skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know Graham. And he's both a great guy and a serious developer. I've also read his book and though I've not yet finished it, I've seen this table, as it's in the beginning.

Having read this blog post, I now respect him even more. Both for the intellectual honesty and for his efforts to try and reconcile the data in the table, with all its consequences.

I wish more people (including me) were this dedicated and willing to admit mistakes.

Maybe that's what makes him a specialist in software security, of all things.
A Limited Descent Combinator?
I seem to remember first seeing a table like the one the author describes in "The Mythical Man Month" but my copy is currently at home. The data underlying that book was gathered from projects at IBM in the '60s and '70s and I don't really doubt that the underlying data was fairly represented.

The bigger question is whether improvements in processes and tools have obsoleted this data. TDD and automated regression testing would be one place where inter-phase defects could become less costly. On the other hand, projects that have uncorrected architectural errors can be completely functional and yet their maintenance costs never decrease.

If someone has a copy handy, please validate my memory otherwise I'll check when I get home this evening.
Our society decided there's no survival value in living a virtuous life: saving money for a rainy day, delaying gratification. This is unfortunate because the word virtue used to mean excellence and valor.
That Twitter Bottstrap forum, is that custom built or a theme?

How do you handle shipping internationally while keeping costs down?

Good luck with the site, it has potential and gets a thumbs up from me.
A reasonable assumption, besides Apple, is Facebook. With all the information these services have the easiest part may be to acquire your home address.
Well, that was what I gathered from the part I'll about to quote. But considering English is not my native language I might have misunderstood his meaning:

"As explained in the book, this table is reproduced from an earlier publication:

Table 1.1, reproduced from Code Complete, 2nd Edition, by Steve McConnell (Microsoft Press, 2004), shows the results of a survey that evaluated the cost of fixing a bug as a function of the time it lay “dormant” in the product. The table shows that fixing bugs at the end of a project is the most expensive way to work, which makes sense…

The first mistake I made was simply that I seem to have made up the bit about it being the result of a survey. I don’t know where I got that from. In McConnell, it’s titled “Average Cost of Fixing Defects Based on When They’re Introduced and Detected” (Table 3-1, at the top of page 30). It’s introduced in a paragraph marked “HARD DATA”, and is accompanied by an impressive list of references in the table footer. McConnell:

The data in Table 3-1 shows that, for example, an architecture defect that costs $1000 to fix when the architecture is being created can cost $15,000 to fix during system test.

As already covered, the first problem is that I misattributed the data in the table. The second problem, and the one that in my opinion I’ve let down my readers the most by not catching, is that the table is completely false."
good point. I guess I'll just put the quote here then:

"What if Apple is like a sports team that introduced a groundbreaking strategy. Something like introducing the forward pass to football. Is it wrong for another team to copy that strategy? What if the only other team that can win is the one team that most shamelessly copied that strategy? At some point you have to start thinking that the problem is with the (losing) teams that aren’t copying. "
The Problem of Solving Problems: Questions with George Whitesides
Valve really has confirmed it, and they don't need to say anything to anyone specifically. From that page:

"We’re frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space though, so we’re jumping in."
Found it: ( I hope its as good as the 7 languages one ):

http://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-wee...
I've Never Installed: ... Other [ ]

This is a joke, isn't it? How could I possibly answer this question correctly?

(My deadpan-sarcasm filter isn't working very well right now.)
>researchers found that nearly every file-sharer they monitored, was monitored.
Many people express this fetish for delaying gratification, but it's not for everyone. It's cute to see people getting into it and thinking the rest of us should go without.
"The build is great." - Not so much for probably thousands of people who already got a replacement unit because the screen came lose on the left side. I must say Google was really good sending out replacements.

"yet too small to display almost every type of content one would want to consume, including the very stuff Google pre-loaded" - Yeah this is one of my bigger annoyances. It is just so dumb that the 'Welcome to your Nexus 7' email does not scale properly. This is a common theme with HTML email on the Nexus. Most of them are fixed width and impossible to read on the Nexus.
Angry Birds was made by Rovio, not Chillingo.

Chillingo is a publisher of 3rd rate knockoffs.
Examples don't work in Firefox. :(

ReferenceError: Caman is not defined @ http://www.camanjs.com/js/backend.js:90
Chinese Maker Of The GooPhone I5 Might Have Blocked IPhone 5 Sales In China
While that convention is generally true, in this case the c in cmath refers to complex numbers.
If you save the random number, what happens when they wipe the device and reinstall your app? No way to get that original number back. Secure UDID is deterministic, so you'd get the same ID, and can resume the original session.
Computer programming will soon reach all Estonian schoolchildren
That's my immediate understanding of KS also. I am honestly baffled that people expect hard promises from creative projects.

