skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the rage is a bit over the top. I expected James Rolfe quotes... "Scrum is buffalo diarrhea!"

I don't mind the blowback against Agile, it and TDD have both entered cargo cult territory and a lot of the stricter implementations are just laughably naive and ineffective (Especially if there is a "Certified Scrum Master" involved). But to just say Agile and all the modern processes are bad is ridiculous.

It may be time to start having a discussion about what's next in software development wether that be Agile the next generation or something new. Channel the rage!
I'm with you. Got nothing against the word and think that it can be used appropriately, but 99% of the time, it's lazy gutter language intended to provoke and strengthen an argument on "toughness" grounds. e.g., "You fucking said that?" is interpreted a lot differently than "You really said that?"
Thanks! How does this relate to real-world statistics? In what context(s) does this pop up?

Edit: what's wrong with my question? I did mention a gentle introduction was needed, so if the answer is obvious to some, please forgive my ignorance and help me fix it.
I went through a bankruptcy about 10 years ago, mostly stupid credit card debt I ran up in my early twenties. I paid for everything with cash for years after that and having a poor credit rating barely impacted my life. I have credit up near 800 now and the bankruptcy is still on my record for another couple of years. Other than a few months after my wedding and honeymoon, I haven't carried a balance for years.
Also, we should embrace log curves instead of linear curves for changes of perspective, e.g. the default "this is bigger than that" should be thought of in log (vs linear) when taught in school
The article should be titled "The traditional music distribution industry wants its revenue back."
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That's definitely not true in NYC & Jersey City.

New York is currently having the biggest boom in sky scraper building since the 1930s. My brother is a construction manager on a 70 story building that's going up right now, and it's not even in the top 25 building projects currently happening in NYC.

Only 3 of the top 22 buildings in NYC existed 10 years ago, and I'm considering the WTC to be one building. If you count rebuilding the WTC as a new building, then the only two older sky scrappers in the top 22 are the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building. Everything else is less than 10 years old or currently under construction.

http://ny.curbed.com/maps/mapping-the-rise-of-new-york-citys...
Main difference being the debt you walked away from was for property that the lender presumably got back.
There was an eerily prescient 2006 documentary about consumer credit called "Maxed Out," which featured a scene where someone recalled going to a conference of bank and credit card executives, and one of the CC CEOs plainly stated: "The bulk of our profits come from people making minimum payments for the rest of their lives."

As for "pay-in-full" folks like you and me, credit card companies could care less. Whenever we pay with plastic, they get processing fees.
If I find an app is pulling me in too often, I delete it. If I find a website is distracting me too much, I throw it on my hosts file (and redirect it to 127.0.0.1). If I find myself drinking too much beer, I stop. If I find myself craving anything in a way that feels intuitively bad, it's a good sign that I need to change something.

I feel like a lot of people respond to those impulses by going out of their way to make it normal—everyone has this problem—rather than deal with it before it becomes a monkey on your back. I have a lot of compassion for their predicament, but I also know that the answer is very, very simple: walk away and do something else.
At the time, I was backed into a corner so to say. It wasn't something I went into willingly.

My HOA would not allow me to rent the townhouse out (too many rentals already), nor could I come up with the $150K to bring the mortgage down to the new fair market value. So, mailed the keys back to the bank and walked away.
Sure there is. Join the communities that support the genre(s) of music you enjoy. Listen to the various internet radio programs that feature the music you enjoy -- those curators will introduce you to new music, and new-to-you music.
I remember that when I learnt Probability Theory at Uni around 1996, I got a 3- in the exams (german grades go from 6 (the worst) to 1 (the best), a - indicating a tendency towards the worse grade, and + indicating a tendency towards the better grade). Everyone else in that year got a worse grade ... And we were all (aspiring) mathematicians. The thing is, if you want to teach that stuff in a way that is both rigorous with respect to theoretical underpinnings, while at the same time making sure that the student can actually apply in practice what they learnt ... that's a pretty difficult task, even if your students are all mathematicians. Now, I have no idea what a good way to teach these things to non-mathematicians would be!

Edit: I always was quite astonished of how easily Biologists etc. seem to have understood quite complicated probabilistic mathematics, but now I understand that mostly they are just cargo culting stuff they don't really understand.
If that's true then there is then there is not even no need for subsidies, but no need to any debate all.

If wind and solar are so much better for generating electricity, then the energy companies would be using wind and solar.

The idea that energy companies are going to just not use them out of spite is silly.
So Adams think he's going to be more popular among Democrats than he was among Republicans? That seems... unlikely.
Yes and no. I'm not asking for the gov't to solve the problem, but to the extent that gov't is the problem, I'd like to see it removed.

