skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds pretty accurate to what I’ve witnessed.

I’ve seen Agile done well, which I really liked. Mostly what I see is water scrum.

It’s important to pack every single thing you can into a sprint based on your estimate of points, otherwise you’re wasting precious resources. Of course that means you never get everything done so huge chunk of the sprint always rules over.

Everything is dictated from the top, there is no autonomy on the part of the team (or almost none).

As bad as all this is, a quickly falls apart whenever something doesn’t go exactly the plan. In other words, constantly. So you just get further behind and more things roll over into the next sprint.

They’re “agile”. They hold demos of the tiny bit that got done and congratulate themselves. Because they don’t do waterfall anymore. They GET IT.

But none of the benefits. Because that would require actual change.
Well to me that means that knowing the right people got you stuff, not money.
Could they have done better? Yes. If they wanted to.

Could they have "warned" both parties of the legal regs? Yes again. None the less, I suspect this was also in the T&Cs.

Whatever the case might be, Upwork is in the matchmaker business - not the relationship business. It's not an agency. It's an escrow of sorts in a fancy wrapper. The less legal exposure - including legal "advice" about what's been happening between the service-needer and the freelancer - is probably, truth be told, what they seek to maintain. It is, after all, not their job / role to do that.

Long to short, Upwork could have done better, but so could the other two parties using Upwork.

p.s. All both sides needed to do was open an account on another "escrow" site and then split the work between the two. The escrows wouldn't know. But of course, the IRS might.
While this is fantastic news on one hand, it is concerning that cheap launches will lead to so much debris in low earth orbit that future generations will find it difficult to orbit without significant risk of micrometeorite strikes.
You probably mean they thought they lived really well.
The Washington Post has been tracking everyone, including corporations, contributing to super PACs. All told, they funneled $1.1 billion in 2018: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/superp...

More than a billion dollars. Think about that.
> That doesn't make any sense in the case of Vitamin D. The amount of fish necessary to get a reasonably high amount of Vitamin D from a diet is so high, you may well get heavy metal poisoning. Fish is pretty much the only viable dietary source of Vitamin D.

I believe the portion of the sentence advising readers on vitamin D sources is this part: "vitamin-D fortified cereals, milk, and orange juice." It is confusing because the order is reversed from the first clause of the sentence.

I do think it's a bit odd that the article criticizes vitamin D supplements and instead advises ... vitamin D supplemented foodstuffs.
The number of ads is heinous too. And the study is from June 2017, over a year old.. Can one of the HN mods please replace the link with the actual study?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28274844/
What is

Wrong with

The formatting!!?
The rocket uses a fair amount of ITAR-restricted technology, which means that they needed a pretty robust US-based organization and engine manufacturing. The company also sold a bunch of suborbital rocket launches to the US government before they raised money to build an orbital rocket. And the money mostly came from US-based VCs. All of these details feed into the company HQ being in the US, but a majority of their employees appear to be in NZ.
The costs of an NFL stadium are usually split between the city (tax payers), the NFL, and the owner. For instance AT&T arena for the dallas Cowboys was supposed to cost $650 million and the city Arlington provided $325, NFL provided $150 loan, and Jerry Jones (the Cowboys) paid the rest. It is speculated that the total cost was $1.3 billion which was mostly footed by Jerry Jones.

The Los Angeles Stadium (Ram) is now estimated to cost $4.9 billion when finished in 2020 and also house LA Chargers. The stadium is supposedly completely privately funded but significant tax breaks are expected. I suppose more concrete details will emerge when its finished.

The Las Vegas stadium (Raiders) is supposed to cost $1.9 billion with $750 million in tax payer money and $1.1 billion from Raiders themselves. It is also supposed to finish in 2020 and officially be owned by the Las Vegas Stadium Authority and shared with UNLV.

So each stadium has its own deals.
Rocket Lab is being pretty good about this. Their rocket designs are super low waste compared with older ones. It's one of Peter Beck's pet issues.
That's the mistake with exceptions; if you assume every method can throw any kind of exception it actually reduces your cognitive load. Now you just have to worry about what you can handle in the 2 or 3 places in your code you can actually handle exceptions. Instead of infinite number of places an error can occur and the huge number of possible errors.

The idea that error states are perfectly knowable everywhere in the code is a myth. Even if that were possible at one moment, the instant anyone changes code anywhere it will immediately be wrong.
> When I began, I didn’t know what the hell I had. I thought it might be a short story; it was just this chapter, where they find these direwolf pups. Then I started exploring these families and the world started coming alive

Talking about the difficulties of estimation. At least he managed to publish a few books. Imagine that he waited to publish anything until the complete work is finished. Sounds familiar?
I would pay money for this as an Android Live Wallpaper, especially if you could choose your own image to go behind the rain!
Surely the CIA wouldn't sabotage a political program to de-escalate a conflict? Especially one, which allows for regular flights to a tropical island where they have nice cocktails with little umbrellas. This is a classy agency after all.

