Facebook says Apple's iOS 14 changes could hurt its ad targeting - <AUTHOR> https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/30/facebook-says-apples-ios-14-changes-could-hurt-its-ad-targeting.html <comment> move-on-by I am personally hoping this change will generate more evidence that targeted advertising is not as valuable as everyone believes. _I believe_ contextual advertising is effective and doesn't come with all the privacy nightmares and ethical issues like allowing targeting alcoholics with alcohol ads. Of course, that is just my own personal opinion. I've seen some articles agreeing with what I just said - but not being a statistician or even in the advertising industry I'm not qualified to say one way or the other.

<comment><USER2> I am an advertiser that uses targeted advertising and contextual advertising.

There are some products and services that absolutely require targeting by preferences to maximize profit.

I'm running such a campaign now and getting wildly high ROI's in the 14X range.

If I couldn't target by audience interest, I'd be happy to get an ROI that is a tenth of that.

<comment><USER3> > There are some products and services that absolutely require targeting by > preferences to maximize profit.

As a normal person who just wants to use his phone without creepy crap going on, I don't care—and see zero benefit if your profits are maximized.

Your profit seeking wishes are not my concern.

<comment><USER4> They were replying on the subject of whether targeted ads are effective or not. Whether they should be allowed is a different matter, but while companies _are_ collecting your data it's not reasonable to ask advertisers to disadvantage themselves against competition by not using the marketing options with the highest ROI.

Send your complaints to politicians, not ad buyers.

(Disclaimer: I've spent millions - not my own money - on ads in my career. I'd support better privacy regulations to prevent some of the targeting I've been able to use.)

<comment><USER5> Politicians either don't care or can't get changes passed. Until that changes blaming and shaming does and will continue to work, at least better that my elected officials who'd ratherdo anything but challenge their largest donors profits.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> There is this parable about building a house upon sand versus building upon rock. When the storm comes the house on the sand gets washed away.

Facebook didn't have to turn into a global ad platform that does tricky shit like spy on users with blue thumbs up buttons or weird hacks into webrtc to fingerprint users. They could have done the work to provide more direct value and charged for it, like Apple did or did something completely different like building something like Shopify that was still open to the internet but had first class support in Facebook. But they didn't and my hope is that their business model will wash away as security and privacy tighten up on our devices and through our democracies.

Just imagine if Apple had taken a different approach and basically said "we're going to make phones that we monetize by tracking our users" instead. The institutional focus would have been warped and—eventually—someone would have come out with high quality phones and computers that don't track you and they would have lost in the long run.

<comment><USER7> > "we're going to make phones that we monetize by tracking our users"

Google is doing exactly that and seems to have a market share of 75% vs Apple's 25% [1]. What am I missing?

[1] [https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market- share/mobile/worldwide](https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market- share/mobile/worldwide)

<comment><USER8> I'll also say that anecdotally, I know a lot more people with iPhones and people who use something else, always complain about their phones.

I was one of those other people, then I just decided I want something that works and bought an iPhone. It was worth it.

<comment><USER9> Along with pb7, I'll +1 this anecdote. I know that Google are going for volume while Apple are going for margin, and it shows.

I was an ardent Android user until 2014/2015 (can't remember the exact year). Things like "I have to be able to replace my battery" and "a phone without an SD card slot is pointless" and "hah, my regular USB cords just work."

But finally, after a year or so of every time my phone spontaneously rebooted (a circumstance that, looking back, I'm surprised I put up with for so long) there was a ~20% chance that it would come back up completely wiped. My employer required that phones accessing work e-mail be encrypted and every so often, a reboot would simply lose the user data volume encryption key.

The last time it happened, I permanently lost two pictures that were valuable to me (yes, I know, backups) and it happened while I was sitting in front of a T-Mobile store and around the corner from an Apple store. I went into T-Mobile, got a SIM that would fit an iPhone, then went to the Apple store and loaded up a credit card with a new iPhone 6(?) and all the trimmings and have never looked back.

I do still have the screenshot of my first text with my wife after I switched. "So...I did something...expensive." "What did you do? WAIT, this bubble is BLUE"

<comment><USER10> For me (as a former Anything But Apple guy), the realization came when I discovered that every problem I've ever had with my phone was caused by me screwing something up. I put up with this on my computers, but my phone isn't something I want to take chances on. It's got too much data and it's too critical to my everyday life to have it broken constantly. I just can't trust myself not to install launchers and root the phone and see if I can get Debian running in a chroot and... whoops bricked it.

I switched to iPhone with the 5s and have't looked back. I like not being able to break my phone because of my poor decision making skills. I do my hacking on my computer where the consequences are lower and its easier to fix.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Great! Can't wait for the iOS 14 release!

</comment><comment> yjftsjthsd-h That's... The idea, yes.

> Our view is that Facebook and targeted ads are a lifeline for small > businesses, especially in the time of Covid, and we are concerned that > aggressive platform policies will cut at that lifeline at a time when it is > so essential to small business growth and recovery," Wehner said.

"We need to trample privacy to save small businesses because covid!" is a take I did not expect to read today. Also Facebook acting like it's altruistically helping those poor little businesses - how terrible that Apple is making it harder for them to give Facebook money!

<comment><USER12> I am surprised that they didn't turn it into a think of the children thing instead.

<comment><USER13> "If you take our ads away only the criminals will run ads!"

<comment><USER14> One could argue that this is exactly what is happening already. Except that what FB does is still considered "legal".

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER15> I think dedicated firewall can help a lot. Like if I use spotify i should be able to use firewall and tell spotify app can connect only to [https://*.spotify.com](https://*.spotify.com) if there are other url it should ask permission for that. I think this would help a lot. Especially when facebook implants its tracker to most app using sdk

<comment> kube-system DNS blocking/filtering is a flimsy solution which is only effective if most people don't use it. If it ever becomes mainstream (which is starting to happen), trackers will just use CNAMEs or proxies (which is also starting to happen)

<comment><USER16> Like pihole, the device friendly NextDNS.io service can follow/block the CNAMEs.

<comment> kube-system And some trackers have already sidestepped that and switched to proxying requests server side.

The only reason anyone is using CNAMEs is because pihole and NextDNS are of negligible adoption, and adding a CNAME is super easy to do. Once CNAME blocking is more prevalent, it will become mainstream to proxy tracking requests as well.

example: [https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...](https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/devguide#using- a-proxy-server)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> Good. Cross-site ad targeting/fingerprinting is digital stalking.

</comment><comment><USER18> Boo fucking hoo.

</comment><comment><USER19> Makes me want to buy an iPhone for my next phone.

<comment><USER20> I work in the ad tech space, spent a lot of time on the publishing side. We've always had higher CPMs from Android users than iOS users. There's just more hooks in Android for tracking than their is for iOS, and it'll probably continue to be that way. If you're not a fan of tracking switching to the Apple ecosystem is a good in between. A more extreme route would be to have a rooted Android phone without Google Play Services but the hassle isn't really worth it for me.

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Great news. It would be nice to have fewer companies stalking me, my family, and friends.

</comment><comment><USER22> Good. Targeted ads not only creep me out, they are usually laughably bad in terms of "I just bought product X from site Y, and now I'm getting lots of ads for product X, which I don't need now that I bought it."

</comment><comment><USER23> Good! Working as intended.

<comment><USER24> But what about small businesses? Targeted advertising is their lifeline in these trying times. /s

<comment><USER25> What's this /s ?

/s

<comment><USER26> Used to indicate sarcasm on other sites.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER27> Sounds great. The amount of dodgy and creepy stuff Facebook does on tge daily shouldn't be rewarded. Remember when they kept crashing their Android app For some users just to AB test their reaction or when they tried to research how to algorithmically manipulate peoples' mood? I'd be glad they allowed this to go on this long...

</comment><comment><USER28> > Our view is that Facebook and targeted ads are a lifeline for small > businesses

LOLOLOL - I service only small businesses (hundreds of them) and 90% of them could give 0 fucks if Facebook disappeared from this planet tomorrow.

The whole "targeted advertising" pipe dream sold to small businesses is tiring. Highly targeted Facebook ads work for a small percentage of business models - if you don't fit one of these models it's a giant waste of money or at least on par with print/radio/tv/un-targeted digital ads.

<comment><USER29> Most small business owners I know have had more success maintaining a FB/Social media page than doing targeted advertising. Or even just doing simple SEO to get on googles results page.

<comment><USER28> Organic Facebook (not paid) is still a viable marketing channel for many of my clients. However Facebook is decreasing organic reach to force these businesses to purchase ads. The ideal targeted-ad-scenario that Facebook and ad agency talking heads promote just does't apply to most small businesses. Unfortunately most are still FOMO'd into purchasing these ads.

The same could be said about SEO/Google Ads. Google is essentially a paid search engine now so while SEO will work for _some_ sectors, for most they will never be #1 because the top 3-4 results are ads disguised as organic results (hence why I say Google is a paid search engine)

<comment><USER10> I ran a business where the target audience was on Facebook and the numbers were just shocking. We had about 3500 followers. If I didn't run any ads, our posts would only be shown to maybe 200-300 people total, out of the 3500 people who actively make the choice to follow our page. As soon as I turned on $1/day ads (the lowest FB allows), those numbers skyrocketed to about 1000 people seeing each post. Still far short of the number of people who went out of their way to tell Facebook that they wanted to see my posts. Every dollar I spent per day increased that number.

