skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Also, South Korea has REALLY bad security. For example, if you want to use some form of online banking you must use an ActiveX control with IE."

I've heard about that, and that it's a major impediment to the adoption of new browsers, but I'm wondering how that gels with the (uncomfortable/awkward?) zeitgeist of Samsung.

I was under the impression that Japan went 'mobile first' years ago and their phones have been their touchpoint (no pun intended) to the internet from before the iPhone launched and that desktop PCs weren't a big thing.

Are SK residents using their Life Companions* tethered to a PC to do their day-to-day banking on a PC? Akin to iTunes?

*http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys4/
"I know most of you can't stand the guy"

Really? I thought people took objection to Microsoft but generally thought of him as an intelligent, charismatic and, more recently, very generous man.
Sounds exactly like consulting, or the experience of friends who have worked as startup employees (all the work with few of the perks).
Exactly what I did. Spent 6 months salary for 3 months of travel. I am from Austria though, so there was no social stigma attached
Nope. Those aren't people I should do business with.
The excuses are on an on. I admire Github guys. They give a super cool impression to the other outside world and they're doing a great job. But the recent outages and the problems are giving high attention to Github. It's giving negative sign for the people who are interested go for Github way of hosting code. Either their own premise or on github. giving detailed analysis is a good tech thing... it fires developers heart and we are still going admire what they did to resolve this issue but definitely this isn't a good sign for github.
I don't really see that as a plus. Qt would have been my choice but oh well.
Am I missing something or is writing documentation deemed unnecessary for large apps?

Personally, I use YUIDoc which has some serious flaws, but I haven't found anything better yet.
Maybe read /proc/self/maps and /proc/self/mem and try to locate the BigInteger value in the JVM heap?
>> Who is talking in the first person?
Click on a annotation to see who wrote it. Most of these have been written by Harj.

>> Is it PG? Is it Harj? If Harj is the one who annotated it, does that mean he's not the one who wrote it?
Harj wrote it and is now explaining it.

>>Are we supposed to be familiar with this email?
It was the subject of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5370427

>> There is literally -zero- context to go off of here, and I don't think RapGenius' site currently has the interface necessary to provide the context to begin with.
Ctrl+f "description" will give you a box in the top-right corner:
"Harj Taggar is a Y Combinator partner. He wrote this email as satire of normal VC boilerplate."
Atlassian builds a JIRA connector for Bitbucket and Github:Enterprise. To test the connector, an installation of Github:Enterprise is required.

Internally we use Stash of course ;)
Doh, now that you point that out... I misunderstood it. Thank you.
Not Been Fully Patched : Facebook Timeline Privacy Compromised
A high-quality Neandertal genome sequence
Please add yourself to the "Ask HN: like HN, for other disciplines/topics?" thread from yesterday - thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5399879
Good to know about dollar-gee, reminds me of DOMBrew: https://github.com/glebm/DOMBrew
A wireless wind meter containing no electronics
At least for a technology person, if you're good enough to launch a successful startup you're probably good enough to get a high-paying development job.

A good development job will pay something like twice the median salary in lots of places. Live a median lifestyle and save the other half. Each year you do this buys six months of runway (and more if you can invest wisely in the mean time).
> I'm pretty sure every guy knows all this already

No! I really don't! I kind of imagine that as a middle-class British guy I'm not too far from modal HN culture, but this sounds totally bizarre and alien to me.
Why does people complain if I enter my bank with a ski mask? What if a person simply wants to protect their privacy?

In other words: A lot of things can have perfectly legitimate reasons but still strongly suggest that you're up to no good.

The tricky thing is to combine sufficient number of signals to get a high enough confidence to act on it without angering users with legitimate reasons.
There's definitely lots of people who don't think critically about agile, and just accept whatever agile dogma handed down to them without giving much thought about how it applies to their team, and their business.

