skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a team of four working on Robokill. Can't disclose sales stats, sorry! But it is better selling the game versus using ads.
Yeah it's been a while :)
You can make a living at it. It's not easy though, at all, since so many people are willing to do it for free.
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Probably not - even though it may be more lucrative in terms of CPM, it's kind of cheap.
Both are good ideas, thanks!
Unfortunately being software rendered we had to pull too many performance tricks to make parallax even remotely possible. In hardware we'd probably have used many layers.
It might be a bit high compared to some of the Steam sales, but I think we're well into the territory that, for US customers at least, it's an impulse buy. I'm sure volume would go up at 4.95, but not sure about by 2x (plus there is overhead like support etc).
Reinventing the MacBook Air
Yeah, we saw that. The author considers it not a complete clone, or something along those lines.
The problem is that the vast majority of the time, the people with the fake degrees also don't have any of the skills the degree "certifies" them as having. I've seen a few very notable cases where a person with a fake degree cost a company six figures in disastrous projects that relied on those people as having a basic education in their field.

In the grand scheme of things, $20-30k over 4 years is not a whole hell of a lot of money. And this is coming from somebody that paid for college out-of-pocket while supporting a wife (who couldn't work at the time and also was going to school) and earning less than $20k/yr. Leaving school with that kind of debt is almost inconsequential since you'll likely get a job that pays you well enough to live decently and pay back whatever debt you have with extra left over to eat steak.

Sure I had to suffer for a few (six) years to get my undegrad, but my first job out of school paid enough that I was able to live at a far better standard of living than I did during school, and still pay back the loans in about 4 years (and all the while, every year it got better and better as I got promotions and pay raises).
Not sure about disabling the traps after regular enemies are dead - I kind of like that! And a lot of the appeal of the full version is the RPG aspect, I think we'd probably do a lot worse if we toned that down. But I like the rest of your suggestions!
Programmer Competency Matrix
I'm reluctant to let them become a part of some domain squatter's portfolio

In what substantive way are they not, already?
ASK HN: Green certification on HN
What's green certification on HN (see bottom of the page). How and why is it done? What incentive do websites have to get this certification?
PS: the link opens up a blank window .. maybe something wrong with my browser.
Awesome, thanks. Are you putting this in the public domain, or are you licensing it under any particular license agreement?

I couldn't find anything about a license or copyright on your project's github page.
How is that enforced?
Against Reflective Equilibrium (or, What is ethics for?)
This reminds me of official churches trying to weed out "sects."

"Universities are the last medieval institutions, besides the Catholic church."
The exploit page (the one the victim is supposed to click on) loads the injected page (in this case Yahoo Mail) as stylesheet. The CSS parser throws away all the html and correctly parses the injected css.

I think the description is not very clear about this step, I had to look at the source of the exploit page to understand what happens.
My Wish for 2010: A Personal Dashboard for the Social Web [GigaOm]
Microsoft.com - Careers: Linux/Open Office
The "3rd world country" line wasn't the point - I think you missed it altogether.

Smoking has a bit of a culture - when you're smoking somewhere, and someone else is smoking, that's something you can physically talk to them about. You can saunter up to them and say "Virginia blend, eh? Never tried that" and you immediately have a conversation, provided they're not an asshole. It can be something that brings a group together: "Hey lets stop watching this movie and go outside and smoke." And it is very social: it's tough to NOT talk if you're just sitting around with some guys smoking. It can also just be something to do with your hands - for me, at least, it gets rid of the anxious foot-tapping or knuckle cracking and lets me just sit back and smoke and enjoy someone else's company.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that today we are caught up by "interactive distractions" rather than actual human interaction. Smoking socially changes that. </rant>
> I've noticed in many organizations that universities in India are sometimes viewed with suspicious as the quality of the output (in the IT field) can vary wildly.

I have seen that first-hand. From my experience, H1B workers from India are very under-qualified. They are usually hired for their low pay demands not for exceptional knowledge. I don't want to start a flame war, this is just my experience, but the level of knowledge of some H1B employees is that of a someone taking a few community college courses. No theortical background. Most don't know what an algorithm is, instead they repeat a set of jargon IT words they read somewhere in a book.

While we are on the stereotyping bandwagon, I have noticed that programmers from Eastern Europe & former Soviet Block have a much better grasp of CS theory and math. Chinese programmers fall somewhere in between.

Again, downvote if you like, this is just what I observed, I don't know why that is and your experience will probably vary.
Rationale Thinking and the Scientific Method
"Coming up with a recognizable, small icon for cash is actually kind of hard."

