skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you elaborate, what does “effective feature size” mean in the context of process technology?
chief among them is the high cost of hiring the wrong person, or missing out on the right one.

As a hiring manager, I've never cargo culted this particular view. In fact I think it's completely misguided. I always work in at-will states, it's trivially easy to let someone go. I also personally have no problem doing it.

I generally will hire based on conversation alone (no coding tests). If you ask someone detailed questions about work a candidate has done you can get a really good idea if they know what they're talking about. I know people say that they've interviewed people that can talk a good game but can't code a for loop once in the door, but I've interviewed hundreds of people and I can't say this is often the case.

Easy in, easy out. You know what though? There's very rarely ever the out part. If I can look at your Github, like what I see and you can back that up in a conversation, you're hired. That has worked out really well for me and reduces a lot of friction and wasted time (mine and other engineers') during the hiring process.

The moral of my story is that just because Google or some other tech giant espouses a theory like "false positives are way more costly than false negatives", it doesn't mean it works for all organizations or that it's even true at all.
While it might not be relevant to this particular issue (though it might, I didn’t dig too deeply), there’s a long standing history of running everything inline with Apache. I mean look at mod_php... sure we’ve all (hopefully) learned our lesson there, but it’s a hell of a hole to dig back out of as long as things keep working.

It’s one of the reasons I’m always suspicious any time I run into a company that runs Apache rather than nginx or one of the many other alternatives. There is absolutely nothing wrong with running Apache, but it always makes me wonder exactly why they are... is it because they’ve got this one app that won’t run on anything else because of crap like this? More often than not...
The problem I've seen with this approach is when issues cross org boundaries and have externalities.

Say the event subsystem is shared or is under control of another group. They do maintenance, and the app doesn't restart and stays down because it had bad retry logic and won't retry after the connection is closed. Stupid bug, easy fix.

You're now hobbling that other group from doing their work, and depending on the discipline of the app team to fix it, and that bug may stay in the backlog a long time. Meanwhile, it's going to come up in a handful of meetings with a handful of people as it gets estimated, prioritized, assigned, touched again and again...

Coming to someone after diagnosing and helping them recover from a problem, only to be told "we're busy, come back three weeks from now" sucks.
I've been there too! What a night!

The best part was when he grabbed the mike and said something to the effect of "this is my 909, I take it everywhere I go" and the crowd went crazy.

I got to hang out at the venue before and after the show through some record label connections. They put a special Funktion One sound system in just for that night (total, unnecessary overkill for the small venue). During soundcheck, I was standing alone next to Jeff in the middle of the dancefloor looking at the decor and listening. I was too scared to strike up a conversation, just didn't even know what to say.
(4) Is the reason I do buy ebooks sometimes. If I know I'll never read the book again (paperback sci-fi usually), I'm more than happy to trade rights for convenience.
Ethiopia says pilots followed Boeing guidance before crash
> This is patently false, and particularly turntablists know it. There are several ways to match beats that are hard for computers (e.g. 3 over 4), or manually swinging the beat (computers don't have the funk), particularly to match a live band or instrument.

Actually the main reason I switched to Ableton was because it was much easier to match music that isn't quantised because I started to throw in a lot of rock, metal and industrial sounds into my techno sets. What I wanted was long mixes with such tracks and while I could "drop" non-dance tracks in with vinyl, the effect wasn't as polished nor as sympathetic to the techno sound I was trying to achieve. This is in spite of me already being an accomplished multi-deck DJ who was competent with mixing different time signatures and other quirky tracks that many others might avoid.

I do still love my decks though. It's not an "either / or" for me. I'd alternate between the different formats depending on the gig and the sound I wanted to create.

> I understand why people like Ableton, but don't pretend it's not limiting to expressivity

Limiting in some ways, liberating in others. Vinyl has it's own limiting factors too. They're just different tools with different advantages and disadvantages. Saying one is better than the other is purely a subjective opinion based on the DJing style of the person arguing it.
mate, i don't get 12 weeks of vacation each year. only five. this method basically requires to be pinned down in labor contracts. this also basically transforms a 40 hour week into a 36 hour week.

but i suspect this schedule is still going to be difficult for people in relationships. it would be nice for me though.

the premise is right though: scrum is bad. as a developer always argue against estimations and so on. after much bickering we succeeded in getting rid of them here.
Does it make any difference when US companies are participating in PRISM anyway?
Then you simply take a loan out from the MTA fund. The same way our lottery monies are allocated towards education, but find their way to fund various pension funds.

Perhaps this new fee will be used to fund MTA’s pension liabilities, and the current spending on pensions gets allocated to food stamps.

New money never goes to where it’s said it’s supposed to go. That’s because government funding is a Ponzi scheme.
This part is concerning:

> Apache's team has been prompt to respond and patch, and nice as hell. Really good experience. PHP never answered regarding the UAF.
I would love a Tesla if they were 50% cheaper.

