skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the same argument people in favour of the death penalty use. I think there is a decent chunk of people that think that death is a reasonable punishment for certain crimes. But we don't have a magical oracle that tells us whether a person is guilty or innocent so you must consider that innocent people will be killed if you advocate the death penalty.

Similarly the government isn't some magical oracle that perfectly decides whether a website is "extremist", so you must consider that some people reading websites that you wouldn't really consider to be extremist will be sent to prison for this. Is 4chan extremist? What about Greenpeace?
> Quite frankly, the main advantage of Whatsapp over Telegram is that it is more widely adopted. But beside that, not much.

Thing is I (and I guess most people) don't want to do app evangelism, but just use the existing communication protocols my peers use. People in your network will have their own networks, and so on, and telling them to quit them networks or to add another app to their phone is going to annoy them.
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EFF Asks Court to Undo Damage Done to First Amendment in Flawed NSL Ruling
Title should probably ready: 8 cores for the price of 6.
> It is quite telling that this solar project is taking place in Saudi Arabia, the worlds most profitable producer of fossil fuels.

Is it? I always thought of it as smart planning. They are taking the profits from a limited resource and diversifying.

Norway has been doing this for decades, albeit not directly with PV.
> Trying to stamp out the wrong ways people talk and think about other people is part of making a society that is more free and just.

I'm not sure if this is some kind of ""false flag"" post attempting to discredit the concept of hate speech or not.

Yes, people should probably not be going around promoting the murder or degradation of their fellow citizens. No, we should be very careful about criminalizing it.

> I think actually in this case 1984 has the unfortunate chilling effect of making it so easy to equate any sort of control with dire, evil and illogical totalitarian government.

Are you old enough to remember the weird censorship compromise where Gerry Adams MP was allowed to speak on television only if his words were read by an actor? You don't have to look very far into UK history to find bits of illogical totalitarianism.
Most artificial satellites are rather small and crowded.
I don't use Android. I don't understand why did Mozilla add Klar to the stores of those countries only.
Ordinarily I would agree. However, this is Musk, and both SpaceX and Tesla have made progress beyond what most commentors have thought reasonable when the first press releases went out.

I’d guess a 10%-30% chance SpaceX is already Skunkworks-ing some form of atomic rocket, either fusion or fission.

Edit: and yes, that estimate is despite the public comments.
>That's an extremely insulting thing to claim.

That wouldn't matter if it was also true.

>A college degree from most universities shows that you have at least a decent ability to take in information, interpret it, and use what you have learned.

Isn't that what similar to what the parent said? It shows you have the skills others need to perform tasks for them.

Especially modern degrees, which become all the more vocational, than actually giving a general culture and knowledge.
Isn't this pretty good then? P5-level performance/MHz from a pretty simple in-order scalar processor. And it clocks at 1.5GHz whereas the P5 topped out at around 200MHz. Though I suppose if you'd manufacture a (slightly tweaked) P5 on a modern process you'd reach similar clock speeds too...
Have there been any other skull fractures in boxing, mma history?
I find it difficult to believe companies as big as Apple and Amazon don't have teams of tax lawyers aware of EU tax law that knew very well this deal wouldn't last, and yet they claim they knew nothing of how illegal this was.

It's bollocks.
Tax is theft?
Agile can be used in such a way that it gets management off the developers backs and empowers the developers to take their own decisions about how to plan their work and their time and to control how feature requests end up in their personal to do list (i.e. the feature request has to wait until the next sprint).

Things that help are:

1. Having a project manager with at least several other projects to manage (discourages micromanagement).

2. The project manager should also be good at defending the dev team from distractions by triaging incoming requests into urgent bug fixes vs. waits until the next sprint planning meeting.

3. Having a product owner who does not act as a manager but as a consultant on a day-to-day basis (the dev team has to however appreciate that the producer owner is the person they are developing the software for). Ideally the product owner should be available but with some other work to be getting on with.

4. Having a professional development team that are more focused on delivering a product than building a CV/blog.
> What's hard is to provide proper GPU acceleration

I'm still looking for a non-commercial BeagleBone Black image that includes the TI HW accelerated GPU drivers.
Yes one has to wonder why Ericsson and Nokia dont charges more.

