skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Run Agile Teams When a Team Consist of Smaller Sub Teams?
A problem I've run into at a couple past companies is say you have a team of 6 people with a manager. But this team is really working on 3 individual projects with a couple members on each project.

Our daily stand-ups and retros seem to be so mixed between the projects that they don't make sense and often seem like a waste of time for people not working on that specific project. You can see people disengaging.

But splitting up the team would mean multiple 2 member teams which seem too small for things like a weekly retro, but maybe that's my misconception.

Have others had this experience and how do you handle sub teams within teams? Is splitting them up the only real solution?
They're called "shadow profiles". https://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/18/1429223/facebook-is-...
It's true, I don't like to compare Redis to other products. I just want users to understand when Redis is a good candidate for their project and evaluate it. There is something that's too much of a taboo for me to compare what I did with what other did, I like to think more like if there are all this software that try to do things without trying to win one over the other, and are the developers out there to vote with their usage.
Anyone with a passing acquaintance of history knows that pretty much every family, from anywhere, will have a long history of trauma starting not very many generations ago.

Looking around my office at people whose stories I know, I see sexually abused people, war refugees, children of war refugees, people who grew up under communism, someone who is coping with a degenerative illness (multiple sclerosis), and on and on and on. Yet these are all functional people, holding down professional jobs.

The interesting part isn't that you can trace your problems back to trauma, but rather how you might some day manage to not have to. Because the more that people successfully do that, the better the world we can build for our mutual future.
Gotta love them Japanese...

Hey let's go visit an asteroid.

Might as well stick a rover on it.

Why send one rover when you can send four!

Hey guys, let's bring back a chunk of it.

You know what'd be great? Explosives! Let's blow off a deeper chunk and bring that back too.

So many moving parts to this mission.
> I believe and hope that we will see less tracking in the future

As a consumer I sure hope so too, but I'm only seeing increase on different methods of tracking at the corporate level; tracking software is becoming more cheap, accessible and easier to use
Exactly where the license places it
Given that government-created documents are put in the public domain, not limited by copyright, why are government inventions different and restricted by patents?

Also, what are fair and usual terms to use a government-owned patent?
C++ is still the best tool when my managed languages need some extra native help.

Maybe it will be eventually replaced by Rust one day on my toolbox, but surely not for C.

I left that in 1993, only using it instead of C++ when university professors required me to do so, and on my first job (until they also moved into C++/C#).
What about just 'recent'?
One of the most common reasons for disabling an otherwise useful eslint rule is the cost of going and updating all of your existing code to follow it.

Often, there isn't a great business case for doing this, and so the lint rule sits disabled while new violations slowly creep in.

suppress-eslint-errors suppresses existing violations so that you can start getting the benefit of the checks against new code.
I would love to read a recent survey. If someone knows about that.
Well at least Netflix does. https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/netflix_freebsd/
Not a lawyer, but I'd presume the reason a defendant would file for summary judgment would be to avoid the financial burden associated with a meritless case. If summary judgment is rejected, then making an appeal would likely be more expensive than just settling with the plaintiff.
Very interesting citations, thanks for sharing!
Aren't just a set of complementary two letters / acids enough to double it?

6P3 vs 4P3;
> I have a looooot of disagreements with matrix, which I have discussed and will discuss with them, but honestly they're not doing it completely wrong anymore.

\o/ :) The other stuff is very much on our radar, fwiw (and in an ideal world i hope we'll finally be able to implement a services or TS6-based bridge). We've been a bit distracted over the last few months with an XMPP bridge (matrix-bifrost) but will be back on IRC bridging shortly.
Also bear in mind that insulin has a finite shelf life. An unopened bottle of insulin lasts for 3 months when refrigerated. An opened bottle stays fresh for 4 weeks.

Plan on your Canada shipments/visits multiple times per year...
Try here https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download. We also put some beginner videos on our you tube channel here https://m.youtube.com/compositionalit.
I'm not making any specific claims about either of those aspects, simply that you can't compare two populations that are incredibly different in this manner.
The same scientist, Salvatore Cezar Pais, also patented what reads suspiciously like an EmDrive: https://patents.justia.com/patent/10144532 I'm curious what any physicists here have to say.

I'm guessing that this superconductor concept hasn't actually been reduced to a prototype. Unfortunately, per the USPTO, "[a]n applicant need not have actually reduced the invention to practice prior to filing." https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2164.html#d0e215... A patent can simply describe a so-called prophetic example. "A prophetic example describes an embodiment of the invention based on predicted results rather than work actually conducted or results actually achieved." Id.

