skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product owner says build feature x this iteration by way of showing progress. Customer has explicitly said they are only interested in y. Whole team knows that x will have to be completely tossed out when building y. That's when agile fails. If you know what you are building it's a good idea to take that into account.
So what kind of latency should we expect from a satellite at that altitude?
Just because my previous comment is now gone: It's nice to mark PDFs
tl;dr Agile is still becoming the "hotness", it just takes time.

In the enterprise space Agile is still going through it's growing pains. I was in an org a few years ago which was technically implementing Agile, but what they were really doing was what I would call "micro-waterfalls". It will probably be 10-20 years until enterprises have something that resembles what was normal in smaller organizations in 2015. The real challenge will be the lack of formality around documentation and decision making. That is not natural for large organizations.
I never use power, the laptop battery lasts 3 hours which is as long as I stay. If there's no space I typically wouldn't stay. I just use my phone as a WiFi hotspot if the cafe doesn't have any.

But yeah I get kind of odd looks from one of the café owners, although he's the one who has the least customers.
My assumption is that Kanban has ongoing demos to the product owner as work is completed. In that case, the consolidated demos in Scrum may work better when you need to gather extended stakeholders (legal, compliance, design, etc).
Satellites, being a broadcast technology, don't seem well suited to Internet access. When I request my bank information, the response from the satellite will be audible to anyone who cares to listen for the signal.

Assuming there are some zero days out there against HTTPS, what is there to prevent third parties listening in? At least with cable and fiber, only those entities who can afford to install beam splitters can listen in (see Room 641A).

Any network engineers with satellite experience care to chime in on this?
What degree did you get? Were there any other things that made you attractive to employers? (Extra-curricular activities, previous experience, leadership ability?)
would you say this kind of thing -- x are more likely to y, and should categorically be treated as such -- about any other identity group?
> Yet across the Polish border developers are relatively well paid versus the suits and it's actually an attractive profession for people that are career oriented

My take on this: it's so easy for Polish developers to move to and find a job in Western Europe, that local companies have to pay salary that provides at least a roughly comparable living standard (vs the West)- as otherwise talented people would just leave. For "suits", on the other hand, there's far less opportunities abroad, so their wages don't need to track Western standards so much.

This effect is even stronger in Ukraine, where a teacher will be paid $300 (per month) while a dev will make $3000.
And how do we discern if the environment is hostile, for example, if there is disagreement amongst men in a women's psych class? Do we decide based on whichever side is larger? Whichever side is louder?

And what if the perceived hostile environment is, in fact, not hostile? What if it is the result of being exposed to new ideas, new group dynamics, an inability to separate oneself from the group they are a member of, breakdown in communication/terminology, etc.?

What if actions taken to improve the environment for one group is felt to be hostile to a different group? Then what?

No, I think this problem is significantly harder than you believe.
There are definitely lots of interesting applications - it has been amazing to me that this fiber has been so under utilized in apparel to date. We started with hosiery because of the very obvious pain point, which I've experienced personally, but love hearing about people's experiences with other products we could take this to!
Can you elaborate on why you don't like SAFe? I'm really curious to hear your thoughts.
Except in STEM :-(
"I fight for the users!" ;)
I'm assuming robteix is referring to various features which are first pushed to regular Google accounts before GSuite accounts.

Google has been a lot better about this lately, but it still happens.
That really is ironic, good lord.
From the article:

> SpaceX has said it will offer speeds of up to a gigabit per second, with latencies between 25ms and 35ms.
A bit overblown on the reaction to Apple's changes, but this article is generally true. I'd love to serve only high quality ads on high quality inventory. There is a ton of cheap, low quality impressions in the market right now. It can be difficult to /not/ buy these, and this is a step in the right direction. Right now there are 3rd party vendors that analyze sites and block sites with 3+ ads, or certain types of content, but they aren't terribly effective and often block high quality sites too.

My biggest challenge is blocking sites I know are absolute garbage but they use strategies to stop me from blocking them. Fucking topix.com / topix.net is really difficult to block because they constantly create new domains (topixstars.com, topixparenthood.com, etc) so blaclisting their domain isn't even effective.
TL;DR

You can drain stuff by changing a Service's selector but leaving the Deployment alone. Instead of changing a Deployment and doing a rolling update, create a new deployment and repoint the Service. Existing connections will remain until you delete the underlying Deployment.
What seems to be playing out on college campuses is in stark contrast to what is playing out inside many employers. Our leadership is getting its feet held to the fire to find more qualified female candidates for exec roles, which are dominated by white men. Is this likely to equalize itself over time?
One has to wonder whether it really makes sense to port instead of taking a look at the workflow and simply implement it from scratch.
Ask HN: General solution for pre-emptive background work scheduling
Here is scenario I hope the software architecture wonks on HN can help me with:

I want to execute a set of jobs with one background worker (or several). Whenever a job is done, a message is fired, and a listener on the main thread receives the message and stores some data in a cache.

