skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Estimating work and committing to those estimates"

I agree with you that estimation has value, especially at the large scale when you are trying to budget for a multi-year project. (and at that level- the detail you think should be there simply isn't) You are also right that at some level it is a social problem, estimates and commitments are two very different things- and you don't just commit to an estimate. Estimates are predictions, statements of probability about the unknown future, hopefully based on solid data from past performance and some understanding of the work to be done. Commitments are promises to make things happen that are only partially within one's control. In many cases, an estimate is needed prior to getting the level of information that one would need to make a truly accurate prediction, so we respond with a range of dates to reflect that uncertainty, but this can be too early to make any kind of commitment.

If you estimate at the point in time where you are 50% likely to get the job done, and commit to that, half of the time you will be late, even though it is "average time" it would take to do that work. You can't take the easy way out and commit at 100% likely time, because you could be sick in the hospital tomorrow (and with a big enough project, someone eventually is). If you commit to an 90% confidence estimate, you get stuck with Parkinson's law type problems. Not to mention that those predictions with percentages are hard to base on real data...but if you make enough of them, you can actually get feedback on your accuracy.

The problem is that most audiences for estimates aren't able to deal with the uncertainty, and many givers of estimates are easily pushed into overcommitting. This is why some of the ideas popularized by the Agile movement seem to work- if you fix the time increment, it is much easier to flex on the scope, especially when it is not possible for it to be well-defined in advance. For example, there are many cases where an high confidence estimate can't be made- as is often the case in more research oriented projects, where the path to a working solution, or whether one will even be found, is unknown, and it is part of the job of the project to discover that. You are stuck with estimating how long it will take you to try approaches x, y, and z.

McConnell's classic "Software Estimation" probably says it better. See ch 1 of McConnell's book here- page one is on the commitment/target/estimation problem: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/estimation-01.pdf
Thank you for the reply! I was under the impression that your home was occasionally mobile as well so that's why the fixed land line solution wasn't immediately obvious.
I actually don't think that's true.

Sure, our curriculum doesn't cover each of these mechanics. But they do cover the basic properties of levers, pendulums, pulleys, gears, cams, chains/belts, levers, etc. Every single one of these mechanisms is a recombination of those ideas. I would argue that for fields that don't actually require designing or building mechanical objects, an understanding of what the primitives are is enough.

The analogous features in computer science would be things like functions, values, loops, etc, that it's certainly possible to understand without being a good programmer. You can know (at a high level) what sausage is made of, without actually being a sausage-maker.
Because the assumption that women at technical events are not technical is one of the things preventing women from joining the field. It's also extremely condescending, and being condescending is rude and unpleasant. So please don't do that.
The insight for size of groups can be shown by constructing the weighing that maximizes entropy.

With lg(9) bits of information needed to identify the odd coin, and a scale with only three possible outcomes (< > =), we can show the best sequence of weighings must reveal lg(3) + lg(3) bits of information by yielding a uniform distribution on the outcomes.
I switched from powerline, to airline, and then to lightline. I got tired of installing patched fonts (source code pro is available in many package repos). Powerline also seems a little too all-encompassing.

One thing I would love (I know, it's frivolous) is full color emoji in my Linux terminal, though that doesn't seem like it's coming any time soon.
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Don't question the mods, they'll down vote you.
If they really need a playbook... an allegation I don't doubt for an instant... that's really kind of pathetic don't you think? :P
"They appear to be using techniques honed in Afghanistan, where the occupying Soviet Army fought insurgents who were eventually supplied with antiaircraft missiles by the United States. Some of those insurgents later began Al Qaeda."
They make roughly 500k-3 million if they bill that rate. Potentially more if they have huge clients but that's rarer.

Firm partners are heavily compensated based on how much work they bring in, at most firms. But it varies.
Surprised there was no mention of eduroam: https://www.eduroam.us
>/usr/bin/sed: Argument list too long

Maybe all of the filenames are passed as a single argument to sed?
"Doesn't sound like a joke, note even close."

It sounds very much like a very specific joke.

Blues Brothers has a scene where Belushi is being obnoxious and asks the father in family of diners at a neighboring table "How much for the little girl? How much for the women?"

Of course, the joke there is precisely that it's so outrageous and unacceptable.
No, in Palo Alto. I guess this founder is based here.
England?
I'm sure this will get spun as big, bad, out-of-touch government.

Was Fixed evaluating the inquiries before forwarding them on? If so, I'd expect a higher win rate. If not, I'd expect a much lower win rate as customers just mail in every ticket.

It's something you would definitely need to be very sensitive to how much useless work your triggering at City Hall.
Sorry, should've been clear. It's one of the MANY ways to make it less acceptable to be shits towards others based on gender.

