skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author nails it when he/she points out that star ratings don't reveal how good a movie is for you ("the movies appeal to different kinds of people"), but then goes on to propose a 2-dimensional metric that still doesn't capture the personalization aspect ("rewatchability" doesn't say much about how good a movie is for me).

IMO movie ratings should iterate on Amazon's powerful statement "People that bought this item also bought...". That is, one should look at people with similar tastes and see how those people have rated the movie.

Easier said than done as it needs a ton of data in order for it to work, but that's the only way you're going to get close to more personalized ratings.
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I step on ants and consume bacteria everytime I eat. So I change the world as well.
Haha, I cannot believe that they could not get a better picture of the guy in the article than they did.

Picture:
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/62401000/jpg/_62401882...
One of the biggest differences between cofounder and employee is the direction of money flow. If you're putting money in and working, you're a cofounder. If you're taking money out as a salary you're an employee.

It sounds to me like you were an employee.
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That is really great to hear, it would be awesome to really read some real stuff besides analogies. By real stuff I mean situations, so all people can learn from them.
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Note the last line: 'If you are interested in new solutions to some of the issues listed above, please follow this blog over the next few weeks.'
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Can you point to where on the site the list of languages supported is documented? Database-side SQL (stored procedures <-> dependencies) would be awesome!
Yeah, I stopped reading at "Old People", and I am not even in that demographic. Wholesale discounting all wisdom in an entire segment of people with lots of experience in the very field you work in is rarely a good idea. I mean what's up with Knuth being so old? Some young guy should finish out TAoCP and show him how its done.
Hey now, religion isn't just sourced from bronze age goat herders! To name a few, there's 19th century con-men (Mormonism), 20th century shysters (Scientology), 21st century street magicians (Sathya Sai Baba).. we should be so lucky that religion had ceased fabrication 2000 years ago.
Not to mention, it's arguably still not a win for Conde Nast - I know the founder of Reddit is seen as a success, sure, but the truth is it's hard to monetize their user base.
You maybe right, but I was talking more about user adoption. It had it in it to be a popular browser for users (IMO, of course) and user adoption would have made the devs not really care about the things that are missing.
"The key difference is that the components of a complex data type don't stand on their own, or it's a violation of 1NF."

The characters or substrings that make up a string stand on their own. In fact, it's pretty hard to differentiate a string from an array of characters.

Similarly, the date component of a timestamp stands on its own, and timestamps are routinely broken up in that fashion.

"The interesting thing about arrays is depending on the work you're doing with them, they could either be a violation of 1NF or not."

In other words, you're saying that queries are a violation of 1NF, rather than the schema?

What about integers and modulo division? Is modulo division considered to be accessing a component of an integer?

"people reading are developers and will take this as carte blanch to store repeated values or sets as arrays"

There's no substitute for careful thought when designing a schema.

"Intuitions about database storage and performance tend to be incorrect."

Good point.

"loss of relational correctness"

I still don't think you've justified this. Remember that the normal forms are formally defined, so you should be able to show a clear distinction, which I've not seen yet.

"All optimizations are trading flexibility for performance."

What particular kind of flexibility is lost in this example (product tags)?

"The rule of thumb on arrays is don't use them, and there are good reasons for that."

This really sums up the situation. It's easy to use arrays for the wrong things, so the rule of thumb is to never use them. But they are still useful often enough for developers to get frustrated, and the rule of thumb may cause them to invent a worse solution elsewhere.

We should make the good reasons known, rather than just the rule of thumb.
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Here's an archived Usenet post with a load of PC easter eggs. It's twenty years old. The Mac SE team picture is listed in here.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/Easter-Eggs
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I don't make a conjecture about the reason that agile events skew to an older crowd because I really, really don't know why it is true. I do know that it changes the whole perception of the effort. So, I have to be careful when I use the word "agile". It's got a demographic implication that isn't positive, isn't "us" for many younger people. You can argue about the wisdom of my saying it this way, but the word has a real demographic and emotional association. This article is a chance to express my doubts about the word "agile". It's done. I'll be more positive from here on out.

CMM and PMP are basically anti-agile. They are useful, but useful for projects that just shouldn't be agile. The fact that agile events attract a similar demographic isn't a positive, in my opinion.
The two most important things have already been mentioned.

