skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not the OP, but could I use you as a motivation buddy too? I sure could use it...
No amount of "Agile" brand ointment can miraculously turn a rag-tag team of goof offs into a well oiled development crew. And likewise, a team of skilled developers can actually be quite successful without Agile methodologies.

My own experience with Agile is that it's mostly beneficial to the high priests that make their living from it...
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Well Google gives you the ability to root their phones, what more do you want? You don't have to hack it, rooting the phone is a standard procedure. Of course you should stick to the Nexus line. But if you are knowledgeable enough to be an admin, you probably already knew that.
Static Typing in Ruby [2009]
Very inspiring!

I was a bit off-put at first by the fact that the gorgeous photos in this post were not taken by Alex. I then realized that it was the photographer that inspired Alex to take his trip in the first place.

There's also something to be said for staying "behind your eyes" instead of "behind the glass." It's easier to be "in the moment" when you don't have to worry about documenting everything for posterity.
This is stupid. High quality, memorable passwords are easy once you throw away the conventional wisdom that they ought to look like 10 characters of line noise and move to a non-obvious phrase. Also, I suspect technology of this sort would be problematic if the user was distracted, for example.
As usual it depends. At the risk of spouting a cliche, there are no silver bullets.

The best way to get a team working is to analyze and enumerate the current problems and shortcomings, and find a way to reduce or eliminate them.

Is the problem with your team:

* They don't make deadlines?

* Too many defects?

* Disconnect between software and customer?

* etc.

Armed with that information, you can see if any of the multitude of Agile methodologies addresses the issues you have, and is something that will work with your team. You can see if you can cherry-pick a technique here or there from a given methodology.

Asking other people what methodology is best is like asking if Java/.NET/rails/django/php/lift is the best way to write a website. You'll get a lot of opinions that sound good and point you in the right direction, but ultimately you need to roll up your sleeves, investigate the options, and make decisions based on your current circumstances.

[And ultimately, this is the problem with the current state of agile. A consultant or evangelist will promote their brand of Agile as a silver bullet without taking the time to look at your organization's problems.]
I love how my home state (RI) is considered as a whole...
The current test page is total weaksauce:

1. It resembles in all forms a pop-up Flash ad. The 2-second delay after loading, the black background, the "continue to Wikipedia" link at the top. I click those away instinctively (almost did this one!) and I suspect many many users will as well.

How to fix this: the page should be black by default, and the click-through link should be "below the fold" or similarly hidden.

2. The text is a featureless block. Its format -- small, justified columns with minimal inter-paragraph spacing -- looks like an ad masquerading as a newspaper blurb. This reinforces the click-through reflex.

3. The title sucks. "The Internet Must Protect Free Speech" doesn't address the problem I'm having, nor indicate that this is something more than an ad -- Wikipedia is black! A much better title would be "Why is Wikipedia Black?" -- this simultaneously indicates that this is something more than an ad, and entices the reader to read so they understand why.

4. The text is weak. Let's look at the first lines of each paragraph; these are by far the most important because they're what's read when the eye skims:

"For over a decade, global volunteers have..." --> bla bla typical Wikipedia advert fluff. Better would be "Until today, Wikipedia volunteers have been able to..."; the "until" indicates that something's different.

"We have only been able to do this because the..." --> almost entirely helper words. The only word of substance in this entire line is "able". Much better would be "Only the freedom and openness of the Internet makes this possible."

"However, the United States Congress is currently..." --> this paragraph NEEDS to mention SOPA. It's on CNN; people have heard about it and making that connection helps. Furthermore, "repressive censorship tools capable of destroying..." is ridiculously vague. Say exactly what power SOPA gives and why it's dangerous to Wikipedia.

"Please, consider whether a free and open..." --> no no no. Don't tell me to "please consider" an abstract concept. That doesn't help one bit. "Contact your representatives in Congress using the tool below to help maintain a free and open Internet." is a better call to action.

EDIT: This suggestion is pretty decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Propo...
This has been discussed in another post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475587

Personally, I think it's nice that they're taking some sort of action by putting a notice on their front page, but as people have said before, an awful lot (if not quite the majority of people) search straight from their browsers address/search bar, so will bypass this message completely! Why not put a small black bar/notice at the top of all search result pages?
Surely that's the place that would be most affected by SOPA/PIPA anyway (censored search results)?
I grew up in LA, and have lived behind the Orange Curtain, and that's my point. The area is way too large in geographic area and demographics for me to believe the folks there are buying fixies in ways that exceed the mean.

It's far easier for me to wonder if they mixed up the data.

