skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 50% is simple math. If your velocity is V, you take V estimation points of work into the Sprint. V is a stochastic variable with a mean and a variance. You rarely deliver exactly V points: it is just the mean. About half the Sprints finish early, and about half the Sprints don't deliver everything on the Sprint backlog.

So this isn't about failure at all: a failed Sprint is one that fails to meet the Sprint goal. I suggest taking a Scrum class to learn how velocity works, how agile works, and to learn how to manage uncertainty (and if you don't admit to this 50% uncertainty, then you are lying to yourself and cooking the books) and to learn about Sprint Goals.

Your post suggests that you understand none of these things. They are all Scrum basics.
What if we flip the question:

How fast do trades really need to be?

Lets start with a hypothetical 'human speed' similar to how things used to be in the pre-electric world.

What if there were only one trade made per day? If every day buyers and sellers (with price limits in place) were resolved similar to a dutch auction (or some other 'fair' process).

What if that happened every hour? 30 min, 20 min? 10 min?

I think maybe every 10 min could be a good cycle. That would give a human duration of time for a buy/sell blackout (about 60 seconds), plenty of time for everything submitted to be tabulated, signed, and then published, and 9 full min to figure out what you want to do in the next order period.
+1 us gov Does this for agriculture. Ensuring that farmers have a price floor by purchasing surplus
"Summary of why [most chrome extensions] are predatory and you should avoid them"

Any extension can auto-update to change whatever they want, especially when already given the "Access your data on all websites" permission.

Browser extensions are a security nightmare.
Lenovo have similar:

https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/accessories-and-monitors/keyboa...
I definitely got started without these things, though I was working for an agency. To do it full time without those things? Never.
"No one's made the case that Grammerly is spying"

According to their privacy policy and the twitter reply ("Grammarly does not store all processed text, we do not use text to do anything but provide and improve our service"), they keep at least some of the text.

So they log your text, but it's not spying - so when does it become spying? When the first warrant is served? And when that happens, will it not be spying because "you agreed to it by using the service, it was all spelled out in the 'overly broad' privacy policy"?
Wheter "free will" exists or not seems like a technicality, tied to whether the Universe is deterministic or not. Whether or not it's deterministic, a brain must still go through its thought processes to come up with any decision. The only difference that non-determinism makes is that the decision may randomly go one way or the other based on low-level fluctuations. Thinking and decision making still occurs even if the Universe is deterministic.
Yes and no, but there are still people that can be honest to each other without contracts and nasty clauses and so on.

A job description though, that both parties know what to expect from each other. (When the work is done and payment is due) can be done in an email.
Good point. Or think about the Interstate system. No way the country could so such a thing today.
In my time in MA, I worked for three separate MIT startups, one top software company and one IP law firm. The law firm was the only one that didn’t require a noncompete. One of those companies was backed by one of the loudest voices in the Boston/Cambridge VC community campaigning against such agreements. The company had me sign an updated non-compete upon closing a funding round at the same time their VC was giving public speeches denouncing noncompete agreements in MA. Until the garden leave requirement covers 100% salary, the updated provisions to MA noncompete law are toothless.
I checked my next flights, some Airbus, a Fokker and two 737-800. Luckily not the MAX. I never checked the aircraft model before booking but I'll start doing it. I won't fly a MAX.
It’s just 404ing for me?
Actually, I think this is the real “untold story of Silk Road”:

https://freeross.org/railroaded/
More than 700K foreign nationals overstayed visas in 2017, DHS says
i had a similar experience, making a little password "application" on mine. however, it didn't turn me on to programming. it was just a thing i did. many years later, i sort of fell into software. i still don't like programming because the tools are always well below what i'd like and really get to me. my saving grace is enjoying the idea of using programming to represent some concept or learn about some new idea. "doing" with software is very frustrating because, as bret victor has talked about, seeing the thing is hopeless with today's tools.
They have to be "politically legitimate" and Atheist to be police in Xinjiang, massive recruitment drive in Xinjiang for police too.

