skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...

Whether or not this can be attributed to technical debt, I don't know. But it is an instance of a software failure that resulted in death.
What do you consider technical debt to be then? Just bad code?
You mean like the US$26.4 billion of tax money the US government is spending on medical research per year?

Imagine a world where companies only stood for the cost of funding research. No more 26.4 billions per year. No more tax funded universities for medical research. No more donations or foundations that give grants. The result would be that no one would get any new medicines and the medical industry would loudly cry for government intervention.

And that is with patents, a government granted monopoly. A way to "farm taxes", as it has been described historically.
>> They also provide good insight into Japanese culture.

After I watched Spirited Away, I went online and found a treasure trove of information about a lot of the underlying cultural themes I obviously missed - but it was well worth it to understand all the layers of the story.

Here's a few of the resources I found:

http://www.sparknotes.com/film/spiritedaway/themes.html

http://www.flixist.com/deep-analysis-spirited-away-207051.ph...

https://circleofmeditation.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/spirited...
I’d use “getent”:

$ getent services ssh
ssh 22/tcp
$
Well look what the author did: just scan the whole country. And I personally know people who scanned the whole Internet on certain ports (so that's not that big a deal). I would be surprised if North Korea didn't do entire Internet sweeps themselves.
Actually, I think the commentator here assumed (as I did) that you were slightly off-topic talking about the use of metaphors in software programming. I feel a little bit silly now, FWIW.
I think I would justify it along the same lines as biodiversity is usually defended. With changing external conditions, a niche species may suddenly become of critical importance to an ecosystem. In the same way, humanity faces challenges, and at a certain juncture, a completely different approach to life might make the difference between survival and extinction. But that can only happen if that diversity of approaches has been conserved, and global culture has not become monolithic.
-3, impressed.

Okay, I met the former ambassador to Sri Lanka and had tea with snacks when we hung out. Present was a Vice President of the country I lived in - great guy.

I can't confirm nor deny, because I don't know, the exact status and titles of the various members of the legislature I met while overseas because, frankly, it wasn't my intent to keep a log then post it publicly.

To whit, I've also been listed as a reference for a prosecutor who became a judge in California. However, none of this should be needed to, "Trot out," in a response about foreign politics, which I have ample experience in personally through multiple visits to many countries.

Thanks, though, for deflating my karma count - I need to remember, I'm sharing here because it's fun, not because I'm winning a game. ;)
as a self-identified almost-vegetarian, i want my 5 minutes back.
to add something thoughtful: a different vocabulary does not equal different ideas
Classified Evidence: US Soldiers Raped Boys in Front of Their Mothers
> Prior studies have primarily focused on students’ capacity for multitasking and distraction when using laptops.

I prefer to not multi-task at all and just pay attention.
That, too. It's entirely likely that someone who would be involved in a project like that would have faith in the government's intentions to begin with.
That's the home run point: you might not have to pay it back. That is exactly why the debt or credit card analogy doesn't hold. An uncovered call is exactly the correct metaphor. This isn't even high finance we're talking about, this is fundamental options stuff. I'm not sure I understand the resistance to using the uncovered call terminology as opposed to the highly innaccurate (but more Main Street comprehensible) "debt" analogy. Debt (aside from bankruptcy ALWAYS has to be repaid. Yet we all know that technical debt doesn't always have to be repaid. Debt is a terribly imprecise way of thinking about it.
If quality of code had a causal relation with success - that might be accurate. I'm not sure it does.
I've been a Miyazaki/Ghibli fan for a long time. At this point I have so many Ghibli-themed shirts my wife jokes that I am nearing the Miyazaki-event-horizon and will collapse into the form of Totoro.

If you have not watched any of their films, I highly recommend you do so. Sheer joy of life is what they impart and it will stay with you for years.
Patients expect and deserve their medical privacy, which would get violated when a police camera records them receiving treatment. He is in favor because patient's private medical records shouldn't be automatically made part of the public record just because a cop walks in the room.
i was going to write that good code is a necessary but not sufficient condition. but thats not true either!
> I think Grave of the Fireflies and The Wind Rises are the only ones with male protagonists

It's been a while since I watched it, but didn't Princess Mononoke have a male protagonist?
Ask HN: Best keyboard for typing in bed?
What's a good keyboard for typing in bed?

My preferred position would be lying on my back with my arms straight at my sides, my fingers forming loose fists.

