skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You advertise the game as free with voluntary donations (Mr. A and Mr. Eh accessories). Without pressing for financial info, can we ask: Does this translate into a full-time paying job, cover the expenses of running the project, or simply add a bit of pocket change here and there? Why did you choose this business model?

KoL's donation revenue is currently sufficient to support a full-time staff and a second team working on a new game. I feel like we were extremely fortunate to have launched when we did and to have gotten the critical mass in the beginning that makes it possible for this to be a career instead of just a hobby.

As far as choosing the business model, I'm not sure there was ever a moment when I made a choice about it. A couple of months in, the hosting bills were starting to cost more than I was comfortable paying out of pocket, so I put up a link to ask for donations to offset the cost. A player suggested, "Hey, why don't you give donators an in-game reward?" and I figured "Hey, why not, it couldn't hurt." To my surprise and delight, it was pretty much instantly profitable. I was still processing the donations by hand for quite a while -- the revenue model was really kind of an afterthought.

After it got to the point where I was able to comfortably and safely quit my day job (and finally start paying Josh, who had been diligently working for free for several months), I started offering the monthly specials, which caused another surge in income and allowed me to hire an office manager, another writer/designer, and another programmer. Since then we've added a full-time customer service/abuse-tracking position and part-time forum and chat-moderation supervisors.
Mysterious undersea “crop circles” finally explained
Off my head:

Support the runtime, support the syntax and semantics, change the pattern matcher, write extensive tests, add it to the term_to_binary/binary_to_term protocol, add it to distribution, enable reading of maps in various function calls, enable NIFs to inspect maps, define how to copy maps between processes, change the core compiler.

It isn't so simple.
It might be great for touch, but I don't have a touch screen.

On my new Win8 machine the first program I installed was Classic Shell [1]. Now I have a (functioning) start button and it boots straight to the desktop so I never have to see the touch interface.

[1] http://www.classicshell.net/
Gumroad (https://gumroad.com/) — San Francisco, CA

Gumroad enables all types of creators (musicians, designers, writers, video game developers, comedians, filmmakers, and more) earn a living by selling their work directly to their audience.

See a demo: https://gumroad.com/demo

The company is 2 years old. We're a tiny team of 10 folks focused on making a great product over anything else — we've raised $8M and don't have to think about raising money for a while (besides the money that we raise daily from our customers!).

You can see more definitive roles here, but in general we are looking for smart, hard-working, creative people: https://gumroad.com/jobs

You can apply through there or email me directly with links to a couple of things you've built — sahil@gumroad.com
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We've posted about this on HN a few times and have been amazed by the response. I apologize in advance if it takes a while for us to get back to you -- we interview everyone personally and are still ramping up the process.

Right now, we're particularly looking for NYC Rails, Django, and iOS devs.
> ... has always had a lot of Important Code in production thanks to Ericsson, which has made it more difficult to change...

Google basically solved this problem for themselves with gofix. I'm surprised Erlang doesn't have an equivalent, given that it would basically just be a reuse of the "parse transform" code.
One thing that human marketers did for us was to establish a plan for tradeshows, publications, advertisements, and ultimately launches.

My cofounder and I had tension related to whether we should continue to polish or whether we should shove the fledgling application out into the wild. The marketers helped balance that with a roadmap based on trade shows and purchasing scenarios.

It is of course helpful when the marketing firm is very well connected, but we would not have had any concerns if we had one marketing expert with technical leverage.
"Scott" Venkatasubramanian
This is completely possible and as a consumer my preference. Most hidden object games follow this practice.
Check out these 3 games made entirely on an iPad
To be clear, I hope we aren't talking about Dragon Age II, which was awful, awful gameplay on what was an intruiging premise. I enjoyed the original, but it clearly had some IAP (I don't mind, but I can see how someone else might).
Well that has to be a first!
Building Something from Nothing
Of Netscape 4.04 and Semantic Markup
Measurence - REMOTE (UTC-5 ~ UTC+5) - http://measurence.com

Hi! :) I'm Federico Feroldi, co-founder of Measurence. Our mission is to bring the power of lean analytics practices and tools to the brick & mortar retailers (think about MixPanel and Optimizely for the real world).

