skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all of their other games are flash games like High Vaultage then it makes sense to use the normal sponsorship model. The only other real ways of monetizing in the flash industry include ads and non-exclusive licenses which generally both make considerably less than a primary or exclusive license of the game.

There is no way first time game developers could get their games on steam. If High Vaultage was their best game then they would be laughed away pretty quickly judging by how it scored on the popular portals such as Kongregate and Newgrounds. As an experienced flash game developer myself I have managed to make a game in a day that scored better on both those sites and probably also received more plays overall. In order for Kickstarter to work properly for a game you need to have a pretty huge following. First time developers have no following; so unless they strike a chord with the gaming community, it would be fruitless.
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Actually the trial balance example came about because of addressing dependencies in join conditions that would have made it very difficult to address the same thing without it. I haven't tested it for large query sets but the idea is that usually you won't need to have a CTE covering more than about 14 months of data (assuming books are closed 2 months after fiscal end of year), or will only cover a small part of the data over a longer period.

Of course for some businesses 14 months of data is still a lot of data for a CTE, maybe a couple hundred thousand rows, but given enough memory, PostgreSQL can be tuned for this.
Grooveshark's beluga project (http://beluga.grooveshark.com) reveals a lot of the same patterns. Looking up Mormon tabernacle choir, for instance, shows a high listenership of politically active, religious conservatives, while people that listen to system of a down tend to be moderate liberals with less political involvement.

Music demographics data is fascinating!
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Thanks. I think focusing on a good product is the most important thing. We do one thing really well: when someone googles your name we help you make sure you have the most relevant things showing up. In terms of Hashable, we aren't a direct replacement, but the type of people interested in networking apps generally like to make sure they look good online :)
Do we still need URL shorteners?
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If you are fine running a decade+ old OS, chances are you don't have a dire need to run a bleeding edge version of PHP locally.
it cuts both ways, you don't want to get 'sucker' stapped on your forehead early in a business relationship

obviously, good relationships have give a take both ways, a little framing of what you expect early on, can pay alot of dividends over the long run
Diagnosing and fixing an ecommerce site disaster over a Thanksgiving weekend
If ads are not programming then they are zero percent of the programming, by definition.

If you see three birds and four squirrels in your backyard, are the birds 75% of the squirrels? (Are the squirrels 133% of the birds?)
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> Back then, I was working for a startup that had a product similar in concept to Rails but based on Apache/TCL developed around 1998. The initial architecture ideas were taken from AOL Server, in case anyone still remembers it.

Which Apache Tcl thing? Who are you, by the way? Your profile doesn't show anything.

BTW, Rivet can be scaled, like anything else can, although you're right that given the same resources, a compiled language is going to be more efficient.

These guys use Rivet successfully:

http://flightaware.com/

- A former developer of Apache Rivet.
Yep, I like the term Live Web.
I've been a member of the Dojo since the first August weekend when a bunch of us turned up to sweep and clean the space, so pardon my bias but...

This is a really unique place and has a totally different atmosphere during business hours, weeknights and weekends, but there are almost always friendly people there doing something interesting. Plus 3D printers!

Seriously, one of the reasons the City of Mountain View is having a bit of difficulty dealing with us, IMO, is because they really have nothing comparable here or nearby.

For the curious, I encourage you to drop by--we don't charge just to sit and work for a day and most events (listed at http://events.hackerdojo.com) are free or low cost and open to the general public. One membership benefit, though, is you may attend events without paying if there is a fee. Most Friday nights we have a happy hour, if you, um, like that kind of thing.
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You can rely on the opinions of experts for many large purchases, like cars. For smaller items it's usually good enough to look for hallmarks of quality; e.g. whether the wood in the furniture is solid.
> I have abandoned Ruby and Rails in its entirety

So I thought he was talking about both. (As I once considered doing, too).

Also very frequently the distinction is rather blurry: Is Twitter an app or a site?
> You can, it just makes some of Rails' niceties unnecessary. Views and "Controllers" are handled up front by backbone. You just need routing and models from Rails.

backbone.js sends CRUD requests to rails app which are handled by the controller, and the main page is rails view.
Cars are a good example of why "built to last" doesn't make universal sense.

We don't make trucks like we did 15 years ago, because we know what happens to the human body inside a rigid metal shell during a collision. We know that we can design engines and transmissions that will keep you on the road better, keep you out of more accidents and at least halve your fuel bill. And these gains will trivially outweigh the higher costs for maintenance, repair costs and increased frequency of replacement.

