skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can make an observation about old people because I myself am 49 years old

That doesn't make any logical sense. All that suggests is that you have n=1 experience with people over the age of forty.

As for observing that agile events in your neck of the woods are full of older people, there are many, many possible explanations for this and your blog post advances one without providing evidence that it is anything other than confirmation bias.

One thing I would do before making a statement like that is attend some other methodology events and check out the ages. If you go to a CMM conference, how old are the people? How about a PMP Institute gathering?

You may find that older people are more interested in methodologies while younger people are more interested in technologies. You might not, but your essay does nothing to establish that your explanation carries more weight than my conjecture.

And if my conjecture is correct, your point really should be that "Excessive interest in methodologies has the smell of death." That might be true!

I am not saying you're wrong, only that your essay is not persuasive on this one point.
Do they still make ZSH?

That's nice.
> I don't understand what gamers want from companies like Ubisoft?

The average gamer being in his teens I would say gamers don't know what they want. But in the end it boils down to: free stuff.
You're creating an actual instance of that object preloaded with whatever you need rather than a mock of that item which implements a fake implementation. They're not really competing since Mocks are most useful when mocking an interface, and Factory Girl is best at creating a number of usable objects.
This isn't entirely an issue of greedy people having feelings of entitlement.

Like many of you all, I do not know of anyone who pirates software, movies or music (ever since I graduated college) anymore. That's because the piracy rates in the US are much reduced compared to elsewhere in the world. International publishers, like Ubisoft, then feel that if they are going to sell their products in these high-piracy areas that they need to protect it. Then, because they have to protect it from the pirates elsewhere, they give us a crippled product in the US.

If Ubisoft thought of its customers strictly as Americans, they would not have implemented all the crazy DRM stuff they have today.

Regardless of whether you believe Ubisoft is justified in pursuing DRM at all costs like they have, the issue is /not/ primarily one of entitlement.

http://portal.bsa.org/globalpiracy2011/
I don't think it's losing at all. It's the default on almost every unix, it's a decent shell and it's much simpler than zsh.
Rails is a Ghetto (2008)
When I first looked at this I got excited: A way to track my OWN goals for my OWN records, and help me with my own personal development.

When I found out it was another resume/CV/job board thing I just rolled my eyes and closed it. If I wanted that I would just use LinkedIn or Google+ (public) to talk about my bits and pieces.
That is some great insite. I never really thought about that angle. I will have to look more into that type of payment. Thanks for the help!
The thing that doesn't work for me in Agile: being treated like a baby and spoon fed little bits of work with little room for responsibility, initiative, creativity and a personal touch. Agile is great if you are a mediocre manager and you want to run a place full of replaceable cogs, but not so great if you want a place that pushes the boundaries and consistently goes the extra mile
Wanted: a few good mavericks; What Hollywood needs is an original thought
I really think this guy have had some very annoying situations on agile-teams. At least it is what pops the most out of the blog post.

He actually contradicted himself a lot of times:
- "old people": Being a developer for a relatively small period of time, but I really have a hard time talking about agile with old developers. At least is what happens here at São Paulo/Brazil.
- "stagnation": Agile is not Scrum. How about XP, TDD, etc? He says there is not much action in agile-world by arguing that people spend their time making lots of non-agile tools. Without a proper explanation of what he is talking about it is almost hopeless to try on and get something out of this point.
- "Imposing values": Contradiction again. First he complain about having to accept values. He even say that values are not important at all to productivity and collaboration by saying that goals are important. I may be wrong here, but goal could quite easily be considered a value in the same context.

I won't even continue on this list since I am just probably pissed with the whole thing, but I really would like to have a discussion on this to see in what page we find ourselves.

It is really sad to just read complains without any solutions or proper presentation of the problems. It makes everyone who really put some grasp on agile teams or tools look like a moron by offering a mysterious solution. It just looks like a TV show to me, not a tech or even a blog post.
That can be easily gamed as well. If you want to boost a rating for a book, mark all of the negative comments as not helpful... In fact, I see that happen on Amazon and Newegg a lot.
Half on subject. Just a note about fair pricing:

I downloaded my first pirated copy of anything ever the other day and this is why.

My son is playing LEGO star wars. He asks me how to advance and I tell him I don't know. He asks, "haven't you seen the movie?" I say yes, would you like to? Of course he says yes.

I set out to find a Star Wars (a new hope). Can you buy from iTunes? No. Netflix have it? No. And so on. The only option was Amazon who only had it as a super deluxe diamond ultra edition box set for more more digits worth of money than I was willing to spend on a movie that I saw in theater for less than $5. Things need to be reasonably priced for reasonable people to pay for them.

According to apple I (or my wife) have purchased 261 mobile apps. Most for real money.

