skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it is not a very deep point but I think the point is a different one from the point your analogy make. People go to toilets, slack off and do all kinds of things during work that are not actually work. Those things are unavoidable. However, meetings that take too long are avoidable, have a low value by definition and thus require management action.
Oh, well the dot syntax is just, well, syntactic sugar, and arguing that THAT is the reason anyone (who knows what they are doing) uses C++ is silly. It's because of inheritance and DRY so you write less code.
Why is mentioning someone's wealth a trigger for you?

So we can't call someone a billionaire once they have a billion dollars, but instead we have to wait until they covet billionaire status and make an effort to show off extreme wealth?

I really don't see what your point is, beyond "Hey! Unfair to billionaire to state their approximate wealth level!"
Every daily standup I have been a part of or organized has turned into a status meeting. The biggest "tell" of a status meeting masquerading as a standup? When people address the boss, not each other.
I couldn't get an ASP.NET 3.5 app running a while back.
I was running OpenIndiana for awhile at home before I just got tired of trying to hack together a bunch of patches. The problem with having a project that is pseudo OSS is that you can never actually use it seriously, its never reliable and for the most part its going to end in slow quiet death.

In my opinion there are a were only a handful of reasons to use Solaris: Oracle, SPARC, ZFS and dtrace. The only reason to use it nowadays is because you can't scale x86 and need big iron for Oracle et al.
What if you already have code written in MVC.NET?
Hi guys, happy to read all the interesting stuff you write about our app.

We actually launched this app before both Passbook (Apple) and Wallet Hub (Microsoft). I'm not sure when Google Wallet launched, but we found out about it after releasing Wally.

Our intentions were to build a slick, intuitive and really easy to use wallet app without all the registration, cloud sync, offers etc. We developed it, released it...just to read about how all these major actors announced their stuff some weeks later. Also, some Swedish alternatives were released after us, winning awards, getting venture capital etc.

We never aimed for that...our app is really simple, and that has been the plan all along.

After releasing Wally, we have been working on other stuff (apps, open source libs, web services etc.) for the most time except some updates. However, after receiving some interesting feedback, we felt like going back and polishing the app some more. We did so, added iPhone 5 support and just finished retina support for the photos, when...

...a new app that's called Wally was released (yes, that's right)!

A week or so ago, a couple of guys in the middle-east just launched their new brand new, award winning app. It does not do the same thing, but it has the same name, similar icon and a similar logotype.

We'll see where this'll end :)

If you want to get in contact with us, give us feedback etc. - just hook up with us at http://wally-app.com. We will release a more informative site soon, but you'll find links to our issue and feedback page, Facebook page etc.
D&B?! Aren't these the guys everyone including Apple trusts for their DUNS number?!

Are you fucking serious?
Is this an encrypted/secure connection? I don't see how without certs.
I thought you meant the reCaptcha Audio-Version (unsolvable for humans after it got broken a few times). This is just hilarious.
Yeah, I agree there's a big difference. What reminded me of it is that making finer distinctions get more error-prone as you try to take "the best of the best of the best" and add on more "of the bests". CHI is one of the conferences where I think the low acceptance rate tends towards: 1) a lot of randomness in the reviews; and 2) a tendency towards safe "I did a user study and here are p-values" type of work.

I agree there are some times when it's easy to accept only 10% or so: when there is a lot of obvious crap submitted. I'm currently organizing a conference with about a 30% acceptance rate, and it's somewhat painful, though. It's not one of the main catch-all conferences like OSDI, CHI, AAAI, SIGGRAPH, etc. which everyone submits to. Instead mostly people in the area submit to it, and a large proportion of the submissions are legitimately good. I would say 50% solid submissions from regular members of the community, 25% not-great submissions from people legitimately in the area, and 25% either crap or clearly off-topic.

So it'd be easy to choose which 50% to accept, but when you're accepting 30%, now some good work is being rejected, just because you have to hit the arbitrary acceptance-rate target to count as "selective" in certain U.S. universities' bibliometric systems. If we went down to a 20% acceptance rate (as some people are pushing, not b/c of quality but solely b/c it makes the conference look better bibliometrically), we'd have to fairly arbitrarily reject some more good papers.

We half-joke that the way to fix it next year is to spam the CfP to clearly unsuitable places, in order to elicit a flood of crap submissions that we can then easily reject, allowing us to hit a 30% (or 20%, or lower) acceptance rate without having to reject any good papers.
The real punchline of this article is a subtle appeal to American vanity intended to make Americans proud of their own military and commander in chief.

