skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drat, and I thought they'd rigged up a full-blown Markov Chain.
I think you touch on a major problem. There are two extremes now - the ultra-publisher umbrellas that push out AAA market products, and the indies composed of 5 guys in a basement. There are very few companies with 50 - 100 people in the mid-range making mid-tier games with good gameplay (not revolutionary) good graphics (not Crysis 3 here) and fill in an industry gap. They all get acquired by big publishers.

In the 80's, even when Nintendo was practically the only publisher on the block, development studios contracted to publish games with them, they weren't owned by them. Up until the mid 2000's studios weren't owned by the publishers like they are now. Look at how Blizzard / Bioware / Epic / id etc all got bought and brought under big publisher umbrellas.
>The key thing to remember is that you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you’re detracting from them because all your efforts are focussed on making them look attractive to other people. Your experience of something, even if similar to the experience of many others, is unique and cannot be reproduced within the constraints of social media. So internalise that experience instead. Think about it. Go home and think about it some more. Write about it in more than 140 characters; on paper even. Paint a picture of it. Talk about it face to face with your friends. Talk about how it made you feel.

I think this is precisely backwards. Social media sharing enhances my experience rather than detracting from it, precisely because it is so artless: I'm not thinking about how to describe where I am or what it looks like, I just check in or send a photo. If I were to follow the advice in the second part of this paragraph, I'd be doing exactly what the first half warns me against: focussing my efforts on how things look to other people.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of it before:
http://nimrod-code.org/
How to explain responsive design to your clients
Tech Coast Angels: Early Exits and Angel Investors
Excellent job and congratulations. If you can add Markov Chain text-generation I'll die a happy man knowing that we have conclusive proof Thomas Friedman can't pass a Turing Test.
Greggman's series on WebGL
For me a good profile on Stackoverflow & GitHub has more value than a master degree from Stanford.
Tablet Shipments To Grow 69.8%
But market forces were very different too. You would expect thousands of sales, not millions, and your development team was a dozen people, not five hundred.

Development got harder (more art assets to make, harder code to write, more of everything) markets got bigger (100 million Wiis vs 50 million NES's) and demographics shifted (from 8 - 16 year olds to 16 - 30 year olds).
Anonymous takes control of NK’s Twitter and Flickr accounts, defaces websites
> So, I must be misunderstanding you, because it seems like you're suggesting that
> you expected Chrome engineers to simply do all the work.

Nah, you're not misunderstanding, Apple/WebKit has a track record of doing this.
Waiting for the pope: http://i.imgur.com/sNTmp4s.jpg

In my opinion you miss a lot around you when you are constantly staring at the screen of your device.

Two days ago I was sitting at a birthday party. The guy next to me constantly took pictures sending them with Watsapp. I never spoke a word to him because he was busy with his phone all the time.

I'm still not sure what to think about that but I don't think I like the change.
Each to their own.

I enjoy seeing what my friends and family are up to, including the minutiae that might not otherwise come up in conversation. In participating, I also have an easy history of the things I've done to look back over. My wife loves TimeHop reminding her, via social updates, what she was doing on the same day a year ago. "Remember this?" Cue much reminiscing.

Further to that, all social sharing serves as developing a personal brand and there are social and commercial advantages to that whether all doing it realise or not.

"Paint a picture of it."

I almost laughed at this bit. Why not allow even more time for contemplative thought by first creating inks from scratch, using ingredients relevant to the original experience and naming each combination of colours to evoke just the right memories?
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The return of FuckedCompany is upon us... sorta
>> "Social media sharing enhances my experience rather than detracting from it, precisely because it is so artless: I'm not thinking about how to describe where I am or what it looks like, I just check in or send a photo."

How does checking in somewhere or posting a photo of something to your followers enhance your experience of something?
Transporter phobia, man as pattern, and the neo-Platonic oneness
Seen any other language used and maintained by more average Joes?

Because that's exactly one of the niches of Java -- enterprise programming by average Joes. It was even a stated design goal of the language back in the day.
How about both?

Work takes up a huge portion of your life and if you can bring interest and personal growth to your job then your whole life experience will be better.

BUT money is what makes life flow outside of work. This quotation from the end is certainly true - ”If you’re doing it for the money, you’ll always be underpaid” - Scott Bell

I just don't think it's a bad thing to want to be paid more and to be finding ways to achieve that :)
While synergistic, Kickstarter is definitely on the right side of the indie dev movement.