That convinced me that Facebook won't give business pages the traffic they've earned unless that business pays Facebook to let that page's followers see that page's posts. It's a racket and you have to pay to play.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER30> "Our view is that Facebook and targeted ads are a lifeline for small businesses". BulSht!

</comment><comment><USER31> I love privacy, but if seeing worse ads is all that's been won, seems weaksauce.

<comment><USER32> Seeing worse ads (or none if you install an adblocker), but there's less info about you floating around the web, beyond your control. I'll take that any day of that week.

</comment></comment><comment><USER33> Good riddance, I say. Small businesses can continue to focus more on what they tend to do better in general, like having closer relationships with customers, really listening to feedback, etc., instead of believing in an illusion that Facebook ads will bring them more customers and throwing money that will make Facebook richer and them poorer while they get misled by engagement analytics numbers that don't translate into a better conversion rate.

I hope Facebook's relentless and shameless intrusions get more beatings that it truly deserves.

<comment><USER34> I like this take. It's not like hyper targeted ads are the only thing the internet provides us with now. It's also MUCH easier to build and stay connected with your community. Focusing more on that could be much better overall than ads.

</comment></comment><comment><USER35> My only question is: when will they bring this to the Mac.

</comment><comment><USER36> So if this continues Facebook is gonna evolve into something like Etsy or Shopify?!

</comment><comment><USER37> So good news? That is awesome.

</comment><comment><USER38> Do they mean the ad targeting that shows me ads to help build a religious building (I'm an atheist) in NYC (I live in Europe)? That ad targeting is going to work less well? How?

In all seriousness, good. Facebook is creepy enough as it is, and this kind of protest is disingenious at best.

</comment><comment><USER39> I don't install any social media "Apps" into my phones. I use Firefox, ublock orogin, privacy badger, duckduckgo essentials, and facebook fence. It's overkill, but damn, it's trivial to setup, and platforms don't follow me whereever I go.

</comment><comment><USER40> I think that is the point.

</comment><comment><USER41> Facebook can cry me a river while listening to me play a tiny violin.

</comment><comment><USER42> So, good news all around. Even FB themselves acknowledge that their predatory model is going to take a hit.

<comment><USER43> Yeah, a little surprised FB would be helping Apple sell iOS 14.

<comment><USER42> > FB … helping Apple sell iOS 14.

That's exactly the right way to put it.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> And here I was about to get an Android!

</comment><comment><USER45> Good.

</comment><comment><USER46> Good.

</comment><comment><USER47> Oh, no. Stahp. Please.

</comment><comment><USER48> Yes please

</comment><comment><USER49> Good.

</comment><comment><USER50> Good

</comment><comment><USER51> Good.

</comment><comment><USER52> That's excellent!

</comment><comment><USER53> Oh no

</comment><comment><USER54> Good!

</comment><comment><USER55> good!

</comment><comment><USER56> GOOD!

</comment><comment><USER57> Well, well, well. Some months from now, let's revisit all the sentiments here and see if they still apply when Apple/Google/etc make a change that hurts some startup's bottom line. I'm guessing not so much praise and enthusiasm when it happens to someone else, instead of a big bad company like FB, right? We'll see...

<comment><USER58> I'm very happy with less targeted advertising. I realize the predominant model right now is free with advertising. It's not a happy place.

<comment><USER59> So true. Even if Apple kills a small company dependent on targeted advertising, I would cheer.

I'm not cheering because it's FB, I'm cheering because it strikes at targeted advertising. If you're a small company out tracking people to try to sell them an Oklahoma City Thunder dart board, I'm gonna cheer just as loudly when Apple sticks it to you.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER60> Not just Facebook, but the entire $80 billion mobile app advertising industry. [edit] To clarify, I'm referring to Apple crippling ads that drive net new app installs, not the ability to monetize your app via ads.

The privacy angle is completely justified, but I think Apple is underestimating the second order effects here. Significantly fewer apps will be installed, harming both the developer ecosystem and Apple's App Store profits.

[https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/24/apple-j...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/24/apple- just-made-idfa-opt-in-sending-an-80-billion-industry-into-upheaval/)

<comment><USER61> Apps that Apple profits from, the paid apps, do not rely on ads. Apple does not profit from free apps that are monetized by ads.

<comment><USER60> I'm referring to the ability of paid apps to drive installs. These are ads that drive TO the App Store and generate paid app installs that are being crippled. Sorry if I wasn't clear.

<comment><USER61> Perhaps it's my profile but all ads I get for apps is pay to win scam games. Surely Apple profits from these but I don't think that's the kind of profits Apple is after.

<comment><USER60> Those are the apps that will run more ads if targeting is crippled. They take a spray-and-pray approach by buying up all the cheap, untargeted inventory. If you see a lot of them, that means you probably aren't being tracked by the ad network.

<comment><USER62> That's an excellent incentive to stop using the apps that are displaying the bad ads.

<comment><USER61> The apps that fail to track me?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER63> > With the update to its mobile devices, Apple will ask users if they want to > let app developers track their activity across other apps and websites.

I'm getting so tired of the bullshit coming out of tech companies. Listening to these tech CEOs lie and give non-answers to every question asked by Congress this week was disgusting.

Would any user EVER want apps to be able to track them across the web and within other apps? Why would this not be off by default?

I used Android for years until enough was enough with the blatant theft of my data by Google. So I opened up my wallet even wider to go with Apple, as I thought they took users' privacy seriously.

Apparently not.

<comment><USER64> _"Apple will ask users if they want to let app developers track their activity across other apps and websites.

[…]

Why would this not be off by default?"_

How does that _not_ describe "off by default"? Even if that doesn't, FTA: _"In iOS 14, each app that wants to use these identifiers will ask users to opt-in to tracking when the app is first launched."_</comment></comment>


AI, IA, and AIA - <AUTHOR> https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-case/release/6 <comment><AUTHOR> This is a pretty good article about technology as a means of augmenting human intelligence. Doug Engelbart's vision of a runaway AGI was about augmenting groups of humans so that they could accelerate their own progress. By constantly re-applying what they had discovered to their current work he imagined the group becoming ever more effective at solving harder and harder problems. That's what runaway AGI looks like. It's a group of humans solving problems through the use of technology and collaboration that they couldn't solve on their own.

> In 1962 — decades before Garry Kasparov played chess with centaurs, years > before the early internet was invented, even a while before the first > supercomputer — Doug Engelbart was investigating how our tools shape our > thoughts. At the time, most of Doug's peers just saw computers as a way to > crunch numbers faster. However, he saw something deeper: he saw a way to > augment the human mind.</comment>


Help us to choose our new logo, it will take you only a few seconds - <AUTHOR> https://usabilityhub.com/do/64f92f883e21/bfe3 <comment><AUTHOR> At Bugfender we are doing a complete redesign of our site and company image. One of the things we want to change is the logo, so as we really appreciate people opinions we have "open sourced" the logo selection.</comment>


Sixty children referred to UK Government counter-terrorism programme every week - <AUTHOR> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sixty-children-referred-to-governments-counter-terrorism-programme-every-week-a7496966.html <comment><USER2> I'm glad there is something of this general shape, but the devil is in the details. It has the potential to be a tool of oppression and we should be constantly vigilant against that. However, Having some way to report concern about somebody being drawn into terrorist organisations is important to the goal of keeping people from getting their legs blown off.

I'd be interested to read a more detailed report about potential avenues for abuse and safeguards against that.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> Posting this because the UK has some pretty unpleasant law at the moment, and it's not bizarre to suggest they might extend the snooper's charter stuff and the PREVENT agenda stuff to force service providers to report people watching certain materials.

About the OP: Some of these children are undoubtedly the victims of abusive parents. Here's a nice example (also because the decision was written so that it could be mostly understood by the children involved in the case) [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2016/9.html](http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2016/9.html) But still, it's disturbing that so many people are on the lists. So far less than 1,000 UK citizens have travelled out of the UK for terrorist purposes.

<comment><USER3> They are already extending the snoopers charter. The Digital Economy bill is going through parliament at an amazing rate. It talks a lot about saving kids from porn, but actually introduces internet censorship into the UK!!! This government has no concept of human rights

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> "Where an ideology was identified and recorded, just over half, or around 54%, of referrals related to Islamist extremism. Nearly one in 10 referrals was linked to far-right extremism."

So <10% are "far right" what makes up the other nearly 40%?

</comment><comment><USER5> It sounds like they're incentivizing citizen informants. Nothing reminiscent of the DDR there.

<comment><USER6> DDR is German for GDR an likely a reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_collaborators_(East_G...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_collaborators_\(East_Germany\))</comment></comment>


DOJ made secret arguments to break crypto, now ACLU wants to make them public - <AUTHOR> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/aclu-fights-government-secrecy-over-thwarted-wiretap-of-facebook-messenger/ <comment><USER2> This element of the case began in August 2018, when an FBI special agent told the court in an affidavit that "there is no practical method available by which law enforcement can monitor these calls" between suspected MS-13 gangsters. _Authorities already had traditional wiretaps and were able to intercept written messages between the defendants, who are now in custody._ (emphasis mine)

Sounds like the multiple times that terrorists have been caught communicating using simple SMS (or it was revealed after the attack that they were only using SMS). How often does the opposite occur?

