skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies who are leaders in their industry do not usually need to do this.

I've heard of it happening at smaller organizations or sole proprietorships (small business), but it is strange to see from a company as large as Samsung.

What's important is how high up the chain this was sanctioned by. If it's a lowly manager somewhere, he/she will just get fired and this will all blow over. If it's right at the top, it's much more embarrassing.
Eventually Mike Scharf realized he needed some true technical expertise in house. Once we nail this component sky is the limit!
It is the kernel the one that interprets shebangs, not the shell:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
I was forced to quit Runescape after extensive use of SCAR bot. It was the weirdest 2 years of my life.
AFP: Twitter will mine people's tweets to target ads
Apple the Black Swan: Wall St. has never understood Apple.
I think in Europe it should be illegal throughout the EU under the Unfair Commercial Practices directive. This would apply to any fake reviews.
That reminds me of how the genuine reviews on Yelp are of the terse, "This place sucks. Their dish XYZ was terrible, service took $NN." style that look spammy and get removed by their spam algorithm.
Not sure this is true. I'm no manufacturing expert, but I've heard a million stories about how intensely involved Apple is in their manufacturers' processes. c.f. how the glass is fitted on iPhone 5s: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/09/12/how-the-iphone-5-is-...
This certainly helped, but they were already on their way. The jam band scene, as lame as it might have been, was a hot trend in the mid nineties into the early 2000's and I think Phish benefitted as much from this as they did Jerry's passing.
This is such macho-induced cliche drivel that I feel like you're caricaturing one of these 'MBAs'.

First you try to belittle geeks for having been friendless, then call them ignorant. Then you break out the whole 'number one' nonsense, and even utilize a pound sign. And my favorite part is when you turn to the tautology of the 'unshakeable will to figure it out and get it done'.

Ha. Yeah, people who do can do X are the ones who can get X done. Hard to argue with that. And this group of 'MBAs', while they posses no uses that can actually be communicated or quantified, they have tons of je ne sais quoi to get it done with. And they'll fucking pwn the shit out of business with their endless supply of je ne sais quoi. And nerds? Ha, MBAs have more je ne sais quoi leaking out of them after slaying two 10s.

The point of dismissing these so-called 'MBAs' is not that a masters in business is some inherent flaw, but it's in calling that degree (or the concept of doing nothing, but 'being' awesome) an asset. It's in the type of person who does nothing, but wants to take from everyone else's pool of human capital and ride in their wake while pretending that the 'decisions' they make on the golf course while other employees are off actually working mean anything.
Andrew Godwin had that Kickstarter and he is the creator of South. Here is the link http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewgodwin/schema-migr...
Because modern CSS indicates real quality content.
http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf
Samsung's IP theft issues would lead me to believe that their credo is "whatever it takes to win" and this kind of behavior isn't out of line with their track record.
1. package your python code as a sdist (except setuptools is too hairy so nevermind), keep your deployment scripts & configs in a separate repo or orphan branch

3. use nginx to reverse-proxy WSGI to Gunicorn over a unix socket

6. don't have per-environment config in your app, use the same config in all environments and configure each host with aliases/proxies to consume the appropriate resources (use local_settings.py for local development on your workstation & exclude it from your package)

7. use native operating system service management (systemd, upstart, launchd)

10. use munin if your app can withstand a CPU spike every 5 minutes, use ganglia/graphite/collectd otherwise
Wikipedia Boston Marathon Bombings page
They're not exactly known for their ethical business practices.

“[Samsung’s] long-standing policy prohibits union organising [and has] attracted critical attention. Samsung’s overall corporate structure centralises the policy-making that governs the activities of its vast network of subsidiary corporations.

Samsung is a “chaebol” – one of the family-run conglomerates that dominate South Korean society. Almost Mafia-like in their obsessive secrecy and reach, chaebols have influence in most markets and industries in the country and wield huge political influence. They have also not been shy of using underhand methods to maintain their position. [...]

[Secretly recorded conversations] revealed that Haksoo Lee (vice-chairman of the Samsung Group) and Hong (Korean ambassador to the US and then publisher of the Joongang Daily) were planning to deliver upwards of 3 billion won – around £2 million – to presidential candidates ahead of South Korea’s elections. [...]

Samsung owns Joongang Daily… it also has unprecedented power over journalism because it has the economic power to buy advertising space and time. “It is hard to criticise Samsung as an individual journalist. It is considered insane.” [...]

