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I've seen that talk last year, great talk! I really like how he makes the distinction between Agile and agility and compares the values of the manifesto with the consultancy industry which spawned around it.

But I have yet to find a manager deeply believing into Agile who'll questions those beliefs after watching the video. I feel the problem with Agile is that a lot of the people who enforce it are either not programmers or terrible, terrible ones.

I have also yet to find an Agile project with actual agility, but that's just my own personal experience :)
best, reply, ever.
I appreciate your point, though I didn't read it this way.

> The really unpleasant truth is that if we as a society began doing serious focused R&D on these life-threatening diseases earlier, the OP and many others wouldn't have to die.

I absolutely agree with that and the fact that fighting death is so low on social priorities is something that boggles my mind. However even if we dropped everything and started working on it, many of us will still die. I am regularly afraid, in the back of my head, that I'll go down young because of some cancer. Or that my loved ones will. I need to be able to handle this, both dying and dealing with the dying. That's why I'm grateful for this article. It has solid points about communication.

As I said - it's not either/or. Many - maybe all - of us will die, but this is not an excuse for not working on curing death.
Ahh that is right. I was going to double check that and I'm annoyed that I didn't. For some reason I thought some of them were hit directly.

Regardless the ships that did survive I don't think any humans would have survived on those ships given the intense shock waves (as shown by obliterated test sheep).
Ask HN: Which framework for a CRUD app in 2016?
Which language/framework would you recommend for a new web application? A traditional CRUD app without websockets.
My view is that even if we want to have such a scale, creating it would require solving the most tenaciously vexing philosophical problems of all time...

Or, maybe we can come up with a general ordering of sentience, such that we can say that a bumblebee is quite definitely below a baboon, but still, ethical questions will involve picking some cutoff—and that will be arbitrary, contentious, and creepy.

It seems somewhat likely to me that if we manage to quantify or understand sentience across species, we would find it unsettling. What if rats, cows, and pigs all turn out to be well past the hump of vivid awareness, such that killing them really is extinguishing a life quite similar to a human's?

Fortunately there's a lot of good vegan recipes out there...
Self Defense 101: The Things You Need to Know
You can use the ISO to install to VirtualBox or other VM software.
Let's hope this actually works and is the first step toward preventing aging.
What exactly does this offer over Vagrant or better yet having a single Docker VM and using containers??
...says the young guy who doesn't remember how the world was 50 years ago.
A professor from UVA once told me that Democracy was the art of convincing people that they actually made the decision.
I'm from Lithuania and suicide is really a big problem here. It's being discussed much why it's happening in media as well as professionally, but there's no clear consent. Some key reasons that comes up most often:

1) Society changes. After breakup with USSR in 1990, all collective farms were dismantled and majority of industry closed or restructured what caused a lot of people lose jobs and forced to change profession. This was hard/impossible for some, especially older people, who were used to work the same job for years or even the whole life. In first years it was partly offset by the excitement of independence, but as years went by, excitement faded away and problems remained. Even bigger impact was the mental change that you are responsible for your and your family well being and there's no longer government that takes care of every aspect of life. Some people still can't wrap their minds about this fact and blame government everything. Also, there are very few jobs in smaller towns/villages, so those who could, already fled to cities or abroad and those who couldn't are doomed to poverty which leads to the second reason.

2) Alcoholism. Lithuanians, as most northlings, are overly serious (if you smiled to strangers, locals around usually look suspiciously or even aggressively) and prone to depression what combined witch financial difficulties many faces (caused by 1) often leads seeking relief in alcohol that worsens depression even further.

3) Identity crisis (not discussed very often, mostly my thoughts). We are still in transitional state, where no longer belong to east, but not yet fully converted to western way of life. We lack self-dependence, motivation, initiative and risk taking attributes common for democratic westerners and keep looking back for somebody to lead and hold hand (the same strong leader cult as in Russia today). We are like a teen who fled his parent's home -- don't know where to go and what to do.

These problems aren't unique and many post soviet countries have similar issues, though some simply cope with them better than others. Anyway I'm optimistic, because progress can be clearly seen in many areas (Lithuania has one of the fastest growing economies in EU) and many young people are doing better than their parents.
I'll take a bit more controversial side. I don't believe Sarbanes Oxley has anything to do with companies not going public. Its a crutch that week companies rely on..

I probably get ot speak with more CEO/CFO's than most people here and I've never once heard SarBox brought up as any sort of issue.

What Sarbox will do is force companies to be a bit more mature with their own internal financial controls, ie they can't run their company using quickbooks anymore.