I give projects my money because I have money to spare and want to give them a chance to succeed. Nothing more.
Ask HN: How can your bank be better?
Hi guys,

I am seeing more and more people getting frustrated with their bank for a variety of reasons. If you were in charge of their mobile and web platform - what changes would you make? What new ideas would you introduce?

Me...I'd start with my bank allowing me to undertake webchat! I have to login, pass through crazy levels of security to realise I need to ask someone a question about my account - the only way I can do this is to ring them up and pass through the same security I have just gone through online! Let me ask someone online!

cheers

Steve
Hmm, Dollar Shave Club got $1M in seed funds... that big warehouse in their promotional video is misleading - makes it seem like they're already far more established than they are - still a great video though!
This feels like a scare tactic to get people scared, they could never go after all downloaders.
You can use .getAttribute() for data values without the $.
...and it won't be possible to come up with an effective defense unless a team applied use of the patented offense in practice sessions without a valid license.
Project and Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Have you ever tried selling the book for $30+?
Probably the user do not see enough value in a $1 ebook to justify the effort to make the purchase...
The National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance in Pittsburgh is the office where the FBI Agent who posed as a member of the carding community worked when he helped take down Max Ray Vision, née Butler.
Magento has turn into legitimacy ecommerce exhortation »
You're the first I've heard say this. Would you mind passing a link along?
There are far too many accounts leaked for them to be the source.
>It doesn't matter that you worked hard, or studied, or failed 50 times before. You were in the right place at the right time, and that's why you're making so much money.

It's not that it doesn't matter, it's just that hard work isn't enough. Luck does play a big role.

Of course people who come in and try to tell you that it had nothing to do what you did are jerks, but people on the other side try to say that it was all them and had nothing to do with luck (usually right before they blast poor people for not "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps").
DO benchmark yourself against normal
>Maybe we're succeeding at passing on these character qualities to our kids at a higher rate than at any time in the past?

Not judging by the behaviour people one sees in any major city, or their kids, compared to historical norms of behaviour one can read about in history books.

One small example: attitude and rudeness like you see today from high-schoolers, would be totally unfathomable in a 1930 or 1950's school.

>There were thieves and liars and murderers and lazy people and scum bags 200 years ago too.

Sure. That doesn't mean societies are stationary. They change with the prevalent motives of the era, the changed ethical norms, the economic and political situation, etc.
It's not pretty, but here's a PDF version I compiled from saving each web page as a PDF and then concatenating all of them.

http://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=Download&File=40...
That's a good question, I was wondering the same thing?
Oh man.. I used to work doing sales & managing inventory using Yayoi Kaikei... It was a world of pain.
I like this. Anyone feel like extending this to Numpy? I tend to use the Matlab/Numpy conversion page all the time.
Guidelines for accessible gaming
Show HN: Big League Fantasy - Fantasy Football for the Social Web
It probably is. The BBC are notorious for jumping on top of every scare tactic out there and promoting it.
I have followed these lines of thought before. They contain a fatal mistake.

Anonymous is not a group that can have a reputation. At best, it's a subculture. Anyone can call themselves anonymous. Whoever didn't lie in all the previous incidents may not be behind this one - this could be a totally different person or group of persons with totally different ideals.
And yet we see today the claim that 1m+ Apple UDIDs were allegedly stolen from a single FBI agent's laptop. We are easier to track than ever.
Python and Web: Building Dynamic Web Forms in Web2Py from Ground – Part I
Under the particular domain of web development, Python has offered much more than we expected it to in the early 2000’s. It now offers multiple pre-built web frameworks that even a novice coder can utilize for the development of complex applications. Today, we will witness it. Today, we will go through the process of building a dynamic web form using one of its frameworks called Web2Py on a local machine/server.
Apple UDID Leak & Agency Collection Risks
rom is correct, both the math and cmath modules are implemented in C. And even if the math module was pure Python I don't think that the speed of accessing a constant would be drastically different.
Isn't this very well suited for something like kickstarter? I know I would "invest".
Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die
Pseudo-Elements - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 15 (a video per day)
Avoiding Avoidance Creatively
In avoiding avoidance creatively, you'll learn how avoidance can be used as a weapon against procrastination! Master the "art of avoidance" and get things done!
Wireless charging pad image leaks for Nokia Lumia wireless charging
Chillingo is the publisher of the original Angry Birds, and it's their social network (which is integrated with Angry Birds and therefore on millions of devices) that had the vulnerability.
These virtues lead to a dull and unfulfilling life in today's society. Many will ignore these tenants and behave badly out of boredom. But they sure do sound good, especially in a list like that. I'd argue that these values aren't necessary to most people today in that the value doesn't solve a problem the person has.

