skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly why agile failed, it became a religion and stopped being a tool you could modify as needed.

Like SCRUM, we use kanban boards to handle projects, but a lot of our projects are so small that one guy can build the project in a week or two. Like a registration form for scheduling phone calls, you need a front end form, a backend api and integration to outlook. The first time we build one it took longer, but now we can have one up and running in a week or two.

We place that on our kanban board and we talk about it SCRUM style, but it’s not it’s own project and it’s not broken in to every step of the SCRUM methodology either, because if we did that it would probably add a week of agile project management.

But since we’re not doing that it means that we’re not agile or using SCRUM, because we’ve bent it to our needs and broken it’s golsen dogmas.

Now I give quite a few management talks on this, and as soon as you admit that you’ve broken agile to make it fit, a line of others forms to confess. Because I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone outside of academia or extremely large tech projects that actually followed any of the agile methodologies to the letter.

So agile is just as silly as waterfall, maybe even more so because it turned out that the analysis part of waterfall is often still extremely useful if you’re mixing your tech with HR stuff like benefit realisation, and let’s face it, who in digitisation isn’t? I mean, we’re digitizing to increase efficiency after all, and nothing screams benefit realisation more than that.
I'll argue your grasp of grammatical English is poor based the errors in your comment, but "Shakespeare did it" doesn't change the rules. Shakespeare did a lot of things that aren't accepted in English grammar today.

My anecdote is simply based on accepted and correct grammar. You won't find it any different in any academic setting or any other setting where grammar is important.
I wish rms had the humility to accept that his joke is not funny and is making more people unhappy than it's making people laugh.
Try Google.

I focus on the US (and UK and Japan), it's a two horse race. You can segment it all sorts of ways. iOS is somewhere between 40-60% in a given segment, and usually around 43-48% overall. Overall share has been declining as the market growth slows and prepaid plans make total device cost more relevant.

Nothing I said means anything ex US, as the solutions, costs and requirements vary.
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It's obviously a very complex topic, and it's hard to know if this person's social needs were actually being met. I was just trying to encourage people not to forget social aspects when examining their susceptibility to depression.

> If you are having thoughts of suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources.
+1 "It's gonna Rain" is completely terrifying. Also "Come out to show them" in a similar way. I remember very vividly the first time I heard both of them and it's giving me goosebumps just thinking about it.

Steve Reich came and did a workshop with us when I was doing my degree (based on "Electric Counterpoint") and it was fantastic.

You've got me listening to "Different Trains" now....
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The gynecologists are bound by doctor patient confidentiality. The smart thermometer company is not.
I suppose the easiest stuff to share is what's highlighted on the company's website. (Obvious disclaimer: my opinions on this site are my own, not my employer's. I don't speak for my employer. I do think my employer is involved in a lot of really interesting projects.)

Water projects are the closest to what I work on (though as a software developer my role is often indirect a bit from these projects), so ones I'm slightly more familiar with how much work and importance they have, simply from hearing coworkers talk about them (including the aforementioned manager's internal "Good News Friday" emails). Here are a few US Water project highlights from the company website:

https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/s...

https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/p...

https://www.stantec.com/en/projects/united-states-projects/c...

There are interesting sidebar links to more detailed articles there, and more projects if you explore further. The company is HQed in Edmonton, Alberta so you will find for obvious reasons there are also a lot of Canadian projects highlighted.
Amazon patents lots of impractical things. Don't read too much into them.
Starvation and disease is chosen in the sense that the developed world chooses to ignore it.

I’d consider suicide and addiction more of a context than a “choice”.
To each his own, I guess, but is the exchange of a little bit convenience to a potential privacy nuclear device really worth it?

Does a smartphone make me a hypocrite?

To me, it does. Not to pick on you personally, but 99% of the people freaking out about the Echo own smartphones and carry them around all the time. For the convenience. It makes no sense, unless you realize that the person has just drawn their arbitrary convenience-privacy tradeoff line differently than the Echo owners have.
This doesn't seem that much different than Microsoft or any given corporate linux vendor continuing to provide security updates, but not new features, to older but still supported versions of their OS. Why should mobile operating systems not be held to the same expectation?
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The other day I was walking across the quad with my linguistics professor, and we encountered a group of people savagely beating a prescriptivist in broad daylight.

"Oh, my goodness!" I exclaimed, "We have to help!!!"

My professor paused to look at the scene for a moment, then said, "Nah, six should be enough."
You're in the minority here. The author is saying 25k unpaid/untracked downloads, which certainly the vast majority are pirated.
Especially since the normal use of an APK intermediary is that one does not have access to a known good source such as Google Play
> I think it also might be practical to achieve, it's just "the singular of they" so plural doesn't change and nobody ever needs to think about it again. It has the advantage of laziness, everyone can just start using it everywhere and never have to think about it again.

