skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost at the end : "Yes, all this sounds like a lot of work". Exactly. And it will most probably still turn out to be wrong, because you will forget to ask some questions, and there will be things that you simply cannot foresee that will influence the time.

Turns out it's pointless to even try to do this. So why waste valuable time to do all this, if you know it's not the truth anyway? The answer is to accept that you will learn things as you go along, and that things take as long as they take, and to rather deal with that. Marketing wants a product by Christmas. Fine, we can do that. They just cannot say what needs to be in that product by Christmas. They can have whatever the last production quality release is at that stage. Instead of taking many weeks or months to try and answer all these estimation questions, we start and tackle the high risk items first. We learn from them, readjust, and as we get closer to the deadline, we keep communicating with all the other stakeholders what we think will be delivered on that date. It's a narrowing cone of uncertainty. One sprint before the deadline we'll be pretty accurate in predicting what it will be. 2 or 3 sprints before, accurate enough to be able to do marketing. At the start : the best we can predict is simply whether we feel we can have something useful at the deadline.
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I'd say that's why diagnoses are typically a "perfect storm" of otherwise normal conditions. We can probably all say that we've experienced schizoid avoidance patterns. But at some point, for certain people, that condition becomes a part of a larger psychological pattern in which it's considered an illness. Usually because it begins to have an overtly negative impact on the ability to function in society.

The nature of human development just means that we all inherit some level of personality "defect". But psychologists don't view them all as candidates for a diagnosis of mental illness.
They have. A little company called Google:

https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/6223848?hl=en&...
I heard about Orleans but how much is it in use internally at MS? Lot of services are not even on Azure, yet? Ever? It's well known that new fancy modern approaches take years to be understood and absorbed int the company strategy, think Git, Agile, elastic services, REST, mobile... Don't get me wrong I'd love to see MS going back to be an innovator, and Orleans might be an oppotunity. How long has it been cooking, 2 3 years? Where's the disruptive plan to make it the new paradigm?
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Customers being owners is not that odd; it's called vertical integration.
In theory, I could see how you could make an economic argument for taxing people at the theoretical rate of return (incentivizing deploying your capital in value-creating investments instead of sitting on it). In practice, that is insane.
You're thinking entirely the wrong way about that "type of person". Very few people think of themselves as evil; rather they will have some rationale for how what they're doing is OK, and very different from behaviour that from the outside seems to be the same thing. They will use any number of dark patterns to get you to misclick, but I've literally never seen such an installer not honour the "no thanks" if you can find it.
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More worrying is that Chrome is dropping support for older versions of Mac OS X
This technique works very well for blocking ads in Skype.

You can also block the BBC Breaking News banner this way by adding polling.bbc.co.uk. Or if you want to play a prank use 192.30.252.153 as the IP. GitHub pages don't check if you own the domain.

https://unop.uk/dev/breaking-the-news-blocking-the-bbc-news-...
Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons
What are Firefox's settings for that case then, hmm? Does Firefox refuse to work with MITM proxies at all?
Yeah, the lawyers get to fight with each other for unbounded amounts of money while everyone else tries to get things done.
In the end, ads are displayed inside a browser that is under user's control. Through his connection to the internet, on his CPU, on his pixels, through his eyes, through his synapses.

I think ad companies should start to consider collaborating with users. Honestly grabbed attention might make for better transforming ads.

Honest question:

Would you consider splitting revenue between publishers and users? Users would be renting their pixels, their attention. Users could then re-inject this money into internet services.

Also, users could be incentivised to express their preferences, tastes, buying lists, buying habits, etc in exchange for better revenue.

I mean I could pay to go through the NYT paywall with this! This could really help bootstrap microtransactions.
It's a bit provocative to compare Amazon's chart against Soundcloud's... Everyone knew Soundcloud is losing money, but unlike Amazon in the last years, that seems like a lot of money for a company their size and in their ecosystem. I wish them the best but it doesn't look good...
In the context of B2B it's not at all odd, you're right. (In fact, that's the whole reason transfer pricing rules exist.)

In the current era, it is however uncommon for consumers to simultaneously own and (exclusively) be the customers of a company. (Historically, that is of course the entire principle of mutual funds.)
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The diagnosis criteria for most mental illnesses include that the patient is negatively affected by their specific symptoms.

