skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large chunk of NK's income comes through a group called Room 39. They are the experts in Money Laundering, Drug trafficking and cyber warfare.. They also make the best fake dollars around, distributed using restaurant chain Pyongyang.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang_(restaurant_chain)
You are still just asking "someone" to read the firehose.

You need to reduce the firehose

1. raise the bar for submitting something a human is expected to read (write a long form proposal, submit a bug with a stacktrace or a test added to the test suite)

2. raise the bar for community supported issues by needing upvotes.

3. ignore some people randomly :-)
Great idea. Stack Overflow uses the same concept when you're asking a new question on the site, and I believe it helps the quality of answers tremendously. Making contributing.md visible when creating issues would be incredibly helpful.
Reddit downvoting is ridiculous at times. People just downvote whenever they see something they don't like or disagree with.

For example, anyone that dislikes {lang} will just downvote any {lang} article

vs

Reading the {lang} article and downvoting it if it's just linkspam
Thats why he says transformative. Most of the stuff in Rails was "nothing new", but they got it all together in a package, relased it and _advertised why you should do stuff like that_.

The technology behind Rails is was nothing new, it was just very well applied in a fresh language.
Penis jokes are creepy? o.O
Cyprus seeks Russian rescue, EU threatens cutoff
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Banks cannot clear transactions more rapidly than Bitcoin.

Waiting a few seconds and confirming that most nodes on the network have received the bitcoin transaction is safe enough for most transactions (those involving values less than $100) to be considered cleared.

Waiting 1 hour makes transactions with values in the tens of thousands of dollars safe to consider cleared.

These transactions can be done 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In contrast, bank transactions can only be cleared during bank operating hours. For international wire transfers, it's usually necessary to physically visit a bank branch too.

When the average wait time of waiting for banks to open and the time it takes to physically arrive at a bank teller's counter is added up, it's much longer than the maximum 1 hour one would wait for a very large bitcoin transaction to clear.

The actual transfer of funds sent in an international wire transfer usually takes several hours or days too, so it can be reversed without the cooperation of the receiving bank long after the funds have been credited to the receiving party's account, within that window of time.

The time it takes for a transfer of funds from the sending bank to the receiving bank to cleared is analogous to the one hour wait for six confirmations that one would wait for extremely large bitcoin transactions, so really, even under the worst conditions (when banks are open and the person is already physically at the bank branch and when six confirmations are needed for a very large bitcoin transaction), Bitcoin is much faster than traditional banking.

" Bitcoin does not meet the formal definition of security and there is a known polynomial time attack on Bitcoin"

When you discover a way to create a provably safe decentralized digital currency, please let us know. Bitcoin is the best that is possible given the features it has.
You often wonder what it would be like to get acquired. Author was immediately focused on making the aquisition successful for the buyer. I'm sure that attitude was recognized early in the process and factored into the decision buy the buyer.
Yes, I meant that when I start to learn thing like java and rails, everybody said that these product were easier than "x", but I didn't find them that way.
> The tone of this topic is not in line with the civil level of discourse I'd like to maintain here, so I cannot respond.

This sounds like the euphemistic version of "I don't like your attitude, so fuck off." Not exactly the answer I would want to get as a new user who is stumbling over terrible and inconsistent documentation and error messages.
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Had a similar experience, then tried AngularJS. Couldn't be happier :) http://angularjs.org
Well, considering the project, less work is not a bad thing.
What makes you wonder that?

FTA:

This does not occur on stock Android from Google. This flaw only seems to be present on Samsung's version of Android. I have only tested it on a Galaxy Note II running 4.1.2 - I believe it should work on Samsung Galaxy SIII. It may work on other devices from Samsung.
Well I'd counter that it's an off the shelf ideology, so it's already starting off worse. Off the shelf ideologies are only attractive to non-thinkers. Anyone who buys into it is already proven to be a non-thinker by my own standards.
Good tips (warning) for bloggers - "The blogosphere, with its wonderful but dangerous flexibility, can ruthlessly betray an author’s attitude toward his readers. Does he respect their precious time and keep things tight? Is he sensitive to their expectations?"
It's available in the Windows Update dialog, but it's not selected by default.
Interesting story about the origin of ‘+’ and ‘-’ signs in arithmetic
Replacing Google Reader With Tiny Tiny RSS on Heroku
I think the point would be to codify a distinction and change (increase) rates on customs duties accordingly.
No, I hate Microsoft because they destroyed Borland, Lotus, WordPerfect, etc. They gobbled up everything (Visio, PowerPoint, etc). They killed off Netscape the company, stuck us with IE6 for a decade by "making it part of the operating system." They embraced, extended, and tried to extinguish everything they could. (e.g. Java->C#, OpenGL->DirectX).