So far this seems simple, but now I want pre-emptive scheduling from the main thread so I can, on demand, send a message to prioritize a specific job, so that it is done as soon as possible.

What is a general pattern for a clean solution to this problem?
It was an open secret at my school. We knew which teachers were which and passed down the "secrets" of how to exist in certain classrooms. I'm sure there was similar feelings on the other side. When you're young, you tend to only externalize that which impedes you.
Don’t Use Huawei Phones, Say Heads of FBI, CIA, and NSA – The Verge
> Men may also feel they have more alternatives to college than girls do. “For a lot of my [male] high school friends, it was just too much time,” said Smith, the orientation leader at Carlow. “They were ready to get out. As opposed to a four-year college, they could go to an 18-month [vocational-education] program and make just as much money.”

Seems like something that HN loves to push.
There was a HN story about this recently, there's a certain level of noise that can help with creativity.
I worked with someone who was definitely the nitpicker. He would even nitpick PRs that he wasn't a reviewer on and would happily unwind a merged PR just because he hadn't had a chance to review it first.

Many of the things that are often nitpicked can be automated with tools like linters. This really helps cut down on the pain of code reviews for both the author and the reviewer.
Developing a Permanent Treatment for Lactose Intolerance Using Gene Therapy
Can anybody suggest any management practises for single person projects? While you could do Agile / Scrum, elements of them (the meetings) are certainly not applicable. I've heard of Getting Things Done, which seems to have parallels with agile.
I'm not sure what you mean, could you give me a specific example?
It's in the article, but 25-35ms total. For the highest orbit they plan, one way latency is under 5ms, so these goals seem easily within the realm of possibility.
Monero Declares War on ASIC Manufacturers
Many networks are encrypted by default. It would be odd for SpaceX not to do this.
“Resist white supremacy” should not offend anyone but in a time when many on the right are accused of being white supremacists just for being on the right I can see why.

This crazy political divide is getting scary. I hope we manage to find a better way to communicate between political divides before this gets even more out of hand.
Not as generous as it sounds, but still, more companies should do this.
Yeah, they're not all controversial. I added "uncomfortable" because some of those activities like shop are physically difficult.

I can't help but feel that somehow, the dilution of this physical curriculum is somehow a result of the old equality of outcomes vs equality of opportunity debate. It is as if someone perverted the idea that working with your hands as an occupation paid less to meaning that we shouldn't teach it, and therefore everyone will get paid more. I'm not sure that there is a causal link there, but it seems that way to me. Now, we have a dearth of skilled tradesman and we have to hire immigrants with the right skills. (source: have multiple friends/family members in construction, cabinetry, etc.)
Cloudflare (heart) Open Source: Upgrade to Pro Plan on the House
any further explanation? Not sure what we should be looking for in these 40+ pages
Well for starters, losing the mentalities "well if I got paid x when I was a junior, then this junior should also be paid x" and "if I'm a senior earning a, this junior should not be earning more than b" when you reach leadership positions will help.

Having profit-sharing schemes when you run your own business are also helpful. Another alternative would be reserving a sizeable proportion (like 20%) of your company's shares strictly for employee ownership.
Do people read them? If it's really a phone-sized book, I assume that there's some sort of algorithm, whether run by a person or a computer, that is just looking for things to check off a list.
I posted this while working at Amazon.
google search works fine in hindi

https://www.google.com/search?q=गोलगप्पे

also typing in hindi using transliteration is as fast as english for me.

https://www.google.com/inputtools/try/
https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-set-up-our-work-cbce3d3d9c...
Fixed that for ya
Maybe a quibble but to me "internet" is fibre lines, cell towers, network protocols, etc. aka infrastructure

What rides on top of the internet is what will change with the next billion users but the infrastructure will stay more or less the same. Also, just because the developing world works differently doesn't mean I'll throw away my keyboard.
Gaming is bigger than the movie industry at this point. I don't think even a sub-category like PC gaming is going anywhere soon.
Somewhat. You have to remember to notice and tell everybody who sends to the gmail address to change. Some mail programs make this easy for your friends some do not. Over a few years people update their address book, and eventually almost nothing goes to gmail anymore.
I imagine a clean dataset like this would be hard to obtain. How many crimes go unreported? How many true accusations are disbelieved?
I literally go every morning for 2 hours before the morning stand up. Guarantees a good couple of hours to start the day.
My personal theory probably not. Its looks like small but significant percentage of men are extraordinarily sensitive to economic advantages of different activities.

