skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where's the burndown chart (or any task effort estimates at all)? Where do I maintain my product backlog? This tool feels more suited to something like XP or generic Agile than pure Scrum to me.

But that's the problem with project management tools: everyone's got a different mental model for organizing work and measuring output because nobody strictly follows all the practices of any one methodology to the letter ("Agile is empirical," after all). You adopt the practices that work for you and your team, which means you have to create your own project management tools adapted to that unique workflow (unless you're lucky enough to find the tools that someone else created meet your needs perfectly).

Otherwise, you're forced to adapt your workflow to the tools you choose.
Come on. http://searchyc.com/hosting
Amazing! I love the design and the sheer amount of info conveyed in a small space.

One bug in chrome (who cares yet, right?) but anyway: When typing into the task textbox, the centered text doesn't display correctly.
Last night Yahoo! YUI engineers hosted a meetup for the new 3.0 version at the Brickhouse in Soma. There was also another geek gathering at Cnet and all headed afterwards over to the 21st Amendment Brewery also in Soma. Our office is in Soma, as is Justin.tv and many other startups, so Soma is probably a good area to look around.
If that's the kind of thing that makes you feel dirty, I might suggest turning your computer off, and going out drinking...
Personally I'd take the second deal, but that's just because I don't consider $1 million to really be "fuck you" money at all -- it'd buy me a nice house and give me a good head start, but it wouldn't let me retire and spend the rest of my life doing whatever-the-hell-I-want the way $20 million would.

His point still stands, of course, if you multiply the numbers by something. Make it a 50% chance of $10 million vs a 20% chance of $200 million, and I'd probably take the first deal.
This is a simple but effective concept. The markup looks good. Nice job.
Heh, funny.

One small problem with shoeboxes: They get lost.

Proper lever arch folders have more survivability.
Ask HN: Know any good Email Servers?
My company's web app is currently going through private beta testing. But as time goes by I'm starting to see that email integration is such a MUST for users that it's almost automatic for them to expect that the web app their using will inform them of any actions through their email.

I have experience setting up VPS's and such but I have no experience whatsoever setting up a good email server. I guess the best place to start is Google. But HN has been such a valuable repository of information and experience that I would find it idiotic of me to not tap into the collective intelligence here.

So my question is do you guys know any good email servers? something a bootstrap startup can afford for the mean time. Thank you!
We've played with the idea of having a burndown chart and other task point-tracking-related things. They might show up as a future Pro feature, or they may show up in the next level of Scrumy.
sleek!
Ups... i did't there is YC search, actually cound not find it. Thanks
We noticed that. Really, really weird bug! I don't know why that is happening yet or we would have fixed it, sorry. Which is a shame, because otherwise Scrumy screams with Chrome's new JS engine.
I absolutely love the promotional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmZ5O5AJ2F4

Great work, very simple and it works!
info@ecarder.com

Look forward to hear from ya! Thanks
It's like Gary Vaynerchuck says. Be the Gary Vee or Ze Frank of Lambo detailing, evening. Be the Ze Frank of Lamborghini detailing. 400 highly dedicated fans can give you more enjoyment and fulfillment than 25,000 anonymous Diggers.

You can have it if you want it, you just have to work for it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM_72QXCtN4
Wow, reddit must have done another redesign. It looks exactly like news.yc now.
What makes Java programs not "scripts"?

Java, Ruby, and everything else are all the same at some level. They let you type in instructions for the computer to execute. A VM is an execution strategy. Why does the front-end to that strategy make a difference to you? (Or rather, why do certain front-ends make you feel "dirty"? I think it's because you have no idea what you're talking about.)
Seen mingle? (from thoughtworks http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle-project-intelligence )
The results will probably work for some people better than for others. If 280 North can make good things with it, then it was worth it.
Why not use photos? Person comes in, you snap a photo and send it to the referrer. References checked.

And funny you should mention it - when I got hired to Microsoft nobody asked for my ID (until the day they needed to send the stuff to the tax-man which is long after the job offer was signed). I'm pretty sure nothing chnaged since. So you see, it works well enough.

