skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both articles lack context, which we're all just filling in with our personal experiences with standup meetings, hence the pointless "debate" in the comments here.

I've noticed that developers can be divided into two groups based on whether they prefer to work with others or by themselves.

Those that prefer to work by themselves take chunks of work that can be done without input (formal or informal) from their fellow developers, (who they may refer to as "teammates" despite the fact that they don't work as a team in any real sense.) For this group, having a daily standup is a waste of time, because there is no work to coordinate.

Those that prefer to work with others take chunks of work that can't be considered complete until their fellow developers have also completed their portions. They seek continual input from their teammates in order to keep everyone on the same page. For this group the daily standup is just a more formal version of what they already do informally.
It appears that the email is from the DragonFly kernel List. So my guess would be that if you had been keeping up with that list for any length of time, you'd have a lot more context and the post would seem understandable.
If you do like his advice, I would not choose Caltech if the option presents itself. I happen to like it, and I don't know if other students are just "whiny for fun," but I hear a lot of complaints about everything under the sun that is germane to the institute. Moreover, CS is a very theoretical option. I'll be finishing my sophomore year this spring and I don't feel as though I really have the programming chops to really be useful in any sort of internships. My case is a little different though, I didn't think I wanted to option in CS until the beginning of the winter quarter.
Exactly. They're not the people everybody trusts to determine if incoming traffic is human/machine.

Your response implies that they are inept at their area of expertise.
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I too, would love to see FreeBSD become a first-class citizen on EC2!

As @colechristensen mentioned, you should contact cperciva (Colin Percival) about this -- he's already been doing some work on FreeBSD's Xen support and IIRC he's already talked to some people at AWS about "officially" supporting FreeBSD on EC2. I haven't heard anything for a while though, so perhaps you could use your contacts to get things moving (or moving faster).

EDIT: You might be interested in reading/joining the 'freebsd-xen' and 'freebsd-virtualization' mailing lists:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualiza...
There are rumors the current lack of infectious disease is really just an intensely selective breeding ground for much more effective infectious disease.
Hey, one out of two ain't bad.
Ask HN: Yale or Berkeley for undergrad EE/CS?
I'm a high school senior planning to study EE, CS or some combination thereof. I recently found out that I got into Yale and Berkeley. How would you compare these two schools?
Note: I do intend to go to grad school immediately after completing my bachelor's degree.
On the bright side, most enterprise software projects never actually get put into production.
Offtopic - Hate these "github.com" posts that are actually from some blog hosted by some random dude on Github. Makes the domain bit meaningless. Wasn't there some fix for this to show more of the domain in certain cases?
That's actually fairly accurate.
There's honestly no harm in discussing it. FreeBSD/Xen is already of interest to base committers, there's existing work done.

If those committers are interested in furthering it via funding -- something you can only establish by talking to the foundation et al -- then everyone wins! :)
My two cents is that the social scene in Caltech has a high degree of variability with respect to which House you live in.
> Do you realize that "aggregate consequences" include the longest lifespans in human history

No, that is what I meant by aggregate consequences. What you describe is the cause, or at best merely the current situation.

My point is that 6.9+ billion all thinking selfishly about their own right to live full lives leads to the modern equivalent of the tragedy of the commons.

50-60 years ago, we could reasonably argue that the most important right for a human being was self-realization. At this point, unfortunately, a single modern life contributes so much to the very destruction of the world -- in fact, even owning a moderately-sized dog contributes to the destruction of the world -- in a way that did not apply to previous generations, and that self-realization can no longer include the level of material wealth and, frankly, consumerist squandering that the current generations are built upon.

For example, the "vast quantity" of food "at low prices" you describe exist at the detriment of someone else in the world. If everyone on the planet had access vast quantities of food at low prices, in today's market system, then the world's resources would be depleted at an unsustainable (or rather, more unsustainable that today) rate.

Your world view seems extremely simplistic and naive. I sincerely hope it's not representative of the typical HN liberartian. Libertarianism is about liberty, true, but not liberty at a cost to society.
>The facebook reputation barrier is a good idea - should set a bar for the low end of quality.

Wait, are people with lots friend "high quality people" or "low quality people"?
Ask HN: What alternatives to Symbolset?
Anyone know any good alternatives to Symbolset? I'm having some serious issues with it in FF and IE.
Twitter does something similar with 3rd-party authentication. The user puts in their name and password but then the rest of the process can be done by a bot. 1. click on a button to confirm granting access 2. provide the code in an image to he App but the HTML for the code hass the following:

<span id="code-desc">Next, return to TrainerLists and enter this PIN to complete the authorization process:</span>

<kbd aria-labelledby="code-desc"><code>7996044</code>
This was interesting. Thanks.
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Also written by a massive team with factory-like division of responsibilities.
Someone has made TCO possible in Clojure already: https://github.com/cjfrisz/clojure-tco
It stands for Strategies for Engineered Negliable Senescence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies_for_Engineered_Negli...

