skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely disagree with the approach being suggested in this blog post. Calling people out by name in the middle of a team meeting is not productive, it's only going to cause everyone to be uncomfortable and the person called out to feel terrible and embarrassed. Depending on their personality they may not be able to function well or think clearly for the rest of the meeting.

It will also cause people to feel a ton of anxiety about missing a deadline because they know what follows is being called out in the meeting in front of everyone.

It's much better to talk about these things in private. It's less stressful and allows you to have a more in depth conversation if necessary without everybody being present. In particular if the problem is stemming from the interactions between team members, having everyone present will make it harder to get to that point.

Let me give an example; say the problem is like that in the article, that Ted has missed two deadlines. But say the problem is due to Ted needing something from Joan he didn't get in time, which pushed him back. Or Joan's code was buggy and Ted had to spend time debugging it, etc.

If you call out Ted in the middle of the meeting one of two things happen depending on Ted's personality:

1) Ted clams up and just takes the blame as a pariah for the team, not wanting to make further waves.

or

2) Ted says it's all really Joan's fault and the whole meeting degrades into a shit storm.

Neither of these is good.

Calling people out in public is a horrible practice, and it's amazing to me it's being seriously suggested here.

You can absolutely make the team feel included and feel responsible to each other to deliver without calling people out by name. In the meeting you can say "We've had some slipped deadlines lately, and after talking to everybody it seems like the problems are stemming from A, B and C. Do you all agree? Is there anything else? Ok let's find some solutions to these problems. My ideas are X, Y and Z." etc.
We are using Github Enterprise so we have README.md files all over the codebase. They are pretty easy, if needed we can create wiki pages for each project.
Thx for sharing. Any stats on how the funnel works in music vs movies/shows? I assume the same percentages apply across content (roughly) in terms of bands signed - > platinum records for music, vs. movies greenlighted to record shows for movies.
AllThingsD pegs the price at $30M

http://allthingsd.com/20130325/yahoo-paid-30-million-in-cash...
If you are looking for the public sector to somehow be a hero in this story, well, in my opinion it simply isn't going to happen.

The public sector investment in any conceivable category is almost beyond insignificant at this stage of the game in the context of what it has taken to get here.

I have yet to see a transcript of a single Senator, Representative, President or any policy-maker with influence pre-dating the Internet and WWW that describes how they are going to take steps A, B, C and D and invest in E, F, G and H because of this thing called the "Internet" that will be a big deal.

In other words, nobody had a clue. It just happened and private enterprise made it happen. Not the public sector, regulation, or government in almost any way one could imagine.

In fact the inter-university network was largely a part of scientists trying to come-up with a way to communicate with each other. There was no government mandate or higher vision that delivered a document to these guys and said: "Lease these communications lines, connect your PDP 11/34's to them and build something that will do A, B, C, D".

I know that in pro-government or pro-public sector circles it is quite romantic to get behind the idea that we owe the Internet and the WWW to our government, but that is very far from the truth. Few things of real worth happen due to master planning. This is particularly true of things that actually work well. Yes, we are great at killing people in massive numbers.

I mean, name one Senator today who is able to articulate --and has been driving-- the next major idea in science and technology. Please don't name anyone behind solar or wind power. Private enterprise has been bleeding money for decades in those industries to get it to the point where now a Senator might actually recognize it as something interesting to pursue. I'm talking about things that do not exists today.

And, BTW, it is perfectly OK to disagree. If you are invested in your belief system it isn't my intention, to any degree imaginable, to try to change how you think. Only you can do that. I am merely stating my position here. Chances are you think I am completely wrong, and that's OK.
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The course also does teach Scala. It made me love Scala and it's definitely worth learning.
For those with an account, E*TRADE offers a REST based API @ https://developer.etrade.com . Onboarding is manual but once you get your key you can execute trades for your account via the API. Equities / ETFs only right now, they were working on support for other asset types but not sure when they are going to launch it.

Full disclosure - I used to run their developer platform.
Is there anything like this for Java, or .NET ?
Seriously? Come on.. Even if you've only been half paying attention the last several days, you'd realize that this issue is quite serious and personal to a lot of people. If, when you saw this post, all that came to your mind was a smart ass comment.. Please, next time, keep it to yourself.
How much of that's going to that "lady", who's been offended by eavesdropped private conversation and violating conference rules?
This is probably the most complete summary of everything happening in and around Cyprus. There is so much more to the story than "yet another EU bank bail out". When you consider that the situation involves the EU, Turkey, Russia, and Syria...it's a fascinating story for any student of international politics as well as economics.
Internal wiki is a great option.
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Indeed. Sometimes we forgot how difficult it can be to navigate the cloud of information out there. This itself can be a big barrier to entry to those who want to learn more about technology and dive down into learning how to code.

