skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We are tired of being told we're socialy awkward idiots..

Well in that case I sure hope you're not planning on wearing one of those t-shirts...
In some other professions it would most likely lead to strikes :).
I'm intrigued by 2 - granted, it doesn't have to be part of a daily meeting, but surely learning about other workstreams is still a net positive? In theory it's still about the direction of the same organisation which is important, no?
Focusing only on for example the Apple app store in deciding whether to go into making games or not is not a great idea, since it's by far the most congested (as the article also shows).

But for the moment other markets also exist, such as desktop where one can still be very successful (as long as you can hit a certain level of word of mouth).
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Is this post correct - or is it just too vague to make sense?

It seems wrong to me that they receive audio-fingerprints and do lookups in a database they host on GPUs.
If they have the fingerprint already, why the GPU and not just a key-value store. I.e. AWS DynamoDB with 40.000.000 of 5Kb (250gb) large at 1000 reads/s and 100 writes/s costs less than $500 a month (which is probably comparable to what google cloud can offer). I doubt that you get a whole lot of beefy GPU instance for that price

It sounds more like they use the GPUs to generate the fingerprints
Don't get suckered into trying to write a 'clear set of guidelines' or a 'comprehensive community policy' or whatever they want to call it. 10 times out of 10, the people asking for such things are either looking to pin you on your own texts through language lawyering or are incapable of independent thought - not the sort of people you want to deal with anyway. The whole faux 'justice' (of this sort) rhetoric is just that - the upholding of an illusion of 'fairness', where that 'fairness' is a juvenile understanding of 'equal treatment no matter what', just like those who think that majority decisions are always right because they're 'democratic'.

The correct response is that of when people tried this trick on the SCOTUS when they asked it 'what is porn'. There, and here, the correct answer is: "I can't define it, but I recognize it when I see it." This of course is a deeply unsatisfying answer to people who can't (or won't) think for themselves, and doubly so for the aspi types that inhabit the interwebs in disproportionate numbers.
I like stand ups
Not very convincing. But standups should be tailored for team needs, rather than imposing a standard. And I don't get the role of a Scrum Master. Good article overall in terms of encouraging discussion.
It is really not that simple unfortunately, CMOS the only submicron technology that can be produced with sufficient repeatability and noone has come up with a proposal yet how to produce a CMOS chip with that integration density, what you have to realize is that each neuron has typically up to 1000 connections to other neurons so you need to fit in 75*1000 synapse circuits in your design as well. That is already 2 orders more transistors than any currently produced chip.
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http://dansguardian.org/

It is Linux specific, but if you can find a willing relative/victim to build you a firewall Linux box, it can provide mostly any control surface you might have in mind. And do cool stuff like web caching to speed up browsing and anomalous browsing to keep your traffic safe. YMMV depends on victim
Probably more likely due to the cost of breaking compatibility. It's probably the most popular rolling release distribution out there, and I imagine a large part of that is because they'll do anything they can to avoid breaking compatibility.
something physical vs non-physical. The value association to oil is well known and varied, while data's value is still in its infancy.

I still believe the accuracy and trustworthiness of said data would still have to be proven or guaranteed in some fashion in order for it to become considered a true resource with a tangible value attached to it.

Possibly have an associated physicality to it (i.e stocks attached to companies, money attached to physical currency/gold etc..).
I think the title's wrong here. This is North Korea implementing the policy, right? Not the UK?

All sarcasm aside, this is horrendous. But let's not pretend this is to curb "terrorism", for whatever that means. It's simply a way to slowly erode the peoples democratic rights. Very sad times to be in.
This rundown on Shazam's blog is much more in-depth and less 'marketingy':
https://blog.shazam.com/moving-gpus-to-google-cloud-36edb498...
Oh, I wasn't aware we were talking about the US only.

They legalized prostitution a while ago in Germany (where I originally come from). There were some---probably predictable---consequences and I can see why a democracy might not want to do that. I might disagree with that perhaps pragmatic stance of the voters in most countries, but I wouldn't call them weird for it. Laws don't always have to be ideologically pure.

About the US constitution: it doesn't care about free trade, just the opposite. Wasn't the federal government mostly financed by obstructions to free trade like tariffs in the beginning? In any case, the whole country is founded on a disregard for lawful government and an insurrection against it anyway.
Ugh, this attitude is just the worst.

There are a whole bunch of legitimate reasons that aspects of Scrum are useful to some teams. Like the planning poker thing –I work with a team of talented, experienced and professional developers, and we still have misconceptions about complexity that are revealed by the planning poker approach.

