skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CSI is pretty bad. WOrse than Gladwell. If you have been following how the Massachusetts crime lab screwed up thousands of investigations, you know CSI is putting an unrealistically competent face on a topic about which people should be very skeptical. Gladwell isn't as tendentious and propagandistic.
Match making with a game like CoD or BF will be much better if every player can host and or connect directly to every other player.
What is this desktop you speak of? ;)
I disagree, I find most .net developers I meet use c#.
I just don't know the breakdown of whether they're Winform/wpf or asp.net developers specifically.
I read "it" as a pronoun, not as "information technology"
What's Shell?

If you mean Unix/Linux shells, you should have picked a couple, or just used Bash, because many people would upvote one shell and downvote another. Csh, Bash, Zsh are completely different when it comes down to what you like or dislike.
Having a scoring system that takes in to account how many previous govt projects have gone over budget and over time would help. Yes, small company X might not have a track record, and might end up folding in 2 years (especially if they can't get decent sized contracts to stay in business), but is that necessarily any worse than bigcoXYZ getting contract, then taking 3 years longer than proposed and going 400% over budget?

Look at the track record of the company, and use that in factoring in contract awards. Companies that routinely go over budget and over time should be penalized by having a reduced chance of getting contracts in the first place. That's one thing that would help level the playing field a bit.

Of course, what would happen is those larger companies would create related spin-offs that are technically not related, and they'd have 'fresh' stats to compete with, and the cycle would start over again, probably.
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Not going to see, seeing IKEA or Death and then reading the description mentioning black metal kinda irked me a little. And in that moment I was that guy.
Other like - Dart.
Show me an instance where a modern Australian court has ordered corporal punishment and I'll agree with you.
Many libs in Java require to think about patterns instead of giving you a straightforward way to accomplish your goals.
Might want to temper that nostalgia-driven enthusiasm a bit. The path you're on leads only to disappointment and regret.

To answer your question, not yet. I would expect to hear something later this year on the time frame for the consumer version, which I'm also waiting for. Not only for this game, but also to plug into a raspberry pi for a project. Just waiting for that 1080 display.
Leaning Out
Yikes. what terrible UX for a poll.
It used to be "Global Warming", but when that label didn't fit very well with the observed results, the label somehow became "Climate Change".

This is a clever bit of public manipulation because who can argue against the fact that climate is changing....
Didn't see this in the article - the paper is entitled "The projected timing of climate departure from recent variability".

Direct link:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/pdf/nature12...

From the methods summary section:

They used the projections of seven climate variables: near-surface air temperature, sea surface temperature, precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, surface sensible heat flux, and ocean surface pH.

"For each model and variable, we used the period 1860-2005 from the historical experiment (the longest time span common to all models), to establish the historical bounds of climate variability. The projections...[were used] to simulate the period 2006-2100...to identify the year at which mean annual values of a given variable would exceed historical bounds."

"In total, for all variables and experiments, we processed 89,712 years of data comprising 1,076,544 monthly global maps, interpolated to an equal-area grid with a resolution of 100 km."

I think the 9 in 1960-2005 must be a typo. Everything is 1860 in the study.
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Yes.

Been there, done that. Never again.

Federal government consulting firms hire warm bodies at the lowest price possible. They are the people who employ the college students from Java shops (because a degree is a must, of course) who barely learn Java and then grow up to never touch another programming language in their life. Knowing anything from MS or Oracle is double plus good for your resume. You're totally replaceable to them and treated accordingly. Anyone competent or specialized is generally hired as a subcontractor to the main contractor and not by the government itself.

Government IT employees are nigh-unfireable and they know it. They're about 50% people who've transferred in from other Government positions because they know it's easy or they're former contractors who join the government so they have a stable job. The government managers who vet your deliverables and the upper managers who make contract decisions, well, they're just the previous technically incompetent people who've stuck around long enough to get promoted up.

As the individual contractor, contracts are usually 1-3 years so you're constantly always up for being laid off or moved to a different contract. Your company is notoriously stingy, but that's mostly because they're not paying you for competitive skills, they're paying you because butts-in-seats means they get their lucrative contract rate that's at least 4x more than they're paying you. Since only behemoths of companies can even afford to try to land federal contracts, your employer has a large amount of corporate bureaucracy you have to deal with and that sucks... then you're sent to a government facility to work, where you get to deal with government bureaucracy on top of your internal crap too. As a contractor, between both organizations you'll get to take hours upon hours of totally useless 'computer safety, ethics and public responsibility trainings' which are mostly written so 4 year olds can understand them.

