skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. First of all, I am sure there are scientific ways to analyze things like this, scientists deal with phenomena like this all the time.

But the main problem is - if people don't actually know if the standup meeting helps, they shouldn't recommend it as a part of SCRUM (or other methodology).

I know that in Agile, it's popular to say "if you think it doesn't work, change it". It's a first step towards scientific approach, but also very naive step - it can easily cause you to create rituals with no effects, just based on anecdotal coincidences.

It is kind of disconcerting. On one hand, I applaud the excitement of Agile fans for critical thinking and scientific method, but at least they could study it a little - to find out that there is a little more to it than just "if it doesn't work change it". And that they shouldn't propose things that are not properly justified.
This is the "starve the beast" strategy of the right. Defund a service until it's bad, then use the fact that it's bad to justify reductions in funding. Rinse and repeat.
http://blog.plover.com/lang/anagram-scoring.html
Centuries? That's a lot of time. What kind of activities were they doing two centuries ago? Smelting iron ore?
Exactly this. Unfortunately most developers I've met, look at their jobs as little more than churning out code to meet a spec that was handed down to them.

Now if you're an early stage startup, you're putting together a team, then yes, of course you absolutely need someone who lives and breathes dev and loves every minute of it - but it's not as much about the quality of the code as it is about how that person will positively impact the overall company culture.

But majority of dev jobs ... little more than 9-5 code churning.
But people have been watching the skies for a long time, and have been noting regularities and using them for millennia - at least since the development of agriculture.

The idea of Celestial Spheres alone dates from greek antiquity.
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I am going to have to go through [1] referenced in the post.

[1]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.16.6...
AFAIK Alpine Linux is using musl which would explain the low binary size.
how does that compare to the numbers for pkg, that Zeit just released and was on HN a few days ago? https://github.com/zeit/pkg
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14273340 and marked it off-topic.
I'm a senior lead on a team that had massive turnover and now has all new people. We support many large and complex web stacks. As a result the guys on my team don't always know how we do things. Many will agree to commitments they can't fill.

A 15 minute standup means our team leader and I do not have to wonder what they might be doing or creating. They say what they are working on and we guide them. Daily we catch issues where they overly complicating something, or scared to ask for help, or doing any number of crazy things.

We are very laid back and don't have huge timelines. If someone doesn't show up or have much to say we don't even talk about it. We know they work hard when they do and standup is never about finding out if they are working or not. In a large enterprise the team leader has meetings all day and can't know what is going on when they have 10-15 people under them. The standup solves that issue.

It works great for us and no one has any issues. I'd much rather talk about what I work on for a few minutes each day than be micro-managed.
> you have to switch to the one file where you keep all the data-modifying functions? Seriously?!

Of course not - and I strongly urge you to think through things like this more deeply before writing them off.

Redux is a really good and well-thought-out library. I'm sure you could think of multiple solutions to the problem you just proposed, including splitting that file into multiple files. It would be a shame if you never took the time to understand the library because you got caught up on simple trivialities like this.
I get a lot more pleasure out of shopping, meal prepping and cooking without the pressure of having to scramble for crappy food if I get busy when I'm low on food. There have been many times where I'd normally be sheepishly eating Wendy's where instead I'll head straight to the supermarket with a Soylent in my car's cupholder. On a similar note, I love cooking breakfast for myself and my wife, and if anything occasionally being able to take a break for a day or two has sustained my enthusiasm.

So Soylent and real food hardly need to be enemies.
This is actually a pretty elegant solution to a difficult problem.

Difficult calculation? Pre-compute it!
> The message sent by making insider trading a crime could be heard that way : we're making money with your work that we don't really care about because we won't own stock from your company a year from now, we're deteriorating your work environment, and we'll punish you if you try to join the party.

I really don't think you understand the purpose of markets. If you did you wouldn't be having thoughts like this.
From the installation instructions on the github readme:

>Premium Messenger (v2.0.0) needs latest Total.js from NPM +v2.5.0

What does this mean exactly?
I am also very interested in proof of this. So far we have no evidence of mass downgrades on TLS, its not in any of the leaked docs. Tempora is a GCHQ/NSA passive capture technology.

Edit: Are you sure it isn't an old version of OpenSSL on your host? Last time i checked most IRCd's did SSLv3 (IRC crypto is awful btw.. stop using it)
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Hi all,

For technical presentations, what presentation framework do you recommend?

I've been experimenting with the React based Spectacle [1] and vanilla JS Reveal.js [2], both pretty useful for presenting code and embedding stuff like video's and iframes.