But I think you're vastly underestimating how much of an effect a good process, or a bad process can have on a development team. The good process doesn't need to be textbook scrum (In fact, "textbook" scrum is usually not a great idea), but it's a bit laughable that you're criticizing Agile advocates for not having critical thinking, while in the same breath minimizing process to "Well, there's good people and bad people, and the good people will get things done better."

What do you think makes a good project manager a good product manager? Do they just magically add +5 to development speed to a project? Of course not, they build and adapt a process that makes sense for that team. That doesn't necessarily need to be Scrum, or even Agile, but in my experience those methodologies seem to work better. The only caveat is that they need to be built and adapted for a companies particular needs.

In regards to proving Agile works, I can give plenty of anecdotes:

I could talk about when my startup had pressure from upper management to commit to a fixed roadmap several months out, moving from our "Scrum-like" agile process to something much more akin to Waterfall. I can talk about how it led to overly defensive estimates, projects taking roughly double the time they used to, and inevitable "death marches" at the end of the project, when we were faced with the prospect of integrating huge projects into our main codebase, with the QA nightmare that resulted from that.

I could talk about how, in the many tech companies I've worked for, there's an almost perfect correlation between "agility" (which I'm defining as the ability to re-evaluate project plans and iteratively develop software) and quality, ease of deployment, developer productivity, and satisfaction with the dev team.

Finally, I can talk about a recent example. We recently experimented with moving to larger, pre-planned projects. One interesting thing about the way we did the transition is that we packaged up stories that we had already broken down into stories appropriate for Scrum, and moved them into a larger project. We ran two projects using this approach. One project that was estimated (in terms of story points) at about 1.5 weeks ended up taking 5 weeks to deploy. One project that was estimated around 5 weeks took 12. I wish I could give you more evidence, but this transition was such an abject failure that we moved back to Scrum before we did any more damage.
FWIW, i believe this was a hack involving their use of package management IPM (Isis Packagement Management): http://help.unc.edu/help/isis-package-manager-ipm/.

this is similar to ruby's package management hack earlier, but this time at a software level with ability to infect PC's/servers/etc...
Is there a way let users collaborate without authorizing the app?

Developers authorize and create API with Google but it will be nice to allow users to collaborate anonymously like Sharing a Google Doc to the public.
Being somewhat more divorced from MS and his charity effort have helped his public image a lot over the last few years but I'm sure we can still remember the days of the slashdot borg icon etc.
There are barely any comments. Oh btw, I couldn't figure out how to add one anyway. If that requires registration... make it obvious.
Basically, the diamond ring is the peacock's tail (as explained by Dawkins).
While javascript has very specific issues and problems, I'd like to see more "generic" programming resources on how to develop fat clients, wether they are desktop or web , how to structure an app , etc ...

You dont learn much if you are only applying solutions that are relevant to javascript.

Since most of devs know javascript , it can be used to express "generic" algorithms , but OOP design patterns not so much. Yet a large application you need those patterns. And these are the same patterns one would use to code Java , C++ , C# , obj-c mobile/desktop clients. But i guess javascript flexibility, and the "DHTML battery included" , DOM & CSS gives one the impression one doesnt need them .
Sorry you've been using bad tools. I must have missed the part of the Agile manifesto that requires that you use a shitty project management tool.
No way I would pay for such a critical part of the business without trying it and only see some "supposedly" pre rendered screenshots that will also just set an high level of expectations. I am sorry but I really think this is not going to work.
The design in a little (more than a little, tbh) overwhelming. But that's cool for v.0.11.0
Unless I am doing very heavy weight development work all of my dev envs are in VMware Worktstation virtual machines. So flexible to work with and I can archive off the whole devenv with the project once complete knowing I can just load it back up in a few minutes if I need to in the future. Bliss.
In general articles from The Register are i) awful, ii) given link-bait headlines, and iii) available elsewhere.

The HN guideline about linking to the original source would be lovely if it meant people stopped linking to the Reg.
> It doesn't have anything to do with financial security. Look, if your man is spending three months worth of salary on a piece of shiny rock, he is exercising poor financial judgment and that is a signal against future financial security.

