skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strikes me that many sorts of methodologies and approaches need a reminder about this. The point of agility or any other engineering methodology is to get better at what you're doing, not a slavish adherence to a set of Ten Commandments without thinking about what they really mean for you and the folks with whom you work.

I'll leave the obvious religious corollaries as an exercise for the reader.
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I don't know about the OP but I almost never buy movies aimed at adults because I very seldom want to see a movie more than once -- and certainly not more than once every several years. Just storing the movies becomes a burden. (We do buy kid's movies, because kids will happily watch the same movie many times, so it makes sense.)
For so long as you continue to believe in intellectual property, you are not being conned. It's not about whether the IP laws are being used to your benefit (as per the GPL) or whether they are being used to your detriment (as per the major record labels.)

You must be willing to argue that for as much as they do not have a right to make a living from a failed business model.. you do not have a right to the work of other people on "your software."
Invisible updating is a reason to convince someone else to use Chrome. The reason I use Chrome is the fact it runs in a protected sandbox. If Firefox did this I would seriously consider switching back.
could someone point to a source identifying the different generations of chipset referred to in the test? (gen3, gen4, etc.)
If it's impossible then why do both Oracle and SQL Server handle this scenario correctly? I've just tried it on both.

(I do know the answer - it's because they can do hash joins and MySQL can't).
Print ==> Scan ==> Hypothetical Sheet Music OCR Algorithm ===> MIDI file.

Now there's a thought...
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The gist is that postgres replication, by design[1], can not go out of sync.

This is a major difference to MySQL replication, where silent divergence between Master/Slave is a common problem. You don't notice it until you run into spurious SQL errors or perform a manual table-checksum. In a worst case you don't notice it until that day when your master fails...

[1] http://awurl.com/0g7Eshe5L#first_awesome_highlight
i went to those coordinates and see nothing of that sort:

i took a pic of google earth at that location.

http://tinypic.com/r/2uz9dv6/7
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Around here, all you need to get an interview is sound like you know what you're doing. However, to get PAST the interview you need code samples and to actually know what you're doing.

So I'd add to that list: Be willing to commute or move to find somewhere that has more job openings.
I've used .net nearly exclusively for the past 8 years in my career and still believe this is all some stunt to generate negative hype.

If this so-called uproar is caused by developers who are not willing to upgrade their skills, they shouldn't be in this business. The same event occured with VB6, which was replaced by .net, which will be replaced by something better, and everyone started reading their books again. Even if MS ends support for .net tomorrow (which it won't, i.e. WinXP tenure) too many companies are locked into .net technology and they'll still have work to come for years while they finally evolve to a new technology.

If you really dislike change and still want to call yourself a programmer, transition to embedded devices and stick to low level ASM or C which should be around for a while.
This is a huge release. Replicator was effectively re-written, much faster internals, HTTPS support is native. These features are warmly welcomed! Excited to see this now integrated into BigCouch!
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This seems true. I don't have IPv6 and the page failed to load for me.
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I wish CouchDB would implement internal compaction.
I'd love to use CouchDB and Elastic Search with the CouchDB River plugin. This would give me a nice REST infrastructure with a schemaless store (couchDB) and the ability to do complex queries in real time (elastic search).

Sadly my data is too write/update-heavy and just keeps on growing and growing. This means that I'll have to use compaction if I don't want to run out of space sooner or later. Starting compaction will kill performance over several hours and depending on the amount of written data might not even be able to finish :(
I came from Paul Graham's website which was linked in a 37signals article or comment.
> It's to educate decision makers so they can tell the difference.

The problem is not so much a lack of education as it is an excess of corporate influence.
does this mean using the standards on this site may potentially land you in legal trouble later if they decide to enforce these patents?
Depends on the person I'm talking to:

"Software Engineer" - Business folks
"Developer" - Friends, programmers, most other situations
"I build websites" - anyone in a bar (usually end up yelling this to be heard)
if you only limited Wikipedia to people who did things "right", where would you be?

