skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding this point from above:

>and that is what inspired me to name both my blogs "jugad", since the broad topic of both is software innovation. The older one, jugad's Journal, which was at jugad.livejournal.com, is not available now, after LiveJournal was acquired

Interestingly, I checked again just now, and that older blog of mine, jugad's Journal, now seems to be accessible:

https://jugad.livejournal.com/

Anyone interested, feel free to check it out, there are some interesting (IMO) posts about software and startups there. I ran it from 2005 to 2008, so there are quite a few posts on it, just like on my later blog, jugad2.blogspot.com, which I've been running from 2008.
You don't need a metric which captures everything about the case - you just need a statistical model whose risk assessment is at least as accurate as the surgeon's assessment. This is not as difficult as it sounds - in Chapter 21 of Thinking Fast and Slow, Kahneman makes a strong case that simple algorithms are very often better than expert clinical judgement.
A Moby-based container engine for IoT
>Believe me, I know that microservices suck for almost anything

woosh

They work really well in large organizational environments where inter-team coordination costs are very high and language flexibility is valuable. Where these benefits outweigh the additional infrastructure headaches it works very well.

I've likewise worked in environments where they were a terrible idea (e.g. startup team of six).

Like you, I used to be dogmatically anti-microservice. I was wrong.
Inside China's $1B port where ships don't want to stop
some QBs like aaron rodgers will take a sack instead of throwing the ball away.

rodgers had a 50 sack season twice in his career and has a sack career of 6.96. this is reflected on his interception rate (which is the best in the nfl). he just prefers to take a sack to attempt a pass that could be intercepted -- and everybody looks at those int/td numbers and don't look a lot at sack numbers (because sacks are usually not the qb fault).
Wow, this article is blatantly wrong on almost every point the author makes.
>> Scrum isn't good or bad
>I must have heard this at least a dozen times in the last months.

The thing about any agile methodology is that they are meant to be adapted to the situation at hand, not to be a fixed set of rules that you can just apply to get consistently good results. But many are trying to turn scrum into that - a fixed set of rules that allows micromanagement. I would say that that is definitely bad, but, is that really scrum?
I dont want to be included in product ... you tell me what to do , I do it

Detail how it needs to look, how it needs to scale ... Ill decide how we make that happen and Ill tell you how long its going to take.

Its not my job to decide the product, if you need an engineers input maybe you are not a good product manager.

I dont need any one outside of engineering to help make implementation decisions.

I just want to code and go home. Stop it with this kum by ya , 20% , everyone gets a say bs. Are you running a business or a daycare?
Yes - that may be, so I'm sorry for omitting the context that I don't work in large teams where you can throw lots of money and developers at problems. (I think that's a sad state of affairs, though). Again, I'm not dogmatic, but have actually tried it, and I know (and have described in my comment) the problems they bring.
Agreed. There’s little downside in a cultural shift promoting deep work.

Fog Creek is a nice case study. Everyone gets their own office with a door.
> If anything, anime is notorious for making any Christian in it a distaff version of shinto, just glammed up; TV Tropes has the trope "All nuns are mikos" to show it. (2)

Also see "Anime Catholicism[0]."

But then again, how many accurate portrayals of Eastern religions do you find in popular Western tv and film? It's usually vague mysticism and dragon talismans and nonsense.

I don't think your comment and the parent's necessarily disagree. It's entirely possible that Japan's view of Christianity in general has changed in the intervening centuries, or is more complex than one or the other. I'm reminded of the story that Hideaki Anno added the Christian symbolism to Neon Genesis Evangelion because of it's "exotic" appeal, and only recently there was a moe-blob slice of life anime about Christian archangels and demons hanging out in modern Japan (Gabriel Dropout.)

And while not all anime portrays Christianity accurately, they also don't do Shinto or Buddhism correctly either, just more so because they're more familiar with those religions. There aren't a lot of actual mikos running around slaying demons and aliens, after all. And some modern writers do put in a surprising amount of research into Western religion and mythology, although it is true that, in most cases, they don't care about accuracy.

[0]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnimeCatholicism
Hi Don,

Since you're here and talking about community, can you say what your approach is going to be to the copious content on Flickr that violates SmugMug's content policy (but not Flickr's)?

Flickr's approach in the past [0] has allowed most things as long as a content filter is applied to keep it from kids and those who don't want to see it. SmugMug's approach [1] is to very broadly ban anything "indecent" in any context whatsoever (even private backups).

I contacted support and the story right now is that SmugMug policy will apply and any Flickr content that violates it is up for removal. Are you sticking to that? If so, why? It seems like a very destructive thing to do to the community as your first act after acquisition.