The idea that 'if everyone just programmed it would be fine' is totally asinine.
Nice quote!
Politicians are our representatives, not corporations. If you want to shame people for not doing the right thing you would need to become a priest.
I am not a lawyer but in jurisdiction there may be a slight difference between crime and organized crime like between selling drugs on the street and leading a drug smuggling cartel. And training your employees how to break law could be also prosecuted.
The Swedish one used to have Linux support, but apparently so few people where using it they couldn't justify the cost and so they stopped supporting it a few upgrades ago.

They also seem to be trying in general to move everybody off the USB reader and smart card solution to a smartphone app based solution, so that the total number of people using the USB reader approach is down substantially.
Yep, that's what got me started on programming as a kid. And it still has better strings and arrays than C.
No offense, although my comment is offensive, sorry, and I understand if you do not or cannot respond, but I have to ask.

Yelp gets so much negative publicity about their "extortion" and "evil" business practices, failed sales calls followed by negative comments bubbling up for example.

What are the thoughts to work for such a company?
To be honest, I take my data from examine.com, which does a survey of the literature and backs me up on this (sorry, on mobile so I'm not going to pull out the URL, but google finds it easily). It specifically says spirulina is one of the few "superfoods" that is in fact good for you.

Unless you've done a similar review of the literature and have comparable credentials, I'm probably not going to trust you on this one, unfortunately. It's nothing against you in particular; it's just that literally everyone totes a different set of studies and I can't trust everyone to have done the work necessary to show if they're valid.
They already do a lot more than the US do, Edward Snowden even said GCHQ do metadata and data collection wholesale.

Not to mention the random SSL downgrades that happen when you're going via UK transit links. (Which I have experienced myself!)

The UK should be considered dangerous. And the current government is only going to make it more dangerous.

There is also little to no hope of the current government being ousted during the next election.

I'm quite upset that my home country has to be so anti-freedom and anti-privacy.
Side bonus to using Elm on the frontend: if your backend is written in Haskell, you can derive Elm types and functions to query your backend, giving you type safety from front to back.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/elm-export

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant-elm
Severalnines Latest Move Aims to Kill Downtime Costing Businesses $300k per Hour
3) Lose the reputation of being a scummy company (or just stop being scummy).

After seeing what Walmart does to small town economies, and knowing that my taxes help compensate for them not paying a livable wage, and reading about their awful lobbying, and their abusive purchase practices, and on, and on, I want nothing to do with them.

Being in a rural area, I have to go well out of my way to avoid physically shopping at Walmart; avoiding them online is easy.

All of that said, the vast majority of consumers don't care about ethics in business, and even if they did, Walmart has their propaganda game down pretty well at this point. They'll do fine.

Oh yeah, and screw Amazon too. My last two orders have been Chinese knock-offs of the products I actually ordered. You know they're in the shitter when you need to reference a third-party website [1] to help avoid forgeries.

[1] http://fakespot.com/
NASA Issues a Challenge to Speed Up Its Supercomputer Code
Payday Loan, Helps Fix Financial Emergencies – Birmil.com
I absolutely agree- I should have clarified I don't want to know about it as part of a daily ritual that is the stand-up. I'd challenge anyone to summarize what other people talked about during the stand-up right after the stand-up. I bet they don't know- because they were thinking about their own work they wanted to get on with after the stand-up. The only thing I remember from the 5 weeks stand up is when the client summarized what she had been doing the previous day with 'I was just faffing about' :).
That Cop should go to prison for so many crimes, premeditated crimes
The story of the restoration of The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray (almost 2 decades after the original prints got badly damaged in a fire), is as heart warming -
http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/restoring-ray-s-clas...

Here's the trailer of the new print released in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgv68E_o6VM
This is obviously just some guy's mostly throwaway code, but FWIW it's got the type of comments I don't find useful at all when reading code. I.e. comments that purely duplicate what can be trivially inferred from code:

# retrieve data
data = json.loads(request_until_succeed(url))

Not ambiguous, but better done by just naming the function in such a way that it's obvious that it's the thing retrieving the data. And:

num_processed = 0 # keep a count on how many we've processed

Is another example of a comment that doesn't compliment the code, but just distracts the reader from information they could equally, more accurately & more briefly have gotten from reading the corresponding code.
Tradeoffs in speed vs maintainability could be the intentional result of choices made by P though. What instructions would they be given regarding how to handle those tradeoffs?
> slowly erode the peoples democratic rights...

Yes

> ...until we become a socialist (possibly communist) state.

Erm, what?

There's nothing about socialism (or even communism, in principle) that precludes democracy. "Dictatorship" is the term you're looking for.
HackerOne should change it's font color because I can barely read how the "change" the world.
Worksnaps Feature: Web Service API
I'm interested to know where you got this from -- is there a link or video somewhere to find out more?
welp, the guy mentionned that cert is renewed every 7 days and it's using Let's Encrypt.

