skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice to see some old-time Twilians in here. Stashboard is great, although I appreciate the hostedness of statusboard.io. When things are breaking, the last thing you want to be debugging is your status board.
I do this and it works fine though there are some limits to be aware of (see "Quotas for other services" https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html).
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You are right, but this is Hacker News, where technical intelligence is high and cultural intelligence scarily scarce.
> Criticism of "Agile"-as-practices are generally misplaced, because there is no coherent unity in the practices people implement and apply that label too

72% of Agile practitioners use some form of Scrum. 80% do standups, 71% do "planning", 69% do retrospectives. That's a pretty coherent majority that engage in practices labeled Agile.[1]

Around 70% of Agile practitioners do these - does it have to be 100% before these practices are Agile? There ABSOLUTELY is a coherent set of implemented practices that are Agile

> Criticizing the various practices that people call "Agile" is better done by focussing on the actual practices that are being criticized than on "Agile".

I did: "Infantile retrospectives, constant stand up status meetings, status meetings dressed up as "grooming" and "planning" where the only real (non)decision that's being made is how many "story points" should be assigned. You can barely go to the bathroom without filing a Jira".

You're proving my point that it's impossible to criticize Agile... But I will admit that (paraphrasing) 'All your criticisms are invalid because Agile is abstract!' is a twist! That's much more interesting than just screaming "WATERFALL!!"

If you had questions or criticisms of my criticisms, ask for clarification or make counter arguments - I want a good debate! It's intellectually light-weight to call someone emotional, while one is obfuscating and acting obtuse.

[1]https://www.versionone.com/pdf/state-of-agile-development-su...
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In my experience, Windows developers (if they don't come from the *nix world) after often very uncomfortable with the command line (or anything non-Windows), and I doubt many authors know anything about emacs...
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I saw three different photos from three different sources of the same scene from the Palestine-Israel conflict. They told wildly different stories.
Returns are WAY better at a big box store. Here's the Amazon return process.

1. Go to site, fill out a form to get a shipping label.

2. Print said form. That's pretty much all I use my printer for in 2015. I even upgraded to a wireless one so I don't have to plug my damn laptop into it every time I want to return something.

3. I probably threw away the Amazon box. Gotta dig up a suitable one from the pile of spares I have in the attic just for returning stuff to Amazon.

4. Print packing slip, insert in box.

5. Gotta bust out the old packing tape. You know that stuff always comes out of the little guides on the side no matter how careful you were, so you have to unstick it. Do so while seething in rage that nobody has yet invented packing tape that doesn't stick to itself. Maybe a ratcheting roll that can't reverse?

6. Shellack that damn label to the box with tape. I don't have shipping labels for my printer because what am I, FedEx? So I cover it in like 8 strips of tape.

7. Go to whichever shipping service Amazon sent it from because unless you ordered a tiny USB cord, it's too big to fit into their drop box. It could be USPS, FedEx, or UPS, all of which are located next to the Best Buy where I could have just dropped the damned thing off in way less time and without having to fight a roll of packing tape.
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Google doesn't have a strong policy against things like this. It mostly boils down to using your best judgement. "Would you like to read this on the front page of the New York Times?" is the usual question to ask yourself. I also like to ask myself, "is this factually correct, and am I providing proof?"

On HN, I tend to limit my responses because I usually end up being attacked for something I have nothing to do with, by virtue of some grudge the commenter has with Google. If you want to call me out for my own work, go ahead, I value feedback greatly in areas that I can control. If you have useful commentary, I'll try my hardest to make sure that people with understanding in that area see your comments. But if you just want to yell at me by virtue of who pays my salary, I find that all very unenjoyable and would prefer to not be involved.

I also notice that lurkers with blogs tend to like to take quotes from HN and convey them as the official word of Google out of context, which I also don't like being involved in. Learned that lesson my first week at Google :)

Finally, one also ends up attracting the crazies that email me threats against other Google employees. All those get forwarded directly to Security Operations and don't get a reply from me.

