skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great article! I have been a small entrepreneur myself from time to time. I am currently working on something in the tiny scale, and would like to one day do the same thing on that type of scale.
Oh, you're right as an in-world thing. But I meant this sort of high technology described is in our future, ie I'm using 'in the future' as a proxy for 'science fiction.' Sorry about the confusion.
The axis wouldn't matter. You wouldn't notice which direction you were going (well I suppose if you noticed the sun, darn).
Where are you "doing Games Engineering"
HBO's content is available on a number of outlets as individual seasons and/or episodes.
Hello!

I own a game company (www.kidoteca.com) and I still own legally a sorta bankrupt game company (www.agfgames.com don't expect much on that site, it is sorta bankrupt for a good reason).

Also I worked with mobile games, and mobile apps that are not games at all.

And I went to a game school (I have a bachelor degree in Game Design and Planning).

First, the game industry as a whole, suck, the pay is HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE.

One year when I was particularly cash strapped, I dumped the game industry and went to a normal mobile dev job. My wage jumped BLOODY FIVE FOLD (I am not kidding).

Now that I am back working with games, I am earning half the money I was (some people might ask: why you are doing it? it is because I love doing what I do... and I won't switch unless someone offer me like 6 figures USD).

Beside the huge pay gap, the game industry is also very toxic, full of crunch, and full of jerks. Some people say it has rampant sexism. It is not sexism, actually most guys are not sexist at all (actually it is easier to find white knights than misoginists), but it is filled with jerks of all kind, noone is safe, NO ONE. You will get bullied for being female, male, black, white, asian, red hair, black hair, bad teeth, too good teeth, rich, poor, too good Team Fortress 2 skills, too bad skills, not liking Minecraft, liking Minecraft... People will just hate you, period. It would be like living and working with 4chan 24/7 (or just look at the most popular game forum: NeoGAF)

And finally, making games is HARD, DON'T do it because you think you like games you will like it, you will not, there are lots of boring tasks and crazy tasks. Do it only if you like what you have to do (or if you are good and can tolerate it).

Also, as consequence of making games being HARD, expect failed projects, companies, jobs, even marriages, game industry has lots of those.

And remember, although making games pushes you hard and forces you to learn a lot, you will find that your skills are quite unique and not much good for the rest of the market (With few exceptions of some specialities, like backend engineers or tool programmers), there are not much companies there wanting someone that can script levels in awesome ways, or that want a module file musician. And for coders, commonly in the game industry you might end learning Lua... Then good luck finding a non-game job that use that.

All that said, I can say...

Hell, I still love my job!
Why we love sad songs
Canada has Amazon's digital services? I was surprised to see Rdio on this list as well, but it does look like they now work in Canada.
Perhaps you meant `transform`, which will actually work in WebKit browsers (you forgot the leading `-`) and also be translated by jQuery to other browsers' prefixed property names.
This is fun stuff. That it can achieve these bandwidths without requiring an extra wide bus is also pretty impressive. Running a quad serdes into an FPGA or 64 bit CPU should be pretty straightforward (as opposed to an unweildly 256 bit wide GDDR5 bus). I so wonder what the power dissipation is like though. 10gbit SERDES ports on my switches get pretty warm (there is a XAUI phy connected to the 10gbit ports) Having 8 of them sitting under a chip seems like recipe for a hotplate.
Heroku: Elevated HTTP H99 Error Rate
Immigration reform: Getting there
In Player of Games, the Culture doesn't represent we humans on Earth. The Azad do. They aren't alien and different because of that.
This just in-- there is a strong and significant relationship between age and years of experience. Who knew?!

Also, job satisfaction and new feature dev!
The degree won't guarantee a job. I've talked to people at some of the bootcamps in SF, and the hiring rates and salaries are very good, something like 90% hiring rate at an average of $80-90k, which in general is a great entry-level salary. (And keep in mind that many of the 10% that don't get hired didn't seek jobs because they went off to try doing a startup).