Another important technique that I usually use is to ask, repeatedly if I'm "doing this right". I find stackoverflow welcomes such questions but you must already have working code.
They offer a debit card, but I don't know what the uptake is. I've had a Paypal account since they first launched and have never had any interest in getting a debit card.
MoSCoW or how to reduce 50 todos to 5.
I've never seen anyone in that category (bottom 30% on the "knows how to use a computer scale") using one.
That one is Vonnegut's sleeper masterpiece - the choice of narrator was especially clever. How can you have a narrator narrate a million-year-spanning story? Vonnegut figured it out.
Not really. Developers get into pissing match, news at 11.
I initially disliked the square brakets as well, but I got over it quickly because of the utter happiness I get from writing Clojure code in general.

FYI, the square brackets are not an arbitrary deviation from lisp syntax. Square brackets are Clojure's vector syntax, the use of square brackets in function and macro definitions reflects the fact that they are actually vectors.

Not sure what you meant with your objection to slashes though.
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I actually use No-CD/No-DVD patches for all my Ubisoft games (Assassins Creed and Anno), so it isn't that unusual a position.
But each generation only carries half the DNA of the previous one. So after 5 generations there is a vanishingly small chance that anyone after that will still carry your DNA, with the exception of male lineage -- there you know that the Y chromosome has made it through.
You describe the opposite of Agile. Agile is all about ownership, responsibility, self-direction. It, (at least scrum) gives way more control to "producers" (devs, designers, etc) than "managers".

But, of course (almost) no one does scrum cause sales/customers want up front signed contract listing exactly what will be done and exactly when.
Anyone care to explain what the author mean by: "Pair programming is like those girls that go to the restaurant bathroom together."? It sounds like a funny analogy but it's just pure gibberish. The point of the article seem to be to get reactions, not tell you anything about Agile.
I applaud their efforts to improve on movie ratings, but this is not an improvement. I agree with another commenter that they've really just created a 2D histogram, which is more difficult to assess than the histograms they complained about.

What's especially difficult with the scatter plot is that it requires you to assess density, rather than a simple scalar value. The other histograms have 5 numbers to indicate "weight" for each star, and a bar next to the star visually indicates the proportion the ratings received for that star. For their scatter plot, if there are 1000 ratings, how will it look different from a film with 100 ratings? The relative proportions of the ratings will only get muddied with the scatter plot approach.

The other thing about the scatter plot is that it still essentially maps to a 5 star rating, but only makes it more difficult to asses which star. That is, we are expected to visually assess: [1 star] - greatest density in lower left quadrant, [2 star] - density greatest in middle of graph, [3 star] - greatest density in lower right quadrant, [4 star] - greatest density in upper left quadrant, [5 star] - greatest density in upper right quadrant. There are only 5 useful density assessments which brings us back to the same categories as the 5 star system. Only in the scatter plot, its much much much more difficult to assess which quadrant (star) the ratings map to. And really, what is the meaningful difference between the 2, 3 and 4 stars (in my example)? Those density groupings seem almost equivalent (or some might argue). So in reality, the scatter plot will really only be meaningful if there is very little deviation between quality and re-watchability (which isn't true), which will help to group the ratings making density easier to assess. If they diverge frequently, then the plots are just going to be ignored by users since they'll have to assess density in every plot to try and make sense of it. That's hard. That's work. Users don't like to do work.

Finally, re-watchability? The question on a user's mind is, "would I want to watch this movie?" not, "if I saw this movie, would I want to watch it again?" I rarely watch movies again. Even the ones I love and own. That seems to be true of most people. The reasons for wanting to re-watch a movie are unrelated to whether it would be worth watching the first time. I'd argue that re-watching a film is more of a personality type than anything related to a movie.
Basically what dedward said before me.

EasyMotion is not for searching, it's for moving the cursor deliberately to a place onscreen where you need to make an edit.
To a certain extent, agile tries to narrow the scope of a sprint, in order to ship more rapidly. For people that have a grander vision of what they want to build this may seem narrowing to constantly be reminded of the MVP. If the product you're creating is a commercial thing, or just something that will thrive based on its adoption in the marketplace, feature creep can be damaging, and it's helpful to have someone keep you focused on making that next shippable version.

That's inevitably going to piss some people off who are bubbling with ideas and want to implement them all. As a product manager with an active imagination, I've been in that situation, and I'm slowly recovering :)
I completely agree that most startup founders are going to be making sacrifices and using all the resources available. If you are expecting anything to come out of your startup you better be really committed to it. I'm against that school of thought on a totally different basis.

My issue with it is that it views starting a startup as a kind of gamble. Every sleepless night, weekend at the office and skipped vacation is absolutely guaranteed to come back and bite you in the ass after a certain time. If you are into gambling, you might bet on "hitting a home run" (whatever that means) before that happens. But you might as well try your chances in Vegas. In reality behind every overnight success is skill and years of dedicated work. And there's no way you are going to stay in overdrive for years without wrecking yourself and your startup.