Or regarding the specific quote, in the context of going to a normal school, "severely gifted" might be the right word for describing these children. If these children are given something meaningful to do in school instead, then the moniker would not be apt.
You can't really compare costs of managed funds and ETFs.
This resonated with me. Growing up I always felt like an alien around other kids, my mindset was just so different. I put a lot of effort into fitting in though, which I think helped somewhat. Even so, I very nearly dropped out of school and could quite easily have gone down a dark path (likely ending up homeless or in prison or worse). Luckily I went to one of the best public schools in the country and ended up with some pretty good teachers, but I learned as much on my own as I did from school, and had things been different I might have lost patience. As it was I nearly ended up stuck on a remedial track for most subjects on entering High School (due partly to the fact that I just didn't do homework, 20-some years later after discovering that I have ADHD a lot more things make sense). Somehow at 13 I had the maturity to realize I needed to fix that and luckily the school system rewarded my efforts (ultimately I graduated with special honors among a handful of top students in my class, and entered college as a sophomore).

I imagine a lot of other folks who are just as smart as I was but didn't luck out with the same circumstances have been severely let down by the system over the years. Things just aren't setup for people who learn differently, or at a different pace, or have a different form of cognition than the archetypal student that everything is built around. Which ends up ill serving a lot of students across all intelligence levels.
Was going to say exactly this. They've decentralized their datacenter by pushing it to their users ISP.
Ok, that's just a really confusing way of communicating, nobody is going to puzzle that out when the obvious way of looking at your response is disagreement with the grandparent.
Jailing Heathrow 13 poses 'massive threat' to peaceful protest rights
No – significant preprocessing of photoreceptor cell signals occurs in the eye, in the retina. The "raw" signals from the three cone types are processed into luminance and two color-opponent channels before being sent to the visual cortex. (While there are around 130 million retinal receptors, there are only approximately 1.2 million axons bundled in the optic nerve.)
Yeah, even if there are no obligate mosquivores, we're perturbing a chaotic system, which is defined by sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Any action we take (including none at all) is going to have some arbitrarily large (or small) effect on the future state of the system.

If it works exactly as described, the 'only male offspring' modification should be nice and side-effect-free. But then, evolution is a big-numbers statistical game. Who knows what interesting variations we'll see..
"Mom I have told you thousands of times! Configure, make and make install, not configure and make install!"
It is an imputed rent tax[1], which is in addition to property taxes. A property owner renting out a property would pay both property tax and then income tax on rent collected. This tax reflects that for owner-occupants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputed_rent
Yes, in general that's the goal of transfer pricing. However, the way the rules are written it's not clear if they also apply to this case, particularly because the IRS does not recognize intent as a factor in transfer pricing rules.

To be clear, I do think this should be legal and kosher. But I sort of see how the argument could be made.
1) I'd hardly call them stretched.
2) I wouldn't call it a "weird aversion". Weimar Hyperinflation (and the consequences) is still in the public's heads. Compared to other places I have lived people in Germany are indeed more reluctant to debt-finance things in general and "save before buying". I think it's a fairly healthy base attitude (but I'm probably biased being German). It's less valuable currently with near 0% credits everywhere but as a base mindset it helps avoid the trap of not finding a way to generate the expected revenue streams eventually.
That sounds like imputed rent which is not a total fiction; it is a well understood concept and most economists seem to agree that it probably should be taxed but the political cost of a change from the status quo makes it unlikely to happen in countries that aren't already doing so.

The OECD recommends that member nations tax imputed rent because it improves fairness between renters and owners.

A randomly Googled link that explains it more: http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/taxing-homeowne...
I use the Pi-hole setup, but on my desktop computer instead of a RaspberryPi... just follow the instructions to "Setting It Up Manually" [1]

1. http://jacobsalmela.com/block-millions-ads-network-wide-with...
Spring now supports first official Apache Geode Release
The thing that annoys me most about project estimation is when the micro-managing types don't let you even look at the problem space first, an instant answer is expected. Of course the figure plucked out the air could be 'x days' with 'x' being greater than the time one expects internally so backside is covered, yet that is not really a true answer.

At the moment I am putting together a 'simple' feature on a website, where I have been able to explore the problem space first. For the $content there actually needs to be half a dozen date fields that were not in the original brief, I doubt I would have discovered this had I not rolled a little bit of code first and explored 'prior art' in the area.

I need to put together a semi-working prototype to discover such things - particularly when UX is involved. Yet, far too often, the opportunity to do actual preliminary dev work is denied by those that 'know best', preferring a spec. in a Word document (or something else equally 1990's) instead of a rough working prototype in code (with back-of-envelope sketch).

My current feature-being-added will need to be re-factored at some stage, once users have started using it and problems/features overlooked in the original brief catered for. It is not as if the users of my new feature will know that 'actually they wanted it to work this way' until they have something to see. So why we have these silly cast-in-stone processes I do not know.

