skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL:DR allegations that ISI (Pakistani intelligence service) was heavily supporting extremist Taliban up to at least 2007.

It is implied ISI lost control of at least part of the movement in 2007.

"After years of nurturing jihadists to fight its proxy wars, Pakistan was now experiencing the repercussions. “We could not control them,” a former senior intelligence official told a colleague and me six months after the Red Mosque siege."

It is possible significant portion of ISI is still compromised:

"People knew that the house was strange, and one local rumor had it that it was a place where wounded Taliban from Waziristan recuperated. I was told this by Musharraf’s former civilian intelligence chief, who had himself been accused of having a hand in hiding Bin Laden in Abbottabad. He denied any involvement, but he did not absolve local intelligence agents, who would have checked the house."
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I'm amused by it. It's a transfer of wealth from shareholders of those companies to founders and VCs. These are also the companies with dual class shares designed to keep control in the founders' hands. They all say it's to be able to focus on the long-term, but really it has bred empire building and poor stewardship of the shareholder's capital. As a result, their interests are less aligned with shareholders' compared to if all shares had the same voting rights.

An exception to this is Apple. They have one class of shares and management have been conservative stewards for the life of the company. They never make large acquisitions, which limits the opportunity for destruction of shareholder value, and all acquisitions are made with the purpose of enhancing a product or some other core of the business. It's in the company's culture to have organic growth. They either have it or they flounder.
No worries. The name of the web site is Mozilla Hacks, and we talk about everything open source/Open Web. I've added a note at the beginning of the post to be more clear.
> If ever a book was written by a true hacker, that one is it, and it will be read as long as there are programmable computers.

Err. Now I do like that book. But this might be overstating the case.
This sounds nice from the point-of-view of somebody looking to put something together in a hurry, but this sounds awful from the point-of-view of the guy getting hired to model boxes all day.

Maybe that's not a huge difference from what a lot of people are doing at AAA studios anyway, but my god.
Congrats on the new gig! Being somewhat older myself and in a position of hiring (seeing a lot of young developers) I would have to say that you are just doing a few simple things that make your age a non-issue.

The negative thing about older developers to me is when I see that they simply haven't kept up. They don't have the interest anymore (or perhaps never did). Their resume reflects that as well as just, lack of an online presence.

You mention answering questions on stack exchange. You sent pull requests on github. You're re-appropriating the somewhat recent "full stack" title. These are simple things that current developers do without thinking much of it. But developers who kinda checked out 10 years ago and have been coasting - they are sometimes not even aware of this stuff going on. They don't have github profiles. They're not contributing. You, on the other hand, are out there doing things.

To me I'll hire a developer of any age that is out there doing things, learning, teaching and continuing to be curious.
Unity3d has this already ( https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/ ). I'm pretty sure the reason why they made their engine/IDE free is because they're making so much money from their asset store.
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He didn't say you "can't" raise money elsewhere, just that it is more difficult. Are you arguing that it is just as easy to raise money elsewhere as it is in SV?
Jason Burke's "The 9/11 Wars" has an in-depth analysis of this very issue, recommended read.
Inverted cross symbolism is not ideal.. there will be those who find it distasteful.. just saying
There's a satirical Hindi movie called Tere Bin Laden [1] about a bunch of bumbling journalists who find a Bin Laden lookalike and then attempt to trick the US into thinking he's the real Bin Laden.

I watched the movie after Bin Laden was killed and while it's reasonably funny, the part that I found hilarious is this sentence one of the protagonists utters when they run into the lookalike for the first time. In Hindi/Urdu it goes, "Gore saale isko Tora Bora mein dhoond rahe hain aur yeh saala yahan Lahore mein murgi paal raha hai." Translation: "So these fucking americans are looking for him in Tora Bora but who'd have guessed this fucker is raising chicken in Lahore?!" Note the movie came out before he was captured and I found it hilarious that a random Bollywood storyline turned out be the best guess about where Bin Laden was actually hiding.

EDIT: More seriously though, there's nothing surprising here. US agencies funded Islamic extremists in Afghanistan and Pakistan for decades because it suited their geopolitical interests. They were happy to turn a blind eye to the violence caused by Islamic militancy in Kashmir in the 90s. It's only when the Frankensteinian monster got out of hand and turned on the US itself that they started paying attention. But by then damage was already done.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1629391/
My dream device:

Take the Razer Edge - a little 10" gaming tablet. Create a keyboard peripheral that can be attached to the Edge at any angle - it can be used as a laptop or a tablet, or:

Put the keyboard next to the tablet, laid flat. Then emulate a mouse-input with the touchscreen - a full 10" mouse-pad-like area for your fingers to simulate a mouse - your middle-finger is the mouse-position and you can l-click and r-click with your ring and index fingers a-la magic trackpad. Boom, we've got a lapboard keyboard/mouse.

