skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My fear and suspicion however is that "Al Quaeda" has become a term that is applied whenever there are "people, who happen to be Muslim, who shoot at 'us'."

That's possibly true, but that isn't necessarily a problem.

I think an uncomfortable reality that westerners will have to eventually come to grips with is that militant Islam is a problem. Now, I don't believe it poses an existential threat to western liberal democracies, but it's an incredibly powerful unifying banner for culturally regressive movements all over the world. I do believe that these movements are a threat to progress in the countries in which they operate. If calling it all "Al Qaeda" gives us the wherewithal to combat it, that's not a bad thing, especially when those groups take up the banner.

As a university student in Bangladesh during the independence war in the 1970's, my dad had high hopes for the country. Over time, he has become bitterly disappointed by the country's cultural regression. Instead of seeing secular democracy flourish, as intended by the original constitution, the country is seeing Islamization. Women are putting on head scarves and extremist Wahhabi madrassas are sprouting up and terrorists are starting to operate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen_Bangladesh. When my family lived in Bangladesh in the late 1980's, it was poor and full of crime, but the most you worried about was violent protestors at labor strikes, not organized, armed terrorists.

There is something happening in the world and you can't wish it away.
It took a while until I realized that the black parts were land and gray was water.

Am I the only one who feel like it should be the reverse?
A very close friend died. I knew she died, she died while she was on the phone to me. I had my cell phone (to her) in one hand and my landline (to the police) in the other. They were saying "ask her about landmarks! Ask her for her address!" and she was saying "oh ho ho! You won't get it out of me that easily".

The online stuff is a bit hard for me to deal with. She had a friendster page, but not Facebook. There's a memorial, and some other snippets floating around. There's a glimpse of her in a Moloko video, and another (shorter) glimpse in the video of the Smith's last concert.

I get no comfort at all from that memorial page, and it left me pretty much anti the idea of them.

There's quite a lot of misinformation about her life, and her death, but she's dead and people close to her were grieving so I just ignored it and kept quiet. But it makes reading that stuff very hard.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhjiMx9SpnI)

(http://www.a-free-guestbook.com/gb/6tsinfo/1)

(http://www.soul-source.co.uk/_/event-news/va-va-voom-all-day...)

(http://www.soul-source.co.uk/_/soul-news/sad-news-lynn-davis...)
No I have no source, only my own experiences. I have a couple of friends / colleagues / class mates working in various sectors of the industry. Saab, Denel, Armscor represents my comments on the DO-178 work. Saab actually implements scrum, but from my understanding it is more like scrum bolted on to waterfall :D. I have also been in a couple of interviews lately, specifically at ATE / Paragon, C-Track, Grintek and RapidM. All basically have the same Waterfall methodology.

Now I was careful to state that it is the case with businesses requiring degreed engineers. Web development shops in SA probably follows a more agile approach, the only one I know of, Entelect for instance is fully agile as far as I can tell, but I don't really know anybody there.

It could also be that only me and my network is experiencing this, it is all anecdotal, but then again, I doubt there is some kind of study that can give you a better picture.

I am based in Centurion in case you were wondering.

Also its not about if Waterfall / Agile is best, its because the contracts are generally setup with fixed deliverables, which suits waterfall best.

Lastly even with honours degrees the curriculum is set, and the professors aren't too keen on changing it too often.
> Do you think of respecting others, their property and the law as some kind of luxury you could do without if you were sufficiently needy?

In the abstract, no, of course not. I think I do a fairly decent job of living a moral life, and I'd like to think that I would never be forced to consider such a thing.

In practicality, I can empathize with feeling unable to move the needle on the economic ladder, and seeing crime as a mechanism available to me when other mechanisms of earning money have been refused or strongly restricted.

My point is not that crime is acceptable, or moral, or excusable, aside from extreme edge cases - just that the OP presupposes that crime is purely a rational choice all people make when alternatives exist.

Also, I'll note that elsewhere you talk about access to food charity - I'll throw out there that 14.5% of the US population had food insecurity during 2012 - http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-r...

That's hardly a ringing endorsement for people having access to food.
Incredibly bloated, massive interface files, too many coupled classes.
Try varying lots of things, maybe one at a time.

Do you eat within 1-2 hrs before bedtime? Maybe you shouldn't. Or if you don't, maybe you should. Healthy stuff, either way, of course.

Do you do fairly strong aerobic exercise regularly? (25+ min, 3-4x/ week, work up to ~80% max hr, which is 220-age, roughly).

I beat bedtime anxiety by listening to religious audio casts on arcane topics, despite not believing in them. I find it soothing and I fall asleep within the first 10 minutes.
The posts are all still there.
Yes that was my guess upon reading the headline. I was surprised they did not even mention this.
Social media and sales: It’s all about the relationship
May I recommend https://github.com/seivan/SHGameCenter
> and it was one of the most difficult parts of the posthumous clean up tasks.