Gold Coins (Mario style)? Diamonds?
Some analysis: http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?ent...
I hate to rain on most of the parades around here, but chances are your domain is worthless. If you hand registered it and even you don't like it, the odds of it selling for anything above your registration fee is pretty unlikely. Domain names are some of the most illiquid assets in terms of web stuff. The only liquid aspect is the reseller market, and that is based mainly on traffic/revenue or some special cases of generic/keyword names. So, your best really is to just let them expire, perhaps your registrar has an agreement to give you some of the cash if they get snapped up at auction upon expiry (Fabulous, my registrar does). Other then that, finding them a good home, even for free, is going to be a waste of your time.

The only alternative I can think of is offering them for free to whomever submits the most creative idea for each one, but you have to do it somewhere (like HN/Reddit/etc) or your own channels (if you drive decent traffic).
Finally, I do not think this is a question of "intellectual integrity," and labelling it as such is unhelpful.

I think it's quite helpful. Having to hedge myself against prejudice and sloppy thinking isn't helping me as much as spending time actually having substantive discussion.

especially in the West, where schools are starting to require that their students have an opinion, even when they don't actually know anything.

It seems we agree on some fundamental level. I think the ability and diligence to direct skepticism at oneself is basic and essential. If one does not know how to do that, one doesn't really know how to think.
Essential Windows Tricks
I don't think it's bad; it makes you have to pay attention to how you maneuver when stuff is getting hot and heavy.
It's hard to change a little. It's much easier to change a lot.
The problem is not the legal framework it is rather the policing that is the problem.

I see what you are saying, but while this is still very much an evolving area there is a great deal of good policing going on in the truly criminal cases. The FBI has a very impressive Cyber division for instance.

My own argument is that the community itself should do the policing, perhaps aided by better software and a device that

When it comes to things like low level harassment and simple rudeness, I largely agree with you. Good moderators combined with good automation should be able to keep that to a minimum.

When it comes to more complicated areas (adjudicating legitimate fair use or dealing with real hackers), then I believe it is necessary to have good laws with good, effective enforcement. At least from my perspective, while these things are in their infancy and are evolving rapidly, they can be and are being built.

can send a 60000 kV spike back to someone's computer when he behaves badly :)

Tempting thought in some cases ;-)
Damm, I don't understand a word of that job posting. "Compete muscle" and yada yadda, I mean FTW.
Actually, Discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) has been around for a while, and is rather high quality. It's a C library, but has a very simple API and should be easy to wrap in any language with a halfway decent FFI.

Oh, and BSD license? Yup.
How to do Market Research on a Startup Budget
1) As all you need to change the call script is tinker with the XML you return to the Twillo server upon incoming call, making it dependent on your IM status so long as you have an API for it is trivial.

2) Not really sure about this one, but my guess would be that he is reusing the Nginx server in-front of the Rails app.
The Temporarily Disappearing Estate Tax
Class Instance Variables
Except these "sects" don't actually offer any education.
The Cheapest Reliable Alternative
The story of How I made thousands flipping sites, and then blew it all
If my post made it sound like I am trying to stop people from doing anything, then it just came out wrong. I do think there are legitimate reasons to mostly build documents within a full-featured programming language, and I wouldn't stop people from doing that. I prefer to build the markup itself in a markup language with lightweight syntax, because documents should be readable, and markup languages have syntax specifically tailored for document readability. Then I supply dynamic content via the templating language.
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And apparently neither do the universities -- if so many people can do so many important jobs with nobody noticing they never went to a university, what's their "education" good for?

I went to Stanford and while it's true, the students did take classes where they heard facts, I didn't see anyone coming away from them having learned much. Instead, it just seemed like a test of whether you could stand it long enough / pay enough money before getting a piece of paper.
Ask HN: What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET?
I perceive an increase on the number articles about C# and .NET. Since HN activity reflects our own interests, I am curious as who is developing what for .NET.

Anyone wants to tell their story?

Disclaimer: I was a Windows user and did a lot of Windows development up until about 2002. Since about 1999, I have been preferring Unix-like environments and languages such as Perl, Python and Ruby (and, sometimes, Java) for developing and deploying web applications. Sometimes, I am also quite vocal about my personal preferences.
The pros and cons of “insider” VC rounds
Clever. But if the single quotes were &quot;, and so on, this would not work. CSS does not have SGML entity support (or does it? please tell me it doesn't...)
All my methods take 316 arguments, and I like it that way
Scott Brown on Why Some Memes Never Die
Ask HN feedback: Twitter chrome client with conversations and realtime updates
I prefer Paul's post (http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/12...)