Though a little bathing holiday, might help wash off all those ashes from their legacy.
Yes, large networks of "right people" to set up elaborate barter or quid-pro-quo schemes.
No link to the study, no information about which cancer cells or which type of cancer this works on.
A better article can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34115112
Sure maybe. I guess my takeaway, is that a growing percentage of the workforce are locked into platforms for income - and how they are treated by those platforms can have a massive personal financial impact.

Back in my freelancing days, I made a conscious effort to own the whole conversation - not to use a platform - but to do my own marketing.

As an aside, I've found it interesting to watch youtube videos made by Uber, Ubereats, Deliveroo delivery people - by scooter chargers and how they all discuss how to make more money - or to complain about changes in policies having a financial impact on them.
If you are a Python developer, try
StaSh - Shell for Pythonista on iOS. https://github.com/ywangd/stash
I wonder how a hybrid approach like they do with freight trains would work. Generate electricity with energy-dense fuel, then use that to drive electric motors.
Blueprint is the wrong analogy. Recipe book is more appropriate.
Part of the spike should be documenting the results so that anyone else can use them if there are the person who picks up the next ticket.

If the person who does it just remembers it themselves and doesn’t do anything to help the other developers then they haven’t completed the spike.
About mopeds, that is only true for North America. Most of Asia is totally in love with two wheel transport. China is a complicated exception (authorities ban motorcycles to force people spending more on cars)

For the second point, the much more likelier outcome is that people will start paying to have their cars being towed to another city, and travel separately.
The author is Polish and not a native English speaker, if that helps you understand the grammar.
Mel Gibson appears in spot promoting Polish independence centenary
> the prisoners themselves called sharaga (or sharashka in its diminutive form), a word derived from a Soviet-era slang expression meaning a sinister organization based on bluff or deceit.

while it somewhat nuanced, wikipedia provides better sense of that word (specifically the "sinister" above doesn't sound right)

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

Etymologically, the word sharashka is derived from a Russian slang expression sharashkina kontora ("Sharashka's office", which in its turn comes from the criminal argot term sharaga (шарага) for a band of thieves, hoodlums, etc.[1]), an ironic, derogatory term to denote a poorly organized, impromptu, or bluffing organization.
> You should only be using server-side APIs for coookie management.

No. I will use any string I want of any size I want. Cookies are a relic of an archaic age for the web.

Cookies only continue to be used because many server based web applications haven't figured out a modern way for managing sessions.
Blockchain ≠ decentralization ≠ peer-to-peer ≠ cryptocurrency

This isn’t an article about decentralized social media, it’s a list of apps where publishers are paid in crypto currency.
> I use the Plume Flow

Uhm.. how?

"Shipping November 2018" and the order button is labeled "Pre-Order".

I'm a bit amazed - and disappointed - by how little information there is on that product page. The "tech specs" are size and weight and that's it, for this kind of product? Pretty much everything is missing that I would expect to know for this kind of product specifically. I even played the clip, still not a single piece of actually relevant information. The only sentence that says anything regarding the intended use is

> Flow measures real-time concentrations of NO2, VOC, PM2.5 and PM10: everything you need to understand your exposure and build healthy routines.

Given that they seem to target the "average person" they should probably explain somewhere what those abbreviations mean (I do, but what "average person" knows what VOC is?).

No way I would order given the lack of information, given that the price is $139 (or Euros).

After a quick search for similar products I found this comparison of several products (2016): http://energysmartohio.com/indoor-air-quality/which-indoor-a...
Yeah, that's going to close you way more than 7$

I'd be happy if the raspberry pi had full gigabit ethernet.
Typo *unsurvivable
Raspberry Pi In The Sky
The problem is “sprints” need to alternate with cooldowns. When are the cooldowns?

Nobody sprints non-stop, that’s a marathon.

If they were called something like “timeboxes” you get all your bullets without the demoralizaing notion of inability to maintain an unsustainable pace.
> So... Spotify's microcents per stream are a joke.

If you treat it as analogous, sure, but it's not.

Airplay is finite in a way that streams are not. There is also a greater cost to get in to that airspace. So it's not surprising those costs cascade down.

People frame streaming like this all the time. Streams versus CD sales versus radio play. They're incomparable ecosystems, though. Costs, mechanisms, value ... none of it is 1:1 with the old world.
It depends on whether you look like you “don’t belong in the area”.
A billion dollars is nothing in an economy of 325 million people. That’s half of what Colgate-Palmolive spends each year advertising toothpaste and dish soap. It’s about three days of Google ad revenue.

It’s $5 per person of voting age, which is about Facebook’s ad revenue per user in a month. Think about that: has Facebook ever convinced you of anything? Because that’s 12x the advertising intensity of PAC funding.

