skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no ... i have no clue but i dont think i know anyone seriously making 10k as a software developer ... i think i dont know anyone making above 5k in a real startup (and that includes various technologies and experience levels)
It's strange that she criticizes the research basis for the 10x claim, and yet she's basing her claims about burnout and even alcoholism and drugs on a couple of tweets she received? What happened to source criticism?
I believe the first suicide bomb attacks were committed by Tamil Tigers.
just got back from PyCon uk - where the education track was a blast. 40+ professional devs using minecraft raspberry pi edition in a dojo format to produce a dozen different approaches for making Mario in minecraft with python scripts. Bank of America even sponsored a quad copter that follows you in real life as you fly over minecraft

all this code was happily handed over to real teachers of 11 upwards kids and a school had most of Sunday playing and learning with said professionals

anyway the point I am making is this seems like a great add on for the raspberry pi syllabus of learning real computing

if anyone from ord survey is on here please get in touch with PyCon organisers (john pinner) or drop me a line
Vint Cerf: 'Privacy's an accident of the urban revolution'
> However, users of these link-sharing sites will not be targeted under the new law and search engines and peer-to-peer users will also be exempt.

Most of these sites are actually warez search engines. This makes this law pretty toothless.
"or taking laptops full of classified information to Moscow."

Well, tough crap. If the gov had not threatened him, he would have returned to american soil or gone to a friendlier nation.

Now thanks to this complete and utter SNAFU it's as good as the government handling all the information to Russia.
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i agree - power needs checks and balances.

This scenario reminds me of the bourne movies, in which the CIA authorizes assasinations just like this.
I was under the impression that this was by design. I guess it depends what expectations you have for a passcode lock.

My expectation is that my phone is reasonably secure from co-workers when I leave it on my desk for fifteen minutes at a time. And that if stolen, I have enough time to remote-wipe it before the passcode is bypassed.
Switching it to airplane mode makes sense, though.
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You should be able to lock the exposure on the iPhone camera by setting AVCaptureExposureMode to lock (you can do the same for the white balance as well). But I might be wrong! It's been a while since I did camera work on the SDK.
I, for one, welcome the new hotness.
Hope Apple doesn't try to own "fingerprint sensors in phones". Pretty sure the tech is up for grabs?

I like my Galaxy S4, but I wouldn't mind easier phone unlocking. Even better than fingerprinting, I wish I could draw an unlock pattern in the shape of whatever I wanted, a higher resolution pattern with visible brushstroke. Subtle unlock patterns would then be possible. You'd need a good algorithm to allow some difference in the reproduced pattern, while remaining high resolution enough to provide thousands more combinations than 4 digit pins.

Paint to unlock - that's what I need, if anyone wants to make that as an app for Android, I'd buy it for a dollar!
That's called the Precautionary Principle.

It would have kept us confined to the caves, if not the trees.
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I loved your Duet app. I have a question regarding CodeCanyon. The most popular things selling on there seems to be Wordpress plugins and stuff. Do you see a pattern of some kind? I was thinking of making some templates for Android Apps but those don't seem to be popular for some reason.
I'm sure it will. But the scenario in question is "How do you wind down the beast taking as much cash out as possible?"

It's similar to, "What if AOL just tried to milk the subscriptions instead of blowing all that money?"
Curious about the use of present tense. From the top of my mind:

Madrid -
London subway -
Beslan (not sure if that is Europe) -

All these are committed by people who claim to be Muslims aren't they?

On the other hand you have Oslo/Utøya which was committed by an atheist / agnostic.

Please don't misinterpret me: I have Muslim friends as well. I just want to stick to the facts. (and get my facts updated if necessary)
I find it ironically funny that, after all of these years of having a near monopoly Microsoft is losing out to the open source it tried so hard to sabotage in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Then, while the MS boat is leaking and sailing haphazardly across the computing landscape, along comes Valve to put a stake in the heart of the MS gaming division...

Could this truly be the beginning of the end of this giant leech on the computer industry?

