skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every blogger wants to be the person who "calls" a company peaking/declining/etc. I think the zeitgeist has been that apple is going to decline ever since Steve Jobs passing. While he certainly curated apples products well, all the smart people who created them are still around.(mostly anyway)

Everything is shifting to mobile, so its not a blue ocean anymore. Its going to be increasingly competitive and harder to hit homeruns with every product. Im happy to see at least 2 really competitive platforms to iOS out there. Consumers win here, and all three platforms benefit from having to stay competitive.
The PHP language is performant just fine, though it has a few warts (that could be solved by making HHVM support a superset of PHP).

The problem is that the interpreter is shite.
Wow. The first comment on HN in a long while that made we wish for a down arrow.
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Slate article has a little more info: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/29/moma_s_new_vi...

"As with their film collection, MoMA aims to obtain the games in their original format—as well as acquiring the source code."
Wait, did you just suggest that I have a lack of morals because I referred to a link on the front page of HN? Kindly go fuck yourself.

Also, it doesn't matter if there's a one in a million chance that running a Tor exit will get you raided for child porn -- the vast majority of people will not take that risk to help others remain anonymous on the internet.
It's a relatively trivial feature to implement (really just syntactical sugar), it probably just wasn't prioritized.
So is it more difficult for them to get Japanese games in their collection? The lack of Japanese games, save for Katamari Damacy, is pretty striking. Seeing Passage on the list also got a groan out of me.
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Does the game make you feel? Then it has artistic value.

I felt something playing this game. It has surprisingly good ambiance and seeing a bunch of pixel characters who have accepted their fate and were waiting for death, to me, gave it a level of emotional attachment I did not expect after I read the tag 'advergame'.

One thing you have to realize is that it's very hard to make games nowadays without some kind of income. If you are lucky, you only have to slum it for a few years and then you make a hit on the side. But more often, you have to do whatever it takes, unless you are willing to keep your day job.

I actually still agree with the Bill Hicks quote, but I feel there is some wiggle room when what is produced is actually a game, and in the end, does not fit the constraint of standard advertising.

IMO if more advertising were like this, the world would be a better place, and Bill Hicks would have been less angry.

And here I will quote Tool's Eulogy, which was about Bill Hicks, if you didn't know:

"He had a voice so strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, with
Someone who would die for me."

Just because a voice is loud and you agree with it, doesn't necessarily mean that it is entirely correct. I love the shit out of Bill Hicks and I still feel the world would be a better place if he had lived long enough to foster the change he felt he needed. But I still don't feel his quote applies to this game.
A nitpick, a phage is a virus that targets bacteria. They pretty much have no risk to humans, and are antibiotic resistent almost by definiton.
That's from 2 years ago. What is its relevance now?
Facebook and Twitter could be said to lack identify, too. Google's page of search results and ads. Couple of columns, ads, navigation. People understand it. The consumer is already educated. I dunno :)
Yes, but not for a long time.
I've just installed fish and it doesn't support bang (!) history nor some basic scripting tools (eg $?) which makes it pretty useless for power users.

I can see how the colours and suggestions are great to those who are new to the command line though and there were some cool features (eg highlight search phrases from grep). But most of that stuff is just emphasising stuff you'd learn to spot anyway, after using the CLI for years.

So as cool as it is, I really would find it more of a hindrance than a help.
Kinda weird that the author mentions Ctrl-R but not readline. History searching actually works for everything that supports readline, e.g. bash, ipython, psql, henplus, etc, although personally I use page-up / page-down with:

"\e[5~": history-search-backward
"\e[6~": history-search-forward

The terminal experience becomes crappy when there is no readline support, e.g. everything on Windows, sqlplus, db2, etc. When there is no readline, I really can't love the terminal.
print "foo=%(foo)s bar%(bar)s" % {foo:123,bar:321}

is incorrect. It should read:

print "foo=%(foo)s bar%(bar)s" % {"foo": 123, "bar": 321}
Could it just be because Rails and Django are FRAMEWORKS and not just CMSs?
I highly recommend reading this blog from the very beginning. He starts out REALLY simple and gently leads up to the more advanced stuff like helicopters. It's given me enough confidence to do some of my own stuff and I'm getting better.

Also, once you've followed the blog, try copying from other people like Angry Birds to see if you can recreate it. It's surprising how many game assets start to look like collections of simple objects whereas before you thought "how did they do that? They must be just brilliant."
this is so simple and fun.
There's a difference between big sites using a particular stack and people (thinking mainly pointy haired boss MBA types) having heard of it.

Lots of people have heard of wordpress because they have probably visited blogs with URLs that look like something.wordpress.com and they may have used it to write their own blog.