Is there anything that would work for a position like this?
Around 10 years ago it was written by Henning, at my request because the ntpd source code scared the hell out of us

And this is what I like about the OpenBSD community.
Your premise of morality is based on the notion that one person has the right to the produce of another person. Your theory, boiled down to its core, rests on the complete invalidation of property rights, all rights of ownership. That in some cases - decided by some random people, bureaucrats of course - you have no right to what you create, that it is to be owned by someone else, because they have a need.

I argue that your system is responsible for most of the brutality of the 20th century; yours is the notion that violence makes right. That using guns to confiscate property is proper. The market system is the only moral system, it's the only one that doesn't hold some people to be the slaves of other people, with endless claims of need held over their heads, and their property expropriated by way of force.

Your theory posits that my wealth is owed to anyone else that is poorer than I am. Because my wealth could go to significantly improve their life in countless ways. Whether I have $50,000 or $50 million to my name makes no difference when we're talking about the bottom 15% of the world's poor. Whether I own a drug, or own cash, there is absolutely no difference, the claim is the same: I'm rich, and I have no right to my property, because there is someone poorer that has a need. I don't owe anyone the coat off my back, and that principle goes the same for America inherently owing a poor country anything; and if I choose to give someone my coat, it should be solely up to me.

The only moral system when dealing with such poverty is one of voluntary charity. Anything else is a crime against humanity, for there's nothing more disgusting than 'charity' at the point of a gun.
There is no fixed number of STEM jobs... and it's probably true that the dearth of job candidates actually reduces the number in the long run. If you can't find the workers you need, in the long term you shift strategy to that which doesn't require them.

After all, the United States isn't the only place to find them.
For those interested about the srand comment I believe he was referring to arc4random https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmLWx8ut20
Fully Commented Commodore 64 ROM Disassembly
They don't have to suddenly improve, they can learn and improve at a normal pace. Yes, of course they should not use PHP. But simply having them use languages, libraries and frameworks that are written by people who get security won't stop them from writing insecure applications to put into production. They still need to learn to write secure code too.
They wouldn't run the botnet from their servers. Most botnets are slave machines that have been exploited with malware...
http://www.canistream.it/search/movie/grave%20of%20the%20fir...

I realize that copyright is eternal and the producers have the right to set any terms they want, but it is the best set of options (for producers or comsumers) really pay $19 for a 26 year old movie or torrent it for $0 with no options for rentals, streaming, etc...?
This is really cool. Nice job.

I'm wondering at which week does your simulation become usable?

I've work on this problem as a side project before but with the goal of being able to make this kind of prediction from Week 1. I would be able to compute various probabilities about who would win Divisions, but figuring out anything outside of a division would become computationally prohibitive. In my attempt I used a probability distribution based on historical performance of the home team instead of giving each team an equal chance of winning.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing your code!
Every company that sells things at a fixed price now, for delivery later, does this. They may call it something else, but the concept is the same.
We looked at our web stats for the past year recently and found we'd had visits from every country except two, NK being one of the two not logged. (I forget the other, and I don't recall what definition of "all the countries" was used.)

So I'm thinking not common. Anyone else seen or conspicuously not seen hits from NK?
The counter also assumes all code lives in a vacuum - that cleaning that particular code will not impact any other parts of the code base. I find this to be very far from the truth. Often cleaning up one area will lead to abstractions that can have an effect far beyond the original code.
A MIPS R3000 Microprocessor on an FPGA (2002) [pdf]
From the study linked:

> The studies we report here show that laptop use can
negatively affect performance on educational assessments,
even—or perhaps especially—when the computer
is used for its intended function of easier note taking.
I dropped out of college when I was 21, in part because I knew two different people with bachelor's degrees who had jobs like delivering newspapers or selling shoes at a department store. Everyone around me seemed to think I needed a degree in order to have a career and that a degree automagically would give me a career. The lives of these two personal acquaintances suggested otherwise.

I am currently personally acquainted with two other people who completed college and they thus are saddled with huge student loans. Neither one is making enough money to deal with those loans, much less justify them. One owes $100k the other owes $250k. Even if you successfully declare bankruptcy, you cannot write off student loans. These two people may never manage to get their loans paid off. I cannot imagine how awful that must be and I used to have more than $50k in personal debt, which I have been slowly resolving in recent years. (Part of mine is also student debt, but not all of it. It is one of the reasons that although I have considered declaring bankruptcy, I have never pursued it in earnest. Part of what I owe has to be paid regardless.)

