skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminded me to look up the "Metrics for Flow-based Product Development" that Donald Reinertsen lists in Principles of Product Development Flow (Figure 8-6).

The difficulty would be in defining and quantifying these concept -- things like Cost of Queues, Transaction Cost per Batch, or Trends in Cadence.

My team, inspired in part by Reinertsen's book, has already optimized batch size (i.e. user story size) with noticeable positive effects. I guess the KPI could be maintaining certain parameters rather than assuming they need to be improved.

Thanks. This does remind me that this is an area I wanted to explore.
Of course you are and that's fair. Would it also not be fair to have these privacy settings available with any of the deceptive tactics mentioned in the report?
Of all my random childhood / young-adulthood interests, I never expected a Hacker News tangent discussing this one.

The role of "jobbers" or "enhancement talent" (i.e. performers on the show whose role was to make the real stars look good) faded in the mid-1980's.

The industry consolidated, from a collection of regional operators focused on live events, to two main companies with national footprints and a focus on television (i.e. WWF and WCW). Competition heated up between the two, and the "squash matches" that had filled out live event cards were not compelling to the newer television audience.

With the dawn of The Attitude Era (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Era), squash matches became virtually extinct. They had already become more rare in the preceding years. Much of the Attitude Era can be seen as a postmodern deconstruction of the old-school tropes that came before. In this environment, a group of former-"jobbers" even formed an on-screen faction dealing wit the concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J.O.B._Squad), which elevated them to moderate stardom by breaking the fourth wall for an increasingly-informed audience.

Today, some performers will still never have the same potential for stardom as other top performers. But no one is kept on the roster to always lose. It's too boring, and doesn't really work to enhance the winners.

You are correct, of course. The industry changed only because the "mark" fans "smartened up" and demanded it!
Validating the wx is extremely hard. For instance, if you make a forecast, what do you use as the 'truth'? A weather station? Trust me, I've worked with plenty of station data, and it is trash. So now you are comparing a weather forecast against some suspect trash validation set. Nobody knows!

The fact is, predictions will keep getting gradually better, more high res. But the fact our atmosphere & earth system is insanely complex. The system is chaotic so tiny small changes in each model run produce different results... We have code to represent some basic physics but still dont understand many of the important things. We still dont know exactly the rain process & snow formation process. We are trying to pinpoint the exact moment when dust & water vapor magically form into a cloud droplet so we can better describe the rain process. THEN we have to translate all of this insane math and physics into code.
Both the Japanese and UK official positions are that in the event of Brexit severing these new ties via the EU, they want to implement a bilateral deal as quickly as possible that covers the same benefits as the EPA with possibilities for going further. Obviously various parties involved would prefer a more orderly transition, though.

One somewhat ironic possible outcome if there is a hard Brexit is that the UK could subsequently form a relationship with the CPTPP group that is broadly similar in nature to the new Japan-EU agreement.
Amazon.de is a different company than amazon.com (by law at least)
Email away! It's in my profile.
> Its not easy. Does some one have a better way to deal with this.

The argument made by the article is that each of us ought to be able to choose our own way to deal with this. But, instead, we are denied that opportunity because publishers/distributors/editors/agents/directors/producers/newspapers/etc are "severing all ties" and going further by expunging the existence of the guilty party as far as possible.

I agree with the article. I don't think much of Roman Polanki as a human being, but I've watched most of his movies and I think many of them are spectacularly good. And, no, I don't think his movies are permeated by some kind of inappropriate lust for teenage girls. Bad people can make good art. Bad people have made good art.

If it came to light that Shakespeare had been an abusive husband, would you think less of his plays and poems? Would you support publishers if they chose to stop printing Shakespeare? What if they stopped distribution of what had been printed? What if amazon stopped selling Shakespeare?

I support your right to boycott, but I think restricting my ability to not boycott is going too far.
Canada recently made a trade deal with the EU as well.

Our country (Canada) hasn't been pushing harder enough for this IMO, considering how greatly we benefitted from NAFTA it should have been our top policy objective for the last couple decades.

Modern countries would rather get lost in decades long mega-deals with 1000 conditions for every political crony connection / special-interest group ever than get an actual real "free trade" deal done.

There are still so many things that are ridiculously expensive in Canada for no rational (long term) benefit to either party assuming it was a real market. When you could drive an hour south to the US and get countless things for 25% cheaper (clothes, shoes, cars, etc) not to mention the lack of access to media (streaming sites) and sports blackout contracts.
A plea for a gene therapy for ALS
This is a plea for a gene therapy for the TDP-43 pathology in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS. There are still no efficacious drugs for ALS.

