skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"qualitative rather than quantitative research"

"This 'reason' given in the conclusion might be one data point but far from being 'The reason' Why Scammers Say They are from Nigeria."

Agree. There is certainly no discussion of any conversations with actual scammers to see if that is the reason they do what they do or what they are thinking. And as far as copycat crimes go, it would make sense that someone would mimick an existing ubiquitous scheme rather than coming up with an entirely new and unique location in the world. Most people who kill themselves of course choose a method that they've heard other people use and it is well known that there are crime waves that start with a single incident. Lastly there is no data available to show what happens if you don't choose nigeria as your location to back any of this highly academic analysis up.

Of course this paper and analysis could be used with many things. Take dating for example. Is it better to go on a first date dressed to the nines or dressed at 70% (arbitrarily picked to prove a point) your best dressed look? I could take that and get someone to write a paper which shows that you have a higher chance of getting married if you dress at 70% on your first date since you will weed out many people that aren't attracted to your average looks. But the fact that I can present an academic paper showing that doesn't make the fact true without something more to back it up.
MS isn't going after Apple. It probably can't, but it knows that if it delivers tablets and phones that can integrate with AD, Exchange, and other enterprise services and be a lot less locked down, they can steal Android's lunch and create a business friendly phone/tablet ecosystem.

If Joe and Jane Public buy those, that's great too. Oh, and they will because they'll feel comfortable with Windows, especially if they are told "Oh btw, you can have Windows on your phone and tablet as well as Office now, why bother with whatever Android is or that Apple stuff."

Its also a little silly to expect MS to not try to compete in these areas. Their Win8/Tablet strategy is big and risky and may or may not pay off, but conceding that realm to Apple and Google seems foolish. Personally, I like the idea of a "super tablet" that replaces my laptop entirely as opposed to this odd device that kinda sorta fits between my phone and my laptop.
This is their first iteration. For a simple Rails app, setting up Ubuntu an RDBMS and Redis is trivial, thats true.

The point is that managing 5 Rails apps, one on Mysql, two on Postgres, two on CouchDB, one with Redis, one with Memcached... (and so on so forth) gets non-trivial soon if you don't grow beyond managing it all on your development machine.[1] Suddenly, all that trivial development stuff becomes a question of configuration management.

What the Ruby community understands is that trivial things can pile up into something non-trivial. This is why Heroku solves a trivial problem (deploying a process on some defined environment using git) and takes it to a big scale. Github does the same for repositories (arguably one of the "trivial" tasks for sysadmins) and provides it for a good amount of money. All those services started in the Ruby community for a reason. We love the mundane, as everything else is based on that.

[1] Alternatively, if you are not consulting, multiply the trivial problem by 20 developers and a growing code-base.
> I saw it linked somewhere, briefly glanced at it, thought "wow, this guy's not fit to be anyone's lawyer", and moved on.

In fairness, the real guy's public statements have had the same effect. I'm not sure a parody account can really be said to have affected the guy's reputation, it's already about as tanked as can be.
It's pretty safe to assume that employees with side projects even remotely related to work are a small minority. In all the years I've been in industry, I can count on one hand, the number of people I have known, or interviewed, that had technical side projects.

Most people just go home and kick back in front of the TV, or garden, or fish, or run or something. Rarely is that "something" a software project.
My name is Eli and I run client services at Kinvey (they wisely don't trust me with my own HN account just yet...). While I can't promise that we'll never change any aspect of our pricing (since, as almost all growing companies, we'll almost certainly make at least a few tweaks over time), what I can promise is that we will never lose our commitment to what we've dubbed "success pricing" -- i.e. pricing that is not only compelling compared to the alternatives out there, but a model that directly aligns with a developer's growth goals. That is, our pricing will kick in and increase only when a developer directly benefits, and we feel strongly that this is the most fair and mutually beneficial way to go about pricing any such service (https://console.kinvey.com/#pricing).

