skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I wouldn't disregard the importance of marketing, I think quality, as in both quality of game itself and quality of the idea behind it, matters.

I think having a competitive advantage/value and having unique qualities are not the same thing. For example, before Stardew Valley, an entire genre of "calm, casual, farming oriented games" were mostly unknown to PC gamers. For years I have wondered when someone would notice an entire genre missing. At some point, someone noticed the same thing, and instead of building just another sandbox/crafting game they built a polished Harvest Moon alternative. It turns out, from a pool of millions of PC/XBone/whatever gamers, some people liked this genre of games.

By the way, I cannot stress the importance of polish: great artwork, fluid animations, good UI, proper bg music, smooth learning curve and of course, being generally exciting to play. Most of the games mentioned (maybe Factorio being the exception) have these qualities. Your average gamer has 15sec attention span at best for a new game. Most wouldn't even wait until the end of your launch trailer.

I've gave my full 30 seconds to watch the trailer of Infinitroid (OP's game) and I cannot see why I would choose it over, for example Dead Cells. They are not exactly the same game, but they are competing for the same resources. (entertainment budget and spare time) Just watch trailers of Infinitroid and Dead Cells side by side, the difference you will see cannot be written off as marketing success.

Just my 2cents as an avid gamer and potential customer.
Does this book tell me how to compute e.g. when a physical object hits another physical object, what the resulting sound will be like?

Or if object X (e.g. speaker cone) moves through air with velocity v(t), what will the sound be like at position P?
> I don't think anyone who uses the term 'Dutch oven' is referring to cookware

It's the first thing that comes to mind. It's the definition I first heard about 45 years ago, as a Boy Scout. It's also the top results in a Google search. Those look nicer than the ones I used in scouting; but, the picture at the top of the Wikipedia entry could be one my scout troop used.
realize,

It's not obviously impossible, but in fact this is never observed - no particle is ever created without a corresponding antiparticle. (The corresponding laws are "lepton number conservation" and "baryon number conservation" - basically, the total number of electrons[1] minus the total number of anti-electrons[2] remains constant, and so does the total number of quarks minus antiquarks. All of the interactions of the Standard Model respect these.[3][4]

There are various beyond-standard-model theories that allow breaking baryon and lepton number conservation individually, with the combined number of (baryons - leptons) being a conserved quantity instead; but they also almost all predict that protons should be slightly unstable (because being able to go from [Exotic Mystery Particle] to baryons + leptons means you should also be able to go from baryons (like the proton) to [Exotic Mystery Particle] and leptons) but we've looked really really hard for evidence of extremely rare proton decays and have yet to find any.

[1](plus muons, and tauons, and the three corresponding flavors of neutrinos)

[2](plus anti-muons, and anti-tauons, and anti-neutrinos)

[3]Even the observed violations of matter-antimatter asymmetry ("CP violation") still respect these conserved quantities; they just involve things like anti-kaons decaying slightly but measurably faster than kaons.

[4]On the other hand, there's no particular reason to expect gravity to respect these; For instance, we think black holes can consume matter, and then convert it to energy in the form of Hawking radiation as they slowly decay, without having to bother with eating an equal quantity of antimatter. But honestly we're just guessing on that front.
> To make a successful anything, it's 90% marketing, 5% quality, and 5% luck

This seems very logical but indie games really do seem to defy this general rule. Pretty much every single popular indie game out there is really, really good in it's own specific way, and most of them had almost no marketing budget (when they first came out anyway).

Minecraft had no marketing. Terraria had no marketing. Stardew Valley had no marketing. These games spread through word of mouth and quality is the main criteria that causes people to talk about a game.
It definitely was legitimate.
The hash is just to identify the individual article, so it can be timestamped. Google would still use its existing algorithms to decide if the two articles are copies or not.
Still, having few people casting two or more votes is much more secure of potentially having a successful attacker changing votes for thousands or even millions. We are talking about several orders of magnitude in difference. So yes, I take the paper system every day.
Spokk – Social platform to validate your creations and ideas
Even that is a lost game, because only professional studios pay for tools, as indies tend to just grab FOSS tools and feel entitled to get their issues fixed.

