skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition, how do you track velocity?

From the description it doesn't look like they're running in sprints, but deploying as stories get completed, so cycle time would be the thing they would track. No idea if Trello can do this out of the box. They also explicitly said that they're not doing project estimates - so they wouldn't need to track velocity in any case.

If it were me I might be interested in visualising the flow somewhere - more of a tool to help spot problems as to make estimates any more accurate - but I'm a fan of just doing that with a whiteboard as part of running the project.
The interesting part (or scary part if you ask me) in all this workflows and meetings there is no space for software design specification and code review.
First thought that crossed my mind. We had one of those in my early teen days band's website :D
> The next question is whether it's worth doing a PhD for the 2/3 people who don't work in Academia. Perhaps it is.

I think this actually depends on your field. Basically, it's a matter of running the numbers - if the difference between the increase in income and the cost of grad school for you (both loss of income and the effort required) is significantly greater than 0 - go for it.
It’s not nearly that simple, formal, or programmatic.

First, は wa is a topic marker, not a subject marker; the topic need not be the grammatical subject of a sentence, and indeed is often included for emphasis alone. There is a subject marker が ga, but it’s primarily used to introduce new information (“ペンがある。” pen ga aru “There is a pen.”) without changing the topic. だ da or the formal です desu is known as a copula, standing for an assumed verb. This is often is, but not always (“飲み物は？ソーダです。” nomimono wa? sooda desu “What would you like to drink? I’ll have a soda.”). だ is not a direct object marker—you might be thinking of を wo.

Of course, it’s a perfectly reasonable idea to borrow topic-structured statements for a programming language. Just assume the topic wherever a required term is missing:

= new Window
.width = 640
.height = 480
w =
= new Button
.label = "Hello"
.align = CENTER
w.add()

It comes with a host of problems, but it’s reasonable. And you might want to have a look at Forth-family languages if you’re into postfix notation and pointfree/tacit programming.
This needs a #c0c0c0 background with an under construction gif below it.
This effect was my first used of flash, called Shockwave back in the 90' ;)
Another great reply, let me respond.

I think there's a difference between lean and agile development. Lean startup essentially means testing and learning from a basic prototype for everything that you do. New feature? Test it. New level? Test it. Agile development, to the best of my knowledge (I am not a programmer), is focused more on being adaptable and changing course quickly. Lean startup is focused more on using scientific method to determine decisions rather than indiscriminate opinions of the internal team. It includes agile development but is not agile for the sake of being fast.

I agree with your point that games HAVE to be finished on release. My counter to the prototype argument would be that you can launch the game as a MVG in an unbranded, low-fi way that wouldn't jeopardize your actual game's launch. Instead, you'd just have a crappy game that people would test, and then you'd kill it and launch the new game without any association to the test game at all.
can't agree more, how can a search giant provide such irrelevant search results in its app search...
most of these debates consists of parody. trolls trolling trolls.
hey guys! I think I'm going to start on a semicolon meta-language using this new semicolon IDE I'm writing. ;
Oh, I just assumed from the .se domain that it was Swedish.
This isn't hard to handle: you send out the prefilled form with whatever you filed last year, and if you got married/got divorced/had a kid/changed your filing status you fill out the full form.
I like Brainfuck better: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/

I don't know if anyone has made a DCPU-16 interpreter for it yet!
Just because you've made your coworkers part of your extended social life doesn't mean there's no dichotomy between "socializing at work" and "socializing with friends".
yeah, but that's about write every minute or so, even if you have 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters
Should tech talks be rated
Should there be a standard rating of conference talks? Should events advise attendees of content that might take a talk beyond a U rate? The bellow rating systems are those of British Board of Film Classification and used for film, videos an games ( http://www.bbfc.co.uk ).

U: Suitable for all
- No discriminatory language or behaviour unless clearly disapproved of.
- No references to illegal drugs or drug misuse unless they are infrequent and innocuous, or there is a clear educational purpose or anti-drug message suitable for young children.
- Scary sequences should be mild, brief and unlikely to cause undue anxiety to young children. The outcome should be reassuring.
- Infrequent use only of very mild bad language.
- Occasional natural nudity, with no sexual context.
- Mild sexual behaviour (for example, kissing) and references only (for example, to ‘making love’).