I don't get it. Why would you even want to be engaged with women so stupid to want a shiny rock no matter what. If anything I'd want a man-made diamond, because it's cooler.
I never even heard of the rule that you have to get a diamond ring for engagement, guess that's a USA thing. Well, my BF still bought me a good monitor, which is much more useful.
Javascript: http://www.echojs.com/
It's more like taking a homebuilt experimental aircraft out for its first test flight. When the engine blows up 30 seconds into your flight and you crash into a house, you'll probably wish you turned the thing on on the ground before actually flying it. Sure, the engine was faulty, but any of the parts could have caused the failure. The root cause was that you didn't even try to see if the thing worked in safe conditions.
In what way? I think multiple hours long sprint planning meetings can be necessary in some cases, if the alternative is even more meetings spread out throughout the sprint. It's definitely an art form finding the right balance of how much to plan at the start and how much to leave to a conversation, but overcorrecting away from planning meetings can very easily cause frustrations and disagreements about what a story "really meant".
I've been looking for a good copywriting blog to replace Copyblogger after it started hard selling questionable widgets.
Ad Tech’s Big Problem Is Thinking Small
How about throwing on a "Reading Wishlist" on the site then?
Blind people can see with sound : Android APP and coming up Google Glass APP
How good is good enough?
No expiration date is just an evil omission. The risk is of obsolescence is there, whether they state the date or not. Making the risk visible to everyone makes the situation clearer for everyone. All that is needed is a table like http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?ln=en-gb&c2=1173
Why is it a "no go"?
I've seen CVs that literally have most of a page filled with buzz words and acronyms - pretty much SEO for whatever tools recruiters use to search.

Unfortunately, candidates who take this kind of approach seem to list a lot of technologies they have only heard of or been in the same room as. If someone lists a technology in their CV I do rather expect them to know what it is and what it is generally used for and good and bad points.
Worked out great for Anita Sarkeesian.

Judging Adria Richards website, her mostly inactive Github profile, her Youtube channel filled with spammy "how to" videos. She seems more like someone engaged with trying to make money on the talk circuit and Youtube game rather than as a developer.

But yeah well done her getting the guy with 3 kids fired for the PG-level conversation she overheard.
Who's being forced to anything?
You talk like its a person - it's a damned service ...

Plus my point was that the demise of Reader had nothing to do with the OP, and that its continued discussion in any post containing the letter G was pathetic, detracting from more interesting conversations we could and should be having - like the one about the possibilities of the new Drive API...

I'm tired of the railroading and the assumption that a for-profit organization has some sacred duty to think about anything more than its bottom-line. That Google thinks beyond its bottom line quit often (Glass, Cars etc...) is to its credit - IMO that it does not do so all the time (Wave, Buzz, Video, Reader etc...) is NOT to its discredit.
um the CIA and related organizations where some of the first major users of computing - they are investing into Quantum computers for example.

So not exactly NIH unless your claiming that Tommy Flowers etal at the Post Office and Bletchly park invented this
Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3 Tethered on iPhone 4/iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch 4G With Redsn0w
You missed the point entirely, maybe you missed the second sentence?

> I want governments to stop handing out "you are in a relationship certificates" to EVERYONE.

I want LGBT equality. But beyond that, and looking at the bigger picture, I think the idea of marriage should be abolished altogether.
I think it's mostly okay. I made the titles smaller and bold and gave the articles a slightly higher bottom margin locally and it's great :)
Welcome To My 2006, Kindle Users
Going beyond GDP as a measure of progress.
Async support for Grails
Ouya’s founder: “If we don’t nail this, nothing else really matters”
Another way of thinking about it is the age old saying:

'Blood is thicker than water' when referring to family over people you encounter.