Some people will have heard of rails because it had huge hype at around ~2006 and very vocal advocates including 37s who were known through other avenues because of basecamp and because they blogged a lot.

Django on the other hand you may well not have heard of unless you have some knowledge of python or MVC frameworks (or read HN).
It would be also necessary to collect old hardwares or emulators.
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I'm actually going the other direction.

Our current implementation is a Drupal 6 site, and we are gearing up for a re-write in Rails.

For us, we find the 20% that isn't easily achievable to be a real pain point, and also that at our scale some of the design decisions in Drupal are pretty painful (20k+ users, 500k+ nodes).
Link electronic music that wasn't repetitive and wasn't released on Warp Records.

Oh, and then go back and play The Legend of Zelda all the way to the end, and then come back here and say it was good.

Also, you have a lawn? Lucky bastard.
> I think if you solve this, you've implemented GC.

Not necessarily. There are lots of ways around this that don't involve garbage collection. There I was thinking specifically about static analysis suggesting Objective-C weak pointers in some cases. There are also runtime techniques (including assignment-time checking), memory profiler techniques, and the potential for simple new techniques that could make this discussion shorter. (This assumes you aren't classifying reference counting as a "garbage collection" method, which is sometimes done.) In any case, you are still in a better position than in a garbage collected language.

But that is a long discussion about garbage collection, and it is getting far afield from the subject, which is why the note doesn't go into it further. The main point is that how you handle reference cycles doesn't matter.
17% of a small amount. 0.7% of a very large amount. Lies damn lies and statistics.
Ahh, about time I think. I'm very excited to see these in MoMA, if only for the discussion that was lingering around finally being brought to the forefront. Videogames (and now computer programs) are an art form. Some certainly deserve getting discussed and becoming part of a dialogue that treats them as such before diving in critically. Maybe it opens up entirely new dialogues for when new-release games come out.

As an artist, and a person who really appreciates the context of Art History as it relates to war/political history, this is good news. Video games are a cultural phenomenon that deserve to be in the art discussion, similar to how it took a while for hip hop to earn merit in the music discussion, even though its proponents knew it was art from the get-go.
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a great salesperson will never be selling something that they don't believe actually helps the customer

This seems very much like a No True Scotsman fallacy.
It actually does. Healthy people who get MRSA often end up fighting a long uphill battle. If you are in a hospital you are going to have a compromised immune system. When someone gets sepsis it is really nasty.
Looks interesting. Just a quick tip, the <title> tag spells Atreides wrong.
> because you are going to rewrite most the framework functionality anyways.

What part of Rails or Django do you have to rewrite because you are building a CMS?
Do not track is dying
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The iPhone is a great product, but it is no longer the best product for a significant portion of the market. This is due to the changes in demographics as the smartphone market has expanded and competition from sophisticated competitors with deep pockets, the desire to out innovate the market leader, and experience in commoditized markets.

Apple is fighting increasingly defensive campaigns because they are increasingly confronting the same sorts of challenges RIM experienced from them a few years ago.
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This video is about my 2012 season at the european drift series! Season start was a bit difficult for us, but finaly I won the overall championship in 2012 for the second time at King of Europe! Clip was made in OMG Visuals Studio by Dotz Tuning Wheels.
Finishing the First Episode of "Travel. Eat. Thrive."
Nice! New levels as pull requests are highly welcome! I guess you figured out they are all just json files?
Could you clarify on which design decisions prevents you from scaling to these numbers?
Yes yes yes. One hundred times yes. Not sure what it was but the whole experience was great. The combo of the music and graphics felt like art.
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Works with Firefox 16.0.2, unfortunately on Windows.
How's 30 years?

http://cjonline.com/news/2012-11-29/kansas-man-waits-more-30...
DF, Another World, and NetHack were three pleasant surprises out of that list (though I might have preferred Rogue or DCSS in place of NetHack, depending on what their focus is).

Then again, in increasing order of bafflement: Canabalt (fun and beautiful, but not sure if it's world-class-museum-quality), Animal Crossing, and Passage (what the hell??).
Aside from PHP being around twice as long and around for years during the nascent phase of open source web apps, the number one reason it has more and more popular turnkey apps is the same reason it "killed" perl: easy deployment.

