skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm getting confused by most of you guys. Some of you said that there are Agile consultants that would blame a failure because "you don't follow it by the book".

First, follow what by the book?

Second, what book?

Third, don't confuse Process with Principles.

Organization failed implementing Agile because the people behind it are still stubborn and still clinging to the old ways of doing things. Yes... this is the reality in our field. We often say things like "IT, Computer, Internet change the way we do things", please allow me to finish that sentence: "... but just don't tell us to change how we build software".

Agile never talks about making software faster. They talk about delivering business value and high-quality software. Even then, quality is defined by the Client, not by the developers/engineers. Some clients were okay with small UI glitches.

Scrum is a Project Management technique that uses a set of Agile techniques behind it. In Scrum, after each Sprint, you should have a potential shippable product. How can you have such situation without a good test-automation? Manual test would work fine early on when the list of features are minimum, but it doesn't scale. Remember, a Sprint is usually either a week or two. How can you re-test the whole product every 2 weeks? Hire more QAs?

Developers these days pay lip-service when it comes to writing test-automation. They'll dodge any tasks related to test. This happens because of our university/education doesn't teach us that test is important. Testing is usually a footnote in "Software Development" courses.

The reason why TDD is important is simple: people lie all the time. People are lazy. That's a matter of fact. They would say "sure, my code is testable, we don't have to write unit-tests now". By the time someone tried to write a unit-test, you'll hear tons of excuses. Can't do.

Now, let's get to everybody's favorite part: Superstar Developer. Yes, they do exist. No, they're not perfect, they'll make mistakes, they'll get sloppy, their estimate went south, etc. Superstar developers write unit-tests. I don't care if they do TDD or not, but at the end of the day, their code should be testable from all angles.

Please understand that we are trying to get better in this industry. Developer testing their own stuff is something quite relatively new. There are _plenty_ developers out there that allergic to testing.
Yeah yeah, we know. Obligatory HN anti-government rant. Only here can that not only occur on a post about a government limiting its own powers (quite reasonably too) through its own system of checks and balances, but not even be a surprise.
Oops, my mistake, I substituted one synonym ("state") for another ("country"). But how did I mischaracterize the quote? In what way is the meaning different.

Regardless, you are ducking the main point to nitpick a small quotation error.
Thanks for the link to Peter Norvig's spell checker - interesting reading there.
I don't see any evidence at all indicating that the mainstream culture has adopted this meme in common speech as opposed to just making a bunch of links to a particular website. Do you really think there are a great many people in the world who, upon being introduced to Sarah Santorum, will immediately think about a mixture of feces and lube? Seriously, do you really believe that a great number of such people exist?
hm no - the goal is to match high impact founders ...
That's true, it is up to the business owners to control their wages. But why is this changing so much more since the mid 1970's than before, and (even more importantly) should it be changing?

With that second question we are getting more into a philosophical question than a purely economic one. I personally believe that additional productivity of a worker should benefit the worker not just the employer and i also believe that there should be institutions in place to promote and foster lower income inequality. Addressing this as purely an effect of supply and demand ignores the whole human component to the labor market and the vast political instability that can be created by an ineffective labor market.
So?

Electrostatic force also causes objects to move. Just making an object move does not make gravity special.
I'm told that you can do .NET development using Mono quite satisfactorily. No personal experience.

There's a lot of crappy Java programs. This is likely the result of there being a lot of crappy Java programmers.

Personally, programming is why I'm not on Windows; sure, you've got the .NET stack, but we've got everything else. Most languages, editors, debuggers, etc. that I find are either *nix-only, or have Windows support bolted on.

I feel like a religious war is forthcoming.
10 Reasons Facebook will have problems
The other problem is they have been hyping V4 for a long time by making beta testing invite only and hard to get. It would have been better if they can have a public V4 beta running in parallel with V3 since it is a rewrite.
How about a challenge.gov Challenge to help secure the site?
Reddit went through similar issues a few months back (downtime, slowness, etc.), but they overcame these issues without turfing people. My guess is Digg pushed the engineering VP out to make the investors happy rather than to actually move forward.
Its from Techcrunch, thats pretty much their business model.
Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics
Even better: Have a link that says: "Try the new Beta" at the top like gmail and google docs, with a "Go back to Old Version".

Implementing this should not be to hard and it allows them to get some feedback.
Country != government
Things like this make it seem worthwhile to create a code translator. In the same way the compiler converts the code from horrific basement language to computer language, it would convert the code from basement language to a properly structured maintainable form. Not just re-formatting, but perhaps changing dated methodologies etc.

Kind of like perltidy, but much more aggressive, pruning and re-arranging and re-writing bits as needed.

