skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to add my personal data point of experience...

6 years ago, I took a break from doing webdev freelancing and spent around 3 months developing a kids app. At that point the money ran out so I released the app even though it wasn't entirely finished and quickly went back to doing web freelancing in order to be able to feed my family.

The app sold in small amounts but it was getting great feedback from the people who had tried it. In my spare time, I added to it and improved it and would pester bloggers to try it. Marketing beyond that isn't an option as the costs are too great and if you're lucky you make a dollar per app sold.

It was a depressing and disheartening thing to put something out there which you felt was good but almost nobody was buying but I realised it was a gamble up front. I didn't bet the farm on it. I bet three months wages and immediately went back to regular work as soon as I was in financial danger.

Even if your game is amazing, there's no way anyone is going to instantly and magically know about it. Are there really so many people spending every day looking at the Steam new releases ready to just buy anything that appears? At the Indie level, only word-of-mouth means anything and that can take a very long time to build.

As it happens, after 9 long months of very little sales, my app got a small write-up in the New York Times. The piece was by one of the bloggers I had pestered particularly hard to try it and later happened to have a one-off article published. Since then, somehow the word-of-mouth effect kicked in and I've been blessed to be able to work on the app full-time as my sole source of income.

TL;DR: Don't ever plan on anyone buying your indie-game on day 1 even if it's amazing.
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Your advice really just boils down to "mindfulplay hates pixel art, so everyone who likes it should stop."

I personally don't get the appeal of pixel art, the blocky look of much of it seems purposely lower res then the actual sprites they purport to imitate, but it's just an aesthetic choice that has no direct relation to the quality of a game and it doesn't ruin the experience for me.

And, I've seen enough badly done 3D that I refuse to buy the premise that sprites are objectively inferior. The problem isn't the pixel art, it's that most indie developers (myself included, eventually) likely don't have the talent or staff to create a product that stands out, or they might, but want to focus on recreating nostalgia rather than iterating on the ideas and genres they like and creating something new.

Chances are that's exactly what the games they like were doing back in the day, and that's why they became classics.
The female tech bosses who want zebras not unicorns
i) Nothing about the joke is homophobic.

ii) I learned something, but perhaps not what you wish I'd learned.

iii) I don't care if you think I'm gay, partly because I wouldn't care if I were gay or not, but mostly because I don't care what strangers think at all.

iv) My jokes are no more or less funny depending on the sexuality of the teller.

v) I generally don't have any problem with anything anybody thinks or says, though political winds in other countries are starting to concern me a bit, Canada's pronoun law for example. So long as we're only talking and nobody's going to jail for wrongspeak, I think there's no problem.
https://cdn.paperpile.com/blog/files/Goldberg-2014.pdf

The "chemicals are bad!" scare has gotten completely out of hand.
> The average salary for a developer in the top cities in Romania is around EUR 1,000 or $1,100 after taxes (that is about $2,500 in US before tax - yes, taxes are that high, actually a bit higher).

Can you explain that ratio? €1000--€1100 is roughly equal to $1200--$1300, and some quick searches tell me income tax in Romania is a flat 16%. That ends up very far from $2500.
In Poland in some areas of the government owned energy/coal mining sectors there are/were actual 'employment inheritance' clauses in place to let candidates from families of current or past workers get employment before unrelated ones. There were attempts to get rid of them but that caused union protests and strikes and some unions want more of these so I have no idea what's the current situation is. Some analysts say they are dead clauses though (due to national labor laws which forbid any discrimination taking precedence) and only in there to make unions content and not strike or protest.
The time complexity for sequential scan takes O(r), because every row must be read once. Of course rows are made up of columns so you can also specify it as O(rc) where c is the average column length.
> I literally use 4 of these 16 pre-installed apps.

Someone at Google HQ is thinking: "It works as intended".
Yes, our mortgage advisor recommended a certain buffer amount in savings, and it was quite a lot. Either one year or 18 months, and I think that was combined income. That was just to ensure the mortgage could still be paid for a while if we both lost our jobs.

I'm personally planning for an exit strategy which will see me working for myself in about 6 months time. I have roughly one year's take-home pay and will ideally have 18-24 months by the time I quit.
I'm not even going to bother.

Nuget is such a pile of rubbish it's not even worth arguing about; if that's the best package manager you've ever used, you should really go check https://github.com/fsprojects/Paket out.

(they also helpfully articulate why nuget isn't really very good)

The irony is that the folk from go-world have finally acknowledged the package management solution they have is really terrible, and they're building a lovely new one (https://github.com/golang/dep).

Maybe sometime in the future you'll be eating your words, when go has a lovely package manager.

...and c# still has nuget.

