skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point almost nothing about Rupert Murdoch and the behaviour of one his many Slimeball corporations should surprise anyone.

If you are a UK resident, you would know the horrendous actions of his tabloids - Hacking the voice mail of a Murdered Child's parents, etc. If in the US think of Fox News (all that needs to be said).

This guy and his corporations are as close to a nonredeemable "Bond Villain" as you can get in real life.
> Anyone that says you can follow some process to ensure success

I'm going to argue this on both of its implications.

Firstly: Agile is not about ensuring success. It's about greatly increasing the chances of success, and minimizing failure from fallout. No amount of process will rescue you from truly dreadful technical team, but so what? Plenty of processes will almost guarantee failure with the best tech team and will in the world.

I'm going to go for the assumption that you knew that already, though, and are attacking the idea that a management-related solution can help in the solving of technical-related problems.

Take a look at a modern hospital, and you will see layer upon layer of 'management' solutions to support medical problems. Prescriptions are checked by the doctor, checked by the pharmacist, and then checked by the nurse. Do hospitals throw these rules away with sufficiently good doctors? No. Do hospitals do this because they think their doctors are shit? No.

Agile can be a highly effective management solution for supporting technical development. I know this because it has been for me, on many occasions, with many different teams, in many different settings. I've also seen it badly implemented to the point where it's an impediment to teams, but ... so what? That's a risk with any process.
Basically he's saying that definitions of sexism vary across cultures, and that where he lives (and where I live), this would not be considered sexist. "Two countries separated by a common language"
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How not to market an iPhone app
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that ad blockers are mostly used by sophisticated users who won't fall into the "you're the millionth user!" scams anyway.

For the ad seller, the bandwidth used to serve non-dumb users is a net loss, so non-trivial-to-install ad blockers are rather beneficial to them if they don't download the resource at all. Even more so if they pay for the ad per view rather than per click.

Disabling the ad blocker remains beneficial to the hosting site, though:

- if ads are paid per view, more ads unblocked == more money;

- if they're paid per click, ads will drive away people who never click anyway: saved bandwidth!
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Another consideration is that if you do succeed, you can partner with MS, which provides some cost savings with MSDN licenses. At my last start-up, we authored several white papers about our solution and how it meshed with MS's toolset, and we received significant discounts with licensing.
That is correct for the general style. However, then you have to hunt for packages for pseudocode, nicer tables, diagrams, pdf bookmarks and hyperlinks, subfigures, etc.
This is a simple example to make a point about the simplicity of using bottle, a python micro-framework contained in a single file with all the stuff you need for simple web projects (like routing, templates, various utilities and even a test server).
I appreciate your pragmatic view. I would add only the fact that the empires seem kinder only when the resources are abundant. If the oil discoveries fail to keep pace with the consumption and no serious alternatives are found, I foresee some nasty imperial wars ahead and the next "totalen krieg" will be fought with nuclear weapons.
I'd pay to have a fully compatible .NET stack on OSX/Linux. Most of our backend code is C#; outside of having to use Windows I've actually found it very pleasant to work with. No need for a full MSVS port, just a working VM/library and build tools (+ maybe an IntelliSense daemon to plug into editors). It'd be interesting to see MS get back to their roots this way.
Don't do any business, ever?

I've had my fun with W8BEN forms, EID numbers, and US customers. I still don't understand why technicalities of the US tax system were suddenly my problem instead of the customers, but realistically you either deal with this or you don't do business.
Apparently you forgot to read the first line of my post. I'm not justifying anything, I'm explaining why the prejudice exists, and that it's not necessarily due to racism.
Is the difference between those solutions really just because she's a woman? I'd like to believe that they are just differences of opinion on the best way to deal with issues. Some people prefer to appeal to authority, while others feel it's better handled by routing around authority and 'handling it yourself.' Depending on what she did, she would be criticized by one group or the other.

On the other hand, since this is an issue of sexism, I think that people put on their 'this is a serious discussion' hats which tend to make them more hypercritical than at other times.
Why are you assuming that lawabidingcitizen is not a disgruntled member of the organization behind sality?
I'm positive that it's better to work side by side with someone, however I live in a technological wasteland (North West UK) and am unable to move (partner is at university here), so was considering how doable working remotely with someone would be. Thanks for your comment.
> India is what India is.
I know what you mean, but in this case, think of it from the foreigners perspective.
I don't think anyone in their right mind is really prepared for the kind of insanity you begin to accept as natural after being in India.