The idea that KJU cares what the US thinks of his posturing is silly. It's intended for the N. Korean audience.

The key insight for the critical HN reader is to realize that the NYT article is propaganda aimed at American readers intended to make us proud and supportive of US military technology and power in the midst of an era where the US is the most belligerent military force in the world by a large margin.

Most stories posted under the guise of foreign policy reporting are actually pro-American feel good stories intended to promote messages of American superiority and exceptionalism.
While this captcha is truly a display of ignorance I could imagine that "corporate developers" at D&B aren't web developers. All I am saying is that if you force me to write enterprise software (which I have zero experience with) on a tight schedule I'm probably going to make a stupid mistake or two even though I hope I am not of "lower quality". I imagine someone in management refused to hire web devs because "we've already got developers inhouse". Just a wild guess though.
Standardize This
Standups are useful to the team. They are for making sure everybody knows what's being done and impediments that can't be fixed inside the team get kicked to someone who can focus on them. Anything in a standup that isn't useful to the whole team should fall by the wayside. They are standups to encourage them to be short.

Status meetings are for the benefit of a manager. They allow everybody to report to the manager so the manager can feel comfortably informed. These are typically useless to everybody else because they drag on for far longer and nobody pays attention whilst each individual briefs that manager. These sorts of meetings are detrimental to getting a team to self organise.
That's a great idea. If i was ever to create a product for colorblinds only i'd use that.
I think there's a stigma attached to the notion of the status meeting. Beyond that, at least to me, a status meeting is a kind of assymetric situation where one person with some kind of authority (manager, PM, ...) is trying to keep tabs on everyone else's work, where each attendee has to prove that they've been doing their job. In a standup, it's a kind of egalitarian environment where everyone is speaking to everyone else, and nobody is taking notes to report up the food chain.
So Gareth...tell me about your retrospectives...
Ok, I want to fund a project, not propose it. How do I do that?

If someone makes a project that is basically "work with Amazon and FreeBSD to make FreeBSD a first class citizen on EC2" I would totally put money into that, and moreso, would use my deep contacts at Amazon to help make the project a reality.

From what I understand, the technical part of the project is basically making the kernel and the hypervisor play nice.
When I think status meeting its usually beyond roadblocks that were brought up during standup or several standups. Some of our stakeholders aren't present.

To me a standup is a tool to keep the team fully gelled and jump on any issues which will cause a sprint to spiral out of control. They should only last a few minutes per person (we have about ten people) and we schedule coffee immediately following to tackle any issues that were tabled due to a timebox.

Note: We have a 'coffee club' where everyone brings in coffee and we french press it every morning. So its scheduled only so that nobody pulls us into meetings ;). We love our coffee.
I've been running pkgng on CURRENT for a bit...It's really quite painless, even if you prefer compiling everything. The new pkg tool does some stuff easily that is painful even in debian (which in my opinion has always done packages right...I was burned by rpms in the 90s/00s many times). For instance I just discovered 'pkg which' which will tell you which package installed any file. I believe this is possible on debian, but not a two word command (I could be wrong).

One benefit as well is that it seems to do less random io/spinlocking when doing stuff with the package database than the old tools, which means large install runs (compiled or not) go much faster.

It also builds in vulnerability auditing, which is also great. Previously this required a separate port.
I felt like that would be mayhem to manage, and curate. I'm trying to curate a list of unique, individual experiences.
Yes! That's a great execution of this.
I'm on my fourth team now since 2005 where I have helped successfully employ scrum, and stand ups are a great part of it. A couple of the biggest mistakes I see being made are:

1) not correctly identifying "chickens" and "pigs"[1]. Pigs get to talk in a standup, chickens do not. In fact any interaction with the pigs and chickens should go entirely through the scrum master (and not during the standup). If chickens want to come to the standup it is to observe only.

2) conversations. The standup is not the time for conversation. The best method I've employed is to have each person specifically answer three questions: what did you do since the last standup? What are you going to do between now and the next one? Are you impeded in any way? The last one is where conversations often start. Scrum master needs to stop those, identify the people who need to talk after the stand up, and move things along.

When you follow those as hard fast rules, standups shouldn't take more than N*3 minutes where N is the number of pigs.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
Hawking: How to build a time machine
I don't see how it's any different from a gist. By using Github I've intentionally limited my audience.
I've never experienced standups that weren't status meetings, and weren't serious flow disrupters. You get to the office, but don't really want to get too deeply into your work because you know standup time is 9:00. The team gets together, each person summarizes what they did yesterday, what they plan to do today, what blockers they have. Everyone else mostly zones out. Next thing you know 30 minutes have passed, and by the time you get back to your desk and start to get ready to work you are already thinking "well lunch is coming up, no point in getting into anything substantial until the afternoon..."

