skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of mapping story points to time ranges, here's the full list:

1 point -> 2-4 hours

2 points -> 4-8 hours (1 day or less)

3 points -> 1-2 days

5 points -> 3-5 days (up to one week)

8 points -> 5-9 days (up to one two-week sprint[0])

13 points -> 2-3 weeks (1-1.5 sprints)

20 points -> 3-4 weeks (up to two sprints)

40 points -> 1-2 months

Anything beyond 40 needs to be aggressively analyzed broken down into steps, even if those steps are not deliverable features per se.

[0]For a two-week sprint, you have to account for at least one day each sprint for demos, retrospective, and planning. Thus, you have at most 9 days for implementation and testing.

EDIT: Fixed formatting.
This should be fixed now :)
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I agree. The central relationship between managers and employees plays a critical role in driving engagement, not compensation, not benefits, yet this fact is often overlooked. Wouldn't it be great if there was more transparency into these employment challenges so that future employees could be warned with sufficient data? Shouldn't managers be held accountable for employee success just as much as on speed of hiring? I haven't seen examples where this issue was given any kind of importance, not just in India but in other places too.
You're missing the adjectives. Worhtless online test, 10 hour homework, and whiteboard trivia. The point is that an interview shouldn't require a ton of a candidate's off-time outside of the interview The interview itself should be a worthwhile measure of the developers skill while pertaining to the actual job. The amount of piano tuners in Chicago is probably irrelevant to 99.9% of jobs.
That can be time consuming and error prone.

At least in Brazil, a significant amount of candidates are out of the market developers who simply are not very good.

Some of them might be good at selling themselves in an interview but will be bad performers. In many ways a bad hire will cost a lot more than no hire at all.

Similarly developers bad at selling themselves on interviews might be good performers. If they have public code that can be looked at we can decide for ourselves, but that is also hard to compare to other candidates, specially since a lot of them do not have public code.

I believe a bite sized on site (with internet)/online/homework coding task within the required skill set will actually help filter out some red flags and will help drive the following interview since it's easier to talk about something concrete.

As long as the task is close to actual work that will be done and not gimmicky, won't take an absurd amount of time, and the candidate can have access to all resources they would usually have (mainly and IDE and internet access), I think it's a valid proposition.
I can't say anything about chatsecure but Conversations is pretty user-friendly. You may have to show a non-techy once how you compare fingerprints but other than that it's pretty straight forward.
The way I read the blog entry is that yes, it was an exchange. I don't feel that it is being spinned, but YMMV.
Am i the only guy who thinks been there, done that. With networks' news & major papers.

Of course it will influence and change things. But we created it therefore it is ok. Just scary now
I have had my eyes on Crystal for a while now, and one of my New Year's Resolutions for 2018 is to learn it.

I really hope the project does not collapse. What little I have seen was very, very exciting. I used to love Ruby, I did most my scripting in it for pretty long time.

More recently, I have discovered the joys of strong static typing. A language that combines Ruby's expressiveness with type safety and good performance (let's face it - ruby's performance is not that impressive) sounds really sweet.

This is definitely a language I would like to get to know. ;-)
It's to be expected from any protocol for which this is true:

> the protocol is under rapid development, with extensive rewriting of the protocol occurring over the scale of months

Once it stabilizes, I don't see a reason why it couldn't go the same route SPDY -> HTTP/2 did. A faster internet is a win for Google.

(I work at Google, but I'm not aware of the QUIC team's plans).
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I would argue that immigration laws are not strictly economic or commercial policies. You’re drawing a false equivalence.
What do you think of the International Entrepreneur Rule? Do you think it will be a good option (if they don't scrape it?)?
The best progress bar is in Gary's Mod when connecting to servers. It lists exactly what files are being downloaded to you underneath the bar so nothing is a mystery.
> The only drawback with AWS rekognition APIs is that it only takes an image stored as an AWS S3 object as input while the other API work with any image stored on the web.

This isn't quite true -- the rekognition API will also accept base64 encoded bytes (5MB max): http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/rek...
Beautiful site, nicely done.

I do personally know a lot of people in San Francisco who had bought bitcoins when it was fractions of pennies. Some lost all of it in the MT GOX hack / bankruptcy, and most others sold what they had off after that incident.

Just 1 guy, my boxing trainer, held on to the bitcoin 1 of my friends paid him with, for Personal Training. In his case also it was about 300$ worth of bitcoin paid to him in 2013, and it was more like he forgot he even had it, and then all of a sudden, last month, he realized it was now worth 20,000-ish and sold it all off and 'invested' it back into Litecoin and Etherium. 2 days after he bought Litecoin, Coinbase froze all trading of Litecoin on their platform.

