skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Yeah its always somebody's fault, never agile.

I think you're confusing me with someone who is a big fan of agile.

>And as for 'small units', that's an agile myth. Many important tasks take concentrated effort over many days or weeks.

Nothing in my comment suggested small work means it can't take days or weeks.

Note the following phrases in my comment:

>It may for you,

>But if it is for your work, by all means it's a fine approach.

>There's plenty of work that can be done that way.

I've repeatedly given hints that I don't think agile is a universally valid approach. I have my own criticisms of it. I left my last team due to some of the problems that agile presented. At the same time, I've been in teams where agile definitely would be an improvement and I would recommend it to them.

You are coming across as someone who is not OK unless everyone agrees with you that agile sucks and is always a poor idea. Sorry - I don't agree. Just please don't characterize those who disagree with you as agile fans.

Finally, let me address this (said by others in this thread):

>Yeah its always somebody's fault, never agile. That's what makes this classic No True Scotsman.

No True Scotsman applies only when there is not a clear definition or source. It arises from vague notions, which results in everyone having their own definition of what a Scotsman is to the benefit of their own argument. This is not what is going on here. In fact, the argument applies more to those who are criticizing agile as they are the ones who are creating different definitions of agile.

What is agile is not ambiguous. This document is what agile is:

http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html

Criticizing what is not in there is like me criticizing the US Constitution because there exist some silly laws in my state. And then when people point out the constitution doesn't mandate those laws, responding with "That's just a No True Scotsman!"
Agile process doesn't necessarily mean agile delivery. But I might worry too.
If you enjoy reading about this kind of phenomenon, TV Tropes has a whole article on things that have developed huge cult followings in export markets but are considered rather pedestrian in the home market. It's titled "Germans Love David Hasselhoff".

https://tvtropes.org/Main/GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff
FWIW, if you chase this reporting upstream, the source article also mentions type 2:

https://www.ad.nl/binnenland/nieuwe-behandeling-biedt-hoop-a...
The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code
Let your type 2 go untreated and continue living your crappy life, and you'll develop type 1 as well. By exhausting your pancreas.

But yeah. Crappy article title.
> its design (up to Perl 5, at least) smacks of total Lisp ignorance.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/rec.arts.startre...

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!topic/comp.lang.clos...
Yeah, it's just using the standard AWS scheduled events stuff. Nothing fancy. Then again, our needs (for now) are pretty simple. I basically just want to know if our website goes down or if our SSL certificate expires or something.

One of the sites is a SaaS offering, but it's not live yet, so I don't need to stay super-on-top-of-it. Once it's live we'll want more frequent monitoring and some other stuff, so we might either move to another approach, or supplement this with something else.
I can get matcha flavored KitKats at a local store here in the US.

That has not been good for my waistline.
> Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm where different components of a computer program are modeled after real-world objects.

This is a common, but dangerous way to introduce the object-oriented paradigm. While it is true that many object-oriented systems end up having a few classes that represent entities of its problem domain (such as, perhaps, bus stations in a public transport app), most of them do not. These other classes are abstract entities like data repositories, factories, controllers etc. that are meant to split software into understandable pieces with clear responsibilities that work together to make things happen.

The point is that this collaboration happens solely by these pieces sending each other messages (calling methods) that describe their intent, without needing to know how exactly the message is being processed. This style of communication is the key characteristic of object orientation, and even an introduction should probably put their focus on this aspect rather than „modeling the real world“, which isn‘t really something that is done this way in practice.

All this being said, I do see the appeal of the real-world rhetoric in that it seems much more approachable than ralking about little communicating abstract things. I wonder how to balance this.
The way i do it is running the checks in a background every x minutes and add the result in a json file. It’s fast and safe.
I don't really agree with your perception of what the current state of affairs would be without the federal government, nor the ideology behind the founding of the US. However, that's tangential to the important point - which you do indirectly hit on. The swap from a state based system to a federal based system most fundamentally changes the scope of operation. Good things, such as the direct termination of slavery, can affect the entire nation at once. On the other hand, this power also comes with an equal but opposite negative. In that bad things can now also affect the entire nation at once.

So for instance not that long ago in the past we were enforcing eugenics from federal level down. In the famous supreme court case Buck vs Bell, where the US federal government ruled in favor of eugenics, supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said, "We have seen more than once that the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives. It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices, often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.".