I think standups could work, but they should only focus on things that impact the project (breaking change to an interface, or significant new things that are available) or things that are blocking work. And honestly I think email does a better job at that with a lot less impact on flow.
Overfitting your models? If you fail to predict an earthquake or a tornado do you blame it on overfitting your model? I don't think so. You just humbly say that you don't have good enough model, enough computing power, and what's most important not enough data.

Value investing is just buying things that you think are under-priced. It's successful if you are right and you are faster then other people to notice that, or you are actually wrong but lots of people also make same mistake but later than you. Or if you are Warren Buffet then other people think you must be right and buy the same thing making you even more rich.

As for momentum investing it's easy to just read wikipedia entry on that. It's not even established that this effect exists and even if so it's offset by additional risk undertaken by adhering to this rigid strategy.

I'm not sure how Equity premium puzzle even relates to efficient market hypothesis.

People clearly don't believe that efficient market hypothesis holds but same can be said about any recurring lottery. People keep inventing systems for picking lottery numbers, and claim that some of them work for some of them for some time. Which they do, until they don't.

If efficient market hypothesis doesn't hold, how do you explain this: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/24/buffett-hedge-fund... ?

When you are investing you don't play against the environment. In fact environment is favorable to you. You just compete with other players to rip off other players. It's so full of chaotic feedbacks that you can't predict anything. I mean, you can, until you can't. It's just like gambling. You can always win at fair gambling, just bet more if you loose. You'll be winning until you loose so many times in a row that you loose everything.
Seems almost too simple... I feel like I am being tricked.
Only humans perform experiments on other species that we would regard as torture if they were done to us. We argue that it's for the greater good, of course, but the ease and speed with which we rush to accept that is suspicious; in other areas of life we would regard such arguments as obvious self-serving spin. It's not hard to imagine that future generations will look back on many of these experiments with the same moral horror that we have toward some of the past.

I had this feeling when watching the Capuchin monkey fairness experiment in Frans de Waal's TED talk. From an ordinary point of view, it's cute and charming. You laugh along with the audience; the monkeys are funny. You go away with a heartwarming feeling that you've learned something about primate (and thus human) nature. But if the veil drops and you look at it more immediately, the video can also seem horrific. At least it struck me that way. That and other things have got me wondering whether there's something wrong with a science that excludes empathy as a component of knowledge.
IMO the usefulness of standup meetings depends entirely on the project and the team. It's impossible to categorically say they're good or bad.

For a while I worked on a team with a small codebase, which we all knew pretty well, and it was very likely that if somebody made a change today, I'd be working in the same area of code in the next day or two.

In that situation I thought standups were really helpful.

My current team/project is a bit larger and it's maintenance on a much, much larger code base. The project is large enough that nobody really knows the whole thing very well, and everybody works on a different section and there's not much overlap. If I were to switch places with somebody I'd have a lot more to learn than just what they've worked on recently.

On this project we're still required to do standups, but they're useless. The information wouldn't be very useful to me even if people kept to one or two sentences of what they were doing. Of course, few people do that, and they usually go into obscure details that maybe two people in the whole group really understand. And that's when I tune out...
A wonderful example of cargo cult programming.
For my fellow emacs users, our version (by Magnar Sveen) is here: https://github.com/magnars/expand-region.el
I agree with this. Most of the time status meeting is usually something I associate with bringing my manager up to date on what my team is doing. Typically this is a 1-on-1 situation. Sometimes it involves other managers outside of my hierarchy but still under product ownership.
Calling it a zero-sum game makes it sound like some people are exploiting others. You can make the same argument with gold by saying that, if everybody stopped caring about gold on the same day, then everybody owning gold would be big losers in the zero-sum game of gold.

Moreover, the argument that the cited video makes about criminals using the currency (i.e. "honor among thieves" doesn't exist) is fundamentally at odds with the concept of the infinitely iterated prisoner's dilemma. That's why the whole concept of "reputation" envolved (in Nature and online). Someone with 98.7% positive feedback might screw you to save $50, but doing so would not be beneficial in the long run.
To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me
This is why I try to restrain my identity on the net not based on what I might easily be used against me today, but based on what might easily be used against me in the near future.
The Science of the Cosmic Microwave Background
I'm inclined to agree that Standups can be quite good.

Every morning we have our meeting which maxes out at 15 minutes. The designated note-taker rotates daily and takes the list of current action items to be added to RedMine.

