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So far we have been working with agencies, brands and market researchers to optimize &/or understand content at a more meaningful, emotional level - beyond positive and negative sentiment.

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Perhaps it is well worth your time to consider other reasons for the down votes. Doing so may prove beneficial to you in terms of inter personal communication.
how many times facebook has going down in this year?
Well, unlike teenagers, the government is known for its honesty
I'm using it on a 100k line codebase without issue. What problems are you having?
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Seriously 3 times in 2 weeks...
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10292343
"Sprint" only says the "short-term goal" part (along with "unsustainable pace"). You have to infer the "working session" part from context, and "cross-functional team" isn't even suggested by "sprint". And maybe you could even ditch the "unsustainable pace" part.
>What is the basis for your suspicion?

If there were a ton of flagged and banned questions, I would think I would see them, since I have showdead on. Maybe they just don't appear on /ask, though.

>At what point would you start cautioning people that their questions and comments aren't a good fit for HN, and they should look elsewhere for answers?

I wouldn't, unless they're being offensive, obscene or obviously trolling. I would let unpopular posts remain unpopular and sink to the bottom of the list, which is what's supposed to happen to them.

SO is already infamous for closing questions many people would find perfectly reasonable or interesting, because they don't meet their rather stringent and yet arbitrary requirements. They're not a discussion forum, though, and they only want specific questions with canonical answers to present to the Googlebot. Hacker News comments don't exist to generate SEO for YCombinator so I see no need to be as aggressive with "quality control" here.
I wish they would rather stop abusing the VoIP privileges in the iOS app and stop running in the background constantly using battery. We used to call that behaviour "malware". They can make up 10 more fancy slides and titles like that one, but it won't excuse it.
Yes and if you're a small team with limited resources and you don't have an operations person/team throwing money at the problem works.

There will come a time when you will need to setup a more customized hosting solution but hopefully by then you can hire someone to do operations that knows what they are doing.

I don't think Heroku or Otto are designed for big projects anyways, they're a great way to get up and running and help you grow without having to worry about infrastructure upfront or for a couple years.
Facebook is down. Here's the image
Not on the technical side. But I would consider that to be almost secondary - I think the important part is demonstrating that you can do this over a span of days and have real, serious improvement; and that the outsiders (18F/GSA) work to build something with the interested organization rather than for.

By comparison, I'd imagine the standard gov process is something more like:

* decide something needs improvement

* create spec as far as what they want (weeks)

* find contractor to implement that meets all rules/reqs (weeks)

* pass specs to contractor, contractor builds product (weeks)

* get finished product that doesn't work very well because spec was created in a vacuum and contractor didn't discuss issues unless they were game-breaking

I feel like the emphasis here is more on process improvement rather than the end result.
Right, the management agency supply problem would only exist if AirBnB demand were high enough to impact the housing supply.

But as the article said, less than 1 in 1000 units rent enough AirBnB nights to break even on rent in SF, which means that unless the agencies are subsidizing their income elsewhere, it's not a problem.
This glosses over the reality that all the money that should be going to the non-tenured teachers has been diverted into the burgeoning middle level administrative roles that have been created in the past 25 years as schools became run as businesses first and educational institutions second or third. Focusing on the top level deans and presidents will not fix this core problem. Returning to staffing levels that were sustainable 30+ years ago will.
Otherwise known as the income that one would have previously obtained by renting a room to a permanent resident.

Not true. If I want to rent my place out for a week while I'm out of town, that would be income that could never be provided by a permanent resident. If I rent out a spare room to someone in town for the weekend, that's not a permanent resident. Maybe I don't want a permanent roommate, but just want some supplementary income here and there.

You're certainly welcome to argue that I shouldn't be allowed to do that, but I'd disagree with that point of view, and that has nothing to do with whether or not a permanent resident could be served by the space.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpNNa_Mokok
I agree. It was 5pm and I had my laptop in front of me so I could quickly call hotels in the area to see if they were available. By around the 8th ok-looking hotel, I had found one that had a room available. This would be very difficult for my mother on her slow iPhone 3GS.
The Right Mindset to Profitable Trading
I don't think the "irrevocable" part is the main problem of test-based education. You need the test to know where you are. If you prepare well, most important tests in life can be managed. What is really the problem is the systematic punishment of failure. /This/ indeed can have irrevocable consequences for certain personality types. I grew up in France and this "punishment of failure" teaching system is a major problem of France's education system.
After spending some time dealing with social impact concern activists, I've personally found that it's something of a bottomless pit. No concern is too small, every concern is hugely important, no concern is irrelevant, everything needs immediate addressing with all the money, every concern is your immediate direct personal problem, etc.