We're very early stage, but with a working product, enough seed funding, some excited customers and a few very important prospects.

This is not our first startup. As founders together have almost 30 years of combined tech and business experience with a few startups and exits already under our belt.

Your responsibility will be to build the front end app of our analytics platform using Rails and AngularJS.
The backend system (data ingestion and analysis) is built on Scala, so there's a chance for you to learn it if you want :)

This is a fully remote position. You'll be able to work from (almost) anywhere you want and organize you working hours as long as you deliver stuff and bring the product closer to the vision that we’re going to shape together.

You'll not be told what to do. We'll, instead discuss together what needs to happen then you'll decide what and how to do to make it happen. You'll need to be comfortable with the uncertainty that characterizes the early stage of a startup.

We value honesty, transparency and direct communication.

If you're interested to discuss more, tell me your story and show me what you built at fferoldi - at - measurence.com

To learn more about the founding team:
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> His family moved to the US, to Detroit, when he was 7.

This is not an example of someone who is from the third world or from a ghetto. Immigrant parents have strong work ethic which they instill in their kids ( I belong to the club, so I know).

I am talking about girls from southside Chicago whose idea of 'achievement' is not getting pregnant by 15.
> So what's the solution? If people are unwilling to pay
> reasonable prices up-front for games, how besides in-app
> purchases does a game company profit from their work?

If morality is valued higher than profitability, game studios wouldn't enter into the market. That's the choice they have.
As long as we're griping about Adobe. Why the hell can't I install Photoshop or any Creative Cloud product for that matter on a case-sensitive HFS+ drive!

There is a hack you can run to trick the installer into thinking the drive is case-insensitive and after that everything works without any problems. No further hacks or workarounds needed until you have to install again on a clean machine.

I know it is not their most common use case but it can't be that hard!
I think it is cool that both estimates of entropy come to the same number, but that still seems like the wrong way to look at the approach even if Randall didn't intend it that way.

The NIST entropy estimation is based off of characters that aren't chosen at random (I think?) and it is a heuristic.

For the approach I think Randall intended to describe they aren't really words, just glyphs chosen randomly from a set of glyphs. That these glyphs are easy to memorize and drop right into existing password interfaces is orthogonal.
Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy.

It's basically saying "I will be an effective soldier for America". It's just one of many things working together to that end.
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We are a two-year-old, mobile-focused B2B media company. We publish news and information for business executives in a variety of industries.

We currently have several openings:

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But if you think you have something to add our team but don't see a job description that quite fits, send me an email and lets talk. I'm also generally free for grabbing a coffee and just talking or an informational interviews or whatever you want to call it. (Especially if you're willing to come out to the Dupont Circle area.)

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The Climate Corporation's mission is to help all the world's people and
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Climate's technical staff numbers around 80, and we're hiring full-time
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roles for:

1. Software engineering generalists with solid CS fundamentals, particularly
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The scale and interdiscplinary nature of the work drive a lot of
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Competitive salary, excellent benefits, stock options, etc. Our 25% time is
lumped into two-week sabbaticals. The usual details about these positions are
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I write Clojure for a small scientific software engineering team building
Climate's agricultural yield models. If you're interested or have any
questions, send me an email at bmookerji@climate.com with [feb2014-hn] in the
subject heading.
The message is pretty much the punchline of the comic.

The other message is: stop posting XKCD #936 for the bazillionth time, you assholes.
That's certainly not true. "Significant achievement" doesn't have to be ending war in Rwanda or discovering a new elementary particle. It has to be significant in the life of the person doing it. And it is hard to imagine for me a person that has never done anything ever that is significant to them. One would then be forced to ask - why? You don't have to be a billionaire to make something that makes sense to you.

>>> but are you in a position to rationally consider that as a 'significant achievement ' ?

That sounds pretty bad. You're basically saying "it was easy to me to have this thought right after reading about it, but for you such thought is probably out of the question". Why would you assume such thing?
There are very few killer apps on phones compared to productivity apps like CAD software etc. on the desktop. Plus there are mobile web sites that serve the same function as many specialized apps.
Kudos to all ppl involved! Thanks for the effort.

Compared with maps adding a fun-call chaining operator like |> should be child's play, right? ;)

Seriously, what are the functional programmer's tricks to handle long function call chains in languages without the |> or similar operators?

