skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a cost point of view, I think that's totally reasonable for most care. If you have something catastrophic and need quick access to top-notch care, you don't get that from the Canadian system and our Canadian relatives and friends don't even know how bad it is because that's all they've ever known (wife is from Canada and now realizes how bad it is and is trying to move her parents to the US so that they have access to US care).
It works very poorly in practice, in my experience.

You interrupt people 2-4 hours into their work, which is highly disruptive for those who get the most done in the morning.

Often discussions run on past many peoples' lunch time, which can make people cranky and occasionally leads to tense exchanges which might have been more amicable if people weren't hangry.

You wind up with people melding the work they did during the previous day and the current day. It gets difficult to keep track of what you did between two days' midpoints compared to what you did during a day.

And things get worse as more items are inevitably added to the standup meetings (now we need to check on tests, now we need to add a review of open tickets, now we need to involve people from other teams, etc).

In my experience, pre-lunch scrums result in heavy disruption and a bunch of people who feel like they could be doing other things to much greater effect.
> I hear the phrase, "Not as well built as before" a lot when it comes to housing, and I just dont' understand why that is always assumed.

I think it's mostly true of 1960s-1970s construction (possibly 1950s-1980s) compared to the period shortly before that. But, also, survivorship bias: an older house must be better constructed to be still standing than a newer one.
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>Do people still think about "starter" homes?

Yeah. With fond memories of 20+ years ago when they actually existed in competitive markets. Unfortunately, house flippers have killed the "slow growth, sweat equity" path to ownership. Everything that can be improved, updated, or expanded in a competitive housing marked is done by flippers. Then, even 2 bedroom 1 bath "small" homes cost a fortune because they have stainless steel appliances & granite countertops covering up 50 year old galvanized pipes and electrical work with a limited number of grounded outlets. Flip with flashy improvements, drive up the price, and let the expensive infrastructure problems be a time bomb for the sucker that wants to live in it.
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Agreed with this. I'm actually curious what level of engineers Jason is leading. If it's a group of senior engineers, I'd imagine everyone already knows what's expected of them, but a group of junior engineers might be a different story.
I famously got outraged at my team the day after our planning meetings + interviews the whole team was on.

"Yesterday we had meetings"

because while that's helpful in retro finding out where time went; it doesn't update or encourage more thought on the current work. I pushed my team to think about things that others would ask questions about and how it affected their work.
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Rules of the game, really? You mean colluding with a foreign government against your own people is playing by th “rules of the game”? Isn’t it exactly the oppsite?

Whichever is the case with this narrow “win” they for sure did not get manadate to foundentally change the USA. And this is without getting into trump’s a non existing ideology of plan for governing. It’s not a government. A government does not work against the interests of its people.
> Seller provides a home inspection

Conflict of interest.

They know most people won't sue them over issues, especially if the courts are just as likely to side with them outside of some truly egregious violation.
"agile" is great. "Agile" has been fucked to death by consultants and execs who just heard "wait you can make developers completely fungible and i can get something in 2 weeks rather than waiting for 2 years?" and never bothered to listen to anything else.
"working on bugs" is not a great update, it's opaque and doesn't help your team or your leader get a picture of what you're struggling with.

"I tried this and this and measured this latency from the application and suspect it's a race condition, I checked this code and feel like I'm on the right track, and if someone wants to take a second set of eyes on my bug I would appreciate it" is a much much better update. Stand ups are about communication with your peers. Having to hunt down tasks you're working on and reading through each task can create an unnecessary mental load that can be solved with a single 1 minute "ESPN sportscenter edition" summary of your current issues.

However, blockers do create a sense of ineffectiveness. Especially on small workload teams where task swarming doesn't net too much benefit. "Hey I am still waiting on $vendor to configure their service" or "Still waiting on netops to tag $port for vlan blah" or "Procurement put in a PO for $hardware, still waiting on it", there are times when we are waiting for something, and there's nothing able to be done currently. Especially when the immediate tasks are already doled out and your leader doesn't want to pull more work into the current sprint. Subsequent tasks could be too large or complex to be pulled in. Current tasks could be unable to be broken up any further, to which I have to say, pair program until your blockers dissipate. We do this at my current job, and it really creates tangible benefit.

As for TFA's bulletpoints on why sprints can be bad, most of their arguments are bunk except for this one:

> 4. Extroverts thrive at stand-ups, planning, and retros.

