skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, but the 4 crewmembers are in the employee lounge and just a 3 minute walk from the gate. They can still make the flight before all the passengers are out of the jetway...

In that case, I'm saying there would only be up to 66 (not 70) paying customers in the jetway. This still leaves 4 available seats for the deadheading United employees.

In other words, don't render those 4 extra United employees "invisible" to the reservation system only to later make them "visible" when they finally show up at the gate after all 70 passengers are already in their seats. United knew they needed those 4 employees in Kentucky hours before customers boarded #3411 in Chicago. The issue is that they had zero empty seats on that flight so they had to bribe/force 4 "volunteers" to give up their seats.

If United's computer system doesn't have enough sophistication to set aside plane seats for employees that have higher priority than paying customers, they deserved to have the situation escalate into a Mexican standoff between the gate agent, the seated customer, and the Chicago police.

If you're talking about a rare emergency circumstance where United's operations center doesn't know they need those 4 seats for employees until after all customers are boarded, yes that can still happen. However, that wasn't the case for flight #3411. The 4 employees were "running late" to appear at #3411's gate. This means they were not a "hot standby" crew at the airport's lounge. Instead, it meant that these employees were are either on an incoming flight or were stuck in traffic driving to the airport from home/hotel. Either way, United had plenty of time to reserve 4 seats on #3411 for their higher-priority employees but for whatever reason, they didn't do it.
On earth the jump from single celled life to multi celled life was very rapid relative to how long planets can probably support life on average.

The first evidence of multicellularity is from cyanobacteria-like organisms that lived 3–3.5 billion years ago.[5] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism

Now this is a Biofilms ala mats of multi celled organisms so it's hard to draw a clear line based on the fossils. Other contenders are much younger, but even if you use sexual reproduction as the benchmark that's still within the first 3 billion years and earth likely has another 1.75 billion to 3.25 billion years before it gets to hot.
Seems vaporous. 1M miles of free fuel cell refuels?
I simply don't have faith that Fuel Cells are going anywhere.
I think you're getting at the heart of why burn down charts are so pointless. The shape changes sprint to sprint, depending on what kind of stories you take on. If the sprint is entirely high pointed stories, your chart will be mostly horizontal. If the sprint is entirely 1 pointers, the graph will look like an exponential decay.

Since the shape is always different, there's virtually zero useful information to take away from it.

Some people in this thread claimed that burn down charts are useful for finding out a team's capacity. I disagree - you don't need a chart for this. If your team has a target velocity of 30 points and routinely fails to meet it, reduce the target velocity. Likewise, if the team routinely completes all of their work well before the end of the sprint, slightly increase the target velocity.
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@achicagodevdude

If you're open to chatting 1:1 I could try and give you some advice.

Do you have a profile I can DM you at?
That's not what he's saying.
If you're willing to turn off JavaScript, you can have all the same content, but with silky smooth performance.

On the "downside", though, you miss out on the social media sharing buttons, and auto-loading of the next article when you get to the bottom of the page.
It's separate to the language but there is actually an NPM version inside the Node.js repository if you build from source.
Uh, nope, if I find a body-sized mirror in an unexpected place, I'll probably have a half second of "stranger dang-" before I cool down.
>Or maybe could it have been that they would to have to absorb that loss out of pocket because of their distributors policies?

What loss? All they have to do is put it back on the shelf and sell it again. I'm not talking about perishable groceries here.

>That's a sweeping and completely unsubstantiated generalization. My own experience and history informs me differently. I'm sure I am not alone in that.

I think it's correct. My own experience and history informs me differently. I'm sure I am not alone in that, especially considering all the other comments in this thread.

>or when stores closed at 9:00PM.

This one is just plain wrong. Mom-and-pop stores closed at 5PM; they had "banker's hours".

Why are you sticking up for the mom-and-pop stores so much anyway? Especially with such bogus arguments?
Burger King didn’t hack Google Home, it hacked the media
iOS web debugging and screencasting in Chrome DevTools
This is how I like to think about it: the term Artificial Intelligence is like artificial sweetener. It isn't sugar.

Machine Learning is artificial intelligence. When / if computers (or whatever they evolve in to) actually become intelligent we'll have to drop the the word artificial.

Artificial, adjective:

1.
made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural ). eg. artificial flowers.

2. imitation; simulated; sham. eg. artificial vanilla flavouring.