Where I'm citing, sources are all Chinese:
http://www.epochtimes.com/gb/18/11/28/n10879799.htm
http://www.gjgwy.org/201810/399611.html
American immigration laws are to be blamed for this not the companies themselves. Companies will always align themselves to those incentive structures. American companies exploit foreign laws in similar ways. So I feel it cuts both ways.

Since I am involved with lot of immigration advocacy I am familiar with the so called eb-1 abuse. It is not abuse at all. It is a sensible strategy where the companies follow the letter of the law. It is US Congress that is idiotic to put foreign managers and noble winners in the same group of immigrants.

I do feel hr1044 is a perfect solution to this coupled by increasing h1b cap significantly.
So basically you should be able to have a conversation with headphones on?

Or it is slightly different, since music in ear is more distracting than ambient music? (Ie. hear your own voice clearly with headphones on)

I often do a "can I hear my normal speaking voice?"check with headphones in as a way to see if they're quiet enough. But that might not be the right standard.
I am confused about why she is charged with theft. If I do business with someone and they don't pay me, that person doesn't go to jail. That's why you qualify your customers and/or ask them to pay deposits.

Every hotel I stayed at makes me prepay and put a deposit down for incidentals. It seems the hotels mentioned in the article failed to do even basic diligence and even violated their own rules by allowing Anna to stay at a hotel without a valid credit card or deposit. That is their incompetence and shouldn't involve the criminal system.
There's more to diversity than skin color. Immigrants from other countries look for people who can speak their own language, eat the same food, worship the same gods etc, and given that the bulk of SF's immigrants (in the tech industry) come from across the Pacific, these communities are much larger in SF (33% Asian) than Atlanta (3%).
Yes, NLP, and sometimes structured data released by special services that receive the news alerts early, process them into a structured form, and then make them available at the same moment that the normal services do.
If they were forced to use biodegradable everybody would have to raise prices by a few cents and nobody would notice.

I agree with the concern about not being handled properly. How many biodegradable really end up in a compost pile>
Light in glass is slower than light (or radio waves) in air. Also where they're unable to put point-to-point microwave towers, like the Atlantic ocean, they use HF/shortwave (as in 3-30MHz stuff) radio, because frequencies in that range bounce off the ionosphere. And apparently, the added lag from the increased path length is less than the added lag from glass's optical index, so HF wins out. HF is, however, very noisy and the bandwidth (amount of bulk bits per second you can send) is not too high (even though the end-to-end latency for a single given bit can be very low).

It's not pure HF -- there's a fibre link alongside the HF link where stuff like protocol negotiations, encryption keys, channel sounding, feedback on data received and RF conditions, and agreement on what kind of modulation/coding schemes to use for upcoming data (and what transmitted bits are to mean in terms of higher-layer protocol (something about price informations? I don't know much about HFT)).

Likewise, the availability of GPS makes time/frequency synchronisation easier (and combined with sounding signals and feedback over fibre), which very likely allows for eliminating latency-inducing complexity in the receiver.

It's a far cry from the traditional data-over-HF scenario, which is assumed only to be relevant when other (higher bandwidth) links such as fibre or satellite or point-to-point microwave are unavailable, so everything must be carried out over the RF channel (look at ALE).
I live in Vancouver too and it's a conscious choice of the lifestyle here over more money in the Bay Area or Seattle but I'm aware that it's quite a lot of money to give up. I think there are some indicators that salaries here are starting to rise due to the size of the gap but not enough that I don't still know plenty of people who have either left or are seriously considering it.
I was amazed at how quickly they processed my FOIA requests. Asked customs for my travel so I could match up some dates on my heavily stamped passport. Within a month or so, they sent me a decade of travel all cleanly printed out. I'd already sent out the guestimate which is what inspired the request - but it was nice to sync up what I thought it was to what they thought it was.
There are at least 2 benefits:

* They are always willing to trade, so if someone wants to sell/buy a stock, they can get it from an HFT rather than needing to wait for someone who wants it long-term. (The HFT aims to sell it later to someone who wants it, they don't want to keep it).

