skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great, but would you say its industry wide? Because I have also heard (non-gaming) the exact opposite. Also, would he get through HR? They are more often than not, the real gatekeepers. It would require someone to vouch for him personally to go through, and that isn't very scalable when applying for jobs.
You may have missed the nuance in the comment you're replying to. Everyone knows that it's possible to win the lottery. But the best advice you can give is to tell people they're never going to win the lottery.

People who are super passionate about making indie games I'm going to do it regardless, so this is good advice.
There’s a net addition of ~300.000 games per year in the iOs app store.
Yeah that makes sense. I dont see how giving father's the same parental leave as women is an issue there though. Companies aren't going to give extra leave to women instead of giving it to men
> Australia + New Zealand would never provide enough of a base of scale to compete toe to toe with the giants.

Counterpoint: Xero did exactly this. They're a $5B SaaS company almost entirely off the ANZ SMB market, which is their base to attack Quickbooks and MYOB internationally.
> But don't most Kenyan and Ethiopian marathon winners also grow up in Kenya or Ethiopia?

No. There is a hugely disproportionate number of Americans and British of Somali, Kenyan, and Ethiopian origin who excel in world class distance running (Adbirahman, Farah, and many more, including a big new wave of Somali American after).
So this would again hurt the little guys (blogs, forums, smaller sites managed by 1 or 2 people) who don't have the capacity to find advertisers and curate ads, and for this reason, have to use an ad network.

The big sites, facebook and co. can easily do some curation and find advertisers, so as it was mentioned before these changes would only eliminate the small players while further concentrating the web into the hands of the big guys.
Yes, but talk to a lawyer before you issue stock.
No, the argument is that we can't see how P could be true, even though plenty of people assume that P is true. But P could also be false. It's questioning the assumption that P is true because nobody has succeeded so far in showing that it is. It might or might not be. We don't know.
“Do it right” is what we want, “better safe than sorry” is what we usually get. “Better safe than sorry” in practice usually ends up looking like a tool for acquiring broad agreement with stakeholders and spreading accountability. I have seen many “better safe than sorry” initiatives that result in complete garbage that loses the purpose, spirit and original intent of its mission.
It is not profitable as of early this year. They are attempting to expand internationally and are still under 1M users.
Maybe not in mathematics
Problem with that is everyone thinks they are in the top 20%, by definition they likely aren't.
I personally know of some companies that are still running VB6 programs on Windows 10. We're talking about 1998 tech here. Even the development tools are still working 20 years later on the newest version of Windows.
I don't agree with the people who feel that there is some obligation to have kids, BUT:

If people have kids its in my interest that they are educated, well nourished, well brought up etc as these kids will eventually become voters, taxpayers, perhaps my doctor etc.

Yes, it's the parents' choice, but to some extent I have an interest in their implementation, specifically by making it easier to make the choices they want.

If you want to pick a "I don't want to pay for it" hill to fight for, pick something more useful like the abolition of the destructive special tax treatment for donations to "non-profits" (it just puts the government in a position to choose which qualify) or the mortgage interest deduction (which mathematically doesn't help homeowners at all but is simply a government subsidy to real estate agents and home builders).
Here's what a publisher is for: to shoulder the risk. They have (presumably) umpteen different games (or whatever they're publishing) going, not only they can (if they do they job right) shoulder a few flops, and can hire marketing staff that wouldn't make sense for a single project. They can, finally, hire PR that would shield the developers from the public angry over the framerate or presence of women or something.

And yes, they haven't been doing their job right, they had too much power, they played it too safe and mistreated the developers.

But instead of supporting game developers who wanted to unionise, instead of supporting social projects (like basic income!) that would reduce the risk an independent takes, we asked people to go indie, and just shoulder that entire risk themselves. Good job, everyone!
While I agree with the general sentiment that not all science is equal, it’s important to remember that math isn’t science.

Science is empirical and involves usage of the _scientific method_ for acquisition of knowledge and math is disqualified.

Of course math sits at the foundation of the sciences we are talking about. And truly _proving_ something involves math. That’s not what we are talking about though.

And computer science is just like math. It’s not empirical, it’s not characterized by the scientific method. It’s not science either.
>and will work to integrate the higher-level Q# and other quantum languages when possible

From the architectural point of view it could be something like heterogeneous programming i.e. CUDA kernels.
I'm still discovering what's going on with this OS. Apparently we can install VMWare tools. It's been over 15 years since I've touched anything to do with BeOS but in the words of Celine Dione.. It's all coming back to me now
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Ask HN: Why are cellphone numbers increasingly used for 2FA?
I get that most people have them and carry them around, but it still seems like a naive solution given that they can be lost/dropped/broken/stolen so easily.
I do appreciate the presenters sense of humor.