India is what India is: which can be traumatically scarring, especially when dealing with the bureaucrats - as the blog points out.

Also - the idea of hiring a middle man, to just fill paper and interface with the system, is probably unthinkable to anyone who deals with a working system.

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If anyone thinks that this is an opportunity, have at it. I hope you succeed.

More importantly I hope that you survive and are better for it.
Off-topic: Generating slides from an outliner like Org-mode produces those ugly bullet points en mass, doesn't it? The upside is of course, that they are easy and fast to generate. Why do you need that?
That is a spectacular amount of functionality in one small source file. It appears to open all objective C classes and their methods to Lua.
I respectfully disagree. I understand a good portion of hackers find the entire concept of advertising to be distasteful, but why this melodrama? "Ambush"? Likening it to robbery? Really..?

It's a few hundred pixel banner that's trying to convince you to buy something. Not a requirement that you sacrifice your firstborn.
I'd rather argue that democracies implement "realpolitik" as much as dictators -- and lie about it.

The difference seems to be that democracies are nicer when the voters at home care (which is more and more common) -- and/or if it doesn't cost lots of money to be nice. For no other reason that it is in the democracies' own interest if other countries start to work better (everyone loves a richer customer).

It is getting better generally, but disgusting regimes the western world is dependent on, like Saudi Arabia, can still literally get away with murder.

This is the best reference I have on the subject of the article, btw.

http://reason.com/archives/2006/03/01/why-poor-countries-are...
What scale shall we use to compare the results of, say, Hirasima/Nagasaki nuclear bombing with what, say, Mongolians did? Or is it all about being able to manage the public image?
Sounds like ppk just needed to vent, I've done this before on the internet and regretted it. Totally agree that more transparency in the client-vendor relationship would always be helpful, but airing grievances should be saved for Festivus.
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Can't we just hop over to a subscription model altogether, now that we pretty much have the infrastructure?

It would lower up-front costs. I bet piracy would go down too. It would give developers an incentive to keep even small apps bug-free. It would make more sense for apps like Instapaper where the server needs to keep running. Everyone would get exactly what they pay for, and nobody would have to keep using an older version for artificial (financial) reasons.

The only downside I can see is that people cannot decide to stick with an older version because they actually like it better. But that's something that Apple customers are probably used to (e.g. surprise 10.6 users, no OTA contacts & calender sync for you anymore!). And for Apple, it may decrease vendor lock-in because people have no sunk costs anymore.
afaik, the number of wars are getting lower and lower. The same with really poor people.

Also, democracies are increasing in number, so there should be less wars -- the democratic peace theory seems to have good statistical support (see Wikipedia).
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(Not sure why you were downvoted-- seemed like a reasonable response.)

I do think the degree to which software builds on itself is different than in other engineering disciplines, but I'm afraid I don't have evidence to back it up. The closest I can get in the time I've got this morning: consider the amount of (compiled) code Dell ships on a $500 PC and compare that to a $500 mechanical device like a bicycle. I can imagine doing the research to figure out whether the bicycle infringes any patents. With the PC, I can't imagine how it would be possible. You'd have to understand how all of every program shipped on the PC works; I doubt that there is anyone alive who has even read more than half of the code in any single modern operating system. You'd need a team of programmer/lawyers and the source code from every vendor who ships code on the PC.

From there, I'd say that a system where an inventor can't assess whether their invention is infringing without an effort comparable to the amount of work needed to create the invention is a bad system.
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That's one of the fun issues with service oriented architecture.

You either choose high-chatter and low complexity, or low-chatter and high complexity. As high-chatter is also a decrease in performance (mostly due to JSON serialisation/deserialisation and HTTP requests), we opted for low-chatter.

Resources that were a composite of other resources had their own knowledge of how they were composed, and generated their own IDs to save that knowledge. Each new composition resource got it's own Accept header identifier as a result.

Within that composition resource, there wasn't just knowledge of "I'm composed of x:17 and y:3", but also knowledge of how to search across the underlying services. This could be to call search on the underlying service if one side of the composition was dominant in applying the filter to the dataset.

Where it was trivial, a search index belonging to the composed service was used. And because this duplicates data from the underlying resources, messaging was put into the underlying service to notify the composed service of changes that affect searches.

For simplicity you can just imagine that we had some kind of table in the composed service, with ID on each row that because the ID of the composed resource, and that we could search that table, and that messaging magic kept that table in sync.

