skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be the personalities of the people I make contacts with (I'm a researcher who works with research-interested game-industry people), but the burnout rate seems really high, even at the well-run places. More than half the people I've met in the last 5 years have quit their jobs within that timeframe! And a lot cited the working conditions: more or less that the pressure-cooker environment was cool in their 20s, but not a long-term career path. Some have gone the indie route, some to consulting, some back to grad school, others just left the game industry entirely for a job somewhere like Lockheed.
Isn't any evaluation of how a person or company affected to the world shaped by each individual's own value-system? By what criteria do you rank someone's achievement? Is it by the number of people affected ... longevity of their creations ... enlightenment to society? There's no one way to judge such a thing because it's all subjective. Users of Apple products are potentially more-biased towards the company that created their tools of choice ... just as a guy that hosts a search-engine podcast is probably more likely to extol the achievements of his favorite search company. A world away from those two corporate titans, I'm sure, if asked, a villager in Somalia that just received a shipment of food and vitamins probably thinks whomever facilitated those things has made the most profound impact on the world. In their case, whether Google or Apple ever existed, food in their stomach and vitamins to address malnourishment may have allowed them to live another day. How many iPads equate to extending a life?

My point is that everybody has their own perceptions of what's important in this world. For Peter Nowak, apparently it's Apple. For Jesse Brown, it's Google. And that's fine ... in order for anyone to ever exchange money for goods they need to value what that good can do for them over the money in their pocket.

People should value things differently, otherwise all trade would grind to a halt as everybody hoarded the exact same shit. Ultimately .... what people value is really irrelevant ... but trying to rank Apple over Google, or vice-versa seems somewhat pointless to me ... especially since both companies are still plugging away throwing new things into the world to see what flies.
> But, what significant inventions can we credit to Microsoft?

They put a computer in every home.
I believe Sony has some significant innovations in portable music players back in the 1970s, and certainly made major strides in transistor radios in decades prior. Samsung I'm not really aware of any innovations from, but I wouldn't deny that they may be there. HP was very innovative in test equipment, but not so much in personal computers, as far as I am aware.

But it is worth noting that I was genuinely asking a question. It is easy for me to think of the innovations I named (and many more) from Apple, and the ones I named from Google, but off the top of my head, in the areas of mobile phones, tablets and personal computers I can't think of any from those other companies... and wondered if I wasn't missing them... so, by all means, if you have some significant innovations to bring up, I'd be happy to hear them.
BF and whitespace are LOLCODE, and thus not "real" for my purposes.
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s/que/queue/
Have people already forgotten about the EA Spouse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA_Spouse

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
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If you want to disagree with what I said, you need to make an actual argument. Simply providing links is an automatic failure, because you're expecting me to go hunting for a counter argument to the statements I made, and none of those links were written in rebuttal to them.

That being said, your links are not authoritative, nor do they even address what I said.
for a moment I've been wondering why "The Conscience of a Hacker"[0] had become popular again.

[0] http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=7&id=3&mode=...
...by google fans because they want to believe that it is ok for google to rip off the iPhone and give away a counterfeit operating system.

Here you go too far. You don't have to like Android, MeeGo, or any other non-Apple OS, but calling any of them counterfeit is highly inaccurate. Google isn't stealing Apple's software and repackaging it as their own.

In the form of the oft-used car analogy: you're accusing Hyundai of selling "counterfeit" cars because they slightly resemble a Jaguar.
A "like" button instigates nothing more than a childish popularity competition.
An accomplishment, for sure. But, not an invention.
... if I don't want to leave the page, I'll middle click. Can't remember the last time that did not work.

There are a bunch of places in the new Twitter interface where it doesn't work, which drives me nuts.
Nice writeup! I hadn’t heard of rbcoffee before. I’ll definitely be using that in my coffeescript projects. One point – doesn’t ClojureScript support user macros via refer-macros? :

(ns my.namespace
(:refer-macros ‘[my.macros :as my])
I think that's a pretty arguable point. I would argue, for instance, that it was Apple that put a computer in every home... as the Apple II was selling very well, before microsoft came onto the scene. Microsoft was successful in taking marketshare away from Apple, but it was apple who invent the home computer category.

At any rate, I don't deny Microsofts massive commercial success... but that success is not itself an invention. If you meant the personal computer, it wasn't microsoft that invented it.
I totally agree with you. To me the producer is already doing what they enjoy doing, the financial gains are a side effect, and will pretty much just be used as funding to buy what's needed for them to keep producing. Would be like someone who enjoys running a business, the money is a part of it, but not the only goal, it blurs the line between hobby and work. The consumer spends their time consuming, the side effect of that is waste, once the consumption is over, the thrill is gone, the usefulness, if there was any, runs dry, it's tossed aside, as something new needs to be consumed.

