skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aggressive campaign? They killed about 3k of our people. We've killed over 100k people in response. Which of those sounds more aggressive?
No, there isn't. You adhere to your burn-down, not to your feature set. Scrum is time driven, not task driven. The whole idea is to become better at estimation so that Scrum appears task driven, when really it's just because your team is that good at estimating.

Erm. There is an explicit commitment by the Scrum team to complete the stories selected to produce the next increment in the sprint. To quote from http://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scru...

"The two parts of the Sprint Planning Meeting answer the
following questions, respectively:
 What will be delivered in the Increment resulting from the upcoming Sprint?
 How will the work needed to deliver the Increment be achieved?"

The commitment on delivering a certain chunk of work has been one of the more controversial elements of Scrum. Many people who say they're doing Scrum don't do this. But it is very definitely part of the Scrum process as defined.
I wrote a long and convincing reply about how you have to also know what you want in the future, and whether you want to have a happy and stable life or whether you want to seek some other kind of fulfillment...

...and then as I was about to post it, I realized that the people it would be intended for would already know everything in it, because it's part of their nature, and that it wouldn't do anybody else any good.

So maybe there's an even simpler rule here: if you have a fun job, and you're not sure whether or not you should trade up to a less fun job, then you probably shouldn't let anyone talk you into leaving it.

If it's right for you to give up a good job, you'll know it.
Of course, Madison is one of the most liberal cities in any state. I've lived in both Madison and Milwaukee. Now I live in San Francisco. I don't think Madison is any less liberal than SF. The big difference is that most of the areas immediately surrounding SF are pretty liberal as well, whereas rural Dane County certainly isn't.

As you and others have said, the segregation there is really shocking. I grew up during the heyday of personalities like Alderman Michael McGee (Sr; I was out of the state before his son was elected) when there was talk of the black areas seceding from the city entirely:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yGcaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o...

The MPD has a rather, uhm, spotty record with the minority community. I don't know the state of that these days, but the militaristic motif of this website definitely seems to hark back to the dark days of the Harold Brier years. Given their history I think they should be more careful about the tone they project.
Hopefully not a clever scheme to avoid inheritance tax... Doubt if India has inheritance tax.
It's the only way I can find my phone when I'm half asleep in the morning; grab the wire and prod the hanging thing.
Maximal Unviable Products
As a setting, i wish i could keep everyone from messing with me.
It's still not USB, when it really should have been.

There's no excuse for having a proprietary connector, now not even for Apple.
There isn't an easy way to assess unless you put values on it. What's it worth?
What's the difference in job satisfaction worth?
What is the value of the extra time from not commuting worth? This can be broken down into the likely activities you would be doing e.g working on own projects, spending time with famlly, leisure activities such as cinema or bar)
What are the values of any other work differences? (flexi-time, provided lunch, health insurance cover, pension, time off etc.)

Sometimes attaching a monetary value to these things are difficult, but it's a good exercise to do so that you understand what you value more and what you are and willing to sacrifice for more $$$ (or less $$$ depending on the opportunity).
I like Apple products. But I hate Apple. I bought a mac mini and an iPhone 3g when it came out. I loved it. I bought everything just to make apps, and I did it. But I learn one thing: Apple doesn't care about me, only about the money that I bring them. Everyone always says how great their Customer Support is, everyone that is not a developer. They do not care about your problem, they will not try to help you. No info, no help. And this will not change because as soon as you step out other ten will take your place. They do not care about your need as a developer. If you are not fine with this, leave, you will not be missed. And I left. Never to return.
Apple's Magic Is In The Turn, Not The Prestige
I couldn't agree more: It's either no clear way to monetize or very hard to no access, such as the healthcare market. In healthcare everybody agrees that it is "ripe" for disruption and that to do well you need to do good. But there's just no access to it, with all the bureaucracy. This implies that investment need is high and iteration periods are long. (Note: I'm from Germany. But while the US system is much more open than over here, it also super tough in the US to launch a "meaningful" (read: not a fitness/recreational) healthcare business.)
A founder is someone who founds the company along with you, it seems you are saying people should just find a random person and call them a co-founder? Why can't there just be one founder?
In the sense that general business stuff overlaps with startups.
You essentially countered your own argument there. The fact that you've admitted you understand that the immense profits they made last quarter were a direct result of their closed policy is evidence that deep down, even you don't truly believe they should be more open.

I think a more correct title would be, "Wouldn't it be nice if Apple was more open?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KROYfsNl59U
This is actually the first valid criticism of the new connector i've read all day. That was indeed a useful feature of the ild one which the new one won't likely have.
That's an interesting and cogent point. I think it true that we cannot merely present our values, and expect that they will adopt them. There will, by necessity, be some force (hard or soft) applied. How we accomplish this while remaining true to our values is a challenge in need of discussion.
Plus the salt seems to be concatenated in the hash. Very cool and user friendly.
That puts it into perspective and now this topic becomes startup worthy ...
It could be problematic on the keys swap-over as you would still meet up. Though this just got me thinking, wouldn't having your mobiles RFID/NFC also do car entry & startup be cool! That must be in the works somewhere.