From my perspective the biggest issues that companies who go public have are two fold:

1) They've come from the VC model where growth is held above all other things. Once you go public, growth is expected but its also expected to take a back seat to generating profits. This can be a very tough transition for some companies as it means quite often the things you were doing to please your VC are no longer the things you should be doing when you are public.

2) You can now be shorted. When you are private, its like the market for sports free agents. it only takes one VC/team to pay a company/player.

There is now check and balance in terms of being able to short the company. Which means there is no real downward pressure that allows companies to find their equilibrium price.

Unfortunately this means that many companies whoi go public find out later on that they were the sheltered child who was good at sports in their own small town, but when they got to the big city, they and their parents(VC's) overvalued their own abilities.

3) Most companies who go public don't know how to guide or handle wall street. You might get offended by this, "who is wall street to say what I can or can''t do with my company", but they are the owners of your company.

Consider this scenario. Your friend raises a great Series A valuation, say $25 million. He then comes to you to complain that his VC's are pushing back on him for wanting to pay himself a $1,000,000 salary and the company buying a share of a private jet, and who are the VC's to say how the company should spend its money.

You'd probably look at your friend with disbelief. Wall street is the same, once you go public they are the owners of the company and you need to know how to keep them happy. The best thing Twitter has done since going public was to hire Anthony Noto as their CFO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Noto).
They are focused on physical property management. We are trying to build a tool that would eliminate a need for property manager (for the most part at least).

In a way, we are complementary to each other.
Kickbacks are a risk, though that could also be balanced with harsh penalties such as minimum sentences for being caught accepting kickbacks.
That's called being a responsible parent.

It's either that, or your child's future partner will have to deal with them losing faith in their parents, after so many things they were told turned out to be bullshit said to shut them up.
Jon Ronson's book was highly enlightening.
These have my backdoors preinstalled.
This is a beautiful idea. How much information does the QR code carry, and how much is transfer boilerplate?
Many things can happen on a small boat in the Atlantic at night.

Sure, but nothing that can't also happen in a car on a small backcountry road at night. And anyway if he takes a passenger ferry he'll be constantly surrounded by hundreds of other people which is a hell of a lot more collateral damage to take into consideration if you're genuinely concerned about someone causing an 'accident'.
I can accept the world. I have 2 relatives already dead, though I'm not very emotional about it.

I just want to emphasize that this is the world we have built with our own hands. It's not the worst world possible, but we can do better than that.

>Unless the singularity happens
I think S-word in mostly a meme. You can apply ML to biological problems right now. You don't need strong AI for it (though ofc even subhuman general ai would be of great help to science, if you look at deepmind's interview that's exactly their goal)

>I think we're stuck with a very high (five 9s ?) probability of dying.
It depends on our own actions as well. At least one could opt for cryo, ofc it isn't a guarantee of anything but still it's a chance.

You may think I'm talking like a futurist or a transhumanist, but in fact I'm just an ordinary technical person trying to be realistic (and disliking involuntary death). If our western culture really values human life as much as declared, then we as a society should focus more on increasing quality of life and longevity, instead of exploiting each other for profit.
Have you seen authors [0] tangentially related blog-post about initial funding campaign from 2013?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tsergiu
[1] https://www.debuggex.com/blog/2013/how-my-crowdfunding-turne...
You are encuraged to use the "hands free" option of reporting in the app by waving your hand over your phone.
> The courts can only stop extraditions, not non-extraditions.

Not sure what you are implying by that. An extradition is tried in a court (if the person to be extradited does not want to be extradited). The supreme court tries the extradition against the legislation and then hands it to the government for decision [1].

I think you may be thinking about this passage from[1]:

"Anser Högsta domstolen att det finns hinder mot utlämning, får regeringen inte bifalla framställningen. Regeringen kan dock neka utlämning även om Högsta domstolen inte har motsatt sig en utlämning; i lagen anges nämligen att en person under vissa förutsättningar "må" utlämnas - inte "ska" utlämnas."

It says that if the courts find that extradition is NOT legal, then the government may not extradite, but if the court recommends the extradition (i.e. find it legal) then the government can still deny it.

So while it is true that the govrenment CAN in any situation reject any extradition - it is out of the question for a government to forego the court process. This would be known as "Ministerstyre" (an action by a member of a government or a cabinet, which is to be interpreted - or can be interpreted - as dictating, or interfering with, the daily workings of a government agency, court of law or similar.).

One can call that "bureaucracy" but the fact remains - the swedish government would just not do that.