[0] https://www.flickr.com/help/guidelines

[1] https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms
ftp-simple works pretty well. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humy2833...
Another way of looking at it is that the patients who are refused treatment count as losses. So the current system is not actually maximizing wins, it's maximizing win percentage for doctors.
> Shaper Origin: Hand-Held CNC Machine

As it hand-held machine, then it's NOT a CNC[0] by design...

> Computer numerical control (CNC) is the automation of machine tools by means of computers executing pre-programmed sequences of machine control commands. This is in contrast to machines that are manually controlled by hand wheels or levers, or mechanically automated by cams alone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_control
Disclaimer: I was the lead sysadmin at an ivy school’s residential housing dept and cofounder of a VIP email startup.

Yes (star star)

For contact information, scheduling/coordinating, interest/news and friend-of-friend romance/friend/activity partner discovery, a social network of sufficient connectedness has obvious value.

If pictures (except a standardized headshot), bragging, cyberdisinbitionism, sharing, ads, bots, fake users, state hacks, commercial spammers, influence/sentiment peddling/consent manufacturing, extremely risky selfies, undesirable radical inclusion and gossip can be eliminated/minimized, then it seems feasible to have a solid, useful social network that isn’t working against you or your friends.

I think a social network like a light version of ASW for cool mortals but limited in terms of messaging, videos/pics and public/group sharing would be good... everyone whom wants to join has to be invited/vouched, pay a $499 USD one-time fee, pass a real background check and create a sufficiently complete and interesting profile in order to be reviewed for final acceptance.

This way, the quality and signal of the network remains high and the worry is less... such high barriers are so that safety, comfort, value and preselection remain high and undiluted by commercial or popular pressures. Furthermore, customer funding eliminates the need for ad-support, privacy invasions and other questionable monetization schemes.

Such an app would need to grow in private alpha much as FB did by first launching at large, prestigious universities where social networks are clearly valuable and worth guarding.

Be somewhat open.. but not too open and not too closed.
I don't know whether it's random or not. It could be a Markov chain generator, and much of the 'content' is just recycling obvious contemporary events to give it a veneer of veracity, but it does seem to drop some genuine leaks from time to time. A journalist friend of mine monitors the feed and the surrounding community and I'm sure glad that I don't have to keep up with it myself. I check in on it once every week or 10 days and frequently wish I hadn't.
You get black guy and a white guy who have to live with each other may realize they have more in common than different, but if you connect a bunch of people over the internet the like-minded coalesce create feedback loops that further isolate them from outside groups.
A company being driven out of business by advertising practices, having to let their employees go, and merely hope they can find new jobs, certainly impacts their financial stability, and likely their physical safety.
Stupid question time: could this be used in sewage systems or similar to generate energy from us flushing the loo?
The incorrect assumption your readers are making is that heart surgery is a good thing in all cases. America is the leader in futile medical procedures: it may well be a good thing to have fewer risky procedures on patients who were more likely to be harmed. "primum no nocere" may be advanced!
Having personally witnessed all of these symptoms of "agile" on teams I've been on, I was pleasantly surprised to discover when I read Jeff Sutherland's book that none of these problems have much to do with Scrum, which is more of a way of thinking about building (and tearing down) processes to optimize for the things only the team can identify, than a process itself.

I think the reason these sorts of bad practices crop up so often is because internalizing and applying the sort of ego-free principles of Scrum is very very hard, even for a small team (or individual).

Reading that book [0] (particularly the first half) was eye-opening for me, and I recommend it to anyone who works in an "agile" environment.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Scrum-Doing-Twice-Work-Half/dp/038534...

Edit: I would add that the linked article is pretty typical of things I had read online about Scrum before I read Jeff's book, and I believe are very misleading and unhelpful, as they abuse one way to solve the problems they complain about. Bad team dynamics didn't come from Scrum. Maybe Scrum failed, but that's a whole different discussion.
I'm not suggesting people give up on connections. I'm suggesting that there are better ways to interact with people than on Facebook. They don't necessarily need to be face to face interactions. There are more substantive methods of communication that can leverage technology, without having big brother pick apart your likes and dislikes and advertise to you.
The thing is, what is the alternative to a scrum process? I see so many shops with zero defined process constantly re-invent project management wheels that were solved a long time ago. Start from a known place like scrum and then adapt it to your team and organization.

We standardize around protocols, frameworks, programming languages, etc because adding constraints and processes make a problem much easier to solve.

If not scrum, what? Where do you start?
Safety in numbers. (Well, as long as you fit their demographic.)

If you're truly skilled, look elsewhere.
Physicians already have good reasons to overstate the patient's severity. It's part of the payment formula used by CMS. But there are plenty of incentives not to lie such as jail time.
Exceptions work excellently for business-level server software; typically they make the server transaction all or nothing, with transactional semantics. The stateless nature of HTTP, and transactions provided by the database, usually add up to make this easy. Business logic throws an exception, everything unwinds, the transaction rolls back, no state was modified, and the server returns an error code to the client: all good.

