skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really love that these game engines are doing this. As a hobbyist game dev with a day job and a night-shift (tfwgf), one of the biggest hurtles that keep me building on html5 instead of on desktop was the demand that I had to pay $$ upfront before I have any idea if I can even finish what I'm building (much less how the market will receive it). I mean, I don't mind paying the engine company their demands if I can make money selling my game, but I'm already risking my free time on a project that may very well go nowhere, so I don't want to also risk my money. I'm sure plenty of other folk with great ideas and skills are in this boat, so by finally offering a free version, I'm sure we'll be seeing more and more esoteric indie games that tell great stories, introduce fun new mechanics, educate the player, or make us lose faith in American democracy on Steam instead of the nonstop rehash of mainstream FPS games.

As for me, it's finally time to start building that Sierra-esque ancient civilization city-builder game (i.e. Caesar, Pharaoh, Emperor, etc.).
Looks like Sam's on for some moonshots.
You can set up your own version control via command line. There are tutorials on how to do this and what files types to ignore, etc. You just can't have it integrate into the actual editor... which as programmer is fine by me.
Flexbox + Autoprefixer = Win
This should be a hardware requirement imposed by google then.
Just install a relevant emulator. Almost all 8 bit games are available publicly these days. This is the version I played:

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-archon_s3...
Funny how Android got more iOS like while iOS was getting more Android like. (Talking both functionality and degree of openness.)
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Reason.com reports that this consensus is cracking [1]
And the correction at the end begs a fascinating question about
whether the media should present both sides of an issue. If
99% of research says A and 1% says not-A, is the media being
misleading by reporting both views? If the media doesn't
present not-A, then is it censoring opposing views?

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2014/11/14/video-game-violence-a-...
I like how the second-last one stands out as a positive prediction that was wrong. Good show on that one.
SXBlue III.

The SXBlue unit was fusing GPS and GLONASS, but in addition, there are lists of public stations that anybody can tap to.

Take a look at this: http://gpsworld.com/finally-a-list-of-public-rtk-base-statio...
Pebble Time is now the most-funded Kickstarter ever
Every few years it's "Do it on a central server!" "No, do it localized!"
There are some people who really love Apple's mice, even the notorious "hockey puck" one. (Which to be fair was actually pretty comfortable to use, assuming you ever got the damn thing pointing the right way.) I'm not one of them, but I'm not really a huge fan of mice, period -- and their current weirdo mouse-with-touch-surface certainly offers a lot of gesture control, and it's not that uncomfortable. (Granted, "The Apple Mouse: Hey, you've used worse" isn't a very compelling slogan.)
May be that's why they're not Google?
If http://dualec.org/DualECTLS.pdf is the actual paper, I am not sure why Apple and Google users are more exposed than others. The paper requires a more thoughtful reading, of couse, but it does not appear to single out these two vendors.
My favorite from the source:

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
- Peter Ustinov
You're welcome. We're working on an official repository by using the awesome packagecloud.io software. This will be a big package but it will be easier to update (just use apt-get). Making a small native package is pretty hard but we're open to contributions http://feedback.gitlab.com/forums/176466-general/suggestions...
Sure, "That'll never catch on" is funny in retrospect. But don't forget all the cases of "This is gonna be huge" which flop, too.

Popular Mechanics did a retrospective which is an absolute circus of hits and misses: http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/g462/future-that-neve...
I've lost every watch I've ever owned

I've lost every watch I've ever owned, except for the irreplaceable vintage Rolex my Dad gave me. I keep that in a case in a drawer!
I sometimes am. Definitely when the park happens to be in another city I went to visit for some reason - I feel bad without having a proper computational device with me for longer periods of time. What's wrong with that?
Also the fact that each developer has a full copy of the repo on their laptop lets me sleep at night wrt github exploding.
This drove me crazy too. I do not know anyone who conspicuously takes a long time to learn something, and then claims it's easy. In fact, it's quite the opposite, as you mentioned.

Now, I have observed cases where someone inconspicuously took a long time to learn something and then claimed it was easy. This was more to elevate one's own intelligence in the eyes of another. As in, "Wow, this is really hard, but Joe said it was easy. He must be super brilliant."

The other prevalent case of this behavior is when reading mathematic proofs. Often times you'll run across a statement in a proof along the lines of: "It's easy to see that X is true," for some statement X. But, X is always an existing result, and so this is really a way to focus on the details of the proof at hand and not get bogged down in proving every single non-trivial step.

In fact, when I was a Mathlete, our coaches instructed us to make use of this approach, even if we weren't 100% sure that X was true. If we were pretty sure X was true, but we couldn't remember the proof, and we knew it would take prohibitively long to derive the proof, then we would make the statement.
Facebook and google are working on turning mercurial into such a VCS, although it will still be a DVCS allowing fully local commits (albeit without storing the full history on all clients).