The secondary reason is indeed cultural, but not it's nothing so abstract as what 37signals does. Rather it's the technical culture of moving fast and breaking things. With Rails you need to stay on top of upgrades all the time. If you are actively working on an app then this is a net benefit because you get new features. But it also creates maintenance work downstream, and not just with application code, but application servers are also relatively unstable. When you have something with a high heterogenous installation count like WordPress or other popular open-source apps, the pain of maintaining version compatibility and keeping it running over time far dwarfs any benefit of using a more powerful language like Ruby.
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And in some cases old televisions. The NES light-gun, for example, only works with CRTs.
Nice variation off of the Helicopter game [http://www.helicoptergame.net/]. Love the clean graphics.
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... and Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure and many others are just lisps.
My friend Nathan Agin is working to film the pilot for a new TV show about healthy food while traveling. Nathan is a nomad, in that he moves from place to place every few weeks. He's a great guy with a passion for healthy living. Check out his project!
Between this and the Oil Sands, it's starting to look like my fellow Canadians may signal the demise of humanity.
Try Ejecta! It implements the Canvas API in OpenGL and is pretty fast :)
http://impactjs.com/ejecta
I remember reading a while ago about an initiative to switch Emacs elisp implementation to use Guile backend. I haven't been watching that closely.

Does anyone have more information about the status of that project/initiative?
'"The advertisers have been extraordinarily obstructionist, raising the same issues over and over again, forcing new issues that were not on the agenda, adding new issues that have been closed, and launching personal attacks," said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford privacy researcher and Do Not Track technology developer who is involved in the negotiations.'

So get a better Chair.
Wow! I didn't know there is readline support for cmd.exe. This is great.
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The download is pretty massive, it is 6235641 bytes. Which is slow even on the multihomed fiber connection I am on. Still pretty neat.
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https://github.com/mindd-it/game-off-2012 this code, that was linked below the game?
completely unintersting , 8 GB of RAM only, for a developer machine soldered onto the mainboard ?!?!
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What software do you use to compute distances? The distances it gives are "as the crow flies" rather than driving distances. Specifically, I live near a large bay with one bridge across it about 50 miles from me. A city on the opposite side of the bay from me is listed as being 20 miles away. Ditto for a city on the opposite side of a river with only a bridge. This isn't the first place I've seen it, just wondering where you get the distances.

Also, how do you sort? I kind of expected a sort by distance or denomination or even alphabetical, but I couldn't figure out the order.

Nice service though! I found a few churches near me I didn't even know existed, and I've been in the area 15 years.
small bug : you can attack and kill your own units :)
You might like Grafx2, an open source Deluxe Paint-like program.

Full disclosure: I am a sometimes contributor. :)
Contracted vs grew is still in opposite direction and significant, but I doubt those numbers are right, they should both be growing.
"iOS revenue flat" is a good enough story in itself.
Pixelesque is the standard-bearer on Android. If you're looking for the zoom, try pinch-to-zoom gestures.
For anyone interested in playing Dune II natively I highly recommend Dune Legacy[0] - an open source implementation which
I personally found much better than OpenDUNE, which the link is based on.

[0] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dunelegacy/index.php?t...
my score: 3554.

it appears to me that the collisiondetection is of a different precision for different obstacles. that is kind of confusing...
I've also used http://www.feincms.org/ on a few projects with success. Was the most minimalistic CMS out of all the ones I tried.
It'd be interesting to know if it's standard practice for accelerators to do intensive pitch/mentoring days like this, or they are more inclined to pair teams off with mentors that make sense centrally or serendipitously.
Looks good. I'm always interested in ways to eat healthily while traveling.
You would still have an update problem with wordpress since it's a very popular attack target. One of the things that has made me shy away from using it is fear of running into a problem like "we need to upgrade to version X in order to fix a security issue, but version X breaks plugin Y".

I guess what I was mainly getting at was that prior to around the time that rails and 37s got going the idea of paying monthly for web based Saas hadn't really exploded in the public consciousness (of course this was due to many factors other than 37s and rails).

So web developers who didn't want to do consulting would naturally think of the shrinkwrap type model first as a way of selling software.
I'm currently dealing with similar issues. New symptoms started for me this summer, my GP and all the tests and specialists I've seen have no ideas.t

When I do my own research my GP brushes it off. I try to take that in stride -- I do recognize that I am uneducated in the field. But it's disheartening when a specialist comes up with my researched conclusion as one of their top possible explanations.

If you don't tick all their boxes on a list of precisely described symptoms -- which you must self-report -- for a condition that they've looked up moments prior to your appointment you won't get diagnosed correctly unless you are lucky and have managed to find a competent and caring doctor.
Great idea, but I couldn't find pricing. Even with a free trial, I'd like to know what it's going to cost. And "as low as X per month" doesn't count.
> If something with Drupal's advantages were available within Rails (as an engine or what have you) it would be a clear game-over for other stacks vs. Rails.