When you need partial updates to state in the case of an error, then you're in trouble. When you have multiple transactions to coordinate, but no distributed transaction coordinator, you're in trouble (but you are anyway whether you use exceptions or not). The more state you need to preserve in an error case, the worse exceptions are for your use case. Ideally, exceptions are never caught except at the topmost loop: server request dispatcher, UI event handler, or command line driver. When execution must continue with recovery, exceptions are an inferior tool.
It's so hard-hitting. I just read the first day and was left crying for all those people... Actual people destroying their lives and irreversibly impacting their loved one's lives.

All lawmakers should be forced to read this article, maybe they'll do something about it if they come to realize that you can't tax the dead.
Thanks. A few years ago I asked a question on what this was called.
It feels like the metric for "xenophobic groupthink" that's being used here could end up matching anything. It feels right because it's leading to an answer that feels right (that scientists should stop saying mean things about scholars in the broader sense, I agree they should), but that doesn't mean that it's a good principle: what about all the other cases?

>It’s so common on HN for example, that it is frankly impossible all of its purveyors came up with the idea independently. That’s true even if the collective complaints have a basis in fact.

If our complaints have enough of a basis in fact, then why would it be unlikely for everyone with the right domain knowledge to realize the same thing? The idea that something can be factual but also still somehow based in groupthink belies an understanding of the word that leads back to another common criticism of the humanities...
> Mastodon/GNU Social/Quitter right now is a thriving social network

I'm going to have to disagree with this. Compared to Twitter, Facebook, even G+, they are miniscule. Are my friends there? How do I know which of these federated instances to check for my friends in the first place. And what about my company's CEO? Or IBM's blockchain engineering team? Or British Airways customer services? Or the actors in the TV series I like? NONE of them are there! So lets not pretend that these are going to replace social media - they will be the playthings of a handful of starry eyed geeks and FSF libertarians, nothing more.
I've not read too much into Fluree itself, but GDPR doesn't actually say you have to actually delete data. You can cryptographically shred it, among a few other options.
Of course, its just harnessing gravity pulling down water to spin a turbine.

There are many cases where energy can be harnessed in daily activities, the biggest issue is the efficiency and cost of doing so. Most plumbing use wouldn't add up to nearly enough energy to offset the construction.
I think "no potential" is way over-selling the case. For these purposes, I think targeted astroturfing is probably more cost-effective than ads, and wouldn't be prevented by Facebook dropping ads altogether.

I enjoy the thought of an alternate universe where the most common social network is a p2p federated open-source system without ads, just running on alternative firmware in people's WiFi routers. However, that universe would still have astroturfing, and it would likely be harder to detect.
This exact topic was discussed in the 1968 novel Case of Need by Jeffrey Hudson. It was his first book, written while a medical student at Harvard. The novel raised a stir as it was critical of Harvard faculty and in some ways the practice of medicine in general. The book eventually won an Edgar Award.

Some may know Jeffrey Hudson better by his given name, Michael Crichton.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Case_of_Need
I'd also expect a bunch of "I'm going to transfer you... oops, pressed a wrong button and it hang up!" As a customer, I've had a fair measure of mysteriously hang up calls to support, I wonder how many of those are metrics-driven...
> Researchers studied five different diets to see which lowered the risk of heart failure: convenience (fast food and pasta), plant-based, sweets, Southern (sugary beverages and fried foods), and alcohol/salads.

What kind of study design is this? It seems like they compared veganism with 4 garbage diets. Seems like all we can extract from this is plant-based is better than eating trash.
Does this mean that I can threaten to not talk to their supervisor?
I'm reminded of The Soul of a New Machine[0] by Tracy Kidder. Essential reading, even today.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7090.The_Soul_of_a_New_M...
A http request handler is not what I mean by server software. I mean a real server - a long-running process with complex state. Yes, exceptions work for simple programs and short scripts (where you don't handle them at all), or as a plug-in mechanism where there is a catch-all handler at the boundary. I kind-of value exceptions as well for writing python scripts.
My point is that the EV is a net time saver over a hydrogen or normal car, so if your time is precious then it’s a win. The Volt may be even better in that respect, of course.
At best it probably only identifies the people to replace.
"The goal of Buddhism is not to create an alliance to eventually rule the world and compete with evil Western forces, but to develop a way of life through personal enlightenment that allows a better world to emerge."

