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Ten people is a lot for a Scrum team, so I think it's only natural that if you have ten people in a meeting it's going to take a long time, regardless of what people have to share.

What worked for me the last time I had a large team was pairing people up based on their role in the project (i.e. if you've got three frontend devs, have one attend and give an update for all three), so only one person needs to attend the standup. Suddenly, you've halved the number of people there each day, and assuming that everything else is streamlined (only necessary people in standup, questions left to after, only talking about project progress) you'll find it goes much quicker.

The sole reason I've found that makes a daily standup work is in letting everyone know what everyone else is up to. Nothing more, and nothing less, so optimise away until you've reached an average standup time that doesn't bother your team and makes everyone aware of what everyone else is doing.
Magic Leap One AR headset is out now for $2,295, but only in six specific cities
I really dig the common lisp condition/restart system, where the callee defines different ways to recover from a failure, and the caller chooses which applies; or the caller can do their own thing with `unwind-protect`.
There were a few comments by Googlers in an article on the same topic but posted separately.

When I asked a Googler, who was angry at the accusation that they don't care about the China story, whether or not they would protest against this or threaten to leave, there was 0 response. I assume this would be similar for most Googlers.

Of course they are "a.n.g.r.y." but it seems that this is the extend they are willing to go. Why protest when you can just post on the internal meme board?
First, echoing what others say, and channeling Marcus Aurelius,

You have identified your obstacle: "this invisible force"

Now penetrate into it with your mind / feelings, discover what it truly is, in essence. What is it, in and of itself? Sit quietly, relax, clear your mind and think. How do you feel? What is this force? Keep penetrating into it more deeply until you see it clearly enough for your purpose.

Once you understand your exact situation with a useful amount of clarity, and connect with your feelings, I believe you will know exactly what to do and have the non-mixed-feeling motivation to do it.

That's the thesis. Now for the antithesis.

What if the following is true:

What if the dreams you had chased before, were to some extent formed as a response to, or to protect you from, or to compensate for, whatever happened to you. And now that you have dealt with and vanquished this issue in your life you have the following bipartite situation:

- On the one hand, you are still motivated by what you have trained yourself to be motivated by for so long. And,

- On the other hand, having killed the original motivation that gave rise to it, you have removed the impetus to do it.

Now what can you do in this situation?

I believe you already know. But here is what I think. You are at a crossroads. You can re-examine your values and motivations and see if what was once important, still is. You can recommit to, or now redefine your purpose. You may find that you end up deepening your commitment, or that you free yourself from what once drove you, and make way for the new purpose / motivation to enter your life.

Finally, for the curve-ball. What if this invisible force is just your intuition / the matrix / the signal line / a deep feeling trying to make its way to you and give you an important message about something in your life? What if it is nothing you expect but will be, once you open yourself to its message, completely surprising and very useful for you?

Okay, so it could be 1, a mix, or all of these things. Or something else entirely. You've got the thesis, antithesis (and curve ball for good measure), you make your own synthesis and solve your own problem / meet your own opportunity. Hope this helped you and anyone else watching. Have a great day y'all.
The title is somewhat contradictory: "FB ends the ability to auto-post tweets to your profile" on an article about how to auto-post tweets to your FB profile.
Last summer I was looking into a building a little project that could do just that.

TL, DR:
It looks like those with the patience to compile a kernel+drivers can probably manage using Denverton boards [1]. I was blocked by no available drivers last year but hope to come back to my build project in the fall.

NB: I'm just a casual tinkerer not an expert.

Back story:
Last summer when Intel shipped Denverton, QAT (which offloads crypto) apparently got a substantial speed boost and I saw claims that 10GbE IPSec should be possible. Denverton boards vary but some top end ones apparently ship with 4 10GbE NICs [2].

Back then the issue was that the QAT drivers weren't ready, so I put my project on hold. Today I see Intel has apparently shipped Linux and FreeBSD drivers. [3] Would of course be nice to see these drivers land upstream but no idea what the licensing story is like here.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/intel-atom-c3000-series-launch-...