I have dead people in my phone contact list, because deleting them just feels weird.
Grunt Work
> Also, are we to believe that the replacement apps are fully as good as the commercial alternative?

Considering that the police are using this software and their requirements are email and office apps then they don't need a lot of functionality. Hell you can use Google Docs and it would suffice.
Can't wait to read the PDF! Thank you Bob.

One of the best games ever and an unbelievable ZX Spectrum port.

I still remember holding and reading the box cover from the shops to my home.

And, shameless plug, this is what I did for my summer vacation project: "R-Type Real Time Memory Visualisation" ZX Spectrum http://zaf.io/page-3o.html#p139
The people providing the content are still being supported by the monetization scheme - you're taking money from them when you use their content without viewing their ads.
US Senate rejects House budget bill as shutdown looms
Chase my money. Don’t waste my time.
I eventually had to fish up an obit for a friend that passed away after Facebook and Linkedin both suggested to me that I should "reconnect" with him after a couple of years.

Birthday notifications were sad, but the reconnect business drove me up a wall. I would pay anything if I could to reconnect with him now, but they don't know that.
Poster here, didnt mean any disrespect by sharing this.

I think it shows a lot of strengh and courage doing this. I think most of us will have a moment in our life where we need to experience something new, something else and need more time. Time is so precious.

For me, it is just comforting knowing that it is possible to get out of that loop and that I am not the only one with that pressure.
The lack of alternatives is the precise and central point of my comment actually.
This is really not the case.

Certifications are often frowned upon by some of the better pen testers.

Programming skill will get you most of the way there. It is by no means impossible.
>> and seeing friends of mine run their 200+ files test suite in under half a second (C programmers)

But they need to spend half hour compiling before they can run their tests.

[tongue in cheek obviously]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(logic)
New York City is also pretty far down the list for robberies, even though robbery is one of the few things trending up in NYC (or so I hear).
Wills and life insurance are morbidly weird, but like it or not people need them. People have "digital" estates now, that need to be managed just as much as one's physical affairs once they die.
> I can't remember her voice anymore

This has to be the saddest thing I've read in this whole thread.
Report on the Government Shutdown if It Were Happening in Another Country
Because you used the "shape" tool and not the "tag" tool.
I'd argue that even a test which is a copy and paste of the implementation method - literally the same code, twice - has value, because you can then refactor the implementation as much as you like in future and know that you're covered. Nothing says that because they are the same now, they will be forever.
Every now and then I reinvent Data.Dynamic. By this point I'm pretty far into the realm of "probably not worth it", but hitting Data.Dynamic is usually an unignorable indication that I'm going to regret this code.
I don't know about this person's service, but someone else posted something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6471713
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Plus, couldn't you have multiple layers of SVG, and have the javascript respond by hiding/showing detail layers? SVG is more javascript-friendly than PNG so there's opportunity to have one SVG that gets tweaked by your js instead of multiple raster files.
I'd like to hear some more on this topic as well; I've got a few freelance clients whom I inherited from the (literally) flaming hulk of the company where I used to work, and I need the money, but the work they need done is so delightful that I'm thinking hard about getting out of freelancing entirely in order to concentrate on doing things I actually enjoy, instead of working every hour God sends. If there's some way to reconcile these increasingly divergent considerations, I haven't been able to find it.
Also, illustrator sucks.
I remember the old days when one person on a unix machine could chat with another person on a unix machine using the unix talk command, (piped over ssh for security)

I had many a conversation with my thesis supervisor this way, once when I was in France and he was in Japan.

PS no third party server involved, obviously. Just my box and the recipient box. I suppose one could do a man in the middle attack but we would always start the conversation with some pleasant banter anyway so it's unlikely that a third party masquerading as one of us could last long before detection.

<sarcasm>Too bad this technology no longer works, it was so simple and useful</sarcasm>
Shameful guerilla marketing... or real-life 'Trading Places'?

>"Option #1: I will give you $100 in cash.

Option #2: I will return tomorrow with a basic laptop and three books to learn to code. I will then come an hour early before work and teach you to become a software engineer."

https://medium.com/architecting-a-life/ae059ddffd2e

>How I taught a homeless man to build an app in a week

Software developer takes on vagrant and helps him develop his own business.

Patrick McConlogue came up with the idea after passing the homeless man every day on his way to work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2436371/Homeless-man...
I'm in a similar boat. My mom passed away in 2001, and I have very few digital reminders of her (mainly just a few emails, but she never really got into the whole internet thing). She wasn't one to be photographed often, and even if she had been, I didn't get my first digital camera until a year or so after her death. I'm trying right now to recall her voice, and I'm having a lot of trouble doing so clearly.