</comment><comment><USER3> Are there any organizations I can support other than the ACLU that has fought for internet freedom and against government mass surveillance?

<comment><USER4> EFF

<comment><USER5> [https://www.eff.org](https://www.eff.org)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> ACLU is unaware that FB has an entire Haskell library for snooping on messages in the name of SPAM detection? [https://code.fb.com/security/fighting-spam- with-haskell/](https://code.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/)</comment>


Ask HN: What are your best hacks/tips for designing pitch deck? - <AUTHOR> <comment><USER2> You make pitch and ask someone else to present to you. You being Investor! And also reverse.

Have solid answer to questions, product market fit,etc. I'm not sure what they will ask here.

Find all available and relevant presentations on internet and take any idea that applies and appeals to you.

Base your presentation on data that you can backup. Try to show that in interesting way where you balance between too much optimism and reality.

Be ready to be thrown curve balls at you dismissing your idea as naive or doesn't hold true. You will be asked hard questions. Learn how to handle them.

Ask someone to attack your idea and try to get better answers to handle such questions with data and story and whatever that can break there mindset.

Be confident and All the best!</comment>


Firefox 35 release notes - <AUTHOR> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/35.0/releasenotes/

<comment><USER2> >Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements

Oh yes, this is a long-awaited improvement.

<comment><USER3> It's about time! This was one of my biggest annoyances when I tried migrating from Chrome's dev tools over to Firefox.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> One nice thing about this release is the ability to switch to the more compact dev-edition theme.

In about:config search for: browser.devedition.theme.enabled and set it to 'true'

Set devtools.theme to 'dark' for the dark theme (I've left this disabled as I don't like how the icons look with the dark UI).

</comment><comment><USER5> Firefox Hello?? Why does that need to be in a web browser?

<comment><USER6> It's a sample implementation of WebRTC, a technology that will be very useful to have integrated into the browsing experience.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> Still no swipe animation/indicator for OS X.</comment>


Tire pressure monitor systems could reveal driver location - <AUTHOR> http://www.computerworld.com/article/2519983/data-privacy/tire-pressure-monitor-systems-could-reveal-driver-location.html <comment><USER2> This article is from 2010.

The concerns are the same tracking concerns as those around RFID clothing.</comment>


'Tardigrades on the Moon Is Not Good' - <AUTHOR> https://news.yahoo.com/tardigrades-moon-not-good-103051545.html <comment><USER2> > What you are doing is showing excitement at the long history of forcing OUR > values, systems, and in this case, living beings on another world. That is > not our right, and it is not our job. If we carry on with that mentality, > even if we took away the 'colonization' word the premise is the same. It's > colonialism. It's imperialism.

hmm, defending the rights of non existent beings from colonialism on a barren inhospitable moon? cmon it's a frickin postage stamp load of water bears... Let get real, if they manage to populate a single crater it will be a miracle, and no Moon creatures are likely to be harmed since they are so elusive.

[edit]

So, it seems this person has a bit of an anti planetary colonization, anti planetary contamination... anti planetary pretty much anything that comes in physical contact with it agenda:

[http://astrobiology.com/2019/07/absolute-prioritization- of-p...](http://astrobiology.com/2019/07/absolute-prioritization-of-planetary- protection-safety-and-avoiding-imperialism-in-all-future-scienc.html)

Elon Musk is not going to like this person.

<comment><USER3> Not trying to be combative, but I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk is not going to like this person".

Is there a specific reason that you feel like that and wanted to note it? I know he's usually known for being rather outspoken about his chosen method in a given field of space exploration.

<comment><USER2> > I find it interesting that you specifically note that you think "Elon Musk > is not going to like this person". Is there a specific reason that you feel > like that and wanted to note it?

He wants to colonize Mars, he has stated this desire in great detail publicly on multiple occasions.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> If tardigrades were capable of reproducing on the moon it'd already be colonized. There has been more than enough impact ejecta in the last 530 million years to land living tardigrades on the moon long before humans even evolved.

</comment><comment><USER5> Nasa gives themselves and humanity too much credit.

Universe don't care about anything of this. It births and kills billions of stars in a blink of a second, shatter and reshape planetary systems and obliterate entire galaxies while some scientists are thinking of decontamination protocols and coming with pretentious ideas that anything they do has any resemblance of importance.

</comment><comment> em-bee i have a hard time believing that the first moon missions were completely sterile and that they didn't already leave lots of potentially living matter behind.

and don't we want to colonize the moon? and mars? if we do, i think we need to throw out any pretense that we can control what gets sent up there.

i mean, it is worth to have a debate and consider the side effects, but it's way to late for a "must not send living matter to the moon" stance.

the only thing not good here is that this living cargo was apparently kept secret.

send to the moon whatever you want, but please be open about it, so that we can observe it and have a scientific debate about the risks and effects.

</comment><comment><USER6> No, it's actually good. We need to terraform the Moon and get an ecosystem going. This will be much simpler to do than on Mars due to the distances involved.

<comment><USER7> Is terraforming the moon even possible? I was under the impression it had too little gravity to ever hold onto an atmosphere. Mars, OTOH, at least already has a thin atmosphere to work with.

<comment><USER6> The issue with atmosphere escaping can be solved by building transparent eco- domes that would allow sunshine in, but prevent the air from leaking out.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> yeah there is no ethics in space. leave ethics and all the human drama on earth and colonize space. there is nothing to protect out there. there is only stuff to protect on earth.

<comment><USER3> Part of the reason we're going out there is to find out whether or not we're alone in the universe and to learn more about how we ourselves might have come to be.

I think there's a balance to be struck between planetary protection and getting humans out there. No matter what, once we send humans somewhere, there _will_ be contamination, but we should at least make a good effort to avoid contamination when possible.

<comment><USER8> No we should not. We should be expedient and expansionary in space not stiffing any opportunity with any unnecessary rules. After a thousand or few thousand years when there are plenty of humans out there laws will automatically follow. For instance if someone wishes to do research to create animals that can survive on different planets to genetically engineer bacteria to do the same we should not get in their way.

The only downside of such thinking is whether we can trust what we engineer for out there not to contaminate our planet, which is a much bigger issue / risk.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> > Mary Ann Cramer : I have to ask you the same question people back home are > asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back? > Forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at > home.

> Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair : No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple > reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population > control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one > thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a > hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun > will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll > take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy > Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. > Unless we go to the stars.

Space colonization == survival. So yes, we should have colonial attitudes, and no, they're not the same as imperialism.</comment>


Is there a word to describe this no-hire tactic? - <AUTHOR> I am wondering if there is an established term for when a candidate, following the technical interview, is not hired to a position with the explanation by the hiring manager that the candidate did not show experience with 'XYZ' when the position description does not mention 'XYZ' as a required or preferred qualification.
In sofware dev. this might play out in the following HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION >> candidate applies to position listing experience with web front end frameworks as a required qualification, with React and Vue as preferred qualifications. After the technical interview the hiring manager explains a no-hire decision because the candidate did not demonstrate proficiency in CSS.
Is there an established term for this? <comment><USER2> Not that I know of, but having intimate experience with one thing probably implies you have experience with another, so I don't necessarily see any foul play if it's not listed explicitly in the job listing.</comment>


From Oakland to the World, Words of Warning: Time's Up - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20bcjames.html The world comes to the end <comment><USER2> Seriously the Feds better be watching this closely. This smells like a lot of trouble when Harold is wrong.</comment>


The Web as a Platform? - <AUTHOR> http://aalittle.com/the-web-as-a-platform

<comment><USER2> The Web _IS_ a platform. The things TFA is talking about, angular.js, Play, etc., are just tools / libraries. The platform is TCP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc. And what makes it beautiful is that you can build anything you want on top of that platform, _without_ worrying about what Google or Apple or Microsoft or IBM or $WHOEVER thinks.

Curation? Beautiful app-stores? Feh. I'll pass on both if it means giving up the freedom to build anything I can imagine, which is what you get with the general "web as a platform".

Never mind nobody is forcing you to "play keep up" and constantly use the very latest and trendiest tools all the time. I haven't even touched Angular.js, nor do I have any overriding desire to do so anytime soon. Same for Ember.js and any number of other libraries. I'm sure they're cool, but I'm too busy building stuff to spend all my time evaluating libraries. But it's neat to know that they are there, and one day down the road, if I start to feel the right kind of pain, maybe I look at pulling in one of those (or whatever the "library du jour" is at the time).

<comment><USER3> "I wish there was one straight-forward way to build awesome applications on the web like there is with mobile development. I want someone to hold my hand the whole time."

On the internet, you keep 100% of the revenue you bring in. On the internet, you do 100% of the work, too.

<comment><USER4> While you're right about 100% of the revenue (minus Paypal, Visa/Mastercard, etc.) I disagree you do 100% of the work when compared to iOS/Android development.

I actually love the tools we have available to us in webdev, and think it's actually quite a lot easier than native development for mobile platforms. It's so much easier to debug and work on a web app in real time in Chrome dev tools than it is to fire up the iPhone/Android simulator apps.

<comment><USER5>
      > "quite a lot easier than native development for mobile
      > platforms"

I am going to bet that anyone claiming things like this did not ever half- heartedly attempted to look into native development and has no idea how much native frameworks have to offer.