And in the professional market, the quality bar is pretty high.
Yeah, this is closer to how I got here (cost basis is way more than 2%, but nowhere near 25%). As you hint at though, there's a cognitive bias in holding my position by this reasoning -- my gains are a "sunk benefit" and I am where I am regardless of how I got here.

For me, it boils down to two things:

1. I'm pretty conservative with the rest of my money (index funds, rental property). If Tesla went bankrupt tomorrow, I'd be fine. Don't get me wrong -- it'd be a bad day. But the financial hit wouldn't threaten my long-term happiness.

2. I only buy individual stocks when I feel the market has wildly misjudged a company. Tesla fit this to a tee, particularly (but not exclusively) in the early days. I took a large early position and have been buying dips along the way (yes, still). By my judgment, a dollar invested in Tesla still has a much higher expected value over 10 years than a dollar invested in any other equity that I feel qualified to assess. I would love to diversify the highly aggressive part of my portfolio, but hard as I try, I cannot find a deal this good in any other public company. So I've decided how much I'm willing to lose on what I believe is a great bet, and have invested accordingly.
Hmm, given this description I would also expect there to be plenty of use of "English" as a denigrating term in Dutch, but... I can't think of any. Is that just me?
High refresh rate monitors are getting more and more popular; at 240 FPS, a signed 32-bit counter will just last a bit over 3 months. Competitive players may want to play at even higher frame rates to decrease input lag even further. It's _probably_ still fine, because people _generally_ don't leave the game running for months, but those 31 usable bits get used up rsurprisingly quickly.
Ask HN: Google Next '18 London Registration Code
Hi,

I would like to attend Google Next '18 London (https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next18/london) , but it is invite only as of right now - does anyone know who can be contacted to get an invite?
I can't imagine why you are called fake news.
At least in the upper Midwest, USA the term Dutch oven would immediately evoke the cooking pot. They’re pretty common.
Yes, I meant that as an added benefit of an e-ink based laptop.
Solid: You own your data and choose apps to manage it
I would also add that the word "fact" is often abused to refer actually to strongly-held beliefs instead of actual substantiated and well-accepted info. Thus when those feeling empowered by holding facts criticise others for not changing their mind when faced with their facts, they are actually attacking others for not succumbing to their personal beliefs.
I can think of three VMs that do JIT re-compilation along the lines that you mentioned.

Google V8 is fairly well documented, but I think it is very complicated.

JVM is a beast. Perhaps the openJDK project has some useful information.

Personally, I would look at Racket Scheme: https://racket-lang.org/
The main reason being is that there are several papers that describe how it is done internally.

A simple example that could get you started may be found at: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/11/05/how-to-jit-an-intro...
I either use an adblocker or will click the stupidly expensive ads.
I think alarmism is a retrospective assessment. We can probably say a lot of our reporting on current Western terrorism is alarmist - numbers wise, it didn't compare to road deaths or regular shootings.

But global warming will be/is unprecedented and will affect the whole world. Immediate action is unlikely to reverse this process either.

Your comment about population growth issues is disgusting.
I’m not seeing salaries...
Depends on the game. In some I think it's not possible, in others it's a frame perfect trick
I agree, but isn't this the current system, which flaws (too many leechers not enough seeders) this project is trying to solve?
Because IE 11 is currently being used in a lot of places.