Also, the "chief science officer" is a computer scientist turned biogerontologist.
Whatever the merits of your arguments, your ad hominem at the end, as well as the general tone of your comment, undermine your position almost completely.
I am not outside the project, but I use Titan/Faunus with clients and here are the pain points I notice.

1. Difficult to deal with clusters: while you can run Titan single machine (and that is easy to deal with), handling a multi-machine cluster can be frustrating and requires some DevOps skills. Pull in Faunus/Hadoop and you are in a world unto its own.

2. Lots of options: with Titan there are numerous configurations and you get into this "n choose m" scenario. However, I typically just run Titan/CassandraEmbedded + (now) Elastic Search. For instance, I gave up on Titan/BerkeleyDB. Decided that Titan/CassandraEmbedded was sufficient for most needs and thats that.

3. Lots of access points into Titan/TinkerPop: You can run Blueprints Java native, Gremlin, Rexster RexPro, Rexster REST, ... Unfortunately, depending on your situation, one approach is better than another. I typically do Rexster Extensions + Gremlin. In the future though, with RexPro (haven't gotten into it personally), I will probably just use RexPro as I can send Gremlin in and get results out.

4. There are so many bodies of code: Titan is Apache2. This is good. It feeds on alot of excellent open source projects -- HBase, Cassandra, Lucene, ElasticSearch, Gremlin, Blueprints, Rexster, Frames, ... There is no one source of documentation. I'm either reading TinkerPop documentation or Titan documentation. Then when there are issues, Googling the Cassandra mailing list. Luckily, I'm an expert in TinkerPop and since Titan is native TinkerPop my knowledge transfers. However, there are lots of peculiarities (Titan typing, configurations, exceptions, cluster setup etc.) that I have to learn and master.

I am fortunate enough to work on projects that use Titan/TinkerPop and thus, as I see these pain points I continually work to solve them. Over time, we will see much of these complexities hidden. Right now, Titan is a young project and some good packaging polish will happen with good time.
Somebody is gonna get fired.
We will end up mixing native and universal technologies. For now, make sure you do not consider cost as your first priority. Your app is about the user = UX & functionality. Your code is about performance.
Haha, sadly the vast majority doesn't last past 6 years due to EOL on various components and inflexibility to changing business requirements. A more common need is the ability to have a scapegoat / fall-guy for failures of projects that have unrealistic/arbitary requirements and/or deadlines set by an upper management that is no longer in touch with technology.
Ok, you've convinced me.

How do I "talk to the foundation"? ie. What's the best way to bring this up with them.
Scala has a similar explicit @Tailrec annotation for its compiler, too:

"A method annotation which verifies that the method will be compiled with tail call optimization. If it is present, the compiler will issue an error if the method cannot be optimized into a loop."

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.annot...
Unknowky i as waiting for long this long time. I am really very happy
I've been meaning to reach out to Colin for a while, but now I've actually done it. I'll let you know what he says.
If it's impossible to make the software elegant because it has to incorporate a boatload of idiotic and mutually inconsistent "business rules", then it's enterprise !
It's not an uncommon strategy (eg: fill up a comment form with hidden but obviously named form fields) and since people won't be filling in those hidden fields then bots will have revealed themselves.

This isn't by any means a complete solution however it does catch 90% of drive-by spam.
Can someone please give me some instructions on how to set PiUi u without turning the Pi into a access point?
I installed Nginx and followed the do-it-yourself instructions from "Configure nginx". Everything is installed and the piui_demo.py works without errors. However, when I type in the IP of the Pi, I only see the "Welcome Screen" from nginx. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks
This list is great (and old), but what I would really like is a more concise list of stuff zsh can do that bash can't, and that has been vetted by people who know bash well. (like one thing that comes to mind is recursive globbing with two astersisks, but to be honest I have no clue if maybe bash can do that too by now).

The reason why I want such a list is I usually point people to zsh-lovers list who ask me why I use zsh, but something more to the point would be great, and probably more convincing.
I'm in my 50s. Online dating is the ONLY way I'll meet eligible men. And trust me, the pool of eligible men is much smaller than when you're young. That said, the innovation I'd most like to see is crowdsourcing of the online dater's social signals. Not only would that prove they're real humans, but what better way to capture who they really are personally.
Ask HN: Can you still make money on appstores?
Hi, I was wondering if pushing apps out on the apple/blackberry/android/windows appstores still earn you money? I remember when the appstores were first opened up to developers, people were raking in profits. But now that the markets are getting saturated, do you still earn a decent revenue from your app sales?
Less than half of it I've seen is badly written. The bigger problem is enterprise software is all about connecting systems together. That leads to a morass of interdependencies that are nearly impossible to untangle. Worse, there is not a lot of communication between IT and the business, so the business tends to tell IT how to accomplish a task instead of telling it what it wants to accomplish. As a result, solutions tend to be short-sighted.