It's already been achieved, and is totally ignored by activist types - "they" has been singular for "they" for hundreds of years.
This is both well written and well formatted. Is it a blog? If so, what tech are you using to render it? Are there more pieces like this?
"organizing their own mind and behavior around somebody else's issues." Its very personal.

Compound this with, the words seem silly and contrived. How about you address me as "Mr. Oingy Boingy" from now on. To get a flavor of the emotional content of language. Just as an example; choose your own.

Let me be more helpful and less obtuse. Language is an emotional issue, so yes folks become pedantic and argumentative. That route (arguing) is unlikely to get a favorable response.

What will work then? Empathizing, suggesting ways to help folks who are sensitive and understand their point of view. Things like that.

I understand the frustration that comes with failure to convince, particularly when its a point that seem obvious and simple. I apologize for vectoring off with unhelpful comments about trolling. I'll try to understand the issue better in future.

See? That was easy and didn't cost me anything. I'll take my own advice more in future.
As well as tasty pies and jams.
I think you are being down voted for not being relevant to the article.

Feels more like you are starting a fire next to another one rather than talking about the currently one ablaze. (To expand on your analogy)
No issues here with Firefox (with uBlock Origin) on macOS 10.14
Some boards like /pol/ have a user hash, unique per user-session, stable across posts.
Being in a walled garden is not a concern of most users, and it often works to their benefit. If dear old grandma can barely tell the difference between the internet browser and Facebook, I don't think I care if she doesn't have root access to her phone.

To roughly quote another HN user who I don't recall, "Not everybody wants to sysadmin their phone".
This is farm from the solution you present it to be.
Opt out of google maps history and try the maps search for few days. Then turn it on again and compare the results.

I've even had 'Saved Places' not render without search history being enabled.

My next phone will sadly be an IPhone. Not because I love apple(I don't), but just because I'm quitting google.
Indeed! Reading those issues, for me, is a stream of shock and awe but always learning because the contributors generally give sufficient instructions to perform/confirm their achievements yourself.

Example ... about halfway through Issue 0x02 it is casually mentioned, "You will find by running ‘qemu-system-i386 -fda pocorgtfo02.pdf’ that the PDF file you are reading is also a bootable disk image." o_O !
>If you're good with money, you should be good at chemistry.

I don't think it's quite that simple, but I can see where you're coming from.
I actually really like Stallman's comment on the subject:

"
Every language has grammar rules. They are in the minds of speakers of the language — including, for English, me. The fact that they weren't decided by an official edict doesn't mean these rules are a trivial matter; demanding people change their grammar rules is an affront. You might succeed in convincing me to change the English grammar rules in my mind, but don't you dare demand it. "

To more clearly answer your question -- it becomes correct when the corpus of the English speaking world decides it does. That hasn't happened since 1300, why would it happen today?
Yeah globally it's probably closer to 20%...
Errr, citation?
>>One year and one week after moving into the apartment, I was bitten. One of the poor creatures found its way under my covers and into my shirt while I was sleeping

OK, I think I'm going to step outside to get some air...
Agree. It's the same with anything, when push comes to shove and it means getting by or laying off writers etc the NY Times is going to fall back on basically the same behavior these cough drop or chicken noodle soup or whatever co's are using this health data: targeted advertising, whether that's displaying ads on its site or advertising elsewhere to try and get subscribers.
> Kinsa sells its data to other companies under the name Kinsa Insights. While Mr. Singh declined to share the names of other customers, citing confidentiality agreements, ...

The irony.
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The role of English (and linguistic imperialism) is overlooked not just in the tech world, but more or less everywhere (academia, job market, etc).

It's another stratification fault line. Much more research would be needed to understand the impact of it.

Learning a language is super expensive; but the people involved mostly don't see the cost of doing it (because sometimes it's a pleasure, but it's a pleasure that not everybody can afford).
You can send it to a journal as a private individual, but probably a better way would to post a manuscript on arxiv.org, and once it generates certain buzz (if the problem is interesting and well solved) then either submit it to a journal yourself or partner with other mathematician to polish it, etc. and then submit.
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It would be neat if it was a catch and kill. They pay for the patent - simply to chase after any immoral competitors using it in the distant future.
Actually, when you do things a community member disagrees with, you ban them and say they aren’t really a part of the community. The front page ranking is determined entirely by you. The comment ranking isn't far behind.

