skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At a very raw level, given how late in the game it was before the programmers were able to get started (obviously not their fault when CMS (sic, should be CMMS but isn't') took on the integrator role), obviously the project is going to copiously burn money. Pity the other constraints caused it burn quality (going by the old "pick two of time, money and quality").

"but thinking about it this morning I realized that they probably had to integrate with the systems of (every|many) major existing healthcare provider in the country to actually make this work as desired. I can see now where that wouldn't be cheap."

Actually, that's one part that shouldn't have been expensive for the government, except in support services. As in they should have standard, sane input formats for policy details and output for enrollees that any participating insurer could adapt their systems to. IT must be a core competency for a successful insurer, since everything? they do aside from marketing is IT mediated.

There's been some reported troubles with getting the policy details right, although I think what I heard was about one or more state exchanges---with guaranteed issue and community rating it's rather more simple than normal, but then again a customer's FICO score can and I gather generally/always is used in the pricing. At the other end the insurers aren't reporting trouble in getting and parsing the data, just in it being self-evidently incorrect, e.g. some customers being reported as enrolling and canceling several times. Which they're addressing, while the volume is so low, by calling them up (everyone wants to complete the circle anyway).

On the other hand, you know it took a while for everyone to hammer out those formats, especially the input one. The output should be pretty simple, just needs to have all the particulars correct. E.g it would be a bad sign if an insurer was getting people enrolled in a policy they didn't offer.
Depending on the size of the company, the best person to ask would be the CFO or CEO of BigMachines. They may be super busy at the moment though given the recent purchase. :-)

That said, to answer your question of "am I now a millionaire?", there's some info you need about your shares and the deal:

1) What class do your shares belong to? Are you shares common shares (they probably are)? Are there any preferred shares (there probably are if the firm took VC money). In any liquidity event (like a company getting bought), preferred shareholders get paid first, then common shareholders.

2) You have 2000 shares. How many shares in total are there?

2) What are the terms of the deal? Cash? Cash and stock? How much? The press release doesn't mention it.

Note that as a shareholder, you may find out the amount. Please do not share it here. If it wasn't mentioned in the press release, it's likely not meant for public consumption.
Huh. Some of the folks who were busted stateside had the condition that they were not permitted to knowingly communicate or associate with Anonymous in their supervised release agreements. A small but important distinction, I suppose, if someone wants to get you to unwittingly break the terms.
RStudio and OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Good point. I haven't done much browsing on it in a while, it's mostly used for my son's apps. I'll need to play around with that a bit. It's running the OS 5.1.1.
Pragmatic Learning at gSchool, Part I
Microsoft is testing a prototype of eyewear to rival Google Glass
Obamacare: the problem with 'forgot your password' security questions
If anything, they are only lied up the chain.
pure approach?
Definitely - it's on the todo list!
Realtime non-WiFi Device Detection on Android using a cheap $15 WiFi card
I'd imagine TCP, as a protocol starts to fall over with moon-to-earth latencies.

Or would it? Perhaps simply increasing the retransmission timer would give us interplanetary internet. I wonder.
As I recall depending on what you paid you could install in on a different number of machines, but they didn't restrict you from installing it on more.
Commoditize everyone else's business
Let me correct it for the author:

> By going free, Apple has acknowledged something that’s been true in the industry for years: software is a means to sell hardware for hardware companies Apple being one of them.
Thanks for pointing that out ;-)
Learn on someone else’s dime
not true, the debt crisis is a myth, and the more efficient functioning of government services across the board could end up paying for itself
That's not a rule, but an unproven assumption repeated mostly by devs that use new languages.
That's nice in theory, but in practice another dev really should be running the code and doing some manual testing. Having full knowledge of the innards allows a competent dev to foresee potential trouble spots in the architecture and hit some edge cases to make sure they don't break.

CI may run the tests, but that assumes your tests have captured every possible edge case. It may be the intention of tests to be comprehensive and cover everything under the sun, but that is rarely the case in reality.

Ditto QA - they should be able to black-box test the software and all of its possible states, but in reality something is going to pass through the net.

Having a dev run the code themselves and poke around in it is just a plain good idea.
Exactly. Backing up my gmail with my Pi was the first thing I wrote about here: http://magnatecha.com/things-i-do-with-my-raspberry-pi/

I can do a quick check/search with mutt from the the Pi.
>You're the one forcing the choices.

"I would much rather [a person do X] than [a person do Y]"

I parse this kind of statement as a person doing X is more important than a person doing Y. I stated that I thought both were achievable. How have you parsed it?

