skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
JIRA is the bug tracking software. Atlassian is the company.

JIRA is absolutely terrible as well. I can't express in words how much I hate and dislike JIRA, it's horribly slow and bloated user interface and how complicated it makes certain tasks... using it as an Agile tool makes it even worse especially with Greenhopper the add-on.
Because if they had to rely on WP7 sales, the answer would be "never"
I'd be really wary unless it had a very very focused mission. I think there's a lot of diversity among HN readers, and I hate being a part of organizations which claim to speak for me but end up supporting things I oppose, etc.

Right now, I think the startup visa thing and opposition to new stupid laws like sopa/pipa is all I have mental bandwidth to care about.
Ask HN: Hellbanning unacceptable
I have been hellbanned for 1.5 years and I didn't notice it because my laptop keeps logging me in automatically.

Hellbanning caused me at least 200 hours of pure waste of time browsing the site, and many more hours of waste of energy that I put into commenting and submitting interesting articles.

http://toway1234.tumblr.com/post/16021243707/hacker-news-hellbanning-is-unacceptable

I would like to thank hacker news for this, especially paul graham. I haven't been fucked in the ass by anyone this hard since I bought my first computer. Now if you please excuse me I go to my spam folder in my email account and buy 6 packs of viagra and send my credit card info to xxx-viagra.ru
Your comment is obviously just a gimmick designed to punish Congress.
This "stunt" has been solely designed to raise awareness and mobilize support. It doesn't take Google or Facebook blacking out their site to accomplish this - simply running a text link or a banner on their sites would go a long way towards helping a huge audience understand the heinous demands of the IP Lobby. By that same stroke, the more dramatic blackouts will also raise a lot of awareness. Despite the differing tactics, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will be exposed to these important issues tomorrow.

I call that a success.

Reuters story was just another example of the thinly researched, hastily prepared and barely coherent writing that passes as journalism nowadays.
How is it different from EtherPad and hundreds of its clones/instances?
Vote for the Net
I agree with you, I'm confused as to why they're constantly talked about. The idea is nothing new and there's plenty of competition. Personally, I think it's just the industry's current shiny thing.

Regarding the constant press, I'd be willing to bet it's the investors. Money talks, right?
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Ooh, cool idea. It may vary from office to office but we'll definitely look into it.
Is it based on Etherpad source?
GE gives people a choice between Mac or PC
That anti-piracy ad makes me want to put a bullet through the brain pan.

Nothing in that ad is going to deter me from pirating. Just like the you wouldn't download a car commercials that are made fun of. If I could download a car I would do it in a heartbeat...
How much did the MPAA pay for this article?

No, seriously. Re-read the first 3 paragraphs. That is 100% paid for press.
Geez, way to be so cynical guys.

I think it's because they have a great UI, they respond to feedback, they've worked hard at marketing it, they impressed some VCs, and all the million other reasons that start-ups succeed. Don't complain about it, ask why.
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I remember seeing a lot of Canadian plates while I was hitchhiking down to Ushuaia on the other end. I think that route has a siren call to a certain type of person. Some of them looked very relieved at that final border crossing :)
The Flap is Starting to Buckle
People seem to be liking it. What I think they like (at least that's my experience with it) is to see the HN community materialize in real time.

Just my 2 cents so that you can try to isolate feedback taking that into account.
RedPad brings Chinese patriotism to Android, costs each comrade just $1,590
Politics by the numbers, wound a politically motivated entity and it uses every tactic at its diaposal to destroy you. Lets show them that we can play politics too.
The cheat will always cry that he's being cheated.
> But since Agile methods are mainly about sustaining high quality over the long term for teams of experts

> Most of the market for software process improvement is in helping the clueless and/or terminally lazy.

So are we trying to help teams of experts or the clueless and/or terminally lazy here? I don't know many clueless, terminally lazy experts, so it's got to be one or the other...

Also, experts will evolve a workable process for any given project without needing to follow any particular Agile process to start with. That's one of the reasons they're experts.

Also also, while it's convenient to pretend that no serious studies exist because of the cost, it should still be pretty clear that Agile processes have potential, because there should be a strong correlation between the time many organisations introduce them or which teams within a large organisation have adopted them and an improvement in measurable performance for the Agile groups. Correlation doesn't prove a causal link, of course, but lack of correlation is a strong indicator that no such link exists.
What High School is Worth on the Free Market
We just got two of these beasts installed at work this past weekend. :) I have a background of Unix(Solaris), Linux, and Windows administration for most of my career. I started with a technical support position at a web hosting company and worked my way up. When I got to my current workplace it was the first time i'd seen a mainframe up close. I recently took a position as a z/OS systems programmer and I have a healthy new respect for a mainframes capabilities. I'm hoping we're able to justify the zBX but i'd probably be going too far.
This also parallels closely with my experiences. One of my high schools had a student body of 400, where everyone tended to be friends with everyone. On the other end of the spectrum, my college was the "most diverse school in the United States" and the largest school in Virginia (George Mason University); everyone pretty much stuck to their group that most represented themselves.
I really hope they do a SOPA doodle tomorrow.
Based on feedback, I just updated the post to clarify my conjectured point.
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Chris Dodd? That name sounds familiar. Wasn't that guy a U.S. Senator for 30 years? Oh right...