The government technology you work with is generally 5-10 years behind the curve if they even pretend to maintain something. As late as 2010 I was working on a J2EE app trying to migrate it to Java 5. It was stored in Visual Source Safe 6, and their development shop was totally crippled by what was essentially "God objects" and file locking. Too many developers, too many chokepoints in code. I've spent more than 1 day of my life walking around a building asking if people really needed a certain file locked. Oh, and many government employees worked 9-40 compressed schedules and are out on Mondays or Fridays, so you'd better not need to write to a file except on Tues-Thursdays, even if it is critical to meeting a deliverable deadline.
What do you mean it doesn't work on linux? It works fine. It helps to use the distro (opensuse) the mono developers use.
App Alerts: How to make your lights flash like an ambulance
A Tasmanian with makup explores the history of food in games.
Yeah. I screwed up. Only 19/20 and I shop at IKEA occasionally, am Swedish and play metal...
Q3 2014~

Couldn't wait personally. No regrets.
"developed in response to the fact that nerds are addicted to feeling like they're just a little bit smarter than everyone else."

It doesn't seem limited to nerds, though. These books are always top sellers in places like airport book stores, so there's got to be a wider audience than that. If anything, I'd say these are very middlebrow books that hit a sweet spot in making college-educated (though not necessarily nerdy or even particularly smart) people feel smarter. They're like the USA Today distillations of behavioral and neuroscience research.

The nerdier equivalent would be TED.
Upvote this.

Heck, push it to all your favorite news outlets. There's no reason why one obscure company should get the contract without viable competitors.
You scored 20 out of 20!
Congrats you are...
True Kvlt.

Either you work at IKEA or you played drums for Bathory, because your knowledge is at the level of dare we say it, the cloven hooved one himself. That’s right, we’re talking about Ingvar Kamprad. We’re almost afraid to ask you to peep out our agency site. But please do, oh dark master.

And I don't even listen to a quarter as much Black Metal as I do Death or Thrash... yikes. I've only been to Ikea once though, so my strategy was to guess Ikea for every name that I didn't specifically recognize as a metal band. "Norden" almost tripped me up.
Had it been, I'd have known by now, but it does help, especially I'd say long runs (>10km).

Interestingly, while sleep depravity makes me more irritable and more prone to feel anger as the article says, it also increases my positive emotions by a substantial amount, purely anecdotal of course.
Don't know about death metal references, but I just can never calmly pass by a cornucopia of KAKA products in their grocery shop.
We can't even accurately project the lower bounds of average global temperature variation more than a couple decades out[0], but we can determine the lower bounds of individual cities several decades out?

[0]http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2157446...
Well, the like/dislike are totally subjective things. I can't tell if I like or dislike most of the languages of the list because I don't use them or, in some cases, I don't use them enough to have a strong opinion.
Over half a billion spent and they couldn't afford jslint?

Or view StackOverflow on multiline text in JavaScript?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/805107/creating-multiline...
This Bird Can Stay in Flight for Six Months Straight
Where is Dart?
I'm guessing it's 1860 (around the beginning of most good record keeping).
The .NET Framework is a straightforward way to solve a problem vs pattern oriented solutions. This is not about the programming language itself but how the people in that community think about a problem

There are plenty of people who overengineer their .NET solutions. They wouldn't dream of starting a project without including the Unity Application Block, for example. It may be a symptom of Enterprise Syndrome rather than a specific language community.
Human experience is subjective. It makes no sense to make an objective poll.
First time I ship a week-end project !

I would be pleased to get any feedback.
Well written article. I think this is the first time I have seen aspect oriented programming explained in such a way that I found the concept compelling.
Hey spiffyman, reasonable points, but it really looks to me like josefresco is implying that the launch is getting unduly harsh treatment in the media, but maybe I misread it.

Also, regarding the 20 million figure, here's the quote:

Seven percent of Americans report that somebody in their household has tried to sign up for insurance through the health care exchanges, according to an AP-GfK poll. While that's a small percentage, it could represent more than 20 million people.

As many as 20 million "tried to" sign up, based on their extrapolation of some polling data.

The last I heard, no media outlet has been able to find a single successful sign up to interview, and they are definitely looking for one.

The CBS video also claims there have been only "a handful" of sign ups, and it's getting reported in lots of other places. It could be inaccurate, but these are mainstream outlets reporting this, not Breitbart or Drudge. The administration is refusing to release sign up numbers, which certainly doesn't look good.
Me too, I just can not figure out what the pronoun refers to. I am not sure why my request for clarification was down voted. I appreciated the comment and wanted to make sure I understood everything the OP was saying.
While I don't subscribe to Howard Zinn, I like to read him for an alternative viewpoint. He has strong views about how we curved the opinion on Columbus and built a myth around him.