If there were no kickstarter, there would still be an increasing amount of indie devs. Of course their life would be much harder, and we would not be seeing the new Torment game.
No I do not think have been an entrepreneur makes you unemployable. You could be unemployable for a lot of other reasons. But it is likely that some entrepreneurs may not be happy in this situation and should an opportunity arise, they might go for it again.
cl.cam.ac.uk has a good reputation, so maybe that helps?

EDIT: of the 21 pages of submissions for that domain it seems that he's the only person posting it to HN.
Definitely need studies now to prove post stretching provides benefit, otherwise it seems like just another Holiday Inn statement

You could have talked to Olympians XX years ago about their pre-whatever-sport and heard them say stretching beforehand is a must-have
I write go in eclipse and the experience is pleasant. What is the showstopper for you?
If the banks ever start adopting it, then trading Bitcoins should become pretty decentralized.
Kind of like Google Wave was cool then?
Feedburner replacement uri.lv launches premium features
I still think the Serpent Riders trilogy is one of my top 3 franchises. The atmosphere, puzzles, etc all made my childhood. I hate how there is practically nothing in that geek-fantasy FPS genre with swords and sorcery that takes it seriously (besides Edge of Chaos).
A Call for Constant Vigilance
That is a bug in WebKit and they've submitted patches upstream even...
Personally, I agree. I know there are differing opinions but I don't care most of the time what my friends & family are up to in real-time. They'll tell me when I see them. I like to write about things I have done if I have some opinion of it, or if I'm proud of an achievement, but that's about it. People don't necessarily need to know what I'm doing right now if it's nothing particularly special or new.

Conversely, I don't need to necessarily need to know what they are doing all the time. But if they feel the need to share, fine. I just hope that if they read this post, by you, they might critically think about their current behaviour.
My parents' generation would share holiday snaps or even host slide show evenings for neighbours after traveling somewhere. I think that photo sharing on Facebook etc. is just the modern version of that and as back then, we have people who find this obnoxious, interpreting it as a form of bragging.

I believe it may be a little bit bragging, but is mostly validation-seeking. Many people just seem to be wired in a way that craves a social response to their behaviour. Call it neediness, insecurity, whatever...I think the kindest thing is to simply identify it as a personality trait.

Back in the slide show days I remember being impressed by the stance my parents took which was to sit back and enjoy the holiday snaps as much as they could, because the person showing them was getting something out of that.

Today, I will act interested in a dream a co-worker wants to tell me, not because I am particularly gripped by how they "were flying, but also not, and everyone's face was Graham from accounts", but because it seems to make them happy to have someone listen. If simply clicking a "like" button or posting a thoughtful comment can give someone warm fuzzies (and we know it does) then I'll do it.
Ouch, I wasn't aware that CAs issued this type of "root" certificates. Is this very common, or will only some CAs do it? If the latter, I'll definitely remove them from my computers list of trusted CAs..

Edit: read the DANE article, seems very sensible and simple to implement that the server specifies valid certificates.
I forget where, but the entire story of how NS2 came to life is a paean to the dedication of its fans.

IIRC they had a build out and no one cared too much - until one of their fans started putting out gameplay videos on youtube, every single day.

The firm recruited him to be their head of marketing after that.

I suspect rock paper shotgun had done the story.
Separate data and engine packages, engine package distributed by Debian, data left as the responsibility of the user. That way the iD games are in debian too.

eg. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/quake
Beginners guide to app marketing
Yeah, kill the growth model for most "social" companies. The amount of noise is really counter-productive. I know one can just turn it off, but I don't want to live in society where most don't turn it off and focus on presenting life to others instead on life itself.
I tried shifting from measuring how long I work to measuring results. And it was more traumatic. I would be agonizing everyday that I was taking so long to come up with anything concrete. It was especially true for doing anything creative, where its not really correlated to time spent.

What I would really like to know is how to shut off the entrepreneur guilt. There's always something to do at any time, and you're perennially guilty.
This is the same guy who exposed similar flaws with Tesco's (UK supermarket chain) systems [1].

Why on Earth these companies are given free advice, but think they (or their PR folks) know better is beyond me. Take the advice! You've now got a security flaw, documented, waiting for Joe Hacker to take your customer's data and shoot a hole through your business, and its reputation.

[1] http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-...
You might already know this, but Chrome automatically selects hyperlinked text when you right-click it. You're not able to select a part of it, but if you want to copy just the text, all of it, you can right-click any link, and then choose "Copy", right under "Copy link address".
Valve's GDC Talk: Porting Source to Linux [pdf]
Including themselves?