Beyond the shared experiences and the irrational bond (I use the phrase as devil's advocate whilst being happily irrationally bonded with my family), there's not a lot to prescribing value to familial relationships over other ones.

We prescribe irrational value to diamonds, because offering a big rock to a bride in front of our family imbues value beyond the intrinsic worth of the rock.
Microsoft investigated for bribery
Issues 1.0 had voting, but it was removed in Issues 2.0
I need 200 karma to do polls. But I've added a yes and no answer, so people can upvote the comment, and use that as a poll.
The "chances", that is, the probability, is close to irrelevant. Instead what is just crucial is the conditional probability conditioned on the information one has. Even if the probability is low, with suitable extra information the conditional probability can be quite high.

You understand: You saw the move 'Wall Street', right? So,
what was the probability of a big move up of the PA steel company? Low, right? "A dog with fleas". But the conditional probability given that the takeover guy's plane was flying to PA was quite high. Got it now?

Again, yet again, to repeat just for you, from my three examples in my post, it's possible to plan effectively, even for advanced projects, and then perform according to plan with relatively low risk.

On picking winners, VCs don't try very hard to evaluate projects. E.g., recently a VC told me that he sees a lot of projects that currently have $2000 a month in revenue. Thus he missed the point: No doubt at one time each of Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook had about $2000 a month in revenue. What is just crucial in picking "winners" is essentially to f'get about the $2000 a month and look closely at the project. VCs don't like to do that. Moreover, in recent years in information technology projects, VCs just don't want to believe that there could be any advanced, solid, unique, powerful, valuable technology difficult to duplicate or equal to be evaluated. Evaluating technology and projects just isn't how their business model works.

On my startup experience, you were guessing and guessed incorrectly.

Are you writing for Mark?
How to crash IE9 with some simple CSS
From the Flying Car to the Giant R2-D2: The Greatest MIT Hacks of All-Time
as opposed to the FBI under Hover which did a lot of nasty things to US citizens as opposed to the CIA.

I am sure that CIA and SIS officers must get annoyed some times as how the FBI and SS (MI5) are normally the heroes and the CIA /SIS are the bad guys.
Saddam Hussein’s Revenge
What the hell happened to Yahoo Messenger?
Clarification. I want LGBT equality including recognised marriages. But thinking about the bigger picture I don't see the point in state "you are in a relationship certificates" and think they should be abolished.
+1 for this.

I've been happily married for 10 years and paid about the same for our wedding and bands. It was a registry office and cheap rings.

It was about the marriage and not the wedding.

I think people forget this these days.
If you click open in new tab in chrome it does not work :)
There are plenty of intelligent and charismatic people who are loathed by many. BillG is amongst them. And bearing him a personal grudge for the actions of the company he ran isn't unreasonable in any case.

Where did all his generous cash donations come from? Just being good at selling software?
Yes there is. It's like the classic burning of your ships once you've landed. Once you know there's no turning back, you have no option but to make things work by going forwards.
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he was being sarcastic ;)
Whatever happened to telepresence? (tech that gave MSFT love for open standards)
He means to reason using axioms, or the basic building blocks of understanding, rather than to use analogy or argument as basic building blocks. For every day life it is slower to do such laborious reasoning, but it is often the only way to untangle a difficult question. A programming equivalent would be like how being able to program in C or assembly, better yet hardware, really helps to create new algorithms and use high level languages.

It is not special to physics in my opinion.
MOOS Project Viewer 2.9 Integrates With Dropbox Platform
Funding your tech products with customer money
The post I wrote with few points on how to bootstrap your startup or products while using customer money as funding source
BSD/MIT give much more freedom to downstream developers than GPL - GPL makes demands about distribution of products that include the code. BSD/MIT don't make any such demands.
It's horrible: big fonts, 100% wide and awful spacing of elements. Gives me a headache just reading it. I like the topic though. Hope a designer can jump in and improve the overall experience.
I remember building pseudo-blog-like thing with an ISAPI web application in Delphi with WebSnap back in... 2001? Simply by dragging and dropping components and filling in a few things like table names and columns.