And I am doing things about it. Part of it is posting my concerns here, anonymously, because every little drop helps.

Our rights are vanishing (how's the 4th ammendment doing lately?) and concerned citizens have a responsibility to speak out about it.
Cliche, but I've found this to be an amazing interview question for nontechnical positions. You learn quickly how much someone can hand wave and bullshit. If they are too cocky and can't say "I don't know", that's great to suss out up front. If it's for a sales role, maybe that's a good thing.
Not OP, but a good example would be the various PDF conversion apps around. The freemium/shareware ones all suck in one way or another unless you pay (arbitrary page limits, watermarks etc), the web-based ones make batch processing very hard and have privacy issues. Meanwhile ghostscript, pdftk, imagemagick and co. just work and will continue to work for a long time. On mobile I can use these over SSH on a remote Linux box. LaTeX or LibreOffice vs. Word is a similar example, although you can't always get around using Word.

Or Photoshop, when Adobe switched to a subscription service. I use it maybe 3 times a year, a (legal) old version would be fine but you can't buy one. GIMP it is, even though it has less features.

I want to spend less time looking for new apps/services just because the previous ones went out of business or now charge monthly for 5 lines of code. Libre/Free software mostly stays around, even the unmaintained stuff is often forked/fixed/updated by someone if the fix is small enough.
Interesting - how many social media posts a year are faked by US?
That's a reasonable interpretation. In that case - it just goes to show how much work and effort is required to remove pirated copies.

Also - I'm pretty sure a lot of these so called pirated versions don't really include the original, unaltered audio track, or just include a few snippets from the video.
American midwesterner here.

There is really only one food I ever ate that had any lamb in it. That's the Kronos GyroKones, from Chicago. Those come in all-beef, beef/lamb, and all-chicken. The Greek-American restaurant that my family frequented had to drive their own truck to Chicago to get their gyro meat.

The US just doesn't raise much sheep for food. We grow corn, soy, wheat, alfalfa, and non-alfalfa hay. Then we feed it to cattle, dairy cows, chickens, pigs, layer hens, and turkeys. (The beef cattle and dairy cows might as well be different species, along with the meat chickens and egg-laying hens.)

If you count the heads of cattle in the US, and multiply by 7%, that's about the headcount of sheep. It's all due to the profit margins. If the US really wants wool or lamb, it ships them in from Australia or China. Local farmers can't compete unless they brand as "local" or "free range/organic".
Honest question. There aren't debit cards in the united states? They are simple plastic cards like credit carda but the bank is withdrawing your money directly from your account. There is not debt involved.
> that is discriminatory

And supporting abortion is supporting murder. And so is eating meat, etc etc.

This is all political Framing & labelling.

If it's on the ballot, its a valid politics, and so should be off the table wrt things like getting people fired.
Well, analyzing locally and sending a query to Google Maps/OSM/whatever that basically says "food + New York" is one thing. For extra privacy, there can be even a nice opt-in that actually works with AI breaking into conversation with a "Hey, want me to suggest a good restaurant? Just tap here and I will look up some!"

I just wonder if today phones are powerful enough to process texts locally and not disclose the raw unprocessed data to the third parties.
You could have your server doing the search and aggregation job Google has centralized. Google could have sold those servers as home appliances, each of them spidering only those parts of the world our phones know we care about or we will. Travel next week to Berlin? Start downloading maps and transit schedules for there. I'm sure that it could be engineered to be as effective as what we have now. A centralized search engine would be ok. IMHO it would be a much better world but it's not how it turned out to be. Probably Google won't be as powerful as it is and they rationally made the choice, or they never considered the option. I bet on the latter.
One irony regarding JavaFX is that the original JavaFX Script language[1] was probably among the best frontend languages ever created (better than TypeScript or Elm in many ways, IMO). It is powerful, typed, and easy for JS developers and designers to learn, plus it's designed for CSS integration. When it was abandoned by Oracle (good decision), it was forked [2], maintained and improved for some time, and then withered. I hope someone would take it[3] and write a JavaScript/HTML backend. It has pretty good tooling (IDE support) that could probably be used.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX_Script

[2]: http://javafx.steveonjava.com/accouncing-visage/

[3]: https://github.com/visage-lang
Manhattan used to be far more dense than it is today

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/23/6832975/manhattan-population-de...
Thanks, you're right.
Really?

> Do you take every observation: square it, average the total, then take the square root? Or do you remove the sign and calculate the average?

