skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To address the estimate point I must say that there’s nothing in scrum preventing you from trying things before giving an estimate.

Having a task specifically to do exploratory coding is, in fact, encouraged by extreme programming.

Even after that if you find that you estimated completely wrong it’s no big deal. That’s what it is for. You need to find mistakes.

I’m not saying this is the case but it seems that your particular implantation of scrum is very poorly done. Especially if your only resource is the scrum guide.

The actual book written by Ken Schwaber mentions that you can add things to a sprint of work is completed before the end of the sprint. This is part of the process and just like in the previous case is also saying that your knowledge is lacking because you finished the work before you thought you would.

Agile methods are tools to help improve the cadence and predictability of software delivery.
It's a Movidius Myriad 2 computer vision chip, model MA2450. This chip can accelerate TensorFlow neural net models.

https://uploads.movidius.com/1463156689-2016-04-29_VPU_Produ...
I'm wholly opposed to a national ID scheme, but a national ID scheme would prevent stuff like this.

We currently have no national registry of who, or who isn't a citizen, and no verifiable way to tie identity to work status, or anything else.

Stuff like this is part of the price we pay for freedom I suppose.
e.g: a pyramidal cell is different from a purkinje cell.
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> Formal Verification: Get an absolute 100% guarantee that your contracts are free of errors

Seems to me that should be priority #1 considering there's potentially millions of $local_currency riding on these contracts and they seem to be done with the hard forks when one goes awry (though I was reading that they collude to make it really, really hard to sell off the ill gotten gains).
Your parents don't follow any news source? The stories about Uber aren't found in obscure niche sites only wonks would read. Uber's problems are routinely featured in front page New York Times stories, for example. The very article this thread discusses is from that paper, not exactly a minor publication.
It was (is?) a thing that happens.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/special_packages/Puerto_Ri...
I use GnuCash [1] with non-compressed save files enabled so that I can store changes on Git. It works flawlessly for me: I can edit accounts across different computers, get the full force of a mature accounting package to do my finances, and can use/write scripts that plot some statistics using various bindings (e.g. Python) [2].

[1] https://gnucash.org/

[2] https://github.com/SeanDS/gnucashxml
I found the large number of cards available at once to be overwhelming when playing dominion the first (and only) time. In that regard, Star Realms is better since it only offers a rotating selection of cards to purchase. It also gives you obvious basic strategies where you just take cards of a chosen color or two.
Just running from a live cd/usb is probably less disruptive than wiping, installing, wiping, installing.
Indeed people will hold onto deflationary currency, and spend inflationary currency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

Hence in a world of rational actors the only currency in circulation will be inflationary currencies.
There's a community here talking about this issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/ElsaGate/
> 'Please provide a clear photo of yourself holding your government issued ID, and a piece of paper with the following code handwritten on it'.

This is literally stuff authoritarian regimes are doing to control their populations.
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"Stuff like this is part of the price we pay for freedom I suppose."

What an odd conclusion to draw from this. Do countries with national ID's not have freedom?
I agree 100% that Excel is best for people who aren't going to make the leap#. My point is that domain experts should* make the leap to "real" programming, especially R to handle data analysis.

Excel is faster to get started. But for advanced tasks, the time it takes to learn Excel / R is about the same.

A big reason why people don't make the leap is because they already spent too much time becoming an Excel expert. Indeed, for young analysts with no baggage, a lot of people learn and use R instead.
The bit about birth certificates isnt all true - mine is from California, its on intaglio paper, with watermarks, and embossing - that particular paper (a certified long form) would be hard to copy.
I’m not sure Firefox even uses favicons anymore but that definitely isn’t navigation so it isn’t blocked.
That would assume felons were ever "monetized".

I mean, plenty are (of the Wall Street kind), but we're far from demonetizing them.
I've got a Lemur from System76 that I've had for several years, program on it almost every day, it still works well. You can probably get something cheaper, but it's not like they're Apple-expensive, and if there's a bit of $$ going towards efforts like this, I'm glad to support it.
For what you've described, I agree: if you write a post, get downvotes, and then add an edit wondering about the downvotes because you're genuine about your position and are looking to engage, people tend to start engaging in kind and upvote you at least to neutral.

But I think the parent is talking about the habit of many who are about to post a counter-groupthink or controversial opinion to lead off with "I know I'm going to get downvoted for this, but...". My feeling there is that people generally view that as a sort of flippant disregard/dismissal of the community moderation process, so it basically _invites_ downvotes.
Yes, I know multiple people who had significant money taken from their bank account via Uber.
Lots more technical info available here: https://blog.hackster.io/announcing-the-aiy-projects-vision-...
Me there as well. You'd think I would have learned too...