The Budhism in Burma and Sri Lanka is extremely political and virulently nationalistic. Like many others you are cherry-picking.
When and how to take care of technical debt is a universal problem that won't fixed by any development methodology or framework.
My original question was very nearly: can this be used in guttering? I figured that the non-constant flow would probably make it uneconomical.
>For example players won't attempt end of the quarter half court shots since that will lower their percentages

Durant is particularly bad at this. In an AMA on Reddit, Daryl Morey said he tells his players they keep their own internal stats (most teams do) and ignore heaves. The idea is they’ll be more likely to take them knowing the team won’t hold it against them when negotiating a contract.
You can’t redirect air downward without a pressure differential. You can’t have a pressure differential without a speed differential.

“Air goes faster on the top of the wing,” “pressure is lower on top of the wing,” and “air is pushed downward” are physically equivalent statements.
That is both super amazing and uniquely hard to imagine experiencing. It has to be surreal, in a journalism class, learning you've won Journalism's highest honor. I thought it also interesting that the students were more concerned that they would get in trouble for using a phone in class than with the import of the event.

I don't think she will have much difficulty finding a job after she graduates with that on her resume :-). I was trying to imagine a CS student applying for a job where it mentions they have already won the Turing award. That would be crazy.
Not a bad idea, per se, but then which is better - the doctor with 0% refusals and 20% deaths, or the one with 20% refusals and 10% deaths?
Driving is not the alternative for me. Flying is. Chicago to Portland is a 2.5 hour flight for $180-200 round trip, make it 4 if you factor in transportation and security.

That's why it's insane.

Trains should be competing with flying. Given the choice between a stressful, polluting airplane and an environmentally friendly electric bullet train with meals, legroom and cheap overnight cabins, I would choose the latter. But it can't cost 10x that of a flight.
@tbabej I don't think you could've given a better run down of the program!

I am also a co-founder of another CDL startup, and I have to say, the program is absolutely fantastic. The resources available to those who enter and are accepted are really helpful. CDL has been instrumental in our success, and we wouldn't be where we are today without their guidance and support!

I would highly recommend this program to any entrepreneur or any academic looking to do something entrepreneurial to look at the CDL's various streams. Especially if you are interested in Quantum as, in my opinion, the CDL is easily the best program out there for Quantum Machine Learning startups.
Forbes: Bitcoin Is the Religion, but Ripple Would Pack Higher Return
At this point it’s very likely all teams do. The stats they’re using are nothing like what was printed on the back of basketball cards when we were kids.
This somewhat blows my mind. Yes, it is impressive. However, the work that Nuance and similar companies used to do are still competitive, just not getting near the money and exposure.

I remember over a decade ago, they even had mood analysis they could apply to listening to people. Far from new. Is it truly more effective or efficient nowadays? Or just getting marketed by companies you've heard of?
I think the answer to that would be no since we've seen that Open Source projects contain the same amount and type of errors as most proprietary code.
This is a really good point. Empathy can be applied to judging moral crimes such as stealing food becuase you are starving. Although anctedotally I find that people who come from the exact background/situation tend to have less empathy even though they understand the context more.
Is coinbase becoming hegemonic over cryptocurrencies? So much for decentralization.
Very true. There's an alchemy between the software you already have, the tools and technologies your team are familiar with, the problem domain you have, and the solution you implement. There are multiple stable equilibria, multiple local optima. In a more complex environment, microservices can let different teams find local optima better suited to their combination of factors.

I'd still be suspicious of people who start out saying they're going to implement a microservice architecture (especially greenfield) without having an understanding of why, though.
"It is time to call out WikiLeaks for what it really is – a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia. In January of this year, our Intelligence Community determined that Russian military intelligence—the GRU—had used WikiLeaks to release data of US victims that the GRU had obtained through cyber operations against the Democratic National Committee. And the report also found that Russia’s primary propaganda outlet, RT, has actively collaborated with WikiLeaks."

- Mike Pompeo, current CIA director and nominee for Secretary of State

I'm all for skepticism of what people say, especially people in positions like CIA Director, but when a Republican CIA director agrees with the DNC about what happened, it seems not entirely unreasonable to give it some credence. He is in the absolutely perfect position to say otherwise, if he believed otherwise, and is in the perfect position to reevaluate the previous intelligence report. He's the director of the CIA! If he thinks there's evidence backing another narrative, he can just come out and say so.
In that case, "no potential" was poor phrasing. Ads aren't the only mechanism of social influence for sale on the open market to anyone with enough money.
In our experience, Swarm intercontainer networking is best avoided.
I used a band saw as a kid; this is probably at least as safe.
It becomes a bad measure because once it's a target people start to manipulate it in order to hit the target. In this case if a surgeon refuses to take anything but easy surgeries their stats will look amazing but it says very little about their actual abilities.
I'll look into this. Thanks for the info!
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