Also, It's "our" responsibility to fix it? Can we let "them" help out with fixing this, too? :)
Yeah, that's 100% of the problem.

Intel refuses to deploy Thunderbolt everywhere, even though I have two Z87/Z97 motherboards with Intel GPU-powered DisplayPort ports and Intel could have trivially baked this into their chipset.

The only computer I have Thunderbolt on? My MBPr. The only computer I don't need a shitton of cheap bandwidth on? My MBPr.
Because gender parity is far better in the finance industry than it is in technology, which is unique not merely among all careers but among science and math careers specifically for having a terrible gender imbalance.

Sexual harassment happens everywhere, but we care about about it in this field in particular because we are still trying to figure out and repair the imbalance. And, in addition, because sexual harassment of women in a male-dominated field is particularly toxic, due to the power imbalance.
Hell no. Just get any wireless router from the past 3-4 years and you've got USB and fast networking on a cheap box, and you can install a print server or usbip server depending on your preferences. That $150 box is probably even using the same 800MHz MIPS SoC as the $50 routers.

(And what are you getting at with implying that using a RasPi instead of a turnkey solution would cause Windows-related trouble or require doing the heavy processing somewhere else than your current setup?)
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> And people get called jerks in those discussions, too.

Do you think it helps if you believe in a cause to start off by calling people jerks. I feel sorry for you if you do.
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>Readers: look at this train wreck of a thread and notice how effective the tactic was. Notice how little the subthread has to do not only with the original story --- it's disconnection to the story is bad enough --- but to the actual comment it responds to, which doesn't even mention violence.

Are you kidding me? First of all ""I'm glad I wasn't there to witness <loved one> being harassed" implies violence clearly ("or who knows what I've done" etc). I

Second, this very subtread began with the suggestion of punching the "the guy in the face", followed by the question whether "jokes justify violence".

Then there's the appalling call to the "Readers" -- as if to say: hey, fellow HNs, come see these wild specimens of unpopular opinion. Let's bully them/downvote them all together. That, along with name-calling ("trolls", "MRA", etc).

Because of course, somebody can't call against violence to a person who did such a thing unless he's an MRA, right? I mean, it's logically impossible that someone can be against such kind of violent responses in general, even if the offender had insulted another male or a gay, or even if the offender was a woman, right?

>Like I said: I'm sincerely suspect this is in an actual playbook of MRA trolling techniques.

And like I often say: people who see trolling in candid opinions they don't like are either using the accusation dishonestly to shut people up, or live in an echo chamber.
Pathetic is not the word I would use.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: as the parent of two very nerdy teenagers, one girl and one boy, I have a lot of worries here. But I'm far less worried that the girl is going to experience bullshit like the woman in this story, and way, way, way, way, way, way, way more worried that somehow I'm going to lose track of the boy when he goes off to college and he's going to somehow turn into one of these MRA trolls. That's the terrifying thought.

(He's awesome, though, so the fear is mostly irrational.)
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yeah especially since it sets a session cookie that leaches off anything you buy there and not just the linked product. not sure how long the cookie lasts though.
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"Measure directly"? As in: go after every family and try to figure out their consumption basket? Producing census data is extremely expensive when compared with estimating consumption. Also, it's also a pain in the ass to participate in consumption studies since participants have to literally list every single thing they're buying for a given period. It wouldn't fly at all with the citizenry.
In some domains, even restricted funds are fungible. Check out John Oliver's video on state lotteries: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
I really wish more articles on software engineering practices would at least acknowledge that this is the reality for a huge number of developers in the real world. I just can't take them seriously without it.

If your new-fangled-to-you development ideology starts by assuming a fundamental level of congenial cooperation between different departments of your organization, then you've designed your system for a fairy-tale world. I don't suspect most people are able to change organizations easily. I suspect most people are stuck dealing with the hand they've been dealt. The lies they were told during their interview. The other employees that lied during their interviews. It's a really messy world out there.
Why do you think it's "mechanics" going to auto shows?
Everyone with a brain the size a walnut already knows this:
http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1581
I see a lot of poo being flung towards politicians but I have to wonder why they behave the way they do. The economics of human behavior are they we all, generally, gravitate towards doing things that reward us.
But do babies say that from the very first, when they're playing with sounds as the article says? I'm guessing not, they learn it after awhile.
"Clearly implies". See how easy it is to keep this thread going? Once again: note that the story we're commenting on has nothing to do with violence, nor does the comment that sparked off this subthread about violence.