> In February 2011, despite "repeatedly and categorically insisting that he would not work as a lobbyist," Dodd was identified by The New York Times as the likely replacement for Dan Glickman as chairman and chief lobbyist for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The hiring was officially announced on March 1, 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Dodd

Between this and the "debate" on MSNBC the other day, it makes me despair when the other side has that kind of firepower and disregard for fair play. Classic example of regulatory capture (in this case, of the US Congress, which is explicitly designated in the Constitution as having the power to establish copyright).
It was on HN last year:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431318

This is the related code:
https://github.com/albertz/shairport/
Yep. Wiktionary is the online encyclopedia.
So voluntary blackouts in protest of SOPA are to be stopped because they are dangerous gimmicks, but a bill that will allow the government to blackout websites isn't?

How exactly are these people so blind to this kind of obvious contradiction? It completely baffles me that any intelligent human can see this bill as a good thing.

It also scares me that politicians and lobby groups are using the idea of protecting "American" jobs as one of the main selling points for getting this bill past. It is far to obvious that American hasn't realized that to survive in this world one must join the global community and not either separate oneself from it nor try to rule it.
Just a minor correction:

It is pretty widely accepted hypothesis that politicians do not "corrupt" when they are elected to office but that corporations support politicians which favor their positions. Politicians that have money have legitimacy. Legitimate candidates get elected.

Couple that with the fact that corporations often donate to 50+ candidates (on both sides of the aisle) and not only do they have a pre-polling vote (through money) but they also get to play in many elections.

It's the house vs. the people and the house always wins.
> It's an absurd assumption to make,

I agree. I can be absurd sometimes.

> My type? Hopeful? Polite? Intelligent? Not blinded?

Direct.

You mentioned what's wrong with "people" coming in with their legislation. I guess that I would re-state that by the time laws get to discussion in the public, the laws are mostly written by politicians that are heavily lobbied. Something that goes through that type of taint by money or business interests is not always in the best interest of the people. Do the members of congress get some things better than technology? Maybe, I kind of doubt it. I watched a few hours of the house talking about energy changes, and it was clear who was lobbying for what. Nobody was actually watching from the House floor, but I assume that everyone get's C-SPAN in their offices in case something interesting comes up.

I have to compete very hard to get my agenda's addressed. I do have my own time and money to spend on politics, and I do it. That said, it feels like a drop in the bucket, and I think that is not just my feeling but actually the case.

I like donating to the EFF, a great idea. That is just one of the areas that I am interested in. The more causes that I add (and there are MANY), the more I need to pay to combat the fact that there is too much money in politics.

So, lets go back to corporations not being people, reasonable and accountable PACs, and stop having revolving door career lobbyists/politicians.

I really like our system of government, but I think that it is fair to level the playing field.
Not that I'm taking side on this Google fiasco but distance is not an excuse in these days of distributed workspace and multi-national corporations. If distance is an acceptable excuse, BP didn't have to take responsibility for the oil spill happened in the Mexico Gulf since it's an ocean away in a different continent.
I did see the videos, I know they are used in ads. I knew without watching any online videos as I've seen them on live TV. What I'm saying is that if he were alive today we could safely assume he wouldn't have allowed such advertisements to be made. Part of what I'm saying requires us to imagine what would have happened had Dr. King not died as it relates to copyright. He could have exercised the powers afforded to him by copyright to combat some of the uses of his speech the author talks about.
Chris Dodd went from being a senator in 2010 to being head of the MPAA in 2011... and he calls political protest an abuse of power? He is the canonical example of what's wrong with our revolving door political system.
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On one hand, hellbanning does waste people's time (perhaps even well-intentioned people) and it is regrettable.

