skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, those two points are inadequately covered in the article. Thanks for reading so carefully :)

Story point size: the usual thing to do is to have "baseline tasks" (which the whole / almost the whole team did in the past) that you choose way back at the beginning, and then continue to use them as reference whenever estimating in the future. To do this, a couple of people who know the "approximate size" of a point estimate some, say, 2-point and 5-point past tasks, but don't tell anyone else how big a point was. And after that, they try to forget how big a point was during the baselining process. But you never, ever let people ask about time; you just say "was it bigger or smaller than the baseline 5-point task"?

Defects: in the model as it's being discussed, we assume (perhaps too optimistically) that we generally fix bugs before adding new features. This is why, in the second simulation slide [1], each subsequent feature takes longer than the last. Eventually, you cannot sustain this method if you still want to launch new features and your team size hasn't grown and you haven't contained the number of new bugs somehow; I can't tell you what to do when that happens. It's hard.

If you have mostly small bugs (which is common; just fix them) and a few large bugs (also common), then if the bugs are important, they can probably be described by writing a story. At that point you can elevate them to the estimation and PM prioritization process.

Beware, however, that in general, if a bug is introduced by adding a new feature, you should almost always fix it before launching that feature. Otherwise you have basically lied about how long it took to implement that feature, and as that gets worse over time, it progressively upsets your estimates.

[1] http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201712#slide16
I really like this approach. I like too include physical interactions in all the facilitation that I do, it makes the concept super clear.

Try to cover all the possible scenarios when you are planning it out, what happens when multiple miners create a block at nearly the same time?

Be sure to grab a few friends and test it out first, try to predict what kind of questions people might ask.

Good Luck!
> you are foolish to assert that they are infringing based on on a few select quotes

I only included a few quotes for reference. My argument is based on my study of copyright law over the last ~25 years.

> browser caches part of a web page to disk

Obviously not a derivative work as the HTML file is not changed. Also, this is a fair use that doesn't publish additional copies (and thus doesn't impact the market for the original work).

> a user runs an script to change the layout of a page

First Sale doctrine states that the publisher's rights do not extend to how someone uses their (legitimately acquired) copy.

> there is no clear precedent for either

The only part that is at all unclear are the few cases that ruled on the temporary, ephemeral copies that a computer makes during normal use. These cases all resulted in different rulings, but the most recent of which (which may only have limited precedent) came to what should be the obvious conclusion that technically necessary temporary copies were a fair use.

None of this, however, is relevant to Comcast making new derivative works based other people's HTML files without a license and providing a copy of those derivative works to their customers. Providing unauthorized edited copies to 3rd parties has never been argued to be a fair use. ]
I don't intend people named Steve to access my open site so I can sue all Steve's for their felonious behavior?
In the Dark Forest, we could get lucky given how faint and brief the peak of our RF emissions have been. We’d probably have to be close to “someone” looking for signs of life to give ourselves away now. Still for all that we know the relativistic bombardment is already en route, or a dual-vector foil.
I don't agree — that's why things like redundancy are commonplace. :D
why didn't Comcast stop sending these messages after the customer contacted them to tell them he had seen and received their message?

Personally, I'd guess it's because (like far too many parts of the internet) their implementation is subtly broken, and not because of anything nefarious. I don't recall the details of how it worked when I was the recipient, but I think the message correctly went away after I acknowledged it. I'm OK with treating repeated notification as a serious bug, just against equating a failed attempt at customer notification with a man-in-the-middle attack. I'm not universally against flooding Comcast executives and board members with feedback, but I'd prefer to reserve it for the cases where their intent, rather than their buggy implementation, is the issue. Like increasing transparency about how much they spend lobbying against municipal broadband: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/06/09/20917/comcast-sha...
I’m in Thailand right now and everywhere I go I see about 100 wires being routed along each telephone pole. 3 utility lines across the top for power, then the most incoherent mess of cables I’ve ever seen. One pole I saw had become a literal birds nest. These are fiber and copper lines for individual ISPs. That’s what the internet looks like in a free market.

I wish this image of free choice of ISP was used as an argument against repealing net neutrality. Nothing speaks to republicans more than showing them how their decision will fuck up their nice neighborhoods.
How is a c# lambda an entirely new tech stack if you already use .net core?
>About 63 million Americans voted for Trump. This is not half the US population. Whether half the US population supports Trump or not is pure speculation.

135.4 million people voted in the presidential election, 46% of them for Trump.

135.4 million isn't everyone in the US, but discussing if children should be allowed to vote is an entirely different argument.
> As someone who grew up in India

> I find Bay Area by far to be the most open, tolerant, accepting places I have ever lived

SF is all about identity politics. Your race, gender, and sexual orientation matters more than your opinions and actions.

