skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't there a court case over patenting a tax-loophole, where it was rejected because it prevented people from equal protection under the law?
I've never experienced estimation improving over time in an Agile process. In fact, since short estimation cycles are just as susceptible to political games as longer cycles, and this dominates the whole process in any organization, the length of the estimation cycle really has nothing to do with the estimation issue.

But, what shorter estimation cycles are responsible for is a decoupling of the overall big picture progress from the immediate tasks being prioritized. This often leads to sprints that are well scoped, and everything in the sprint gets completed close to on time (at least as close as in longer work cycles, but not usually any closer), but, crucially all of the work has to be scrapped because the whole sprint, conceptually, was not right. In my experience, this happens maybe 1/5 of the time in Agile exactly in ways that would be prevented with longer-term planning.

It's very similar to the classical fractal effects of measuring the coast of Britain. By refining your ruler, you merely think you're being more accurate, and a lot of people are doing a lot of performative managerial crap for the sake of the Scrum performance, like a ritual. It feels like you are estimating better, but really because the whole meta-level concept you are working on isn't guided by longer-term thinking, you end up having so much round off error, added up over more and more cycles, that the overall waste is colossally greater than systems that involve some more significant longer-term pre-planning and which work on variable cycle lengths instead of a cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approach (which is the core philosophy of Agile, though people try to obfuscate this fact by No True Scotsman-ing it with the Agile Principles).

I also can't miss the opportunity to point out this great article on the political games we play during estimation: < http://research.cs.queensu.ca/home/ahmed/home/teaching/CISC3... >
Worth trying if nothing else than for the novelty. The other thing we learned with cold emails is don't even bother unless the email is so well targeted you are speaking to an actual customer problem. Obviously 100% hit rate is not the goal, but we have become more ruthless about eliminating companies on the fridges of qualifying as a lead. Lots of activity is only good if it is to genuinely qualified leads. We don't send many emails but have a very high response rate (~20-30% depending on the campaign). It helps to be in a mature market, though.
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This one was a useful review with most current treatment strategies [0], that publication also helped me to focus on ALT and AST levels to see the type (biliary or liver related, this has treatment implications.). The drug I mentioned is Metamizole, investigated here [1], in this article they also show Morphine to specifically increase Spincter of Oddi spasms! A post on a Dutch website [2] helped convince me that Metamizole may be an option, indeed it is back in pharmacies around the Netherlands since 2 years (after a ban since 1972). Yet another article convinced me surgery may not be the best option and we should try a pharmacological approach first. [3] You see, it quickly becomes an expensive thing to do. The bad thing is, these paywalls confine people without access to the literature to blogs and discussion forums. I read a lot of strange things there. Of course being a scientist I may be better at judging the value of online material but, even my wife who is a marketing specialist got great value out of publication [0], it also contains some very nice visuals.

[0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26431602 ($31.50)

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8794800 ($39.95)

[2] http://www.medischcontact.nl/archief-6/tijdschriftartikel/11... (Free from a medical website, in Dutch)

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22529689 (Free online article!)
Maybe the overhauling meant they had no resources to respond? i.e. everyone was busy hiring?
I'm pretty sure that the OQLF works on a complaint basis.
"They found that pull requests - or suggested code changes - made on the service by women were more likely to be accepted than those by men."

;)
Does SCTP have a better CRC/checksum than TCP?

EDIT: yes, it does. As of RFC 3309, it uses CRC32c (the one which has an instruction in SSE).
How the Brain Is Computing the Mind
How confident are you of not getting a multi hundred thousand dollar assessment when the condo starts leaking or otherwise falling apart? Owning a condo worries me, no control over the maintenance, no ability to do any changes to it, no space to start a family.
That was only after Consumer Reports tested it and confirmed that it did actually have a problem.
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I have these for merging a PR into develop and master respectively. Usage is `git pr <#>`

pr = "!f() { git checkout develop && git fetch -fu ${2:-origin} refs/pull/$1/head:pr/$1 && git checkout pr/$1 && git rebase -i origin/develop && git checkout develop && git merge - && git push; }; f"
prm = "!f() { git checkout master && git fetch -fu ${2:-origin} refs/pull/$1/head:pr/$1 && git checkout pr/$1 && git rebase -i origin/master && git checkout master && git merge - && git push; }; f"
> I believe bullies target what is different.

Yeah, that was the reasoning behind school uniforms. A misguided belief that simply normalizing clothing would prevent bullying. But instead all that did was make them focus on something else. Your hair, your skin color, your height, your weight, your voice ... anything.

I don't think it'd matter how conformant you got everyone. You have to address the underlying causes and change the mentality, and you also have to increase the severity of punishment for bullying.