Interestingly enough that ruling has never actually been overturned. The reason that eugenics fell out of fashion lay largely with a certain German enthusiast. If not for him it's not unreasonable to imagine the federal level dystopia that we were starting to consider going down. When things are enacted at the state level this gives people the option of getting away from the insanity. When things happen at the top, leaving your country is usually not a practical option.

And so too for the question I was responding to. Should it be legal for foreigners to vote in US elections? Maybe, maybe not. It would probably depend heavily on the state in question. But thanks to our system, that question can no longer be answered by states. In 1996 the federal government made it illegal at the national level.
We use Monit

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No, I'm going to hold you to the original word, because, if you look around - that's what's happening.

Our population grows. Our footprint grows. Our consumption and waste grow.

Nobody, besides those highest, benefit from this style of function.
I wonder how many of these 'influencers' know that they need to disclose their endorsements in the first place.
On both Spotify and YouTube, every user brings revenue.
Sorry that was just me being irritated, and not very clever.
Actually that seems likely.
The supply of technical workers is artificially limited by Leetcode style interviews. There doesn't seem to be an actual supply side limitation, especially not at the entry level.
Since when is this an excuse for not exhibiting courage to adhere to the framework? Scrum was built on experience, not theory anyways.
Yep; it's one-dimentional variant of Error Diffusion (which itself is a notably beautiful dithering algorithm), where "input" = slope of line and output is quantized dy=0 or dy=1.

Dithering also appears in audio.
The old PC Speaker had merely 1/0 states. It's supposed to be limited to square waves, limited and unpleasant, right?
But at some point people figured out if you flip 1/0 fast
enough you can approximate continuous values:
http://bespin.org/~qz/pc-gpe/speaker.txt

I once played with using "error diffusion" like dithering to play wav files. In theory that should produce better audio than the simple fixed-table and PWM dithering suggesting in above article, but I did this on a much newer computer (Pentium?) by which time PC Speaker was irrelevant (only for hack value) and only reached 30-40 bits per input sample at 100% CPU. Plus as that article explains, simple PWM might(?) actually produce less noise from timing irregularity.

But the technique is not merely an obsolete hack!
Every CD player that visibly brags it has "1-bit DAC" uses a closely related technique, though in fast hardware. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_modulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-sigma_modulation
Take me with a grain of salt, I always get confused trying to grok these... Full explanations of the noise shaping properties that make Delta-Sigma highly useful involve quite a bit of signal-processing, but the core accumulate-compare loop is a very simple algorithm...
Dweb: Identity for the Decentralized Web with IndieAuth
Unless you're going to also stop using Tweedledum corp's browser and search, I'd not bother. And if you are then just use, say, Firefox and duckduckgo and ublock origin on your current os.
And once again the kind of people who hire others to mow their lawns or deal with their kids won't have their own wages affected by the cheap labour those illegal immigrants will bring.
Note that the retention is not time-based: https://www.runscope.com/support/kb/test-result-retention Hopefully we have a better solution for this in the future.

There are more resources working on Runscope than ever before. CA continues to invest in stability, new features and support. CA is also going through an acquisition and that introduces more variables, but as of today (1+ year after acquiring us), CA has been extremely supportive of Runscope.
how can a remote country force me to open a local business entity? i am not there, so they can't get me. they can only get my contractors which would hurt them, not me. (the worst is i could loose them, and they'd be out of work)

the remote country would have to have an agreement with my country to be able to force me to change anything.

(the european union counts as one country here, so i am asking about the case where at least one party is outside)

greetings, eMBee.
I run Selenium integration tests inside a docker container every 5 minutes or so and attach the results to a sentry.io logger. I put up a boilerplate version on github: https://github.com/mikedh/selenium-simple
The quickest way would likely be to borrow it from somewhere else. Do you have any shares in an investment portfolio by any chance?

If you transfer those to Interactive Brokers, it's quite easy (and relatively cheap -- 3.7% a year) to borrow money against them (margin debt). Unless markets crash tomorrow that should allow you to bridge things.
"people who learned strict British grammar", which is the case for many international/esl speakers do not speak common English.

If that's your metric, then "elevator" is not in common use (lift would be the correct terminology). I put a lot of credibility on American English, where singular they is more accepted.

You're the one bringing up all this talk of progressives and politics. I'm just making descriptive statement about common usage. If "the broader United States" is an enclave, that's news to me.

