite's designated space will be able to effectively stop the termites from harming the good wood. In doing so, you will showcase your expertise in handling lumber and the confidence you have in your abilities. You may be able to sell termite control sprays in the process.

At Intermite, we believe adopting a nest will be an excellent way to help your core lumber business. For an up-front set-up fee of $449.00, we offer the delivery and installation and setup of a termite nest in your lumberyard.

A nest costs $450.00 plus tax. This fee includes includes delivery and installation. We offer related products such as custom fertilizer bags,

Regards, Intermite

</comment><comment><USER77> This post is my favourite HN post.

</comment><comment><USER78> This one.

</comment><comment><USER79> I don't have a link but: "I'll often drop down to node.js if I really need to be close to the metal" is one of my favorites.

<comment><USER80> This bad boy?

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2710383)

</comment></comment><comment><USER81> Couldn't tell you. Can't search.

</comment><comment><USER82> This one. //infinite loop</comment>


Material Cools Buildings by Sending Heat into Space - <AUTHOR> http://www.technologyreview.com/news/532826/material-cools-buildings-by-sending-heat-into-space/ <comment><USER2> I'm no scientist, but would there be a way to combine this with solar panels to also produce electricity? It seems the goals are counter to one another, but it would really be amazing to accomplish both with one panel.

<comment><USER3> At the very end of the methods section, they write: "Future designs and configurations may find ways of using this reflected sunlight, enabling shorter payback periods and lower levelized costs." I don't have any idea what they have in mind.

This same group is also trying to solve a related problem, which is how to keep solar panels cool, since they are less efficient when they heat up. They have designed coatings that are transparent to sunlight and dump heat to space ( [http://www.opticsinfobase.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica...](http://www.opticsinfobase.org/optica/fulltext.cfm?uri=optica-1-1-32&id=296235) )

<comment><USER4> If it is used on top of a building certainly the defrosting features of masts and other fittings look mootable; skylights have shades; you can use the stuff as the concentrating optic of your choice, so to choose smaller water or thermovoltaic systems, heat and circulate the pool (hot tub) on the roof, etc. Taken to architectural limits, thermal cycling wear on all roofing is lessened. Silage and water loop uses exist as LEED elements, and the swept radiant flux can even agitate self-cleaning glass.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> One wonders if that this is used extensively in urban areas, could it mitigate the urban heat island effect to some extent, and in doing so offset some amount of measured global warming?

</comment><comment><USER3> Here's a link to the original article in Nature under their new [0] free read- only access policy:

[http://rdcu.be/bKmA](http://rdcu.be/bKmA)

[0]: [http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free- to...](http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to- view-1.16460)

</comment><comment><USER6> So if, in the future, this material was in heavy use atop buildings and dwellings across the planet, and the heat is all being radiated out the same thermal window, does this mean that at some set distance from the earth, there's a ring of extreme heat being generated?

<comment><USER6> I'm probably missing something in the definition of "thermal window".

<comment><USER7> The thermal windows refers to the fact the earth's atmosphere is pretty good at letting through longer wavelength IR than shorter wavelength IR.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmosfaerisk_spredning.png](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmosfaerisk_spredning.png)

As an example. Visible light is that little bit all the way to the left. That entire big chunk on the right is the thermal window that they're talking about.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I wonder if this would be useful for spacecraft?

<comment><USER3> Surfaces optimized for reflecting and emitting light/heat are indeed used on spacecraft ( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_solar_reflector](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_solar_reflector) )

However you wouldn't have to worry about optimizing these for the atmospheric IR window, as you do on earth, which is the advance claimed in this paper.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> What happens if it gets dirty / rained on?

<comment><USER10> The same thing that would happen with glass windows and solar panels. They would eventually be cleaned.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> So... a mirror?

<comment><USER12> Yes, but in addition to being a mirror, it absorbs heat energy and emits it as infrared light in specific frequencies.</comment></comment>


Building affordable housing, where has the entry-level house gone? - <AUTHOR> https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2016/08/building-affordable-housing-where-has.html <comment><USER2> This explains why nothing is getting built at $100sf without land it's cheaper to buy existing.</comment>


Diaspora project public release - <AUTHOR> http://github.com/diaspora

<comment><USER2> Happy to see that it's not vaporware after all, but disappointed that it's one giant Rails app with almost no comments anywhere.

<comment><AUTHOR> so, they didn't take the money and run... let's see how long before it's ported to XYZ, if it's worth... :)</comment></comment>


Taipei's new mayor writes a GitBook - <AUTHOR> https://www.gitbook.com/blog/authors/taipei-mayor-writes-gitbook <comment><USER2> It's interesting to think how revision control will impact future art historians.

Imagine if we had the revision history for The Hobbit.

<comment><USER3> The topic of my senior thesis for my history degree was that history is the study of the world through metadata (in contrast to physicalism which says that science is the study of the world through data).

I used Wikipedia as an example since the prevailing wisdom is that you cannot use it as a primary source. I argued that the metadata such as the edit history and talk pages constituted a legitimate primary source. For instance, if we wanted to argue that a certain topic is controversial (e.g. the administration of George W. Bush), we could look at the velocity of edits (especially undos) and the discussion on the Talk page.

<comment><USER4> Is your thesis available anywhere to read? I'd love to take a look at it.

Looked for a better way to contact you in your profile, but your homepage seems to be broken.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I really like what GitBook is doing. We had to pretty much set up our own similar system for Discover Meteor, and it was clear a better way was needed.

</comment><comment><USER6> As a Taipei city citizen, this is the first time to read mayor candidate's proposal on an iPhone (of course). It's lucky to be in such a city.</comment>


Bravo now casting Silicon Valley reality show - <AUTHOR> http://gigaom.com/2011/10/06/bravo-now-casting-silicon-valley-reality-show/ <comment><USER2> This kind of thing never goes well for the companies profiled.

Earth Class Mail, a Seattle-based postal to digital mail interface, did another reality show ("Start-Up Junkies"), and I heard nothing good about the process from them.

