skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I manage a mix of developers, architects, project managers and business processors/developers. I measure their productivity on team results compared to their team predictions as well as my own experience. I do have a long history of doing development projects in the public sector with a primary focus on increasing efficiency and benefit realization, but a lot of it is honestly gut feeling and softer management strategies where I encourage openness.

If people aren’t feeling well, maybe they are going through a divorce, maybe they’ve run out of motivation I want them to share it, so we can help them get to where they want to be or give them time to process.

I guess I could have a single inefficient worker and never spot it through measurements, but I typically notice because it changes the team dynamic and the way people interact.

I understand why this would worry some managers, but I don’t believe you can apply factory line thinking or strategies to brain-workers because it doesn’t suit them, especially not if you want them to cooperate in actual teams and not just be a bunch of grouped individuals competing not to be measured as the bottom 15%.

I am Scandinavian though, and our work-culture is very different from the American.
Quite common misunderstand about Clickjacking is the idea that a 3rd party content embedded in an iframe can hijack clicks from the parent (yours) website. While embedding an untrusted iframe in your website is not a god idea, the Clickjacking attack goes the other way around.
Maybe you can start from scratch with the root foundation of your personnality. Sometimes we don't understand why we react to some situations.

So, I did this Myer Brigg online test at 16personalities.com

I red the description of my personality and it was like reading in my head.

I bought the longer version and it really helped me better understand myself.

Hope it can help you too.

ENTP
How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
> Excel is an (eghem) excellent example of this concept in software

Excel is indeed an excellent example, and excellent software. On a related note, pivot tables must be the next best invention after the spreadsheet itself.
Κλίμακα Kinsey Και Σεξουαλικός Προσανατολισμός – ESCORT ATHENS – ESCORTS
how do you figure out which features can be completed by the delivery date, if not by estimating?
>That was more subtle, but again, found relatively quickly.

Wait. What? How do you measure "relatively quickly"? As far as I know, we have been using it even after the problems were known.......

>The alternative to roundup is pesticides known to be much more toxic. Etc.

Any source for this claim that there are no, absolutely no safer alternatives? Also, is there any proof that a safer alternative is fundamentally impossible to make? Also, have we thought about using safer alternatives, and the hit in production that it might cause. Can we live with that?
I've always admired Stripe but the way their support has gone down is baffling. They always had the "developer first" approach but I can get better support from my legacy bank in terms of payment gateways now than from Stripe.
I've suggested in the past that every instance of provable spoofing where they did not control the claimed number should result in a fixed fine. $100 sounds about right.

Every phone network will then quickly begin passing on that cost to anyone they "peer" with and it will be a non-issue soon enough.

Is there a compelling reason to allow such spoofs?
If what you say is factual I'm astonished at the level of incompetence.
‘Nasa conmen’ arrested
The biggest annoyance I have with this, besides that they whitelist any sites (YouTube), is that it doesn’t follow a standard, and instead is Google pushing something that breaks a lot of standards compliant things. If they built it into the browser in a way like “this thing wants to play audio, allow,” it would be a much better experience and most likely wouldn’t break that much if done properly. In essence they seem to have went with the half baked approach, without considering the consequences of doing so, instead of treating it like a plug-in.
PayPal is down
Paypal is, at least in europe (Germany for example), down since almost two hours. Since there is no official statement (as always) many users are reporting, that they can't login into their accounts - me neither. Several messages can be seen here: http://allestörungen.de/stoerung/paypal, in english: http://downdetector.com/status/paypal or on Twitter.
And the fewer CL programmers will run circles around P, F, C programmers :-)
Show HN: Filewatch – Find your public files on Google Drive
reinterpret_cast in C++ has essentially the same rules, with exceptions made for const qualifiers and such, as well as void , char , and std::byte *. Use a memcpy instead.
Seneca's Dialogues, I can't recommend them enough
That seems like a highly unusual organization in terms of how well it manages it's security and how seriously does it take it. Does it specialize in it?
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Just a simple premise of looking at ourselves from the eyes of another species opens up a lot of introspection about every action by mankind that we take for granted.
Accessing through a union is legal in C, no? I thought that this was only disallowed in C++.
Fair call, I just rarely see it in my country and it's not used as a marketing tool. There's some very well built old houses, places are judged on merit.
How to comply with GDPR
200 साल बाद आयी ऐसी महाअमावस्या – इन 8 राशियों की चमका देगा रातोंरात किस्म
I just want to add something.

I, too, took a lot of personality tests 4-5 years ago. Briefly got a bit obsessed with them, particularly MBTI (Meyers-Briggs). The problem with these tests is that they play on the archetypes that we would like to be. Also, the minutia of being a living person can not be captured by a system with so few inputs.

