skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is true is if you chased the mobile game craze there was a small window where little indie games had traction. A well developed indie game (I would call it an exception at this point) can still gain traction in today's app stores but it is rare. It is true that with the increased supply of games three things have happened. First, the amount of terrible games one must slog through to find a gem has increased. Second the number of gems has also increased which in turn keeps raising the bar of what a "gem" is. Third a race to the bottom began and player's expectations changed and what they are willing to pay with it. The real culprit and difference than the days or yore or even just five years ago is exposure and marketing costs.

I run a small indie studio and our game Pit of War[1] is a very niche game (a PvP, character building, gladiatorial strategy game with text and still images. You don't get much more niche than that!) and we've found great success by managing our resources well and not chasing the latest craze be it flash, facebook, mobile, or what have you. We chose to keep the game on the web and keep full control over it instead of having to pass a judgment committee, or handing over 30% of our revenue to some platform. I found a niche that I enjoyed and had little competition and then built a game and a community around it. That last part is critical these days. I'm sure many of you have heard about "A 1000 true fans"[2], and it very much applies here. If you are using a F2P business model it is your bread and butter.

In 2010-2012 everything was awesome and then something happened in late 2012, early 2013. The user acquisition costs skyrocketed. In the last five years I've seen CPA costs increase 300%-600%. I spent time in Japan and knew some people at an ad agency there that mainly caters to mobile game companies and the CPA on those networks was averaging 700-800 yen (about $7-$8), with peak prices hitting 5,000 yen ($50) when Japanese companies paid out the yearly bonuses to their employees. Five years earlier CPAs were around $1.50 and less. The price increases on their networks have mainly been fueled by four or five companies like Supercell, GREE, DeNA etc. This is where the fairytale ended for a lot of indies and small studios hoping to make a living. It is a rare game that can pay those kinds of marketing costs and remain profitable.

My recommendation to anyone looking to get into indie game development would be to find a niche you enjoy and be the best in it. Build a community around it. Learn how to utilize an ethical F2P business model and last but certainly not least, have fun.

[1] If you are curious about what can be accomplished with a web based niche game you can check it out here: http://www.pitofwar.com

[2] http://kk.org/thetechnium/2008/03/1000-true-fans/
Onboard SSDs are better for some use cases... high volume queues come to mind.

C3 SSDs were crazy faster than even the fastest EBS option listed, plus you could raid0 them...

Fortunately for me, I don't need that much disk space and C3's aren't going anywhere for a while.
Pick: The simplest way to schedule a time to meet
It's not compelling, it just fills the gap, as mentioned. It gives them more info to adjust their search algorithms and weed out bad apples imo. Now they know who has registered even private domains. Make an inadvertent "bad move" on one domain/site, and they will be killing traffic to everything you own.
Although indirectly related, the comments in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SAMZA-390 are also interesting reading (hi Ben!).

The Kafka/Samza ecosystem is coming alive with tons of neat ways to interacting with streaming data. For example, take a look at https://github.com/milinda/Freshet
>If he's willing to do that, then he'll have to exercise what he already has vested.

Not necessarily. It depends on the terms of his or her options grant. Many companies give employees a 10 year exercise period after they leave (advocated by Sam Altman: http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity).
An Algorithmic Challenge
The advantages aren't only in the form of agreed upon rate increases - this includes tax incentives/credits, real estate, and cash payments.

[1]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131012/02124724852/decad...
[2]http://www.nyc.gov/html/doitt/downloads/pdf/verizon_nyc_fran...
Your comment seems to completely absolve the company that hired these people. Why give them a pass but not the people they're paying to do this?
If Switzerland is also an option, we're a small company developing RF-ICs and -modules currently looking for a CEO/CTO. If you are interested in high-frequency electronics, firmware development and a bit of management drop me an email at s.bryner/axsem.com!
Our initial feedback has been super positive. In particular, it's really awesome to have your toy respond to your (or your partner's!) heartrate or bump to the music, or even just tweak a vibration pattern to work for you. Everyone likes different stuff you know?

But also, hackable is really another word for customizable. Lots of vibrators on the market have buttons to increase/decrease intensity and alter vibration behavior. We're just trying to get down to the core of customizable, but also keep it super easy for people to do. Our goal is to have a bunch of click-to-download programs that let you easily modify how your toy behaves without having to get in to libraries and header files and debugging.
I didn't reply to the others because I didn't want to get into a whole fight about it. But the OP's original message about selection-bias is still correct.

The article's original claim is that charter schools does work for disadvantage and black students.

