skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are now in the place I was recently -- the decision we tool was to migrate onto Python and their web ecosystem.

We haven't looked back since -- well, we have given an glance or two back since, and viewing the slow-motion car crash that is Rails today, we just feel sorry for those left behind that are discovering 'The Rails Way'.

Ironically, given DHH's comment on Rails about it being 'Omakase', I should point out that it translates as "I'll leave it to you" -- security, I'll leave it to you, software engineering, I'll leave it to you.

Food for thought indeed.

Remember -- Ruby to pose, Python for Pros.
While the Peer Review process is critical to the scientific method, it does slow down information.

To advertise this as a recent event when the article itself clearly states the measurements are from August 2012 is a tad disingenuous.
You're right, neither do I.

But tfa clearly says, "Your notes are safely stored in Google Drive and synced to all your devices so you can always have them at hand." - So, I dunno.

EDIT: dammit, down at the bottom - last line - " in the coming weeks you'll be able to do the same[view,edit,etc.] directly from Google Drive."
until they change their minds and it becomes google lose
Social Logins Aren't Worth It
If the ring is new but only the stone is "used", it´ll be hard to be discovered and still much cheaper. Even a refinished old ring would be quite hard to tell apart from a brand new one (unless your fiance is quite an expert on ring designs, and able to tell apart if a ring is 20 years old, then of course you better buy a new one).
But don´t do it if you are not good at keeping secrets...
I hear you. Daniel Pink talks about this in his book Drive. Basically, when it comes to finding a wonderful career, mastery is a big deal. It's not the only factor you need to consider, but it's an important one. There are a lot of happy accountants out there because they consider themselves "masters" of their chosen craft. It's not sexy or dangerous, but they've found meaning in it by becoming skilled at it.

Again, there are other factors in play, but mastery is definitely important. I love running, I run everyday, but I'll never be a professional runner because I lack the skill and determination required to be a master runner. I don't even know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I do know there are areas where I have a decent shot at it, so I know where to spend my precious time.
You only have to look on YouTube for comparison videos and you will see that the Sony is a far superior camera. Especially the steady shot functionality which should be mandatory for "action" footage.

This is an obvious sign that a company is scared of their shitty product (see the recent LayerVault fiasco).

Also, DigitalRev is not the type of digital publication you would want to get on the wrong side of. They have a huge consumer base.
> "I'm just this guy who used to enjoy tech, now I would rather build bicycles. I still work in the tech industry, for the money, but I no longer call myself a "technologist"."

Actually, I love that. If our company was a little further along and I could afford to hire him I'd make an approach.

I don't think tech is the be-all and end-all of things, it's a tool we use. I prefer to have a techie who is able to feel the tactile quality in the process of bicycle building (bespoke frame-building through to just getting your hands dirty piecing components together) as I'd hope such an eye would course through everything that person did.

If he's a tech guy with 20 years experience, and that eye for a quality build and the aesthetic utility in a bicycle, then I'd be keen to see whether his work reflects it.

Companies go through phases, and the beg, borrow and steal... and poor package and renumeration... is the first phase and we should all seek to get beyond that quickly.

A business should be sustainable. To me that means that the costs of the business should be able to be fully met and not externalised: a good package for good people is part of that. As soon as it's possible to, that should be in place... because if we're not building a sustainable business then what are we doing?
If they put it at the top of the list, people would just complain about showing favoritism for their own apps. Can't win.
I was honestly surprised to find replies along these lines in the comments of the blog post, given the author's very well reasoned explanation of his position and the psychology of people like him in skill/experience/obligations.
Tom--

Thanks for sparking the debate. Allow me a request, a comment and a question in response...

Request: I ask you to distinguish Agile from Scrum. Agile is a set of principles. Scrum is a methodology, or process, based on those principles.

Comment: For my teams, Scrum has worked more effectively than other processes.* The point of my post was not that "Agile works, if only people would do it right". That is a misinterpretation. The point was that over-complication (by way of, for example, a 478 page book) makes having it be an effective process for a team more difficult. Perhaps the reason it's worked for my teams is because I have focused on keeping it simple.

Question: Obviously, you think Agile and Scrum are nonsense. I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise because I can think of lots of scenarios where Agile or Scrum would be counterproductive. But, I would like to learn from you: what approaches/processes/methods of developing software have been most successful for you.

Let me clarify...I'm not asking "what is better than Scrum?"...I'm asking, "what works best <i>for your teams</i>?" (And, since some processes are better for some jobs that others, what type of work is your team doing?)

Scott

* - Per this post, http://www.scottporad.com/2013/03/14/the-best-developer-team..., I write:

"The very first thought that comes to mind about a building a development department structure is this: an organizational structure is a just tool for getting a job done, so use the right tool for the job...