Almost by definition, a very large place with a very large population should have regressed to the mean, not far exceed it.
Well... I am for at least a few days, since I got laid off from my previous day-job. I'd been doing the "nights and weekends" thing all along, and now I get a little while to work on this as much as I want. But the startup isn't funded yet and we don't have any revenue yet, so I'll be taking another day-job at some point. I've been chewing on the idea of just milking the unemployment benefit as long as it lasts while I work on the startup, but I already have some discussions underway about a new day-job, so we'll see.

In the meantime, it is nice to get up and spend all day working on my own thing; instead of working all day doing mind numbingly boring shit for a company that's not going anywhere. :-)
At the section "What about per-thread count arrays?" he uses the omp_get_num_threads() to allocate "per thread" array, but as far as I see he's still not in the parallel region, the num threads can as well be 1 there.

Author also writes: "This is likely the cost of starting N=110885 different worker threads in Python." As far as I understand, he has only 4 hard coded threads (that they are they hard coded doesn't have sense too).

Finally I don't see why he should get only speedup of two with four cores, he certainly doesn't explain it. EDIT 1: I believe commenter onemoreact found the reason: the compiler probably assumes that all loop passes take around the same time, but the author managed to make longest loop last N times longer than the shortest.
Ask HN: Yahoo Oozie Opinions and Alternatives?
We're looking to integrate a workflow engine to manage dependencies between data imports, scheduled reports, and intermittent data generation for a Hadoop-based data warehouse & analytics system.

Questions for the community:

- Do you use Yahoo (Apache) Oozie
* What do you think of it? (pros/cons)
* Would you recommend it?

- Do you use something else?
* What do you think of it? (pros/cons)
* Would you recommend it?

Any suggestions/comments greatly appreciated.
No. No. No. No. No. No. Fuck that. I've had enough of this.

Sincerely,

Every Asian and European.

(I'm going to wget --mirror everything I might need tomorrow and use my local copies.)
What enterprise can learn from Sports team
None of this data is actually anything to do with owning bikes.
Or a big <marquee>; can you believe that it still works in Google Chrome? (but still just as smooth)
Brings to mind Robert A. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress [1] --- the entire plot turned on the prospect of lunar "society" running out of water because it used the water to grow grain and then exported the grain "downhill" to Earth.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
Apple, The Perils of Power and Human Emotion
10 years is a long haul for something I'm not too excited about (see post) and at a very low salary, though

Right which is why, if I where in your shoes I would start down that course and build up experience. Look for problems in the legal profession and think of solutions of how to fix them. Maybe learn some code or find someone that does code that is interested in the legal market. Then build something to fix a problem in that market. You contacts in the industry by the time the 10 years is up will be the key that a developer that is just interested in Law will not have. Look at the 10 years as a plan to utilize your education and by then experience to solve problems in the form of productized solutions. If you hit before the 10 years is up, all the better, you walk from the job and pay the debt with the proceeds from hitting it off. I would imagine that there are not a lot of lawyers turned solution providers, I may be wrong but it seems like after investing that much education most would be looking to directly work in the field.
I don't think you can. He is essentially keeping a histogram: for a given i, how many times did we see it? That is not a scalar value, and reductions can only be applied to scalars. If you think I'm wrong, please show me the code you think that works, because I spent some time thinking about it, and I'm quite curious.
IIRC it should be possible to guard the increments with an "omp atomic" pragma rather than an "omp critical", which may well provide better performance. It's possible that the compiler is able to replace the critical section with an atomic increment where appropriate, but equally possible that it doesn't.
A post-mortem: http://web.archive.org/web/19980121045936/http://www.bababoo...
100 what???
uh, you're sending water the wrong way.

$20,000 is cost of taking Earth water into space, and hopefully dumping it on the moon. That's compared to however much it is for existing moon-dwellers to setup and mine water from the moon.
There are so many ways you can have bad technique while landing on the balls of your feet.
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I'm surprised that Allentown, PA has the fewest fixies for sale per capita as there is a velodrome there.

http://www.thevelodrome.com/contact-us/directions/
Just had the same thing happen to me a couple days ago. I wasn't even aware GitHire existed until the email started coming in.
Isn't there a bit of a huge problem using the number for sale as the metric here? Couldn't more supply equate to less demand?
You underestimate just how unhospitable space is and how little we are adapted to living there. The health of astronauts coming back from the ISS has deteriorated. Their heart has grown weaker, their bones have grown weaker. Psychologically, they aren't topfit either.
yup StackOverflow is awesome, especially for the reason that you meant. In order to not look like an idiot, I do a bunch of research and try to cover my t's so that it is actually a decent question, and usually by the end of writing up the question, I have found my solution. Stackoverflow is the best resource I have, working on my own now.
The old content producers are very much in bed with the government. Radley Balko wrote about instances where RIAA (or MPAA, can't remember) representatives were with federal agents during raids.
'Most dramatic' ≠ 'most effective', at least not always.

