skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Software development is like movie making: http://www.silicon-stories.com/movie-making-software-develop...

Software architecture is like city planning: http://www.windley.com/archives/2003/09/enterprise_arch_4.sh...

Software development is not like manufacturing: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/10/is-software-develop...

Software development is like manufacturing: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321150783/codihorr-2...

I believe that software development can be disciplined (development of missile control systems, payroll systems) or be agile (instagram, pinterest, facebook...). I think it all depends on what is considered to be the most valued resource for the organization and the software it is planning to build/compose/manufacture/make.

If we value system resources (real time constraints, compliance, SLA), we tend to be more like building systems.
If we value end users experience in the final outcome, it tends be agile and take the notion of the movie/novel et al.
No plans to monetize - want to stay free and open for everyone. Will look for funding and donations as a non-profit.
"would it be possible to build a car with no friction brakes, just 100% regen?"

No. The force provided by regenerative braking is proportional to your speed. Without friction, it would be impossible to reach 0 speed.
UK Government forces benefits claimants to use Windows XP and IE6
The only beer app that adds filters to your photos: BeerQuest
This OP-ed in 'The Hindu' gives you more context:
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-curious-case-of-vi...

Key quote:
>>" Since August 2011, Mr. Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, has reportedly held meetings with the Indian heads of Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and expressed concern regarding content on the sites hosted by these companies which maligned politicians and religious figures. The executives were reportedly shown content from their sites that could hurt religious sensibilities, as well as obscene images of Indian political leaders, and were told to screen user content and remove offensive material before it was uploaded."

There are a growing number of cases against Facebook and Google - the tax angle, blasphemous material hosted, minors creating accounts. To the cynic in me, all this just seems like Facebok and Google have not yet learnt to play with the the political big wigs.
Verizon switches to all-wireless service in Mantoloking
It does, but does the US government have a record of it?
The early RISC machines were marketed on benchmark results which didn't reliably translate to real-world interactive performance. They got better with time though.

But yeah you wouldn't buy it because of its superior performance vs the RISC competitors, you got it because of the software and the dev tools etc. A bit like Mac vs Windows in the PowerPC days (only with the RISC vs CISC roles reversed!)
I guess law enforcement would simply gather as much data as they can. Only need a few guys screwing up their browser settings one day, or maybe you get more sophisticated and start looking at response times, timing jitter etc.

If you control the mechanism for key exchange would this not make MITM possible? Display different keys to different people for the same person.
I hate that someone called an enterprise "Tesla".

Knowing nothing about Elon Musk (well, at least now I know), my first thought when I saw that title was that Tesla (the man)'s math were wrong.
The problem with the novel authorship metaphor is that it's too close to the literal act of authoring software to be useful. The terms involved in the metaphor (author, editor, publisher, composition, rewrites, etc) all have more specific literal meanings and are therefore confusing. A metaphor should be properly removed from its subject to inspire objectivitity.
It's JavaScript, that's the syntax notation for JavaScript objects. Sure it resembles lisp and python, but that's just how languages come to be. If I were to invent a new language, if likely use {} for dictionaries and [] for lists too.

Lisp is harder to read than JavaScript because it doesn't disambiguation between lists and dictionaries in a clear way like js and python do.
true on the politics of it.

I am thinking something a little different than pre-fab, something more along the lines of plug-able module into building. More along the lines of cargo containers in a warehouse.
>Here’s the rub: the drug war is an acute symptom of a deeper problem, and that problem is the state. If they “legalize, regulate and tax” it, it’s just one more part of society under their thumb, another productive sector that they can leech off of.

But he is doing exactly that, isn't he?
Strange indeed. Why is the disk accessed in the first place? For a site like this, I would expect all content to be cached in ram all the time.
My favorite: the address was just

HILL
JOHN
MASS

The correct decoding: John Underhill, Andover, Massachusetts.
How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google
I was referring to the workstation market, where Sun and SGI were stitching up that market. GX, LX, and Élan were arriving on the market when NeXT only had ND.

3dfx was, for obvious economic reasons, not a slice of the solid, high, or extreme IMPACT graphics that were available on the desktop at the time of its release. It was more competitive with the options for Ultra, but Sun had already conceded the high end graphics market to SGI.
Given the right tools[1] you can have as much templating/macro support as in C++ while keeping everything both performant and user friendly. The key here is to wrap Fortran in script languages to make it do exactly what you want.

[1]https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran (I'm the maintainer.)
A lot of NumPy/SciPy (Python's scientific computation libraries) are written in Fortran too: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html
Why is the type of content relevant?
Perhaps there's something peculiar about porn users?
I fat fingered a down vote for you on my iPad, sorry. I hope two passers by give you up votes to make up for it.

