skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All outsourced.

GDS is trying to in-source a lot of work that should be controlled by a central publishing and transaction design group, and contracting out the relatively boring task of following their rules. Good idea, as long as their architecture/design/program management review boards are well staffed and motivated.

I don't think they will stop these large failures. And many of these large failures do have clear up-front requirements that cannot be changed. Iterative waterfall is not so terrible.
Yeah, it kinda reminds me of the way Jobs mocked netbooks, too.
The processor is Apple's own design and its performance is a distinguishing feature. RAM is commodity tech, and Apple will never pick a number that makes everyone happy. I agree that it'd be nice to get that number, but I can also see which one a marketer would rather feature.
Not according to the GSF's website. Besides, let's face it, GS employees likely don't have any 'secret' code anywhere near their computers. It likely lives on their mainframes, and only there.
the segmentation of consumers makes the whole debate boil down to who will you make the most cash. I think apple has a solid hold and doesn't really need to worry in regards to the consumer market. but developers are going linux meaning more sales for PC vendors (plus Microsoft since they have default license sales on that hardware). Both camps have a solid consumer base and at this point I wouldn't bet against either.
It was mostly 12-14 hours a day, with maybe 2-3 days of 19 hours. Actually, I'm feeling a little sleep deprived now, so I'll probably make it up in the next couple of days.

There where other stuff I also did, like doing a lot of testing and bugfixing, or reading the docs, but those were too boring to blog about.
Concorde was a good try. It failed for political and sociological reasons, but hypersonic airplanes were set to revolutionize air travel until it became politically unpopular to support. We're facing down a generation designed around space-based air travel, though, so it could happen again.
But only at 720p. Enough for presentations but terrible as a second monitor.
I love walking around in the city.

But by the time I get there I find all my money has been spent (fee) on transport, and I have to choose between window shopping (unpaid work) or jumping on another bus (client) and hope it goes past my original destination..
I'm just worried that I'll be upgrading for eye-candy rather than increased power usability.
The Real Link Between Creativity and Mental Illness
Not really, as soon as the loan is repaid the bank is whole. The loan originates in a non-Chinese country so when the loan is extinguished the bank has the value of the loan plus interest.

Only if the loan defaults does the bank run any risk of having capital trapped in China. Worst comes to worst they use the capital in China to originate more loans in China. Any bank offering this service has a presence in China so it's not a big deal anyway.
... this isn't reddit. Haha, jk good work on this.
That's not what I see when I read it.

I see that he wrote a backup script that could backup two distinct groups of files depending on what argument he passed on the command-line.

While the indictment mentions that some of the files included stuff he didn't work on, it doesn't say he set flags specifically to grab stuff he hadn't worked on. Only that it was getting swept up as part of a larger backup operation.

It also said he ran the backup on many occasions throughout his employment at Goldman. That doesn't sound like someone who only absconded with code after he got an offer to work at a competitor.

As an aside -- I'm wondering if "the website" referenced in the filing was rapidshare. Weren't they in Germany?
That stuff isn't new in passenger airlines? I was under the impression (and seemingly the vast majority of media coverage) that the majority of it has been introduced in the past few years with the A380 and 787. Is that wrong? What company do you work for that was making LCD cockpits for passenger airliners?
Which I did/do for my Macbook Pro anyway. So when I got into the Hackintosh scene, it's second nature. I typically recommend formatting when upgrading anyway. Just doesn't feel right to just upgrade. Maybe it's just left over nightmares from when I was on Windows. Only way to upgrade was to format.
Funny thing is, as far as we can tell this is how that project was done, minus the contract size sorts of splits. The government didn't hire a integrator, HHS's CMS took on that responsibility including integration testing.

Of course the minor fly in the ointment is that CMS didn't even vaguely have the expertise to pull this off; the Pentagon can do this for medium sizes weapons projects (which are a rather different field), but no one else in the US government has been said to have it.
Poor analogy. I already said that a Macbook is almost just as thin and light, with a superior OS and input mechanism. Tablets were never intended to be the next generation of word processing devices.
The last 20% takes time because you're in the realm of the last inch.

Now listen to the rule of the last inch. The realm of the last inch. The job is almost finished, the goal almost attained, everything possible seems to have been achieved, every difficulty overcome — and yet the quality is just not there. The work needs more finish, perhaps further research. In that moment of weariness and self-satisfaction, the temptation is greatest to give up, not to strive for the peak of quality. That’s the realm of the last inch — here, the work is very, very complex, but it’s also particularly valuable because it’s done with the most perfect means. The rule of the last inch is simply this — not to leave it undone. And not to put it off — because otherwise your mind loses touch with that realm. And not to mind how much time you spend on it, because the aim is not to finish the job quickly, but to reach perfection.