Giving people a starting point to take almost any direction they want and also additional references to those already in the tech community can hopefully spread some opportunities around.
I find your behavior just as bad, if not worse, than the immature guys that made the joke. Karma came around and bit yo. As such, no one in the community will have any respect for you anymore...
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As someone whose job involves driving a maintained 1996 Pierce Arrow (same model as his, but 15 years newer - funny, the body looks near identical), I promise you, the fire engine (random detail, in the US fire service, this is an engine, a truck is a ladder truck) can NOT stop better than you think, even empty.

On the other hand a new tender (or water pumper) CAN stop on a dime, as its brakes are based on it carrying three to four thousand gallons of water, so when it is empty...
Unfortunately not. Our charms contains some custom hooks, but we want to remove them in the future. Here are the examples: https://github.com/globocom/charms/tree/master/precise (centos charms are outdate).
There is also a nice expect script called "kibitz" that allows you to share one terminal between two users. It's great for support and training.

There's also a nice script called autoexpect that writes simple expect scripts based on your input: Just execute autoexpect, it will spawn a shell and write a file "script.exp" based on what your type and the responses your get.
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Cool technical presentation, but trying to optimize moving average trading strategies is a fool's game - you might find a set of parameters that work in all out-sample/cross-validation tests, but there's still a good chance it'll lose money in actual trading going forward - market paradigms can shift, unforeseen world events, t-cost/slippage higher than what the model accounted for (especially with more frequent rebalancing), etc.

If you actually want to trade moving average strategies, your best best is just to diversify and run several different strategies across a variety of parameter sets and across various sectors/asset classes, without trying to overly optimize a single strategy
Accountant creates an RPG game in Microsoft Excel
How does this currently compare with open stack?
I guess "You should post again when you read it and find it interesting, independently from previous postings". HN detects reposts, but I don't know the algorithm.

The other day it didn't let me repost a link last posted almost 2 years ago.
So why not make it 60 characters? Then you could have 4 files side by side!

But seriously - I guess there is some workflow where you would like to have 3 files side by side, but I certainly have never felt like that is something I need. I would much rather have readable, verbose variable names, which I have found to be the first thing to get axed in an 80 char column setup.
Ranting on websites may just make you angrier
Well, that's no surprise at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

I spent a lot of time analyzing charts in the past (using Metatrader, ....), I even created automatic trading systems using MQL4 and I completly agree with this article: YOU CAN'T BEAT THE MARKET! Buy and hold... that's the way to go!
I have to say that not having used Spotify at all in the past few years I'm amazed at all the feedback about their client. I liked to show off how it was significantly faster to browse and play music than iTunes on a local library. When I last used the service the client was tiny (a few hundred kilobyte), worked under WINE with some modicum of support from the developers. Of course it did have one major issue which led to me leaving it - the inability to throttle let alone disable use of P2P (I know, there are various methods that could do this externally).
Unless you're using Windows 7, in which case that was on Feb 23 (30 days ago.)
Why am I not surprised that this post is drawing out the misogynists in tech? Ugh.
Thanks for fixing it so quickly :)
I just looked at skimzee - looks like a nice site, but: for the few article summaries that I compared with the original article: the summary was just the first couple of paragraphs in the article.
As a rational male programmer, I'd be quite impressed by such a move.

Beyond the important social message that such an act fosters, it's just smart. Good companies want to hire good people. Great female programmers are in (relatively to male) low demand and a smart company would avail themselves of that.
Screenshots:

http://carywalkin.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/arena-xlsm-galler...
PyLadies is a legitimate organization that has been around for a while. [1]

A simple Google search could help you resolve these inquiries in the future.

[1] http://www.pyladies.com/
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The problem with this approach is that there's a difference between public criticism and public shaming, and most people (myself included) have an imperfect grasp of that difference. There's a time and a place for both, but the workplace is usually neither the time nor place for a shame session.

This is not only a problem for team leaders, though they see it through a different lens than others. For a team leader, the problem lies in figuring out how to publicly criticize a team member without obliterating team morale, which can over time do even more damage than the original problem. If the article's examples are any indication, its own author is not very good at this either: the meeting comes across grossly inappropriate if not outright sadistic in its treatment of Ted.

