skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As soon as you make a game that's able to compete for conversions on ads, your game probably won't be considered indie anymore. Ads are extremely competitive and the only way to compete and not get priced out is to "sellout" and make games with mass market appeal, AAA price tags, high monetization funnels to increase LTV, etc. Without that, it's unlikely you'll be able to profitably spend on ads through any of the major channels. You're competing against the Game of Wars and Clash of Clans out there on Mobile and the AAA and IP titles on traditional platforms. So your metrics will need to be on par with the likes of those (it at least needs to be on par in a niche target demographic) in order to have any measure of success.

So the typical indie marketing strategy of using social media, press, and word of mouth, is actually very rational and probably the best way to go about it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492557 and marked it off-topic.
Pretty much everyone I know who is a programmer ( including myself ) has been receiving spammy non-solicited recruitment emails from Facebook ever since their IPO. I've been predicating this decline in code quality for years.

Facebook is also rather aggressive with their recruitment. I've specifically asked them on multiple occasions to NOT contact me with job offers. Facebook straight up ignores these requests. I've now been contacted by at least three separate Facebook recruiters. Mind you, I've NEVER applied to work for Facebook and I don't even have a Facebook profile.
Okay, I've heard that, but then how do we decide who gets to run? Wouldn't the wealthiest still end up with the best initial campaigns?

[side-rant]

This makes me think that being able to include more candidates, by way of reforming FPTP and using an alternative vote, could be as important as campaign finance reform.

I am over this two party system that controls everything. They're corrupting our democracy by gerrymandering and barring candidates from debates. And since they control the rules about how primaries work, and we really only have these two parties as a result of FPTP, we effectively do not have the democracy our founders tried to promise. The rules that protect democracy at the national level are not operating at the primary level.

[/side-rant]
Maybe. But imagine if Captain Jean-Luc Picard said it to you as a direct order. You'd probably get busy considering.
Your point is totally solid. Btw Web Developers today will on day be the auto worker of yesterday. It's cycle that capitalists systems follow. Reduce head count to boost profitability and stock performance. You do this by automation, productivity enhancements in supply chain and outsourcing. Replacing people with shell scripts is going to be a big part of what AI with do for low and high tech worker. A lot of programmers may find out how harsh capital markets feel in tight labor market. Retraining the US worker is not a sustainable prospect. So many middle age workers will find it more ugly and difficult to survive. This NYtimes article is particularly difficult to read because I know how bleak it is for many of these fallen men. In a nutshell it sucks. The US social network for such people tends to be an Ann Rand novel followed with an empty: sorry buddy. Good luck with that.
It's because you put it so dismissively, which the Show HN guidelines explicitly ask you not to do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Where do they make money on that? The margins on the devices are so slim and go to the OEMs, which Google mostly isn't. I don't think they charge any money for OEMs licensing the OS, and if they do it's likely a pittance. The only way Chromebooks make money for Google is as a gateway to Google services, and allowing people to fork ChromeOS like that puts that revenue source in jeopardy.
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I will graduate in CS in a few months and willing to start a career abroad. I have been freelancing since 2010 until last year mostly working on web projects. I made a Twitter tool when I was 17 and it's a hit with 200k+ users to this day. I did an internship at a Berlin startup this summer.

I'm good with JavaScript, both in front-end and back-end. Willing to learn new tech and move further down the stack.
I know it wasn't. That's called "editorial license" and you see it every single day on HN when users creatively edit headlines.
one man's stolen content is another man's mirror. There are countless times where original content is region-blocked or behind a paywall, or expired, but accessible via "stolen" links.
Plan+a+short+stay+trip+to+Dubai
No, I like my simile better.

Nothing and nobody will stop you from bringing oxygen tanks on your climb, and learning to use them is relatively straightforward. Changing the system of campaign finance in the United States, on the other hand, requires navigating dozens of immensely complex special interests, will be opposed by one or both major parties, and we haven't even gotten to what the courts might say yet. It's hard.
Everything's Amazing but Nobody's Happy
Orbeus is shutting down developer APIs
ReKognition will not longer be offering developer APIs for image and face detection/recognition. Here's the text of the email I got:

"We've worked hard to provide the best face and image recognition products and we greatly appreciate your support along the way. However, recently, our strategic focus has changed and we will no longer be offering the developer API services. Therefore, we regret to inform you that the ReKognition platform will no longer be available after December 2, 2015. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience that this may cause.

Thank you!