But Ericsson and Nokia do charges a lot for their Mobile Carrier Infrastructure and Equipment, where as Qualcomm dont have part in that industry. And one reason why Huawei is winning because Huawei has been offering similar equipment for much cheaper price.
So the state-run news agency tells us.
Hmmm, that's what I think of the .DS_Store files.
I mentioned that. However, push/pop statements require a minimum of 3 lines of pragmas to suppress an unused statement. This doesn't work, you'll end up disabling warnings for entire functions.
iOS Apps related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency
It's a real challenge for the government to write laws against "hate preachers" without including Rod Liddle or Katie "final solution" Hopkins.
Love the idea, signed up!
I think the comments so far and their almost complete disparity in opinion from one another, is why agile mostly doesn't deliver its promise.
I think the software industry is doomed to forever argue about the definition of agile…

From my experience, people's negative experience with agile is usually because Agile is often adopted top-down as dogma with highly paid consultants and strict rules, instead of bottom-up as just another tool to do your job.
Will check them out. Thanks.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170110193419/https://sentinel....
Interesting. In a sense we do get a stake in the company, which is a missing piece of the puzzle. The profits are put into a pot and you get a share equal to the days you worked. Then people can use an internal crowd funding platform (CoBudget) to decide where to invest this money, which could include "please give it all to me".

So I guess this is to some degree integrated into our digitally enabled but relatively analog model.
What we really need is Apple to sink down the ocean and follow the fate of Atlantis.
Qualcomm collect more royalty from Apple then every other wireless patents holder combined.
Outlandish.com - :)
Show HN: I built an app on top of Ethereum and IPFS to fight corruption
"The real oppression is terrorist attacks that leave people in fear of their safety."

What does this have to do with terrorism? It might be a stated excuse for implementing laws like this, but the intent does not equal actual result. Also, I have not been killed by a terrorist, but if a law like this is passed where I live I will have been limited in my freedoms by my government. I am not scared of terrorists as of yet, so the net result is that I am not oppressed by terrorists, but I am oppressed by the government.

News agencies and governments spread the fear of 'terrorist' attacks. Most of the time there are loners who carry out their 'attacks'. Calling them 'terrorists' makes them more scary, while in fact they are most often troubled individuals who choose to label their insanity with 'ISIS' so that the fear they spread is bigger. News agencies, eager to make money selling advertisement, use these mentally ill people by calling them 'terrorists' and sensationalising the events in order to get more viewers.

"Not oppression: arresting some radicalised extremist for preparing themselves with terrorist training manuals and suchlike."

This has nothing to do with what is happening. The article talks about making it illegal to read extremist websites. Intent and effect do not go hand in hand. On top of this stated intent and true intent do not go hand in hand either. Governments cannot be trusted with the authority to decide who gets access to which information, very recent example:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/no-justification-spani...
> I think in reality people do justify violence by the narratives they are exposed to. I think they see other people justifying hate and violence with these narratives

This is true, but the question is then Plato's: who guards the narrative guards? What narratives do they tell themselves in their righteousness? Pretty much everyone ends up with a narrative about how they're doing X for the good of society, even the Nazis.
I lived in the Farrer Park neighborhood a few years ago, and most of my neighbors seemed quite content with nice fans in their house, and would often not use their air conditioning. I guess everyone's different. I've got a buddy who grew up in Singapore and when he goes back to visit, the room he stays in has no air conditioning.
The internet was a "bigger screen" of the lets-connect-two-computers-together breakthrough. Still mind blowing though.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane. I'm a huge fan of side/top scroller shootemups (R-Type being up there at the top as one of the hardest games ever made).
Looks like a PHP/mySQL non-static site (I wonder if some popular blogging platform?) crumbling under the load. Luckily someone pressed the turbo charge button (x-turbo-charged-by: LiteSpeed <-- seriously?) on the cpanel box so it can now accommodate a page view a second!
2 yrs sounds about right. I think in my case it was shorter than that, but I've always liked hot climates.
>Waiting on the reviews for how the Sony Xperia XZ1 compact fares, because I wouldn't mind a smaller phone.

Wow, this looks nice. I have wanted a small android phone like this for YEARS, before finally buying an iPhone SE a couple of months ago.
Couldn't disagree more with this article, is this even written by a programmer? Agile takes into account the very real 'semantic cost' when translating from user requirements to actual code.

Code is so specific and brittle compared to the lovely fuzzy English language that we think and write in, that we can never get the requirements just right. The biggest problem is integration of ideas into an existing system. Yeah ok you want to extend the login screen to support one extra field? That's great but after a couple of days work, it turns out that 2 years ago Joe Bloggs added some complex verification algorithm no one understands to a stored procedure, oh which contains about 30 other input fields, and so is going to take an extra week to untangle. The procedure is also used in 20 other places too and there's no unit tests covering any of the functionality.

Agile gives the programmer a voice in the process, and once they update the tasks and time estimates, the feature's priority can be re-evaluated. Treating development as a one shot process is just doomed to fail and more stressful for everyone involved.
If I ever overestimated the power of negation, I was in the wrong.
Whenever agile "doesn't work" is because higher ups keep expecting the same (useless) artifacts and ways of working to be present. Including the biggest one of all: a fixed shipping date without compromising on features

It's like filling up a Formula 1 cars with bricks and asking why it doesn't go fast (an hyperbole, but the point stands)
Make your developers initiate talk with developers you want to recruit?