<comment><USER4> You'd be wrong. I have done quite a bit. They have a lot to offer, but I think web development is easier and faster.

<comment><USER3> Still, you need to be way more qualified to build a successful SaaS or anything interesting on the internet. To build an iPhone app all you need is an Objective-C book, a mac, and $100.

<comment><USER4> All you need to build a web app is Chrome, a text editor and a $5/mo hosting account. :D

<comment><USER3> Maybe for you. Many highly used web services require non trivial backends. If you have an html5 app that uses local storage, you could host JavaScript for $5 a month, sure.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> > In some respects, the plethora of choice this problem represents is the > power of the web, but overall I think it does the web a disservice because > there isn't enough weight put behind a single platform.

Fair argument (I guess?) but the opinion comes down to, do you prefer an open and ever-changing ecosystem that has no limits on what you can build and how you can build it; or do you prefer a contained ecosystem dictated by a few powerful stakeholders who subtly apply their own methodologies and beliefs, to shape the capabilities and limits of the platform?

The latter seems like a slippery slope and would eventually serve the the powerful stakeholders rather than the people building the platform. The former, while it may require a higher learning curve, puts more competition between technologies that enhance the platform, and doesn't dictate what or how things can be built, serving the developers and users above all else.

Personally I would prefer the former.

</comment><comment><USER7> Ahh... no, I'd rather that didn't happen. Not yet, anyway.

We are jumping around between client-side frameworks, but I think that's because a clear winner hasn't emerged yet. Each new one is reacting to the last, and the decisions are still being tested.

I think the situation will solve itself when the winner shows up. It's not just an adoption problem-- it's a utility problem-- so having a big company put their weight behind one choice would lock us in prematurely.

</comment><comment><USER8> Lock-in ease. Most of the mobile frameworks attempt to lock you in to their platform. So they are specifically meant to be easy. This really is the Microsoft playbook of old. You want resistance and choice to be minimized in this case, and lock into tools and platforms due to their ease. On the web all the libs/frameworks are really just faster ways to use web technology (HTTP/TCP/etc), where native apps have to tie into hardware and systems so you must use them so there can be only one. There are actually lots of ways to develop for mobile beyond these frameworks though.

But even within these frameworks (Android, iOS) things are changed and swapped out at their will i.e. changing UIKit, Apple switching from Carbon to Cocoa, In-App Billing changing etc. So lock-in sometimes creates massive ripples of forced change.

If you are making cross platform apps, like the web is cross platform, that is where things get more difficult. Complexity goes up, more solutions appear to solve and iterate on the problem. The web and web tech is the best solution we have for cross platform currently.

</comment><comment><USER9> Uhm no, thanks.

I have developed for Android and while it's XML-based layout system has nice enough foundations, it is really showing it's age. The interaction between different layouts, gravity hints, weights and screen sizes has grown nightmarish - and in contrast to the open web, there are not many good third- party additions to sanitize the morass.

You want your app to run on 2.2 - 4.1? You will have to re-implement a lot of the newer features yourself or stick with the old ways - something like jQuery that papers over the differences is rare on the single-provider platforms.

IMO the web as a platform had a lot of catching up to do but it's pace has outgrown both Android and iOS which are not exactly stale but do no longer innovate with the speed they did 4 years ago.

On the web, you can pick your tech stack and stick to it for some years, there's no need to switch everything over to the latest tech each year.

</comment><comment><USER10> If you let Google choose, the platform will be in Java.

God, please no.

If you let Twitter choose, the platform will be in Scala.

God, please no.

That's why we are where we are. I don't want to develop in that gunk, but others do.

<comment><USER11> What would be the platform if we let _you_ choose?

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> well, what's great about the web as a platform is that it is only one framework. the web. It renders HTML, styled with CSS, and is programmed using JavaScript. unless you count server side languages. you can use JavaScript libraries if you choose but that's your choice. If you decide to use Backbone.js and then you find out Angular is more popular, that's okay because in the end, you're still writing code for the same platform. that is why the web is so great. just write a good HTML 5 application and it will work on most devices--especially native html5 phones.

</comment><comment><USER13> I don't think we'll see big companies throwing their weight behind iOS-quality web frameworks in the near term. It would be misaligned with their incentives. When Apple develops UIKit and the associated development tools, they convince developers to move to iOS. When Google develops Android, they convince developers to move to their platform. When someone makes a web framework, they convince people to move to a platform where they have no skin in the game. You don't sell more devices through convincing people to move to an open platform.

Further, I think the author hugely underestimates the effort that goes into designing an iOS/Android quality framework. Those frameworks go way beyond the MVC microframeworks that are the rage these days. These frameworks consist of many detailed high-quality images, gradients, sheens, and finely tuned animations. You can't just start an open source project and expect engineers to magically produce these assets in a coherent manner. It takes a large team of designers (and a dictator) many man-years to produce these assets.

</comment><comment><USER14> This is the script.google.com and webshell.io project, making a cloud framework for APIs, so for the web-as-a-platform enabling developers to use webservices with a unique Javascript interface.

It follows the defacto standards of the web and not trying to invent a new standard.

\- HTTP

\- REST/JSON

\- Node.js ( Google prefers using Rhino because Appengine does't support Node.js but Java)

\- Github (Google prefers using Google Drive)

\- Javascript as the glue of APIs by transforming API endpints into Javascript Objects, client-side or server-side.

\- HTML views to generate with API calls

Webshell.io has an open API that Google Apps Script doesn't yet.

The webshell's blog is "building an internet operating system" for the web-as- aplatform, where APIs are the "drivers" of the web.

So definitively the web as a platform is coming.

The true question behind this post is : the web is a decentralized network, so will developers will use a centralized platform for making applications on the web? Is open source platforms the solution?

</comment><comment><USER15> I don't see why that is a complaint or an issue? Its the good part about the web. No matter what you choose you can build your app using it. The standards around the web are open and with IE's popularity down you no longer have to learn the quirks of any specific implementation. So its the way things should be.

</comment><comment><USER16> It's worth pointing out that there are a ton of frameworks and libs for propriety development environments too. Even where there is a dominant framework you then get micro architectures on top of that.

With the web as an application development platform it's still very young and there is yet to be a defacto standard for a few years. Until then frameworks will come and go. jQuery for example more or less won out against dojo or prototype (and I expect 100's of others that were less popular).

The democracy that drives the web forward is a double edged sword. While the Android, iOS SDKs are great now, they may well be dead in a few years, whilst the web will still be here. Just ask Swing, JavaFX, J2ME, Enyo, Symbian, Flash or Silverlight developers ;)

</comment><comment><USER17> I have some sympathy for the author's complaint about a lot of web "platforms" compared to iOS or Android development. I have been going a little crazy for the last few weeks ([http://blog.markwatson.com/2013/03/i-am-still-looking- for-a-...](http://blog.markwatson.com/2013/03/i-am-still-looking-for-a-good- rich-web-client-stack/)) trying different stacks for rich web app development for a new project. BTW, I settled on: HTML5 with Bootstrap with separate ClojureScript to manage all events and interaction with the server. After some of the more complicated things I have tried, this simple stack is like a breath of fresh air.

</comment><comment><USER18> It's unfortunate that the typical web development experience forces application developers to shoulder most of the burden of assembling and release engineering their stack. Quite different from building against iOS, or Win32, or Android. That's too bad: it's a big time investment, and it limits the set of people who can build and maintain a real application in production to those who've learned a surprising amount of releng.

Imagine how different the Linux ecosystem would be without distributions. The individual modules don't all have to come from the same place. But I think the OP's point about curation is spot on.

</comment><comment><USER19> That could only work if one company can produce something so comprehensively better for every task that it would be madness to choose anything else.

The only other way to achieve this would be for one cloud provider to gain critical mass and then drop support for anything other than their preferred framework.

</comment><comment><USER20> For most people a safe and easy job is more important than freedom.

Can't blame anyone for this :)

</comment><comment><USER21> The web is an open, diverse and ever-evolving ecosystem, and I hope that it remains this way for years to come. OK, there are no silver bullets nor panaceas, but that's more of a quality than a shortcoming.

</comment><comment><USER22> Those companies are investing in that framework. It's currently in the form of a bunch of drafts on W3C. Web components and the shadow DOM are a few that embody what you're talking about.

</comment><comment><USER4> As others have said, the Web is a platform and it's one that not just one company but all the big companies (Google, Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook, etc.) are all behind.

TCP, HTTP, HTML5, ECMAScript 6, CSS3. These technologies make up the Web Platform and it is consistent.

The problem is that rather than learning the standards, people like the author focus on learning libraries like Backbone.js or whatever and then when it's no longer the trend of the week they feel lost.

Learn the platform and you will be better off. You will find that picking up libraries is a lot easier when you understand what it is the libraries are built on.

Not a very good blog post, I must say.

<comment><USER23> ECMAScript 6? Now that's some serious optimism.

<comment><USER4> Ok maybe I should have said 5 but, yes I'm being uncharacteristically optimistic in hoping that learning it will be useful in the near future. :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> This reads like the classic frustrations of an inexperienced and overwhelmed web developer. The web _is_ a platform. There are standard practices and toolchains. Many frameworks are backed by companies.

I enjoy web development much more than iOS or Android development. The freedom, the speed, the easy debugging, the numerous choices for the tech stack and development environment... The list goes on.