In my company, majority of desktops are on Win 7, hence edge is not an option.

the same must be the case in a lot of companies as well.
TRON is the greatest scam the world has seen. Justin Sun hyped the price to unreal levels without a product, then sold at the height around new years ’17/18. Bought BitTorrent with the money. I’d stay far away from TRON
Four newly discovered Milky Way neighbors
A Short History of Chaosnet
GPG Tools out of beta phase and no longer free
The guys of gpg tools saw themselves confronted with heavy shitstorms after releasing the first non-beta version of GPGTools. This is their open letter to explain themselves:

https://gpgtools.org/open-letter
No it’s not, I thought the same but nobody complained. I just made the font-weight heavier now, thanks.
The currencies of developed countries are pegged to the US dollar and so their reserve banks are just copying whatever the Fed is doing; their main goal is to make sure that the value of their currencies doesn't change too much relative to the USD. All countries reinforce the same economic distortions on a global scale.
I feel like I'm the only one that still shuts off the PS4 after I'm done. Why would I let my console run idle for days, consuming power that I don't need? If I want to game, I turn it on, make my dinner, go to play.
I'm curious: if you think so much about climate change and its effects, and even plan your actions and location around it, have you considered directing your energy to combatting climate change with your skills on a systemic level? (For example, building sustainability companies, being part of climate activism, earning-to-donate?)

I'm in a similar spot but optimistic about systemic action.
Do the seeders generate the coins specific to each torrent, or is this some sort of scam where coins are made by TRON and users now have to pay for what's already free..?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895
> https://wego.here.com

It doesn't work with uBlock Origin. Maybe this[1] is why.

[1] https://cl.ly/937a69631c0d - It's in Malvertising filter list by Disconnect.
Hah, thanks for calling it as it is - I appreciate your comment :)
SSL Certificate Comparison: Compare SSL Prices and Vendors
It depends on the party in power. What you think should, won't matter. Most people accept the opinions, decisions, and accusations of the party they support.
General Electric ditches John Flannery as chief executive
Yeah it’s true, I would be a generalist and agree, I can’t be an expert on much apart from being a generalist
"There is a problem with torrents - nobody want to seed. So let's require users to pay us money for our penny stock tokens"
Share your startup – October 2018
IndieHackers (https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/what-are-you-working-on-this-month-september-2018-5beaceec93) and Reddit /r/startups (https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/9c2a92/share_your_startup_september_2018/) have this ritual, and it's one post I like to read from time to time, to see people sharing their current projects, the state, and their plan.

I don't see anything like this on HN and thought it would be interesting to have one, hence this post.

Please do a succinct post, to make this clear. A list of these, "à la" Reddit, is great I believe:

* Name

* URL

* Small description (< 10/15 words)

* Current stage

* Your plan for this month

Thank you! :)
Here's mine:

* Name: PDFShift

* URL: https://pdfshift.io

* Description: Convert any HTML documents to high fidelity PDF in a single POST request.

* Plans: I'm hoping to reach the 1000$ MRR (currently at around 430$). I also plan to redo the website's design and releasing a Python PDF library :)
A story about a Kubernetes migration
The alternative is absentee ballots.
https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/08/trons-whitepaper-copie...

It's amazing that such a clearly fraudulent project acquired any funding to begin with.
And if you are into fluid phase equilibria, "Thermodynamic Models: Fundamentals & Computational Aspects", by Michelsen and Mollerup.
This is a tangent.

How much/long does a study like this cost/take? Is it possible/useful to scale this?

From reading into some of the replicability discussion, I've gotten curious about social science generally. What's an expirement like this trying to prove/demonstrate. The journalistic narrative likes the easy "X debunked." I imagine researchers have a more nuanced perspective.

I guess what im asking is what does the larger effort look like? Do these studies eventually add up to a larger understanding of how we do form opinions, where facts do change our minds....

Replicability is one thing. How about generalisability?
It happens because doing fakes is free but struggling with them costs money. This problem can be solved if Google search result would be driven by rules/smart contracts but not by the income of Google's shareholders.
While I do not remember specifics, most of the less friendly terms my Dutch grand parents used about the British Isles (any country) were mostly in reference to before the 1940s (e.g. bad steering practices near the coast with the result of running aground on the sandbanks). The drop in usage after that date might explain something.