They're not making any money off this, Alcor is a non-profit and the wages of the personnel involved are fairly low.
I wasn't going to include the "Buy something" point, but did you read that Yelp review? Jeez, apparently people need reminding...
Mandatory plug for freedoom: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...

Off the top of my head, I know Heretic and Doom have custom models and textures from the Doomsday guys, I know there is a high res quake texture pack, there is a high res Jedi Knight pack, but none of those include levels / models / sound / etc, so they are all addons to the base games.

Freedoom is the only total conversion of a FOSS'd major game engine with FOSS assets that is actually playable that I know of. If anyone knows another, let me know, I'd love to play them.
Silicene: a two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, similar to graphene.
Just because it does other things doesn't make it not a router. The primary purpose of a router is connecting different networks at layer 3, and a consumer-end box is certainly doing so.
These games were based off idTech3, I wonder if ioquake3 will refactor to support them.
Creating a custom icon font using IcoMoon
This, this, a million times this. I recall a professor very fond the phrase "you may wish to examine your motives".

I have found that fantastic advice and hear it most of the time before I click "post", "reply", "submit", etc.

Even here, now. I'm about to post this comment. Do I want karma? Do I need an outlet for the thought? Why am I posting this? Have I achieved everything I wanted by just writing it and actually could just close the tab without hitting reply?

It is not a pleasant feeling.
The sources don't contradict each other? 1.1 is several times faster then 1.03 in both benchmarks.
Sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me.
Check it out: http://en.miui.com
His comment doesn't not make sense just because "See also" isn't "usually" used that way.
Add native HTML5 fullscreen button on your website
Simulating bad network conditions on Linux
Haskell lightweight threads overhead and use on multicores
Any user process cannot allocate executable memory, hence you cannot have any JIT.
Mobile web developers should already be used to testing their work on multiple different devices anyway. The deployed versions of WebKit differ quite significantly across the myriad of mobile devices on the market, and WebKit is just the layout engine anyway. It doesn't run JS or talk directly to the network stacks, and it isn't responsible for any GPU acceleration that may or may not be available.

If you're doing anything more complicated than serving static HTML and images to mobile devices you will already need to test on as many different devices as is feasible for you. It's basically unheard of for something to work across all WebKit based browsers just because your CI is telling you it works OK in desktop Chrome.
Sigh. Sorry about the mess.

I opened the thread first thing after waking up this morning, commented before having cup of coffee and resulted in misreading the whole point of that comment.

I'll try to drink more coffee from now on. Sorry knotty66.
> With NaCl one has to provide multiple EXEs for each platform that one wants to support be it ARM, x86 or x64.

So websites written today wont be viewable/runnable on architectures created tomorrow unless someone goes back, updates the NaCl tooling, gets the updated NaCl tooling to the original author and convinces the original author to fix his broken, platform-dependent website.

Excuse me if I say that sounds like a bunch of horseshit. If this had been invented (and embraced) before the advent of mobile-devices, half the internet would be unusable on smart-phones and tablets now.

Why on earth would we ant to create that sort of problems for the future? Websites tend to stick around, maintained or not, and new things will always emerge.

NaCl is a bad idea for any cross-platform medium and the internet in particular. End of story. The only people rallying NaCl are Google-fanboys who can't even see past their Google Chrome browser when testing regular websites.

I can't wait for this non-standard monstrosity to die.
Agreed - you can definitely want to be paid more, especially if you are working above and beyond the call of duty.

The key thing, I think, is to strike a balance. And I know it's often overused but [Maslow's hierarchy of needs](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nBko7m9CLQI/UKWSkHf-JwI/AAAAAAAAA8...) is pretty spot-on here. Once you've got to a certain level of pay, where you're making good enough money to get the things you need to survive comfortable (Safety + Security), enjoying the job takes more priority.

If you're being paid so poorly that you can't even survive, enjoying what you do isn't sustainable. But enjoying what you do might lead to better pay, for sure :)
I think someone else tried this before. It is not working out very well though. Who was it.. Oh yeah - it was France...
Also, make sure your Internet connection is secure. Set up a VPN (or buy from a provider) to be 100% safe.
I know this sounds bitter, but I read this comment and my interpretation (of the ideology, not how you said it) is:

"Our shitty slow and poorly architected mess of document and script languages is too slow for good application performance, everyone, start floundering around looking for some technology to squeeze another inch of performance out of everything so we can maybe hopefully make our awful mess work finally"

It is probably my bitterness towards XML, but I feel like the whole "use-a-document-markup-language-as-an-application-builder" is making people do crazy things, and not in a good way - it is happening because html is entrenched, and it is the only truly device-agnostic framework right now. So everyone tries to make it work for everything.