However, it has been a while since my last presentation and I'm curious if you would recommend either of these options or something completely different.

[1] https://github.com/FormidableLabs/spectacle
[2] https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/
I'm not sure what argument you're trying to make, but just to be clear, the attackers were explicit about their motivation in attacking Charlie Hebdo, by yelling: "We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad".

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883
You're "person". Sure, I'm being pedantic, but when you take a look at the overall market, the "people" being referenced, they do indeed want that.
> the kind of porn you watch doesn't imply what you are attracted to

How does it not imply what you're attracted to?
Really cool! Thanks for sharing.

Seems like there'd need to be a huge amount of effort to set up the transmission point on the other side of alpha centauri, but it sure would be amazing to have stable cheap communications across light years.
It seems like one or both things is not true. Your developers think that the tools work well enough and the system is stable enough that they don't think there is a need for arbitrary changes, meaning only you think there are issues.

Or, they don't really feel comfortable giving feedback about how to make it better. Maybe they already make such a good salary that they are afraid to risk it. In this case they are disincentivized from actually giving you the feedback.

Have you tried doing a hackathon week? No normal work except system operations but have everyone work on a new feature or streamlining of an existing process. Have you tried offering bonus for people who offer up new ideas and plans to improve the software and processes?
>> Any ideas how we can get feedback from our new developers on how to improve?

Hire outspoken developers. Dan Luu would be an excellent choice:

www.danluu.com
> I can type just as fast on my touchscreen no problem without looking.

either that is an exacerbate lie or you type extremely slow and full of typos when looking.

it's humanly impossible to use a glass screen without looking.

but by all means, if you did develop that skill, please teach the world. you migth even become famous.

(and all BB phones with keyboard of late have the same IPS rating as the iphone. not that anyone care about that)
EAP-TLS. Wifi authentication for many enterprises and universities.

Most of which won't be using LibreSSL, tho...
Huh, that's actually what I thought the link was; I'm subscribed to this link, and it's definitely interesting.
Also, don't neglect to follow the link to the Vacheron 57260:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-vacheron-constantin-re...

That will surely sate your lust for mechanical audacity.
Green developers can not know who to ask (they're new, right?) or not know when or how to ask. They can be quite tentative. We're talking Engineers, not Sales guys.

Some folks don't think they need standups, ok. But in reality, many folks benefit from them.
I actually like the way we do stand ups at my current job. All of us sit together, so we just stand up in place and state what we are working on and if we have any blockers that need to be taken offline with specific ppl. Whole thing will be done under 2mins.
Not a valid criticism of Redux.
The sulfuric smell in the hot water takes a little getting used to, but it's pretty amazing that it's naturally heated in most places throughout the country (though, a bit easier in such a tiny country).
The healthcare system of every developed country except the USA
Sure you can split the file, but you still have to separate it from the actual UI event handler.

It might be well thought-out but it's more complicated than it needs to be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
To be fair, you can (and should—I really don't get the appeal of the typically-presented way of using Redux) do things very differently if you like. It's not hard to group actionCreators (actions), actions (events/messages—Redux terminology is pointlessly n00b-hostile), and reducers, and even stick them somewhere closer to (in if you really want to) your views.
Think like tapping hot springs for bathing and keeping your house warm or even cooking. When I was in Indonesia, I saw people would boil vegetables in the hotsprings.
There's an overarching theme here of thin neon lines and white text on black background. Its interesting to me that despite the popularity of this in movies as the default "futuristic" computer interface, it rarely seems to make its way into actual software and especially web/app UI. One exception i can think of is the Bloomberg terminal.

I find this odd because its easier on the eyes and looks better. I would honestly prefer "night mode" for pretty much all software (ms office, the whole internet, etc). Gmail black theme looks great but the actually emails are still white background / black font...

Im not really a hacker... Does anyone know good "night mode" software or settings? There is one in windows 10 but it only applies to settings windows and not the file browser or much anything else.
Hence my comment.
I use this for Google Play (and other related Google things) – http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-10-os-f269/cobalts-o...

Never got Mesenger or FB app to work, though. I just use m.facebook.com in a browser.
Uber is valued at $70B, you can get it at $999
Someone more knowledgable than me, please correct me... if they are drilling a hole in the ground and making steam come up from said hole, doesn't that heat up the Earth's crust and atmosphere more than the previous condition without the hole, therefore contributing to higher temperatures (and climate change), making it not that "clean" after all? Maybe cleaner than carbon/petrol, but not ideal for the current context.
Well not entirely, it doesn't take into account sidereal adjustments due to tidal shifts or the perturbations of the three body problem (the other planets / moons in the Solar system). But outside of those issues it is accurate to 10,000 years.
PHP vs Node js... Let's be honest: Node.js couldn't kill PHP. Why?
Yes, but until Newton people thought that gods were involved in moving them around.
I'm probably biased because I have for decades simultaneously worn both IC and manager hats, but I think you are overlooking the importance of passive awareness. It's not simply a matter of everyone knowing what to do and asking for help when they get blocked, there is serendipity and ad-hoc collaboration involved too.