Feel free to reach out directly with any additional questions / concerns -- all of my contact info can be found here: http://kinvey.com/eli-lederman
Ooh, and the plot thickens! Just when I thought there could be no happy ending to this story!
The top comment is pro-MS.
What I want is an Ubuntu tablet, with a nice, fat, open, well-run App Store. All developer tools onboard, no limits to what we can do. Multitouch. Audio/Video working and great. Nice screen, working power management.

A wide open platform.

Any tablet that gives that, is going to get my bucks. I am stepping off the Apple ride, and want 100%, totally open source, working hardware.

It'll happen ..
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4135058

I just got done proselytizing the benefits of automation.

I'm not arguing against myself. I'm concerned with why everything Rails people promote and celebrate seems to be along the lines of what originally popularized the framework.

"Make a blog in 15 minutes!" --- you remember this one? Were you programming back then? It's exemplary of what I'm talking about.

Why are they accelerating the trivial? How many times do you really need to deploy a vanilla Rails app over and over in 1,000 different ways? There's much more to deployment than that, and if that's all your needs are, then there isn't much to say.

We should be learning new and advanced ways to manage complexity with Capistrano or Vlad the Deployer or some non-Ruby deployment tool like Puppet, CFEngine, or Chef.

Partly because they can help deal with things other than just the Rails app itself, which is the easy part generally speaking.
What matters is who your prospects position you against. If they are evaluating your offering versus another you have to position against that. Unless your prospects are comparing you to another startup, why would you?
And just because you are both in the same market space does NOT mean you should necessarily partner in my opinion.
To make things worse, it's a mess to try to find former employees/contractors with .5% to try to buy them out. Can you imagine trying to find the 20 guys who each put in $250 and aren't answering their email? The jank required (and +1 for appropriate use of the word "janky") to derail a professional round may be nothing more than "can't find everyone".
It used to be annoying that the food looks so different, but after that video ... I feel better ... and hungry. Some good communication there from the McMarketing Department
As soon as you start using reflection in Java, you're doing non-statically-typed programming. Since a lot of popular Java frameworks use reflection implicitly - such as Spring, Hibernate, etc - that includes a lot of Java code that's out there.

And also, even if you carefully put a layer of explicit typechecking between the reflection based code, and the statically typed stuff, you're still throwing out the Java generics typechecking since none of that exists at runtime, and so your ArrayList<String> can mysteriously contain non-String types when you finally access it.
I have in fact never seen a flame war on this topic. I've seen plenty of flame wars over religion, but not actual discussion of the way in which religions operate at a psychological level. Excuse my ignorance. (Yes, I made a quip, but I was in fact broadening the topic. I.e. the basic post is about a limited phenomenon, and there are much larger cases illustrating the same point.)

But I am definitely not alone in making this observation:

http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,1540,1624
You can't ask questions of tapes, nor can you ask for extra help from said tapes the same way you can with an actual teacher. A tape base program can't tell you when you are mispronouncing, nor can it detect the areas you are confused in. There are benefits from having someone knowledgable around to teach.
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I note your clever trick of not using any markup at all -- bravo!
"But you would say anyway that it would do more harm then good?"
Not at all. It may not do any harm but it may not do you any good necesarily. Usually, recruiter/managers scan only for 2-3 seconds unless they find specifics that they like.You can keep Page 2 of course. There is no hard and fast rule.
Neither you nor the original article refer to any audience to even close of that size. I also wouldn't ask for a show of hands if I gave the President a national security briefing, or if I made first contact with aliens.

Can we agree that those situations are uncommon for most people on HN and focus on the kinds of talks we usually give around here?
Dan Ariely on Hacking Human Behavior - Good Life Project
Before Windows Phone 7 even shipped, I was talking to my Microsoftie friends and said that I thought there was a great opportunity to build a phone that had the best Microsoft enterprise (Exchange and Sharepoint) integration, good free developer tools, and a good app marketplace with better organization and discovery than Apple's. Now throw in great Skype integration and Office support and they could have a good business phone. But if the phone doesn't have Dropbox, Pandora, and dozens of other high-profile apps users are already using on other platforms, that's a hard sell to anyone outside of IT departments.