12: Suitable for 12 years and over
- Discriminatory language or behaviour must not be endorsed by the work as a whole. Aggressive discriminatory language or behaviour is unlikely to be acceptable unless clearly condemned.
- Any misuse of drugs must be infrequent and should not be glamorised or give instructional detail.
- Moderate language is allowed. The use of strong language (for example, ‘fuck’) must be infrequent.
- Nudity is allowed, but in a sexual context must be brief and discreet.
- Sexual activity may be briefly and discreetly portrayed. Sex references should not go beyond what is suitable for young teenagers. Frequent crude references are unlikely to be acceptable.

18: Suitable only for adults
In line with the consistent findings of the BBFC’s public consultations and The Human Rights Act 1998, at ‘18’ the BBFC’s guideline concerns will not normally override the principle that adults should be free to choose their own entertainment. Exceptions are most likely in the following areas:

- where material or treatment appears to the BBFC to risk harm to individuals or, through their behaviour, to society – for example, any detailed portrayal of violent or dangerous acts, or of illegal drug use, which may cause harm to public health or morals. This may include portrayals of sexual or sexualised violence which might, for example, eroticise or endorse sexual assault
VC Ben Horowitz ft Rick Ross - Politics in Business
Most employed people in the UK also have their employer deduct taxes from their paychecks. The difference, though, is that if that happens and if someone doesn't declare their tax affairs as being more complex, the tax authorities assume everything is order and no tax return is required.

I suspect other things have an impact on this system working though, such as the much lower ownership of shares and tax-attracting investments in the UK, as well as the generous tax-free allowance for capital gains (I'd need to make a realized gain of something like $20k in a year to pay any tax on shares, for example.)
If you want local designers:

1. Visit Dribbble/Behance.

2. Search by city.

3. Surf the work of the designers till you find one you like.

4. Reach out and you know the rest~
It's trolls all the way down.
Groceries do have huge variations (at least here in Uruguay), and there is a futures market in them.

There's definitely talk of fruit futures :)

http://www.goodfruit.com/Good-Fruit-Grower/October-2011/Futu...

"The status of the long-awaited futures trading contract in apple-juice concentrate hasn’t changed. It’s still coming “soon.” "

Milk doesn't only because it's regulated (here at least).
You seem like you know what you want. =) Anyway from my experience 99designs is usually cheaper but the quality of work is subpar. If you are someone who is really picky about quality, originality, etc I would say away from them. That being said, a good designer will probably cost around 1,000 USD for a logo. That probably includes 3 original concepts and a few revisions (depends on the designer). As for the landing page...why not just use something like launchrock.com?
I wish our government could be run more like a lean startup rather than a large corporation with a near unlimited supply of money

Might as well wish for water to run up hill.

The government is run like a large organization because it _is_ a large organization.

To get startup-like behavior you need startup-like size.

I think this might be the best solution: a government that has to hold bake sales to raise cash would be less likely to get up in my business.
Actually, it appears to mean that they won't sue startups unless the startups sued _someone_ about a patent in the last 10 years, unless that suit also qualified as a Defensive suit, which means that the suit is against _another_ company that hasn't sued anyone about a patent in the last 10 years, unless _that_ suit was a Defensive action.

Turtles all the way down.
Was a little confused about this too. Made me check the publishing date.
I cringed for the actor. It's like he's lost among this sea of conversation and only gets a few crumbs. Like grasping at straws of understanding.
There is No Such Thing as Mandatory. Every Day & Everything is Optional.
The reversed semicolon appears as a square here (Windows/Chrome).
Never pay to pitch investors. You're the prize, not the mark.
This one is going straight in to the echo chamber. I doubt that anyone willing to put 10+ social media icons on their blog is prepared to hear this argument. Those of us who recognize how abhorant it is have already trimmed that list down.

This disconnect stems from the difference in a core belief about design and motivation. If you believe that sharing is driven by the mere opportunity to do so, you're going to bury your blog in this stuff. If you believe that good design sells itself, you'll prioritize good design in the belief that sharing will follow naturally. This is the argument that must be made.
Agreed except for foreign income: we have treaties with most countries to avoid double taxation: If I've paid taxes to Turkey for money earned in Turkey, why do I pay it again in the US?