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book "In the First Circle".
Not in my backyard syndrome.
If you're using Twitter Boostrap 3, there's a new CSS class to make images responsive called 'img-responsive'
Trade secrets are an entirely different category from patents. Patents require you to disclose all the details.

Trade secrets, which is likely what such software is likely to be declared to be, is, well, secret. As such, it has legal protection different than patents or copyrights.
C++11 1.4 [intro.compliance]/p7 "A freestanding implementation is one in which execution may take place without the benefit of an operating system, and
has an implementation-deﬁned set of libraries that includes certain language-support libraries" [1]

C11 4 [conformance]/p6 "A conforming freestanding implementation shall accept any strictly conforming program in which the use of the features speciﬁed in the library clause (clause 7) is conﬁned to the contents of the standard headers <float.h>, <iso646.h>, <limits.h>, <stdalign.h>, <stdarg.h>, <stdbool.h>, <stddef.h>, <stdint.h>, and <stdnoreturn.h>." [2]

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2011/n324...
[2] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
This kind of fractal complexity is true per batch. The problem being described here is quite simply large batch sizes, with many projects treated even as just a single batch. The smaller your batch size, the more constant your overall project velocity is.

80/20 is therefore a sign of a poorly managed project (since visibility of true velocity is hidden, planning is impossible at best or based on false data at worst, and overruns are collected and unpacked only at the end).

Unfortunately very few managers involved in planning get this, and as a result don't recognise their responsibility is for delivering the whole at a predictable rate by managing this process. (Instead we often see a sick project management culture of not giving the client what they need and whipping the delivery horses harder, under the illusion that this is just how projects get delivered - always painfully and late, if at all.)
Are there any airplane manufacturers that don't benefit from some form of government subsidies?
People on the Mac side of the fence have been complaining about the influence of Forstall's skeuomorphic designs for quite some time now.
I should add that as a pragmatist, sometimes you have to leave the last inch - reaching perfection isn't always compatible with life in the real world :/
Here here!

It would be lovely if vendors would bid based on their experience, and be compensated for it, at a time and materials basis. The more experience and better you prove to be, the higher we're willing to pay for a better outcome, sooner.

Except that world is rife with bait and switch. And writing the code that delivers the spec is just a small part of the picture. Companies are terrible at specifying the non-functionals, delivery process expectations, operational requirements, supportability requirements, etc. When they do get it right, the costs go up, because many places quote without any concept of these things.

The sad reality is that the people who get asked to quote for these things in the software world are generally clueless about the actual domain, out of touch, and wildly wrong most of the time. And the people that specify these things are often barely any better. And lets face it, software developers are also terrible at quoting times to do a task, though that can be mitigated with a lot of experience of that task and the code base to do it on.
Actually, I did look into cocos because RoboVM is still not cosidered proven and I plan to develop or port to iOS at some point.

The main problem is googlability (did I just invent a word there?) of cocos stuff. Google is indexing all the old cocos iOS stuff higher and it's really hard to find anything, especially if you never did develop for iPhone and have no clue if the article you're reading is about old or new cocos. The docs are great, but often you need to find examples of different specific topics and those are usually on someone's blog or similar page where only Google can take you. Also, on some forums I found this way, people were trying to help cocos2d-x devs, but those helping were iOS devs and answers were like "this is the way it works on iOS but YMMV", as they were unsure if the API has changed or not.

Maybe it's a great library, but all this left me with too much confusion, and I picked something that was rather straightforward and still supports desktop and iOS if I decide to port.
Do you think MS is planning on bringing Office to iOS? I figure if they haven't by now, they wont at all.
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The author's key assertion is that there should be separate terms for the different types of startups: those that fit with the venture capital model, and those that don't.

While separate terms may make the differences clearer, the same differentiation can be obtained with 2 widely used qualifiers: fundable, scalable

A fundable startup / scalable startup is a business that, if successful, has a high probability of being huge (>= $1B in market cap).

However, its questionable if the media, bloggers, etc. would start to use each term accurately.
I have a colleague who has a machine with 4 NVIDIA Tesla cards, and he is looking at getting one with 8 cards.