I think the bitcoin billionaires and millionaires are mostly men, and good evidence of something changing.
Uhhh...your cell phone is wireless and uses https just fine.
I think a lot of people (especially experienced ones) are too quick to dismiss how much human skill comes from subconscious habits and intuition. Since they aren't consciously struggling with it, it's not on their radar anymore.

That's part of why it's so jarring for an professional to start trying to be an educator for the first time.
ShopLocket (to PCH Intl) and Female Funders (to Highline Beta)
Worked there.. I cared. I responded on forums, dealt with customers large and small, bot direct and as a point of engineering contact.

Here is the problem with a company like Google: SPAM. Want to support the regular user? You are going to get people bitching that they can't find the "save" button and they are afraid of losing documents. You will get people asking you where their Nigerian prince went. You will have people who don't own a computer but need access to gmail. etc. Controlling the ways that support enters the system controls the amount of pure bullshit support requests you have to filter.

My favorites from the people that made far enough to find a way to contact us directly:

* A 30 minute long voicemail from a person talking about how he invented a system to produce energy from.. something.. we never did figure out what the model was.

* A person asking YouTube to send over camera to record some event they were having.

* A scammer who was annoyed that their scam emails were being filtered, who spent a lot of effort trying to convince US that they really were an estate lawyer in a country that didn't exist.

* Somebody telling us that they lost access to an email that didn't exist (and had never existed) and kept slipping up what their name really was.

* Piles, and piles of people trying to sell us stuff we didn't need or want.
The data do not support the claim that "The cost of tuition is simply far too high for the real value...."

From the article:

"People with bachelor’s degrees earn 56 percent more, on average, than people with only high-school educations, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

I have seen many variants of this number, but all are in this same ballpark result. People who get bachelor's degrees make a lot more than those without.

Over the course of a lifetime, that really adds up.
If you do crazy "tricks" to get the space down like self modifying code or jumping into data then it won't run how it reads. It's a lot easier to do this in assembly because data and code aren't distinct.
So, originally nylon stockings were pretty much bulletproof and in 30-40 denier, but what happened was, DuPont realized they could make them in 10-15 denier and still last four-five uses. And people bought those like hotcakes, since they were prettier.

If you can make stockings bulletproof at 15 denier, what's to stop you (or a competitor) from going to 3-6 denier and make an even prettier stocking that only lasts four-five uses?
Is your experience that when routes reconverge, they still select the same end POP they did prior to the flap?

Assuming the end POP is still reachable along another regional route, I believe all the data I've seen shows that the client almost always hits the same destination they did before the flap.
It seems like men and women are applying to the junior roles in roughly equal proportion, while the applications to the senior roles might be more skewed to the tune of 80/20 or worse.

Just ball-parking numbers, but that's what I got from his post.
A science degree.
I had an internship my senior year.
> How would regulation and self-policing make things worse?

Imposing whimsical and arbitrary barriers to entry that have zero to do with technical hability solves nothing, and its absolutely ridiculous how you present that as solution to the problem of someone having developed highly technical software that you happen to not like.
21% overhead doesn't say how effective their program spend is.
'It's always better to choose the most-traveled roads, especially in DevOps'

Maybe. I agree it's not as clearcut as always pick the less traveled road, but the difference between the two may include a competitive advantage that you'd be unwise to overlook. I mean, you're on HN; Paul Graham and Common Lisp back in the 90s is an excellent example.
To be fair, in the 50s and 60s a lot of the jobs were more engineering than technical, and the US had the advantage of being one of the few nations whose industrial capacity wasn't damaged by World War II. Now, software developers of similar skills in the US and India are paid massively different rates, simply because of cost of living. All the "missed gains" the US has is because money is being funneled to other countries who are starting to produce wares (both soft and hard) that compete with what the US basically had a monopoly on.
It is good for those who have current debt. But bad for that same class of people in the society who will want to borrow in the future. The forceful voiding of long term contracts is rarely good for the population as a whole.
I've seen the same issue, only they never tried it in house. Instead they spent a million or so over 5 years with different consultants who all did an extremely poor job and each time through out previous work and requirements.

This problem isn't unique to in house teams. It's hard to find and motivate competent people whether salaried or consulting.
The military uses satphones to call in airstrikes and communicate troop movements. I think the technology is about as safe as it can get if modern encryption is used, zero-days or not.
End up taking lots of selfie,or like machine learning as "i need to use capsules network, but maxpooling still the best".