EDIT: Yep. The abstract from this 2019 paper, "Room Temperature Superconducting System for use on a Hybrid Aerospace-Undersea Craft", clearly (IMO) says the concept is as-yet unconfirmed. https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2019-0869
>Interestingly, virtually everyone who applies (> 98%) is fine with this.

How was this measured?
But it's a fractional reserve system with respect to fiat currency. The price of Bitcoin is supported only by a fraction of its market cap in real fiat money. If everyone decided to sell all Bitcoins in existence on the open market, the total amount of fiat that they would get for it would not match the total market cap of all Bitcoins before the selloff started.
Weaponized Health Communication: Bots and Trolls Amplify Online Debate
What do you mean by that?

Not all movies are liked by all people and that‘s ok, or why would it not be?
I'm a Hackintosh user. I already owned a Macbook Pro and wanted a decently spec'ed desktop system for running macOS on, and wasn't too keen on paying though the nose for the non-modular non-upgradeable Mac Pro. I'm not sure what Apple was thinking when they made the Mac Pro. A desktop machine that looks like a trash can, with no drive bays or expansion slots? Doesn't sound very "pro" to me, and is also completely out of my budget range. The iMac has the same issue as the Mac Pro, and forces you to buy a monitor that you can't upgrade later.
I think it's a great idea. So many people would like to learn CS but don't have the time bandwidth; paying them to learn is a win/win.
Not wrong. Even https://reddit.com/r/stupidpol is a very earnest and respectful place.
I use Newsboat[1][2], a standalone RSS reader that I use in the terminal. It's an actively developed fork of Newbeuter.

[1] - https://newsboat.org/

[2] - https://github.com/newsboat/newsboat
I had the opposite experience with the Smollet case. I actually never heard or cared about Smollet till it started popping up as the #1 and #2 stories in r/news. As someone who is on the left of political spectrum and politically fairly active, I don't of know anyone who really thought Smollet was some representation of the political left. The fact that he was actively "brigaded" and "upvoted" in r/news and r/conservative and r/t_d tells you a lot about political discourse and "comments" section. It has been taken over for trolls and professional trolls at that to score cheap online points, but also to game search engine rankings. There is no space for neutral conversation anymore.
It's great that "if it's free, you should run away" or "if you're not the customer, you're the product" or any of those other sayings are finally been seen as extremely reductive.
It’s ״just deserts”. Plus your point is odd. It’s not the filing that’s easier.
Be careful what you wish for: it's a good book, but an unnerving read: http://peterturchin.com/ages-of-discord/
I think we would put it more like staffing platform + a trainee/school program. But we combined them because we saw a gap in the market. Pure schools need to make money on the school portion (they have to have high gross profit per student). A lot of schools hover around 50% gross profit per student. So we thought, if are able to integrate vertically (and have both school and staffing platform), we can finance the school portion extremely aggressively (and scale really really fast), and meanwhile actually turn a profit on the staffing platform side. That's the business model reason.

The second reason is that we think that by paying people to finish tasks, assignments, and learning material, we can actually incentivize completion in a much cheaper way than employing a lot of supervisors. So not only are we able to grow faster because of our integration (like above), we can be more efficient at producing students. I think if we weren't trying to scale extremely fast and sustainably we would probably focus on the training portion.
The Benefits of Brexit
Hello, the attacker here can control only one string: we want the time taken by the function to be independent from the POV of the string provided by the user. That is, we don't want that the user-controlled string can affect the time the function takes. The other string is the string set inside the database. About information leaks about the length, that would be completely acceptable: anyway the user is very likely to just it the user password length by extracting a random number, there is no real protection there. The problem of this kind of timing attacks is that it can leak the actual user string content. Such function should hopefully prevent this problem.
There's the graphviz lib [0] and also, somewhat confusingly, pygraphviz [1].

They are a bit different though, nicely summarised here [2].

[0]:https://pypi.org/project/graphviz/

[1]: https://github.com/pygraphviz/pygraphviz

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37353199/graphviz-vs-pyg...
Yeah, my sense is that tech in NYC is tech as an enabler of finance.
The only alternative to flat design that will not get you mocked is ironic Geocities aesthetic. Designing something with accents that feel solid and dimensional yet balanced and thougtful is right out, and will probably be sneered at by other “designers”, unless you are designing a video game UI.

Whether or not end users will welcome this is an open question. Everything is boring and flat now, usually on a glaring white background, and maybe that means the field is ripe for a change. Personally I’m beginning to miss all the design accents that aggressive minimalists deride as “skeuomorphic”.
Playing with Geometry/Spatial Data Type in MySQL
Your point in non-nonsensical. If T-Bills are equal to cash, then the government doesn't need to sell them, they'd just use them like cash. Yes, they are very liquid, but they are not cash. Even if they are only cash-equivalent in certain situations, they'd be increasing the money supply by freeing up the cash that would otherwise be used in it's place.

