skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got started writing video games at University in England, when there was a thriving marketplace for games written in Flash, and websites would buy licenses (sometimes exclusive ones) to have your game on their site, this is back in '09. From a student's perspective some would pay really well, a few thousand dollars for a project that would take a few months.

Seven years later I find myself running a business making video games in the more traditional pay-to-download format, like this one, called The Cat Machine - http://store.steampowered.com/app/386900. I'm sure compared to other online businesses, or even other indie game developers, comprised of one person it's not mind-blowingly successful, but my games have paid my modest (single guy) living costs while I work on my next project.

My games are multi-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux) and I sell on my website, Steam, Humble Bundle, the Apple Mac Store and a few other places, and they write me cheques every month. Every project has a long tail with regards to revenue, and occasionally there are spikes, like the Steam Holiday sale a few days ago, and just this morning I woke up to The Cat Machine being on the main page of Apple's Mac Store in a 'Popular Puzzlers' section. Each of these bump my budget for my next projects up another month or so. The initial sales spike when a game is released is bit crazy, suddenly having your salary for the next one and a half years dropped into your bank account all in one go.

The reason I can do this as a one-man band is that I can program, but I also have some artistic skill, so I can draw and digital paint and animate. To speed up development as much as I can, I write within the Unity engine with C#, which has a great pipeline for art assets, which I create in Photoshop and Spine for 2D characters and textures, and The Foundry's excellent Modo software for 3D assets. The only things I don't do for my games are the music, I have an excellent composer friend who works for TV and Film, and I'd be silly not to contract him to do that. But apart from that, I do all the design, writing, programming, marketing, etc, which is part of the fun, wearing lots of different hats.

If you're _really_ interested in how I work, I actually do a series of high-level development videos on my current project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsg018B0PK60ZoaNqw_in...

Also happy to answer any questions, within reason, about making a living making games about cats riding around on trains.
I'm currently working on a desktop app that I plan to sell (for Windows though, not Mac) and I've gotten some interest (no sales yet but a lot of trials). I think you can definitely be successful doing desktop apps but you need to know the target market. Mine is Windows application developers so they tend to use desktop tools to get their job done, especially when it comes to building their product.
Have decent traffic, and they'll probably find you.
2016's most-read Wikipedia articles
PgConf US 2017 early registration and tentative schedule up
The magic number seems to be about 100. Enough to destroy important cities and military targets with some spares to reduce the chance of your arsenal being eliminated by a first strike.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182024
I don't know what I'm looking for in the demo. I turned off adblock and have hovered over the images but I'm not seeing anything. Maybe I have another plugin interfering. I'm using Chrome.

The pleenq website demos the idea well though.
For your narrow minded understanding of what a programming language specification is only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_specifica...

You can say it's imprecise or lack of ratification from one or many international organization(s), but you cannot say it doesn't exist. End of story.
A shame from the perspective of larger linux adoption, maybe, or by other viewpoints.

From the perspective of most consumers in the population of gamers it's a superb result. Competition in the platform space has resulted in improved performance and spurred development of technologies that facilitate better gaming experiences across several dimensions.

Why should Valve be a crusader for Linux? Their goal is to make great games and serve gamers.
The Griffin Warrior Tomb Upends What We Know About the Roots of Mycenae
Citations needed for your assertion on each point being false.

Grumpy proves Python2 is where the action is at. Everyone wanted a speed improvement with a new Python, that's the ultimate carrot.. instead Python3 was and still is in some ways slower than 2. Other than exec, eval and C-extensions, Python2 is valid Grumpy.

You didn't provide any reasoning or proof that my points, which were just reiterated, were false. If you're going to "port" anywhere from Python2, removing C extensions (which no language should have to be dependent upon anyway, so it's an improvement) and exec/eval usage is a bigger win than Python3.

The future of Python is what the users decide, not what the PSF decided. I recognize there's a lot of confusion and propaganda surrounding that. This is open source, not top-down control.
I looked at your kickstarter and you rate your sleeping bag at 20 degrees. 20 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? If Celsius I am interested.
6 ways to transition to the Trump administration
DHH: Venture Capital Will Murder Medium
Selling macOS apps at https://www.binaryage.com.

TotalFinder.app sales is what allowed me to work on my own projects full time. This is what I personally define as a success. I own 100% of my time and stuff I create.

Since introduction of macOS system integrity protection sales have been poor. But luckily I made enough in previous years so I have pretty long runway to build something new.