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinncol1.html
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I meant the phrase, not the idea. I agree with you, though. Especially when someone tells me "well, it was obvious that X would happen, because Y", I ask them "what if I was lying and the opposite of X happened? Was that equally obvious? If both are obvious, then neither is".
Enriching yourself on stolen goods - even when you've enlisted state power to legalise the stealing - isn't very accurately described as capitalism, hyper or otherwise.

Being super-rich in Russia is all about receiving privileges from the regime in exchange for loyalty. Ceasing your loyalty has consequences:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Berezovsky_(businessman)
Sounds like a nice gig to move around/learn a lot of different stuff. Also nice that it's for a solid 40 hours a week. Must take the edge off :)

What sort of work do you do with the Microsoft stuff? Is it like .net work or do you do more OS level programming?
Working with hard core ruby, C/C++ and python people who said they thought C# was amazing (even better than their core competency). Teaming up with amazing Java developers and when they see the way C# handles generics and mixing in functional programming elements; they are blown away. You are selling yourself short to dismiss it just because it is from Microsoft.
Most consumers do not want a camera, so the PS4 represents a significant saving. And even in your comparison it's more expensive while being less powerful.

Responding to consumer feedback isn't a bad thing per se, but creating such anti-consumer policies in the first place makes one reluctant to spend a significant amount of money when a competitor has a more impressive product for less money.
There are $100m+ companies being run on Salesforce Force.com, some of which are going public. It's pretty amazing when you think about it.
>Seriously, you won't get anything meaningful out of this, people will vote for the language they like and then bash the usual suspects (PHP, actionscript, C++,...)

Why do you insist that is not meaningful? Of course they will vote for the language they like, that is the purpose of the poll. Obviously people can vote from ignorance, but that goes both ways. Just as some people "dislike" cobol despite a lack of experience with it, so too do people "like" PHP despite a lack of experience with it.
I think it's targeted at non-GUI developers. I'd like to see a purely functional GUI framework.
I've been using this library for months, I'm a fan. It's really easy to implement, definitely recommend it.
For me, the algorithm was as follows:

Do I own it? -> IKEA
Else -> Death

Seriously, is there anyone who doesn't have a GRUNDTAL?
Can a Company be More than Just an App? Confluence Between Digital and Physical
I did the same for C++. I hate many aspects of the language, and it feels really ugly compared to newer languages like C#, or even D, but it's still my language of choice for some projects (mostly because the tools are mature and almost everywhere).
I can't figure why "forums" and "mailing lists" are two separate things. Making a nice unified mailing-list/forum hybrid doesn't sound impossible... honestly though, most maling-list web-views are terrible and excruciating to navigate.

Give me a big threaded forum where each "category" corresponds to its own mailing list (so you can just avoid email-subbing to the "offtopic" one). Then you can also include some nice secondary features like upvotes/downvotes and the like.
Shhh... this thread is for tossing eachother off about how much better we envision we would do in the same circumstances and indulging in the schadenfreude that comes with the first time you figure out just how much of a boondoggle government contracting has become.
Can you actually log in and do anything? I created accounts last week, and now can't log in with them, or can log in and get a blank white screen.

I've just tried creating yet another count. It's hung up on 'step 3' ('please wait' - modal spinner, assuming it's emailing my email address). 3 minutes spinning so far.

OK - it just got done. Got an email. Clicked the link. Logged in. Pause... Taken to https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/auth/userprofile which is just a white screen.

So... still not working for at least some people.
Factor is missing from the list

http://factorcode.org
it was a stupid study done to score points with specific groups, basically another bash Wal-Mart to appeal to those bobble heads who rally around that sort of stuff. It takes a lot to ignore all the other wealthy individuals and groups to zero in on that family.

Throw out the negative equity people and the numbers were not as bad, use median income and the numbers are better. I doubt the comparisons made in China and Russia are the same as this study you cite was.

Besides, most importantly, the Waltons earned it, most of the wealth locked in China and Russia are either ex political power players or their friends.

Still, when it comes to China and even Russia, what has really changed? The same people ruling and having control of the wealth when they were not "open" markets are basically the same now.
> I've always been a shy, introvert person

One of my favorite memories from college was when a very shy woman had to recite a piece from Shakespeare and chose King Henry's rousing speech to his troops. She belted it out and by the end we were all about ready to go fight the French army! So, just because you're shy in normal life doesn't mean you might not really find strengths you didn't know you have in front of an audience. Stranger things have happened.
Not enough if you ask me. As other commenter said, too many JS-WTFs remain.
Xamarin is more likely.
When I used it, in 1998, it was so ridiculously unstable we had to write a service to restart it when connections started to pile up on IIS. Under heavy loads, the server had to restart every minute or so.
Java is actually used heavily on Android.
I like C++. I dislike C++.