There is something very wrong with the system here in the U.S. A college degree should not be a path to permanent poverty because you cannot really afford the student loans you wracked up getting it.
I make no claims of whether or not Cisco at large is in bed with the NSA, but you must admit a government mole secretly working in the factory to install backdoored firmware is not the same thing as the NSA going to Cisco's CEO and 'convincing' Cisco that installing backdoored firmware at the factory is in their best interests.
Yes, I think so (I can imagine an argument that San is the protagonist but it doesn't seem very convincing).

Castle in the Sky definitely does.
Then you're essentially outsourcing medical testing to poorer countries with corruption problems. Many of the massive costs of developing drugs come in the massive trials required to get Western approval - running those trials abroad, but to a standard required to get FDA approval probably won't save that much money.

Drug development being guided by market forces works, government bodies tend to have a very poor record when it comes to picking winners, even worse at an international level. Global medical coordination's problems can be seen in the WHO's current problems.

Drug companies want to maximise their profit. They understand the basics of economics, the supply / demand curve, and that selling lots in poorer countries is better than selling much less at a higher price. The problem is what the earlier poster posited - that those drugs don't stay in India, or patients travel to there, at which point the economics become much riskier.

Given this site is full of people aware of how the VC process works they seem remarkably unable to apply the same logic to to drug development. Vast amounts of money are invested across many possible drugs, at each stage vicious winnowing occurs in order to receive later tranches of funding. In order to drive that winnowing there needs to be a payoff at the other end, and the payoff needs to be massive in order to justify the many other drugs looked into that don't pan out.
Because criminal convictions against a major bank could have serious repercussions, probably both in terms of international relations and economically.

In the same spirit - Silkroad the great online evil of the drug trade, had a yearly turnover of less than .1% of the world drug market.
Belorussian here.
Also there is a law which enforces you to sell 50% of foreign currency you get from selling your goods or services abroad (a few weeks ago it was only 30%). And that 30% fee you can not enlist into your expenses to reduce the taxes. So the importers and many of exporters are completely f*cked up. And today they went even further - the government introduced a law which locks all prices in all shops or the shop will be closed and the owner will have to pay a fine.
Crazy times...
Resourcify: Simple rich data models for AngularJS
I'm not sure what the intent of this post was, but why would we want to harm the people of North Korea when they are already oppressed by their government. I believe that most of the people living there just want to live in peace like the rest of us.
Great writeup, there's definitely potential to do something cool, especially if it's possible to get around any tracking and the following price manipulation. I tried installing your demo client, however on running it I got the following error:

root@kayak:~/kayak-mobile-client# python client.py
Departure airport code: LBG
Destination airport code: HAM
Departure date (MM/DD/YY): 12/26/14
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "client.py", line 56, in <module>
searchid = json.loads(r.text)["searchid"]
KeyError: 'searchid'
My dad built one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iad37q9kNPk and we spent a lot of time looking at our house power and trying to figure out where recurring patterns came from. Back in the early 70s, refrigerators and air conditioners (things with high-load motors running intermittently) were often the culprit.

He built a bunch of Heathkit products. We had an intercom system that worked over the power wiring. It quit working before I was clever enough to use it to play jokes on my little sister.
Rant/opinion incoming because I honestly don't know all of the anti-trust rules and such.

I see this as a serious question for Apple because it is entirely their fault that they may have harmed this company from a lot of revenue if they were allowed to use USB like Duet can. I'd suspect Duet wouldn't come out if this company or others can use USB in the first place.

Seriously, while I love Apple, I actually want this company to file a lawsuit against Apple for anti-competition violations. Apple is intentionally allowing one company to succeed based on this sole feature while preventing others from using the same feature.

And no, a legal wall garden or monopoly should not be allowed to favor one company over the rest. It must be equal to everybody or they should be fined severely and/or prevented from doing this again.
They complain near the end that Disney dubs all the Ghibli films. This is an odd complaint since all the DVDs have the choice of sub/dub, and Disney does a good job with the dubs. Kiki's Delivery Service, for example, is one of the best dubs I've ever seen.
A useful technique for sure. The only technique I know to slow this down is to use certificate pinning, but it's probably pointless. Some of your users are probably extremely motivated (like ours [1]) and it's obvious to them that what they are doing is unsupported.

1. http://difm.eu/dox/
Visualizing cross-platform development by Apple,Google,Microsoft
> The free market fallacy gives people the idea that wages are optimized and reflect true economic value.