There are things I want, that are not needed for my survival, but they are things I actually enjoy having, they serve some constructive purpose. I don't understand buying stuff just to buy stuff, just to have a new car, or just to have the latest version, it doesn't make sense. I think that is where some people that come into lots of money go wrong, spending it becomes their hobby, with out a job you got a lot of free time to keep yourself entertained. Producers would seem to inherently have the ability to deal with that free time in a much more fiscally responsible manor.
Recall that the context of this article is innovations over the last decade. Both the GUI and personal computers are 35+ years old (and neither were pioneered by Apple; Xerox invented the GUI, and other systems like the TRS-80 and Altair 8800 were on the market in the Apple I/II era). Even direct-manipulation touchscreen interfaces predate this decade; I remember ordering at Arby's using such a system in the 1990s.

I'm no Apple hater. I just want to keep an appropriate perspective. They've made some VERY good products, but over the last decade, their focus has been more on "putting together a complete product in a slick, well-made package" than on "making life-changing leaps". There's nothing wrong with that, but don't mistake it for something it's not.
Be socratic.
Listen too.

In my mind these two are basically the same and I'd summarize them as "Use the 70/30 rule. Listen 70% of the time and talk only 30%".

Expect nothing in return (you’ll be delighted with what you do get back).

To me this is what differentiates great mentors from others more than anything.
Ironically, I think that is exactly what the OP was saying. He would rather be working on solving the distributed problems than solving the centralized problems. He recognizes central is working better today, but that doesn't mean it will be tomorrow.
Is it reactionary?

Could beginning more minds and data beget innovation?

Wherein here we innovate without sin, I do not understand why enabling new power is.
Hack a billboard in Times Square.
Personally, unless I knew the data, I'd have problems enjoying that pint without worrying about data fields containing e.g. ",":s which my naive script would fail on...
To extend that analogy, we do have Yahoo!, Bing and AltaVista but Google is the leading search engine.

iPhone is 14% and Android 50% [Ref:http://www.fsyaonline.com/apple-iphone-vs-google-android-mar... <-- Not sure how reliable it is, but the numbers cannot be inverted I suppose]

So even if we look at the ideology that Apple takes up ideas and does brilliant executions that become insanely popular, then the game-point must go to Google for developing Android.
I think you can call wikipedia a "high quality web content experiment" that has done quite well. The catch is one needs to figure out:
- How to create high quality on a low budget?
- How to make sure it appeals to a larger audience?
- How to let that audience find you?
- And how to monetize said content?

To me the market is still evolving, but I'm excited about the idea of people paying for eBooks and apps — something that wouldn't have seemed possible in a Napster world before iTunes.
Just fixed a 20-year-old bug…
Ok ... Looks like my marketing approached failed! I'm going to write the slides myself and seek for correction instead of a full community write :)
Thanks. Rboffee has its own project[1].

About macros, I get WARNING: Use of undeclared Var cljs.user/defmacro when I even think of using them.

If you manage to use them, please let me know!

[1] https://github.com/danielribeiro/rbcoffee
Looks like a valuable and useful book, but it really needs to be in Kindle (or other ebook) format. PDF files are not suited to reading on an ebook device.
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Never knew about this - thanks!!
I think this will be much more useful on large multi-user storage systems, e.g. the classic example of the 5 MB email attachment sent to 100 people.
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I like the term server-to-server (S2S) from Jabber; basically P2P where the peers are located in datacenters.
Honestly yes I do see a ton of bad ideas, way too many "solutions looking for problems". If you're looking for a problem to solve find some existing software that's terrible (and there's a ton of it) and figure out how to make something much better. Often these are overlooked areas hat are in front of your nose.

For example back in the day your database wouldn't have listed a social media website for a youth market because MySpace was out -- so Facebook by that way of thinking wouldn't have happened. Same with other success stories: Why do an iPod when there were already MP3 players on the market?

Also I think part of the problem is that there's so much venture capital that many of the obvious problem areas are over covered.

I'd also add to this the following: Software isn't about "having an idea" so much as the execution. The idea that software is about an idea always seems to be promoted by non-tech types who don't make software (usually MBAs or lawyers who are frustrated because they can't express their creativity).
You can't make statements like X invented Y and then add earlier versions of Y weren't Y because they were not as good as X's implementation of Y.

That is very much like believing in Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's logically irrefutable, but sounds absurd.