Also trivia implies some memorized factoids. The entire point of the article is having an understanding of the underlying implementation of the compiler, maybe the implementation of the standard library, or the OS or the hardware ADDS to your knowledge about C making you a much more complete/well-rounded developer. Calling it C trivia is baffling to me.

>Life is too short to become an expert on C's dark corners, and I'm not even talking about C++'s.

Agreed !
Just in case you want to buy it anyway: Due to taxes and whatnot, the LG Fireweb is selling for R$ 449 (US$ 200) in Brazil without a contract. As a comparison, a contract-free Samsung Galaxy S4 sells for R$ 2000 (US$ 920) and a 16GB iPhone 5 sells for R$ 2300 (US$ 1050).

Source: Click on "Pré" (prepaid, the only contract-free version) at http://www.vivo.com.br/portalweb/appmanager/env/web?_nfls=fa...
Could you clarify the build steps please.

Especially the bit down the bottom requesting that Python 3 be built with special configure flags.
Man, this brings back memories of MacOS 7.x, the last versions that could be downloaded free of charge. Only 20 years later, it again costs nothing. Nice.
> interplanetary internet

Winternet!
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My guess you apply your experience with some bizarre language (PHP?) to C, which you never learned. C and C++ are internally consistent in the same way a math theory is. Many programming languages are not, indeed.

> You could make many different tiny changes to the rules of C and still end up with a workable programming language. (Many people have done that, there are tons of languages derived from C.)

Coincidentally, same is Math. I give you Euclid's Fifth postulate as an example.

>You could say that the rules of C are "random" - after learning the first n rules, you cannot use logic to predict the n+1st.

This depends on how do you enumerate these rules. If you learn that auto variables are allocated on the stack it's easy to predict that you cannot return their addresses and there are not going to be default initializes for them.
Plays in mplayer as well.
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It might be a somewhat good idea (in my experience, the scenario you outline is significantly less likely than domain knowledge by QA hitting patterns the developer with limited domain knowledge had not anticipated), but it's not a necessity for code review to be a good idea.
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yay! In the meantime there's always the possibility to export to web, save the tiles one by one on your HD and reassemble them in Photoshop like a puzzle. Quite a fun operation
As for the first part of your question: a portfolio and subsequent small code test with them doing it live in front of you should give you a basic understanding of if they know how to code or not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
iPin 635nm laser inside 35mm headphone jack
I am not against your POV ! I think we largely agree on most things here. I wanted to correct what I perceived to be a mischaracterization of my 'off the cuff' analogy.
Thanks a lot for doing this project! I have been hoping for an open-source alternative for ST for a while.

As a side note, could you clarify the build section where it says we need to modify cgo.go? I'm not exactly sure what to do there. I'm using Ubuntu 13.10.
How "Minority Report" Designer Helped Create The Toy Car Of The Future
They're not quite harmless. I've got a nice scar in my eyebrow from one, and I've seen them remove pieces pavement. With just a little more evil thought than I put into it when I was hacking around, I could see them hurting people.
Ehhh. I'm not so sure about setting the depth for recursive retrieval to zero. That's basically telling wget to download the internet IIRC :D
Ask HN: How to get influential blogger help link out your app?
Have anyone tried using this marketing strategy? Incentivizing bloggers with a lot of followers to help reference, write about or simply link out your new app.

I thought of this strategy and believed it could be useful, but having trouble getting bloggers replying to me. The big chicken and egg problem here is that they won't write about your app unless people want to read about it.

Any suggestions?
Got really excited. But it's only available for iPad. I use an iPhone :(
Apple announces free OS X Mavericks release, new iPads, Mac Pro
No, I wouldn't call that a complete misunderstanding; I'd call it a minor simplifying inaccuracy.

Quoting Dr. Royce:

> Management of software is simply impossible without a very high degree of documentation.

How much documentation?

> In order to procure a 5 million dollar hardware device, I would expect that a 30 page specification would provide adequate detail to control procurement. In order to procure 5 million dollars of software I would estimate a 1500 page specification is about right in order to achieve comparable control.

5 million 1970 dollars is equivalent to about 30 million 2013 dollars, so for a $30 million project, his advice is:

1. Write a huge stack of documentation. Literally stop everything until that documentation is written.

2. Get feedback from reality and from your stakeholders exactly once.

Sure, having one opportunity to act on feedback is better than never having any, but it doesn't fundamentally change the process or the risks involved.