[2] https://www.servethehome.com/supermicro-a2sdi-h-tp4f-review/

[2] https://01.org/intel-quick-assist-technology/downloads
My point is that others are not bettered by this action, because the action of leaking to a journalist no longer improves anything. Just as it hasn't the last few times this happened. It is arguably a good idea to sacrifice something for everyone's benefit, but it is always a bad idea to sacrifice if nobody benefits.
There's just too many vital services that can't function with just ad financing. It's so obvious, that I have a slight hope we'll see new business models to accommodate for that. The problem is that I don't read a hundred articles a month by the NYT, I read maybe 5. And then 5 others on 30 different sites, each.

What I can imagine is a "digital pass" kinda thing that lets you access a massive amount of content for a reasonable monthly fee and divides it among members by what you use most or something. Flat-rate pricing is the way to go on the internet, it is for premium video streaming (Netflix), for music (Spotify) and games will probably follow soon (it seems Nintendo is switching the Virtual Console to being part of their subscription model, for example). I could see it for premium newspapers. It fixes this paralyzing decision of which subscription you pay for.
UPDATE: My IFR deck is available on AnkiWeb:

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272
I have Monzo and they are amazing indeed.
Don't know why you're being down-voted – unless of course our brothers and sisters and their kin who work in finance don't like being reminded of the great income and wealth disparity between them and those at the bottom of society.

“For all of these uncertainties, the broad picture doesn’t change. My judgment is that we can be pretty confident that Ms. Anderson’s estimate that the sum of Wall Street bonuses is roughly twice the total amount paid to all full-time workers paid minimum wage seems like a fair characterization.”

Thanks for the article. It is shocking. Where is the moral outrage? There are huge media-storms over all sorts of identity politics hoo-hah and a whimper every now and again over the Inequality Question.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Support Specialist in Chicago
Can we imagine a future where xcode works and ios app being developed on Ubuntu ?
> Show us where graduation criterion is skewed.

What? Who is talking about graduation criteria?

> An effort is being made to provide opportunity to those with less access to it

That's fine, as long as the criteria is the same.

> but painting affirmative action as a free ride is a malicious category error that needs no debunking

That's called straw man. I said it is discrimination. This is called fact.

> simply a garbage argument that involves talking as fast as possible and hoping no one notices.

As far as I can tell, you are the one talking as fast as possible and hoping no one notices. This is something called projection.

I'm making fairly straightforward assertions. Discrimination is wrong. Simple as that. The japanese shouldn't discriminate against women. We shouldn't discriminate against asians and whites.
Yes, exactly. When you wake up in the morning, you can get a plot of the last night's glucose levels which you normally don't know about with discrete blood measurements. This allowed my SO to adjust evening eating and insulin dose and their timing so that the glucose levels stay within the "good zone" all night (the GCM reader unit has a helpful graph with the good levels highlighted).

If you can't get the NHS to give you one, it might be worth it to get it for at least some period (say 3-6 months) out of pocket. By that time it should have given you insights on your treatment and allow you to better assess if an insulin pump is the right thing for you.
>. Can you suggest any other news sources that are more objective?

WSJ, FT, BBC, Politico

>Re Sarah Jeong - ok they have a columnist who dislikes Trump but that's hardly a very rare viewpoint in the US these days.

Hating white people is not the same thing as disliking Trump. Criticizing Trump is okay, being racist is not.
I do the same.