Take a look at the remotefilelog extension.
That's now known as "I can't deploy because github is down".

git != github. I use git every day at work. I don't use github for that repo. If I did, I wouldn't make reliance on it part of my deployment strategy. If I did do so, I hope I would realize that any problems relying on github resulted in were ones I created with that choice. Hopefully there would be some useful benefits from that choice as well.
1980.

http://fortune.com/2011/12/14/video-steve-jobs-in-1980-on-pc...

I'll go further and point out that his is the better saying, since it captures the concept in one simple and universal, non-technical image. That's how you talk to people -- bicycles, not amplifiers. (Though a guitarist might like the amplifiers image.)
Let people know cookies are required. It took me a moment to realize that's why nothing was happening.

Then ask whether you really require cookies. What value do they add?
Problem 1: Developers unaware of the full capabilities of their DVCS system (thinking they can't do work because github is down). Solution: Education.

Problem 2: Lots of versions of big blobs. Solution: git clone --depth 1 remote-url

Problem 3: Big commit history. Solution: git clone --depth 1 remote-url

Problem 4: Bad UX. Solution: Write a better UI, or find someone to do it. Linus is not a UX guy and never will be.

Also, the example workflow differences are pretty similar to the differences between the github model and the Linux contribution model. This has nothing to do with DVCS vs VCS.

So, in short, there's no actual fundamental problem with DVCS. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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Looks like that's still a premium feature, but you can get it standalone for $20/m instead of paying the full $75/m for Pro Edition.

"Team Licence" http://unity3d.com/get-unity
100 years from now when the price for organically produced food be going through the roof, average person would be eating chemically produced food. Having a scientific process to reproduce the flavor profile of cuisines will be incredibly useful.
It's pretty amazing how much weight that dark UI skin has for me. For being purely aesthetic I value it more than many of the pro-only features.
It's related, though -- it's a process you can do to help minimize the impact of bikeshedding by baiting it with something innocuous.

E.g., you design your awesome nuclear power plant, and put a REALLY ugly bikeshed, so that the reviewers will feel compelled to expend their change-requesting energy on that, rather than on changing something that might affect the important stuff.
Sam covers this briefly with the prediction near the bottom about bitcoin.
> However, your arguments, like TFA's, rely on an unconvincing and entirely unproven premise that git doesn't actually suit most coders' use of it.

No. The premise is "a system is conceivable that has gits upsides and less of its downsides" and look - facebook is even building it.
You can constrain filesystem callbacks on Windows, I have no idea why Dropbox doesn't.
from the changelog[1]:

• Removed “Make MMO” button from Edit menu. ;)

[1] http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/unity-5.0
I'd think you'd only need a breakdown of the taste receptor stimulating compounds.

But even then whether food tastes good or not is very complex and goes WAY beyond taste receptors. There's the obvious smell and the way it looks, but even the sounds around you while eating, how hungry you are, what your drinking, the temperature of your beverage, the room's light levels, temperature, and humidity, and even the height of the table, what kind of chair you're sitting in, and the texture of your napkin will affect how you perceive the taste of a meal.
Can anybody elaborate on the destruction of coins? Sounds dangerous...

"If the validator causes the blockchain to fork while its coins are locked in bond, all of its coins are destroyed. This means that as long as you sync your blockchain with the network periodically you never have to trust a central checkpoint."
I very much like Browserstack for doing this as it allows for easy testing. I just don't like Browserstack's pricing as no shop I've worked in, and my own company, has ever needed it continuously. Rather, we need sorta pay-as-you-go minutes like cheap cell phones
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Not at all :-) What helps me is having enough variety in what needs to be done - coding, marketing, management, planning - that there's always something I'm not totally burned out on.
I expect a few projects won't migrate to gitlab.com from gitorious due to strong commitment to http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

There is an opening for someone to provide gratis gitlab CE or other exclusively free software based git hosting.
The list wasn't just longer, it was entirely different. Yesterday the comparison chart listed engine features, now it lists premium services.
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We have users buying Pebbles for the soul purpose of using our application, that would otherwise not have purchased it.
Good to hear that! We put a lot of effort into packaging GitLab to make it a 2 minute install even though it is a Rails application. We could not have done it without the awesome Omnibus packaging system that Chef so kindly open-sourced.

May I ask what the reason is you don't want to host the repo's in GitLab itself?
The obvious question for anything that claims to solve Byzantine consensus is: what about Sybil attacks? If you rely on 2/3 of all nodes to be honest, but you open up the network for anyone to join, what stops me from creating a million fake "nodes" and outvoting everyone else?

So far I've only skimmed the white paper, but I didn't see any response to this problem. (If the answer is "good guys can make lots of fake nodes too" then you're creating a computational arms race that will inevitably lead to just as much wasted effort as proof-of-work.)

