skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just sent you two Android screenshots. The first is how I saw your site when I wrote the post here - the part you can't see on the screenshot is that the black square covers the content regardless of how you scroll that content.

I had a surprise when I powered the phone back up (having left your site in the browser when it powered down). The second screenshot shows what happened after that power-up. I'll assume that when it re-rendered, it used a different media type ... or that you somehow caught it after the fact? I guess I'm also assuming this is how the mobile site is supposed to look (scrolled all the way to the top).
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I suggested to my local supermarket that they change their alarm code: there were four digits that were white, the others were covered in grime. Knowing the only possible digits makes it a cinch to work out the code just from watching movement from afar.

Two years later, those same keys are still clean. The others are even dirtier.
Answering while in a dream: Yeah native apps gonna die, web apps (I mean HTML css js) are gonna take over the world and everyone will live happily after.

Answering while building web app (front-end): I wana write native apps man, this whole HTML,CSS,JS shit is a unbearable hack to build apps on something that was fundamentally designed to create linked documents, at every step I am just
trying to use duct tape to build things.

Answering after some more time: Hell, I am done with front-end development, I am good with my server-side, use whatever language/platform that solves the problem, build distributed scalable systems, kind of programming.
It's FUD, FUD, FUD.

"I don't understand how to do it right, I've had a bad experience therefore it's bad."

WRONG. Complaining about something you don't really understand is what is _poisonous_...

Real life counter-example:

* Standup with a 15 people team lasted 7 minutes every day (worst day, 10 minutes). This included 2 remote members.

* It ran at 10am, so people in flexi time could come as late as possible (core hours start at 10am).

* Scrum master noted all impediments, and those only, so action points were always taken if necessary and skipped if pointless.

The key is: do it right, with self discipline. Agile is a practice, and as with any other practice it takes dedication to master.

Simply doing stuff superficially and then complaining is... unuseful.
They work for us.
Could you expand on this? It seems like an apples and oranges comparison.
This is how it works in Switzerland except...the insurers aren't allowed to discriminate at all. So ya, the young kids heavily subsidize the elders...the misery of that! (Also, everyone buys insurance themselves, poor people get help, your employer doesn't buy your insurance)

And what is wrong with this exactly? We all get old eventually, so this subsidy is actually fair.

> You'll be paying significantly more, with no direct benefit.

Only true if you don't plan on getting old.
If you have daily stand-ups, why would you have 30 minutes worth of update per person?

What he means is that a 30 minute standup that six people participate in results in 3 hours of lost productivity for the team. It's comparable to the effect of a team meeting for a consulting company. If everyone involved bills their time at, say, $100 an hour, a ten person meeting for an hour costs $1000.
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Mono has been out for years, and I'm sure there have been great improvements. Does anyone have recent comparisons of it vs C# on Windows? I'm sure people must be curious.
Standups are like brushing your teeth. If you don't understand it, it makes no sense. If you're just starting, your probably doing it wrong. Most of the time you do it the wrong way (with standups by making it take too long and/or turning it into a status report). There's a structure to it that if you follow it works much better. It's very easy to appear like you're doing it without getting anything from it. Even when you are getting the expected results, they can be invisible. It's a necessary part of your day.

I believe in a meeting-free workday for the team. To do that, the best way I've seen so far is everybody getting together briefly to describe what they've been doing, what they're going to do, and if they need help. Immediately after everybody has their turn doing this, people are all together in one room, they're all aware of who needs help and who is working on what, and they can begin the actual work. Maybe that means everybody grabbing a whiteboard and talking over a problem for an hour. Maybe folks chat for another ten minutes and then all work separately the rest of the day. Don't know, don't care. The team can figure it out. A standup is a dynamic way for a team to create its own daily agenda without using a bunch of calendaring apps and trying to mastermind everything ahead of time.

So when done well, it looks like the most totally natural thing in the world -- bunch of guys just listing what's up to each other and then doing a bit of work ad-hoc. Why would you need structure for that? (Even though there is quite a bit of structure and discipline involved) Aren't we just exchanging data? When done poorly, it's a god-awful thing that drags on, nobody is involved with, and serves no purpose. Blech.

The mistake we continue to make as technologists is to confuse working with data with working with people. When you're writing code, you're working with data. You use tools for data: spreadsheet, compiler, parser, etc. When you're talking about what folks are doing and how the project is going, you're working with people. You use tools for people: lightweight games, rituals, dinners, jokes, body language, etc. You don't use people tools for data tasks; you shouldn't use data tools for people tasks. If you think you could use email to accomplish stuff you do during the standup, you don't understand standups.