Google Voice is quietly used by a high percentage of colleagues as a "Line 2" to keep work comms under control and out of their personal SMS and VM, and by others as a way to have a truly portable personal number.

The only downside is occasional but serious VOIP quality issues even when landline to landline (routed through a GV number). If Google fixed that, sure seems to me GV could become a defacto identity endpoint for the mobile device generation.
I'm not sure by now the language's merits are the number one reason Fortran is used, but rather the amount of proven and super fast libraries for number crunching and array/matrix manipulation such as LAPACK.
Doesn't work in Firefox for me but does work in Midori
HubSpot CEO: We would've struggled on the West Coast
Correct, I was mostly responding to ‘due to British spelling’ in connection with Nakamoto. The claim that some American spelling crops up in his writing (on the linked-to Wiki site) actually supports the idea that he is neither a native Briton nor American, but learnt British spelling in school and American spelling on the net.
Geometee
That sucks. Not much I can do though since I use a third party service (launchrock.com)
OMFG, the Geekport!
Well, since Enron was an oil company, and since the model S is an electric vehicle, I'd say the model s is just fine without Enron around...
yeah, I really liked the idea of using typestate to model exactly this in rust, but it was apparently a failed experiment :(
This is a bizarre article. Are we going to see "Verizon/AT&Ts math is wrong" articles because they are marketing smartphones at a price tag of 0$?
Wouldn't it be better to use keywords here?:

{ :posts { :id 1 :title "Rails is Omakase" :rels { :author 9 :comments [5 12 17 20] }}}
I never quite liked the lynch mob scene. I don't completely disagree that a mob can be talked down that way, but it seemed too sudden. Then, a couple of years ago, I saw a study published about men and women and aggression. Individually, men acted more aggressively than women (in some competitive game they made up). But in an faceless mob, the women were twice as aggressive as the men. As soon as the women were singled out again, they went back to "normal." This made that scene more intelligible, since to Harper Lee, being called out of a mob by name would have the effect shown in the book.
Note that this map shows which nodes are up with respect to time. He pinged all the addresses periodically and noted how many responded at what time.
Easily open websites from the terminal
I guess what you need is too find two sorting machines, with either different OCR or differently calibrated cameras. Then write two addresses, one of which each machine can read, neither of which exists (or perhaps a 3rd that exists?).

Then watch the letter keep getting returned to the sorting office and loop the loop.
As of just a few months ago, too: https://github.com/blog/1372-garen-torikian-is-a-githubber
Well, sure, but Reader and Writer are interfaces existing in java too :)

Anyway I think we agree on the general issue, but actually I suspect go's approach _does_ solve some bad design issues that crop up in common OO, namely the fragile base class one.

I just don't think it impacts the misspecification one.
The OP had a table set up with the gift cards, and was only (I think) engaging people who came up to the table. Presumably he had the permission of the shop management to set up on the table. I'm happy with that provided he wasn't hogging the big table at peak times. If you are not interested, just don't go to the table.

I'd hate people walking up to me at random inside the coffee bar (UK reserve perhaps).

PS: to US Starbucks' shops run a tab?
Developer Top Trumps - What Makes Developers Tick?
Top 5 First Person Shooter FPS Games for Android
DJ Spooky Talks Tech (Interview)
I'm not making this up. It was a Sony tablet with 3.x (much later there was an update for ICS). It asked me to choose a value for this during initial setup. It didn't even have a recommended setting iirc.

In any case, it's just one of many examples where I feel Android requires more maintenance than iOS. Which is perfectly great for those who want something to tweak and play with.
"probably receive less than five"

In a UK school that would be 'probably less than five minutes in the head teacher's study being told off'
Avoid caching 0-byte files on NGINX
I read everything on my Tungsten E Palm Pilot. I have three of the buttons programmed for different reading programs. One is for hard non-fiction, such as Harvard Business Review and other management articles, one is for soft non-fiction like biographies and the third is for fluff, i.e. fantasy, science fiction and westerns.

I have a lot more time for listening than I do for reading. When a new non-fiction book is released, I look up the author on YouTube to see if there's an interview about the book so I don't have to read it. I download the longest one, convert it to an MP3 and listen to it using the fourth button on my Palm Pilot which is for podcasts.
"if vendors directly accept bitcoin"

Which is much, much less common.
This does the trick on OSX:

open http://google.com
Yeah, reading through it all I got the sense he is British. But, I wouldn't bet on it.
It always seemed to me that they're comparing total cost of ownership of cars, not direct costs of purchasing cars. If it's total cost of ownership, it's an absolutely fair comparison.
"there'll be no incentive to hack other people's accounts because all thefts will be reversible"

There'll always be an incentive to hack others' accounts.
It's an interesting point. You could say the same about Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, Toronto, etc., maybe even Seattle and Vancouver, not to mention any number of smaller towns with a startup culture presence.