"The government can borrow money, use it to repurchase government-issued cash equivalents"

Yes, this is what's being done today. But it does not resolve the government's debt, it just changes who they owe it to and when plus interest. So the net effect is an increase in debt. This process is only sustainable for as long as people are willing to lend the government money.
would "browse" be a poor description? given the functionality to move back/forward.
Nearly every systemd-disliking person I've personally spoken to, has trotted out that exact line about sysV init being fine.

It's not just a strawman, unfortunately. I wish it were.
I agree about smaller groups, but I remember being in rather diverse forums early on. The one thing people had in common is that they liked reading and writing, and art, and arguing, and were okay with computers. So that also implies a level of comfort, at least for those who weren't posting from internet cafés.

What degraded conversation the most IMO is that people can just slink away. Someone makes a claim, you refute them, they don't respond, or just answer with a total non-sequitur, or ignore 80% of what you said but have 5 new straw men you're supposed to deal with before they acknowledge that. You can't pull that shit in a forum with 100-200 people, you can't make it a habit, people will remember. Now people much sooner just retreat into some echo chamber to lick their wounds, instead of dealing with the other, for better or worse, and one-on-one, not group-on-group. As persons, not via stereotypes, and in our case over 6-7 years.

Yes, we all had in common that we lived on a street, but otherwise it was kinda random and diverse. Musicians, painters, gamers, authors, druggies, age 20 to 50, with most being probably in their 20s. We even had a member we always mocked for being kinda racist, and after years of that he wrote us a thank you post because he slowly had come around and we had played a role in that. We kicked spambots and were cruel to human spammers, but anyone else, we weren't whimps about, first and foremost. George Carlin was still alive, things were good. We weren't "civil", we called each other stupid fucks where applicable, not "disingenuous". But we also responded when called out, civil or not.

Come to think of it, last year one of our sister forums reopened its doors, after 10 years of downtime. The posts go back to the year 2000, and the admin made a sticky saying if anyone wants to delete their old posts, they're totally fine to. I said I'm less ashamed of all the (no doubt super cringy) things that are on that forum by me, than I would be of giving even one inch to anyone holding it against me. If that anti-intellectualism armband lifestyle wins out, the future is dead anyway, and I don't care how successful I am in it. But if it doesn't, then I'll be glad I never gave in, never even considered it ^^
Re: Last line.
Yep. I do. In fact, the some of the cases your articles refer to directly refer to my amicus curiae contributions.

The Federal Circuit was created, in part, to create certainty in patents. They keep trying to make frameworks, but they've all got issues. The Supreme Court doesn't like that they have issues, and blows up their rulings, but does not put anything affirmative back in place.

So, functionally, what we get is a cycle of the Federal Court building their little sand castle on the beach, and the Supreme Court coming over to stomp on the sand castle because it has flaws.

The fact that the Supreme Court stomps more frequently, or the fact that almost all of the sand castles are destroyed has no bearing on whether or not the entire cycle of destruction is warranted.

If the Supreme Court had a better set of rules, they have plenty of judicial tools to make those rules known to the USPTO and lower courts.

But they don't.
Problem is, there is close to nothing that an average web user can do in order to prevent any of these things from happening.
Time Machine (tm)

/runs
I wish there was a hn viewer integrated with Outline. something like, for each new article on front, check whether it can be outlined and, if it can, just display it without redirecting to the original site. That would protect against slashdotted sites, paywalls, annoying gdpr consent pop ups, sorry but we don't like europe pages, all kinds of tracking and js heavy websites (especially if you're on i.e. Lynx) etc. This could be done either by redirecting to the Outline website or using its API (see the network traffic for details on how it works). Also a HN that would be essentially a list of check boxes ordered by time and an "add selected to Pocket" button would be nice too.
Decadence.
It already exposes it's document folder "On My iPad" so you can use the folder sync feature in Working Copy to work with github.
> As I pointed out above, anyone can get a website and domain name.

I wish this were true, but I don't think it is anymore.

If you post or host anything remotely controversial, expect to have your site DoS'd off the internet. How can that be avoided? Well, mostly through the help of one of the big boys (Cloudflare, Google Project Shield, etc). What happens if they decide you're a despicable, e.g. Stormfront? You're pretty much SOL.

Sure, there are plenty of other mitigation services, but they generally get pricey - not only pricey, but asymmetrically pricey. When your detractors know that they can burn through your war chest by expending a fraction of what you lose, that's clearly an unsustainable position.