Stop to think for a second, readers, how carefully you'd have to write a comment to inoculate it from this kind of trolling. That too is part of the point.
I say Mum in the US. I don't think there's a hard or fast rule.
There's very little in this article about the life of an inspector. It's all about the restaurants.

(this is an 'editorialized' title)
That's what the paralegals are billed at. The firm keeps most of that as profit.
Ask HN: Is it okay to change jobs within a year of starting?
I'm a software developer and I've been working in the industry for about three years now. Initially, I started at a big corporation and moved out of it into my current employer (a mid sized company, about seven months ago. I had pretty high expectations from the company/founders and the quality of work at my current company. Unfortunately, so far I've found it nowhere close to my expectations (in terms of pay or work).

Now, that I've decided to move on, I'm interviewing with other companies, and although I don't have an offer yet, I'm quite close to getting one (or more than one).

Given that I started at my current job less than an year go, does changing jobs within a year reflect badly upon me ?
Of course those are two different things.
I'd agree, it's not all evil. As a "politician" I can identify with his commentary though. One thing he got wrong though about technical qualifications not mattering... while true you don't really get to apply the technical skills but they are a must for the credibility you need to deliver the "unsustainable" pace.
I wonder if this is due to allegiance effects [1] inflating the effect of CBT in the earlier studies. I would expect that the older a CBT study is, the more influence the originators and promoters of CBT had on it.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26033943
Kikunoi is excellent, but it can be challenging for westerners to appreciate, especially some seafood dishes. I've adjusted a lot, but I still don't eat shirako[1] for example, which they often serve (male fish sperm).

Once you're accustomed to the food in Japan, the ingredients taste ... low grade even at most of the "nicer" restaurants in San Francisco (especially the meats or fish). Japanese say this secretly to each other, only Japanese can taste it, but actually anyone who lives in Tokyo long enough can taste it. song is very correct.

The quickest way to appreciate the food in Japan, try the $10 pasta at any place highly rated on Tabelog, and you will see that the quality difference is just as song describes. The difference extends far beyond the chefs, it's the farms, fisheries, logistics and overall high standards all working together.

[1] http://www.thekitchn.com/the-strangest-food-i-ever-ate-2-919...
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So whose idea was that Sophos albatross I had to reinstall every time I set foot on campus for a visit?
That's the difference between regulations made to protect companies and regulations made to protect citizens.

Plugs in Japan are like the american ones and they look really scary to me. Specially because here most of the houses are made of wood.
If you're there for work it's business. (and what's so inappropriate about a leather coat and black shoes?)
No, it's a comma. In Spanish, two point three is "dos coma tres".
I heard this exact same thing on Bill Burr podcast.
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>Was Fixed evaluating the inquiries before forwarding them on?

Yes, they were.

>Using its app, Fixed customers could snap a photo of their parking ticket using their phone’s camera, and then Fixed would check against a variety of common errors before writing a customized letter to the city on the user’s behalf. The app also cleverly tapped into Google Street View to check to see if the city had the proper signage in place in the area a ticket was received.

>Founder David Hegarty once noted that over half of tickets have an issue that would make them invalid, but the city didn’t tend to play by its own rules when arbitrating disputes. That made Fixed’s “win” rate only 20%-30% on tickets, as of earlier this year.

>It's something you would definitely need to be very sensitive to how much useless work your triggering at City Hall.

The city could simply not issue invalid tickets, the issue would then resolve itself.
> Given that I started at my current job less than an year go, does changing jobs within a year reflect badly upon me?

Apparently not, if you're close to getting offers.

Everyone gets a rare do-over. Just don't make it a pattern.

EDIT: added parent quote.
This is awesome. I'd love to machine learn this data set.
The answer is in panel 6 here: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12112007
Well yes. It implies that she's somehow obligated to perform such favors, since she's handing out t-shirts presumably as part of some sort of job.

Imagine if your bank was handing out free t-shirts and you went in and said, "I don't want a t-shirt, just all the money in your drawer." They'd probably call the police!
Interesting that the questions and the "right" answers select for a particular political perspective, notably the question about banking. It's particularly pertinent but also very politically charged and any answer will be controversial. I like the idea of having open-ended thoughtful questions like this in an admissions process instead of uninformative bland standardized tests which say nothing but they come with their own pitfalls -- it's very hard to avoid discriminating based on political affiliation, culture, etc. Knowing the political attitude of the reader of your answer would give you a huge edge in the admissions process and I think that's not ideal.
I was considering this actually, but opted for eventually learning evil-mode at some point instead. Vim has superior approach to keybindings, but Emacs has the power of Lisp. Evil-mode feels like best of both worlds to me.
If this link-bait? Did I miss something? I cant find any questions/answers in this article. Even the link to " sample selection released annually" only shows one question.