Understand, that doesn't take away from Rails' achievements, but it does underline that people in tech, especially web stuff, have a very short memory.
Security updates are not experimental! They're security updates.

If it works fine and it breaks with a security update then it's the framework maintainer's fault.
>The lack of a safety net is a powerful motivator.

Yea, a powerful motivator to make you stop this craziness and get a "real" job before you starve to death. If you look back at the great insights in history they were usually from people who didn't have to worry about earning a living.
What blows me away is just how many arrogant programmers there actually are out there..
How Nvidia plans to oust Intel and power nearly every device you own
When looking from exactly behind a projector, the image will always look the same, no matter what it's projected against. The 1st person view is from very nearly behind the projector, so I would expect very little distortion, I would expect it always to look like a circle with a number in it. From that point of view, this looks totally reasonable.
> It's a social security seen to get you back to employment as soon as possible instead of being a subsidy to your entrepreneur lifestyle.

Wow, that's infuriating. As if employees are great contributors and making a business isn't... Where do they suppose these jobs come from to begin with?
Brad Feld to write foreword for the book Accelerate
That sounds like the process with my 3 year old daughter ;-) (though never my wife, luckily)
It's all a little.... too large...
If she's even slightly intelligent they will have discussed finances well ahead of the wedding, probably lived together for some time and know the situation very well.

A shiny rock is not a proxy for communication.
Most university libraries will keep 1 or 2 copies of a book on loan so you can study/photocopy them while in the library. The last few semesters of school I wound up doing this instead of buying the books.
Garbled texting may be only symptom of stroke
Asteroids started life as churning balls of mud
An anecdotal data point: a friend used to work with a man who had married right out of high school, as had most of his classmates. At that point, probably 15 or 20 years out, this marriage was one of the few still intact. The man's observation was that in this group, the length of marriage was inversely proportional to the cost of the wedding.
If you browse at 67% scale it looks exactly like HN
Is it really possible in the UK for your parents' debt to become yours? That's insane if it's true.
How to Structure Your Site for Optimal User Experiences
Bill Gates also shipped the office assistant, windows ME was done mostly under his command and got the attention of the DOJ anaconda on microsoft. And I would recommend against doing this things.

All great people have a track record of good and bad decisions. And you cannot take only the ones you like.

Also I had this pretending to be done project once ... one year later we were still struggling, the customer was losing money daily and I was happy watching my management being roasted on a slow fire for not listening to us lowly techies.
> I hate that starting a company is becoming almost trendy now and everyone is trying it.

I hate that taking an office job was ever trendy and that most people do it.
Linked in is down
Linked In is down in the UK
Just try this: come to Tajikistan and I'll chop off your finger. I promise, it will change the way you feel about the most capable tool you have - YOUR BODY!

or... Post an ad in most popular (non-geek and geek) local newspapers/social groups/newsletters something like...

Pay me to learn quickly and properly (in person):
1. Choosing your best laptop/mobile;
2. Installing/Removing and using ANY program;
3. "0" to power-user of MS-Office and Internet;
4. Special: Find and download ANYTHING that the web has;
5. Special: Web development and e-commerce from scratch to a working online store.

Freelancing isn't just about design/code (I'm a 10+ yr.exp. freelance translator, faaaar from best ones :)))

You'll find good people in need of such skills and YOU need to meet NEW people! How can they know about your soul, voice and smell? (forking your repos?). Be NICE and friendly (not confident!), keep doing mistakes!
And "surprise", girls want to learn too! Basta! :))
If they have this weird rule about 3 months salary...

A mortgage is usually on three times annual salary, so 312x = 36x. A ring is 'worth' 3x, so not far off a tenth.
Indeed. If you had invested $10,000 in the total US stock market 10 years ago, you'd have $20,000 now. (And that's with a major market crash in the middle!) So the diamond has actually lost 50% of its value.