If you are interested how it got started you might want to read my blog posts from 2009 - 2011:
https://blog.binaryage.com

Have been investing heavily into Clojure(Script) tools and libraries over last 2 years:

https://github.com/binaryage/dirac
https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-devtools
https://github.com/binaryage/chromex
https://github.com/binaryage/cljs-oops
https://github.com/binaryage/env-config
https://github.com/darwin/plastic
Yes, this is one of the bigger problems, and there's no good fix for it.

You just need to clearly state all over the site that your delivery times are 3-4 weeks.

It's unfortunate, but part of the business.

The only way around it is to have products that aren't easily sourceable via Amazon. They're out there, but mostly in very targeted niches.

You also might find that you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel for profits, but the money is still there to be had. I guess nothing ever comes easy, in any business--but there's still money to be made.
FYI it appears to do nothing on an iPad, since there is no concept of "hovering". Haven't tested on a phone either, which could be a problem with the high tablet/mobile penetration these days.
Well, you can still track number of clicks by yourself to get a ballpark figure. You'll just have to believe the conversion number they tell you, but should be able to estimate whether it's realistic or total nonsense based on conversion rate.
> I can't name a single online service that is supported by ads and that I couldn't live without.

How about search and email? All the major players are ad supported.
Just Coram so far. There's a book called "Certain to Win" that applies his ideas to business.
Yeah I just installed it as well and it's fun seeing all of the content that gets clicked on. Searching on Google shows at least 15 ads clicked/blocked. No wonder they hate this extension!
They are both types of chats. We use a combination of skype for business and zoom (zoom supports external people far better than skype, and actually works better in all regards).

Our time zone difference isn't as extreme as a 10 hour difference. We have offices -1 and +1 from our current time zone so it makes it easier.

A talk I attended earlier this year had a similar setup to yours and what they did was record all meetings and had a culture of always doing the meeting regardless of wether people could join. Then if you missed the time you chimed in later after you watched the video. Decisions were handled in a similar async fashion.
By clicking on the ads automatically, it seems like Adnauseum actually supports the underlying website (which earns $$) while also performing the function of muBlock. It is currently the best of both worlds!

I would like an AdNauseum type interface for video.
I recently built a Yoga Subscription Box service with my girlfriend called https://www.namaslaybox.com/

We are both programmers and she always wanted to do something like this so gave it a shot..It's been successful so far and we are starting to see a rise in orders.

Like a lot of people here, we started from scratch. No mentors, no prior experience. Worked on it weeknights and weekends.
I'm having the same issue. My add blocker is turned off and I don't see anything when hovering over the images on that blog post.
I can relate with the fitting in part, though my situation is the complete opposite. I am a self-taught developer that skipped college and I have been a professional software engineer since 18, I am now 21 and have been programming for at least 8 years. At the company I am now working for as a senior engineer I am the youngest here by a large margin. I am the most experienced and youngest and it has caused a bit of hostility towards me. I can understand why though but luckily it has died down since I have been here a few months.
Bunkers being fixed locations means they could be targeted for attack. If it serves military purposes, there is a good chance it'll be targeted. If the sole purpose is as an embryo bank, it'd be useless if there is no trained staff to use it after the disaster, and keeping people there 24/7 would be unreasonable if it doesn't serve other purposes. A submarine has a much higher chance of survival, and is already being manned 24/7 for deterrence purposes.
I think the author here is using "unpredictable" as a term of art and not in a context that's well understood by me.

"Strategic" is not the opposite of "unpredictable" -- "predictable" is. Strategic thinking is identifying a long-term interest/objective/aim and developing the means to achieve them. The application of strategy isn't necessarily predictable to some parties at all. You can certainly choose or be forced to respond unpredictably in the context of a broader strategic aim.

Taking away the catchy title and fancy discussion and the point it pretty basic: emotional/intuitive responses are generally inferior to logic/fact driven planning.
How can the Adsense distinguish whether it is AdNauseum clicking or the human clicking?
That's really cool! Good for you!
How to Train Your Deep Neural Network
I feel kind of stupid but your demo link just shows me a blog about different workouts and it just shows regular images and gifs with no hover effects. Is it supposed to work on chrome?

Edit: same behavior on edge.
We used to test each other about Z80 opcodes staggering home drunk from the pub late at night as teenagers...

LDIR? ED B0!
LD HL,nnnn? 21!
...