Neither of these is even an attempt to measure average daily temperature variation. (Assuming any reasonable definition...)

If you're talking about variation from day to day, then looking at differences in max and min, or at given points in time, or on the same day in different years, would be some approaches. Averaging absolute values makes no sense whatsoever -- if the observations were 20 and -20 the result would be the same as if they were 20 and 20. And calculating the standard deviation of the observations is calculating something else again (it might be standard deviation, or it might just be something dumb). Neither of these are problems with standard deviation.

It's sad if newspapers or their readers don't know what standard deviation means, but they're pretty much innumerate across the board so it's not clear whether further muddying terminology is going to help anyone.
you need to consider the alternative. I've been running unix boxes for 30 years, and even though it's node.js-based, even though it's amazon's usual byzantine nonsense, even I think Lambda is a total game changer in the making.
I've heard that many CDNs are still lagging to adopt DASH, and it causes a major problem for any service which wants to implement HTML5 video (DASH + Media Source Extensions). How does it work for Youtube, do they simply run their own CDN?

> DRM is a hugely important part of the online video workflow

I agree to other commenters here who pointed the nonsense of this. DRM is not an important part of the workflow. It's a tool of corrupted groups for standards poisoning, market control and "creative" undemocratic lawmaking.
Yes, of course there are. But how would we buy things we can't afford now without a credit card?! /s
> stick up middle finger when repayment is due

Err, what a terrible idea. That might work once, sure. Then you're pretty fucked for a long time. The only way to avoid the collections would be to full on declare bankruptcy.

Honestly there's basically no situation in which that's a good idea unless you're actually bankrupt.
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They exist and I think probably most people have them. What they don't have is money in their bank accounts.
> Python 2.7 support ends in 2020. That means all updates, including security updates. For all intents and purposes, Python 2.7 becomes an insecure language to use at that point in time.

There are alternative python implementations like pypy, and they haven't expressed an intent to drop python 2.7 support. Only CPython 2.7 will then become an insecure interpreter.
The definition of communism is a classless society where workers have direct control over the means of production.
One of the barriers to adopting MAD() is the two passes over a dataset needed to compute it.

As it happens, I made a MySQL feature request for a MAD() aggregate function when Dr. Taleb's article first appeared. Any upvotes on that request would be welcome.

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=71391
My experience says otherwise (without going into detail). Consumer protections against creditors/debt collectors in the US are stronger than in the UK.
> Youtube, do they simply run their own CDN

Yes, the Google CDN (Google owns Youtube).
Thing is, Google owns the site, and presumably has the right to decide which videos it wants on its site. Unless one thinks they should never be allowed to take videos down, as disgusting or hateful they might be (except for valid DMCA requests), how would you draft that rule?
I guess folks with click-to-play enabled are seeing something like this: http://i.imgur.com/WLaqlXo.png

This was on Firefox by the way.
LOL, kind of like the 18th century witch hunts where the witches cry, "If you must burn me at the stake, at least put me to trial by jury of OTHER WITCHES!" Imagine how that would have gone over :P
Strictly looking at server uptime, yes, it's nearly 5x the cost of comparable t2 on-demand EC2 instances. That can be mitigated if you have spiky traffic where you'd need to turn on several EC2 instances for less than an hour but are stuck paying for the full hour, or if you can scale to zero for extended periods of time. You don't have the ability to serve concurrent requests from a single lambda worker, so if you're waiting for async IO then you're wasting money you wouldn't be wasting with EC2. -- For us lambda was prohibitively expensive at scale. I suspect a fair number of people reporting significant savings vs EC2 had over-provisioned instances.
What is the name for people that believe there is no: santa clause, easter bunny, flying spaghetti monster, ... (without any conclusive proof)?
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Nowadays, I no longer use the distribution Python at all.

Debian Stable and pyenv it is. That way, I have a rock solid operating system and my application are completely decoupled.

Using distribution packages for application deployments is insane. It makes sense for workstation or systems software where the application you develop is part of the operating system, but for a server application, it makes no sense at all.
By "market it a little differently", could you pick a few specific markets. Say for a landscape design company, maybe visitor A to their site is interested in someone to cut their lawn on a regular basis. Visitor B is interested in someone to maintain the flowers and mulch of the gardens in their yard. Visitor C is interested in a new patio. These are entirely different pieces of content, but they are highly specific to one industry.

You landing page approaches it more generally and does not target a specific industry. You need multiple landing pages to give specific examples like this for a set of industries you would like to target.
Can you give some examples where it's more representative? Average height? Average income? There are a lot of arguments in favor of median as a more intuitive replacement (and it is frequently used thus) but consider that:

a) Some people have ZERO income.
b) Either an odd or even number of people have NEGATIVE income.

