skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uhm... all kinds of animals actually, but you need ethics approval if you use vertebrates. And I don't think you will find non-crazy volunteers for the invasive experiments...

I took neuroscience courses - and a lot of what I learned was made possible by such experiments, so I'm not against them. However, the cost for the animals that get selected is high. You can't do that with humans, only the most benign experiments. But many experiments involves cutting open the head. inserting electrodes at the very least, sometimes you want to see the brain too - there are things you can do, like two-photon microscopy (example: https://www.neurotar.com/contract-research/two-photon-imagin... -- you have to expose the brain), or inject dyes, and other options).

A possible setup (for invasive experiments) is that the animal is drugged, the brain exposed, electrodes inserted, the head fixated. Now you can, stimulate the retina, or the ears, or whiskers, and follow what happens in the living brain. Here is an example for what you get from such an experiment: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/29/9537

> Mice were head-fixed using a titanium head postimplant... For implantation, mice were anesthetized with isoflurane..., and maintained at 37°C body temperature on a thermal blanket (Harvard Apparatus). Following a local injection of Marcaine (50 μl), the scalp and periosteum over the dorsal surface of the skull were removed. The skull was then coated with a thin layer of cyanoacrylate adhesive (Krazy Glue, Elmer's Products).... (etc.)

What sane human would allow an experiment like this to be performed on them: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/7/2789 (go to "Materials and Methods") - video: https://youtu.be/wPiLLplofYw
Ketting – a hateoas client for JavaScript
I think the more important audience for programmers isn't those who see your face but those who see your code.
Flat-pack truck [pdf]
Yes they have process and analysis for quality purposes

You can see one example here

https://www.facs.org/advocacy/quality/phases
They effectively did that: they compared public reporting states with other geographically adjacent states.
This is good for low hydraulic head scenarios(basically, where the water doesn't have that much room to fall). With this system you can install it even if water only falls 2 feet, whereas more traditional turbines might need 6-10 feet
The way I see it... Is that most good programmers are nerds who can program. Because they have been introverts and socially awkward nerds, their entire life... Those qualities have made them useful for everyone around them so they grow up to be nothing more than handy tools for their peers.

Because of that a salesman or a manager or even a taxi driver will always be able to walk over them, and "twist their arm" in a social sense.

So do we expect introverted nerds to stand up for themselves and ask for a fair wage???
Some guy wrote a taxonomy of Goodhart's Law cases. This would be the "Adversarial Goodhart" case: "When you optimize for a proxy, you provide an incentive for adversaries to correlate their goal with your proxy, thus destroying the correlation with your goal."

https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/EbFABnst8LsidYs5Y/goodhart...
One possibility is to offer the surgeons more money for difficult surgeries, and more money for a successful outcome, to balance out the reputational risk to the surgeon.
Taking the Long View on High Performance Networking
It's still a numerically controlled fabrication tool, well within the definition of CnC. It's just a hardware implementation where the broad motor control is offloaded to the human operator, with fine adjustment kept in-tool.
scrum master is different from product manager. OP was referring to the product manager not the scrum master.
One could break out the quarter half court shots as a separate statistic.
This is intended down-time.
If you need a high-risk operation or die, no-one wants to operate on you because of this rule.
Do you think that they should make no attempt to rank content at all in the news feed? That is, the feed becomes just a dumb list of posts from friends ordered by creation date, descending?

Would that satisfy your concern?
Move fast and break civilizations.
How fast are they growing? The best thing, if you can get it, is a graph of revenue per month for the past year or two. Then you can see whether the trend is hyperlinear.

If they balk at telling you their numbers, tell them you'll take a graph with the y-axis cropped off. The shape of the graph matters more than the numbers.
Google has 98% of search in Sri Lanka (http://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/sri...). But Facebook has massive usage over Twitter.
Or they can stop colluding with Russia under the pretext of freedom
You seem to gloss over the old days where we got teasers and pre-announcements in the form of interviews, tradeshow reports, and PR photos in trade magazines. They were just doled out at a much lower frequency than today, but then that's pretty much true of everything else, too.
That's right, I'd definitely get a DO droplet if a few users converted, but haven't even had one conversion yet.
But it is good to know what is coinbase's moral compass.
Because the author took an omission from a technical post and used it to extrapolate the behavior of thousands of people.
...which punishes doctors for serving high-risk population.
Oh I'm with that.
"Why aren't I getting the attention, focus and control I want?"
Especially credit. You get credit in the git logs etc. If you want visibility outside the team go start your own.
I have worked in multiple companies that worked very well with this, in several different teams.

