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Crowd never should have happened.

For 3 (or was it 4 or 5?) years, jira users have voted for an enhancement to drive jira groups out of LDAP. The reward for this loyalty? Crowd: a whole new product, with a separate, spendy license. Bizarrely, Confluence is capable of doing this LDAP integration without Crowd. But rather than port that over to Jira and make some users happy, Atlassian decided to take another bite out of their wallets instead.

I actually bought Crowd, out of desperation to solve the problem, but dropped it after a year. Trivially obvious features weren't implemented. It ended up being easier to just script what we needed ourselves.

And don't even get me started on how painful it is to upgrade Atlassian products. shudder
One amusing thing only tangentially related to this - the unofficial mercurial plugin for Jira has been broken (in Windows) for months. We've been considering buying FishEye just to get decent hg integration!
Wikipedia Explores Peer-to-Peer Sharing for Video Distribution
I think you make a good point.

To add to it:

Take those 2 minutes of personal time. Halve them because teachers don't try to maximize personal time (I suspect that's still high). Then multiply by 6 classes per year on average for 16 years. That makes 288 hours. Such a small number for such a long education. It's less than 2 months full time work. It's so little.

This does not even begin to approach the estimated 10,000 hours it takes to actually get good at something.
v1.1 of htty, the HTTP TTY, is out
The hot issues people had with the first release have been addressed:

• HTTP Secure support
• HTTP Basic Authentication support
• Support for arrow keys and Emacs key bindings
• Support for Ctrl-D for terminating input

There’s more goodness besides, and Rack integration coming together on a forked project (htty-rack).
The hot issues people had with the first release have been addressed:

• HTTP Secure support

• HTTP Basic Authentication support

• Support for arrow keys and Emacs key bindings

• Support for Ctrl-D for terminating input

There’s more goodness besides, and Rack integration coming together on a forked project (htty-rack).
Aw, give him this one.
That book has the worst Python code ever in a print publication.
This is up to the app, the app has complete read/write access to iPhone contacts. Nothing to do with Apple for that problem, although I am going to be pretty pissed if apps start doing this without asking.
I waited in line for 30 minutes today - and then discovered that I forgot my wallet. I had my phone though.
The exact quote was, "Until you use an iPhone, a Mac, drive a BMW or Audi, you don't even realize how great the experience can be"

I never said that you can't use Windows, an Android, or drive another car. But at some point you need to use the top end product to really appreciate what's out there. If you spend your whole life on Windows/BlackBerry/Toyota, you might not understand what a great product is.

Before the iPhone came out, no one knew how great a phone could be. Even I didn't. The iPhone made me understand how you can take an existing feature set, and dramatically change a product through the experience.

You're going with a blanket, "German cars suck"? Really? I'd bet German cars have more fanatics than Japanese cars do. German cars delight people.

Lexus may outsell BMW, but that doesn't make it a better car. To me, a Lexus is just a high end Honda. It gets me from point A to point B, with a bit more luxury. One of Lexus's problems is that they don't have a vision, a passion. They just pump out what people will buy:

http://sachin.posterous.com/the-problem-with-lexus-is-while-...

And yes, BMW sucks at interface design. Where they excel is in building the ultimate driving machine. I'm all for BMW outsourcing their tech:

http://sachin.posterous.com/stick-to-what-youre-good-at-for-...
I'm guessing they mean ten times more energy than other organic photovoltaics.

Then again, maybe they mean ten times more energy than other thin-film organic photovoltaics.

Either way, the actual important information is definitely missing here.
UN 'to appoint space ambassador to greet alien visitors'
Adam Phillips - The Happiness Myth
auxbuss, we haven't yet tested on Ubuntu. Will do that. Also, do you happen to have a script blocker on it, like no-script?

Option to switch off is a good idea. We will add it soon.
I don't know about that ...

DE Shaw & Company takes its very smartest people (and a non-trivial portion of their profits) and puts them to work at DE Shaw Research, where they work on protein folding and other computational biology that could help cure cancer and HIV. I think that's a pretty worthwhile use of talent :-D

From what I was told, David Shaw is spending most of his time on the research group these days.

They ostensibly don't consider themselves a finance firm - they consider themselves a tech firm that will use their skills wherever they can to increase efficiency and make money.
I've done this diet in the past and just started another cycle of it. I love it and highly recommend people try it. However, the point of this diet isn't so you can pig out on candy bars and still stay in shape. You can easily eat over maintenance in one meal and end up gaining weight on the warrior diet.