The funny thing about this is that the friend who paid my trainer worked for a Bitcoin startup and had 1000s of bitcoins. He sold it all off in 2015. Didn't even keep 1 coin. If he had held on to it, he'd have had about 20 million USD worth of bitcoin today.

So the site should really be https://ifyouhadboughtcryptoandarestillholdingontoit.com :)
I've been very disappointed by this as well - I pay for a 4k Netflix subscription, but can't actually use it on any devices. Linux is restricted to 720p due to copyright protections, and my older tv is restricted to 1080p since it doesn't have new enough HDMI ports (again due to copyright restrictions).
There is no question that USCIS is more inclined to approve H-1B petitions where the offered wage is above the so-called Level 1 wage, which is the lowest acceptable wage in the DOL wage database.
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That's an extremely narrow worldview. The diversity of Kansas for instance in 2010 is an analog of the diversity of California in 2000 when the dotcom was happening (It's actually hard to make a direct comparison, two massively different economies and initial populations).

The major difference you might be alluding to is culture. I think in California major cities, it seems people react and demand quick action by the government to any perceived social injustice. In in the Midwest, I'd say perceived social injustices are usually corrected by community outreach, not government action. I think this is a major difference that should be studied. People in the midwest generally don't like the government in their business, as contrasted to the coastal cities, they appear to see it as the proper way to fix problems.
Can someone on a H1B visa (as a software engineer) be engaged in setting up a small business that is completely unrelated to the work that they do professionally? Eg. Selling of fine art or digital prints?

Preliminary research suggests that this isn't allowed but if I am allowed to take photographs in my free time, and I am allowed to sell belongings on eBay, then it seems that by transitivity, I should be allowed to sell works that I do in my free time.
Why though?

Why would an alien species just do atmosphere drive-bys? Why wouldn’t they pop down and say hello?

Why on earth would NASA, SETI, SpaceX, etc cover up the biggest scoop (biggest FUNDING scoop) of Earth’s history?

Why wouldn’t any of the other LEO piercing countries in the world grass it up? Thousands of people working in each of the space-faring countries, all keeping quiet about it.

Why would the US, Russia, China, probably even North Korea agree on this one thing? Alright guys we are all agreed on not telling the plebs about the aliens? Ok cool, back to the war then lads.

If you can answer why, I’m down to clown on your theory.
> Yes, it is a little more complicated to setup, but in the end it works as good as the others

And this is quite literally true. It really only is a little more complicated. This is not a handwaving statement. You don't need any technical know-how to get Conversations running. It's only the fingerprint thing you have to explain to people who are not tech-savvy. But if you hit the right tone they'll have no problem with that either.
I know your comment was supposed to be sarcastic, but it has nothing to do with what is being discussed.
>>Backed by a codebase of more than one million lines of ActionScript and a game suite that makes nearly $1 million in revenue per month, we knew finding the right solution was not going to be easy.

That is good going.
Has Trump being elected affected the rate of applications from people wanting to go to the US?

Are there any other factors that affect the rate?
If USCIS actually processes these applications, I think that it's a great rule but the Administration has made it clear that it doesn't like the rule and will try to do away with it.
Maybe you misunderstand how these cars work. They are fully electric if you want them to be. You never have to put a drop of gasoline in them if you don't want. Does that make sense? They're not hybrids in a way that the Prius is a hybrid. I think maybe you haven't picked up that distinction. Your comments sort of don't make sense otherwise.
I'm beyond "informed" opinions, I only can offer infected ones. The cookie directive is an infuriating irritant which is completely counter-productive.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endemic_goitre , linked from the Cretinism article.
Frankly, I'm fine with the current situation. I can buy ala carte stuff on iTunes, Amazon, and a few other services. I can subscribe to a few "networks" or whatever you want to call them, that consistently provide good original shows (like Netflix and HBO).

On the rare occasion that a show that I would like to watch is on a service I don't have, I can either, wait a year for it to become available ala carte (like GoT on iTunes, for example), I can watch at a friend's house, or I can just find something else to watch because there's so much good stuff on.

I can't think of any compelling reason to subscribe to either services with ads, or to dozens of streaming services. I won't get to watch everything, but honestly, I don't have time to watch everything. It's still cheaper and way less annoying than cable TV. Even if it weren't cheaper, I'd still do it because it's that much less annoying than cable TV.
Thanks, I'm not sure what the problem could be since I've had GC bill me every month for the past couple of years for other APIs and services, perhaps I never officially enabled Cloud Vision API after it was in beta. The crash at account screen is puzzling but I'm assuming it must be on my end (conflicting plugin perhaps) -- I'll have to investigate it over the weekend. I'm hoping to use GC for a class so I'm going to try the signup and onboarding process from scratch anyway.
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What do you think about the fact that this WSJ article though is "the first you've heard of it"? Could the story itself perhaps have been suppressed in some deliberate manner by Google?
> Wait, just how many examples of stained glass text are there?