It might be a good choice for someone who just wants to be known as a "personality", vs. actually doing anything (Paris Hilton style), but nothing good would come of every up and down at a startup being documented (and distorted).

<comment><USER3> It would also be tough to keep secrets about any deals, launches, etc

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> It appears there is a separate network casting for a different (competing?) show. A casting director got in touch with me:

"I'm currently casting a show which is a Nerd/geek/intellectual competition based show, designed to showcase the passions and knowledge of nerds/geeks/intellectuals. It will be hosted by 2 of the original cast members from Revenge of the Nerds."

It seems these things come around and fizzle away. In ~2008 I had a meeting with a director trying to pitch an idea to CBS/Sony about a potential pilot for some kind of reality show following around 6 entrepreneurs/startups in their daily life. I think they quickly realized how mundane startup life is and decided not to go through with it. They were going to pay to have a camera crew follow me around. I quickly told them that there would be no following around as I only ever worked at home in my apartment all day.

<comment><AUTHOR> It's 2011. I think the world is now ready for the Stammy show.

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> This sounds pretty groan-worthy - I'd be much happier to see more shows like Bloomberg's TechStars reality show or a software-focused Dragon's Den/Shark Tank than "The Real Silicon Valley Young Professionals".

<comment><USER6> Those are not good examples either. They both suffer from the reality show disease: they try to set up artificial conflicts and show "larger than life personalities", i.e., try to get people to act like melodramatic idiots.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> There's already a reality show about startups: TechStars NYC

<http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/techstars/>

Its not too bad but they're trying real hard to amp up the drama in the editing room. But with partners quitting and pivots galore it's not really needed.

Willing to bet that pg has already turned down (wisely imho) attempts to bring the cameras into yCombinator.

</comment><comment><USER8> Kevin Rose also posted a full copy of the letter a couple days ago:

<http://twitter.com/#!/kevinrose/status/121724449551687680>

<http://twitpic.com/6vp80w/full>

</comment><comment><USER9> I'm reminded of this SMBC cartoon: [http://www.smbc- comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1898](http://www.smbc- comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1898)

</comment><comment><USER10> Considering that a lot of time is spend in front of the computer not sure how much drama they can create.

Plus, people in reality shows become diminished in my humble opinion so not so sure it would be a good idea for any serious entrepreneur to do this. You need to really focus on your startup and the cameras would only be a distraction. It would probably be a strong signal for investors not to invest in you.

</comment><comment><USER11> ...and the bubble goes - _pop_ -.

Like eDreams or Startup.com?

</comment><comment> mkr-hn Penny Arcade TV is a good model to look at for this.

</comment><comment><USER12> Real Housewives of Silicon Valley? Sign me up!

<comment><USER3> now THAT i would watch

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Hah. I got this and just assumed it was crap.

</comment><comment><USER14> \- "What are they doing this week?" \- "Coding" \- "You mean like sitting all day in front of the computer?" \- "Yep" \- "Ok... we are going to put some music and a lot of green zeros and ones like in matrix... for half an hour"</comment>


Turing's rapid Nazi Enigma code-breaking secret revealed - <AUTHOR> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/23/turing_papers_released/

<comment><USER2> I don't see that this adds any more than is already in the previous four submissions of this story:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878007>

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866664>

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3863134> <\- This has some discussion

<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3862973></comment>


Libcu++: Nvidia C++ Standard Library - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx <comment><USER2> " _Whenever a new major CUDA Compute Capability is released, the ABI is broken. A new NVIDIA C++ Standard Library ABI version is introduced and becomes the default and support for all older ABI versions is dropped._ "

[https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx/blob/main/docs/releases...](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libcudacxx/blob/main/docs/releases/versioning.md)

<comment><USER3> It's interesting that they use the word to broken to describe incompatible machine code. Well if the code is recompiled for each new version then it's different from the old machine code, that's by definition. Does any major software vendor support older versions of the ABI or machine code?

<comment><USER4> Famously Microsoft does with Windows. That's how an exe file from 25 years ago can still run today.

<comment><USER5> Yes, but GPU architecture changes very frequently.

Shaders from 15 years ago still work, but they're compiled on-the-fly to a GPU-dependent format. I expect you don't want to have to recompile an entire c++ stdlib every time you recompile your own code.

<comment><USER6> > I expect you don't want to have to recompile an entire c++ stdlib every time > you recompile your own code.

That's basically our current model, I discussed this on Twitter recently.

[https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1307396914057326592](https://twitter.com/blelbach/status/1307396914057326592)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> > Promising long-term ABI stability would prevent us from fixing mistakes and > providing best in class performance. So, we make no such promises.

Wait NVidia actually get it? Neat!

<comment><USER8> This is an awesome quote... Same argument used by the Linux kernel developers.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> It really is a tiny subset of the C++ standard library, but I'm happy to see they're continuing to expand it: [https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html](https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html)

<comment><USER10> Yeah, really tiny... At first I thought 'wow this is a game changer', but then I looked at your link and thought 'what's the point?'. Can someone explain what real problems you can solve with just the headers in the link above?

<comment><USER11> It runs on the GPU?

<comment><USER10> What runs on the gpu?

<comment><USER12> this library

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> For everyone wondering where are all the data structures and algorithms, vector and several algorithms are implemented by Thrust. [https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/thrust/index.html](https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/thrust/index.html)

Seems the big addition of the Libcu++ to Thrust would be synchronization.

<comment><USER6> Yep, that's correct. My team develops Thrust, CUB, and libcu++.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Here's a somewhat related talk from CppCon '19: "The One-Decade Task: Putting std::atomic in CUDA"

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogqOscJYvk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogqOscJYvk)

</comment><comment><USER15> This is super-cool.

For those of us who can't adopt it right away, note that you can compile your cuda code with `--expt-relaxed-constexpr` and call any constexpr function from device code. That includes all the constexpr functions in the standard library!