If you are small and everyone is sitting close together at the same times, then maybe you have enough chemistry and passive awareness already and things can just flow naturally. That's amazing when it happens.

But there's lots of reasons it doesn't happen. Could be whether there are remote team members, or some team members are shy, or there is a general vibe discouraging interruptions and creating a chilling effect. In those cases, taking a couple minutes to share can be very helpful to keep people on the same page. Granted, every single day is probably excessive for this use case. Traditionally I've had best luck with once or twice a week.

As to capital-A Agile, I think it's even worse than you say: it ends up being used by consultants to justify their bloated bills. I would encourage you to go back and re-read The Agile Manifesto though, and realize that this is just what happens when good ideas are cargo culted and productized by the snake oil salesmen.

More generally though, I want to challenge the idea that something which only benefits managers is a waste of time. Good managers spend all their time doing things to help their reports, so why wouldn't developers want to take a chunk of time to help the manager do their job? As a developer it's nice to have your task and be able to focus 100%, but that will not be possible or effective if there is no coordination with an eye towards the end result. It can definitely work, but it requires ICs taking on managerial duties (even if they don't label them that way), and it is rarely as effective as having a good project manager once you reach a certain scale.
>> in the real world you won't be allowed anywhere near such a position without having a degree ...

yes, most likely they won't hire you for a "Data Scientist" position, but there are related jobs out there you can be qualified for if you have programming skills and understand DS stuff to some degree.

I've seen setups where a PhD with a "scientist" in his title would act as an architect/co-team lead with a senior engineer running a team of developers.

Someone has to implement DS' ideas after all and unless we're talking a really small team (or a jack of all trades DS) where DS has to write all the code himself - there is a need for developers with "some DS background" in those situations.
I feel like just reading Nixpkgs is probably just as edifying, tbh.
The whole reason U2F exists is because technically savvy users were getting phished. Sophisticated phishing campaigns are basically indistinguishable from legitimate pages; targeted phishing campaigns will take advantage of the normal rhythms of your work and the identity of your coworkers. The fact that you're certain you're too competent to be phished probably makes you more vulnerable, not less.
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It's the counting down part I consider to be rude and demeaning. In addition to that I feel like it encourages people to cram as much as they can into as little time as possible, which kind of defeats the purpose. The goal of time boxing in my opinion is to be a signal that you're doing something wrong. Realistically, you shouldn't ever hit the limit.

The cutting off of individuals vs teams is something we could debate, and I'm not sure either of us would be right or wrong on. I see your point of strong vs soft spoken personalities, it's not something my team personally deals with so thats probably part of the reason more free form meetings work for us.
U2F security keys are a mutual authentication mechanism. The key authenticates the site as the site authenticates the key. Phone TOTP applications can't do that.
I agree. It took me a long time to realize most of my negative opinion for china was media driven and validated by chinese americans whose outdated opinions are elevated as absolutes, its a quirk of our culture.

Everything about china is much more nuanced and full of opportunity
Tangential to this, if you're interested in how the calculation of Easter led to using cathedrals as astronomical instruments, check out The Sun in the Church by J.L. Heilbron. Frankly, it's a slog to read at times, but there's some very fascinating stuff in there, including some impressive engineering feats.
Depends, really. If the target is a common OS then having people install Node.js itself plus grabbing your application as a zip file that has the code and a few different files to act as soft executable (myapp.bat, myapp.app, etc) can be significantly smaller. 50MB is not "nothing" when it comes to asking people to download it (because someone still has to download that application, and way fewer people than you think have as nice an internet connection as you). It also means people have to download a _new_ 50MB executable when the app updates, so from an "on disk size", it's nothing only if this is the only node application someone will ever run. Otherwise this becomes bloat very fast. Like bundling a full JVM with every individual application instead of going "or download this much, much smaller thing when you already have java installed". I don't need eight copies of the JRE, in the same way I don't need eight compiled apps if I already have node.js -- but that's a consideration for people who make applications and are thinking of packaged distribution. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Or even "should only".
What is the equivalent for GIMP?
AOT compilation of js is probably not worthwhile.
Wouldn't that only mean you'd be able to work out if it is Easter Sunday? So you could show an indicator on the day but it's a much harder problem to have it work out the right date for the next occurance from the start of the year (or from the last Easter Sunday).
A great read! Horology, Ecclesiastical history and lattice structures in one article. Thanks for posting.
I came here to point out the Redux course by Dan Abramov on Egghead.io as well. I believe it's free. It's amazing how easy Dan makes it seem. It was a light bulb moment for me and finally made me understand the importance of immutability behind the React philosophy.
No- not a leak, but the idea that insurance companies will be interested in your browsing history.
They aren't devices that connect to your computer. They are standalone things (a little like a calculator) with a screen that shows you a token to type in, like a 2FA app. Works with any web browser supporting a form with a text input.
The only real recourse is the Human Rights Act and the European Court of Human Rights.