Lots.

> What’s the use case?

Churches, for one.
Actually emscripten should be getting incremental linking soon. It depends on upstream components, the LLVM wasm backend and lld. Those are almost ready now.

In other words, the emscripten integration for those components is the easy work, the upstream LLVM/lld stuff is the hard part.
Their solutions are not perfect as they are the result of a multi-party compromise (as in the end, they should be). Keep in mind that the cookie law is by far the worst example, and definitely not the average.
Totally agree. Companies spend a lot more on hiring than on retaining employees in the long term, yet very little importance is being given to address this problem.
Stop being snide. I know exactly where to find 8chan. I just don't go there because I don't like it.
The risks include things like falling out of bed, which we solved by getting rid of the box spring and putting the mattress directly on the floor. That also let our daughter be more independent since she could nap, then get out of bed herself once she started crawling. There is a risk of the mother rolling over on the child, but only if the mother is taking some sort of medication (or drinking alcohol) which is interfering with her sleep. Fathers sleep more deeply than the mother, but we ended up buying two mattresses and setting them side by side.
Of course I'm biased, we no longer speak with a couple we were acquaintances with because it was unconscionable to let their child scream and scream all night because of "convenience", I don't know why you'd bring a child into the world to immediately abuse it. Co-sleeping obviates the "necessity" of "sleep training".
Just because something is the norm doesn't make it ethical or optimal.
Right... I just think its curious that their statements are so meaningless and have such little substance that you could replace "government" with "oligarchy", "corporations", or any other term that describes are large, organized group of people.
Like in many cases in which a programmer codes a user-facing piece of software (be it this, an error message, etc.), the programmer tells what he's doing instead of what the user cares about.
Brasil by Terry Gilliam already predicted this. As the main character, Sam Lowry, is being brought in to be tortured, a guard tells him, "Don't fight it son. Confess quickly! If you hold out too long you could jeopardize your credit rating."

It's amazing to me to see the dystopian comedies of the 70's and 80's becoming all too true. Another good example is Network from 1976 based on the farcical premise that a news organization would be taken over by the network's entertainment division.
They all have houses in FL, SC, Caribbean, Bahamas...
"EDIT: I see you are fairly highly placed in Google. I'm quite surprised if you genuinely think what you wrote, given the raw numbers you must surely know, but given your legal training, I am not at all surprised that you would posture as if you were unaware of this."

Character assassination, awesome!

Please leave the company i work for this out of this, always. I never speak for my company on hacker news unless i say otherwise. I've been very clear and consistent about that.
Thanks!

However, given the personal attack, i'm done.
This kind of stupid bullshit is one reason i've stopped contributing as much lately.

It's nice for you to present your opinion as if it was the only true possibility and everyone else is an idiot.
It's not, however, a great way to foster a discussion.
Tacking on a personal attack makes it even more welcoming.
Isn't your best choice when it comes to privacy to choose which services to use and which ones not to use, rather than relying on your government dictate rules they don't fully understand to companies which may put their entire business at risk?

In other words, in terms of things you care about absolute data privacy may be #1 on your list, others may be willing to accept less privacy for an internet that can continue to exist on an ad supported business model. Why should you have your way (enforced by the government) and others not get their way. We already have strong disclosure laws in both the US and Europe about data use, and at the end of the day it's your choice.
And to read any pre-Columbian census records which have survived, which is also a Big Deal.
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Right. I know about a dozen people who had a lot of bitcoins back in 2011 / 12 timeframe. None of them held on to it and are beating themselves up now.
Oo I like the self-hosted and PGP based parts of it. I've also recently found BitWarden, which you can self-host as well.
The parent comment is conflating two different things.

Commercial radio stations and others can get a blanket license for playing songs, e.g. https://www.ascap.com/music-users/types/radio. Furthermore, if you want to cover a song you can automatically get a license to perform that song. The artist can't typically withhold that right the way a playwright, say, can.

Physical video rental, like the sales of used books, is allowed under first sale doctrine. You can't make copies and sell but, so long as you're lending or selling a physical copy that you bought, you're good.
Hopefully people that lack the proper perspective won't lead those with the proper perspective to not even try.
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> nearly everyone mentally healthy can do it

Don't forget they need basically unlimited access to a computer and internet connection, too. That'll cut down your eligible worker pool a fair bit.
I really hope e-ink laptops become a thing. I want a text-focused computer with crazy good battery life and a full keyboard.
> If that is acting badly then how would you describe how the UK and the US have been acting in the same period?

ah there's the whataboutism

it's an overused and a poor case against the West.