Now, things get more complicated with foreign investments. If you've paid taxes on the investment in Ireland, you've likely paid less than you would in the US -- so that doesn't quite work. That's where things get complicated.
Surely someone will implement an asynchronous framework on top of this and we'll have next year's Node.js :P
Shouldn't this language be white-space insensitive in order to be truly pure as a semicolon language?
We need to divorce ourselves from the industrial, factory-floor approach to management that has dominated American office culture since the dawn of the 20th cetury. Almost all of our long-held beliefs about management originated in theories developed to manage workers on an assembly line. And many (most?) of them no longer apply. For instance, the rigid belief in "butts in seats" and "face time" as reasonable proxies for productivity is grounded in the days when there really was a direct, perfect correlation between attendance at a set place and time and job performance.

On a primitive factory floor, the worker who puts in the most time making widgets really is producing better results than the worker who appears on and off the floor sporadically. There's no way to produce results unless you're working X machine, and X machine is in a fixed location, and it operates between Y and Z hours of the day. And the end product doesn't differ per worker. Everything's deterministic and can be measured precisely. So, in this scenario, a worker is only as good as he is present and 100% utilized. Nothing else matters.

Knowledge work doesn't function that way. And yet, we still have this desire to manage it as though it does. Kudos to someone like Sandberg for being able to point this out. Yeah, she's in a position to say it now. No, most of us aren't. But at least someone in her position is finally calling it out, and using the bully pulpit afforded to her by her high-status role to do so.
Sorry landing page was a red herring. I'm slapping that together now but I need an actual homepage and conversion page. Thanks for the tips I really appreciate it! I've already found some good people using behance.net.
A better article on OpenStack via Wired.com --> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/openstack/
I don't think I've ever advocated Android, but I am interested in why it doesn't live up to the promise of being open.

When I see comments like the parent's the logic seems to be: "Android isn't properly open, so let's sue Apple."
"But HFT looks to me like they're just sucking little pieces out of everyone else's trades, while providing no value to society."

This suggests that market participants of any type provide "value to society". Their is only one reason any entity participates in the market, and it has nothing to do altruism, and everything to do with making money for themselves or their clients. Capitol allocation to companies going public is over once the shares are issued via the IPO auction. No transaction on the secondary market results in any money going back to the company that issued the shares. So how does the length of time a firm holds onto a stock before attempting to realize profits define whether or not they provide value?
It might hurt your chances of being acquired if the acquiring company doesn't want the restrictions on the patents (greedy patent troll or not).

I could see investors having a problem with this.
Like this kind of thing? The rabbit hole is frighteningly deep. Try the esoteric programming language wiki[1] or Chris Pressey’s site[2]. That ought to get you started.

[1] http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

[2] http://catseye.tc/cpressey/
Trying to figure out why he is focusing on the issues in signaling for the A round. As near as I can tell, it applies to every round.

Bottom line: Build a company that your current investors want more of, and they will send the proper signals to new investors.
"Personally, I think a blog can get away with a little row of four or five, maybe six of these icons and that’s all."

That doesn't really solve the problem. one is one too many.

I believe Firefox tried to solve this problem, but it didn't go anywhere. It seems logical that a standards based browser solution should be adopted across the board, but ....
It is the position of the United States government, among others, that cheating includes the use of monopoly or oligopoly to unfairly restrict competition in any of several ways which are neither violent nor fraudulent.

You're welcome to argue that that position is misguided, but it is certainly not nonsensical.
Agglutination is a specific kind of word formation where roots are concatenated unmodified; it happens in Turkish, some Inuit languages, and Esperanto. More generally the process of word formation is called morphology.
Here, take one of these from the original GeoCities site (Warning - tons of gifs!) http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/
The App Store is the only out-of-the-box method to get natively-compiled code on your phone, but the things that web apps on iOS can't do seems to be shrinking all the time.

Javascript web apps on iOS can have home-screen icons, and "loading" splash screens, and persist data to a local database, and even support multitouch and the accelerometer, all offline.