This gets you quite a bit, but not e.g. std::atomic, which is one of the big things in here.

</comment><comment><USER16> Unfortunate name, "cu" it's the most well known slang for "anus" in Brazil (population: 200+ million). "Libcu++" is sure to cause snickering.

<comment><USER17> This only affects developers. Limited scope.

Wasn't there something related about Microsoft Lumia phones?

<comment><USER18> cf. the Vauxhall Nova car

"No va" means "doesn't go" in Spanish.

<comment><USER19> Also Hyundai Kona, "cona" means "cunt" or "pussy" in Portuguese.

<comment><USER20> Wow, Kona Bikes [0] must have a fun time in Portugal then..

[0] [https://konaworld.com/](https://konaworld.com/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> 1\. How do we know what parts of the library are usable on CUDA devices, and which are only usable in host-side code?

2\. How compatible is this with libstdc++ and/or libcu++, when used independently?

I'm somewhat suspicious of the presumption of us using NVIDIA's version of the standard library for our host-side work.

Finally, I'm not sure that, for device-side work, libc++ is a better base to start off of than, say, EASTL (which I used for my tuple class: [https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda- kat/blob/master/src/kat/tupl...](https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda- kat/blob/master/src/kat/tuple.hpp) ).

...

partial self-answer to (1.): [https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html](https://nvidia.github.io/libcudacxx/api.html) apparently only a small bit of the library is actually implemented.

<comment><USER6> > apparently only a small bit of the library is actually implemented.

Yep. It's an incremental project. But stay tuned.

> I'm somewhat suspicious of the presumption of us using NVIDIA's version of > the standard library for our host-side work.

Today, when using libcu++ with NVCC, it's opt-in and doesn't interfere with your host standard library.

I get your concern, but a lot of the restrictions of today's GPU toolchains comes from the desire to continue using your host toolchain of choice.

Our other compiler, NVC++, is a unified stack; there is no host compiler. Yes, that takes away some user control, but it lets us build things we couldn't build otherwise. The same logic applies for the standard library.

[https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c- wi...](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c-with-gpus- using-stdpar)

> Finally, I'm not sure that, for device-side work, libc++ is a better base to > start off of than, say, EASTL (which I used for my tuple class: > [https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda- > kat/blob/master/src/kat/tupl](https://github.com/eyalroz/cuda- > kat/blob/master/src/kat/tupl)... ).

We wanted an implementation that intended to conform to the standard and had deployment experience with a major C++ implementation. EASTL doesn't have that, so it never entered our consideration; perhaps we should have looked at it, though.

At the time we started this project, Microsoft's Standard Library wasn't open source. Our choices were libstdc++ or libc++. We immediately ruled libstdc++ out; GPL licensing wouldn't work for us, especially as we knew this project had to exchange code with some of our other existing libraries that are under Apache- or MIT-style licenses (Thrust, CUB, RAPIDS).

So, our options were pretty clear; build it from scratch, or use libc++. I have a strict policy of strategic laziness, so we went with libc++.

<comment><USER22> How this library works?

There appears a llvm libcxx bundled in as part of the repo. What's the purpose of that libcxx?

<comment><USER6> That involves a few diagrams, but essentially, we have two layers:

\- the libcu++ layer, which has some of our extensions and implementations specific to our platform. \- the libc++ layer, which is a modified upstream libc++.

A header in the libcu++ layer defines the libc++ internal macros in a certain way, and then includes the applicable libc++ header.

This is the current architecture, but we're moving away towards a more integrated approach where almost everything is in the libc++ layer.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Does this mean you can do operations on struct's that live on the GPU hardware?

<comment><USER24> You have been able to do that for a long time with UVA.

<comment><USER6> Since Unified Memory. UVA, or Unified Virtual Addressing, just ensured that a GPU-private object wouldn't have the same address as a CPU-private object.

<comment><USER24> You're right, sorry. Mixing up terms.

<comment><USER6> Not your fault, we don't make it easy. The acroynms are terrible! That's why I typically spell out the full term.

My first week at NVIDIA:

Me, to very senior engineer: _something something_ UVM.

Very senior engineer: What's UVM?

Me: Unified Virtual Memory.

Very senior engineer: Don't call it that, call it Unified Memory, no abbreviation. TLAs are evil.

Me: What's TLA?

Very senior engineer: Three letter acronym.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER25> I really do not understand why a (very good) hardware provider is willing to create/direct/hint custom software for the users.

Isn't this exactly what a GPU firmware is expected to do ? Why do they need to run software in the same memory space as my mail reader ?

<comment><USER26> What do you mean about running in the same memory space? Your operating system doesn't allow that. Is your concern about using host memory? This open source library doesn't automatically use host memory, users of the library can write code that uses host memory, if they choose to.

How would a firmware help me write heterogeneous bits of c++ code that can run on either cpu or gpu?

<comment><USER25> IMHO, the question is not that we need code to run on CPUs and GPUs , we do need that, The question is whether the GPU seller has to control both sides. Until I buy a CPU from nvidia I want to keep some kind of independence.

When will we be able to use a future riscv-64 CPU with an nvidia GPU ? we will let the answer to nvidia ?

<comment><USER26> You _can_ use this library to write code that runs on both risc-v and a GPU! You seem to be pretty confused about what this library is. It's not exerting any control. It's open source! It's strictly optional, and it only allows developers to do something they actually want, to write code that will compile for any type of processor that a modern c++ compiler can target.

<comment><USER25> Again, I see what you mean. I am even against nvidia advising the developers to use such or such C++ library (be it GNU). It is not their role to do that. We need smarter and more shining GPUs from nvidia, not software.

I would say .... The hardware must be sold independently of the software ... but it is a bit too complex, I know.

<comment><USER26> I'm not understanding your point at all. You don't think developers should be able to write C++ code for the GPU?