Edit: it might also just be generational
I'm being 100% truthful, but I recognize that saying this doesn't establish any additional credibility. :)

I didn't mean to make this about me or my investment strategy. I was just trying to back up the sentiment that the poster above me expressed -- that people with skin in the game will see this settlement as a great thing for Tesla. I have a lot of skin in the game and that's exactly how I feel.
> Being old and lonely / alone is really terrifying.

...is it? I don't know, maybe I'm too used to being alone, maybe I just have too much imagination, but that doesn't seem all that terrifying at all.
I have not seen that flaw in ages as I am part of communities where giving and taking is rewarded with nothing but meaningless points and merit. It works fine.
I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how - Stalin.
Iptables tips and tricks for sysadmins
Already bought and tried in an emulator.

I find it annoying the rom doesn't include workbench.library, and the provided one in LIBS: isn't romable.

It'd only be proper to provide a 1MB rom image with it, or a limited functionality version.
A Modest Privacy Protection Proposal
Too shortsighted. You also need to invest in housing in the Arctic region, as well as in shuttling between the Arctic region and Antarctica. The inhabitants will likely want to move to their summer home every half year.
I agree that people do change their minds, but it is not neccessarily a direct result of facts. Things like emotion, social pressure, and moral arguments are far more persuasive. People just get angry when their facts arn't enough to pursuade someone. But sometimes you need to engage people at a more personal level than just science and statistics.
Cern scientist: 'Physics built by men – not by invitation'
Why is that sad? It's a good thing that anybody can register a tartan regardless of whether they are "desirable".
If it was a black supremacist cult, would that have been OK?
Incorrect. Factorio is _LIFE_.

https://reddit.com/r/factorio
New Features on Grammarly Keyboard Update for Android
I've read that the key skill in understanding Turkish is to be able to de-agglutinate a word into its constituents in real time as you hear it, and that this skill just 'clicks in' at a certain point as you become more proficient. I learned some Turkish for a holiday there over 30 years ago and have been fascinated by the language ever since, but sadly am nowhere near that level myself.
I have same problem. FF mobile and uBlock origin.

Seeing the fluff the page contains in the top comment made me think I didnt miss much.
Actually, it appears that Case Western solved it:

> The university identified more than 100 computers with active internet connections that were infected by malware. Agents learned the computers had been compromised for a few years, the affidavit says.

> The university also found an IP address, a number that identifies its location on the internet, associated with the malware was also used to access Durachinsky's alumni email account, Brian wrote.
>so humanity will just have to deal with it and adapt over the next century

So far, how much did you lose by fighting for the climate, to get the system to change? Your time? Your wealth? Your reputation? Your comfort? How much?

I can't believe we're becoming fatalist without a fight. I'd rather join the rebellion than watch the world burn and adapt to hell.
Ι see what you did there, you Russell.
General Electric Removes John Flannery as CEO
Carnegie Mellon Will Help Build 3D Cellular Map of Human Body
Offtopic, but I made my own "Nutella" the other day from hazelnuts, cocoa powder and dates, and it was delicious.
"who would have thought 50 years ago that we‘d need barriers againt car attacks at all major public events"

To be honest, we still don't need them. Obviously it's horrible but considering that we accept ~1.25 million people a year killed on the roads (~25k in the EU, 30-40k in the US, or about one 9-eleven a month) it's probably not the best ROI. Though to be honest I think we should put massive barriers between cars and people anywhere we can, or just remove the cars wherever possible, but I'm odd that way.

Like I said I hope I'm wrong, but right now it looks like all the earlier estimates were too conservative and to think that we can cause major disruptions to the world's food supply, as well as making some places simply uninhabitable without air conditioning, strikes me as naive. To think that you can do it while still planning a 401(k) and buying holiday houses on the beach a cheap flight away for when you retire seems especially naive (though I worry we'll still have the cheap flights, which would be a bummer unless they're electric).