...My experience has almost entirely been in building early stage web sites which is a very specific type of job. I am strongly biased toward Agile/Scrum teams for this type of job. If you are building software for banks or airplanes you might need a different tool...er, structure."
Thanks for the blog post - and I didn't realize that patch releases also had RC.

It looks like this release was quite fat, for a patch release.

I added "check rails diff" to my deploy todo list.

EDIT: I just noticed that http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/ doesn't have a way to subscribe by email. I signed-up by email with this site instead http://blogtrottr.com, in case it helps other here.
Irresponsible speculation about Google’s management change
The state of WebSockets, SSL and Sticky Sessions in Amazon Web Services
WebSockets, SSL and Sticky Sessions are “Three Amigos” among all the Cloud providers these days, it would be nice to have them together but they won’t play nice in Amazon Web Services, at least not with Elastic Load Balancing. You can get Client Identity(IP Address) and Sticky Sessions(also known as Session Affinity) but no WebSockets, or you can get WebSockets with no Session Affinity or Client Identity. Let’s find out why.
I've created a test note and force synced both Keep and Drive, and I also do not find my note in Drive.

I do hope that Drive will contain Keep notes, though, as that would seem like an optimal solution.
Didn't GitHub's progress-bar screen while you were waiting for a fork used to say "Hardcore forking action!" or something like that? I think I have a shirt that says something along those lines too. Weren't those guys celebrated for their incredible humor?
Not at all, in fact I have a smug satisfaction each time I read stuff these days.

Years of listening to mindless defenses and personal attacks for pointing out the obvious fact "that they are just as bad as any other company" ...the taste of sycophantic tears warms my jaded heart just a litte ;)
True, true. I certainly have experienced a lot of what you describe, quitting my last job-type-job in December 2008 and promptly watching much of my savings evaporate. And my youngest child's congenital birth defect certainly wasn't part of the master plan.

Life throws you plenty of curveballs, but with the skills people in this industry possess it seems to me you can make choices that enable you to be secure in doing what you love as long as you want, and you shouldn't have to worry about what happens when you age, financially. Or at least as much as anyone can. We could all be wiped out by the next banking crisis, or debt crisis, or asteroid or car crash. There are plenty of variables you can control, including how much you spend maintaining an image or lifestyle or living in an expensive locale such as the Bay area or caring for your personal fitness and diet.
Trademarks aren't copyrights, and trademark law is separate from copyright law right up to them being authorized by different sections of the US constitution. The DMCA is a copyright law and has no bearing on trademark issues, and there is no analog in trademark law for the DMCA takedown/safe harbor procedure beyond traditional C&D letters. To properly analyze who has what rights here, you need to completely ignore everything related to the DMCA, and then you come to the conclusion that a product review that properly identifies who made the product is of course free to use the trademarked name of the product to discuss it. (And little TM and (R) symbols have nothing to do with it.)
Android's Andy Rubin: the ultimate opensource developer executive
Android’s overtaking of Apple iOS was a sign that both Android and the smart mobile device market at large were maturing; a change in the status of Google’s Android business, as a result, would be imminent.

Android is not yet making a lot of money for Google. But it has produced a much more important result than profits, at least for now: Rubin checkmated Apple with Android, preventing Apple’s dominance of the mobile search market that is so critical to Google’s future. Rubin’s achievements - 1.5 million Android activations per day, 750 million Android activations, more than 25 billion apps downloads - are enviable by Apple’s, Microsoft and BlackBerry’s standards.
In terms of epistemology (e.g., how can we form valid concepts and principles and be sure they're right), or in terms of neuro-biology/neuro-chemistry?
Agreed, more screencasts would be wonderful. Unfortunately, we haven't had time for this yet. It's something we'd love to do if/when time permits.
Data from Google Notebook wasn't lost, just transfered over to Google Docs.
How does Zapier order items from multiple RSS feeds when no publish date is available in the feed? I imagine that feeds with high churn, like that of hacker news, would be tough to mix with those that update more slowly, like a blog.
5 Jobs Perfectly Suited To Living Abroad
I'm not sure about this. Your network's primary purpose is to help find you your next gig. Who are the YC alumni that "went bust"? I would be interested in talking to them.
Pure BS. You can ignore legitimate DMCA notices, and there is no punishment for that per se at all. But then you are not immune from the contributory infringement liability in case it goes to court. If you obey the notice, then you cannot be sued. That is the difference. Spreading this false information here is actually harmful for the web community, since it encourages free speech suppression tactics by sending deficient copyright notices, by instilling fear in webmasters without access to proper legal resources. I wonder if your throwaway handle was created with that in mind.