Bill, however, I greatly admire. He took no prisoners. :-) I've got his book on my shelf somewhere. It's 20 years old now. I should go back and read it.
He was being sarcastic. I'm pretty sure you both agree to the same point.
Innovation Debt
Innovation debt will kill your team as surely as technical debt will kill your codebase...
Where by American history we understand the author's career with the State Department. With such an all-reaching title, I'd have expected him to compare Iraq to at least Vietnam, if not various WW1 or WW2 decisions.
> this obligation only exists because the company that stands to profit from it willed it into existence

No it does not! It exists because idiots go along with this senseless idea. It's the same idiots that jump in line like little marketing-driven robots every Valentina's day and every other holiday. It's almost as if people have an API call for "time to shop for some senseless shit".

In our own case, no diamond ring, no jewelry at all. We bought a frigging house, we spent a couple of weeks in the Caribean and a few weeks in Europe. There is no way a diamond or jewelry can compare to that. Oh, yes, no getting down on one knee either. What a demeaning way to start a relationship. If you want to show respect do it with the actions you take every day, not empty marketing-driven cargo-cult gestures.

As for my own daughter, we are going to teach her that a moron who spends his life savings on a diamond ring is just that and someone who can't reason his way out of a paper bag. What a horrible financial decision.

In jest now. Perhaps one could launch a marketing campaign to make people give programming courses as engagement gifts. Talk about a life-changing gift.
Because, you know, ad hominem claims of lack of civility will always get you around the issue of having to face and talk about the pain points in your software.
Two people propose to you with rings that cost 25k each. One ring is resellable for 20k. One is resellable for 5k. Which one do you think is more likely to renege?
The patents involves routing messages with emphasis on followers. Everything previous I'm aware of has been multicast based or address based, like email or mailing lists. Most internet and application-layer protocols are destination based. Where is a protocol that says "Route this message based on who is interested in the source."? All I find is "send this message there, based on X, or, send that message here, based on Y"; both destination based. Would be interesting to know or hear of past protocols which are more similar to twitter's patent.
Hubski: http://hubski.com

You can follow people, ex: http://hubski.com/hub?id=NotPhil

or tags, ex: http://hubski.com/tag?id=economics
They left?
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There are features in oldIE that you can't bring forward via compatibility mode. I don't have a full list handy, but XML Data Islands come to mind as something that has legitimately anchored companies I've worked with to IE6 (and not because I wrote apps using the XML Data Islands, for the record!).

It's not very hard to update that code to use non-legacy approaches, but it's a massive undertaking to even determine what code needs to be updated in some companies where hundreds of one-off apps are created and then never maintained, much less do the work to update them.
Hacker News isn't really that different- people flag the article instead of downvoting it, so it takes even fewer people to bury a story. It's happened more times than I can count.
It's far easier to start from a basic working shell that you can tweak than it is to build something from zero. Plenty of environments manage to pull off that basic working shell just fine. If you make a new app project in Xcode, the result builds and runs out of the box. If you make a new Android app project, the result builds and runs out of the box. I can try out Python code immediately after typing "python" at the command line.

Programming is inherently hard, but there's still a vast gulf between necessary and unnecessary difficulty. The problems here are solidly in the "unnecessary" category.
If the guy that invented sms patented 140 char messages there would be no twitter. Or irc messages, or smoke signals, or X where one people sends a text message to others.
Patents are a bureocratic perversion that do not acomplish any progress to humanity, they just perpetuate the bureocratic system itself.
Religion Without God
I'm no fan of the Iraq War, but the headline isn't backed up by the text - there's essentially no discussion of history before 2003.
Is MIT going to have to stop being so generally open after this?
Of course, in exactly the same way that it could be argued that "showing off your wealth with designer accessories" is a function.
...what value has this information?
Well you are right when you say that's part of the appeal of HN. The thing is, that's part of the appeal for a hacker. I bet that for a JS professional, part of the appeal of this site is to have restrict the news just to that domain.

At the end, the success or failure of these kind of web sites tend to be more related to the community rather than the look or the features.
those are the worst suggestions to be given to a startup guy today.
Gate's business strategy isn't something we should learn from.

I can't believe people like those exist that want to learn and reprocure what Gates did to apple and the rest of the world.