What do you even mean about 'it is not their role to do that.' and 'hardware must be sold independently of the software'?? Why are you saying this? Software interfaces are critical for all GPUs and all CPUs, just ask AMD & Intel. There is no such thing as CPU or GPU hardware independent of software. Plus, the specific library here _is_ being sold independently of the hardware, it is doing exactly what you say you want, it's separate and doesn't require having any other nvidia hardware or software. (I can't think of any good reasons to use it without having some nvidia hardware, but it is technically independent, as you wish.)

<comment><USER25> > You don't think developers should be able to write C++ code for the GPU?

To be clear, I don't think nvidia-paid developers should be able to write C++ Code for a nvidia-sold GPU. The world will be better if any developer (paid by nivida or not) is able to write code for any GPU (sold by nvidia or not). It is not nvidia role to say how or when software will be written. Their hardware is good and that's more than OK.

AI/CUDA code written specifically for nvidia is useless/deprecated in the long term. A lot of brain waste.

<comment><USER27> That doesn't make any sense.

You're free to write whatever you want. This is Nvidia providing interfaces to their hardware for those of us who don't want to write them for ourselves.

It's a gift. Take it or don't. How in the world you can say Nvidia shouldn't be allowed to write software for their GPUs makes no sense at all. Should the government stop them? Any developer can write anything they want - but Nvidia is obviously going to support their own hardware. How does it make any sense otherwise?

All code is "deprecated in the long term" for a long enough "long term". That doesn't equal useless. Your comment is nonsensical.

<comment><USER6> > It's a gift.

I wouldn't say it's a gift, though; it's part of what you pay for when you buy one of our products.

Sure, it's not listed as a spec on the box, but users expect that we're going to provide them with a good software stack and support it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> A pathetic attempt to lock developers into their hardware.

<comment><USER29> They seem to be pushing the barrier on innovation on GPU compute. It seems a little unfair to call that pathetic, whatever strategic reasons they have to find OpenCL unappetising (which simply enables their sole competitor in truth.)

Their decision making seems rational, of course it's not ideal if you're consumer. We would like the ability to bid off NVidia with AMD Radeon.

Convergence to a standard has to be driven by the market, but it's impossible to drive NVidia there because they are the dominant player and it is 100% not in their interests.

It doesn't mean they're a bad company. They are rational actors.

<comment><USER30> With nvc++, they are converging towards a standardised source code standard: [https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c- wi...](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/accelerating-standard-c-with-gpus- using-stdpar/)

However, this notably doesn't cover binaries, which are GPU vendor specific in that case, so AMD for example would have to provide a C++ compiler implementing stdpar for GPUs targeted to their hardware.</comment></comment></comment>


Let's make a FirefoxOS app - <AUTHOR> http://12devsofxmas.co.uk/post/2012-12-27-day-2-lets-make-a-firefoxos-app <comment><USER2> At the risk of asking a "bad" question, will there be a FireFox App Store? If so, when and what will be the Mozilla cut? If not, what will be the plan to attract the "higher end" apps?

<comment><USER3> Yes, there is a "Mozilla Marketplace" currently open for submissions: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en/apps> <https://marketplace.firefox.com/>

<comment><USER2> This link there: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Apps/Marketplace_Pa...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Apps/Marketplace_Payments)

Makes me think that there is still some work to be done to solve the issue of attracting folks who want to make some money from their apps...

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Can FirefoxOS succeed where WebOS failed? If so why?

I'm not _poo-pooing_ I genuinely want to know. I would love for something like this to become huge.

<comment><USER5> Nobody knows. While they're a similar approach to development, the company, strategy, and goals are different. HP wanted an OS for their smartphones and tablets that would compete with iOS. Firefox is aiming for something more along the lines of an ambitious Linux distribution for the touchscreen era.

<comment><USER6> Given some basic analysis, I think it's quite safe to say that it'll be a failure.

Android and iOS are already extremely well entrenched, and they're where the money is for developers. There are other OSes, including Blackberry OS and various Windows versions, out there an actual phones already, too. At best, FirefoxOS is starting at 5th or 6th in line, although it's probably further back than that. That's a lot of catching up to do, especially given that it isn't really revolutionary or unique in any beneficial way.

Android and iOS give developers much more flexible environments to work with. To many experienced developers, especially those with a diverse background, being forced to use JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS is just not going to be seen as an advantage. If anything, it should be considered a reason not to target Firefox OS.

Things haven't been very bright for Mozilla lately, either. Firefox's usage is dropping, in favor of Chrome and even IE in some cases. This isn't surprising, given how it has been one mistake after another since Firefox 4. Thunderbird is on the rocks. Firefox for Mobile has been a complete failure. Aside from Bugzilla, which is looking pretty outdated these days, their other projects don't have much of a user base.

When one takes an impartial look at Firefox OS, there's just nothing compelling about it. There's no reason for its existence, and it doesn't really offer anything we couldn't already do. It seems to me to be more of a "we can do that, too!"-style project driven by vanity, rather than any real need. They'd be better off putting the effort toward improving Firefox on the desktop, which seems to be their only remotely viable project.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Apps using nothing more than regular HTML/CSS/JS. This is IMO the way that every single App Store should work.

<comment><USER8> It's surely a developers' paradise - but what about performance?

<comment><USER9> I wouldn't describe it as a developer's paradise at all- making apps with HTML/CSS/JS can be a very painful process. A developers paradise in terms of compatibility, though.

<comment><USER6> You wouldn't believe how many mobile developers I talk to who go on about how easy developing mobile apps using co-opted variants of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is.

They'll eventually talk about some of the problems they encounter, and then I can't believe they actually put up with any of it.

Of course, at this point I usually ask what other languages and environments they've worked with. They usually admit to having only ever done web development. Maybe some PHP, in rare cases. They don't know C++, Java, Objective-C, or even Python.

So I understand why they don't recognize the problems they're facing, due to their ignorance. If only they knew about real programming languages and the tools available for them, I think they'd quickly see how bad of an idea the whole HTML, CSS and JavaScript approach truly is.