The basic premise is to under eat for about 20 hours followed by 4 hours of over eating. You still need to watch what you eat during that 4 hour period, should be high protein, whole grains and veggies. You will go through about 2 weeks of hunger pains at first, but afterwards its great and should experience big gains in energy and focus.
Thanks, auxbuss. The option to disable Twitter/Facebook after they are enabled as well as ability to delete your account are in the to-do list.
Yeah, the article was a bit disappointing. It ended up being a biased advertisement for Austrian economics, the most fantastic of them all.
Thanks. We will rework the messaging on the landing page and other pages.
Many universities do their own course prep for 2 separate reasons.

1. Schools recruit by bragging about famous/accomplished graduates -- all taught by the $UNIVERSITY_NAME method.

2. Many schools research teaching methods, and therefore new things and materials are actually part of some experiment.

There is actually a 3rd, sort of meta-reason. In academics it is considered "incestuous" for students to undergrad->phd->position at the same university. They like to send people around various places as a way of spreading ideas. This mostly plays out in graduate levels, but that same thinking applies to "different schools teach different ways".

A final thought -- just like it is good to have multiple varieties of plants in fields, multiple brands of networking gear in a security conscious network, and so on, perhaps multiple teaching methods are good too, as a way of innocculating against "bad thinking".
This is a great ruling, but now the fight will shift to regulators. It may be another year or two, but I predict we'll see bills both at the state and national level restricting the recording of public servants.
I hear you. I just think that people (particularly if those people are also developers) would appreciate it if they actually heard from the IE developers a bit more. It doesn't have to be to degree where it's interfering with your actual job. You guys should stay in control of how much you interact etc. For me I would find it encouraging to know that the IE developers are just around in places like HN and are listening. I'd know that if they say something occasionally. How much you interact or how much feedback you gather would not really be the relevant issue to me.

Just a thought anyways. :)
The Buran was an imitation of the US Shuttle system, but the US Shuttle was not something worth imitating. Reusable launch vehicles have some advantages, but the Shuttles were not reusable in any reasonable sense. Had the Soviets dumped the development budget from Buran into building and launching stations with Energia while continuing to use Soyuz for crew ferrying and return they could have done some truly amazing things. Instead they made fundamentally the same mistake as the US, throwing away money on a horribly flawed system.
Probably true. But it depends. Let's say you've got 5 queries that take 1 second each.. There's a potential 5x speedup if you can run them in parallel.

I think some basic concurrency support in PHP (such as Futures) would have a pretty huge benefit. The other alternative is to have async APIs for libraries like mysql.

You could argue that anything that is taking too long that it needs parellelizing is probably a candidate for a background queue + frontend polling (or similar).
Agreed, the Evan Miller piece is far more thoughtful than the OP. Still, it doesn't consider that many groupon deals are un-, not barely-, profitable for the business owner.

For example: http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316 The deal was $6 for $13 worth of merchandise, but after Groupon's take, she gets to keep $3. No way to cover costs with a deal like that.. never mind profit.

And if the deal is unprofitable, there's no way to economically justify the offering unless you start factoring in soft effects like return visiters, name recognition, etc.
I absolutely hate carrying around both my phone and my wallet in my pocket. What if I could just carry around my phone and my driver’s license?

Why stop at eliminating the wallet? I expect someday -- perhaps quite soon -- some state will allow a mobile with the right app(s) to serve as a Driver's License.

And why not? It could contain digitally-signed info which includes the photo and everything else appearing on traditional cards. For better or worse, police could even check it at a distance.
For the moment. But the wheel turns. It always does. And that's the important thing.

For a very long time, media distribution revolved around warehousing cumbersome black boxes of plastic and charging absurd fees for access. The barriers for entry were extraordinary, requiring geographic reach and licensing agreements. Nationwide media rental was a defacto monopoly for Blockbuster.

Then the medium of information shifted. Because Blockbuster didn't care that much about whether or not people were happy with the service they provided, they didn't notice the new opportunities to make their business better.

Someone else did. Someone always will.

Netflix, because they are customer focused, is busy making itself obsolete. They know one day that the wheel will turn. Physical media will disappear entirely.

The same will happen for bandwidth. Disruption is only a matter of time. As always, there are challenges. But the demand is universal. The market is enormous.

And everyone fucking hates the incumbents.
My take on this “secret”, in fewer words: claim personal expertise and experience and make some emphatic claim (esp. w/ an emphatic title) about a topic where people will either agree with your point from their own experience, or have some existing opinion (who doesn't have an opinion about facebook?), then make sure you get it in front of a bunch of Hacker News readers (perhaps via some other mechanism, like twitter).