There's also the minor practical issue that every node has to do an amount of computation and network traffic that's linear in the total number of other nodes, meaning the total workload grows quadratically with the size of the network.
As far as languages goes it seems to be mostly Ruby(Rails), with some JS (Node.js, Angular.js, React, and Ember.js). If you're a senior developer there seems to be some jobs open in Python and Go (maybe this is because what I Iook for).

I had a hard time finding remote Python job about 3 years ago as more of an intermediate dev.
Let's try this an example.

Say at the time of funding founders are paying themselves $100k salaries each. They can pay themselves up to $150k each (150% salary at time of funding or a market salary we establish with them at the time of funding if they're paying themselves way below market).

If they chose to start taking out more cash than $150k, that would be considered a distribution and the 80/20 would kick in until 2x our investment is returned. Then it flips to 20/80 until 5x is returned. Once 5x is returned there are no further distributions.

That said, they can continue to draw their $150k salary and reinvest in the business as long as they'd like without ever paying out a distribution.
My carpal tunnels ache just looking at it.
Your observation is sort of predicated on the idea of a shipped game. Do you think there are mountains of shipped games in that market that made little or no money at all? I'm just not seeing that.

What I see is some incredibly successful indie games where the niche is so narrow you can't believe it made money at all (think of a brutal puzzler like AntiRoom, which was another very successful one).

I guess what I'm really asking here is what you think the barrier is, because it's not an incredibly crowded market. On mobile, just getting your game noticed is next to impossible. That's easier in this space. Or maybe you disagree?
The OpenSSH included with msysgit uses msys I think, but otherwise I don't think there's a native OpenSSH for Windows.
They will have to import their repo's into GitLab. This means that all their urls will change. This is quite unfortunate but we hope they'll appreciate the improved interface and features that GitLab brings such as a great merge request flow. Please let me know if you have any specific concerns.
I like to summarize this with a riff on Brook's Law: "Adding people to a late bus makes it later."
Predictions about something not being possible are difficult, because you can never be right. You are either proven wrong our 'we don't know yet'. Therefore these quotes are rather meaningless I believe. (I see SAs point of encouraging people to go for the moonshots, but still.)
it's worth noting that this measures the distribution of bus intervals. The distribution of wait times will be more extreme because there will be more passengers waiting at a bunched stop, so the 'bunched' experience will be more common than the 'unbunched' experience. Moreover, the hours when the bunching phenomenon occurs are probably biased to high commute volume times.
The hp server prices had no discount. Made me think the guy was being dishonest or uninformed about the rest
we convert at the pre-determined equity amount.
O is an upper bound. O( n ^ 99 ) is also valid for Theta. But looks like you actually meant Theta( n^3 ) same as Theta( n^3 + n^2 ), in which case, n^3 grows faster than n^2, hence subsumes n^2
Do many "otherwise smart" people actually believe "superhuman machine intelligence is prima facie ridiculous"? I'd like to see some citations :-). I think smart people tend to have much more nuanced views.
I don't think this is the case. Google has rejected a number of higher profile open source projects this year, in addition to Mozilla.
How they measure the size actually?

Another important thing - Xamarin.Forms should be in the free edition, if it is aimed for starters.... Big studios or established companies can afford to develop native UIs for each platform separately.
This is not about the cost of hardware or software, it's about the price (and hassle) of maintaining them. Also, it's not about browsing reddit and accessing gmail; it's more about 'real' office applications and the like.

In certain non-tech-savvy environments, such a thing has a very good chance of adoption.

Also, it's a nice venue for renting heavyweight applications (like CAD, graphics, finance, etc) for a limited time, with a full guarantee against violating the policy by users.
Have you checked out ipfs?
So, you mean like Unix/Linux/BSD always has?
Very smart of them to release a gold version. If watches are all about fashion, and people want a gold-colored watch because they like how it looks, they probably can't afford it from Apple.

It may be seen as a copy by some, but a $5000 product is not competing with a $300 one.
So don't get me wrong I love my Pebble Steel and I'm a backer for the new Pebble Time I just don't like how they are handling this.
Is it Xamarin asking too much or Unity not wanting to pay and leech on what they got from Novel?
No. No, it doesn't.

They get the credit when things go right. Whenever things go wrong, it's all on the contractors.

Based on my anecdotal experience, the government employees are simply untouchable. Even when they blatantly break the law, they still keep their jobs, and all the contractor and subcontractor employees lose theirs. Maybe they get a letter in their personnel file that keeps them from certain transfers and promotions, but they don't get fired.

The worst thing that typically happens to them is a furlough, which is a lot like a layoff in the private sector, except the workers can actually expect to be called back to work at some point. Sometimes they even get paid something for their inconvenience.