I can see the point for your portfolio, but this seems like more of a business trademark issue than personal identity issue.
No, no. Not at all. I believe that being critical of something is the highest respect you can pay it.

That said, Apple products are way above the norm in terms of seamlessness, and while I still nitpick at them a lot, I hate people that criticize them and pretend that that makes all their accomplishments futile.
Whereas building a secure RFID is hundreds or thousands of engineering hours.

Building the insecure RFID is also hundreds or thousands of engineering hours. There is a lot of grunt work that was done regardless; designing the radios, designing the manufacturing process for the ID chips to be as cheap as possible, etc. Getting the crypto right isn't much on top of that.
A skim of the article reminds me of me.dium, and I had trouble finding that name, after forgetting it for long enough. Maybe SB is different (I don't know -- I'm not the target market)?
This is a good startup idea. I used to work at a company that heavily misapplied Scrum[1], and they bent over backwards to spend as much money as possible on anything that said "Scrum" on it. Software, consultants, everything. Basically, this should be easy money for you :) The people doing Scrum right will also be happy to pay for software that makes it easier.

[1] (I loved the misapplication of Scrum. The Scrum book we were using had examples of things to never do, and that's exactly what we did. We actually had 8-hour sprint planning meetings every two weeks, in addition to an 8-hour "demo days" and "retrospectives"... leaving 7 days out of every 10 for actual work. Of course, those were cut into by other meetings like "architecture working sessions" and so on. In the end, nobody got anything done, so they added even more meetings to determine why that was the case. Around that point, I quit.)
I can heartily recommend postfix http://www.postfix.org/

It's a good idea to keep a logical separation between the sending MTA and the receiving MTA (separate hostnames at the least, separate machines/instances is best because you can manage security policy better).

Do plan on keeping the SMTP operations separate from the web application, and if your application is going to read email, plan on building spamfiltering in from the beginning.
It looked like a calender at first sight, but great job. Its simple to look at all info on one page to see which is to be done, verified etc. MAybe little bit more color differences would help. Like verification like in red or something, since somebody mostly would be waiting on it.
Seriously awesome. Congrats.
Beware. The program that is called simply "Alarm Clock" thinks 12:30am is in the afternoon. I missed an exam because of it.
Thanks. Most diacritics in English are on loanwords, but I like using the diacresis to disambiguate long vowels. A particularly esoteric one is Oölogy, the study of eggs :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_with_diac...
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He's been in Boston for a few years now and has just started opening more cities (W-DC, etc).
KnownHost.com has been good to us, no complaints.
But since this was their first wheel it was probably a worth while experience for them.
the regrets are slowly building a voice inside me. usually along the lines of get out, have fun, get married now, start a family while you're still young, etc. but i'm addicted to working hard and succeeding, hence i keep going.

don't get "caught in the middle" - you either go for it or you don't. commit to one path and make it happen.
I got a lot out of his books, and I have little to no interest in trading. I'd guess most readers are the same.
Very nice, but it does bring to mind the phrase "law of diminishing returns". The car was pretty nice looking to start, and it was stunning after the quick wash. That's where I would have stopped and moved on to something else :)
A better solution is to file everything by month. It makes for quicker lookups without slowing down writes.
I recommend looking at postfix and qmail -- they were both written by people who understand security, but there are significant enough differences in their configurations that most people like one or the other but not both. De gustibus non est disputandum and all that, but it's worth looking at both so that you can decide which taste you prefer.
Conversion Blogging By Yaro Starak Is Now Available In PDF Format
You may remember back in July I sent you to a video by Yaro Starak called Conversion Blogging, which outlined Yaro’s system of blogging and marketing with an email list to bring in over $100,000 per year.
Crowdsourcing Book Excerpt: The Canary in the Coal Mine
The hard parts of writing a web browser are the rendering engine, the javascript engine, the transport layer and security code. The rest, comparatively, is trivial and there are cross-platform OSS libs for all of those.

etal got it right though -- Mozilla began as an OSS project in 1998, long before many of those libs were available.
LEGO NXT Pin Plotter
That might be true in YC-ish startups, but seems to be the opposite of what I've observed in the rest of the startup world. The CEO writes figures out what the market is and how to reach it; where the buttons are is not his concern.
One-Line Javascript memoization
Except that's old news (at least the real estate part of it). All that marginal space has been turned into paying real estate. Not only in SF but in just about every slightly expensive city in North America.