Not everyone is great at self-selling, and people who move up in the company are the ones who hype their personal brand, not necessarily those who are the best at their roles. I don't know how to solve this as it's a personality issue, but I do think it can be a problem for a lot of businesses and teams.
Why not both?

https://github.com/nrc/r4cppp

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/71w6ht/is_there_a_c_f...

C++ sucks big time when it comes to "management" - there's no official compiler, no official package manager, no package registry, no easy dependency handling. It's easy to start with sane C++ and then "oh, I need a library for X", and you just wandered into a forsaken of hell accidentally. [ https://i.imgur.com/a4CVG.jpg ]
That’s a good point. If a grid is unreliable then an off-grid solar investment would have to factor in the opportunity cost of things like spoiled food, productivity (can’t work remote with no power), amenity offerings (restaurant with A/C versus not) and so on.
It wasn’t.

Caveating your offer of support three or four times signals hostility not helpfulness.

Any rational actor reading that statement would assume you’d forward their message onto HR without a real response. And make note of the complainer in question.

If you can’t be concrete with your words, why even bother?
Most banks require an inspection as well as an appraisal. (Or at least every one I've ever dealt with has. I suppose it varies by region.) It's also common to require a foundation survey in addition to the inspection (a.k.a. a leveling survey) in areas with shrink-swell clays.
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It’s free money, why not take it?
Visa is a payment network, not an issuer (like Discover or AMEX). They don't issue credit cards to consumers, they just act as the underlying technology in the five-party model connecting merchants to consumers and their banks and the merchant's bank. Chargebacks are disputed with the issuing bank, not Visa...
It was just a thought. I feel like the teacher should not be tasked with policing phone useage, but teach kids to take personal responsablity for their actions / education.

Maybe this wouldnt be effective, i just thought after one or two of these exams kids might take initiative to not use their phone as much.

I was not imagining a passive agressive one liner to the students, but i understand how it sounded that way lol
Building a personal site is initially a design and time management exercise.

Set aside a few hours a night, and before getting into Vue.js, CSS, etc., jot down a list of pages, sketch out a layout, and gather inspiration for the visual style and any creative ideas you want to add.
As mentioned, the problem is that increasing that value enough to matter could increase the storage/etc costs of monitoring the blockchain to an extent that would be prohibitive for many people.

If those costs come down then the "efficiency" can be increased without any impact. It looks like in the last decade they dropped about 10-100x:

https://hblok.net/storage_data/storage_memory_prices-2017-12...

http://drpeering.net/FAQ/What-are-the-historical-transit-pri...
Totally! This is actually how the rich lived back in the 1700-1800s in Europe. They had an inherited estate and just lived off of the interest earned on it. It's a big reason why it's a good idea to have a reasonably large "death tax" specifically to prevent the exponential buildup of unearned inter-generational wealth.

That being said, it's also very fragile in a way. Not having skills or a wage means your wellbeing is subject to the overall economy. A lot of multi-generational fortunes were wiped out in WW2 and the great depression and never recovered.
>Because they show common misunderstandings about Agile

I agree with most of what you're saying. I've found this to be the biggest barrier to the process actually working.
People don't understand the purpose of what is being achieved with X meeting/process and so will actively try to subvert it. Sometimes as engineers we're too smart for our own good, and sometimes we don't listen to what we're being told.

I went through the SM training and really brought into it, however, it's a difficult job to do well. Sometimes being the bad guy and telling your product owner no, or yes but here are the consequences can make you hated (literally a former co-worker and Po/PM of mine won't say more than Hi to me)

>If you can self-organize, effectively communicate, and help one another as-needed without standups

Another anecdote I have is this happening only to find out over approximately a 4 month period that we weren't good communicators, that we did need frequent structured communication to get things done right (right being the keyword). Even though this was the `smartest`, highest paid, most experienced team I've ever worked with, there was still re-work and production outages because of a lack of good coms. This probably could've been avoided if planning meetings were being attended.

Bottom line, agile processes are written in blood that you don't need to shed. Convincing a team of engineers this is the hard part.
How about Forth/Factor vs Prolog to implementing languages?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
https://factorcode.org/

http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/bnfparse.htm
http://www.forth.org/literature/bnfparse.html :-)
Yeah, but the article states Apple contributed $16k.