I can see the appeal of wanting to create a package to manage error checking when you have dozens of conditions but this doesn't bring anything new to the table yet creates code that is arguably less maintainable and certainly less easily read.
What you need to raise a Series A (and why it isn’t 100k MRR)
free transit has been tried, the findings were that it got mostly new riders from those who walked or rode bicycles because they didn't want to pay for transit but converted very few drivers. [1]

it really comes down to, a transit system cannot be everything for everyone so its best to make it good for a segment of the population. if we want to improve transit issues the primary method is to overhaul the power of zoning boards and reduce the ability of groups to sue to prevent housing to be built closer in if not inside cities.

one recent tactic has been for politically connected groups to sue and make ridiculous changing demands so that to the point it becomes unaffordable to build and force the developer to sell to the group connected to the politicians. then everyone loses. [2].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/01/why-can...

[2] https://missionlocal.org/2018/07/axis-developerment-abruptly...
blogspam / FUD or not, Kotlin is the beautiful future
Six Months at Riot Games
Argentina's Senate rejects proposed bill to legalize abortion
Indian cities like Patna have been around before Roman empire
Hi- I used to work in regulated pharma and I want to be clear: " The core problem is that the FDA-approved devices are optimized not for getting the best result, but for ensuring the manufacturer can't be blamed if something goes wrong" is a misleading statement. The reason everything is regulated is that sometimes things do go wrong, and it's necessary to have root cause attribution so the problem can be remedied and a fix deployed, and, if somebody did something illegal or dumb, they can be sanctioned.

I wish your project success, but I think (and I've got a bit of experience) if you can't accept that regulation of health products is almost certainly necessary, and that not producing the "best" results is a reasonable if conservative approach, I will never trust your product.
I think the issue is that 40 years seems to be extrapolated from an average, but the distribution of human lifespans (especially in pre-modern times) is bi-modal so the average doesn't tell you much about how long they lived conditioned on reaching adulthood. I found mostly questionable-looking paleo-diet related results as well, but to their credit the chain of citations led back to peer-reviewed research such as this:

> we see that on average 57 percent, 64 percent, and 67 percent
of children born survive to age 15 years among hunter-gatherers, forager-horticulturalists, and acculturated hunter-gatherers. Of those who reach age 15, 64 percent of traditional hunter-gatherers and 61 percent of forager-horticulturalists reach age 45. The acculturated hunter-gatherers show lower young adult mortality rates, with 79 percent surviving to age 45, conditional on reaching age 15.

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/gurvenlab/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.ed...
So it seems many coal burners in Denmark have switched top biomass in the past few years. I didn't know that. But someone burning wood to make electricity and someone else wasting the electricity in a resistance heater still doesn't sound like a solution, it sounds like insanity. (Not necessarily pointing fingers at you personally. Negative prices lead to insanity.)
I didn't intend to imply that Christianity is a cult now, but that it was as far as Jews and the Romans of the time were concerned. It wasn't even the only group at the time following a self-proclaimed messiah.

In the same way it's said that a language is "a dialect with an army", I'm claiming the difference between a cult and religion is the same.
I don't understand that story. Could you explain?
Any other country would be crazy to agree to that since it’s unquantifiable to compare the effects of oil from Saudi Arabia, versus trees in Brazil, versus factories in China, etc.

At the root of the issue is the fact that since humans aren’t able to measure the damage and see all the knock on effects of their actions, many large scale environmental and societal costs are externalized. And if you don’t take advantage of that, then someone else will and win in the market with lower prices.
Never testing in production. I used to think it was never a good idea.

Now, I'm convinced it's the ONLY good idea.

https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/2017/09/testing-in-production/ (for one opinion about it)
Gkgh
The (negative) mass of sound
A conspiracy theory about why there are so many Mattress Firm stores
BBC R&amp;D scalable Internet broadcasting using multicast QUIC [pdf]
Becoming A Technical Leader and Secrets Of Consulting are two books that have had a profound impact on my career and leadership perspective. I revisit them often and recommend them as a great starting point for aspiring leaders.
Spanish Government agrees to open first European hyperloop development facility
> The only way to make actions against climate change a reality is to make it profitable.