I did buy two ether for about 20 dollars and I'm still holding onto that. Maybe it'll go way up.

A better question - should more investment happen?
Probably because they're Immigration and Customs Enforcement - not Immigration and Customs Judges. They enforce the orders that they're given. The proper forum for presenting that evidence would be in front of a judge. Or do police officers get to tear up arrest warrants because a family member gave them a video tape showing the person being arrested is innocent?

inb4 'just following orders' response: We're not talking about murdering people here, so here's a ladder so you can get off your high horse and we can engage on the same level.
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I once worked for a company that didn't track their expenses too well, and we found out the maid was getting over 10K a month for working 2 hours 5 days a week. The maid.

I did the hourly break down and realized she was the highest paid person in the company (CEO included) for about a year and a half.

I couldn't believe it.
There's no YouTube demo link? Didn't find it...
OpenTSDB scales well, 10 million DPS writes on a 36 node cluster for example. It's not easy to get working well at scale out of the box. That is something we really need to work on in that community. There is a project called Splicer (github.com/turn/splicer) that will shard the incoming queries into 1 hour blocks and cache the 1 hour blocks, it also sends the queries to the same node where the region server is that hosts the data. This makes the queries VERY fast.
They seem to have less freedom overall, theoretically - in any case, the American psyche has a well ingrained fear of big government, we fought a war over it, more or less - a war that we in part continue to fight amongst ourselves.
> This is why the arguments get so confusing. I could transfer any currency on the blockchain and get the so-called benefits of bitcoin: immutable transactions, low transaction costs, etc.

If you really think that, you don't understand bitcoin.

How do you load your USD on to this hypothetical block chain? How do you prove you destroyed the physical notes? Is there a mechanism to turn it back into physical notes? How do you hand out a block reward without creating counterfeit USD?

For bitcoin to work, it needs to be its own currency.
So let's replace this "inefficient" human bureaucracy with the fine work of the top dollar private sector contractors that have spearheaded advanced biometrics programs like Theranos, run it as efficiently as healthcare.gov, with all this private data stored in a database as secure as that of Equifax.
It's the most "play it again" game I've seen in many years (maybe Till Dawn being another) and usually I can always get 3-4 games in with the same people.

Nice depth of strategy as well. Probably my favorite game in years.
So, his inability to buy a house for himself and the fact that he continued to live with parents for many years has no bearing on our discussion of the economy and the creation of wealth?

I don't want to give a lot more details about this person's life. It is a real person and giving too many details amounts to gossiping about them. But I think you are in error. The impact it had on this person's life has other impacts.

I don't know why you think this is some appeal to emotion. It isn't. A person who cannot get their life together because of one youthful indiscretion has long term consequences that impact the wider economy.

This is likely part of why such stories are emotionally compelling: Because it actually matters.

I am not generally not talk about morality in the sense that other people do. I am not too happy to have the concept of morality injected into the discussion in such a way that it slings mud all over me at every step of the way. I am not talking about morality. I am talking about what makes for a healthy system that serves both the commoner and the rich person well. Our current approach doesn't do that.

One of the reasons it does not do that is because I have seen a number of statements by wealthy people to the effect that they live with a lot of fear due to their wealth plus the state of the world. I thin this fear is legitimate and I think it tells us that a system that makes the ultra rich richer by bleeding the common person is a fundamentally unhealthy system that serves no one well, not even the rich people soaking up the extra money and wondering if they will need to abscond to Australia in their jet should the crap hit the fan.

I think this fear is part of why so many tech giants talk so much about things like creating basic income. They want to be able to stop living in fear that someone is going to want them dead because the world is going to hell for so very many people and this makes them a potential target.
This was really interesting! Just something I believed because "why not?" and didn't give it another thought for many years. There's so much information coming at us from every angle, that if it doesn't have a major impact in my life, I often don't think critically about the information.
Where I work, we get to the part IT guy part, and then the quote comes out to be like $200k+ (and 6 months) to duplicate a SAS program, Excel spreadsheet, or Access database that an analyst hacked together in their spare time.
Well, yeah that is a problem. Does anybody here have an idea how that could be solved?

I mean if the firmware would be released with its source everybody could buy the cheap version and load the full-featured firmware version to their hardware. Even if the manufacturer would place some kind of memory on the hardware which holds the feature-level, someone could patch the firmware to ignore that value.
The credits and the expanded standard deduction outweigh the removal of the personal exemption, especially with the rate changes. The House bill is fairly straightforward in regards to low to middle income families.
US Coast Guard Operates Secret Floating Prisons in Pacific Ocean
Watching someone who was very adept in Vim keybindings (specifically navigating in visual mode) was impressive the first time.

Immediately started learning it that day.
Hopefully he gets some money out of this. Can't imagine being grabbed, held in a cell somewhere, and then told I had to be deported all of the sudden.

