skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that way too. But I think that there are shops that get good mileage out of agile, even if not for the reasons they think they are.

For the most part, agile shines if you had no organization in place at all, then it is easy (low entry barrier) to get going and to see an immediate improvement.

But when comparing agile to any other SDM it's just another tool in the box and not spectacularly better or worse than any other.
I think you're confusing some issues here. In the case of copyright infringement it is clear that sales were lost. The question is just how many and that is what can't be proven. It's true that numbers the media industry claims are ridiculous when compared against their projected growth before file-sharing took up widespread use but that doesn't mean their loss was $0 either.
Fair call, no need to apologise really. I'm glad I didn't have to learn English as a second language, explaining English idioms to non-native speakers is one of the hardest things I've ever tried to do. :).
This answer on Reddit is pretty solid: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cm02a/you_cant_...

Depends on your definition of 'laymen,' I guess.

Also note that PCREs actually are recursively enumerable (I think).
MIT's Android optometry app
Yes, the entire Zalgo meme is vaguely inspired by Lovecraft.
> Unless they intended their users to open terminals

They could run it on a separate process and deal with stdin/stdout within a GUI program. No problem that way either.
>Speaking of Apple’s chief executive, Lenovo’s founder and chairman, told the Financial Times: We are lucky that Steve Jobs has such a bad temper and doesn’t care about China. If Apple were to spend the same effort on the Chinese consumer as we do, we would be in trouble.

Perhaps Steve Jobs worked out long ago only Chinese companies, e.g. Lenovo, succeed in China, so why try too hard.
You need to be able to provide 'context.' I linked this above, but I'll link it to you, too: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cm02a/you_cant_...
Try a book called "Random Acts of Senseless Violence" by Jack Womack. The text doesn't morph into gibberish, but the lead character transforms from entitled middle class to borderline psychopath street kid, and the way the language changes as the story progresses is _wonderful!_
I didn't say it was a smart way to go, just that it's my way.

Taking the risk before knowing there's a reward is probably the riskiest way to go. For me though, it's fun.

To be fair, that was my way 5 years ago. I guess now I try to make sure everyone's working together with similar risks and rewards. I work better with people than against them.

My present way isn't necessarily the smartest or most profitable way to go either.
Computer Musings by Professor Donald E. Knuth
I like this part of the speech. This is the real advice, BECAUSE it plays with black and white.

So you have to ask yourself: WHY do I tend to answer the left question with YES instead of the right one?
What is the real cause for not making hard decisions? You should not just ask those questions to your mind, but to your body as well.

No success without the right body and health state.

The question for your life is: How big is your freedom (go to the limits and test it)? If it is not big enough, trying to stay HUMBLE is often the hardest decision.
Can Blogging Improve Your Mental?
Interesting discussion this!

> I was thinking USSR and Nazi Germany as powerful centralized governments, and thinking of Rome, Height of Britain, America before Spanish-American War/World War I/World War II as decentralized governments.

Rome was pretty centralized, so was the British empire at its peak.

America not so much, and even today there is a healthy struggle between federal and state level to determine where the boundary lies. And federal seems to be winning that battle but not in a way that I can understand.

Also it is difficult to compare historic governments with current ones in the same sentence because the circumstances those governments operated in were so dissimilar.

For instance, the 'nation' of Greece back then had a populace that would comfortably fit in a mid sized town baseball stadium. So methods and techniques used in antique times have relatively little bearing on what we can do today.

Agreed on the rest of what you wrote and a nice eye opener about the 'organizations', indeed, individuals are the way, but then individual education is a very big problem on the horizon, and one that so far has not been solved in a way that is satisfactory so that you could put significant power in the hands of individuals by democratic means. It would lead to ruin quite quickly and dramatically so I would imagine.
A friend of mine committed suicide last December, at your age and from what I can tell, in a similar situation (he was even also a previous YC participant). It hurts how much reading this reminds me of him.

You mention some people know this side of you (to what degree?) but that they don't know how to help you.
I think it's critical that during this rough patch you're going through, in addition to receiving anonymous advice here on HN, you surround yourself with supportive people in real life. Even if it's just one person that sticks with you through this, that you are completely open to and stay in close touch with about your plans and progress as you try therapy, medication and various other techniques.

For ideas on how to involve other people without having to be embarrassed or being too much of a burden, read about Jane McGonigal's "recovery game": http://blog.avantgame.com/2009/09/super-better-or-how-to-tur...

