skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Just kind of.

Most enterprise customers I have worked with, favour dynamic languages just for scripting tasks, while using static typed ones for the large scale projects.

By large scale, I mean, projects with at least three development sites, at least 30 developers, all the different set of skills. With lots of attrition.

The only time I saw it working, was in a project done with TCL, which lacks optional types, but everyone on team was a top developer, the team was small, and located on the same open space. So startup world, not enterprise.
Thank you for Greg Wilson's talk.

I've been trying to find empirical information about software development and he's frank about the lack of it. He noted work by Lutz Prechelt [http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/OurPublications], for one.
Is there improved support for the BCM 4313 wireless adapter?
When I tried FreeBSD 9.2 a couple of weeks ago wireless was a fail.

The ndisulator hasn't worked for me yet, and many unix-like systems also have issues with this device.

The bcmsmacs driver didn't work right for me, and neither did the Broadcom STA drivers from Broadcom.

Presently using the bcmwl driver in Lubuntu.

If working on laptops wasn't such a pain I'd swap out the card, but the last time I tore my netbook apart I ended up with some "extra" parts. LoL
good job tsironakosmpinedakos
This program has Keith Alexander's name written all over it. Alexander has a history of mining as much data as he can, even if it turns out to be worthless.

From a Foreign Policy article [1]:

"When he ran INSCOM and was horning in on the NSA's turf, Alexander was fond of building charts that showed how a suspected terrorist was connected to a much broader network of people via his communications or the contacts in his phone or email account.

"He had all these diagrams showing how this guy was connected to that guy and to that guy," says a former NSA official who heard Alexander give briefings on the floor of the Information Dominance Center. "Some of my colleagues and I were skeptical. Later, we had a chance to review the information. It turns out that all [that] those guys were connected to were pizza shops."

A retired military officer who worked with Alexander also describes a "massive network chart" that was purportedly about al Qaeda and its connections in Afghanistan. Upon closer examination, the retired officer says, "We found there was no data behind the links. No verifiable sources. We later found out that a quarter of the guys named on the chart had already been killed in Afghanistan."

Those network charts have become more massive now that Alexander is running the NSA."

[1] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/08/the_cowboy_...
I know that this course has nothing to do with technology, but it is so good that I really want more people to experience it. The parallel course in the Hebrew University has become the most popular course in the whole University (the Hebrew lectures can be found on YouTube, for those interested).

The breadth of material is immense, and Dr. Harari's views are very interesting and will surely give people not familiar with this material a few AHA! moments.
If I'm getting this right, he's saying that the fact that the touchpads are "clickable" made it into a pretty-good d-pad after they disabled the response to touch-only movement. That is, he could rest his thumb on the touchpad (like you would a d-pad) and then have it only respond to the "direction" of his press when he pushed hard enough for the click. In this state it seemed to satisfy him as a proper hardcore d-pad.

That's really neat. I wonder how many fake "buttons" you can map onto the touch-surface before it starts getting crowded. 4? 8? 9?

I see the challenge, though, with providing some kind of "nubs" without screwing up its usability as a pointer-surface. Even switching betweeen smooth/rough in the button-zones or putting simple bulges could make it feel bad as a pointer.
>A patent is a monopoly in the same way all property rights are monopolies: you get the exclusive right to use something.

After I get my series of patents on the use of a computer on a Ferris wheel. And the use of a smartphone on a Ferris Wheel. And networking on a Ferris wheel. And downloading on a Ferris Wheel. And a solution for predicting the position of a person on a Ferris wheel based on other people on that Ferris wheel with known positions...
Why, thank you sir!
Wall Street Cartoon
I love having a physical keyboard on my phone. I wish someone made one phone sized and with Bluetooth.
A handy list (with detailed info) of the Y Combinator Startups (Summer 2013)
"No. My point was that words like "mad" and "deranged" are part of lay language, and in lay use, only expresses a personal opinion, rather than a medical diagnosis."

Yes, personal opinion but of different models of analyses for explanation. "Mad" is a vaguer term than "deranged" (see Foucault's descriptivist/presciptivist politics). "Mad" is a pointing to "the cause is more complex than we think." "Deranged" is a pointing, most probably, to the DSM (for instance) as a guide.

"The irony is killing me."

This is not irony. You're taking my words out of context to re-purpose them as ammunition within an already complicated topic. If I said "this sentence is false" you very well might say that I'm invalidating everything I'm saying.

"It doesn't suggest any such thing. I'd use that word for any brutal murderer."

No, sir. "Deranged" and "mad" may have many overlaps, but they are not substitutible salva veritate.