Many video/audio editing tasks benefit from the GPUs, not to mention HPC (but OpenCL sucks, so its NVIDIA/CUDA only here). If you aren't into those workloads, maybe you don't want a MacPro.
Site or per-seat? Also, I assume those licenses get upgraded every few years for lots of cash also.
Well, it's an FAQ, it's a simplification, not the actual legally binding license.

I can't find any mention of "organization", but I do find these parts (GPLv2):

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: [give access to the sourcecode]

Meaning everyone you distribute a copy to, you have to give access to the sourcecode, too, or provide instructions on how to get the sourcecode.

6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the Program), the recipient automatically receives a license from the original licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to these terms and conditions. You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

Meaning distributing the program to someone gives them the full rights under the GPL.

(IANAL, so I'd be very pleased to be corrected here. Maybe the FAQ made the assumption that corporations have other means to keep employees from exercising GPL rights? Or maybe the license is to the corporation as a whole, and it itself can't break the GPL unless it distributes it to different entities?)
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For core usage he was right, but: I'll bet you Steve owned a pen. I'll bet you it was great. And I'll bet you he used it a lot.
What do you perceive as waterfall? That's exactly the way we learned it in school...
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An analogy is like a car. If you take it too far, it breaks down :)
Easy install on my ML 2011 iMac i5 6970GPU system.

Initial impression, scrolling certainly feels better. Do wish they would leave my desktop background to what I had it set to. Other than that, being an OS upgrade where I don't notice anything odd is key to my satisfaction.

5+ gig download, took about forty minutes, somewhat less I think as I walked off, to install.
He is probably referring to the monthly "Who is hiring?" And "seeking freelancer?" Threads posted in /ask
A few years back I set out to make an angry birds clone called 'Silly Squirrels' just to learn more about how a game is made, I ended up using Box2D and libGDX and made similar progress relatively fast. It was low level enough for me to really appreciate the structure of a game (rendering loops, game logic, art, physics, etc) without having to dig too deeply into any one.

Really great that you documented your progress, I imagine it not only helped inspire others, but also serves as a great refresher if you step away for a few months and come back.
Kind of off-topic but the Mac OS X kernel code is actually (mostly?) open source.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1084/
A valid point. But we don't think of restaurants as startups, even though they typically take 1-2 years to become profitable.
I think you might be correct. Apple used to distribute the Lion Recovery app, which basically copied the InstallESD.dmg to a USB stick, but it no longer works with Mountain Lion. Running this command, however, uses a hidden executable inside the installer application to write itself to a USB stick.

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/USBSTICK --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --nointeraction

NOTE: This uses sudo because it needs permission to write to the device. It also has the potential of destroying external drives, internal drives and boot drives. Please change the value for the 'volume' flag to point to the mounted path of the USB stick or SD card you wish to use as the bootable install disk. It will overwrite all the data on that disk. I am not responsible for any data loss using this command. Please double check all paths, all commands and all flags before running this.
> a judge found Goldman's actions to be so egregious that he ordered them to pay the defense costs for someone accused of stealing from them. That is exceedingly rare,

No, GS will have to pay because the defendant was an officer at GS.
And the iPad is growing up too, and can extend itself into new kinds of usage with new, _supplementary_ kinds of input.
How do you even read the whole review? 24 pages on a single OS update?? Seriously?
Double jeopardy is to conceptually prevent a person from going free, but then being tried again and convicted. The idea is "once you're acquitted, you're acquitted" That wouldn't be the case here since he was already convicted so additional trials could only benefit him.

But really it's a judge ruling that the original trial was all effed up and that a new trial would need to take place in order to do justice.
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There's a Mini, there's an Air... maybe soon there'll be a Pro?
SuperDuper for making bootable clones of your hard drive. $27.95.

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Bitcoin can be seen as a sort of digital gold. Credit cards / Paypal / etc. could work exactly the same but be backed by Bitcoins instead of USD. See http://undergroundeconomist.com/post/36076277512
Interesting how Apple is now acknowledging MSFT. Not classy and shows they consider them a threat enough to 'assault' them.