I also must say that I find the metaphor of painting a room is quite a poor one, I would not need to paint 'an alcove first' to get a handle on how long the whole room would take.
It's complicated by the fact that a non-negligible portion of the funds are held in retirement accounts where potentially no taxes are paid on the returns.
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That is interesting, but really only the first point is outside the scope of issues that would be addressed or rectified if the academic community as a whole were to embrace an open culture.
This list is incomplete. I own some VSTAX (Vanguard, .04%) and FUSEX (Fidelity, .04%) etfs, neither are on this list. I've seen even lower mentioned at Vanguard (The "institution" version of VSTAX, .02%)
It's amusing that this article states outright that carrying a gun can "not really" make people safer, because guns are banned in so many places. Instead, Indians need "better policing" and "changing attitudes."

Is there anyone who believes this nonsense? What percentage of the population would need to be police in order to prevent every rape? What change in attitude is going to stop sex-deprived men from acquiring what they are programmed to want more than anything else?

This particular gun won't do much -- you'd have to be more than a good shot to stop a gang rape with a six-shot .22 -- but to claim that personal defense is best delegated to the authorities in these cases is simple nonsense. But perhaps this claim is more palatable to their audience than that they would prefer live with a certain amount of rape and other violence so long as there are no guns being carried around.
that last sentence :)
Thanks for the link. So was the Sende project one of these abandoned villages?

I'm curious about what you get for less than $10k, did your house need a lot of renovation or was it ready to live in? Did you buy it through the Sende people or independently?
I do. People compare crossing the oceans with space travel. In our present form (on evolutionary scale) we are less than equipped for that.

Also I wonder, in this form as humans, can anyone really comprehend what this all means, beyond the Math and experimental confirmations?

What if we are living in a simulation, and just being played?
I'm at a point where I've given up arguing, and maybe hoping, too. If anything history proves that the powerful do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Now as more and more democracy is eaten by monetary power I feel only what's left to do is to wait for the big shock.. It's sad to think that even when people dedicate their time pro-bono to building tools and information medium like this, at most what it does is moderate temporarilly the recklessness of one group at the expense of very limited resources of others(like the free-time, dedication, small-money that people make available for this kind of stuff) but while there's money to make in subverting it there'll always be incentive to push the way through and put much more money, time and resources into doing it, if someone call you out you can just tone it down a bit and start over another day, seems like there's no winning. I'm brasilian and understand the the judiciary of USA is stronger and faster than in other country, but even then still this logic prevails, for elsewhere and where I'm at.. eh, dreadful.
Steel Imports from China Investigated by European Commission
The German universities do have such a thing: They fund a network with their own backbone and all, called DFN. This organization does have a full CA root certificate which is signed by the globally trusted Deutsche Telekom CA. The DFN then signs certificates for their members. So in short the German universities operate their own CA. I don't think running this is prohibitively expensive as almost every university is member there.

Page in German: https://www.pki.dfn.de/ueberblick-dfn-pki/
Except some of us make a living selling development of projects and solutions to customers that require pretty accurate (cost) estimates prior to even getting the contract.

Crazy world, I know...
What ABOUT Sanders?
What are your educated and intelligent thoughts about Sanders? I really want to believe; but, the odds are stacked against the guy heavily.

Thoughts?
Fair enough. But that's why some investors prefer not-for-profit funds, no? There's nothing underhanded going on.
This is possible on code128 barcode. This kind of barcode accepts not only numbers but also chars. Usually consumers deal with EAN13 barcode on the supermarket, they only accept numbers and this attack is impossible.
You've got more bravery than most to just walk up to a lady during the day and say hi. That more than makes up for any disadvantages your race may put you at.
The secret anti-languages you're not supposed to know
luckily not everyone who is smart is necessarily a wreck, but some are. i was too. still am but now i'm a more powerful wreck and some people actually need to listen me.
Since JSONP allows you to have a callback, you can load this in script tags on the same domain and make calls to that / those functions.
I agree that there's nothing underhanded going on and Vanguard offering lower fees is a net benefit to society.

That being said, I sort of see how a legalistic argument could be made.
I was bullied for 8 years in primary school. I made the simple mistake of showing off how much smarter I am than the rest of the class (I was kind of a prick about that, looking at it now), and it was impossible to fix it later. Having visible skin condition, walking around bandaged for months, and asthma had not helped either.

I've learnt how to adjust when I was in hospitals and sanatorium, changing einvironment a few times is great for that. In middle school everything was OK already (also it was much better school, so there were more kids like me there).