<comment><USER10> Its fairly ridiculous to propose that the only reason that any developer is interested in build mobile web apps is that they are ignorant of all other platforms

<comment><USER6> Read again what I wrote. I clearly did not say that "ignorance is the only reason", or anything of that nature. Please refrain from making misrepresentations like that which you've just made, Dale Harvey.

Ignorance, however, does play a more significant role that you seem to believe, or would like to admit. Many of these developers do lack experience with languages that offer proper class-based OO support, namespaces, modularity, and other core functionality that JavaScript is missing, or has poorly tacked on (I'm looking at you, CommonJS).

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Thanks for the tutorial! Just a small suggestion: Syntax highlighting would make it easier to follow the code. You could probably use a library like <http://balupton.github.com/jquery-syntaxhighlighter/demo/>

</comment><comment><USER12> How is this fundamentally different from using phonegap with ios/android? Are there more apis that tie into native functionality? Cause you can just hook a lot of those up with phonegap anyway. From this example I can't see any differences.

<comment><USER13> With Firefox OS, they will be using web standard APIs. For things that do not yet have official APIs, they will make them and try to get them standardised.[0] This is unlike PhoneGap, which uses non-standard PhoneGap- specific APIs. This means that Firefox OS apps should also work fine as vanilla web apps in newer browsers.

[0] <https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/>

<comment><USER10> That isnt quite how I would describe it, FirefoxOS is the realisation of Phonegap original vision. Phonegap was built to not exist, it patches device API's where they dont exist with the intention that when the API is supported natively phonegap just isnt needed.

Ideally FirefoxOS and Phonegap applications will be identical (in that they will all be web apps that use standard APIs) there is work being done on making that true.

<comment><USER14> Looks like I chimed in 4 minutes late. Perfectly said, thank you.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> I don't care for the name which seems confusing to me.

Their browser is named Mozilla (the company) Firefox (the product). So shouldn't the OS be named then... Mozilla (company) OS (product)?

<comment><USER16> I think the whole name is Mozilla Firefox OS (as is Firefox OS from Mozilla)

But by this logic Apple Macs should run Apple OS?

<comment><USER17> Apple computers used to run Apple DOS

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER18> Just created my own based upon this information, very easy to do but what actually runs firefoxOS?

<comment><USER19> Currently is supported on a handful of Android devices, see here: [https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en- US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites)

<comment><USER20> Have you actually tried running on any of those devices?

I asked about them on a FirefoxOS post last week because I was trying to figure out which device to pick up and a Mozilla rep responded suggesting that I just try the emulator built for Firefox. She said that the builds that run on those devices are actually fairly out of date.

I'd love for somebody in the know or who actually has this up and running to provide some insight.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER21> Returning `500 Internal Server Error` for anyone else? (rMBP 10.8.2, Chrome 23.0.1271.101)

<comment><AUTHOR> Server is back up now.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: Hiring managers what would it take for you to reply to every applicant? - <AUTHOR> Anyone who has applied for a job in the last few years knows the routine: take the time to apply to numerous job postings, maybe get an interview or two, but mostly never get a response yay or nay. You might even get a few interviews in, only to never hear another peep.
If an applicant takes the time to apply to your posting, why not give them a follow up regardless?
What would it take?
Disclaimer: I'm building https://www.hireloop.io to hopefully bring communication full-circle. I really want to make this less painful. <comment><USER2> > If an applicant takes the time to apply to your posting, why not give them a > follow up regardless?

I'm not a hiring manager, but as the CTO I do review a lot of resumes incoming for technical positions we are hiring for.

The vast majority of applicants do not appear to be taking any time at all aside from selecting their resume to upload and clicking submit. It doesn't seem like they even read the job requirements, since 90% of them do not meet the minimal requirements we post. Some of them are not even developers, but they apply for a developer position.

If someone does appear to be relevant and did also include a cover letter relevant to the position, I will respond, regardless if they're a fit or not.

For me the biggest pain is the sheer amount of irrelevant submissions, which makes you numb after a while. This is why I don't believe in job postings anymore and mostly do headhunting.

Hope this helps!

<comment><USER3> Wouldn't it be pretty easy to send a standard email saying that the application was rejected? Maybe have 2-3 with different reasons, should fit nearly all cases. For the applicant it's still much nicer than hearing back nothing at all.

<comment><USER4> That requires one to spend time reading and thinking about whether someone falls under "can't write a coherent sentence", "not remotely qualified", and "this is a cv?!".

We would always give detailed feedback to everyone who came to interview, but candidates who fell far from the field didn't get more than the automated reply. Originally I tried responding to everyone, but it's a sucker's game. It isn't just the time spent replying in the first place, even if it only takes a moment, it's the replies asking "why do you think you're qualified to tell if I'm qualified", "here's my creative writing piece from 11th grade, for a developer position, read it please", "I'll sue you, fucker! I know my rights!", "ok I understand can you teach me to program?", "ok I understand, here's my startup idea, what do you think?".

All it takes is one candidate who responds irrationally to a rejection and your entire day, and attitude to other candidates, can be blown up.

So, just like there's a bar for an invite to interview, there's a bar for a positive rejection.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> I was recently laid off so I'm on the job hunt. I applied to Snap, Inc and received this response within 2 weeks of applying

 _Dear [First Name],

Thank you for your time and interest in a career at Snap Inc. At this time, our team has decided to evaluate other candidates for the [role]. However, we encourage you to apply in the future for positions matching your goals because our needs change frequently. Thanks again!

Best wishes, Snap Inc._

They must receive an enormous amount of applicants from all over so even though I didn't make it anywhere in the interview process, I'm appreciative of receiving a response and getting closure.

When I was employed, our HR department used Monster's ATS. They found it difficult to use and didn't bother to inform candidates of their application status.

</comment><comment><USER6> What kind of reply would you want? Would a simple "no thanks" be enough?

I have been in the situation before where replying to everyone with anything meaningful is simply not feasible. Maybe for a recruiter whose full-time job is that but not for a hiring manager who also has to balance their regular duties as well.