There was an article last week in the NYT about garages and what they add to the value of a property in Manhattan. Its in the millions. Chances are, if you pay a million extra for a garage, at the very least, you're parking a car there.

Admittedly, if you go far enough out in the suburbs, its not the case. But then you're in the suburbs, which has other challenges (transportation, etc).

All that aside, SOMA is where everything happens. If you can't afford to live there look incrementally further south until you find a place that you can live.
The Cappucino version appears to be about 400 lines of Javascript. So the jQuery one is 1/8th the size.

Although I doubt the Cappucino version was written with line count in mind.
Isn't that the difference, though? Some people tolerate their computers. Some people actively love them.
Maybe I need some better perspective, but I can't imagine breaking down all of my programming tasks into 15 minute increments. That is, to be able to commit new, tested, working code to a codebase on such a short timeframe seems like it's introducing a lot of overhead in context switching and that it would be very difficult to break down a complex piece in such a manner.
I managed for a week in Paris in 2006, and a week in Rome in 2007.

Yes, I suffered terrible withdrawal, and I am a total internet addict.
Furthermore... they last. I know people with 8-year-old Macs running the current operating system... and it seems to work pretty well.
Actually it seems like he's identified a bug with chrome and redirects. Going to https://google.com in firefox results in a 302 redirect to http://google.com.
It's odd. I've heard a lot about unreliable iPods too. But I've personally never had a problem, and so I find it kind of hard to relate.

My one iPod lasted 2 years. After that its screen cracked and it became hard to use, though the sound quality stayed the same. I saved it for shuffle mode at parties and for use in cars with built-in systems. I think that 2 years is a decent amount of time, considering I flung that thing around like no other. After that, I got a Touch, and that's where I'm at today.

I think that Apple inspires a sort of fanaticism. It's like all really top-notch things. Would a Volkswagen driver call a Porsche lover a fanatic? (I honestly don't know this, so I could be horribly wrong.)
I run an email server on a VPS for my own use. I run Postfix [SMTP], Dovecot [IMAPS], and Procmail [email filtering/sorting]. I think it would certainly be affordable for a startup.

I've also, at some point in the past, looked at 90% of the email hosts out there, and tried my fair share. (And found none satisfactory to my (admittedly stringent) requirements.)

Email me, and I'll try to share what I've learned with you. (kngspook, gmail, you know the drill...)
Thanks! Somehow the seriousness of the anchorman's report cracks me up.
Clarium Declines 13% in August, Biggest Monthly Loss
OpenID is too hard
Amazon to sell OLPC XO laptops in November
Favor small and frequent checkin over big ones.
Any drawbacks?
An article I read recently (I think it was wired but I can't find a link) that said the increase in silent hybrid/electric cars means people will start needing artificial car noise for safety (to warn pedestrians/animals/etc.).

It hinted that people will take a similar path as ringtones and start using music etc.
Did you check whether scrum-y.com was taken?

Maybe I just have a weird set of brain cells connected to my optic nerve, but I read that URL as being pronounced as "screw me dot com" .
Thanks! I am currently in a hotel in SOMA, but think to move a little bit southwest I guess — I don't want to spend more than $500/wk for rent, and housing is really a bit crazy in SF ;)
Gabriel weinberg's FAQ is idfficult to google for:

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive#t...
Weblog 1.0 - Simple blog software
Download Friday Night Lights Episodes
Have you missed the last season of Friday Night Lights or looking for its particular episode (For instance, 'Fight or Flight') or want DVD of particular shows or you are not able to compete with your friends when they say they know everything about Friday Night Lights?
Joost To Kill Desktop Client
Are Demo and TechCrunch50 fragmenting their audiences?
The rise of Re-shoring
You can also write shorter programs in assembler than the compiled version of what someone writes in C. The point of Cappuccino (and C) is to manage complexity.