"I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. That's like ten lines of Verilog, right? Naaaah. That's not how I roll. That's more like two hundred... thousand... lines of Ocaml."
the stretch of the line along the east baltic i see as a result of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_Teutonic_Order . The Teutonic Order east conquest set up a lot of history there that is still being played out almost 800 years later.
Except that the amount for this special case far outweighs the amount typical for PTO.
That's why you find constellations where a wife owns a company and the husband is the manager or vice versa. The manager gets a regular salary onto which he pays regular income taxes. That way, the income doesn't touch the profit tax. It should be the same if your company has various shareholders.
Great recommendations. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I'll see if I can dig up some more active German VCs for you, I should have a list somewhere.
At least you have an interesting motive. Anyone who thinks journalism would improve is fooling themselves.
Don’t fall for the sunk cost fallacy. Walking away now might mean throwing away 3 years, but that’s still better than working for another 3 years, still not succeeding, and wasting 6 years.
How about stay out of my life, and I'll stay out of yours?
I have thought about the difficulties of long-term storage for a while, and have come to the conclusion that digital mediums are inherently a poor choice for archiving and preserving data:

http://howicode.nateeag.com/data-preservation.html

As one of the more recent additions to that essay shows, I'm not the only one with that opinion:

https://partners.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m6/...

As I note in the essay, there are some technologies that work better than others for preservation, but digital's biggest weaknesses are inherent, I think.
Also worth noting that for large companies that have dozens of data centers, even a 0.1% improvement can lead to millions of dollars saved.
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AFAIK, no American authority demands mothers take maternity leave, it's something that American mothers ask for (and tend to complain that it's not generous enough).
It seems like the best way to go is to build an online presence with articles/suggestions/whatnot
I think software is a young mans game. I think bugs like this take a lot of intense time and focus. As you get older you got other things to distract you like kids, wife, house etc.
This is my observation (most likely to earn higher amount of money to least likely):

cherries aside;

- business (general)

- financial

- medical/law (only private sector)

- politicians

- social sector (government, law, medical)

- shitjobs

- everything concerning art (music, games, sculpting, painting etc. etc.), which ironically, when succesfull, make the most money. The duality of it all..

If u think politicians is low, it's because they get most of their wealth from the job before/after their run, and due to lobby nature, these tend to be wealthy companies.

Programming of the list, because this is highly dependent on where and what u program. This game dev is a good example, he is a programmer, but in the group of art. He probably will make more stable cash writing trivial database queries for any company.
It's not even talking about biology research, or even most medically related research.

While it was a great point to make at the time, far too much has been made of it. Yes, don't p-hack, but it's also better to publish data than to withold it just because there wasn't a positive result. We need better publication mechanisms for data that doesn't have any significant findings.
MVVM is great if you want to unit test all your UI code but who wants to do that.

For me the whole thing was cumbersome and nowhere near as productive as WinForms. Not only that but problems it purported to solve like high-dpi support still had issues.
I kind of like it, looks like a beach
> I have some 1500+ articles multiple of which are 50+ pages

Holy shit. Make it public.

The idea is fantastic. I would love to have something like wikipedia but people have separate pages on topic.

Or, in other words, if you want to find everything written by given person, why not that easy it is doable - it was more doable back when blogs were more popular.

But if you want to find everything on given topic written by different people that's not such an easy task. I feel like it should be solved soon by machine learning and evolution of search engines, but you still have the problem of which authors (or inevitably bots) do you actually want to see. This can be solved with a global web of trust.
That's not how it works. The payload is dynamic javascript. Just because you make some calls on the server-side doesn't mean you can inspect the payload with any real reliability, and if it was that easy then it would already be done by the ad exchanges who send the payloads in the first place.

There is an entire inner industry around security and malware for programmatic ads, with a few companies that are pretty good at it, but it is not something that can just run as a simple server for any small publisher to deploy.
Simple enough; pay it forward.
Thank you for sharing. I have a system that is kind of like this. Except it's not meant for memory as much as analysis. And I don't consider the entries "articles" but rather refer to them as "models" as in mental models. Like a real life model, say a toy car, I try to cover enough bases that it--metaphorically--at least _resembles_ a car at first. Then as I identify needed leverage points in the model, I refine my analysis and expand the model. So maybe at that point it has a hood you can open, and an engine you can see, so to speak.

I think I'm at or near around 800 of these, and many are very short. But no matter how short they are, they are all there because they provided me or continue to provide me with needed leverage.