Maybe it’s the highly compensated employee clawback? I know if you make over a certain amount your contribution and matching limits can come down.
How many blockchain projects have you done? Looking at the body of work you've shown, it all looks to be standard web projects - nothing at all wrong with those kind of projects, but when you put "web & blockchain solutions" at the top, it makes it feel like hype marketing.
Wikipedia in particular is a target for takeover and subversion because they govern a reputable/widely relied-on source of knowledge. If you're some kind of spook, for instance, and you want to rewrite history in some fashion, or spin it, getting the wikipedia version to match your own is a major win.
I was thinking the first couple would be a learning experience and kids might curve their behavior over time. (Maybe this was a terrible idea lol)
So instead of a lawyer or arbitrator we get another kind of arbitrator, or an "oracle" which is at root is a human making decisions and putting them into a digital system of some sort.

Both of which, like every other extant thing, are subject to review by the courts if their actions make people sufficiently unhappy.

And, though now it's confusing, opaque, and unreliable, this system will be cheaper and more transparent because...
The JVM ran all its green threads on a single CPU, even if multiple CPUs were present.

When multi core systems became more common, Sun faced the choice of overhauling the green threads implementation or going to us system threads. I don’t know why they made the choice, but it likely was a combination of time pressure (writing and tuning a good m:n green threads implementation is hard) and doubts about the usefulness of green threads on multicore systems.
We have some teams that do "slack-ins" but I find few people read the updates and even fewer questions are answered or asked.

At best, this gives micromanagers satisfaction while not doing much, and at worst it's a log of "well I told you so"
The one thing that I like about standups is that they make real blockage or ineffectiveness more visible.

It is true in theory that you can get the same thing from just scanning the project board every day. But people don't actually do it. Furthermore if you're stuck on X, standups are a perfect time for someone who was about to look for a ticket to take one off of you that they are better suited to handling.

Are they perfect? No. There are definitely false positives. But the ratio of real positive to false one is good enough that they provide real value overall.
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Actually they do have those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
> home inspections are largely useless

Horseshit. When looking for a house earlier this year we had an offer accepted on a place we loved. Only question mark was the basement. Independent inspector took a through look at the basement and plumbing and basically said we will be living with water during the storm season without mitigation that could range between 5k and 25k. I have two plumbers in my family that took a look at the photos/report and confirmed the price estimate/work was spot on.

On top of that he found asbestos (we knew before hand) and high radon levels (we did not know). Needless to say the $600 I paid for the inspection was the best money I've spent in a long time.
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This Google Map overlay is the best Chicago neighborhood map I've seen.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/viewer?msa=0&mid=13rPY3gTM...

My only real complaint with its accuracy is I recognize that Wicker Park extends north to the Bloomingdale Line, but otherwise, it's pretty good. It includes a lot of pocket neighborhoods like Palmer Square and the Wrigleyville portion of Lakeview, too.
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Stay out of the sun would be the next one.
They aren't allowed to bring cookies or anything else that includes sugar, or all school-provided meals (I hear you guys eat warm for lunch) are without sugar, or how is that implemented?
> Are they literally giving him a plane or does that just mean they'll pay for the use of a chartered private jet?

The former is in almost all cases cheaper than the latter. Fuel, pilots, landing charges, storage, maintenance, et cetera are the expensive parts of plane ownership.
It wasnt intended to be petty, i thought of it more as giving students more personal responsability to pay attention.

I was just trying to throw an idea out there lol
That seems rather dumb. Flying private it one of the all-time productivity enhancers in both minimizing travel time and maximizing in-transit work-time.
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I love how the first comment is from a "guru" with nothing better to say than:

> Do you really think it is going to make much difference to the final answer?

Doesn't matter, it should work.
I am happy for everyone who is enjoying Linux but can we give windows the credit it is due? If anyone ever makes an OS that has the game and driver support Windows has I will jump ship in a heartbeat.

Case in point ccleaner: there are many alternatives. Try winutilities.

http://www.pcclean.io/winutilities-pro/
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So they're promoting the contamination of everything with hydrophobic paint?

If this catches on, walking around on a rainy day, which I find pleasant, will instead be depressing.
God forbid you spend time with your kid.
Apocryphally Bing stands for "but it's not Google", which would be delightfully apt here.
and what's this $1B,000 format?
They already are policing it. Stopping class to argue with some kid is much more disruptive than writing down a name
Or make universities pay tax on all administrative expenses.
I'm also on a system with 8Gb of ram at the moment. Firefox is using up a hilarious 4.6Gb keeping a few dozen web pages open, but the entire rest of my Linux system, including Inkscape, qCAD, and SketchUp under Wine are using only a combined 907 megabytes. So it's possible part of your problem is just Windows 10.
https://www.yelp.com/c/la/home_inspectors

Also friends, family, coworkers, local real estate agents you trust, etc.