Both of which, of course, Theresa May wants us to get rid of, so UK citizens will have /no/ constitutionally-entrenched rights.
I agree, that feels deceptive. At least it infringes on principle of least surprise.
I know this doesn't apply to your needs, however OSX/macOS has the ability to "Invert Display Color" and I use it all the time for precisely the use case you described.
I think my point is that SQL injection is at the level application programmers should be worried about.
Of course, and that's the huge win of Redux. Forcing you to separate out state updates wraps them in a layer of indirection and allows you to operate on them at a higher level than otherwise possible. This makes ordinarily difficult operations simple and elegant. You can use the higher level of abstraction to get undo for free, or replay them to find bugs, time travel, or send them across a server to get a multi user app. What you're saying is "more complicated than it needs to be" is in fact the revelatory idea of Redux.

I reiterate myself: you should try to understand Redux more deeply before writing it off. You are doing it a disservice.
That might work.
That's pretty dwarfy! But, can they pump magma to the surface, to defend their rocky fortress?

I just hope that they are being careful not to drill through any adamantine formations. http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Raw_adamantine
Not a constructive comment :/
I read a lot of grotesque guro manga. I'm talking decapitations, body mutilation, etc. However I can't stand the sight of real blood and the idea of even "light" guro IRL is a huge turn off. So I'm not really sure I'd say I'm attracted to the idea so much as I get off to the art style? I'm sure there's other examples (eg: women w/ regards to simulated rape videos) where people can get off to porn of it but aren't necessarily attracted to that thing/idea.

Throwaway for obvious reasons but I figured you deserved an attempt at an answer.
Have you tried being self deprecating a bit? I've found that ripping on yourself/the company a bit will show them you're not afraid of the truth and will loosen some inhibitions.
Horrifying.
I'm a data scientist at a research institution and I have no college degree. I'm self-taught and was originally hired as a software engineer on the basis of my projects and work experience.

> Remember, this question isn't about general CS.

What's your perception of data science vs CS, especially with respect to hiring?
If you're on Android, install Hacker's Keyboard. All the keys, soft keyboard.
It doesn't matter what they use. There is a lot of heat byproduct. Read this:

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...
Chinese people want the Apple brand they don't care about iOS. If iOS was the status symbol it would get pirated and installed elsewhere. Apple has a strong brand because of it's history as a premium device company internationally, that's all. Their brand was their first mover advantage in China but now Chinese companies are closing that brand gap and since WeChat rules the software side Apple is going to have a hard time being a big player until it can differentiate itself on something other than brand.
The standard answer here will be to have Flux, but that doesn't really accomplish what you are looking for.

I think once you start setting OLED on the desktop, you'll begin to see more work being done in this area.

I am also a huge fan of dark backgrounds; under the right circumstances. It can make you really focus in on specific content if the interface is minimalistic in its approach.
Reproductive fitness is less scary--it doesn't always mean "prevented from reproducing"

* Imagine 20% of the population has adaptations that make them better suited to mars--they keep their teeth, their bones are stronger, they do well in sports, they have more energy to take care of kids, so they have 1 extra kid on average. In one generation, that percentage is 30% and in one more it is 45%, one after that and it is the majority and heads toward 100%.

What we'll be looking at is speciation. Also, evolution is at-work on our population as we speak--it doesn't take breaks.
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> it would make it harder to import changes from [...] BoringSSL.

BoringSSL doesn't use that style: https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/master/ssl/s3...

There's no need to revise the entire codebase either, just fix the lines you touch, and don't introduce new cases like in that commit.
I imagine any pipes down into the hole will be insulated however there was some work looking at the changes in bacterial make up of soil surrounding these access lines. I can't find reference, but it was mentioned last time this idea was brought up on HN.
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Why does the graph go from green to blue?