skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think time pressure is the worst thing cited here, and it's the reason I tend to stay away from methods in which I sense agility.

The time estimate and completion time features on tools like Jira make my insides sink a little bit. I think it's somewhat difficult to know ahead of time exactly how long something will take to implement, and, even worse, committing yourself to that puts pressure to ignore unforeseen events or complications or to not take care of them properly. I'd rather be extra careful than quick.

Assuming your team isn't massive or out of control, I think it's possible to have trust in programmers that they won't muck about and will deliver work in the time it takes to deliver the work--which for a good programmer isn't affected by management or Jira or estimates. It's just a constant.
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Without commenting on the whole matter, isn't the "125 times" kind of irrelevant? It seems intended to sound bad, like you're hiding a lot more by invoking the fifth 125 times than, say, 5. But if someone has decided they're going to "plead the fifth", then they'll invoke it for every related question asked. Apparently there were 125 of those.
Which myth? Did we read the same article?

> That there's no more middle ground in the app store, only the Clash of Clans and Candy Crushes and the rest with no downloads

Did he say anything like that?

In the version I read he said that his games weren't making enough money to be viable, though he expected the market to be big enough to support their work. No mention of middles, Clash of Clans or anything.

FWIW: I also let my Apple dev license lapse, for similar reasons. Perhaps I could have gained that 'valuable knowledge' through years of experience, to get to a point of making a modest return. Perhaps. But, like Jeff, I found other platforms to be much more financially viable.
No, I do not think this becomes 'groundwater'

Fracking is below the water table and and water used will be effectively lost to the water cycle. If it does leak back up, it will be polluted.
You have to confer with the third twin who disagrees with the others. Hasn't anyone seen minority report?

Or, you know, the predictor in the random forest that is weighted very low.
This ignores the very real issue of big companies pulling the top talent out of the country. You'll be left picking over the left overs. The H1-B lottery is annoying, but most companies simply have their employees wait it out on a TN.

Not everyone that is talented will move to the USA, but you better believe the prospect of literally making 2x the pay is worth it to most people. Especially when most talent is hired right out of school before they start putting any real roots down.
> For a new project I'm in, maybe we go to replace jenkins with concourseci or drone.

I love Concourse. Look me up if you have questions.
Completely agree except the light argument -- having my lights cloud connected allows me to control them remotely. The main use for this is for time or sunrise/sunset scheduling. However you could quite easily architecture this without cloud connectivity, it seems easiest to keep the bulb dumb and keep the 'smarts' elsewhere (whether that's on a phone locally or a server in the cloud).
The point of a terrorist attack on the subway would be to get the subway closed for a while. Every day it is closed, the city suffers economic damage.

The point of a terrorist act causing loss of life is to create the fear that will cause economic damage, not to somehow wipe out lots of civilians.

In a war, the willingness to kill civilians is proportional to the need to do so to make an impact on the opponent's will to fight. Obviously nobody would prefer to kill civilians over combatants, but all militaries will do it without hesitation if circumstances dictate.
I've been debating about hooking my garage door opener up using a built-in feature so I could open the door from my iPhone. I don't trust that whatever central site I'll be connected to is safe. If I _knew_ the vendor had implemented your protocol/software well, and I _knew_ your software was safe, yeah, I'd use it. But I don't know those two things, so no way am I hooking my home's door up to the Internet...
There is a Postgresql weekly, a web operations one, and a Go one. You can find them all off of http://golangweekly.com/
Interesting, thanks for the link. I wonder about their trial and error approach as well. Scientists have conveniently broken down genetic material into individual genes which are easy to think about, but biology doesn't care about being easy to think about. It seems like to get anywhere they would have to knock down genes in all sorts of different combinations, not just one at a time.
I'm guessing he is referring to the Xperia Play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xperia_Play
Eve Developer Diary (March 2016 Part 2: Platform)
Oddly, was hoping this was a way to turn URLs into long URLs; 2,083 characters if you want to support all the web clients.
The problem is not one of minimality, but of meaning and exposition. If you model a system using the smallest possible mathematical model you don't, from that act alone, understand how the system works.
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Consumers’ love for streamed TV keeps growing
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> They trust me because of personal history, not because some banner says they should.

The chain of trust is not to tell your users to trust you. It's to tell your users not to trust me, even if I look just like you.
In spite of my better judgement, I'll continue this discussion. What could possibly be your moral objection to soy? Is it GMO related? If it's Monsanto's abusive practices toward farmers, how is eating turkey any different, considering the similar entrapment practices of the poultry industry? If it's because you object to the idea of GMOs, then have you considered that GMO practices could help develop crops for cultivation in hunger-stricken areas, and that GMOs can enable the use of pesticides that are less damaging to the environment? How do you justify that objection when it stifles progress that could save lives? It seems similar to objections to stem cell research.

