skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are so many virtually identical FPS out there these days I have to believe the genre is due for a slump in sales. These days as soon as I discover a title is an FPS I pass over it in search of something novel.
This is mostly obvious. I documented the hell out of my Google Voice app for dumb phones https://code.google.com/p/gv4me/ , but no one else ever contributed to it. That's the only project I've built that I've ever had much luck with people using. I've put together various useful things here https://github.com/csmatt that I haven't had even had 'user traction' with. I'm starting to think that open source/side projects need the same level of marketing as commercial products. Am I doing it wrong?
That's what the person here did, so yes indeed.
Kill the Java browser plugin. Also, delay by another year and use the opportunity to bring in Jigsaw. Lambdas are nice, but in the big picture, Jigsaw is huge.
FriendFracker: irrevocably delete between 1 to 10 random Facebook friends
No, it's not. Pictures like that never happened. I know it's anecdote and all, but all of the 15 or so people I know who work in Boston, did not work on Friday.
I totally agree. If people want to complain that there are not enough female software developers, then start at the source, not the editorial page.

Give young girls role models that are not exclusively pink loving homemakers. This is one of the first notable steps in this directions I've seen and I applaud it.
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I don't think that's forgotten, there's certainly no doubt in my mind that by removing a large chunk of the population it made it a lot harder for the suspect to get away. What I do doubt is the proportionality of the response.
> Everyone living in the internet age has learned to attach probabilities to everthing we read.

"Everyone" is a red flag that this sentence is an example of what it refers to.
Seems pretty likely that Jigsaw will take > 1 year to complete.
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No, not even $100 million or $1b a year.

There's a point at which health becomes more important than money. If someone is working so hard that the stress is taking such a toll that their marriage is at risk, they end up in a mental hospital, and/or are considering suicide, money ceases to become a consideration.

The most important thing for employers to consider in this sense is the wellbeing of their employees - this comes above everything else. If someone is healthy and happy, they can do a lot. If someone is stressed and unhappy, they're going to produce little.

And at the end of the day, the best way to improve performance is to ensure a proper work/life balance. It's about working smarter, not harder.
Russia's treatment of Chechnya doesn't explain why these two knuckleheads, who stayed in the US as refugees for a time, decided to blow up a bunch of Americans. Maybe Chechnya is a shitty country because it's full of Chechens, and the Russians feel the need to be brutal because they're tired of schools, theaters, and subway stations being blown up.
We have this issue in the obj-c community for Cocoapods, one of the the best choices we've made lately is to refuse libraries that do not have a license. Definitely wish that github would make you put some kind of license on a repo if you are going to make it public.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos - just to make it easy for others to appreciate this gem.
Yes, I saw that too, but now it says 90, maybe it is hardcoded and updated manually? weird...
You don't need every customer
If you click through the Wiki to Libraries, there's a list of them here: https://www.love2d.org/wiki/Category:Libraries

The examples Scaevolus lists are all in there.
Show HN: Open Sourced CampFire (sounddrop.fm look-a-like)
"Real value" requires a market, otherwise it is just chalk talk. Summly's execution is far more impressive to me for the simple fact that they actually executed it.
The sports game analogy is spot on. We don't watch breaking news to learn the facts, we watch it to observe the drama.
Critique of the linking to Chechnya from Aljazeera - http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201304200024-0022691
Not in the slightest. Humans live for perhaps 30,000 days total. If you make 30,000 humans waste a day, you've destroyed one life in its entirety. If you make 720,000 humans waste an hour, you've destroyed one life.

Security theater in the U.S. has cost many thousands of lives in the past ten years, for nothing.
It dawned on me one day -- whores probably didn't want to make that decision. I could be wrong, but I think it means despiration. Jesus hung-out with whores. To put that in perspective, just imagine sucking someone's dick.

I live in vegas. If I took a job, it would probably be casino... or Ratheon with the drones. Get out!

God says...

24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
24:4 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again
to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination
before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

24:5 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at
home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

24:6 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge:
for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

24:7 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

----

God said, "pride or money, choose one"

I think there is humilation in all the jobs. Many CEO's have to make payroll. After a while, psycopaths.

Google guys stole bandwidth in the early days.

It's not uncommon to hear selling-soul stories. I'm not sure I view that as something to be punished for -- I tend to see highs and lows balance, and, ironically, selling your soul is like sucking dick -- it's the low, not the high. It's a humiliation that will keep on haunting.