Ah... those were the times ;)
A living.
Cool. Lose the giant headlines, lose the columns, move the reddit button to where the green button is now, lose the modal.
If someone creates a plugin with the stated goal of screwing up your clients' analytics to discourage them from paying you, do you really wait for it to work before you remove it from your platform?
Returns are a pain, yes. It'll be different for every vendor though, so you need to take it on a case-by-case basis.

Honestly, my advice is to not worry about it up front, and dive in.

You need to worry about making your first sale (which is seriously, very hard), long before you worry about returns. =)

You'll figure out it when you need to.
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As a Senior Software Engineer, you are responsible for developing, scaling and maintaining our cloud software infrastructure, with a specific focus on data-intensive technologies. You work in close collaboration with a team of data scientists and networking experts, supporting them with best-in-class software development methodologies and design patterns. You thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that requires a unique blend of innovation, risk taking and speed of execution.

Our technology stack includes Python, Scala, C++ as well as a wide range of internal tools built on top of Docker, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, InfluxDB and a variety of front-end visualization technologies (D3.js, WebGL, HTML5).

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> But the whole attitude that this is some sort of tyrannical thing is a little over the top.

This is the exact sort of thing anti-monopoly laws are intended to work against: that a major market force in one market uses that power to intrude or support itself in another market. Since Google Chrome undoubtedly has a sufficiently large market share that this may be a concern and the removal of this extension certainly affects the advertisement market, this seems like a very dangerous move for Google.

Yes, it may be considered “self-defense” but is the cost incurred really so large that they want to risk another lawsuit?
> Ask Coca-Cola for its secret recipe and listen to a whole corporation laugh

Coca-Cola is a highly vertically-integrated company with huge economies of scale, giving it a near monopolistic position. Even if you had the 'secret' recipe, there is little hope of being able to profitably compete on price. And if you could compete in some tiny segment of Coca-Cola's market, they could lower prices and run at a loss in that segment until you ran out of money. This is before you take into account brand value...

Ask Berkshire Hathaway to invest in a sugary drinks company based on its secret recipe and listen to a whole corporation laugh.
You are right when taking into account the mobile users safari is way more than 3.5%. As I said currently we are not targeting mobile users.

We think a specific app would be required which having it on both iOS and Android requires resources.

Do you think the current MVP shows the potential of the idea?
Can confirm. Does not work on Chrome.
There is one more now. I completely forgot to install this until I saw this story this morning.
Why We Need Medium to Win
I've turned an OS development tool project into a business. It all happened by accident.

http://meteor.toys
I care more about fan noise than I do about heat.
You blog posts seem pretty interesting. How did you choose the titles?

I agree 100% with your statement about living live on one's own terms.
Asus' Crazy New Phone Takes 92-Megapixel Photos
I have it disabled for all mobile/touch type platforms. The demo will only work on desktop, unfortunately.

I'll be enabling the mobile version(s) of the plugin, once I finish testing them out and creating a way for each website to choose which functionality type it wants to use on its page.
Slides: https://github.com/takeshixx/woolim-tools

Blog-Post: https://insinuator.net/2016/12/woolim-lifting-the-fog-on-dpr...
Automated clicking on ads is a click fraud. It will never be accepted by Google.
Why are there still so many jobs?
I run https://www.soundslice.com/ with one other full-time person. We're self-funded and make a profit at this point.

Soundslice is interactive sheet music synced with audio/video recordings — the Internet's best software for learning pieces of music.

We make money by licensing the technology, taking a cut of lessons in a video-lesson marketplace, plus charging $20/month for a "pro" version (Soundslice For Teachers).

We're happily bootstrapped and located comfortably far from the La La Land of Silicon Valley. (I moved from Chicago to Amsterdam a year ago, and my partner is in Chicago.)

In fact, being able to tell potential customers/partners that we're not a "conventional" startup (one that just wants to sell out to give its investors a return) has been an unexpected benefit. The story resonates with people, and it's good for building trust.
You can still do that with MIPS and some of the other assemblers only used with embedded chips!

A lot of people in my computer organization class five years ago ended up memorizing most of them, since it was sort of a side effect of having to go from opcodes to assembler and back again on quizzes.
Why does Google deserve the shit for stopping people from taking money from them? I wouldn't think to give a department store shit for pressing charges against someone who smashed up a bunch of merchandise, whether or not the act was politically motivated.
Medium's missing monetization scheme, under its nose
> he set a new record for the 105-plus age group

wait, what? That's a thing? How many members of this "group" are there? How many attempts have ever been made?
Why are digital leaders (Facebook, Google, Amazon and friends) ten times better at rapidly delivering software than mainstream enterprise organisations?