And the love affair between the press and Apple continues...
The point of business is you're doing it right if you maintain $0 profits - otherwise you're paying taxes, and you're not undercutting competition - so you're not killing them off. This is why Amazon is now only upping their $25 to $35 minimum. I'm wondering how much competition got destroyed by that early on.
Content strategy and UX are twins
UN crowdsources ideas to help refugees
I've only been using 10.9 for a few hours but I have already noticed that some of the unnecessary decoration was removed. Notepad, the notification sidebar, launcher, widgets screen, etc have been toned down.
I do run my own company, unfortunately, my boss is still pretty silly.
You submitted an application to Y Combinator. What next?
Yes. It also served as an incentive to keep me going. I did not want to have an empty day without making any progress, especially as some people were reading the blog from the start and I did not want to lose their attention by skipping.
The quality of document you can get from Pages vs. Google Docs is night and day. Google Docs is a barebones office suite with an awful UI and live sync. iWork is a semi-professional ('prosumer?') home/school/office suite which now has synchronization as well.
Consider the e-bike: Can 200 million Chinese be wrong?
And it comes in pink, purple and gold!!!
In the typical case, probably, but if you have a large organization you could easily wind up with one exception. What rights these people do and don't have still seems important.
I've had my boss sacked many times, but the replacement boss turns out to be exactly the same.
> How did they produce so much great R&D?

By having negotiated profit margins. Bell Labs was meant to soak up excess money. What we are now nostalgic for would never have happened without an interval during which a telco was considered a "natural monopoly."
It's not even free as in free beer, it's free as in a "all you can drink buffet", it's only free for those who already paid the entry ticket.
And none of them have that requirement because distribution inside of an organization does not count as a distribution for the purpose of copyright law. (Though if you let people carry it out of the organization, that's a different story.)
> Imagine a world where this 'open' approach gains market share. For the consumer, the net result easily could be that USB, which now is highly plug and play, becomes more like the way ISA cards used to be plug and play: you can plug in any device, but to make it work, you need to do some voodoo (oops, there's more than one device with that PID/VID. Please tell me what you plugged in: X, Y, Z, or something I haven't heard of?")

For the record, this already is pretty common. Lots of keyboards mimic Apple's VID/PID, and tons of controllers use absolutely nonsense VIDs/PIDs (GameStop's mobile controller line, for example).
Excellent research!
>I've seen plenty of cases where someone said they could build an equivalent PC for less, and then ended up not being able to, because they were thinking of cheaper and worse components than Apple used.

If your needs align exactly with the models Apple offers, and Apple just released a product (what would the comparison look like if you needed to buy a system six months ago?) then sure.

The real-world question is to decide what your needs are in terms of specs and then compare the different ways of satisfying those needs. To choose an egregious example: I need an average CPU with a powerful GPU for real time performance. Going with Apple I am pushed into a hardware bracket where I have to spend in excess of $4000 to meet those needs. I could also satisfy those needs with a 700 PC and a 400 GPU.
To increase a terms googlability based on newness, try limiting your results to pages in a certain time frame. Ie, this month, year, week or day.
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How One Man Earned 4 Million Airline Miles by Buying Dollar Coins
Thanks for the links! I hope regenerator can make those projects work in environments beyond node.js.
> Honestly I'm not sure what a good solution would look like, but I don't think it's as simple as "trust us."

Maybe not, but "treat me as a liar" doesn't seem viable either.

Any time you take an extra measurement you introduce a chance for that measurement to be in error. If you make that it so that any single measurement is a show-stopper, then every time you add an extra check you make things a little bit worse, right up to the point where your false positive rate overwhelms your data.

Even with an extremely low error rate, the number of best deals in the world for a given thing is 1. If the goal of your system is to get that, then making any measuring system a single point of failure that tests once is a death sentence. If the number of good and honest software houses that will respond to your call is low, then your false positive rate is going to be extremely high... and again, having such a system is going to be ill-advised.

Especially if the system itself suffers from not having the people who are actually going to be using the system, and people who understand how the systems should be created and run, making at least part of the decisions.

If there were a greater degree of feedback between procurement, requesters, and providers, with the ability to modify the plan, then you could potentially check your work - reducing the consequences of such failures. Not "absolute trust," but at least "hear my side of the story, maybe you've just misunderstood something."
Pursue Your Anguish
Plus hdmi for external monitor support? Is every DVI monitor going to need an adapter?

No: Thunderbolt 2, like Thunderbolt, has DisplayPort built in.
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15-inch MacBook Pro gets latest Intel chips, better battery life, lower price
Interesting suggestion. Although Traceur's generator support is arguably more limited, I have to admit their code is currently better tested than regenerator's, so I think I want to give this repo some time to mature before exploring whether the Traceur team wants to use it.