I think there's also a window to build a decent consumer phone with great XBox integration. Make the phone essentially compete with Wii U and have great stand-alone mobile games too. That could be a great phone for twittering teens. You just have to get on other carriers besides AT&T though.
It would appear to be a customer of kaggle.com. For what it's worth, the Splunk server also appears only to be used and available for the duration of the contest itself.
There is no denying that the traditional laptop/desktop market is slowly dying away due to the iPad (and soon Windows 8 tablets), but I don't understand why this should drive them to build a business only device. Microsoft is still a very consumer oriented company, in addition to their business "kingdom".
Slightly different view here.

I think the nirvana of typing is hybrid static/dynamic and it hit us with visual basic 6. I don't think anyone really noticed it though.

It supports traditional type checking by the compiler, runtime type inference and dynamic typing without boxing. Each case can be chosen at will. It supports all theoretical programs, supports unit testing and runtime assertions.

The least buggy software I've seen over the years was written in vb6 (by professionals, not the crap that haunts the web).

Now I'm not saying we should all switch to vb6 but some of the ideas may be worth investigating.
Yeah they're 'give us your email to find out what it is' model belongs in the library of ux anti-patterns. Luckily you can put junk data in, they don't verify the email before letting you see what it's about. And even that doesn't tell you might.
Agreed with multiple versions of Resume. I have always believed that what you know does not matter. What you can offer the prospective employer that they are looking for, matters. Big difference.
But doesn't Twitter have a "verified" badge for real-world people whose identities have been verified?

I thought it went without saying that Twitter handles, above all newly-created ones, were fake unless they had that additional badge.
Indeed, many TSA officers hate the body scanners and enhanced pat-downs. Before they were implemented, people didn't really "like" the TSA but the complaints were along the lines of "Why do I have to take off my shoes?" or "Your liquids rule is so stupid!" Now the complaints are, "How does it feel to be a child molester for a living," which is entirely a different ballgame for them.
Yahoo, Facebook In Talks To Settle Patent Litigation
The internet crowds might cheer you on when you grab content without attribution, but being litigious is pitchforks and torches to you, especially when it is against freedom of expression on the internet.
I viewed the source of your page.
It is, and it drove me from Android to iOS.
From the downvotes I can only conclude that many of you wish the study didn't claim what it claims and are merely shooting the messenger. If anyone can point out rhetoric within the study that qualifies it in such a way as to make comparisons of other statically typed languages with other dynamically typed languages out-of-bounds or expressing a false equivalence within the scope of the conclusions of the study itself, I'll retract.

But so far all of the arguments I'm seeing against using, for instance, Java, are coming from a perspective not advocated by the study. You all have a point -- it's just not the point made by the paper.
… And lo, PHP-2 was born into the world.
The correct way to calculate this is look at the price next to the 16GB option. If a car configurator had a $1200 leather trim option would you try to deduct the price of non leather seats?
Serious response from Rails-land.

Though this project is interesting, it's not really going to make much of a dent in my daily workflow. There is a metric shit-ton of work being put into things that do. Over the past few years:

* The Rails queuing API (so you all queuing methods e.g. via Resque or DelayedJob have a common client interface).

* The asset pipeline (css/js concatenation + dependency management, plus precompilation for prod).

* Profoundly, bundler. I dread doing anything without having bundler there to declare, manage and allow me to browse the code of all my dependencies.

So yeah, the stuff that makes the news on HN isn't where the goodies are at in Rails.

> I've always felt the strength of the Python community is that it was able to let the idioms and cleanliness of Python stand for themselves while they advance of the state of the art for the work-a-day programmer.