I wish you all the best.
Ahh yes, the first 90% takes 90% of the time, then the last 10% _also_ takes 90% of the time...(welcome to my life!)
Two Pinoy musicians, win in International Music Festival
It probably comes with some services and redundancy. If your drive fails, you won't experience downtime (probably because there is no such thing as "your drive"), the operators will replace the failed disk in the shared array and you won't have to even know it happened. The same probably with backups.
Biggest feature I miss from Mercurial is shallow cloning. Not for speed but purely disk space reasons.

If you have a lot of nodes in your build farm like we do you start hitting a point where you can't put any more cheap disks into your servers.
BlackBerry, Skype, Google face India data demand
Hi Arnór, the method responsible for formatting your name including the Icelandic characters has been fixed.
How To Eat Well Without Gaining Weight - Health and Financial Freedom
The revisions for it are pretty cool too:
http://stackoverflow.com/posts/1732454/revisions

Someone slightly not getting the joke edited it out on the basis of it being troll/rambling, then someone put it all back. The nice bit... the actual point is emphasised as a result.
I think that the number of acquisitions made by Google - in par with the rest of the industry - show that their model for innovation is not a real differentiator.
"They want to mindlessly program, or read blogs that tell them how they will get rich.

That’s like a girl watching TV all the time and saying she’s training to become an actress."

I thought that finished on a really bad note, and was an unnecessary low blow.
We're going to see a lot more writers, but probably less editors and publishers.

While writing a good novel is difficult, writing a good novel without editing is incredibly so. Anyone can publish their work on the internet, but without a framework to pay for professional editing, it's mostly going to be a bit rubbish.
Depends on how you define 100% right.
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Ask HN: Outsource everything but coding?
You usually read about startup that coding is like only 20% time... and it seems that most successful startups have a nice and strong voice through posts of the founders. But what if you do not want to do marketing, blogs, twitter and all. Can you outsource it cheaply?

Is it viable that the voice of your company is not really you? Can you find something like a ghost writer doing all the PR, Marketing, Promo and copywriting?
If your only experience of OSS was Richard Stallman, you might dismiss everyone who contributes to open source software as a bearded lunatic.

There's a lot of very serious and studious Pagans out there, but they don't tend to be as obviously 'look at me, I'm SPOOKY' as the kids you're talking about. For a trivially easy to find example, consider the Pagan Federation. In Scotland they work with government interfaith groups and are consulted for things like religious diversity training material and non-denominational chapels in hospitals.

Most Pagans I know look a lot more like RMS than someone who shops at Hot Topic.
First: please don't editorialize in the title. The "Got to see this" smacks of other places I will not mention.

Second: this is not at all interesting. The person asks a sensible question and then gets some ridiculous replies.

Third: it made me remember my spat with ESR about HTML parsing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=923775 and now I feel sad.
Linux fans always say it’s “getting better”, and there’s always a major distribution update a few months away that’s about to be awesome. But it never is
and triples as an annoying useless trackball
Thomas Pynchon?
It's not that weak a quote, it's just that the website does not really add any value by simply repeating it.
The non-optimized life
Vitiligo cure  
Vitiligo is a chronic skin condition that supports loss of coloring, resulting in uneven pale patches of skin. Research states that it is a detailed type of leukoderma manifested characteristically by dipegmentation of epidermis.
Ok, thanks for clearing that up, I though the way you wrote your initial comment indicated that was how you did things today.
Every programming languages are just sequence, selection, iteration
If you want to live comfort eagle, go the distance
I've seen so far is in perfect

<a href="http://www.lovepowerman.net>http://www.lovepowerman.net </a>

<a href="http://www.lovepowerman.com>http://www.lovepowerman.com </a>

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We are built by natural selection to fit into this universe. Our perception of beauty seems like a useful hack to find our way in this universe. Probably recycled by the brain to be used for very different things (from sexual attraction to finding tasty food) and maybe even misfiring at times (when listening to music or reading poetry).
I've seen so far is in perfect

http://www.lovepowerman.net

http://www.lovepowerman.com
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Anna Chapman, a sexy Russian spy
Take diamonds back to before diamonds were plentiful. Hell, take flawless synthetic diamonds back to before when flaws where the thing to have in your diamonds.
Fascinating!!

Yet scary how many folks confuse odd numbers with primes on the original blog's comments.
There's no rule that says two people can't, by simple coincidence, have exactly the same DNA, so the amount of unlucky people is actually infinite.

