skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’m kinda floundering right now and not really sure what to do

release it
focus on marketing for a while
Treat it as a purely hobby project
Make it into an ethical game experiment
pour a lot more time in, improve graphics and music, add more levels and variety

As someone who's gone through this, put years into a software startup, nearly had it fail completely after spending a lot of my own money to keep the family afloat while I goofed around thinking I was building something great...

I feel like there is only one right answer here, and it's just glaringly obvious. Marketing is the thing that needed doing before starting, during the project, and after it's done. Regardless of the trends on Steam, in fact even more so because of the trends on Steam. None of the other options will solve the problem. Releasing it won't help, and making an ethical experiment won't get anywhere without an audience. Pouring more time into graphics will result in greater loss without first gaining an audience.
They released a battery charger that can be used at home last year, I suspected it was in preparation for western markets but maybe not...
And me thinking that science isn't about trying to confirm findings, but trying to disprove them and if nobody can do that, the original hypothesis must be true.
Wild Sound: A Q and a with Laura Krantz
Depending on how this is set up, this would be a huge disadvantage to smaller websites, though. In order to make any money, you'd have to make contracts with each individual ISP, and if they decided they didn't like your content, they could prevent you from collecting any revenue, effectively shutting your site down. (In fact, a lot of them seem to want to move in this direction already with paid prioritization, although that doesn't have quite as much of an effect as blocking ad revenue does).
Using such an approach in this project: https://github.com/garage11/ca11 You can just use the vue template compiler for that.
You are looking at lifetime sales of games that have been on sale for different periods of time. All of these should be divided by number of years of sales, which gives you:

2017: 49k, 2016: 36k, 2015: 37k, 2014: 39k

2013: 120k, 2012: 89k, 2011: 73k, 2010: 48k

2009: 35k, 2008: 27k, 2007: 75k, 2006: 48k

2005: 43k, 2004: (this really just means Half-Life 2 and Counterstrike): 820k

With the sales normalized by year, and noting that 2004 did not actually allow third party games on sale, there is not an appreciable drop or trend across the entire time range.. I suspect the crazy spike in 2013 can be attributed entirely to Dota2 and 2012, Counterstrike Global Offensive causing mean skew.
Their decision to switch to a Proxy-based observer is very much welcomed. Other libraries ( https://github.com/ElliotNB/observable-slim ) have shown that Proxy-based observers are robust and performant, but do have some polyfill restrictions for IE11 users. The ability to monitor for properties added dynamically at runtime will allow for a lot more flexibility.

Proxies still behave unusually with more complicated Objects (e.g., Date), but they work brilliantly with plain objects. Implementing an observer with Object.defineProperty is a lot more complicated IMHO.
I guess my ideal solution would be housing that’s more affordable downtown so that I and other commuters could live there. If I could eliminate my commute or make it much shorter then it would be one of the best changes in my life. Unfortunately even with my decent salary that’s not possible because housing is 3-4x more expensive than where I’m at now.
Also from this page it simultaneously says the game is free and asks me for money https://infinitroid.com/new_account

Also doesn't have any screen shots, info about the game, etc

It's actually hostile to someone coming across the page trying to check out the game

Edit it's possible the note about "You can skip the payment section below" was literally just added
I think it's pretty common to ask PhD students to reproduce some results as part of their initial literature review.
Good. Let the price of parking float rather than artificially depressing the price via zoning.
Ok, so from 50 to 25 will reduce some deaths. That's right. But now we can reduce to 20, will reduce even more deaths. Then 15, 10... Where do we stop?
The naive free market analysis doesn't work here, because it's not typically possible for a real estate developer to purchase a random building and convert it to a parking structure if more parking is demanded. Even when it is possible, that kind of project ends up taking years and years to complete.
I think it is meant to evoke the Babel fish.
Yes, of course, I understand that. I already have a Honda scooter that does 100 kph but the Gogoro is superior in so many ways...

A Gogoro as a 25kph max vehicle is a way overpriced and overengineered product (with the price reflecting that).
I think you are right. It definitely takes more than that, but you can be the smartest guy in the world and you won't discover many vulnerabilities if you assume certain components are "hallowed ground".

Apparently he thought of the spectre-style vulnerabilities while through the Intel processor manuals[1]. How many established engineers would a) read through these reference manuals at all, and b) question the implementations described therein?