[1] http://www.regeringen.se/sveriges-regering/justitiedeparteme...
Take a look at https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ - their images are available as VMDK, OpenStack, Xen, Docker, among others. Their images are all hackable too.
can't help yourselves can you. look a shiny new toy let's teach it how to kill. When "skynet" kills us all "it" can look back at this and say this was the moment that really started it all....we'll that and the US drone program. This is all tongue in cheek(kind of). But, I actually think it will be neat to see what happens. especially if some of them learn to team up over time.

kind of reminds me of http://www.corewars.org/docs/evolving_warriors.html
> In particular what is their revenue per 1000 page views that are post ad-blocker

A dangerous metric. If it was $10 per 1000 before and $15 per 1000 it might look good. Except if it's on 10,000 then ($100) vs 2,000 now ($30)
Django.

Specifically, I use pydanny's django cookiecutter (https://github.com/pydanny/cookiecutter-django) which gives me pretty much everything I need including user signup, login, and social auth.

Skin with your templates and off you go.

Another nice thing is that this give be basic setup for 12-factor app and realtively simple production deployment to Heroku, redshift, or docker (if that is your thing).

Also, pydanny is the same person who wrote Two Scoops of Django.
9.) Legal liability. The same way that the accounting software still tells you to go and talk to a certified accountant in their terms.

10.) Our customers are landlords. As a tenant, you can apply from anywhere. But we cannot pull the data for "anywhere" so you will have no score.
It's actually very easy: If you are in a server, you report it. You don't go digging for more, because once you're in, you can easily do more damage.
You are encouraged to use the "hands free" option of reporting in the app by waving your hand over your phone.
Same situation in Italy. Unfortunately. Anyone wanting a be euthanised has to travel Switzerland, which is not always feasible at end-of-life (also considering that the whole procedure costs ~20k$).

I spent my civil service as an EMT and only once I saw a doctor giving the daughter of a terminally ill woman a piece of advice I will never forget (this woman was in such bad conditions, she simply wasn't there anymore and spent 100% of her time with morphin-induced allucinations): after giving her the morphin prescription he told her that "nobody is going to go behind you if you give her an overdose" - implying that she could end her suffering but she had to be the one killing her.

It was by far one of the hardest moment of my life, and I was just a passive witness. It was just brutal.
Absolutely agreed on (2). However, to follow that up, that should be leading to bubbles in both private and public equities (which it has). Ultimately, QE does nothing to stimulate the economy, only artificially pumping assets we use as metrics for the economy. Ultimately information will be passed through prices as institutional traders start to agree that fundamental values are lower, and more QE will start to actually damage equities, rather than pumping them as we've seen.

So cheaper credit affects private and public equities equally. But that's not what we're seeing here - public equities are at lower valuations than private. I believe that is because PE is substantially less sophisticated relative to public markets. There is no way to short assets, holding periods are 3-7 years, and the method of transaction is cumbersome and antiquated. Compared to public markets, PE has more information asymmetry, less efficiency, lower liquidity, fewer participants, and no easy way of ratcheting down valuations until the next sale.

So QE has pumped up PE even more than public equities, and we see that as privately valued firms struggle after going public.
You have to be invited by a landlord to apply as a tenant (as you get associated to a property/unit)
China suspends Apple's online book, movie services
Didn't read past them hopping in a boat w rifles, but the novel 'From the Mouth of the Whale' by Icelandic author Sjón is a serious dive into an Arctic psyche. Highly recommended.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_the_Mouth_of_the_Whale
That’s great! I had no idea messenger.com even existed...
Why do we know where contributions come from? Why are they not anonymous? I think it'd be better if candidates had no idea where all that money came from.
> The solution is simple. Continue calling the boat Boaty McBoatface. Ignore all references to the government's preferred name.

This is good advice. In Toronto we have a baseball stadium called the Rogers Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Centre). It was originally called the SkyDome but it was bought by a company called Rogers and renamed.

Everyone still refers to it as the Skydome. Corporate branding be damned:)
I could think of a few reasons why you would like to run something in a Docker container.

- OS packaging is tedious to say the least, and "git clone and pull dependencies on production systems" processes are generally considered messy (if not evil, especially when pulling from repositories hosted on the internet); Docker solves both of these issues by offering a generic interface for shipping and deploying isolated instances of your application. You don't get that with just namespaces and apparmor, you need an API for that (which is really what makes Docker so useful)

- Docker (potentially with the help of its ecosystem) can provide a uniform interface to a couple of the most important operational aspects of an application: logging and monitoring. Especially for heterogeneous or simply large environments, this is a big win.