Every day I deal in execution times, rounded to the nearest integral number of milliseconds. Lots of zeros.

A measure that is (a) not actually intuitively correct, (b) very hard to calculate in your head, and (c) useless for many, many non-trivial cases is NOT a good replacement for "linear mean" which is (a) often intuitively correct, (b) pretty easy to calculate in your head, and (c) always works, seems better.
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I think part of the "surprise" comes from Python being so versatile. I mostly use it for prototyping numerical programming in a research setting, i.e. like MATLAB. So I'm occasionally surprised by the integer division stuff, because I want to just treat my numbers as numbers and be done with it. OTOH, when I'm doing systemsy stuff, it doesn't surprise me at all.
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I do believe in freedom. you should be able to screw anybody you want. You should be able to have any wedding ceremonies you want, provided all parties are willing participants.

When you want the government to force parties to be involved in those ceremonies against their beliefs? That's when I have a big, big, problem, and that's what is happening.
with regards to dark greens coming up the charts. better farming techniques and especially packaging and timely shipping increased the availability. throw in some heavy marketing from the prepackaged crowd and its easy to see why the increase is there.
There are already lots of failure modes that require a tow truck to rescue a human-driven car. I bet the reduction in human-caused accidents (sleepy, drunk, distracted driver) will more than make up for weird new failure modes like sensor-splats.
Why does this guy care if others don't drop Python2 support? Instead, live and let live.

Everyone is going to use what they want. People have been whining about this for almost a decade now, give it up. This community isn't going to be on one version again, and that is NOT the community's fault. It's the core dev team and Guido's for poor decision making, technical churn and refusal to go back and fix their mistakes. There's no technical reason why CPython can't run Python2 and 3 code, JVMs and the CLR have proven this sort of thing is possible.

If there's not strong enough support of Python3, let it die. Technical churn is not supposed to survive, not live on propaganda and coercion. I don't see the problem. If he bought into 3 before it succeeded, he created his own problem. I plan on porting what I have over when 3 actually gets over the hump but not before. That's what's in my best interests, which is what everyone should do (and it's exactly what the core dev team and GVR did).

Besides, if you're not into numerical Python and mainly use it for web, PyPy makes more sense to migrate to than Python3.
It certainly is a fucking adjective.
As a personal prescription, this is great, but as a societal one it's like saying "just don't smoke, it's as easy as that!"

On a national or international scale, we don't get to deal with what ought to be, only what is. And it increasingly looks - Facebook averages 50 minutes of use per day - like the average person either doesn't know or doesn't manage to limit their consumption of these things. Super-satiation is a real problem, is in fact most of our problems from obesity to inaccurate news to dishonest politicians. There comes a point where we have to accept that this is going to take some solution larger than personal responsibility.
There's a yearly discussion about moving from Python 2 to 3.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8730156

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7005711

It's not a very productive use of time.
We'd like to hope that that's an empirical question which economics could answer, but that's not how the discussion tends to go. It also doesn't address the question of how viable life on current minimum wage levels is without external support or high hours, although that depends a lot on local housing costs.

Anyway, none of the parent comment chain mentions minimum wage; we started off talking about social policy and LGBT acceptance/hostility.
Sure. Ofk we used PH & HN and Reddit in the beginning (and many others startup platforms). Tried to reach industry bloggers (had some effect) and reporters (did not succeed here). Tried a content (which brought high quality leads, but quantity was pretty small), tried to reach some local marketing communities. Also tried to reach agencies (failed here).

Even if we received very positive feedback on product / idea and plans on integration - the process of generating hypothesis and creating different variations was pretty time-consuming and in the end people did not complete it.

Posting to StackThatMoney definitely sounds like something worth trying, and we’ll give it a shot. Thank you!
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If we are acting like this, then I use onenote for written math which google docs is fairly incapable of, also msft seems to take my privacy a bit more seriously, c.f. Timeline of fixes for logjam attack in popular browsers...
When I worked at certain top software companies the people I worked with were often so talented and, most importantly, cared enough about the work they did that we could have produced great software with any form of process. In fact, we often started with "base Scrum" and about 6 or so months in we would have a completely modified version of Scrum.

My point is, I don't think Valve is hiring average or below average people. Their process works for them because great people make any process work. Or maybe great people just make their own process, which is the most Agile-y of Agile things you can possibly do.
So why don't other CDNs support DASH?
BOOMx2! Good guess. That makes a lot of sense.