> Carrillo said his son brought a passport and a certificate of citizenship the government issued Carrillo but that ICE officers refused to review the documents.

Well that's just baffling. What exactly would they consider proof of citizenship if a passport and the certificate doesn't do it. What would it take? What if he didn't have a passport. Many people I know don't have one or have an expired one. Certainly not a requirement to have one.

> The refusal by ICE officials to listen to Carrillo’s claims of citizenship appeared to violate an agency policy that requires officers to thoroughly and quickly investigate such claims

It also violates decency and common sense as well, and veers into plain old brutality.

Rant: One thing I don't understand is why don't people have national ID cards in US. Most countries I know of have them, here it is a complicated mess of drivers license, SSN, birth certificates, each states makes their own ID card thing for those that don't drive. Every single time elections come around there is talk of ID cards and supposed voter fraud for months afterwards, with everyone pointing fingers and insinuating things. Then there are cases like these. People's identities are stolen based on the stupid SSN number and a name, most of those are already on the black market somewhere already.
Nest, iPod Creator Fadell Backs His First Cybersecurity Startup
There are some people doing something similar with drones. Just saw a presentation on this a few weeks back. https://support.dronedeploy.com/v1.0/docs/ndvi-algorithms. Measures the difference between blue and near infrared to infer things about plant health, although I don't believe it indicates for specific diseases. Good luck with your work!
Here are videos from break out sessions yesterday at re:Invent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabltEXk0VQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_4uGvbvnk
It doesn't look like any work at all is actually being done on fwupd from my point of view. I've basically given up hope at this point that System76 is going to do the right thing.

Source: Am the LVFS and fwupd maintainer.
As an interviewer, I’ve found that the ability to talk through the problem at multiple layers of abstraction to be one of the strongest indicators of mastery of a subject. This is independent of the topic as well- whether you’re interviewing for coding ability, sales skill, or good management practices. Glad to see it show up in these findings as a great way to interview people.
> Uber seem, from the financial data I have seen, to be sticking to that playbook down to the 3rd decimal place

Except, if you check the linked article, you'll find that bookings grew 11%, revenue grew 21%, and losses grew 38%.
We have found Sushi No is even a more fun experience for us. Basically Sushi Go! but whoever gets the lower points total wins. It's a bit tense but more fun.
At the least it's a good NAT buster for signalling. May be able to piggy back a direct connection off of it (using it for just STUN-like reasons) but of course the increased performance of a direct connection comes at the cost of anonymity.
Managing AWS Lambda Errors
I don’t know what the title is trying to say, but I’m willing to bet the title is not what you intended.
(“Caffeine is more effective than nootropics startup startup HVMN (neé Nootrobox)”)
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Shouldn't it be 0.00000002? As in 2 sts, since 2 cents is 2 x the smallest denomination.
I haven't worked out the math (or seen others do the same), but I'm pretty certain that while the resources are basically balanced across the board, wheat has a slight edge and sheep a slight disadvantage. Some initial board states can really skew this as well. This theory has won me probably like 75% o f all my Catan games.
Trying to take over other companies.
Well I certainly missed the bus on this one. But I also think it's too late to climb on now.

As I said I bought VPN with it when this stuff was in baby stages. Now at 10k USD valuation the real world usage hasn't grown all that much from there...certainly nothing like the price growth. So I'm staying really fkin far away from this.

People called it right & made a killing of it - more power to them. Realistically this can't going though without some monster sized improvement in the underlying non-speculative transaction volume.

Real world utility and pricing have to converge at some point. Right now they seem to be growing apart exponentially and all I can think of is RIP whoever is on the wrong side of that when it returns to reality.
Why are these "hipster hacks"? They're really important language features everyone should be using.

Side note: has anybody ever had to actually swap variables in production code? I thought it was just a fizzbuzz interview question.
When i read things like that i feel like i really screwed up !

i have a PhD in Computer Science (in one of the hot Topics: Machine Learning !!!) and here in Germany i only earn 95k € / year with 8 years experience :(
This sounds pretty good. But just to finish exploring this:

> But on the other hand, System76 customers are trusting that System76 hasn't been hacked or coerced to ship malicious firmware from the factory in the first place

I think it's reasonable to feel differently about those two risks.

Most notably, you only get one chance to load malware at the factory, whereas you have an infinite number of chances to push malware as a software update after that. It's harder for you to avoid being compromised forever than to avoid it at one specific moment. One person on your team could probably get malware signed and distributed as an targeted update without anyone else knowing, whereas doing it in the factory might take more coordination.

It's also tidier from an attacker's perspective to deliver malware just-in-time to a specific user, rather than to everyone, or to a machine that you hope will end up in the hands of the target weeks/months later. It's less detectable.