On the other hand, pg has no obligation to publish your comments on his website.
I was hellbanned for a few days. I only noticed because I'd read an article on it and recognized the symptoms. I emailed info@ycombinator.com and they said I'd been banned by accident. I think hellbanning is only appropriate for egregious trolls who are actively making the site less valuable for other users. I don't think it should be used by an automated system.
It might or might not be. My hope is that the conversation turns toward discussing issues like these instead of either trying to expand copyright or completely obliterate it.
New Mexico is stretching, scientists say
One factor you aren't thinking about in this is the founders. I know one of them personally, and let me tell you. He is amazing. On the day I met him I knew he would be very successful.
Zac Freeman Transforms Junk into Artwork
This is more like a lawyer not taking a client that plans to sue the lawyer's firm. A lawyer is not going to defend a criminal if said lawyer is the victim. This--on a bigger scale--is similar.
What is hellbanning?
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Reuters is part of the establishment, and is acting the part, so no surprise there.

The truth is that opposition to this bill is multi-layered: the masses of Wikipedia and Reddit walk the networked streets shouting with their megaphones, while Google and Facebook quietly cut checks to people in suit who know how to talk to congressmen.

This is why Big Media actors, like Murdoch and Reuters, are so angry about it all: they thought they only had to deal with Occupy-style "crazies", and instead they find themselves challenged on their own ground as well. They are trying very hard to frame the protest as a "failure" even though it's being wildly successful. I wonder what will happen if/once PIPA is voted down.
If you're hellbanned, other people can't see your comments.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbanning and http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...
Can't some users see hellbanned comments? I frequently see comments telling someone that they've been hellbanned, and although I don't fully understand it all, I'm surprised that you have been hellbanned for so long without knowing it.
"A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the community but nobody ever responds to them. They can no longer disrupt the community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community. When nothing they post ever gets a response, a hellbanned user is likely to get bored or frustrated and leave. I believe it, too; if I learned anything from reading The Great Brain as a child, it's that the silent treatment is the cruelest punishment of them all."
from coding horror...

neat idea! never heard of it until now...
Considering most users of the site can't even downvote, it is pretty tough to rack up -6 karma in your first 2 posts. Especially 18 months ago when the userbase was much smaller.

Not commenting one way or another on the validity of hellbanning, just making an observation on the linked article.
It's so disgusting that Chris Dodd just retired from being a senator for 30 years and now is the CEO of a corporate lobbying firm pushing legislation in congress. He represents everything that is wrong with politics in the country. Fuck him.
ONE DAY, THINGIVERSE, ONE DAY.
I think it's possible that a full-time analyst understands less than someone who practices. Your comment in general smells of the EMH.
Embed Multimedia to PDF Flipping Books
Tutorial to introduce hwo to convert pdf files into flash page flipping ebook with multimedia elements, such as youtube, music, text, hyperlink etc.
'Occupy' protesters suspected of throwing smoke bomb over White House fence
There's a few examples of HN undead, e.g. jcitme. Unfortunately I've lost my list of other undead users.

Your vitriol against pg is pretty unwarranted though. You have to admit that spam is a big problem for a site like HN, and the automated tools to detect it will inevitably have some false positives.
You can see hellbanned comments if you have showdead on.
I agree. Codeschool.com is way cooler (for now at least) and codecademy is slaughtering them in the press.
I didn't know of that practice before now.

Personally I love the quality of HN posts and comments and I feel the crowd here is one I love being part of. If hell-banning contributes towards that then it's working.

After all like mentioned you can always send an email asking for the action to be revoked.
This looks very interesting! I hope you guys keep improving it. I really would like something like Google Wave/Etherpad that is robust and is actually being developed.

I would happily pay money for something like this if the performance and features can be maintained.
Apparently, there's the open-source, Free Software OpenJDK, which is freely distributable and which Canonical still distributes, but there's also the official Java binaries released by Sun/Oracle which are under a more restrictive licence. The official binaries for Java 6 are close enough to the OpenJDK implementation that most things run, and the official binaries for Java 7 are actually based on OpenJDK 7, but there's still differences.

I've heard of Java-based production systems that were broken by a minor point-release of the official Java binaries, so it's not surprising to me that people would be skittish about switching to an entire other implementation.
Did you notice something suspicious when none of your comments were voted on (left at 1 karma)? Or does hellbanning on HN have some sort of fake random voting?
What exactly excuses it from having to prove its expensive and time consuming claims?
I view with 'showdead', so I see posts from hellbanned accounts, and I'm sure many others do as well. So any effort wasn't completely wasted.
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That would be a cruel system; where you believe the community is having a positive view on you while being actually invisible.
What about the value of diffusing information from one network to another. My social graph on Facebook is very different from my social graph on LinkedIn.
The crucial detail is that the author didn't know he was hellbanned, so he didn't know to look into it.
Making drama-queen flame posts like this doesn't really make the case that you're the kind of person we want to keep around. Flagged.
Really awesome app, great job!
Yes, but would those people also be the people who would have called in already? It's a tricky question (:
This seems like an excellent way to write shell scripts in Python. I never consciously realized it before, but I've always wanted something like this. I have a strong distaste for Python's subprocess library; for example Popen.wait() is liable to deadlock under certain conditions http://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html . It's not immediately clear to me from the source code if this module avoids that pitfall.
Manhattan is a county, New York county to be exact.
> pg has no obligation to publish your comments on his
> website

That's true, but 'hellbanning' isn't the only way to achieve this. It's not a "hellbanning" or "publish all comments" decision.
Now THAT is a linkbait title. You don't enable Facebook's log infrastructure; you enable Facebook-STYLE log infrastructure for sites that don't have insane-scale performance needs.