Don't forget that Jesus went around defying elders and authorities. Do you want your kids to have that type of humility?
You do know that there are other people in world with the name Obama, right?

I know for a fact, the NSA protects all communications from the president (and most of the top level folk in his administration). If this turns out to really be the president (which I doubt) it would be a MAJOR breech.
That's just the first thing that comes to mind that I wasn't able to do. The only purpose was to illustrate it's inflexibility.

I love the concept of Android, but a general purpose OS needs to be flexible--at least under the hood. As of right not Android is not a general purpose OS. I'm not saying it couldn't become one, just that it would take some pretty major changes.

The UI will have to change pretty significantly as well.
Sure. Of course. But my point is, how is that different for touch screen-based input or a real keyboard? The grandparent poster seems to think that in the post-pc era, security problems disappear in puffs of colored icons and magical gestures.
Yeah, but the certificate used to push is.

Effectively, it's the same result: you can only push to one app with one set of credentials, and credentials are not shared between apps.
Don't forget all (well nearly all) Bit Torrent downloaders are also (by default) uploaders - seeding back to the pool while their file downloads.

MAFIAA and others don't care about downloaders (as yet I don't believe a single user who downloads only, has been sued successfully), but they DO care about those sharing their material. The fines levied so far are not for downloading tracks, but for sharing them.
> I therefore no longer consider Table 1-1 in Test-Driven iOS Development to be representative of defect fixing in software engineering

Surely this makes it more representative, in a literal sense -- if he'd checked his data at the start, he wouldn't have to go back to check it + issue an apology + reprint the books now :P
Holder.js - client side image placeholders
That's an amusing statement. The whole point of anonymity is for your statements to be judged on their merits rather than your reputation.
I wonder if he tried asking McConnell just how he compiled the table. It does seem a bit odd to construct such a simple table from eight different sources.
Hear Jeri Ellsworth talk more about Valve and Hardware:
http://hackaday.com/2012/08/17/an-in-depth-interview-with-je...
One suggestion, can you move the collapsible-minus to be left of username? Like on reddit?
"Much better performance" is perhaps a bit misleading since it's not black and white, but at the core OP is right. See this thorough SO answer for more info: http://stackoverflow.com/a/731625/886402
Salamworld: Facebook's New Rival?
So then Apple are now like the guys still in leather helmets that have been running exactly the same pass play for five years while the rest of the league has figured out you can actually run four or five different formations and pass all over the field?

But sure, let's keep pretenting this is about Samsung in particular and not Android in general.
Depending on how geeky you want to go, whether it's all for work or you want some pleasure out of it, I would say get a bunch of x10 devices. You can get lights, security systems, coffee pots, etc that all work off of the wireless x10 protocol so they can be used to build a smart home for extremely cheap (not sure what the cost would be getting everything in India though).
My gut reaction is that this is a good idea. It will definitely help develop logic and mathematics skills. I am concerned by the focus on "web and mobile", though. It seems like it would be better to focus on raw computer science for a program like this.
Remember that this was just one agent's computer. We shouldn't forget too quickly about the Carrier IQ fiasco.
I have taken a few of those online IQ tests and they show to be well above average. I don't believe those tests to be accurate and more importantly I don't believe IQ is an accurate measurement of anything meaningful.

That being said I am an odd mix of morning person, night person. I function very well if I am out of bed by 6-6:30am, then I drop off about 11:00am. From 7pm-1am I again function at a high level. I typically only sleep about 4-5 hours per night and feel very groggy if I sleep more than that.

I agree with most of the other responses. I think your peak production period depends on the season, type of work and lifestyle.
The credibility of timedoctor application is increasing. A great innovative solution for big companies.
Wow, it is scary when intelligence organisations start to infiltrate political organisations... an even worse variant of regulatory capture.

But that was during the cold war, 40 years ago. The levels of paranoia increased after 9/11, but hardly to the pre-1989 levels.
Thanks a lot, it's amazing. Should be a chrome extension fast, btw.
When Do VCs Invest?
W3C Brainstorming Selectors Level 5
I upvoted purely because of what a great website Tindie is. Congratulations on the decision and best of luck!
DeskMetrics Analytics 2.0 is now available in closed beta
It would be interesting to see these run against a "null" canvas backend to understand how much of the time is JS dispatch versus draw. Also, I think recent Chromium doesn't perform the drawing directly, but records the commands and plays them back in another process, so I'd expect any readback operations (where JS sees the raw pixels) to be slow.
Wow, ego issues?

You have taken this all very personally. I apologize for offering a different take on system design than what you apparently believe in very strongly? I've said a few times there's "no one way."

