skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"eight-hour Scrum meeting"

Why are you having an eight hour Scrum meeting?

Isn't that the complete opposite of what a Scrum meeting is supposed to be? 15 minute max, standup meeting is a Scrum.
> these days native apps seem to consistently provide better experiences than their web counterparts, with better performance, smoother animations, and fully integrated with the device OS.

These days? When have native apps not had these properties?
i think it was hemingway who was quoted as saying something like this.

and yea, it can be hard to start the next day when you've put a bow on a task and must choose between multiple new paths.
I've gave up for different reason, I felt everything was copy/pasted in a hurry.
My vote would go to perspective projection
Those are run-on sentences of the "comma splice" variety. This could be a non-native English writer, coming from a language in whose written conventions (orthography), independent clauses can be correctly joined by a comma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice
I hope it helps, but it doesn't seem like a sure thing on the face of it. To the extent these big, expensive government projects are similar to smaller “dumb-customer” projects, I don’t think this will help.

Anything that requires working with a hard to work with organization is “expensive” in one way or another. You need to sell them the project, which could take months or years. You need to figure out what they need, which will be difficult and you’ll be wrong because no one knows, nevermind articulating it . You’ll be forced to take numerous long cuts to meet unnecessary requirements. There will be iterations, slow progress, long waits for client input, training…

The companies who succeed at this are the ones who are experts in this process. They sell well. They’re good at “managing the process” and winning when a project is 3 years overdue, over budget, the spec is on iteration 46, and no one can remember the original goal.

OTOH, if the government is developing software, why shouldn’t it be open source. At the least, its good transparency.
Yeah I hear they even use the GPU to render window managers too, nowadays. Imagine that! :)
>> up-ward facing directional antenna?

That would only add more limitations. The sat isn't always directly overhead. Directional limitations open up the possibility of random signal loss, such as when a plane is turning away from the sat. This would appear as a dropped signal until the sat came around again, perhaps an hour or more later. If this is to be used as a black box then handshakes need to be as reliable and regular as possible.

Omnidirectional units (on the aircraft) are also cheaper and allow improvements to be made on the sat side of the equation without new hardware on the more expensive aircraft side.
No part of this article concerns itself with preservation of AAVE.
I would say yes, given that it's such a simplistic framing of the situation - the impression given (whether intended or not) is ah, those liberals and socialists with their multicultural dreams! When will they wake up and see that it doesn't work! The response was fine
The best approach is to consider yourself a company.
Your time is your commodity, your goal is to make profit.
Don't give for free your commodity, understand well how is valued in the current market and how to increase that value.

Never go to ask for a bonus/raise because you "deserve" it, but because your skills are valued x in the current job market.
I suspect the confusion comes from the many forms of priming, some of which are established, others of which are suspect.

Not an expert, but I thought it was by now common knowledge that social priming is a field in crisis, where failure to replicate is the norm, not the exception[1,2].

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

[2] http://chronicle.com/article/Power-of-Suggestion/136907/
I mention the name in passing as others wrote on it. A lot on it haha.

Your comment on image is possibly also true. I remember much of the press of another messenging app oriented toward privacy came because it advertised as "the beautiful messenger" with many nice pictures. It was Icelandic with .is site but I don't recall name. Versus competition, wasn't much to say in terms of implemented features or security. The U.I. was beautiful, though. ;)

Note: The Apple website takes this technique about as far as it can go outside a dedicated, high-def, image board.

Note 2: I could add Nim to my prior list if there's been any work evaluating it for security-critical applications. Particularly, how it helps or hinders expressing such things plus risk compiler brings in during transformations. Anything on that yet?
All Bulgarian TV shows invite the same bunch of around 50 self-proclaimed experts (supposed historians, economists, national security experts, sociologists). These people spread tons of lies and misconceptions to the wider public which is generally badly informed and uncaring. Mixing in a little bit of obvious truth with the rest of the garbage makes them look like a credible authority.
This was also my first reaction. The PGP part might have been audited... but what about the rest of the code? I highly doubt Electron is bullet proof.
I'd heard and read about the "hot hand" effect being a fallacy in a lot of places. It never made sense to me. I'm glad it is finally getting debunked.

