skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that's precisely why number of tickets is just part of the story

Hopefully one you are wise enough to keep to yourself :). I've seen so many problems even with the use of relatively sane metrics.

> what would you suggest to use to all those folks who are building new team?

Management, not metrics. At best you can use metrics as a rule of thumb to give you early indicators of possible issues.

For a new team though you need to work together with them for a while to learn about their performance and capabilities. There is no other way. Perhaps one guy in your team is thoughtful and methodical and takes a week per issue but can solve complex issues, and another girl in your team can fly through half a dozen simpler issues in a week. That's actually the kind of diversity you want to encourage and it's something you can easily destroy if you consider #tickets closed an important metric.

You should never mention metrics as a measure of performance with either your subordinates or your superiors. Your subordinates will work to the metrics rather than do what needs doing. And your superiors will start relying on the metrics instead of on your judgment.

For example if you collect and use the #tickets solved per month as a metric then if you need to downsize your manager will say lets get rid of the people solving less than x tickets per month. Oh wait that includes some of your best people! Now you have an uphill battle, especially if you have used the #tickets closed as a reason to promote someone in your team.

Edit: Basically the potential gains are minimal and the potential issues are numerous.
A Digression on the State of WordPress
Arduino is popular because it was the first one that got big and built up a community. It's the same reason the RPi is so popular despite not being especially compelling from a pure spec standpoint.

You can get more performance for less money with other boards, but you'll have to figure out a lot more stuff on your own.
Urban sprawl cities designed with cars in mind (eg. Dallas, Atlanta, etc.) will not be easy to convert over to public transportation.
Secure Password Hash Algorithm Migrations
People really underestimate the potency of a cell phone battery. It always makes me laugh how the airline security check will confiscate bottles with baby milk and water but lets through a couple of hundred high energy batteries without a problem (laptops, cellphones, tablets). Now what could a creative terrorist do with a few phone batteries and some wire. Might even be enough to burn through the cockpit door of an airliner.
My answer is factual. There was stimulus spending on transportation projects. Those projects have been coming online in recent years.

It's only under premises such as that more driving is a good thing or that the stimulus actually worked that my statement would be partisan. I did not imply such.
Avira is also one of the best performing scanners.
Amazing news to see this! I made a Homemade Sports Ticker using a Model B almost 1.5 years ago and its still going strong.

Here's a couple of links:

* Blog post: https://medium.com/@mikemetral/a-homemade-sports-ticker-875c...

* Code to write to LED Sign: https://github.com/metral/led_sign

* Code to pull the scores: https://github.com/metral/scores

* The LED sign itself: http://brightledsigns.com/programmable/indoor/bs-4x16-mini

Fair Warning: I haven't touched the code in over a year so it's not maintained. If I were to do things today, I'd probably switch to Go to make the score requests a bit more streamlined than the single synchronous process I have now, and I would throw it into a container as the #1 request I get is people struggling to install both the code base and the dependencies.

Happy Hacking!
I agree that this lesson helps to drive a more applicable idea into the mind.
As for the comment regarding university math courses I have experienced the same. Could the abandonment of teaching real understanding come from the fact that university students are increasingly being treated as customers rather than pupils?
This will have just as much of an impact against piracy as the classic piracy warning from the IT Crowd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

It's great to see it hitting nearly 400k views. I hope they hold up their end of the bargain.
Yes, we are much more likely to be killed by something else. But the presence of terrorism is not replacing those other ways to die, but being added on top of them. And it also adds, as the name implies... terror. And trauma for survivors, anger for the victims families, decreases trust amongst different peoples, and strengthens conflicts in our world.

So these statistics are true... yet I'm still pretty sure terrorism is a problem worth our time and efforts to fight, even if it will not personally kill me.
I always dismount cheap power supplies, to see their quality for myself. I check for creepage, clearance distances, noise filtering circuits, transformer quality, grounding quality if appropriate, build quality, circuit sophistication, appropriate wire gauge, protection fuses, etc.