I have to disagree here. There are clear use cases for either Drupal or Rails. I understand why you yearn for a Ruby Drupal, because dealing with PHP is a hassle, but objectively there is little to be gained since Drupal is already a beast and performance would only be hurt by being ported to Ruby.

Aside from that, the key advantage that Rails or other low-level web frameworks have over Drupal is that they don't make any assumptions beyond the fact that you are using HTTP. With Drupal there is an incredible amount of pre-existing architectural cruft to enable its powerful functionality, but it creates a ton of overhead to deal with as soon as you want to do something that doesn't neatly fit it's paradigm. As soon as you brought something like this into Rails then you'd be defeating the purpose of its simple elegance.

I just don't see any way to separate out the best of both worlds. They have very distinct use cases.
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That's only 6MB, I think the server is just getting hit pretty bad from all the traffic
It's hilarious that the writer uses subtly flawed logic to convince the reader that shady and unethical salespeople simply doesn't exist in the real world.
True, but still consider that 0.7% of a very large amount ... is a very large amount.
So your advice to a guy who is brand new to art, and self admittedly can't draw, is to jump right in to volume and focal points because it makes the easy task of shading even more easy?
Sure dependency hell, it's a problem anywhere. It's the worst in Rails though. Absolutely 100 times worse than PHP.
both.

but at the events they usually try to get mentors that fit to the startups but keep the format as mentioned in the article.

during the acceleration time they usually pair them with specific mentors/advisors - but this usually needs to be pulled by the teams as well. (seedcamp and 500 do this very intensively imho)
Then there are those that claim to have injected themselves with these and then performed surgery on others.....There was a TED talk on this..... scary and reckless stuff.
Fish is not a POSIX shell. For example, instead of $? there is $status.
Perhaps it would be better to say: "a salesperson is unlikely to maximize their potential selling something that they don't believe actually helps the customer"

There are great salespeople the world over selling products they don't believe in — after all, great products tend to sell themselves — but you can bet your bottom dollar they'd be doing an even better job if they did believe in the product.
I'd like to know as well...the bottleneck with those numbers is likely to be the database, not Drupal, so if you switch to Rails and keep the same database, not much will change.
Haha, yeah, I noticed that immediately because I tried to "micro" like in Starcraft. Cycling units being attacked out of battles and units attacking in, etc.. Not sure if I had the same concepts back when I played it as a kid, heh.
My mother died from a hospital acquired superbug (MRSA) earlier this year......this is nasty stuff.
Psychopaths have emotions. What they don't have is empathy, or the ability to mirror and feel other people's emotions.
To you: The downvoters are personally annoyed that after reading two lines of what you wrote they couldn't deal with your opinion.

Out of curiosity, isn't going to a page where you already know from the start you aren't going to have anything nice to say a bit, trollish? :)
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Well, PHP CMS's popped up like crazy because a lot of PHP frameworks didn't exist or weren't popular yet when the CMS's started popping up. Also PHP has had a history of being anti-framework or a lot of reinventing the same framework concepts over and over again. With a decent MVC framework you can roll your own blog/cms in like an hour for the most basic of functionality.

With ruby and python having great frameworks for building things fast, devs are more likely to roll their own custom CMS than they are to use an off the shelf CMS that doesn't quite fit their needs.

In fact, django was built so that the devs working at newspapers could crank out little custom CMS's for their various data projects incredibly fast. It started as a CMS framework, so of course it would remove the need for a generic community CMS.
1. "Your previous language will help you." assumes you knew a language previously.

2. Be careful, as the old adage goes; you can write FORTRAN in any language.
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Cool idea, but it's not really clear to me when I'm able to reflect lasers. Is it completely random?
I think the game would be a lot more challenging with less reflecting. I kill way too many guys without meaning to.
Agreed. Real pricing information is necessary.
Could you comment a bit on the APIs you used, what worked well, and potential pitfalls?
These 3rd party download/revenue statistic websites are basically fodder for business tabloids - in a past life I had access to a large number of independent internal stats, and confirmed there was vary rarely any relation between actual and 3rd party estimated numbers.
WARNING: This game is dangerous. It stole 30 minutes from me without my noticing. Play at your own risk.

(by which I mean: Well done binarydreams - it's a cute game, and runs well on my browser!)
I think both Canabalt and Passage are great exponents of current schools of game making (if you can call the "indie game" and the "art game" a school). They show what people with similar interest to those that made Katamari Damacy are doing on much lower budgets.

Animal Crossing does seem odd though, specially considering The Sims is already there. Seems redundant at best.
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I like the suggestion to separate instruction from credentialing, allowing excellent students anywhere to prove themselves as such.

However, I strongly object to the business idolatry expressed: trading Nobel laureates for "entrepreneurs, inventors, and executives." Why not both?