Anyone who has played sports for a length of time would likely say that they feel more in control of their body at certain times. It could be because the brain chemistry becomes temporarily balanced, reducing anxiety, so their brain doesn't distract them as much. It could be a lingering pain/headache suddenly disappearing so it no longer becomes a physical distraction. It could be something directly related to muscle control, like minor tremors going away giving you more direct control over your body. In the case of sports with "fine tuning" like basketball where if you feel you are shooting short, you make the change to put more strength into it to "hone in" on the basket and start hitting shots. So, there are definitely times where you not only feel more capable of doing what you need to do over a short period of time. Due to current circumstances, you actually are more capable.
Yea, seriously. I never thought of myself as an envious person until coming out here to Silicon Valley and observing the random-jackpot nature of success. You struggle to afford a home hours away from work, while sitting right next to someone with the same skills, job title, education, work history, etc. who has a few million in the bank and drives a new Tesla, and the only difference is he started at the company 6 months before you did. :-/
One can consistently accept a study as well-implemented/operationalized while acknowledging a reasonable chance that the results are garbage, and that repeating the study might not yield significant results.The proper conclusion of a statistically oriented study is a probability distribution across several potentially contradictory propositions. One is never forced to "exclude the middle" as a result of a study, and conclude either A or not A.

Re-reading what you said I think we're in agreement already. I was nit-picking at the idea that a study has a single conclusion which is either true or not true. The conclusion of most studies is properly a vector and a hefty pinch of salt imo.

edit: clarity
Agreed. There is real irresponsibility in choosing this name. Thinking that this wont be used against the encryption community is naive and short-sided.
They do however use facilities that are paid for by taxes, people remote working and travelling are already in a privileged position with their job and freedom/flexibility.

Skipping taxes just seems unfair on locals and personally I wouldn't do it as I don't agree with super rich people that have complex tax arrangements so I'm not going to forgive the smaller fish either.
List of great articles on API design, development and use
Well yes, I do want to avoid any unnecessary overhead, and specifically I want to avoid any dynamic memory allocation. Consider a design for a hard real-time system and/or microcontrollers where you want to have all memory allocated statically. In C++ this is pretty easy to do if you want it (hint: don't use shared_ptr).
Scrolling on luameter.com is broken in mobile Safari. Just FYI.
Can't Stick to Your Diet or Workout Plan? Just Remember the Turtle
No, it's not.

In case "mandatory crunch time" becomes the norm, I simply look for another job.

Being able to appreciate that I have that choice is another matter.
Sounds like your cohort was great. There was an "unschooled" girl in my college friend group who was failing remedial math and science classes in her third year. She never wanted to learn basic mathematics (we're talking long division here), so she never did, and she did not understand how to motivate herself to learn about something she wasn't already interested in. She didn't end up graduating despite the small, private school bending over backwards to try to accommodate her with personal tutoring and endlessly lengthening deadlines. She was first chair violin and had an almost full ride scholarship because of it, so she didn't lack motivation in general she just could not bring herself to care about math or science even when her degree was on the line.

That's the value school has. It teaches you how to learn about things you might not be interested in, but will be useful later in life.
Thanks for the hint, I must look at Nim sometime :)
ISP blocking of port 25 significantly curtails the spam problem. Imagine if every subscriber could connect to any SMTP server in the world and send an e-mail.

I agree that too aggressive port blocking is a problem, though.
Do they offer end-to-end encryption? If they use ZFS I assume they should have checksums that detect data corruption.
Here's an email that outlines the administration's argument against Wikileaks.

https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/29253

Whistleblowing is when someone reveals an act of official wrongdoing,
and because it is official wrongdoing we assume that it's in the
public interest to know about this and hold the culprits accountable.

Instead what WL is exposing, by and large, is a vast number
of official acts of rightdoing — diplomats engaged often with
partners from other governments or civil society...

...accomplishing good objectives demands the kind of cooperative
engagement that confidential relations permit, and so, while we
can and should maintain a general commitment to transparency,
we also can and should recognize that a responsible government
that is to be held accountable for delivering benefits for its
people, will sometimes need to work in confidence in order to
do so.

Whistleblowing exposes misconduct that runs counter to the interests
of citizens. Wikileaks undermines good conduct on behalf of citizens.
> [1] Its a brazilian thing, we can't throw our shit paper in the toilet.

Why ? Is it cultural or technical ?
GK was 45 years old when he first did a show in New York. He moved back to St. Paul five years later. The show is typically touring around the country and the world. He has split his time since 1987 living in New York and Minnesota. How does the fact that he decided, in his middle age, to live in New York at various times. suddenly change his work into mean-spirited mockery?

I don't think you understand his work. You don't have to like it, but that doesn't mean you know what he's trying to say.
Had they been honest would this have been a problem?
Also: Diddly.

(Diddly's Law: As the years roll by on the internet, the probability of someone mentioning Godwin once Hitler has been mentioned, is approaching 1.)
Listen to the best live radio stations on Spotify (the music)
I'll never forget when he brought his show to my hometown. I got one of the last seats in the house, literally way back against the wall. Good times.
I love those pictures! - although it took a while the page to load.
No. Neither this essay nor the Oakland school system announcement that prompted it ever suggested "teaching AAVE in school". As the essay points out: that would be stupid, since students arrive at school already knowing AAVE.