You have not proved any bias. I'm saying that madness is prevalant, and sometimes can explain more than a quick leap into psychologizing. "Madness" does not mean that it was utterly free of will to manipulate the circumstances. Madness may have a causal basis as well, if not stronger than "psychological laws." (So here I am blocking the idea that because he was "just mad" he thought it convenient to manipulate the circumstances in his favor. I am saying that "madness," though vaguer than "derangement," has a stronger force that "derangment."
I've recently tried adopting the http://www.bulletjournal.com/ system, but using Evernote. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it work for me.

After just a few days I've found myself not being able to figure out at a glance what's next and having to go back and forth the notes. That even if I've spent the time to inter-link things. But at this point I should also mention that in my role (product manager) I have quite a few projects on my plate at all time and a month long list of things is usually in the high tens/hundred items (and doesn't include meetings).

I was really attracted by the BulletJournal system as it felt in a way similar to what I've been using, but with a nicer/cleaner visual representation. Basically I have my long list of things in a tool. Every Monday I spend a bit of time extracting what's the focus for the week into a separate file. In this file I also log daily activity. At the end of the week there's a short review and then I'm archiving the week.
I expect you realise this, it's not apparent from your post:

Coupon and group buying sites have been a thing almost as long as the Internet has. I'd be amazed if any of your long standing competitors are anywhere close to the billion dollar mark. So I'd expect you to define your idea by what you intend to do differently than all those others who went down that same path.

Not that that's a barrier to success by any means.
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Surely Google and Facebook do this too. Why are we surprised that the government does it?
As someone who has wasted a lot of their life on DOTA2, I can't see me playing it with a controller. There's just too much accuracy involved in clicking for that (and that's saying something, because the accuracy required is nowhere near that of an FPS).
Tutorial- Installing Ubuntu on a Netbook
People reduce the value of ideas to 0. But look at this luminary

But what changed things wasn't that someone had one idea, it's that they were able to deliver on it.
Miley Cyrus is Twerking All the Way to the Bank
I think you're right on this.

It's not so much about whether the stance is true or not and whether we should debate that. It's that articles that discredit something as trivially untrue by way of a trivially small statement. In the extreme it would be like discrediting [insert pseudoscience topic] by simply mentioning a copy of Nature. There's some degree here, sure. But tabloid-style takedowns, regardless of whether they are right, seem almost out of place.

I am wrong to say this has no place, though, which is in itself a pretty big claim with no substance behind it.
"Design contest" to a designer is what "prototype me my facebook idea" to a programmer. You will be laughed out of the room by professional designers at best, so what you will end up with a clipart logo based on a ripped concept done by someone who has zero idea of what tarsnap is (but who really needs your 500 bucks).

Do the right thing, Colin, call this thing off, take an hour to go through logopond and dribbble and email a dozen of guys you like. $500 is a good budget to get a good logo.

EDIT - alternatively, just pick a good sans font (something that you personally like and that matches well what you think tarsnap is about - simplicity, clarity, reliability, etc.), take a semibold or bold weight, type "tarsnip" in lowercase letters, kern it tightly and you got yourself a clean and concise wordmark.
The cost of wearing a helmet is very low compared to the gain of having been wearing one during an accident (which could very well be caused by someone other than the cyclist).
If everyone created a few fake profiles, this might muck the waters.
Share is pretty much meaningless, and assumes a zero sum game of direct competition.
Yeah, but snout is a great concept for something that involves sniffing. Parsnip on the other hand just goes well with pancetta.
For anyone who doesn't grok Ripple, I looked into it a bunch a while back. (Feel free to correct me on any of this.)

The Ripple network works a lot like the Bitcoin network: units of value can be stored at a wallet address, and whoever owns the wallet's private key can send funds to other wallets. The big difference is that while Ripple does have its own, internal currency (XRP, which right now is used mainly to pay transaction fees to the network), you can also send ”IOUs“ — units of value issued by some third party.

So, some party might take USD (could be your bank, or a third party like PayPal or Stripe), Bitcoin (could be your favorite Bitcoin exchange), Euros, etc., hold them, and issue IOU to your Ripple wallet. So you give $100 USD to PayPal, they send an IOU worth $100 PayPal USD to your Ripple wallet (signed by them and stored in the Ripple blockchain).

You can send all/part of that PayPal-issued $100 to anyone else via Ripple, just like you'd send XRP. Whoever wants to can redeem them for USD at PayPal — you just deposit it into a special Ripple address that PayPal gives you and, boom, the money shows up in your PayPal account (because PayPal was holding it all along).

Here's where it gets even cooler. The Ripple protocol includes an “order book” where you can trade currencies. So, if I'm buying something online and use Euros and the company I'm paying uses USD, my Ripple client could automatically get an IOU for x Deutsche Bank EUR (from my bank), trade it on the Ripple network at the current exchange rate for y Bank of America USD (the seller's bank), and then pay them via Ripple in USD that they can deposit straight into their bank account!