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-17/how-a-22-...
Why not arXiv... what?

Why not arXiv pay people to do reproductions? They don't have anything like the funding required to do that.
DevSpace: cloud native development with Kubernetes
Reality Design: A 60 Second ‘How to Guide’
> As I understand it, this was the premise of cable TV - pay for your cable, and in return you get no ads.

No, that was never the case, it seems to be a myth that started getting repeated a lot in the last decade; at least, I've never heard of it before it started getting used as a “historical precedent” in discussing online advertising trends, despite is ahistoricity.

What you originally paid for with cable was access to channels, largely existing broadcast channels: not everyone was choose enough to the transmitter to get good (or even usable) broadcast reception, even when they were nominally in the media market.

From very early on, IIRC, the were (ad-supported) cable-only channels for which cable was the only means of access. Over time those became the main thing you paid for cable for.

Commercial-free premium channels were a later development, which you paid for (and still do) on top of cable (though they may be bundled into higher tiers). But commercial free service was never the key value proposition of cable.
Do taxes matter? Indentical products in the US and France feature French prices that are far more expensive, even when adjusting for currency. Milk, for example. iPhones. Clothing especially. Washing machines, furniture.

Disposable income in France is vastly lower than that of the US. Is that inflation? Or tax policy?
Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem
Yes? Your quote is literally one of the things I'm complaining about.
This Guide Demonstrates How Easy XOD Makes UART Communication Between Arduinos
The indie game marketplace has a massive discovery problem that is not whatsoever met by current tools. Humble Bundle tried to solve this for a while but I just checked their site and it's filled with AAA titles to include Overwatch, Assassin's Creed, and COD: Black Ops.
Have you seen the performance of an application "just" creating 1000 Linux threads, it's pretty bad.

Also you're talking about linux, the Go runtime runs on many platforms, therefore is not dependent on platform thread performance.
I think the point is that it doesn’t matter what SAT scores the author got. If you’re older than about 18, a 1500 on your SATs and $4 will get you a cup of coffee at Philz.

Additionally, high SAT scores don’t prevent you from making dumb decisions, like say, spending 2,600 hours developing an indie game and thinking you’ll make money on it.
I know a handful. Is it really surprising?
The first “social network” of brains lets three people transmit thoughts
Could be trend, but TiddlyWiki isn't a data point for it, given that the project is over a decade old.
As you know, you have to register your props. You can do this in the array shorthand where you don't get to specify anything except the prop handle, or via an object with the key being the prop handle and an object with type:Function,Array,String etc. and a required property which can be true or false. You can also provide a default value here. Hope that helps!
"The site works for "" most everyone else" - Do you have anything to support that statement?

This is a link to a webpage on hacker news. Whether the page is viewable or not, is highly topical.
If blocking tracking cookies happens to break the page, then thats even more interesting. If the page does not mention this and just gives a misleading message even moreso.
BrainNet: A Multi-Person Brain-To-Brain Interface
Don't write a single LOC until you have at least one user.
Yeah and many other indies worked for 4+ years and got about 10 downloads on release, and you never hear of them.
great point! would be interesting to see the average sales drop-off over time. Typically games have sales spikes during the early release and then later during sales, but it tends to drop off over time. "Classic" or "must play" games, however, like Portal, tend to sell pretty well over their entire life.
Around 2,256,508 books (data is not up to date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_published_per_country_pe...)

But I guess it will be fair to compare also with Movies. As some games have budgets on that scale.

That is around 730 movies per year for USA and Canada. https://www.statista.com/statistics/187122/movie-releases-in...

> I don't say this to minimize the pain of indie devs that find themselves suddenly deluged with competition... but that's where things are headed, yeah?

Yes. In the 90s there were not so many people with the skills and equipment to create games. Nowadays is a global market where everyone can give it a try. From cheap computers to Unity3D it is easier and cheaper than ever to create games.
Ask HN: Could there be lifeforms made of dark matter living right here with us?
Could there be living things made of dark matter?

Could they be living with us right here on earth?

could earth be combination of dark matter and ordinary matter coexisting in one ball?

Just thought experiments.
Hobbies - Rewarding not in money but in enjoyment and experiances

Learning to play a music instrument. I started playing the piano as an adult. I can highly recommend learning to play an music instrument if you ever felt like you wanted to play. It teaches you coordinate your hand and feet with your brain and you have to keep rhythm. Being able to play music is relaxing. Its humble feeling to be an improving beginner.