The combination of this "story" and this one from slate (http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/23/microsoft...) makes me wonder...
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Incidentally, I'm sure Men had many reasons why Women wouldn't have been good voters before 1918. Too bad we actually have to allow them to do so before we can actually make assumptions on how they'd act. /s
And the response, of course, would be to kill those, and also the new ones that arise out of these killings. Until, the population is subdued. Or, when the number gets to be big enough, we declare a war, and the pwn the country.
I'm always nervous at airport security, even though I won't have anything to hide.
Not to mention all the real anxiety sufferers.
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Just out of curiosity have you ever heard of or looked into Auditory Integration Re-Training as an option - see if it can help with the "ADHD" you have? The website is geared towards children though I did it in my early twenties, and just this past summer and I'm 30. It has been highly beneficial each time, allowing my ADHD-like behaviours dissipate. http://aitinstitute.org/ is the website. If you scroll down to the bottom of the content body you'll see "Berard AIT Can Help These Diagnoses" - which then lists a number of symptoms/diagnoses that the therapy has helped.
All those craps are indeed not essential on how a person works. It's the passion and eagerness to work and the perseverance to excel is all that matters.
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A B Breivik at least claimed not to be a personal believer in Christianity. Also his notes leave little doubt that he didn't practice Christianity. And he sure isn't a Muslim.
Somebody got too excited - this is a feature, not a flaw. Also, it's getting boring, these lock screen "hacks" that half the time are intentional behaviours. True hack would be accessing your phone remotely. If you at any point allow the "hacker" a physical access to your phone then you either shouldn't store all these TOP SECRET documents there, or change friends (because I assume most of these lock screen "hacks" are used for pranks - I can't imagine leaving my phone unattended outside my home)
I still think that they didn't "Hack" the TouchID as they claim. Faking a finger print is one thing, but truly hacking it is completely another.

Imagine a scenario in which you find an iPhone (or "borrow" it) - how do you unlock it without knowing the owner and having access to their fingerprints? You don't, not with this "hack".

A cool demonstration of the fingerprint lifting technique though.
Npapi plugins banned In favour of Google's ppapi.

I'm shocked.

There are good reasons for this, but how much of it is political garbage?
Yeah, that's one of the problems. You'd hope the agencies involved are only taking these actions where they have extreme certainty.

The problem with this is that it requires us to trust our intelligence agencies, but they have shown themselves to be duplicitous, quite willing to lie to congress under oath, and unworthy of trust. Even by their own admission they have not been taking these actions when they have extreme certainty - people are killed who are "not specifically targeted".

There is no way to make assassination without trial by the executive transparent and accountable - that's why we have a court system and independent judiciary, and a whole host of laws protecting the accused. Subverting that entire legal system is very dangerous and we shouldn't allow it, because if we do, there is no legal impediment to stop laws used for terrorists being turned against others who oppose the state.
Perhaps he's a non-English speaking coder who is expressing admiration and incredulity? What makes you think he's complaining? He goes so far as to explicitly state "no offence".
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I'm reluctant to give harder details since I am in what could be a "passive income" niche, but I will try. We originally set our monthly prices in line with comparably similar produces - about $20/mo, with discounts to purchase 6 & 12 months in advances. The final fixed cost (lifetime access) account ended up costing less than a 12 month discounted subscription.

The feedback was that a) some people bought precisely because they didn't have a recurring bill hitting their account, even a small one. b) some people found the fixed price too expensive to buy and were disappointed they couldn't buy it. c) The ones that did buy the fixed price were happy with their purchases. Overall, however, we ended up with fewer total buyers each paying above the average lifetime value of the monthly buyers.

When we offered BOTH subscription AND fixed price access for individual units for a period of time, people tended to buy the lowest cost subscription instead of the lowest cost unit. They shopped on price. They were not as happy with their purchases in either case, though more so for the cheapest subscription.

In the end, it was counterintuitive to what is commonly considered "good business" to have recurring revenue from customers. We still think there's a place for monthly recurring billing somewhere, but we don't have the catalog or products to support a mix. It would be great to provide Level 1 at a fixed price and Level 2 at a lower monthly fee because we know they are the "stick with it" customers and so will likely have a better lifetime value.

Sorry to be vague here. The numbers vary over the years, but started about $2500/mo and grew to about 10k/mo over about 6 years. It is for a learning endeavor that people SHOULD commit a year+ to learning, but tend to quit for very human reasons. We think people who make commitments are happier because a) that cool TED talk about irrevocable choices that everyone talks about and b) Committing to putting in the time on our product DOES result in a new skill set, so it has tangible personal improvement if it is used as directed.
Damn now you got me exited..., No! Half-Life 3 is still far far away.
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I have.

The majority of developers (in Europe or elsewhere) work for large companies and are not the kind to go to software conferences. Note that this doesn't mean they write CRUD; I know people who do amazing GPGPU stuff that will never see the light of day outside their BigCo's internal use. They are the ones Nvidia should be targeting with their drivers.

I'm yet to meet one such developer who'd use a Mac for work. It's my anecdote vs. yours at this point, though, so I might be wrong about Mac users being a vanishingly small minority in this group (but likely not by a huge margin given how the corporate world is).

