skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this comment shows exactly what I was getting at. If no one disagrees, the happiness manifesto will die in a sea of nods and shrugs. :)

> I'd rather have really good code, even if written by a racist or sexist, than bad code (period).

That's a perfectly valid choice. In some cases, it's a completely correct choice. But that's not the tradeoff that I want to make.

Take a look at the original Agile Manifesto: http://agilemanifesto.org/

Sometimes you can have it all: good process, good tools, good individuals and interactions. But when they conflict, the AM says that we should favor the individuals over the processes.

I'm saying that as a development community, we should favor inclusiveness and respect, even at the cost of (some) technical merit. Similarly, we should favor open-source infrastructure, even at the cost of the App Store audience.
I don't know if this is as much a mock ad against a particular company(those are the ones that typically come off petty) and more about trying to relay to the consumer there is more to life than a touchscreen device.

This ties into IKEAs brand perfectly. The more you care about the "Real World" the more likely you are to spend time(and money) decorating and enhancing your surroundings, like your home.

It's not so much a mock ad as much as it's reinforcing the value proposition of what IKEA brings to the consumer. The ability to enhance the real world. It does so via proxy by reinforcing the value proposition of the real world in general.

Fantastic marketing.
You mean I've been hitting people with rocks all these years for nothing?!
Data Mining Reveals How Social Coding Succeeds and Fails
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

P2P protocols are distributed but not all distributed protocols are P2P.
I still use pen and paper for writing (and thinking). Also an old fashioned medium, but also a preference to satisfy my occasional Luddite mindset.
Well hamburgers do destroy cows. It's just that they're a renewable resource vs a finite one.
This is a very cool project, and one that I am very partial to. I agree that having a common application layer for structured data would be incredibly useful for developers and users across the board by freeing data from the big silos.

Question: Are you looking to expand beyond IM and VoIP, or do you see those as the main areas where the protocol will function?
It's a community at the end of the day, and having conflict like that is actually good. We should have people with different use cases and problem sets sitting in the same room sharing ideas. That's how we can improve as developers.
DIMM-Based Storage (Memory Channel Storage) Is a Bright Idea
... who was happy to work for Google.
Tutorial: UICollectionView Using Swift
> In the past decade, it has channelled some of its staggering wealth into realizing its outsized ambitions: the World Cup in 2022

Very ambitious: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117818/qatar-2022-world-c... ("The documentary estimates that, at the current rate, more than 4,000 migrant workers will die by the time Qatar puts on the 2022 World Cup.")
Isolation and fault tolerance library, modeled after Netflix's Hystrix
Cycling Sports Accessories
Correction: I meant "insert your card", not "swipe". Though low-cost transactions can still be authorised without having to enter a PIN, at least in the UK.
Discover and fix your slow SQL queries
So the drivers will rely on tips? How much am I supposed to tip?
I looked for Langton myself years ago when I was very into artificial life and evolutionary computing. IMHO he's one of the greatest unsung geniuses of the past 25 years.

Here's what I consider his greatest work:

http://wiki-app2.tudelft.nl/pub/Education/SPM955xABMofCAS/Le...

To give you one example: that paper is why I think Titan is the most likely world in the solar system where we might find present-day complex life. (Other than Earth of course.)

Why? There's no liquid water on the surface, and it's too cold!

Answer: phase boundaries everywhere. See Fig. 3 from paper.

Titan has a hydrocarbon-based "water cycle" with solid, liquid, and gas all existing at the same time, along with what appear to be seasons. Universal computation occurs in the vicinity of phase boundaries, so I would not be terribly surprised if we found "cryolife" there. It would be radically different from our own, but not really... I agree with people like Langton that life should be considered primarily an informatics phenomenon rather than a conventional chemical reaction or physical state.

If Titan life were intelligent, they'd regard us as hell-beasts with blood of molten water. :) We could never physically touch, as we would vaporize them and they would freeze us solid.