Photography being able to capture moments in your life. Being able to capture better pictures of your family and friends is rewarding.

Scuba diving, it is beautiful to watch the creatures and landscape of underwater places. Often if its beautiful under water it is also a pretty place above water. Plus you get to move around when on vacation so you see more of the vacation place. You usually meet new people when diving.
Any way to get 802.1x working?
The main problem with electronic voting is that you can't understand what the machine is doing. Source code won't help, because you don't know what is running on the machine. Source code won't help because you don't know what the compiler will do (maybe insert some extra stuff?).

Paper voting is comprehensible by everyone.
Well even though it looks like, creative fields are not split only between the top hits and the starving hopefuls.

You might not be the next star musician, but even big artists need session players, there's teaching, arranging, etc

Artists and writers can find some work in commercial endeavours.

It might not be a big market but it exists.
If someone has spent 1000 days building their MVP and 0 days establishing market fit it's a terrible time to quit.
I'm not sure about the cost impact of that, but I think pricing in the US is more based on what hospitals can get away with in negotiations with insurers, and less based on cost. So if hospitals decreased their operating costs, but they were still able to negotiate high prices with payers because they have market power, then that would just result in higher hospital profits.

Just speculating though
More people are voting with their wallets that online advertising is executed poorly and an annoyance to a threat vector for malware.
More people need to stop the advertising from even coming down their wire. I'm happy with Pi-hole: https://pi-hole.net/
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You can customize it but the default value for Linux is 2MB, the Go one is 2KB, pretty big difference in term of memory.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_create.3.html
probably because I'm old bit I don't hate ads. Go read any computer magazine at archive.org from the 80s. It's 60-70% ads, 30-40% content. We used to actually buy those magazines partly for the ads.

It's not ads I hate. It's #1 tracking and #2 obtrusive ada. Videos, animations, pop ups, etc... Unobtrusive ads are fine. Stack Overflow, Google Search, JSFiddle come to mind as ads I like. They are often relevant and they are unobtrustive
I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YAGNI applies here.
>Anecdotal evidence suggests that as many as a third of all papers published in mathematical journals contain mistakes - not just minor errors, but incorrect theorems and proofs…

http://www.gwern.net/The-Existential-Risk-of-Mathematical-Er...
Yep, and this makes perfect economic sense. In general, a given job pays roughly just enough to equal the costs of doing it (after all, if it paid more then why wouldn't new people be joining the market for this job and driving the wage down?). And by costs I of course mean net costs. Not just financial outlays but the intangible benefits of doing the job that offset the financial outlays.

And the fact is many people find making a game so intensely enjoyable that the net cost of making it is zero and they do it even when they're making no money or stand to lose money in expectation. Of course, there's huge variance in both directions, for every ten thousand indie game devs there's one Notch! And in reality I'm guessing being an indie game dev is at least slightly profitable in expectation. But the joy of doing it seems to drive their wages down to basically subsistence level.
Those cars still need to go somewhere. Maybe there's more sharing from the outskirts? But if you assume that cars will just drop off and then drive out to some vaguely defined area outside of the city where parking is plentiful, you're going to massively increase congestion.
Vue is really nice. I think a lot of the complexity, at least to me was wrapping my head around redux itself, which as you know is optional.

If next.js wasn't as nice as it appears to be, or nuxt was just as good, I wouldn't be looking at react for another project. The lack of plugins is "meh", the dev tools in React are pretty amazing. I haven't figured out a way to get a really nice stack trace in the browser for an error in Vue, react does this much better.

Experience in Vue (2.5 years and continued, 1 shipped SaaS, fairly large internal project)
React (1.5 years off and on, big ecommerce furniture place)
Because before the reorganization, .NET used to be part of DevTools, while C++ and related tooling was part of WinDev.

So since .NET was introduced there has been an ongoing power struggle between the two camps regarding how the future of Windows development should look like.

The whole Longhorn/Vista debacle was more a side effect of those political issues than actual technical problems. Likewise with lack of management support for bringing Singularity and Midori outcomes into mainstream Windows, or trying to replace .NET with WinRT.

The reorganization was supposed to help sort out such silos, apparently it wasn't successful at that.
I can understand going after the lawyers that set this up, that had no problems taking the immigrants' money when they knew they were on shakey legal ground.