Edit: It is also quite possible that not all of the developers who present at conferences with Macs use those at work if their workplace isn't BYOD.
Am I the only one thinking that touchscreens are fingerprint magnets. I mean, you lose your phone, I wonder what the likelihood is that the print needed to unlock is right there on the phone itself.
> A result by Dickson in 1939 showed that every integer (except 23 and 239) can be represented by the sum of 8 non-negative cubes

I'm not sure I follow this. Which 8 cubes add up to 2?
Philip Katz of PKZip fame (may he RIP)
Most great things were "accidents": penicillin, x-rays, life.
Google Search banning Eben Moglen's Wikipedia page?
A google search for Eben Moglen (https://www.google.co.in/search?q=eben+moglen) doesn't show the Wikipedia page for him in first 3 pages. Furthermore, a search for eben moglen wikipedia shows only the French wikipedia page. Does this mean the Wikipedia page (english) for Eben Moglen has been taken out of the Google Search index?
> you call him out for judging everything on a single case, then do the same with ADD/ADHD medication

My apologies. I read the line as:

"And with things like ADD the `treatment' was always much worse than the condition itself."

And missed or ignored the almost part. The statement read too much as a statement condemning all treatment as worse, which is not what is said.

So, I wasn't hypocritical, just sloppy in my reading. =)
Glass is a good surface for lifting fingerprints from, and the phone itself is likely to have multiple fingerprints of the user on it, but even if not it's not too hard to get fingerprints from someone without their knowledge.
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The app looks pretty cool. Could you please share some of your thoughts on how you settled on the price?

I am about to launch an App and this app would later have a web backend to go along. I am not sure whether to launch the app for free and have some kind of subscription on the website or make the app paid.
I think this is a very powerful & well reasoned piece.

I have a feeling that many of those who should read it will be unduly distracted by the gender issues around Manning.
Why can't younger people vote? I think this breaks into two separate questions: Why don't younger people vote very much and what can we do to encourage that. And, why do we stop 16 year olds from voting? Here is one Labour policy I'm very much in favour of:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-party-a...

Why do we feel it necessary to have a political class at all? More generally, why do we have representative democracy at all? We have the internet. It's now technically possible for everyone to vote on every issue, or even to have everyone collaborate on drafting new laws.
I've seen and used apps using this tech(or similar). Ideally this can be used to evaluate need of emergency service automatically. For instance, if someone collapsed while holding the phone and sensors were able to alert EMS. Idk, maybe wishful thinking.
How durable are the new iPhone 5c and 5S. The drop test.
The person that worked on this posted a comment on reddit (in r/minecraft) and included 14 screenshots (along with some information on the process): http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1mzsf2/ordnance_s...
1^3+1^3+0^3+0^3+0^3+0^3+0^3+0^3?
I'd be very interested in this. I was actually thinking about this today! If this were readily available I'd incorporate it into my apps asap!
Ah no, scratch that. I forgot about negative numbers...

Edit: It seems I forgot about zero as well!
Why do you feel so excluded? I feel quite capable of empathising and responding to written content whatever the distribution of genders. One of the joys of consuming human culture is letting yourself be put in the position of others, whether or not (or maybe especially if) they don't match your gender. The fact that the guy was teaching his girlfriend was an important data point to him, its part of the piece, but no need to feel excluded.
As opposed to...?

I agree with tokenizer. When it comes to many of my family and friends, I would trust them as 15-year-olds before many people I have met, who are trusted to vote today. I'll grant you that many kids will squander their vote, perhaps vote without having given it enough thought. Many will vote as their parents.

But again, this is different from adults how? The age-boundary seems silly. At 35, I look back upon myself at 20, 25, and 30 years old. In many ways, I think I was foolish then. Perhaps in ten years, I will look back at this comment and lament my foolish thoughts. So how can we draw the boundary at the age of eighteen? Or any age? I say, let anybody who can cast their own vote by themselves do so.
very much agreed this won't end well
If you are American, you don't have to fear from Chinese espionage

Citation needed. There are numerous stories (unconfirmed of course, but that's the way these things always are) of Chinese hackers breaking into companies and stealing trade secrets. They aren't just after super spies, you know.

And you don't work in an industry the Chinese would be interested in? Good for you. But do you know anyone that is? This hack might quite possibly allow them to send messages as you to whoever they want.

"The NSA has my information so hey, screw it" isn't really an appropriate reaction.
IPredator: "There are no traffic logs, we do not look into your traffic."

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=331316 – "Sweden - Data retention law going into effect in May 2012, but (presumably) not applicable to VPNs"
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I see it as the top result. Maybe you blocked the wikipedia domain.
So what do you think if US wages war against Iran, Syria, Pakistan, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Lybia, at the same time?