Credit where credit is due.
Central Minnesota is basicaly dangerous wildlife free if you except disease-carrying ticks (and now maybe the mosquitos?) and don't consider non-predators dangerous. I imagine vast swaths of Iowa and eastern Nebraska are similar. Maybe the Dakotas too although I suspect there are a ton of coyotes there. Minnesota has two venomous snakes, black beers, grey wolves, coyotes, and the northern black widow, but none of these were part of my experience growing up. The snakes are confined to the south-eastern tip of the state. Most of the other predators are found in the north. Only one person I knew had ever even claimed to see a black widow, and it was a child and it was at her parents cabin in who-knows-where. Even when we went camping, Dad warned us about 'kitties' (read: skunks), not dangerous predators.
In other words, Windows Embedded, Windows for Desktops, Windows Server, and also new Windows for Cloud line descended from Desktop? With majority being the desktop, that doesn't solve much...
Isn't that make my statement more true?
I think the downvotes are because people might consider this off topic.

Though, realistically the damage has already been done. It no longer matters if your SSN is stolen. A very sizable percentage of adults above a certain age already have this data purchasable for $10 a pop.

A credit freeze is your best option against identity theft.

I think we need to rethink SSNs being used in the way they are today. They were never designed to be your national identity number. We can do better.
The current game being played is a race to acquire as many resources as nessesssry to live forever and escape planet earth.

This is will be a small subset of the species.

The planet is fruiting.
What about the Hounds of the Baskervilles?
For those not familiar with the series in question, there's a reason why, if you're going to choose a TV series to discuss permutations, you'd choose Haruhi.

"The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" is a 14-episode anime adaptation which aired in 2006. Unusually, it broadcast its episodes not in chronological order, but in a mixed order, but for good theatrical reason; the series comprises a main plot arc, and various self-contained episodes which chronologically occur after it. Rather than have the climax of the series come halfway through, the self-contained episodes are distributed in between the episodes of the main plot arc. It sounds mad, but it actually worked very well.

This idiosyncrasy was explicitly referenced by the episodes themselves: the "next episode" preview at the end of every episode has one of the characters say "The next episode is episode X", then another character says "Wrong! The next episode is episode Y", where X and Y are the numbers according to broadcast and chronological order.

Amusingly the story gets more complicated from here. After the series was unexpectedly popular in the anglosphere, it got licensed for an official release. After the contract was signed and it was too late to change it, the company which licensed it noticed the contract had a stock clause in it requiring the episodes to be released on DVD in chronological order. They were unable to get this changed, whereas the strong fan preference was for the broadcast order. As a partial workaround, I recall they released a special edition with the same episodes on two sets of discs: one in broadcast order and one in chronological order.

But the DVD "chronological order" isn't quite chronological either; one of the episodes is a show-within-a-show, a film made by the characters of the series. This happens chronologically late in the show, but it is the first episode in both the broadcast and DVD order (which makes for an extremely confusing introduction to the series).

So there are at least three different plausible ways to watch the series: broadcast order, chronological order, and DVD order (which is almost like chronological order but not quite). This absurd legacy makes the series rather the obvious choice for discussing permutations of episodes. (My own preference is for yet another permutation: broadcast order, but with the aforementioned first episode moved to before the 12th episode, which relates to it.)
Thanks! For those interested, the link is https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/superpermutators/j...
The modern Tetris games include these versus modes, but they don't really translate well to a truly competitive playing experience IMO. It basically boils down to pure mechanical skill (who can send damage to the opponent faster) without much nuance beyond that -- there are no mechanisms to out-plan your opponent to a victory. Luck plays a huge factor as well -- if you send a bunch of damage to your opponent, you might give them a free Tetris just because of how the garbage randomly forms.

I think the NES Tetris score attack ruleset is better suited for pure competition. Both players receive the same pieces with the same RNG seed and it comes down to who can balance the management of their stack and maximizing the score the best.
I fail to see a solution to this that won't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Increasing CGT will kill off small business scene effectively, as it's very often one-two small owners with very modest compensation via the dividend.
I wouldn't say first year associates at big firms work for peanuts. In New York, at elite firms, starting salaries for 1st year associates is closing in on 200k. It's competitive, of course, they do work long hours under stressful conditions for that pay, and NY is an expensive city.

But the question remains - how are tech workers well served by the secrecy around salary? Why should we protect a company from the consequences of informing its workers that one developer makes half of what another makes? Especially if this company is lobbying government to do something about the critical shortage of software developers (and that something, surprise surprise, involves handing massive amount of government sponsored power - the right to decide who is allowed to live and work in the us - over to that company's HR department).