The ideas sketched out in this plea are based on methods and technologies that have been published since some years now. One striking application of those ideas is the new drug for SMA: Zolgenma. SMA is a related disease to ALS, and the most common genetic cause of infant death.

https://padiracinnovation.org/Blog/2019/02/a-plea-for-a-gene-therapy-for-als

Please, if you know someone in the pharmaceutical industry who could be interested, could you discuss with her/him about the ideas in this document?

Many thanks

Jean-Pierre
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>and wouldn't be the worst thing to have printed off and saved in a fallout shelter.

>6922 Files, 14.8 GB

If things get real bad you could always burn it to keep warm.

In print form it's probably a better use of space than a bunch of stuffed animals but I think you're probably better off getting a bunch of cheap android phones and sticking it on the SD card and using most of that space for something else.
Clojure: Deep Learning from Scratch to GPU
FOSDEM: more boring shit
> The team realized that the process could be reversed: given a computer model of a 3D object, the researchers calculated what it would look like from many different angles, and then fed the resulting 2D images into a ordinary slide projector.

I'm pretty sure the researchers were using a normal computer projector and not a slide projector. But in my imagination, they printed a bunch of slides, fed them into a carousel projector, and pointed them at an old Smuckers jelly jar full of resin.
That’s a very charitable way to explain this. It’s much more likely that they want to coerce people to turn on tracking.
Can Uber Convince You to Take the Bus?
Comparison Between Ionic 4 vs. Ionic 3
What was the point of you pointing out Eric's claim to a particular political ideology after a statement of his intelligence? Are you somehow implying one is more virtuous / intelligent than another? If we changed that to conservatism does that your meaning or what you were trying to convey?
I just googled for the thread I remember reading, and it is namebright that is apparently linked to them:
https://www.scottphillips.com/post/2010/buying_a_domain_from...

This is the thread where someone mentions they /had/ their domain with namecheap, which is why I confused them:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/held-hostage-by-huge-domain...

Personally I've never used either - I'm in the UK so it is different companies (oneandone are who I've used, who have been fine)
That's what it's become for me and my circle. Got my parents the older iPhones (6S) late last year and got the same for myself this month. I miss being able to access the local storage (one small hack I found was using the Firefox app local folder to store my files)
Interesting, thanks. Looks like I may need a couple of the feature MND has. But I'd much rather use a purpose-built tool that's made for my specific scenarios. As an example, I don't need monitoring or contacts.
In Thailand you can ship basically everything by mail.
Here is how to ship a motorcycle
https://www.tielandtothailand.com/shipping-motorcycle-thaila...
Reading something from a specific, embodied religious tradition (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu) provides a refreshing set of justifications and perspective to the secular mindset that we exist within that we rarely consider it from the outside. Like a fish discovering oxygen in air. Interesting article.
Just a note about prisoners voting, in case anyone has any negative opinions on that:

If you have so many prisoners in your society that it's substantially affecting the outcome of an election, then your society has a real problem, and it's not the prisoners.
My big mistake was to buy the 2GB/64GB version.

I could upgrade the SSD to 128GB, but the RAM is soldered.

And it’s juat not enough for today.
Interesting how the podcast mostly concentrated on the petty mayor as being responsible for cramming the deal through. Many of the comments here, though, put the blame up to the governor level. (Which probably makes more sense for something this big)
Last I checked, the surface book 2 under load consumed more power than the brick could provide. If it functions anything like my sp3 brick did, if there's a phone or whatever plugged in in such situations, they don't get enough juice to charge.
I agree. What's your recommendation on how to push society into optimal distributions, specifically how should we push society into an optimal distribution of social pressures not to hire/consume/etc certain products where the products are people?
Japan has avoided the madness of tariffs and trade wars that has affected the west recently. Instead they have been quietly negotiating trade deals with everyone and generally getting along. Good on them!

Also it includes cheese, which will make westerners in Japan very happy.
The distinction you mention here (idea-to-dev vs idea-to-live) could be really useful for us as we've been debating two paths for an MVP that we're currently working on.

It's actually the management team that has been putting off release in favor of a more fully-formed MVP, whereas my team is eager to get a more minimal working version (that we're pretty sure our users would appreciate and is ready for production) into our users' hands.

One of my big concerns is that if I devote my time to focusing on figuring out these metrics (which still feel somewhat academic for our team at this point) then I'm going to be pulled away from more pressing concerns like reviewing PRs, providing technical guidance for the team, and simply working to get shit (or, rather, software of acceptable quality) out the door.
Let’s open source all their code and data in that spirit. I am sure they have nothing to hide.
I thought it was already proven that humans are all the same?
>As far as I can tell, school shootings are at historically high levels.

And you are also wrong about that. [0] My comment wasn’t about number of school shooting - but narrative. You don’t hear about them unless they fall into a given narrative. You don’t question what you are seeing at all, just happily accept it because it fits your bias.