Try writing 280slides in jQuery to see why complexity can be hard to manage.
What do you mean when you say "keep the SMTP operations separate from the web application"? With a queue?
An Internet of sorts, on rails
I think that the reason we don't see decreases in bloat is because developers generally don't want to remove features once a program has been released.

Instead, they strip things down and re-release it as a new, leaner product. Then they're free to break compatibility and features without hindrance.

Mozilla -> Firefox being one example.
Joel on Software makes a similar point:

http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html
Just Ship, Baby
I could use something like this. We lose plenty of business because "I'm not confident giving my data to people I don't know much about".
It wasn't. But, it also contains 0 lines of HTML and 0 lines of CSS, while the jQuery demo has about 200 lines of CSS on top of its 50 lines of jQuery.
The Cappuccino version pegs my processor when I resize the images, which makes it jerky. The jQuery version resizes the images smoothly. Might want to look into that.
A different article pointed out that modern cars are so quiet that most of the noise is from tires on the road, or air being displaced around the car. Engines are pretty quiet these days on most family cars. I actually listened to a Prius on the road and it really didn't seem noticeably quieter than the Hondas, etc near it.
Facebook for Spies?  You're kidding, right?
Open Letter to the Tech Media:

Please, please just stop the bad Apple puns. If this was
1976-8, it would be ok. But it's 2008. We've heard them
all and it's just terrible. Please. Just. Stop.

It doesn't matter if you're for Apple's products, neutral,
or heavily, hatefully against. We all hate the puns.

Think of the poor children who will think that this bad pun
behavior is acceptable in civilized society. I shiver at
the thought of a generation of people speaking in rhyme and
pun like old Batman adversaries -- only without the diction.

Please. Just. Stop.
In Python you can do the same: 'if not bool: ...', 'while bool: ...', '[for ... if not bool]'. Crazy one-liners are also possible.

We have just enough formatting flexibility and we prefer readability.
I'll be really impressed when someone builds a lego that can assemble another version of itself, given the right parts...
The Mission has a pretty high concentration of young people, and a lot of the startup people I know live around there. Rent in the area may be more reasonable than elsewhere but not by much, given its popularity. If you aren't here permanently you might try the Sublets/Temporary Housing section of Craigslist - I had good luck there, and you should be able to find something for less than $500/wk.
The number of upmods is utterly mysterious to me. Man washes car. Yep. That's what he did.

That car costs about 200,000 dollars. It's ugly, like a drugged-up Toyota prius. It costs more than a used twin-engine Cessna. It costs more than a Peterbilt. It costs about as much as a flying fortress [1]. It costs more than 99.99 percent of useful products. It's made of plastic and will not survive its first pothole. It just screams "douchebag".

"Look at me world!!! I'm a douchebag and I spent 200K to inform you of this fact!"

Is it all right if I upload some pictures of a successful appendectomy...cause, you know, "detailing" is not really the apex of "task execution". I think what we're really seeing here is the most thorough diminishing returns ever executed. Ten minutes with a cloth and dish detergent would have done the job.

[1] Well, in pre-inflated dollars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Flying_Fortress
McKinsey re: 8 key web trends
Fender Stratocaster
For most developers, switching from a Javascript/CSS/HTML based model to a Cocoa/Objective-C one seems to significantly increase complexity...
IE6 still kicking: New Gmail code base now for IE6 too
Every time it looked like there might be something cool on Joost, it seemed to be forbidden for me to view in the USA.