Or to give a much more serious response : this article seems to be very unprofessional, about trying to defend unprofessional behaviour as "normal".
The amount of bytes we can push through a network connection (with a single thread), using the same test application is lower when running in Docker than without. Its particularly noticeable with Docker for OSX which shouldnt be surprising as its running a VM.

The overhead is much lower on Linux as one would expect.

I don't have anything handy. I brought up the OSX overhead as I wanted to be comprehensive given the somewhat ambigous nature of the original question.

Docker Swarm inter-container networking is pretty bad. It consistenly collapses on us where throughputs drops by orders of magnitude. I know we weren't alone in this as we found an issue that had been open for the problem for quite some time. (And thus ended our quick experimentation for using Docker Swarm as a demo environment).
Peer review should be a mandatory prerequisite to any process, I don't see how a team can develop quality software without it.
okay. You have 100% of death in next 72 hours unless there is a surgery done, which patients survive 70% of the time.

No surgeon wants to do it, to not get his metric lower, so instead of 30% survival chance you get effective death sentence ...
Easily.
Then they start operating on people who don't really need it.
I saw it happen to me. At work I wrote some libraries, which would be seen by just a couple of coworkers, and I thought I worked hard on them. Years later I wrote a small JavaScript function to put on Github, and I just couldn't leave it alone, cleaning it up, tweaking it here and there, knowing that smart people from all around the world might see it and judge me by it.
You appear to be concerned about the environment. Do you have a better plan for accelerating the transition to sustainable transportation?
I believe every accelerator should show this video. Very helpful!
Where are the independent security reviews? Also, I don't see past references where you based your new idea.

Please take into account that I am respecting you for your work but this field involves more than a claim. If you look, for example, to simmetric encryption algorithms history, there were a lot of proposals and people involved in trying to crack them. Many of them sounded great but were break by professional cryptographers. The blockchain scene is full of proposals but there are very few security reviews.
I imagine it’s extremely difficult to come up with a metric that captures everything about the case. BMI, age, tumor type, tumor shape, history of kidney disease, diabetes, where do you stop?
NVidia have had similar dodgy tactics in the past, including blocking their GPUs from being used in a VM using IOMMU. For my use case (where I had Windows in a VM on a Linux host) this was a massive PITA.
You are assuming Facebook wasn't designed to do exactly what it's doing now. Operating as data gathering for the panopticon and precise propoganda via social graph.
Honestly why should they? The Interns did exactly what they were told, the went and jotted down details. Is that Pulitzer Prize worthy work? Does the helper who whipes Einstein’s blackboard during the break deserve partial credit for what he put on it?

I get that it’s a fun story but it honestly just seems redicules.
the 6809 was a member of the 6800 family, the 68000 was a completely new microarchitecture.
Lack of good IPv6 support. Getting origin IPs only returns the IPv4 of the Docker gateway, and the only way to get around this is by setting the network mode to host.
>Scrum isn't good or bad, but the way the OP (or their company) uses it seems to be a reflection of an inflexible culture.

It's not the company. This inflexibility is a reflection of scrum's culture. I've seen this inflexibility on multiple teams across the world - what you've experienced is very much the exception and what the OP described is basically the norm.

>We also made changes to the "core" of scrum after our retrospectives when we decided it was stuff that did not work for us.

This is great and it's exactly how I'd want to work but I think almost every single scrum consultancy not only advocate strongly against doing this, they would likely blame anything that went wrong on your "rash" decision to not adhere to core scrum principles.

They literally invented a whole new phrase to emphasize just how much they look down on what you do: https://www.scrum.org/resources/what-scrumbut

>We added bugfixing sprints after we observed the bugs piling up.

This is actually something I've heard explicitly called out by consultancies.

>Instead of complaining about scrum, I suggest the OP either try changing the culture

I don't agree. I suggest slagging scrum off until it dies, because the inflexibility which you decry is so deeply embedded in its culture and will only die when scrum does.

Sure, what you did worked great - it just wasn't "scrum".
Pro tip for those targeting a high win percentage. If you win your first game (beginners luck?), then stop playing and never play again.