Similarly with major appliances like refrigerators, furnaces and hot water heaters. It's not at all uncommon to see people with older versions of those appliances that are 30+ years old, still tickin and trivial to repair and maintain. But they're so horribly inefficient that even if you replace that classic with a modern model that will fall apart the day after its warranty expires, you can save so much more money in the interim that you'll still be ahead after you replace it.

Now, I'm not arguing that you should go out and buy the latest. Or that aiming for longevity and repairability is never right.

I'm just saying that there are trade-offs when something is "designed to last" and "easy to repair". And, particularly when moving parts and electronics are involved, those trade-offs can cost more in the long run.
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I'm not trying to be judgmental. Like you said, you need to put food on the plate.
I find it interesting that a portion of their grade is influenced by factors somewhat outside of their control. Just because they were unable to successfully negotiate a deal during the seminar doesn't necessarily mean it's a game that won't sell, they may just need another round of negotiations. Plus if the motivation was to complete negotiations for a good grade, then why not just offer the game for $1? Was there some kind of threshold they had to meet to be considered a "success"?

But it is an interesting concept. I've seen similar thoughts with web design courses; teach web design/development while building a website for a paying client.
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should consider throwing in age distinctions. [old music-old people-conservative] vs [new-music-young people-liberal] is neither interesting nor exciting.
> Artists whose fans are most correlated to Republican

> Artists whose fans are most correlated to Democrat

I'm French. I have never heard of the first eight artists listed as Republican friendly; I know and am familiar with most artists in the Democrat list (all but two).

Do "Republican artists" target something very American that doesn't appeal to an international audience?
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Node is maddening for one simple reason: asynchronous code shouldn't need to look like asynchronous code, and in fact it's much safer and less verbose if it doesn't.

The whole performance argument is completely beside the point. Yes, we get it, in-process asynchronous parallelism is where its at. But it simply doesn't follow that we need to live in inversion-of-control hell.

Even the simplest node program ends up drowning in error-handling code, because there's no way to automatically propagate errors back to the right place. Every function needs to handle error conditions immediately, because you can't throw an error up the stack, because your stack is completely meaningless.

This is a huge step backward. It feels like coding directly against system calls in C.

It doesn't need to be this way. There's no reason your language runtime can't be smart enough to switch contexts automatically, so that your code gets to be "blocking" even though the actual OS-level process is never blocked. Erlang does this, Stackless Python does this, any Lisp with good old call-with-current-continuation does this.
The sub-article, linked to by this post is better I think: http://www.softwaretestingclub.com/profiles/blogs/should-err...

And I tend to like the idea - a good percentage of the time when my small underfunded/staffed projects have encountered an error the logs tell me nothing about how it was provoked, and the code is not obviously* broken. A proper bug report rocks in these cases - and I often find myself wishing for one. The option for a user to leave an even improper one would be pretty awesome here. I might just do this.

*It’s obviously broken it’s just not obvious how it’s broken :)
Instead of a feedback form I would prefer

The error has been automatically recorded and our team is looking into it
...or... If you have any questions about this error [link]please contact support[/link]
... or both

But I guess a feedback form is a nice feature too. I just don't know if I'd use it.
The problem with it in it's current form is it does not allow for an application pepper.

Also I'd prefer it to support scrypt as well as bcrypt.
I know you're not - I just wanted to point it out for the audience who isn't as familiar with the Flash game market.
All of the above are problems.

Huge problem is fit. Especially pants. So many things can go wrong. Too tight in the thighs, pants run short, pants are tighter than usual in the hips, weird fit in the butt, etc. . .

Feel/quality is a big one for me personally because I have some hangups with textures. If something has a certain feel it makes my skin crawl.

As for suggestions and opinions, I'm usually looking for advice, make sure I'm not committing any faux pas with my choices. For example, when buying some leather shoes I may want something that can be worn with jeans or with slacks if needed. If the sales associate is knowledgeable I will probably go with something I initially was tentative about or didn't consider.

Hope that helps.
Maybe, would be cool to try it on location data! As I stated in there, we only used TPs that had US set as location, so the data will be very US-focused.
On wholly another level, you're great.

The most awesome thing to do on that semester would be to create a game you love, and if it doesn't sell, sell it for a buck. Creative on so many levels.
Very true, libraries for nodejs are usually not as mature as those for Ruby. That said, the most useful are actively maintained, when I have a question or submit a pull request it is generally answered/merged within a day.

As the OP says, Nodejs is not nearly as mature and proven as Rails, but I believe (and that's really a faith-based opinion) that this kind of architectures is the future.
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No. The fact that you had to click a link in an email is a workaround. If your email provider did support Persona, you wouldn't have had to do this.