I'm speaking from personal experience btw. I used to subscribe to that ideology and I still haven't fully recovered years later.
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"One of the conditions of the 1NF is that each row and column contain one and only one value."

There is no useful differentiation between atomic and non-atomic values. A timestamp is made up of a date and a time, a string is an array of characters, a real number has a sign and magnitude, etc.

I suppose you could just use boolean only, which could be regarded as "atomic".
I think it's a nice idea and I'm really interested to see how you execute on it.

I mentioned it on the form but I'll say it again here. I think for prices around what you're talking about it makes sense to make them per month $25/year is about $2/month, if you ask me to spend $25 up front for something I might think about it but $2 just seems like nothing.
As an Atheist I'm glad your feelings only matter to you, while science will outlast both of us.
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Yes, as I die I'll be able to look back on my life and see that I had everything properly organized into neat folders.
In my experience, most keyboards are washable. You just have to make sure to give them enough time to dry completely. I've washed around a dozen in my lifetime, using a garden hose or shower sprayer, and I've only had issues once. Your mileage may vary.
Yes. The scatter plot is just a different version of how others felt about the movie. It does not communicate how that movie is related to other movies (that I have rated), nor does it inform me of how similar I am to the people who rated the movie. Personalization is missing.
It would also help if Ubisoft ended their relationship with Digital River. Digital River for some inexplicable reason enforces a limit on the number of times you can download a title. For a digital download service I have a hard time understanding the rational behind that decision.
I've read accounts[0] of people washing their normal keyboards in the dishwasher for years. Put it in the top-rack fully intact then let it air dry for week before using it again.

[0] - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1102979...
You are either a hypocrite or cannot remember your own writing. "The smell of death" permeates agile gatherings, because the attendees are largely over 50. That's not a statement of fact. It might have been a factual statement, had you written that the attendees were animated, rotting corpses.
I genuinely agree. In a former life I was promoted from software developer to lead dev/scrum master, and I can tell you the dev part of the job moved completely to the background, making room for something more of a secretary job: planning poker roundups, doing the scrum board task dance, doing the numbers game on estimated and effective man-hours, etc. Overhead.

I don't say agile development is a bad thing. But some managers tend to be led by cool buzz words and obey the manifesto way to strictly.

Agile development is different for every team and situation, not a one-stop-shop everyone should adhere to.
That some scientists may believe that, it doesn't mean that's inherit to science.
Most keyboards will withstand a washing just fine.
It's easy to criticise, much harder to do.
How about for presentations? You are already using your hand and talking naturally, why not incorporate that into your talk?

I wouldn't use it as a keyboard replacement, but for other tasks that naturally fit into this type of human input.
On point three, that confused me for a moment when reading. It would help to lead by specifying that it's an inequality.
>>What's good ice cream? Any damn thing you'd like it to be.<<

Therefore -- What's Agile? Any damn thing you'd like it to be.
Ubisoft last weekend offered some of their games for $1. I'd bet those games sold like hot-cakes. They also sold most of their catalog for $1 a few years ago (for about a day completely by accident), I wonder what their sales numbers were around that time.
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I would disagree with that, they are not mutually exclusive. Some people create a "startup" to provide them with a "lifestyle business".
Please do not play with my emotions like this. I don't see anything about Photoshop in that press release.
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Thanks for doing this.
I noticed that the author uses cmd.exe in one of the charts. I wonder if this is a stumbling point for people moving to linux. As it is none of this surprised me or needed any explanation.

Why would I want a shell script to change my $CWD after the shell script exits?
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How about this idea that every potential costumer is either a pirate or a buyer. I think people hold their wallets when they see the price of games. I know I'm holding on Guild Wars 2, and I was one of the early hypers, dreaming with this game. Some years later I just don't think it's worthy, though I did throw more than that at F2P games.
I've also traced my ancestry back to Charlemagne. It's good fun but it's not the iffy documentation that is the main problem. It's the milkman effect. In talking with a researcher at a genetic genealogy center he said that around 10% of the population has a different biological father than they think they do.
But in reality behind every overnight success is skill and years of dedicated work. And there's no way you are going to stay in overdrive for years without wrecking yourself and your startup.

Yeah, you definitely can't sprint the entire marathon. I won't argue that. But I think there are moments when you choose to sprint for a while, to achieve certain goals. And even the non "flat out sprint" moments are a hard slog.