I have spent much more time on the applicant side of things than the hirer side so I understand the goal. It can be frustrating to not get anything. If it is a job you really want you may be inclined to hold everything else off until you hear something just on the hope that maybe they haven't gotten to your resume yet. So a little closure would be nice.

So maybe a better question for you is what are you trying to accomplish by getting hiring managers to reply to all candidates? Give them closure or provide feedback? If the former than maybe a simple "no thanks" will do.

By the way, I am speaking clearly to the scenario where a candidate sends in a resume and doesn't hear anything back. In my opinion, even if the hiring manager or recruiter does a phone call the candidate deserves a clear "no" email at a minimum.

<comment><AUTHOR> I think a "no thanks" is enough.

Would you give every applicant a "no thanks" if it was a simple click of a button? Would that be valuable to you?

<comment><USER7> Yup because I once applied to a big company and to this day I still don't now if a human was actually involved in any part of the process... Given the company and given the job it's quit possible that the HR people just filtered out the result using standardized fields and never gave an eye at the CV & resume I took 5 hour to write.

Months later I learn that they fire half of their HR externals contractors (maybe for the best).

So in the end yes, a simple "I read, not interested" would be great.

And if applicable a variation that could be "not for this job, but maybe try another one" or even "you need more experience" would actually be even more useful.

PS: What I learn though is that for big company hiring process is broken. My best chance of being recruited is to build a great project and communicate about it at my current job (but that's not easy if you are at the bottom of the stack and writing code under copyright...), but now I'm even less tempted to even apply to theses big Co.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> We get 200+ responses to most job postings. 90% or more of those are from candidates that just spam every job ad on the internet with their CV even if they live on the other side of the planet. We can't respond to each of those.

We will respond to everyone that gets past this first round. And if you get a phone / in person interview we will definitely call you back to say 'no sorry'.

<comment><USER9> I'd say that you should be able to rifle through 200 responses and sort out the crap and shove them into a folder where they'll get some friendly auto response rather quickly. Even if you go a step further and tag the mails as "not qualified enough" and "doesn't fit the job posting" and have them get different responses based on that it shouldn't take that long. I'd personally consider every unanswered job application bad PR for the company/a mild failure. Takes about a workday if it takes you 2 minutes/application. I'd guess this can be done in <1 minute though but since you probably have to open an attachment for many I think two is the safer assumption (from dealing with a lot of unsolicited mail).

Is it really that unreasonable to spend one work day per job posting to presort? The task can be parallelized nicely and even delegated down to interns if you think it's not worth the time of someone in HR (I'd strongly advocate against this).

<comment><USER10> Why put _any_ effort whatsoever into it? What exactly is the bad PR? The fact is, maybe you don't _deserve_ a response just because you sent in your resumé.

Also, "why don't you just" is one of those _famous_ things developers hear all the time and your comment reeks of it.

<comment><USER9> It's a simple long tail problem. People tend to be grumpy if they don't get a response (at least some people will be, statistically speaking). Those people will likely act as negative multipliers when it comes to your organization (especially since some of them will already be in a bad mood if they are job hunting out of necessity). They may or may not be less grumpy if they get a response, my hypothesis is that at least some of them will be less grumpy. If you get 200 replies for each job posting and presumably post a couple of jobs, preventing some negative feedback (especially in the age of social media) for a modest amount of work should be a no-brainer.

You can chose to have a "clearly spam" category that you don't reply to I suppose but apart from these even the worst written applications deserve the decency of an answer (personal opinion). Similarly I also think even the most brain dead customer requests and support questions should be answered (once again personal opinion).

The benefit is obviously very hard to measure which is why I can only make an argument based on reasoning (or dogma I suppose). The cost however is really easy to measure so the counterargument is easier to make.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> I just applied to a remote position posted on HN and some other places.

They sent out a mass email about 3-4 days later saying they had 550 applicants they were trying to sort through- so hold tight basically.

Now I pretty much know I'll get a mass email "no" if they don't decide to interview me. Which is nice.

<comment><AUTHOR> That sounds better than most!

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Pro tip: If you want a reply to your application, try to avoid cold emailing hiring managers your resume. Often my inbox has a lot happening, and I'm not inclined to spend time copying your resume into our hiring software unless there is something spectacular about your email or background. Emailing hiring managers out of the blue also will not help you bypass any steps in the hiring process.

By filling out the application form on our website, you load all the information into the form for me, and are guaranteed that a recruiter will follow up on your entry. If you want to send an email to the hiring manager _as well_ to explain why you are so awesome, that's fine, but it's probably not going to help your chances of getting a job any more than just applying.

<comment><USER13> Well... the converse is true as well. I've already got a well polished CV (I usually keep the resume mostly identical for my job applications, while I customize a summary header and I write a dedicated cover letter), an updated LinkedIn profile, a website, a blog, a Stack Overflow jobs profile...

and I need to enter that information AGAIN in your system, which is possibly slow, hard to use and/or requires registration, just because your process says so?

You'd better be a great company to work with and/or pay very high salaries, or you won't get my attention. Today the developer market is largely driven by developers, not by companies; make sure your practices are not driving potential good candidates away from your company!

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> As a hiring manager, your job is finding somebody to hire. And that's it.

If you want somebody to critique your cover letter and resume writing skills, interviewing ability, etc. I'm sure you can find somebody to do that. But they will charge you for the service.

It seems a bit silly to expect some random company's hiring guy to provide you that service free of charge.

</comment><comment><USER15> We have several people that apply for every job we post (and there are hundreds per year). On top of that we receive resumes that clearly have nothing to do with the position as well as cover letters that have the job title wrong. Some attach these materials without actually filling out the online application.

When there's no effort put into applying for our position, I don't see the need to put effort into a reply ... And eventually a flag in our system will send them a generic rejection (approved by legal I'm sure).