The causal inference the article draws is insane. California voters rejected more rent control by a 60-40 margin. Facebook can’t convince more than 0.9% of users to even click on each ad, but somehow a fraction of the level of advertising changed peoples’ minds about rent control?
If you ask yourself where you've heard that name; Marc Randazza is a friend of Popehat's and writes sometines in his blog.
And now, social media is all about allowing peasants to live like celebrities. Fascinating.
Attention about high CPU usage on smartphones
You offered to pay very little - Increase your budget to get replies.
The problem Bitcoin solves
A formula describing its path across the latitude/longitude graph.
No talk about averages and medians... that's weird... Oh, I see, it's just hasty generalization.
Ohhhhh it's on Medium, should have guessed
California Based P2P Trader Convicted of Illegal Money Transmission
There's no pre-installed compilers on it (at least as of 2013) and Homebrew needed me to install XCode first before it could do anything.

Admittedly I stopped looking into it and just shelfed the laptop until requesting a saner one.
One thing: More, smaller estimates, have the property of being wrong by a lesser amount, and they are likely to cancel each other out. Estimates in hours instead of weeks are far less likely to block your work in progress for as long. Teams also get more feedback and opportunities to practice estimating, and more granular work is rewarding more often.
Nice project!

Being able to see the tree of comments is one of the reasons I like HN and Reddit more than other sites.

It's weird at first, but then it makes a lot more sense than classic linear forum threads, Twitter, or Facebook.
Online ASCII tools is a collection of useful browser-based utilities
1099 paid freelancers pay self-employment taxes, including the equivalent of all the social taxes. Why does government care? (there are no sick leave or vacation minimums in the USA)
Article is written in 2018 about research publicized more than three years ago (https://www.google.com/search?q=Polybia+paulista+mp1&tbm=nws). On top of that, this article is entirely unsourced.

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Here's a more recent bit of research around why MP1 might not kill blood cells: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5437523_Selectivity...

A BBC write-up about the oncolytic findings in the Cell publication: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-34115112

And the original Cell publication documenting the observed relationship between the MP1 peptide and the cell membrane itself: https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(15)00768-7

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dang, if I can suggest swapping out articles, I'd vouch for either the BBC write-up or the Cell publication above, both published in 2015
To be ahead of the curve and mislead?
> > 24/7 doorman means someone to sign for packages.

> Sounds like the most insignificant of concerns.

If you're away from home any significant portion of the time, this can be really useful. An Amazon Prime membership, for instance, becomes less useful if 1) you don't know that you're going to be home at a certain time every single day and 2) your packages are likely to disappear if you don't collect them in a timely manner.
With www
Optional wize: easy dns handling and wildcard ssl will serve any other future sub domain dns.
Seo wise: google prefers it
And if I’m not mistaken there and rfc for it. I can look later
US also spies but in other ways. For example intel ME.
For many people, the use case scenario here is to use it while travelling. Oftentimes, there's no Internet when travelling around (or slow internet).
It's a Youtube series, what do you expect??

Go find your own article if it bothers you.
Average gross income for full-time musicians from a survey in 2011 was more than $50k.

Average income in 2018 was just over $20k - which is over minimum wage, but not exactly comfortable.

These are averages, not medians, so they're skewed by a relatively small number of professionals who do very well.
I've noticed my mood improves at higher Vitamin D dosages as well. I've currently been taking Solaray brand Vitamin D3+K2, which is 5000IU D-3, 50mcg K-2, 110mg Calcium, 84mg Phosphorus.

Since this contains calcium, is it harmful to take everyday? Should I try to find a different supplement?
I'd like to join the chorus of complaints about this article.

I haven't read it, but I have a good excuse: My provider's virus filter is warning me not to open it.

It's almost amazing how many problems this page seems to have.
I’ve been playing with this app this week and it’s pretty amazing, Sublime Text style including multiple cursors:

https://gocoedit.app
Proposition 10 in California lost because it was a horrible idea. Economists agree, at almost the scale of way they agree about climate change, from the left to the right, that rent control is the most effective way to destroy a city and is counterproductive to its goals. It is a simplistic solution designed by people that have flunked economics who think that just declaring that "rent shall be frozen" that that will make housing cheaper.

It was not because billionaires supported it. It failed because it was a terrible idea.

* https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-re...
While there is a possible solution for this (as the author describes in the previous comment), this is something you should not really consider a useful pattern in your application. Prefer a struct of arrays instead. This makes the code way cleaner results in better cache utilization.
> The fact of realizing a route may change just blows my gaskets.

Then I'm guessing your subway isn't the NYC subway...
If you want to run a marathon for the challenge - more power to you. But running and training for a marathon is far from healthy.