:)
I don't think prototype-based inheritance (or monkeypatching) is any better at avoiding duplication than "regular" Java-style inheritance, and both will only help avoid certain kinds of duplication some of the time.

If you need to modify a small part of a class's function, there's typically no way in a prototype/traditional inheritance language, to say "like the function from the parent class, but with these 5 lines different".

Inheritance of any kind is a handy tool to help with the "whole class files full of pages of identical code with one different method" problem, but a) that's not the cause of a lot of duplication out there, b) you still have to know/care to implement the inheritance, and c) it can come with its own struggles, a la tight coupling to implementations/classes you may not fully control. This isn't a pro-OO or anti-OO screed; just pointing out that inheritance as a means to DRY up code is a limited solution at best.
He didn't called her "a whore", he called a "vagabunda" which can mean either "whore" or "lazy person who doesn't work", he explicitly said in the video that he meant the second option.

Anyway, bitcoin is a libertarian/ancap tool and strategy created to minimize the power of the state, and most of us libertarians believe there are inalienable rights that cannot be superseded by state laws, and this includes freedom of expression. If you are against libertarianism than you should be really afraid of bitcoin, because it was made as a tool to subjugate the state, to evade tax and fuck up with commies. And it's working.
OK, Now I'll Learn How to Program in JavaScript
Yes, but not everything. Everything mentioned in the list of GP, yes. However something like GCM or Google Play, no. That's why you decide when you're flashing say LineageOS whether you want GApps yes or no.

I'd also like to note that disabling them does save up space. Not sure its all completely removed though. From memory, it reverts to an old version which was bundled with that Android version. On old phones, such space can be vital. Especially if you don't have microSD or pref not to use it.
Can't you use GitHub's integrated TravisCI for that? At least that's what I know other Free Software projects are doing.
What is the problem with strong, dominant and successful men? Or boys aiming to become one and live an oustanding life?

All my friends since childhood wanted to rule the world if they could, but too much television turned them into spending-machines (and readers of bad articles).
? is explicitly a replacement for try!, yes.

> functions that have to return a single type

Well, all functions have to return a single type, though that type may be a composite type, like a tuple.

Less pedantically, `?` lets you (well, will let you) unwrap values and convert their error cases between each other. So once the next round of stabilization happens, if you have a function that returns Results, you can mix ? on Options and Results in the body, and vice versa. And it can be extended for other types too. Basically, it's an early return "protocol" if you will.
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First, you haven't responded to my points which addressed, specifically, your spa analogy.

Second, some privileges are real, and some manufactured to punish outsiders. Prioritization and restrictions on trading with non-EU is an example of this, which addresses the "hypocrisy of protectionism" point.

Finally, "because that fits their needs and suits their best interests" who's interest? Brexit voters? They got one vote premised on an EU promising the moon, and little control or feedback sibce then until the recent Brexit vote.
Of course the multitool is the single point of failure. If the chef isn't careful, that one great knife can be the vector that means ALL the customers get salmonella, not just the ones who ordered the chicken!
Afaik Romania's IT is doing very well thanks to outsourcing. Oracle moved a big chunk of stuff there. Education is alright, salaries are low, timezone is European and authorities are accommodating; if you can get over the language barrier somehow, you get a good bang for your buck, probably better than in more expensive Czech or Poland. The country is hungry, so to speak; it's the new frontier of labour-cost arbitrage. Their only challenges are political stability and corruption.
Guess Who Is Paving the Way in the Current IoT Market? – Part 2
This is a fascinating phenomenon to see data for. It’s fun to look at the strongly heritable occupations and speculate on the more direct causes of heritability.

Becoming a lawyer probably generally requires a good education, which is probably strongly correlated with wealth, which is probably strongly correlated to parents’ wealth. Even if every child’s desired career path is chosen randomly, the children who desire to become lawyers whose parents are lawyers will probably be more likely than average to succeed in that path.

I’m sure the actual genetic heritability of traits plays some part, but I doubt it is very significant. I would expect some loose correlation based on things like intelligence and personality traits, but I wouldn’t expect strong correlation except perhaps for rare occupations like professional athletes.

Disclaimer: this is all fun speculation. I don’t even know if the traits I used as examples have been shown to have strong genetic heritability.
Ellen Ullman on the importance of making algorithms accessible to the public
ntoskernal missing...
>If you catch 1% of those people,

https://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-fall...
"Her own experience was of a struggle to convince venture capitalists, known as VCs, about her idea."