The facebook gripe post wasn’t completely linkbait-y, since it provided a nice basis for a solid discussion, but by itself it was pretty light on substance. I’d personally much prefer to see gripes with more meat on them; “show, don’t tell”.
Star Wars flicks to see 3D re-release, starting with Episode 1 in 2012
This is all very interesting, and the author has clearly done a lot of research. But where are the benchmarks? I'd love to see some sort of replicable evidence that using this command helps things that much.

Linux's NUMA policy does seem broken for this use case. If all the memory on node 0 is used up (but plenty is free in node 1) and a thread in node 0 attempts to allocate memory, why not, instead of swapping out pages from node 0, simply move them to node 1? Alternatively just allocate memory in node 1, as the author suggests. I'm not a kernel programmer. Anyone who's more familiar with this care to answer?
What are the numbers?
> An attorney representing [the police] said the ruling, “will make it more difficult for the police to do their jobs.”

If your job as a cop is hindered by being videotaped while in public areas, then your job is by definition not in the public's interest, and you should not be allowed (and especially paid) to conduct it.
Right, complexity definitely leads to loopholes, I was saying that it was an adversarial/exploitative attitude that leads to increasing complexity.
Thanks desigooner. We will be fixing it in the next build.
Whether or not he was innocent has nothing to do with whether he deserves sympathy for being beaten within an inch of his life. There is no excuse for that kind of behavior from police.
Obesity And Fast Food Relations
In some cases, it may be even simpler than that. Perhaps men simply ask for raises or promotions more often than women. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07...
I find that hard to believe. What from your Language and Literature studies have been valuable to you as a programmer?
So you write programming languages as an aside from your job of negotiating deliveries of livestock feed?

Or are you maybe actually getting paid for your programming language work in the form of useful contacts, better reputation, better experience, and so on which increase your salary?

I'd place money on the later -- so you don't do it for free, you just don't do it for direct money. I doubt you would write programming languages nearly as intensely if you were the aforementioned negotiator. The reward would be less and you would instead be going for drinks with clients and otherwise networking, it is a hobby people like that also ends up in professional payout...
This blog post is like an infomercial selling a book on how to make your own infomercial. Flag!
The HN homepage is very reliant on everything being there. One shot to a number did this: http://skitch.com/jackowayed/d29n5/hn-ass-kicked
I currently use JIRA with Greenhopper and Bitbucket. We're currently a team of 15.

My Atlassian experience is only with JIRA as a developer. I'm with mml. The user interface drive me nuts. It gets in the way of me communicating with the team.

The dashboard reports things like time changes. "gry changed the Time Spent to '13920' on FOO-1000" I don't care how many seconds someone spent on an issue. If you have to configure a humane interface, something is wrong.

This is a small example. It takes my locus of attention away from doing what I'm paid to do, write software.

I need to communicate with the team and ask questions in order to get more information to complete an issue. I'm still responsible, yet our workflow requires us to assign the issue to someone in order for the question to be answered, then assigned back. It feels like I'm shuffling tickets rather than communicating around a ticket. The emails sent aren't humane. Don't get me going.

Yet, I can't reply to a JIRA ticket via email as a standard install?

The gist is, after using JIRA daily for seven months, I'm struggling. It feels like the user interface reflects the data model and I don't want to learn it. I get it, it's powerful. But why introduce how complex it is right away? There is no carrot. There's a carrot pile and when you're building velocity, it's not fun to jump over.
I hope you're getting paid for your time.
Tell HN: I'm giving a live developer tutorial
I'm going to be giving a live presentation on the php symfony framework online at uStream.tv on Oct. 15, 7pm est.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chattdevelopers
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=159410737418800

I'm hoping to give many more of these and I have plans on getting more people to give presentations online soon =)

A little info about Chattanooga, TN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Top and Left Navigations
Newsweek's Review of The Social Network is Bogus.
If memory serves, Joyent has been more of a Dell shop than a Sun shop for a couple years now.
I just started at a very young company. There was already a clear expectation that I work 40-50 hours per week (since it is written on the contract).

On the first day, one of the founders asked me: "what are your hours going to be? I come in at 10, Bob comes at 7, and Frank at 9:00.".

I liked this approach.
Iran Sentences Blogger to 19 1/2 Years In Prison
We use the LaTeXML system [http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/], see also http://trac.mathweb.org/LaTeXML for developer-related stuff. LaTeXML can transform (most of) your LaTeX documents to XHTML+MathML which can then be presented in the browser. In the arXMLiv project [http://arxmliv.kwarc.info] you can see LaTeXML in action: we have transformed the majority (over half a million articles) of http://arxiv.org.
That is the vibe it gives. It's kind of unfortunate, too, because a gamer dating site that enforced a no-douchebag rule would be an interesting experiment. Instead it looks like an even more pathetic version of LiveJasmin.
Linux Explorers
Know linux from bottom to top....
But "have a monopoly" isn't a viable business strategy: you can't decide to build a monopoly business, then go out and do it. It's just something companies luck into, like winning the lottery.
Waxman's net neutrality compromise: solution or last gasp?
Scared to open the package: adventures in game writer bribery
I'm not a computer scientist nor really a programmer and I found it very readable. Care to elaborate?
Here's his traffic page: http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html

Getting close to 2M pageviews/month.
You would think MySQL types would simply "shard" their servers by starting a MySQL process on each board.