I'd add two more bad things about the valley: faddish thinking / groupthink, and completely insane costs. I can only speak second-hand, but the Valley strikes me as very much a bubble with its own internal echo chamber and groupthink. If you're in the Valley, you are likely to get sucked into chasing trends that everyone else is chasing instead of finding a unique niche nobody's thought about. And the cost of living is simply absurd: think Manhattan except car ownership is an almost must-have.

I also hear that the availability of funding in the Valley is overstated. Early-round funding is scarce, and funding might be even more faddish than the startups themselves.

The advantage of the valley though is the talent pool. It's fresh, large, and highly skilled, though perhaps a bit fickle as the interview mentions.

Finally, having lived in Boston/Cambridge, I can mention one distinct disadvantage of that particular place: it's somewhat antisocial and has a conservative investor climate. I found it a somewhat stifling place to live. People don't have friends. They have colleagues. And investors there tend to be more risk-averse than California.

If I wanted a big startup hub that is not the Valley I would honestly pick Austin: lowish cost of living, lots of tech talent, nicer climate than the Northeast, and more fun than Boston. New York might be a possibility too, as it's more fun and diverse than Boston and probably less conservative.
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Scaring baby programmers.

Oh, and lots of scientific computing is done in Fortran - eg. the sorts of work my brother does on atomic structure as a computational chemist at ITU, running on grid or supercomputers.

On the flip side, there's lots of very large, poorly documented programs which are effectively "mission critical" Fortran. Until someone ponies up a LOT of money to re-write and revalidate them, Fortran ain't going away.
the answer is yes.
Did IMP3Net Remove A Review Of The Chuwi V88?
A quick Google search suggests its also used in the US,
i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmlwZyfhrgk
That video feels very manufactured.
What Reeder's Product Mechanics Are Missing, Part 1
They _didn't_ send traffic. They just set cookies and waited for people to go to eBay who would have anyways.
What are the differences between C and C++?
Wow, why the harsh downvotes? I answered the question succinctly. That is where this line of research is headed:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_X-30
COBOL & RPG = your paycheck or the managing the bank account your money is in.

There is a huge amount of COBOL / RPG processing flat files to do various financial transactions. It works and has worked for decades, so not many folks really have the willpower and cash to rewrite it.
Contributed, but I too would have like to have seen an anonymous contribution option, also I'd rather not have to use my creditcard directly, either Paypal or (ideally) Bitcoin.
September: Googlers return from Burning Man with added appreciation of impermanence and the value of cleansing fire to clear the way for new creation.
Buy the correctly spelled domain name, and redirect to your trademarked term / domain name. $1500 for a domain is very reasonable.
Go outside dude
Tracking network interference around political content in Malaysia
What exactly about Office 2003's interface was "extremely complicated"? It's been nothing but intuitive and helpful to me. The new versions of Office aren't hard to figure out either, though.
My mistake, I didn't notice that.
Enron were also in the business of selling and trading electricity and owned a number of large power plants. A lot of the fraud was actually in the electricity part of their business.
The most interesting part was this:

Even as Google and Facebook get a breather from appearing in court over allegedly hosting offensive content, the search giant has had to deal with another legal issue pertaining to the Google Mapathon event’s India leg. While Google has maintained that the Mapathon contest was in line with Indian laws, the company could see some court time in India over allegedly violating the cartographical laws of the land.

According to an interview with the Indian Surveyor General[1], Indian citizens can't map their own neighborhoods for security reasons. They must contact the government for permission.

Ah, famous Indian bureaucracy at work! All Google needed to do was ask permission and make a "donation", I'm sure.

[1] http://m.economictimes.com/opinion/interviews/googles-mapath...
Alright that makes more sense. I totally haven't read that, and it got a chuckle out of me. :)
"One China" means different things when spoken by the KMT and by PRC.
Erlang (or Elixir) runs really well on the Pi - and cross-node communication is brain-dead simple.
> And the cost of living is simply absurd

I'd agree compared to many places, but Boston is hardly cheaper than the Valley! It's cheaper than SF, but more expensive than Mountain View, San Jose, Santa Clara, etc. At least as far as apartment rentals go; I haven't looked at how purchasing a house would compare.