Anyhow, I still think it was very helpful, because it got me started on a track. Exploring intuition vs. sensing, thinking vs. feeling got me thinking about who I was, and how I respond to things. I wouldn't have been as rigorous was it not for the fact that I constantly thought about what my 4-letter combination was. I've probably thought I was 8 of them during my studies. Always an intuitive, though.

What I think is particularly bad with these tests are the way they highlight the personality's shortcomings or dificulties. They are portrayed as the opposites to the good parts of the personality, that you already resonate with. Since you resonate so much with the good parts, you can sort of logically repulse the shortcomings as "that's just the way I am", and then sort of brush it off. At least I found it to be the case.

Anyhow, I recommend the MBTI still, since it is what got me started on this track, and I've never been the same after spending the past 5 years introspecting.
BT share price dips after 13,000 jobs axed
There's risk in managing an engineering career, though you're correct that there's a floor on that risk. Engineers, especially early in their careers, need to manage their personal development. I often talk to developers that have been writing terrible enterprise products for the same company for a decade. They're typically underpaid and underqualified to find a better position elsewhere.

One way to look at that is as poor risk management. Having marketable skills is mitigating risk that the job pool will not be a good fit for your skills next time you are looking for a job. Switching jobs periodically is generally more risk than not, and it's basically required these days since market rates for good software engineers grows a lot faster than employers are comfortable with. Most business models do not survive 10%+ growth in payroll every year.
> but suppose I assign you a task that I think will take two days in my limited understanding

Why would the manager be the one making estimates? That's a task either for the team, if applicable, or for the implementer.

edit:
I work from home, every sprint we have a planning meeting where we do the estimates together, my manager isn't even involed in it.

Only if we're expecting to exceed an estimate by 20% do we contact the project manager (not my manager) so we can figure out how to proceed.

How we work: we have a bunch of tasks available that we create during the sprint planning and we pick them as we have time, some may be marked as priority. My manager only hears from me if I'm ever blocked for some reason and need him to either get in touch with the person that is blocking the task or similar, otherwise we don't.

For us at least the manager is someone who enables us to spend our time productively, generally speaking he'll have no idea what I'm doing most of the time. I guess you could say we're self-managed.
> a technology designed to prevent robocalls altogether, recommended in a report more than a year ago and currently set to be implemented in Canada in 2019, has no such date here in the States.

What’s the technology?

Edit: https://transnexus.com/solutions/stir-and-shaken/stir-and-sh...

”STIR and SHAKEN use digital certificates, based on common public key cryptography techniques, to ensure the calling number of a telephone call is secure. Each telephone service provider obtains their digital certificate from a certificate authority who is a trusted authority. The certificate technology enables the called party to verify that the calling number is accurate and has not been spoofed.”
You seem to be a bit too... enthusiastic about this conversation, for my tastes :)

I won't go into everything cause it would take way too much time, but I have to point one thing out:

> Optional typing dramatically increases execution speed, something that is very relevant and important in 2018.

As compared to what? I'm guessing your assumption was that I was thinking about purely dynamic languages? Not really, I was thinking about using static languages with type inference.
Nice. Waiting for them to publish 60 to the Snap store now.
Its also reasonable to assume that staff and students who choose to _study_ entrepreneurship are less interested in actually _becoming_ entrepreneurs.
Any feedback is much appreciated
It's both. The whole point of that quote is that the programmer is in control when they work from home. If they want to work in their quiet 2nd bedroom with a door, they can. If they want to be around people, they can go to their neighborhood coffee shop, and work there.

But most importantly, they can leave those two locations when they feel like it.
>Every time the jury is out on a topic where one side has a vested interest and a billion dollar budget to protect it, > you can be reasonably sure what the outcome will be.
> See: pesticides and bees, fossil fuels and climate change, food packaging plastics and cancer, pain treatment meds and addiction.

I'm not sure you notice the grave strangeness of your comment.
There's no jury out there on climate change. The basics are pretty clear. I also think the relation of some pesticides and bees dying is hardly controversial (though it gets muddy when you get into the details and ask which pesticides). For plastic packaging and cancer I'm not sure what the evidence says, but I guess it's complicated. I don't think any scientist seriously doubts that pain medication can be addictive (again, details may be more complicated and uncertain).

So you have 3 examples where the science is contrary to the interest of a billion dollar vested interest. What do you make of that?

(Of course having settled science doesn't mean political action follows, which is most evident when it comes to climate change. But that's a different question.)
I do know that google adsense audit bot specifically checks for their banners being obscured
I really struggled to read this. It's so dense, in an almost impenetrable way. Am I the only one? I did some skimming, but never seemed to catch on.
> When I started working from home I was working 13-14 hours most days.