Going into the entire home buying process without preparing adequately is the buyer's first mistake.
> Additionally, if you have a buyer's agent, don't make the mistake of using theirs either -- the buyer's agent has the same conflict of interest that the seller's does

Not exactly. Real estate agents do care about repeat business and referrals.
> 30% fee

This is what decentralized platforms fix. I'd rather keep the money as an app owner, and split the difference with the consumer(or just keep all of it). Even better if there's an avenue to avoid the government taking 50% too.
> not being able to use the phone in the hallway or between classes

I was confused about some of these, like a teacher literally posted at the bathroom door and would only let X kids in at a time, and time them. Turns out it's because a few bad kids take advantage and do stupid shit, so they have to impose draconian policies.

The 'no phone in hallway' thing was probably half to get kids into class on time, and half to stop drug deals, gang fights and sexting. This goes on in "nice" schools.
> a low voltage DC power network inside homes might make sense (e.g. 12V or 24V).

It wouldn't work. The needed wires would be like garden hoses.
The point was that the teacher shouldn't have to do it.
You can setup Gitlab for hosting as well. I use Gitlab CI to build my Hugo site, then Gitlab also does the hosting.

This approach gives a lot better flexibility than Github's standard Jekyll.
Especially true because customers rarely want to pay for it and when there are issues you just sweep them under the rug and move on. Developers are the last people we should look to blame / change if we want better security.
As someone who has also experienced the US and Canadian healthcare systems I agree. The “average” in Canada might be higher than the US, but people with good insurance in the US (read - middle class job) have access to better healthcare in the US. Of course it also costs them more.

Point being, if the US moves to a single payer system in an effort to lower healthcare costs, a lot of people in the US are going to have to readjust their expectations.
There's a familiar pattern here.

1. Person points to the fact that all existing blockchain implementations are wildly impractical, or logically impossible, or are just more convoluted and confusing versions of the current system with blockchain layered on top.

2. People point out that "there are people working on this problem" and not to worry.

3. A year or two passes.

4. Person points to the fact that all existing blockchain implementations are wildly impractical, or logically impossible, or are just more convoluted and confusing versions of the current system with blockchain layered on top.
Millenials are getting married even later than GexX couples. I'd attribute it more to higher rent costs and student loans attacking their savings rate.
I've helped out 4 ICOs with smart contract programming & web interfaces. I do not list them on my public portfolio, only present them to interested clients.
> And yet you know the article and specific edits to an edit to a relatively obscure Wikipedia board from over 3 years ago. Who are you again?

Well that's creepy and shady isn't it?
For batch-type of workloads embulk has been really excellent tool for my company (for all extract and load steps. We do most of the transformations in db/warehouse)
This is from June and looks like it is fixed, I can do 10^x functions on my work PC in the Windows calculator.

Edit: see comment below
AC also allows for smaller switches and relays, as you are guaranteed to hit 0 V within a phase, so you can disconnect loads without giant sparks/arcs.
yes, perhaps. Much of that belief is based on the track record. Which in Apple's case is impressive but most of their products are derived from a similar concept which will run its course and will fundamentally change due to tech and user habits. You can easily imagine in the near future (which is also supported by many studies) most information being channeled through virtual assistants with visuals being handled through augmented reality so no need for screens, phones, watches, TVs... I imagine Apple is already investing heavily in all of these but all talk in on the latest release of an iPhone.
> We have things like credit card anti fraud or arbitration courts that work outside of it.

These things are within, and subordinate to, the legal system.
> there have been many times where I've worked on a task or a set or related tasks for weeks or months, simply because the tasks required a lot of forethought and careful planning.

The idea of standups and breaking down work into chunks that fit in a short sprint is to avoid this sort of situation where somebody is off on their own and not getting feedback.

I find that people are overly optimistic about their chances of getting a task completed in the promised time frame. If something is expected to take five days, I'll hear every day that it's going well, right up to the last day, then all of a sudden it's not going to be done. The more granular the task is, the easier it is to deal with slippage because you get to know about that slippage sooner.
Very clean. I like the general attitude. The mustard color is good. Such an ideal color does wonders. Going to have to follow your blog. Thanks!
React-optimistic: a generic, optimistic update helper
I know correlation is not causation but come on... if a set of students follows as CS introductory course and ends up learning some CS during the span of course, it is overreaching to assume the CS course had something to do with it.
Greenblatt's Mac Hack VI with chessboard.

http://lars.nocrew.org/its/ocm2.png
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Some people don't waste their time when it's inconsequential to their lives.

https://www.nbc.com/late-night-with-seth-meyers/video/graydo...

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