God says...

which Joshua left when he died: 2:22 That through them I may prove
Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as
their fathers did keep it, or not.

2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out
hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by
them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
3:2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to
teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3:3
Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the
Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount
Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.

3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would
hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their
fathers by the hand of Moses.
Great job finding a niche in the beer industry, sorry it didn't work out this time. Do what you already did: find a product or service that you think people want, test your theory, and build a business around it. Sell something you have an interest in and your enthusiasm will shine through, thus increasing your odds of success.
Note to self: don't post an enthusiastic comment on someone's thread if they have a similar name. I was really puzzled as to why I got so many downvotes on that comment.

You're wrong, though. I'm not the "author submitter." Believe it or not, Alex is a common name.

And what is an "astroturf attempt"?
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I use "UNLICENSE" for projects licensed under that license, as recommended.

From http://unlicense.org/: You would traditionally put the above statement into a file named COPYING or LICENSE. However, to explicitly distance yourself from the whole concept of copyright licensing, we recommend that you put your unlicensing statement in a file named UNLICENSE. Doing so also means that your project can more easily be found on e.g. GitHub or Bitbucket, enabling others to reuse your code in their own unencumbered public domain projects.
The funny thing is, in a way, Stallman and Apple agree: users should be able to modify and enjoy their devices any way they like. For the hackers, that means root access. For normal users, that means being able to install apps without worrying about security and privacy. The Stallman model drives the internet's infrastructure, but the Apple model now drives consumer computing. We can argue about the particular provisions (I do prefer Android), but apps work.

I think the GPL was a legal solution to a social problem: companies were hoarding software and trying to patent it. But software patents are still illegal in most of the world, and the best way to ensure software cannot be patented is to publish it under a permissive license, and demonstrate prior art. Regardless of intent, licensing something under GPL is a kiss of death in certain cases, so it acts a bit like a patent anyway: it scares away commercial competitors.

Tivoization is also interesting, because we sort of have a modern day Tivo: Netflix. It's so convenient and affordable, people don't care how the video is being delivered. Instead of Tivo hacking, there's the Netflix API. (http://developer.netflix.com)

The fact is, software- and content-as-a-service have largely made the GPLv3 irrelevant, because the goals it's meant to enable, i.e. freedom and accessibility of software, have been realized in different ways. Society at large simply does not care about a Grand GPL future. It does care about privacy, and being able to export their data from the services they sign up for.
This is seriously awesome. I take special care to upvote these kinds of projects, as they embody the hacker spirit: hack something that has never been done before in an awesome way, and to hell with practical value!
Looks like you've got some big haters inside HN, as I have got down-voted for no-reason! :)
I think the keyword here is startup. Having a significant number of enterprise/business customers whose bottom line is impacted by your product/service would probably mean you're out of the startup phase.

At a minimum, it's at least out of the early startup phase to which the OP is likely referring.
Going off topic...

The "technical debt" term was created to explain the situation in a way that your boss (that knows a bit about money) could understand and make usefull analogies. Framing it in terms of entropy, altough more precise won't achieve any of those goals.
Are there Vermont syrups or cheeses that have far flung demand? Perhaps a Vermont of the Month club if interest in Vermont itself is high enough.
Christ I've just tried out helm and it's simultaneously blowing me away and surprising me by exposing emacs builtins I'd never known about. It's far easier to recall objects to act on than named functions.
Although I don't have numbers, I'm not aware of very many enterprises with extensive fleets of java applets. Java in the enterprise tends to be either stand alone programs (i.e. Swing), or EJB driven middleware with JSP on the front end.
I was hoping this would be a commentary on the genre being - with the rarest exceptions - a mess of utterly derivative, barely distinguishable dreck.
This is a really important problem. I can't count the number of times I have seen something promising on GitHub only to notice on closer inspection that it has no license attached at all. Or, almost as bad, it just says "License: MIT" at the end of the readme with no link or actual license text, which I doubt (IANAL) is legally meaningful.

Sometimes I respond by filing an issue, titled "License?", where I gently suggest applying the MIT or Apache license or something similar. Usually that's what the authors intended, they just forgot, and are receptive to adding it. But I still kind of hate to be That Guy. Even though it's important, it feels like I am trying to correct someone's grammar. I wish more people would step up and be That Person so I wouldn't have to be.