Was this pure development because that seems so unfeasible (at least for me).
Just research SOLID and IOC and practice these in combination with a Java or C# or other OOP-inspired language. That will get you pretty close.
Yeah, thanking them is a pretty good way to encourage them to continue.
Switching their population to electric scooters, and creating a gigantic electric scooter industry along the way, was one of China's biggest innovation successes.

Now, one in three Chinese cities outright ban any form of two wheeled transportation... because commie lardasses want to "Live Like in America ®"

According to them, everybody are to be riding chauffeured Mercedes S600 limos to demonstrate the wealth and affluence of Chinese nation so, god forbids, no passing by foreigner will ever come to an idea that locals don't have money to buy a car.

Sounds completely bizarre, but it is indeed what laws of many Chinese municipalities actually say.

* Note: what I mean under scooters are light electric mopeds capable keeping up with cars.
Nope. Whenever I try to work from home, I work from a separate room, and close it - but then the room does not have an attached bathroom inside, and there are other things (water/food etc.) for which you have to come out - and once she knows I'm at home, she will bang the door every few minutes to come in, to talk or play with me.
A Long Way to Robot Domination: Will AI Have Human Rights?
Like you said it's a good starting point. I wouldn't take all that is written for granted, but hey! We are at least 2 that agree that there is something to start your introspection in there. It's very easy to read also.
It’s important to have a separate computer, and ideally a completely separate room, where you do ‘work’. When your office hours are over, the work computer goes off and you exit your at-home ‘office’. That’s helped me separate work and keep my sanity.
I wonder if it's selection bias, but I feel like I'm seeing way more conversation today about electric scooters than I've ever heard about similar on-demand bike platforms that started a few years ago.

I never realised it, but the argument of bikes vs scooters (bulky, hard to transport, etc) is a real one and makes a lot of sense on why using an electric scooter (at least for shorter distances) would be more attractive than a bike.
> Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

I couldn't follow him in all his conclusions, namely the hunter gatherer worship, that things were in a sense better for them.

But it's probably in the top 3 books I've ever read, best in the last 5 years.
And even then there is an high probability to get it wrong as they crave for "how things have always been around here".
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
Promoting “breathing” without thinking and not taking your thoughts too seriously has got me through a lot of emotional turmoil and “life situations”.
Incredible even 5 years later.
I know there is a big bike-share market in China. How does it compare to electric scooters?
Ask HN: How to make your Google analytics and Adwords account GDPR compliant
If you are running an honest small business, you are probably short on resources for GDPR compliance. Is there a simple bullet list of things to do to ensure that your analytics account & adwords account are GDPR compliant. Most of the blogs I've come across are full of legal mumbo-jumbo and screenshots of e-mail updates from Google.

I could gather this so far :

Google Analytics:

- Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?

- Have a cookie consent banner for EU that is opt-in i.e. no tracking cookies are set until the user says so. Hardly anyone is doing this yet.

- Use anonymizeIP function in google analytics i.e. : ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true);

Google Adwords:

- Declare clearly what personal information is collected in your privacy policy. Any simple boiler plate avaible ?

- If you are using re-marketing, either disable it or let it be known in privacy policy ?
"If you're so smart why aren't you happy?" by Raj Raghunathan. Very practical book on being happy rather than pursuing happiness.
"1876 feet". WHYYYY? You're outside the US, keep your obfuscating imperial measures where we can't see them please.
Symmetries of Mandelbrot sets with integer exponents
I love the idea of eScooters but in the UK they are illegal to use on the road or pavements. Unless the law changes they won't get adopted over here.
I live halfway across the country and I've written to Sen. Wyden before to tell him that I wished he were my senator.

You could write him just to say "thanks"!
I loved the message of self-reliance and "bearing your burden" in the book personally, it really reminded me of Mark Manson's The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Could've done without all the religious metaphor but I understand the point of it being there.
China’s bike-sharing bubble is producing graveyards of bikes
Since this is Hacker News, I knew it would be nuclear before opening the article.

And for an article making use of the word 'source' multiple times, it sure doesn't provide any, does it? What a surprise.

Where do the 150 deaths per 1000 TWh from wind energy come from? Skeptical minds would like to know.
... Thanks. Apologies, I'm having arguments with my assisted keyboard.
Right now, it is enormous in big cities, but so once were the scooters, for which the government was pushing to avert the logistics collapse when the number of cars in big cities began to explode.
Making Use of Data-Driven Healthcare
"Network-level backdoors", a.k.a. CALEA have already been allowed for two and a half decades. That wouldn't change, but this would prevent them from forcing Apple to backdoor the encryption on your iPhone, for example.
For a high-level intro to wiretapping and the 4th amendment law around it, the Illustrated Guide to the Law is good: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=1704
The Three Pillars of Zen by Roshi Philip Kapleau
WooCommerce Australia Post Shipping, AusPost Official Partner – AppJetty
I believe the assertion about basic human rights is rooted more in research about maximum "productive" hours a day/week. Scientists have proven that hunter-gatherer tribes work anywhere between 10 to 20h a week and are doing just fine.