I used to think that the big car companies weren't able to bring a competitive EV to market because they were bigger than Tesla and bogged down in layers of management.

Now I'm wondering if Tesla was just over marketed and overly ambitious entering the market and if these later entry EVs from main stream car companies in the next few years will be just as good at a fraction of the price.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not comparing the price of EVs, but the price of a Tesla vs the price of a traditional gas-powered car. If I was only willing to buy an EV, then yes Tesla looks like a great deal.
Rubbish? You mean like keeping the web working and making sure URLs never die? Not everything needs to be upgraded to the latest hot thing. HTTPD is proven & stable; this is a rare bug.
No no no!

Agile has never been about predicting what you will do during a spent and then having slack or crunch time. Agile is about ranking your work by priority and dependency, setting meaningful milestones, and then adjusting your estimates frequently to avoid false promises and react to changes in the environment. If you don't finish planned work in a sprint, that is a planning success because after only a brief 2-4 week delay you actually know your performance against estimate and got clear information about how much you can do in a month, and a better chance at estimating what you can deliver next month.
This project should be called Scrum Lite. Agile software development is a philosophy, not a process or prescription.
Great question! There are lots of great beginner books out there, but if I had to pick three:

1) "A First Book of Morphy" by del Rosario -- takes the very well-considered principles of GM Reuben Fine and illustrates them with [mostly] Paul Morphy's games. Of all the books I've ingested on the subject of chess, this one has stuck with me most. Even my kid loves it!

2) "Winning Chess Strategy for Kids" by Coakley -- it's not just for kids! And it's not just strategy! Covers fundamental tactical concerns such as pins, forks, etc in a straightforward way. Similar in some regards to Pandolfini's "Weapons of Chess" but pedagogically superior in my view.

3) "Silman's Complete Endgame Course" by Silman -- the old saw that one should study the endgame first is pretty true -- Silman is the best at teaching it -- man, if I had a dollar for every game I was winning in the middlegame and then lost in the endgame, I'd have... well, a lot of dollars

cheater extra:
3.5) "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" -- the old standby -- this is a tactics book first and foremost, and the main value of it is that it gives you puzzles of gradually increasing complexity so that you can really feel your comprehension improving and say to your self, "I'm getting it!" Truth is that getting discouraged is the thing that stalls or scares off many / most novice chessplayers

When you start getting up in the 1100-1300 range, pick up "My System" by Nimzowitsch and "How to Reassess your Chess" by Silman, "Soviet Middlegame Technique" by Romanovsky -- and after then, start learning openings in more detail. The biggest mistake most beginners make, including me, is building up a repertoire of openings before having a solid grasp of the fundamentals. Truth is, below 1300, most players are "off book" by the ~tenth move anyway, so learning the intricacies of the Nimzo-Indian isn't gonna do a person much good at that stage.
Their platform, their voice. It's not part of public domain. Unreasonable outrage from the HN crowd.
For analogies, look to the craft beer industry. You get a sort of "we are going to start a very similar underpriced brand, or invest in you, or buy you outright, which do you prefer?" From the mega competitor.
Aside from being a blatant marketing attempt, you should seriously stop overusing hashtags like this outside of Twitter.
Coincidentally this came up in a conversation with a friend recently, where we drew parallels between the way hallucinogens cause normally disconnected parts of the brain to interact and how the internet has done the same for global society.

From a certain perspective, the noospehere is currently tripping balls on social media.
I'd love to know how they're apparently fit more glyphs in a font than can fit in a font. The opentype specification only allows up to a USHORT worth of glyph ids, and 65335 ids is nowhere near enough to index even just all 137993 currently assigned code points.
While I quite like the concept, I think there's something of a catch 22 here.

'Fact-based' generally implies 'lesser impact', it's way easier to catch eyeballs with fakes and click-bait than with better stories, and part of the fake news issues is that professional success in journalism is dependent on impact, not on accuracy (a similar thing goes on in academia).

You'll have to figure out a way to increase the impact of writers with more accuracy (less negative fact checks maybe?) by promoting them in some shape or form. Have you considered top writers scoreboards or something similar?
Shame me all you want, I'm not biking my commute in 90/20 degree weather with a backpack full of stuff including a laptop and no reasonable way to listen to music when I have such a comfortable SUV-type car.
There are probably different rules for wholesale or commercial deliveries.
As an European, I would rather get spied on by the US than by China.
"commitments" do not exist in Agile. Agile was created to remove commitments and insert collaboration in it's place.

You don't have to make big promises when your client has ongoing clear visibility into your progress.
Note that the desktop version of the site has a transcript. For some reason it doesn't show up in the mobile version.
> Taxis and Ubers are forms of public transportation, and likely reduce the overall number of cars on the road

The charge is levied on private transport and Ubers et cetera. It's unlikely to shift demand from Ubers to private vehicles.