Oh I didn't know convincing people of giving you money is easy if you are white and male... Maybe I should give it a try, sounds like very easy money! /s
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Don’t Be a Turkey – 5 Common Mistakes Your Developers Make Using Open Source
Previous post said 600k base?
Road design: Sustainable safety and ‘shared space’
Breaking Symmetry
Well, only if you think that tax evasion is a bad thing..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau)
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It's not a hefty sum at all, though. £5 (or the dollar equivalent) is nothing for a game aimed at a niche. If it's good enough, those 90 people would probably have paid a lot more, maybe 2 or even 4 times as much. The real issue though, I think, is that niche markets require recurring payments. So, as others have said, you either release a lot of games (or sequels) targeting that niche, or you move to some kind of subscription model, but that's very difficult with an indie game.
Shitty situation but I mean, you had no plan. The five P's: "Proper preparation prevents poor performance".
Julia is jit compiled by llvm to your native machine code. Correctly written Julia is within 1.5 the speed of C.

It removes the complexity of needing to do the FFI at all.
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I think it became a business story as soon as the developer quit his job and risked his future livelihood on sales. He could have worked on the game in his free time and released it for free, otherwise.
Maybe your ad blocker is breaking things?

The server also appears to be under very heavy load right now.
This is such a good comment. you have no idea how representative it is in terms of the current student debt crisis.

The difference is that most students make nowhere near that much money as doctors do.

The comment that they reply with is "when am I going to enjoy my life"

This results in large portion of students being highly levered and betting that salaries will steadily increase in the future.

This will not end well.
I'm impressed with the pace at which they delivered this. If only all government projects were this efficient.
We'd need another Teddy Roosevelt for that to happen. Unfortunately, we have Trump. And frankly I don't see politics changing from that mindset for a long time.
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They would be more "successful" than women... We can't allow that to happen. So let's cripple anyone instead. /s
Pick-up community got me into personality development. IIRC it is often called "inner game" there, in opposition to the "outer game", which is how to approach women, talk etc.
The inner game aspect was very interesting and can be used as a starting point for any personal spiritual development.
But you certainly have to look over the edges of the pick-up community.
This seems like something that should be measured at startup?
Looks like he's working with business coaching/consulting ... I found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu241uoLJSQ
The audio quality is bad, but there's some nice stuff in there like what successful businesses does right and vice versa.
"Conspiracy to commit murder" is a crime. So, there's that.
You mean the language barrier between your own native language and English? Because from what I've experienced, most younger people in IT speak English very well.

EDIT: Yeap, Romania has been doing well. However, I'd argue that the biggest risk is not corruption. From the Romanian workforce's point of view, its becoming too dependent on outsourcing. As salary costs rise, it becomes less and less attractive for foreign companies to outsource work to Romania. Right now, in the city where I live in Romania, 80% of the IT companies are outsourcing companies. It's getting better and better, and most good programmers know to avoid the outsourcing companies as they generally pay peanuts and the work is boring and repetitive.
Is there anyone here who's actually used one of these?
It's not an alternative to a note-taking app. Scapple helps me to clear my thought process like no other tool. It works for me because it's so simple and limited. That's why I'm actually ambivalent about an upgrade and fear it might get too many new features and loses it's appeal, though as I understand the author he's fully aware of this. There are just a few things I miss
I think the site is under load and the kernel loading is timing out.

EDIT: Yeah, it can't transfer the files in time. It doesn't help that the image files are set to no-cache and the browser reloads them every time. I wish he had published it on IPFS.
We men have genetically more drive and NEED to be successful than women. We needed it to survive and we are the genes that survived. Ask a man to not live up for this way is the same as to ask a woman to never conceive a child.
This argument seems to assume you pay someone to keep your Bitcoins safe for you.

Let's be very clear: If you are not able to safekeep your Bitcoins yourself, you should not have any more than you are willing to lose. That's the state of the field at the moment. The whole point is cutting out the middlemen, and if you can't do that, you're not equipped to be in Bitcoin. Learn or stay away.
There's a link to postgresqlco.nf in the description. Do you run the service? It doesn't accept a file being dropped. In fact, it doesn't seem to do anything (I looked at the HTML).
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The biggest issue is that since this is a network the most cost effective thing is for there to be a single network.

Networks are a great example where a regulated monopoly on one level can allow for a healthy free market on the upper levels.

If you forget about the money, having a single operator makes the most sense. Thus we should model our economic system to take this into account
Here's a video of the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIL5mnZ_t0
Definitely. Even in East Germany, I could get by on about €600 a month as a student.
Yup. Bought a precooked whole chicken at Wegmans a couple weeks ago. The small printed said up to 12% was water and other ingredients (e.g., salt). All we wanted was chicken.
Ending net neutrality is, while not in their longterm interest, just fine for Google & Co. - they are already established players that are able to afford the bandwidth and overcome whatever other barriers ISPs might come up with. It's the future services and companies that might challenge Google, Facebook and Netflix someday. They won't be able to enter the market due to not being able to afford access to the fast lane.
How the Earth Stops High-Energy Neutrinos
By single type, I meant to hint not being able to mix ? on Options and Results in the body, but good to know that's soon possible! Though you still can't, eg, use `?` in main()
I have this book lying around here waiting to be read because someone already recommended it.