Although it's notionally possible that a first editor who got something "right" (factually correct based on reliable sources) was later reverted by someone edit-warring to score a point. Sometimes a particular edit makes Wikipedia worse rather than better. If NONE of my edits had ever been reverted (several have been), I would think that I wasn't trying hard enough to check sources and correct commonplace errors. However, it's not clear at the moment whether the editors with the lowest percentages of reverted edits are those who do the best edits, or just those whose prejudices (and topic choices) avoid scrutiny by the mob of other Wikipedia amateur editors. I am conscious of this issue because I was a professional editor and researcher to make my living long before most members of the general public had ever heard of the Internet, and because most wikipedians are so young and so devoid of editing experience that they readily mistake good edits for bad.

I think urban planners have found that neighborhood cohesion and community watches are far better than gated communities

It would be interesting to see citations to research on this issue, as well as the latest citations to research on forming online communities in which fact-checking and encouragement of careful scholarship become the group ethos. I live in a crime-free neighborhood with an annual block party and NO crime in a typical year, not gated, with good community cohesion, but also isolated from a lot of passers-by simply because it isn't a shortcut to anywhere else. Wikipedia is so exposed to the outside world, including spamming advertisers and propaganda agents of warring governments, that it may take more vigilance to protect than just an informal consensus among volunteer amateur editors.
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Well not to sound snarky, but as it happens you guys are two different people.
Invite the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys! :).
Maybe not.

As reported here some logs are old: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/88

http://pastebin.com/mmvBT7n5 (May 13th, 2011)
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Before everyone freaks out about this, the bots that we're talking about are janitorial, doing things like add dates to wikitags added by human editors.

You can see this right now; go find a page to add a (legit, please) {{clarify}} or {{who}} or {{where}} tag to. Add it without a date, and wait 5 minutes; Smackbot will date the tag for you.

This is a good thing for obvious reasons.

Similarly, I'm guessing the "reversion" stat here is misleading. Reversion isn't deletion; anything that moves content around the page is likely counted as well. Write a graf or two on any well-trafficked WP page and you'll probably see it moved around pretty quickly.

More importantly, reversion isn't permanent. On any popular article, someone is bound to disagree with the merits of your edit. The normal way of things when I was wasting time at WP was, edit, revert, talk page, re-post copy.
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Off topic, but anyone who laded on Normandy beach with just a pair of bagpipes is worth reading about. Puts things into perspective - we are so very lucky to be on the cutting edge of technology with a world of opportunity before us instead of dodging bullets in a ditch on the other side of the world.
Off topic, but anyone who laded on Normandy beach with just a pair of bagpipes is worth reading about. Puts things into perspective - we are so very lucky to be on the cutting edge of technology with a world of opportunity before us instead of dodging bullets in a ditch on the other side of the world.
There was a post about https://showoff.io/ here not long ago. Seems they are doing quite similar things, except showoff.io costs a little. I didn't really compare features, though.
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This looks similar to logstash, which has been on my tools to try list for a while.

"logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them for later use (like, for searching). Speaking of searching, logstash comes with a web interface for searching and drilling into all of your logs. It is fully free and fully open source."

http://logstash.net/
From the article: "Fortunately, WP7 avoids the absolute failure that is Android’s menu button."

Personally that is my favorite button. I think it's a big win that the options for every application can be found in one place instead of having to go hunting for where the developer hid them this time.
Browsing around that site, there seems to be a lot of information... much of which i'm guessing probably shouldn't be on a public website?
A tragic waste. I could do a lot of cool stuff with $41M.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in hacker "small groups"?
One of my chief gripes with Hacker News, and with other similar sites, is that they get to a point where they're so popular that a lot of decent content gets overlooked, simply because there's so much pouring in at once.

I was thinking of borrowing a technique often used by churches, which have big general services, but then break people up into "small groups," so they can have more intimate discussions and actually get to know one another.

Imagine if there were a site like HN, but it consisted of "small groups," where each group had maybe 15-20 members. Each group would only see content posted by others in their group.

That way, when you post something, it may not get thousands of views (as it would if it hit the HN homepage), but it would be less likely to get overlooked completely, as things often do on HN unless they gain a critical amount of traction in a very short time.

So what do you think? Would you be interested in the "small group" approach?