So it's easier to not bother at all and catch flak than it is to do an "insufficient" amount of addressing concerns and get the same amount of flak from the same people.
How Facebook should be designed
Wow, it's actually down for me too.
Ask HN: Why post about site outages?
It seems like almost every day a prominent site goes down, and people race each other to post to HN with a one line subject of "reddit down" or "facebook down" and nothing else.

I am just wondering what the purpose of being the first person to post "Facebook down" with a link to facebook is. Are we expected to get some sort of value out of knowing FB is down, or is it just schadenfreude?

Genuinely curious!
Sprint is jargon and jargon alienates newcomers. One of the goals of this team is to teach the government a new way of working.

The article title would be much better as:

> "How a two-day cross-functional team moved an agency twenty years forward"

I'll go even further and say that Agile terminology should be avoided as much as possible, as we have already seen it corrupted into anti-Agile in the enterprise. Stick to the basics (short work cycles, cross-functional teams, clear explicit goals, quick constant feedback, etc) and a new organization will better maintain the true intent of Agile, rather than mindlessly cargo-culting the structures (sprint, iterations, agile team, scrum board, etc).
the large size of the phone.

The joke I've seen floating about is "iPhone 6 users wish they had gone with the larger 6+, and 6+ users hate the large size and wish they had gone with the 6"
It is nice to see you are quick to correct your articles.
For anyone that cares, here are some articles, by people that do not misuse the term.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Sharing...

http://olivierblanchard.net/stop-calling-it-the-sharing-econ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/technology/twisting-words-...
It's like turning a painting back into a sketch, or maybe not. I'm confused... which comes first? ascii or sketch?
The term is starting to change though. The last two large scale projects I've been on have changed from using the term "sprints" to "iterations"

I'm guessing because it's like you said, it encompassing a clearly understanding of what will be happening over the specified time frame.
10 more robotics companies acquired. Why?
When these things happen, I enjoy hopping on twitter and searching for the name of the site to see what people are saying: https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook&src=typd&lang=en

It reminds me how powerful twitter could actually be, if they didn't have such a useless homepage and unfriendly interface.
"The handbook consists of four five-inch-thick binders containing printed and photocopied pages. These binders are replicated and distributed across numerous regional and local offices. The handbook also exists as online PDFs, where each chapter or subsection is published as its own PDF. With these two options, investigators don’t have an easy way to quickly access and search for much-needed information that helps them complete investigations, particularly when they’re working out in the field."

If I were working in that environment, I'd concatenate the multiple PDFs into one so I could search the entire set from any PDF reader. It's probably not as convenient as a web interface with a more sophisticated search facility, but it solves part of the problem fairly quickly.

To concatenate multiple PDFs:

gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH - \
sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=ALL.pdf *.pdf

Adjust the paper size and the order of the input files to taste.

("gs" is the Ghostscript command.)
Don't use Chrome.
It was gigantically SLOW from my perspective - was excited when it came out, then noticed it was a magnitude slower for some things.
"Over these two days we demonstrated that with the right support and the right people in the room..."

That's the solution, full stop. The right support and the right people. A "sprint" is just a mechanism, it's useless without the right people.

So maybe that's the problem the government has? It's not the process, it's the people!
This works until you can vote to screw your neighbor for your own gain. Then things get messy.
Posting this news as a facebook.com link is less helpful when facebook.com is not working. :)
If you or someone created something that was basically Heroku in a box that could then be hosted anywhere. I would be interested.

I want to build apps, not worry about hosting and servers.
there's also an android event bus by square http://square.github.io/otto/
One word: chargeback

Let AirBnB explain their idiotic policies to Amex/Visa/MC
Hotel regulations are awful!
I'm curious, what argument would there be for why we shouldn't?