Surprisingly meaningless statement from such a smart guy.
While I don't really have an opinion on wether they should or shouldn't buy Brizzly, I think it's quite interesting that (for some of us) our lives have become so public that it's fairly easy to find the pieces for this blogpost. Just 5 years ago this would have been so much harder.
piss off spammer.
Elegant request routing in Nitro
Exactly. Governments usually tender out massive contracts to the private sector, and there were very few companies at that time that could probably meet the technical demands. Hence the lock-in.
Submitted 5 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472622

but it garnered one upvote and no comments, and 6 days ago here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1470665

where it got around 50 upvotes and 14 comments.

Another example of the importance of timing your submissions.
In some senses this isn't a "problem" as such, but I'd like to see some way of better consolidation of the same item submitted over and over. The existence of the existing duplication detection shows that it is, in some sense, an issue, but better duplicate detection would be, well, better.

In particular, it would be nice not to have the discussion spread over multiple items. Either the same thing gets said over and over, or important and interesting points are made that get missed.
Obviously weak on details but it would be pretty interesting to think that energy stored in crystals (as so many sci-fi worlds use) is actually a reality.

On the topic of details, any ballpark conceptual idea on how efficient it would be storing and retrieving the energy from a source like this?
I wrote this article some time ago.

http://inter-sections.net/2007/11/10/easy-estimates

This technique is used by large corporations but can also be adapted to smaller pieces of work quite easily.

One important aspect of this method is that it looks very credible, which comes in very handy when discussing estimates with the customer. The argument shifts from "this shouldn't take that long" to "ok, let's not do this bit because it's too expensive".

It's much healthier for your client relationship to be having arguments about scope than about your estimates' reliability.

Also, I've found this technique to be quite accurate on the whole, so it is actually better than gut feeling estimates on both the social side and the technical side.
Signed up for the mailing list, but only chapters 1-2 are available. Anyone got a link to chapters 3-7?
Jeff Bezos seems to suffer from selection bias. We don't always have those choices, count yourself lucky if you do and then make the right ones but don't fret about it if you do not.

Not all of us will become billionaires by simply making 'the right choices', plenty of people made the choices the right way and ended up average or dirt poor.

Count your wealth in the number of smiles you see when people meet you again after not seeing you for a while.
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him"

-- Cardinal Richelieu
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

-Robert A. Heinlein
Twitter's June Uptime: 99.1 Percent
Releasing the energy under control isn't discussed - I'd like to know if it's possible, and how they'd do it.
Print your own lasers, lights and TV screens
> "it seems, because Apple feels their applications have a much better designed UI"

and

> "But that UI is designed to appeal to American and Western tastes and preferences"

These lines killed your last paragraph, they are completely baseless, what do you know about design and how it relates to product valuation or cultural preference to support these assertions? I know a bunch of ethnic Chinese, Indians and Arabs who use Macs and iPhones.

Being a Brazilian and having the majority of my family in Israel, I think that Apple strategy for developing markets, and some markets such as Israel and the Gulf States where people that earns the same amount of money the common American earns are not uncommon, is a mess, it is basically something Apple inherited from 90s and the situation is slowly improving, although with the money that the company does have it should be faster.
You won't go to jail. Copyright infringement isn't a criminal matter, as a rule.
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You are a Canadian citizen. I think it's fair that they would look at your situation (a Canadian who hasn't lived in Canada and never paid taxes, etc) as something unusual. This is the type of thing immigration get's bagged on all the time when something goes wrong. If all it takes is a few simple things from you to establish yourself a bit more, why not do it? Would save you a lot of hassle. Not doing it just doesn't add up.

Simply: Don't get all self-righteous. It's a small thing.
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It would be great if google employees would simply answer questions on google, but it seems that if there is one thing that google really sucks at it is communicating with their customers. Especially adsense suffers from a total lack of attention on behalf of google, I can't recall a single time when I tried contacting them that I actually got a relevant and timely answer. If I did get an answer it usually was some totally non-related cut-and-paste stuff.

Invariably followed by a 'how did we do' email asking for some kind of biscuit.

Incredible.
Don't just downvote it - flag it. Go here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488063

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488061

and click the "flag" link.
>and she's studying theatre of all things

I hope she makes it huge and goes into films. I'll send her an email asking for a copy of each of her movies for free so I can post them on torrent.
Ehm, I wonder a bit, the discussions always goes that HTML is not regular. The poster though asked to just match any open tags. The language of HTML tags clearly is regular, isn't it?
Can Amateurs Solve P=NP?
Lets do the math: how many women ever existed? How many years did they were fertile? Then we know the number of ovum/eggs and so: the max number of humans that could have ever been. Right?
There seems to be more and more of this stuff lately.
> I will hazard a prediction. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.