I just see it as a sad circumstance is all.
Use them all? Try them out and decide for yourself? I think you'll find we are in the lucky position where we have lots of options. Each option can be a viable solution, most stuff comes down to personal knoledge, experience and preference.
Your startup might find itself on that list pretty quick if it's in the habit of shelling out $5k for dubious data products...
That's always been the case. (Linux < IBM, Oracle, Redhat. FreeBSD has corporate sponsors and so on).

For any project to succeed, it's going to need some kind of funding. And often that means turning to big businesses, who have deeper pockets than all of us little people combined.
It's an operator but nobody should be forced to remember that it's an operator when it doesn't matter.
What a consumer NAT box typically does is not routing. Routing is IP forwarding without messing with the packets.
See the link in my post.

Here are various other kinds of middlebox devices that are also generally about connecting networks at layer 3 with various side effects vs routing (just like NAT):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlebox#Types_of_Middleboxes

None of these devices are internet routers. It's just wrong terminology.
> Lack of exception handling is the biggest reason I haven't used Go for much.

Go does exception handling with panic, recover and its reflection syntax.
If the author of the website has updated his NaCl tooling and his website after updating his tooling.

That's a big if.
Some of the fonts look horrible in FF20/Linux x86-64..
You mean having full-time engineers handling merge conflicts / upstream breakage / regressions / running test suites? In anything sufficiently large, that becomes a major issue inevitably.

Almost any project worth its salt has someone doing testing. But it is really time consuming.
I completely agree. Money is still very important and should also be a priority. If you are adding a lot of value to the company you work for then you should be paid accordingly and rewarded for your efforts.

My point here was that if you're focusing more on what you do and less on what you're being paid, then the latter should become a much easier thing to achieve.
I'm using it for quite a while already, there was a link to them here, like several months ago.
Right, but the original comment is also quite right that the speed is being misreported and the actual speed you're going (reported as 7000 pixels per second) is 3x the speed of light:

(12742 km) / (100 px) * (7000 px)/s / c = 2.975
Ha ha, no worries. I'm sure my lazy English contributed with the 'see also', too.
> What can you do?

> Like our favorite author here at Tibanne says… Don’t Panic!

> “Panic-selling is a wide-scale selling of an investment which causes a sharp decline in prices.[...]” (Source: Wikipedia)

But... But I want it to crash! Just a little! So I can finally buy lots of bitcoins myself!
There is a time and place for all criticism. A standalone criticism of their choice of hosting on the very first day is most definitely out of place. Have some common courtesy.

Don't be that guy.
I know that. But for some reason there is an extreme reliance on mtgox for price information. Even trades in -otc are usually based on the mtgox price. So maybe I worded it wrong, it's not so much trade that is centralized but the trade/price broadcasting.
I like the consistency of using parenthesis always. Just like some people insist of putting them in logical statements even if they do not affect the order of evaluation in that particular case.
Pop quiz: what are possible results of running sizeof(char)? It's just another thing to note ;)
A cache of files cracks open the offshore secrets of the mega-rich
From my (non coder) point of view it's hard to understand what drives the continual expansion in programming languages.

Is there a general principal for creating a whole new language as opposed to adding features.?
Could you have a language where you could have a setting for something like static typing vs dynamic typing? The language would get more complex, but seems like it would still be less complex than a whole new syntax?
Yes. HN is loading slower than normal, however, so you'll have to wait for a full assessment. This whole three-way handshake thing is not such a great idea from Mars.
My programming journey started more than a decade before Stack Overflow came into existence, but Stack Overflow-style forums were always a very big part of it, so the concept is certainly not new to me.

I've found some utility in the site when I want to see a quick API reference example from a popular library, but find most of the content to be not particularly interesting to me at this stage. I have found that there is minimal content in the subjects I am interested in today, with more dead ends than answers, leaving very little draw to the site for me.

Based on my own history, I feel like if I had started programming when Stack Overflow was an available resource I would still be at the stage where the kind of content on the site would be incredibly fascinating. I used to eat that stuff up like it was going out of style. But at some point you start to see the same patterns and it all begins to feel repetitive, even if the names have changed.

Perhaps people with longer programming histories simply outgrow Stack Overflow? I still turn to it once in a while, but don't see it as the incredible resource many others seem to.
I see what you did there... Clever.