The other way would be 'international politics'. I know it has run out of fashion, but maybe in 10 years we can re-instantiate democracy.
Show HN: Try Not to Smile Challenge Yanny
> There have been no studies of large groups of people who have followed the currently popular versions of the Paleo diet for decades to assess their long-term health effects.

You could say similar things about climate change. The science is, and always will be, out. That's the nature of science.
Cost Effective Recruiting Sources for Startups
The left practices tolerance in the most superficial ways
The correllation between invention awareness and significance is almost completely random.

Also goes for inventor reward. Contrast Diesel and Parsons.

Smil is a world treasure. Seriously, start reading his books.

NB, I'm looking for sources showing major inventions through history (Smil is one source). Roughly by decade to about 1850, 25 years to 1600, centuries to 1250 or so, and expanding granularity to 10,000, 100k, and 1m BCE.

Needham's Science & Civilisation is another source.
HELIX: Accelerating Human-In-the-loop Machine Learning
Ask HN: Curriculum for a Computer Science crash course
Hey HN,

I am taking a month off from work to teach computer science at a public school in Mumbai, India. The kids I'll be teaching are from a low income background and have almost no exposure to computer science/programming/software development. They're 14 years old and have a basic math background. I'll have close to 40 hours of teaching time with these kids. The objective of the course isn't immediate employment. I am hoping to get them more interested in the field and maybe get them started on programming on the side.

I need to design a 4 week course for them. Here is what I have right now:

Computer Fundamentals ~ 10 hours (Basic computer achitecture, basic networking, very basic introduction to OS)

Basic web design ~ 4-6 hours (Introduction to HTML, CSS, making a real simple webpage)

Introduction to JS ~ 16 hours (Introducing programming concepts like abstraction, simple JavaScript syntax like functions and variables, basic DOM interactivity)

Make a simple app from scratch ~ 10 hours (maybe a timetable or a to-do app to bring together most concepts we have been learning and get them excited about making new stuff)

Things I am skipping in the interest of time but unsure if I should:

Discrete Math, Logic, Algorithms, Datastructures, Linux/UNIX, Lots of OS, Lots of Computer Architecture, A JS framework like React or Vue, Databases

Do you folks have any suggestions to improve the course?
Should I include something key that I am missing?

I understand that I have not included very fundamental CS concepts but I am hoping these are things they can take up if they express further interest in learning the subject.

Appreciate your feedback!

PS: If some of you can donate some Computer Hardware and can ship it to Mumbai, India, that would be awesome! If you are interested, drop me a line at [my hn username @ gmail.com]

Thanks!
This makes me wonder why PCs still haven't trended towards the same Heterogeneous System Architecture that the PS4 has. Instead of having 4GB DDR3 RAM and 4GB GDDR5 video RAM it just has 8GB GDDR5 and everything runs on that. I mean, how many PCs these days have 8GB RAM + 2-6GB video RAM, some of the system RAM sitting unused during gaming and most of the video RAM sitting unused during general use? Seems like a decent hardware optimization target..
Proving ROI is however a real problem. First you need software for your specific need and that itself can easily consume half a million dollar budget even for small team. Then you need to distribute these expensive devices. And then everything needs to actually work and improve the bottom line. Someone in company needs to approve those massive POs. May be there are few cases where these pays off overwhelmingly over traditional methods.
> The data encoded in the steganography, could be any data of course, but for our purposes, it would be the image itself.

This was an intriguing idea, but after I did some back of the envelope rough numbers, I tentatively concluded microform might not encode densely enough to accomplish that. It already has poor fidelity characteristics for photographic data. Right off the bat you are losing lots of information during the reducing process, and the film itself does not have the kind of qualities photographers look for. Color microform is also much more expensive than black and white. So the color film works well for newsprint photos, but for archival grade purposes, we're likely better off with the original film negatives. For deep storage archives, I could see a use case for microform, and with the encoding you suggested, but not quite at one picture per frame (page).