> Got a birthmark on your face? Boom, you're a target.

For me it's a scar.

> My kids don't go to a school that accepts bullying.

All of mine completely and utterly ignored it. We learned pretty quickly that going to the adults only made matters worse.
Have to admit that this sounds a lot like myself.
I actually dropped out of uni 4 times or so, because I just couldn't deal with having to sit in class focus or hand in homework in time. I was still interested in the subject and _wanted_ to learn, but this wasn't the way for me.

I could go on about my work experience - which was also similar to yours despite I let myself go - but when I start raging it's hard to stop and afterwards I often feel worse than before. ;)

I learnt that I get mostly motivated by projects I come up myself, so I try stick to my own stuff for a while to level up my skills. (I _need_ an outlet for all my creativity...)
And try to connect with people who are also building interesting things (and aren't assholes) and from whom you can learn new things. DIY scene is pretty nice place to be in really.

I try not to focus so much on work and career for now, because to be honest - working at that last office left me a bit with a trauma and I came to realize that I only have one life and I don't want to have to waste it with doing something I hate or that makes me feel like s*. So no more offices for me at the moment.

About the meds and therapy - it is a slow process, yes. And I actually had to try seven or so different kinds of meds until I found the right one that helped. It still makes me feel a bit weird and dull (sometimes annoying), but so much better than before...

I'm also 28, unemployed, in debt.
But meh, still could be worse.
Maxwell et al's position is nothing so high-minded. The real crux of the debate here is whether Bitcoin should begin requiring users to send a substantial fee to the miner that verifies a given transaction now (no change to block size) or later (block size increase solves it now, but the problem will definitely occur when the network stops awarding miners with newly-minted coins, once there's ~22 million BTC in existence).

People who've primarily invested in the mining infrastructure obviously want the fees to go up now. People who've invested in more customer-facing elements of the bitcoin ecosystem want the fees to stay low as long as possible so that adoption isn't deterred by the necessity of including a substantial fee whenever you send a bitcoin transaction.

The technicalities of the bitcoin platform have played out such that those who don't want the size of blocks to grow have a disproportionate number of votes. Most users and most bitcoin companies want BIP 101, but they've been outvoted by the interest group that wants to start collecting rents on their mining power ASAP. In human terms, it's like land owners finding a loophole that allows them to vote 10x more than non-owners. I don't believe that was ever part of the intention of Satoshi, but the way Bitcoin's difficulty mechanism works has entrenched it as a very real problem that probably can't be circumvented.
blekko penalized most of the downloading sites for that reason.
They’re already working on a lot of different things; they’re not just there waiting for someone to write a letter and then jump on coding everything that’s written in.
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Dividends are paid with after-tax income. You might be confusing them with distributions paid by pass-through entities (where corporate income is treated as personal income by the owners).
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164 chars to carry complex things you amplify seems like a drama generator by design. For me it generates noise and misunderstanding more than signal.
I took it to mean that the 'something' being scored was a relationship. Maybe this is some kind of sexist dog whistle I'm not hearing but I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt instead of trying to language police a substantive comment.
I like having it as a simple way to quickly download a git-free tree of simple projects. So there's one small piece of positive feedback.
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Tribunal rules computer hacking by GCHQ is not illegal
Just so credit it given appropriately, magrittr was from Stefan Milton Bache.
Journal article (paywall): http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116...

There's a team working at JILA in colorado who've achieved something similar with Strontium: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.8261

Edit: One of the reasons to build these clocks is to find out if the fundamental constants really are unchanging. So they build two clocks that rely on different relations of fundamental constants, and see if the "ticking" of the clocks changes with respect to each other. See: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.4408.pdf for info on that.
They’re already working on it (source: inside info).
Just adding some links to support the above comment - HITEC was part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" [1] following Hurricane Sandy. Additional clarifications for internet-enabled devices was released by the FDA in early 2015. [2]

[1] https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-111publ5/html/PLAW-111pub...

[2] http://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulation...
You can use a fast disk like an SSD as a 2nd level cache device after ram. So reads will first check the main ram cache first, then the ssd cache disk before finally hitting the underlying storage.
> It's basically an admission that, with the huge wealth endowment and peaceful world they were handed by their parents' generation, they managed to squander it to the point where the best use of land, the most inventive thing they can do with their money, is ... nothing

THIS!

I know it's considered bad form to chime in to just to agree, but upvoting didn't seem enough in this case
Well I think Lisp's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness: macros.