Alternatly some mechanics offer courtesy cars, so you can stay on the road while your car is being fixed.
Well you are missing the point a bit: the RPi's mission is to be an accessible platform for teaching kids to code on. It's role as a toy for former-80s-8-bit-geeks is secondary.
I know, in my case, there isn't a direct 1:1 correlation between hourly rate and hour of commute. The calculation for determining that calculation (at least in the context of the study) would be interesting.
IPhone 5 as expected and boring for this
Indeed. And those are not in the version which I found elsewhere. My apologies for not seeing it the first time and for implying that the original poster did not understand things correctly.

The email I was going on was posted to http://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID... . This does not have the quotes nor the double semicolon, and is correct. So is the one at http://www.webassist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27871 .

However, the email posted to http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/paypal-updates-a... does have that error. In that case, the Java is also malformed, saying uc.setRequestProperty("Host",;'www.paypal.com';);

If this is a form of email corruption, it is not one I recognize.
As they said in the Apple announcement, audio and video are generally transferred wirelessly now (via AirPlay or Bluetooth). However, if the Lightning to 30-pin adapter is fully functional, and Lightning is truly all digital, that little adapter must be doing the DAC, which might explain the high cost.
The change in screen size reminds me of some blogs and discussions here on HN, where people claimed that 3.5" was an ergonomic display limit for one-handed use of a smartphone for an average adult; so it was a perfect size after a lot of research made by Apple.

Does anybody who played with the 5 know whether Apple took any measures for one hand use to encounter the display growth to 4" in the OS or bezel, thickness or elsewhere?
Also, I seem to recall pg said that Clojure was (probably) the new Python w.r.t. The Python Paradox.
10% increase versus just the risk of taking a new job is probably not worth it.
Fair enough. I guess I just don't know much about Godaddy outside of their Internet services. Have any good reading material on the subject?
Firstly, the authors still found a difference in effect depending on the severity of the depression of the presenting patient.

Which is exactly what one would expect.

Second, this paper is not without its critics (just look in the comments):

"Huedo-Medina et al report that decreasing placebo response with increasing baseline severity of depression is their paper’s “unique contribution”. However, it is clear that this is an artefact of using the standardised mean difference. Analyses using the raw HRSD scores reveal that mean placebo response remains constant with greater response to antidepressant treatment with increasing baseline severity".

Thirdly, you do a disservice to psychologist and psychiatrists if you believe they are further behind on their reading than either you or I.
Running out of swap and memory is one thing, although unlikely considering how much of that stuff we've got nowadays. I for instance have 8gb of main memory and 10gb of swap space. 300mb are used after system boot (still too much). That leaves me with plenty of space to "waste" on temporary files in a tmpfs.

The Linux FHS explicitly states "Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are preserved between invocations of the program." That's not only reboots. It's not meant to be used to store drafts or anything that you might want to reopen at a later time. That's what we've got /var/tmp for. The FHS specifies as follows: "The /var/tmp directory is made available for programs that require temporary files or directories that are preserved between system reboots. Therefore, data stored in /var/tmp is more persistent than data in /tmp".

Tmpfs isn't harmful because of this, it's the default mutt configuration which is broken. If developers would have adhered to the standard the problem wouldn't exist. Since programs should adhere to the standard, because decisions like the one in question are made upon it, they should be reviewed and their default configurations should be changed in order to fix this issue.
It is not that simple. In most brain studies I read there is a stroke or something like that which causes a lesion in the brain, and the changes came about after this. Since we already have a good idea where the change in the brain comes from, it is reasonable to assume the personality change is caused by it.
I don't see that this is any worse than android where you have a huge number of differing screen sizes.

One problem though with the growing number of devices is the cost involved in testing web apps. Especially if you want to support retina screens and such.
You can freely share information with other devs in Apple's dev forum.
> We think we've figured out how to hack into the computer our universe is running on

Not sure someone with that kind of access will need seed funding with YCombinator or anywhere else. Unless their hack is unproven and unreliable, and up for immediate rejection.
Thanks! Good starting point. I'd like a section on using django on cloud services, e.g. AWS Elastic beanstalk. Another best practise I'd want is scheduling scripts with https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-managemen... and Cron, or using Celery. There is much confusion on those topics I think.

Edited some spelling...
All about lightning connectors
You have a good point in that I don't see the value of imposing communication and forcing people into meetings, however why the straw man? Eating and paying rent definitely have a value, so why bring up the comparison?
Too many sites still use custom fonts at small viewports...