[0] https://news.northeastern.edu/2018/02/26/schools-are-still-o...
Just wanted to add, the CBC did provide content to Netflix last year. I had to look it up, and then also remembered:

Actually that's where my girlfriend and I watched Kim's Convenience for the first time. Funnier than I expected. The parent's really carried the show, though.
Anybody know any good chatrooms for machine learning? Whether that's IRC, Slack, Discord, whatever. Preferably general chatrooms, as opposed to framework-specific chatrooms, but I'll take anything I can get.
Well, I'm actually more interested in serverless databases.
The Shuttle really taught some lessons to the space industry. We progressed in how to keep people alive in space but we also learned that making a multipurpose vehicle just isn't the best idea. All it takes is for one of the roles to be deprecated because of reasons and suddenly your expensive multi-tool starts to not be so attractive in terms of cost. Any time someone comes up with some complex plan to save money, it probably isn't going to save any money and will most likely end up costing you more than if you just continued on doing what you did before. Expendable vehicles aren't exactly cheap but they get the job done pretty reliably and without the risk of people dying.
That's interesting. I never gave much thought to the fact that pseudoephedrine is a stimulant and can be harmful/abused in its own right. I just know it helps me breathe when I'm congested.

I feel like the dichotomy between OTC and prescription medications tends to make me assume that prescription drugs are potentially dangerous while anything available OTC is harmless.
In this case climate change denial and conspiracy theories are a mainstream opposition.

>"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
-President of the United States

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...
So does Britain get enjoy this for the two months before Brexicution?
‘I was framed by UBS’: Tom Hayes’ letters from prison

Incarcerated former trader blames himself for trusting colleagues and superiors, laments his inability to push his side of the scandal in the press during the trial

https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/i-was-framed-by-ubs-tom-ha...
Of course. As a matter of fact, UK was never part of the Schengen Area.
Ask HN: Using a SaaS that I own at a company I work for
Hey, looking for legal advice around this situation. I'm a designer in a larger company. There was a need for a type of vended service. I happen to own a saas for that particular need and mentioned the product. They are going forward with it. I haven't told anybody about my ownership. What are the legal ramifications of this? Thanks!
Yelp is the worst about this. You can’t even use most features on the mobile website without downloading the app so they can suck up all your info.
Interesting that I remember this differently than how it is commonly quoted now. I thought (right or wrong) that he said "..., maybe you shouldn't be posting it online in the first place." which is easier to agree with than 'you shouldn't be doing it'
In my opinion, the whole idea of a third-party analytics system as they are currently implemented is incompatible with the idea of privacy. As soon as more than one site uses the same analytics system, then the company running the analytics system has aggregate data that the user did not consent to.

As a site owner, it is disingenuous showing your users a banner that says "This site uses cookies to allow us to maintain state" while leaving out the part about "This site uses google analytics which allows Google to track you across sites and build nearly complete picture of every page you browse".

The smaller hosted analytics systems claim to be more privacy oriented but I don't trust them either. Even with the best of intentions, sooner-or-later they will be sold or pivot. The data is just too valuable.

I know that some sites live and die by close reading of analytics but most sites don't need anything as elaborate. I implemented a very simple page counter than I host myself but that is just for vanity. Most sites don't even need that.
let's be accurate here: the reason the brexiteers (i.e. the ERG) don't like the withdrawal agreement is that it gives the EU effective control of the UK economy without any mechanism for the UK to leave that arrangement without the EU's permission

which is the sort of term a victor of war forces on a defeated party

the ERG agreed earlier this week that if this part of the agreement is dropped they will vote for it, otherwise it will never be accepted
I keep wanting to get one but the battery life always keeps me from doing that. Mobile for me means a lot of battery life; you do not need that or is it actually ok?
> meaning there's little to no interest buying books online

meaning there is no competition and prices are artificially inflated for no particular reason except some ideological one. I'm not sure it's a good case for regulating the price of books.

My observation: Japan has WAY more bookshops than France without any regulation of book prices. And they produce a LOT more books locally than France ever does.
Facebook is a persuasion platform that’s changing the advertising rulebook
I hate that HN is silently changing submission titles. The real title is "How I choose what to read".

Every "how" that's not being followed by "to" is stripped.
That's a ridiculous assertion against a news org that has a better track record than just about any other news org in existence, and it's sad to see people falling for this line of thinking.
Yep, look at the Gemini or the Pocket (2). Niche systems which are apparently worth making.
Likewise. I mostly consume their content via nightly news on HBO, and an occasional YouTube video. I had no idea they were so large!

Anyone know how this compares to other organizations?
I think it's fine. In the second line it says

> A major reason we see so many wrong predictions in the foundations of physics – and see those make headlines – is that both scientists and science writers take falsifiability to be a sufficient criterion for good science.

