skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They tend not to target "civilians".

What they think is irrelevant.

> The government offers anything? You have the vocal terror group yelling "NO SURRENDER!!" while the political wing is secretly discussing how to accept the deal and what they need to do in return. This keeps the supporters supporting you in very polarised situations.

For your game theory to remotely resemble the truth, you need to point to situations where the terrorist groups were able to extract concessions greater than offered; while I am merely saying that the terrorist groups extracted close to zero concessions. How is it game-theoretically optimal to always lose?

> I'm not sure what this means.

It means exactly what it means: a specific number of terrorist attacks come without attribution, even in situations like Iraq where there are scores of potential actors with contradictory goals, which makes extortion and extract concessions difficult to impossible.

> But the People's Front of Judea are the real splitters.

A joke is not an objection or contrary evidence.

> I guess it's interesting that terrorists fall into the same trap as most other people.

Exactly. That's the whole point - 'terrorism is not about terror'. Anymore than programming Lisp is purely about optimizing effort per lines of code or whatever, and no more than buying Apple is a coldblooded calculation of dollars vs time.

> Killing more people doesn't have particularly more impact, but does make people less sympathetic to your cause.

Which if true is itself a refutation of terrorism as a rational political strategy, and one I would agree with (see the material on the 'backfire effect').
This is the way forward.

If most all internet services can be implemented with open source, and processing and data storage is all virtual, then the logical place we're headed is either 1) big, centralized services that treat the details of our lives as fodder to sell products, or 2) renting cycles and storage out and decentralizing everything.

For anybody concerned with privacy and not looking forward to becoming part of some hivemind, option 2 seems most logical. I don't think cost would be prohibitive, and looks like this site is interviewing guys working in the problem area on new product development, which means that there is a future there. Anybody's bet if it actually happens, though.
Refreshingly honest, I would say.
As the author of jonesforth[1], I found Forth to be a great hack and enormous fun to write. However as an actual language to implement things, not so good. It's terribly difficult to write correct code when you've got no bounds checking, only primitive memory management, no types, and having to manage the stack. (Modern Forths fix these problems to some extent.)

It's my understanding that most language research is on safety features, type systems and so on, so I don't know how interesting Forth would be.

[1] http://git.annexia.org/?p=jonesforth.git;a=summary
Does anyone else dislike the sentence 'Quietly, some geeks are decentralizing the net again'?
I love it. I was just wondering how I could possibly include a second income in the graph, and your suggestion is just perfect - thank you!

As for the costs, they're actually customizable - you can choose it from the dropdown. I will also work to make that more explicit.
Its a valid question and Im curious how you would tear it apart.
Online Timer
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2010-03-08/news/ct-met-ge...

"Way above average"? "over-market"? Are you adjusting for cost of living in your guess or not?
This thread is about T-Mobile US.
Things I Think I Think on Bitcoin
Dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5760410

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6129797

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971420
Living on $5,000 a year, on purpose: Meet America's 'intentional poor'
My Catholic wife and I are planning on being a counterexample to that argument :)
There's a lot of interesting history around this topic. Anyone have recommendations?
Oof, you're right--sorry about that. The addons page [1] has the right pricing, but our own pricing page is incorrect. I'll make sure we get this updated. Thanks for pointing it out!

[1]: https://addons.heroku.com/heroku-postgresql
Curious about the details of the Walmart plan. Anybody?
BTW for people whose tinnitus is bothering them enough to shell out a couple grand, check this out:
http://www.anm-medical.com/index.php/en/tinnitus/acoustice-c...

It seems to be the first therapy for tinnitus which was confirmed in clinical trials. Unlike TRT, it can actually make the sound go away and not just make you less unhappy about it.
Since you are a Pinboard user, do yourself a favor and try out Shiori. Best pinboard utility I've used thus far.

http://aki-null.net/shiori/
Wanna chime in on this and say I spend a fair amount of time with my vps. I am pretty sure I could not do their job. Maybe someday, but not today. And maybe not ever.
She's a member of the European Parliament, not the Swedish. That said, as far as I know we tend to have more heterogenous members in our parliaments, here in Europe.
Languages are platforms.

Vendor lock-in exist for specialized areas (eg. documents, protocols). There are areas when some producers _must_ support common standards. Microsoft for ex. had to introduce support for native code in WP8. HTML/JS is a second area where support from vendor is a must. OpenGL is next one (not for WP, but its a minor platform, but... surprise, surprise Microsoft supports WebGL!).

For ex. nobody is forcing anyone to use native libraries for GUI (Qt, Swing, WPF). There are GUI libs completely independent from OS ( http://l33tlabs.org/ http://kivy.org/ http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots ).