I keep coming across this theme again and again. "One day you will tell your grandchildren..", "When you're lying in your deathbed..", etc. As if the younger human has an obligation to work to create the perfect set of memories for the older one, which then would be enjoyed for at best a few years. Toil for 50 years of your life to create the perfect last 2 years!

It's perverse, really. We seem to enjoy imagining ourselves enjoying the memories of our present lives..
That assumes that any decline in productivity will be insufficient to outweigh the increased hours.
WSU Researchers Use High Pressures to Create Super Battery
Seems to me that going into business yourself is a better way to learn than giving money to people going into business.
All estimation techniques follow the same pattern:

1) list all the components and tasks that need to be completed,

2) assign an estimated duration (hours or days) to each task,

3) add them all up and multiply by a fudge factor.

The problem is that none of these are easily done. Step #1 requires a detailed understanding of what you're going to build. Obviously, this is often impossible, but you'll just have to guess. Be sure not to forget categories such as testing, debugging, meetings, etc.

Step #2 relies on experience and your assessment of the client's quality/time trade-off threshold. If you don't have much experience, just guess and then track your time so you can go back and compare reality to your guesses.

The "fudge factor" in step #3 can either be hidden from the client or called "integration phase" or some such. Basically, it is the process of ensuring that all the components are working smoothly together.

Entire books have been written on project planning and estimation. There is no shortcut to doing it well, only experience through the school of hard knocks.

Good luck.
Hacking wireless presenters with an Arduino and Metasploit
iTunes...ok it can be a right pain.

No removable storage - not an issue for me. My brother has often misplaced his microSD card for his Samsung phone though, so I'm not sure if this is something I'd like.

MP3s: http://www.ehow.com/how_2111958_convert-itunes-mp-mp.html

Copying photos: http://www.macroplant.com/index.php (granted, this feature should be there by default)

The iPhone is a great phone once you jailbreak & unlock it, IMO ;-)

EDIT: Great smartphone comparison chart:

http://lifehacker.com/5575317/smartphone-comparison-chart-di...
Evidence.

Experiments have shown that when you give $2 to someone, then ask them a favour, they are more likely to do you that favour than if you ask them the favour in exchange from those $2. I don't have the specific sources, but I suspect they will be easy to find.

I believe this could be extended to spreading of abundant goods. Now, we basically have the choice between buying the thing, or downloading it from the internet for free. The problem, is, downloading is often more convenient than get up, go to the damned store, and buy a copy. It can even more convenient than buying it on-line, because when it's gratis, you have to fetch your credit card.

Now imagine you made your work available for free, and would like people to send you a few bucks in return, please. Assuming we could transfer the results of that experiment above to this problem, it may be more efficient than selling your work.

Of course, there are obstacles for that transfer to happen. First, donating is inconvenient most of the time. Second, you can't ask the favour face to face, as it was done in the experiments. I think both obstacles can be mitigated, but I don't know if that will be enough.

The old models are dying. So either we search for an alternative, or we let music die, or we sacrifice freedom of speech and privacy on the internet. Our choice.

Now, I have presented one alternative. It may not work. It certainly won't work for everyone. Luckily, there are others. I say let's keep searching.
>and are too lazy or stupid to find some other way to make money.

Nice to know that you have the insight of what's a legitimate way to make money and what isn't.

BTW, bicycles are often pretty easy to steal. Are bike makers "too lazy or stupid" to find another way of making money? Or should we just find a better way of protecting our bikes?
I agree with the change and, like most posts, there is a bit of exaggeration there, but it's easier to get rich if you can do this.

Alternately, you find a co-partner or someone else to off-source the work to. However, as other posters have attested to, finding good assistants can often be an equally difficult problem.
So if you can find some examples of bad behavior in some group it becomes OK to damn the whole lot of them? Congratulations, you would have been a great asset to the L.A. riots.
Groovesharks remote with Arduino
> trying to stay HUMBLE is often the hardest decision.

Golda Meir comes to mind (to Moshe Dayan): "Don't be so humble, you're not that great".
Although it's presented as an anti-terrorism measure, one of the benefits of unfettered access to Blackberry communications is the potential for economic spying on multinationals with offices in India.
I think it's (hopefully) just a dramatic way of pointing out that and how all of your days have added up to something, instead of being random disconnected bits. Of course they are adding up as you go, too, they don't just suddenly sum up at the end.
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