Sorry to run on like this, but I'm a big standup fan. In fact, if I had one thing I would want to do in any team, it'd be good standups. For many small teams, you could almost trash every other piece of process and do standups well and be fine.
Trying something new with Github. Help make my US holiday awesome?
the broken english translation really adds to the punchline.
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In other words, positive thinking is very helpful, possibly even a necessary precondition for some outcomes (like becoming president - ain't gonna happen unless you really do want it), but it is neither a predictor nor a principal factor.

On the other hand, it is arguable that negative thinking can be a fairly strong predictor of failure. That is perhaps the most useful take-away from the otherwise relatively useless field of positive thinking: if you keep thinking you're going to fail, keep visualising and expecting failure, chances are very good that you will indeed fail, even if you had all the other necessary factors for success.
> If you don't catch the cancer early on and can get some federal assistance to get it treated, you are pretty much screwed. They pretty much know with cancer you aren't going to be paying them back for any services rendered, so none rendered.

So you are calling parent a liar? That his story can't be true because someone without insurance but with liver cancer would just die under our heartless system?

> If you are a step above federal poverty level yet still cannot afford to pay for medical or dental treatment in this country, you are screwed.

You definitely have a problem, but I think you severely underestimate the amount of charity care that goes on in the US, which is why our hospitals charge so much anyways. You can go to the hospital, get treatment, they will bill you later, and...they won't run a credit check first.

> If you get cancer, your best bet is to then make sure your income completely disappears and apply for all the assistance you can get, your job income then becomes a liability.

You can get charity care without being on medicaid.
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#1 is an incorrect assumption:

http://nationalatlas.gov/articles/people/IMAGES/gender-fig4....
Out of curiosity, which implementation are you using?
It seems like everyone is arguing about macro issues. Point, some team members know how to communicate and make standup effective and others blab.

Sounds like all of you have developer communication issues, not standup issues.
ZFS' raid-z is nothing but pain. Does it have standard raid-5 now?
On the topic of AIs, not mice, but very relevant to the questions you mentioned:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/x7/cant_unbirth_a_child/
The article doesn't look good for him, but I would argue that most of those answers could have been said as jokes. The problems with joking in text is, of course, the lack of voice to signify that you are in fact joking.

Or he could be (as Gruber puts it) a "huge douchebag" http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/29/dave-morin
All the other comments are basically saying the same thing - you're doing it wrong. I want to address your suggestions:

I've tried to do the whole "email instead of standup" thing. Guess what? No one reads the damn email. No one cares. Nothing happens. The stand up is meant to get people talking and not reading emails.

Yes, I documented out standups. This was because, yes, people can't make every call, can't make it to the office, are on holiday and need to know quickly if there were people waiting on them for feedback. So they could review the daily "minutes" and see if someone needed to talk to them. This worked well, though it usually took an additional 10 mins of my time finishing the email before sending it out.

And yes, management needed to report on progress. I tried my hardest to keep my devs OUT of the weekly progress call, and insist only team leads be present, but management weren't happy (and tended towards micromanagement of issues, but that's a different story).

And whatever you do, don't ditch the stand up. It's the best part of the day if you're truly a team player, as you can find out where you can make the biggest contributions to your team. If you notice patterns of issues, you can work to solve them. I've worked in too many teams where you could go for days, that turned into weeks, without talking to a quiet and reserved team member about the specific technical problems they were working on. Not good.
That's ridiculous. That's like saying...

I agree, there is a problem with that sentence.

However, I'm not sure that it helps your argument much. People with Down syndrome are still human beings - with the ability to form concepts and speak language. Although they don't understand as much about the world as you and I do, they certainly understand a great deal more than any bear would. (Also they won't maul you.)

since we have a superior intellect, we are capable of making moral judgements, and since we are capable, we are morally obliged to

I have a different view: in order to survive and thrive, each individual has to make moral judgements. That which furthers a particular person's life is the good (and he ought to choose it, if he wants to live), and that which harms it is the evil.

At some point, we need to consider the aggregate consequences of there being 6.9+ billion people all demanding to live "distinctly human lives".

