skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To answer your question - Yes, they do.

I call this "shifting the burden of responsibility"[1] and it basically boils down to this - imagine you're an IT manager and your boss says "Should we support Blackberry anymore?" Who is the authority to say whether the answer is Yes or No to this question? If you (the IT manager) think you are...What happens when you're wrong? Hence why you simply shift this over to someone or some organization who has established themselves as the authority.

This is why the analyst industry exists.

[1] - http://www.techdisruptive.com/2013/07/18/shifting-the-burden...
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How Google controls Android: The Skyhook filings
It is terrible because we let "the real world" dictate how we develop our software. That is a mistake. What we can create is basically only bound by our imagination and the ability to articulate this imagination in a precise and consistent form. Eventually "the real world" will have to bend to that.
Camera shake affects all color channels uniformly across the image. That makes it unsuitable for removing any kind of lens distortion.
Its always fun when somebody from another field (computer science) discovers something that is very well know in your field (E&M). One of the parts missing from this paper is that the PSF's of optical systems have a real and imaginary part but measuring the imaginary part is quite difficult and is mostly only done for biological samples.
If you get thousands of job applicants, then it's appropriate to throw 90% CV's out in the first filter by a cursory browsing of the CV. If you don't have a degree, then in such a situation you won't even get an opportunity to be interviewed.
i'd buy an android Q10 in a heartbeat.
Just 10? A simple HN search finds 44 ...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28y+b...

A few even have some discussion.
Just yesterday I've learned that my wife ordered something from JustFab (luckily I saw the previous article on HN). Obviously she was shocked to find out about the real nature of the subscription and she immediately deleted her account.

TL;DR JustFab is scam
I felt the same way. I quit. I'm still unemployed.

I will admit the job I had wasn't nearly as dreary, but I was still plagued by the fact that what I was doing was utterly pointless and had zero value.

In retrospect, I wish I had just grown the fuck up and accepted the simple fact that the chances of any person on this earth making his or her life meaningful outside of his or her own family are astronomically slim. The machine we contribute to is one that takes in money, spits out more money, and creates very little value in the process.
BlackBerry responds to Gartner's call for clients to ditch BB products
The question to ask yourself when reading this article is... "Why the hell is there a Miss Teen USA competition?"
Revestimentos de Fachadas e Coberturas de Edifícios em Curso da FUNDEC
The professional photographer doesn't change anything about the purely technical aspects of the image, though (which is defined only by the sensor and lens). This isn't about magically improving crappy photos but rather improving photos taken with a crappy lens (an obvious application would be cameras in phones).

That a good photographer is able to deliver a far better photo despite the constraints of his tools goes without saying, but it's not what this is about.
Simple: everyone out there uses Yahoo Mail, and when they click on a mailto: link, it opens Outlook or something, which asks them to configure account, so they close it and then go to their Yahoo Mail and type the address.

(This will happen until everyone clicks Yes to registerProtocolHandler requests.)
an advert from a girls school would appear under the sexism ruleset

I'm not sure if that's actually a bug.
<joke> warm up your fingers and let the flame war begin </joke>
You could checkout Sketchboard to sketch UML, https://sketchboard.me. Though that requires constant connectivity due to realtime collaboration. I am author of the tool.
Better photos by superresolution algorithm
I received 2 of the AVALON ASIC Batch 2 orders in July. They cost about 55 BTC (~$1500USD) each in February and now I have mined about 94 BTC ($13000) on each (running at about 83GH/s).

The daily mine total has decreased about 10fold, each making about 0.25BTC per day with the latest diff increase.

The cost per day in electricity is $1.50-2 so with current exchange rates and diff increases they should be 'profitable' until Feb-Mar next year (not even a full year).
You are talking about bias in the "article level". There could possibly be a "topic-level" bias in the article, that is, if one side is currently winning the edit war, and the author (belonging to the other side) tries to spoil that by exposing the tricks used by his opponents. Heck, he could even be trying to conceal his "topic-level" bias by intentionally displaying "article-level" bias in the opposite direction.

Disclaimer: I'm only talking about a possibility. I'm not familiar with this topic. And BTW, I'd say this article is fine if it only has "article-level" bias.
>By people that did not want to pay RedHat for support.
>Because they didn't want to pay Oracle for support.

The reason MariaDB was started (according to the author, 'Monty') was because he didn't trust Oracle's intentions regarding the open source nature of MySQL once they bought it through their Sun acquisition.

This fear has been validated as Oracle is focusing on providing MySQL functionality through proprietary modules, with slow development of the open source part of Oracle's MySQL offering as a result.

Your original statement was about numerous forks made due to developers 'asking for donations'. Neither of these examples applies.

Not only that, but both your examples are actually funded through DONATIONS.