Now the device might be connected to a fast WiFi network, or it might be connected via GRPS or EDGE.

The later case makes the user experience painful if someone has to wait for the fonts before they can see the content.
This author awkwardly combines two distinct and incompatible arguments (that requiring a $30 adapter to use old accessories is unreasonable, and that the iPhone should use Micro-USB) and seems to think there was a synthesis of the arguments. I don't understand why the two arguments were concatenated together with the pretense that the latter somehow related to the former. Switching to Micro-USB would cause all the same incompatibilities with old accessories, and wouldn't solve any problems other than letting you borrow your friend's Android charge cable if you're caught with a low battery.
Sounds like alot, but then again its totally different when you take a 40k cut from 150k then it is from 70k ;)
But sharing the percentage now after the absolute number wouldnt make much sense if you want to keep it secret ;)
Makes plenty of sense to me.

If you actually sit down and think of it from a entrepreneur point of view as opposed to a corporate point of view, it's pretty clear that more often than not, the risk proposition is just not worth it, and the odds are already stacked against you as an entrepreneur without bringing the enterprise into the equation.
This is roughly why I said it would be illegal someday. The price mechanism is really bad at giving acceptable answers to ethics. Whenever all the current enterprises agree to be ethical, there inevitably comes some whippersnapper who has no such qualms and undercuts them all. And while they can form a cartel to fight back, the only real recourse is stepping outside the market system for a final arbitrator: the law.
The site beaks the back-button.

The parallax scrolling looks cool, but there's too much momentum, making the desired content scroll out of view.

The visual language is 1984. This sends chills down my spine and I'd never go for an image like that for a public service. Maybe this image is reassuring to the Milwaukee Police Dept, but that shouldn't play a role in designing a "customer-facing" website.
The fonts themselves are cached. The CSS is cached for 24 hours to allow them to point to a new versions of the font.

This css file stops the parser till it is loaded and when connectivity to Google is an issue it hangs the loading of sites. See http://www.igvita.com/2012/06/14/debunking-responsive-css-pe...
Also it seems like a pretty thinly-veiled jab that he and investors like him provide better advice than YC and associates, which when laid bare seems quite dubious.
I don't get how this blurb is still on the front page after 8 hours, let alone how it has 26 points without any interesting comments. (Probably because it's not an interesting article; enterprise SEO dashboards are neither technologically interesting nor novel to the industry.) This whole thing looks to me like SEO people gaming the system (surprise, surprise).

I don't see what anyone forcing this to the front page would be trying to accomplish, though. Recruiting? Self-promotion? This is the problem with search-engine marketers, Reddit scammers, and the like. Just because a link makes it to the front page of an aggregator site doesn't mean that its content is interesting or engaging enough to captivate people and get them to respond to calls to action. Back in my (short) SEO days, we stressed that content was king, and if you didn't have good content to share, then there was nothing we could do to help you (except buy links from shady web directories).
Off topic, but the "PLAY FLIRTATIOUS ON FACEBOOK" link (upper right corner) is dead.
Why is Windows registry criticized so much?
I have no regrets in choosing to do iOS development. And they change brought is much needed.

But they could have made some official announcement some months back. guys like me could have waited and got the new ones.
>Jeff Atwood has a point that desktop apps are dead.

Do you mean this literally? Or just business apps? I mean it doesn't seem likely that web or mobile apps are going to replace Photoshop, or Illustrator or Maya in the next decade.
A cute myth by the new CEO. Answers.com was founded in Israel (though by American immigrants) by Bob Rosenschein who was from Pittsburgh.

Until it's purchase, the core operations were in Israel. Answers.com was later sold and moved to the Midwest.
Well, one time I was browsing this website and an extension install link for something I'd never heard of popped up and I almost clicked it.

You mean like that? Or?
I think you'll figure out what 100% of people with larger screen phones already have:

If you hold it slightly differently in your palm, your thumb can reach all of a 4" screen just as well as a 3.5" screen, and with less strain.
Timelapse of a game prototyping session (using virtualdub)
Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking
Over the last few years I've had jobs that had a 1 hour drive each way (which I hated), a 5 minute walk (which was too close) or a very pleasant 25 minute walk - which seems to be a sweet spot for me - allows me to listen to podcasts/audiobooks and have a gentle context switch to/from work.
Scientists call this 'Related Work'.
I've seen that happen.

These are exactly the sort of problems that should show up in sprint retrospectives. Hopefully folk then generate ideas for solving them (e.g. PO breaking down stories further before the planning meeting, or devs getting more up to speed in the problem domain so they can grok brief feature descriptions more easily).