First things first, let's get transparency.
This seems like a fairly incremental tweak to normal professional protocols; I think it's one of the better guidelines I've seen.

I still disagree with framing this as "kindness" though, simply because courtesy is a habit you practice for those times when you're not feeling kind. On good days, I may litter my speech with "thank yous" and such that might be unnecessary given my demeanor, but on bad days it pays off as the behavior is automatic.

Much of the document is about deescalation which really is an art if you've ever tried to break up a fight. That they bring up the Go analogy is good, because if you're working on project you're not just responding to respond, but because you're trying to represent your interests; lobbying in a word.
That won’t take you through DDG’s anonymizing proxy though.
They donate to Democratic candidates at roughly the same rate. Does that counterbalance the harm done to trans people?
On my ThinkPads which have touchpads, I just physically open up the machine and unplug it - I only ever accidentally use the touchpad, so prefer to forestall that physically.

I've never used the Apple Magic Trackpad (1 or 2), but the issue would be – even if I managed to be able to use it – it would be back being non-ideal for actual use on top of my lap.
> Failing to adhere to Chinese law would mean exiting the Chinese market

So? Failing to adhere to ad-tech needs would mean exiting the ad-tech market. Did I miss the other company CEOs' blistering attacks on the "Chinese anti-privacy cooperation complex"? Can we at least admit, since violation of privacy by chosen market is a choice, that Tim Cook is a hypocrite?
Again, I like what Stallman says about it...

I have multiple English professors in my family, these debates are not new anywhere. Grammar is the technical side of the language, one would think here we'd have more consensus on respect for those technical rules.
Well, Apple doesn’t have the patent mentioned for a software control to spy on you.
> Starvation and disease is not chosen. Suicides and opiates are.

This confuses proximate and root causes. Someone may "choose" to pull the trigger and end their life, or choose to swallow one more blissful pill to avoid confronting their miserable existence, but they probably would not have knowingly chosen the circumstances that now leave them with that horrible choice.
They might mean best-case vs average-case vs worst-case. A worst-case hash table insertion might be O(n) (rehashing the table) and in the malicious case it might even be O(n^2) (all table entries collide in a single linked list).
This is from nine years ago, when the iOS App Store (then just the iPhone App Store, as the iPad didn't even exist yet!) was less than 2 years old.

Calling that "a bit too soon to forget" seems...problematic on several levels.
Yeah I would think digital ocean should be higher. Heroku isn't even mentioned.
Is there a video of the talk I can watch?
Neural networks often perform worse than bag of words for text classification. They compared to a bag of words baseline, but they didn't tune the regularization parameter, which is important.

They should probably have also tried tf-idf and n-grams.
The platform itself is super insecure (this is my opinion and I understand it may be untrue) but if you're on the newest version of iOS Apple has had a reliable track record of protecting users' data. I would put Messenger on my iPhone if I had one.
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The allegory doesn't work for Chess since you almost always need to meet advances with responses. Go is different and more strategic in that respect, because you don't need to win every skirmish.
This might hit a sweet spot due to the minimalism. The name is true, too. So it's really fast to open it and do a couple of things and then close it again. That said, I haven't actually used it "for real", we'll see how it fares.
> What's so wrong with engineering a novel solution to a difficult problem?

If there are outstanding effective approaches in fields outside of one's area of expertise, everything.

At least one should seek the guidance of people who study these problems for a living. I don't see any evidence that RMS did that-- his only footnote refers to his own article wrt pronouns.

The hacker ethic is great. But if it is seen not as a supplement to prior art but as an alternative to it-- as you seem to imply-- that's a real problem.
No. That would quite literally be the “Always” setting... For example, for Messenger to share live location, it needs location sharing to be always, and not just “While using”. With while using though, you are still able to share a pin point of you current location.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16772788
I'm waiting for https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
> Apple was fined an additional €5m for failing to give customers clear information about “essential” characteristics of lithium batteries, including their average life expectancy, how to maintain them or eventually replace them in the firm’s iPhones.

Huh, so this[0] doesn't count? It provides an expected lifespan (80% performance after 500 cycles) and info on how to maintain them

[0] https://www.apple.com/batteries/
"Jim, it appears you have been yelling at your child. We have contacted child services, submitted for a warrant to enter your home automatically to allow lawful entry into your home to remove your child for further investigation."
To play devil's advocate, I can just as easily install lineageOS and then install Google's apps.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-blocks-gapps-uncertifi...

As Google seems to explicitly allow that, does it actually matter if I download opengapps and flash it myself versus getting it from APK mirror or Aptiode?