>Not all licenses require copyleft. With BSD, for example, I can take your work, modify it and sell it without giving you anything back.

Yes, the development model I described certainly lends itself best to copyleft style licencing.

>The forked applications were already in the Android market, they were mostly repacked and resold

Do you have any examples of Android ports done by the original developers which has then been repacked and resold, I'd like to compare the popularity between the official versions and the third-party versions.

>How many developers and what will they do after 6 months?

This is 2 developers, however their 6 month employment was entirely covered by the very first Valve donation payment so it's a good sign. Hopefully the donations will coninue which will allow for extension of the contracts and hopefully even more developers being contracted.

>For example, to make a comfortable living in Germany, those donations need to be at least 40K € per year

Again I'm not trying to portray this as a viable replacement for your typical commercial developer employment today, but as something which can hopefully be a viable way to fund full-time open source developers in a not too far off future.

I'm not blaming you for being negative, up until the rather recent explosion of crowd-funding through ventures like Kickstarter I was not particularly hopeful myself even though I've donated to successful projects like Blender which is entirely running on donations.

But now, slowly seeing more and more open source projects find funding on overall project or specific feature basis aswell as new venues of funding showing up like that of Valve's donation program and even smaller scope funding like gittip, the concept seems very promising to me.

Again, YMMV
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I should add -- I'm protecting comment forms and sign-up forms, which certainly do get bot spam, but are lower-value targets than forums, etc. where the spammer's content can actually be posted to a wider audience.

Protecting forums is particularly hard because there are often real people involved in spamming them, sometimes with the aid of bots but not always. Some of them will fill in captchas, register user accounts, and post spam links along with half-assed original comments. Negative captchas are obviously useless against these; I've managed with having logs of moderators, but it's still unpleasant.
> Why would you consider this bias?

Because it quite patently is. The English language article about the battle makes little mention of any Spanish contribution, and portrays it as basically Wellington and the British vs. the French; the Spanish article highlights the Spanish contribution, almost describing the battle as a Spanish victory with some help from the other allied forces. My gut feeling is that the English language article is more reliable - it includes a numerical breakdown of the allied army which (if correct) shows the relative unimportance of the Spanish contribution, the map of the battle shows the commanders were all British, etc. But of course, I'm English, and I bring my own bias to the table...
PyDev 2.8.2 released. Plans for PyDev 3
Good point, pair programming, XP, agile, and all other such nonsense should be added to the rules.
> Or consider the fact that Germans tend to use faecal terms to curse while in English, sexual terms are more common.

Bullshit.

:)

(But I fully agree with the rest of what you say).
Exactly, that's what I mean when I say that "cultural fit" should never be considered or offered as the cause of firing. However,

> Why not simply stick with the observations of (non-)performance rather than offering your judgements of the cause(s) of the non-performance?

Because I expect any decent manager & company to at least try to (a) identify the reasons for low performance, and (b) discuss possible correction plans together with the employee. Actively identifying and correcting causes for low performance is in my opinion essential to maintain perspective on how and why your company works. This perspective is necessary to understand and strengthen the practices and pillars that increase your team's performance.
It is paid significant attention to in the Big Freaking Enterprise. And by those who would sell to the BFE.
Range on the cheapest model is comparable to my Suzuki SV650, would be great for commuting eg you can charge every night. Plugging in at night would be much better than having to waste 15 mins at the service station every 3 days.
Probably not going to ride it to the mountains and back on a long ride, though.
Still - very cool! Can't wait for battery tech to get better/cheaper.
OP has no idea how lucky he/she is. I've had some really shitty jobs before I started my programming career and being able to write code for a living is like winning the lottery in comparison. You need some perspective in order to appreciate things.
> Like algorithms? You can be a computer scientist. You can become a systems programmer and develop OS internals. Try digging through Linux source code. If you're into programming languages, you can get into writing compilers. I hear LLVM is amazing. If you like graphics, dust off those math books and get good OpenGL tutorial.

What makes you think those you can't be those specialist you mentioned? All those roles are still very high in demand, and if you really find generic software engineering lowering your IQ, nothing is stopping you to do those things in your own time. Remember Linux?

Even in mainstream game development, people tackle complex algorithmic problems everyday. From game graphics to enemy AI, there are countless "hard problems" to solve.

My point is, just because your boss wants you to churn out generic CRUD apps everyday, doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to that. Just by spending half an hour everyday on something you really loves can make a difference.
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That's one. Not "so many it's not even funny". From the sound of it, you should have been able to rattle off 5 without hesitating. Maybe you meant "one. There's exactly one refutation"

as for your second remark, uh... Douglas Crockford?
The only currency that can surpass the US dollar is gold. The US dollar is the de facto world currency, because the world's oil is mostly traded using US dollars.
The US Gov't enforces this, by using strong arm tactics, or resort to millitary intervention - case in point, Iraq.
It's not just about the money it cost to write the code. I mean, as a master C programmer I am not without sympathy for your suggested approach, but if you follow the philosophy of 'real men write the entire stack in hand-optimized C' and as a result it takes an extra six months before you're shipping, you might miss a key market window and then all the other considerations might end up not mattering.