Some of those I checked had none of the above.

I enjoy understanding electronic circuits.

But it is also important, I believe. Just reading the list of unsafe banned products from EU markets, a lot of the time it is these cheap power adapters. And I can absolutely understand why.
Nginx consistent hash Go version
No pun so apropos ought go unmade: ClujureConf, Eastern Europe's most eponymous Clojure conference.
OK, so can you back this up? The economy has actually recovered. So where did they fuck up?
Chewing is part of the digestive system ( Saliva contains digestive enzymes ), so you're missing out on that.
If you manage to get close enough. Rifles have range, this gun does not. It will definitely kill you at close range but you're going to have to get there and you should hope your opponents are very few in number.
Did I overlook the author's statistical code?
That's not a blockchain, paxos has been around since the 90s and don't offer objectively true information (only subjectively true) . they haven't been used by banks prior because they're insecure and not nearly as efficient as centralized message passing protocols.
There were honest to god LISP machines built back in the day. They never really caught on however. They were mostly oriented at the educational market, and didn't ship with such niceties like an OS or even a bootloader sometimes.
Organic YouTube Views Is the Key?
> “ban tuna fishing”, which is a more politically correct way of saying “make it impossible for the world’s poor to have healthy balanced diets”.

This is not true necessarily. More tuna mean less median fishes, and less median fishes eating mean more anchovies and small fishes alive, thus pound for pound, more food for humans. After the overfishing of tuna in europe anchovies collapsed almost at the same time.
Wouldn't that be option 1.5? ;)

Yes, in principle. If they are not obfuscating and/or encrypting their data, which is a big if. And you'd be bound to keeping that packet sniffer online forever, piping matching data to where you need it.
See my note to the other commenter. Hyperledger does not sell blockchains, they sell decades old replicated databases
>And it also adds, as the name implies... terror. And trauma for survivors, anger for the victims families, decreases trust amongst different peoples, and strengthens conflicts in our world.

Many of those are purely a product of the way we react to terrorism. We can choose our reaction.
Not so much about the Evernote software, more talking about the "personally archived content". It seems like some sort of nano-scribed physical medium, next-gen, non-magnetic storage medium.
I haven’t had experience with custom elements, but I think they can be polyfilled quite well. In that case, Safari 10 shipping this would not be a major concern.
You're too late -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBiome
I don't know about that, but you could probably make some sort of thermite-phone, with a flammable body ignited by the energy in the battery. If done carefully, you could possibly have the thing behave like a fully functional phone until ignited. Doubt it'd bring down an airliner but it'd cause no end of panic and chaos onboard.
Mildly off-topic, but does anyone else find it odd when people wonder what the function of a naturally evolved object is? I mean, you could ask that of a module in some code or a part in a car, but the moving bits in organisms came about through an unguided process, so don't they just do things (some of them well)?
That's really not true. We take away a greater part of human lifespan doing security theatre at the airport than we save. We spent TRILLIONS on wars. Had we not done so the 2008 derivatives crisis would have been smaller and more readily dealt with. instead we came within a hair's breadth of economic collapse. There are real costs in taking away from living, and taking away from our collective wealth, that are vastly greater than the direct costs of terrorism.
A retail manager at a mall today can afford a 2012 Camry for $12,000 to $13,000 at 40-50k miles (or a few other competing vehicles). They're handing out record low rates on car loans, to pretty much anybody with an income.

~$268 per month, four year car payment

$40,000 salary / $2,400 per month disposable income

http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Retail_Manager/Salar...
The right answer is that dolphins are important because they are superpredators at the top of the trophic chain, and its effect over the other species is very relevant. Both dolphins and sharks are of similar importance.
> Where does he say that? He says, "security still isn’t a first class concern for most programmers", and puts it in the "No" column.