- When container deployment orchestration matures more, it is much easier to manage and auto-scale your application in a large scale setting since you don't need to reinvent that wheel for every specific stack out there. It will come.

- It makes setting up and understanding development environments easier. Similar to Vagrant, Docker Compose lets you describe your architecture in a config file and easily set up a full stack for you. Especially in companies supporting or developing for a complicated stack, that's very useful. It also probably makes on-boarding of new developers a lot easier.

Still you're making a valid point: you need to maintain those containers. Just like you need to maintain your application's dependencies. Let's be honest though, in many ecosystems that problem already exists: take your typical JEE application that once built, hardly ever upgrades its dependency list anymore (no one even monitors what security holes are being found in all those jars, in many cases). But yes, you should. That problem is really not solved with Docker containers. Most images/containers will be as thin as possible (as will the host OS, preferably), but the concern remains valid.
"Developing the next CRISPR, detecting gravitational waves, or building a stellator is a pretty grown up thing. In the end there is a non zero chance of achieving or contributing to something exceptional during your 20s (depending on your field)."

It is a mistake to look at a field full of so many thousands of people and focus on the outliers.

The common case of the PhD experience is proving cheap labor to a tenured professor on their projects while moving your own PhD process forward, in a field that lacks the hard science component that allows you to paint such a glowing image of the process. You dipped into physics twice, in fact; even accidentally, I'd suggest this means something. Further, both fields you named are fields where getting a PhD still leaves you quite eminently hireable even if you "fail out" of academia... this, too, is not the common experience.

Someone getting their PhD needs to make sure they ask questions about what is most likely, not what the most awesome possibilities are, who are, by that very token, getting drowned in applications for those positions. Do you have a good story as to why you will get those positions?
I'm sorry you had to experience that. Some states do allow euthanasia, it's not a federal ban. Unfortunately by the time you know you need it, mobility is often difficult. I'm still young and I desperately hope something changes before I have to answer this question myself. If not, I may move to a better state if I'm lucky enough for the decline to be slow. Meanwhile I'm frightened for my family and loved ones.
TIL there was a War of Jenkins' Ear...
Re icloud, see http://www.computerworld.com/article/3044025/apple-ios/terro...
Yep, nothing is funnier than some mild sexism in the morning!

Messy house, just find a woman to clean it for you, that's her job after all.... right??
8 hours / day over 5 days, or 40 hours a week however you like, is a magic number with no real psychological basis. It certainly didn't come about for the benefit of creatives, the subgroup of software devs who can and often do benefit from far more than 40 hours per week "working" and who only by putting in more hours can accomplish their goals. Try telling Michelangelo that if only he had forced himself to stick to 40 hours a week he could have accomplished all he did and even more greatness. Zoning out probably happens to us all, but some are quite capable of limiting it in duration and/or frequency by quite a large degree, or turning it to 'productive zoning out' whereby you progress on a relatively boring task while thinking of other things, some of which might even be what you'll do once the boring groundwork is complete. Another case, try telling a kid he can become as great as Lee Sedol by only practicing Go and playing games for a maximum of 40 hours a week. Better yet, tell Lee Sedol himself that he could get stronger by playing and studying less! And in our actual field: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=JohnCarmack et al.

It's quite possible for x work + y frustration and self loathing to be x=0 and y=30 as you hope no one notices you coming in late / leaving early and being totally vague about progress during daily meetings. I think those behaviors and 'zoning out' are mostly orthogonal to hours 'worked', though.

There's probably some agreement somewhere. I do think a lot of 80 hour, 100 hour work week boasting is just that, boasting, and surely for some doesn't really translate to that many hours of "real work". It comes from creative accounting of work hours and I think is rooted in a poor work/rest of life separation. Think about your startup for a while during dinner? I guess you're technically working, huh? Or for video game testers, your bugs filed / hour playing the game looking for bugs isn't a nice flat line with a sharp drop off after 8 hours, but a lot of people out of the industry will say "you're just playing a video game over and over for 12+ hours a day for weeks and call that work?".
This name is obviously a joke name that probably shouldn't be used. Yes, there is a responsibility to maintain a democracy by the governing body. But shouldn't there also be a responsibility on the governed to take voting decisions seriously?
What a coincidence with the recent visit...
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I agree that it is confusing and painful (and stupid) that cryopreservation does not get way more attention.

But, your comment seems a little overly barbed, no? It seems like there would be more positive ways to say what you are saying.
You would be surprised. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9991988/40000-ch...

These movements share a message: "the man is screwing us little people". That's a populist message, which it's why they're much more popular than their actual craziness would otherwise grant.