I'd do the bootcamp, then do to school if and only if you feel like your lack of a CS degree is holding you back in your career. It may turn out that the degree is unnecessary: you can succeed and thrive in this industry without a degree, and never feel held back by your lack of a degree.
Well, you said:

> If you need to fork or kiss Google's ass to implement changes to it, then it's not really open.

You're right - you can't be sure to get your changes added to the codebase, but that's not to say it's not open. Hey, at least the codebase is there for you to fork and enjoy. It's not totally open (maybe, we don't really know that yet - you're just assuming it won't be) - it's certainly not closed like many others however.
Will this help unshackle WebKit2 development (an alternative to Chrome's multiprocess architecture)? It seems to have stagnated for quite some time.
An open letter to HBO Nordic
I concur with cs44. 80-90k is entry level, leaning towards 90k on that range.
This is what happens when you take postmodernism crazy think that comes out of the liberal arts departments and apply it to things in the real world.

Nothing can be right or wrong anymore. Everything is just your opinion. These people have literally written papers on how physics concepts like E=mc^2 are sexist.
If there is another provider that seamlessly operates at Heroku's scale (ie, that can handle arbitrarily busy Rails apps) at a reasonable price that has better request dispatching, I think it's very easy to show that you're right.

I'm not sure there are such providers, and if there aren't, I think it's safe to point the finger towards Rails.

As a system for efficiently handling database-backed web requests, Rails is archaic. Not just because of its memory use requirements! It is simultaneously difficult to thread and difficult to run as asynchronous deferrable state machines.

These are problems that Schmidt and the ACE team wrote textbooks about more than 10 years ago.

(Again, Rails has a lot of compensating virtues; I like Rails.)
I didn't go through much, but I'm quite sure that in that scale, It would be a flat line
At the risk of being downvoted as a comment that belongs on reddit, it'd be interesting to see a new rendering engine one day named Marquee.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that a dogmatic thinker responds with an ad hominem attack when their assumptions are questioned. I am, I assure you, quite sane. Sane enough to allow for the possibility of the reality of karma, which you do not, simply because you do not have evidence in hand at this moment in time.

Do some reading. Start with this: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html It's a probability-based argument for the notion that we are in fact inside an ancestor simulation. Would love to hear your thoughts on how you know it to be incorrect. Then go read some Descartes and tell me a cool story about how he's insane.

Trust me, I understand that your sandwich feels real to you. But that doesn't make it so. Any more than your opinion that karma doesn't exist makes that the case.
I think the game industry is magical because its one of the toughest. (yea, I'm ex OMHUGEGAMECOMPANY too)

Its like having to found a new startup every year while having to converge 4+ major disciplines to create products (software, art, music, writing, and more).

Brilliant fun, with steep challenges on every angle. @jmomo you sound a little jaded. Glad things are going better for you.
Bitcoin, or The 4 Main Stages of a Bubble
> Also, what Morozov fears is quite reasonable, if you look at the history of government regimes that have murdered and forcibly relocated their citizens in the name of productivity and (yes) openness.

Really? What regimes have murdered in the name of openness? And let's not mistake what regimes claim to do with what they actually do. China's Great Leap Forward waved equality as a banner, yet I don't see the resulting horrific famine as being a reason to roll back civic rights in America

Edit:

I read this passage a couple but cannot figure out what it means -- the OP is describing how open source arose from the free software movement:

> The problem was that companies could sell free software, but they weren't always happy about the public mucking around in their code and changing it. So O'Reilly helped a group of entrepreneurs come up with the alternative term "open source" software, which described a bunch of different licenses that people could use to release software in ways that free software would not allow. You might say that open source allowed companies to release code that was partly open, but partly closed.

O'Reilly already weighed in pretty effectively...but the OP must be referring to something that happened in reality...right? Was there a company that got into open-source because it was tired of how the public could just go "mucking" about in their code base without reservation? What does that even mean?
How Bitcoin Is Being Destroyed (oct 2012)
> You do not go to college to 'learn' talent. You are either born with it or not.