Personally the line that caught my eye straight away was the one on it's own that said

> Why does it matter?

after which comes the stuff about bigger accelerators.
Domain names are incredibly underpriced (I'm referring to the "good" ones). With the evolution of the internet, where startups are now willing to spend 10k-100k on a domain, it makes no sense that its original cost was 10$, and that insentivises speculators.

If prime domains would cost 100$ or even 1000$ per year it wouldn't affect a running business much, but would almost completely eliminate the viablilty of domain squatting. And if you're an individual you'll still have many other options.

This could be applied to the entire COM TLD (it does stand for commercial after all) or only for parts of it under some criteria (like length etc).
Netflix does buy CBC shows.

* Alias Grace

* Anne with an E

* Baroness Von Sketch Show - Seasons 1 & 2

* Degrassi: Next Class - Seasons 1 to 3

* Heartland - Seasons 1 to 10

* Kim’s Convenience - Seasons 1 & 2

* Mr.D - Seasons 1 to 7

* Schitt’s Creek - Seasons 1 to 3

That was current as of July 2018
what are you modelling/predicting? which sectors/industries?
I'm guessing it's actually in progress, we just won't know it for 100 years
> runs Linux perfectly out of the box

When did that happen? I admittedly haven't looked in a while but I thought the SP2 had some basic issues with Linux (keyboard docking, wifi; the expected things).
This is a really cool idea. Nice visualizations. I like it.
> Presenting a climate scientist who advocates a move to solar panels against a conspiracy theorist who thinks climate change is an invention of the new world order to seize control of the manufacturing industry is not a balanced presentation of the available angles.

Remove the deliberately goofy language you've used ("conspiracy theorist," "new world order") and just say "someone who believes the danger of climate change is not real and is a lie perpetrated by the political left." When you've done that, you have a rather mainstream conservative American position.

What you see as deliberately manufactured, idiotic strawmen are sometimes just idiots.
Except the argument made by the Brexiteers is that the EU can't do trade deals and Britain would be able to do so much better and quicker outside.

Hmm...
How do you sue / torpedo your ex-employer's IP after you have left a startup?
I am responsible for an important SKU for my ex-employer.

I had the original idea, made the demo. My employer filed the patent, did NOT include my name as inventor and then made moves to fire me by giving me an impossibly tough project.

By achieving this tough project, I made another piece of IP for my firm.

My ex-firm is

1. Filing patents by reading emails of the engineers.
2. None of the engineers are aware that the firm is filing for IP. let alone inventorship or equity.
3. Firm is also making grounds for ex-employee litigation - i.e they will sue their employees if any of them starts a firm doing the same thing as them.
4. CEO is also making recordings of employees, taking legal admissions on WhatsApp and surreptitiously making old employees sign new employment contracts.

Having done them so much of a favour , now I am doing another favour to them by keeping quiet about the bullshit that I have detected as happening in the firm.

Most of the employees and engineers are long standing and have made large contributions.

I don't want any payout / equity - but I am pissed off enough to torpedo / oppose their patents which are not granted yet.

N.B: The CEO is related to me - :)
There are good linux distributions for console only x86 machines. I use voyage linux, which is a bit dated. Alpine linux is also a good choice, but a bit more difficult.
This is comical. I try really hard to keep Google from tracking me. I use DDG, FastMail, iOS, have pseudonymous accounts for logging into Youtube. But I know Google still has a pile of information on me through reCaptcha, trackers on various web sites (Google analytics for starters) and services that use the Google Maps API. So I'm left with the nagging sense that I'm still being tracked by Google, no matter what I do. There is no real choice available. Google will track you in some way, your "decisions as an adult" be damned.
Didn't know european comics were famous in India. Cool. Also never seen an Indian comics.

It's interesting to see how US evolved very different from European.

Tiny anecdote, France was quite aware of US comics (including Disney) and I read that there was some anti US reactions to this. Some magazines started as an effort to make more french stories (leftist, ecology). See PIF Magazine, which was funded by the French Communist Party (no joke). Even Asterix is said to be influenced a bit by US super heroes, hence the magic potion giving super powers.

The style and humor was different though.
Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands were all fairly evenly developed when they formed the original EEC in 1957.
Except the U.K. was an equal member of the EU and participated in the development of its rules
Sojourner Truth
A time honored tradition, here.

That said, it's not always a bad thing. Sometimes you get two interesting discussions going on for one submission...
There are plenty of things out there with lots of delta-v floating around doing who knows what. The X-37B is just the big public one.
He did insult them. That is a fact of the story. What word would you prefer?

It attributes the stance to Erin Burnett, which you said is fine.

Saying "Even" is perfectly justified here. Parties, especially the Republican party, tend to march in lockstep with their president. The fact that GOP members are opposing Trump on this IS the story