Sincerely,
The Orbeus Team"

They don't mention it yet on their website though. Anyone knows why this is happening?
I have no interest in returning to any programming model that fundamentally revolves around complex sync-up code (also, yes we "tried" this aplenty long before KVO/bindings).

As I mentioned in my previous post, I felt KVO was a really interesting design path to be sure, but I agree with you it had its fair share of issues. That being said, observer patterns are just incremental improvements on this. Conceptually its still the same: figuring out ways of getting different parts of a system to eventually "settle" on the same value. Sure, strict typing and whatnot can make this safer, but its ultimately a lot of code that has no real connection to the actual problem your program is trying to solve.

Personally I find immutable everything types (through persistent data structures) combined with immediate mode programming for rendering has more or less taken away the cognitive overhead I used to have around this set of "problems". You have a model, that can lead to a new model in the future. You then have a render function that is a function of this model. Its completely deterministic, there is only one path things can go down, you can grab the state of your program at any time and keep re-rendering it to figure out whats going on -- there's no "implicit" conglomeration of state through the value of all the free variables in your program at any particular point in time and their knowledge of each other.

If I were to return to iOS programming today, I'd probably give React Native a stab.
To me tomorrow land is being able to change code and see it live update without recompile or provisioning profiles or what have you.
I don't mean to be a smartass, but does my post strike you as coming from a guy who pays much attention to VW these days? :-) VW had their chance several times, so they are now on my "don't even bother to look" list, right next to Fiat.

Besides, I spend my real money on motorcycles, so I'm truly not the guy to ask about compact cars regardless of brand. That, and the interior is low on my list of priorities when selecting a vehicle.
Interesting. MLton did the basic-blocks-with-arguments thing too:

http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2007-February/029597.html
http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-January/023061.html
Shame he didn't move a little faster, he could have had Supercell for half what he ended up paying for King.
Ask HN: Who feels undervalued at work?
Feeling undervalued at work. Anyone else feel the same way?
The next time you have a beer with these guys, you might want to ask them if they're serious about hiring.
iOS 9.1 Jailbreak Created
He's not saying that. He's saying it seems like the only type of tech company that is being penetrated, for the worse, by cheap money is late stage unicorns. His argument about the way cheap money is penetrating them is that the terms of the money look a lot more like loans than equity, hence, traditional valuations don't apply.

For example Uber may have just received $100 million at a $10 billion valuation, but if the equity has a 3x cap, then how do you actually value the company from the equity just purchased? The answer is you can't, because traditional equity didn't change hands. VCs are dressing loans up as equity purchases.

People are assuming that unicorns have to hit certain valuations in order for the VCs investments to not be repaid or scrapped. SA is challenging this assumption, though acknowledging that the situation isn't ideal and highlighting that it doesn't necessitate a bubble.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/safety-lens

https://www.fpcomplete.com/school/to-infinity-and-beyond/pic...
> But academics insist that all stocks have value based on their dividends.

Makes sense to me. If everyone knew a company would never pay any dividends there why would anyone pay for any share of the company? It would be worthless.
And why why why I cannot buy an external Apple monitor for my Macbook for getting that? I need to buy a whole Mac to get that :(
Oh yeah, the corporate personhood thing. I forgot that.

But I only forgot about it because I simply don't see how that matters in an real way.

Even if corporate personhood went away then (actual, real human) people would be paid to speak for a corporation, and then you hit the the 1st Amendment rights issues again.
I have written many arguably complicated shell scripts. It is almost always a painful experience that involves things that are hard to look up because of terse and confusing syntax. There are plenty of examples. Dealing with executing commands with nested quotes (double and single) with file names with spaces, doing anything with arrays, [] vs [[]], the rules of subshells, loop syntax when dealing with space delimiter vs line break delimiter, the lengthy list of -flag if[[]] conditions, comparing strings to variables... when I say "design failure" it's completely from personal experience and frustration from trying to do simple tasks in bash and hitting confusing syntax wall after wall. I hope you are saying

>"one of the best languages I've ever used"

in an argumentative sense and not sincerely! Bash is obviously not capable of many things and seems limiting to choose as a favorite (main go to?) language.
Failure has to be as okay in science as it is in business and for all the same reasons. I would love to see more failed hypotheses and projects, as it would mean people are actually thinking new thoughts and trying new things. There is no progress without failure and no discovery without mistakes.