On the one hand, in theory a computer could never do it as well as a human, and we should learn to code properly. On the other hand, it's a very common problem, and computers are supposed to be time-saving devices above anything else.
On the flip side, Google gathers data. It's part of its DNA. It's hard not to sound creepy. It will be officially creepy when he hits all the points of the Santa Clause song.
I've heard from a few people that right after the update they had a bad day or two and then something sorted itself out in the phone.

I'd recommend getting rid of any task management software/killers as well.
You need screenshots.I could not find any from the home page.
About a year ago, they were using it to store a list of friends of viewing user who dugg the viewing news.

original blog post: http://about.digg.com/blog/looking-future-cassandra

Treads on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813528
bit.ly has a number of domains specifically for shortening the URL of major sites like Amazon. The New York Times is another one that, if you put it in bit.ly, will use a NYT-specific domain. Maybe these sites have their own URL shortening APIs that bit.ly is leveraging?
Wouldn't it be pretty easy to buy a bunch of paid links and setup a bunch of known spam tactics for http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/ then just wait for Google to remove the "spammy" site?
> Python and Ruby? You mean those languages which also runs on .NET?

Aside from the fact that IronPython, at least, is a second-class citizen (I don't know much about the state of IronRuby), the OP was asking why one would choose Microsoft rather than some open-source solution. Stating that Windows also runs popular scripting languages is not an argument against that. What you should be addressing is whether or not PHP/Java/Ruby/Python can replace the oft-used .NET languages, as well as whether Mono is a suitable replacement for the CLR.
Tell that to investors. I see their position as precarious and they haven't IPO'd or been acquired. They have a lot of staff and have longevity, but I don't think that is enough for them to stop being a startup.
Indeed,

Agile theory does make some nods to not commodifying the programmers labor and giving programmers autonomy. But when it's sold the bean counters, they filter for the parts that get them what they want.
I liked this extension but don't use chrome, so I made: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/86091/.

If you find a bug, repo is here: http://github.com/jdeseno/PolyGlop, patches welcome!
> In what way is the meaning different?

The "state" means not only the nation but the government. The "country" means, er, the country. JFK did not say, and plainly did not mean, "ask what you can do to help the government".
This article confuses me on two points:

1. I need some sort of reference point as to where the happy people earning $75,000 are living. This hardly needs to be said on HN, but $75,000 in West Virginia is a lot different than $75,000 in the Bay Area or NYC (for that matter, it says nothing of taxes either).

2. The article claims that people's "satisfaction" continues to increase the more they earn (beyond $75,000), but doesn't say why that doesn't increase their happiness. Is the increase in "satisfaction" being offset by something else, or is "satisfaction" (as they define it) simply orthogonal to happiness?
Vanity Fair on Sean Parker
@jhck, drothlis: Thank you very much to both of you, those suggestions are exactly what was asked for. I'd upvote you more if I could. :)

Both the Gries book and Stepanov's book have really impressive reviews on Amazon, am looking forward to diving into them.

http://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Compute...

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Programming-Alexander-Stepano...
Back when that is what agile was, I was all for it. But it had become a dogma, just like the dogma that causes you to lie about the tea party and obamacare- you don't carewhat reality is.
Is this per-capita? My salary is higher than that but I'm providing for 5 people, so I get nowhere near that.
You'd be surprised sometimes at how poorly apps rated Gold or Silver actually run.
Yeah, if anything techcrunch's new context supplies a suggestion that the reader think about the creepiness of personalization. The intended meaning of the phrase seems clear enough without the rest of the paragraph.

There's nothing unfair about honest editorializing.
The US has a lot of crappy jobs and cheap towns that don't get near as much attention as SV, LA, and NYC.
Ask not what your neighbors can do for you, ask what you can do for your neighbors.

Ask not what the building inspector can do for you, but what you can do for the building inspector.

That is the differene between "country" and "state" on a local level.
Unless you're collecting donations or hiring help, defer organizational questions. Make the site a personal project; if it has legs then consider formal options -- and at that point you'll have advice from your community.

(For example, Wikipedia ran for 2 years as a side project of Jimmy Wales' for-profit company before the Wikimedia Foundation was created.)
I have no idea how this comes off as creepy in an era where hundreds of millions of people voluntarily broadcast their daily activity and all their interpersonal relationships on social networks. Shit, Hacker News knows "where you are" and "what you like" good enough for government work.
This is accomplished by way of a swashplate, as can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_%28helicopter%29
This article is a fine example of the poor logic that pisses me off nearly every day. Just because Digg v4, which heavily uses Cassandra, can't be used as a Cassandra success story does not automatically mean you can assume the opposite, that it is a Cassandra failure story. There is no indication why Digg has been down so often and there is really no conclusions to draw as of yet on the technology they use.
While a vocal minority on the left supports gay marriage, they will vote dem regardless of the dem candidate's position on this issue. After all, republicans are a bunch of stupid racist religious types who kill their own meat rather than buying it from the store like civilized people.