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And yes, I've used screwdrivers for all those purposes.
I don't think there's any way to filter out the "sea of clueless groupthink" that you mention, which is the reason for the private forum. The privacy would give it a chance to develop a culture of its own, and effective reinforcement mechanisms to incentivize the behavior we'd want.

I also don't think there'd be any way to authenticate or filter the people who joined, other than an initial mutual agreement of the creators about what they want (probably a good first topic of discussion.)

Possibly the name of the group could work as a filter, though. I'd choose the name "Unashamed Capitalists". Every startup person should be a capitalist right? And shouldn't be ashamed, right? This is a bit broader so that people who are not yet "successful" would be welcome (newbies and pros are what I'm interested in, though the OP wanted a forum for successful people... my perspective is that the problem isn't newbies but the culture. I could be wrong.)

Given the way voting has happened in places like here (where a comment of mine that simply states two objectively verifiable facts has a negative score because those facts are inconvenient) and reddit and dig makes me wary of it.... however, it might work as a form of ad hoc curration. Some set of people deemed "successful" or "clued in" could do the voting, and maybe there'd only be an up vote.

Anyway, just my thoughts. I think the person who actually finds some software and sets something up will have the most influence... but I'm much more interested in a private forum with reasonable open admission policies than I am a public forum...
SURBL
Making an argument for argument sake.
Anyone with big erasers are always tempted to change history.

What is the purpose of the post other than conveying the author's (for lack of better word) dislike of Apple?
Sure, there are workarounds, but in a UI, the defaults should be sensible, because the vast majority of users never see anything other than the defaults. Unfortunately, it is arguable that on many sites the defaults just aren't sensible.

YouTube's "see all" comments button, for example, doesn't load the comments inline with ajax, but instead loads a new page in the current tab, losing my place in the video and my buffer. (At least the paginated comments are ajax now.)

if I don't want to leave the page, I'll middle click. Can't remember the last time that did not work.

Middle-click has never worked on my laptop trackpad. (Also: posterous' lightbox script is borked)
In other words - CSRF fail.
The context of this article is denigrating Apple by misrepresenting, using falsehoods, its contributions to the computer industry. When you claim that "neither were pioneered by Apple" you tell an outright lie. The Apple I was on the market before the TRS-80, and the Altair 8800 was a kit that didn't even produce a complete computer, it was not a personal computer. Xerox did not invent the GUI.

The idea that an arby's touchscreen means Apple didn't invent anything with the touch UI is so dishonest that it boggles the mind that you could say it in public with a straight face, seriously. The only motivation for doing so is either that you're really uninformed about this stuff and are just repeating what you've heard from Apple haters, or you're an Apple hater.

Seriously. This is Hacker News. This is not uninformed barely-computer literate consumer news. If we can't be honest about the major contributors to computer science here, then the site is completely lost.
lessfs appears to do block level deduplication (like ZFS). This means that if I copy a huge file but add a few bytes at the start, I won't get any benefit from deduplication because the data doesn't align anymore with the original block boundaries.

I wonder if there is a way to improve on that?
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I think it in the way that I am offering an experience, not just books. Eventually there will be more interactivity/minigames/puzzles based on the stories, etc, things that iBooks will not be able to offer.

The idea is to 1. Entertain 2.Keep busy and 3.Educate your kids. Having all in one simple to use app offers major advantages.

eg. The music track player feature (something that I decided to put as a nice extra), is getting a lot of usage.

iBooks is more for traditional type of literature. Kids stories tend to go beyond normal image/text combo.
It seems like a great application for a Groupon - an up-front investment by the studio can net a long-term customer.

Coffee shops and restaurants seem less suited in comparison; their product is more of a commodity.
Thanks for the recommendation, there is so many things like this I would love to add to the site need to make more time somehow :P
Thanks but I build my own story and animation engine, and the story formats and descriptions are ment to be easy to port across devices.
You're knocking down a strawman. Your argument is that the guy who invented the internal combustion engine didn't actually invent it because the guy who invented the piston is the one who invented it.
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Hmm. This seems like an odd comparison to me as Coffeescript and ClojureScript really have two different target audiences. Coffeescript seem to be more targeted towards people interested in writing JavaScript application with a more clean syntax whereas it seems ClojureScript's aim is to allow people who want to write Clojure, do so targeting a JavasScript VM rather than a JVM. I'd expect people looking to use either would probably know which one they were looking for from the get-go.

Interesting summary of ClojureScript's current weaknesses though.
Ask HN: Which open source project should I contribute to?
I am an ordinary programmer with deep interest in PHP, Python and JavaScript. Whenever I get bored I like to write code. I realized that if I spend my free time helping some open source project in above three technologies I will be helping the world be a little better place.