On the flip side, we're currently looking for a Google-style SET to work on testing Enterprise Java software and have received almost no resumes that fit the position as we envision it ... That's a pretty clear indication that the job description we posted needs work.

EDIT: This position is still open ... My email is in my profile if you're interested.

</comment><comment><USER16> > Disclaimer: I'm building [https://www.hireloop.io](https://www.hireloop.io) > to hopefully bring communication full-circle. I really want to make this > less painful.

[https://www.hireloop.io/how-does-it-work](https://www.hireloop.io/how-does- it-work)

Goes to 403 Forbidden. Atleast put something in there???

403 Forbidden

Code: AccessDenied

Message: Access Denied

RequestId: 4XMR36267413GRGBC72

HostId: BGu7DieumfZVCvftdpMIhXeFm2Qyyy2TyJ+P9jpQr3csSyYNIZBoGKhush8nMc4rHSj6+HighM=3p-

All other pages, including Pricing page, work tho ;) [https://www.hireloop.io/#pricing](https://www.hireloop.io/#pricing)

<comment><AUTHOR> CloudFront was giving me troubles. Thanks for pointing out my malfunction!

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> If I were using a system where rejecting a candidate was a one-click operation, and it also sent them a notification, I would click it. That's what it would take--it would have to be that easy. There are too many resumes.

(That's at resume review stage. If a candidate has actually talked to you, including any kind of interview, then they deserve a response, and I do follow up with everyone who gets to that stage.)

</comment><comment><USER18> If this is how you're applying to jobs, you're doing it wrong.

Target a small handful of companies strongly relevant to your experience and interests, and start informally chatting with people who work there. Ask about the culture. Get coffee. Ask how they like working there. Talk about what you've been working on that's related. Ask some questions about interesting problems they're trying to solve. Be interested and interesting. Points for going straight to an Eng VP or CTO -- even if they don't have the time to talk to you, they'll pass it to one of their underlings who does, and when your VP/CTO tells you to follow up with someone, you do.

The resume should be mostly a formality AFTER they've expressed some interest in your skills and have invited you to formally interview.

And if it doesn't pan out, you've already made personal connections with people there. Get coffee again for feedback.

<comment><USER10> If you're already employed and looking to change positions, sure.

But if you're unemployed, you don't have this luxury.

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> This is probably bad practice, and I don't hire much anymore, but when I did, I could usually put the resumes in three slots: 1/ Good match, want to see 2/ Maybe 3/ No

I generally give an immediate answer to 1 et 3. 2 are applicants that may do the job, but I am not really convinced, don't seem as great for the job as 1, and want to see them only if nobody in 1 gets the job. Also, 2 is definitely all the applicants that never received any answer from me, because I don't feel like telling them a straight no (in cas I'd need to interview them), and the job process usually takes a very long time. In the end, I either forget/procrastinate/feel like it's been to long to decently answer, so no answer.

As I said, I'm not proud of that, I know this is bad and not respectful to applicants, just being honest at how bad I am at the recruitment job.

</comment><comment><USER20> That works for automated systems, where you get an automated response. But hiring managers are busy, have multiple processes with HR, and with the rise of job sites end up getting hundreds of resumes, most of which are completely irrelevant, since it's so easy to blast our resume across the Internet.

</comment><comment><USER21> I received 155 resumes for the last postion I posted it would be too time consuming to reply to every single one. However I always contact all candidates by phone that came in for an interview to let them know we have chosen not to pursue them for the position.

</comment><comment><USER22> > I really want to make this less painful.

For who?

Replying to every applicant, the majority of which are borderline spam, is just extra work with zero added benefit to the business. Even if you make it easy, it is extra work. Not to be heartless, but people might then actually reply to you, and you spend more time dealing with someone you didn't even want to interview in the first place.

I get that as an applicant, this sucks. But as a hiring manager? Full communication with every applicant is MORE painful. And that is why they do not do it.

</comment><comment><USER23> Many applications that we get do not meet the key requirements from the job posting and are very generic. If the applicant did not put any effort into the application - why should I? Maybe this process can be automated with some ML/NLP to check if the application (a) matches at least SOME requirements and (b) is not too generic but actually hand written to match your posting and company.</comment>


THQ Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy - <AUTHOR> http://kotaku.com/5969846/thq-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy

<comment><USER2> Well, this is Chapter 11, not Chapter 7. We'll probably see them continue making games, even if they're investors are wiped out and their creditors take a haircut. There might be layoffs, but if they were going to liquidate they'd be in Chapter 7.

</comment><comment><USER3> Looks like that Humble Bundle did wonders.

THQ decided to go for Pay (Back) What You Want.

<comment><USER4> I don't think Filing for Chapter 11 is something you decide to do one weekend so I wonder how much THQ knew what was going to happen in a few weeks and what they gained by putting out the Humble Bundle. Maybe it was a move to get something out of the Chapter 11 proceedings.

<comment><USER5> They obviously knew. Most people I talked to knew that this was coming regardless of the bundle sale, and most people in the press seemed to know as well. The big question is whether it bought them anything. $5 million is a lot for an indie studio, but it's a drop in the bucket for a company with annual losses 30x that, and annual revenue over half a billion.

<comment><USER6> It will buy them a lot of influence with potential purchasers or investors. Being able to say that they were able to sell old games in such a high volume is unusual for a company in such dire financial straits. The sale also will help to build excitement and get more journalistic attention for their next games, which is probably also the reason they have been giving away Metro: 2033 via Facebook.

If this is the plan it's quite desperate, but it just could work.

<comment><USER7> Saints Row 3 is likely what sold many of the bundle copies. It's not an old game, it's a well-reviewed 1 year old AAA game that sells for 40 dollars on steam.

<comment><USER8> That's why I bought the bundle for $5. I hadn't heard of it much before but I knew it was a fairly new game compared to the others.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I wrote for a videogame magazine for three years and have been a life-long gamer. This is sad news. The past five years they've mostly been known for their licensed games (WWE, Nickelodeon), but THQ is still a brand that I believe many in the videogame community still enjoy seeing, if only out of nostalgia. Their support of the Saints Row series, many other smaller studios, and even putting out some decent games by licensed products standards, means this is a loss for the gaming industry.