Extremely slow is a function of the interdependencies and the CYA (nobody gets fired for buying IBM).

And the unwillingness to replace is because nobody actually knows everything the current system does, much less how it does it. Projects that have 10+ year lifespans and touch every aspect of the business are incredibly scary to touch.

So, at some degree of distance, the internets get. the definition mostly correct, but the reason it has chosen (eg all enterprise developers are stupid) is as simplistic as every other conclusion the internets have come to. While there are many people writing code in IT dev shops who really should be analysts, there are also a lot of smart people working in environments constrained like nothing your average startup developer has ever seen.

I've been there, and the only way I'm going back is if it's the only way to keep a roof on my kids' heads. I'll go homeless myself first! :)
That reminded me the captcha I got some time ago: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy7sl13MV1r839zio1_500.pn...
I find your arguments an incredible reach. Firstly, the people of North Korea have zero access to international media. They aren't reading their government's releases on CNN and puffing their chests in pride. Instead this really does seem like it's intended for the West (or moreso for the people of the West, hoping that fear can be instilled by the general population that the government must retrench). Hamfisted, hilariously ill conceived puffery, but it's not hard to imagine someone being in a space where this could be conceived as the best available option.

Secondly, is there anyone who actually doubts the overwhelming, multi-magnitudes US military supremacy? Do they really need propaganda to push what is an enormous, rest-of-the-world-combined military spend (building up year after year)? The only rational complaint about the media is that it often grossly overstates the military might of the enemy.
"Don't forget the poor bastards in China living on the edge of humanity" - to be honest, people earn as much per hour in the Foxconn factory as somebody earning minimum wage in my country(Poland) does. And that's within EU, with living costs much higher than in China. Yet nobody talks about "living on the edge of humanity".
But wait, how else would you make the automated tests pass?
The funny thing is that the dev is apparently competent enough to make it look like a captcha, yet not enough to know what the purpose of a captcha is.

Actually, even if it was real captcha, a computer could still easily guess the answer because the random parts are outside the answer text.
Why you might want a "static blog"
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It has a place on hacker news, I guess OP can just not read it ?
Stop using the phrase 'Sweat Equity'
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the International Dark Sky association [1]:

> Once a source of wonder--and one half of the entire
> planet's natural environment—the star-filled nights of
> just a few years ago are vanishing in a yellow haze.
> Human-produced light pollution not only mars our view of
> the stars; poor lighting threatens astronomy, disrupts
> ecosystems, affects human circadian rhythms, and wastes
> energy to the tune of $2.2 billion per year
> in the U.S. alone.

You may want to check out their Practical Guide [2] for homeowners who want to reduce their light pollution.

[1] http://darksky.org/
[2] (PDF) http://www.darksky.org/assets/documents/PG3-residential-ligh...
Even worse, he lists "brainfuck" as a technology that's easier to use outside of the big-company matrix. There is no such thing as "brainfuck". There are various dialects and derivative languages. There is the object-oriented programming language which solves its problem excellently and whose limitations are well-known and sometimes very painful, especially when dealing with huge amounts (multi-node) of data. There are other models of computation with different trade-offs. There is no such thing as "brainfuck". It is not a technology or skill or anything else. There's Toadskin and Smallfuck and Doublefuck and various others, but there isn't a "BrainFuck". I can't type "brainfuck start" at the command line and get anything useful to happen.

Sorry, I had to do that.
It's relevant if being able to automate the connection allows you to circumvent the checks Apple, et al, have put in place with the DUNS number. I have no clue, so I can't render an opinion.
Not necessarily, I am pretty sure that prototype iPads had location logging enabled and if he just took it out to a different city there would be questions asked. If he had an email from Steve himself, he had an excuse.
I'm more of a Lego Land man myself :)
Same, i'm rather new to using zsh but it would help greatly if there was a comparative list between bash and zsh defining the differences. It was suggested to me by a couple of friends but at this stage, i'm not clear on why I would benefit from using zsh over bash.
You'd think, but what's so dumb about this captcha is that it's both easy to guess for a computer, but for a human too. If you look at it, the random parts are outside the readable text (which is just white on a gray background). I'd love to know what led to the "decision" of implementing something so dumb.
Pin as App doesn't work
Funny coincidence, I ran into this on another website yesterday. And if it weren't bad enough that it was printed in plain text in the source code, it was only checked client side with javascript. Seriously?
Have a fun guys ...

http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/jsp/forms/generateCaptcha.jsp
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see also:
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It took me a momemt to realize that retro gaming wasn't part of this research.
Don't bring an anecdote to a gun fight, or something like that:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/how-much-do-doc...