As far as population - it's true that we could stand to have far fewer people around, but even if your motivations are purely selfish, making hundreds of millions of people hungry, thirsty, and desperate doesn't sound like a good idea. And of course, most poor people emit basically nothing, so reducing the population of people living on under 5 dollars a day won't do much for the planet as a whole.
What seems weird about those details? Seems to cover all the things you need to make a payment over the phone.
Pantagruel: An Unambiguous, Undefined Program Specification Language
Yes, many programmers get lost discussing what programming language to use, GC or not, which 3D API to use, instead of what actually matters, gameplay, design, graphics, audio.

I always advise indies to attend local meetups from game design schools, to learn about what actually matters when making a game.
>Minecraft had no marketing. Terraria had no marketing. Stardew Valley had no marketing.

Nope, nope, and nope.

Stardew Valley has a notable indie publisher. There was marketing on various internet communities (reddit, 4chan, etc) leading up to the months of release. There it can pass off as organic word of mouth. Terraria was marketed months before release. As for Minecraft, Notch himself was throwing his game around a load before it got released and using anonymity to drive interest--it was the most organic of the 3.

Other notable indie games like Hotline Miami and Super Meat Boy also had especially significant marketing efforts behind them. And let's not forget Fez.

Most indie breakout hits aren't miracle successes. The just have very clever and modern marketing methods. They're not wasting money on magazine ads and gaming news sites banners like AAA studios do.
I think, it is similar what hexadecimal is to binary. It is its human-readable nature that is useful, yet, it is not immediately apparent how so--especially to the layman.

OLC is also not the same as a GPS coordinate. What you get is not a point but a block, the size of which you can decide.
California made giving AIDS to someone intentionally, a misdemeanor. Fuck California.
The phabricator people used to have extremely bad taste in diffs and version control. See eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20756320/how-to-prevent-...

(I think you can turn most of the annoyances off. But it leaves a bad impression. They also seem to like PHP.)
> This problem can be solved if Google search result would be driven by rules/smart contracts

How would that fix the issue? It wouldn't change legal obligations, AFAIK. Confused.
Yes. if you have a balanced, reasonably healthy life style it is absolutely doable. I am able to handle it in my early 30s.
In my 20s with all the partying going on it was sometimes a problem to stay focused 12+ hours on a single day book-ended by good rest.
Software Foundations [1]. Hands down one of the top programming textbooks to date.

[1] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
OP states: We can and must do better. And quickly.

why is it out of bounds to ask them what they are doing if the need is apparently so dire?

or does "we" mean what it always means in these discussions....someone else?

will even one person here commit to not flying for a year? the poor don't fly because they can't afford it.
I think you're falling for a fallacy of scale.

The perceived need to add car barriers to public events ks nothing in comparison with having to air-condition homes and public spaces around the globe. Also, remember nature?
“batting nearly .1000” would mean he’s right almost 10% of the time. I think you meant “batting a thousand”, which would be written “1.000”
NVIDIA does publish a graphics driver stack for macOS, it's not as great as the Radeon stack, but still performs admirably.
> but it's talked about all over the internet

Word-of-mouth is marketing too. Perhaps you are thinking that marketing === advertising? Because marketing doesn't have to be advertising. Building a community, attending conferences, getting influencers to play your game - these are all marketing activities. If people are talking about the game, it's surely fueled by a quality experience but marketing has to bootstrap that conversation.
How about "why don't facts change people's minds about global warming"?

or "why don't facts change people's minds about gun control?" (this is an issue with both the left, they are both wrong about many aspects of gun issues!)

These are just two cases that came to mind, where I have friends/family who I talk to about it, and I can explain some facts in great detail that I'm familiar with, and in that moment they will seem to change their mind a little bit. But a couple months later they are right back to their old thinking. Maybe people tend to forget the stuff they would rather not believe.
> California is something like the 5th largest economy in the world...

California's a big economy. But it's not (at least superficially) outsized relative to other parts of the United States that contain similar populations [0]

[0] https://github.com/RhysU/states/blob/master/README.md