I think the best business model I've encountered from a revenue point of view was a chess game that came in two varieties. There wasn't free to pay or pay to play (reg & lite), there was $1.99 and $6.99 (reg & pro), the second just being much more featured. I bought both. No upgrade option. Bought both outright, because $2 is a reasonable gamble and $7 more is reasonable for a game I know I like.

I wonder how the developer is doing.
Yes, from a "potential valuation" standpoint. As for "current valuation", you have to discount (a lot) for not having any existing marketing and sales infrastructure.
It isn't even about "escape hatches". There are programs that can be written without any special language features that will cause class cast exceptions. Please do your research.
It's not like banks get a choice - more like lawmakers have yet to force paypal into regulation.
Adobe to open-source Photoshop Q1 2013
Someone who eats at your local cafe 15 times isn't a "difficult customer." That person is a goddam hero to you. I haven't eaten at any local restaurant 15 times, living in a city that has good local restaurants. What constitutes a difficult and unprofitable customer in this economic context is not the same as in every other context.

You can say it's ironic that he is "applying a different standard" to the two actors in the story, but that's just point scoring, and reality is subtler. Society holds the two parties to this relationship to different standards. By going to a local restaurant 15 times and paying their higher prices, he has more than demonstrated good faith in such a relationship. He has stayed truer to this restaurant than 95% of customers to local restaurants. The owner, on the other hand, has the obligation of providing excellent customer service, which is what society expects of a local restaurant who charges high prices for their food (the breakdown of this expectation is parodied in the Soup Nazi character of Seinfeld). Given how awesome repeat customers are for local restaurant businesses, it should have been intuitively obvious to the owner that they should have let it slide, or at the most said something like, "well technically this one doesn't count towards the promotion but I'll give it to you anyway this time." The fact that this wasn't obvious to the owner when it's SO BLATANT to us indicates that it's this person's entire mode of thinking. This is supported by the bad Yelp reviews for service the author noted in this comment section.
So can I, if my transformer lost it's trackpad I don't think I'd notice, reaching for the screen is much more natural and it feels much more responsive than a trackpad mainly because you're not manipulating an arrow in to position before you do anything. I'm not sure I'm ready to ditch the mouse on my desktop yet but for most day to day tasks I find the touch screen to be king.
Yes, but psychologists love it -- it's bread on their table. Anyone sufficiently to the right of the mean I.Q. can be diagnosed on the autism spectrum, and be put into pointless therapy.
YouTube Will Now Let Mobile Users Choose Whether to Watch Ads
The Microsoft Point of View to the Nokia dead-end
That is how I am currently using it (http://kennedysgarage.com/status). I just wanted see if there were other uses for it. I think keeping it basic and to the original point might work the best. I do agree with you that we don't just need another Linkedin.
I'm not sure what world you're living in, but Haskell and ML seem to offer some measure of type safety and are also quite practical. Sure there is unsafePerformIO. But the problem is with Scala you don't even need to use unsafe language features to get an unexpected class cast exception. Given that you worked on Scala I'm rather surprised you don't know about this already.
This is exactly how I read it too. That's what I want. A motivational tool with the style/feedback of most game's achievement systems.

Kind of like the new Visual Studio Achievements but for everything else.
Is the C++ beta available as a free trial as well? Also, how would I use Architexa with my particular build system (a big mess of ant, cmake, etc)? A n automatic tool like clang's scan-build would be lovely! Recreating the code base as an Eclipse project would be a big hassle.
One problem is that most of the large publishers ignore is that people who pirate aren't necessarily people who would buy the game if they had no option to pirate. Every pirated copy does not represent a lost sale.
You associated old people with "the smell of death." I consider that a value judgement: Old people: Agile has the smell of death on it.
Clojure just has more velocity than CL at this point. I'd rather see the Clojure port, personally.

It would be nice, though, to see both!
That's why this has to happen on Kaggle. If they asked it on SE there was the danger of one of their mods closing the question.
There is the claim that people will have a worse experience if generic like comparative questions are allowed. A machine learning contest attempting to verify this claim would be more important. Or they could simply ask this on stackoverflow? Maybe there will be enough answers before somebody sends it to oblivion (meta stackoverflow site) or closes the question.
It's not sarcasm. It's a chance for me to unload the real doubts I have had about using the word "agile". I'll be more positive from here on.
I still don't know how to correctly navigate a save dialog in Windows 7

Seriously? Maybe you are being purposefully difficult because you have an emotional dislike of Windows? I think Gnome is ok, but it unquestionably has a steeper learning curve than windows, especially when you get outside simple things (like save dialogs).
There are stupid names and there are misleading names.
I love the way you put this question. But I don't know how good it would be to change the survey right now.
Amicus (YC S12): Disrupt a $60B market & make social good
Nothing in this press release mentions open sourcing photoshop. Am I missing something?
"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late."

- Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn
I got really excited after reading the submission title because I thought someone had finally created a service I've wanted for a while. This is great, but you should take it further! Here's the idea:

I've wanted a personal dashboard to track everything in my life at a quick glance, like weight/health metrics, financials, to-do, schedule, emails, twitter replies, etc; something that'll give me a quick and comprehensive view of everything going on personally, socially, financially, professionally. Basically a Mint meets Ducksboard for my life, or even better, a universal life platform that services can hook into.

Email me if you're interested!
Similarly, I've heard a proposal here on HN about having separate voting buttons for Agreement and Contributing. I might not agree with a comment, but admit it raises a good point. I might agree with another comment (or think it's funny) without it contributing to the current conversation.
I did not know that. Seems like a bad practice.
An email client that doesn't have search in 2012 is not an email client.
I use this one: http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/details/?categoryid=218&#...

It has to be restarted every couple of days and the wireless signal is not very strong, but I found is acceptable for my usage.
Direct copying of a computer's firmware is a way different type of "theft" than what you are alluding to.
Yep, the F2P statistic is absurd. How many people have downloaded LoL, played for 15 seconds and uninstalled. I realize Ubisoft didn't make LoL, but the point is the same.

Its a useless metric.
So many amazing insights from HN:

- the 95% aren't players

- the 95% aren't customers

- people must be buying the boxed game then installing a pirated version

- the number must be a lie because it makes piracy look bad

- ubisoft deserves it

HN2012 = Digg2007
This was the main idea behind creating it for myself. I glad that it came across this way.
Part of where I get confused here, is that Paypal already has a debit card...
Given the prevalence of places that accept debit cards to buy things, how is this a revolution?

https://personal.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&...
Research Blog: Machine Learning Book for Students and Researchers
> Things need to be reasonably priced for reasonable people to pay for them.

A high price does not entitle you to get a free copy. If you don't want to/can't pay for something then don't buy it. That's why I have no porsche in my garage.
Quick summary of best programming advice from experts
I would use it if it would be open source.
I'm confused.

Is this simply a vague way of saying that you were hoping for something you could run locally, not a hosted service?

If not, I'm not sure what would stop you from doing exactly as you describe.
Why Apple Should Lose Its Case Against Samsung
Not many, I'd make a completely un-verifiable estimate of 5% or less.
http://gitref.org is very good.
Unlike Linux, with mutliple distros and repositories, FreeBSD has one, and the kernel with all its composite of required programs are under control of one group of stable developers. Quality control is never an issue.
First Employee or Co-founder?
Ubisoft is not a great advocate for the industry, in my opinion.

I buy their games occasionally, since they own some of my favorite franchises. I also occasionally pirate them first to see if they are unplayable console ports, or have game-breakingly bad bugs or performance-- which they consistently do.

I know I probably don't represent the average pirate, just throwing that out there.
> C] If you have no DRM then your game will sell well

All things equal, I'd choose a DRM free game over a DRM-encumbered one.

Amazon's Digital Download service group often has Steam and DRM-free versions of the same game available - they probably have direct data that can show if "DRM-free = more sales" is true or not. (While Steam offers many benefits, the upside of not needing to launch the Steam client when you want to play a game is a big one).
I've used Discover for years and can't really think of a place that didn't take it. I just recently canceled it and have switched to AMEX which I have already found a half a dozen places that don't take it.
Yeah, the thing that gave it way for me was: * Since this is such a small module, it’s almost certainly bug-free
It's using the out-dated RockChip RK2918 SoC. This is a SoC from Shenzhen, China. RockChip mainly build their RKxxxx Boards for OEM tablets. AFAIK the RK2918 has a singlecore ARM Cortex A8 CPU with a max of 1.3GHz.

The successor is the RK3066 SOC with awesome specs:
ARM Cortex A8 1.6GHz Dual Core
MALI-400 Quad Core GPU
1GB RAM
HDMI@1080p out, USB-OTG support, 802.11n

I have 2 unbranded tablets with the RK3066 SoC:
The "McPad N90" and the "Window/Yuandao N101"

Why they don't use the RK3066? This SoC is about 90$ for OEMs. More info at: http://armdevices.net/ which is an US correspondant for chinese ARM based SoC devices...

You can even buy 1000 RK3066 powered 10" tablets with android 4 for 150$ / pcs. This GoNote is crazy compared to this price!
So who the hell are Assembla and why should anybody care what they have to say? All I'm seeing here is a lot of misinformed ranting. Sure, there's a kernel or two of truth hidden away in there, but most good rants have that. I don't see that TFA makes any sort of interesting point or arrives at any real conclusion that's helping anybody make a decision though.

Oh wait, I'm almost 40, so I guess I'm too busy decaying into compost to know anything about this stuff. Never mind me..
> In 3000 years someone alive today will be the common ancestor of all humanity

The title is very misleading. It's not true about any single person, unless there's a species bottleneck with only one survivor, and then there's a practical problem.