Anyway, maps are a more important addition to the environment for sure. So thanks again.
Sometimes, fighting is OK.

Particularly when the alternative is to get pushed around until an authority figure happens to see and intercede on your behalf.

I think it's important to carry that lesson into adulthood, especially as we learn that not all fights are physical.
mPATH in Palo Alto or San Francisco. We're building something that hasn't been done before. This well-funded seed stage startup was started in August by two C-level Salesforce execs. Our CTO comes from Square, where he lead platform engineering.

We have an immense amount of customer traction for a stealth startup. We're looking for Ruby or Python web app engineers, product designers, Java-based service layer engineering, iOS and Android engineers.

http://mpath.com/#careers
Microsoft Adds Momentum to “Open Science”
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- Published Android app doing 10k downloads per month (http://radc.am)

- 2 iOS apps in beta

Reach me out at mohd [dot] moubarak [at] gmail
So maybe MS should do what Apple did in the 90's to differentiate itself and get away from the raw numbers. Do you know what they did? I don't.
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Not only this, developers shouldn't shy away from charging what they think the game is worth, $5, $29, $59, $99, whatever. If the game is good, people will pay it.
My personal solution is along the same lines, but much less global and annoying. This is in my .bash_profile:

# todo
function todo {
case "$1" in
"-a")
echo "$2" >> $HOME/.todo
;;
"-d")
sed -i "" -e "$2d" $HOME/.todo
;;
esac
if [ -f "$HOME/.todo" ] ; then
cat $HOME/.todo | awk '{ print NR, "-", $0 }'
fi
}
todo
Don't do anything experimental with real coins. That's what testnet is for: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet.

If you need a coin or two to get started, I run a testnet faucet at [redacted].

Or check out https://github.com/freewil/bitcoin-testnet-box.
Why would they? Isn't it impossible to beat blackjack in a long run with 6 decks and such?
Erlang dates back to sometime in the late 80ies, so I don't know if it's quite as simple as all that. Some systems are things you really don't want to mess with, and a Pareto (80/20) tool won't cut it.
Tom Preston-Werner, Garry Tan, Leah Culver, and Sam Altman are judges this month
Wow, HN horrible formatting. Here's the original: https://github.com/jamestomasino/bash-scripts/blob/master/.a...
I did, however because I deleted and then recovered it, it is now locked. I get a "temporary error 500 numeric code 59" when I try to log in. I still have access to all other google services though.
He hasn't gotten it back, but the attacker is no longer in possession of that handle having deleted the account. The handle was then apparently unavailable to take [0], but some time later Twitter allowed some random user to pick up the handle as you can see by visiting @N now.

[0] https://twitter.com/N_is_stolen/statuses/428679789491138560
>I just don't get such people, how can someone be so persistently annoying instead of just downloading the damn software somewhere else

From where? Torrents? And risk malware and viruses?
True but it would be interesting to see some data on how many over the phone password resets big service providers do on a day to day basis. That kind of data would at least be a litmus to invalidate the current paradigm.
I am trying to get into the QA field and I was searching for entry level QA jobs saw that you guys were hiring a QA intern but the position was filled. Any chance that you will be hiring for QA again?
Edit: a flying-fox is what we call in NZ and Australia a 'zip line' I believe. Still find them in New Zealand across the country in public parks but not any, I believe, schools these days. How else do you get kids to run up 3 flights of stairs 20 times during lunch?
Muscle memory works well for commonly used password, but what about rarely used ones?

Words can be blended into a single impression or narrative for easy memorization, and giving the user the ability to order them to support that narrative will greatly improve usability. (Besides, if you're consistent, your muscle memory will work just fine.)
https://github.com/rabbitmq/erlando
Are you using an alternative DNS such as OpenDNS or Google DNS? You might be using the wrong CDN since your correct geographical location might not be available.
Why I'm Ditching BHP + RIO for Bitcoin
An F#-like operator |> would be useless without a convenient partial application syntax. Macro-like operators aren't well received in Erlang, certainly not when they obfuscate what really is going on.
It's funny that you say that since synthetic truffle oil is arguably more pure, which is to less full-flavored than the fungus.