Then use the Rift with that. The ultimate portable PC gaming experience.
Why HOT Candace Cameron-Bure is trending today?
I tried it with a song I knew had a very simple chord structure (C A- F G7) and it gave some pretty weird results…

Then I tried it with Don't think twice it's alright and it pretty much nailed it. I wonder if it was tuned on Dylan. :)
OK, so there's beef. Where is the motive for the hijacking though? They didn't make any demands (yet) or used it for an attack. What is gained by Iran for stealing a Malaysian airliner other than to use it as a weapon or steal its cargo?
I try to think this way. One thing I try to do is not work too much, so I had been freelancing trying to keep my hours to around 25 a week. It freed up time to do other things, I was learning to play guitar and working on some film scripts (I am using "was" because I decided to take on a full time programming gig until June but even this I didn't take for the money, it's way below market, I took the job because it sounded interesting).

One problem I encountered was people just not "getting it." And I don't mean random strangers, I mean potential clients. It's oddly difficult to tell people "I make enough money to support my lifestyle working 25 hours a week and I like to save the rest of my time for other projects that interest me." They expect you to be "doing more" or see you as lazy, after all why not make the most money you can possibly make at all times? When in fact I think I'm far less lazy than most people, I put a ton of effort into coding, educating myself, going the extra mile, working on projects for fun, reading technical books, going to talks. I'm also very serious about my pursuits beyond my programming "day job." And yet I've found it difficult to convey that, and that clients consider me unserious because I was intentionally working less than 40 hours a week even if they are looking for someone for a part time role.
I'll be honest, that article was written by someone not long out of college (me). In that situation, I'd say it's more true then, than when you get older and have a more experienced peer group. But of course, that more experienced peer group also tends to be much humbler and aware of their shortcomings as well, so I'd say the article still addresses that.

The way it was meant to be brought back around to the nurse's situation was that, she actually was really good at what she was doing for her level of experience and progression through schooling, despite knowing that she had a long way left to go. As to what observable shortcomings other students had compared to her, I cannot say. I wasn't in the class or at work with her. The point was that her professors and supervisors, all of which gave her praise, were probably better able to see that than she was, given their experience and level of context within the field of nursing and teaching.

The real issue, though, was in the cognitive dissonance between what she felt she was capable of and what others knew her to be capable of. This was an attempt to give at least some small explanation for that cognitive dissonance. It is possible to know more than anyone else about a given subject, and still know practically nothing about it compared to the amount of information about that subject contained within all of mankind or even the universe.
I don't think making the entire toolchain more complex with extra edge cases that would need some kind of centrally managed white list, is more correct than 'just dont do that'.
Stop downvoting what you disagree with....
It was created for people without JS experience, specifically Java devs that moved from back end to front end teams to write webapps. Things have since moved on and we're bringing the coding style, among other things, more inline with new practices.

The tooling itself is Java since a lot of Caplin's customers still have't adopted Node, in fact some of their ops departments are completely opposed to it, and just because it isn't written in the same language as your front end code does't mean the tooling and principles are any less valid or useful.
US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists
Sincere question from an open-minded student: My mindset is such that I try do everything for long-term happiness, but if I stop worrying about the future and live only one day at a time, where will I ever end up?
Sadly we haven't open sourced the library (yet?). The actual implementation is quite a bit larger, and messier, than described in this blog post. Additionally, it's written in our own module system. So while we'd like to open source it, it currently is more work than we have time for.
They know how to get people who they have made money for to turn over a lot of that money to buy the companies they have invested in.

I'm just trying to parse this. Is he saying that VCs earn money for their LPs, and then turn around and sell portfolio companies to the same LPs?
That's genius, I have a huge respect for 'xkcd' really. Some presentations are beyond amazing. That said I think it's spot on, Mathematics is the language of the Universe.
Marketing for Startups: Promises and Calls to Action
Each medium has its nuances, but all of them have two things in common. You need to make a promise and then call your customers to action. Like religion: a promise and a call.
Nah, code can solve problems. It doesn't matter if it's pretty code, or the most efficient code, it just needs to be useful to someone. Developers are tool builders, not artists.
In my case, it was intended for students. When they leave nobody wants what they have (school is over, everyone leaving). When they arrive they all want the same things. So it was an over-the-summer kind of thing.
Unless you're being hired a PhD Senior Software Designer, there is exactly 0% chance (in 2014 anyway) that you're going to be working on improving Google's PageRank algorithm.
...and the US government does and always has supported the right wingers in Pakistan who are bemoaned in this article. Who do you think the US supported - the PPP and the Bhuttos? The PPP, whose founding manifesto was written by the self-described communist Jalaludin Abdur Rahim? These right wing ISI generals and military establishment with ties to religious fundamentalism have always been who the US backed - going back to the 1960s and up to today.