</comment><comment><USER25> web is a "constantly patched" platform.. it was not created to do the things it does today, in mind.. and any good engineer knows that if you dont plan well ahead of time.. things will get scary over time..

the web is showing its age.. it time to move on.. is the application platform the answer? i dont think so.. but at least it show us some hidden truths about what a developer really wants and need..

the web platform was never a dream platform to us to embrace.. it was the only safe boat at a time, when platform wars were making us (technologists) more bald, poor and nuts.. you know.. because they always want the control.. markets, profits, whatever..

the thing to worry about.. its the: "ops, we did it again" factor .. now we got a dejavu feeling back to the nineties as a new platform wars arrives.. :(

</comment><comment><USER26> I don't really understand what op means by 'platform' The example he gave are things of different category. Angular and ember are client side web frame work. Play is not. Dart is a programming language and WebKit is a browser engine.</comment>


Ask HN: Do Not Reply to This Email Why Not? - <AUTHOR>

I think this question worth asking on HN because... it has been bugging me for awhile (so probably others too), there are people on HN who like to ask "why not" pretty regularly, and the answers may be helpful to founders/sales/customer support folks.
Why do companies send emails from "do not reply" email addresses?
At my company, we send onboarding emails, confirmation emails, notification emails, and more from our help email address and we tell people to reply to the email if they have a question.
What are valid reasons for sending an email from an email address that won't/can't receive replies? What am I missing? <comment><USER2> From what I've read in related discussions on HN, current thinking seems to be that customer feedback can be managed more efficiently by directing customers to a web form that answers frequent questions and requires customers to classify their remaining inquiries for the appropriate department by checking boxes. It's like getting customers to do some of your work for you. Since people are being increasingly socialized to accept that kind of treatment, you might as well use it to your advantage.

</comment><comment><USER3> idea: antispam protection may treat it as spammy address/url</comment>


A Big New Airport Shows China's Strengths - <AUTHOR> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/world/asia/china-beijing-daxing-airport.html <comment><USER2> tldr: China's government displaced 20,000 people to build an airport that probably doesn't need to exist because the real problem is that China's military controls 70% of the airspace, which causes massive delays on a regular basis.</comment>


Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai arrested on suspicion of foreign collusion - <AUTHOR> https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3096679/hong-kong-national-security-law-media-mogul-jimmy-lai <comment><USER2> Duplicate of: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105311](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24105311)

</comment><comment><USER3> Beter title, other one underpins how serious this is.

"Owner of NewsPaper arrested under HK NSL"</comment>


Ask HN: Single founder seeks SEO/promoter for revenue share - <AUTHOR>

I'm on the lookout for a SEO/promoter interested in a revenue-share agreement.  I have approached a couple with this idea but most seem to think I'll  disappear once the results start coming or that they could build a site themselves.  On my end, knowing who is worth the time in the first place is a challenge.
The site is a non-trivial application in the travel industry and is well-liked by almost everyone I've shown it to.  It's been in the press a few times and had a bunch of resulting  sales, but I don't have the time to continually promote it -- I'm a one man operation and I need to focus on other things, like actually working on the site itself.  I'd like to take a hands-off approach to promotion and I have no problem sharing revenues and signing contracts if it gets me somewhere.
There's no way I am in a unique situation here -- most single founders have probably been in the same position.  Any recommendations? <comment><USER2> Are you sure marketing is the correct approach for your solution, from your light description it sounds like something that might be better suited for direct sales as opposed to marketing.

<comment><AUTHOR> Maybe I should replace the word "marketing" with "promotion".

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Have you thought about opening an affiliate program?

</comment><comment><USER4> I'd like to talk you about this, what is your email?

<comment><AUTHOR> email@example.com</comment></comment>


To push, to pull- to fetch, perchance to commit. Aye, there's the rub - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-examples/issues/1#issuecomment-229005498 <comment><USER2> Ha! Did not expect this.</comment>


Ash HN: Is there an incubator for older entrepreneurs? - <AUTHOR>

I noticed that majority of incubators are founding founders in their 20s - maximum age is maybe in early 30s. This is non-scientific (are there any statistics on this?)
I also noticed that there is a large number of very smart people in their 40s and 50s which are ready for entrepreneurs, but they lack certain skills (mainly business skills) to start and grow a business. If they do start business, these older entrepreneurs end up running bootstrapped and profitable business and the business kinda lingers like that. I believe with some couching from incubator/accelerators majority of these businesses can grow rapidly.
Unfortunately, culture of incubators seems to be to promote young males in their 20s. I don't think it is intentional but somehow things ends up like that. <comment><USER2> _I don't think it is intentional_

It is very intentional.

<comment><USER3> Agree. It is very intentional. I think the pretext is that younger blood will have the least amount of personal attachments and responsibilities. They would have laser sharp focus on building the product.

If you have a product, have you tried approaching angel investors?</comment></comment>


Easily Create D3 Examples - <AUTHOR> http://blockbuilder.org/ <comment><USER2> The video takes up most of the screen and can't be scrolled/closed. I can only see two lines of the coding block.

<comment><USER3> The video disappears when you start editing code.

<comment><USER4> which I never did because I don't like to use an editor where you can only see 3 lines of code.

A close button would go a long way here.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Creator of the project here, I was pleasantly surprised to find this on the front page! I'm glad people are finding the tool, it's been useful to many people I know.

I want to make it useful to more people, so please join us on chat: [https://gitter.im/enjalot/building- blocks](https://gitter.im/enjalot/building-blocks)

<comment><USER6> This is what your site looks like to me:

[https://www.jottit.com/4wrbr](https://www.jottit.com/4wrbr)

Now, what am I supposed to do with this again?

You have somehow made the scroll bar on the right useless - it only appears to scroll one line at the bottom.

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> I think it was developed on a 1200 or 1440 px tall screen. You can zoom out (ctrl -) to make the video / plotting window smaller. It's a pretty bad UI mistake, but the fix is easy, too.

<comment><USER7> Or click on the yin-yang symbol in the upper right to go into side by side mode. Not sure how yin-yang is side by side...

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> [http://tributary.io/](http://tributary.io/) has been around for ages and works pretty well....

<comment><USER5> thanks! I'm shifting my focus to blockbuilder.org because it's compatible with bl.ocks.org, the defacto standard for sharing d3 related code examples. I've applied a lot of my learnings from tributary to this new project, and hope it will exceed tributary's most advanced features eventually!

<comment><USER8> Well - that gives me the opportunity to say thank you for your work! It's helped me on numerous occasions to test things out, and to demonstrate concepts to others.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> was this shared to illustrate an example of bad UI?

I'm like the target audience for this.. highly movtivated to learn D3.. HOwever this UX doesn't even make my want to click play on the video.

<comment><USER5> Hi, I'm the creator of this. Would you mind giving me some more detailed feedback at email@example.com? I'm actively working on making the first run experience better. I consider it "functionally complete" for my Kickstarter audience, who weren't coming at it from a blank slate. Now I need to make it easy for people to adopt who are new to the tool, and even new to d3!

One of the design principles I'm wrestling with is that I want the home page to be where you go to create a new block, minimize the friction for all users. The problem is that most people expect a home page to tell them what a project is about. My existing solution is clearly failing to strike the balance, so I'd like to find out how to do that.

thanks!

<comment><USER9> Hi, I'm definitely in the blank slate group. Not to D3, but the blockbuilder product. The main suggestion is for the UI to work across a sweet spot of screen resolutions. The default top/bottom layout on my 13" MBA shows only 8 lines of source code. In the side/side view, the width of the source code element allows very few characters before wrapping starts.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Neat, but this adds very little to my existing workflow. bl.ocks.org is just a frontend to gist.github.com, so one can create a gist (working in your preferred $EDITOR and $BROWSER), then changing the appropriate part of the URI when sharing with others.

<comment><USER5> Yeah, the purpose of this tool is to cut out the command line, which is a sin to many advanced developers but a blessing for many beginners. A big part of my motivation is to be able to teach people d3 without having to teach them about the entirety of the internet, client-server model, web servers. Just let them start playing with d3, see the fun stuff for themselves and then be motivated to learn all the other things once they're hooked.

I do hope it is a useful tool for many advanced developers who want to quickly put an idea out there with minimal friction. I know my personal blocks output has sky rocketed since I've launched it, and I'm no stranger to the command line.</comment></comment>


I dared two expert hackers to destroy my life. Here's what happened - <AUTHOR> https://fusion.net/video/271750/real-future-episode-8-hack-attack/ <comment><USER2> If Apple actually wanted to demonstrate their privacy protection, they would make it physically impossible to turn on the webcam without turning on the light instead of protecting terrorists' phones....

<comment><USER3> In this case the user noticed the light but ignored it. Is this really the bigger of the two issues?</comment></comment>


AWS SDK for C++ - <AUTHOR> https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-the-aws-sdk-for-c/ <comment><USER2> On one hand I'm quit surprised this didn't already exist, but on the other hand I can't see a huge market for it?

<comment><USER3> I love C++, so I'm excited.

I can imagine non-C++ libraries (e.g. Python or Ruby) wrapping the C++ interface rather than using a custom implementation.

<comment><USER4> May I ask why? Plenty of implementations already exist for other languages, and since the interface is just HTTP, I see little benefit to wrapping the C++ library.