A large group of people on both sides of the political aisle oppose gay marriage. They are not strongly motivated to vote - if you don't piss them off, many will stay home. If you piss them off, the ones on your side will stay home and the other guy's will vote against you.

It's simple calculus.

(Abortion is much the same. The fanatical anti-abortion types will always vote against the godless muslim babykillers who have sex outside of marriage, even if the candidates on their team do absolutely nothing to prevent abortion.)
So, when Gates bought 150M of Apple stock in 97, was he betting against himself? Worked out to be a winning bet for Gates.

As Jobs said at the time: "We have to let go of a few notions here. We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft needs to lose.”
A few points, based only on my own thoughts and emotions when clicking your link above:

* I have a fairly small screen, and when the page loaded all I saw was the "Photo sharing has never been easier" and sign up. I didn't see features, I don't see any screenshots, etc. It would help if the features are more up and center rather than a sign up form.

* Related to above... there is no demo or screenshots or anything. I'm not sure if this site is supposed to be dead simple image sharing (like imgur.com or something) or something more. But I'm not willing to sign up to find out. More visual assistance, please.

* For a photo sharing site, the design -- while sleek -- is pretty drab. Its a fairly depressing set of colors that didn't evoke any sort of excitement from me. For example, when I visit flickr.com, I see a bright, vibrant image of people swimming. Beautiful. It gets me excited to share/see other images.

I'm no professional, just a regular consumer, and those are my two cents.
Money Can Buy Happiness, Study Finds - But Only Up To $75,000
We're chopping and the branches with these laws. The root problem is our inability to recognize and respond to new risks associated with new technology. Behavior can either be changed through force (law) or persuasion (education). I'm glad this guy wrote this blog post and persuaded me to once again be more careful with these tools.
> The Perfect Salary for Happiness

This is a very strange statement. What about the taxes? What about the difference in the value of $75K between say Chicago and Ulan-Bator?
When you say "this" you mean the translation of the pilot's controls into the angles of the blades at the various stages of their journey, mixing collective (giving overall lift) and cyclic (giving pitch and roll)

Yes.
A Tale of Three States
Staying Healthy and Sane At a Startup
Ask YC: Why isn't my submission ranked higher?
Curiosity question for admins:

My Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem post got 26 points in 1 hour and is ranked at #57 and falling fast.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669960

To compare, the BackType (YC S08) is hiring product designers, engineers and interns got 37 points in 3 hours and is at #5.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669571

I'm curious, why is the BackType submission ranked higher than the Rick Santorum post, which had more upvotes in a shorter amount of time? Is it the content of the title?
In "Large overview" mode on the photo pages, consider adding some kind of loading indicator when new photos are loading in the background. I'd click forward, then click again wondering if I'd hit the button correctly.
Part of the reason that Cassandra may be the focus is that Kevin Rose places much of the stability problems on Cassandra's shoulders. Two or three minutes into the most recent diggnation he talks about Cassandra and describes Cassandra as "very beta-stage software" and says how days before the launch at least some of their focus was on fixing "Cassandra problems" rather than issues with Digg v4.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/kevin-rose-responds-to-digg...
Yeah, I may be blind, but how do you even get to the upcoming stories?
There's a world of difference, and you know that, otherwise you wouldn't have rephrased it in order to try and provoke an emotional reaction.

The main point was, what, that not every single project on this list is world changing? Good. Little changes add up and are easier to achieve. There were some big projects on the list as well.
"TypeSet[1] is an implementation of the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas element. The goal of this implementation is to optimally set justified text in the new HTML5 canvas element, and ultimately provide a library for various line breaking algorithms in JavaScript."

[1]: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/
Perhaps they have or will soon, but you'd think Fog Creek (Joel Spolsky) would want to donate a bit as well since Kiln revolves around Mercurial:

http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/
Privacy is not no-one knowing anything about you. Privacy is being able to control what others know about you.
Business owners control wages only in the event that labor supply outstrips demand. After the 70s, due to globalization and technology, the demand (in the US) for modestly educated bodies dropped, while the demand for (a comparatively smaller number of) highly educated workers increased.

When you can buy steel from China or run a car factory with robots, what do the 20,000 workers that used to work there do? Google has ~20K employees worldwide and it's worth $175B, the old USX steel plant on the South Side of Chicago has 20,000 workers within 2 square miles. Tech companies create jobs, but nowhere near the number that manufacturing used to.