Also, speaking of the boogeyman of Osama bin Laden, Pakistan never could have afforded to back bin Laden and the nascent Taliban and Al Qaeda. It's the US who bankrolled the mujahideen's war against Afghanistan's PDPA government, and sent billions of dollars to flow through ISI's hands into the madrassas in an attempt to oust the secular PDPA government from Afghanistan.

Nothing has changed either. The US government still backs, as it has always backed, governments like Saudi Arabia, a country where women can't drive, and opposed secular, vaguely pan-Arab socialist Nasserite governments like Libya, Iraq and Syria.

It's a strange news article that points fingers at the people running Pakistan, as if they could successfully defy the United States. They're exactly who the US wants in there, to oppose the PPP, cause friction with India etc.

It's strange how Americans don't know that via the ISI the U.S. armed and bankrolled Osama bin Laden to help overthrow Afghanistan's secular government. Then I guess Americans were shocked to learn that bin Laden didn't appreciate the US militarily occupying his country for a decade. One well planned suicide mission solved that problem for him, when 9/11 happened, Bush withdrew troops from Saudi Arabia almost as fast as Reagan pulled troops out of Lebanon.
1.) Nurture my family.

2.) Enable people to educate themselves. Public libraries were essential in building the mindset and providing the place and materials for me to drag myself out of poverty.
Agree with : This is perhaps an unpopular opinion, but to pull out now is, undeniably, to leave with the job only half-done

It amazes me to think about how can people be so radically different, based on their upbringing. Sometimes I give up thinking and accept the fact that what seems correct & logical to you may be absolute nonsense in another part of the world. Being born in the right place is a BIG privilege. It's something you can't simply appreciate by not being there physically.
I agree that the candidate should be able to go to prefs and enable features. But I guess that is not an ideal solution. We can temporarily opt for this option though.
I think you are drawing conclusions from a small sample size. I've had the exact opposite experience.
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I know what a non-profit is. It just means that left over money (i.e. fees and dontations minus costs) does not accrue to any shareholders, but stay within the organization and that it enjoys certain tax benefits. I'm interested in it as a possible organization vehicle for social good, although I realize that is not necessary. The Linux Foundation is also a non-profit.
By saying you don't want to be a real programmer, I'm hoping you don't mean a good/great programmer.

Isn't it interesting how we're telling everyone to learn how to code, but then people feel like impostors? Well you can't learn good programming and cs standards in a few days or weeks, even in a few years. So no wonder a lot of people feel like impostors.

Having said that, it takes quite some time to really develop as a software engineer into a real software engineer. You need to know architecture, design, best decisions, security, caching and more. That's what I call a real programmer. Can you design a search service? If you can't, can you learn enough to design it? How would you even start? Everyone can code, but not everyone can design a system that is scalable, fast, robust and secure.

In addition, to be a real programmer, I think you need to start thinking about the future...how will people want to use a browser in the future? If I'm a developer, how can I make XYZ easier and faster to build for other developers? How can I make it so that the code is reusable? Will a framework make it easy? How should that framework be built? How are people going to use it? Etc...

Some of it is deliberate thinking and some of it is work experience.

So a lot of this kind of thinking comes from real problems software engineers faced while working. Discussions, debates, etc... They found a solution and it was elegant enough for others to use.

That's how I think someone goes from an impostor to a real programmer.
It's a cliche idea, but it was articulated really well here.
You're not really paying to contribute to their code. You're paying to get access to the source in case you need any custom engine modifications.
> Sampled raytracing

This covers about 100 different algorithms. Pick one.
Three comments - all related to the positioning of the offering.

1) If the product already has a 30 day money back guarantee, what about re-positioning it as a free 30 day trial after which you charge whatever?

2) Its very difficult to compare the 3 options given the layout.
Make it more grid like (with an 'x' where it applies or with check marks and crosses - take your pick) so it's easier to see the benefits across the board

3) If you had an intermediate option between Bootstrapper and Business Builder (for say, $120-ish as an example) that included, for example, an integration only with Mailchimp, that may help with increasing conversions to the $197 option.

Hope that makes sense.
Best of luck!
Become a race car driver but nobody is hiring/
MPEx CEO responds to SEC inquiries
The book does talk about how this lifestyle is available only because of the consumerist lifestyle that dominates this country and the paradox this seems to present. The thing is there's an entire spectrum between how this man lives and the consumer lifestyle that is now the norm in this country. There's no ned to idolize his lifestyle, it's more about being aware of your needs and what makes you happy or keeps you at peace and consciously choosing your place along that spectrum. The author describes his views on this kind of self reflection and I found it very comforting because it seemed to closely align with the lifestyle I would like to adhere to. It's not the extreme Suelo has chosen but I believe it's closer to that end than what I think is typical in this country. Check out the book, it's an easy and enjoyable read. I'd send you my copy but I really want my wife to read it.
Open the link in an incognito window.
Sony Announces a VR headset for PS4: Project Morpheus
Very nice. I just ran a half dozen varying songs which we perform through it and it mostly matches my chord sheets.