The amount of money being spent on this is tiny and the worst that happens is we get a lesson in experimental technique.
> exact same as Zynga buying OMGPOP

I realize analogies aren't meant to be perfect but when you stress the 'exact same'-ness I'll confess I find Activision is nothing like Zynga here. Zynga was already focused on social/mobile games like OMGPOP and bought them defensively (Words WF was hemorrhaging daily users to Draw Something at time of the purchase). Meanwhile Activision and King are focused in completely different niches and Activision isn't in danger of disappearing or cannibalized to bits by copycats overnight.

Second, King appears to be remarkably safer investment than one hit wonder OMGPOP. They've kept multiple titles in the top 20 for several years running and their annual gaming revenue is on scale with Nintendo[1].

Given that Supercell is not on the market is there an aquisition target remotely as good as King which is demonstrably great at the one thing Activision is terrible at? (granted Blizzard is doing well in mobile with Hearthstone).

[1] http://www.newzoo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Small_Newzo...
Smart guy.
Git documentation is especially bad. The book "Pro Git" does a decent job of covering the need-to-knows in an approachable way.
Certainly it beats Draw Something in sticking power, but are people still going to be playing Candy Crush in five years, ten years? There's a lot of other companies I can buy for five billion dollars and be confident that they'll still be selling stuff in a few decades' time, but this one doesn't fill me with confidence.

Worse news: the thing that they sell is something that people regret buying.
Show HN: ZaComments – to find the best thing that's been said about anything
2 years ago I was watching the VMAs and Miley Cyrus gave her "Peculiar" performance. and I was wondering "What's the best thing that's ever been said about Miley Cyrus?" And surprisingly, I couldn't find a site that could answer that. Comments on Youtube were scattered between her videos and are not even sorted by votes any more. Twitter let me know what was being said about her at the time. Reddit showed me articles, discussions, pictures or videos about her. Mostly pictures though.
I thought a comment ranking system like reddit is the way to go, but centred solely on comments. Users just need to come up with the best/funniest/smarted thing they could think of about anything and post it. No discussions, just comment and may the best comment reach the top.
A mature version I see for ZaComments would be a wikipedia with a comment system like Reddit. Where a user browsing through the topics on ZaComments and reading the top 5-6 comments can easily get a feeling of what people think about that topic. whether it was Miley Cyrus, Love, Lord of the rings, TV ads, the superbowl...anything!
So what do you guys think? I'm interested to hear your thoughts.
DJI Launching New Manifold Embedded Computer for Aerial Platform Developers
There are plenty of installers and tools (e.g. brew, apt, yum) available to reduce this "command-line bullshittery" of which you speak. Of course, finding and using them may require some "search engine bullshittery" ;)

Being able to navigate this "command-line bullshittery" is one of the basic filters for people in the software development and CS research fields. Personally, I've hired people with CS degrees who could barely do basic operations in the shell. I'm often the person on a software team, who is coaching the less-skilled members on getting their environments and tools set up.

Rather than reduce these friction points, I think we need to encourage a culture where people learn to solve their own problems, or at least read the docs and try to do a bit more before thowing up their hands and asking for someone else to solve their problem.
The post has good intentions but it still gives no explanation for how new leads come in. I can't imagine that customers were found without a massive spend on keywords. All the business lines have massive amounts of business already doing that, so I doubt they're coming to the top of the list on search results.
NASA confirms 'impossible' EMdrive thruster works
Can someone answer what is so special about Plex?

I have read the descriptions and it just seems very general, boring, and full of buzzwords... "organize your media library", so what?

I mostly just watch Netflix, iTunes Movies/TV Shows ... is this going to help me in any way do anything special?
It is fun. Thanks!
Odd that I'm being downvoted for specific technical points.

No, I presume you are being downvoted for your apparent rudeness despite your excellent technical points. For me, the two cancelled, and I simply chose not to upvote an otherwise excellent post. I like your wit, but sometimes it's a bit sharp. Others apparently felt the rudeness was the dominant factor, and (as is their right) downvoted.
Cough -- Blizzard -- cough.
I've tried several tools similar to this, and they're all coming from the right place. But..

1) being told that this isn't the time to do something doesn't change that I feel it's time to do something. It just annoys me.

2) There's no substitute for simply making the choice to not go to those distracting web sites.

Distractions abound, but in my experience I've found that looking to technology to solve what is fundamentally an error in my thought process is a mistake. Changing the thought process isn't the easy way to go about it but it is ultimately the only way that's going to be effective in the long term.

Tools like this don't help much with that process[1]. Instead they provide [again, in my experience] a band-aid that helps cover the wound, so to speak - they let me avoid seeing that I needed to make changes.