We could do all of this because we owned all of the services. If we didn't, then I imagine we would have followed a similar path to http://ql.io/
Not as bad as those examples you just saw, but as others already said, those are mainly illustrative. Beyond that, it's a matter of template engines and most frameworks allow you to choose one.

Generally you won't see PHP/JSP levels of code, but the more popular engines do allow quite a bit of logic, i.e. don't adhere to StringTemplate-level purity[1].

[1]: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/mvc.templates.pdf
My lack of creativity or deep thinking on this issue (deadened by 8h of accounting catch-up tonight). That sounds like a highly plausible scenario.
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There's a lot of disagreement as to whether porn is "anti-feminist". The school of thought that says it isn't stresses the importance of female agency (that it's up to the porn actors to decide where they work). I don't see any agency in appearing in a "that's what she said" joke, so I'm afraid I don't see the double standard.
Agile and other processes go much much further than your contrived example of checks and balances in a typical hospital. It would be like hospital directly interfering into the daily doctor/patient interaction or say stipulating that no surgery can be longer than 2 hours. You want to do 9 hour heart transplant surgery. Sorry, can't do that. Break it up into 2 hour chunks and measure progress after each to make sure you are going in the right direction.

This is why agile is like religion. It is so vague and so thinly disguised into general meaningless correct sounding "principles" that it can be anything to anyone.
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As great as Adam and Joe are, the term pre-dates their podcasts. I always thought it was coined on the language log, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.h...
Democracies in the rest of the world is also "inclusive". In general, the only dictatorships that are tolerated, are those which the democracies are dependent on...

But please give counter examples?
You're wrong on both accounts:

(1) Being able to estimate with laser-like accuracy is not part of what's agile. Estimation is not part of the agile manifesto at all - Kanban for example can be done without a single estimate. It just limits the number of tasks that you have in parallel. Scrum on the other hand does deal with estimates, but it mainly postulates that you can't estimate large chunks of work at all and small chunks not necessarily correct. So there are all kinds of observed correction metrics built in that help you to get a better estimate - no one vouches for a correct one though.

(2) If you can't use TDD because you have to build a whole set of mock object you might have a tightly coupled system. Writing a test is not dead line count, it helps to formulate boundary conditions and expected behavior. It's certainly not useful for all kinds of project but it's certainly not limited to security sensitive or tricky algorithms. If the behavior is simple, then the test is simple as well. If the behavior is complicated, then the test will be as well - but at least you'll think about how it is supposed to be.
There's flexibility. I've gotten a lot of mileage of closely-related models inlined into a parent model to form a single resource (resource relationships annotated with full=True with TastyPie), but one isn't limited to that either; http://django-tastypie.rtfd.org/ outlines the possibilities better than a short comment could.
Is it using LuaJIT or any another ffi library?
I have a neuro-atypicality that makes it very hard to tell when people do not literally mean what they say. That atypicality is shared by many programmers.

I hope that you do not receive many mistaken down votes from people who mis-understand your comments!
I know Daron Acemoglu as a prolific academic, and he has some good ideas but I don't buy the general idea he has established here. As pointed out by others I find it to be serving democratic propaganda rather than any rational train of thought. Otherwise he couldn't have overlooked such a big flaw in his reasoning, one of cause and effect.

The only possible example - if even that - he could use in his argument could be the divergence of North and South America. There are no other regions in the world which weren't already poor because of a myriad of other reasons, where he can say "Oh look, they were doing good, but then turned to repression and declined."

Back to Americas, he argues it can't have geographic reasons because at the time of colonialism South was actually more advanced than North. And it should be emphasized here the sole reason South was more advanced was geography.
The flaw is, what happens thereafter is, indeed not anymore a function of the geography of Americas, but also not of the democratic institutions in place, but of the economics and politics of the colonial empires involved. Unlike North America, South America was exploited and then left without a concentration of central political authority, leading to huge regional gaps of power which then lead to those kind of extractive institutions with some kind of elite on the top. That is the effect, the result, not the cause. To grossly simplify, the region becomes poor or the power controlling the region declines, which leads to extractive institutions, which then keeps the region from developing but that is a wholly different assertion than what Acemoglu defends for this specific case.

The reasons for the outcome in Americas could be found by looking at the power struggle between the colonial empires, and the decline of the Spanish Empire. North America, where mainly England and France had influence was of course bound to overtake South America. I see no reason at all to buy this romantic "because the people were given freedom!" idea.
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There's no need to dismiss CompiledCode's point. The things he is pointing out are very real problems which affect men as a gender, without regard to the specific person. There is real sex discrimination against men going on, particularly in the US (I'm from Europe).