Steganography relies upon imperceptibly embedding information into the picture, so there is a very low encoding density limit because we're working with analog pictures. Optar at 600 ppi uses an entire page to encode 200 Kb, but microfilm is closer to 300 ppi, so at 100 percent density with no picture, we can expect around 100 Kb per page of Optar-encoded binary data. An average smartphone picture size these days is around 5 MB, closer to 15-50 MB for DSLR pictures.

Optar-encoding the smartphone picture, we are around 50 pages before we scatter it into the picture to steganographically encode it. Already we can see the picture has to be blown up across more than 50 pages and stitched back together. At imperceptible levels of encoding density, I'm guessing we're looking at 500+ pages, maybe. A standard microfiche holds about 98 pages, so we're talking about 6'ish fiches per picture at cellphone grade, much more for DSLR grade picture encoding.

For high quality archival photograph storage, I think current librarians have it right: lots of duplicates of negatives, geographically separated, then service copy negatives off those masters, digitally scan in the most-used pictures off the service copy, and let patrons use the digital copies. Migrate the digital copies until we establish a universally-accepted digital bootstrap mechanism and process for Long Now-span time scales.
Dozens of Yemeni Children Killed
Most of the time, after having sex, they don't have any children at all.

It makes more sense in the context of his Law of Twins:

> most of the time, no matter how much effort one expends, no event of any great significance will result
please watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
it has a good list of reasons why software voting is a terrible idea.

also the secret ballet is very important to maintaining the fairness of elections.
Great steps are taken in the reef tank hobby and professional world.
We now have much more insight on how to keep corals and animals alive in a tank.

It's sad that progression in the reef tank world almost feels like an ark project now that coral dies in the sea.
It's kind of an old hack (the page dates from 2007); it's not really the sort of thing you'd build a PC for but if you happen to be re-purposing one it might offer an advantage.
Phytoplankton are basically algae, and they’re a huge natural carbon sink when they die and fall to the bottom of the ocean.

It’s just that we’re overwhelming this sequestration mechanism by digging up and burning dead phytoplankton much faster than new ones grow to replace them.
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JOBS Act 3.0
It is worth noting that there is a Søren Kirkegaard book, with the English title "Fear and Trembling", that has nothing to do with Japan.

> I do not understant why it would be a common view in America. AFAIK, it is not a common view in France.

Probably because it is a common view in Japan and just about everywhere else in the world.
Yes, this is even an issue in places where there is good public transit like Zürich, Switzerland. There are sections where buses share the road and during rush hour it causes the busses to be off schedule. There is even talk to remove the fixed schedule for buses as this happens so frequently.

Sadly a new law passed that forbids the removal of roads in order to provide more dedicated bus lanes. As there is so little place it will be impossible in most places. However buses are sharing light rail space now as well which can be paved yet not allow regular traffic in it.
Costs of a Data Breach
Cure (1997) Film izle 1080p
Cuba's communist ice cream cathedral
Racism in Design. Who to Blame?
Nice, thanks for the info :)

Maybe I should to a course on CloudWatch. Seems like a powerful tool, but a bit convulted at times...
Possibly.

Wetlands are among the most productive ecosystems anywhere, and might sequester substantial biomass.

A freshwater pond plant, eeffectively, may be responsible for an earlier global cooling period due to carbon sequestration.
Newspapers were never valued for their ability of generating profits, but more as tools that can shape or sway the public opinion.

Having "few" and "consolidated" reporting entities basically reflects the status-quo pre-internet, where at a local/national level you would have a handful of newspapers (or TV channels), each having often a fairly evident slant or clearly lobbying for a particular political party or social group.

But while we shouldn't view the past in an excessively positive way, it's hard to consider an improvement what we are moving towards, a situation where there are far and far more numerous and uncontrolled sources of infomation, amplified by social media.

At least (most) traditional newspapers always had the obligation of fact-checking, a burden that a spurious blog or forum post or twitter message doesn't have...
Dementia – things you DIDN’T know