[disclaimer: I work for the company in question :)]
Bringing the San Telmo Market Experience to Etsy
I understand the objection to having too many mutually incompatible data formats, but I don't understand how Markdown is exempt from that concern. It achieves the goal of looking like what "people would write anyway," but at a higher cost in terms of departing from HTML semantics. For example, how do you indicate semantic structure via Markdown to allow for CSS styling or Javascript manipulation of the DOM?
> just surprised it makes it here as "news".

I appreciate your point, but not everything here is "news" anyway. The guidelines state clearly that things are "On Topic" if they gratify one's sense of curiosity. I, like many others, would be disappointed to see too many things posted here under that banner, and I'd be content to have this item flagged as inappropriate, but it seems to me that many, perhaps most, people don't know it, and I agree that it is interesting.

Hence the submission.

As always, this raises interest in, and discussion of, separating "stuff that's interesting/useful" from "news." Personally, I'm not here for "news" so much as "interesting stuff".

It's an interesting issue.
Thanks, that looks like a pretty interesting series.
ProSwitcher - WebOS-like backgrounding on the iPhone
Olivia Munn Photoshoot for Maxim Magazine 2010 January Issue
Cocksure: Banks, battles, and the psychology of overconfidence.
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I don't think that's fair. My computer science education was seriously enriched by the community of students and professors at Stanford, even if I could have learned the basic material mostly on my own.
Don't polluters already pay? The proposed measures are designed to curtail carbon emissions, aren't there already supply side taxes on carbon generating fuel sources like oil and natural gas. Has carbon actually been scientifically proven to be the sole driver of global warming? By scientifically, I don't mean using a computer model with fudged numbers generated by interested parties with poor programming skills. If it isn't testable and repeatable it also isn't science. The models have made predictions that haven't matched reality thus far, why would we believe they are going to start matching reality in the future?

Aren't there other more pressing forms of pollution than CO2 emmisions? What about strip mining, particulate emissions, and methane? Is this really about curtailing emissions, or creating a lucrative secondary trading market and taxation system to benefit people like Al Gore who are both heavily invested in carbon trading, and part of the legislature.
"The Judge" is the name of a fairly large ATE litigation insurance company.
When you put that quote in it's proper context, it doesn't sound 'hostile' at all: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1020864
26C3: How you can build an eavesdropper for a quantum cryptosystem
By way of http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/quantum_crypto...
docx has been a real boon to people writing things like search engines and want to use the text inside of the files.

We've been using http://b2xtranslator.sourceforge.net/blog/ to convert legacy binary office formats to openXML, then using XSLT to transform the XML into our preferred schema for text extraction.
I really have learned that lesson a long ago, and I also read a lot about this topic. I really wish I had a co-founder, but the truth is that, where I live, I cannot find anyone.

Unfortunately where I live the mindset is "graduate and get a job". Nearly no one wants to try to start a startup. For almost everybody here it is not worth the risk. I don't think it's an economical issue, I think it's only the closed mindset of people around here.

So I had to choose from go alone or do nothing. I obviously chose the first one, knowing that it's not easy at all. I really wish to be able to put back the word "we" back in 2010.
The obvious conclusion:

The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.

[a man puts a body on the cart]

Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.

The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: What?

Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.

The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.

Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.

The Dead Collector: He isn't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.

Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.

The Dead Collector: I can't take him.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.

Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.

The Dead Collector: I can't.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.

The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.

Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?

The Dead Collector: Thursday.

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.

Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?

The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.

[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]

Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.

The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.

Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
Thank you, nailer! I've been putting up with Word randomly crashing when using it's COM object in long running processes. Now I can skip Word altogether and work on the file level. THANKS!
I didn't mind it. At first it caught me by surprise, but then it's just another thing in the room to beware of. I'd leave them there, but perhaps make the danger markings around them a bit clearer (less dirty yellow?)
There is no support in nginx to do keep-alive connections to backend servers.

Placing nginx and the backend servers on the same LAN should make it less of an issue than high-latency frontend connections.

The backend response will also be buffered in nginx until it has received it all before the front-end user is served the request.
Python also has a native Python module for reading and writing Excel files. It's pretty simple to use and also doesn't require any COM nastiness. http://www.python-excel.org/
Nice, I like the "bio" direction here! I bought the first Robokill, and was a fan, and may buy this one too.