There's a contemporary scientist named Dr. Christoph Adami at Michigan State's new BEACON center who's probably the closest to following in Langton's footsteps.

http://www.mmg.msu.edu/adami.html

Adami expounded upon these ideas by defining life as "a phase of matter in which the dynamics of information processing overcome those of ordinary matter and energy." I am paraphrasing, and possibly butchering it a little... can't find the original quote, but that's the basic idea. Life is a phase of matter -- one whose behavior is dominated by universal Turing-complete computation. You might call living matter "Turium" or something.

The fact that this whole line of reasoning hasn't been taken up more broadly is IMHO some kind of failure of the academic and scientific system.
How to read Launch Ticker for free?
I personally love Launch Ticket http://launchticker.com/ however with it now becoming a paid-only service, some people might find $10-25/mo to be too much to digest.

Solution? Use Google. Search for stories in the last 24 hours and sorted by date. It's missing the ease, look & feel of Launch Ticker, however still is a good source of information http://bit.ly/1u3UX0O
How Should We Program Computers to Deceive?
I couldn't even finish reading this article because it was waaaaay too uppity and full of first world problems. Please spare us the angst of some rich mom who can't bear the thought of her little ankle biters not being in the most elite school possible.
The Natural History museum in the UK has shelves full of samples dating back >100 years that have never been looked at. Furthermore, even ones that have been studied can be revised in the light of new evidence.

So primarily it's a question of man power and triaging samples. Secondly you need a lot of evidence before declaring a new species and various formal steps should be taken (providing a reference sample etc), so that process in itself can take years+.
You're wrong here.

The problem isn't that America doesn't need a CTO--as a nation, as a government, it makes more sense to bring systems expertise in-house than to keep bleeding resources out to contractors. There really should be a .gov entity that handles IT and application development.

That said, the problem is that such a position is going to be beset on all sides by people that don't want their job disrupted and which won't be given enough authority to actually change workflows to match the new software.
Israeli firm busts 13-year-long Europe hack attack
You can download the PDF on http://www.prezly.com/pirate-metrics-compass
Author here.
It's decentralized because the FromBank and the ToBank communicates directly over the Internet using TCP/IP+HTTPS+OpenPGP, which is different from a centralized communication system like SWIFT, where the FromBank would first send the message to ToBank's SWIFT address (so called "BIC"), and wait for ToBank to check their SWIFT "inbox".

Compare:
FromBank <-> ToBank (BankAPI, decentralized)
vs.
FromBank <-> SWIFT <-> ToBank (SWIFT, centralized)

(FromBank = Bank sending the message)
(ToBank = Bank receiving the message)
The Agile Manifesto is the opposite of tradeoffs.

"We value X over Y" is not a trade off, it's a dogmatic claim.

"We should do X in these conditions and Y otherwise" is a trade off.

For each of the items you list above, I can come up with a few scenarios where doing the opposite of what the Agile Manifesto says would be the better approach (and that's probably one of the main reasons why hardly anyone takes that Manifesto seriously these days).
Bitbucket's lack of a code search feature is a serious disadvantage, specially for large organizations. The enhancement request has turned into a ranting thread[1]

[1] https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/2874/ability-to-sear...
> Yet ethical hackers looking to make a name for themselves would probably be far more willing to responsibly disclose vulnerabilities if money was on the table.

Here's a simple rule of thumb: if you only responsibly report vulnerabilities when they're going to pay you, and otherwise you just publish them to github for everyone to use, you're not an ethical hacker.

Troshichev frames it like 'it's not my fault I posted this exploit to the internet, there was no bounty in place to prevent it!' He could well have reported it to their security teams and been happy with having contributed to the world, but instead he not only discussed the bug publicly, but published a tool allowing people to easily exploit it.