This is called 'providing liquidity'

* They ensure prices remain 'in sync'. If prices don't match in some sense, then people need to worry about where to get a stock, rather than just what stock to get. The same goes for e.g. keeping stocks in sync with options. This way, someone who buys a stock gets an accurate price.

This is called 'arbitrage'

There is more to these concepts, especially arbitrage. But these are the core benefits of HFT.
The lack of pricing in negative externalities. That is the root of all capitalist evil.

I have come to a similar conclusion; the funny part is I have observed the most ardent supporters of capitalism and the free market generally seem to plug their ears and go "lalalala" the moment I utter the word "externality"
The article suggests glass shampoo bottles? No thanks. Plastic is a great material, it is just abused.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19355234
Why don't the rich people just move to New York?
Yes, my country - Poland, and what happens is this:

1. Some other country exports its trash to Poland.

2. The trash is stored at a specific place and not a few days go by until an "accidental" fire erupts.

3. The "entrepreneurs" who originally took the trash profit not only from that, but any potential insurance claim.

4. Rinse and repeat.
Vaka Moana means 'ocean canoe.'
It's fine. Even my weed trimmer is 4-stroke. Aircraft engines, which really need to have a great power to weight ratio, are normally 4-stroke.

For small things, the only place that seems to justify 2-stroke is a chainsaw. This is partly because weight matters much more, and partly because a chainsaw is held at many different angles. Oil flow in a 4-stroke engine is difficult when you can't rely on gravity going in any particular direction.

Given that the whole point of a leaf blower engine is to move air, I have to wonder if the best solution might be a turbine.
Missing from the article is the recent DNA evidence linking Polynesian peoples to the aboriginal inhabitants of Taiwan ... Making the west to east theory even more likely ... Essentially the Polynesians spread across the Pacific above the equator, the travelled back south of it, finally discovering New Zealand around 900AD (probably the last inhabitable land discovered by any humans)
Installing certs on your own computer is easy. Installing certs on random testing phones? Not so easy. Let's encrypt just works.
I think when we get into cool near sci fi stuff we'll have faster than light communication pretty soon with quantum entanglement effects, which should be way easier to wrangle than neutrinos.
We settled this debate in Slashdot in 1998. Your definition is too narrow.
I work in HFT as a quant dev

I am proud of my work and find HFT to be an interesting intersection of computer science, math, game theory, economics, and psychology

As far as the societal benefit of HFT, I think that it is neutral. It doesn't hurt anybody. It might even help a little bit (liquidity and tight spreads save people a little money and maybe spur some economic growth).

However, this particular aspect (the physical latency war) makes me literally sick to my stomach. I hate reading about it and I hate thinking about it. It's like -- what are we even doing here guys?
You are absolutly right. To others seeing this comment, i‘d recommend you watch the Documentary named „Plastic China“.
It is on YT, but you support the makers here:

https://www.plasticchina.org

We need to stop plastic polluttion now, or im afraid the earths ecosystem will collapse sooner or later.
And risk ending up in jail, murdered or dying poor? One may love their country but loves their life/family more.

I don't know where you're from but if you're from postsoviet countries you should know how freaking difficult it is to oppose the system and, in case of Russia, also dangerous.
Network effects matter a lot in startup world. You learn a lot about your own business by talking to other co-founders and business leaders. The lead generation is easy and talent is easily available.

Indian and Chinese immigrants also play a big role. Stuck on backlog these are cheap employees who are desperate for employment because their H1b is tied to they having a job. These people will work for 60 hours a week for a salary of 20.
"Diversity" in this context is a politically-correct way of saying there is a large community of well-educated Indian immigrants on H1-B Visas living in Silicon Valley and working in the tech industry. Not San Francisco as much, but the South Bay (Santa Clara, Cupertino, San Jose, Sunnyvale, etc.).
Billions of people are picking up leaves?