I do generally use MIT-LICENSE.txt on my repos (and some other variations on older ones) so I agree that a slightly more general script would be nice if we are to solve this programmatically.
No worries, happy to help. There are quite a few more noticeable ones throughout the file, if you rock Sublime Text, you can enable spelling checking through View -> Spell Check. On OS X at least F6 is the sort cut to toggle it.
that's an app, that I'd rather not test myself. why don't you explain how it works?
Yay Chopra went after me
I have a similar feeling regarding PvP games. Not so much for any simulated violence, but rather for reinforcing the zero-sum philosophy of, "For me to win, another human being has to lose." However, I don't feel the same about many non-RPG, zero-sum games, like chess or poker.

Maybe because it's easier to be detached from cards and plastic pieces, than from a character in an RPG - who has a name, 'friends', a pet, a history of achievements, etc.

You can call me a "care bear", but I personally don't feel that reinforcing such a limited world-view is how I want to use my time and energy. And it's not something I describe as fun.
The FPS mechanic seems like it could be much bigger than Call of Duty style. You can have the gritty style without the violence: Brave Firefighters is an old coin-op game FPS in which you put out fires with your water cannon gun, rescuing people in the process. Or you can keep the violence, but make it silly, like Mario games. Team Fortress 2 sort of points in that direction, and could be taken a lot further.

Instead of abandoning FPS games, why not try to disrupt them by working on non-traditional FPSes? The genre is in a rut, and could use a big dose of innovation.
For anyone looking to learn more about Chechnya regardless of whether it's linked to these attacks, I'd highly recommend Sebastian Smith's "Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya".

For wider reading on the region, I thoroughly enjoyed Oliver Bollough's "Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus", a nice blend of travelogue and history from the journalist who was Reuters' correspondent in the caucasus throughout the late 90s and early 2000s.
Lessons Learned Running an HTML5 Game Competition for Students
This book has a lot of great advice for how to find and develop a niche business: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YH9MMI/?tag=dedasys-20 - it's very much written for people starting with a minimal budget, wanting to do something small/niche.

I think the important thing is to keep trying stuff until something sticks. Good luck!
no, but someone contesting this would have to prove that the original request was ill intentioned. which is pretty much impossible to prove.
was typed on swype :) didn't notice the typo
I sure hope they arranged that the image he saw was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
Looks pretty good, but I basically stare at my computer all day long, and sometimes well into the night. I'm not sure 13" is enough screen. Opinions?
> it's not just FPSes

Quite right. Violence is the simplest form of human conflict, the one we can most easily adapt to games. Even chess is an abstraction of war strategy.

But personally, I'm much more OK with fairly abstract strategy games than I am with games that shove a gun in your hands and shower you with blood. It's exhausting. I have no problem with those games existing on the market, I'm just so very tired of the fact that nearly every big-budget game centers on shooting people in the face. Or stabbing them.

If nothing else, I've been doing that in videogames for the past 20 years now (since Wolf3d and Doom), and it's getting boring.
Why does the writer present Superdad's problem as unavoidably exposing their child to violence by having them at work and not the fact that they have their child at work?

Why do they make solemn vows about not creating overly violent games with their new company and not vows about not having their developers work 80 hours a week?

Why is virtual death more important than the death of the working week and developers' social lives and well-being?

Why, in an article supposedly about creating a better future world, is development being a terrible industry that chews up and spits out people complacently accepted as a foregone conclusion?
Which part was illegal? Selling beer online? Or the trademark issue?

If its just the trademark issue, then just change the name and carry on.
Not a fan of the popups either, but I like the cool demo feature they've built for any website.
Were they interested in a partnership? Sounds like you were increasing their sales. I'm guessing you were paying retail price to resell it, too?
Did you even read the article? You're doing exactly what the author warns against. You're casting an entire country as psychopathic terrorists because a couple of émigrés did something horrific.
"If you sell a 99-cent app to just 1% of the people who bought new iOS devices in the 2012 holiday quarter alone, you’ll clear about $519,750."

http://successfulsoftware.net/2013/03/11/the-1-percent-falla...
Is that an automated process or do people manually inspect proposed libraries?
I'm not sure it's really that complex, in their statement they've announced they will honour one purchase per person, not bulk buys, and it's quite easy to limit how many people make purchases either by manually watching it, or even with a little bit of code to kill it after X sales. Regardless, I either respect Razer for their pro-customer decision, or for their marketing idea, either way.