Can't say I agree with this entirely. I absolutely agree that going to college for four years will not make you into a good artist. But "being born with it" will not make you a good artist either.

Hammering away at it two hours a day from age 12 to 22 will make you a good artist. You may never be a great one (that is where being born with it comes in). But you will be a good one. And the same is true for most pursuits.

There was a great forum post a while ago where some guy could barely put together a stick figure and three years later (after an hour a day, every day) he was making oil paintings that people would actually pay for. I can't remember where though. Anyway, that sort of thing has nothing to do with talent. It's hard work and sticking to it.
ISP injecting advertising into customers' browsing
tested in Chrome only...and only "transform" didn't work, I had to add "webkit-" to work...to make simple, I prefered not put the moz line
I can't get it to display for more than a frame in the "web" configuration, everything is scrunched up in the corner. Anyone have better luck? I'm trying to get a screenshot but it's quite difficult.

*edit: got it! anyone sound familiar? http://i.imgur.com/6hKsLoJ.png
> C maps datatypes and actions to the underlying hardware, Javascript does not.

That's not entirely true. A lot of 8-bit microcontrollers, for example, do not have hardware support for arithmetic on 32-bit integers; nevertheless, C code using int32_t or uint32_t will compile just fine for those processors. This goes double for floats, if you'll pardon the completely unintentional pun.

It's a matter of degree, of course. C is still a lot closer to the metal than JS.
Everyone is picking their sides in this battle it seems.

I wonder what chrome for iOS is going to use (given that it's more just a wrapper around UIWebView with some chrome like features).
You do know that most of the WebKit code as it is is Apple's right? If anything it was Google who got a free ride.
That guy needs to read the talent code:

http://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-born-ebook/dp/B0...
Have you checked out Elastic Beanstalk yet? http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/

Any thoughts on that. It offers a Heroku'esque deploy.
I think you misunderstand. I am not assuming they are bad people who have bad opinions of me (obviously, I can't tell). Rather, I am taking a conservative position about whether I have offended them: I suspect I have, and its better not to do that.
Does anyone else have a realistic more aggressive timeline?
Hoodie - An architecture for frontend-only web apps.
Yes this was really well executed. Kind of a shame to see a lot of the top comments dominated by the picking at any inaccuracy they can find (not surprising, it seems a trademark of HN these days). Ok it isn't a perfect scientific simulation but rather a rough visual guide to grasp the scale of space travel, and I think it achieves that well.
That is not peer-reviewed research, and therefore I treat it about as seriously as I treat any other comment on the internet: at best incompetent, at worst maliciously deceiving. Considering its published by a company that makes money from freezing people...probably the latter.
That's definitely not a new trend.

http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html
The more less experienced developers you work with, the more time you spend refactoring the code they write.
Annalee Newitz comes across as very disingenuous here, to say the least. But then it is a Gawker site. Oh well.

Props to Tim O'Reilly for discussing what is basically a hit piece with good humor.
I have the Jellyfish tank and it's pretty cool, however, all the Jellyfish died after about a month. They were too hard to find, get caught up in the rocks a lot, and feeding was a pain. However, we still have the tank and use it to hold tropical fish now.

I would suggest that they go into the tank business and focus on unique designs, that's a scalable business with a big market. I wouldn't buy the Jellyfish again, but if they had another interesting tank, I would get that.
Amazon patents a lightweight, transparent Kindle for eyeglasses/windshields
They allowed Opera on the market. They allow other engines. They just don't allow private source code. Which just so happens to be part of Chromium.
In Search of a Happy Medium
I brought my son in to provide personal experience demonstrating that your guess about lack of sleep is completely wrong.