What in the book stands out the most in your opinion? Why would say this is worth a recommendation?
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It's OK to remake a classic game when you've managed to come up with a title for it that is NOT exactly the same as the old one.
I'm pretty sure most of these "My recently released game failed. Here's why" posts are just self-denigrating ads. I remember a couple years back posts like these blew up pretty much weekly and completely average, boring games got thousands of people playing them who wouldn't have otherwise. It all started after that "The Game That Time Forgot" video on youtube blew up.
> you probably don't like it enough or have enough passion for it to sustain it even if you hit your stride.

With all due respect, I am obliged to invite you to ingest excrement. Whilst there might be some people out there who have everything they need to spend another 20 to 60 hours a week on a side gig besides passion, I believe that one needs to have a set of not so common circumstances to be able to devote 40-60 hours a week to something other than a job.
>Medical schools will happily push as many students as possible through (and they are with new schools opening).

How is this even allowed?
One second per millennium accuracy, it says. I wonder how much empirical testing has been done to compare these to traditional quartz watches. A quick Google search puts quartz watches at about 15 seconds per month. I’m sure the atomic oscillator itself is more resistant to everyday variance (like temperature) than quartz, but I wonder if the detector is actually that much more accurate in practice, or if they’re just citing a theoretical number.

Oh well, at the end of the day your clock is still going to vary based on your altitude (distance from Earth’s gravitational field), unless you also correct for that. ;)
How so when there’s a hired army of people or bots to create fake comments that are pro Net Neutrality. There’s so many such comments.. threads even that all real members of a community see the flood of pro Neutrality comments and become apathetic. They think the flood of comments are what the majority of members feel leaving them to think a) It must not be that bad & then b) do not speak up against a majority.

This effectively drowns out the opposition. Proponents of Net Neutrality already flooded the FCC with fake comments as the guy above noted they stole his identity. What makes you think they don’t have an army of an army fake social media commenters to shape the conversation in their favor? Especially on influential tech sites like this!
I completely agree. There's a hell of a lot to be said for having a buffer like this for your mental health. When a long-term relationship I was in collapsed and I was struggling with a bad environment at work the one thing that stopped me from spiralling back to a more dangerous form of depression was the comfort and knowledge of having immediate expenses covered. It gave me enough breathing room to know I didn't have to panic or run away from it all. I really couldn't imagine taking on a mortgage with so little cash in the bank and relying on Steam sales. If the author could go contracting instead it seems like they'd be able to carry on with their journey between contracts. It's not perfect but would be preferable to the situation they're in now.

Re. the GP's comment though - I don't understand how you could do this without any savings, there must've been some? At least rent (assuming you don't live with parents), food, internet connection - it has to be paid somehow surely - either by "you" (through savings) or family/friends taking the hit (eg letting you crash, using their facilities). With the right setup and network you could live extremely cheaply but someone is going to be paying for it. I don't think this is limited to rich kids or upper middle class teenagers (not sure of the focus on children rather than independent adults?) - if the average person can save for a holiday or whatnot - they could equally save towards living expenses, even if only "paying for my own food whilst I stay on my friends sofa rent free".
Windows 2000 was a great OS, I preferred it over XP for as long as it was feasible. Back when Windows XP was released, activation was considered quite intrusive in privacy sense and Windows 2000 was the last release without it. Oh have times changed.
I would definitely be willing to pay less for an atomic stopwatch.
It's super interesting how even before phones, knowing the time was so important that we would put it on our wrists.

We have clocks in most places. You could put a clock into your bag. But no, this is so important that we would place this on our wrists for instant access.
The first thing that rang alarm bells, for me, reading through this article was:

> I even released a small 5 level demo on itch (can't afford to pay steam's 100$ fee to get a free version up on the platform)

How much larger is Steam's market than itch's? I'm guessing the answer is "very". How many conversions do they need for the $100 to pay off? 20-30? Seems like a no-brainer to me, and not even being able to afford $100 for what would almost certainly be positive ROI marketing is a pretty big blocker. Heck, I'd even front the $100 myself if I can get some kind of commission on copies sold :)
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I get different results on this too but to the same effect. At least macOS still gives you all options underneath whereas Windows 10 will just not show you anything sometimes