Also, the note in question is clearly defective, since it does not properly identify copyrighted material to be removed. The fact that Softlayer threatened to turn off the service due to a defective notice means that it cannot be used as a reliable ISP. Use FusionStorm, they actually read and comprehend DMCA notices, and in cases like this do not even contact their customers.
> The giveaway is > Women frequently engage in behaviour that, when mirrored in men, would be called out for sexist. One point I was discussing with the girl I currently am dating is that there needs to now be a "mens' [sic] rights movement" similar to what women have accomplished [...]

what does that giveaway?

how did you unpack "an especially sharp hatred of feminists" from that statement?
> you are absolutely entitled to being paid exactly what you are worth.

Sure, whatever. But what you're not entitled to is being worth something in the first place.

If you can't recognize your own fortune in enjoying and being passionate about something which, as a side effect, makes you valuable to companies, I don't really see this discussion going anywhere from here.
سبعة قتلى و31 جريحا في حادثة سير قرب سيدي بنور
$500k is life-changing money, but not FU-money. You think that not having to worry about rent and food and medical bills wouldn't change your life?
> Also exempt are your Glasses, self-driving cars and etc.

Are they? The press thus far has sort of focused pretty heavily on Thrun. If he were to walk away from Google, I wonder what would actually happen.
IPhone 6 With Display Projector
I used Google Notebook fairly heavily, but they discontinued it. I love (and pay for) Evernote now, which has lots of great integrations with other products. Why would I trust Google again?
So what if you offended? Why should anyone have to worry about offending everyone? I find your assertion that because I am a white male I somehow have more privilege and my accomplishments are somehow less significant then a women offensive. Why are you offending me please stop! Seriously i'm sure Christians are offended by openly gay couples, should a gay person be fired for "offending" someone by his lifestyle? Muslims are offended by seeing a uncovered women, should they be allowed to fire her because they are offended? What makes your definitions of offensive anymore valid then theirs? I also find your belief that somehow your opinions on what is offensive is more valid then other peoples.
I agree, the risk vs reward has to be fair and make sense. Below market salary AND very little equity is just plain wrong. You better be curing cancer, going to space or some intangible that makes that sort of equation worthwhile. Most startups don't. Space X comes to mind though :-)
That is awesome. Is that a common thing for organizations to have internal fitbit rankings?
This is so well stated. It's something I (age 34, married, no kid(s) (yet)) think about a lot. I live and work in a city (San Francisco) and in an industry (web developer) where being 10 years older than the median age of my neighbors and colleagues feels like a liability. I feel like I've just figured a few important things out and I'm already past my prime.
I had never seen the "Internet Census" [0] paper they linked before. Researchers scanned the whole IPv4 space for telnet daemons that would respond to root/root, in one night, using the unsecured machines they found. Really cool!

[0] http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
Ah, I guess that settles that, then.
github/fsniper Docker seems to be making old technologies reappear with new implementations.

Is this linux-vserver or openvz re implemented with lxc and cgrougs?
You must be some sort of savant, being able to manage the switch from Google Reader in 3 seconds.

How is the concern over first-adapter respect at all deserving of the dripping-with-sarcasm snark of your comment? Why is it so terrible that someone brings up the fact that Google now has a reputation for simply deadpooling products they no longer wish to support but that others have begun to rely on?

Why, on earth, should I trust a product that is meant to keep a record for me, when I can no longer trust the long-term support of said product.

But such concerns, to you, are pointless to discuss, because if this eventually gets deadpooled, all we'll have to do is take 3 seconds to pull out our data and move to a different product.
I do not understand what you're saying anymore, as it makes no sense.
Remember Google Bookmarks Lists?

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-bookmarks-li...
so quick to dismiss it... who do you work for?
XML data islands works even in IE10 in IE9 and older modes:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh801224%28v=vs.8...
Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... everything works, but recording(crashes app).
Of all the dubious DMCA takedowns I've seen, this one has to take the Hanlon's Razor prize:

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Just based on reading the Author's concerns, it seems like there would be too much risk for him to join any start-up. People aren't starting companies at YC so they can have a "good benefits" package. In their eyes, they are trying to disrupt industry and change the world. Joining a start-up for a good benefits package with hopes and dreams of making enough money to buy a house is a pretty big bet to make.
The Mess that is U.S. Cybersecurity Policy
and she was asspained enough to make a public complaint about it?
By the sounds of it when she's not shitting up social media she's being a professional victim
This might be tangential, but the project reminds me of http://www.truonex.com/afro/wristwave

Imagine walking into a party where everyone's clothes are reacting in different patterns according to the music!
My initial reaction was that they were doing a read it later service and competing with the likes of Pocket. That would be a disaster as that area doesn't need competition at this time.