He put it in the "Maybe" column for 2015. Try searching for "Security"

So Capsicum patches landed in the Linux kernel mainline, Kenton Varda is shipping Cap'n Proto and Sandstorm.io, and capabilities get a "no" but security gets a "maybe"? K.

> I have no knowledge on this subject at all: I have no idea what capabilities are, I have never heard of Capsicum (or SELinux for that matter) and have never even worked on security related issue.

Well that explains a lot...
Given the huge drop in fuel prices, working people will still experience it as a net gain.

If our legislators were smarter, they would have put a racheting carbon tax in when prices were high, set to be triggered by declines. Alas.
That looks like a legit one. Did you mean this one?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxO6CZptck
Jails, Docker, LXC, i.e. the "container" concepts are not new things. They've been around since the 1970s at least. It's just the latest bright shiny new thing for people who never bothered to learn about the history of their profession.
> The number of lives claimed by a single biological weapon could be gigantic

Terrorists have never used WMDs, except for two incidents caused by one group, the Aum cult in Japan. And all that showed was that WMDs are hard to make and hard to use. They would have killed more people with a cheap improvised bomb.
What is the novel drying process? I can't proxy in to my uni on my phone so i cant read the full paper but the article doesnt seem to mention a new drying technique. Aerogels have been made using super critical CO2 for decades now (for example, as the space shuttle reentry tiles covering the entire spacecraft) and many interesting variants have been made using this technique including carbon aerogels which have a mind-boggling capacitance, on the order of 5 Farads per cubic centimeter.

I also believe gold/nanoparticle aerogels have been made before (difficult to find citation now), although this is the first time I've seen anyone use protein fibers.
Ohhhh that's why sites have a "Now watch this" vid at the end of articles? I saw that on....Daily Beast or somewhere.
The guy who made this gun also made a pistol out of metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvqIgnclZTg
How is helping people for money equivalent to lying to people?
The Bitcoin blockchain, as implemented today:

- Takes over 10 minutes to come to consensus

- Cannot handle the transaction volume of a reasonably large retail company

- Loses accepted transactions!!! (blockchain forks, orphan blocks, etc) From a distributed database perspective the Bitcoin blockchain is broken and loses data: like a decentralized MongoDB, but slower by several orders of magnitude.

Articles like this are largely uninformed non-technical people responding to hype. They don't know what a replicated log is, let alone a Merkle tree.

There are many interesting distributed ledger technologies, like Stellar SCP, Hyperledger, and Tendermint.

The Bitcoin blockchain is ill-suited for this purpose.
Aspose Introduces New Java API for Working with Microsoft OneNote Documents
Would be interesting to see these given to young woman in many parts of the world, who can't otherwise go out unaccompanied without fearing attack.

The argument "They'd just be used against the women!" seems hollow as most are just strong armed with muscle power alone by the goons justifying it with "they were asking for it", etc.
One of the dangers with juicers is that you end up making too many sweet drinks because they simply taste so good. Having both the auger style and centrifugal led me into the trap that auger was making better meals because it extracted more. Yet it was simply good at taking nearly all the solids out. Many of the recipes for these machines rely on fruits and they can be more addictive than other vices.

Going back to whole fruits the key I found was remembering those lessons as a kid, chew your food. This means even with fruits to make sure you don't just chew two or three times and swallow. That can lead to some gastric problems which turns many off to certain types of fruits. Better is to each vegetables, combined together they can be nearly as sweet tasting without the sugar
These other, more mainstream outlets share a similar story:

HuffPo (complete with a letter from a OJ Industry Group PR Rep that does not refute anything in the article, just tries to reframe)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/100-percent-orange-...

The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/ask-an-academic-o...

The Consumerist
http://consumerist.com/2011/07/29/oj-flavor-packs/

Gizmodo
http://gizmodo.com/5825909/orange-juice-is-artificially-flav...
One reason that people are against GMO is that they don't trust the system that makes GMO. The kind of labelling games pointed out in the article are one reason why.