The bulk of the essay is an exploration of what AAVE actually is. Some of what emerges debunks the notion --- casually tossed off in your comment --- that the rules of AAVE are somehow lower-class; many of them are shared by other dialects of English, and even more are present in the primary dialects of other languages.

Even more persuasive is the essay's central implied point: contrary to your description of AAVE as "street talk", AAVE is an intricately and rigidly defined dialect of English. You can't speak or write it simply by mangling Standard English. Well-educated writers who have samples of AAVE to work from fail comprehensively at replicating it, as the essay demonstrates in its hilarious payoff.

To the extent the essay concerns itself with AAVE education, it's to point out that AAVE-aware education produces superior results in outcomes for Standard English education, in the same sense that teaching French people to speak Standard English is easier when you allow the speakers to acknowledge the French language.
Thanks for the tips on other apps and the Android distro. Much appreciated. Far as Signal issue, I did find this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/4cd451/libresignal_sig...

Perhaps some more volunteers putting effort in could remedy the situation.
How am I a "nutter with guns"? What makes me a nutter? I find that fairly rude to be honest.

Please read this to understand my objections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12028162
I'd prefer power in the hands of the few. The selection of the few needs fine tuning and fixing though.

The cumulative intelligence and decision making capability of the herd is great at wasting everyone's time and the worlds resources. Thanks to visionary lizard person Mark Zuckerberg, we are all connected now whether we like it or not. And the stampeding brainless herd is going to be dragging each one of us in directions we have no control over.

As long as China doesn't implode, they have an opportunity here to show the world a way out. If they do implode we have to just wait around for a better, more effective centralized system to evolve.
I forgot to write it was a great post and very enlightening. :)
One of the more interesting things I read about Richard Feynman was his interest in lucid dreaming. His point, which I found quite compelling, is that you have no trouble "seeing" things with your eyes closed when you're dreaming, so the mechanics of that should work regardless of whether or not you are in a conscious or unconscious state.

As a result, the ability to "see" things (or hallucinate) is a function of figuring out how to disable the mechanism we develop at a young age which tells our visual center to stop sending images when the optic nerve is not receiving input.

It took me probably 8 years of trying off and on until I got to the point where I can switch on visual impressions with my eyes closed occasionally. I really have to get other thoughts out of my head (meditation techniques are good for that) and it does have to be in a dark room or with a light tight blindfold as pretty much any light on the optic nerve will switch the visual feed back to the eyeballs.
The explanation is alluded to in the second half of the paragraph you quoted: It was a land-grab strategy to build a customer base in the nascent online retail market.

Edit: There are other ways that Amazon leverages volume to be able to sell at what appears externally to be a slight loss, but I believe in the context of the quoted paragraph the person being quoted is simply referring to the above.
He did articles for newspapers and webmagazines in the 00s, they had an Andy Rooney-ish "I hate people these days and everything they do" thing going.
Schools in the United States teach African-Americans standard English. Please keep in mind this article refers to one city, 20 years ago.

African-American parents push for standard English as well.

African-Americans know fitting into mainstream culture improves life opportunities.

African-Americans don't actively (or passively) despise the mainstream culture.

African-Americans do complain about the reactions from people and police which affect them negatively, even when wearing a suit and speaking perfect proper English.

Is it possible black people aren't really different but are treated differently? Why?

Or maybe my reading, travel, and observations have selection bias skewed too positively.
I have to disagree that about the magical monkey patching. Event driven systems can be made to be very simple and easy to understand, and such that much boilerplate is avoided. It's just that most programmers are not capable of doing that, and the frameworks that become popular usually aren't subsequenty "fixed".

A few hints how to do it:

- no shared_ptr / ref counting, make object ownership clear

- design to allow destroying an object at any time even from a callback

- don't make callbacks harder than they need to be (use virtual functions or simple macro hackery to reduce boilerplate of using function pointers; don't introduce "signals and slots")
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12024734
When my little sister was a toddler she would eat dirt, dead wasps and generally everything unable to outrun her.
I'm amazed he sustained this as long as he did. It was a charming concept when he got started ... but its frozen-in-time quality lost me after a while.

Doing a show about a weird little slice of Americana will never grow old. It's just that the slice needs to keep changing every 5-10 years.
I agree, it makes no sense, not only from a planning perspective from an implementation perspective, specifically...

"In order to keep costs low on testing you need to test more software, so you do a bigger release with more changes - economies of scale thinking."