The total area of ‘yards’ where leaves are picked up is so utterly insignificant that I wonder if you have ever been outside. In any case, the article is about D.C. and, regrettably, there will never be a shortage of worms in the capitol.
Prefer Yandex - faster than DDG, better results and you can easily search on Bing or Google from the same search result page if you don't find the result satisfactory (they provide links at the bottom of the results).
Wouldn't it be far more sustainable to just boost base rate with the money instead to reduce churn? It sounds like a perverse incentive of metrics to reward new drivers instead of total ones.
AI Programs Are Learning to Exclude African-American Voices
Ask HN: What IT technologies have been available for years but aren't mainstream
Let me give you an example:

containers have been used at Google for decades, yet, only did the masses start using them when Docker made them mainstream.

So, I have been wondering what else is out there that for some reason isn't well known, and yet, would largely benefit anybody in the computer science field?
Doesn't Russia operate the authoritative servers for .ru ?
I do like this idea, where legal action is more about preventing the event reoccuring rather than revenge or payback. Unfortunately "an eye for an eye" is a very strong instinct and will take a lot of education to allow society as a whole to move beyond.
So if I understand the source data correctly, it doesn't seem to be super random. These are the last 5 TLE entries for one of the GPS satellites:

40105 54.5777 194.6697 0011887 101.0084 259.0886 2.00557623 33631
40105 54.5775 194.5700 0011842 101.1165 258.9939 2.00557745 33682
40105 54.5775 194.5700 0011842 101.1165 258.9939 2.00557745 33682
40105 54.5775 194.5700 0011842 101.1165 258.9939 2.00557745 33682
40105 54.5775 194.5700 0011842 101.1165 258.9939 2.00557745 32827

It looks like you can't really predict them, but you can certainly generate likely candidates.

The values have expected cycles as well: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/30735/why-do-gps-s...

Am I missing something here?
What does safely burned in the context of plastic packaging mean?
Also, technologies that were first described in sci-fi books and then were developed (or had their feasibility studied) in the real world.
I suspect we agree on the concept as well.

That’s the thing about colloquialisms; they’re not meant to be taken literally.

For example, the phrase “kicked the bucket” does not literally mean a foot had come into contact with a bucket. Similarly, to say that I have 13 bosses does not literally mean that I have 13 people above me in the hierarchy. It is a colloquialism used to describe a feeling and intention, rather than a literal description.

Perhaps it would be patronizing to say that without explaining what I meant, but I do explain that, in the same comment. Lastly, in many ways, they do control their own fate - that is, they can choose to leave if they’re unhappy, and be happier elsewhere. In that way, because they are in no way conscripted (at least in the State of California), you could make the argument that they control my actions. That may be a specious argument. I’m not certain. But one perhaps worth exploring.
NY Yankees buy back YES network from Disney in $3.5B deal
Not even sure how you got from "let a dying men take some marijuana" to "return slaves" ...
> When I moved away from the East Coast to the Bay Area, it was already clear that it'd be hard finding another job in my field (chip design)

Yeah, diverse VLSI design is pretty much dead everywhere except California.

Every other place tends to be a monoculture dominated by one company.
I don't think anyone asserted there was a real world wider good; to the contrary, I think it's just the actions of a system in place.
That problem is being fixed, aforementioned article is one of the steps being taken towards that goal.
Funny how "waste everywhere" automatically translates to let's dump more garbage in that country.
There are going to be many, many more ways we utilize software and connected devices to optimize existing industures (construction, healthcare, logistics etc). Some of them will seem so obvious in retrospect, others will be exceptionally creative and thus hard to predict. We may have reached a saturation point for hardware (but even that will need constant replacing), but the ways we deploy technologies out into our economy will continue moving forward for many years to come. Tech changes, but always moves forward.
What's flameable here? It's all factual and not the matter of dispute. And the point is that fixing symptoms won't help until the root of the problem is fixed. And I'm not saying protesters are wrong or anything. It's just that the problem is a lot deeper.
Founded in 1989, Citrix provides SaaS to most of the Fortune 500, with $3B revenue.