In 2008, the current Samsung chairman, Lee Kun-Hee, stepped down after his house and offices were raided and a police investigation began into claims that the corporation was maintaining a slush fund to bribe court officials and politicians. Found guilty of financial wrongdoing and tax evasion by Seoul Central District Court on July 16 2008, Lee Kun-Hee was in serious trouble. But despite prosecutors requesting that he be sentenced to seven years in prison and fined $347 million, the sentenced handed down was three years suspended and $109 million in fines. [...]”

http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/3028/samsung-power-...
Google Glass distribution begins this week
The move has already come in B2C apps. B2B is lagging and internal apps and consultingware will be the last, as normal.

The problem I see is that the frontend models are not designed for internal apps in mind. Yet. They're not designed for a mediocre developer. I think we could do a lot better for that use case. Right Now, it's faster to do a server-generated app with no ajax. I don't think that has to be the case.
yep - that is what i was looking for - thanks
Maybe they'll even send the top guy to jail (but later release him to run the olympics...)
Thanks sizQuarks, now that we have some technical expertise in-house. Stay tuned. The best is yet to come!
I like the ideas on directory structure. I've been working in Flask and I spent way too much time thinking about my directory structure.
> Many people have this attitude, yes. That doesn't make it universally true or even close

History shows humans will do anything to better their odds and leverage their success.

> And while it definitely happens and is widespread
> citing exactly one example and suggesting it shows a trend or proves a point.

Guess you kinda just did the same thing? Just because I'm citing one example doesn't make it any less true and it seems we have two examples now: Samsung and Yelp.

Sorry, but this is rampant in e-commerce.
I misread. Apologies.
US politicians are not cheap at all, those sums are just the tip of the iceberg ...
Amazing Adobe Image Shake Reduction (Video) - High Tech Point
Do you think drones would have changed the outcome?
Harvard Library Innovation Lab Launches StackLife
It's funny how personal workflows can be.

Very much so; much like the GP, I would "history | grep" and even had it aliased to 'hg' (which is one of the reasons I don't like Mercurial, just to start another flame war), but then I was reminded of C-r, which I should have known better (as an Emacs user (that's two flamewars . . . )), but oddly hadn't been using as I was just too lazy to really learn bash in depth.
> 10gen has added the aggregation framework, full-text search, collection-level locking, etc.

Mongo has collection-level locking? I thought there was some preliminary work to support it in 2.2 (It just does database-level locking for now), but it's still unsupported. Source: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1240

Also, I wouldn't recommend using any of the aggregation stuff unless its for infrequent ad-hoc stuff or scheduled tasks during slow periods.
Why on earth would you need to send the actual drivers records? Of course we don't want to share that. Nothing in the DPPA prevents sharing netflows.

And that is kind of a poor justification because we know that society doesn't currently have an epidemic of people DDoSing the DMV.

Someone else wants this passed, and they really want it passed. It ain't the DMV.
I'm not sure that's generally the case, though I'm sure it does happen.

My dad and my uncles (all born in the 1950s and 1960s) were serious Deadheads. They've gone to over 100 Grateful Dead shows a piece. None of them really have any fondness for Phish, but I have no idea why.

I know my anecdote can be countered by several of the opposite side, but as a laymen to jam music, I can definitely hear a very fundamental difference between Grateful Dead music and Phish music.
From the Forbes article(http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2013/04/17/is-thi...):

"Most game studios have an autocratic executive producer green-lighting the work of designers and programmers. Supercell’s developers work in autonomous groups of five to seven people. Each cell comes up with its own game ideas. They run their ideas by Paananen (he can’t remember ever nixing a proposal), then develop those into a game. If the team likes it, the rest of the employees get to play. If they like it, the game gets tested in Canada‘s iTunes App store. If it’s a hit there it will be deemed ready for global release. This staged approach has killed off four games so far, with each dead project a cause for celebration. Employees crack open champagne to toast their failure. “We really want to celebrate maybe not the failure itself but the learning that comes out of the failure,” says Paananen."

The rest of the head count are these cells with failed launches.
The similarity here is that the author loves both Apple's products and Daft Punk's music.
I like Daft Punk - even back before they were big - but I really don't get the analogy in that article. To me it reads like the author has arbitrary connected two unrelated things that he likes just so he can justify liking them both.
I was born in 1987. At the age of 12, I discovered Daft Punk's Homework. I carried that album everywhere, on my Minidisc, Sony Walkman, and Sony Discman. When Discovery came out, I was in Mexico, and the only copy I could find was a bootleg. It blew my mind. Those two albums would solidify my music taste. They became my musical reference point.

By the time Human After All was released, I had explored other electronic artists and genres. The album barely registered a blip on my radar. I still consider myself a Daft Punk fan. I look forward to R.A.M. But, I can't help but feel like this "collaboration" album is going to let me down.
Fish 2.0 shell beta
> They have the super power of working within a judicial framework which forces them to be prove the suspects' guilt thoroughly before any kind of punishment can be dealt.