They may not have been managed well or been industry-leaders, but it's a tough business and I hope we will continue to see their three-letter logo on new games in the future.

</comment><comment><USER10> The world has abandoned us. We fight alone, against an insidious enemy... an enemy who would destroy the Commonwealth, who would have our nation crumble from within. But we are strong enough to fight the Red Faction. You asked for greatness. I have given it to you. You asked for victory. It is within our grasp!!! Do not ask me to surrender to our enemies. I WILL NOT!!!

</comment><comment><USER11> So why they did the humble bundle?!?!?!

<comment><USER12> Chapter 11 is for protection from creditors while you re-organize. They're not planning to go out of business.

</comment></comment><comment><USER13> Homefront 2, huh?

<comment><USER14> The handed over development to Crytek (UK), so it seems like they are making an effort to improve the quality of the game.

[http://www.develop-online.net/news/38684/Crytek-UK-to- build-...](http://www.develop-online.net/news/38684/Crytek-UK-to-build- Homefront-2-with-CryEngine-3)

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I'm still hoping to see those new games of theirs on Linux, if they intend to use the Unity 4 engine for them.

<comment><USER16> You're just throwing buzzwords together aren't you?

<comment><USER17> Phoronix reported that THQ is considering Linux ports of their games, and currently using Unity for a project: [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1N...](http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI1NDM)</comment></comment></comment>


The Privacy Card Issuing API - <AUTHOR> https://blog.privacy.com/introducing-the-privacy-card-issuing-api/ <comment><USER2> An API for issuing cards is nice.

But where is their API for extracting your transaction information? How can I reconcile all my budgets, when the charges show up at my bank as "Privacy.com", but I have no way to get bulk information from the privacy.com website itself as to which transaction was which?

Sure, I could scrape the doom-scrolling website, but I shouldn't have to do that.

</comment><comment><USER3> Used (and worked with) Privacy for a while. Really like it.</comment>


'Shouting' vs Conversing on Social Media - <AUTHOR> http://nathanclark.me/posts/shouting-vs-conversing/

<comment><USER2> Dang, I didn't get 'hard sell' at all from the Pocketbook tweet. I thought it was a straightforward suggestion to try an alternative, keyword being 'try'.

<comment><AUTHOR> If it wasn't directly from them, I'd agree. I just think they had a great opportunity but didn't think it through enough.</comment></comment>


Who is Vikram Pawar - <AUTHOR> http://www.facebook.com/vikram.m.pawar http://www.facebook.com/vikram.m.pawar twitter pawar sorry pg. it is for a good cause. check me. <comment><USER2> what about that guy?</comment>


Ask HN: Why does Github go down so often? - <AUTHOR>

It seems like Github has been going down a lot lately. Is there a particular reason that is the source of their troubles? What about Github's architecture might make it more vulnerable to downtime than other sites and services? <comment><USER2> I don't think they actually have a higher failure rate than other large scale web applications. They are just very open about their failures and data. [http://status.github.com/](http://status.github.com/) reports an uptime of 99.8% for the month. Not _fantastic_ but very very good.

<comment><AUTHOR> perhaps it just seems like it is down more because as developers we spend a lot of time using github's services</comment></comment>


First detailed microscopy evidence of bacteria at the lower size limit of life - <AUTHOR> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150227181339.htm

<comment><USER2> Life is endlessly surprising: "The diverse bacteria were found in groundwater and are thought to be quite common. They're also quite odd, which isn't a surprise given the cells are close to and in some cases smaller than several estimates for the lower size limit of life. This is the smallest a cell can be and still accommodate enough material to sustain life. The bacterial cells have densely packed spirals that are probably DNA, a very small number of ribosomes, hair-like appendages, and a stripped-down metabolism that likely requires them to rely on other bacteria for many of life's necessities."

<comment><USER3> Indeed.

The rule I fashioned for myself when I first studied viruses at the low, molecular genetics level, was that if they can exist, they probably will. They especially are "hacks", and I'm sure it'll be interesting to see what's learned from these bacteria.

<comment><USER4> How do the size of these bacteria compare with that of viruses?

<comment><USER5> The smallest virus is 17 nm in diameter, according to Wikipedia. Most are 20 to 300 nm. The bacterium here is about 500 nm across, almost exactly the wavelength of visible light.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Source, with better picture(s): [http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra- small-bacteria/](http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra-small-bacteria/)

</comment><comment><USER7> "To concentrate these cells in a sample, they filtered groundwater collected at Rifle, Colorado through successively smaller filters, down to 0.2 microns, which is the size used to sterilize water. The resulting samples were anything but sterile".

Could "sterile" water be potentially dangerous then?

<comment><USER8> > Could "sterile" water be potentially dangerous then?

"Sterile" is like Absolute Zero (0 Kelvin). A better question is: What is the effective minimum concentration, and how do you get below that?</comment></comment>


Learnemy - platform to connect sport learners and instructors - <AUTHOR> http://www.techship2038.com/post/23828016167/learnemy <comment><USER2> I guess the name is a portmanteau of Learn and Academy, but the first thing that came to my mind was Learn Enemy, the enemy of learning...</comment>


Show HN: Onemoment – Social Platform to share your thoughts anonymously to world - <AUTHOR> http://www.onemoment.live <comment><USER2> I question the actual anonymity provided by this service if it does not even let me in without enabling geolocation...

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</comment><comment><AUTHOR> This is an initiative to mark the moment with your voice. Let history be your witness. A platform that helps you share your thoughts anonymously to the world, tagged to your geo location.

</comment><comment><USER3> I believe sometime anonymity empowers one to speak their mind out and eventually be a part of the change that seeks to benefit the millions. This platform provides the tools to everybody to speak their thoughts and share their feelings. I like the ease of use that this platform provides.</comment>