For what it's worth, you're speaking to at least one person who has studied English grammar and disagrees with you. And I previously mentioned a couple of common authorities on grammar who share a similar opinion. You wrote that off. But I think it may be worth taking a moment to reflect on the possibility that your deeply held beliefs about grammar are not as common or inviolable as you seem to believe.

As for your comment below about appeals to authority, I'd just remind you that the appeal in question was originally made by you when you said

>if you ask anyone who has studied English grammar whether it's correct or not, they will tell you it's not.

I think that speaks for itself.
Yah, a whitelist of commands which includes bash would probably be best. You'd be fine using it and can simply switch to chainsaw mode by adding bash to the command
Looks like they can do exactly that:

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it. I don't know why anyone would blame the water for a dehydrated horse.
However, in non-silo non-enterprise situations, you're usually the guy who has to deal with the result without ever having given consent yourself...

I don't think I myself would be greatly bothered by "crap" if I didn't have to deal with it constantly.
Is cool to see new innovation in this area
And I imagine quite a bit of YouTube usage isn't for music.
This is the weirdest grandstand ever. Why not take the opportunity to better learn the language instead of avoiding it?

I'm not a native speaker of French, but what I know makes various French Creole languages sound wrong. I wouldn't think to avoid speaking to someone who spoke a French Creole because I might feel like they're not talking grammatically correct French.
Emails and passwords hacked
I've had dating sites create accounts in my name with a password I always use and it has my address on it. How can this be done??
Hash table was a confusing concept to learn when we were in university
...who previously jumped out of the plane in the middle of the night over the forest with the blackmailed money, badly functioning parachute and survived, contrary to common sense. Because the posters there wouldn't try to troll. Yes, take that with... whatever.
Then you get something like spectre and the fix is making things slower.
Recent iOS updates turned off the throttling of phones with old batteries. Apple initially said this throttling was necessary to prevent unexpected shutdowns of older phones. Now that the throttling is gone, have we seen a rash of unexpected shutdowns?

I haven't heard of this happening, which leads me to believe the excuse was bs in the first place.

EDIT: To be clear, I know that iPhones have always been known to unexpectedly shut down. Throttling performance was ostensibly meant to prevent these unexpected shutdowns. My question is whether or not the incidence of unexpected shutdowns increased once Apple lifted the throttle.
Plastic found in the poop of eight people from eight different countries
this is very sick

telling the American people they aren't good enough is sick

bloomberg is just being a bully and insulting Americans for no reason other than

> midterm politics
A Cartesian tree (treap) with zip/merge change routine is a well known datastructure in competitive programming. The only difference from the paper would be rank selection algorithm - uniform instead of geometric.

Unclear if authors were aware of it.
It's rate-limited and behind Cloudflare. But, the checks are like "can I connect to Redis", so it is pretty lightweight.
Maybe? I've always attributed the fall to a combination of the fappening, Moot's departure, and the 2016 elections. The huge influx of new users combined with a change in moderation absolutely destroyed the site. My memory isn't so good, but I don't think there was much political content outside of /pol/ and /b/ until 2015 or so. Might be dependent on what boards you browsed though.

I think you're right about Nazis coming in, but I think that it was much more contained when Moot was there. I guess maybe that provided the setup for the 2016 elections.
Asking as someone with a very shallow familiarity with Scandinavian languages: is there any connection to the Norwegian 'helvete', often translated to English as 'Hell'?

EDIT: Adding this since I found it after asking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AHell,_Norway

Answer seems to be "probably not"
To whom is this replying? The linked article takes pains to ensure that nobody attempts to interpret this as advocacy for completely open borders:

"This does not mean open borders but a smart and lawful methodology for determining who should be allowed entry."
I asked for proof, not your personal anecdote. I too have lived in many cultures. Singular they has been commonly accepted everywhere that speaks English.

Think about the phrase "Everyone loves their mother". Everyone is a singular noun. According to you, this usage would be debated everywhere, because the "correct" English would dictate "Everyone loves his mother".

I dare you to find an English speaking country anywhere in the world where the majority thinks "Everyone loves his mother" sounds more correct. You won't. Because singular they has been a thing for centuries and is entirely common at this point.

The part where you're tripping up is how singular they is used. It is common everywhere in the world to use it in situations of ambiguous identity. The reason you find it absurd is that now we are using it in situations of specific identity but ambiguous gender. That form of usage is indeed new and not majority usage everywhere, but that still does not mean it is incorrect. Actual communication with people is what defines correctness is the English language.
Who Chooses Not to Vaccinate Their Children?
Just one experience here, but my old 6s used to shut down quite a bit once it neared the lower end of the battery life.
The Great Seaweed Invasion
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> The density matrix describing C at the beginning and B at the end is the same

No, it isn't. C starts in a pure state. B is created and always remains in a mixed state.