HN is a pretty big community these days and isn't quite the bastion of sanity that it once was. This limits how open many people will be with the community more than any policy.
> Recursion and non-strict evaluation, however, are clearly problematic viz. stack consumption, system load, and execution time; ditto for purely functional data structures and associated functions.

What you'd want is not a Turing complete language by default, but one that's guaranteed to halt. (And only have Turing complete bits as a fallback, just like unsafePerformIO today.)

Primitive Recursion might be a good limited but useful model of computation. Or something along the lines of Agda.

With such a more restricted notion, recursion doesn't necessarily have to be compiled to a stack.
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson
> Having a criminal record might not even get me a job.

Having a criminal record almost certainly won't get you a job.

That being said, different criminal records may differ significantly in how much they hurt the ability of your education and experience to get you a job.

> Gross misdemeanor and a felony both look bad on background checks at least trial I have a chance to beat it all.

Well, I'm not sure of the specific state or specific law the charges are under, and IANAL, but it sounds from your description like it is quite likely that there is fairly damning evidence for the prosecution and not a lot you have to offer against it. So, while in theory its possible for you to get a not-guilty verdict at trial -- juries can do pretty much anything -- it doesn't seem like its a great gamble. And while neither offense is going to look good on a criminal background check, presumably the felony all comes with greater potential incarceration time (and quite possibly imprisonment under worse conditions) and other disadvantages; that shouldn't be disregarded.

But, really, the legal advice you are getting from your public defender is probably vastly better than any you'll get here.
My logs have quite a few people talking about using python, but most of them are in 2013. Shifting demographics, perhaps?
Exactly this. Jet.com is literally building a business model for the mid-to-late 90s, as if there is no one in the space.

They are throwing tons of cash at poaching Amazon's (et. al.) customers and largely competing on price. It's completely nuts.
Interesting. How does this scale? Any idea on how the clients world perform with say, 10000 users logged in?
That's usually only the case with large appliances or TVs or the like.
How does this eliminate a company's ability to retrain workers?

I'm not seeing the link between defined benefit company-sponsored retirement plans and retraining.
I'd be pretty surprised if you couldn't return it.
IANAL, but a few things I would consider:

1. You have admitted you were present for the crime and that you yelled you had a deadly weapon. Even if you have denied making this statement up until this point, there is a good chance if this case goes to trial, the prosecutor will dig up the admission some way or some how, increasing your chances of conviction.

2. What do you gain by going to trial? You have admitted guilt so there is little chance the jury will say forget about it, let this guy go. Worse case they will sentence you to the fullest for the crime, but most likely you will get minimum based on the crime, which in your case sounds like a felony.

3. Personally I would take the plea deal. You are going from a felony to a misdemeanor. In many states it is a whole lot easier to expunge or seal a misdemeanor than a felony down the road. A misdemeanor also, in most cases, will allow you to keep all your rights.

4. If you can afford an attorney, hire an attorney. Most public defenders (PD) are overworked and underpaid, and unless your case has some reason to stand out the unfortunate fact is that it will be one in a pile on someone's desk. Not to underestimate a PD, but there may be other options that an attorney with more time to review the case could find. If you have no adult criminal record you may also be able to plead guilty but have adjudication withheld. Essentially this means you admit guilt, the judge will sentence you of the crime, but if you complete your sentence it will not be viewed as having a criminal conviction and you will not lose your rights.

5. If you are honestly concerned about your criminal record, do you know how to get a hold of the girl? You may try to work a deal where your charges are dropped, or reduced further, if you are able to get the girl to turn herself in or point the police to where she currently is. People may call you a rat or snitch, whatever. This isn't about what someone thinks of you. You are facing real penalties and the possibility of doing jail time. In the end it is your future and you have only yourself to look out for.