As a US citizen, do you approve of that? How about the US public?
iPads without a cell connection can't use them, though. iMessage has the advantage of being usable over WiFi.
I think SQL injection in many cases[0] demonstrates a clear difference in intent from a GET request for a resource the user legitimately expects to exist. There's no good analog in describing the behavior of a librarian because humans generally know not to follow arbitrary instructions from random people.

The closest analog I can think of would be giving the giving the librarian drugs to modify his behavior before asking him to perform some act or provide some information he normally would not. Giving the librarian a brownie before requesting access to the staff lounge would probably not alter his behavior nor be treated as a crime. Giving him a brownie laced with scopolamine before requesting access to the staff lounge would be, even if scopolamine had no dangerous side-effects.

[0] One might reasonably expect an SQL injection string to return a legitimate resource on a documentation site or general-purpose search engine, for example.
Apple has thought about the security vs. convenience tradeoff here. That's why this setting exists.

Settings -> General -> Pass Code Lock -> Allow Siri
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No.

but the assertions that China = steal your password and charge your CC are a bit crazy.

The assertion that sending the password for an account tied to your credit card to a completely unknown recipient is a bad idea... is not crazy in the least. And has nothing to do with it being in China.
but the criteria to which you ascribe to is one of education and training.

A GP is certainly not a neurosurgeon, and therefore cannot possibly do the same job. Ditto with embedded programming vs a "front-end" developer.

But, if you consider only embedded programmers, would there be a 100x programmer out there?
Also, public VPN services like PIA mix the traffic, i.e. multiple VPN users' traffic is coming from one IP address.
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I am working in a startup from past 2 years. I have done various types of work here that includes both frontend and backend development. But over the period of time , i realized i have interest in doing frontend and i am quite good at it . Help me to be a good frontend developer by giving some tips, blogs to be followed, practices to be followed.

I love writing javascript but i mostly write with the help of jquery framework. Is it a bad thing in a longer run?
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A clear and precise fingerprint? The chances aren't good, I'd imagine. Indeed, you'd be far more likely to figure out their passcode or "swipe pattern code."
I confirm that that URL has the Wikipedia page as #1, columbia.edu as #2, and SFLC as #3, and that google.se returns the same hits.
I won't get into an argument about figures but is there a solid reason to defend loose gun control?
That's not a bizarre coincidence. It's not enough to imprison the whistleblower, they also have to taint him and call his moral credibility into question, so as to head off any public support for him.
Well, those of us that were already coding for Windows back then, remember that what brought game studios to Windows was WinG, the percursor of DirectX.

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

Gabe Newell had nothing to do with it.
“The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high.

“Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.”

- http://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/ordnance-survey-recreate-g...

So they are keeping to the 256 block height, but being slightly creative with the vertical scale...
OMG, the comments below that first post are full of ignorance. It's just so painful to see what people think and say of Linux (even the ones who defend it).
Indeed, they are both extreme. So, what was your point?
hah, for the "stupid and diligent" programmer, i imagine someone who copy+paste a million lines of if statements, or write, ala http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Laborious-Transitions.aspx
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So your complaint is that they didn't name it well enough? Not that they didn't make it clear in several places that this doesn't include national security requests, of which they are legally obligated not to provide.
"So today I learnt that paracetamol is also called acetaminophen."
if someone can reverse-engineered the protocol,then it is not very much difficult to reverse-engineered the obfuscated apk.
One of the attractive things about Blackberry is that they have no debt.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/blackberry...
Jeez, if I was Spanish I would probably get the chair.
this is explained in the document they link to. quote:

Had Dropbox received just one national-security request [... the report would] look like this:

Jan-Dec 2012 United States 1-1000

Reporting in this way decreases transparency. [...] It would also obfuscate the number of [...] requests [...] which were not sealed and are in the public record.

so they are arguing that you either get the numbers shown or 1-1000 and nothing else (which seems odd to me, as google seem to manage to show both - see my link below).

cut + paste from pdf not working so may be typos above. https://dt8kf6553cww8.cloudfront.net/static/docs/DropboxFISC...
i suppose this is what a probation period is.
Bit of a concern coming from a top guy at Google.
yes, if you are reasonably trained enough in the field. I m sure i am not a 10x, but i have met those who are.
I'm not sure about the IT infrastructure, but it's quite fantastic what's going on!
Don't we already have laws against filing a false report? I think I agree with you, but I'm not sure that the problem you described exists.
I noticed this about a week back in our business account. If you view the page source, the favicon actually points to a favicon in a your company's folder (for Google Apps). I have a feeling they will allow us to customize the icon shortly from their admin panel.