For example, tantrums are dramatic, but can create more resentment than sympathy.
You failed to note that the relative hilliness of two cities could have a huge effect on the reliability of using the "fixie index" to measure relative hipsterness. Even if they were equally hipsterish, it would stand to reason that LA would have more fixies than SF, since the bike is far more practical in that city.
All of the things below could be ideas for startups. I 'd pay for them:

- Find a domain name (and a name) for your site

- Recruit beta version users

- Writing the documentation/help pages for your startup

- Making those pretty screencast videos where a cute girl explains how (awesome|exciting|hippy) your site is

- Brand advertising. For example while there are tons of ways with which you could advertise a brand in your website, there's no easy service for that.
MongoDB: Operations in the New Aggregation Framework
The conference versus journal issue is orthogonal to professional society versus for-profit entity, since the ACM and IEEE have journals.

This means that archaic tenure review committees evaluating on where you publish instead of what you publish will ascribe little weight to your conference papers.

Not in CS, in my experience. People in CS know which are the highly selective (what I have always heard called "top tier") conferences. In my experience in industry and academia, conferences are our primary consideration and journals are an afterthought. (Sometimes not even a thought.) The CRA memo is from 1999. I think most people have caught on by now.
Interesting that Paul was mentioned specifically as an investor rather than YC. Is Trigger a YC company?
Honestly after all I've seen, I'm convinced that even global thermonuclear war wouldn't stop The Pirate Bay...

If there were only 1000 electrons left in the world, someone would be using them to download the latest Justin Bieber abomination from TPB!
The diet of a VP Marketing for surving the recession
Salary of a UI/UX designer at a startup?
I'm about to graduate from college with a Biology degree but I've been doing design work and UI for clients since I was a kid. I am extremely comfortable designing interfaces and experiences and I see quite a lot of job openings in San Francisco (I live about an hour away anyway).

I'm thinking of actually pursuing this as a career, and I always see the same thing: Full-salary + benefits + equity. What exactly is a full-salary for a UI/UX designer at an early-stage companies with funding? I'd like to know so I can plan for the future.
"Those things that looked “shiny” a few years ago, like TDD or continuous integration, have lost their shine, and aren’t attractive anymore. Don’t believe me? check out the big conferences – seen these topics lately?"

I don't know about TDD, but IMO continuous integration isn't mentioned at conferences anymore because it has won. I haven't seen a software shop not doing continuous integration in years: ranging from huge private companies to government contractors to small fly-by-night shops. Outside companies for which software is part of their product, you still see a lack of it, but in terms of the software industry CI has won.
We use Mailgun at UserVoice.com for incoming mail.

Of particular help to us:

- All emails are converted to UTF-8

- There's always a 'plain' (text only) version of the email sent to us, even if the original email only included HTML.

- They offer a 'stripped-text' field, which lets us easily see the new part of an email thread.

- Pretty great support
That's just standard boilerplate logic thrown in to justify an controversial position. Essentially, you come up with something (usually that enacts more control over people), and then claim it will "protect jobs" and "foster innovation", and then move on.
It's kind of hard to put a simple number on that (of course, you could have done tons of research to support this, I'm not sure). But it turns out one of the ordinary byproducts of ordinary rockets is water, which is why all space food is dehydrated. This means that if you sent a rocket with nothing on it at all (zero payload) it would arrive at the moon with water.

Of course I don't know how much and it is still likely to be ridiculously expensive.
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Enjoyed. Though I disagree with 'time is running out'.

Doing these kinds of trips and long-term sabbaticals with kids is the best education you can give them.

(Stay wired a little, and apparently they barely dent career prospects too.)
Stop Online Piracy Act dead in the water, claims opponent
"Controversial online copyright enforcement bill the Stop Online Piracy Act may be stalled in the US House of Representatives as lawmakers try to iron out a compromise, an opponent of the legislation said.

Representative Darrell Issa said he's been assured by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor that SOPA will not move forward unless consensus is reached."
A Sysadmin's technical examination of SOPA and Protect IP
The <marquee> tag didn't exist yet :)
Bob Martin couldn't get enough corporate gigs selling his Agile snake-oil so he invested "Craftsmanship".

Just wait, once Craftsmanship runs it's course he will have a new "methodology" hell tell you about, for a fee.
We need to go on the offensive for internet freedom. Drop me an email if you're interested in helping to organize aggressive political action to support internet freedom legislation and amendments.

Let's move the 50-yard line in our direction.
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This makes me uncomfortable. The implications of a corporation - especially a corporation as big as Google - being actively involved in politics are scary. You may find yourselves cheering for them now, but what about the day Google is involved in something against your interests or political views? This move makes that a possibility.
For some ideas, see: http://www.rebol.com/
I'm starting to get the feeling tomorrow is going to be crazy. I don't think congress is prepared for this. Their approval rating already abysmal, and I predict this will put a LOT of people into action.
It goes deeper than that. It's a clandestine unwillingness to innovate. They have been running the existing model for too long and are too comfortable with it to even think of anything different.