But going after the immigrants themselves seems really unfair to me. If your lawyer tells you to do or say something you would generally follow their advice, they're the experts after all.

And then the fact that the person that helped the government go after the lawyers is now having to go into hiding to avoid having these immigrants being deported just seems completely surreal... crazy times!
As a regular user of ad-block, I am 100% in support of this model. It's a bit more work (and I expect third-party delivery server-side to be a thing) but ethically it makes a lot more sense. I think it's much harder to stand by a marketing company's invasive tracking code when your own domain has to serve it.

More directly though, I find organic advertising (sponsorships, author recommendations and reviews, etc) to just be more effective when the site can pull them off correctly. Kotaku's deals section, for example, is consistently lovely and makes it right through my ad blocker. I'll even click it on purpose from time to time, because I value their curation and it's usually all stuff that most gamers would be interested in anyway. I don't think all advertising is bad, but the third-party iframe "drop it on the page and forget" nonsense has got to go.
Yes, but they aren't as young as Google. They were probably started 100+ years ago, when Europe was still hungry.
Just look across the pond, many countries solved that over here and we managed to survive.
Something I've noticed among indie devs is that they not only are terrible at marketing but they have this weird mindset about marketing that if they just make the best game possible then word of mouth will sell their game for them and they don't need to put more than the bare minimum into marketing. For some, reality sets in after release and they realize marketing matters. For others, they blame external forces and keep plodding down the same path.
Parental leave of any kind is discrimination against workers who can't have or don't want children.

Know what isn't discrimination? A parent using PTO that everyone gets to care for their kids.

Don't have enough? Can't do without parental leave? Why the heck are you having kids?!" Jesus. Christ.

FORCING people to take parental leave is insanity.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg specifically treated neurosyphilis, an infectious disease, not just any ”psychiatric” disorder. That makes it perhaps less surprising that activating the immune system should have an effect. Today neurosyphilis is treated with antibiotics.
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And asynchronous callbacks.
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This also applies to many small offline businesses. The B2SB supply chain profits from selling picks & shovels to a steady stream of new hopefuls.
I love gaming. I’m glad that people make the video games that I buy and play.

I would never ever consider actually becoming involved in the space as a programmer, not in a million years. I advise any potential programmers to stay way the hell away from it too.
>in 3 years, you can: Learn TensorFlow. Publish an AI paper. Beat state of the art on a few datasets.

As a low income indie dev without the academic credentials to get past HR gatekeepers for stable full time work, I can't help but feel studying ML is about as wishful as creating a hit game. I have started studying ML this summer, and although I find the NLP applications really interesting since I have a social science background that exposed me to some literary theory and linguistic ideas that overlap with NLP at times, I think making a living wage doing it is just as much of an unrealistic dream as writing some killer app. The jobs all require PhDs, and the data science competitions have literary thousands of people with PhDs and industry experience competing for five figure prizes. When one is poor with no prospects these kind of pipe dreams feel so good to get caught up in as that sweet haze of hope numbs the critical thinking, but in a clear moment it looks like the ML gold rush is exactly the same as every other tech hype. That's not going to stop me from geeking out on PyTorch and trying to wring sentiment out of blocks of text or whatever, but I won't be able to honestly write a blog post about it in a few years asking if I wasted my time. I already know the answer.
This is fairly analogous to our approach too, just substituting QNX w/ seL4.
It’s the fonts. They look like you’re reading something.
>If Microsoft can't even release their marquee apps on it, why should anyone else feel confident in developing on the platform?

Endemic at Microsoft. I believe the main reason the Xbox One Kinect - an impressive piece of hardware - failed, is that Microsoft themselves couldn't manage to make one big flagship game for it at launch. If Microsoft themselves are avoiding it, why on earth would third parties invest?
We don't control who comes here with childbirth, it's actually a far less controllable method. Immigration can have totally arbitrary rules, and until the world hits 11bn and wealth is equalised there will be an unlimited supply of immigration.

Men aren't forced not to take time off in most countries but they still generally choose not to. There are multiple ways to address the perceived gender pay gap effect of maternity leave, the most obvious is to have state funded (m|p)aternity leave. The alternative, in countries other than the US with very long maternity leaves, is to shorten it. If women aren't allowed to take 9 months off paid then there won't be any discrimination on that basis.
What matters most to you, and why?
F35 crash – unknown cause – complex systems