This is the first I read about outerra, and it actually looks really cool!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3otBjVZzT0
Yeah it's jargon, but kzhahou's complaint was that it wasn't complex enough.
It's down for me too. I'm in Brazil.
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11k employees, 970 million daily actives, one of the companies "changing the world", and yet people say you don't know anything based on sporadic outages.

They are good. Let them figure it out.
this competitive view of education is another unfortunate consequence of what i identify as a broken educational system

i think its worth while to ask who who incites this competition with grades?

what are your concerns with 'counterfeit' versus 'genuine' grades?

i am more upset that another generation can get through school with, hard won, perfect grades and still be unaware of what a transformer is and how it works
I think that is a big part of it, but I have also witnessed organizations change 'tone' when a new leader was installed. Perhaps the most diverse were the transitions of "VP of Engineering" at NetApp between 2001 and 2006. Different styles of leader, and different behaviors in the organization as a whole.
I suspect it is schadenfreude.

For what it is worth, I ALWAYS flag every "X is down" post I see appear in the new list. If there were more flagging of them, the posters would get the message and quit posting them.
it's the second time within a week, I wonder what the problem could actually be
So, that part has been known for years, and in fact, IMHO, part of the problem (with no offense meant) has been that many orgs provide proof of concepts to agencies or as part of sprints, etc, but in the end, the agencies really want someone who helps them maintain it forever.

They want someone there to hold their hand and help make it work, forever. Not someone who shows them what the future looks like, does a little work, and then says "welp, gotta run, have fun building it!".
Because then the agencies go back to their multi-million dollar consulting contracts, and end up with what they got in the first place: Someone selling them 20+ year old technology at a high price.

(Sorry, i spent way too long in DC watching this kind of thing happen repeatedly)
> I guess my point is that if a rare bug is rare enough, then it doesn't really matter, especially if the effect isn't catastrophic.

That's only true if you run a trivial application. If you are a bank for example, it matters very much why the outcome of a transaction came out wrong, even if the effect wasn't catastrophic. Every circumstance and every bit of identity to the transaction is important. "It's rare" or "I don't believe in logging" doesn't cut it.

> There are a lot more resources required to log everything all the time then to log a subset of things some of the time.

Resources are a matter of budgetary concerns, mostly. What does a bug in production cost you? Are you liable? How fast? What's your SLA? Those things matter.
Or, at a minimum, the ability to poke it with a stick to sufficiently understand how it works under a wide variety of conditions, to a degree that it probably constitutes reverse engineering. Right now that's not legal.
Yes, Facebook is Down
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Personally I'd rather flag such posts because HN is a place for news and meaningful discussions around those and IMHO there are better sites/services to monitor if whatever is up or down. Now, I'd really like to see a discussion with links to some post-mortems or analysis about the outage. That would be super interesting, but not just the service URL with a catchy title, please.
As opposed to throwing money at a person to solve the problem?
Well, it often does with hotels up to 6pm or so if guaranteed with a credit card.

My point is that there is a very wide variance in properties. While some walkaways will be for trivial or non-existent reasons in the minds of an average person, others will be for much more substantial reasons. Property ratings aside, it's really hard for the broker (Airbnb) to distinguish those except in the most extreme cases. As a result, you probably need a sensible default but that default is going to inherently favor either those renting or those renting out the property in the case of a dispute.
This happened with the Viking probes in '70s.
Everything having a default is sometimes not sensible.

In such cases, explicit and declarative is much better than implicit and hidden.
Down for me too. In Kenya.
Many developers run business dependent on platforms. It's nice to have a place for discussion to see if it's a localized instance or a widespread issue.
Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing
No way, I did not mean to imply I thought that mice do that. But I think that's setting the bar too high. How often does the average person ask themselves such questions after all? I think four year olds are conscious, and yet I doubt that they ask such questions either, and might even look at you funny if you asked them such a question.
Hashicorp is all in on Golang.
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From the 1985 article:

>"United States counterintelligence specialists estimate that at least 150 K.G.B. officers are working out of the embassy under cover as diplomats, clerks, chauffeurs, journalists and in other jobs."

Just as a point of reference, the US Embassy in Iran during the 1979 revolution and subsequent hostage crisis had something on the order of 75-100 people working there.