What the Agile folks realized is that reliable software development is an experimental process. If you only do one experiment, you're still missing that point.
That's what I'm getting out of pretty much this entire post.

As an asp.net mvc developer by trade, I could easily say that it could take me hours/days to get stuff done in node.js/rails/django/name-your-framework, that I could otherwise get done in minutes in mvc. Of course, I'm self-aware enough to realize that it's because I have 4 consecutive years of experience with .net, but only a cumulative of maybe a few months in all other technologies (php/rails/python/c/c++) combined (not including school-work.)
I suspect they will at some point in the next ~18 months.
Guys nevermind this article. The author is not to be trusted.
One of the reasons it was retired is the same reason people can't open up issues on lime. Too much demand to fix everything that's broken, and not enough people actually fixing it combined with me not touching much C/C++ code personally.

I do still accept pull requests for it, and if anyone wants to step up as a maintainer I'd happily add them as collaborators after they've submitted a few pull requests.
Sounds like there's no code being reviewed, how can it be called "code review"?
I also include junior developers who don't know much about the application or environment in code reviews. It's a good way for them to learn the code base and see what type of defects the senior developers point out.
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You need to root the device exploiting a vulnerability (CVE-2013-2094 if I'm not mistaken).

ZTE "Open" is not that open I'm afraid.

EDIT: no longer true, ZTE enabled "fastboot".
Moon to earth should be workable enough...average speed of light roundtrip will be about 2400ms.
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My contact info is not hard to find if you want to discuss a particular approach for a pull requests before implementing it.
Using pull requests as your code review doesn't force you to not run the code. My team uses forks of upstream repos and all merges upstream happen via a PR that is peer reviewed. It isn't uncommon for us to pull down the changes of a PR locally to "play around" with a new feature or change to existing functionality.

We have tests in place to help stop regressions, but sometimes seeing a change in action can really help to put the corresponding code in context.

Most of my team uses hub, but you can check out a pull request easily enough with git:

git fetch <remote> +refs/pull/<pull-request-number>/head
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
Pull requests are insufficient for code review. You need to run the code. I often find the code I want to review after following a path in a debugger.
Working with receipts for paid apps
This is what's wrong with TSA. Random, different rules applied by different agents. And if you question an agent's application of rules, you're a terrorist and won't be flying today.
Someone May Be Falsifying a Massive Amount of BlackBerry BBM Reviews
Lets not go back to having animated office supplies offering us advice.

That was best left in that last century...

For the young ones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant
It's a paper worth reading. For others, here's the conclusion:

> There exists a large and growing industry around instilling environmental orderliness. Proponents claim that people see measurable life improvements from becoming neat and tidy, and they can point to multiple billions of dollars in annual revenue as evidence of success. In
contrast, many creative individuals with Nobel prizes and other ultra-prestigious awards prefer — and in fact cultivate — messy environments as an aid to their work (Abrahamson & Freedman, 2007). One such person was Einstein, who famously quipped, “If a cluttered desk is
a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

> As with many vociferous debates, it seems that both sides have a point. Orderly environments promote convention and healthy choices, which could improve life by helping
people follow social norms and boosting well-being. Disorderly environments stimulate creativity, which has widespread importance for culture, business, and the arts. The use of systematic experiments to reveal the causal role of each setting means that people can harness the power of each environment to achieve their goals.
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Nah, that's a very minor consideration at best.

"Cease to support older OS versions" means that new versions of applications won't run on older operating systems. It doesn't mean that older versions of applications suddenly stop working. If you're running an old OS on old hardware, running an old application is fine. In fact, it's preferable, because it was written with the capabilities of that hardware in mind.
I visit Hacker News throughout the day and couldn't agree with you more. The dislike for anything having to do with MS is undeniable. I like HN and have apps installed on my Android tablet and on my Nokia Windows phone (best phone IMO).
One of the advantages of living in a democracy means that you do get a say in who gets elected to make the laws. The main disadvantages are that other people do too, and that the pool of politicians you draw from is mostly unappetizing.
Adults Lose Their Imagination to The World's Detriment and Their Own
Go creates statically linked executables. You don't need to have Go installed to run your text editor.
Strange. I can access it without problems from Australia
Not being able to program is the illiteracy of this century.

I'm getting pretty tired of hearing this. It isn't the case at all. Not knowing how to use a computer is `the illiteracy of this century', but claiming not knowing how to program is illiteracy is like claiming not knowing how to play piano makes you tone-deaf.
Not being able to program is the illiteracy of this century.