The thing that I don't do well, is allowing myself to take time off. I can't escape the sense of feeling guilty when I do... if I go out to watch a movie or go out drinking or whatever, I always find myself thinking "I could be (writing code|doing market research|writing a whitepaper|etc.)" the whole time. So I don't wind up taking much time off. Whether I'll look back on this whole experience as being a net negative, or a net positive, remains TBD.
Not trolling. Genuinely curious. What exactly does TC rankings mean? It is not like they have a good track record of non-biased tech news reporting. I have avoided their websites/articles like the plague for the past 3 years so I don't know what their record has been as of late, but I doubt it has changed for the better since then. Judging by headlines I see here on HN, I am willing to bet that it has changed for the worse if that is possible.
That makes little sense. If the domain is dominated by heterosexual males, it's quite obvious his spouse must be a woman.
How come people take Zed's rants so seriously? Honest question, I'm oblivious to how he got so much credibility in the first place.
Now compare your point of view with the one expressed by mhellmic[1] in this very discussion. 'Rewatchability' sounded to me as something even more vague than 'quality' while reading the article. Also, my pattern for rewatching films differs greatly from both your description for rewatchability and mhellmic's, and from my own pattern for rereading books. I don't see how it can be applied to rating systems with just one additional parameter (the quality thing).

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417184
Because Apple has been inspired by them, not out-right copied them.

Apple take ideas from Braun and put them into different contexts (products). Samsung have taken Apple’s ideas and put them into the exact same context (or so the argument goes).

Another reason: The Braun designs that Apple have been inspired by are decades old by this point. Most of the Braun products don’t have these designs anymore (Aside: IMHO I think they current design is inferior to a lot of their older stuff.)

EDIT: Removed something that I don’t think was accurate.
"As if it were a swarm of bees, you should stay away from the SyncServices folder." - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1865

Wow. When Apple's copywriting is that down-to-earth, you know that something is different.

In seriousness, between this fragility and the lack of nested folders in iCloud, I get the feeling that Apple's taken a leaf out of Windows 8's book on this one... by focusing on non-power users, they'll generate a lot of hate and bad press from their once-loyal power-user customers.
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> For anyone else it's just a matter of faith.

Not really. Faith is what you have on things that cannot be proved. Like someone else pointed out, it's like saying believing in the existence of Moscow is a matter of faith for everyone who was never there. And, even for those who think they've been to Moscow, how can they be sure it was not other city cleverly disguised as Moscow?
"Happenings are sometimes organised at which thousands of people hold hands and form a human chain, say from coast to coast of the United States, in aid of some cause or charity. Let us imagine setting one up along the equator, across the width of our home continent of Africa. It is a special kind of chain, involving parents and children, and we will have to play tricks with time in order to imagine it. You stand on the shore of the Indian Ocean in southern Somalia, facing north, and in your left hand you hold the right hand of your mother. In turn she holds the hand of her mother, your grandmother. Your grandmother holds her mother's hand, and so on. The chain wends its way up the beach, into the arid scrubland and westwards on towards the Kenya border.

How far do we have to go until we reach our common ancestor with the chimpanzees? It is a surprisingly short way. Allowing one yard per person, we arrive at the ancestor we share with chimpanzees in under 300 miles. We have hardly started to cross the continent; we are still not half way to the Great Rift Valley. The ancestor is standing well to the east of Mount Kenya, and holding in her hand an entire chain of her lineal descendants, culminating in you standing on the Somali beach." http://tabish.freeshell.org/animals/human-chain.html
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Why should lies and delusions be respected? Something is either true or not. We now have evidence that all religions are man made inventions. Most people are either unwilling or unable to look at evidence or understand it. Willful or otherwise ignorance.

Respecting beliefs no matter how wild is exactly what got us into situation we are now, where politicians have to associate with some kind of brand of delusion before they can be elected, or when a senator of the most powerful country in the world is saying we don't need environmental policy because Jesus is going to return to earth within 50 years, so who cares what happens with the planet.

Moderate, respect religion view that you are advocating is exactly what gives platform and legitimacy to more wild and extreme fundamentalist beliefs.
Both sets of features are important.
Good point, I agree that the analogy is not perfect, but I don't agree that Nutritionism is equal to the faux sciences you list, everything you listed has a philosophy that at it's core is faux science, the philosophy of nutritionism says that what we eat and how much affects us. It's the individual nutritionist that may base their philosophy either on real or faux science. Dietician:Nutritionist and Sports Science:Fitness Trainer is probably a more accurate comparison.
Didn't Erik Naggum try his hand at a CL/CLIM port years and years ago?