3. lacking naturalness or spontaneity; forced; contrived; feigned. eg. an artificial smile.
I wouldn't say that using a word such as "spacx" is in spirit.
Virtual reality lets medical students see through patients’ eyes
> if he could snap his fingers and fix the problem, he would

Well, he invented the idea of losing traceability by commingling inventory "in good faith". He can reinvent traceability any time. As much as HSBC's business became moving drug money, it pretty much became Amazon's business to find gullible customers for counterfeit goods.
In real time though?
Live Now Interactive – type to pop balloon
Don't accept on-call then you don't have to worry about the compensation =)
Not sure how relevant this rant is; the last time Steve Yegge worked at Amazon was in mid-2005. For reference, this was even before AWS launched publicly.
Not even any elastic. The TRX I've seen is just some nylon lashing straps, cambuckles for length adjustment, and two plastic and foam handles.
> More than anything, the way Nintendo has structured these Breath of the Wild exclusives speaks to how woefully outdated its digital strategy is.

That may be true but that still doesn't change the fact that the author is unlocking paywalled content without actually paying for it.

There are many instances of games shipping with DLC already bundled and buying it will merely unlock the content locally with no download necessary. Would anyone argue that unlocking that content by other means than buying it was not piracy?

It's the same argument we hear about "abandonware". "Well, they're not planning on selling it digitally and obtaining a copy is difficult and/or expensive so it's alright to download it." Well, legally it's still piracy — no two ways about it (at least until it falls into the public domain, but that'll be a good while still for many of the games listed on abandonware sites).

The whole piece reeks of post-rationalization. I don't care if he pirates stuff or not but this feeble attempt to rationalize it is honestly a bit tiring to read. You can take up the debate about Amiibo availability etc. without also arguing that this is the reason why it's OK to pirate it. And the fact that he rounds it all off by putting all of the blame on Nintendo (despite his weaving back and forth earlier) just cements it for me:

> If only Nintendo would let more players in on the fun.

Finally (and now I'm just splitting hairs because I've gotten all worked up about this), I think he needs to revisit his definition of cheating:

> I’ve been cheating in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. I don’t mean that I’m running an illegally obtained version of the game on an emulator, or that I’m exploiting the game’s design flaws to skip over parts of the story I’d rather not deal with.

The former isn't cheating, that's just pirating it, it's a completely different thing. The latter is up for debate I guess. No speedrunner would consider it cheating (obviously, if it saves time and it's in the game code then it's alright) which leads me to a thing many people could learn from speedrunners' approach to games: Don't make any assumptions about how you're intended to play a game. Unless you have the devs right there to tell you, you really can't know or infer it.

/rant

Edit: I'd be happy to hear opposing views since there appear to be some.
PhantomJS was the first thing we used for Neocities screenshots and I've always had a special affection for this project for that reason. Neocities really wouldn't have been possible without the ability to do screenshots.
The writer discusses the prevalence of "gut feeling" in development, and how justifications are often retro-fitted to justify preferences which might be driven by familiarity, or novelty.

Let me say this in defense of gut feelings:

Sometimes the opposite of gut feeling is process. Bezos recently talked about the potential pitfalls of process, and Jobs famously warned us against confusing process with what he calls "content."

The issue is that if you have a process, you end up relying on it to make things good. It cannot. If someone were to walk into the process and say "This is just wrong. Come on, do it this way," you could (rightly) accuse them of relying on gut feeling.

All of this is to say that there are gut feelings and then there are gut feelings, and it is important to tell them apart.
Go compiler: Initial support for concurrent backend compilation
Well, the reaction of a frightened cat isnt, by design, one that appears friendly. They usually jump and get a puffy tail. If the cat observes his reflection jumping and getting a puffy tail, itd make sense for the cat to assume danger, for he just ran into another cat whom got freaked out seeing him.

That is, if the cat doesnt recognize itself rather quickly
I wrote a bit about how you can get started here using Node: https://objectpartners.com/2017/04/13/how-to-install-and-use...
All of these can be summed up as the chicken-and-egg paradox, or network effects. You need users to make the app useful, to get more users, to make the app useful.

Look at how other business get around that, e.g. facebook launched to just one market first, Harvard students, then slowly expanded out one market at a time.
This is scary, I have 1 month disposables but use them for 1-3 months, I always insert them with wet hands, I shower with them on most days, I swim at the gym with them but use goggles. I've been doing this for the last 14yrs, time to change my habits!

If I understand correctly, you have to have an open wound for this to occur?
Usually brand advertising tries to skew young (even towards children, if the FTC lets them get away with it) because brand preferences are usually set in the teens and early 20s and then people purchase things on autopilot.

This may be why SnapChat has targeted brand advertisers rather than the more targeted advertisements that Facebook/Google go after.
My view is that life rarely aligns to one's habits and/or inclination. This as as true in my teen years as it is in my fifth decade.