While I agree with this sentiment, I think it's patently false. The vast majority of people have a hard enough time using Word or Excel, let alone being able to understand programming concepts or actually being able to program!
1) I am certain they are common shares, and I do believe that there are preferred shares as they did take VC money. The company started pre 2000 so they've been around the block.

2) I have no idea how many shares there are, but I know it is more than a million, and probably more than 10 million.

3) I have no idea. You are right there is nothing in the press about the terms of the deal.

I am certain I am not a millionaire. But the ability to put a down payment on a house might be nice. I don't know if I just have to wait a while to figure out what all this means.
It's tough to grow as a person when everybody is telling you how wonderful you are. Negative comments are important to learning to grow as a programmer, as a businessman, and as a person.

It would be nice if people learned some rhetorical skills to communicate better. But that's a separate issue. As it is, it is on you to interpret the comments in a way that will help you improve. Learn from the helpful suggestions and ignore the unhelpful. Try out, or at least think about, the div styles comment. See if it really is an improvement. If it is, then you just learned something new. If not, then you learned something not to do in the future.
> in fact, I've heard that one of the criticisms of Django is that, in order to get to production quality, you essentially have to switch out every component of it with a third party.

where did you hear that? its outright non-sense. everything that ships with django is good enough for production right out of the box.
You could contact the dev and have a discussion with him! If the dev doesn't want it to be a feature in his software, you can post your changes as a plugin/add-on. Effort spent on improving a software rarely goes wasted.
Just learn both at the same time. That's what I'm doing right now with various side projects.
TextMate 2 is back on track and developed as open source to hedge against potential abandonment: https://github.com/textmate/textmate
My co-workers write awful code, including the "architect". I try to review their code, without having a formal process, because I simply do not trust their abilities. It would not be pretty if we did code reviews.
Seems the word's origins are rooted in a definition of noise. Granted, words change; perhaps a definition based on "exothermic reaction" is most appropriate now. Certainly destructive power is often connoted with the word these days.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bomb
Bots that scan code for syntax/quality. While these are useful they should not qualify as a complete code review.
Or FEC, and optionally reliable re-transmission. TCP won't work well due to the huge latencies involved.
try 4, still expensive enough.
Bandwidth delay product tends to limit throughput at such high latencies, though.
Using Asana for Code Review
You think that's bad, I once worked in a startup where the Product Manager told me he didn't have time for tests.
Or the cold.
Ask HN: How do you decide your side project?
Hey guys,

I've a few ideas I'm kinda between two. Basically I ask to myself the follow questions:

1. Is the market big enough?
2. Are you solving a problem or fabricating one?

How about you? What are the questions do you try to answer before start something?

Cheers!

Update: To be honest I'm more interested in small niches and community rather the big mass but the first point still relevant I guess.
In my experience with my other open sourced stuff on Github, others fixing stuff is very rare. Having issues enabled quickly turns into users demanding fixes and no amount of asking for others to chime in aiding with pull requests actually result in pull requests.

IIRC most pull requests come either out of the blue for something new no one has requested before, or they don't come at all until I explicitly say "I'm not going to fix this" and close the issue.
Climate change cost you the McDonald’s dollar menu
iPython for Lisp is called SLIME (and it has much more features too!)
Unless we discover gravity is bound to the speed of light too.
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Time from quantum entanglement: an experimental illustration
Or it was "Maverick's", misspelled.
You know, I can't find the original article, but there are a ton of articles if you search for it. Here's a good one: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/whats-best-t...

The point that the article I read made is that it's not so much about when an email gets Opened, but when the response rate is the highest, and that occurs mainly during low traffic times, such as late at night, and on weekends. It's more about being one of a few "unread" than being available during peak traffic times.
wouldn't it be less then RF? Radio Frequencies travel at the speed of sound, while lasers would be light-speed, from my understanding. I'd really love some insights on this!

EDIT: I still need to learn a lot on signals!
No, the US.
I honestly find South to be the easiest and most efficient way to make model changes even on a solo project.

The biggest upside to it is that it fully documents all of your chances, and even allows rollbacks if necessary. Editing the database directly doesn't give you any kind of change log unless you do it manually, which is not really sustainable, even while working solo.
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The performance side has nothing to do with animation performance and everything to do with the resources used to achieve it. Flash will murder a macbook's battery and generate an absurd amount of heat, doing nothing more than streaming h264.
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Predictability and randomization are not mutually exclusive, you only need a way to specify the seed for the PRNG used during randomization.