That's the first sentence, hence the premise of the article. Don't you need to provide some supporting evidence for those figures?

Experience, again, suggests not. The digital leaders themselves are behemoths! Facebook has 1.19 billion active monthly users. Keeping them happy is quite a task, yet they manage to innovate alongside keeping the lights on. So how come enterprises are still so slow? Why do their technological efforts always seem to cost much more than they should? Why does the software development gap persist?

Does not follow. Facebook has lots of users but they have a relatively small workforce compared to traditional big companies. Over some threshold it's probably easier to "satisfy" lots of users via network effects than it is to please a small but critical community, anyway, but that's just conjecture.

The article is a continued series of unsupported assertions and "facts".
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...

> essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions
No power slide? Failure.
Here in Sweden, and I suspect in many many countries, revenues and profits and pretty much all numbers in a limited liability stock (the most common kind) company are public information. Here is Spotify for example https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=http%3A... (allabolag.se is a third party site aggregating these numbers.)

Also, income statements are public information, yet making both of these public information has not imploded the economy. Rather the opposite it seems. It is for example a huge benefit when you are looking for a job to be able to go to the interview and ask why the company never has made any profit the last five years, just as a simple example. Also very good for anyone in the B2B segment.
A user that clicks on all ads they are shown will most likely be blacklisted as a bot (rightly so, as they are using an auto-clicking bot).
> what do 150 do at Medium and more importantly, WTF did Medium do with ~123 Million [0]?

Interesting people freaking out about this when if you point out the bloat at Twitter (which dwarfs Medium many times over and goes years without shipping anything user facing) HN posters will jump to defend it just because they have a few dev centric open source projects that are widely used.
Did this 8 to 10 hour per day thing get sprung on people
and forced upon them from nowhere?
No. Of course not. It's something that achieved a
"natural" balance over decades (centuries?).

Nonsense.

In the United States, the eight-hour day for everyone came from the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937. Australia got it state by state starting in 1916 (Victoria 8 Hours Act) and nationally in 1948. The Mexican constitution of 1917 also prescribed an 8 hour day. None of these are "centuries" old.

Obviously, individuals and unions demanded shorter working hours before these acts were passed. However, if you look at the spread of these demands, it all happened pretty fast--and at a time when communication and coordination were significantly more difficult than at present.
I started selling macOS (and now iOS) software on my own website back in 2007. https://clickontyler.com My original goal was to earn enough money to refinish the hardwood floors in my house. Since then, however, it's taken on a life of its own and become a suite of three main products. It enables me to live comfortably in the Nashville suburbs.

All that said, I've been doing this for ten years now and am burnt out. If anyone would like to buy me out and take over the business, I'm open to offers.
Space-based quantum-secured communication prototype demo [video]
Just curious. Why aren't you copying these and ranking in all that money then?
100% assholish on google side to disable side loading for a very specific extension.

The good thing of course is that it shows that they are afraid of such an extension.
They probably can't, since it's an extension and thus uses the user's browser, IP, cookies etc (Adsense does use mouse tracking and other techniques that will likely flag these clicks as suspect, requiring additional analysis). Therein lies the problem. It appears to them as if someone is going and clicking on every ad, or is using an automated headless browser to click on ads. That can easily get you banned. Google doesn't care about who is doing it, they only know that it is happening on your site, and as a result will treat your site as a threat to the Adsense network.
>Serious questions: why and how?

Branding
How much work would it be to turn this into an electron app... or is this a stupid question? (not a web dev)
tl;dr

Your software sucks because you don't have enough technical talent. + sales pitch to develop technical talent at your company.
Github used to be a no-vc company, then they took a bunch of money and grew really fast. I do not know if they are profitable again, but this two part history is why people worry.
This is kind of why I think Tesla wants someone like FF to survive.
Reinforcing your point, the "secret recipe" has been revealed, to no ill-effect. :)

http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/15/is-this-the-real-thing-c...

Of course the special arrangement to grow Cocoa in the US is a powerful barrier to entry as well!
I'm surprised people still use Chrome and not Chromium. Perhaps a few devs in your situation could improve the Chromium installation flow for Windows, etc.

Google doesn't have much incentive to make it easy, but third parties (like Debian) do, and do a lot of the heavy lifting on an ongoing basis.