After a certain point there are diminishing returns on running and at a certain point over that there are actually statistically negative consequences.

https://www.active.com/running/articles/the-risks-and-benefi...
Does “Bad Blood” Flood the Valley?
>Genetic variation inside races is much larger than between them

Do you have a source for this? It sounds suspiciously like feel good propaganda.
We use functions on the struct. I know it's not ideal but just works for us.
I'm surprised they didn't mention allergies. Dust mites and mold can cause many of these symptoms in people (this is what I deal with in my own apartment).
The only reason they spend that on advertising is because of their ROI. The people funding the super pacs aren't just giving their money away without some kind of return.

The difference between the two is one I can choose to avoid, the other is affecting who chooses my rights and laws with less focus on the people affected by those decisions and more on the affect to those funding their campaigns.
Nested, the online estate agent that makes sellers ‘chain-free’, raises £120M
It's more of a New Zealand company with enough presence in the US to be legal for ITAR purposes.
In that case, reviewers and tech sites should either prioritize peak power or at least mention peak power numbers every single time TDP is mentioned, too, because peak power is at least as important as TDP. I know from past experience with laptops that tend to get hot, that if the laptop uses significantly more power than what you'd expect from the TDP, you will have a bad experience as a customer with that laptop. So at this point, TDP is definitely quite misleading to customers. Either scrap it completely or at least mention a more relevant metric to consumers.
There may be generic markers and genetic predisposition, but it's not because a person comes from a "long race of X" or "long family of Y". Even if that's true in fact it's wrong in policy. It's dangerous to consider some better than others.

Changes to family traits may be slow, but can be cultivated! We should encourage and help all families and communities to improve their environment to bring about positive changes in their lives and children's lives.

From TFA:

"These are problems of emphasis rather than accuracy. But in a field as ethically fraught as genetics, even that can be troubling. For instance, as Mr Plomin notes, the size of the genetic component of a particular trait—its “heritability”—varies between different populations. The heritability of educational attainment in Norway has increased since the second world war as the country widened access to health care and schools, flattening out environmental effects. That trend seems, worryingly, to have reversed in America in the 21st century. The irony is that the heritability of many traits rises if states do more to provide for all their citizens equally."
Doesn't seem hard to believe that this doesn't happen very frequently and that whatever customer support person happened to respond to the freelancer's ticket went into the internal knowledgebase and just lazily typed up something regarding "compliance."
>money couldn’t buy you things you wanted, government really struggled to motivate people.

What money could not buy, your position itself provided. There were queues and there were priorities built in.andit wasn't just party leaders. There was different housing for scientists in fields important for state, for security employees and sometime for army officers and there were nice percs for trusted people who were able to visit conferences abroad and buy nice things there. There were people sailing abroad and they brought contraband with them, which they sold on black market.

You could have used your position to ask for retirement and dacha in a nice place on the south if you were in kgb, instead of Frozen Ass Oblast'.

All of that plus a credible threat of violence for perceived dissent worked for a while.

It's somewhere in between working for large corporation and living in a really large prison. You obviously could bend some rules and things you are not supposed to have.
I suppose the oldest part can get a card like SL has and occasionally load it with cash and then just beep it when entering the bus/train? It is no more difficult a concept than having a library card. They'll certainly get help with the process at the ticket counter.

Is it a real, factual problem that old people cannot somehow pay for their mass transit in the year 2018?
Washington Post is owned by a billionaire
This is one of the problems of allowing the accumulation of power. As an individual, I have little money to spend and the gains are distributed to all citizens. Billionaires have a lot of money to spend and they are rewarded quite directly from the policies that they affect.

The best option would have been to not get here in the first place. To have stopped it when it was easier. But now that power has accumulated so much there is more reason to work for wealth re-distribution.

I also interested to know how much relationship there is between the accumulation of wealth in a few and war. I see that the rise of the far right and the economic inequality are happening at the same time. But I do not know what is the relationship between them. Anyone has data on this?
Yes, my feeling it was something along these lines. From what I read on Twitter the hiring company would only use him through UpWork, which is fine for one offs and so on, but it sounds like they used him a lot, to the point where there was a question mark over the legal situation - that's why there are umbrella companies.

I would possibly blame the hiring company more than UpWork, but there's no doubt UpWork's communication could have been better. Most of my freelancing has been done through umbrella companies in the past, but increasingly it seems a better option to use Ltd. company in the UK due to employer those massive NI contribs.
The Next Leap: How AI will change the 3D industry [video]
economists are not scientists

rent control makes rent cheaper in montreal
I mean, Brave New World and 1984 predicted the abuse of technology to socially engineer societies into obedience. These novels were written in the 30s and 40s but still seem prescient today. China has become the living embodiment of those books, with its social credit system. It's not surprising per se, China's communist roots serve as an excellent breeding ground for techno-authoritarianism. My only fear is that the Western world has forgotten it's classical liberal roots...