If not perhaps this should be flagged and the header updated to say "Oxford University expect to release admissions interview questions and answers"
"The essential is invisible to the computer" ~ "The essential is invisible to the eyes"
That's not what the article said though. The women in the studies mentioned were turned off STEM by classroom decor, and by both men and women wearing nerdy t-shirts who mentioned the like to play video games.

Sounds like they are judging us!

We need to be clear about what's happening here. Otherwise we'll spend millions of dollars trying to 'fix' things and it turns out what should have happened, is that we need to stop watching Star Wars and stop wearing XKCD t-shirts.
Rudeness is one of those things that's very unique to the individual claimant and I think for art and expression in general, we tend to give the artist (in this case the photographer) lots of leeway. I'm sure lots of religious people would think my thoughts on religion are quite rude, but that does not and should not deter my art or anyone else's art depicting religion unfavorably.

Basically, I don't want photography thrown under the bus on this one.
This is exactly what several electric "bicycles" do now. They have a road mode which conforms to the federal 750W/20MPH limit, and an offroad mode that allows something like several kilowatts and perhaps 40MPH.
Can you elaborate on what do you think would be the great step forward, and what is the pros to counter all the cons?
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This isn't the "start" of the cause - this cause and problem has been going on for literally years now. Perhaps you are only just becoming aware of this because of this HN thread, but a lot of people have been fighting this for a long time.

It seems like you think people don't have a right to be angry about this problem. I think that shows how much you really care about how it hurts people.
There's benefits to immutable/stable services.
Or they could be Volkswagened and say that it puts out 1000w when it really does 2000 :)
Brain activity is as unique and identifying as a fingerprint
I get where you're coming from. Police departments enforcing the rules not to better the community they serve but to bring in money to pay their salaries. It pisses me off too. The thing is, free parking fucks up cities[0][1]. It makes driving seem like a better idea than it is. It encourages sprawl. We need ways for people to pay for the space their cars occupy, and that means we need ways to punish people who take that space and don't pay. And, yeah, that means we need parking tickets.

[0] http://www.uctc.net/papers/351.pdf

[1] http://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Parking-Updated-Edition/dp/1...
Then we should be happy that some people are willing to humble themselves to this "low" art form.
Meanwhile in England, a law from 1835 has recently been used to declare them illegal :(

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/12/uk-hoverboard...
>Once again: note that the story we're commenting on has nothing to do with violence, nor does the comment that sparked off this subthread about violence.

Sure. Probably I imagined the "Maybe the guy just wanted to be punched in the face?" quote, and the response to that discussing violence, all present before I added my comment on the subject lower in the thread.

Readers, see how you can use your high status on HN, and the fact that people won't particularly check the whole thread, to marginalize and accuse people you don't like of trolling. All the while speaking from a pedestal, with call-outs to "readers" and such shenanigans.

And if they dare respond to set things straight (at least from their perspective), that's more proof that they are indeed trolls.

I stop here, can't win this game, and am 40-something, so I'm not interested in games in the first place.
It's certainly a possible solution to the last mile problem, and one I've considered using myself, but the issue is what do you do with your transport once you arrive at your destination?

If your destination is a home or office, you can just take it inside, but what about a bar or restaurant? Leaving a bicycle outside is an invitation for theft and it's certainly too large to bring inside. Even a longboard isn't exactly simple to tuck under the bar or lean on your table.
I haven't heard about blind allocation before. Is there a good article I can read to learn more about it? This seems to explain some of it: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/2kzo5v/i...
That's not an affiliate link, it's just a plain Amazon link. It doesn't include an affiliate code. (But thank you for raising the point in case anyone else was wondering about it.)

The B00SIOZY6A part is an ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number). I've always felt free to post plain Amazon links here, such as the canonical Amazon URL for this product:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SIOZY6A

Or the shortened URL that OP posted (but forgot to put in the http part so it wasn't clickable):

http://www.amzn.com/B00SIOZY6A

Now if you click on that amzn.com link, you will see ref=cm_sw_su_dp in the URL, but that's not an affiliate code either, it's an Amazon ref code.

Here's a Reddit discussion about Amazon URLs, affiliate tracking codes, and ref codes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/qim88/referral_code...

Of course, if OP is the seller of that item, it would be a different story entirely!
Nobody is throwing photography under the bus. Please stop using a thread about sexual harassment as a coatrack to hang your concerns about photography on.
Some people can't afford a TI-83 for their children if it's a requirement in math class. To assume that everyone taking public transit wants / needs / is able to afford even a $300 device to get them the last mile seems a bit out of touch with the typical mass-transit-dependent demographic.