But that is NOT what the data supports.

The data supports that it works for disadvantaged and black students who have active parents. That conclusion raises more questions than it answers.

I think your theory makes a lot of sense. Thank you for sharing that.
Yeah, I still prefer any Ubuntu LTS release and 10 minutes of post-install tweaking to Debian. Plus I like Unity. And lubuntu is very well suited for the rest of the ex-windows users.
It has been 4 years. Nobody complained, apart from a couple of guys on HN. Certainly not the users, and they are who matter the most.
I see nothing novel about this. Personally, I have become convinced that the Patent Office is more interested in the fees than anything else.
Is it possible that Google liked your product and subsequently thought you might be a good hire, but didn't like your product as a potential acquisition? That is where I think the difference lies. Were you contacted as "I'm from Google and we are interested in you", or "I'm from Google and we are interested in your product"? That is a big difference.

If you look at the opening emails from the two Googlers (X and Y) then it's abundantly clear that the emphasis was on, in X's case, the company, and in Y's case, the product.

And more to the point: at no point did they say what a recruiter should say at the opening of any (honest and professionally delivered) cold call. Which is of course: "Hi, I'm Z and I'd like to talk with you about joining the engineering team here at FooBar."

Finally, it's extremely difficult to interpret the fact that they chose to identify themselves as comping from Corporate Development (rather than Recruiting, or even Engineering) as anything other than a (rather clumsy) attempt at misdirection.
A .io domain for a dildo company is kind of... classy.
I'm just glad Godaddy has some real competition! Get ready
for Godaddy to bring back discounts for annual renewals.
hell, you might get a call from Danika personally?
Could be worse. I know someone who was an early employee of a startup. She had the desk nearest the front door, so she ended up being the receptionist. Five years later, she's still the receptionist.
http://www.producthunt.com/posts/pick
Tomek here, just to add onto the frozen garnishes point, anything with a good amount of water in it will be an issue here (due to the specific heat of water). This is why cookies and marshmallows can be eaten shortly after being taken out of liquid nitrogen. However, if you froze lemons or limes with LN and put it in your mouth, you're burning your tongue. Dave Arnold explains this here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6k9a4ikpfo.
Awesome. Go big, have lots of fun.

.io is a great call. Big grin over here.
SpaceX will hire up to 1,000 people in new Seattle office
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I got to screw around with LN dewars for waveguide pressurization and also extremely high power coax feedline pressurization. You want about 2 or so PSI (varies by system) to keep water out and eliminate all chance of corrosion. The density of liq N2 is such that a small liq tank is the equivalent of a staggeringly large gas N2 pressurization system like the size of a tank car. Also its very hard to explode a liq tank and very easy to explode an ultra high pressure tank by making a mistake with regulators and pipes. A dewar would keep a feedline pressurized for, eh, maybe week, maybe weeks. Some dewars have a better or worse vacuum than others. Boys will be boys and we screwed around with the liq N2 a little. The author got ripped off because in bulk we paid roughly "milk" prices. Supposedly the liq N2 and milk price comparison held for decades at a time in the old days. So his little 20 liter dewar should have cost maybe $20 to fill. Then again, higher energy costs than the 90s, liability insurance, and "we know foodies will pay anything, so lets charge them anything..."

Anyway. Although superficially it sounds shocking that a welding supplier would certify their product as food safe, all their gasses are designed for welding, like welding stainless steel food processing gear. So its safe enough to use anything they sell for industrial use, you'll be OK. If you think they're scared of giving you cooties, they're much more terrified of causing a dairy plant to loose its license. Its clean stuff. Also, they're terrified you or they will "cross the streams" with a O2 supply causing a huge explosion if there's any grease or oil contamination, so you can be absolutely sure nothing oily or burnable ever came near the gear, don't even worry about that class of contaminant. If you think about it, flooding something with N2 specifically to prevent chemical reactions means its not fit for sale unless its ridiculously pure. So it is.

Another chemistry problem is you're looking for something that could end up in the product stream without being filtered out or destroyed by the process gear (or destroying the process gear), so kryptonite is kinda unlikely. Also it has to be liq at liq n2 temps because a gas would blow away and a solid (dirty ice, lets say) would remain stuck to the container. Good luck finding a substance like that. I'm pretty much out of chemistry ideas for a food contaminant.
I'd be surprised if he has any "equity". He may have options, but that is a significantly different thing. Most onerously of course is that if he leaves he will likely have to shell out actual cash on a lottery ticket. Who knows if he can afford to do this, or if it makes sense to do this.