The biggest difficulty was fairly simple actually - removing digression from the mix and also removing things we've completed from the meeting.

There are no side conversations while stuff is being covered, and every day we sum up what we did in a company-wide email. Other subjects happen offline between relevant parties. This has been remarkably effective for us :)
Please, avoid Wikitravel. Use Wikivoyage instead.

http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/San_Francisco

For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitravel#Community_fork_in_20...
Under the assumption that Lisp is the best programming language that will ever be created and the x86 processor is a horribly flawed piece of garbage the author is correct.
One tangential direction we want to go with Titan is benchmarking it as a distributed RDF store. With edge indexing now in Titan 0.3.0 and Blueprints Sail (GraphSail), Titan can represent an RDF graph and be queried using SPARQL.

https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/Sail-Ouplementation
Non-mobile version with graphics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/business/global/after-cybe...
I have a strong feeling that if you simply took the initiative and asked the foundation, you would get what you want. Of course, per-project funding on a wide scale gets into a sticky situation where the foundation no longer can make its own choices and do the right things instead of the popular things.
If I haven't made any progress since the last day, I just talk about what I plan to do for the upcoming day. I also might say "I'm still working on (the thing I was working on yesterday)". With a well functioning, trusting team that should be a perfectly reasonable thing to say every so often.
What is this thing that people call "enterprise software"?
I agree with the others that B.A. versus B.S. makes little difference from the perspective of a future employer. It might make a difference to you, though, in terms of what the class requirements are.

UCB is nice if you are interested in startups. If you get into Caltech, visit if you can (and haven't already). Caltech was my "dream school" from middle school onward. I was admitted and visited, at which point I realized that it was a horrible fit for me socially. I'm not saying that you'll feel the same way, but of the schools you've listed, Caltech is probably the weirdest, and therefore the riskiest choice if you don't know exactly what you're getting into.
After the D&B signup process, well, I am not surprised.
Well maybe they are really good and this is a honeypot.
Exactly. It really is something else seeing North Korean propaganda on the news being followed immediately by Western propaganda showing how the West is unequivocally correct.
Eve Online and Dust 514's Groundbreaking Cross-Platform Interactivity
SNES appears not to be a technology, it's a research group.
http://www.sens.org/

Humorously, I can't find where on their website the acronym is defined.

Also, most of the pages in the research section advise us to read Ending Aging, a book written by the foundation's "Chief Science Officer".
According to the internet it's badly written, extremely slow and very expensive software that will only get replaced after 20-50 years of use.
Agreed. Talking to cpercival would also be a good start. See his page on the subject: http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-on-ec2/

Also: https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen

I think that funding whatever is required here would be fantastic. The move to VPSs has forced me to also move to Ubuntu for what I host 'in the cloud', and I'd love to move back to FreeBSD.
Million Dollar Mobile Marketing Mistakes
You can live in your own pretend society or you can deal with the one you're actually in right now - which includes things like laws and law enforcement. And you have options.

But taking a negative attitude so general as "all police officers are agents of state violence" has no positive outcome. You just decided every interaction you have with cops will turn out bad (or violent), so of course you're going to have issues! The rest of us try to treat each other fairly and as a result 99% of the time don't have problems with cops (unless we're breaking the law, wherein naturally problems do arise).

Also, your job isn't the only thing that may make one have personal problems with someone else. I tend to get pissed off at immature anarchopunks who think the world revolves around them. I guess it kind of goes both ways.
It's not

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> Of course, per-project funding on a wide scale gets into a sticky situation where the foundation no longer can make its own choices and do the right things instead of the popular things.

That's why I haven't asked the foundation directly. :) When I made my annual donation to them this year I expressed my desire to see FreeBSD on EC2, but I don't want to start dictating what they should be doing.
It doesn't matter though. This isn't just a 'stupid mistake' made by a dev rushed for time, this is literally 'not a captcha.' It's not. Not even a poorly designed and incompetently executed captcha... it just isn't even one at all.

It doesn't take long to find out that best practices exist for captchas, what they are, what the typical vulnerabilities are, and then pick one from the top shelf of existing solutions once you realize captchas are hard to do properly and you're probably not being paid what it's worth to roll your own.
At least there's Server Core these days.
Could you make it work on Chromium on Linux?
Leasing a new car every 6 months is a world apart from buying a new car every 6 months.
Out of sorts ~ My first real fight with fonts
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
I went to scout camp in the Chiricahua mountains in SE Arizona and experienced the same thing. I'd sneak out if my tent at night to look at the night sky (until my scoutmaster chased a bear out of our camp...the guy was psycho!).