I also think being on the receiving end of ostracism is valuable experience (but not for 8 years, a few months would suffice). It works as a vaccine against tribal thinking.
It's better than this actually. If they want a release by Christmas I can with, high certainty, tell them:

Features will be in: A, B, C
Features likely to make it in: D, E
Features unlikely to make it in: F, G
Nope: H, I, J
Hell No: K, L, ..., ZZZ

The problem I've always found is that, no matter what, you are going to be arguing with sales and management about E, F and L instead of them just working with A, B, and C.
it's quite possible that mosquitoes that don't require a male to procreate will take dominance. I think there are wasps like that...
> The fact that I technically only asked how long the fix would take is something only an engineer would bother pointing out. -_-

Well excuse me for not fitting your prejudiced profile for a neurotypical extroverted 20-something white male. Yes, I might have needed the clarification between "how long will it take you to paint the room" vs "how long until the room is back the way it was with the walls in a different colour", but you help noone when you talk down to the painter like that. You asked a question and I misunderstood, because we use slightly different language and I have a ton of other things to think about all the time.

Can we stop this "oh let's treat engineers like they're children with mental development issues" already? I'm not some god in an ivory tower, I don't want you to kneel before me, I just want the usual everyday respect you afford to your peers and to engage with me as one professional with another.

This kind of treatment is not ok.
Even 'dull' and 'unimaginative' are outliers. You need to be... beige.
One that was not mentioned is Codeanywhere https://codeanywhere.com
It's not the regulators, it's the prosecutors in New York, who have jurisdiction over the European banks since USD transactions are cleared there.

The problem is that banks absolutely cannot afford to risk going to court, since losing a case could mean losing their ability to deal in USD, which would be the end for them. That means that the banks must settle any case brought by the prosecutors. The prosecutors in New York have used this leverage to squeeze billions in settlements from the European banks. The "justice"system has basically turned into what amounts to a protection racket.
Thanks for posting this link! I've been playing and thoroughly enjoying The Witness these past couple of weeks; it seems like this series might be relevant to follow up with, to bring some perspective on the experience.
You could make a similar argument for taxes. The state provides a stable environment, covers risk, and handles overhead. Yet people (in some countries, at least) are significantly more accepting of corporations taking many times the value they are creating in profit versus the state taking a proportion of their earnings in taxes.
I would state it differently. Derivatives can be quite useful for the economy, because they allow people to offload risk, e.g. companies can hedge their commodity or exchange rate risks.

They become a problem in banks that have a lot of them ("weapons of financial mass destruction") because of their opacity on the balance sheet (DB has one line in their balance sheet for derivatives, ~ 500 billion Euros) and because banks offload their long-tail risks to their depositors and ultimately the taxpayer. The new bail-in rules mean that depositors in banks are essentially guaranteeing the bank's balance sheet. Think about that the next time you look at your bank account.
Thanks for the nice explanation! But another question: since the expansion rate of the universe has been different at different times, does this mean that the measured speed of light would be different at different times as well?

Because if the ruler you are using to measure is expanding at rate x, the measured speed of light would be different than when the ruler is expanding at rate y?

So, during the deflationary period of the universe, the speed of light would be significantly smaller, correct? In fact, would it be "negative" due to the universe expanding faster than light?
That's what the Joomla project did when faced with the same issue: https://github.com/joomla/jissues
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"It's only downside is that most people think it's difficult to use"

I don't know about that, but I know that none of the tools I use in my field works on Linux, and I'm not talking about rocket science, I'm talking about print and web design.

Openness aside.
There was the Sigfrid bomb, but yeah, it come much more later.
It leads to what I call "do it right syndrome".

Since I have time, I'll do it right, with a factory class, and extendible configuration package (that I'll write myself so it will be just perfect) and, for optimal speed, I'll use Red-Black trees that I'll have to write my own implementation of since there isn't a standard library ...
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Ask them to give you a guaranteed schedule of sales that you will hold them to. They'll say it's absurd, you can't predict that. Turns out it's the same with software dev.

If you find yourself arguing about this with management or sales, they're not trusting you to be the expert at what you do. Tell them that.
The lack of issue templates has been clearly stated here and elsewhere. I personally brought it up with GH support, quite a long back, and I imagine others have done the same. It seems clear that GH does not want to change this.

There's another issue that has received less discussion: people reporting issues get an enormously complex webpage to look at. The top of the page has about 10 ex spaces that is mostly blank, and the text that is there is not germane to issue-reporting.

GH is a for-profit company and it could benefit from dropping their adherence to their overall UI [1] and set up a more modal UI for issues. That UI should be clean, with a high ratio of text to whitespace, and it should show nothing extraneous to the goal. And of course it should display the developer's how to submit an issue text ... that's just so obvious that everyone commenting here (and in 'dear github' etc) has a right to feel insulted by GH.