That's the great thing about Persona: it works even when email providers don't support it. However, it works best when they do.
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The key word there is can. A $300 meal may be the best meal you've ever had, but spending $300 on a meal isn't a guarantee that it will be. Conversely, it's also possible that $30 meal could be the best meal you've ever had. Less likely, sure, but possible.

It reminds me of advice I've been given from friends who are really into wine: the difference between a $10 bottle of wine, a $50 bottle of wine, and a $100 bottle of wine isn't that the more expensive ones are better, it's that they're more likely to be good.
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@pdx yea you nailed it. Most of our users end building a BrandYourself Profile, which is a simple (but pretty) profile that's really well structured around your name, so it generally ranks on your first page. From there we can use the IP addresses of visitors to determine who they are

We could always tell you when someone found that profile and where they came from (they came from FB, or they came from Google after Googling your name", but recently we started mapping the IP address to organizations. That data is really accesible--you can buy a list from most major hosting companies--but it's not really used for this purpose
As explained in another comment, the second item is already part way there through another workaround. Ctrl-F "bigtent".
I agree keyword arguments are a better solution (but probably harder to implement).

Right now this is how I do this:

function salute($user, array $options = null) {
$options = (array) $options + array('shout' => false);
$salutation = "Hi $user!";
if ($options['shout']) $salutation = strtoupper($salutation);
return $salutation;
}
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Despite what LongAnimals thinks, he brought opponents and upgrades and levels to a dirtbike game in flash which had never been done before. Unless there was a console game or something he copied, then I would call it pretty darn unique. It may not be a completely novel idea, but it's a hell of a lot more innovative than most of the games you listed as being successes on Steam.

According to FGL's stats only 1 game has made more than $20,000 in the past 6 months from what I'm reading. That's how much money ALL GAMES TOTAL make, not how much single games make.

Try clicking on Dollar Value - Accepted Bid from the drop down menu. After you do that click on the red bar at the far right of the screen to see the breakdown of sales for that month. Then hover your mouse over the red dot at the far right to see how much money the largest game made that month. Most of the games that gross over $20,000 from sponsorship actually do so outside of FGL or through performance bonuses.
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They could just partner with [0]flattr, that way I could also subscribe to my favorite libraries.

[0] http://flattr.com
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This was before any laws as far as I know. Also if I'm not mistaking, even with these laws the package must be intact. Otherwise I wonder if you can buy a TV or computer, use it for N days then return it. Do the same with the other stores until the first one forgets the repeat.
Great idea with the aspects.
Can't wait to read more :)
The reason why Rails is going to continue being awesome even in the API-dominated web apps of tomorrow, is the asset pipeline. There's just nothing else out there that manages your assets quite the same way. In fact, the asset pipeline makes it dead-simple and even efficient to program big, high-performance apps in CoffeeScript. Sure, it doesn't force asynchronous behavior, but I feel that's more of a feature than a flaw. Sometimes, asynchronous calls are just not possible (like in the case of Authorize.Net's API), and you need to build something a little more robust, and easy to test when things go wrong. Therefore, I feel Rails is actually the best choice for an API backend, because it has so many drop-in monitoring tools available as well as ways to enhance performance by dropping frameworks you don't need, plus you can code asynchronously with it but you don't have to.
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I am in the same boat. I am the solo founder of Infocaptor and Mockuptiger. Lot of times I wish for a co-founder with whom I can bounce off ideas and plans to take over the world. Sigh...but on the flipside it gives tremendous sense of responsibility.

Automation and monitoring is crucial when you are solo founder. Think about automating every little thing that takes only few minutes to do but the budgeted time is 5 times of actual time it takes to finish it.

Outsourcing, automation and dashboards are your friends. I have either outsourced majority of my activity or automated it.

But the problem with running startusp is the task list keeps changing every day and is like a bottomless bin. Everyday you automate something and you keep finding new things to do.

Healthy work and life balance is so crucial. Due to stress at one time had to visit the emergency department, glad it was just "Stress increasing the acidity" and wife had all the reason to take control of my routine (just few days). After that episode, I immediately put breaks on all the stressing out. I realized there was simply no need of making things happen all at the same time.

I put back my meditation routine on track ( avg 2 hrs/day) and that has helped so much in terms of health and clarity (plus other things). I recommend everyone who wants to be involved in startups to start meditating. It will be a huge favor for your family and yourself.

Goodluck and cheers to all the solo founders!
Microsoft have been doing it for years. Though usualy were on a fullypatched system they suggest you run windows update and you respond NO not helpful and type your rant of the day.