Eventually most transactions might be done in straight XRP so we save on transaction fees (from trading).

That's the plan anyway, as I understand it. Ripple ain't there yet. But, there are companies out there right now that issue IOUs in a few currencies and are trusted enough that people might accept them for payment. So I’m pretty excited.
Just tell them to press Ctrl+R to refresh.
I'd suggest that a bigger problem with your situation is that you're trying to use MSSQL with PHP...
Apogee: The one-man online game publisher of 1987
different faceplates for the pads would be easy.
Interesting concept, seems to me that it falls down when it comes to payment. After all, your user will have to identify themselves at that point - even if it's only to you.

Do you intend to broaden the payment's to include bitcoin or similar?
While the desert dump/evolution in action approach may seem
appealing to some, recent experience in the Bay Area suggests
that any metal of any possible value - the fence, signs, and any
reclaimable parts of the waste - drums or other containers, any
iron, steel, copper, brass, etc. - would quickly be collected and
recycled.

Recall an incident from the 1980s where widespread
contamination was revealed only by happenstance -
a wrong turn during a delivery of rebar at Los Alamos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_radiation_acc...

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/accidents/juarez.htm
And if things had not swung the other way, we might have had Nokia N950 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N950
"smartphone inventor"... Journalists these days can't even do basic research...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon
KidnApp - An app that lets you create and schedule your own private kidnappings
Considering that an injection molding run takes ~$100k minimum to start up, it's not that surprising.
in a sense, he's touching on the essential unspoken issue here. the SteamPad is a solution looking for a problem. This is more about Valve's business positioning than it is redefining gaming.

Everyone's already pretty happy with their xbox 360 controllers, but Valve isn't happy that their platform isn't in your living room. Therefore, they want to bridge the gap so those titles that wouldn't translate well to the living room are more playable. Spelunky and SMB are amazing games, but very arcadey. They're test cases that can only show that this controller adequately compares to current controllers.

A better test would be hearing how people do with titles you could less readily imagine playing on a ten foot display. I want to know, as a PC gamer and input control snob:

1) does this let me handle FPS games properly (ie twitch controls to compare to mouse level quality).

2) can I play RTS style games and do stuff like macroing and movement with the fluidity of kb/mouse.

3) what advantages do I get over an xbox 360 controller, which is decent enough in most cases.

4) does the loss of thumbsticks mean a loss of tactile response? I love the sensation of movement within Dark Souls as I tap on my thumbsticks.

Nubbins would be helpful it's true, but it would be nice to have detachable sticks for those of us who want them. The valve patents from a few years ago showed something like that. Of course, adding thumbsticks then basically rolls back the design to being just another joypad.

I'm skeptical, possibly because in a sense the SteamPad isn't doing anything new (while yeah the haptic is probably amazing compared to anything else current), it's just trying to translate our current experience of input from the quality we get on desktops, to the couch in our living rooms.
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The fundamental mistake they made was not realizing that while the smartphone OS had been commoditized by Google, the userland and the hardware had not. What set BlackBerry apart wasn't their OS, it was the userland and associated online services, as well as their keyboard-centric hardware.

They wasted precious time and money acquiring and integrating companies like QNX when Android was there for the taking. Skinning it and rebuilding first-party BlackBerry apps on top of it would have been sufficient - the BlackBerry developers would have been happy to port their apps to Android.

There's no real good keyboard-centric Android phone out there these days. Motorola's continued to half-assedly release phones in the Droid lineup, but nothing has come close to the OG Droid. That is a niche that BlackBerry could have easily dominated.
Nreduce online incubator shuts down
There will be three jobs in the future: quants, CEOs that employ the quants, and members of Congress. Everyone else will be lazy good for nothing takers for not having a non-existent job and deserve nothing more than to starve in the gutter. At least, that's how it's going to be in the US.
I think their point was that the public perception of Mother Teresa's altruism is a myth created by a media campaign. That does not necessarily mean that she did not behave altruistically at times or that altruism itself is a myth, but that the person the public imagines never really lived. They point out her flaws and mistakes and unwillingness to help when she had the means to do so, so she's much like any other person who tries to do good.
I remember when I first read this that I was struck not by the silliness, but by the way in which a variety of issues with "cash" were affected by the properties of the cash itself. (I particularly liked the bank robber coming into the bank in a lead suit) but noted the bank couldn't keep all that money in one place anyway.
"Organic" and "Fair Trade" are an unnecessary luxury to most people. Nobody is trying to keep hand crafted automobile assembly plants operating but some how innefecent farming is all the rage.
I'd be surprised if somebody hasn't already developed a software keyboard specifically for use in a shell.
Can't load the page. But I wonder, is it possible to grab all Facebook profile pictures (or at least the public ones), or were they given special access for research purposes?
The thing that irritates me is that this "examination" can only determine guilt by association. That's specifically an un-American determination. Guilt, in the USA, is supposed to be determined by a public trial, where everyone knows the evidence. Concealed evidence is explicitly illegal. There's even a clause in the constitution to allow the accused to confront their accusers: no secret witnesses. Various laws exist to make prosecutors turn over exculpatory evidence.