Is your theory is that they either destroyed their company (and risked their careers of perhaps 8K employees), because a few fringe actors in the current administration asked them to help pin this on Iran?

Or is your theory that the US government sent 6TB of data on most of the Fortune 500 companies to an adversary, all to justify some conflict? Note: While oil and perceived geopolitical threats have been misused to start wars, I'm unaware that cyber now ranks at that level. Else, we'd treat DPRK hacking the same as missile testing.

Your evidence is that the CEO is not sufficiently networked on linkedin, and their revenue has changed (after the largest tax cut for US corps in world history).

Honestly, I'm at a loss for words. I suggest exercise, a healthy diet, and reflection.

What you've suggested based on this evidence alone is--and I don't use this word lightly--unhinged and unhealthy. I do believe there is reason to be skeptical of US policy towards Iran. I do not think the US government could convince a 3B revenue company to destroy itself (just think of the shareholder lawsuits), all out of naive patriotic loyalty.
Why? If it's done in any sensible way, it should simply show up as a HID device and work pretty much everywhere.
Generally the 'exempt' thing needs to be pushed up to CEOs and such only as well.

Someone without the latitude to hire, fire and delegate as necessary should NOT be exempt.
Of course, but the big difference is that Google can't prevent you from making a living using your skills as a technologist at a competitor, even if that competitor is your own startup.
I'd be willing to bet there are more undocumented immigrants than are a part of that breakdown. Also "asian" encompasses half the world unless they are using the classification in a different way... that's pretty diverse.
This concept already exists: it's a batch auction dark pool.

One big problem with batch auctions as a global solution is that conceptually, trades span multiple markets. You have to figure out how your 500ms futures batch auction is going to interact with the unrelated market for the underlying instrument.

Probably the biggest problem is the problem itself, which, in the case of HFT, probably just isn't enough of a problem to reengineer all of market microstructure to fix. The biggest pure HFT firms are worth just a fraction of the biggest investment firms. Major purchasers of liquidity (pension funds, Vanguard) are happy with the execution they're getting. None of this stuff hurts retail traders (on the contrary, it probably helps them on the whole).
Scientists Say They Can Recreate Living Dinosaurs Within the Next 5 Years
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247402
Perhaps that’s what he meant, but does anyone even claim that that is the case?
I do prefer when the council blows away the leaves on the bike paths because it gives you better grip.
The arrow keys. Ugh. That set-up - left and right keys same size as normal keys - I could never get used to it on the new macbook keyboards
This film seems relevant - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6866224 - The Hummingbird Project (2018).

'A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.' (It also seems to feature the microwave based approach from the trailer).
Thank God.

Hopefully everyone learns from this. Recycle where it makes economic sense, or bury in an approved manner. It will be interesting rock in less than 1M years.
I just switched to all electric lawn tools. I got the trimmer, chainsaw, and blower from the 80v Kobalt line. Like you say, plenty of power, much easier maintenance, and multiple batteries mean the runtime is not limited.
Test Strategy for Microservices – GoCD Blog
So why didn't it switch to a better system yet?
What does "full and absolute control" mean in the context of a fly-by-wire aircraft? AA587 is blamed on a pilot's inputs driving a structural capability exceedance in the vertical stabilizer. For reasons such as these, all fly-by-wire aircraft will have some measure of envelope protection whereby pilot inputs projected to exceed aircraft capability will be limited. There is always "interpretation" of pilot inputs involved in fly-by-wire systems. The key is in making available all control power to the pilot that will not result in catastrophic structural failure of the aircraft. And the associated challenges are knowing exactly where those boundaries should be set in the design of the control system, as well as the knowledge of the aircraft state to the flight computers.
Who does profit from it?
Interestingly enough, Minneapolis just upzoned the entire city.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/us/minneapolis-single-fam...