If you wanted to keep testing costs low, you wouldn't do bigger releases, you'd create automated tests. You may spend more effort up front on building the tests, but as long as you make the test components modular and target the tests at the right level of your application the 'cost' of testing will decrease over time.
Yes you're right.

It's hard to say that most mistakes are avoided from two audits. Especially in a browser; there's a lot of attack vectors.
SQLite Tempdir Selection Vulnerability
How to steal an election
Unfortunately, these endless tangents are becoming increasingly common on HN. I guess these are people who want to show off how smart they are but really don't have anything interesting to say about the topic at hand, so they go for the low-hanging fruits like spelling, layout, titles, and so on.
You mean they will block the one big release for a year?

Or are you implying there will be a working hotfix soon after the release?

What about security updates then?

See, in a weekly model you can probably safely skip a cycle. Not so with a big release. If the release has some critical functionality broken, you might be waiting a long time for it to get fixed.
The assumption is that if there is something you need to know and you encounter a situation that requires it, you can learn it. And if it turns out you do not need it, you saved the time. Further, formal instruction only works for some types of people, albeit probably most. Synthesis from learning when you are interested tends to be more useful than memorization. The experienced part is the scary one, although in terms of spending time with peers, doing sports, art, etc. we did not really miss out on that.
I disagree. We associate schooling with authority. Learning may or may not co-occur with schooling depending on circumstances.

There is only a focus on "learning" until maybe 5th grade. What you do in school after that isn't making sure you learn so much as making sure you know a base set of things.

Thereafter there tend to be two types of successful students: the ones that chase A-grades ("good students"), and the ones who settle for somewhere around or just above B-grades but explore the material more freely. The key distinctions between those groups have been, in my experience, respect for authority and self discipline.

Later in life they seem to correlate with two common tropes: the person who is not superficially brilliant but can apply themselves to something for long periods of time and "just get it done", and something akin to the hacker trope: clearly intelligent, capriciously disorganize, but utterly omnivorous for any and all interesting skills and knowledge.
Could mean: the purchasing power of a dollar shrinks each year, so revenue needs to grow in order to buy the same things (e.g. developer labor) that could be purchased with last year's revenue.
You know that English only became a lingua franca in the 20th century? Before that, hardly anything of scientific significance was expressed or published in English? The seminal works in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology were written in German, Latin, etc
My sister and I, long time listeners to PHC, had both noticed that the monologues had declined in recent years, but we felt that they had gotten a bit better in this last year. I think Keillor wanted to go out on a high note and do his best in these final shows.
Sure, but the comment I was responding to seemed to worry about conserving AAVE because it equated displacing AAVE with genetically eradicating black skin color.

People change their language all the time (which is why the skin color comparison is nonsense to begin with). Ultimately that means some languages are going to be discontinued. Preservation helps preventing these languages (as cultural heritage) from being forgotten.

Saying AAVE speakers shouldn't learn and speak GA is more akin to saying redheads shouldn't should only procreate with other redheads because otherwise redhead culture might go "extinct" (or rather: only survive in the form of occasional mutations).
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The Myth of Cosmopolitanism
The essay mentions the situation with Norwegian dialects, and notes that unlike the United States and AAVE, or the UK with Cockney, Norwegians respect and honor their rural dialects --- and apparently have superior educational outcomes as one result.
You don't need shared_ptr in C++, and I prefer to never use it (or reference counting generally) in general. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12031739
amazing all the ways in which privacy can leak
I got hired to do some VC you have heard about websites and http://angularattack.com/ contest and others after showing http://umbrellajs.com/ (and after http://picnicss.com/ ) on the front page. It was really awesome, since it was almost the only email I got from the Show HN, but also a great opportunity.
I agree, there are many other pieces there. Perspective correct texture mapping is another big one, and above this all are shaders.

I wanted to visualize the part that is at the very base - the scanline Z-buffer rendering. The foundation of the pyramid of complications that is the mainline 3D rendering.
I don't think that's it. Sure, the name is low-hanging fruit, but it's important low-hanging fruit.

Criticizing a name is hardly something that "shows off" smarts. Dismissing everyone for having nothing interesting to say, on the other hand...
I enjoyed the musical guests. I'm looking forward to the new show, which I think will give me a lot of what I went to PHC for in the first place.
There's a "rename" button on Github. It will handle redirects for you. Fixing a future PR nightmare couldn't be easier.
514 days ago we launched JustWatch - https://www.justwatch.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005641

By now, we're the largest streaming search engine in the world, having surpassed both canistream.it and instantwatcher.com - and the hybrid app is nearing one million Android downloads now while still being featured on the Cordova and Ionic showcases. All this with zero marketing dollars invested and no venture capital on board. Fun ride so far :)