I would react totally different if a programmer invited me to a coffee, lunch,
or a beer than I do with regular, tech-wise dumb recruiters.
Around 20% of UK murders are committed by migrants who comprise some 10% of the population (FOI data). Are these migrants mostly on the far right? The rule seems to be that they suffer some mental disability unlike of course the nutcase who murdered the MP.
A Bitcoin money a must read
Mostly, yes America is better off, although I agree with peteretp's examples that we're seeing the worst side of "freedom to lie" and "money as speech" come to fruition.

But there are all sorts of weird exceptions and the practicality of free speech has different contours. Extremely prudish but pro-violence film ratings, for example. "Ag-gag" laws (which were eventually struck down).

The free speech worst case scenario is not American but Rwandan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...
I think Golang is very suitable for network programming tasks. It gives you wonderful libraries to work with sockets, strict rules to structure your code, automatic memory management, goroutines for concurrent programming etc.

Most network related small apps were written in C, now you can write them in Go. With the added benefit of simple libraries, memory management and goroutines. You don't have to mess arround with platform specific sockets, threading libraries etc. Plus every piece of code you open is written in understandable Go. With C, there is years of baggage, multiple standards, pre-compiled headers, undefined behaviour etc.

And lastly, new is always more exciting than old :)
A driving license is a privilege that comes with rules, taking it away is not the same as imposing unilateral restrictions.

Sending people to mental hospitals is a fair example, but that's why I wrote "generally", acknowledging the existence of exceptions. In that case, it's accepted that consent is an oxymoron, which doesn't really apply here.
Blockchain Solve this problem of who, where, when and what in our supply chain
If you argue agile isn't working, you must have some hypothesis of both what it is and what it would look like if it worked. I fail to see that in this article.

There is also the other problem with complaining agile dosn't work - it's that there are no clear candidates for what does work.

To me, agile is mostly about measurement. If you have a process that is exactly as slow as what you did before you "went agile" but now you KNOW how slow you are, and you have realistic deadlines, know beforehand when you will miss them and so on - then agile mostly works for you.
Instead of writing laws to 'protect' people from 'hate preachers' it would be a lot more effective if we use information and education to teach people, from a young age, to be critical and confident thinkers.

One time in the streets of New York there was some racist shouting things at people of a certain ethnicity, picking them out from the crowd and calling them 'baby rapers'. Several people of different races shouted at him to "shut the fuck up". Those people obviously weren't swayed into thinking that all people of that specific race were indeed 'baby rapers'.

I would rather live in a society where people are allowed to say that the holocaust didn't happen and have them be judged as the idiots they are, than a society where saying things that are deemed as 'extreme' by the government is illegal.
Well that's reassuring - thanks!

For what it's worth I don't regret it but man, I really do think "hmm... when will I next have 15 minutes where I have the use of both hands and no creature yelling at me and I'm not at work?"

I could just sleep less (with dire consequences noted here), but I've managed to keep getting 7 hours or so a day (not all in one go, but it could be worse).
agile just became a buzzword clueless people started using. we need a new word
As far as I can tell Holocracy is basically a form of organisational design that doesn't depend on the blockchain for organisation.
Most number of humans in space is 13 according the graph in the link. You must be looking at second graph, most numbers of Americans in space at a time is 11.
A must read!!
https://lesen.amazon.de/kp/embed?asin=B075ZC9RS1&preview=new...
IPTV can be a lot more than just TV
Remote in Tech list
Possibly interesting, but no way to sign up? Not even a way to try and get an invite, beyond signing up for the mailing list and hoping that's the way they send them out?
Remote In Tech is a list of companies who hire remote people. This started as a GitHub repository and is now going to be much more.

A Hacktoberfest project
The most successful software I ever worked on was entirely waterfall. You do need extraordinarily competent customers to make it work, though. I see very few customers good enough for it.
language used in the project is Erlang, not Go.
The Dockerfile in the repo appears to be licensed under the MIT license.

But for Microsoft Machine Learning Server itself, it appears the following is true for licensing:

> It’s now easier than ever to procure and use Microsoft Machine Learning Server on all platforms. Licensing has been simplified to the following, effective October 1st 2017:

> Microsoft Machine Learning Server is built into SQL Server 2017 at no additional charge.

> Microsoft Machine Learning Server stand-alone for Linux or Windows is licensed core-for-core as SQL Server 2017.

from https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/machinelearning/2017/09/...
Which in fact, is what most countries in the world signed up for. Also, it is a prerequisite for any country to even establish ANY formal diplomatic relationship with China[1]. It is almost certain Norway government has acknowledged this way back then through some bilateral treaty, and this time it is simply a reiteration.