In a way I'm glad ballmer is the ceo now, you reap what you sow microshit
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I'm studying interaction design in Sweden at the moment. This is exactly the point they're drilling into our arrogant heads: you're not a genius, listen to your users. And then you actually have to convince your clients that they are not geniuses, that being an expert can also make you blind to things, and that they need to listen to their users.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design
What about this series of repeated flaws which indicate a fundamentally flawed lock-screen architecture makes it seem like the Samsung team involved was highly-skilled?
>The article is making a claim that the specific "diseases of civilization" (heart disease, cancer, diabetes) would have been equally prevalent in primitive societies IF people had actually made it to old age

Right. And you pretended that they did make it to old age and infant mortality was the cause of lower lifespans. I corrected that misconception. I honestly have no idea how you got this confused.

>DIDN't die due to random pathogens/violent acts/etc DID live to comparable levels of old age

No, they didn't. That's the point. Hitting 80 was exceptionally rare. Rare like hitting 110 is now.
In my personal opinion, I'd like to present a fair comparison with another similar framework called KnockoutJS.

I challenge anyone on Hackernews to show me better documentation than this one:

http://learn.knockoutjs.com

Notice how things are explained so well as if they were explained to a child, this is how you should document, IMO.

Also, RP Neimeyer, the creator (EDIT: Committer) of this framework, has dedicated a significant portion of his life to helping out new comers to the framework, by having a separate website (http://knockmeout.net) (apart from the one above) to train and help people understand KnockoutJS. This is the kind of effort every developer should put in, IMO, if they want people to get off the ground with their framework.
Note that this is a Samsung lockscreen bypass, not an Android lockscreen bypass.
Does 'prior art' even matter? Seems like a subjective distinction that's regularly quashed by monied interests.
Thank you :). It's just a prototype right now and i will do some online players counter or lobby where you can choose different levels. Some levels would have traps and etc...
Meh, agile is just a tool/methodology with some guidelines. It has worked very well for the company I am working in, and it has worked for other companies.

Too bad you haven't made it work for you, maybe it is simply not for you.

Is it better than waterfall? Maybe... but Agile is not the only alternative to the classic waterfall model. There were several iterative software building models long before 'Agile'.
i cant stand this guy
Regardless of your own history, regarding the OP's experience purely as a cycle seems unduly pessimistic. What if it's more like sine wave with a positive slope? After all, OP changed his personality and lifestyle in important ways.
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So the same results can be achieved for less than a hundred bucks without the risk of spending the rest of your life in jail?
Correct Azure VMs. You can install one of the standard VMs, or download one of thousands of community created images, or create your own.

http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index
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Correct: Azure VMs. You can install one of the standard VMs, or download one of thousands of community created images, or create your own.

http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index
That's the point - you do what you want because you enjoy it. I program because I like programming and I enjoy solving the problems people I like have. Solving a lack of enjoyment is solving a problem.

But I don't enjoy programming for people I don't like.
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I was only pointing that one special situation, not his whole career. He behaved like a sales genius on that occasion and it doesn't have anything to do with his futher strategy. I wouldn't advise to copy the whole Microsoft strategy.
Lessons Learned Cutting Grass
> [...] you are a moron

Please go away and take your name-calling someplace else. I prefer Hacker News to be a location for civil dialog.
"If Bitcoin really takes off the old finance hands can tack these on and they'll have everything that made Bitcoin great plus their network effect."

Why would they create a new network from scratch when one already exists?
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My sister said the same thing actually
>Does Microsoft send out non-security updates for Internet Explorer 9 for those who are unable or unwilling to update to the latest version?

A crashing bug in a browser is usually considered to be a security risk, so this wouldn't be a non-security update.
> [...] She is an asshole
> [...] is a shitty person

Please go away and take your name-calling someplace else. I prefer Hacker News to be a location for civil dialog.
Bad move Trek.
That's the dilemma
Not quite sure which "Samsung team" you are referring to... Would that be the same guys responsible for the /dev/exynos-mem vulnerability?
Why would two people propose?
Here is an explanation of some of the 'difficulty in picking winners': A lot of entrepreneurs try projects, and, right, maybe only 0.5% get an exit 150+ million. But a point is that, how many of those efforts were actually well planned? Not very many. Of the well planned projects, the chances should be much higher. Again, to pick good projects, have to use a lot of information, more than can use when just playing a lottery which, in effect, the 0.5% number assumes.

More generally, the goal is something exceptional. Can't get much insight into that looking at what was not exceptional. But there are some good guidelines for being exceptional. Yes, there are not many examples among the famous IT successes. From this you can conclude either that the path to being exceptional doesn't work or that there are good opportunities.

Whatever the entrepreneurs are, it's easy enough to identify the several dozen well known venture partners. Sadly, for the well known path to being exceptional, they are not and, really, don't have the backgrounds to do the evaluations. E.g., they are not much like the problem sponsors at NSF, NIH, or DARPA or leaders of significant, advanced projects at major labs or businesses.

So, again, the VC business model is not following all the promising paths to success.