That's what the article is describing, surgeons won't even play the game, they won't even attempt to help certain people because it might hurt their "win percentage".
Part of it is probably that NTFS and / or the Windows generic filesystem layer are incredibly slow per operation compared to the same stack on Linux. You can easily see a difference when doing things like unpacking an archive with many small files or running a build with few changed files. Or even when deleting thousands of files.
Flexport is hiring engineers to build software for our 747 freighter
Are you trying to tell me that the computes I do in my own head aren’t efficient? That’s pretty funny as I even have a tough time measuring that.

It’s hard to come up with exact examples because it’s actually subconscious and as automatic as touch typing for me. Thinking back, when I’m on one line with the cursor maybe halfway through, I’ll hit down arrow, alt arrow to the word I want to rename, hit insert, type over it, hit insert. I think I did it when trying to clarify some documentation. I’ll be on the lookout in the near future, but unlikely to report back here unless it happens to happen really soon.
The problem is when it gets complex it redefines what should be the easy cases.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/how-i-cracked-faceb...
Immutable eh? What about GDPR?
Maybe in other sports this happens, but I seriously doubt QB's engage in that. First of all, taking a sack is not pleasant. In the extreme it can take you out of the game, or land you on the IR (injured reserve). Drew Bledsoe was replaced by Tom Brady after such a sack, and was never the star he had been before. Second, the number of sacks a QB takes is a statistic in itself. Third, the top stats for a QB are in this order: touchdowns, interceptions, passing yards, and completion percentage. If a QB takes a sack to avoid an interception, I'm 100% happy with that. If he takes a sack so that his completion percentage is higher by 0.01%, I would not be, but then the completion percentage is reported at the 0.1% level of precision. There is simply too much physical pain in taking a sack for a QB to trade that for an imperceptible gain in a pretty unimportant stat.
Hyper competitive, conformist surgeons.
So if it's difficult we shouldn't try?
This post confuses many things but firstly it doesn’t properly talk about Product Management. PM is customer centric and marketing heavy discipline and just knowing how to code and good intentions of devs may not work on competitive market. Secondly Scrum is project management framework and says nothing about software development practices and leaves them completely to the judgment of the team (including developers and PO because they collaborate heavily in Scrum).
If they've embraced an industry standard previously, extended it and exterminated, multiple times before, surely it will be different this time.
Fun to see how bitcoin has come full circle in reinventing everything its cheerleaders initially railed against: fraud, then centralization, regulation, and now “censorship”.

I guess the lesson here should be about the primacy of law, and how you won’t succeed in using technology to undermine it.
I cannot recommend Coinbase at all. I operate an adult comic book publisher and they shutdown our account without notice and blamed the bank they work with (despite the fact that we were not converting our BTC to USD). All support tickets took weeks to get a reply and it was always unhelpful.

For a company like ours the whole appeal of Bitcoin is the anonymity, so our readers don't have to worry about buying lewd comics and having it show up on their statements. Coinbase tarnishes what Bitcoin stands for and they do not protect artists/publishers.

Do not use Coinbase.
The cross-country ride referred here where Dyson got his inspiration is I think the return from his road-trip with Feynman, where the "peeing in the sink" incident happens :-)

Dyson reminisces about that trip thus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_QF0-C5oLc
Wins are likely from systems with fixed rules that don't reward innovation, so winning by the rules of a system doesn't necessarily mean a positive outcome. An example might be the system that lead to the housing crisis. Certainly a few people who gamed things the right way "won" big, but only at the expense of millions of homeowners.

Mortality rates are one measure of many that can tell a story, but they're like incarceration rates in that they've become a perverse incentive that exacerbates an issue. If we say that putting more people in prison is a good thing, that's predicated on an assumption that only those that are being put in prisons are people worthy of being there, whose freedom is more costly to society than their imprisonment. When a district is rewarded for putting people in prisons, what types of things might you expect to happen to the legal systems and populations in those places? Would prosecutors then be incentivized to trump up charges and force people into serving prison time unnecessarily to make themselves look like bigger "winners"? Might police make more frivolous arrests or even stir up trouble in communities to paint a picture of rampant criminality so they can look to be "tough on crime"? Wouldn't you expect to see an all-causes decrease in long term crime?

The problem isn't just cherry picking, but if people can game a system built around limited and gameable measures, then it's going to encourage min-maxing for profit.
That only really applies when you're measuring side effects though, and not the actual thing intended.