But it appears that they are targeting a light weight evernote replacement. A killer feature for me on this would be a command line binary which calls up my $EDITOR and allows me to write a note immediately and have them synced immediately. This, with the power of lighter production of notes on mobile devices could find a place into my workflow.
Agreed re: dilution - that's the reason I inserted "at stage X" in the original question on expected value.
I had been planning on picking up one of these for an upcoming film project (my 'day job'). Thansk to this, I've become aware of the Sony AS15 and decided it suits my needs better. Smooth move, GoPro!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
> especially as healthcare costs (which I understand to be the biggest burden in the US) are essentially nil

They're not nil, that expense just isn't optional (taxes). It's the risk of an individual to find himself with no health care that's essentially nil.
None.

Even if you know people within Google, there's so much fear of allegations of impropriety that employees are too afraid to even ask the appropriate team if there's a possible mistake that they should look at.
Have you been to the Smithsonian? I have. More than once. It's all there. Yes, this stuff is junk. It will inspire no one to do anything. Don't believe me? Take a bunch of kids to the Air and Space Museum and have them choose between looking at one of the many rocket engines and going in a flight simulator or one of the other exhibits, their choice. Whatch how long they spend in front of the engine vs the other exhibits.

Look, I love this stuff. I am the guy spending thirty minutes looking at the amazing mechanical engineering at these exhibits. At the same time I recognize this is not what inspires youngsters.
> It's no different than filling a garage full of every exotic car in production. Senseless.

So do you have a problem with Jay Leno now too? I am having a really hard time believing that " I do not resent him having money or having fun with it. That's OK. That's more than OK."

Tell me, what hobbies can rich people have that wouldn't bother you? Any examples?
They actually do include non-security "GDR fixes" in cumulative security updates. See the KB article associated with them. For example a MS10-xxx security update fixed the "operation aborted" appendChild problem and made it actually work.
Nice image for sendgrid, they should be thankful. Although SES is faster already.
1) Grandparent has performance problems on Heroku.

2) The Rails release has performance regressions (i.e. in at least some scenarios is slower).

In situation (1) you don't want to add further slowdown so (2) is a bad thing.

Grandparent doesn't even blame his Heroku performance problems on the routing issue (although it is a plausible guess). Actually effect of the routing problem can be significantly worsened if even a subset of requests are slowed down.
I know you don't. That's why I already wrote that this discussion isn't going anywhere.
Save What's On Your Mind With Google Keep [DOWNLOAD]
This is extremely minimal, I'd honestly expect more from a Google product. There's not even a tutorial or anything. Also why are there not any text formatting options? I'd love a real Google Evernote competitor but this is not even in the same league. Am I missing something, or is this just neutered Google Drive?
Agreed. Working from the beach in Thailand and getting all your work done is no different than working from your house in Oakland and getting all your work done which is no different from working at the coffee shop across the street from work and getting all your work done.

Classifying any of these as "employee is out taking vacation time" is a giant spin.
I can't name the company, but this isn't limited to the UK. It's found in other countries too. Maybe there's too much history/tradition/peer-pressure/competition in the States for this kind of arrangement to fly.

I'd immediately bolt for the door if someone demanded such a structure on me.
Pre-exit valuations are the opinions of just one - a few investors though. Hard data from previous exits is a different thing altogether.
"Google just launched an Evernote killer" is a particularly inflammatory title for Hacker News. Almost all "killers" end up being competitors and more often than not "killers" never beat the product they're trying to kill in terms of userbase and revenues.

"Evernote competitor" seems much more appropriate unless there is clear evidence that Evernote is going to die as a result of Google Keep's release.
And that's OK. This is my moral stance and mine only. Let's not make more of this than what it really is.
The assumption in the post is: he doesn't really believe in those companies. He only thought the company will go at most 2X of the current valuation and will never have a chance to go IPO itself.

In the start-up world, if you don't think the company is going to grow then what's the point joining the team? It sounds like the author is looking for settling down, a stable income which is more suitable with bigger companies like Google.

It's weird to compare two different kinds of companies. High risk high return, low risk low return always holds. He's looking for something with low risk and of course, he doesn't want to work with any Y Companies. No right or wrong tho, personal choice.
I've worked for 3 startups in Portland that offered those benefits.

I now work remotely for a Fortune 100 that gives me a major portion of those benefits, plus a higher salary.

It can be done, my Portland-based comrade. I'll buy you a beer sometime if you like.
Robot Programmed to Fall in Love with a Girl Goes too Far
Their pricing is a bit confusing for me.

Using their free plan, from what I can tell (though I may be wrong), you can create a single RSS feed from 5 different RSS feeds, as long as there are only 100 new items per month.

This doesn't seem like a worthwhile use of their free plan. And upgrading to pay $15/month to consolidate 20 feeds fo a maximum of 3000 news items per month, seems a bit excessive, too.

I'm sure there are good uses for Zapier, but this doesn;t seem like one of them.

(Of course, this is all provided that I understand their pricing correctly. I might be misunderstanding what a "task" and a "zap" are.)
The PyCon Incident
GoPro seem to be radically misunderstanding what copyright is and the DMCA