<comment><USER5> Official, full support, instead of a custom implementation where it can take weeks to add support for a new service that's already a part of the C++ lib. Also, there are some newer languages out there that don't have quality libraries for AWS, but do have C extension support. This will allow wrappers for to be created so these languages can be used with AWS as well. Just take a look at how the Java lib is used.

<comment><USER6> In my experience, it's just easier to take their API descriptor file (JSON IIRC) and generate a client from it.

<comment><USER7> Wouldn't that be WADL?

<comment><USER8> No, WADL is XML. You can see some of the data files in the boto3 repository: [https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3/data](https://github.com/boto/boto3/tree/develop/boto3/data)

It is somewhat similar in concept

<comment><USER7> WADL is an description language for REST services.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> Finally, and I love the simplicity of the API. Can't wait to play with it; though I'd have loved to see modern C++ futures to have been used, given that it was just released. But even then, finally there is at least something!

<comment><AUTHOR> At least in the following file, all *Callable functions return a future:

[https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-cpp/blob/master/aws- cpp-s...](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-sdk-cpp/blob/master/aws-cpp- sdk-s3/include/aws/s3/S3Client.h)

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> I can see so much potential for this. For example, if you don't want to solely distribute on Steam but want an auto-update feature then it'll be a lot easier with AWS.

Not C++ specific, but I'm hopeful that we'll see some game distribution platforms built on top of this kind of tech. More competitors to Steam will be a good thing.

</comment><comment><USER11> I bet Steve Yegge _loves_ this ([https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de- babel](https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel)).

</comment><comment><USER12> >This SDK has been specifically designed with game developers in mind

Can anyone explain to me how game developers would use this with AWS? (just for hosting assets?)

<comment><USER13> As a mobile game developer we use a lot of different aws functionality. We don't use c++ a lot though. Console games do so this will probably be used by those although most aws access is done through a server not directly from the client

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Is this auto-generated ?

<comment><USER15> Most likely, given this quote at the end:

> We also are adding support for individual services as we become more > confident that the client generator can properly support each protocol.</comment></comment>


Smooth-Stone aims at Intel - <AUTHOR> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16chip.html

<comment><USER2> Two words: "64 bits". Last time I checked ARM is resolutely 32 bits and 2 years isn't enough time to produce a 64 bit version. That said, if their first offering is successful that might be enough prompt doing the work to expand ARM to 64 bits.

It's also clear they're so new they haven't even done an IP check on their name: <http://www.smoothstone.com/about-us>

<comment><USER3> The 32-bit problem is going to be solved, and a lot sooner than 2 years from now.

<comment><USER2> Not just a new processor architecture but also the new software tool chains and operating system ports needed?

I suppose we're faster at doing the latter along with everything else, but it's generally taken quite some time to get the latter in place _and_ solid.

<comment><USER3> There's a short-term solution that requires no changes to userspace.

<comment><USER2> No changes to userspace means I can't write programs that use more than 4GB, which is the major point of going beyond 32 bits. If you're just talking about something like Intel's 1995 PAE I'm not sure that's terribly useful nowadays.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Incremental Search in Vim - <AUTHOR> https://pmihaylov.com/incremental-search-vim/ <comment><USER2> This is silly. Incremental search has been built-in for more than fifteen years:

        :help 'incsearch'</comment>


A Short History of Game Panics - <AUTHOR> http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/07/a-short-history-of-game-panics <comment><USER2> A tale as old as time. Or as old as generational gaps. I can't wait for the next one involving virtual realities. Is YOUR child lost to an imaginary world, stuck in his or her Oculus Rift? Here's a bunch of unsubstantiated hyperbole to catch your attention.

<comment><USER3> > A tale as old as time. Or as old as generational gaps.

Are you claiming that moral standards of the "younger generation" in this gap haven't really declined as people in the "older generation" thought they would?

Or are you saying that the moral standards have declined, but it's no big deal, just the changing of the times?

<comment><USER4> Most people inclined to mass concern about "moral standards" are hypocritical: anything introduced in their generation that the previous generation didn't understand was just fine, but anything introduced in a subsequent generation that _they_ don't understand isn't. Or, more bluntly: their moral standards are fine, it's everyone else that's wrong, both older and younger.

<comment><USER3> It's disingenuous, or maybe just naive, to think that a generation who has been on the earth 20 years longer than you doesn't understand what's going on in your generation.

Sometimes I think Hacker News doesn't take a long enough view of history. My grandparents went to war in Europe. They saw and did things that shamed and haunted them when they came home. They were emotionally disconnected and stunted as they raised their children, my parents. My parent's generation, consequently, decided in the 60's that sexuality should be liberated, in the 70's that everyone should experiment with drugs, in the 80's that money and wealth were the most important priority, in the 90's that integrity was an outdated notion.

In my generation, meanwhile, we've concluded that morality itself has run its course and that we should be tolerant of everything except intolerance, that faith and morality are all fine and well as long they're held privately, and that taboos are the only taboo.

I asked my wife's grandparents what the biggest change is between now and the time of war that they lived through. Their answer? Community. There is no I've got your back, you get mine mentality really left in our nation.

I think the point they were making is that if our generation were faced with the same question as theirs (Another sovereign nation is exterminating a race and seeks world domination, what should we do?), we'd be paralyzed by a lack of community. There would be no banding together, considering the price of losing hundreds of thousands of lives, and deciding to pay that price because it's the right thing to do.

Call that hypocritical if you like. I'll just take it as well-placed criticism, because I've outlived my "everyone older than me is stoopid" mentality.

EDIT: My point about taking a longer view of history is that all of these changes have taken place over a span of maybe 80 years. That's short enough that people have lived long enough to see it all happen. When older people complain about changing morals, they aren't necessarily going senile.

<comment><USER5> > I think the point they were making is that if our generation were faced with > the same question as theirs (Another sovereign nation is exterminating a > race and seeks world domination, what should we do?), we'd be paralyzed by a > lack of community.

World War II was running for two years prior to the involvement of the United States. The US passed a series of Neutrality Acts to keep out of the war. In the years prior to 1941, the president actually deployed US naval assets in the European theater as resource carriers in arguable contradiction of the desire of Congress to stay out of the situation entirely. U.S. domestic opinion on involvement in the European-Asian war was very divided until Pearl Harbor.

A United States that got up and fought against world domination under its own initiative without the prompting of Pearl Harbor is very revisionist history.

And if I may editorialize... I don't think that the sense of community that your wife's grandparents remember was a "natural" state that we've "lost." I think it was a side-effect of national galvanization under a war effort, and it is not without its negatives (keep an eye out for an "us vs. them" mentality that can make it hard to accept perceived past enemies as equal people).

There are a lot of advantages to that sense of community; I'd like to hope we can build it anew without the need for bloody global conflict as a trigger.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> The online poker one at the end is particularly hypocritical. Some of the greatest opponents of online gambling are those who have a financial stake in offline gambling. I wonder what their motivations might be.

<comment><USER7> You mean the city governments of Atlantic City and Las Vegas are _not_ just concerned about people becoming problem gamblers in their own homes, and being isolated and not able to get help?

Next, you'll be telling me that they would prefer those people visit casinos in their respective cities ... _pssht_ ...

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Single page format: [http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/07/a-short-history-of- gam...](http://reason.com/archives/2014/05/07/a-short-history-of-game- panics/print)

</comment><comment><USER9> I enjoyed the article, but I'm not entirely convinced online gambling can be so easily lumped into the moral panic category with the rest. Unless it's gotten to the point where the games are tightly regulated for fairness and controlled for access to make sure only adults are playing.

On the other hand, I guess video game items having real world value already allows young adults to test these waters somewhat. Just seems that when actual money is involved you're moving beyond simply playing a video game. Or I'm old and panicking morally.

</comment><comment><USER10> Oh, they meant moral panics over games. I'm against that too but it's boring.

What I'd really be interested in would be a history of in-game panics across MMORPGs and similar things. That would be interesting since it involves humans interacting in a novel fashion in contrast to the predictable politic garbage around dogs showing for the dog-whistle issues.

</comment><comment><USER11> That article just kind of... ended.

<comment><USER12> Also, the author was aimlessly wandering for quite some time before finding the save point. I wonder if there was a boss fight afterward.</comment></comment>


Ask HN: How to maximize doing the most "good" for the world? - <AUTHOR> This question has been on my mind lately. Perhaps it's a little elementary; "good" can mean so many things and quite often doing a bit of good can have unintended negative consequences (e.g. going vegetarian is probably better for the planet but I have also read that veg agriculture can require just as much water as animals).
I'm interested in how this crowd approaches this question, if at all. What are the things you do on a day to day basis that positively contribute to the world?
Some small scale ideas I have/implement myself: not eating meat, likely not going to have children, use public transit, help anyone I encounter who could use it. It doesn't feel like enough though. What else is there? <comment><USER2> Make sure you can look after your own basic needs first, so you're not requiring resources from others. Invest in your own education. Try to be there for others that you care about.

Realise that sometimes conflict is inevitable and you can't always be "good" to everyone. If there's conflict, resolve it quickly and decisively. Look for win-win solutions but be prepared to accept win-lose.

Look at the big picture - not eating meat, not having children, not using public transit doesn't necessarily help if others take your place. Do what you think is good, but if you believe in it, make the case to others. Real changes come from large-scale social movements.