[1] one benefit they do provide is to make you more aware of what you're doing.
Do you know if any search engine is actively filtering for this?
Kudos to author for including sandstorm.io and docker in his pros and cons. I can see it becoming one of the first things we might wonder about in the future.
Does one have to write as much code to get the job done in Elixir as Ruby? I'm asking because Ruby requires more code even than java...
Candy Crush maker bought by Activision for $5.9B
Since you really insist on analyzing things in a two party framework -

It seems then that the democrats simply overplayed their hand from
1992-2000. They were too brazenly incongruent with their grassroots support, causing their constituents to cry uncle and look elsewhere. Getting the people to line up for what their sponsors have bought is the fundamental game, and they failed.

So in effect, Bush's invasion of Iraq was actually set in motion by
Clinton. I mean, in addition to that actual bombing he authorized.
Maybe my math is wrong, but the raising rate is .134 percent?

I'm in that group of guys now. I sometimes wonder if white males are getting enough vitamin D. I never really gave it much thought, until I saw a friend's blood work-up. His doctor is routinely checking his level of vitamin D. I just chalked it up to his good insurance plan.

I know I don't get the amount of sunshine my father got. My father always had a tan, and made sure to get outside as much as possible. I, on the other hand, spend too much time looking into a screen. Maybe I'll get a few more years in because I have exercised, but it's been at night for years.

Depressing. Sometimes the Internet is really depressing.
`z' means to use gzip compression when extracting or creating a tarball. `J' means xz, `j' bzip2.

For example, to create an xz-compressed tar file:

tar cJvf archive.tar.xz some_directory/

Generally, you can omit those when uncompressing, at least with GNU tar.

OpenBSD's tar is less friendly - it doesn't seem to try to autodetect the compression format. Last time I checked, it didn't support xz either. One had to install the package and then do something such as tar cf - directory/ | xz > something.txz

where the - means that the tarball is written to standard output. /dev/stdout would work as well.
Applying via the website is the best and only way. We've been updating our tooling and process with the aim of being better about responding moving forward, but it goes with pretty much any company -- even if it doesn't work out with one position, there will be others and it can make sense to keep looking and keep trying. The larger the company, the more likely for this to be the case.
Visually it looks like Minesweeper crossed with Marble Madness!
“Just accidentally kicked myself out of my own GitHub organization.”
We're not talking high levels of reality-manipulation here, we're talking careful poses and taking lots of shots to pick out the best one.

The reason that most girls will never look that good in photos isn't because they don't take enough shots to get a good one, it's because they're not as good-looking as that girl is to start with.
As someone who has a game sitting on my hard-drive for lack of publishing and pricing knowledge, I appreciate this.

For those that are curious (and don't mind a bit of self-promotion) here is my personal side-project game:

playinverse.com
Wait, how do I prevent automatic update to Win10? I actually like the UI but the system Does Not Work (tm) on my hardware (I tried). I'm finding it hard to believe MS is going to auto-brick my laptop overnight.
If you can't explain all the errors in an experiment, you still have science to do -- regardless of whether it violates currently-understood laws of physics.
I'll check, but in general if a company is hiring you to work in a specific office/locale, then they're likely willing to help with the process of being employed and employable there.
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Slack has some major design flaws. It's not developer-friendly either. I really don't get why hackers are not pushing for Gitter! It has SSO, it's developer-friendly, it's cheaper, it's embeddable, etc.
> You'll never see a black activist or feminist show solidarity with these poor middle-aged white people.

Speaking of "dividing people along gender and race lines".
The actual wording was "nothing good".

The goodness or badness of the various revolutions going on is, at best, debatable. I suggest waiting 20 years to collect more data before attempting to debate it though.
Because Apple still isn't selling 5k monitors. I imagine it will happen eventually.
The Iranian Drones That Save Lives
Edw519 blog in archive.org
Ambulance Drone
You're not the first to express this sentiment. It feels similar to having a random in a bar bitch at me about my carbon footprint when they hear I burn coal while blacksmithing on the weekend. I appreciate environmental awareness but are you sure you're maximizing your efforts? http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/07/07/article-2683735-1F...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10496638
Persona support would be great!
I think we are going to witness harder times for unicorns, in general, in the up-coming years. I agree with Sam with most of his points, but I do think there are few startup valuations that seem crazy at this moment. Those valuations will be self corrected in the course of few years or so.
This blog is full of gems, sadly the website is currently down. Fortunately, I found this in web archive.
Similarly when they bought Skype.
From one closed source system to the next.