Again, not a lawyer, but I have walked in your shoes to some extent.
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Wouldn't that increase the commits/dev metric, if there are fewer (highly active) devs, but a reasonably similar amount of commits? Having it drop would actually mean that the Google folks had a higher-than-average number of commits of their own code (as opposed to committing for other people). Unless, of course, they were committing for folks that also worked on Mozilla without their own commit access, and that second group went away.
A comet is an Urbit with a self-signed certificate. You're a part of the same network that everyone else is on. Comets are one of 2^128 possible addresses, so they're anonymous and disposable. For the time being it's possible to use a comet to come and talk with everyone. We're also glad to answer questions over email.
> The real way to solve it is at the bottom of the funnel, at the elementary, middle and high school levels.

The way I see it, the biggest beneficiaries of "affirmative action" aren't the people getting jobs because of diversity policies. It's younger, impressionable kids who get to benefit from role models in their likeness.

"Forced diversity" may be the best hack possible to foster persistent diversity down the line, and fix vicious cycles.
For the lazy

>The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
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Of all the egg tutorials, none of them address the amount of water they used in boiling the egg. It is hardly convincing that the amount of boiling water won't affect the final product. The temperature of water might change once the egg is dropped in depending how large the pool is. Would love to see a comparison of using different pool size
> and I doubt many authors know anything about emacs...

You'd be surprised. There's a list of writers who use Emacs floating somewhere around the interwebz, Vernor Vinge being a notable example. I can't find it right now, but few of those authors are mentioned here: http://irreal.org/blog/?p=4651.
Testing a method that has a try-catch inside it using XCTest stops executing
SO question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33537165/testing-a-method-that-has-a-try-catch-inside-it-using-xctest
That's my understanding of double-entry.
Thanks that was helpful, I don't have any Adult criminal convictions yet but I'm pending for a DUI case that I got a few months ago. But this felony case was back in march. so there both pending at the same time.

plus if the girl turns herself in how would that help me? I'm being charged with assault not her.
You need to keep in mind that US highways, as opposed to interstate highways, tend to be roads of secondary importance these days. In the Los Angeles area, for example, a lot of the formerly federal highways became state highways after they were built up to freeway standards, due to various complicated political reasons. Additionally, there are plenty of stretches of US33 which are full divided highways, looking a lot like https://goo.gl/maps/6vc73fZ9nTz. In comparison, Swedish route 34 looks like https://goo.gl/maps/Ur45ukH7Yop outside of town. So both roads are pretty much the same, all things considered, gaining and losing features as the local traffic conditions call for them.
OK. Just that, I find it a bit odd that money goes into the "budget" when you spend, not when you allocate it, and vice versa :)
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How is a $300/hr consultant a different job? I'd love to learn more about what people do to get those kinds of rates / contracts. Do you know of any links / good blogs?
I'll add that in my experience, Rackspace support has been exceptional.
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I am finding that Arachni is an amazing learning tool! One of its best features is how well the vulnerabilities are documented! Just an example:

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Cookie set for parent domain in Cookie,

at http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml – found by http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml (Default profile).

Informational severity.

HTTP by itself is a stateless protocol. Therefore the server is unable to determine which requests are performed by which client, and which clients are authenticated or unauthenticated.

The use of HTTP cookies within the headers, allows a web server to identify each individual client and can therefore determine which clients hold valid authentication, from those that do not. These are known as session cookies.

When a cookie is set by the server (sent the header of an HTTP response) there are several flags that can be set to configure the properties of the cookie and how it is to be handled by the browser.

One of these flags represents the host, or domain. for which the cookie can be used.

When the cookie is set for the parent domain, rather than the host, this could indicate that the same cookie could be used to access other hosts within that domain. While there are many legitimate reasons for this, it could also be misconfiguration expanding the possible surface of attacks.