Feedback has two uses.

1) lets the user vent
2) gives some feedback and mostly in a form that is humourous to read.

Not all feedback is read and taken note of but even if some is then it's better than not having it. Mostly it allows the user to vent. When that feedback is voice based is when we realy will start to have fun and the whole "Fn peace of shit computer" will actualy start to make sence. Now if they could add a tactile sensor on the side of the computer you could press with your fist as well to rate your frustration - then the whole feedback model will actualy fit with users expectations, until that day arrives I'll take my venting were I can ;).
Performance is one of the few legitimate arguments the Node community makes. It is wicked fast out-of-the-box compared to Ruby out-of-the-box.

Unfortunately there are many other factors involved in building software that matter as well.
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Metal fans could save us all from a two-party system.

Hmm... I'm a huge metal fan myself, and very much an anarcho-capitalist / libertarian / voluntaryist / $whatever_term_you_prefer. But, to be honest, I haven't really noticed much correlation between a preference for metal, and 3rd party political affiliation, at least among my metal loving friends. If anything, I'd say that metalheads perhaps run towards "politically apathetic / don't care" more than other groups. But that's a pretty subjective and totally non-scientific observation.
It's obvious that the OUYA benefits from the existing Android ecosystem, but what I'm really looking forward to is the benefit that the Android ecosystem will get from the OUYA. If the OUYA experiences even moderate success it will draw a lot of neat games into the marketplace for people with a mobile device to enjoy.
That's why their super easy returns policy is essential. You order shoes, you try them on, you return them. It's not quite as easy as a trip to the store, but it's pretty simple.
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Same here. Perhaps, given the right conditions, they can also make a bit of profit on items that require installation, service, or repair by setting the customer up with qualified staff or local repair-people.
When I think of this problem, I wonder, was Android developed for the end user, or the device manufacturers?
Could you imagine a dedicated JavaScript developer accessing your code through a messaging service? Then you wouldn't have to deal with it at all...

* why the downvote? Is it for being stupid, or for sounding snarky?
You're stuck where I was about a year and a half ago. My classes basically sucked, and all I got out of 2 years in my Comp.Sci course was how to make small applets in Java, and how to print patterns in C++. I know it can be demotivating. My advice? Start following projects. Read the code written by people working on some of the most awesome projects out there. No, really read it. Don't understand something? Go find documentation for it. No documentation? Email the people working on the project or go to their Mailing list/IRC channel. People in the open source community are generally polite and very helpful. There's tons of stuff out there. Oh, and stop switching languages. I decided that I won't try anything besides the 2 languages that I already know well enough (C++ and Python), until I become really really good at them.

As for your desire to learn NLP and ML, as michaelpinto said, follow the courses of Coursera, and you can also try to reach out to Dan.But I would suggest doing small project (a blogging engine, a small game, whatever strikes your fancy) first. Because that kind of stuff is just as important as learning theory. Because until you've done something, you'll keep thinking of yourself as a beginner.

For finding projects? Go to Github, Bitbucket etc. I won't recommend anything myself, because it has to be something you yourself are comfortable with. And you'll actually have to read the existing code before starting to contribute. I guarantee you, you'll learn something new.

Best of luck!
"Error establishing a database connection"

Is this a joke?
Were these high quality users in the sense that they converted to paid from a free account? What source lead to the highest quality users?
I really like your product, but the only issue I had was when I was boosting my links. After every step in the boosting process I was asked to share that step with my Social Network, while that may help my SEO it became more of a nuisance. I would like to be asked only after completing all of the boosting steps.

Other than that keep up the great work!
Most of those "republican" artists are country music artists, while most of the "democrat" artists are pop/rap (although it's easy to confuse the two these days). I would expect the rest of the world would not find country music as appealing as pop.
Yet again another case of completely ignoring the IE market. You hipster hackers are all the same.
Pay close attention to the "status" listed under each header. Some of these features have already landed in master, and others are still in various states of proposal. The author links to the official RFC for most of the proposed features.

I'm not sure if the list comprehensions feature has made it past the mailing list though.
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I don't think anything 'designer' is what the OP was talking about. You're certainly right that designer clothes are not necessarily the best quality, as they are being sold on (at least perceived) exclusivity.

I do wear expensive jeans because they're comfortable and nicely made. I like a German brand called Hiltl:

http://www.hiltl.de/eng/index.php

I typically have about 3 pairs, that I replace when they wear out.

There are other nifty jeans like Hiut:

http://hiutdenim.co.uk/

Generally, the smaller and more craftsman-like the company the better. I think that agrees very well with the OP.
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