Every guess you've made since about how my family resembles your stereotype of a family that would medicate has been laughably wrong. I don't know what you think you know, or why you think you know it, but you've demonstrated a complete inability to acknowledge any experiential input. In light of that grotesque failure, I suggest that you question your own firmly held opinions. Because so far you're batting 0.

Here is another mistake of yours: if I was medicating my son for my sake, I'd medicate him every day, rather than arranging for him to be under the influence of medication only for the periods that he's in the classroom. In fact the main benefit that I have received so far is that I no longer have to comfort him while he's crying about how frustrating school was for him.

I hope for your children's sake that they never require assistance that you're unwilling to consider for them. Luckily most don't, so their odds are pretty good. But I'm sure that if you get the average result, you'll take all of the credit for them doing expectedly well.
Vendor prefixes were like Morrissey’s solo career: on paper, a good idea – but in reality, a horrible mess.

Best line of that blog post :)
Things I Want Made
Apparently WebKit for iOS according to this tweet that was retweeted by Paul Irish https://twitter.com/firt/status/319568764003819520
Fear wears many masks.
yes, but if I was gonna do that, I might as well tap bitcoin faucet or take a cruddy graphics card I have laying around and join a mining pool for a week.

I want to try buying things. No one's selling for 0.6 µBTC
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
1. Chromium will continue to build via gyp.

2. I'm not sure what you mean.

3. We can't, and don't want to, change the license of code that's already been released. That said, most (all?) of WebCore isn't LGPL. See my favourite file, http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/page/Con... for example.

4. WebKit and Chromium have historically had differing opinions regarding what makes a "good" comment. I think you can expect Blink's code to tend more and more towards Chromium-style as time goes on, but it's not going to happen overnight.

5. ~5 million lines of code that we don't currently compile or run in Chromium. That's a bit, but it won't have much effect on the binary size.

6. Short term, not much will change. Longer term, a few things will probably happen: for instance, the widget tree will likely be removed, and we'll likely be able to step back and reevaluate some changes in light of that.
Druid - Column Oriented DB
Search and Post Property for Sale Around the World-for Free
Househappy.org announced the official launch of its new photo-driven real estate platform for buyers, sellers, and brokers to search and post property for sale around the world––for free.

Our user-friendly design makes it easier and faster for people to find what they’re looking for and focuses on what buyers care about most – photos. Our mission is to simplify property search and make information accessible to everyone.
I'm semi-captivated by the idea. I'm not spending my (ha) fortune on it, but if the opportunity presented itself, I'd go.

You know how, for millennia, people have been drawn over the hill, to see new sites, live in places no one else has?

That's why.
Chrome for iOS will be forced to use WebKit as its rendering engine due to Apple's strict policies.
J.P. Morgan CEO Answers a Girl Who Wants To Marry a Rich Guy
But they are sharing their changes. Opera is switching to Blink, too.
EBS just recently added support for Node. It's definitely on the list as the next PaaS to try out. AppFog is another one that we've done a JVM deployment to and like a lot except for the fact that it just feels very alpha quality. Their website is painfully slow and under documented and the 'af' command isn't nearly as cool as just doing git deploy remote master.

I should also add that one thing that Heroku did get 100% correct is the heroku logs -t command (aka: tailing the logs). Nobody else does that one quite as well.
Code for America's 2012 Annual Report
Good to see you around here. (I gave up on metafilter.)

I also agree that language variations are interesting...but AAVE is clearly not its own language. The suggestions flying around here that it ought to be treated like a second language entirely are rather ridiculous.