But that's a leadership-specific thing. If we're going to say that public criticism is part of good leadership, then we can say people who aren't good at it are not good leaders. There is, however, a flip side: it counts on team members to be able to split some very fine hairs, to take criticism without allowing it to affect morale. Almost no one can really do this well, yet this management style requires all team members to be able to do so. It's the team-full-of-rockstars mentality all over again, except that this time they need to be rockstars at something that doesn't actually have anything to do with the task at hand.
Stop sweating the Tech IPO drought
> "Why do we have such an incredible mess?"

Because this wasn't (and couldn't be) centrally planned. It has very much evolved in a fashion analogous to the theory of biological evolution. Lots of experiments of different sizes and with different levels of success.

We have yet to identify a more powerful problem solving paradigm. Given enough time evolution by natural selection can produce systems of incredible complexity that actually work pretty well. Not without warts, and, yes, you have to be patient, but it works.
ECMAScript 6? Now that's some serious optimism.
He has it right about many companies who are more interested in building a organization rather than build a company. I've seen it many times. I think it is tied to economic strength. When the economy is strong, you see more "culture based" companies who just want to hire their buddies and go through the motions. When the economy is strong, you see more companies putting effort into building a product and really trying to go after a market. Right now we're in a market slump, so most startups you come across are mainly looking to hire for cultural fit.
Yes, tsuru calls that services. They're behind an API. Enabling the deployment of services without API's is already in our roadmap, but we don't know when we will get it done.
Could you not just fix it? Or drop support for IE6/7/8 and only support the newer IE browsers?
> Most of America is batshit crazy but in Portland, Oregon...

You're joking right? Portland was nauseating. Filled to the brim with smug hipsters who apparently share your sentiment: that the rest of us are insane for having a car to travel to work/home/vacations etc.
+1 for "go out on a limb" pun.
I find your comment offensive, given that I've right of free speech, which is guaranteed by constitution.
The only lawnmowers I've seen are the rotor-bladed push-powered mowers. They usually only have them in the spring when all the garden stuff is out.
You can, but in order to deploy applications you should use our own charms, it's explained in our chams repository[1].

Tsuru is based on Provisioners, our default provisioner is juju, we also have a on going development of a lxc provisioner[2].

You can also build your own provisioner (docs coming).

[1] http://github.com/globocom/charms
[2] https://tsuru.readthedocs.org/en/latest/lxc.html
Yes!

Let's be honest here. If you had to chose between the web being gone forever and iOS+Android+whatever being gone forever, which would you chose?
It's striking how often new web libraries come along. Are they genuinely better?
How do commissions work? per trade?
Does the api provide any data, or just execution?
You can't afford _not_ to have an attorney. Most give free 30-minute consultations, start there.

Get the best attorney you can. Good lawyers cost much less than mediocre lawyers, even if they have a higher hourly rate. Good lawyers have plenty of clients and have more flexibility with how much they actually bill you.

A letter or two from your lawyer may resolve the whole mess. Anything you write could easily make things worse. The legal system is a dangerous jungle you've never seen before. You need expert help to navigate it.

EDIT: to find a lawyer, ask smart businesspeople for a referral
I'm surprised someone from a high-profile company has yet to come out of the blue and drop a five- or even six-figure amount.

At least someone like Sheryl Sandberg.

Maybe they should expand their reach and hit up the Rolodex? I'm honestly surprised we haven't seen a bigger reaction.
HBR is a perfect reflection of the management consulting world.

Both will suggest something completely contrary to popular opinion in an effort to remain relevant and edgy. Much of the research is performed by or at the behest of the organization which stands to benefit from it. After they make the case and sell people on the new 'paradigm', even newer research will show that the old way is better after all.

See:

> Vertical vs. Horizontal markets

> Flat vs. Hierarchical org structures

> Outsourcing vs. Insourcing

> Specialization vs. Generalization

> Pretty much everything that HBR has ever printed
They allow misleading data. For example: average graduate salary $150K. They do not provide link showing that this includes only graduates who report salaries (so the formula is total of reported graduate salary / total number of graduates reporting a salary rather than total of reported salaries / total graduates. There is substantial evidence that worse outcomes are less reported, plus the school actively tracks grads with high salaries, while it ignores those without). Another example: employing students in "school funded" jobs for 9 months (when they report employment numbers), then ending the employment. Check out Law School Transparency, Inside The Law School Scam, Glenn Reynold's book Inside the Higher Education Bubble, and Constitutional Daily for more information.
At least it's in HTML5! That's worth something, right?
Java the language, definitely. But Java the language + Spring or Android or whatever framework your project is based on? Not sure that "a few weeks" would be enough for that.
I find your understanding of "constitution" offensive.
Do Software Conferences need a code of conduct?
That's a really bad screencast, since the fonts are barely readable. Still, cool features. Will try it out to see if they are useful or annoying.
Firefox getting smarter about third-party cookies
We've had previous coresponding data from various experiments performed by our simian counterparts:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/08/03/in-honor-of-planet-of...
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If you are talking about it instead of already announcing it - isn't it technically too late?
Obviously I can't not defend myself, but it's difficult when I'm already living off a student's budget. Do you have any recommendations or ideas for good and reasonable-priced attorneys?
>No, you aren't going to be doing pure functional programming very often

I do every single day.