Smalltalk/Pharo application developed on Windows or Linux Machine can be deployed on iPad or Android and it will work without a single byte change. These things are made by single individuals as hobby projects with a great success.

You are wearing a corporate blindfold.
Oh oh oh this would be funny if it weren't so sad. Thanks for illustrating so poignantly the idiocy of free software fanaticism (that is not to say that all OS software is bad or idiotic, I use a lot of it, it's about the cognitive dissonance in this thread).

So, I have this project in which I need to fill an area in a drawing in a proposal for a client. So my options are:

a) Spend $200 (about an hours worth of billable time, or 2 hours during dry spells) on MS Office.

b) Spend 2 x 4 x 10 = 80 hours (which is no where near enough, but let's go with your number) on this feature, then spend again that on finding and convincing the right people to include my patch, on a half-assed implementation which does just enough what I need, and tell my client 'yeah get back to me in 2 months when I have patched my word processor to deliver the functionality I need'.

Choices choices, which one should I choose?

Just that time alone on a single tiny feature would pay for a lifetime worth of MS Office software!
You're trying too hard to stretch things. The situation is not about taking ownership of the pages, or copying the pages, it's about making a decision based on the pages.

So you could be the first person to break the news of my amazing new invention while I am filing the patent, or something. I might be disgruntled but it's my fault for leaving the netbook there.

It's not like you'd be able to patent something you didn't invent without tremendous piles of fraud.
I think there are different levels of understanding.

I can't speak for the original poster, but I'm an extremely pragmatic sort of reader and will move on from material once I "feel" I have a grasp of the concepts involved and can "see where the author(s) are coming from". Others might not be comfortable with saying they understand a paper until they reach a similar level of insight as the authors and perhaps even the level to reproduce the results.
IMF strongly suggests countries tax the rich to fix deficit
>- PLO and other Islamist groups indiscriminate rocket strikes on Isreali settlements

You're getting things mixed up a little bit here. PLO is not a terrorist organization nowadays, it has recognized the right of Israel to exist in peace 20 years ago and it has ceased violent activity in the seventies. It is considered Palestine's political representation at the UN.

Because of this even if it were bombing Israeli civilian houses this would be considered more of an act of war between states than terrorism. This is not to say that there are no terrorist organizations in Palestine, just that the PLO is not one of them.
First, let me point out that it is meaningless to offer a single counter-example as a response to a statistical generalization over thousands of terrorist incidents and hundreds of terrorist groups over the past century or so. You haven't even begun to argue on the same level. "Smoking is bad and cuts X years off life expectancy." "What willful amnesia! Don't you remember your uncle was a smoker and died at the ripe age of 85?"

Second, what the predecessors to AQ did in Afghanistan is irrelevant. They were fighting a conventional/guerrilla war against a government run by a foreign superpower, and were heavily funded by the rival foreign superpower and its regional nation-state allies like Saudi Arabia who viewed it as a matter of geopolitical survival w/r/t subversion to neighboring countries & global energy supplies. This looks nothing like their later terrorist campaigns and the lessons or success of one do not generalize to the global summaries of terrorist groups - not that you bothered to explain how the 7 puzzles 'go right out the window' in the first place.
Ubuntu, and crunchbang. For general use I'd go with Ubuntu - though I like crunchbang for the eeepc, which is what i'm using it on now.
There are three big differences. First, to be effective in the role, a VPE must have a much stronger social and communication skills. Most engineers, as a side effect of how they spend their waking hours, are below average in this area. The VPE must be far above average.

Second, the VPE must have a larger focus - seeing what's good for the entire company, not just what's good for engineering, and certainly more than what's good for the current projects. Often a straight up engineer will be (quite properly) focused mainly on whatever their current project is, and may not even have the business knowledge to fully grok how it fits in the big picture.

Lastly, the VPE needs exceptional management and leadership skills. A tech lead will have this too, but it must be much stronger at the veep level.
Above a average for workers with similar background and job difficulty. Not transit workers. Yes, I am just guessing.
Certainly not the same, but I do believe that when a computer model is having some kind of math root, it gets its own coherency and can be developed further. By math root it does not imply a math model. but the idea of creating a set of object with given rules and behaviors like for example a vectorial space. Very often it starts with real "computer tries" but the best part are always when there is an underlying model. I tend even to believe that the level of math knowledge in modern programming has grown up in regards to 15 years ago.
well, there was some anti URSS propaganda going on in US.

might be another surprise but no, kids were not dinner material either :P
T-Mobile (should be crushed by) Rocks.