1. Are uncommon and rare items gone? I didn't see any through the first base. If so, why? That was one of the most fun features.

Edit: Nevermind! I see they do appear.

2. Please please please don't listen to people who want all the frustration gone, e.g. you can't fall to death. Perhaps recognize that not all gamers are equal, and give difficulty settings, e.g. on normal you can't fall to death but on hard you can. Heck, I was a fan of hardcore (restart on death) no-shop runs in the first game, maybe you could even unlock this kind of thing as an actual mode on beating the game (for the extreme masochists.)
Kennedy Center Honors
Kennedy Center Honors are seen lining up on the stage with first lady Michelle Obama, President Obama addressing the Kennedy Center Honors , Kennedy Center Honors....
Not my startup, but I believe that Startuply (http://startuply.com/) was built using .NET.
When installing sbcl on a fresh linux box, I don't get the distribution repo--in fact, I have heard that this is less likely to be supported in the future.

What I do is to grab a binary of sbcl from http://www.sbcl.org/platform-table.html, install it, then get the source and customize it for changes that I want as you have said. The build is fairly quick, except on my old PPC mac.
At least with Seattle IT you know when you're going to get screwed. With San Francisco IT it always comes unexpected.
I'm glad to see that someone else noticed the last paragraph. It totally hijacks the rest of the article by conflating his excellent rant against security pantomime theater with his proposed solution of doing nothing, mixed in with a bit of racism.

"We had better get used to being the civilians who are under a relentless and planned assault."

Seriously? After bitching about the ineffectiveness of the TSA, the best idea for a replacement is to raise our hands and say "oh well, shit happens and planes go boom"?
1) Buy a big house.

2) Keep a lot of silver downstairs.

3) ???

4) Meet Nordahl.
Good point. I've licensed it under MIT (originally I thought github made me pick a license, but it seems not), see the updated README.
Sometimes telling a computer what to do feels like telling these two guards what to do (about one minute in).

From Monty Python and the Holy Grail ("the curtains" scene)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWH01E2weA
I’m very glad to see this and generally pleased to see the webkit team spending more time refining the inspector. In my opinion it is much better organised and nicer to use that FireBug, so it’s particularly pleasing to see it become more useful.

One other notable change is that the console now has it’s own tab, rather than being docked under the main view. Finally! I depend on the console a lot when developing, so it’s nice to finally be able to use the entirety of the inspector window.
To add some numbers to that, PCC appears to be about 20,000 lines of code [1] and LLVM+clang together about 550,000 lines [2]. I can't immediately find a figure for GCC, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was significantly more than LLVM+clang.

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/papers/magnusson_pcc.pdf
[2] http://blog.llvm.org/2009/12/clang-builds-llvm.html
this is great. thanks.
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Glad you like it. A great deal of the credit belongs to the lxml authors (Stephan Behnel in particular). Though this only took a day or do, I've been using lxml for projects for years and always loved it - in particular, the xpath makes modifying and querying trees really easy.

If more people used LXML and saw how easy it was, the whole idea of modifying serialized XML 'Cthulu style' would be seen as being as odd as modifying other data by manipulating their pickled forms.
This is a screening problem, it's not a problem with the education that acreditted universities give.

Your experiences at Stanford might not be the same as everyone else's.
I'm using part of the .NET stack for my webapp.

I really like .NET the language (the CLR, the libraries) and really could care less for all the overblown frameworks, like ASP.NET or WPF
Open Office != OpenOffice.org, AFAIK the trademark for Open Office is held by some one other than OO.org
Must be a slow week - this particular "very simplistic" article has been here at least 3 times before in the last month.

Its very cute to divide programmer competency into a clean matrix - its never that simple.
Love it. My wife's just called me again; apparently I said I'd be heading to bed an hour or so ago :P

Few comments

- Few more weapon choices would be nice

+ price seems OK, but I haven't finished the first stage yet.

+ Edges are fine by me

+ so are traps

+ Like the idea of unlimited lives, but you lose rooms

+ Love the RPG aspect, and I'd really really like to see this taken further in a shooter (perhaps Robokill 3?) - what about being able to personalise other aspects of your robot, as per a traditional RPG, so introduce some attributes like speed, defence, accuracy etc. This way, I could work towards building up a heavily armed but slow 'bot, or a fast accurate one that's fairly vulnerable.

Oh, if I buy it, does it include a Save function?
It's a compete lead. The job is for competing against Open Office and Linux.
I wasn't even aware this existed, very interesting. http://www.google.com/domainpark/