The systems we've built have served over-billion-page-view months. That's not common or easy. HN is a site that values a back-and-forth about that kind of experience and I'd have loved to hear your tips thrown-out there too. But this has become some strange ego thing for you so it's time for me to bow out.
Dream Chaser: A ‘Family Car’ for Space
What Will VC's Want: Common Stock? Preferred Stock? Debt? Warrants?
I'm so glad to see that haproxy is finally adding native SSL support.

I have used stunnel (http://www.stunnel.org/) in front of HAProxy up to now. That setup works. But I'm happy that in the future I can remove one of the moving parts from my machine and just use haproxy.
I thought Valve will sell valves.
Everyone is getting on the web. I could say that business is good online since a number of people are putting money into it. Well, July has increase a lot since it's the mid of the year and, I think it's during this time that businesses/people could decide which direction to go for their investments.
I'm quite turned off the Raspberry Pi right now. I ordered one the day after they went on sale. Got an email in July that it would be coming to me with 12 week shipping. Last week I got an email that the shipping was delayed 8 weeks.
When I try to install the chrome extension for newly added comments, chrome says "it's only available through web store"?
>　my manager needed to invite a salesman out to drinks for us to procure a license of MS Office at my old day job

Do you see the Japanese recognizing/fixing the massive inefficiencies in how they do business any time soon? The Japanese economy's been down in the dumps for the last 20+ years, and these sorts of things can't be helping. Peter Drucker must be turning in his grave (he would be positively spinning if he saw もしドラ).

When I see things like faxes still being prevalent because "my feelings and passion come across better"[0], I wonder if the Japanese are really interested in staying relevant in a global economy. I mean, come on, 59 percent[1] of homes still have faxes? How did these people miss the digital revolution?

0: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19045837

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-japan-fa...
If anyone is interested in more of these standard practices in regards to aircraft construction the following book details the proper methods that should be used.

http://www.amazon.com/Standard-Aircraft-Handbook-Mechanics-T...
If the full file (including addresses) gets into the wild, and I fear that this may happen, it will be a really useful tool for burglars. Many iOS devices probably correlate with many valuables in a home. That's a lot of lawsuits against everybody involved...
I'm sure that children are going to be more interested in what they can create using programming rather than honing their computer science skills. The web and mobile provide great opportunities for children to play with programming and make something fun.
Yep, that's a crucial part of this addon and everyone seems to be forgetting it. I remember when someone suggested it on Reddit and the staff almost immediately implemented it, because it was so obviously better.
That one threw me too. Especially since I was under the impression that chastity was not his main concern in Paris... but then again, that's Paris ;)
I would be surprised if you could get a court order to turn over details on 12 million users.
I have Installous, so that could make this possible. However you need to jailbreak (which often involves Cydia) in order to even get access to Installous, so how about the other 84%?

(PS: I only use Installous if I need to trial an expensive app - I will buy the app if it does what I need :))
On the other hand the disk or better said the partition with sensitive data should decrypted (mounted) only when needed. I doubt he needed that data during the conference.
Love against the Meaning of Life
Haha, I cracked up when I read this. This just seems like a (very typical) BBC scare tactic article.
My First Real Django Project
Maybe he learned something after frequenting brothels (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...) and siring an illegitimate son in his youth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Franklin).
Hackers Allegedly Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs
This rant seems to mostly be a slam against buzzwords in general (which is a bias I also share)...but I don't agree with his reasoning behind the attack in this case

> So yeah, maybe a ‘traditional marketer’ isn’t able to come up with the (admittingly impressive) solution of HOW to push a listing to Craigslist, but you can’t just go saying that he/she can’t come up with the idea!

I haven't followed the discussions about growth hackers, but I can imagine a person whose skillset covers both marketing and code in a way that the whole is greater than the sum of those two parts.

It's not just the "idea" that matters, but the understanding of how discrete data can be usefully collected, analyzed, and disseminated. Call me skeptical, but I don't think there are many marketers who really understand the admittedly pedantic logistics in this...I don't mean that they need to actually code this, but to understand that there is such a way to parse amorphous tasks and information such that something truly useful can be done.

As an example, how many people out there merely had the idea that people like collecting photos and displaying them in an attractive layout? How many of those built a massive startup company from that idea?
Why is this using such an old version of Firefox? (3 version back now, 2 when it was published.)

(This is a serious question, the author seems to have a lot of up-to-date browsers, except for FF, so presumably there is some explanation, e.g. updating process is too difficult, or something.)
I guess there will not going to be a hard coding for first graders but some basic introduction to it. Can't imagine any first grader to code an app. Will see once more information about the learning process will be available.
Will some Reddit'r please go and rough him up a bit over the file format (docx). I was going to post this here, until I noticed that it was a repost from Reddit. Cheers

Please use non-proprietary document formats. It's the polite thing to do. http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/reject
As far as I can tell, O'Reilly doesn't even do that. I've even strings(1)'d them and found nothing.