As a minority you are allowed to have opinions and beliefs that would get a conservative straight white man fired and shunned.

I really enjoy pretending to be gay when I go to bars in SF. You get a +10 to tolerance of your ideas.
Archaeologists excavate the site of Operation Gunnerside
I spent about ten minutes on the site, so hardly a domain expert. I’m still confused, too. But as best I can understand, you have the option of storage on S3, Azure, and the like. I assume that with a plug-in/driver, you could store anywhere you like.

But non-local storage does seem to be designed in, because there is text like “if there’s a daemon running rsync in the background, you’re doing it wrong” and “if your UI requires marking folders to be synched/not synched, it’s broken”, so there appears to be an assumption of putting your data elsewhere.
tbh i think it's probs better to develop core apis (then maybe sdks) for interfacing w/ excel, et al rather than embedding languages (+ runtimes, libraries, envs/versions, etc.).
Did fields other than R and C eat the authors' children or something?
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> Small internet services were being shut out due to the Title II regulations.

no, they weren't:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/ajit-pai-claims-...
Harvey Weinstein is Jewish. Kevin Spacey is gay. Being X doesn't mean you automatically have empathy for Y. Or even X.

As for the second part, valley employees have gotten in trouble for criticizing "white". Wasn't there an outrage over Github?
Can you provide some use-cases for why this would be useful in a way that wouldn't violate most sites' ToS?
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Ben Thompson who writes Stratechery, which is often posted here, had a piece on Net Neutrality a few weeks ago which was quite controversial. Thompson is pro neutrality, but anti-title II.

https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/

Because that article was so controversial, he wrote an update as well:

https://stratechery.com/2017/light-touch-cable-and-dsl-the-b...

Pai was on Marketplace Tech before the vote and specifically mentioned Thompson as for Pai's stance.

marketplace tech with molly wood; 12/13/2017: Ajit Pai on what his internet will look like

https://overcast.fm/+F6tgDywN0

I thought it was fascinating that Pai cited Thompson by name.
That's not a hard drive. That's a system built on top of hard drives.

And so is perkeep.
You like watching Netflix in 160p?
The recession happened, and I attempted to find a job while living on money I had set aside for taxes. That was a flawed plan. About 70% of the loans were from grad school.
You can use virtualization on prem; it’s trivial. No one is still racking hardware on demand. Don’t want to use Xen or KVM? Kubernetes is your solution if you’re a containers shop.

On prem delivery/provisioning is not slower when executed properly.
> To be dissatisfied with our society and the inter-generational transfers of wealth is is to "cry" and to "expect sympathy"?

Actually, yes. Consider for a moment that there are many immigrants to the US who have no trouble finding high paying jobs. If they can make it here then why can't somebody who grew up here?

I really get the impression you are trying to blame society for the failure of young people who expect sympathy. To me that is the biggest strawman here. This might be a societal problem, but the solutions rest on individuals. Blaming things, such as society, is just another form of crying.

> Your advice may as well be "read more books" or "work harder".

Yes, that is a good start. It worked for me. Also, so did writing tons of open source software in my time outside the office and having two simultaneous careers in unrelated industries.
Starting with an abstract formal description of vector spaces and linear transformations is not a pedagogically useful introduction, and it leaves out a huge amount of the historical/motivational context explaining most of the conventions used in linear algebra, and even the mental/conceptual understanding most working mathematicians have about the meaning of linear models and their use in various parts of mathematics (not even to mention people in other STEM fields).

The two places to start historically (and easily accessible to high school students) are:

(1) understanding and working with displacement vectors in 3-dimensional Euclidean affine space and in general thinking about transformation geometry (sometime later this can be extended to other kinds of non-Euclidean or non-metrical geometry), especially with reference to problems in Newtonian mechanics.

(2) systems of linear equations: this one is inherently coordinate-heavy and matrix based, at least to start out, and explains our conventions for how matrices are written, index order, multiplication of matrices by "column" vectors on the right, the use of matrix equations to fold several equals signs into one, etc.

After that I'd call out the manipulation of vectors of polynomial coefficients as an accessible additional concrete example of a linear space.

Discussion of other linear spaces or more purely abstract treatments proving properties from axioms can come sometime later, after students have familiarity with some of those tools, and after they have applied them to some problems in statistics, multivariable calculus, computer graphics, ODEs, optimization, etc.
I'd say it's pretty even
>Croman, Kyle; Eyal, Ittay (2016). "On Scaling Decentralized Blockchains" (PDF). doi:10.1007/978-3-662-53357-4_8. Retrieved December 10, 2017. The maximum throughput is the maximum rate at which the blockchain can confirm transactions. Today, Bitcoin’s maximum throughput is 3.3–7 transactions/sec [1].