That is a long way of saying, under almost any reasonable scenario, whether he has significant options (vested or no) should not be the determining factor on if he should stay.

He should stay if it he enjoys the job, they are compensating him enough in real compensation to overcome his lack of enjoyment, or he doesn't have other job opportunities.

I will say, as a long term employee (though to be fair, it's not that long term) he should have the ability to more forcefully outline what he wants to continue with the company. If he doesn't, either he's fooling himself about his real value, or he is doing a poor job communicating it to the company. In either case, it's his issue.
VR helmet + strap-on with stereo camera in the tip. Would be interesting, if nothing else.
Your example code is not valid Java syntax so you haven't been able to do it in Java for almost 10 years. Your example is written in Groovy, one of many alternative languages for the JVM, along with Scala, JRuby, Clojure, Beanshell (which Groovy was "inspired" by), Jython (which has been around for 18 years now, and originally called "JPython"), Gosu, and more recently Kotlin and Ceylon. Java didn't have such anonymous functions (called "lambdas" in Java, and "closures" in Groovy) until Java 8.
2015 Will Be the Year When Nothing Happened
I have no idea if GoPro stock is overvalued, undervalued, or just right. But I will say that they've had a really nice run with a product that IMO is not all that great (terrible UI among other things) by plugging themselves into the adventure sports lifestyle. And, probably more importantly, those who like to think of themselves as being part of the adventure sports lifestyle--whether they do or not.
Instacart Raised $220M at $2bn valuation
Asking the compromised DNS server if it's been compromised is a really good way to find out if it's been compromised.
That's a really spiffy connection you found.

I wonder what modification to the Harriss curve is needed to make it so that it only curves inward? (I had been hoping to see if he goes more in-depth on the process, but his site's sorta dying). It might be entertaining to fool with it a bit in Processing and see what comes out.
Why are you using the word entitled?

If he believes he can sell his company for $10M and thus rejects a $2M offer, he is not suffering from entitlement and arrogance. He does not feel entitled to $10M. He does not believe the world owes him $10M. He is simply not selling for a lower price than he thinks he can sell for later.
I like how you gloss over the "needed libraries".

But seriously, let's take a quick look (here)[http://www.terathon.com/architecture.php] and think, what might be a clear pain point in Linux, even if the "needed libraries" worked perfectly with all the hardware and all distros and the blobs were perfect.

Did I hear someone say "Linux sound support"? Yes, that is a correct answer. Sound in Linux is a know clusterfuck.

What else might be not as trivial? Did someone say support for multiple graphic cards? Yes, even with OpenGL it might be an issue.

Not to mention all the GUI tools.

So yeah, those all things obviously would never have any less than functioning dependencies on Linux...
I was advocating for people to stand up and implying the original poster is spreading rumors but guess people assumed I was victim blaming. Probably should have phrased things differently.
I took a bit of a break during the latter part of last year, but I am writing up another installment which goes into the interface between the Raspberry Pi, the stepper motor, and the physical milling machine. I was in two minds of whether to build a machine or buy one. I'm planning on using the system with both options when I get chance.
The changes you propose are valid if we start with the premise that we need downvotes to begin with. But, I just don't believe they're helpful. Clearly, I'm in the minority here, but it's certainly not the first time.

Anyway, given that flags are a mechanism for problematic content, you seem to be saying that some comments merit disagreement and discussion, while others should just be cast aside, though they are not "fully problematic" so as to warrant a flag. Still, they are not even deserving of "normal" comments or discussion? Why not? As a function of others expressing more rigorous disagreement? So, if I disagree then we should discuss. But, if I disagree strongly, then we should torpedo your comment altogether?

These are earnest questions, because I don't get that approach in a place that is presumably aimed at thoughtful discussion. I've seen too many cases wherein someone expresses a thoughtful idea, but gets downvoted because people disagree. Look at the comment that started this little sub-thread. The commenter was downvoted without explanation and assumed it might've been because people thought his question stupid, as if that's completely cool.
It doesn't have to be a mass collective that starts the movement. In fact, all that is required is just turning down a job that doesn't pay enough. Individuals can make a difference, not just organized bullying. You're setting up false arguments when you introduce "fairness". We're talking about what's mutually beneficial for BOTH the business and the employee, and how to optimize productivity by (counter-intuitively) working the employees less.

Setting a precedence that individuals are respected as valuable contributors to business and not simply Human Resources is the first step if you're on the business side. Doing what's best for yourself and the business, regardless of how hard you're perceived to be working is the first step on the employee side. There's no need to appeal to some imaginary benevolent authority to make the "bad people" be nicer.
Everything you said is correct.