The world is complex, and there might be more important things you can do for it than changing your diet or daily habits. Bringing up well-loved children can be a positive for the world.

Realise that everyone has difficulties. You can be the person who helps someone face their difficulties. You can't fix all the world's problems, but perhaps helping one person out might be more meaningful to you then chipping away at some of the big problems.

Be aware that there's no absolute good or bad. There's always people on both sides. Sometimes you just have to make a call. Like your point on using water in veg agriculture, there are plenty of people arguing for meat consumption, many of whom are invested in related industries. Being an evangelist for either side will likely not win you too many friends, but listening to arguments on both sides might help you come to a good compromise that can inspire others.

Follow your gut sometimes even when the data is not all there. Take time to think if you can. But make decisions and act. Aim to trust yourself, and if you don't, work on being someone you trust to make the right call when it matters.

</comment><comment><USER3> Thinking of this is important, especially as you've framed the need to think of consequences of your actions. I've been working on this issue and trying to educate myself on the topic by learning more about systems. I often come up with something different from the accepted expectations of the "good" things to do. So my short answer is that you think and act locally first rather than try to do something top-down for the entire world (where scaling and other effects can produce unexpected results). Here's some of my writing on this: [https://unintendedconsequenc.es/](https://unintendedconsequenc.es/)

</comment><comment><USER4> Reduce your use of single use plastics. If you go shopping, take a reusable bag. Look for stores in your area that do bulk purchasing or avoids packaging.</comment>


Ask HN: How do you get to be good at this? - <AUTHOR>

Or, at least, how do you get the energy to be good at this? I'm familiar with the 10,000 hours hypothesis but I barely have the energy to get out of bed in the morning.
I've been programming "professionally" for a few years now but any energy I may have had after school is more or less gone.
I've been thinking about quitting my job, wondering how much of it is the source of my discontent. Go on some kind of a sabbatical and try to learn something new. I'm not sure if I'd be a good steward over free time. I don't know. <comment><USER2> This is what I do to get out of a funk. It isn't easy at first, but it has worked 100% of the time.

Set priorities, define roles, choose action, schedule action, do it. No Matter What. NO EXCUSES! Here's an example.

Priorities: 1\. Spiritual faith 2\. Family 3\. Health 4\. Work 5\. Hobbies

Roles: 1\. Christian 2\. Husband, home owner 3\. Body inhabitant 4\. IT consultant 5\. Chess player

Actions: 1\. Read Bible, pray 2\. Spend quality time with wife (because her Love Language[1] is "quality time"). If her Language was "receiving gifts" I'd buy her cards and flowers, but she doesn't speak that Language. 2a. Pay bills, update monthly budget 3\. Exercise, in bed by 9pm for a few days 4\. Review work day each evening, plan for next day 5\. Study a chess game played between two master level players. Memorize it.

Schedule: On Sunday, write down specifically when you will do all of the above the following week.

Do it: You won't get fired, your life will not end if you tell people "no", you will be fine (actually better off) if you miss your favorite TV show. YOU set these priorities, so if they are actually important, do them. If you find it difficult to take action, you may have to make life changes, like changing jobs or cutting out hobbies. In the end you decide what's important and how you spend your time. It's a CHOICE. Anytime you think you "have to" do something, instead say you "choose to".

This is basically Stephen Covey planning[2], Quadrant Two thinking[3].

"Get away and do nothing for a while", is not a solution. Unsure if this applies, but I know a lot of people in their mid-twenties, out of school, working full time for the first time, and their "solution" is not "work harder", but "get away and do nothing for a while". That's a fast track to being below average in life. Being awesome at life is hard. Anyone who is awesome at being a spouse or parent, or a successful business owner, or successful at anything, very likely put in a lot of hard work and made sacrifices for long periods in their life.

Parents who give their children an easy life are not doing them any favors. If I've misjudged you, and you have been working 12 hour days, 7 days a week, for the last 20 years, without missing a day, and you need to get away and do nothing for a while, then in that case, I would agree with you. Otherwise I would say you are just soft. I'm soft. My parents gave me an easy life, and I have to fight laziness every day because of it.

You mentioned you are familiar with deliberate practice and 10,000 hours, and I'd like to remind you that people who put in 10,000 hours WORKED THEIR ASS OFF. They didn't "do nothing for a while" and then arrive at awesome.

Ask 100 people why Magic Johnson was good at basketball, and 99 of them will say it's because he was "naturally talented". Magic Johnson says, "Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers."

Do whatever it takes to work hard. If you have low energy, find out how to get high energy. Exercise, eat healthy, get enough sleep. Find people with high energy and ask them what they do. If you have a medical condition causing you to have low energy then see a doctor. There are at least 1000 more things you could do to proactively find a solution to your low energy, and all of them are going to be more effective than a "sabbatical".

Unlike any other time in recorded history, we live in the information age. If you want to become good at doing anything, you can find out how. The hard part is doing the work. If doing the work was easy, we would all be skinny and rich.

Now watch these:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9c0RAz678> (gets good 2:45 in)

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsnqwmn21g>

[1] For when you have a significant other: [http://www.5lovelanguages.com/learn-the-languages/the- five-l...](http://www.5lovelanguages.com/learn-the-languages/the-five-love- languages/)

[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Things_First_(book)>

[3] <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FourQuadrants>

</comment><comment><USER3> Your job is not you. In fact, if your job is the least interesting thing about your life, then you're probably doing fine.

I agree that you do need to learn something new or go on a trip somewhere. Don't quit your job unless you have a better one already lined up.

<comment><AUTHOR> How do people get good enough to get hired where ever? Let's say I'm using this as a sort of test rather than wanting to get hired somewhere. Some people I see are so productive, those fabled 10:1 engineers but I don't see a path to getting there.

<comment><USER3> Hmm, you sound like you've got yourself upset by reading all the Marissa Mayer news, then trying to compare yourself to her and falling short. Am I right?

Anyway, here is the "secret": Find an opportunity that seems interesting to you and has a decent potential payoff (money, or not, whatever motivates you), then jump into it and work your ass off for a few _years_ until you get to a point where you really aren't going to advance any further, then use that experience that you have earned to hop to the next opportunity that interests you.

Also, be very wary of comparing yourself to people based on what you hear about them in the news or what they say about themselves on blogs or on Hacker News. There's a lot of bullshitting in business. It sounds like you want to turn yourself into some kind of hyper-efficient generalist that can get hired anywhere -- in fact, no such person exists.

<comment><AUTHOR> > Hmm, you sound like you've got yourself upset by reading all the Marissa > Mayer news, then trying to compare yourself to her and falling short. Am I > right?

No, not really.

But this does sound like reasonable advice.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Sounds like you're suffering depression. I suggest looking into some remedies, be it meds, an exercise regime or better diet. But really, look into it.

I'd also suggest looking somewhere completely different. Go get inspired. Do you know how? That's important. Refresh your spirit. Meditate. Pray. Befriend someone who is lonely. Get your mind blown by learning something completely new.

The world may be radically different when your done doing that, a new world of possibilities.</comment>


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We're calling all beta testers, WordPress website owners and people interested in web analytics. We'd love if you were one of the first to try it. Your feedback is greatly appreciated!

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What is best way to take? Advice needed - <AUTHOR> Hello, guys.
I am Dan and I am trying to figure out what is the best way to take in my life and I want to your point of view.
About me:
I am 27 years old I have education as a building architect but the last couple of years I was interested in Startups. I have many ideas about Startups that I am sure will be successful. My knowledge is mostly based on 3d modelling, 3d visualisation, graphic design etc. I also read a lot of different books(marketing, psychology, leadership, management, etc) and I still challenge myself learning different things.Now I am trying to focus learn to code(javascript) because I feel if I do not learn it will be a mistake. What I can say is that I know a little about everything.
I trying to decide which way to take:
1.Focusing on professional realisation as a building architect.
Failure:
 -To find a job as an architect.
Аttempt:
 - I keep trying to find a job and improve my knowledge.
Ideas:
 - Working as an architect and continue with my profession by education.
 - Working to spread my vision for the future of architecture and merging with computers
2.Founding my own company for 3d visualisation.
Аttempt:
 - I have experience of make 3d architectural visualisation.
Ideas:
 - Founding a company based on my knowledge that I already have with perspective to evolve in  the future
  3d architectural visualisation | Graphic Design > VR/AR
3. Working on some of my startup ideas?
Failure:
 - I already try a couple of time to form a team.
Аttempt:
 - I am trying to met new people and share my ideas but founding a team or co-founder is very hard nobody has not interested if there is no money involved.
Ideas:
- Making a good presentation and explanation of my ideas and spread it around different VCs etc.
 - Share some ideas and spread it around.
My goal is to make some of my ideas reality. I want to ask you guys what you think or will do in my place? <comment><USER2> Random advice from the internet.

0\. I am a registered architect in a US state. If you really want to be an architect in the US, finish the registration process. The process sucks for a lot of people. The end result is as valuable or as worthless as an architect license. But that is the only way to become one.

1\. I won't recommend the architecture business. Some people thrive, some don't. It's a commodity industry but the only way to do the things architects can do if that's what a person really wants to do.