From a purely scientific standpoint, I'm for GMO, but I have to admit that I don't really know what's in the industrial food I buy. Worse, it's in the food industry's best interest to obfuscate, and it would be foolish to think that the GMO industry is any different.
If the software was a virus that infected other software you might.

Unfortunately the biggest GMO companies in the world have given GMO foods a bad name.

While GM technology does have hope for the future, like AI, it also poses risks. We need to take those risks seriously, and dismissing people anti-GM as being anti-science is FUD on your part.

There are dangers of eating GM food, but that doesn't mean the dangers come from the genes themselves. GM food such as roundup ready crops can have increased herbicide residue compared to non-GM crops.

We live in a world of corporate funded "science", so being skeptical of claims of 100% safety for GM organisms released into the wild isn't anti-science, it's just using the Precautionary Principle.

The Precautionary Principle states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is not harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking an action.

I think that is the correct approach to GM. The potential risks if things go wrong are huge and irreversible, wheres the need for GM food (if any) doesn't justify that risk until we have better scientific consensus.
blogspam, here is the link to the compiled video from the author's youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyjyWUrHsFc

45 minutes, very interesting and high production value.
Why not use bluetooth and a Wii balance board? eg. https://github.com/damariei/wiiscale
Not sure why downvotes, one cannot disagree? I know people calling it metro, they live in London, that's my experience and a reply to someone saying "nobody in London".
If you're looking for an HTTP library with an advanced timeout API that doesn't use Timeout/timeout.rb (but instead uses an asynchronous I/O layer), check out http.rb:

https://github.com/httprb/http
You need to understand how this works. First, it's "if GMOs are safe, why do you want to hide it by refusing to label?". Then, when you start putting it on labels, the narrative changes to "if GMOs are safe, then why are you warning us about them by putting them on labels?".
Aerogels have enormous surface area compared to their volume and chemical reactions are all about the amount of surface area engaging in the reaction.

That does imply that the gold is porous, and not made up out of chambers.
Random anecdote: a teacher implied at one point some project used a satellite link as RAM because they had no other choice, I don't know more but it's curious nonetheless.
Army ants’ ‘living’ bridges suggest collective intelligence
In other news, email could reduce the role of the post office
It is at this time we should be thankful that intelligence is inversely proportional to ones desire to blow ones self up.
> Similar experiences working with teams in Vietnam and
> India

A very small dataset, but I've found the mindset of Eastern European teams I've worked with and Indian teams I've worked with to be massively different. The EE teams were very culturally similar to the more Western teams, but with funny accents.

The Indian outsourcing I've worked with has - with no exceptions to date - been an absolute clusterfuck. Incompetence compounded by arrogance, byzantine technical architecture, inflexibility, obsession with rank, authority, and certification, and a tendency to lie out of bad situations. It felt like identical experiences across three different projects with three different large IT services firms that were India based. I began to seriously worry I was going to start to have a subconscious racist reaction to Indian accents over the phone.

I'm sure there are dreadful Eastern European outfits, and exceptional Indian ones, but my gut reaction will be to reach for the Eastern Europeans first next time I need to outsource development.
This claim is repeated often in /r/Bitcoin without any facts to back it up. I work on blockchains every day, and I disagree. Blockchains provide a mechanism for parties to agree on a transaction history that no party can retroactively alter without detection. No one can execute a transaction without the agreement of the validators. Traditional databases don't have these benefits.
The style of the article reminds me of my all-time favorite book about DSP, by Richard G Lyons: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Digital-Signal-Processin...
Anecdata: a few days ago I got a push notification from Google Play Games. Someone was "inviting" me to something.

I don't play games. I don't engage with the "Play" Store for anything other than apps. I don't like notifications or interruptions of any sort.

The experience prompted me to disable as much of the Google Play framework on my Android tablet as possible.