Again, Google around, there is a ton of material out there on these topics. If you read Russian, I'm sure there are similar stories talking about US spies. (Although the reliability of Soviet media is questionable at best) I was really interested in this stuff when I was a kid, and recalled these events vaguely from those days, there's plenty more to find.
I think it depends on the context.

If you are cohabiting with the guest (for example, an actual bed and breakfast), then it would be correct to say that you share your home.

If you give exclusive access to the guest, it would be more correct to say that you are renting, leasing, or subleasing your home.
Microsoft Azure has some Machine Learned APIs to detect NSFW content. Could be an easy solution?
It's weird -- the only reason I really care is because of Facebook's SSO capabilities. FB's a single point of failure for anybody that uses it for authentication. (Which I imagine is a few people.)
English version:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html
Medium’s New Funding Round of $57M
Facebook Is Down
You're missing the point. They all do it.
Here's a twitter feed of the global response, if anyone's interested: https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook+error
By restricting what companies can and cannot do and forcing them to prove certain risks are genuinely covered before coming in and "disrupting" (aka destroying) industries that have generally done a somewhat decent job of things for decades.

I'm just getting tired of people advocating free market principles and proclaiming that industries will police themselves, and then turning around and lying and cheating, with next to no consequences. I'm saying this as a pretty extreme economic right wing person - today's conservatives bear little resemblance to traditional ones.
I'm kinda of this thought process as well. If there are hospitable conditions there and we haven't found microbes after a while, I think we should just start dumping tons of them over there. We need something to put some atmosphere there for us. Algae seems to be a really good bet.
Why don't we ever hear about management tips to get more performance out of the people you have?
Infotainment, air conditioning, etc. There are many many more ECUs in a car than just the one in the engine.
Medium Raises $57M
Sounds similar to what High Fidelity are building (https://highfidelity.com), which they're also open sourcing.
The Throw Up Receptionist Prank
Is this anything more than the insight that your perception of 'average' is calculated from the distribution of what you observe, not from the true distribution? Or am I missing something
Why isn't Otto named Vagrant 2.0 or something? Its confusing to be "abandoning" Vagrant for a new system "Otto" when really all that is happening is that Otto is fixing issues that have come up over time with Vagrant. Why not a migration strategy, some backwards compatibility during the translation, and then move into the future?
This is really the only guide to interviewing anybody needs: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3454
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

http://is-it-down.com/facebook.com

Et al :-)
'Sprint' also implies something unsustainable. It suggests that this rate of change is a short-term thing with a defined goal. It does not suggest any broad change in policy.
While I agree that it's an annoyance, it's a very small annoyance. Since Julia has for loops and Julia ranges use the same 1-based convention you don't run into it often.
The most valuable information never comes with a citation. Thus the derogatory term "book smart."
> There would be no output to appropriate without the skill and direction of the rich person who had the idea and took the risk.

I think that it is a bit much to suppose that every rich person is benefiting exclusively, or even mainly, from his or her own skills and ideas.

> As for the inheritance angle, who better deserves the money than the children of the original rich guy? They're the ones most likely genetically to share the same traits that enabled the original guy to get rich.

Down this road lies kings!
That's a good point, I hadn't thought of that.
Careful... "deserve" is a bit of a loaded term there. I don't think I'd say that people "deserve more income".

Having said that, I think Airbnb is a fine way for people to earn some money making use of their existing spare housing. I may dislike the PR/marketing bullshit that is the term "sharing economy", but I'm pretty disappointed that this thread seems to be full of Airbnb bashing. While they may not be the ideal solution to SF's housing woes, it's pretty clear that they're not part of the problem... or if they are, it seems they're at least doing more good than bad.
Tangentially, Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One" explores a future where a universe-sized virtual world is pervasive in society because everything in the real world has fallen to hell. Not the best literature out there, but entertaining and apropos to the discussion.
The Serpent in the Sword: Pattern-Welding in Early Medieval Swords (1997) [pdf]
Some of the PDFs were based on Microsoft Word documents, so those could be easily processed. Some of them apparently had to be OCRd.

Of course, now they have two versions to be kept in sync. But that was a "non-goal", so it's not their problem.