It's gonna be a cat and mouse game even if LE bans the domain to be registered.

Nothing can prevent a domain owner to actively publish his private keys
Beware of dilution of DynamoDB throughput due to excessive scaling
What evidence do you have that your game will make any more on the desktop than it would on the App Store ? (Given the same amount of word of mouth)
It's also quite sad that a big majority of the country is ambivalent of this. Despite having access to this news, many still feel this is okay. Why are people not outside parliament protesting? Why are there no big campaign/organisations in the UK trying to get people together to protest this? Are we already too late and the government is now censoring and breaking apart potential protest groups.

People have got to get away from this idea that they should trust the government. Maybe this government is mildly democratic however it doesn't mean in the future it always will be. Protections need to be implemented now to protect from future governments not just the current.
- Other works streams might not affect yours, but don't you find that it helps you to understand aspects of the project that will affect future workstreams?

- How do you or they know that it will have no affect on your area without the daily stand up?

- If someone is experiencing a blocker, you might have come across the same issue earlier in your career or even last week. Then you can help them.
but whyy
You lost me when you took a slight at "socialism".

Can't you see that the very same establishment that is attempting to install a totalitarian corporate regime (a political contribution of Benito Mussolini, by the way) is the one that has indoctrinated you with this anti-socialist rhetoric?
I do not think that someone wants to use C++11/14 to make app prototype. There are a lot more languages now which in my opinion are better suited to prototyping than languages mentioned in article. Most of people will use Python, JS or some other scripting language.
Complaint is a strong word, I'm not an employee myself, I'm just trying to think about what is fair :)

> That investors later trade that stock back and forth between themselves doesn't affect the company who already got paid.

This is where we don't agree. I've seen plenty of times companies that made profit being moved to other countries where work is cheaper, or companies that were doing not so well asking salary cuts, then not giving salary back when things were doing better, and distributing bonus instead. Now that I'm in trading, I know why : this is a mean to produce "good news" and make stock rise. There is unfairness to employees, there, and people are getting more and more angry against finance because of that, this will end badly.

This is why I think allowing them to trade insider news - maybe with a moderate amount of money maximum - could defuse potential conflict. We could say to employees : "yes, stock value is a prime to us. But look, you can make good with it doing your own easy profits". It doesn't have to be about millions. Most employees would be very happy with an extra $500 here and there.

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.
Except people who have a sizable HSA might see universal healthcare as money "stolen" from them. People should have taken "personal responsibility" and invested in HSA, they'd say.

How anyone with principles - fiscally conservative or liberal - can support carving out tax credits and subsidies, I don't understand.
> It's simply a way to slowly erode the peoples democratic rights until we become a socialist (possibly communist) state.

The word you're looking for is fascist, there is nothing socialist about the Conservatives.

Edit: Following your edit it's clear you have no idea what socialism is.
UK government seeks expansion of mass surveillance capabilities
Mailinator and the Recent Google Docs Phishing Attack
Your PIN being skimmed is refunded in The Netherlands without any problem. They usually use the combination of the magnetic swipe and your PIN. Restricting bank cards to just EU reduced this fraud to around 15% of the original amount. See https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/skimmen-met-80-pr.... This was implemented around 2012.
I misphrased that, I shouldn't have said defense but when a defendant could expect leniency on that basis.

With that caveat my question still stands, `gotothedoctor` is , if I understand him correctly, saying that corporations like Uber can't expect that sort of leniency, but what about other not-quite-just-a-person entities?
I'd think it would be more involved: They have an answering system that recognizes the caller ID. The IVR is set up to have an automated announcement report that the store doesn't sell alcohol or even that they are closed, and then produces a special ringtone, if the call goes through at all.

They claim it is to circumvent fraud (folks ordering pizza and not paying) and bad payments and the like as a cover. And it isn't just a local pizza place: This is a nationwide chain doing such actions.

Edit: Addtionally, employees would be trained to avoid such situations.
Socialist is synonym with child rapist, doncha know.
I wonder about the full story. Are any UK ISPs already cooperating? I mean, the NSA has many^N intercepts. So maybe this isn't about interception, but rather about how intercepts get managed and queried.
Yes, agreed and I stand corrected.

However, I think I was trying to make a different point, although failed in my writing. A big reason policies like this get passed, without protest, is because the people of the UK trust the government to "look after them" as a parent would do. It's all about (don't worry about thinking or using your brain, we'll do that for you).
> So is it a waste of time to learn it on the side with the hopes of getting a data science job ?
I use a password manager, have done over the past 6 or so years, but definitely had poor password habits before that.