:%s /Python/Rails/g<CR>
What companies are these people working for? The ones I've looked at and the ones my friends work at pay their programmers significantly more than PMs and BAs.
iPhone 3GS, released June 2009 and iPhone 4, release June 2010, both get iOS 6 (albeit with fewer features than an iPhone 4S).

No Windows Phone 7 is getting Windows Phone 8.

Supporting older hardware = brand loyalty, and environmental responsibility.

Yes an iPhone costs more - it's also going to be updated for longer...
Have to disagree with this sentiment. I understand where it's coming from, but it simply doesn't play out that way in reality. Competition is important to determine which service is going to last. If there are 80 startups in the exact same space, how would I (as a potential user) know which to pick? It'd be a guess at best. Let's say a year later only 5 are left, and 4 of those have slightly pivoted into other niches. Now it becomes very easy to decide which service to use. Had they not been competing against each other, none of them would have found their niche market. I'd consider THAT the "no one wins" proposition.
Why worry about it? It will only help your company in the long-run because you will be using your new set of skills on client projects.
Call me an old fart, but I think startups like these are good to have. No offense to any of the YC founders, but I think the variety of YC companies that are operating sometimes makes me feel that the "idea bar" is quite low.

Though, I think this EDC/clinical trails data collection is a great place to innovate in. Having worked as a software engineer in a CRO before, I know how slow the development lifecycles are and sometimes even the end users are very slow to adopt. A startup can shake things up by pushing for better data collection and analysis techniques, more automation as well as better end to end phase management.
Whoops - yes, you're right. Our blog server is completely separate and apart from any of our other servers. It originally only had 1GB of ram, and we're in the middle of resizing it to 4GB. Thanks for the Google cached link! :)

Update: And the blog server is now back up and on a much faster machine.
Sony develops film that renders screen reflection almost non-existent
Really stirred? I thought he proved that motion is impossible...
Yes this is getting annoying.

I think when a site reaches critical mass, the pedants and moderati (play on illuminati) start screwing it up. Wikipedia is another fine example of this.

I've stopped contributing to stack overflow now due to this (I accumulated 20k karma to give you an idea how much I thought the idea was promising)
One of the keys of the iPads success is that it has been among the lowest priced tablets. Your point doesn't hold.

Apple makes enormous profits because of volume and a very, very refined process.
Good business analysts and PM are more likely (maybe because of the situations they are involved in, or because of their training) to realize and explain what value they bring to the company.

For most "regular" programmers, it's not that clear :)
Welcome to the Nokia experience. I bought a N900 in 2010, and I was literally thrown under the bus not once (when Maemo was replaced by Meego), not twice (when the N9 debuted with a completely different UI) but three times (when they switched to WP7 even before the N9 was shipped).

Meanwhile MS was busy killing off WinMobile, then Kin, and now WP7.

And they wonder how Apple can get such faithful developers... A real mistery...
"for mega-extreme-fitness-workout or call-meet-super-sexy-local-girl"

That's actually a little different. When people are desperate they are willing to go with emotion instead of rationality. That's why they travel overseas for miracle cures even though rationally what they are doing doesn't make any sense at all.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Primetime/story?id=482292&p...

There is also the greed factor which is somewhat similar and why people go for "to good to be true" things if the price is low enough.

There is a blogger who I will not name that has chosen to go with godaddy $9 hosting for his quite popular blog (he used to pay $100 for a VPS or something like that) and he truly believes that gd will give him unlimited everything at that price point just because that's what the site says. While he is not particularly savvy in terms of hosting and technical things (by his own admission) his greed (if I can call it that) makes him overlook and ignore the obvious.

I'm sure someone can point out the exact psych principles that are involved here.
Android is a market and market would always suck if you're not a buyer.

My first tablet I bought was Android and without reading the article I can tell that Android OS sucks.
Whenever MS does one of these presentations, they always seem to get 90% of the way there in terms of polish, focus and message.

Why are they even bothering with branding "Windows Phone 7.8" ?