No seriously. For everything good about a language there's usually something that's not so good and is completely frustrating. That's why there's so many programming languages, they're all awful and excellent at the same time, asking a favourite is like saying 'do you prefer being hugged whilst on fire, or being hugged by someone on fire'.
For something one might imagine as a coda to Dying of the Light -- and even more depressing -- try the 2011 Lars von Trier movie Melancholia.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1527186/
I think it means the note acceptor is physically capable of recognising notes from 200 countries. You presumably only configure it to accept notes from one currency at a time.
It doesn't excuse the author's inconsistency, but the reality is that it doesn't matter - the difference between 1860 and 1960 is trivial compared to the difference after that. The hottest year on record between 1860 and 2005 is probably after 1990 in most cities.
What about Java and Javascript? :)
You seem like a really annoying person.

> Java: mainstream and boring

> C#: Microsoft

> PHP: ugly, people expect me to use it
I only get the PHP hate from the startup communities. I guess it is just not hip to be using PHP.

There is also way to much love for Apple products.

In the end the tools you use don't matter.

I never heard an investor say: 'Did you write this in PHP on a PC? I'm sorry we are not interested.'
There is an opportunity out there. I am sure of it.
PHP haters are hysterical, I mean that in the clinical sense. It is powerful, flexible, blazing fast (relative, I know), and arguably the easiest (or at least most accessible) language to learn. Its flexibility is what generates most of the hate. It gives you the freedom to create some really bad/stupid code, which noobs inevitably do. But hating it because it will let you hurt yourself is like hating a table saw because it can cut your arm off.
I like Symfony2, I hate PHP.
PHP has changed a lot in the last couple of years. The quality of libraries and ease of installation skyrocketed. We learned to avoid certain PHP features or built workarounds on top of them. Therefore I still hate the PHP for that. "extract" function anyone?
Creating a Dynamic Hero Image Using Canvas
Just started using WPF for a home project here. :-)
You do realize people are purchasing Obamacare through those insurance companies, right?
Is tech really the right bet for Anytown USA?
Despite its flaws and the scores of bad software written in it, old-school VB was awesome! It was incredibly easy to click together a UI, and fill in the business logic. You had basically no boilerplate or glue code. And there was a huge market for components - report generators, glossy buttons, fancy list views, plotting controls, you name it. I believe the ease of use of VB and the availability of all those COM/ActiveX controls was a huge factor in MS's success in the late 90s.
> It is not in anyway "a given" that corporal punishment is viewed as barbaric.

The last instance of judicial corporal punishment was in the 50's. It's a given.

> Most USAians support the death penalty.

Maybe you should look up the difference between capital punishment and corporal punishment. They're not the same thing.

Anyway it seems like you've been called out on your reading comprehension and now you're clawing desperately to save face, or you have an axe to grind in general - I don't really care which it is. Either way I'll bow out and let you save face. Read more carefully and/or know the meaning of the words you're typing before you comment next time.
First link wrong? Seems like a useful service.

https://simonics.com/gvgw/
It's been estimated that their entire lifetime profit is about equal to their tax discount (lower price due to not having to collect and pay state and local tax) - makes one wonder what Bezos's genius is other than taking advantage of a tax loophole - and one which may very well go away in the future.
No, they didn't copy any of Google's implementation. They simply implemented efficiently the TF-IDF based document retrieval model.
I don't think Google is competing with the black market (on money) or trying to attract the people that already sell to the black market.

For many researchers in the world these reward programs ship a substantial amount of money.

And even if Google pays 20k for a bug and some cybermob promises 100k for an exploit. Are you really comfortable giving your bank account to those guys? Would you have to look up money laundering on the internet? And would you stop using the vulnerable Google product for yourself and tell those you hold dear to do the same?

The amount of legit money paid vs. the hassle and legal problems with selling on the black market even out very nicely for me, but I guess that depends on your priorities (and morals).

This video http://vimeo.com/54130349 (Bug Bounty Programs - Michael Coates, Chris Evans, Jeremiah Grossman, Adam Mein, Alex Rice) shows how great these companies are doing with these bug bounty programs. I'd welcome more companies to follow suit, both in bug bounty programs and hardening patches reward programs.
It's not exactly what you're describing, but RFP-EZ isn't far off: http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovationfellows/rfp-ez

Their website is now apparently in open beta: https://rfpez.sba.gov/
>Anyone who disagrees with me is just ignorant!

Do you have any evidence to support that notion? I find it quite the opposite. People who spent a decade being forced to use PHP know the language well, and dislike it. People who have never bothered to learn and just keep making the same mistakes over and over again defend PHP fervently, despite being almost entirely ignorant of the problems with the language.