The best response to sexism isn't to turn the discussion into an antagonistic debate with men vs. women. Both sides have legitimate issues which need to be addressed if we are ever going to have real gender equality.

So my response would be that, yes, these things are all problems. And we need to address them separately, without dismissing any legitimate complaints from either side.
Mercurial is far from being the only alternative to git. For instance, have you tried bzr?
Kneejerk response:

"What th... seriously? It's almost like they WANT flash to lose to HTML5.."
Cloud computing 'can offer more flexibility'
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> There's no need to write cookies to track you if you're the only one running your particular configuration.

Doesn't this methodology fall over the next (and subsequent) time your addins are updated? I average eight addins in Firefox, and most of them are updated at least once a month, so I'd think my "fingerprint" would change every other week.
Oh come on. This article is based on 2 1/2-minute pitches. Surely you can at least imagine that there's more to these startups than 3-sentence descriptions? Your assumptions are completely arbitrary. More detailed articles on iCracked and PlanGrid (and maybe others) made the HN front page a while back. If you're going to criticise, at least do your research first.
Cetrom Brings Custom Cloud Computing Solutions for Law Firms
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The system I'm on now was upgraded to 10.7 from 10.6 recently and has

drwxr-xr-x+ 69 root wheel 2346 Feb 29 12:14 Library
Yeah, having recently moved from doing .net (and thus VS) to java/groovy/scala with Intellij I have to agree. Intellij is an amazing IDE.

I don't have a lot of experience with ReSharper in VS, but I would assume it brings over a lot of the IDEA features to VS?
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Forbes Insights: Exploring the Cloud: A Global Study of Governments' Adoption
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Self-Control... or lack of.
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Cloud Computing Cracks Job Crisis Conundrum?
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For those who don't get the reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8
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I'm only just now learning it's not the case. I never really discussed it with anyone but I pretty much figured it was a common occurance for everyone. Wow.
I wonder if the most important advice from this is to believe you can succeed rather than the idea of keeping a break-neck schedule. In my experience, success in learning something new starts with a sustainable daily practice; if you actually spend a half hour a day at something, you will see results in a couple of months. For instance, you could have made your way through the ml-class.org lectures and absorbed all of the material, or made your way through all the beginner lessons from justinguitar.com.

That's not to say someone couldn't spend 5 hours a day blazing through the ml-class.org lectures, but if spending 30 minutes a day means you can actually stick with it, that's a whole lot better than spending 5 hours a day for a week and then burning out. Same goes for fitness - 30 minutes a day of walking for the rest of your life is sooo much better than doing 2 weeks of p90x and burning out. If you can do p90x ever day for the rest of your life, kudos to you, but I've witness at least 2 friends buy and then burn out on p90x before getting any meaningful results.
Indian programmer here. Typical Indian assholes! Thanks for the tip.
I'd really like to see the main stream press pick up this story. It could help non-technical people understand the problems with patents (especially software patents) and how they adversely affect the lives of real people, and possibly help generate some political momentum for real change in this area.
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This is human nature, not specific to geeks or men. If you call somebody on their bullshit you have to expect some blowback, even if you do it as tactfully as Jessamyn did in this case.

What's sad is that one of the guys on the team could have fixed this with much less awkwardness, but apparently none of them stepped up.
Not necessarily. Nearly everyone knows a savvy person like us. I've installed Adblock on many computers belonging to less savvy people, people who might be inclined to click on ads.

Also, not all ads are brain dead "you're the millionth user!" type. Some (most?) are targeted to the individual. When I'm browsing with Adblock turned off I see all sorts of ads for web services that I would genuinely consider buying.
I know exactly zero Lua, but

if ffi == nil then
ffi = require("ffi")
end

is suggestive.
> I was worried about people thinking I meant what I said when I wrote it.

"Calling Out" is a pretty recognizable piece of social-justice cant. I think other social-justice types will probably pick up on it immediately.
For most of human history (and before that), the norm is not growth, but stagnation. Centralized empires tend to strangle economic development. The ascendancy of Europe was not a fluke, but rather a condition where a free market philosophy could take hold in a decentralized political system. Had Europe been ruled by a monolithic empire, it would have been very easy to snuff out the industrial revolution before it had a chance to be entrenched.
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Online Ad Startup Competes More Effectively, Spends Less on IT Windows Azure
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