Here on the Western slope they have the worst service of the big four. Here, only people shopping strictly on price choose T-Mobile. They want your business, they just don't want to spend any money on the infrastructure to make it even marginally acceptable.
In reality that's not how it works. No one above senior engineer, and certainly no managers where I work have the ability or desire to design or write software or even cares about software or business. A VP of engineering may be able to talk about technologies and approaches very generally, but technology is changing so fast that even legitimate tech leaders have knowledge that is 10 years old. But these guys are not legit. There is an implied software gangsterism present that says "you better not challenge the abilities or knowledge of someone in power or you know what will happen." These people want their $10 million payday and are willing to enforce whatever reality it takes to make that happen.
I disagree.

As I said, law varies by place and subject. Those differences matter. Some subjects are generally consistent across jurisdictions. Some are not.

Who knows which is which? The professionals.

Who has the knowledge and experience to correctly interpret different experiences in different circumstances? The professionals.

Intelligent people frequently form entirely inaccurate views of subjects in which they are not experts. We mock TV shows for having VB GUIs that track IP addresses. Lawyers feel a bit like this when non-lawyers begin swapping legal advice.

> By sharing our legal experiences, we'd all become better at understanding the specific questions we should ask a lawyer, should the need arise.

Lawyers are not unapproachable gods. They are service professionals like any other. You ring, make an appointment, and talk to them. It's really very simple. They will ask some questions and take some notes. If it's a simple matter they will give a simple answer. If it's more complicated they will ask to get back to you.

Self-help and Stack Overflow is fine for writing most low-risk software, where bugs can be patched. It is a risky strategy with law. Some actions cannot be undone. You can't just revert to the "before I made that legal blunder" branch.
BART "receives 2,500 to 3,000 applicants every time it advertises for new train operators and station agents", and "gets 20,473 job applications annually for an average of 177 job openings".

[1] http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Few-options-for-BART-r...
Really? I was pretty sure that it's under T-HT, which is owned by Deutsche Telecom [1].
Is T-Mobile in US not owned by DT?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Hrvatski_Telekom
We had a host called 'elvis' for the very same Solaris ping response reason.
That was true some years back before F# was released as a "first-class" language (F# 2.0 in VS2010), and the F# community is still (and probably always will be) dwarfed by the sheer number of C# programmers in the world. On the upside, the F# community has grown quite a lot in the last year; there's even an official F# Foundation now: http://fsharp.org

I ended up working with F# through my previous job; I founded a startup whose product as a .NET -> GPU JIT compiler. The idea was similar to what Xamarin is doing now with their C# (and now F#!) tools for building iOS and Android apps, in that we aimed to make GPU programming accessible to the everyday programmer.

I wrote the first version of our product in C#; it was around 30KLoC, still missing quite a lot of functionality, and buggier than I was really happy with. I'd heard that F# was based on ML, and that ML was designed for work like building compilers and theorem provers, so I decided to take the plunge and learn it. It was a little difficult to wrap my head around at first, but I stuck to it, and I ported+simplified our original C# codebase to F# within a couple of months, ending up with ~5KLoC and a new version of our product which was much faster, had fewer bugs, and overall easier to maintain than before. It sounds a little cheesy, but making the jump to F# and putting in the effort to learn it really well was one of the best career decisions I've ever made, and I haven't regretted it for a second. It's made me a much stronger developer overall.

I think you're spot on about extending Python with libraries to "ease the pain". As I've said before, Python is quite a good, useful language; however, it seems like a good chunk of the core "Python" libraries are actually C libraries designed for use with a Python wrapper.

And sure, Haskell can be a bit obtuse at first, but it's really not too bad if you actually take the time to learn it. I think the real problem is that "senior" developers get comfortable in whatever language they use day-to-day for a long time, then they try Haskell -- which is probably much different than other languages they've used before -- and since they don't immediately get it, they assume it's the language's fault and give up.
These comments...they are completely awful.
"How much would it take to replace Excel with an open source alternative? $100K?"

That is one full time developer for a year, not counting any project management etc. If we say that so far, there has been spend 1000 man years on Open/Libre Office (I'm just making that number up, it has been under development for decades and probably with more than 20 devs working on it, so it's probably more, but let's say 1000, and not even count all the project management / user feedback / documentation work etc); then still you're saying that bringing Libre Office to the level of MS Office is within 0.1 resp 1 % of completion. I hope I don't need to argue how that is prima facie nonsense.
Helps us revolutionize online shopping for clothes...
Why does it matter that the jerk be properly classified?
Are you going to be using your Apple hardware? I've had little success getting most Linux distros to function well on my MacBook, although I've heard Fedora 20 works quite well [1].