But then where should I look? I am not sure if I can contribute something big but I am sure capable of fixing a bug here and there, writing a jQuery plugin useful to someone and so on.

Problem is not lack of skill or time but lack of ideas. How exactly should I go abotu contributing to an open-source project?
Second this. It also means I can't set up a quick search in Chrome. That's the only thing preventing me from using this all the time.
Thanks. I have ment to have a fallback to JS, just haven't had the time to get to it.
The cuber animations are a lot nicer than any JS slider, so I'd like to keep it for the main site that is accessed by normal browsers.
There are no clicks, the Right Click Key on keyboard is just too awesome! :)
Read the last sentence before taking quotes out of context - "being a lead is all about responsibility".

If you're the lead and things start going south on your project then you'd better be prepared to start leading and taking on whatever is needed to get your game shipped.

I know it's cool to preach about working smarter instead of harder, but getting a game out of the door and into a box usually requires large doses of both.
You should watch Life of Brian some time:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079470/quotes
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Checked out openjdk just to see that file, I thought it would be interesting to run cloc on hotspot:

hotspot $ cloc .
3742 text files.
3663 unique files.
343 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.53 T=28.0 s (120.9 files/s, 37436.2 lines/s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
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C++ 712 67857 102162 365876
Java 1556 25399 54259 188050
C/C++ Header 852 29418 52451 112257
XML 77 504 231 15759
C 20 1494 2527 8430
XSLT 7 564 166 4392
Assembly 6 91 36 2256
HTML 7 230 3 2010
Bourne Shell 75 497 1800 1767
make 20 387 841 1579
Javascript 2 130 188 917
D 4 83 127 869
SKILL 3 74 0 526
DOS Batch 42 176 1025 423
ASP.Net 1 22 0 141
Bourne Again Shell 1 27 62 123
Teamcenter def 1 0 0 7
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SUM: 3386 126953 215878 705382
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Proof may be a poor choice words. What word would be better? "Sources"?
Great book. But I made the mistake of buying this book on Kindle just a few hours before I saw it show up here.

:(
Newton was not only premature, it didn't fit any useful form factor (too small for a tablet, too big for a pocket device) and it didn't do anything necessary. An iPod plays music and an iPhone is a phone.

Additionally, the state of Newton's handwriting recognition was immature.
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Google is, in fact, stealing Apple's patented inventions and repackaging it as their own. Hence the sudden flare up in "patents are all bogus and a bad idea" propaganda.

Before the announcement of the iPhone the Android phones looked a whole lot like blackberries. Google didn't spend 7 years coming up with a multi-touch operating system, and the underlying technology. They spent one year copying what Apple did, right down to the icon placement, and then started licensing it to manufacturers who sell it to consumers who genuinely think they are getting iPhones.

I know google fans don't like to admit this, and so they claim that because in the past there was a touch screen somewhere, therefore, Apple didn't invent anything, but the standards of law are much higher and disprove this claim.
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Thanks :) One of the stories is about a little Teddy Bear that wants to be a Marine Biologist. So he goes off to the beach to explore the animals of the sea, and ends up in trouble with jelly-fish. (this one is an interactive story).
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That would work if I were to submit from a single account but not to submit on your behalf.
Well, FWIW, I'm glad someone is still making games with some eye on quality.

Personally I basically gave up AAA games around four years ago, after three big disappointments.

Crysis should have been great but had all kinds of problems even on high-end hardware.

Supreme Commander should have been great, except that a major selling point was its world-scale maps but if you actually played a full on game on such a map you went over 2GB RAM and crashed it on 32-bit XP.

Oblivion should have been great, with a lot of power in the game engine and some interesting ideas, but they forgot to bring the fun part.

Those were probably the three most eagerly anticipated PC titles of their generation, and while I did complete Crysis and have spent plenty of time on Forged Alliance, the enjoyment was severely damaged by the frustration with all the problems.

Since then, it seems like all I hear about is ever more intrusive DRM screwing things up and ever more profiteering via DLC and exclusive content deals. I've given up on contemporary AAA titles entirely until this sort of silliness goes away, and I content myself with things like puzzle games and titles from GoG that are actually fun to play.

The sad thing is, I'm betting the programming teams behind Crysis and SupCom could have improved the trouble spots and given everyone a much more enjoyable gaming experience with a bit more time, but I bet the suits pushed them to ship when it was "good enough". As for the DRM and DLC in more recent titles, that's just management madness through and through.
>[Google fans] want to believe that it is ok for google to rip off the iPhone and give away a counterfeit operating system

I love how in one breath Apple fanboys call Android a copycat and in the next claim it's so much harder to use than iOS. Which is it?