I'll only build it if there is evidence of sufficient interest.
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It never ceases to amaze me how we take good ideas and screw them up. It also amazes me how many people are pissed about agile. I blogged about this a year or two ago, and got something like 50K visits (shameless plug for those who haven't read the article: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2010/09/agile-ruined-...? )

Just to be a bit of a contrarian, there's a difference between what something means on paper, how it's practiced, and what people think it means. We get into trouble when we confuse this.
I disagree strongly. The Pirate Bay is infested with malware, fake torrents, media monitoring companies, and lots of other undesirable stuff. It is difficult to navigate and use.

Here's the way that record companies should make money: $20/mo for access to that company's entire catalog, unlimited download, well-organized, high-quality rips, vetted torrents (i.e., uploaded by the company itself, malware free), etc. If you've ever used one of the big private music trackers they make an excellent prototype for a for-pay service that would allow the rights holders to rake in even more money than they currently make. They were eventually able to figure it out with VHS, I don't know why it takes them so long with the internet.
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Localtunnel was mentioned there with quite a large discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468324
What do you expect from someone who writes PHP? O_o
"I think it was more the implied laziness of thinking Wikipedia is a great resource but not being willing to fix it."

If you spend your life teaching and doing research, laziness is not something you like to be accused of. Some of my papers and computing projects have been referenced on wikipedia. I feel my time is far better spent writing such things than entering edit wars with people who don't understand the subtleties of the subject they are writing about.

"As for your issue, if you know something's wrong from your own research, have you published it?"

I suspect you aren't an academic and I can see why you might think this would be a good course of action. You cannot publish corrections to blatant errors in Wikipedia and get academic credit for it. We are under continual pressure to publish new and interesting things. That we have found an error in Wikipedia is unfortunately not one of them.

"If you'd prefer, you can tell me the page and the error and I'll take care of it. Being an established editor can be handy sometimes."

I suspect you'd add a note to the page asking for a citation to support the existing incorrect statement because you won't be able to check it yourself. It will remain there for months, and by then everyone will have lost interest and moved on.

Or perhaps the statement has a citation, but for subtle reasons the statement is correct, but nothing to do with the subject of the article. Without understanding the mathematics, you have no way of checking that. So even "verifiability" doesn't help.

You need to understand just how very difficult this is. Go to the page on "Group action". Look at the section "Types of actions". Now look at the bullet point "irreducible". Do you see anything wrong there? Do you see a citation? (Please do not remove it -- I am not stating there is or isn't an error there.) How would you, an experienced editor, check whether this was correct and relevant information?

Edit: I edited the above for tone after someone pointed out that I sounded like I was yelling. Not my intention.
Citation needed. Google seems inconclusive, e.g.,

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/s...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer-causes/CA00085/NSECT...

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/03/do-you-fear-suga...
I made the following angry rant on reddit. I think that it also fits here.

The idea that .NET is going to be replaced by HTML5 and JavaScript is absolutely ridiculous. The only people who can make that claim are those who don't really know what .NET is. It is a desktop stack, a server stack, a runtime for many languages, those many languages themselves, and countless libraries that are being actively developed. HTML5 and JS is a minimalistic client side technology. One cannot replace the other. They are not analogous technologies.

The biggest changes that could happen are:

1. HTML5 and JS become another presentation layer for .NET apps.

2. HTML5 and JS get hooks to allow it to be used to write basic App Store style apps and gadgets. (Gadgets are currently written in html and js so there would be no change there.)

3. HTML5 and JS become another dev platform for the Windows Phone.

4. Silverlight gets slowly phased out.

That is, unless you believe that Microsoft secretly worked for 5 years to create a dev platform that is based on a technology that became popular just last year that can be used to replace every development technology like C++, .NET, etc., and that can be used to write anything from server side apps to games to database servers to operating system components. Do you really think that Microsoft is that good of a software company?

But of course, this is all speculation, just like all of these sensationalist articles and threads. And nothing of value can come out of this. I can't wait for the formal announcement to be made. The amount of retarded discourse that the Win 8 announcement made is absolutely depressing.
I just cut & pasted from a textfile, so the the formatting is a bit quirky.
My browsing experience is very minimalistic: I want adblock, flashblock, and speed.

Firefox is bloated and slow on every platform I've used it on since Firefox 3. Back when Firefox was Phoenix (0.7 or so), its goal was to be "lean and mean", so I switched from Mozilla Netscape.