There is no point of view here where Troshichev is any sort of ethical 'good guy'. This is extortion, a thug saying 'Oh, that's really too bad about your windshield. If only there was some way you could pay someone to keep this from happening again. Who knows how bad it could be next time.'
DHTML Conf 2000
I wish "I value performance and user experience" was on there.

I'm not sure how happy you should be as a self centered developer with no empathy for the people using your software.

Sometimes software can and should be ugly if it makes for a better end product.
First of all, Forbes reporting on hacking needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Second, he 'would' have 'should' have is easy to say after the fact.
So the CTO should be digesting technology contractors? Seems legit. :P
Apple's Watch to Usher in Short-Range Wireless
> Nine characters max

Post code is max 7 characters. People could live at number 123, which is over 9 characters. Or they could live at a flat and house number - flat 1, number 12. Which is again over 9 characters.
Massively higher odds of a random guess hitting it lucky, of course. If usernames are easy to predict or come by then someone could find a way to bang on a large set of accounts.
My biggest concern with RDP is the screen res. I'd love to be able to use Visual Studio from a "dumb client", but the resolutions on the Chromebooks seems to kinda suck. I'm hoping for a 1080p one at least; but choices seem rather limited in the UK :(
I read it as "given a choice between A and B, I'll choose A". So...

When choices are available for a software library, pick an open-source one over a well-tested black box, and perhaps even contribute. If the black box is the only reasonable thing out there, then use it.

Rather than try to hire by a strict ordering of skill, create an environment with varied viewpoints that can all be heard. (Of course you still hire among the top candidates, and avoid bad coders)

When choosing between two jobs, one of which creates a new product that people love, and the other cuts into someone else's profits through algorithmic/technological superiority, pick the first one. If you don't have such a choice, it's not relevant.

Last one I'm not sure about, but one possibility is "go learn Haskell/Lisp or experiment with the latest algorithms/libraries in the evening rather than work 18 hour days for your job." If you really have to get something done for work, by all means do it.

It's not "always do this", but rather "when you do have the freedom to choose, pick this"
Github Issue #2: What do we do after we value something? https://github.com/scottefein/the-happiness-manifesto/issues...

Lend your two cents in the comments...
Why does it need a brush bar if it is a vacuum cleaner? Seems like marketing lingo to me.

The camera and navigation are an expected improvement, but other than that doesn't look better than my old Roomba clone, it is even missing some features.
Experiencing the same issue on Android/Chrome.
Nice site btw :)
Maybe I am giving in to what I read on the internet too much,but I wouldn't want to work in Qatar no matter how much they paid me. And the last thing I would want to be doing is bringing my daughters there. I feel the same way about Saudi Arabia.
I can definitely see the value; and I'm planning on adding RRP; but I don't want to get into price comparison and keeping things updated (or scraping). The goal is definitely to just help you see what fits your criteria and available in your market; then you have a smaller list to compare in reviews etc.
You can get close if you don't use Rails. Seriously, Cuba + JRuby + Torquebox 4 is fast, nearly as fast as Go.

http://madebymarket.com/blog/dev/ruby-web-benchmark-report.h...
I'm not using exponential as a synonym for really fast, I'm using it to mean an exponential function. If lifespan increases but fertility rate remains low (as in the developed world), you get a very different sort of population growth than each couple having seven children, each of which will marry and have seven children, and so on. If fertility rate stays the same, and adult lifespan increases from 70 to 100, there would be the same number of children born over a number of generations as would have happened anyway, but they would live 40% longer. I presume that would mean a capped one-off 40% increase over the period of 30-150 years (depending on how quickly and equally the global population took up the technology, and how much it relied on preventative treatment early in life). Fertility based population growth would mean exponential increases - so for instance a doubling from 2 billion in 1930 to 4bn in 1970, then 8bn in 2010, 16bn in 2050, 32bn in 2090 etc.