I won't project my experience on anyone else; I do however feel strongly that the learned ability to impose my sense of responsibility on my inclination has been a valuable skill in my life.
I'm sure a lot of people are going to recommend RetroPie and other emulation packages. I'm going to recommend against general-purpose emulation if you enjoy the games in question:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2019/an-input-lag-invest...
Does that actually make money?
>we're going to be forcing users to download a dozen different runtimes

Why would users need to download a runtime, given that we'd have WASM as a compilation target for Python, the language?
That's like comparing the stability and speed of a Chevy Cobalt and a Kia Rio.
MailChimp is on the other side of the spectrum. A purely creative team took on the grubby problems of email list management and spam filter evasion and used the profits to fund one of the most creative businesses in tech.
I think this is because you view yourself as more of a code author, and people excited for this announcement more frequently find themselves in the role of a code reader.
Holy cow the font on this page is almost unreadable.
You shouldn't dismiss it so quickly. The deck does exactly what it needs to do if your objective is getting face time with VCs as an early stage start-up:

1. Kept it under 15 slides

2. Used tight copy to succinctly get across what they do, why they're doing it, what their "angle" is and how big the space is

3. Illustrated some traction and hustle

4. Showed the team wasn't completely wet behind the years (and that they could successfully recruit and execute)

5. Outlined a plausible initial growth strategy

6. Signalled some social proof: from early investors and happy users

7. Wrapped it up in a clean design and sensible slide sequence

It's harder than it looks.

Edit: and that's just the deck. Chances are they will have had to plough hundreds of hours in to: networking, google+linkedin+crunchbase+angel list deep dives building a VC pipeline, reading countless money raising blogs/books/podcasts and practising their in-person pitch for when they do get a meeting (not to mention making sure their existing cap table wasn't fucked up from earlier FFF investments, if they had any). After all that comes a probable 75% to 95% rejection rate from the final list of VCs they drew up and managed to get a meeting with [and you have to keep the company moving, growing and developing while you do all of this].

Basically, if you're early stage and a founder who doesn't already have one or two notable previous wins under your belt, there's a lot of background shit you need to do before you even have a chance of getting in a room with a credible VC and winning them over with a slick sales pitch. An effective deck is one of those things.
Oh that makes "Alot of swedes" a terrifying concept.
Amazon charges sellers 8-15% per each sale in addition to FBA Fees so only way a seller can make money is by selling counterfeit. Amazon is getting greedy, sellers are cutting corner and customers are paying price.
How to get started with headless Chrome on OS X with Node.js
Looks like it's made $23.25 so far @ 1.50$ for the message.

If it reached 5$, he'd have made 25,000$
This seems to argue that any microsevice shared by many other microservices is an antipattern.

Lots of apps use S3 as a common store. Is S3 an antipattern? The same goes for things like SQS, Google Pub/Sub, Google Datastore, etc. In my opinion, the idea that microservices must be isolated silos is misguided.

There are many things that are top-down (high-level control plane, many small individual, stateless parts controlled by it), but the opposite of this is the bottom-up "shared substrate". Things like data storages and buses that have the responsibility of storing state or shuffling data between actors.

In fact, I consider microservice that's a silo — that is, has its own private data store — to be an antipattern in many cases. To borrow an old phrase, data wants to be free. Today's backend patterns are very API-centric, with APIs acting as awkward gatekeepers to small amounts of data. It's a much better idea to invert this, Haskell-style: Let the data be first class, and orient your APIs to work on your data.
I figured they would actually have to start producing something in order to "discontinue" it though? /s

Have yet to see stock anywhere except through scalpers. Nintendo continues to have a huge supply problem with basic availability of hardware, for whatever reason.

Would buy one in a heartbeat. Not going to reward a scumbag scalper by spending a penny over MSRP to do so though.
Buildings are made of things like lead and asbestos, blowing small bits of a building over a huge radius seems like a likely hazard. Plus, whatever the hell the bomb is made of.
> What would the correct answer here be?

"How many times is this going to run? Is it going to be cheaper to do any naive thing and move on to the next ticket, or should I take the time to actually optimize this?"

That's usually the correct answer, and one I never see in interviews (either asked or offered).
And here we have an example of one of the very few people saying anything actually worth listening to.

Expect to be hanged for this.

Edited to add: I shouldn't write comments like this as they aren't in the spirit of HN's guidelines of actually contributing to the conversation. So, what I mean to say is:

I appreciate comments like this and feel the parent comment hits the nail on the head.

The parent comment is, in my mind anyway, such a great conclusion to the whole topic that it become a conversation-killer. What else is there to be said? We all have a lot of things in common and some difference. If we don't end this quest to same-arise everyone then, eventually, only one of us will be necessary. And what would be the point of that.
Don't say. Point.
Am I the only one who finds very interesting many B2B startups that are supposed to be "boring"?
CVE-2016-10229
how much we talkin?
Monzo will be offering current accounts soon.

https://monzo.com/blog/2017/04/05/banking-licence/
This is why experimentation is so important and why I always love when people do things just to do them.

It's literally like exploring the digital universe and reporting on some of your findings.