I use Chrome because it's fast and does exactly what I need it for. If Firefox wants me back, it will have to be much faster (UI, not web-wise), and not suck memory like a vacuum cleaner. Likely it'll have to use per-process tabs with some spiff sandboxing too.

Chrome continuous update is pretty awesome as well.
General statistics are more helpful when the target group is homogeneous. Intuitively speaking, when a group has similar resources, goals and problems, what happens to others is more applicable to the individual. Whereas if a group is composed of highly differentiated members, general statistics is likely a result of a mixture of many distinct models, which in this case would be far less useful for the individual.

In case of start-ups, it would seem to me that the founders' motivations, goals, environments and backgrounds all have high degree of variations. General statistics like those in the Project should thus indeed be used with caution.
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AFAICT, the tool is broken WRT renegotiation detection.

~% openssl s_client -connect 69.171.228.13:443 2>/dev/null < /dev/null | grep Reneg

Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
It is interesting to me that many of the posts contained here, not to mention the article itself, spends so much time and effort on debating good vs bad passwords and improved password techniques when the hackers themselves didn't even need a password to obtain all this information in the first place.

Discussing quality of passwords is only relevant in the context of a system that has no other weak points that can be easier/faster exploited than the passwords themselves.

And even then...key loggers, trojans, phishing, script injection etc...they can all capture passwords of arbitrary length and complexity...

I would be curious to see statistics around break-in where the root cause was actually hackers reverse engineering/guessing an unknown password vs obtained access using a password they obtained otherwise or simply bypassed any username/password mechanisms altogether. I have a feeling the latter two would comprise 99+%.
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This is probably a bad idea. If you don't have access to or control over your local firewall, there is most likely an organizational reason for that (security). Opening up your development webserver to the public Internet without asking permission from your IT department first is a good way to either get hacked or to at least make some enemies within your corporate security department.

If you have access to your firewall, why not just open it up yourself?
A blog post (one of Steve Yegge's, I think) linked to one of PG's articles, and I wound up reading through the archive. At some point, I followed a link from that site to HN.
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Amen.

One of my favorite truisms is "The best product development teams are as good at saying 'No' as they are at saying 'Yes'."

Also: "Do a few things, and do them really, really well."

Which goes along with: "As a leader 90% of the decisions you make are unimportant. Focus on the other 10%."
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Agile vs. not Agile doesn't matter much.

Project management is project management; ultimately you need to do all the same things to succeed, it's just a matter of how you organize them.

In the big picture, Agile projects fail for the same reasons other project fail, and they succeed for the same reason other projects fail.
Many if not most of the big issues are going to be fixed by Fall with Mango coming with around 500 'features', all of which are not revealed yet. Some are listed below:

http://anythingbutiphone.com/3477
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Great comment @ctdonath.. and exactly. Even if it's unintended too this 'issue' still happens, and slowly creeps up on companies. Palm mentioned at how they wanted to build the pre and then slowly kept adding wow-features and tricks to the list, until they realized that's what was wrong with their products already. Granted, I'm not a huge fan of the Palm Pre, I believe they did an excellent job in comparison to their past product releases where they solely focused on tech. specs & things the average consumer really didn't care about.

It's not guaranteed success either way, but making a product that "just works" in the your users eyes will give an advantage.
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Only freebsd :/ disadvantage of not having extra money.
And isn't the FUD just directed at Silverlight development? I could see Silverlight losing ground as more browsers support HTML5, but as others have pointed out, UI is only small part of the .NET ecosystem.
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I think it started at step 4.
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Well, my advice is to get SOMEthing up quickly, before you quit your job, to see if there's even a market for your idea and if people like it and are interested in it. If you get positive feedback, then at least know you have a good idea that can get followers.

If it flops, then that would lead you to think of maybe it's not a great idea
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I have only one thing to say: if companies were taking the necessary steps to protect their customers and treat them as if they actually mattered there wouldn't be any problem.

And I'll remind everybody that we are dealing with SQL injections and plain-text passwords. And it's 2011.
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FWIU, this new architecture makes most of 2D acceleration go through the 3D pipeline, saving a lot of overhead from switching between the two current "rings" (BLT for 2D and RENDER for 3D).
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