I think this "filling out" sort of non-exponential growth is actually a large part of what is predicted over the next 50-100 years (from adults in middle wealth countries getting near Western levels of life expectancy), Hans Rosling talks about it in his "Don't Panic" lecture from a year or two back.
I finished US high school on a Friday, left for the US Air Force on Monday. We learned more in Basic Training than any year of public school. Maybe more than some two year periods. The difference was planning, training of our drill instructors, and, most of all, expectations. The result was astounding.
The way I understand and use the word meritocracy is as an opposition to nepotism (or other forms of favoritism) - i.e. promoting people because of who they are (founders/first/oldest/high-born/...), not because of what they do, as in meritocracy. As such, I see/use "meritocracy" as something purely positive.
I did the "Pay with a Tweet" option, but the PDF I downloaded was just the image on the page.
It is impossible for Universities to cut down graduate enrollment.

Professor productivity is defined primarily in terms of two measures: how many papers you authored (notice I avoided using the word wrote) and how many advanced degree students you graduate. Having a big pipeline of graduate students to help you achieve both goals is fundamental for success.

Also, Professors are tasked with multiple responsibilities that add little, if anything, to their perceived productivity as measured by the University. The most time consuming of those is usually lecturing undergraduate classes. Having an even bigger pool of graduate students where to offload time consuming activities associated with the class (primarily T.A.s and L.A.s but also people never met by the class doing support work like slide preparation, library searches, capture of results in brain-dead software platforms purchased by Uni's managers not doing any teaching themselves, etc) will allow you to concentrate in your research and do things that really matter (a.k.a. athoring papers and advising future PhDs).
If she behaves in a professional way and you do too, how can anything bad happen? Or would you have issues working with other marketing coordinators as well?

You don't have to like someone personally to work with them. As long as you both do your job correctly, there should be no issue. If either of your becomes unprofessional, they should be fired.
I was going to ask -- isn't this exactly like Hydra? But some Googling indicates it's the same project and was renamed. Explanation of the name change here:

http://sdegutis.github.io/2014/08/11/the-history-and-current...
The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

Essays (any) - Paul Graham

I personally enjoyed "I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59" by Douglas Edwards as well.
The colour (#777) makes it hard to read (at least for me).
Having it in black (and font-size bumped to 16px) makes it way more readable
Try the python 'sh' module (https://github.com/amoffat/sh). For example:

from sh import git
print git('version')
Ask HN: Frontend, Front-end, or Front end?
> If the status quo ante was in place for decades, why do we need new laws to preserve it now?

Because the voluntary behavior which maintained the status quo ante was observed to be changing.

> I think there is a battle over Netflix because its such an outlier in terms of bandwidth usage

While things like the attempt by broadband providers (largely also cable/IP TV providers) to impose anticompetitive discriminatory pay-for-access on competing video services were already on the horizon when the original FCC Open Internet Report and Order was issued (which is why such acts against competing video services were specifically called out in the Order in discussion of how its more general non-discrimination and non-blocking provisions would be applied), discrimination against particular edge providers isn't the sole focus of, or even really the main behavior change that motivated, net neutrality efforts. Blocking/discrimination of particular lawful end-user applications is at least as important in both aspects (of course, application-based discrimination and edge provider based discrimination overlap, since often an application is tied to a particular edge provider.)

> I don't think the ISP battle with Netflix can be generalized.

The issue, concerns, and specific behaviors at issue both predate the "ISP battle with Netflix" and have always been more general than it. Its not a matter of generalizing that battle, that's battle is simply today's most visible current manifestation of a general set of behaviors (Comcast's bittorrent blocking was the most visible recent exampe at the time FCC Open Internet Order.)
No argument there from me. I’m just not sure it’s possible to have a single manifesto you can promote in that environment, because the goal of the manifesto is essentially to represent a consensus that can’t exist. What you wind up with is the least common denominator, but the most interesting and useful discussions are usually in precisely the areas where there are reasonable differences of opinion or priorities and therefore significant decisions to be made.
Twitter Bug Bounty Program
Gordon Murray (Designed the McLaren F1 and a lot of top F1 cars) shuns CAD and does most of his work at 1:1 with pen and paper.
Brush bars help lift hair off the carpet. They also help lift the carpet pile which some people like.