Do you realize that "aggregate consequences" include the longest lifespans in human history (in industrialized nations)? A steady decline in climate-related deaths (which have fallen 98% in the past century)? The vast quantity and variety of food available at low prices at grocery stores? The ability to go across the continent in a matter of hours, safely? Need I go on?
Dear Millennials: You’re OK. You’ll Survive. Really.
From what I hear this is pre-auth access to the DB, though it's not from the most reliable of sources.
verge has done a piece on it too now.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/29/4160620/dragonfly-drone-fe...
Transparency is important but in and of itself it's not enough. What's really important is the ability of transparency to lead to price reduction. Regardless of government intervention, this is likely going to happen soon. Premiums have been getting so high that employers and individual consumers of health care have been opting for plans with (much) higher deductibles to lower their monthly costs a bit. And it's not just private insurance - with the recent proposal by the federal government, in an area where Obama and the House GOP seem to agree, to combine Medicare part A and part B premiums will essentially have the same effect - higher deductibles for most seniors (currently very low for those who just use services for doctors visits). This will require consumers to shop around a bit more, and since they are paying more out of their pockets, they will demand more transparency in pricing, and it will come.
Changes will not happen because the uninsured demand or need it. It will happen when the insured insist on it.
I think the reason for the difference is pretty clear. By the West Coast the parent really means Silicon Valley and Washington, the major tech hubs. In Silicon Valley in particular, that is the industry. And, of course, plenty of the employees are imported from other areas, and the professional gender balance in this industry skews overwhelmingly male. So it creates a corresponding gender imbalance in the surrounding geography.

And those non-native employees come from somewhere, which is predominantly the East Coast, because companies can pick up employees from there who are U.S. citizens and have attended good universities. So it makes those populations skew slightly female.
The only reason this story is remarkable is because Steve Jobs was a jerk all of the time, so exceptions and exhibitions of humanity seem special. Really, I'd see him as a cool guy if he were always like this. Not that him being an ass in any way devalues his abilities. It is what it is.
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I'll chime in - your standups are poisonous. I can sympathise though because I've been there too. It is a symptom of a junior team with weak team leadership/standup facilitation. Long monologues should be cut short and "taken offline". Action points aren't needed because they should be actioned immediately if they are quick or turned into cards on the wall. Your email "solution" likely won't be read or actioned.
The Next iOS Needs to Look Like This
Inaka does daily standups, at 11, in a HipChat room. You should know what you're working on in the morning before then, that gives you time to get some work done, take a 1 minute break and announce what you're doing. It's pretty rare we don't know what that list is anyway but it's a good synchronization point. If something is off or questions ensue, we meet in person.
Thanks. We are reconsidering our stack and are in middle of evaluation, I am sure this post is going to be of great help.
"You can't really have a totally safe systems programming language (correct me if I'm wrong here)."

He doesn't seem to think that others would be better.
>Lots of young people perceive Microsoft as the underdog in the internet server space and, somehow, think defending Windows will allow them to capitalize on its coming dominance of the server market.

Underdog? Windows Server takes most of the profit in the server OS market, same with Visual Studio in the IDE market, IIS in the web server market, Exchange in the mail server market. And that's competing against free products.
Why do you have to reformat Windows multiple times a year? I could understand this if you are using versions other than XP and 7 (too soon to tell with 8) but if you're doing it several times a year on those versions then you have some other problem.
If this works for you it's awesome, congrats. But what I saw in the past (3 different companies) was more like 30m+ standups, because most people (funny enough especially project managers) tend to talk way too much during standups. Unfortunately.
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PM? Surely you mean the scrum master? :-)

My feeling is that Project Managers would only be involved in daily standups if there was an urgent issue/escalation, or serious team communication issue that they have the ability to help solve. Or as a stand it for the scrum master if they were on leave.
Bummer, I was hoping to see an answer to this right here since it's such an important core concept! It would be worth the time to answer it, for sure.

I'll go hunt for said answer but I imagine some others will not.
i'm happy for your friends, but as a practical matter they are very likely outliers in the statistical sense.

to put it in the perspective of this forum, all of my VC buddies put online dating plays in the category of domain specific search. that's a fairly sterile way to look at the process of finding a life partner, don't you think?

but beyond that, there is no credible statistical data, i.e. stats not produced by the companies themselves and peer reviewed, that would indicate these services produce anything like a non-niche impact on the occurrence of marriage in the US.

there are however numerous more deliberate commentaries on the topic of technology and its impact on the social fabric of culture. one of my personal favs is "Alone Together" by Sherry Turkle.

The more interesting question in all of this is why exactly online dating functions are even viable. IMHO the fact that people, particularly in the business we are in (i'm assuming you are in the software biz as well) spend so much time chained to a desk that they cannot go out and actually interact physically with other human beings is the point of my original response.
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most 50 KLOC projects were not written by one person, but rather by lots and lots of them.