The Presumption of Innocence is actually not directly enshrined in the US constitution, and has been relaxed or reversed by the government to serve "societal needs."

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1be5xv/til_in...

Also recall this from a few years back:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/02/02/691881/-Holder-Habe...
Sort of like how Reddit used a bunch of sockpuppet accounts to spark interest in their site?
I've posted this elsewhere, but take a look at the California Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), which is overlaid on top of the national version (NEPA). I've worked on projects in CA that hit CEPA problems, and the level of bureaucracy can be really hideous.

NIMBY stuff doesn't help either: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... ; that's primarily about housing, but there's a strong "People united against everything" front.

This: http://sfcitizen.com/blog/2011/11/15/no-att-lightspeed-inter... is about San Francisco, but Palo Alto is not exactly known for its developer-friendly environment either.
The article was long, you summarized it nicely. But I love the last line of your comment;

"College isn't worth it. Believe me, people were starting to question whether or not college was worth the debt when I started 10 years ago, and the situation has certainly not improved over time."

You know, I wish someone would have told me this when I was 18 (21 now). You DO NOT need a college education. Sure, it helps, no doubt. But IMO it only really helps if it is one of the top schools (MIT, Stanford, Harvard etc) and if you look at tuition costs often times those schools aren't that much more expensive then some B/C level school.

I think the problem started with the parents of my generation. My parents (along with their peers) were taught college was the universal way to succeed which transferred over into what adults preached to kids my age. I think being in college (back in the day) made you stand out. But with every kid being taught that same thing, how can you stand out if everyone is doing the same thing? Doesn't it defeat the purpose? Sure, the argument is it makes you a well rounded student, no doubt it does that. But spending 80k+ on learning about the annual rainfall in Brazil doesn't do you much good for your job prospects.

I think my generation should make their own education. I personally dropped out of school to learn software, got accepted into Dev Bootcamp and will be continuing my education there. Don't ever let school stand in the way of your education.

Here is a great article on the subject. This kid was a Thiel Fellow and has spent the 100k he was rewarded (as part of the fellowship) to write and focus on education. It's a great read and his book looks pretty good.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/03/05/dale-step...
How to convert and retain SaaS customers with a phone call
Not being able to raise a family on less than 200k in NYC basically screams unrealistic expectations. There are plenty of software engineers with families in the city and suburbs. They are probably doing something wrong. Especially if both husband and wife are good software engineers (say Google), there is no problem at all.

And most quant salaries are not that high, I guess less than 50% of them make >200k. Again, you are probably cherry-picking successful quants working for big banks and funds and that gives you very high expectations.
San Francisco, I have zero hope for due to the totally dysfunctional city government

Are you voting in municipal elections? If not, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
http://www.frbservices.org/help/coin_and_currency.html#a1

Businesses that collect large numbers of dollar bills bundle them up and give them to their banks, these wind up in the hands of the local federal reserve that checks them and delivers them to businesses that give out large numbers of dollar bills inside of the same district.
I think the issue Wall Street has with Apple is that they are hard to predict. I think that's a good attribute in a lot of areas but when you are talking about 400B in market cap we are talking about a lot of clams in play and you are going to be penalized if you are not predictable.
An answer saying "our team doesn't like you" would be fine with me even if more details would be welcome e.g. you didn't get the joke about Lisp. After all, I can't be liked by everyone :-)
I'm no expert on image manipulation. The only project I've ever done involving it was an ASCII Art converter. So it's possible I have no idea what I'm talking about...

That being said, I would be absolutely shocked if they weren't scanning photos of the event programmatically for items resembling a black bag, and then the people who were carrying them.
Or "Who do you hang with"--"who" is the subject form, and "whom" is the object form; "who" is the subject of the quoted sentence as posted.

It's sad and ironic; using "who" in object position is a common mistake, and prescriptivists (grammar nazis) often correct it to "whom". But in this case, "who" would be right, but the poster has seen the correction so often that they've applied that "correction" even where it's wrong.

PS - thanks for posting first and giving me an excuse to talk about it :)
Came here to say this. It seems like a lot of the lines are due to the locations of the Federal Reserve Banks. I would also like to note that there are branches of FRBs in Denver, Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Miami, as well as many others, but the ones I mentioned are ones that I find geographically separated from their main regional bank. If you look, even these larger branches of the FRB's seem to be centered in these regions as well. I don't think some of the smaller FRB branches (like El Paso, or San Antonio) have cash services departments (I could be wrong here), but the larger ones do.