Yes, North Korea has been acting particularly bad, as Korean, it strongly irks me when people talk out of their mouth when they aren't familiar with the subject.

South Korea has constantly suffered the brunt of North Korea aggression. It's hard to continue a logical debate with somebody who rejects facts and continues to make illogical arguments.

Seems like you are born in Czech. I think USSR was in the right when they crushed dissent because Czech was a bad communist country. See how that works?
Give creditors the system and they'll try to use it to the maximum extent allowed.
That makes more sense indeed, I guess I'm just finding myself having to do a lot of adjective filtering of online comments.
What in the title made you think Tesla? Must be good marketing from Tesla rather than click baiting.
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Am I correctly reading from your tone that you are of the opinion that the remainder of the consolidated media powerhouses somehow don't?
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Unfortunately, the answer to your first question is no and further you're not necessarily allowed to sell anything on eBay, particularly if it's something that you created or if the sale of things on eBay is your business.
Do I have to restart the green card process, if I leave my current company within 6 month after they filed I-140.
What is the economic rationale behind such a scheme? There are almost no barriers to entry in either the content-creation market or the content-distribution market. Indeed, the barriers are lower than ever thanks to digital media workflows.

It's kind of like saying we should have a law to force car manufacturers to sell to any dealership, so Toyota can't have Toyota dealerships versus Ford having Ford dealerships. Maybe there is a hand-wavy argument that it would make car shopping more convenient, but is there an actual market failure that would justify regulatory intervention?

It should be noted that compulsory licensing for music is just an accident of history with no sensible economic foundation: http://digitalcommons.law.wne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl....
Can I get an E-2 visa based on revenues from my US company? I've read there is some minimum investment requirement (like at least $100k) for that visa. Can I use revenues/profits from an active US business to meet those basic requirements?
Species don't change so that the conditions become ideal for that species, species change so that the species is (close to) ideal for dealing with that environment. This is a very important distinction. Certain plants may grow in the desert with very little water, but that doesn't mean that they don't grow faster with more water.
Fortunately now that net neutrality has been eliminated, that's literally impossible. Comcast can and will prioritize their own streaming services to the detriment of their competitors.
I can imagine Walmart alone could sustain a bunch of logistics startups in Arkansas or wherever they are.
My understanding is based on my brief time doing college radio, so I may be wrong and welcome corrections.

Basically, it means there doesn't need to be any formal agreement between the broadcaster and the IP owner. If you own a radio station, you can play whatever song you want (provided it doesn't violate things like obscenity rules), and the IP owner can't say boo. The IP owner gets compensation, but they don't get to dictate what radio stations get to play their songs.
Just ask Coloradans, it's wonderful to have your state taken over by people who don't share the same political culture, have far more money, and don't care much about land use!
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Many of these supporters I don't see defending the regulation of speech on the net by government, but by the public putting pressure on private entities, which is a different matter altogether.

Maybe I've missed it but I have not seen much in the way of NN supporters wanting government regulation of speech on the web.
I'm wondering how hard the O-1b is to qualify for. How frequently do they get granted, and are there any specific numeric targets (in number of views/followers/sales) that need to be met in order to qualify? I'm looking at applying for an o-1 as an author, and am wondering how feasible this is.
China turned an entire city into a dedicated surveillance state beta test
Food for thought: What if Google+(or any othe google social initiative) had succeeded and this duopoly were to become a monopoly. How worse the world would be?
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I wonder what kind of data WhatsApp could be sharing with FB, given the fact that actual conversations are end-to-end encrypted. I imagine it could be something like 1) When do you sleep/wake-up, 2) Enumerating people in your social circle, 3) Guess what you're upto if you use the "Status" feature, and similar things. Now FB knows a LOT more than that about you. If you are an active FB user, it doesn't make sense to worry about what WhatsApp does to you.
I can't stress this one enough. I've been through a whole bunch of different interviewing processes, but there was one that stood out as the worst:

1. A homework assignment where you have to write some code for given requirements, use a specific design pattern they require, write tests and document.

2. Have a 1 hour phone call to discuss your assignment.

3. Have a face-to-face meeting with some of their devs to discuss behavioral stuff (what motivates you, what you want out of work, how you give and take feedback).

4. A full day of technical interviews.

I did the first three steps and I thought I was done, because they never bothered to describe the whole process clearly. Then they contacted me to schedule a full day interview round. Since I didn't know about that beforehand, I had used up all of my PTO on interviews with other companies. I explained that I couldn't do a full day because of my work and they offered to do two consecutive half-day interview rounds from 4 pm to 8 pm.

Now, let that sink in: they were willing to make their devs stay and interview me until 8 pm, two days in a row. That's when I decided to thank them for the opportunity and politely bail.
i guess i'm missing some context, because this seems kinda nonsequitur.