It's not like we haven't seen this play out before. Over and over again, flexibility, easy debugging, time-to-market and Moore's law have gone up against the 'real men' approach - and won hands down. History doesn't always repeat itself - but it's usually the way to bet.
ingent learning a few things about composition and picking an interesting place to take your first pictures than it is making sure you have the best camera.
It's a good idea, but penalizing jobs for mentioning pizza, beer or ping-pong is ridiculous. In fact calling those "hollow rewards" at all is ridiculous. They suggest a friendly, social atmosphere, arguably one of the more important features of a job.

They also call swearing "unprofessional", as if that's a bad thing. Again, it suggests a laid back atmosphere, where no-one cares if you swear when you're dealing with a particularly nasty bug.

A degree of political correctness can be beneficial, but overzealousness like this is counterproductive.
Attendance wise, NASCAR is local. Its in one country and sort of moves locally. F1 drops down in countries, then disappears. The whole thing is different. Frankly, I think its pretty hard to properly compare the two in any reasonable way. Its pretty much like comparing hockey with basketball, there are similarities, but they are totally different sports.

BTW, I am one of those rare things, a British NASCAR follower. Not exactly a "fan" as such; I enjoy it, but I'm not knowledgeable beyond the obvious. That said, F1 is my main thing. One of the reasons NASCAR appeals to me is the almost complete contrast with F1 (and Indycar, which I also watch).
The sad thing is the dry electrodes are considered expendable. They're no longer available. It does look like some people have been able to replace the pads and headband using fabric, though.
Also a fair point, it was interesting to read "An Army At Dawn" by Rick Atkinson: generally most of the books on WWII that I'd read were by British authors, and there was a definite change of viewpoint (or bias) when reading an American author.
I'm not quite as cynical as your last line, but I fully agree with the outlook growing up.

And honestly, does any of this sound unique to programming? Do you think carpenters are all happy just making what people will buy from them? Do you think musicians all just want to make music people will buy? Mathematicians of old just being glad they could reliably hit ships with a cannon? Electricians constantly just plugging in similar wirings into similarly bad houses? ...
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Got Atari 800XL when I age 12. It came with simple Atari BASIC programming manual. My friend (also Atari owner) had more advanced book so I borrowed it from him after some time (curiously he didn't become a programmer).

I moved from Atari BASIC to Turbo Basic (superset of functionality and much faster) , to ACTION (compiled language, high level but translating very straightforwardly to machine language), then 6502 assembler. Then Kyan Pascal just to play with. The I got PC (age 16 or so). So Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Borland C++ Builder. Then I stared learning for my master degree and computer science. Most formative experience during college was building sample app in PHP with two teammates. I ended up doing mostly this for profit during last year of college and ever since (I don't always use PHP). During college I picked up Java and C#. Since then I picked up Python and Ruby.
Lalu Prasad Who had addressed hundreds of students at Harvard and Yale convicted
Lalu Prasad Yadav, an Indian politician who had addressed over a hundred students from Harvard, Wharton and others in Hindi and who had once received invitations from eight Ivy League schools for lectures was convicted in India on a Fodder scam after several years!
Solving problems is interesting. Repetition is terrible.

As programmers many of the things we build are to automate processing that other people would find repetitive and make errors doing. As a result, our work becomes repetitive and we make errors doing it. As some level we've succeeded – we've added a layer of abstraction and made a lot of people's lives easier – but we've also moved our expectations ahead of us and now we're playing catch up.

The author says

> Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier

but I don't think it would. The problems would have been more fundamental and the solutions would be more "pure" computer science, but I imagine you'd still have the same level of tedium with regards to debugging and loose user requirements.
There is also the odd view that "years ago" the OP would have been involved with computers. Don't get me wrong, there is a chance, but statistically speaking very very few people were involved with this sort of stuff years ago. Even if I had had the opportunity, I have very little aspirations that I would have actually been as good as the forerunners were. I mean, I can hope, but since I'm not even the best at learning from their teachings, not sure I would have been among the best to discover these things. :)
You make valid points, perhaps there should be a boolean for whether professionalism is desired or not.

Personally I prefer professionalism at the very least in the job posting, I don't particularly care if it's laid back and neither does anyone at a firm in the financial industry or most Fortune 500s.
As a matter of fact, giving one's own family its proper value (the most) is one of the problems of our society. And one of the problems with our 'leader-based' culture is that 'ordinary' people (those who are not leaders, who, by mere statistics must be the vast majority) find little support in it.