If you have a way to avoid being able to infer (e.g. by their IP address, correlated with other records) which human is asking for a firmware update file (or any update file) at the time it's downloaded, I recommend taking steps to deny yourself that knowledge.
Why? If I can get paid in USD or BTC, and the BTC will buy me more when I come to spend it, why would I prefer to get paid in USD?
Yeah but it's also well documented how the pricing strategy he chose left the company unable to adapt at that critical time you mentioned.
Gustavo Duartes has a really great blog[1] about kernels and low-level development, with Linux on x86/amd64 being the reference. Here[2] is the one where he goes into CPU rings and kernel- versus user-mode.

1. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/archives/

2. http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/cpu-rings-privilege-and...
Data and Insights from a Month on Steam
I'm extremely glad that they measured this, and are sharing it. Even though I think it's obvious ahead of time, some people will be surprised about it. Which makes it doubly important to share, IMHO.

Why does Google get a ton of press for so many things? Because they are Google and they attract attention. Why does MIT get so much press for so many things? Because they are MIT and they get a ton of attention. Reputation matters a lot and is self reinforcing.

Peer review is only partly about saying "this seems to be well evaluated science." For journals and conferences, it's much more about "this is interesting to the audience." That is a hugely subjective evaluation, based on all sorts of cultural clues.

It would be extremely odd if scientists were somehow able to ignore that human tendency in peer review. If you can see names and institutions, and you have reputations associated with them, that will without doubt enter into the highly subjective evaluation of peer review. I would guess that even if you know about this human bias in yourself, you would still be subject to it subconsciously. I'm not sure there's any way to get around it except things like double blinding. Even then, for many sciences, the techniques and data sets used may very well give away who did the work.
But then you're back to square one as far as de facto monopolies go: Everyone cares about that specific co-op, because everyone uses it, so you get the same feedback loop which created Google's dominance.

Only this time, companies will be lobbying the employees to vote certain ways on issues which could affect search ranking and so on.
Probably all of them. So you would just have to find someone who had never opened a legitimate line of credit, but for whom a fraudulent line of credit had been opened.
When we do interviews, at least 6 people evaluate the candidate. that would certainly smoothen the cons and pros of individual interviewers and provide a fairly honest picture of the company's culture...
I once made a joke we should make an OS in Rust.

Awesome, I finally get to see the punchline. ;)
Pretty much every rogue trading scandal in the last few years is caused by some guy coming to the front office from the back and gaming the system with knowledge of its weaknesses. In more or less every case, poor front office controls, systems or data practices were identified as the root cause. Example https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/...
that's smart.

a mr. miyagi wax on / wax off approach. can you think of any co's that do this well?

here's a fun walking app btw (https://jaywalk.me/)
I don't think PostgreSQL scales nice horizontally. I do use TimescaleDB though and it scales really nice vertically, but would probably be hard to make it run on multiple machines.
wait wait, you are totally crossing wires.

In the watergate analogy "collusion" would be Nixon's direct complicity in the Watergate break in. Nixon was denying all involvement one year after the crime was reported. The crime was the break in then, and now it's Russian election meddling via social media and probably hacking the DNC (I'm sure you disagree with this).

So we're in the period after the crime was revealed, before the link to the sitting President was found, if we are just comparing the two timelines.
i second this ! i have a PhD in CS (Topic : Machine Learning !!!) i only earn ~95k / year with 8 years experience
Would you call it inherently better than bar-hopping? Dating services just seem like a huge slog so far...
the goal would be to create an vehicle that's super effective at changing ppl's strongly held beliefs. that's tough!

i wonder what the most successful method is to change someone's deeply rooted beliefs.
On an internet friendship website. Both of use were not really looking for love, but just someone to talk to occasionally. We just kept talking and talking :)
It looks like their metric is: "good" interviewer means the interviewee enjoyed the interview and to want to move forward if asked.

Likely a very useful metric for figuring out if some interviewers are turning people off about the company.

I (and probably everyone else) would really like to see if this at all correlates with future performance metrics.
Ok, that's a fair hair to split, but I would also disagree with your more explicit characterization. I think the recent disclosures via the Panama and Paradise Papers demonstrates that the extent and nature of money laundering remains poorly understood by regulators, academics, and the public at large, though perhaps there are insiders (meaning actual money launderers) with deep insight into the activity. We may know a lot about some basic red flags, common motivations for money laundering, common funding sources, which banking markets are grey or black, etc., but that doesn't mean we understand anything about how it is actually being conducted on a day to day basis. If we did, it wouldn't be so pervasive.
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Cute! I like the metric of realizing that she makes everything better, it's a good rule of thumb!
The fact that you need "tips" to make a question answerable is part of the problem.