I have never seen even a single one of them assume personal responsibility for anything even remotely negative. It does not happen. The buck never stops anywhere.
Paperspace founder here. We offer an instant rollback to a safe state which is a neat thing that VMs can do that regular computers can't (or at least don't do very well). Everything is stored in the cloud so have your entire desktop available to you at all times meaning you wouldn't need to transfer your stuff to a cloud storage service. It's actually just like cloud storage but with the added benefit of having your whole operating system (apps, settings, shortcuts) on the go.
Would you suggest making it harder to develop games?

Nintendo tried that with the Nintendo 64:

Yamauchi took a different approach with the SNES' successor the N64, however, which was released in 1996 at least partly to distract attention away from the disastrous Virtual Boy. Yamauchi admitted at the 2001 Space World event that he had deliberately ordered the N64 be difficult to develop for. The intention behind this was to discourage untalented third-party developers from releasing poor-quality games -- it was no longer practical for Yamauchi to personally approve every game -- but the plan backfired somewhat: given the commercial success of previous Nintendo systems, third-party developers were still keen to get their games on a Nintendo console, and this consequently led to a number of sloppy, low-quality third-party games that clashed significantly with the high-quality first- and second-party titles that were being released on the platform.

(from http://www.usgamer.net/articles/hiroshi-yamauchi-the-iron-fi... )
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Thanks for the tip. I will look into that.
The thing that I miss most is a good story for the cloud part. As it is, you have to keep one peer that is always on for convenience (we use a Raspberry Pi). But it would be nicer if a reputable company (rather than a random person in their forums) would offer a permanent peer.

This can be done without sacrificing privacy using a so-called 'encrypted read-only secret', which can be derived from the secret and gives the peer the possibility to sync data only in encrypted form.
I feel that “Skip the Cloud” is misleading in that they still want us to rent the software. For me, half the point is being able to pay my money and walk away completely.
Not everyone is using GitHub for source hosting, there quite a few companies, which use internally some other VCS (like Perforce) and publish the sources on GitHub.
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Or your company exploding or pretty much anything exploding. When every dev has a full copy of the repo, you can restore all the work as long as a single dev machine is alive.

Not to mention that in case of an office Internet outage, you can just mesh together those repos and continue working. Knowing that gives me some peace of mind.
They designed their own protocol for a much better experience. Read their comments!
Not even wrong. Design is defined by making studied choices within the constraints of the need or purpose. Rarely are these emotional, and when they are it is merely because of a successful connection between the people and the ideas that the purpose of the design created. The emotion is a side effect of good design, not the point. Only Marketing people see design as "emotional" because they see the world through a lens of shaping human behavior through our primate genetic programming.
Thank you, I hadn't considered that before. I will look into that.
Paperspace founder here. You can take snapshots at any time and we offer an instant rollback to a safe state in the event something happened. One of the neat benefits of virtual machines over traditional desktops.
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Just check out the new releases list on Steam:

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&...
It's possible that he didn't actually do that, and was only blogging the fantasy ("Man, I'd love to troll her with increasingly stupid cat posters until she leaves me alone ..."), but it's also possible that we see the response after being frequently asked to do Free Work as a "favor" for coworkers who either won't accept "No" or don't understand that it's inappropriate to depand such work.

If we take this at face value, she could have asked more nicely, and he could also have followed the "F you, pay me" principle, and just quoted her a figure.

Had he said, "I'd be happy to make you a poster for your cat. I will be able to do it with an hour's work, for which I will bill you $80", he would not have wasted her time, and she could have made something herself in her word processor. (Or, she'd have said, "Awesome, here's eighty bucks".)
But but but the web is the future!

I see people complaining about the hassles of maintaining a computer. Seriously? It's been like... how many years since basically everyone introduced that "revert to when this was working" state?

And even if it weren't for that, if maintaining a computer is so much of a hassle, how exactly is this supposed to be accessed? With browsers running on the holodeck? "From a consumer-level device, like a tablet"? Yes, I can't wait to use AutoCAD with a pointing device that has a precision of ughhh about my thumb's size.

And let's not get into the whole privacy thing. A 1 TB drive is, what, fifty bucks today -- and people would rather store their files in a datacenter across the ocean?
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I love this idea. I'm very tempted to pre-order but the lack of a pricing page keeps away from pulling my wallet out.

Here is one use I'm really interested in. I'd love to get this for my father who is not very computer literate and needs a lot of help with it. He doesn't have strong security concerns because he only uses it for email and basic card games. Unfortunately I live hundreds of miles away and have a difficult time doing remote support for him. With this device+service it cleans up the clutter on his desk, and I hope allows for us both to connect to the VPS even though I don't have the paperweight. This way I can help him when he needs it and I can connect with ease.