Jean-Louis Palladin might not realize that "chemicals" are behind the taste of both the oil and the truffles, but he might still have a point, from a gustatory perspective.

The issue could probably be solved adding the "artificial" label to truffle oils that are synthetic, the same as for vanilla extract.
Diffbot - Palo Alto, one block from the Stanford campus.
We're applying computer vision and NLP to web pages to structure data for developers. Read more here: http://diffbot.com/company/

We're looking for full-time and interns for the summer. Write jobs@diffbot.com
Academia.edu, San Francisco, CA

Academia.edu is trying to improve the way that scientific publishing works. Here is the current way it works. A scientist does some experiments and writes up a paper. He sends it to a journal who sends it out to two or three peer reviewers. They peer review it, which means writing a page of comments on it, and recommending either accepting or rejecting it. Usually you get a few journal rejections and the average time-lag between finishing the paper and its being published is 12 months. Then the paper is behind a paywall and people have to pay $35 to read it.

Our view of scientific publishing is that when you finish the paper you should post it immediately on the internet. Peer review should be done post-publication, and it should be done by the community, reddit-style, not by just two or three people. We believe peer review will be more robust that way. And the paper should be openly and freely accessible for anyone to read, along with the data and any accompanying materials like source code.

We believe that this will speed up science, and accelerate research into curing diseases, reducing infant mortality, and discovering clean energy amongst other things.

We are a mission-driven team based in San Francisco. We have raised $17 million from Khosla ventures and Spark Capital. Bijan Sabet from Spark Capital writes "We believe open science is really important. We believe Academia.edu is going to have a profound impact on the world." Over 7 million academics have joined Academia.edu, and 800k plus join up each month.

If you are a mission-driven person then you may enjoy the atmosphere at Academia.edu and the problems we are working on.

We are looking to hire full stack software engineers. Technologies we use include Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Mongo and Varnish. Our office is in downtown San Francisco. For more information, visit http://academia.edu/hiring. If you are interested to learn more, please email Richard Price at richard [at] academia.edu
https://www.fusionbox.com/mouseware/

we wrote this one at my company. It uses your mouse movements as a seed for the random number generator.
it did c++ in 24 hours and now i am doing my own startup it got enoght c++ to hire other c++ guys to go get my money really no bs
it is all about the concept
Remote / NYC - ControlShift Labs - http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/

We are an organization devoted to building web tools for progressive activists and nonprofits worldwide. Right now we have two main products that we've been working on -- an online petitioning and campaigning tool, and a donations platform is in the works. Our clients include 350.org, Greenpeace India, and 38 Degrees. To get a sense for what we do, you can view the petitions platform in action here: http://campaigns.350.org/

We're looking for part-time and possibly full-time web developers. We're located in both NYC and Buenos Aires -- a small and remote Rails company. We generally prefer those who work in the same time zone, but we still would like to talk to those who might live in different time zones.

Experience with Rails is preferred, but not necessary. Drop us a line at talk - at - controlshiftlabs.com
Well, it's not really necessary for the start screen to context-switch the entire screen. That's my main complaint. The W7 start menu was more than sufficient in terms of screen real-estate to get its job done.
Ask HN: Speaking about your startup experiences
I am a university student looking for a Bay Area entrepreneur to interview with and learn more about the journey of building a startup. My sociology class has a component in which the process will include a two hour face to face interview and I will be writing a document analyzing the interview, taking the form of a magazine/newspaper article. Due to the constraints of this project, I am only allowed to speak with entrepreneurs in the following categories. (Overlapping is okay)

- Woman entrepreneur
- Ethnic entrepreneur
- African American entrepreneur
- Underground entrepreneur

In addition, I can't interview any current students or recent grads from UC Berkeley.

If you feel that you would be interested in this, feel free to ask questions that you might have.
Ask HN: Feedback on startup pitch
I'm not sure if this is appropriate to ask, but this is my first startup and my first time raising money, so I'd really like to refine my pitch.

http://www.collegeanswerz.com/pitch

I appreciate any and all thoughts!
Seems like there may be a correlation with: Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges (The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tacitus
Ask HN: What are the best growth hacking tools?
Startup growth hackers in the HN community, what tools do you use? (preferably free/open source)