For example the scala compiler + standard library:

find src -name "*.scala" | xargs cat | wc -l = 244,601
git log --format="%an" | sort | uniq | wc -l = 149
I think it's worth a try. It wouldn't hurt to ask to rin it on a trial basis right?
It's funny... here in New York City, I hear people saying the exact opposite. That guys are having a great time on a dating site, because there are tons of attractive and interesting women, and all the single girls seem to create profiles! And girls not having a lot of luck on a dating site, because a lot of guys don't create profiles, and sometimes it seems like all the "good" ones are taken.

However, this may also be a function of age -- I'm in my early thirties, as are my friends. And of course, New York City.

I do think you're right about "online dating works well for people who are already likely to be successful at dating" -- in my experience, whether it's online or offline is irrelevant. Online dating isn't any fundamentally different at all -- people are attracted to each other, or not. Online dating just vastly widens the pool of potential people you might meet. You might see 100 people in a bar one night, and 90% are immediately out of your age/gender range, leaving just 10. You could easily browse through 200 filtered candidates on a dating site in an evening.
I personally think writing just "OK" does not make him less of a jerk. Seriously! This guys friend is terminally ill and he does not have a few nice words to spare? Just "OK"???
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"That might be partially true, but that's like deciding not to swing for fear of getting a strike."

Hmm, not quite. It is more like not trying to swing for the fence, and trying to hit a double or single. Every once and a while you connect right in the "sweet spot" and the ball flys over the fence.
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Aha, I did not realise that. How interesting. Thanks!

The values on that map are a little frustrating, have we got anything which offers more precision for those enormous 1-91 and 108-205 ranges? I look at that and think "Across the country the ratio could only vary between about 9 men for every 10 women and 9 women for every 10 men and the diagram would still be totally correct - is that even really significant?".

("Is that even really significant?" is a whole other question that I'm sure someone can easily answer. I don't have any intuition about how skewed a gender ratio has to be for it to be noticeable to a member of that population, certainly if someone told me that there were only 9 women for every 10 men in a city I wouldn't immediately think my chances of hooking up would be hurt too much...would they?)
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Good repository
BusinessWeek’s billion-dollar boo-boo
Basically they're switching to "dports", more information about which can be found here:

http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2013/01/12/11008.html

Basically it's a switch from NetBSD's pkgsrc to FreeBSD's ports system, but with DragonFly customizations:
History of Mobile Malware
The other two parts are below but I'm not done reading them:

http://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/422-history-of-mobile...

http://www.mobilesecurity.com/articles/423-history-of-mobile...
Quality matters everywhere, quality matters on T.V. and online. 300 million is like the budget of a handful of popular T.V. shows. Game of Thrones has a budget of about 60 million a season, House of Cards cost about 100 million. 300 million spread across hundreds of channels is not going to give you the best of T.V. The T.V. networks make big bets on a smaller number of shows. Time Warner alone has over a billion dollar budget for their content. It’s really high risk, high reward for them and I don’t think it is something Google is ready to stomach. The budget would have been better spent on more educational programming, which T.V. channels offer very little of. Educational programming is popular on Youtube and other sites.
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Isn't the problem that you lose some signal with the noise that way. You're not filtering out the chaff, you're skimming off the top level of grain.

If a submission is poorly titled then it will appear to be chaff [rubbish] when in fact it was grain [beneficial].
It isn't new, and people have been joking about finger smears since this kind of unlock mechanism came out (I remember making this discovery myself and promptly switching my phone back to using a number pad). But it is worse than shoulder-surfing; you can just steal a phone, say, from someone's purse or off a table when no one is looking, and then unlock it. You don't have to stock the person, see them unlock the phone, and then steal it.
I can confirm this is true. The resources are in the binary.

iOS_TabBarIcon_Messages@2x.png
iOS_TabBarIcon_More@2x.png
iOS_TabBarIcon_NewsFeed@2x.png
iOS_TabBarIcon_Timeline@2x.png

http://imgur.com/a/pVyiT

There's also a bunch of weird new stuff, like QR codes linking to people's profiles. In Messenger.app there's a disabled function that lets you message people that are physically close to you as well.
"Try to ..."
Not so. If it's a 4 digit combination, it's already n!, so 24 combinations, which is enough for a good system to lock up and automatically call the police. If it's more, then it's gonna grow as n!/k!l!m!... where, k, l, m... are the numbers of repeated digits, but still it's more than enough to know that someone's trying to brute force the system.
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