I will say that success in building an architecture business is going to correlate with the same ability to build a team that success in building a startup does...i.e. it will be much harder to do it by yourself than with 'cofounders'.

2\. 3d visualization is a commodity business. I get emails from companies around the world every day. They look pretty much like the emails that I have been receiving since the 1990's.

I know people who make a living doing it. They have business relationships that allow them to do it. They have been at it for years. The best one's have all the skills that it takes to build a business and above average talent.

The nature of architecture is that architects rarely have money for visualization services because clients can find an architect who will provide it 'for free' within the base fee. When an architect gets a client to pay, they will try to keep the work in house to increase revenue and reduce management requirements. A medium size firm probably has the talent to produce 3d work. The only time they will outsource is if they are swamped.

That means developing many many clients to maintain a reasonable backlog. Again that's basic business just like architecture or anything else.

3\. Working on a startup is going to be hard if you don't have a social network that connects to people with similar interests.

That's not to say it cannot be done. The best way to meet people after getting out of school is to get a job interacting with a lot of coworkers.

I'm not sure that's advice, but that's the landscape I see. If it boils down to one thing, there are much better markets than selling to architects.

Good luck.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you for your time and mark all of these things.

At the moment I am seeing the 3d visualisation as an option because I am cable of doing everything from start to end without need a team. Because at the moment I am not seeing any other variant to focus my time for achieving something that I am cable off. I do not want to stuck with 3d visualisation mostly I want to start from somewhere and trying to learn and from doing some project after that to continue evolving to something. If am polished my 3d visualisation and presentation skill I will be more cable of selling my ideas because at the moment winning the client is happened with good selling/presentation skills and well presented 3d visualisation.

"...selling to architects." I am just trying to start from somewhere because at the moment time is passing and I am just jumping from one project to another. If keep doing that I will get older and older with any experience even if I start something and I fail will be better than that keep changing the project that I am working.

One of my other startup ideas is about building construction management and establish the time of finishing the project and optimising the time of finishing the project.

One of my disadvantages is that my education is not from well know the university and my fluency of English speaking is still very poor but I will found the way to improve it. I am not complaining I just sharing with you.

<comment><USER2> Part of doing 'everything from start to finish' is identifying leads, qualifying prospects, closing sales, negotiating contracts, collecting fees, and maintaining client relationships. This is why it is harder to start a company on one's own than with others.

I am curious where you are located.

<comment><AUTHOR> I am located in the UK London. I understand that will be hard for one person probably if I decide to go this way I will start to looking for a partner.Also, I will research a lot before start doing something and I will try to do some simulation of a different task that I will need to do and will compare my work with the best of the field. I have two option keep trying to find a job or choose some of my plans. What will you do at my place?

<comment><USER2> The big thing a business needs is clients/customers and that means getting out and talking to people is usually the most important form of research. I've worked on my own most of the past twenty-five years. Having a regular job usually pays better for me because the ability to land clients with the wealth to pay handsome fees is not one of my strengths...it requires joining clubs and playing golf and schmoozing over alcohol and such and that is not my social background.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you for your time writing comments. I will try joining in some company and expand my social background and grow with new skills.Probably a few years in working for some company I will try to open something on my own. Thank you again Brudgers.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER3> I assume from your writing that English is not your native language. It would help if you mentioned where you are living and working as opportunities vary greatly around the world. If you are living in an English speaking part of the world, then you might want to improve your language skills. Good communication is critical in almost all ventures.

Are you a qualified architect? If so, are you no longer enjoying your profession? You seem to imply that you are having trouble finding work as an architect, why is that?

3D visualisations, especially in architecture, is a much in demand skill. Of course, your tooling needs to integrate with AutoCAD, RevIT, etc. Recently I tested VR headset for walkthroughs - very impressive when done well.

On a technical note, JavaScript is not a particularly good first programming language to learn. It is difficult to debug stuff and you can easily develop some bad habits. Have you looked at Python? There are a lot of good tutorials and examples out there.

So what exactly are your ideas for a startup? You seem to be rather vague on that part of your question.

Sorry about so many questions, but it is hard to offer help when you are not specific with your questions.

<comment><AUTHOR> Yes, I am not a native English speaker but I am trying to improve it.I do everything to improve my English but without successes.At the moment I am living in London. I think that one of the reasons I don't have successes is my English.

Yes, I am qualified architect but from not prestige university and with no much professional background. Let's said that in the UK my master degree is equal almost to nothing. Probably finding a job as an architect is my lack of fluent English speaking and some luck.

Yes, I am thinking that 3D visualisations will be continued to evolve and grow that's why one of my choices specialise in this area.

I start with Python I pass few courses but I do not found Python for so useful at the moment although the Python is one of the most popular language in 3d modelling software. Why I chose Javascript because at the moment I think that if I know some Javascript(MEAN stack, Ionic and etc) I will be cable of creating anything. For example, I can build any mobile app, desktop app and with libraries like Babylonjs, I can create 3d models with walkthroughs and VR.

On of my ideas for startup that is related to the 3d modelling it is as follows:

Everyone had been in a historical place. An example: you stay somewhere and the guide explaining to everyone how there was something (castle, wall, great battle etc) and most of the time you are trying to imagine everything that he is explaining. The Startup will be for an app that will be for VR/AR recreation of historical event or environment. In other words, this is a VR/AR application for historical experience.

And also all of my other startup ideas can be achieved with a good knowledge of javascript and some open source project even in a prototype version.That why I am trying to have some good javascript knowledge.

<comment><AUTHOR> Want to say something else for me is very hard to figure out what to focus it. That's why I open the topic to see some opinions that are from people with a different perspective from mine. Let's say that I need a help from outside because I am trying to find that answer from years.

What would be your choice if you were me?

<comment><USER3> Thank you for adding more information about yourself and your situation. A couple of suggestions ...

1\. Enrol in a English as a second language course. London is the centre from which the English speaking world spread. I know many people who have completed English courses and their careers and successes took off. When you can communicate better, you will be more confident, be able to negotiate better, etc.

2\. If you are interested in pursuing an architectural career, find out what you need to do in order to upgrade your education to become registered in the UK. I'm not familiar with architecture registration requirements. For an engineer (electrical/civil/mechanical) those with overseas academic credentials are able to complete bridging courses in 1-2 years part-time and attain professional recognition.

3\. Although your ideas for AR in the context of historical homes and places is very good, it is actually a fairly large project. Since you appear to have only entry level programming experience, you might be better off researching whether such projects are already underway somewhere. If not, then designing the "product" and then building a team to achieve that goal. But ...

4\. Startups get a lot of publicity, but the news is very much tainted by survivor bias. There is very little written about the thousands of great ideas that putter out and disappear. The reasons are manifold, lack of technical leadership, lack of appropriate venture capital, lack of suitable team, lack of commercially viable market. The UK startup scene is more risk averse than that you read about about Silicon Valley; And ...

5\. It is easier to build a professional network of contacts, when you have worked in an industry. Being on the outside, looking in is a lot harder than when on the inside looking to expand vistas.

IMHO I would suggest doing the English language course and then getting your professional qualifications up to UK requirements. Work in the industry so that you can build a professional network. Then you will have a more substantial background from which to re-evaluate your startup ideas. GOOD LUCK !

<comment><AUTHOR> Thank you for your comment. I was limited with 2000chr that's why I do not add in my first post.

1\. English will be my priority until I learned as perfectly to speak in front of public.

2.Yes for sure I will need to get registered in the UK. I will figure out wich is the best way to do it.

3\. I am interested in startups but at the moment I am not found something similar to the idea. Yes, this project can grow and to be very big but unfortunately, my lack of confident English speaking stop me to find a good team or to convince people that this is a good idea.

4.Yes, it is very risky to pass all this way because have many things that can fail.

5.Yes, probably I will try to find a job and work somewhere until I polish my missing skills

Thank you CyberFonic.Will be better for me to follow a career path before try to build something on my own. I appreciate your help.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Take a look at the Design Your Life book: [http://designingyour.life/the- book/](http://designingyour.life/the-book/) \- It applies design thinking to problems like this.

Without knowing you I'm going to make assumptions - but appears you're being quite binary about this decision. There are ways you can investigate these options in some depth (design thinking) and see what you connect with.

<comment><AUTHOR> For sure I will take a look at this book. Thank you, JWilliams!</comment></comment>


Why Childhood Memories Disappear - <AUTHOR> http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/why-childhood-memories-disappear/397502/?single_page=true <comment><USER2>
      "He had forgotten having seen the photograph before but had
      remembered what it depicted, and the latter over time became
      its own memory."

Not only do I dislike taking photos when traveling, but I especially dislike _looking_ at photos of my travels. I realized long ago that memories of the photo can become conflated with and displace my actual memory of the event. I'd rather a fuzzy memory that's all my own over a detailed memory of a photo.

This has resulted in tension with my wife and others, though I try to keep my preferences to myself as much as possible. I realize most people either just don't understand the distinction, or maybe just don't care as much as I do. But to me, memory is a very significant aspect of "me" (in myriad dimensions-- physical, emotional, w'ever), and it's downright horrifying knowing how fragile and malleable it is. And it's malleable to both external and _internal_ influences, which means just thinking about a memory can change it. Nonetheless, in my experience the photo effect is extremely strong and it's far easier to just avert my eyes than risk corrupting a cherished memory so thoroughly.</comment>