I'm kind of surprised to read people who don't look after their vacuum cleaner. Whatever brand it is: change the bags (if it uses them); change the filters; occasionally give it a clean.
Some Linux distributions are not including Perl now.
In Python, since functions can be defined anywhere, and decorators can execute arbitrary code (including registering and running the functions they decorate) and be passed variables from the scope they're used, you can make some pretty powerful DSLs. And method_missing delegation can largely be replaced by defining classes at runtime, especially now that people are getting used to passing hashes as arguments (in fact, Rails seems to be slowly deprecating find_by_foo_and_bar in favor of where(foo: _, bar: _)?).
You can find loads on http://www.themeforest.com
I like the sentiment of this manifesto.

But I don't like that it starts with a machine and code focus. Shouldn't people be first?
There is other, fairly extensive, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267622 (also currently on the front page)
there's a tool for that ;)

http://www.extramaster.net/tools/downloadFromSlideshare/
Show HN: Cord – One tap voice chat
Strange, it struck me as an convenient. Why exactly does that strike you as dishonest?
I'm also afraid of the jQuery effect.
That's a good idea! Let me know if you ever pursue it. It would be a fun computer vision problem.
Author here.

Interesting thoughts, I agree most banks won't change because they don't even think they have a problem. Although there are a few modern banks who actually do use Linux, PostgreSQL and modern programming languages (not COBOL). :-)

I've addressed many of your thoughts in this text:
https://github.com/trustly/bankapi/blob/master/doc/rationale...

I hope you will find it interesting.
"an implied value of close to $800 million"
We might finally see a Canadian company on this list!
http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/
This appears to be a static site hosted using Github pages and database backed by Google Docs?

That in itself is interesting to me because it costs nothing to host this content and is likely highly available.
Can't help but think "jesus, not another protocol I have to support". People bitch and moan about SIP but the goddamn thing works and is already extensible if you need your own unique features. Can't you build on that? Instead you're like phone manufacturers who each come up with their own protocol because hey, we've got those sweet PBX boxes to sell too!

I love your goal, but I really can't see why you can't use SIP to communicate and play nice with other endpoints out there. Surely that would be an advantage.
You didn't say WHY he's menace. You didn't give any reasons for anything you stated.

//
*proverbial
OK OK, I lose to pedantry :-)
Although 2 out of 3 of those mentioned are really bootstrapped focused but rather funding focused people?
I almost thought it said LogMeIn has acquired Medium. Weird.
When it's decision time, one of those goals will override the other.

For a lot of cases it may be true that fulfilling the second fulfils the first. But crucially, not for all cases.

They are not equal goals, one does not fully imply the other (in either direction). Yes, a better balance could be struck than today... but if the second goal is trumping the first... the users will suffer.
Newly discovered dinosaur takes title of largest terrestrial animal
KnCMiner Announces $14M Series A Funding Round
There are only dozens of examples of things like Classic Ford magazine already...
tbh, if it changes anything, Google ought to hire more privacy advocates.
Would love this.
Y Combinator Startups: An Interactive Database
"That's a perfectly valid choice. In some cases, it's a completely correct choice. But that's not the tradeoff that I want to make."

The problem is that it's used too often to shun or control people that don't agree with a political ideology. A good example of this is the Mozilla CEO.

An open and "accepting" community should also accept people they might not agree with..otherwise you should't call yourself open, accepting, or inclusive.
Would you rather have an exec from an ISP instead?(Comcast, Verizon, etc)
Well, I'd say that's a difference between training selected people for a single purpose, versus trying to educate everyone from all backgrounds for all possible things...