The same is true for DNS. When every registrar can be pressured into denying you service, you don't have a lot of recourse.

That's not to mention the well-worn argument that, in a hypothetical era where the vast majority of traffic is via one of the big name sites, going off on your own is basically analogous to having your soapbox relocated from Hyde Park to the industrial wastelands. Are you still technically able to speak publicly? Sure, but the original intent of protections on speech is nowhere to be found.

I don't have an answer to the subsequent question of what to do about it, beyond supporting decentralized technologies. That's a tough one. What I do know is that the idea that anyone is able to provide their own platform if deemed undesirable may be comforting, but doesn't really hold up.
I'm cold and their are wolves after me.
Are you? I'm just typing new<ret>. Or not even that; HN is often just CTRL+SHIFT+T away...
Yeah, I bet they would given they are willing to pay for super likes. I could definitely see using it for all sorts of reasons, like automated image brushing.

I do need a new LinkedIn head shot...

You could also get into generating stock photos for websites and other media like marketing
And who decides which information is beneficial, useful or constructive? What makes you think you are on the right side?

By the way, I note that you have been downvoted/flagged to oblivion. I only see your comment because I prefer to browse with 'showdead' enabled. So, you presumably post here because you like this forum, yet your peers think your comment was not worth anyone even _viewing_.

I think your comment was a coherent, good faith attempt to express a view. While I disagree with your view, I'd prefer people debate it with you rather than flag it away.

But how do you feel knowing that your view has been deemed to be net negative and harmful enough that no one should even view it?
I'm pretty lefty. There are certainly some commenters who are aggressively towards the alt-right. There is a much larger groups that is more conservative than most people I know personally. There are a lot of people who I would call liberal. And a few who comment mostly from a social justice perspective.

If you don't normally talk to very right wing folks in your normal life (I certainly don't), you are going to read things you would consider shocking. They don't appear to me to be anywhere near a majority.

For those who would like to form their own opinion, here is a link to the current thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/artngn/culture_wa...
There is no problem with the_donald or politics or whatever other group think subs, as you mentioned yourself you can just read all of them to get the whole picture. The problem starts when reddit itself think they should censor some stuff because they don't like it, then you don't even have this option to hear all the opinions and make up your mind. It is even worst when all the big tech companies subscribe to the same type of politics and point of view.
> Facebook doesn't want these companies sending users' personal data to them without their knowledge.

Rubbish. If they didn't want the data, they wouldn't build & offer developers a first class analytics package for free, including analytics that don't require explicitly setting events (though not going as far as showing screen recording, which was the moral outrage of last week).

Having said that, When the screen recording thing broke, I wondered how long it would take for it to shift to analytics in general, especially those offered by Apple competitors. I'm no fan of FB, but given the consistent rhythm of the fb-scandal newscycle, and that all these scandals somehow end up with Apple wearing a white hat, I'm really starting to wonder what kind of offensive PR dark arts may be behind it.
I type hack or hacker or hacker n (depending on other history). URL bar does the rest.
We already have it working in development. We're cautious because last time we enabled it in production we got a lot of memory usage and runtime errors. I think the problems are that the native extensions from some dependencies are not multi-threading safe but I might be wrong.
yep - I missed that concept too.

"...ordered by {time spent there}->(how long it was on the front page)"
If I search for modern labor, I get you (great!), also on the first page are "Modern day child labor", "how business can tackle modern slavery and forced labor", "what is modern slavery"; the rest are relatively benign. I'm not sure that's too helpful.

My first association would be for a newly modernised incarnation of a Labor Party, just like Tony Blair gave us New Labour.

I'm from the UK, so my first impressions may not be thought relevant. :)
Any XML parser that I know can parse XML in a stream, that's all you need to handle an incoming XMPP stream.

Just an example, here is the XML parser that I wrote in PHP https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/lib/moxl/src/Moxl... (127 lines), it basically handle the stream as an input and fire SimpleXML (can also be DOM XML) on the other hand.

This can handle thousands of XMPP messages (called stanza) per second :)
Yes, it does. However, it can usually be offset by some adjustment measure. The same thing happens when you take the log of your target variable and run a regression with RMSE as your loss, then try to get your predictions by taking e^prediction. Going from a lognormal to a normal distribution requires an offset, in this case:
exp(variance(log preds - log target)/2). Box-Cox (which is very similar to log) would require a similar offset, however I don't know how to calculate it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-normal_distribution
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see hnrss.org. I use it along with an iOS shortcut that retrieves the articles for me, concatenates to a big txt file, uploads to dropbox so that I can read later on whatever I want and automatically starts reading with the build-in tts.