So - what's happening in your sprint retrospectives?
As an iPhone and iPad owner, I've loved being able to share charging apparatuses across the two devices, even if this is incorrect (my 4S throws up an incompatible charging device error once in a while with the iPad charging brick, though the issue is resolved by unplugging and replugging). It is frustrating that between now and the new iPad launch I will have to deal with two incompatible Apple plugs.
"If it's right for you to give up a good job, you'll know it."

I thought I knew, but it turns out the flexibility (hours, teleworking) I had in $previous_gig was something I took for granted.

I enjoy the work I do now, but it can be stressful trying to code in an open plan office which also hosts other business concerns (communications, NOC...)

edit People I work with read HN. Hello there. You know my feelings already ;)
There seems to be some very scrum-savvy people here. I have used it many times, but I am interested in your thoughts about how designers typically work within that framework. In my experience design and scrum don't play very nicely together. Thoughts?
He is spot on, from reading this board it seems like people think you can use a formula to create a successful start-up, just follow YC's template and you will soon be running a successful company. Get a co-founder,produce a slick presentation...etc.

If your start-up is really good you should just be able to explain in in a few sentences a swift demo and your done, and if you really believe in it then you should not be going with X other cookie cutter start-ups to chase a few dollars from some company with not exactly a good record.

You should have multiple investor's lined up and you should be choosing them not the other way around.
Tried again just now - same problem. Looks like some sort of a persistent issue with Launchrock, I mustn't be the only one hitting it.
No as they need 30+ variants of the fonts to support everything right now and Google customizes them on the basis of user agent.

Hopefully in the future it will be a lot more simpler.
Why your startup is half as effective as it should be - GeekWire
For what it's worth, using antweb.org I checked the geographic distribution of the ant species mentioned. Pheidole pallidula is widely distributed in the Mediterranean, and both Lasius grandis and Lasius cinereus are found in the Azores, Canary Islands and Madeira.
There's the potential to try and "grow the new group" into a fun and happy place to work. As long as the regulatory guidelines don't turn out to be actually restrictive.

People who enjoy the rewards (tangible and intangible) of leadership can find building that up to be very rewarding. But you need to have a good feel on the senior management to ensure they won't try and micromanage or make changes that destroy what you're trying to build up.
Show HN: We buit this in 4 hours on the local hackathon
Project Entrepreneurship: Beyond Vanilla Project Management
Could it have been as thin with USB? Could it have never required fumbling with mismatched-side-rotation in the dark?

You might not like the excuses but they exist beyond "no excuse". And the required micro-USB adapter will likely be tiny and cheap: just affix it to the end of your micro-USB cord.
Reminds me of the Harry Potter books. Somewhere in those stories, Dumbledore comments: "We are what we choose".
Or they could release an extension which would install and run scripts from UserScripts. Couldn't they? That would inline the whole process.

But yeah, I completely think this is actually, sadly, the correct choice.
How good is the platform detection accuracy? I ask because for goo.gl I see analytics with the + suffix plump for many "Other Unix" when the majority of those would have been Linux.
I have few issues with this:

https://github.com/lincolnloop/django-layout

This structure leaves manage.py in the root path. Which mean other dirs will pollute this area, like run/, deploy/, log/, config/, lib/, bin/, cronjobs/, etc. You dirs woud stack to a long list.

I would suggest something like this:

root/
src/
manage.py
lib/
run/
docs/
config/
Incorrect.

With the sort of work I do nowadays (large-scale ML and NLP), I generally need very little synchronization, i.e. my tasks are usually embarrassingly parallel. I typically save final results in a centralized store (DB or NFS) and look at it there.

I also use Hadoop where appropriate.
Or you can use this library:

http://www.openwall.com/phpass/

It does all the work for you, and will even fall back to other algorithms if you don't have bcrypt available.
I find this thread fascinating as Scrum actually says nothing about stories, or points, or hours. It also says nothing about the estimation process that the team should use. It also says nothing about the process to be used to select the sprint goal and the PBIs to be completed in the sprint.

All Scrum says is that:

1) there are things on the backlog (it doesn't specific what product backlog items are or should be - they could be user stories, they could be old-fashioned requirements docs, they could be use cases - Scrum doesn't care).

2) there is a Sprint Planning Meeting where the team and the product owner agree what the sprint goal is and the team forecasts the Product Backlog items it will deliver to meet that sprint goal.

The rest is up to the team.

Teams decide to track hours or points or story counting. Teams decide whether an estimation process is useful.

Also, you cannot substitute points for stories - that's the whole point of the estimation process. (and also a large part of why software projects fail. "Doing 'A' is 10x harder than doing 'B'" seems to be hard to understand until you have points to spend

Many teams can and do just count stories. Folk like Ron Jeffries who invented the point counting / velocity concept now prefer and recommend story counting. There's a whole group of folk who eschew estimating entirely (See stuff like naked planning for example http://aaron.sanders.name/agile-fashion/naked-planning-expla...).