For some bands this will be a dynamic changer. Singers who can not write down chords sometimes don't want to impose on the instrumentalists by bringing in new material. If they can bring in a rough whack that barrier is lifted.

Some notes:

• Not all music is in 4/4. Ok, mixed meter and obscure meter, but 3/4 really ought to be either recognized, or let me tell you. Even when the song is in 4/4, it sometimes loses track of where "1" is.

• It doesn't like to (maybe can't) write more than a 3 note chord, and I didn't see any "sus" chords, but maybe I didn't feed it a good sample. Not understanding 4 note chords will probably add ambiguity to the results, say a Em7 being mistaken for a G if there isn't enough E going on.

• It appears to cache well. When I hit popular songs through their cleanest YouTube URL the results pop up instantly. Well done!

Looking forward to progress, but it goes in the toolbox now.
So you serve others to serve yourself? ;) That sounds like a reward to me!
I've been reading about stoicism lately (the ancient philosophy, not the adjective for lack of emotion) and I think that practicing stoics have some nice tools to help people out with this.

One of the primary ways that stoics find tranquility is by "wanting what you already have" instead of "wanting what you don't have." Easier said than done, so they offer some tools to help, inluding negative visualization (imagining life without things you care about), only worrying about things you have control over, and occasionally denying yourself pleasures.

I'm not doing the subject justice, but here's an easy to read book that condenses a lot of their ideas and applies them to modern life: http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953.... And of course Wikipdeia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism
Intention is good, but anyone who wish to do serious development wouldn't mind that extra step.

Make my point clear: think about sudo pip install X vs advocating everyone to use virtualenv. The cost of cleaning up any mess from sudo outweigh the cost of getting pip and virtualenv.

Look. I agree that getting new package install is painful. Even on Linux, I often have to add PPA to get the latest version.
Of course they are; I just said that I need it like this and I think it would be better for some others as well. Doing something unrelated as stepping stone often ends up never doing anything about your goal and ends up on the pile of 'moving to another country when I am older'. And such. Not working on the goal especially when you need a lot of money for it which you probably never reach is making people unhappy longterm.
If that kind of "reward" isn't noble enough (I don't know of anything nobler), then we might as well not live at all.
One thing that I always see in these threads is how these interviews are not really a good indicator. I work for a company that does these interviews, and most of us acknowledge that the interviews result in sizable false negatives, but the ones that do come through the process are usually very competent ones.

Also, complexity analysis/algorithm questions that are asked in the interview setting is not rocket science...
The possible reason could be to 'teach a lesson' or put pressure on Malaysian Govt. The rift between Sunni and Shia is beyond an airliner or its cargo. If you ponder over their 1400 years old history.
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I built an app for tracking job applications... amazing how many people just do this on a spreadsheet (as per point 2.3 of the post), which is fine, but I needed an excuse to build something, so

http://applyee.com
I think it's somewhere between the two. Software development is both creative and rigidly constrained by existing techniques/technology.

Claiming that it's only one or the other is simply creating a false dichotomy.
How do clients become aware that you only work 25 hours per week?

If they're asking you "how much do you work," you can reply: "Considering my other commitments, I can give you 25 hours per week." They don't need to know what your other commitments are, and they'll probably be content to assume those commitments consist of other freelancing gigs.

My clients don't know any details about each other. They know I have multiple clients, but they don't know each other's identities, how many there are, or how much time I give to each.
when you're ready to be useful to others again.

Again?

You just nailed the problem.

If everything you did was for others, then this discussion (and many like it) wouldn't even make sense.

You wouldn't "get burned out", "lose purpose", "get stressed out", "worry about competition", "procrastinate", or "lack motivation".

If your work, your art, or just your day-to-day activities were focused on delivering value to others, you'd be too busy having a ball and rejoicing in outcomes to worry about all this other stuff. And anyone who tells you otherwise (but we gotta eat first!), still doesn't get it.

Thanks, OP, for reminding us that as soon as we're not so full of ourselves, and understand our role as conduits of energy, the sooner everything else flows so nicely.
You seriously have had to regularly patch drivers?
The new version has positional tracking, so it should reduce the eyes vs. ears problem.
It won't, not for a long time. http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/ and http://blog.python.org/2014/03/python-340-released.html
Yep indeed. Unity3d has this for a long while.
I was thinking the same thing !