(And I don't think the Blade will ever be available outside North America. It's an irrelevant product that they created as a marketing gimmick.)
Frankly, I hate it when sites do this. I'm trying to read your article or find out about your product by myself, why would you interrupt me to ask for feedback or conduct a survey? Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty demo, but from an usability stand point there has to be a better way to handle these things.
I worry that I'll have my computer off for the weekend, and miss some entries on a frequently updated feed.

I guess a good solution to address both of our problems would be to run a hosted Reader clone.
Privacy in bathrooms is accommodated through the use of private stalls. Why should you have privacy from someone with different body parts but not privacy from someone with the same body parts? What about transgendered people, or people born with a mixed gender? We all make the same body noises so if the privacy is there via private bathroom stalls, why segregate people?

Regardless of that point, the question was why "Girl Scouts" but not "White Scouts". Modern society frowns upon segregated bathrooms by skin color (look to the southern US for relatively recent examples of that) but not based upon sex. So just as there are segregated bathrooms for male vs female, there are also segregated baseball and volleyball teams, segregated schools, and many other examples where the division is by sex.

Maybe Scouts is one example where it should get with the times and there isn't a particularly good reason why it should be divided by sex, as could be argued for some sports where there are physiological differences justifying the segregation. However, I don't find it particularly archaic that a private organization exists which has separate groups for male vs. female. It would be archaic if only the female group has sewing, or only the male group has hunting, and if that is the case they should modernize those areas.

But it is a private organization and if people don't like the way the organization is run they are free to not participate. Anyone can start up their own private organization which allows members of either sex. Call it the Adventurers or the Pioneers, and have similar achievement badges. That sounds like a good idea to me.
I'm also curious to see what makes it illegal. Do you need a specific license to sell alcohol?
If you're curious about the legal side of linking in non-C languages,
the following legal analysis of the LLGPL (Lisp Lesser GNU Public License)
is an interesting read:

http://www.ifosslr.org/ifosslr/article/view/75/146
> Don't forget the conservatives in management who want to "diversity" the programming and defunding due to the "socialist" content.

Yes, very true. Management reacts to a conservative social trend by avoiding content that might be looked on as too liberal, this offends liberals, which causes a further drop in audience numbers, and a death spiral begins.

This speaks to a general rule in television programming -- everybody want to have the "least offensive program". The least offensive program is the program that is so bland that it gets the largest audience simply because it offended the smallest number of viewers.
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Regardless of what idea you pick, if you're going to start any business you need to do it the right way.

First - research your business idea. A google search for "selling beer online" would have quickly lead you to many articles like this: http://billybrew.com/the-ins-and-outs-of-shipping-beer which detail where and why shippping beer is illegal.

Second, if you're selling someone else's product it's a good idea not to register a domain with their exact product_name.com. You're extremely lucky that you weren't sued. Find out if they put any restrictions on letting you re-sell or being an affiliate.

Third, research the method you intend to use to sell your product. In the future depending on your product you may choose to go a payment processor or a complete solution. Do your research and see what other people with similar business models are using. You also got extremely lucky with ebay, because selling alcohol is against their terms of service too: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/alcohol.html

So, I think in part, the reason your business was successful was because you were doing several things that are completely illegal, out in the open. You were the only choice for that audience because going the legal route to sell that beer online isn't easy and is probably costlier.

Fourth, you will be running a business. That means taxes, registering your business, managing the income and expenses, etc. Find a book on setting up your business or google for any of the thousands of blog posts on that topic and you will find lots of step by step guides that tell you exactly what you need to do and what specifics you need to know for your state.

That's the easy stuff. The hard part will be finding a worthwhile idea, digging in, testing the idea and then sticking with it. You've got your work ahead of you. Good luck.
Requests from the chief of police carry the force of law (including felony convictions for disobeying them). Failure to obey a lawful order from a police officer is a felony in every state.
First of all, that's not at all how I interpret the 4HWW book. That's subjective, of course, but I personally didn't like the book or find it useful.

Second, I challenge you to find any founder/hacker of a fast-growing, successful startup who lives out the philosophy in that book. They aren't compatible. Look for blog posts about when Tim Ferriss spoke at RailsConf a few years back (spoiler alert: it wasn't well received).
The beer online is the part that's most likely to be illegal. Even if legal it's risky. If someone underage faked their ID and you sold to them anyways and something were to happen that could come back very negatively in many different ways (IE: lose of licenses, lawsuits, potential criminal charges).
Next Challenge get this working on my Z80