On the risk of regressive taxation, I agree. But it's a risk, not a certain outcome. Properly varying the charge throughout the day will incentivize deliveries when the roads are less crowded. Better utilizing our freight rail infrastructure may also dampen the effect.

> The failings of the subway and train infrastructure is due to mismanagement on the part of the MTA

The MTA is a complicated problem. Part of it is high labor costs due to inefficient labor use. Part of it is conservatism with train speeds. Part of it is chronic under-funding.

The congestion charge makes little sense as a way to fund the MTA. It does make sense as a counterbalance to the negative externalities traffic congestion creates.
VC dollars per capita 2017 – 1. Massachusetts 2. California 3. DC
Look up oil and gas decline curves and you'll see that a faster declining oil production means you'll get a lot less oil out of the ground over the next 10 and 20 years.

And given a reasonable discount rate of 6% mean oil in 10 years is worth half of oil today and oil in 20 years is worth a quarter.

You also run into efficiency issues. Running a high volume rig much more expensive than running a low volume rig.
>You can convey this by only submitting a single choice on your ballot (a powerful tactic in AV)

Yeah, but then you run the risk of a Trump getting elected in an election between Trump, Hillary, and Bernie, where you really want Bernie, and you really don't like Hillary at all, but you'll still take her any day over the utter disaster that is Trump.

This is why AV isn't that great: all they have to do is put up a truly revolting candidate to scare voters into voting for the not-as-revolting candidate, and she gets elected because there's no way for voters to express a clear preference.
Uses Webpack for builds and React for rendering. Easy to configure and modify.
>Don't do sprints. Have a continuous backlog. Don't do overtime. Don't make estimates. Always do the simplest thing. Only ever do the most important thing, as defined by the stakeholder.

The problem with this is that the stakeholder might not understand what simple means. It happens here all the time.

We get "simple" requests for verbiage changes, but after reviewing the story, the verbiage request isn't universal. It only applies to certain offerings, and the stakeholders only want the verbiage the be applied after a certain step in the application. This is still a relatively simple change, but when factoring in all the other "simple" requests that involve complex logic, changing displayed text becomes relatively complex.

We do sprints because it's our time box to see how close we are to hitting the mark. A sprint isn't a hard deadline in which the team must kill themselves to get everything finished. It's an arbitrary passage of time for setting goal to keep on track with what is going to be released. If you have something that's releasing two months into the future, it's easy to say that you can still make time although your first two weeks were riddled with unexpected complications and stoppages. A sprint forces us to focus on what should have already been completed to re-prioritize if necessary. And you can't feasibly do that without an estimation.

The two biggest problems with estimations are underestimating and treating estimations as promises. It's hard to estimate. So the best course of action is to make stories as small as possible. Probably smaller than someone would consider rational. If not, at least have the stories divided into individual tasks or chunks. Then once you have estimations, treat them as goals rather than deadlines. Use your sprint review as a time to honestly reflect on why the estimation was missed. Then, and this is critical to successfully estimating in the future, use the notes of reflection to make better estimates.
so cool, really amazing :)
> We have congestion pricing ... and it just works.

Please, could you explain with a bit more detail what you mean with "it just works"?
The daft thing is there are plenty of alternative names they could have taken, that are genuinely idle accounts, and arguably better names:

sussexroyals (there are two of them after all)
thesussexroyals (more grammatically correct)
thesussexes (as they are commonly referred to in the press)
harryandmeghan (has only posted once since Dec 2017)
meghanandharry (ladies first!)

and so on...
While I agree these are services people pay taxes for, Police mostly target the poor, fire departments are stationed closest to the wealthier neighborhoods, emergency services are generally better in wealthier areas, and public transportation in most of the US is generally poor, airline travel being the only thing worse. It's hard to convince someone who isn't of means that raising taxes on them is somehow of benefit to them. We'd be far better forcing companies to pay and freeing up the market for more people to work from home. That would actually solve the congestion issues without punishing the people who can't afford it.
> It’s well established that Uber and lyft INCREASE the amount of cars

>> Our findings provide evidence that after entering an urban area, ride-sharing services such as Uber significantly decrease traffic congestion time, congestion costs, and excessive fuel consumption. To further assess the robustness of the main results, we perform additional analyses including the use of alternative measures, instrumental variables, placebo tests, heterogeneous effects, and a relative time model with more granular data. We discuss a few plausible mechanisms to explain our findings as well as their implications for the platform-based sharing economy.