>In the real world, eliminating mutable state is neither possible nor desirable.

Eliminating state is not what functional programming is about.

>If you don't know what "flatMap that shit" means, then it's worthwhile to learn it.

Scala is a pretty terrible language to be learning it though. Subtyping makes things far more complex and difficult to learn, just for the benefit of java compatibility (which doesn't matter if you are just learning for the sake of learning).
Did you consider kicking his ass? Seriously.
That sounds about right. I grew up in sacramento, CA and commuted about 30 miles to high school (centrally located private high school that had much better test scores than the public schools less than 5 miles away from my house.). Many of my classmates commuted just as far, too, so it's not like I was weird for doing so.
Fire hose isn't cheap, nor are nozzles (probably looking at a couple of thousand dollars for a 100' of 1 3/4" hose and a variable nozzle.

Using the deck gun is another matter altogether, and is not something he's likely to be able to do other than emptying a swimming pool:

Most combination nozzles on a deck gun are designed to control flow rate between 750gpm and 1250gpm at 80 psi.

A Pierce Arrow typically has a 750 gallon tank, so you have around a minute run time on the deck gun before its empty (and a fire engine pump is not something you want running dry).

You can set up hard suction (to draw from a non-pressurized source), but its debatable a) whether you can get sufficient flow at all from the vacuum alone, let alone b) while filtering the water sufficiently (because stones, mud, silt, trash, fish don't go well through a fire engine pump) at a rate to run the deck gun.

Sadly, it's not likely to happen without being hooked into a hydrant. You might be able to run a handline or two, but that's about it.
Ok. There's the attraction that Spotify might have had for that kind of market, along with some synergies in its structure i.e. 1) major shift within an old & monopolistic industry being left behind by new technologies and 2) similarities between the larger music and video industry that Spotify can leverage (having learned from music already). THAT said, the road to disruption can be taken through a highly profitable niche first - avoiding the pressure of being omnipresent from day 1, which is what Spotify will inevitably do. We're in the film space and I'm happy about this development. Competition within new online distribution channels is only good for us.
Talk to a lawyer with enough experience in this area to make a judgment call on your case. Then you'll have a better idea of how to move forward. It could be saber rattling, or it could be more. Note, I am not a lawyer.
git works as a deployment tool, but not in all cases. It's useful to deploy code, but when writing Java or Go, you usually don't deploy the code, you deploy compiled binaries. Currently, tsuru forces you to deploy your code (you can create a git repository versioning the binaries, and do some local magic to compile your source, put it in the repository and push it - like creating a "deploy" target in your Makefile, but that's an ugly workaround).

In the future, tsuru will probably support other ways of deployment.
just a simple question: Why do we really need Flask, when we have Django?
Study shows how easy it is to determine someone's identity with cell phone data
Conception-to-floor is 2 weeks? I'd love to read about that if anyone has any relevant links.
I've had many thoughts. I mostly think about an attorney I once worked with who told me that no startup would ever sue their employee because they'd never get anybody to work for them ever again. And then I thought, "gee, I should make a website that's like glassdoor specifically for startups."
I am so sick of this term "hipster". It has become watered down to the point of complete meaninglessness.

I swear it has become a catchall for the world-of-warcraft set to apply to anybody that doesn't spend their time playing video games.

Ride a bike? HIPSTER!

Wear jeans? HIPSTER!

Listen to music? HIPSTER!

Like art? HIPSTER!

Enjoy non-sports-bars? HIPSTER!

Drink coffee? HIPSTER!

Like unpopular films? HIPSTER!

It's ridiculous, and seeing people actually use this term as though "hipster" is a cohesive group is embarrassing.

I drink PBR as my "stapble" beer. Why? Because it's cheap, and it tastes okay, and because I live in Arizona, and when I come inside from riding my bike (HIPSTER!) or walking my dog (hipster?) drinking some giant craft brew sounds terrible.
About which? Caring about imperative/OO paradigms, or scala being a good imperative language?
I just realized my media key for "skip to next" was double registered by Spotify, so it would always skip the next song and move to the third. It took a few truncated albums to figure that out...