Just sayin'.
I grew up with this book (TWEC) in the house, and I found this arrival interesting, but it left me hanging. Anyone know whatever became of the 14800 that left with the one guy? Did they ever regroup to put it towards something?
Firefox OS is still doing well in developing countries.
Well, i wonder if this script ever ran. If it ran multiple times it actually isn't that insane. His coworkers never knew this was even automated or in play so there weren't any issues apparently.

Also, this guy seems like the type of person who could fix any of the issues that arose.

Kumar-still-fucked.sh

All inbound replies from Kumar with "re", "still broken" or [falsy] working. Send fix.sh

Should be sorted now mate, check again. Works on my end.
> I didn't realize they banned possession of computer
> files

I wonder how hard you would have to think to find other examples of computer files whose possession would get you in to trouble?
Bullets you can make from stuff too. We need propellant control. But then everyone will switch back to knives and blunt objects. What we need is kinetic energy control.
Duh.

Very few people die from terrorists, or mass-murderers, or even guns in general (even in war more people die of disease and starvation than guns. And artillery kills more soldiers (at least in 20th cent)).

Lung disease, heart disease, obesity are the killers of humanity.
At least a few of you are currently being added to the no fly list.

Also, relevant https://xkcd.com/651/
> Good ol' Chuo Line. Enjoy Nagano?

It was beautiful. More beautiful than the Yamazaki distillery that I visited in 2013 when I was (coincidentally) on vacation in Japan.

> Might be back late spring. I can see neither of us publish our email addresses so I might drop a reply to your most recent HN thread/post closer to the time. I prefer to keep my HN personality(ies) and AFK personality separated.

Alternatively my HN username at gmail.com :)
How to fix a bad user interface
There is so much blockchain hype at the moment, and this is my thought too. There only rational I can come up with is Bitcoin was the kick in the pants banks needed to realise they can go from 30 year old technology to 10 year old technology.

What Bitcoin solved was decentralized trust. I don't see any banks replacing their existing 'trust' network with code, they'll want to reverse transactions and mistakes, and will also want a veto over any distributed ledger.
> you need to have some data supporting your story when you go to see the financial exec and negotiate rises.

Dodgy metrics probably won't convince your exec either.

If you are consistently building your team members capabilities then convincing the exec is easy.

For example you can say Ben has solved complex cases A, B, and C in the last six months, and the work is clearly at a senior level but his pay doesn't reflect it. Lets fix it.

Or: John has taken on supervision and mentoring tasks for Sam, Ben, and Steve, while still performing at a high level. He has mentioned to me in our one on ones that he wants to take on more leadership tasks, and we have project Y coming up. I think we should put him in charge of the new project.

Etc etc. You don't need silly metrics.
Ask HN: Client Side vs. Server Side Rendering
Hey, I'm in the early stages of thinking about an app/website for a wide variety of users. I imagine that large amount of these users will not have good (fast) computers.

Are there any resources (particularly books) discussing the trade-offs between server and client side rendering? I've also thought about a combination of the two, but I'm not sure how well Django/Rails template/rendering plays with Ember/Knockout (the technologies I'm somewhat familiar with).

I'd love to hear your war stories about this and what kind of circumstances guided your decision.
Note that a .22LR almost killed U.S. President Reagan and seriously wounded James Brady and two others.
Please petition GitHub to support HTTPS on GitHub pages
There wouldn't be plenty of decent fruit in winter where I'm from without a massive transportation infrastructure.
> At least a few of you are currently being added to the no fly list.

As long as they don't add me to the 'no drive list' I'm fine with that.

> Also, relevant https://xkcd.com/651/

That's pretty much word-for-word, funny!
GIFs are much better in this context because the selling point of the tool is the workflow. Perhaps having GIF playback controls implemented in the browser would improve it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you cannot have colored text in GitHub markdown. You can have syntax coloring, but in this case he's showing terminal output.