I was thinking the other night as a commentator did a pitch for a show airing later in the week. Logo, short message, date and time.

And I got mad. Mad because I couldn't press a button on my remote and just schedule it to record that. We live in a world where the DVR has won, every cable provider I can name is running a promotion where they're bundling their own home brand DVR box with a cable package. Yet, no new models have arisen to enhance the DVR experience beyond simple recording. They've begrudgingly accepted the devices, but otherwise it's business as usual.

Think about it. If you're going to spend air time to tell me about a show, it would behoove you to let me effortlessly schedule a recording of the show. I liked the pitch, I was hooked, I wanted to watch it. But I didn't want to go out of my way to find it, despite the fact that all the information was right in front of me.

Of course they've tried this. Half assed. Poorly implemented "Go Interactive!" initiatives that never get used. And the so called Interactive programming adds no value, I'm not even certain what they do since I've never been inspired to press the button during the rare occasions when the on screen prompt appears.

Which extends in to the second problem. They set themselves up for failure with systems like this, only to use them as a prop to say "See, the old model is better!" See all of their stunted and disorganized digital distribution channels for further examples. They're getting better, but only because they have to because they look so poor when you compare them to something like Netflix.

We're not going to be able to make them innovate. Horse vs. Water. Frankly I don't know what it will take for them to come around at this point, but I know we must staunchly oppose and fight any attempt to further stifle the progress we are all making in spite of them, all in the name of preserving their old way of life.
Yes, Trigger is the new name of Webmynd. I invested my TechFellow award (http://techfellows.com) in them. They have a novel model where they give you some amount of money to invest in the co of your choice, and you split the proceeds.
Congrats on the launch Trigger team!
this is flawed, because they are making the assumption that only hipsters use fixies in SOCal. The surfer community has tons of beach cruisers that are fixed gear, and I dare you to go to a parking lot or a lineup and call a bunch of surfers 'hipsters'....
Oh my god--I remember this. It's biggest legacy was that a lot of people realized they really liked black backgrounds on their web pages and left the that way. A new era in front end design was born. (But they didn't call it front end back then)
While their influence is obviously a big problem, keep in mind that you've picked one of two ways to read that line, that they are declaring their decision. The other way to read it is that they are stating a fact, which could come from discussions with politicians, even if in those discussions the MPAA was screaming for it to stay in the bill.
Lamson is a great project but it has a number of issues with handling international emails, try handling mails that have subjects in two different languages, or have To/Cc fields with non-ASCII names in them. Basically if you're using it you'll have to guard it with some additional code.
Also, not doing it will harm children.
The sad fact is that corporations are already deeply involved in this bill - where do you think it came from in the first place?
It did pass and was signed into law.

Through a combination of people ignoring it, and the Supreme Court eventually knocking the worst part down, it wound up 'mostly harmless'.

Not every battle has to be won via a vote in the legislature.
Turning google of would effectively turn the internet off for many people. Not sure about deaths (it's possible I guess).
I could see the following implications:

Tech support line for every ISP would be ringing off the hook all day.
The same for IT support providers as people assume their PC has been hacked or has a virus.

Google receive 1000s of complaints from people swearing to move to bing.

A number of companies get sued due to contractual agreements that somehow relate to websites being accessible to search etc or because emails are not replied to because someone couldn't access their webmail etc.

Hundreds of thousands of homework assignments are not done.

Spike in number of births due to people having sex instead of going online.

SOPA still gets passed.
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This sounds like exactly what PhoneGap, a superb, free, open-source project accomplishes very nicely.
This seems to be an even shittier re-hashing of the Dan Lyons article (which is itself pretty trollish): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/14/even-woz-th...

I tend to agree with Woz, but his comments are painted with a very childish brush in these articles.
I remember placing a blue ribbon on my homepage, which was in response to this act [1]. My 9600 baud modem wasn't on-line every day, I had to pester my parents to be able to dial in - so I must have missed the black out.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ribbon_Online_Free_Speech_...
Why I'm Pulling My Website Offline to Protest SOPA
The bill did pass. The ACLU and the Supreme Court got rid of it.
A good place to learn more about this chapter of the battles for online free speech is the Wikipedia article:

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

Well, except during the upcoming blackout period.
Is your reasoning because "The Government will not take down Google and most normal searches would be intact."? I am not sure I would put too much faith in the thinking that Google will get special dispensation from the government because it is so useful to so many people. Google is vulnerable to SOPA. In fact they are vulnerable on more than one front.