To expand on julespitt's comment: Each FRB (and whichever branches of each FRB has a cash department) gets money sent in from banks to be exchanged/counted/cleaned/recirculated/stored/whatever in whichever bank is closest. This explains a majority of these lines. This probably also explains why there's some really defined lines around Seattle, Denver, and Salt Lake City. Even though they are branches of FRB's, they still have cash departments.
Could you expand on the following?

What is really important is to realize that dataflow variables (I-structures) are not in memory. So any language/library that gives dataflow semantics to programmers should not allow programmers to indirect through memory to get to the I-structures. This is the main requirement for an efficient projection to a hardware dataflow scheduler

I don't know what you mean by I-structures, or dataflow variables, or why they are not in memory, or why allowing programmers to get at them would mess with a hardware dataflow schedule. I can guess at what you mean by all of these, but a more detailed explanation would still be very interesting.
An item I'd like to add to Python development in general is to use virtualenv. If you're doing multiple Django projects this is a must have.

One of those tools that you start off thinking isn't useful but quickly turns into a must have.
InterviewStreet (YC S11) in Forbes Magazine
I watched for a little while but when you're watching the political equivalent of paint drying its hard to remain interested after a while. I see quite a few things passed, lets hope the White House follows through with their veto threats. With the appropriate amends required to make this bill less broad, it wouldn't be nearly as bad. The scary about about this bill is for some reasons the amends weren't made which leads me to believe there are ulterior motives of those in support of this bill yet to be revealed until it's too late.
So was it a few bad actors, or just the few that got caught?
Cheating at runescape is how I ended up as a programmer as well, mostly writing scripts for scar back in middle school. I tried to making a client, but all I managed to do is allow you to spam trade requests and disconnect people. It ended up being popular for a couple days until everyone started blocking trade requests while in the wilderness.

Man I miss that game.
I suspect this isn't the first instance they've done this.

Looking closer at Anti-Apple/ Pro-Samsung Google+ posts reveal some questionable user profiles.
Whom if anyone do they follow now?
The EFF and the ACLU defend personal freedom by lobby and direct litigation in court. They both been earning my money, someone who trades in information, for years.
The article should have pointed out that Github is running Rails 2.3, and that this is where the problem exists.

Rails 3.x has reworked the entire escaping situation and now avoids the re-escaping trap (strings must be flagged as "HTML safe", otherwise they are escaped on final injection into a document). It still has escape_once, but it's not used by Rails itself.

You are of course right to blame 2.x for its flaws, but let's not blame entire projects for problems that have been fixed. (Not that Rails 3.x does not have other egregious inefficiencies, but that's another story.)
Again...sweeping generalizations...which you have proved just now.
Interesting results from HTML5 IndexedDB performance experiments
That's the way conspiracies work.

What did you expect, aliens?
Please forgive my total insensitivity..

3%+ of total population sounds like enough people to pressure at least one video card vendor to offer equivalent remapping.
So why is this a web design problem?
not even close, but now I do feel like bragging, so thanks for that ;) Actually the next position of the dot was pretty predictable in most cases.
4) CYBER THREAT INFORMATION.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘cyber
threat information’ means information directly
pertaining to—
‘‘(i) a vulnerability of a system or net-
work of a government or private entity;
‘‘(ii) a threat to the integrity, con-
fidentiality, or availability of a system or
network of a government or private entity
or any information stored on, processed on,
or transiting such a system or network;
‘‘(iii) efforts to deny access to or de-
grade, disrupt, or destroy a system or net-
work of a government or private entity; or
‘‘(iv) efforts to gain unauthorized ac-
cess to a system or network of a govern-
ment or private entity, including to gain
such unauthorized access for the purpose
of exfiltrating information stored on, proc-
essed on, or transiting a system or network
of a government or private entity

You're right that I phrased this more casually than the bill does, which harms my point but I believe still leaves it standing.
Banks take their cash and bring it to their regional Federal Reserve Bank for counting/cleaning/repair/replacement/etc. So pretty much any time a bill lands in a bank it has a good chance of getting sent back to the Fed.

Since most places you pay cash at take it straight to the bank ASAP for security reasons, most of your cash ends up at a bank. In fact, I'm having a hard time thinking of a business other than maybe a hotdog stand that doesn't take 100% of their cash revenues to the bank.
To people horrified by the Rails code, keep in mind that Github is running Rails 2.3, which is very old and near the end of LTS. Rails 3.x has reworked the entire escaping situation and now avoids the re-escaping trap (strings must be flagged as "HTML safe", otherwise they are escaped on final injection into a document).
I'm working on a tool for better schema migrations as well. Currently it only supports MySQL but more RDBMS's coming soon: http://devjoist.com