In this case they should have had a metric that took into account the estimated prior probability of a good outcome given an ordinary surgeon.
I wonder how accurately it would work on a 4' x 8' piece. If I cut some curvy shape near the edge of the piece and followed the dashed line perfectly, would I end up exactly back where I started or would I miss by half an inch?
How can it handle merge conflicts automatically?
Glitch wants apps like this to succeed, so will work with him to make sure everything stays running. And Glitch apps are just totally standard Node apps, so worst case he can run it anywhere else. Anything can happen, and there are no guarantees, but I wouldn’t worry about the choice of platforms as a risk.

Source: I’m the CEO of Fog Creek, which makes Glitch, and we’re excited about apps like this one!
Go have anybody you want look at the code, it is open source. My friends like Dominic Tarr (of Secure Scuttlebutt), security teams at MIT (Christian and Dmitri), and others have consulted with me about it. If you are willing to contribute donations to pay a firm, please do!
Ive reneged on full time offers. There are no blacklists as long as you do it respectfully and as early as possible. I still get recruiting emails from them. It’s an employees market right now so this happens, especially at a large company nobody will know or care
the problem here is that mortality rate is not correlated/normalized with the patient risk factor. the problem lies in the performance indicator itself, not strictly people trying to optimizing for what they are asked for. it is likely inhumane to refuse patients that have slightly above average risk - even if there are some considerations to be had, like having replacement organs go to waste, but that is already covered by the donor lists queues - but given people can find themselves out of work for having bad mortality rates, optimizing for the performance indicator it's the only logical conclusion.

also, normalizing for the patient risk will likely just lead to people overstating patient risk, because once you reduce performance to an index, people will focus on what's measured before on what the intended goal for the measurement is.
I regret not taking linear algebra (not required by most programs, but very relevant to what I do), computer graphics, and software engineering methodology. If I had taken these classes, I would not have taken other interesting and useful coursework that I would regret not having taken. Hard to measure which path would have minimized my regret. Possibly none, because it may be that degree of regret isn't a function of the path you take.
You presumably want the metric (operation, mortality rate); its useless to consider mortality across the board, because that assumes all activities are equally risky. Otherwise, you end up like this, just entirely removing the option of high-risk activities, regardless of the potential benefit.

Essentially, the doctor has decided that he doesn't want to take the risk of killing you, even if you're willing to accept it. Why should that be the doctor's choice to make, and why is he being given this additional risk, when the benefit/loss should clearly be yours?
feels like you have not yet had problems with bad management. Bad management can drive into the ground even a great team with very responsible engineers. They will try to fight the restrictions, burn out, and then simply give up by quitting.

This is the story that keeps unfolding again and again in front my own eyes at my work, alas.
It also kind of incentivizes the alternative as well: if you aren’t an amazing surgeon, you could work to ensure you exclusively work on “hard” cases you can claim all failures are due to patient difficulty rather than lack of competence (at least competence to deal with that difficulty). Then you can dismiss any claims you’re incompetent with “I have a high mortality rate because I’m willing to risk my reputation to save people who have been abandoned”...
Indeed. I’ll be moving my coins out ASAP now.
Is R better than Python at anything?
> OOP isn't good or bad, Exceptions aren't good or bad, Scrum isn't good or bad. It makes me mad.

It's all true though. Do whatever you want, all that matters is that you do it well - you just can't simplify a good software engineer down to techniques like these.

I recommend reading this piece from a guy who studied software development methodology for over 20 years:
http://alistair.cockburn.us/Characterizing+people+as+non-lin...
Another parallel: Over-automation https://youtu.be/CpCrkO1x-Qo?t=3045 (the whole thing is worth watching if you are into this sort of thing)
I was thinking something more akin to routine inspection program carried out by independent personnnel applicable to all procedures, not just the reviews that are necessitated due to screw ups.
Journalism - real journalism, not blogging - matters. I've been thinking of buying a newspaper subscription again because I feel that even though newspapers typically lag 24 hours or so behind what you can read online someone needs to keep these people employed so they can do there very necessary jobs. I don't think it is possible to have anything resembling a democracy in the modern age without a free press.
Facebook should anticipate further class action lawsuits around the world
Fooling gullible people into what is (steel) and what isn’t sustainable (aluminum, lithium, composites) is a good first start.

Not to crap on composites because I work with them, but carbon fiver for example is extremely bad for environment.

At least aluminum recycles well. Lithium does to but not cost effective so “environmental” companies like Tesla don’t do it.