1. http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~prateeks/papers/Bitcoin-scaling....
Maybe it's the interstellar equivalent of throwing a rock at someone's window to get their attention? An alien race could have used a gravitational slingshot to send it our way.
This scares me. Already I frequently receive ads on certain podcast networks that must be based on geolocating the IP of my download--advertisements for area health-care networks that are certainly not nationwide. I've also downloaded episodes from backlogs where (what I assume to be newer) automated ad systems have inserted ad blurbs in a way that scrambles the content or has it played more than once.

I miss the idea of being able to download "podcast001.mp3" and get the same file today that I did 10 years ago; the lack of a canonical source of history seems a loss.
I was already tapped out. There was no more money to be borrowed.
LLU is essentially irrelevant today, it's fascinating that people keep bringing this up.

LLU happens at the exchange where the local loop edge is. But today's users want speeds which aren't practical over the long local loop. So the fibre was pushed out to street cabinets, FTTC, which are much closer to the end user and too small and numerous for LLU to work.

This makes good technical/engineering sense but it means there is no real competition. What the UK did about that is heavy regulation. The regulator decides how much can be charged to deliver the FTTC service from a consumer to a POP owned by an ISP as a wholesale price.
If the law assumed that only intended functions are permissible, innovation would be a crime. By definition, innovation is finding new and unforeseen uses for resources.
I have no idea how compatible this is, but someone is working on a new version. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/
How is this any better than just burning your data to a blu-ray, which lasts centuries when stored under proper conditions (theoretically, anyway) I need to give this a closer look.
That's incorrect. RAID is a system build on top of hard drives for redundancy. Redundancy (for this use of the word) is simply duplication across multiple hard-drives, which doesn't require a system at all.
The case is public record. I have it linked in my comment history. If you're interested, that's a great place to start.
If you borrow money, and it can be demonstrated you never intended to make a good faith effort to pay it back, you're going to have a bad time.
Most big orgs are dysfunctional. Moving to the cloud doesn’t fix company culture.
I know cops who do this and I think it's just wilful ignorance.
The gut contains 70% of immune cells because your gut is actually the main point of contact between your body and the external environment. The surface area of your gut is somewhere from 20x to 100x that of your skin.

One could just as well argue that because the immune system is so well developed and robust in the gut that it's the last place to look for dysfunction. Or one could argue that a 70% share of immune cells is rather low considering the relative ratio of environmentally-exposed surface area.

We could say all kinds of things if we're free to make unsubstantiated conjectures. But we really can't say anything of substance without context and evidence. The human organism is ridiculously complex and consistently defies intuition.
They will be sharing the 6 second proceeds with creators to encourage more creators to post content to Facebook.
keeping people alive? It's certainly not wealth redistribution.
>* the public transport is probably one of the best all over the world (even though the locals keep complaining), with completely driverless trains and accuracy that would make the Germans and the Swiss cry in envy.<

Train service is one of the top electoral campaign issues for the past 3 cycles (about 12 years). I don't know the metrics for European countries but my anecdotal experience in Japan is that the Singapore system is not even worthy of discussion. Don't even get me started on the quality of Japanese roads.

Since you're a relatively newcomer, you would not have believed what Singapore was like in the 80s when LKY was in power. I never saw a pothole in my life until I went abroad. Completely serious.

>* because the cars are so expensive, driving skills are not at all universal.<

It's definitely tougher than in the US. Haven't sat for a license exam in Europe so unable to form a frame of reference.
Lol, its not equivalent because its a link that deletes itself automatically after X days and X views. In a scenario where an email/slack/etc account becomes compromised down the road a password sent in plaintext is immediately compromised where as a password shared with pass.sh has expired and is no longer a valid link.

If you cant understand the very basic security control there then I really can't help you. You sound like someone who has been stuck in IT too long.

You are kidding yourself if you think relying on over a support agent to verify identity is better than the solution here. Humans are inherently fallable as social engineering has proven time and again.
I recently got pretty pumped about exploring developing for the Ethereum network and spent an entire weekend reading everything I could about the protocol, the development ecosystem, language and anything else I could find - blog posts, tutorials, experiences from other developers.

I came away with my initial enthusiasm completely dashed. I can't for the life of me imagine why any sane developer would ever want to work within the constraints of Ethereum. It just doesn't seem to me anywhere near ready for any kind of serious development, or even trivial development for that matter.

I'd love to hear rebuttals to this. Is anyone out there doing anything interesting with this platform?
True. Well, for young people.

For Medicare or certain people on Medicaid it might be worth it.
Why are they markedly different?

Ive found it's much easier to shrug off discrimination based on my skin color than it is to shrug off discrimination based on my core beliefs.