In the end, I'm just not going to run a dedicated client for something that delivers so little.
Yet another post stating something is flawed, yet giving no suggestions as to how to fix it. Yes, openID is flawed, but until someone thinks of a better way, I think it's good enough.
How did you get a lifetime account?
No, no, no and no. I've been able to work just fine with C/C++ libraries. I would use Jython only when trying to extend an existing Java application or when trying to sneak Python into a primarily Java corporate environment.
New version of Google Chrome is available
An update (Official Build 1798) is available for download. Simply check the About Google Chrome window.

Any ideas, what's been updated? Nothing yet on the Chrome blog: http://blog.chromium.org/
I was going to say that if you're going to compare lines of apples to lines of oranges, you should at least include all the lines of apples that you wrote.
It seems like the cappuccino version is slower to load compared to the jQuery version
Google Chrome Already Has 1.5% of Browser Share
Open Source Roboticists On a Path to C3P0
Daydreaming is important business
First look: Firefox 3.1 alpha 2 officially released (HTML5 + video tag)
20 Real-Life Challenges of Cloud Computing
silence indicates the address exists. a person clicking the unsubscribe link indicates that someone is actually reading the email sent to that address.
Google does not serve more than 1000 results for a given query. Also they use yellow O images for pagination, something must be broken here :)
this is disinformation.
Meetup.com is good resource for events, also sf.garysguide.org - helped to give me a feel for what goes on where.
I spent 10 minutes sitting there generating names.

bucksaws12anthrax
highland56horsiest
imparts21biscuits
sourly95whole
cling33wombats

I got such a kick out of this, thanks! How do you generate these names?
cool, congrats, yo. Too bad it didn't have your pictures on there.
Well, you don't need to fix what isn't broken. For most people, normal registrations work fine, so they will ignore openID, and thus suggestions to fix openID are nill because it doesnt matter to begin with.

Of course there are proponents of openID and sure, go ahead, use it. But wide adoption of it is not likely for some time. And by some time, I mean possibly never.
seems almost like http://scrumy.com 's url generator.
Maximizing Profits Doesn't Mean Screwing Your Customers
JRuby isn't polarizing; Ruby attracts already polarized people (present company excepted.)

I can't think of another language that has attracted as many idiots. Visual Basic comes close, with alarming parallels.
The last paragraph was the most interesting. It's like using ambient light to spot something, rather than shining a spotlight out into the field.

Makes me wonder if there are other ways to take advantage of this.
500 per week??

so less than 2k per month? that seems pretty pricey...about to move into the mission and paying 800/mo.
the gov't isn't as sophisticated as we would like to believe.
I wonder what the demographic is for Gmail users on IE6...
It's a great idea, even is Amazon doesn't make much per sale (or perhaps anything). The marginal cost of processing these sales has to be negligible, and the positive pr from articles such as this of considerable value.

For the OLPC team, it's a great idea to offer a more mainstream retailer for their product. More sales on the site mean more laptops for the countries they're really targeting.

Kudos all around, really.
OpenID is not that hard to understand and will become even easier when more social sites become providers. The concept of your Facebook profile being your universal online identity is quite intuitive, especially to young people.

There is also a lack of best practices for consumers. When UI conventions are established and users become accustomed to them, it won't seem so confusing. Ideally, the creation of an OpenID associated "account" with a consumer would happen transparently the first time the OpenID is used, if it even needs to happen at all.

As for developers, OpenID may be more complicated to implement than conventional user/pass but it is also more uniform. Once there are mature libraries for common platforms, programmers will save a lot of time versus implementing user/pass from scratch. (I would not consider many current ones to be mature). Anyway, I'm not so sure OpenID is more complicated than a proper auth system with email verification and recovery.
even as a non-expert, I can debunk most of those
Probably the best demographic in terms of ad click through rate.
I'm interested in Cappuccino and I'm very appreciative of Apple's UI kit.

I just don't think your assertion is a slam-dunk. HTML is remarkably good at describing layouts, and HTML+js is remarkably good at making very complex UIs that would take hundreds of lines of code to replicate, even in Cocoa.
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