So, I guess we all need to develop a 'family-centered' philosophy or life more than a 'work-centered'. I find this rather compelling, albeit difficult to tackle (because it is likely you spend more 'conscious' time at job than with your family).

So, as you say, it is a problem of a fine-tuning of one's own values.

Not that I am suggesting 'crap jobs' are good for anyone. But that one has to value 'family success' much more than 'job success'.
LastPass wins based on features (like sharing passwords with a set of employees) and devices/browsers supported, but it seriously lacks good usability & polish. Users in our company aren't keen on it (the word "hate" is already coming up a lot...), but I don't see better options yet.

KeePass via Dropbox (I've also used this setup) is less likely to fail randomly but is too complicated to set up for non-technical users -- the application is also fairly ugly and has bad usability.

I wish there were better options out there, but haven't found them yet. There's a promising option at mitro.co which for now is Chrome-only. The Chrome experience is far better than LastPass, but yeah, Chrome-only.
So… let's take an already highly efficient form of transportation and turn it into an overpriced, limited-range form of transportation?

OK.
In my experience it isn't the IT managers who trust Gartner —it's the IT-managers' managers.

Is this just because non-IT managers don't trust what IT managers say?

If so then this is a case of shifting the burden of responsibility of “shifting the burden of responsibility”. Non-IT managers blame IT managers for their use of analysts as a comfort blanket.

I realise there are analysts for all kinds of industry but I can't think of another example where analysts wield the kind of power that Gartner hold over the IT industry.
Bitcoin: Get over it.

"You're posting too fast"

You know what HN? FUCK YOU.
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Despite seemingly obvious interaction mechanism, under the hood, it’s actually quite a complicated beast!
What is cyber and cyber security?
Okay, maybe I am blind, but where is the weight? Real world mileage is such a vague term and such a silly one when discussion "superbikes". Whats my track time? I really want to know, I am not going to ride it sedately, so whats my real world mileage when I can't keep from twisting the throttle so hard?

could I get from Atlanta to Deal's gap and back? Nope? Well I am not a fan of trailer queens.

Get me something that gets me to and from work like my K1300GT does and I might be interested. Frankly I see very little point in a superbike electric as they are natural opposites, electric implies efficiency but the riding behavior associated with superbikes is anything but
It's not P2P unless at least one of the P's is directly accessible.
It looks pro-Israel to me.
If 16-year old can mount 300 Gbps DDoS imagine what adult could do!
Okay so he/sh was preaching to your choir. But s/he needs to work a little harder to persuade or teach someone who isn't already convinced.

I never said javascript could do it all. I said that it happens to not be true that javascript doesn't have a native way of dealing with binary. It turns out it does.
that's not everything. That's one thing.
TL;DR for the article: "OMG, work is BOOOOORING!"

See also: the disillusioned former law student who went in to change the world but ended up pushing paper, the disillusioned architect went in to design monuments but ended up designing Wal-Marts, the disillusioned English major who went in dreaming of the Great American Novel but ended up spell-checking ad copy.

There is a difference, though: if "wiring together unbelievably shitty, amazingly poor documented frameworks" really pisses you off, you can FUCKING CHANGE THAT. Not every discipline has quite that level of flexibility.

BTW, GTFO off my lawn.
Before I saw this, I couldn't imagine email messages through a form to be more expensive than SMS messages.
Fermat's last theorem in popular culture
And your plan for making things better:
Java.

shudder
MySQL 5.7 clustering: The developer perspective
It's not too different than other hobby turn professionals. Like to work on cars? You may want to become a mechanic. Replacing brakes for the hundredth time is not nearly as interesting or challenging as the first time. On the upside, you get to be around the environment you love and occasionally there may be some new problems to solve. As with any profession, there is always an opportunity to learn and improve even on something that is considered routine. For a mechanic, maybe do it faster or with different tools.
> Sometimes I also think if it would be different if I was born several decades earlier

Or you'd be complaining about writing yet another missile ballistics program, or converting another basic mathematical or statistical algorithm into MUMPS.
There are some really clever techniques out there for recovering the imaginary parts actually, at least in a similar domain (transmission electron microscopy), but they're still somewhat new.
Mbed which is similar to arduino but with a commercial friendly licensing, seems to have gotten some adoption as a professional tool.
I suspect that even back then, there was a lot of tedious grunt work. My dad did some sort of academic goofing about in the late 70s, early 80s. Should be pure and focused, right? Well, at one point, they got a new hard disk for the minicomputer, and he had to write a driver for it. There is always absurd shit you have to do before you get to the good bit.
It seems to be throwing errors now
a $90 product that you want to ruin by putting the JVM on it.