After a lot of thinking there will be a conclusion....

And ultimately stop thinking, because work is worshiping!
That's the spending side. Tax collection happens federally. As you can see

>"Das Ländersteueraufkommen stieg im Haushaltsjahr 2016 gegenüber dem Vorjahr erneut deutlich um 9,9 % auf 22,3 Mrd."

Only 22 billion of the 600 billion euros are collected at the regional level, about half of it is spent by regional administration. Given that OP was asking about the former and specifically avoidance, how the money is spend doesn't seem that relevant.
> Nadlinger’s grand prize photo shows an atom as a speck of light between two metal electrodes placed about 2mm (0.078in) apart.

From https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-sc...
Once technology starts to touch the entire globe, and we start nudging farther and farther out in the long tail, we can't keep assuming that a single type of interface will be a good fit for each and every person. The interface is going the need to be split up into multiple pieces to accommodate many people from very different educational backgrounds and abilities.

It's like that Obama quote about the difference between government and tech companies "Government will never run the way Silicon Valley runs because, by definition, democracy is messy. This is a big, diverse country with a lot of interests and a lot of disparate points of view. And part of government’s job, by the way, is dealing with problems that nobody else wants to deal with."
It has been this way even before the current climate. I think it’s more a gender roles thing. Women are seen culturally as caretakers and pre-K and K “education” has a significant babysitting/caretaking role.
First off, congrats on landing in your role! Sysadmin and development are completely different skillsets in my mind, and I have as much admiration for sysadmins as they seem to have for me.

My company doesn't really do small projects anymore, so we take a lot of care to make sure we hire people with the discipline and ability to handle large systems. There's certainly a lot of organizations that don't have that requirement, though, so some of this assessment may be a little harsh.

As for code review catching errors, that sounds great in theory, but in practice it's just rarer than you'd think. Think about it, your reviewer is always going to spend less time on your code than you did, and they're always going to have less context. I find that unless the error is egregious, it's almost never the code reviewer that catches it. You're not really a one man show, but you're pretty close.

Unit testing is by far a better approach. I catch easily ten times as many bugs in my code by unit testing it as by manual inspection and code review combined.
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AWSP – Switch AWS Profiles Easily
I do not wear pantyhose, so forgive me for naiivety, but I would love to know

1) Is the price not a bit high for something that you can only wear 50 times? I suppose i'm not sure what the price per wear is of traditional pantyhose

2) Why does something so strong (e.g. you can try to pull them apart) only last 50 wears? Seems like it's stronger than any tshirt I've worn but I continue to wear them for years
It's a matter of perspective. You could say that building an interoperable power supply was a pragmatic solution to multiple independent engineering teams building modules. This approach allows individual teams to use power systems they are familiar with so they can focus on actually building the ISS.

I know little about it but the MVPS sounds like one of the ISS' many accomplishments.
Try allowing only electric cars in the city center. That should help a lot.

And electrifying buses is pretty easy and fast, comparatively speaking. Buses tend to have a shorter operational life than commuter cars and are in use a lot more and there's a lot fewer of them. Replacing tens of millions of commuter cars is a lot harder than tens of thousands of transit buses.

...of course, Germany's grid is pretty dirty since they keep building coal ("lignite", a sort of euphemistic way of saying "brown coal") infrastructure while shutting down perfectly good, clean nuclear power. But should still help.
It is still descrimination.

"Discrimination: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually" - Merriam Webster Dictionary

Please don't bend what the word means just because others do. If we have our own meanings for every word, than the words mean nothing.
For future reference, I find the back ticks to decrease readability, at least on iOS.
What that means:

The one exception to just buzzwords and hype was when Rony talked about the eventual price. Rony said that the eventually he expected to have a range or tiers of products and he said that “low end someday” will be about as expensive as a high-end cell phone (ala, iPhone X). This would seem to suggest that the early enthusiast version is going to be in the $2,000 or perhaps more range.

For a sub-HoloLens experience no less.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16376417
The First Step to Enabling Cloud Arbitrage
With multiple base stations that's the minimum latency to get across the street.

However, the added latency is not necessarily that bad vs landlines. Picture a triangle with the satellite at the apex and the goal at the other side. On the other hand if their base station was further from the network than your house then things get significantly worse.
HomePods are staining wooden tables with a white ring
Of course that's true (and it's the same for women: higher socio-economic status is positively correlated with college matriculation and graduation across sex and race lines).

But it's always been true, so what changed?