TL;DR:this is no news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-China_policy#Diplomatic_re...
I think that's because they needed to sell more than 2500 phones to become profitable.
Yes - instead you are targeted by abusive employers!
looks like 13, at least according to the arcaneknowledge link
Tesorio is hiring data scientists and product designer to modernize finance teams
Related: Agile is Dead (Long Live Agility): https://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile.html

From the blog post:

> And, unfortunately, I think time has proven me right. The word “agile” has been subverted to the point where it is effectively meaningless, and what passes for an agile community seems to be largely an arena for consultants and vendors to hawk services and products.

> So I think it is time to retire the word “Agile.”

> I don’t think anyone could object to a ban on the word when it is used as a noun. That’s just plain wrong. “Do Agile Right” and “Agile for Dummies” are just two of the innumerable attacks on the English language featuring the word. They are meaningless. Agile is not a noun, it’s an adjective, and it must qualify something else. “Do Agile Right” is like saying “Do Orange Right.”
You literally just copied and pasted that canned bullshit from your blog: http://wade.be

Get lost you slimey salesboy!
So your argument is that the law is not likely to pass and if it does pass it will be selectively enforced?

Selective enforcement of laws are terrible in the sense that they don't actually dissuade anyone from breaking them.
So if it isn't about preventing crimes, but rather about piling this charge ontop of other ones, isn't that missing the point a bit?
Haha, I read that at first as "the person swearing would have come into contact with an inferior intellect" and therefore started swearing. :)
> Consider that the English “manners” isn’t something that applies to the aristocracy;

I disagree. The aristocracy have a special type of manners finely honed for putting people at ease while concealing the truth of the situation. Always distrust anybody too polite.
Just want to point out your core argument is incorrect. Agile is a result of software engineers' decisions and ideas. Not HR professionals.
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When I first saw Go I was put off by its syntax, but after giving it a chance I very quickly fell in love with it.

I've used C#, Python, Ruby, Java, C, Obj-C, JS and Go for mid-large scale projects. Go is the only language I've ever truly loved; sometimes I even feel like I'm writing poetry (as ridiculous as that may sound).

The community is really incredible^, I've yet to encounter anything that didn't have great documentation or solved by packages. My favorite SO answer of any language is probably this one by icza: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22892120/how-to-generate... . I also feel that it's very easy to read and understand other peoples code compared to other languages (imo, the only aspect of Go that I think can be difficult for newcomers to grasp is pointers). All in all, I feel very confident that I'll still be writing Go code after ten years.

^ (Although I hate when certain "elitists" downvote questions because they feel they've been sufficiently answered elsewhere.. if a SO answer says how to display time to YYYY-MM-DD:HH-MM then don't complain if someone ask how to display time as YYYY-MM-DD.. I have a strong dislike towards jquery (or rather JS), but I think the great thing about jquery is that every imaginable edge-case seem to be documented)
depends on whether we're talking Agile(tm) the package sold by Professional Management Consultants or agile, the handful of complementary practices and processes that can help a team run itself more efficiently.
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It's a good article, though the headline seems likely to produce a rash of comments that perhaps agree without reading :)

The point is, agile development isn't magic and doesn't mean that more work will automatically get done. It doesn't work if it's imposed top-down, it doesn't work if the team are fighting it, and it doesn't work for every product.

It's a tool, like any other, that helps the team to respond quickly and incorporate feedback frequently, with the goal of making sure that the products produced are effective and fit-for-purpose. The work still has to be done, and if anything there is more overhead. But that can be a valuable tradeoff if it reduces cost elsewhere.

Being on a team that does agile properly is amazing, and it really is a shame that it's become so widely derided as a result of ridiculous consultants and the associated mess.
If you read carefully (something I strongly advise you to do) you will find out that I was talking about my family: they trust my judgement and I can bring them very good reasons for what I propose.

Regarding my other contacts' networks: I certainly do not impose other people what app to use, but at the same time I have no interest in doing something (e.g.: running an app I honestly don't like) just because everybody is doing it.

In all honesty, if someone has something to tell me or I have something to tell someone, we will surely find a way to communicate. Keep in mind that, at least for now, all mobile phones can make phone calls and send text messages (at least to negotiate other means of communication).
Rifles do not have mounts for "rocket propelled grenade launchers". This author knows absolutely nothing about guns. This is at best a sad attempt to publicize her terrible previous book, and at worst the wind-up to her next hack job book where she will convert back from pro- to anti- second amendment.
If you can't go to France start by changing all your locales to French. Computer, phone, TV, everything.
Most number of Americans in space is actually 10 according to second graph :)
https://imgur.com/a/OAd0W
Because I was young and did not have much pocket money, I would get only the cheap magazines which were written, printed and carefully stapled by a bunch of volunteers. They usually had unclear characters, so you had to debug it. Which was annoying then, but great in hindsight.