[link to CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures website)]

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because ninja launched years before blaze, and the team didn't want to switch again?
I've heard similar issues with startups I work with in SE Asia and East Africa. In a similar vein to the Alipay integration you mention, I was also recently meeting with a handful of startups in Nairobi, and we were discussing how an integration with M-Pesa would be awesome, in particular as Safaricom recently opened up their API.
Thanks @animeshjain . Our idea is to create an effective and simple product for recommendations.
Thanks @sourabh86. The Android app is coming soon.
Why would you take those terms (unless you had no choice, but you probably do if you have 3 months living expenses)? Seems like a crazy risk where you could end up working for 2 months and not getting paid. What about installments?
We’d much rather use an inferior tool whose manual we don’t have to read
> Amazon was a pretty successful bookstore, and then they acquired CDNow and became a pretty successful music shop as well. They weren't selling things for crazy low prices

Yes, they were. They built their customer base from day one on extremely deep discounts; that was always their big selling point.
The seed server I'm running probably can't handle all of them doing bootstrapping at the same time, but once they're bootstrapped and have their own lookup tables stored locally, theoretically it should scale much better than a traditional centralized app since individual messages and status updates won't need to be coordinated through any single server.

Of course, the Telehash version I'm using is very old and unsupported, so there's no guarantee that its integrated DHT can handle any significant scale.
an important distinction, too. I really do think that decriminalization is a logical path to legalization, but it offers many less benefits to society by direct comparison.

all the criminal infrastructure and the ills that go with it don't go away after decriminalization alone, but it does at least offer some protection to the end user.

ideally, it needs to eventually be properly legalized and regulated so it can be produced, transported and sold legally while (also ideally) being taxed along the way.
Why Canada is one of the most sued countries in the world
Good point. I don't think it's too much trouble to translate MATLAB to the equivalent numpy/scipy/ python library calls.
The first I heard about jet.com was through this hanselminutes podcast - http://hanselminutes.com/494/jetcom-scales-with-azure-f-and-....

Their tech stack looks interesting and despite the anecdotes from this thread and the fact that I haven't ordered anything from them yet (I am outside the U.S), I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The Amazon monopoly needs some competition and better it come from a company that's innovating with a better tech stack. I am confused about why they decided to get off a membership model, though...
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Battery storage is simply not meant to cover that kind of gap. It's intended more to cover the overnight period, when you have no sun, or maybe for a few days with bad weather.

You need to spec your system so at the very least it generates enough power on the worst days of the year to cover your needs, and surplus power on good days. You also should have a second means of power generation, wind works nicely as it's uncommon to have a day that isn't either windy or sunny.
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That's a charitable idea but the real reason is bait-and-switch, a "creative" solution to being unable to recruit.
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I just left New York after 12 years. One day, while I still lived there, I decided to see if there was anywhere I could be in Manhattan without seeing another human being in my field of vision. It took me several weeks of exploring possibilities, none of which were successful. Even Central Park didn't work, there was always someone wandering by, no matter how remote the spot.

I finally found the only spot where I could be for 30 minutes at a time, in total isolation. The New York Marble Cemetery on 2nd Avenue, in the East Village. It's a small patch of land, hidden down a narrow alleyway, behind a gate, open to the public just one day a month. It looks like nothing but a lawn surrounded by stone walls, because there are no headstones. It became my favorite day of the month, that one Sunday when I could go sit on a lawn in silence and solitude.
Ledger has a 'strict' mode, where you basically pre-define the accounts you plan on using. That will at least stop you from typoing account names (perhaps like a pre-populated drop-down list in a UI?). Manual entry errors (too many/not enough zeros) are probably just as easy to make on the CLI/in a GUI though.
I've been doing contract work for a company that uses Python and Stripe, so I found that surprising too.
Url changed from http://mashable.com/2015/11/03/google-search-study/?utm_cid=..., which points to this.
Just because monoprice sells them for $10 one at a time, I don't think that tells you much about the cost to put more than one in phone package you're already handling when you buy millions at a time.
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The one thing you don't do when you're off the grid is run an airconditioning system.

The way to cover a gap longer than a few days is with a genset.
Except for a given review, you can't tell which seller sold that item. Anyone can list on a given item.
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Intel Storage Performance Development Kit
I agree with the parent. This article adds that in, what for? Does it bring anything interesting to the discussion? Is it even explained?

What a useless article.