I keep the bulk of the information in markdown in a Dropbox folder and also occasionally try new methods. For example, for topics that will quickly benefit from hyperlinks, I developed a LibreOffice web template and a companion PHP script that indexes these files and inserts additional CSS, variables, JS, etc. when they are served up. For searching I like Regexxer a lot, but I also use grep quite a bit :-)

On my XFCE desktop are buttons for opening a random one of these files, and for opening a random journal entry to try to harvest new models, so to speak.

And there's some paper involved here too... Can't get away from it, because paper has its own special leverage points...

I'm not concerned about memory, knowing it's a special weakness of mine. If I'm working in a context where memory is super important, my energy is best spent moving to a more sustainable context. :-) Memory is a hobby for me, a side gig for memorizing pi, that kind of simple and fun thing.
It may have direct (monetary) impact on an ordinary person.
One of the examples:
FB may know their user's lifestyle - eating habits, drinking habits etc. (based on the content/media users upload) If this info is leaked to insurance companies, it'll have direct impact on the premium you pay.
There is a problem unique to games if you view them as software: a very narrow window of promotion.

You can gradually improve overall visibility of a regular software by working on SEO and sales. But if a game wasn't picked by the press or at least some YouTube celebrity – it's over.

This is even worse for mobile games where a few store curators decide your fate.
40% of workers died building the Panama Canal? That's nuts.
I discovered TW a few months ago and I decided to use it for our new project at work.
We use it to document our SW, one tiddler for each module.
So far, it is working great, we can quite easily merge our code and doc because everything is in one file.

I find it much easier to use than Word. My colleagues were startled by it, but they mastered it now.

The only annoying thing are:

- we need to press 2 carriage return to go to the next line

- the markup languages are never standard. we use redmine with textile which is kinda compatible with TW, but not 100%
ITT, liberals and higher middle class people and socialists discussing why paternity leave should be mandatory. Guess what, I don't want to pay for your fuck trophy.
Some cucks are discussing make it taxed. Why not manage existing money efficiently first? Typical liberals.
Another good take on the phenomenon is (the insufferable) Taleb's discussion of "Black Swan" professions. History (from culture to natural disasters) gets defined by exceptional cases, but your own life in these professions will probably get defined by the typical case. Unfortunately, the industry is set up to stoke and profit handsomely from people mis-assessing their own chances.

The people I've known (actors and writers, mostly) who deal with this most healthily get a lot from their craft other than either outward success or personal fulfillment. There's also a community around their craft that gives them companionship, love, visibility to day jobs etc. Does that exist in the same way or indy devs? It seems like the solitary aspects of coding would work against.
Totally unrelated to each other, but I have spent the last few years learning Chinese and pursuing a degree in Economics (and I'm 41).
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I don't think Stupidcar was disagreeing, I think their point was just that you can tell people a million times that the chance of it working out for them is 1 in a million, and they'll still be out there trying to be that 0.0001%.

Of course I agree that if they can do it because it's something they really want to create, and not worry about whether it makes money, then they'll be much better mentally (and financially!) prepared.
Super Metroid is literally my favorite game, and I don't really have a strong urge to play this.

Metroid is an exploration-based game. The game rewards you for finding secrets and for knowing how to get places. It teases you to find a way to break sequence, and much of the replay-ability of that game is based on the possibility to do that and to bask in what you've already learned about the world. Procedural generation takes a big dump on any sense of familiarity, which is a big part of the reward for exploration.

In fact, the _only_ games I've played where procedural generation were good for the game are story-building games, such as Rogue-likes and Dwarf Fortress. They reward you for building a story, not for traversing obstacles. In every other game, they are just a weak thematic obscuration of the underlying mechanical goals. The Dryad's name in Terraria doesn't matter. Dig deep enough and you'll find diamonds in Minecraft. Kill a boss enough times in Borderlands, and you'll get a good gun. There's no story about achieving these goals. Procedural generation doesn't participate in making the goals more interesting to achieve, it's a forgettable and incidental fact about something almost wholly unrelated.

Game developers need to stop trying to lean on it as a substitute for content. A game is what people can expect from it each time they play it, and if all it is is a bundle of mechanics and throw-backs, then there's not going to be much appeal.
I play lottery occasionally for the entertainment... not because I'll win.