For me, this isn't about me.
What can we do to make our newly created website better?
We just finished our first real product and it is a very simple way to collect websites, images, and videos on one page and share them. We do not require an account so you can quickly create a wall and share with someone. We would love to hear your feedback!
I feel happy for you :)
I'm just going for it. I figure the sooner I lose the weight, the sooner the gout will go away too.
It seems to me that Android is relatively secure. But when third parties start faffing around with it, they make elementary security mistakes.

Samsung should stick to making hardware. Their software is either buggy or gimmicky.
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If you don't care about your websites(eg. Hobby projects, projects that aren't doing well) or care a lot(eg. Your site is the next facebook) approach a Patent lawyer and have your site reviewed. If he/she finds something amiss, approach twitter and ask them if they are ok with your website. If your site infringes the patent and you don't care about your site and you do this, you end up helping people understand where twitter stands on the issue of patent abuse and trolling. If you care a lot about your website and you do this, you are safeguarding your interests.

However, if you care just enough for your website(eg. Your site makes enough money to pay for itself and then some), I would advice against approaching twitter. Chances are twitters lawyers will ask you to shut your project, if you approach. And if you don't, chances are your project might be small enough and remain unharmed(security by obscurity?) if twitter goes a-trolling.
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From my perspective, this comment has some truth, but is a little off also.

When I was single, I found the Epstein article compelling. Then, I met the right woman, and I realized the article missed the point. If a woman you love feels good because you got her a diamond ring, then the diamond has served its purpose (to communicate that you listened to what she wanted, and got it, and that she is important). I listened to my wife, I got her a diamond ring she liked, and she has fond memories of our engagement.

My sister wanted a ring that didn't have diamonds. My brother-in-law wisely listened, got her one without diamonds, and she was happy.

If you got a great marriage out of it, and your wife has fond memories of getting engaged, then nothing about the ring really matters. If you can overpay a few thousand dollars for a ring, and get a great marriage in return, you just made the best trade of your life. What matters is that you listen to what your fiance wants, and got her something that communicates your attentiveness to her.

Whether the ring has real financial value, or diamonds are a marketing invention, is entirely irrelevant.
> Perhaps our evolutionary psychology is part of the reason we exhibit what intelligence we have, not just an unnecessary relic of our past?

Dare we take the risk that it isn't?
Seeing comments where Agile is called out as a process comparable to Scrum and Waterfall is frustrating. Agile is a set of principles and as such, it doesn't preclude a Waterfall process or any process for that matter.

In that way, Agile is purposely vague and ambiguous and it's hard to really say Agile doesn't work for you. What you can say is those aren't your values. There's nothing needed to be proven that way, it's just a disagreement based on what you value.
This is bullshit. There was never any bargain. Women have kids because women want to have kids. It's not because men are pressuring them into having kids and giving everything else up against their will. Women will split up with men who don't want to have kids. I've seen it happen. Women will get baby hunger around age 35 and jump on the nearest guy, to marry him in order to use him a sperm receptacle to get pregnant with. Again, I've seen it happen.
The husband doesn't owe the wife anything just because she wanted kids or because pregnancy is painful. If she wants kids, she has to be ready to pay the price without whinging about it. If you had said the husband owes it to the wife to put aside thousands of dollars for the child's education, that might have made sense, but implying that he owes her a stupid gem because she can't be giving birth and at work in the office at the same time is just wrong.
I love some of the examples for people discussing routine "over classification" of government documents:

https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...

Page 33, Book Review "Rapid Development" by Steve McConnell. A "top secret" book review now sees the light of day!

edit: The introduction mentions some predecessor magazines targeted to specific groups. "Dragonseeds" to B group, "Keyword" to G group, "QRL" to language, "Command" to traffic analysis and special research. I wonder if anyone has FOIA'd these earlier publications?
But the charger won't actually charge constantly, surely it's perfectly safe?
Check out http://angularjs.org ;)

Plenty of very good introduction videos on youtube
Where in the Agile manifesto does it say "Thou shalt have planning meetings."?
That actually entirely avoided the question I asked.
I would think it has little to do with the benefit of the doubt and everything to do with retaliation and escalation.

If the South found that the North definitely sunk a South submarine, the people would (more loudly) call for retaliation. And while everyone is certain what that would lead to, no-one's quite sure where it would end and no-one doubts that the losses for all involved will massively dwarf the loss of a single ship.

And there's always the possibility that the South really was in the wrong. That their ship had violated an agreement by doing something they'd rather not publicize.

(Not unlike the subdued US reaction to the EP3/Mig-21 collision in 2001. Were the US 'innocent' the rhetoric would have sounded much different than it did. But even then, the risks of escalation far outweigh the losses at hand.)