But really all registrars boil down to two "types" the sub-$20/year ones (which are like 90% of the market) and then the $1K+/year ones which bundle in all kinds of brand protection products and domain protection stuff (e.g. Mark Monitor).

Neither Google or Name Cheap are different enough for price to be a deciding factor, but NameCheap has a better track record than Google in this specific space. GoDaddy is someone I wouldn't touch even if they were cheaper, I hate their bullshit (e.g. upsell, misleading checkout, misleading prices, etc).

If you could pay $5 extra a year and get better service, if it was a business website I'd definitely consider it, but for personal shit I wouldn't, and in general there is no way to spend just $5 or similar more a year and get any marked improvement.

The only thing which might be an upgrade is $12/year for the registrar and then $6~7 for Route53 on top. That's a nice improvement for an extra few bucks.
IMHO, the market is bigger than most of us probably think, but even if it's not, what market there is will be loyal and interested.
I second this. I've had LN ice cream and it was delicious. The process was fun, and no one got hurt. Unfortunately, i think that was more due to luck than to having a protocol for handling the stuff.
The coolest domain name search tool is probably https://domainr.com/
I cannot well repeat how there I entered,
So full was I of slumber at the moment
In which I had abandoned the true way.

The Divine Comedy/Inferno/Canto I, by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

http://genius.com/Dante-alighieri-inferno-canto-1-annotated/

My point is, it's easy to get into this kind of weird design world, if you just do the quickest thing at every step, with no ability to think about how the big picture is going to look.

I'm sure nobody wanted to make a weird architecture, because they're harder to extend and harder to write software for, but if you always have the deadlines breathing down your neck, don't be surprised if you end up in a scary forest indeed.
>Was he expecting a $100m acquisition and was upset it was only $2m?

There's absolutely no evidence that $2 million was ever on offer. What they wanted all along was for him to come in for an interview for a job...which he may have flubbed even if he had acquiesced. Lots of bright developers "flub" Google interviews.
Pricing is hard, a short tale about why we changed our
Firefox Hello?? Why does that need to be in a web browser?
There is an interesting documentary on Netflix "Indie Game" that chronicles a few indie developers. It does a good job showing the emotional struggles and difficulties in developing and bringing a game to market.
Your chances of having your life ruined by any other cause is at least 2^64 times more likely than because your uploaded cute_cat.jpg has the same hash as a flagged child_porn.jpg.
:) Yes, pretty much. DotA was created as a small mod, and now look at the commercial explosion it has spawned, with tournaments containing $2+ million in prizes and everyone wanting to make MOBAs.

I think in the past 20 years, we actually have not made as many breakthroughs in game mechanics (of course, this was easier in the early days). Games are still fairly similar to those of the 90s, only technically more complex. I think we are beginning to maybe get a better handle on game design, which I am seeing creep in with more appreciation of more obscure (now less obscure) game types like roguelikes and CCGs. Little known fact is that Plants vs Zombies was largely inspired by deck building mechanics found in Magic the Gathering, so you are beginning to see some more obscure mechanics like that get mainstreamed.
A little pro tip: use the up/down arrow keys to increment the numbers. Use shift + up/down to increment even more! Yay for more! ;)

Also, something to keep in mind is that everyone talks about month-over-month growth _percentages_ (which is available in that Forecaster under the "Exponential" toggle), but that's usually not the kind of growth you'll have.

Sure, you may keep up some exponential growth for a few months, but it's very dangerous to presume that growth % will last for even 6-12 months.

Linear growth tends to be a much better predictor of future revenue.
Isn't it too early for this?

How much customization can you really achieve before 3d Printers can print silicone-like materials and the rest of those plastics used for sex toys?

I just can't believe so much customization can come from twiddling bits when the crux of the issue is materials and ergonomics. I say this from having observed over the years that sex toys have evolved in both those areas (again, materials and ergonomics) but no so much on the electronics part of it (which, I argue, has or would have minor impact on the final product).
The main question I have, which I don't see addressed in your description: do you have a meaningful equity stake commensurate with the contributions you perceive you made?

You might need to adopt the "owner's" mentality - which is that as long as these people are growing the value of the company, you are free to focus on what you enjoy the most, while they work to make your equity more valuable.

That said - if your contributions in all these areas are truly valuable, at a small company, there's always a case to be made for someone to be spanning functional areas, if they have the expertise and chops to add value. Probably worth a conversation internally. As others have said, assert yourself a bit.