(This problem was fixed in Oracle in the 90s originally for deployment on Sequent hardware).
Shipping from us to Europe
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This sounds absolutely fascinating - do you know where I can learn more about this study?
To put this in more actionable vocabulary: don't count features you've built, count user stories you've satisfied. Frequently the same small subset of your features make up the key steps in almost all your stories, while the rest of your features can't really find a business use-case at all (because the user will be more likely to chain together other, more familiar features, or chain your feature with features from other products, to accomplish the task instead.)
How to Spot a Terrorist
I read it when it came out which was a while ago. I found it to be very unidiomatic Python at the time.

More critique at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208895 if you'll chase the parent links.
When I started the podcasting program at Tulane's med school after Katrina, we were at Baylor. I was in the audio booth when one of the techs realized he hadn't recorded the Baylor prof's lecture. He ran up front and asked him what to do. His direction: "just post last year's recording."

That said, my mom teaches math a community college and she teaches in a very particular style (good German upbringing). Her first semester teaching any particular course involves a lot of late nights.
The true story behind the amazing Minecraft Enterprise-D
You can be against police brutality without sympathizing with drunk driving morons like Rodney King just like you can be against the death penalty without sympathizing with murderous madmen like Charles Manson, or against political censorship without sympathizing with the Ku Klux Klan.

That's the essence of civil liberties--you don't have to be an object of sympathy or respect in order to have rights. You can be a common criminal, a mass murderer, or even a racist and you still have your rights, as well as plenty of people (you and me included) standing up for your rights even if on a personal level we wouldn't give you the time of day.
I am not a fan of Atlassian tools. But I like Bitbucket a lot. So my only hope it that the graft improves the host.
Why we’re all better off without a Verizon iPhone
His argument conflates all kinds of professors. Public opinion isn't nearly so negative about medical research faculty, because they make an obvious contribution to society. It's less obvious how professors of literature contribute, or what would go wrong with the world if the government stopped funding them.
I actually agree on the post being light on substance; I was completely blown away at the level of response it got. I wouldn't have been at all surprised if it hadn't made the frontpage at all.
Yes. Obviously these aren’t professional lobbyists (that’s the word for someone who is paid explicitly to write such letters). But they are lobbying. You can do it too, whenever you want. That’s (a big) part of the point of a representative system of government (one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the first amendment, in the case of the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_petition
I wish all these solar tech announcements would turn into products. Two years ago I was reading about new solar paint that would revolutionise solar power. Then it was printable panels that would drive down solar panel costs. There's always these announcements coming out, yet buying a solar panel still has a very long term payoff because of the high cost. I'd be solar-ed up tomorrow if I could make the numbers add up. Tired of the hype - show us products to buy.
Ouch. I'm not really selling anything, just thought people who write for this audience might be interested in what I had found out through the process. Why does the HN crowd have such an issue with people promoting themselves even slightly? If the content is good and people like it, they'll vote it up...I don't see the problem with trying to fit your product to the HN market.

Edit: in fairness, this blog post title was too sensational, so I've changed the HN post to be less so. Unintentional, but still, my apologies.
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Yes, even though my blog is incredibly lame by HN standards (or any standards, really). I imagine that people who post actual content must have to beat off recruiters with a stick.
Team collaboration group chat, file sharing, group decision with Campfire
Now to see something like this work with a net-enabled 3D television.
Something struck me about this statement:

> Or maybe I'm wrong and society is lacking that final breakthrough deconstruction of Proust before we all happily move forward toward enlightenment.

We already do have a group of people in our society who believe something similar: priests. They've survived quite a long while as a group without needing to be paid for any actions that directly benefit the people paying them; churchgoers just keep them alive and fed through donations, from a moral sense of obligation to the church itself.

Perhaps, then, the readers of quality English literature need to form a religion (or, at least, a cult) around it, and pay tithes to the professors? Heck, that could probably also pay to get the literature itself written in a much more sensible way than publishing houses manage... ;)
Nice! Maybe it can be hooked up to a gmail or facebook stream to literally "destroy" spam or unwanted messages... email cleanliness could be a few laser shots away :-)
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