I'd love to see some research on this - do people who can be discriminated against based upon sexual orientation (which can be hidden) have it a lot easier than people who can be discriminated against based on skin color (which they obviously can't hide)?
> very few new significant functionalities between Office 2003 and Office 2016

The first release to feature the Ribbon, arguably one of the all-time major changes in Office, was 2007. That took quite a bit for most users to get used to.

An Office suite is not where you add experimental features for the hell of it. People use it to get the job done in so many different scenarios, any change will significantly impact entire industries.

Office programs are the "lawyers" and "accountants" of the software world: their work has been more or less the same since they existed, and any major change to them is a basically societal upheaval, so their approach will always be naturally conservative.
Agreed. And corporations like AT&T that not only provide ISP services but actually serve original content, they are uniquely positioned to push their services over their competitor's. Perhaps we'll be seeing streaming services like Netflix become slower, while, say, DirecTV Now runs at full speed.
I'd like to see perl integration, that would be rad.
Yes, and there are some English gypsy types who specialized in horsemanship or managing horses.

I feel however that these kinds of jobs are going to be far and few between as everything becomes professionalized.
Just saying to yourself "I save all my stuff on two drives" is a system. It's just kind of a crappy one that's really prone to failure.
Really, this is a very simplistic view of long term storage.

A RAID is not magically more reliable than a single drive, it needs a bunch of infrastructure and it needs to be duplicated to some other location far away enough to ensure that a single catastrophe such as a fire does not destroy your entire raid.

You are missing the wood for the trees: hard drives and raid devices are storage mechanisms that fall far short of the boundary conditions set to keep something permanently, at worst you will store your data for a couple of hour like that and in ideal conditions maybe for a couple of years, but on a scale of decades or centuries they are useless as a complete solution, though they could be part of such a solution.
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Looks like it already exists: http://facebookfreefebruary.org/
Question if anybody gets to this: I'm taking a break from work and computers for a year. How would you guys suggest I store my kbdx data securely In a failsafe manner without worrying about forgetting passwords or losing paper chits or USB keys?

Edit: after seeing some good suggestions about physical storage, I've decided to increase the difficulty of the question, hard mode- How would you do this without physical stuff? (more, new answers about physical welcome too)
I am not sure if this is the right equation.
Should we accept something wrong just because it costs (financially) us (personally) less than fighting for fixing it ?
Are we becoming more apathetic than the previous generations ? (real question)
Should the cost of right be priceless ?
I generally agree with you, but would like to know about your specific concerns, what did you dislike about it?
First of all, as the sibling comment mentioned, no one is waiting for weeks for hardware requisition. Everyone is using virtualized environments and have capacity to spare.
Spinning up a new instance in VMware is not harder (in fact easier) than in AWS and hardware costs are SO much cheaper than Amazon's margins.

Furthermore, If you have spiking workloads or hyper growth and can't do proper capacity planning - that's exactly the original AWS value prop, run a hybrid private/cloud environment and extend to the cloud when needed.
It’s an Unequal World, but It Doesn’t Have to Be
Its nice of you to make this long winded diatribe about security which you have gotten completely wrong.

> The content entered into the text box is accessible simply by visiting a link, which means that the data is not end to end encrypted

Me thinks you don't quite understand what end to end encryption means. When you visit pass.sh it forces you onto a TLS session. Anything you enter into that box is encrypted in transit. The data is encrypted in the database, and the password deletes itself from the database automatically after X views and/or X days.

I expected more from a "senior engineer at Virtu" but now I know what company to stay away from. Thanks.
As much as possible the design attempts to be agnostic about where the stuff is actually stored. Usually you want to be storing your stuff in multiple different places. Among others, Perkeep lets you choose one or more (or all) of the following:

Your own hard drive local to the Perkeep instance
Your own hard drive local to another Perkeep instance you run
Your friend's hard drive local to another Perkeep instance _they_ run with encryption to ensure privacy
A removable hard drive you can periodically sync to and from
A cloud service like S3, etc
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> while deranged world leaders measure each other's manhood by "mine's bigger than yours

Not much has changed in 70 years.
It has sync and backup options, tools for non destructive changes and robust search, a web UI so it can be used like a dropbox. Just because it's not useful to you doesn't mean it's useful to no one. Oh and importers for cloud things, they show off automatic sync pulling down a twitter feed and some foursquares check-ins.

Not an effort to sway your opinion, just pointing out that it's not really as simple as just saving images to a hard disk.
It's different (better?) in that it doesn't rely on you remembering to actually burn that data, then store it safely. It comes with an app you can run on your phone to upload all your photos immediately, for instance. It has importers to archive all your tweets automatically, for example. It allows you to outsource the task of "Keep this blu-ray safe" to a cloud provider (or a friend) while encrypting your data to keep it private.