Likewise, if you are going to put your heart into something like this... do it because you want to...

if you win? great. but it'll be the exception to the rule.
In fact the root cause of the flaw is in the attempt to make the keys inaccessible to any single entity by generating them on the card. This needs the card to have circuitry and software to generate RSA primes and some reliable source of entropy, both of which are somewhat non-trivial problems (as in easy to subtly screw up) in the smartcard environment.
That's the problem with a lot of Google stuff. You may be concerned about privacy issues but things like Google maps and search are just really, really good. Hard to replace them without loss of functionality.
it's probably better to use capabilities (as in: having a secure handler to some resource means having some kind of access to it), instead of ACLs. As in Sandstorm (see https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...)

(note that URLs can't be a secure handler, since it's just a string that anyone can create. But a URL plus a cryptographic signature could be)
1. Women have to be there for the birth, and let's say it's very hard to work immediately before and after, so that's a month generously. That has no connection with this idea, which is many months of leave.
2. As explained elsewhere, we do not need to raise the population for society to function. If we did, it would be better for everyone if we did it through immigration. The strongest argument you can make that we do need children is the social security setup, but this is artificial. It's very possible for social security to be funded for each generaion BY that generation itself, the system is just set up wrong.
3. Parents are on average far more privileged than me, I object to being forced to support anyone already above me socioeconomically, so should you.
4. I don't expect a magical force, as I said in point 2 the social security arrangement is artifical, and for a bonus point by the time I get to collecting requirement it will have been dramatically cut because even with flat population the current system is unsustainable. It will last just long enough for me to transfer a lot of wealth from the millenial to boomer generation (who are again on average more privileged). That's not a fringe perspective it's mainstream, look it up. So my retirement arrangement will be my savings and ascetism basically.
5. Parents can raise children without giving them lots of time off. We absolutely wouldn't face oblivion if the native American birthrate dropped to zero. It would blow a hole in social security that we'd plug with a wealth/corporate wealth grab tax, otherwise life would continue pretty well.

Bonus point - this isn't a tightness thing, most people who are opposed to this measure would probably be in favour of something that actually directly benefitted children, like a government run early years childcare for poorer children.
NB: Print rather than Web title used.
These are damning stats for anyone interested in getting into indie game dev.
In "Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup," Rob Walling states three wrong reasons to launch something:

1. Having a product idea

2. To get rich

3. Because it sounds like fun

This and other books on launching your own thing stress that you first have to find a market, then fill that market's needs. In the world of indie games I can't even imagine what that would be.
Thank you. How did it happened? They killed female babies?
Not just programmers, many creatives and makers in general. Same rule applies whether you're running a startup, creating a video game, making movies, writing books/articles or playing in a band. The ones who succeed realise they've got to market their work, whereas the ones that don't still believe in the build it and they'll come mentality.
Agreed, but much of the time, these improvements can be had without complicating the code itself. That's one reason I much prefer C++ over C: it's much more amenable "cost free abstraction" techniques that provide both performance and clarity.
Could someone explain what this trend even shows, other than making a cool looking curve? It seems to be a layer of abstraction over the graph in the blog (showing the indie explosion), but which adds nothing of value.
Cringe more: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Der-Kam...

During the late 80ies, Germany was on track to have 1G fibre connections everywhere by the end of the century.
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> I’ve had a lot of fun building and sharing the game. But I did have some hope of creating something that a lot of people would check out and enjoy, and making some return on my time investment, perhaps enough to keep doing this as an independent career.

I wrote a video course on Amazon Machine Learning [0]. I spent about 80 hours researching, writing the outline, putting together the material, recording and re-recording the 105 minute course. I think I've made about $200 from it, directly.

But, I've done several talks on it (which were non paying, but sharpened my presentation skills), wrote half a book on it, and got one consulting opportunity around it. I also got a bit of schwag from AWS because someone noticed my forum contributions, which was cool.

If everything you do is a hit, you aren't taking enough risks. However, I will say that 2600 hours without market validation is far more commitment than I would make.

0: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/amazon-machine-learning
'Infinitroid is a roguelike (or rogue-lite) sci-fi platformer with procedurally generated levels and deeply customizable weapons"

The problem is that the "roguelike" "metrovania" "platformer" genre is oversaturated with so many indie games, so if you're going to grab some money with it it's better gotta be absolutely perfect. From my first impression I don't know if the mechanics are solid, but the art and sound seems too... generic? Maybe if the game had some unique style in it (and some marketing too) it shouldn't have bombed this much...
It's extremely useful for developing drivers. I've developed drivers on kernels that are hardwired to panic at the slightest problem and it's a real nuisance.

Whether you should leave it on in production is debatable, but I like at least having the option of making exceptions raised in drivers nonfatal.
Bad SAT scores may not be a good indicator that you are a dumb guy, but good SAT scores are definitely an indicator that you aren't a dumb guy.
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Any idea what happened in between 2013-2014?