As much as a posthumous online presence could be unsettling, I really wish I had more tangible things to remind me of her.
Hi,

No, we misunderstood what davexunit meant by "free" and are sorry for the confusion.

Thanks,
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What will you be doing with all your free time?
ORM is a terrible idea anyway. Just don't use it.
Is it an irony?
If anyone here wants to play a game about building a business, that includes a better stock market simulation, Capitalism Plus [1] and its sequel [2] are really good.

[1] http://www.gog.com/game/capitalism_plus

[2] http://www.gog.com/game/capitalism_2
Did you read the article?

"However, critics were skeptical of the reassurances, because large quantities of internet data is represented by music and video sharing, or large file transfers – content which is easy to identify and dismiss without entering it into systems. Therefore, the NSA could be picking up a much larger percentage of internet traffic that contains communications and browsing activity.

Journalism professor and internet commentator Jeff Jarvis noted: "[By] very rough, beer-soaked-napkin numbers, the NSA's 1.6% of net traffic would be half of the communication on the net. That's one helluva lot of 'touching'."
I've looked at Shen a few times and, honestly, I always get turned off by the syntax. There's not enough out there explaining why I should continue past that concern, and it seems to throw out what's nice about Lisp syntax in order to get halfway to Haskell's.

I'm sure I'll take a look at it again sometime, but I'd really love some kind of intro that helped me to understand why it was worth the time investment to get to know it.
Sure, they haven't polished the GUI to look like the mock-up yet. And they don't quite have video chat, though they are working on it. But what they do already have is what Bittorrent is promising to deliver "soon", and it is actually open-source!
Google actually has a form of this, called Inactive Account Manager. You can pick an amount of time and who you want to control your information when you die (or go into a coma?). Pretty awesome, I set mine up already.

https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive‎
Blackberry's layoffs hardly the economy killing tragedy many might have expected
It depends on the jurisdiction. I'm not a lawyer but I believe that this is allowed in USA (IMHO there's only a recent movement to restrict this for non-adults in California), but restricted in EU privacy legislation.
I worked in this company where we had a dedicated security team, the pentesters were either outsourced or underpaid goons with an excel cheatsheet of things to try. The managers were MBAs with CompTIA certs.

Now, this is only my experience, but I've never really seen all-rounded security people being valued in companies, apart from maybe small consultancies where getting a job is probably mostly governed by luck and being in the right place, at the right time :)
the flash timeline has poor visual cues on it as to what was going on. key frames area easy enough to get. but sometimes the timeline ends in a dash pattern, then there's the multiple open and closed ends on one timeline. All in all there are just too many states. Live motion was a good tool that just never got out of a buggy state but had an easier timeline to work in.
Heres a more comprehensive article on the topic: http://purplebox.ghostery.com/?p=1016023438

Ghostery would only send data back to Evidon if GhostRank option is enabled.
I would be worried about being misrepresented, as well. Who knows how they interpret the data they scrape and present it to others?

Edit: I just saw that one of the first features they present on their home page is their "Gild Score". Since I've made fairly few contributions to open source it's safe to say mine would be quite low, regardless of how well I perform at my day job.
Perhaps this strategy works great on the general populous and market, but I already recognize this... advertisement trope, McDonald's has been using it for years.

When are marketers going to stop trying to mislead their customers and realize that people in general aren't stupid, just busy? Oh wait, if we told our customers the truth, we'd have to live with a real market, not an inflated one, and everyone knows an inflated market is best.
IIRC there's some established history about lists of facts not being copyrightable, so you can't stop someone from copying them or selling them? However, if they're copying prose from your resume/github that describes past jobs, etc. That seems like it would definitely be governed by copyright and they wouldn't have the right to charge money for it or otherwise use it without your permission.

In my case my resume is almost entirely prose (for this reason, and others), not lists of skills/etc so it would definitely not be legal for Gild to scrape it and resell it.
I've got to say that for anyone who owned a micro in this period, you should spend an evening reading this book. I loved it, fascinating stuff!
I think this is actually an argument that the tests are telling us that having a controller class this shape isn't the design we should aim for.
Grammar rules to forget
I can sort of understand people turning to non-violent crime in extreme circumstances. I don't agree with it, and don't think it's the best choice for them, but if someone is poor and is a thief (vs. armed robber), economic circumstance could be a factor in his decision, and maybe better economic opportunities would deter him.

Armed robbery and violent assault are in a different class, and the solution is better enforcement. If someone pulls a gun on you in a robbery, it's not a property crime -- it's a violent crime against your life, and you're in immediate and reasonable fear for your life. The property is at that point not even secondary in concern. Similar to how rape isn't really about sex.
Provo, Utah is a hotbed for startups despite being made up of at least 90% people who don't curse or drink beer. There's your counterexample.