If it's unrelated to GMOs, I'm genuinely interested in what your objection might be.
CloudFlare is a perfect companion for something like this because you can hard cache the redirects on their edges. I have a few services that run off tiny boxes, and just leverage CloudFlare free edge caching.
I was going to say exactly this--never realized how breathtakingly cool/large/long/complex that canal was until now.
I definitely see where he is coming from but throwing out all management and issue tracking (although yeah, jira is pretty bad) is definitely not always the answer. There are plenty of examples of teams for which fine-grained issue tracking has worked, as well as counter-examples like this one and it is hard to take this post as more than a generalizing anecdote.

From what I read, it honestly sounds like maybe things started slowing down because 1. development generally slows down as a project becomes bigger (even when keeping technical debt in mind) and 2. Because of a shitty feature request. Yeah, it sounds like the PM didn't help either but it's not clear to me that they were the biggest problem here (although it is true that PMs can definitely be hit and miss, even more so when hired in the middle of the project's lifecycle).
Haven't looked at it in detail, but have you mentioned docker builds?
I see you wrote about mock, which is immensely useful for building RPM packages.
But docker seems well-suited for this task, for example:
https://github.com/alanfranz/docker-rpm-builder

What's your take on this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751312
Someone missed the point.
If we're in a simulation, there is no spoon, man. Nor a worm that needs that apple. The water isn't simulated because there is no water.
Yeah, that would explain why the thinner one sold better. It's not because people value thin, it's because people value saving money.
I'm getting a bit tired of reading this 'Elon Musk says we live in a simulation'. No he didn't! At least he wasn't the first one to say it. The idea isn't his. The philosophical idea has been around since when people started questioning existence and actual theoretical basis of living in a computer simulation argument has been around since well 2001.

http://www.simulation-argument.com
You want to create a plan for your entire life? That sounds really fucking boring, not to mention destined to fail miserably. If you think you're worried now without a plan, just think how worried you'll be when things don't go according to your plan.

If you're healthy, you have nothing to really worry about. If you're not, there's your plan until you achieve some semblance of health.

If you have all the money you could ever need, then you have nothing to worry about. If not, get busy figuring out how to make at least enough money to live on. For some, it's simply, "get a damn job." For others, you'll have to figure it out on your own.

If you're getting all the sex you want, then you have nothing to worry about. If you're not, then get busy learning the ins and outs of relationships and all that crap.

If you have some skill that you're really fucking good at already, then you have nothing to worry about. If not, you get the idea.

No one can tell you with certainty what to do with your life. Pick a thing and start doing it until it's no longer interesting. Then pick something else. Stay in touch with your family and friends. Exercise a lot and eat as healthy as possible. Make some money, have some sex, take some risks, whatever.

Good luck.
I'd never heard of PeARS. I was just discussing this very idea with a friend of mine. I'd love to see a decentralized web, but search seems like a really tricky problem in that space. This is a clever solution.
Was that a pun?

Out of curiosity, how does Chomsky's generative model account for language understanding?
fun satellite thing: there's actually a LOT of old geostationary orbit telecom satellites which are still alive for command and control, and their transponders still work, but they're out of mainstream commercial service because they've long ago exhausted their station keeping propellant. So you need an earth station dish with two axis tracking motorized servos/gears/stepper motors to talk to them reliably.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=inc...
34 states plus D.C. now have laws against 'revenge porn'

http://www.cybercivilrights.org/revenge-porn-laws/

According to the article linked below, although the posting of explicit pictures of people online against their will is a legal gray area:

"[T]he legal landscape is changing and states are moving towards criminalizing revenge porn."

http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn-...
I think Elon is wrong, but for technical reasons, not philosophical ones. For one, we do not have photorealistic simulations for real-time games. We're not even close, frankly. Still-renders can pass the photorealism barrier, as in indistinguishable from a photograph, but even state-of-the-art triple A games are still facilely obvious simulations.

Most importantly, there hasn't been much progress in the past few years. Compare Battlefield 3 (2011) with Battlefield 4 (2013) with Battlefield 1 (2016, strangely enough), and you really won't see that much progress in realism. While you can get pretty screenshots, as soon as it's in motion, the distance from reality is obvious. What's missing is physics. Good physics simulations (ie fluid flow, soft-body, divisible materials, etc) is so computationally expensive that I doubt anything even approaching it will ever be realtime possible.