It would be more accurate to say that all those living 3000 years from now will have their genetic roots in all those living in the present. But if that had been the headline, no one would read the article.

How about this: "In 3000 years everyone alive today will be the common ancestor of all humanity". True, but not very exciting.
Ask HN: Why has'nt Samsung used the argument that Apple copied Braun?
I am curious. Apple has been obviously been "inspired by" Braun in many if not all their products. How could Samsung use this fact in the case thats currently going on? and if if they cant, Why?

Exhibit: http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secrets-to-apples-future
When given three pricing options, the majority of people will go for the middle one. I would personally make that an open-ended question, where you ask people to punch in a number. That would give more conclusive results. I'm willing to bet you're going to see most people pick the middle option, and unfortunately, that won't mean much.
I'm the same way. What sucks is overseas is riskier, and I got frauded three times in two years. So Paypal permanently banned me from their service.
FutureAdvisor (YC S10) raises $5M from Sequoia, now analyzing $4B in assets
You are right.

in Perl:

grep { $_ > 60 } ( 49, 58, 76, 82, 88, 90)
Tissue engineering: The brainmaker
The thing that doesn't work for me in Agile: being treated like a baby and spoon fed little bits of work with little room for responsibility, initiative, creativity and a personal touch.

Agile doesn't prevent any of those things. Actually, "agile" doesn't "do" anything, since "agile" is just an adjective that describes a set of values that a number of development methodologies have in common.
Agree. While it probably wasn't a big financial win, I think Reddit was a big win for the YC brand and highlighted what the program was all about.
What do [Scrum Masters] do?

I'm sorry, but if you don't know the answer to this question, you're not familiar enough with agile to write intelligently about it. If you're going to write about a technique, you should at least know the basic concepts, whether you agree with them or not. And pretending ignorance for effect doesn't add much to the discussion.
Yeah, running an .exe ? Why would I do that ?

"Your hosts file has been updated.
Thank you for your automatic donation
to our fund from your bitcoin wallet"
Ok here we go:

Table is a list of rows. To access a row is O(N) assuming perfect B-Tree. To access an element in an array is O(M) therefore to access an element of an array in a row is O(N*M) as you have to materialize the entire page that the array is in from disk. That array could be larger than a page which leads to more problems.

GIN is a possibility but the array elements are ordered which is overhead (they are a list, not a relational set) therefore there is a condition there if you want to reference by index which is the primary point of arrays. If not, you should use a set if they aren't ordered which means you should probably use a table and join anyway.

Fundamentally membership is a set relation, not a list relation. The order of the tags is not important.

Pain = PgSQL documentation 8.14.3 which references indices of arrays directly in a where clause.

A string - I wouldn't do string manipulation anyway in a where clause.

A date - that's a number which you can apply relops to easily.

The optimiser will most likely be better at retrieving and caching data based on a join condition versus column contents.
The thing that bothers me most about the "startup culture" that I see is not just touting revenue but constantly touting funding rounds.

It's great that you're funded, but that has nothing to do with me, nor is it evidence that you are ever going to accomplish anything worthwhile, IMHO. It just means you convinced someone with money that you're going to put their money to good use. Their confidence means nothing to me.
What Y Combinator Startups Actually Do, Based On Their (Unpronounceable) Names
If you're missing something I am as well.
I totally agree about the scrum master role. I have never understood the need for a scrum master when there are product managers and tech leads. Scrum masters usually don't have technical or product experience. I think some product managers just hire scrum masters to do their grunt work.
This is very cool - you should link to this on the main page you submitted; it's a very concrete example that I really enjoyed poking through.
> Nevertheless, the latter [free to play] model can be a great opportunity to beat piracy.

Ah "free to play" doesn't beat piracy. It makes piracy "legal". If anything it's a capitulation that distribution can't be controlled and that you can't force people to pay who do not want to. An acknowledgement that a new business model is needed cause crippling software with DRM and lobbying congress for more draconian laws isn't as profitable as they lawyers promised.
Does the UPS store accept FedEx, USPS, and Amazon packages?

I have no use for BufferBox personally because packages get delivered to my house just fine. In the case of USPS, our neighborhood mail boxes have the old style key boxes and the postman just locks it in and puts the key in my mailbox. In some cases I've had things delivered to my office instead. I can't think of the last time I had to go retrieve a package.

Anyway, I understand that a great number of people do not have a reliable solution for getting packages when not at home... or keep hours that do not match with the non-24x7 drop points. BufferBox seems to solve that issue by making things self-serve. Sure it costs a few bucks per delivery, but that is the price you pay for convenience. And when you don't really have a better solution, you pay it. I wish them a great deal of success.