I do not have a PhD in economics... but the only fallacy here is that you think there is some philosophical "value".

Value is only what the two parties agree on, no more. If the same thing is sold often enough, you can get the average price, which is also a valid way to measure value.

There is no other kind of value. It's a big, grown-up world, and if you don't like it maybe mommy and daddy will let you live in the basement a few more years.
It's probably the fact that using time() for seeding a PRNG is a really poor choice.
The author uploaded the full text here: http://www.academia.edu/6273095/The_Pen_Is_Mightier_Than_The...
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ - The Global Consciousness Project
"When human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random systems may change. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. But when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of RNGs becomes subtly structured. We calculate one in a trillion odds that the effect is due to chance. The evidence suggests an emerging noosphere or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures."

Looks pretty, shall we say, wacky, but they are supposedly finding correlations in quantum RNGs.
Was this Cambridgeside Galleria? Not that uncommon for students to work at a Mall.
It's grown from being an IT into some very IT related. And although they have some sort of a market there they still do a lot of reviews of various gadgets and have very popular forum. And also it's worth mentioning that it is the second top Blr portal.
My disclosure is that operating my business doesn't require SharePoint, that's all. I'm not "enterprise", I'm running a small business with one partner, and SharePoint is overkill for us.

But your point is well taken. To that point: many of our customers bring up migrating their content from Confluence and the like to SharePoint once they begin using SharePoint as a platform for other apps.
I think it's interesting that Sony is hacked several months after North Korea makes threatening remarks about a specific movie, the hackers make specific threats about the release of the same movie, and the FBI states that their forensic investigation turned up malware with code identical to malware previously attributed to North Korean hacking and using the same C2 servers and proxies, but the tech community won't even entertain the possibility that it might be North Korea behind the attack.
Lets not forget that Google complied with Chinese censorship requests until China hacked them. As long as only minorities are the victim then these Internet giants don't give a damn. So now we just wait until Russia bans Facebook for other reasons and watch Facebook collect goodwill when they turn around and start to "stand up against censorship".
Some of that cost got funneled back into CF research:

http://www.cff.org/aboutCFFoundation/NewsEvents/11-19-Expans...

(I guess you mean Ivacaftor, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation sold their royalty rights for $3.3 billion.)

To a large extent, the insurance companies are setting the prices on these drugs (getting charged whatever the max they will pay). I think part of the solution might be somewhat counter intuitive, to throw even more resources at the early stage research, with the hope that there is more competition by the time things make it to patients.
Well thats not what they linked to though is it.

Suggesting I'm in denial mode is unhelpful - as I've already said there is a good conversation about age to be had.
Why does it matter that "most" people don't get it. If we call an array a hash, that might be a more well known term, yet if it's innaccurate, what difference does it make? It's the wrong term. Using the wrong term to describe something simply because the wrong term is more well known doesn't make it a better term to use. As I mentioned in another comment, it isn't the term itself that matters, what matters is the meaning. "Technical debt" is the wrong paradigm because of the simple fact that it doesn't always have to be repaid and in fact making that "investment" could result in a higher return if it doesn't have to be repaid. Of course, it could result in a much lower return if it has to be repaid. With debt, you have a known interest rate and upfront, you are aware of the future cost. However, with technical debt we never know the future cost; thus the debt analogy is completely innaccurate.

And technical trading as a term is just completely wrong because the term technical trading already has a meaning; and it has nothing to do with understanding the unknown future benefit or gain. It has to do with making decisions (and predictions) based in extrapolating past results into the future. If anything we should be calling it fundamental trading since fundamental trading is making investment decisions based on a holistic view of the security in question. So, the decision to incur a technical "debt" is made with an understanding of the entire system and the cost-benefit analysis of paying "cash" now versus paying an unknown amount of cash later -- or not having to pay anything at all.

One could call it gambling, but a more accurate description would be risk management. Using a risk management decision matrix one could say that the risk of someone dying in a flood at a shopping mall would be catastrophic, however the likelihood is exceptionally low, so it wouldn't make sense to have life boats spaced every 10 meters. However, it could happen, but the shopping mall owner chose to incur that "debt" of not having lifeboats because they determined that the cost wasn't justified given the profile of the risk. A debt analogy would say that a shopping mall absolutely will be flooded eventually and the debt would exist until such day that the owner bought lifeboats.