Why? Because the rate of improvement is slowing. Those paying attention know Moore's law is running out of steam (Intel recently had to insert an extra tick into their tick-tock model), and power draw / heat dissipation are ever more difficult to push. Arguments for the singularity / simulation all rely on an exponential curve being projected as far into the future as the speaker feels necessary, but in reality, there is no such thing as an exponential curve. All physical processes that experience exponential looking growth eventually slow down, forming a logistic curve, and it's looking like the growth curve for FLOPS is going to top out well before "photorealistic realtime simulation of the entire world available to every consumer".
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It's true that ruby is slow, but your algorithms and code organization matters more than the language. Quick sort in BASIC will still beat bubble sort in C for a sufficiently large data. Are you doing DB tests? consider using a clean in memory DB. Are you calling 3rd party API's? Black box it, mock, stub, dummy em. 10 minutes is really a lot, unless you happen to have thousands up thousands of tests and running on a raspbery pi. Put your tests through a profile to find out why it's taking too long.
Ethereum Devs Hack the Hacker, Price Skyrockets
And here I was trying to imagine space guppies.
"The problem is that computer science education is obscenely expensive" -- No, its not. In fact if you're really smart it's free
The fifth amendment is one of the most brilliant devices ever created in law - and you should always take advantage of it
no, they'll just turn it off, in the entire history of geostationary telecom satellites nobody has launched one with enough reserve delta-V/propellant to deorbit itself. To go from a 36,000 x 36,000 km circular orbit to a 36,000 x 250 km orbit (where the atmospheric drag would cause it to reenter) is a LOT of retrograde delta-v required). There's talk of requiring enough reserve propellant to boost to a new 'graveyard' orbit 1000 km beyond geostationary before turning off a satellite, but it's rarely implemented.
maybe I'm biased because I'm a software engineer, but I really dont see the controversy here.

When you realize that an algorithm is just a process to be performed, what is new here other than using a computer and a large amount of data? Judges always have been using information to predict the harm that a defendant might do in the future. I dont have the data, but I'm sure that past convictions, antisocial behavior, friends that have pro criminal beliefs, etc do in fact correlate with future criminal behavior.

Now I know that correlation is not causation, but still. Is this just because the algorithm is closed source? A judges thought process is closed source also, no? To me this seems like an obvious and good thing.

edit: paragraphs
There’s likely strict quality control being enforced by Snapchat. It will be interesting to see them scale this.

Given that a small number of companies are responsible for a large proportion of brand advertising spend, I would posit that it isn't too difficult to scale quality control if you focus on building relationships exclusively with heavy spenders. Quality control becomes a bottleneck at the long tail end of the market, where ad budget per creative is much smaller. At the top end, you can behave like a TV channel and reuse established quality control practices. If you have 100m+ active users and a video-heavy medium, this shouldn't be impossible to accomplish.

That said, I have heard several reports about Snapchat's eagerness to build programmatic ad expertise, which (in the context of this discussion) may pointing to one of the following possibilities:

1. Large brands are not exhibiting TV-style buying behaviour (i.e. large upfront buys) on Snapchat. This would make sense as it mirrors trends in the rest of the industry. If you, as the buyer, have access to technology that lets you better control and manage your spend, gather intelligence, and understand ROI, then why wouldn't you? This is the buying mechanism that programmatic technology enables, and its more or less incompatible with TV-style upfront buys.

2. Snapchat wants to open their doors to mid-market and long tail advertisers. The goal might be to boost spending, drive up prices, or to go after performance advertising dollars. If I were a Snapchat investor, I'd find this second scenario slightly worrying, as quality control becomes very very difficult.
I read about this algorithm when playing with Hashicorp's vault. Very elegant solution to a problem.

[1] https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/concepts/seal.html
> Does it matter more that there's no duplicate particles (ie. no changes of a copy being made)?

Yes, it does matter. No copy being introduced means it's just a translation of displacement. That's an entirely different operation.

Quantum tunnelling is fun to think about, but at the scale of atoms it starts to lose any relevance, and at the scale of neurons has no meaning at all.
I was a little confused with the two posts when read together...I get that the GUI isn't yet complete, so I don't think I'm meant to understand what the grid demo is showing or how it connects to the backend...but in the second section, a lot of attention is given to the REPL...is one of the foreseen use cases that users will be entering data via REPL?
And handle an HN influx better than many Wordpress sites.
Unless you've worked in Enterprise, you'll be surprised by what is important. And this is actually an important feature, in my opinion.

Enterprise is all about reducing risk and that's because, a screw up can bring down an entire company. There is a reason why they get ISO certified among other things.

In the post, they talk about using locking to signal intent to change, which is also very important in enterprise. In enterprise, you have domain experts and they know if you muck around with a certain variable setting and if the value isn't correct or is just off, it can make their job and others a pain in the ass.