By being able to bend a Lisp to your will, you trade your ability to standardize the language and build a community of libraries and tools around it. That being said, there's nothing like having a language which eventually becomes the best tool for solving the problem you're facing for at hand (as your Lisp will tend to evolve appropriately).
But if they did that it might hurt their enterprise, non-SaaS, offering considering people could then install it on their own.
flag it for me please
The problem with taxing held capital is that you are penalizing investment relative to consumption. I.e., a person who consumes today enjoys a much higher NPV of consumption than a person who invests today and consumes in the future.

Scott Sumner does careful calculations explaining this here: uhttp://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=28842
I was afraid somebody was going to bring up this paper. As the paper shows, they in fact do exist. But only if you spin rather than flip in the normal way.
That requires the government to acknowledge there is a problem and come up with a clear strategy to solve the problem.

The BC Provincial Government is working very hard to ignore it as a problem, where they won't even commission studies to generate data on how bad the problem is (or isn't). The federal government has also signaled their distancing from the Vancouver housing issue.

Also, the real problem is foreign ownership. Canada has some of the loosest foreign ownership laws in the world, and provincial/federal governments do not punish foreign ownership with taxes or anything of the like. That means if you are making a lot of money in a corrupt country (China/Saudi Arabia), the Vancouver housing market is a great insurance policy.

The result is you have entire neighbourhoods with no available properties, but are virtually empty (Coal Harbour), and new buildings are built small and shoddy (meant for investment, not livability).

My wife and I make over 100k per year combined, and we will absolutely be leaving the city when we start a family. It all stems from the fact that the local government is willfully ignoring what can be compared to a cancer. It'll only get worse.
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I hope twitter collapses. Why? they gave api access to developers and business owners to use their site, used this data as free R&D, and yanked access.

It put many companies out of business over night.

They deserve everything they get.
Once you strip out the fluff, those sentences are effectively identical. It's not like they said what they'll be doing. Just a bunch of hand-wavey "we're working on it".
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You most certainly will, but if you manage to hurt them, they'll remember it the next time and be less likely to engage you in the first place. Bullies thrive on easy targets, and having no real consequences even when caught. Even if you lose horribly in a fight, you're the only person that can possibly inflict consequences.

The physical pain wasn't even the worst of it. What hurts the most 20 years later is the fact that I stood there and did nothing. I'd have rather had memories of losing fights than having never fought at all.

And honestly, getting kicked around by a full-grown adult at home was worse than anything another sixth grader could have dished out. I really don't know what I was so afraid of back then.
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What kind of "consulting" are we talking about here?
Show HN: Holst, Digitally Retouched Old Paintings
Holst is a project for retouching old paintings [1]. The project’s aim is to use digital retouching to recreate the original look of old artworks. This is definitely not an innovative idea, although painting restoration is a rather standard operation done by well-trained specialists, it is slow, costly, and lacks the level of discretion matched by a modern image editor.

The significant amount of time that has passed from the original creation of many paintings affects their color and brightness. This often makes it difficult to understand what a painting looked like in the moment it was created according to the artist’s vision. Holst’s goal is to use digital technology to repair the defects of age and alter an image’s brightness, contrast, and colors to better reflect the artist’s original creation. This painting can be used as example: [2]. Holst's variant after retouching: [3]. You can decide whether you prefer the first variant or second. Anyway, you have and will always have a choice to enjoy the first variant. Holst simply gives you an additional choice that you might like better. And, of course, additional choice is always a good thing.

All paintings are available in 1800-2000-pixel resolution without any watermarks and logos. All previews have been created in Photoshop, so they perfectly combine high quality and small file size. Any image can be printed on canvas or paper.

[1] https://holstshop.com/catalog/painters/
[2] http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/claude-joseph-vernet-a-landscape-at-sunset
[3] https://holstshop.com/media/hires/Claude-Joseph-Vernet/115745.jpg
Sorry, what's ridiculous about it? It's a very achievable thing. On modern CPUs with instruction support, AES encryption can be done faster than DRAM bandwidth. There are definitely latency costs in connection setup that will penalize "transaction-like" protocols I guess. It's not 100% free, but relative to the other performance issues you're looking at it's surely way way way down the list of priorities.
Sub-subtitle being "human beings utterly unable to overcome base impulses despite higher order brain functions", then?
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Yes. I'm told that some people who bought property in Vancouver the early 80's were upside down on their properties for 15 years.

That said, I'm not predicting that outcome myself -- at this point, I would not want to place any sort of bet on that market.
When a link from a HN post is changed, and the link it's changed-to had previously been submitted by another user, should the "posted by" and karma attribution get re-assigned to the user who submitted the link to-which the story is re-pointed, or does attribution and karma continue to credit the user who submitted the link which was replaced? Just curious how the internals of link-replacement works.
I hope it's obvious that I don't support crypto bans of any sort†.