Big difference.
You seem to have taken my comment out of context. I didn't say distance excuses anything, just that it presents logistical challenges. The comment I was replying to suggested that Google had to have known, so I was explaining that, no, the higher-ups at Google very well might not have had a clue. This does not appear to have been a major campaign of great strategic importance to the company, it didn't involve a lot of people and it wasn't anomalously using any resources, so I have no trouble believing that it simply slipped under the radar. You might say that was negligence on Google's part, but I don't think you can call it malice.
There's an interesting book on the topic, focusing on the way human behavior affects traffic patterns. It's similar to other behavioral anthropology books like Dan Ariely's 'Predictably Irrational'.

Tom Vanderbilt - Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072...)
The OS X BLAS was once ATLAS all the way down (and I see no reason to believe that any effort was made to hide that fact), but that's no longer true. A glance at nm on Lion shows that there's some ATLAS in there, but quite a lot of not-ATLAS too.
I browse with showdead on, and it seems to me that most people I see that are hellbanned got there seemingly innocently. Mostly it's that they said something mildly controversial in one of their first posts. Once they go negative karma on the account they can never get back. I'd say people like that outnumber spammers and wackos 4 or 5 to 1. Plenty of them have been posting straight into the wastebin for months or years. Seems like a broken mechanic.
I would prefer google voice style, my phone rings and I am connected. I don't often take phone calls through my computer, despite using skype chat and having a webcam. I suspect many others are the same.

Which makes me wonder what percentage of internet users have ever had a google hangout?
A court that takes a free speech absolutist position in one case is more likely to protect other forms of speech, not less. I'm an extreme civil libertarian and I strongly supported the Citizens United ruling.
On the other other hand, if he wants to maintain a site that attracts users, taking their feedback into account is probably a good idea.

(notice how no-one said there was an obligation to publish things -- read this article as a piece of feedback, not a demand)
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True, but if a user is notified of getting banned, then the user can work to get the false positive reversed.

In this case, the system is setup to let the user continue to post, without knowing that (effectively) their posts are doing to /dev/null.
SaaSy.com works with vendors in most any country, supports 10+ global currencies, handles global taxes, order pages are translated into 20 languages, and basic integrations take 12-72 hours for the store to launch.
We're basically, Engineer, Designer, Writer. The Writer is the newest person and a recent college grad, what her role eventually becomes isn't clear (marketing? design?) For some reason this makes me think of the TV show Castle with him showing up with a bullet proof vest that says "writer".

The next stage of growth is hiring independant contractors for specific jobs that need to be done, and when we start wanting to have full time employees, they can be located anywhere. People want to telecommute and we like the sort of github style management policy.

I imagine that once a year we'd all get together in the same place for an annual meeting. Its also quite possible that we'll end up getting outside investors and have to start living in the Bay Area or something like that.
I think it's pretty easy to get negative karma if you don't comply with this community's unique etiquette.
Why is this easier than making ~/lib/java-latest softlinked to ~/lib/jdk1.6.0_30 then just re-linking to the one you want to use while having export JAVA_HOME=~/lib/java-latest in ~/*rc .

At least this way it isn't ubuntu specific and you don't have to know about update-alternatives (first time for me hearing of that).
Thanks! I have a TOC -- just need to figure out how to make that available on Amazon.

The book is very short, perhaps 20-30 pages. I make no apologies about that. The point is to be direct and provide lots of instruction. So if you're looking to pay for your book depending on it's weight, not it's usefulness, probably not for you. I know some of the best hacking books I've owned have been short. I'm hoping to make this book more like them and less like those huge encyclopedia monsters I have on my shelf.

For anybody who wants to see some sample pages and the TOC, just shoot me an email. Happy to help out. Also for more book information, check out the landing page I made for it, http://tiny-giant-books.com/scrummaster.htm
Hmm. You know, I've got 3483 karma as I read this, and I get upvotes and downvotes and responses to my comments...but I get the exact same "instant loads while logged out, slow as hell page loads logged in" behavior as described in the linked blog.

Now, at some point I got barred from flagging articles, so I don't know whether this is some sort of mind-gamey attempt at community management or just a simple bug.