(US GPs make sharply more than those in Europe).
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"I'd also recommend understanding your Myers-Briggs type and the types that are compatible (this is not your sign)"

You might as well recommend dowsing to find available mates.
Brainfuck does exist. It's an esoteric programming language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
Studies have shown that all caps text is significantly harder to read by the vast majority of the population. Engineering and drafting documents that have an all upper case convention should change their convention. It's a hold-over that's been going on too long.
I agree that BA vs BS isn't too big of a deal. But some employers do actually require a BS. You will lose some opportunities but they're probably at high-bureaucracy places with pointy haired bosses.

IMHO, choose the place where you'd (1) graduate with the least debt, (2) have the best chance of graduating, (3) would enjoy the most, (4) has the highest quality teachers (teachers, not researchers), and (5) has the best students... in that order.

You should also visit the campuses and pop in on some classes and talk to students or professors.
Also it is worth nothing that Bash does get updates and newer versions get some features that zsh has. So if it made sense to switch in the past perhaps it no longer does. 'etc.

Sometimes I wish there wasn't so much duplication of effort in this world..
"What percent of NYT revenue is from ads?"

Wrong question! What % of the world's advertising does NYT control, online, offline or mobile? What advertising tools does NYT offer? What is the ratio of ads vs content on money topics on NYT?
The text has been selected, hence the single-colour backhround.
As a recent migrant from Ocaml to Scala (due to stagnation of Ocaml), I have to say that you are quite right about type-annotations, but the style of programming that an Ocaml/F# person would be accustomed to is quite easily replicable using Scala.
It's one tool of many. It's absolutely no shallower than any of the other methods to find a mate.
The common thread I see in your complaints about stand-ups are the "I can't break my work into pieces, I need several hours of intense focus to work on anything."

E.g., Your stand-up is from 9-930a. After which you can't start anything substantial because 'lunch is coming,' but that's 2.5 hours away (assuming you lunch at noon).
Yes, I find a lot of guitar books and training to be quite weird and backwards with all the classical stuff, notes etc. A lot of extra stuff is piled on that is just fluff. People with just some basic analytical skills could learn a lot, if taught a little differently, about how the structures work instead of the endless "push this string here".
Maybe it's because the tradition is just to play music other people wrote, not to compose it yourself. That seems to be even worse with piano. At least people are expected to have some skill in improvising solos with guitar...
The following are the top four schools in CS in the US, and honestly the world. MIT, Stanford, CMU (Carnegie Mellon), and Berkeley.

YOU SHOULD GO TO YALE.

If you change your mind about what you want to do Yale is a better choice for more or less everything else, and it's not like your undergraduate education will be subpar there. I know a guy here in Shanghai who does more reading about design than most Art or Design students while being a very, very serious business student.

Seriously, if you have not at least worked your way through all of Concrete Mathematics already, and liked it, Yale is a better option.
I believe ist's a combination of never having experienced the monstrosities agile was invented to replace, having experienced agile done wrong, and natural cowboy coder hybris.
Yeah the regular grid and text would probably make ocr even easier if it were necessary. It wouldn't surprise me if they just used uppercase letters, too.

Maybe they assumed that bots would interpret the page the way a human being would, when they're not looking at the source code? Though my money's on someone just not caring.
They "have to" share the data because it's profitable to do so, and profit is the sole imperative of corporations.

"At some point, the creepy corporate use of FB data will scare people from using FB"

That was the point of the article: "Most people already know not to publicize individual things that reflect badly on them; once they realize that the totality of what they post can have serious repercussions, too, they’ll clam up. "

People here already understand the implications, but this assumes that millions of users will "get it" too. Maybe they will, eventually, but not as readily as the author assumes. The data-mining will progress even further than it has before the masses change their behavior.
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Yeah, the PUA discussion and "ha ha only serious" sour grapes are definite distractions.
You should check out TL: http://thelist.io

Same format, only less tech-focused.
This is wonderfully written. Much better than a lot of other content that makes it to the front page.
https://www.facebook.com/ads/create/

Facebook's ad targeting options are out there in the open for everyone to see. This is what you get if you pay Facebook. Where would they advertise your data without getting caught? Are Facebook and your boss part of some special club you've never heard of? And if you were Facebook, would you take that risk?

I can't prove that they won't sell my data, but you can't prove that Verizon won't sell your texts, that Google won't sell your searches, etc.