I never mentioned whether this was a good thing or not. I think that every person that doesn't get autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward (worth reading the book Outliers just for that 3-item list), society will be poorer overall. So I think that unemployment and underemployment are huge drags on the economy, not to mention how devastating they are to the people involved.

"I personally believe that additional productivity of a worker should benefit the worker not just the employer" - this happens when the worker creates unique or hard-to-replace value. I too wish everyone could do this, and it's one of the main reasons to do a startup.

"i also believe that there should be institutions in place to promote and foster lower income inequality." - you can argue that YC is doing this, by teaching founders how to become richer than they would have otherwise been. The question is if this method (teach people to create more value vs capture value from those that create it) will scale to a whole society. I personally doubt that, so the question is how much to take from the top, and where to set the floor.
Never work in a startup?
I'd be surprised if flags didn't influence rank.
Although I love Heroku, and it really is a great platform, I find that, for my startup and personal projects, the costs hold me back from doing some things.

Say I need to run a simple background job, that would be $36/month - almost 2 linodes. And with the excellent articles on http://articles.slicehost.com, I find that setting up a vps takes no more than a few hours. Plus, it's a lot of fun and a good learning experience!

I don't see how Heroku could do it much cheaper though, when you look at the pricing of Amazon EC2 instances which their platform runs on.
Is it just me or does this sound like a bunch of garbage that only helps justify effective salary targets and caps "for the good of the worker"?

It's like a lot of articles that say "you should pay your coders well, but most of them don't care about salary beyond a certain point, they'd rather work on interesting problems." What?! Sounds like bullshit justification to me. Sure it's nice to work on interesting problems, but isn't it nicer to work on interesting problems AND get paid well?
It is not in Cyanogenmod 6.0 final for Dream and Sapphire. It used to be in 5.0.x series.

Edit: Sorry, my bad, it is still there. The Cyanogenmod wallpapers section grew up in size and somehow I missed that the last wallpaper is still there.
hello my name is brenda and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival in the United States and Canada
Yeah, so nobody's advocating that the government takes over commodity manufacturing, cooking, or for that matter farming.

Meanwhile. Energy? And if you claim that the private sector's currently handling that without government help, I'm going to point and laugh for any definition of "handling", "that" and "government help".
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_problem . The reduction in fidelity to provide depth perception isn't nearly 1/2 the pixels.
Rate my startup: coookin.com
This is a 2.5 year old press release. Why is it newsworthy now?
Do the agile books make disclaimer that they are describing fantasyland?
According to Wikipedia, the workaround came from the Israeli army, who found the bug, not the manufacturer. The instructions for this workaround did not propogate clearly and thus weren't followed.

Being defenseless for a few minutes every day during a reboot hardly seems like a reasonable fix anyway, especially if it becomes standard procedure that your enemy may learn about.

The fact that the manufacturer did release a patch, rather than a workaround, the day after the accident suggests that this was indeed the safest course of action. It was just taken too late.
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This just in: Happiness became measurable.
I once worked at amazon. They hire managers who can barely operate computers and can't code. They like to keep engineers on call.

So for instance, on more than one occasion I was forced to wake up and fix a chronic problem caused by another team at 3-4am,and would show up at 10:15 and miss he scrum.

Got chewed out for being 15 minutes late on only 5 hours sleep.

Worst company ever.
Well, the Hummingbird is based on the Cortex A8, which is in-order superscalar. (True) multi-core ARMs like this Orion are necessarily based on the Cortex A9, which was designed for up to 4 cores and is out-of-order superscalar.

I'm not sure if we know how efficient the newer microarchitecture is in general, and then there's going to be some overhead for multi-cored versions like sharing the L2 cache (e.g. coherency) and so on.
I agree with you about this being part of Google's DNA. But really, they need to get a mouthpiece that doesn't sound so creepy every time they try to tell someone what they're up to. They need someone with some sense of spin doing these interviews.
From my very limited knowledge of language acquisition, my guess is you might be wrong (although I'm happy to be corrected). Don't human children acquire language much faster, more accurately and from poorer signals than would be possible via statistical inference?
I'm not sure the term "Use Case" belongs on the front page, that's a fairly technical/business oriented term.

I'd flip the "What is Yogile?" and the sign up forms. People want to know what it is before getting involved. I'd also say the "what is yogile?" needs to be dead simple, easily ingested in seconds.

But with those criticisms aside, I love the idea. I think the net is long overdue for a site like this and really look forward to what you guys do.
F5 Networks Week in Review August 30th – September 3rd, 2010
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1122131/?ln=cs
You Know Your Business Model is Good When...
This works especially well for words you can’t find in the dictionary or when you want to know whether the context in which you use a word is appropriate.
As a developer myself, I love hearing:

> Implementing this should not be to hard...