What's with the "we"? Are you attempting to speak for developers as a whole?

Thing is, I've never met a great developer who gave a crap about a coworker's religion, political beliefs, whether they drink or not, etc. I've met plenty of mediocre ones who do.
How to Take a Photo Without Touching Your iPhone
Making these technologies open source would be a good improvement.
Sometimes they don't use the actual headlines and come up with their own so the policy is not consistent.

This story was on the front page and heading to the top, but now it's sinking fast. Well done moderators.
TDD advocates would disagree.
BitTorrent experiments with secure chat
"Because you're not dangerous or a threat"

Neither are most (all?) of the people who are detained at the airport, denied entry into America, or otherwise harassed by our government. What exactly is your point?
Being a programmer doesn't mean living with the latest gadget.
In his MIT talk he mentioned that the facility will be able to hold up to 100 years worth of information. I am not sure if it was for Americans or just the sum total of everyone.
All good points.

Mind elaborating on the jQuery point for others? Link?

We haven't hit the other two concerns just yet but they definitely make sense. I feel that getsentry/ravenjs type products will have to offer something to filter out the noise and for offline log buffering. Both fixable, but probably not by us.
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Though you can't execute arbitrary blocks of text in Haskell. Almost everything non-trivial will require adding a slew of "let"s, not all statements are available in GHCi, and state gets wiped on every reload.

When I first began developing Haskell, coming from Clojure, these issues drove me crazy. Nowadays I don't miss them too much and doubt that they're really such good features to begin with...

But it's decidedly false to claim that GHCi is as flexible as Clojure's repl. Nowadays, Clojure's repl would make me anxious. It reminds me a bit of people doing live code edits on a production server. You can't ever be quite sure what you get.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but there are bosses out there who a) will read and criticize your diffs and commit comments, and b) will not be anywhere near as capable as you. These circumstances combine to produce a situation where it is entirely possible to be "too clever", which elicits a polite chewing-out and an assignment to go back and replace elegant code with code that any idiot can maintain.

If you know a trick for maintaining a sense of satori in such conditions, you would oblige me enormously by describing it.
Steam Box: Valve abuses its gamer goodwill to bet big on a bad idea
The vectors learned from word2vec are pretty amazing. A few days after the tool was released I wrote a script which uses the vector representations to figure out which word in a list isn't like the others [1]. Things like:

->math shopping reading science

I think shopping doesnt belong in this list!

->rain snow sleet sun

I think sun doesnt belong in this list!

etc.

[1] https://github.com/dhammack/Word2VecExample
How many founders should a startup have?
My aunt died last year and for a while I was getting requests from Zynga on fb that she was inviting me to play games with her.

A lot like this thread, it hit me right in the feels :(
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What if they scraped that prose for key words to determine a list of skills?
I don't like smiling at all in photos. It seems so fake, and unnatural. If they do insist on me smiling, I smile as big as I can to the extent it looks more scary than happy. "What? You wanted me to smile?!"
Typeable is interesting in theory and generic traversals are a godsend, but usually I find that when I'm reaching for that particular hammer I should check twice.
No, it was the same for me. Seas are dark blue while landmasses are white near the poles, green in most other places and sandy yellow in deserts - light colours. It makes me expect lands to be light and seas to be dark, even on a stylised monochrome globe.
Wouldn't this still allow an adversary to build a social network of all participants?

They would know:

Who talked to who

How often they talk

When they talk

How much information they exchange

Their IP addresses

In fact, the only they wouldn't know is precisely what was said, but that's often a very small, non-critical piece of the puzzle.
Precisely one of the issues I have, and one I brought up in the email (could I be essentially "blacklisted" by taking issue with their tactics? Left up but painted in a negative light?) I don't believe they'd do it, but they have the power to, and I don't like it.
I know what you mean by the "not as many as those who think they will", but I would say that largely those stats seem to be measuring the wrong thing. Course completion is only one side of the coin. I've learned a TON from free MOOCs, and taken significant parts of about 10. I've finished maybe two? Sometimes the curriculum hits things I already know, so I skip them. I don't have a "complete" course, but I learned what I came for, and since they're not for credit, what do I care if I miss out on internet points? For instance, right now I'm trying to figure out how to do some more complex (for me) HABTM relations in Rails. If there is one lecture in an entire MOOC that makes the concept click with me, I'm happy with the time invested.
google’d to find my old posting, and didn’t notice the domain. Too late to edit now.
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>What makes you believe that some individuals within the NSA are not of that type of person?

Because the NSA just records the information, they don't get to make the call on detention. Gitmo isn't full of people that called the government a bunch of jerks or complained about wiretapping/taxes/etc.

In my humble opinion, the greatest abuse that could come from this wiretapping is much more mundane and offensive - NSA employees cyberstalking and mining data of sexual interests/current partners.