[1] http://mattoncloud.org/2013/07/18/fedora-19-on-a-macbook-air...
Hi jdmitch,

I read a lot of negative comments on Hacker News lately, including those posted as 'feedback' for things people have made and dared to post here, but also on articles where people are trying to spread some optimism and light amongst the typically depressing headlines we read every day.

So after reading this article, I of course clicked through to the comments hoping for some positive responses. Why? I don't know really, just because, you know, it might be nice to acknowledge the achievements of a man who dedicated his life to science, engineering and the betterment of society in general. It might be pleasant to, just once, instead of nitpicking, belittling, or demeaning the original poster or subject of the article, say something positive.

I briefly considered finding some evidence to demonstrate how much of a positive effect solar panels are having in developing countries (I'm fairly sure this is true). But then I decided not to, and just post something a bit more in the spirit of your original comment, a bit more thoughtless and petty.

If we were in a real life conversation, and someone brought up this genuinely interesting, game changing, benevolent gentlemen, and you responded in such a way, I think I would tell you that if you can't say something nice in such a situation, I suggest you don't say anything at all.
Will work on Google app engine?
I am going to implement a simple toggle option to include a second income (which I will research into what the median/average/reasonable salary in the Bay Area to be) on the bar graph - hopefully that solves the discrepancy!
So while you're right that the strstr() is lazy (should probably be a strncmp() or something), it's probably not that big of a deal in this particular case. The worst an attacker could do here is get a weird user agent string, which they could already do by just setting the User-Agent field to something weird...
See earlier link to one of the numerous charities that explicitly support female victims of sexual assault. Is it too hard for someone in tech to Google 'Sexual Support $location'?
Met and worked with him (briefly) in the 90's. Nice guy. No focus. Lost a lot of other people's money. Probably should have been a professor instead of a businessman.
I thought F# was quite a niche language and there weren't any "F# developers"

I know of a couple full time F# developers, both working in finance. The finance sector seems to be a big advocate of functional languages with F#, Haskell, various ML's and APL derivatives being much more common than they are in other sectors
I think the plan works over LTE, which would make it a much more tenable position once T-Mobile's LTE rollout is a bit more fleshed out.
Yea, seems like it would sound a little menacing if you didn't know what it meant...
They will still be more effective, but if the codebase has a bunch of fundamental structural flaws that they have to work around, he would be a lot slower in net effectiveness if he didn't have to work with that code base until he gets the 4 months to a year it will take to fix the structural problems. His work ability, along with everyone else's will be divided by 10.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standard... is where I got the 'view source' line. If its hyperbolic, the EFF does a very good job of pushing it.

I thought another article pointed blocking the command out in the spec but I could be totally wrong there. Even so, nothing is stopping anyone from building a dumb front end and placing the entirety of the logic in the DRM container. Netflix isn't an argument in countries where it doesn't apply, like much of the world. View source and the actual openness of the web would be that argument, however. If its a concoction made up by what the EFF believes this fight would go versus an actual result of the fight as it stands, then I sadly fell for it pretty hard. Its not a difficult leap to make but I'm definitely more interested in facts over opinion based on someone's failing attempt at predicting the future.
Glad I could help -- I look forward to the change!
Especially when I was younger I worked a lot of hourly student-type jobs and since I've had a "real job" I've never been too far away from 24x7x365 ops.

The primary source of OT is stuff like "my kid's sick so I'm not coming in" and suddenly two guys work an extra half shift, one is staying in late the next coming in early, or at least as many hours as they can to help out. The next one is medical and training appointments and any non-nose to the grindstone official activity. So if mandatory 2-hour diversity class is today, "someone" is covering for 2 hours via OT, and/or the class attender is coming in on her day off for 2 paid overtime hours.

A big problem I can imagine with BART is the busy customer times are two big humps in morning and evening rush hour.

Most people can't/won't work split shifts, which adds to the excitement.

Depending how your departmental SLAs are financially structured, you may come out far ahead by spending an extra $100K/yr on overtime than by toughing it out and letting things fall apart.

Not to mention the effect on personnel. I suppose it varies by location, but usually a group of workers will always have some subgroup unable or unwilling to work overtime, but Usually the subgroup willing to soak up any hours will adsorb the slack before people start burning out.

This is also complicated by things like holiday policies. Some places I've worked paid overtime for 40+ in addition to double time for holidays providing a net pay rate of 2.5 your current rate and informally your holiday bonus is either getting the day off, or coming into the 24x365 operations dept for 2.5x pay. Many years (decades) ago, I was in operations and one of my last days of work before starting a promoted job was earning something like $60/hr on the 4th of July (back when gas was under a buck, to provide some inflation scale)

There are quite a few holidays... Just working every other one I could see someone accumulating quite a bit of OT, before unscheduled overtime like coverage for sick people begins.