The 40h a week is pretty artificial default that has been imposed on most of the people by business interests. That's how I view it historically at least.

So we might not agree on slippery terms like "basic human rights" but modern phenomena as burnout and work depression are pretty widespread already and can thus serve as an example as to how the current workload standards might be broken.
Face Recognition on Facebook: What Is It? Why Bother?
Honestly, "Flowers for Algernon" is the most frightening story I ever read. It made me realize that whatever intelligence I have right now I got basically by accident and that I may lose it at any time. There's nothing I can do to prevent this and - in case it happens - (EDIT: in the end) I won't even recognize what I lost. The only thing I can do is to leave some kind of a mark on the world, right now, before it happens. It turned out to be a great motivation for doing creative stuff - in my case, I chose to write things, blog posts, articles, pet project write-ups, things like this. Definitely one of the most impactful stories I've ever read.
Microsoft’s failed Xbox Kinect could be the future of IoT
This is more a phenomenon of the UNIX developer culture than other desktop environments.

I came to realize that the only care to be around programmers that do care about UI/UX experience and hanging out with designers is to be on the Apple, Google, Microsoft platforms.

Check on each of their conferences how many UI/UX sessions are there and how many show up on a random UNIX conference.
This utterly fascinates me. I don't know whether to treat this as someone who actually believes this stuff, a bit like the Mandela Effect, or if it's all just satire
I'm running browser inside network namespace with VPN tun device, so the only address it could leak is a tunnel one.
I second this (and I'm someone who admires stripe too). I seem to only get generic support emails from Stripe, with an emphasis on closing the ticket, rather than answering the question. This may be a side effect of growing at the pace they have. Incidentally, I got cold called by wepay a week ago to integrate with my app (https://usebx.com) and their support has been rather impressive - for me, they are winning on the customer support front.
Tech giant #Telstra warns cloud customers they’re at risk of hack due to a SNAFU
If you are participating in a debate and you want to argue for something, usually you post the sources for your claim instead of asking your interlocutor to find them for you. Especially when you've just shared a source that actually contradicts your claims.

Specifically, this is the passage I am referring to in, again, the article you yourself provided as evidence for your claims:

> The price of some of that extra work will get passed on to the consumer. The average retail price of honey has roughly doubled since 2006, for instance. And Kim Kaplan, a researcher with the USDA, points out that pollination fees -- the amount beekeepers charge to cart their bees around to farms and pollinate fruit and nut trees -- has approximately doubled over the same period.

> "It's not the honey bees that are in danger of going extinct," Kaplan wrote in an email, "it is the beekeepers providing pollination services because of the growing economic and management pressures. The alternative is that pollination contracts per colony have to continue to climb to make it economically sustainable for beekeepers to stay in business and provide pollination to the country’s fruit, vegetable, nut and berry crops." We have also been importing more honey from overseas lately.
That's why e-bikes have been getting more traction.

Unfortunate since the size of a bicycle can be a drawback.
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn - great book about mindfulness written in a style that's very easy to digest.
How We Fixed Our Studio’s Cash-Flow Problem (2015)
Nuclear is safer than solar?

(Couldn't read the article, because the read more button needs JavaScript.)
In the situations where Münchhausen trilemma is applicable, people tend to use a version of abductive reasoning, which is finding the simplest narrative or explanation that fits the known facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning

It's important to keep the Münchhausen trilemma and abductive reasoning in mind when discussion controversial issues where one side feels they have proof and the other side is ignorant or duped. Often the difference is something like whether emergent behavior or a conspiracy feels like a simpler explanation.
Amazon builds a ‘health and wellness team within Alexa to upend healthcare
EDITED - Found it. Complete report on wind farm related accidents and deaths world wide. It's pretty extensive, so I've not had a chance to check it in any way. It seems to go up to 2018. It seems to include things like studies on increased suicides from the noise. It's a PDF so not very easy to analyse the figures.

http://www.caithnesswindfarms.co.uk/fullaccidents.pdf
Thank you, Laurent123456 - that worked a treat!
Not necessarily, maybe they all contributed their own (incorrect) fixes?
There's nothing strange: GP is giving those as historical examples of this sort of behavior by the industry, not claiming the jury is out today on these topics.

Especially with climate change, there is no doubt the industry has done all it can to cloud the issue in the past, and still continues it. You could add other things (e.g. smoking) to the list.
Yes, I could have done without the religious metaphor as well, I hope some potential readers will not be put off by this because it really is a great book. Something stayed with me after reading this book and I'm so glad I didn't give up when reading about too many religious analogies.

Peterson also gave a presentation about his book for those who are interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5RCmu-HuTg
What is the rationale for the ban?