But: I find this sentiment a little hard to understand.

The principle at play here goes way back into common law, and was most famously articulated in the 1700s as "the public is entitled to every man's evidence".

Access to all an individual's communications has been a privilege of the judicial system for the whole life of this country, and for many centuries of the country we came from. The founders didn't carve out a rule saying that individuals had the right to conceal evidence, and, one by one, when they assumed the reigns of government, their actions confirmed that they intended no such rule.

The norm for centuries has been that if you're being investigated, and the courts sanction that investigation, your documents and communications are fair game. In fact, before 1967, it wasn't even the law of this country that the government couldn't intercept and monitor your communications by fiat, without a warrant. Forced to confront the abuses of wiretaps by unscrupulous government agencies, Congress and the Supreme Court didn't choose to ban wiretaps; instead, they systematized them.

When people discuss the need for backdoors in crypto, they're generally not talking about the status quo. What they're worried about is 15 years from now, where all communications and storage technology is end-to-end encrypted, and no warrant or judicial order of any sort can retrieve evidence from them. That's not a crazy worry: it's what's inevitably going to happen.

† (http://cryptopals.com, &c)
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The Wikipedia article is pretty good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing#Profit_alloca.... Basically, it has to do with the prices charged for goods and services between related entities. Generally, laws require that these prices be the same as they would be if the companies were interacting in arm's-length market transactions.

Consider, for example, a tax dodge Samsung is alleged to have engaged in. Samsung Electronics makes products in South Korea, then sell them at cost to Samsung Distribution, which is an affiliated company in a low-tax jurisdiction. Samsung Distribution then exports the products at market price to Best Buy, etc. Samsung Electronics books little or no profits in South Korea--all the profits are booked by Samsung Distribution in the low-tax jurisdiction.

There is also a corporate-entity angle to this. Operating as a separate corporation has benefits: if one goes bankrupt, its creditors cannot reach the assets of a related entity. But if transactions between related entities are not arm's-length, it's easy to shift money around between them and abuse the protections of separate corporate forms by, e.g., leaving riskier lines of business undercapitalized in case of a tort judgment.
I too have felt the same way. I occasionally check John Carmack's twitter or some other developers, but that's it.
and when he was around I loved https://twitter.com/devops_borat
The taxes are also high https://simpletax.ca/calculator

Select BC and enter in the typical income for an experienced developer in Vancouver which is 75k. Your take home salary is $59,000 plus you aren't offered any options usually just straight pay. This doesn't include all the other deductions such as EI and CPP.

Now convert CAD to USD and you're a professional experienced developer making $42,000 USD per year, in one of the highest cost cities on earth.
If you like LXD, why can't you just use it and not care whether Redhat is using it?
First: "Society decides." Society is not an entity that can reason or take action.

Second: Are you saying that if Bitcoin had as many users as democracies that there would be no remaining distinction between the two systems?
I really only worry about recycling metal. Soda, canned goods, that sort of thing. I've been a bit skeptical of recycling paper since I started recycling, the trees used for paper are plentiful, and are grown as a crop. Plus, as far as I can understand all the same processes that it takes to make paper from tree pulp are also used when recycling paper, so that seems like a neutral process at best.

Plastic I try to reuse whenever possible.
Those numbers also show that segregation is already happening. It's extremely common that those immigrating to a more affluent country usually end up in lower socioeconomic classes. Filling a school almost only with the children of those of course is a recipe for a disaster.

How the hell should lower class immigrants get out of that class when those are the only people around them?
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No, just the ones in the cherrypicked examples for this article, perhaps.
> I don't think our democratic society is very good for gifted/talented people.

I think it is better for gifted/talented people than any alternative anyone has proposed would be if an attempt were made to implement it with real people in the real world.

> Democracy is kinda like 1 human and 10 chimpanzees living together, with the chimpanzees insisting that everybody are equal, and threatening violent sanctions whenever anybody behaves otherwise.

I'm a "gifted/talented" person by most standards (by IQ test scores, PSAT/SAT/LSAT all at the highest reported point in the distribution -- 99 or 99.9 percentile, depending on what the particular test reported at the time -- etc.)

And, frankly, I find it quite likely that anyone who thinks that the relationship between humans and chimpanzees is even a remotely appropriate analogy for the relationship between gifted and talented people at the ~91% percentile and the rest of society is someone who is inclined to behave in a way such that forceful sanctions are appropriate and necessary.
you are kidding right?

the commands needed are right there on the docker hub page

https://hub.docker.com/_/postgres/
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