You don't have to justify usage of the word "the" to a chinese person, they know that's what they have to strive for in learning professional english. It's strange how often I see people (basically) advocating that we racially discriminate in these matters. I don't see anyone advocating that langauge patterns commonly used by hillbillies/rednecks be considered a completely different language, but those people are not just poor and uneducated, but also white. It seems that compassion runs dry so quickly for people of the wrong race, whichever one has been deemed fashionable to mock in a particular culture/decade. I wish we could do away with it entirely, instead of just swapping discrimination against one for discrimination against another.
This is a technique that goes back decades. Put an ad in the classifieds section of newspapers advertising a product for $X plus $Y shipping and handling. Send a check to P.O. Box 12345, New York, NY and wait 6 - 8 weeks for delivery. If the number of orders weren't sufficient, return all the checks saying "Sorry, we sold out." If there are sufficient orders, the 6 - 8 weeks gives you enough lead time to procure the product from suppliers and fulfill the orders.
I had to look that up just to verify it was that much. 300M is a boatload of money per year.

http://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almos...
Classic Game Postmortem: Maniac Mansion (by Ron Gilbert)
Forking things is evil now? It's not like they're making this closed-source, or changing it to be so Chrome-specific that other browsers won't be able to use it.

...Or was your post satirizing the generic "Google did a thing! They're evil now!" posts? I'm sometimes bad at detecting irony.
My expectation is that we'll be posting more design docs to chromium.org more frequently. The best way to stay on top of that will be to join the blink-dev group (https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...) which will be ramping up shortly.
Really fantastic article. We sell the tank on Outgrow.me and have only received positive feedback from our customers thus far.
Well I just killall chrome processes anyway for my desktop to be usable, these multiple and dozens of chrome processes is an absolute nuisance, and it crashes my machine, my desktop, chrome is not even reliable coz it crashes on me everytime. if you want to get pissed bigtime, use chrome.
> compared to other players

Do you have a source for this?
Well that's ultimately kind of sad, right? It's certainly not the argument that was made in this blog post, but it certainly is a believable one. WebKit is a giant open source project that is relied upon by many many different companies and Google contributed a lot to that. Now they are gone and all those companies are left continuing to build WebKit with a goal of interoperability between the myriad different clients while Google takes their ball and goes home and only works on their own platforms.
I do agree that the gaming schools are mostly scams, but we're also simultaneously witnessing a shift in purpose and incentives to enter the field.

Hobby game dev is a Real Thing now and can be picked up by people without coding skills(via tools like Twine or Game Maker). Those tools are only going to get better, and the market for readymade assets is only going to grow. The cost of video game creation is likely to go down so sharply in years to come that we won't have anything resembling the industry status quo, which is tainted all over by cost and financing issues that drive all of the things we currently rail against(crunch, risk-aversion, socially detrimental profit-seeking, monocultural demographics).

As well, if we treat "gamification" as a core organizational goal, instead of a consultant's buzzword, then one can imagine a future in which new, forward-thinking organizations will find reasons to keep game designers on staff.

The transition towards low-budget indie efforts is a great immediate improvement. Although most who try won't be able to afford to do it full-time for very long, in that case crunch is self-enforced. We'll have a lot of passionate moonlighters instead of angry worker drones.
Apple trailed laughably behind Creative in the MP3 player and WinMo, Palm, and Blackberry in the smartphone market.

Who's winning?
The most exciting thing about Rust is that we keep seeing something that's already pretty good continually getting better and better.

This is much different than what we're seeing with the evolution of, say, JavaScript or PHP. There, the languages are pretty horrific to begin with. Any "improvements" tend to be yet another hack layered upon one or more earlier hacks. Even in the best cases, these "improvements" are merely bringing JavaScript and PHP to where many other languages were 10 or 20 years ago (if not going back much earlier).

I think the fact that Rust is already so coherent makes these improvements and refinements much more impressive. It's much harder, and requires more real innovation, to improve something that's already great to begin with. Yet that's exactly what we're seeing with Rust.
Second comparison's health insurance for the family was too low and I was using the salary a lot of startups pay around here.

I like my apartment. We're really lucky with this place. We pay month to month for this two bedroom in Mountain View. Slightly higher rent wouldn't really change the equation though.
Wake up at 10 am? I do more web surfing in bed on my smartphone by 7 am than you do all day.
Do you have a basis for this statement?