[0] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2838043
This speaks to me. You said this much better than I did. What bugs me about a lot of developers is that they can't see the forest from the trees.
So this differs from regular citations in that:

1) only primary sources are accepted
2) the claim and primary source must be verified by a community of fact checkers

Definitely happy to chat though, will send you an email!
I really breathed more often than every 4 when 500m was my best event, is breathing that often really the common consensus?
Concern over Singapore's anti-fake news law
From my personal point of view networking is everything or at least 99%.

I want to share my experience with you since I hold the people in this forum in high regard. Not paying attention to this "social" issues has deeply affected my career and now I'm at a point where there are few opportunities left for me (mainly due to age, mid 30s now). I really need some help now as I don't know how to turn my life around, this is very important for me as I have a wife + daughter that expect me to be their primary provider. Any good intended advice to improve on this will be greatly appreciated.

I prefer to be an introvert (but I am not shy) person and do not rapidly establish strong relationships with the people around me. I am the kind of person that has 3 or 4 friends at most, goes to work, does what it needs to do without much fanfare and goes back home to sleep/read. I've been like this since I was in high school. This was a personal choice back then, my reasoning was: "study hard, work hard and the rest will come to you".

I come from a low-middle class family that made themselves from the ground, as a result, work ethics are very deeply ingrained in my principles. I have never failed to deliver what I promise on a school or work related environment. I do not mean to offend anyone with this but I have to say it just to further clarify my situation: I do not have any physical or mental disabilities, I dress appropriately, I'm white (although not American/European) and I do not behave in an awkward manner.

Not paying attention to networking while I was in school and at previous jobs has severely limited my options for professional development. I almost never get good job offers, promotions or even proper acknowledgement for the things I do. They mostly go to people around me, some of whom severely lack what's needed for the job, mainly due to their closeness to someone at HR, got tipped off by some friend, ... you get the idea. As a result of this, despite having done everything "good", my career really never took off. I'm stuck in the same kind of developer job as I had 10 years ago. Now the walls are closing in since people raise an eyebrow when they see my age, I cannot just go and hunt for jobs as easily as I could five years ago. Right now, I'm at a terrible company and I truly hate my current job () I don't want to go in detail as I'm really not like that). I cannot just leave since I have bills to pay and also because I'm scared of not finding anything else. I know almost no-one in the industry and my few friends have different ways of life.

I would like to read some practical advice on how may I expand my reach to (hopefully) find better job prospects. Among other things, I tried to join some related meetups in my area, but honestly they are mostly made up of people who take it as a hobby (not that there's anything wrong with that). I truly don't know what else I could do.
You’re being sarcastic, right? What is the signal you’re trying to send by admitting to choosing one of the most unreliable car brands on the market?
NYC Congestion Fees May Succeed Where Bridge Tolls Have Failed
Absolutely! And as long as those delivery trucks, taxis, etc. pay the congestion pricing, it'll get priced into their services too.
> Local laws require off-street parking from businesses and housing developers, who pass on the construction cost of it to tenants and customers who may not drive at all.

I'd love to see the tenents stay in business with a dirt road out front. Or a pasture that no cars can pass through.

They're not doing us any favors. They're keeping themselves in business.
Senior citizens love this plan.
A very good video that explains the effects of lead and puts it into a great context is Chubbyemu's. I used to know about the dangers of it but seeing a situation in details really brings home how dangerous it can be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHxEjINCAg
For my projects we end up embedding the fonts with base64. Much more manageable https://amio.github.io/embedded-google-fonts/
That is what I do. Have a daily rate, but can bill half a day.

I don't really do classic 'projects', I'm more an ops guy having seen/experienced the dev side too, and profiled myself as being a bridge between those 2 sides that don't always fully understand each other. At a client I'm usually involved in multiple projects and 'the bigger picture'.

You cannot place an estimate on 'fixing' stuff like that, and it also hugely depends on the internal politics. My contracts are usually for 3-months, and can be extended 3 months at a time, which define a daily rate, state a day is 8 hours, and I can bill a maximum of 40 hours/week. Contractually I cannot terminate the contract, only the client can - but I can simply decide to stop working for a client, and simply don't bill them until the contract expires.

This allows me the flexibility to work for multiple clients, bill half days, work when I want, and can stop working for someone if I decide it's not working out for some reason.
Sure, you're entitled to your opinion.

Proxies are useful. Reality is complicated. I'm fine with being 80% right.

Companies don't maximize fairness, they maximize profit – as they should.

If you want fairness, go run a non-profit.
So some combination of tax money and tolls/congestion pricing seems to make the most sense from this usage based angle.

No, it doesn't. Paying through general revenue doesn't make any sense at all. Congestion pricing is beautiful because only the people who use it will pay it, and that includes your examples. People who take Ubers or order something online or get food delivery will still pay congestion pricing, but they'll pay through increased prices.

We will end up paying some combination of tax money and tolls/congestion pricing, but it most certainly doesn't make the most sense.