This whole thing is just totally un-American, at least from first principles. It looks like the "intelligence community" has forgotten those same first principles.
Go templating - the basics
The dota2 quick-chat wheel suddenly just made sense.
Well,but that is what "organic" food is at the moment, isn't it? Agricultural technology has developed so far that we can grow plants many times faster than with natural methods. Yet we still decide to do it for various reasons, and food grown organically is a luxury in most places, being 2-3x as expensive as its non-organic equivalent.
I'm interested that you chose sentences rather than words. That seems super smart now that I think about it because you can pick up idioms and word relationships as well, and it's probably a little less boring too.
Does anyone here use FreeBSD on their day-to-day system, and if so why? How's laptop support compared to modern Linux distros?
I only cited it because it was a favorite argument when Android started to grow in the smartphones space - "but Apple gets almost all the profits"...
History of Naughty Dog (part 1)
I don't think it's a straw man, because then after the exam you have to take new classes. College simply moves too fast to retain everything you've learned. I can't seem to add more than 20-30 cards a day in my Anki deck, or my review load gets bigger and bigger. If college worked more like a semester of classes, then a semester off to focus on retention and shrink the deck load, maybe that would work.
Hello Nanzikambe, Why don't you send me your email id so that I can send you my detailed business plan. You can also email me at agarwal.k100@gmail.com

Best regards,

Kapil
I use Sublime. I prefer an editor over dedicated software or a blog mainly because of the indenting; it's also the most powerful text-manipulation tool I know. I have a certain indented writing style that helps structure my thoughts -- I flesh out thoughts in indented paragraphs (the more detailed a thought, the more nested it is). This helps me read a bit faster as I can easily skim by reading the outer most paragraphs and only diving into the details when necessary.

I organize my journals by keeping each month in its own file <month yyyy> (e.g., "jan 2013", "aug 2011"). And in each file I write the date (mm/dd) as the outer most indentation, then write the entry (indented) underneath it. So a typical file might look like:

09/27
Some notes here.

An idea here.

A particularly good idea here.
So I flesh it out here.
And add more details as I go.

Some things I learned..

09/28
Today's entry...

I use software over paper for two reasons -- it's much faster to get my thoughts down and I can easily search through my thoughts later (a simple matter of Ctrl+Shift+F). Getting your thoughts down quicker helps with brain dumps which tend to be more useful than refined sentences later on as they capture more of the state that you happened to be in.
If this story has gotten you down, wondering if we've created an inescapable dystopia, then this page may brighten your spirits --- an existence proof of another option --- the one that's worked well for Donald Knuth (whose contributions to the tech industry are indisputable):

http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
Jot Script - Fine Point Stylus for iOS
This postings instantly reminded me of this Dilbert comic from a few weeks ago

http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000...
Anyone else feel that Keith Alexander will be synonymous with Joseph McCarthy 50 years from now?
Yes. Being that I implemented this very quickly. I am still reviewing more anonymous payment options.

I figured that the most immediate approach was to use Stripe's client library, and not accept any name or address.

I use the Stripe client library to send the customer details to Stripe and I receive a 'user id' which is used to process the payment and then thrown away (much like the email address provided).

On one hand, the information on individual users can not be requested from directly, but could be requested from Stripe.

I wonder if a Visa pre-pay card would work.
Sure, but presentation is everything, especially when using dark patterns. What's the subject line, a general marketing slug like, "What's New at...", with a little bit about points or whatever at the end of the email, or something more specific to the nature of the subscription?
Oh no, I agree. Companies like Facebook probably aren't providing direct access to their servers. However, it does make me wonder if Facebook is cooperating with them in other ways. Perhaps maybe they've been sharing knowledge or tools.

Also, we now know that the NSA has been influencing companies' product strategies. For all we know, the NSA co-opted them into using outdated RSA keys and not using SMTP-TLS. It would hardly be surprising.
I presume this "evidence" is used for a parallel construction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
The premium is adjusted for family size, tobacco usage, and age of the user...

Funny, that one term is not in the questionaire
I'm a pinboard.in user, but I actually find the URL scheme annoying, at least compared to delicious. I find it much easier to type

http://delicious.com/username/tag

than

http://pinboard.in/u:username/t:tag
Practical Social Media for 2013 by Google Analyst Stephen E. Arnold
Did you use it for kana too? How did that work for you?

I downloaded a nice kana set (with audio) but somehow they just didn't click. Anki eventually classed most of them as leeches and I stopped trying.