So if you are a domain expert and if there is a trivial way to ensure people don't ruin your day, you'll use it.

Locking is also useful for locking down certain parts of your software, which is something verification would normally insist on.

Mistakes happen and in the open source world, it's a shrug off the shoulder, in enterprise, it translates into loss money.
>not only the top .1%

>look at the Top 200

There are more than 200,000 apps out there.
Shortened a URL, but service doesn't appear to redirect:
http://lon.gs/akt

EDIT: Very strange, the redirect now goes to a URL I didn't enter... (http://www.sadfasdfasfdasdfsadfasd.com)
The number of consumers watching more than 10 hours per week of over-the-top (OTT) streamed video grew by 50 percent annually.

Almost 70 percent of consumers subscribe to at least one paid OTT stream video service, such as Netflix or Hulu.

Tthe number of consumers who have at least one OTT streamed video jumped by 15 percent.

The number of consumers buying more than
one streamed service.

Consumers with two or more OTT services grew by 36 percent.
I am all on-board with reasons with critique. I guess I'm asking about the difference between:
"I think this is good/bad because..."
and
"This is good/bad because...."

The latter one is just dropping words; it's still a think you think, whether you acknowledge that or not.
Especially since he was being questioned by a conservative group who's suing the government over the matter to keep it in headlines. Once they figure out he's pleading the fifth, they're going to ask 125 questions to craft the headline.
You could install it on a device and then remotely access it. The software handles a lot of complexity for you. We're working with several vendors about incorporating it as a network layer and then using our (to be released soon) SDK to allow iOS/Android apps to directly access things.
We have a client that needs to know up front what things will cost, so that it can be budgeted, and the budget approved. They get a SOW (as tight as we can get it), and an estimate (which, to them, is a quote). The estimate is whatever the developers have estimated the tasks to be, multiplied by three. It seems to cover us in most cases, and the client happily pays.
The number of consumers watching more than 10 hours per week of over-the-top (OTT) streamed video grew by 50 percent annually.

Almost 70 percent of consumers subscribe to at least one paid OTT stream video service, such as Netflix or Hulu.

Tthe number of consumers who have at least one OTT streamed video jumped by 15 percent.

The number of consumers buying more than one streamed service. Consumers with two or more OTT services grew by 36 percent.
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This isn't about polluting water, it's about injecting waste water into deep reservoirs from which it will not return to the surface in the meaningfully near future.
When I was a starting developer in Oklahoma, making just a smidgen more than half of that I was saving the same ($55k-$60k). Worked barely 40 hours per week and lived in an apartment less than a block from work.

I left because I wanted and liked living in the middle of the city and wanted a change. I'm in Austin now and I feel like downtown Austin offers a nice compromise between expense of living and salary and tech community (like minded individuals) when compared to San Francisco. My salary is similar to what I was offered in San Francisco (almost negligible difference), but my apartment is substantially nicer than anything I had a fighting chance for in San Francisco. I bike or walk everywhere and don't need or use a car. I'm very close to feeling like I've hit the sweet spot and being content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_prediction is usually done by searching for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_reading_frame
Is there actually a good reason for this "feature" outside of airport and coffee shop WiFi?

Basically you have a 2000 mile data path to your light bulb because routers suck and networking engineers are cargo cult morons.
It was a very important step for people of USSR to understand that TV != truth. The movie was to the very point. Quite an important topic for USSR with an absolutely absurd statement just forces people to think and rely on their own judgement only. And it simple to do in this case.

Now people not just was given a freedom to think. Now it is a must. To think and to have OWN opinion.
Note that if you have an extension like HTTPS Everywhere, you might have to disable it.
At least I could only connect to plain HTTP.
Aside from the points that beevai made, there are substantial differences between the theories here. Wu's theory is not just that ball lightning is a plasma bubble, but that it is a plasma bubble which holds inside of it a very strong standing wave of microwave radiation. It is this radiation which is the main energy driver of the phenomenon and is also the main explanation for how it can pass through objects.
A little late, but for the downvoters' edification, see if you can spot the conflict of interest when a fortmer Gator/Claria exec joins the DHS Data Privacy & Integrity Advisory Comittee. Feel free to check the other members' agendas:

http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?...

Or, here's the legwork done for you from 2011:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/11/30/bfp-report-meet-t...
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I think it really depends on the level to which you use tools like JIRA, and it also depends on how involved the developers are in the project planning.

We use JIRA, but our PMs understand the importance of fixing things that are broken. Refactoring code is usually added as a subtask to stories that have to deal with the code that needs refactored.

I will agree that micro-managing is not a good way to do software development, but many times if you just go pure laissez fair then a lot of times projects go off the rails.