There are Boston suburbs which are cheaper, but unlike in the Valley, there is not much going on there. The South Bay has a bunch of tech companies (Apple, nVidia, etc.), community spaces like the Hacker Dojo, coworking spaces like NextSpace, etc. The parts of Boston where you can find an apartment for San-Jose-level rents don't really have anything like that.
Complaining Is Hard to Avoid, but Try to Do It With a Purpose
Nobody Really Likes Google Glass
It loads but you have to disable any ad blocker and install flash.
Some are much closer to being apolitical: Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross, for example.
The conclusion I would draw is that the US government is not willing to hand over it's citizens to other countries, while other governments are.

In that perspective, I feel the wrong is on the other governments, not on the US.
I wasn't actually complaining about it being closed-source. I just wish I could use GitHub to make, erm, issues about GitHub.
You can even extend it out and say the same thing about going overseas to other countries. They are often far behind the US, with not many tech entrepreneurs. You can bring US trends and concepts into foreign markets and face much less competition. If you're doing something that's completely new, even in the US, and needs lots of VC, this obviously wouldn't make sense, but otherwise there's a lot to be said about going to less "perfected" markets.
I'd be interested to see if any more sophisticated techniques have ever been successfully used to uncover a Tor user.

From the webpage I linked, "Security-wise, Silk Road seems to be receiving passing grades from law enforcement agencies internally; a leaked FBI report mentioned no attacks against SR, anonymous anecdotes claim the DEA is stymied4, while a May 2012 Australian document reportedly praised the security of vendor packaging and general site security."

Right now a buyer's address is vulnerable if they don't use PGP when giving it to a seller, or if SR is indeed trying to do a MitM attack by replacing a seller's published public key with their own. But the latter case is easy for a seller to check against simply by creating a second buyer account and verifying the buyer sees the correct key. The buyer and seller can also arrange to exchange keys off of SR. A better plan (also mentioned on Gwern's page) would be to have law enforcement create their own buyer and seller accounts and act like normal users until it was time to start a crackdown -- the problem seems to be that law enforcement, or at least the FBI, either doesn't have permission to engage in mass entrapment and fraud, or it's just not interested in buyers.
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They redirect based on Referer header.

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/trolling on

Awesome. Next time I'm trying to pass some silicon valley interview, I'll have to look this up. Till then, I think I have more practical problems to worry about.

/trolling off
The best-paid freelance programmer I ever knew was a man older than my dad who was the only guy left in the country that could code Cobol for certain kind of industrial equipment.

For the companies that hired him it was cheaper than changing that equipment, and by cheaper I mean the guy was able to buy an Hacienda with what he made coding Cobol, nuff said.
It's become a common topic to just pown any change to any service from google or any large company alike. And I just don't see the point.

Google knows people that dislike changes are always louder than people that like changes. It doesn't mean they are in larger number. So no matter how hard you scream, don't fool yourself into thinking companies take these change decision lightly. The article claims it lack of UI tests which is an ignorant assumption.

The goal of the new compose is very clear. Allow you to write an email while still reading others. It undoubtedly completed the goal. Of course there are some drawbacks like having to remove fields that would be visible by default otherwise.
I think this is exactly why many of us find the architecture, or "civil engineering", metaphor so appealing. Architecture is neither pure art nor pure science. It's a delicate balance of form and function, beauty and practicality.

In fact, I think the article only manages to make the architecture metaphor appear more fitting. Even when you're building a bridge, you never really "put in the last rivet and make the last weld." Read about any historic bridge and you'll quickly learn that the life of a bridge can be as dynamic as any novel. London bridge was redesigned and rebuilt (refactored?) on several occasions since Roman times. The Brooklyn Bridge was conceived by a man, continued by his son, and completed by his daughter-in-law.
Finally a botnet being used for something not destructive or spammy
No tech companies in the suburbs of boston? There is Autodesk, RedHat, EMC and many others.

Edit: For a more complete list, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Route_128#The_hig...
You can change the default to reply to all in the settings.
Because, like it or not, the porn industry dealt with a lot of the technical issues of selling video, pictures, and video streams on the internet before anyone else. They needed it to be profitable / have actual revenue.
Great tool! Not only for managing my "to read" list but most importantly to manage my "to do" list. Thanks!
That's a tough situation. It's always best when you can talk to actual people. Of course, you could use Skype or a Google Hangout or something. Without knowing more, I'd say try looking for sub-reddits or G+ communities that cater to the kind of people you think you're targeting, and try to connect with some people there to do a Skype/Hangout session with you.

As for surveys, I guess they are better than nothing if it's all you can do due to logistics. I haven't done a lot of that, but if I were going to do a survey, I think SurveyMonkey at least has TOMA with me, so I'd probably lean towards them.

If you can find a way to phrase your questions appropriately, you may also get some useful input from posting questions on Quora.