> (otherwise how could all measurement outcomes be the same?)

Because you cannot distinguish a mixed state from a pure state when measuring only a single particle. You can distinguish them if you make measurements on multiple particles in the same state: pure states produce first-order interference. Mixed states don't. (This is just the old QM trope about "measurement destroys interference", which is not quite true. Entanglement "destroys" interference, except that it doesn't really, it just destroys first-order interference.)

> B is no longer entangled with the A/C system after Alice's measurement.

Yes, it is. The only way to "undo" an entanglement is to bring the originally entangled particles back together at the same location, i.e. it is essentially impossible. If you could cause an entangled particle to become unentangled (i.e. to transition from a mixed state to a pure state) by performing an operation on its partner then you could do FTL signaling by observing the presence or absence of first-order interference.

> how do you explain that the state of B is |up> at the end

It isn't. It's in a mixed state. It is no different than regular EPR with only two particles. If Alice measures A and gets the result "up" then Bob is guaranteed to get "down", but that does NOT mean that B is in the |down> state. It is still in a mixed state. |down> is a pure state.

It is important to remember that mixed states and pure states cannot be distinguished by making measurements on a single particle, so if there is only one particle this is a philosophical distinction, not a scientific one. But if the experiment can be repeated, then the fact that B is mixed can be experimentally demonstrated, with all the usual caveats about quantum weirdness. The point is that QT does not introduce any new weirdness that wasn't already there in EPR.
So, I think that's what is meant when they say:

with O(1) expected restructuring time and exponentially infrequent occurrences of expensive restructuring.

Occasionally there's O(n) expensive restructuring, but given the nature of how it's increasing space, when and why, and when it will need to happen again, it's twice (or whatever) the prior amount of time before it needs to happen again. I'm not up on my asymptotic notations[1] besides big-O, but perhaps this is more succinctly (if more confusingly, to a general audience) by one of the additional notations?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation#Related_asympto...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the "standard" [1] treap with split/merge (which is somewhat acknowledged in the footnote of page 8), simply with a different distribution of priorities? The result is certainly impressive, but it seems like a small modification to an otherwise known structure.

[1]: See here http://e-maxx.ru/algo/treap for an old reference of this structure. Google translate does a decent job with it, and the code is readable without translation.
Agreed, same here, the Hacker Manifesto was amazing to read as a kid diving into computers, hacking and Phreaking...
Directly from the article:

> I repeatedly have seen the media in their "quest to seek out the truth" write completely speculative stories about the existence of the brown recluse in California. Unfortunately, the truth is not nearly good enough to sell news and therefore, a speculative story is fabricated based upon faulty assumptions.

He's strongly and cynically implying that the media doesn't sincerely seek the truth and runs stories based on whether the story sells. Promoting distruse in the media like this is dangerous for our society, we've see what happens when Trump does it.
Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark
Not sure I understand. "Open border" folks don't vote, as I once noted lining up at a polling place near downtown Los Angeles.
I think you have to pay them through their bank accounts. If they are your employees, would you not have their bank account numbers
Show HN: simple Bitcoin gifting (YC Startup School '18)
If you're looking beyond uptime + certs, we do functional + visual browser testing at https://ghostinspector.com/. Lots of folks use it for monitoring their website or application (in additional to their CI process). We have a free tier that includes scheduling. [Disclosure: I'm the founder]
I'm ignorant. I thought "bag of words" was a representation (the idea that a sentence has no grammar, it's just represented by its words as columns, maybe weighted by tf-idf who knows), not a specific model.

Where can I read about this bag of words?
Yay for appeal to authority again, it's even better if you're appealing to yourself!

Elevator is in common use throughout the US and abroad -- "lift" is more common in former British Colonies (Hong Kong is one I specifically recall because I've spent time there, but in the Philippines and Thailand it's elevator), but the vast majority of the English speaking world would use elevator now.
This is up to the team to help other people understand that velocity/productivity is more than likely decrease as team dynamics change. Even if more people are put on a product, the velocity is expected to decrease as those people absorb new responsibilities. Same story for losing people on a product.
All of those machines had persistent memory in the form of cassette or floppy