They should have just named the update "Windows Phone 8 Legacy" and the actual WP 8, "Windows Phone 8".
Micro - rye - zah
For instance, for companies where programming and IT is not perceived as a core competency and asset, but a cost.
Rails volken: Do yourselves a favor, stop promoting stuff like this. It makes you look like Baby's First Web App.

I'd seen the Resque/DelayedJob stuff. The equivalent in Python-land are Celery and Carrot. They're probably not much different.

>* The asset pipeline (css/js concatenation + dependency management, plus precompilation for prod).

Creating defaults for this stuff is definitely cool, but OTOH, it's something we solved at my company with a single bash script ;)

>:%s /Python/Rails/g<CR>

Vim user. Pffffft. ;) All hail the hypno-Emacs!

>it's [action.io] not really going to make much of a dent in my daily workflow

I would hope not. I would think most serious programmers have a pretty smooth/fine-tuned pipeline for "save file, run script, see changes in $SERVER(s)"
Fun fact: "Opa" means grandpa in German.
I love that slippy maps are a commodity such that people can making art and craft them in new and wonderful ways.

There's already a nice collection of other twists on the slippy-map-as-art thing here. One more is Stamen's Pretty Maps, which does the heavy lifting in SVG and combines Flickr shapefiles in very interesting way: http://prettymaps.stamen.com/
I gave my mom an Ubuntu running laptop, 5 years ago. And administered it remotely only all that time. Eventually there was a hardware failure so we'll just replace it and she'll be good to go as well.

Interestingly, this was her first real computer experience. While I could get to fix it, my cousin let her use a Windows 7 laptop. There were plenty of complaints from her about how unfriendly, unpredictable and annoying the interface was. It was kind of funny to hear that since usually you hear the reverse (ex-Windows users complain about Ubuntu GUI).
This is pretty much it. You can add comments to your G+ post right in gmail, and subsequent comments will appear right there as you watch. It's more like a special type of "mail" that's a view into a G+ post.
Why don't we live on the edge and do stuff in production machine? Environment, IDE, Deployment in one place (^_^)
Current Windows 7 phones are getting updates, 7.8. Contrast this with the original iPad which won't get ios 6 and it was released in 2010.
At this point, it appears to be possible to target iOS, Android, and webOS with C and OpenGL (I haven't tried building an app this way, but it's on my to-do list). Here's hoping that this development means I can add Windows Phone to this list. :-)
Gigapixel camera catches the smallest details
Re: How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA?
I have seen people place their iPad on table in a restaurant, with their wireless bluetooth keyboard and mouse, typing away like they're sitting in front of their desktop at home. So ...
Might just me, but I prefer "Windows Phone 7.8" vs "Windows Phone 8 Legacy". It's shorter, and when given a short explanation I get what it is. If you call it "Windows Phone 8 Legacy" people are going to wonder why they can't install WP8 apps on it, after all, it has WP8 in the name.

Edit: forgot the word "apps"
The only way Microsoft, like IBM before it, could have held onto its market position was if the government stepped in and specifically protected it.
to be honest in the UK at least they look pretty similar although usually assembled slightly wonky.

Still taste as good as they look in the ads though.

Despite all the bad press, McDonalds is great (well I like them anyway).
My PM is on vacation this week and I've had to partially fill in. I have been getting frantic urgent emails from roughly 7 am till 1 am. If this is what the guy puts up with, he deserves a couple bucks.
Military decoys have to be better than that. Check out what they actually use:

http://ravenaerostar.com/products/inflatables/military-decoy...
Preventing Stack Overflow Attacks
Since no one else has posted it, here's a relevant Quora thread: http://www.quora.com/Scams/Why-are-email-scams-written-in-br...
"albeit with fewer features than an iPhone 4S"

And that's pretty much what's happening with WP7. Windows Phone users are getting an upgrade [1], but it won't be as fully-featured as WP8. Apple just did the slick move of calling both the partial update and the full update by the same name.

[1] http://www.slashgear.com/windows-phone-7-8-brings-wp8-ui-to-...