A lot of the iOS apps I use could have been written as web apps. Is this true on Android, too? Maybe it's time for somebody to write a "generic mobile app store", for the apps that don't require fancy things like 3D graphics.
Wait, so I'm not allowed to fork it unless the new project uses ass-lakes? Shit, there goes my startup idea.
As much as I agree with you, WAN backbones weren't running spanning tree to begin with.
Clearly, practicality was chosen over purity; I find the added readability gained by the space separators to be much more pragmatic.
The git headline is also "remember lake applets? me neither.". I think we caught a live one here.
Are you saying you couldn't use any Twitter patents for any purpose yourself? I don't understand what would prevent you from doing so...
I think the learning programming thing falls under "personal creative projects", and I am with you 100%.
Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!:

" "

^ Pretty elegant, right?

let's try something a little more complex:

" "

^ As you can see, the goal of this new language is to take the best of Semicolon and just make it more succinct, and to round out some of the minor historical abnormalities that have been dragged along in the language spec for a while now.

So my hope is that you all enjoy CoffeeColon as much as I do. It's just like Semicolon, maintaining it's expressiveness and dynamic nature, with just a little bit of smoothing out of the kinks.

Thanks!
I think this is what he was talking about: http://twitter.github.com/
MongoDB: what are the technical limitations preventing document-level locking?
I use MongoDB pretty actively and I've been wondering this for a while. I recently did some research as to why MongoDB can't have document-level locking in its current state. The only thing I managed to find, besides references to the intra-collection locking ticket (https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1241, btw is "intra-collection" the same as "document?") was some obscure forum post about b-tree indexes not allowing concurrent writes.

Obviously, not having a global write-lock would increase write (and consequently read) performance by orders of magnitude, especially for in-memory data sets.

Does anybody have insight as to what the technical limitations are here? I'm really curious!
History of Ubuntu: Revisited & Updated
Another opportunity for Google to realize that their Email service is lot more important and substantive than their Plus service.
I also get a segfault when running "bundle install" as described in the docs.

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/./Users/hs/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/li...: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-darwin11.2.0]
Have you tried the java mobile version? It's ridiculously good; I actually wish I could use it on my android.
For Japanese Linguist, A Long And Lonely Schlep
Opensource the IRS
It's nearly a rudimentary FORTH.
You wouldn't see them on my board either - for a few reasons (hopefully none of them scary :-)

* We view design as an ongoing and continual process - not a phase. Having a "software design phase" just wouldn't make sense for us since it basically covers the whole cycle from when the idea comes out to when it hits the streets.

* We generally pair on development where at all possible, and when we are pairing we don't find that we get a great deal of additional value out of code reviews on top.

* When we don't pair for whatever reason we do code reviews, but do them on a regular cadence rather than as a phase (say every Wednesday afternoon). A bunch of stuff fits in this kind of pattern. We are sure to talk to users every couple of weeks. We do some usability testing every couple of weeks. It's not related to how stories flow so it's not on the board.
Tricking Delivery Sites Into Sending You Food
Senses - The HTML5 Media Center
Ahh, thanks for the explanation. This clears up something I didn't know about Mongo (next to nothing other than that the other commenters all seemed to indicate that it should not be used for writes).

Much more informative than a downvote.
Well these guys should use node.js for their blog as well, and maybe it would not be down due to heavy HN traffic ;)
It won't be happening any time soon. Here's why:

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/corruption-taxes-fivemins...
If only each blog post or web site came with a unique address that enabled us to copy and paste it and send it to people ... oh, wait. Never mind.
For those who are building gcc-4.7 from scratch, the cilk/ branch sure looks interesting. It has the Cilk runtime and the cilk extensions to the language built in.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus/

As far as language extensions go, it may seem that Cilk does not add much, but to me the advantage of not manually assigning tasks to threads and work stealing seems like a big win.

Looking forward to try it out in a week. Stoked.
As I said in the last thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3847934 , words like "specialized" and "commodity" are being thrown around in unusual ways. With OpenFlow, your "commodity" hardware is line rate, so it's no slower than whatever it's replacing.
People got to get off their utopia world-view thinking companies should be giving away their core-business' secret sauce - the essence that keeps them in business.

There is a clear distinction between core-business-specific platform and the technology their platform is built on which facilitates it (i.e. OSS projects/libraries).

Twitter is built on open-source, they enhance & contribute to existing OSS projects & open source key technologies their platform is built on:

http://twitter.github.com/ /
https://dev.twitter.com/opensource/thanks / https://github.com/twitter
This is pretty poorly drafted.
this joke deserves more love.