There are probably a number of websites I used between 2000-2010 that I no longer access, so that's somewhat worrying.

This is a really interesting article though, I think Troy is doing the world a service with the work he's doing.
If I use a password manager, I'm trusting some random company with all of my credentials. What company deserves that level of trust?
EU FinTech Startups push back on PSD2 regulation
Aren't they all very similar though? "Trust us, we know what's best for you and as long as we all pool together we can be one big team that has everyones best interests at heart. Oh wait, we just need watch you take a shit every day to make sure you're not straining too hard".
Gizmodo is awful.
So this is an open source endpoint to the Google APIs?

Wow, I sure feel safe knowing that my data is going to Google and only Google.
A business friendly license (like BSD) usually results in exactly what Apple has done. Take whatever they want, close it off, and hardly contribute back upstream.
Think you need to put that crack pipe down and step back. Windows Phone accounted for about 4.5% of Microsoft's revenue last quarter. I personally have bothad the 950XL and the HPX3. Being able to write one program and have it run on the XBOX, phone, desktop, and the raspberry pi is awesome. Keep letting Google spy on you. Plus how much money does Microsoft make on every Android device? Dumbass
Surely the 10x CEO is a myth, though?
> It's also quite sad that a big majority of the country is ambivalent of this. Despite having access to this news, many still feel this is okay. Why are people not outside parliament protesting?

People sometimes volunteer to have their DNA taken and matched against the police DNA database when there's been high profile crime of sexual violence.

People just don't care. They think (mostly correctly) that the Government knows everything about them anyway, what does it matter if they get metadata too.

RIPA made things a bit more complicated - it meant that in theory everything now had controls and checks and balances on it. But we know that those were boken, and that the oversight of GCHQ / MI5 / Special Branch / etc was rubber stamping stuff that should not have been happening. But because of RIPA people vaguely think "they get it all with a warrant".

It's important to recognise that approximately zero people care about this, and it's not going to feature in any election manifesto (except for niche parties such as the greens).

Many people don't care that the NHS is being destroyed, and that's a much bigger problem.
I am not sure. In theory it is easy to convert init.d scripts to systemd service programatically. I see energy/CPU consumption a much bigger problem with it. We did some performance testing and systemd was using way much CPU time than sysv/upstart under similar cirtumstances. I guess the difference is huge when you apply it to 2M computers (this is how many Amazon used to have)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-14/5-numbers-that-ill...
Half an hour meeting with 8 developers takes 4 developer hours. This is often enough to give manager a pause.
These are all very valid points but I don't feel the need for a daily stand up to achieve them! Effective communication and meetings already achieve these things.
DNSPerf
Web2py provides all the features you mentioned out of the box, is easy to pick up if you know python and works well together with intercooler.js, so you don't have to write javascript. On the other hand this combo may not be future-proof if you want to build a unicorn, but hey, you will high probably fail anyhow...
It would have been, unless the existence of the endless baggage of old C++ code to support and maintain...
Perhaps a follow-up blog post on which department the people who attended the program were from and how did the program help then in their day-to-day work.

Once, we have success stories, more companies would be interested in implementing such programs.

Kudos to the initiative!
> Not to mention the random SSL downgrades that happen when you're going via UK transit links. (Which I have experienced myself!)

Could you expand on this or provide us with some links? My Google-fu is failing me on this one.
Yes, but if everyone speaks to you whenever they need to, you might be interrupted in your work very frequently which can be stressful. If only people could communicate all of these issues say once a day or so...
And of course it's a Statutory Instrument which means these amendments to the Investigatory Powers 2016 Act will be implemented with little or no opposition. Parliament doesn't get to debate SI's and in the past 20 years they've been abused by both Labour and the Conservatives to pass legislation with little or no oversight.

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_instrument_(UK)

http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/01/14/a-war-...
That's okay, if your team works in this fashion. You shouldn't cargo-cult stand-ups or any other aspect of Scrum.

It's important to realise that they are a tool, like any other form of meeting or organisational strategy. For example, if you find that your team are sometimes stepping on each other's toes, then a daily stand-up might be able to help with that. If you don't need them, then don't have them.
You are wrong.

The snoopers charter was met with protest, it got struck down and blocked by the Lib dems, so they shoved it through with minimal debate and no meaningful public consultation once they got majority power. This is a proposed law which has been leaked (why do laws need to be leaked?) which they will force through, public opposition or not.
>While this is fascinating, and Willy is brilliant as always, I always wondered why HAProxy couldn't just, you know, reload the config.

Sure, but what about seamless updates?