Great writeup!
Did anyone download it already? Reshare?
Or companies for that matter. I know other companies that have an open source division like AT&T labs.
> Nintendo are clever with how they limit the availability

Creating a market for scalpers is "clever"? This is one of the most efficient ways to create (even more) toxicity in the gaming community. Add premium items and severely limiting their availability means they are trying to create "have"/"have-not" classes that resent each other. A brand isn't going to increase in value if everyone starts associating the brand with community infighting and toxicity.

--

Incidentally, HN readers may like Jim Sterling's episode about amiibos from a couple years ago. Warning: very strong language and rude gestures. Second Warning: the bit after the credits is very loud... and some might consider it designed to be as annoying as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-orx_HTfE
I believe you've misread the article, first line:

> udp.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via UDP traffic....
I believe they shadowbanned me for that comment. Can you see this one?
Let's be honest, being in the military isn't tough.

Put another way: Life is tough, military is not[0]

[0] no true scotsman.
> For new installs, a swap file will be used
> instead of a swap partition."

But why??
Finally, I can show my resume (with most names redacted)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6290viuyjbr09jc/web_resume_swe.pdf...
A way to remember it is that Enceladus is the snowball with the blue "tiger stripes" on the south pole (grooved vents through which shoot streams of ice crystals [driven by tidal heating along its orbit around Saturn]).
Just guessing, but probably because Nintendo's magic is regarded to be mostly in the software - the gameplay experience, stories/characters, etc - and not contained in the power or cutting edge of the hardware almost at all.
Ok, so, the only difference between packaged and managed is that the first one doesn't have an additional piece of software that manages running software in a distributed environment, kind of like ops. If we isolate that piece of software and try to come up with an architecture that provides flexibility to manage absolutely anything - we get supervision trees. Combining that idea with nix-like package management should bring us towards self-healing self-managing services the article has in mind. However, it will not be a package manager for the cloud, but a package manager for arbitrary servers in datacenters that replaces the cloud.
Would you really want faces in e-commerce product shots?
Here's my resume (with most names redacted): https://www.dropbox.com/s/6290viuyjbr09jc/web_resume_swe.pdf...

I have also a short freelance job that at least shortens the gap of time.
MSG_PEEK is pretty common and CVE-2016-10229 may be worse than you think
Voluntary is a bit harder to compare though. For one, because its not necessarily wrong for people to give up their seat for money. If I were going on a vacation and someone offered me $400 to take a flight 2-hours later, I probably would take the $400.

In any case, United is not the worst offender in either voluntary nor involuntary "bumps".
Almost every account? You mean almost every account that NYT bothered to include in that article.

As a current employee at Amazon, that article might as well be fiction as far as I can tell. It describes nothing like what I or any of my co-workers have ever experienced here. We chuckle about it, occasionally, making jokes about crying at our desk, etc. But seriously, that article does not describe the place where I work.

When the article came out, Jeff sent a response to the company that has subsequently been published online. In it he said, paraphrased, "I would quit if my work environment was what the NYT article described, and I'm sure any of you would, too. If you're here, and you're work environment is anything like what the article describes, please _tell me_ so we can fix it."

You've mentioned elsewhere that Amazon has among the worst employee retention in the industry, but that's a fact that I'd also dispute. I've seen articles like http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2013/07/28/turno..., but as far as I can tell they're using median tenure as a proxy for employee retention. That's going to skew the results in any company that is hiring at a high rate. Imagine a hypothetical company that has gone from 50 to 100 employees in the past 12 months. Median tenure is only going to be less than 1 year at that company, regardless of whether or not anybody has quit. Amazon also hire lots of seasonal workers to handle shipping, customer support etc, which also very likely skews the results.
We received our unit in August of last year and have documented our experiences with it using our YouTube channel: The Holo Herald. Some quick things that we noticed:

-While the FOV is less than ideal it is not experience breaking

-The device is more comfortable than most headgear technology out today(there is also adjusters such as a nose piece and headband that make it more comfortable for a long duration)

-It is intuitive. This device can and will be easily picked up by many people. We found older people who could barely stand trying to operate a smartphone throw it on and almost instantly understand it. There is just something about this device that makes people feel like they can handle it without too much work. And the fact is that they can, it is very simple to use and the hand gestures may be the main reason for it.

-While the hand gestures may not be the most reliable it does come with a clicker that remedies this quite satisfactory. To give this Vive-esque controllers would completely ruin the experience and what Microsoft was trying to accomplish.

-The UI and operation are unobtrusive which means that while it doesn't have much productivity use right now, it will in the future.

If you would like to get a better idea of what the HoloLens does and can do we urge you to find our YouTube channel. We try and deliver our content in a non-technical way as to explain how an end user really see's it without all the tech jargon getting in the way.