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It's many years since I read this but I seem to remember the original impetus for agile was an internal software development team having a mix of longer term goals, and then lots of reactive work/support. Possibly the latter making up the majority.

It was a way to bring some sense of order to what was chaos: new requests coming in all the time, work being dropped partway through to deal with the new requests, little progress on any front.

I think agile works really well in this kind of context by bringing in a sense of discipline and keeping new work at bay until the beginning of the next cycle[1]. It can also help to keep teams delivery focussed in other contexts but, key point, does not obviate the need for additional planning outside the sprint/iteration framework.

The problem really occurs when people treat agile as sufficient on its own, or as the one project management tool to rule them all. Total nightmare, especially with multiple teams involved.

[1] How workable this is in practice is open to question: I can tell you it's not always a great approach in an environment where client projects typically last a few days and on time delivery has been known to depend on a critical bug fix for a legacy codebase. Especially problematic when requests come in either during the launch phase, because there's usually a fairly hard window, or during the reporting phase, because there's a delivery deadline looming.
Are you including all products that work, but no longer receive updates?
Because yes, MS-DOS 1-6 ate no longer supported, windows 1.0-3.11, qbasic,...

All those would still work btw. You just wouldn't get updates / newer versions of them.

But if you're talking about services that rely on online servers it seems different. And these are services that no longer work once the plug is pulled.

For MS the list I can pull from memory is far shorter. In fact, i only remember Zune. I bet i missed several, but more than Google?
Sure, you points seems valid. We will implement them to improve the product.
> all you can usually find online are snippets

I haven't looked too closely, but what's this then:

https://120minutes.tylerc.com/
From my very vague memory, Reader Rabbit was one such game that was unplayable at a higher CPU frequency.
Lottery takings should go to help paying for welfare
Hi!

Not at the moment but both are planned. Webhooks will come first as this facilitates, even more, the integration between other systems.

Thanks!
Which payment method is best for international transfer money?
To send an worldwide money transfer online, all you need is a web connection. From there, it's easy. Just determine if you'd want to send cash as an ACH transfer – using your financial institution account – or if you'd prefer to send with your debit or credit score card.
And here I am freaking about an uncompressed js payload of 300k for an entire app... 4+MB just feels crazy.
He is a sports-star of bullshit. He's not the best by a long shot, I have better in my own family, he's not got the vocabulary to play a wide field for one thing, but he is in the leagues.

edit - just reading the news this morning. He is perhaps further up the leagues than I thought.
> But what if someone gambles away their {salaried | welfare | annuity | retirement | pension} income, or has it scammed from them? Tough luck, back to the streets?

Either people are treated like adults and manage their own finances, or we are all wards of the state to some degree.
Even for Pixel 3, the free unlimited storage with original resolution is till Jan 31, 2022.
I wonder what happens to photos stored after that.
Downgraded and resized?

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?co=GENIE.Pl...
Asynchronous team chat built on JMAP
I didn't realize they killed chromecast audio. Pretty frustrating. I may not have committed so much to their echosystem in Dec.
Remember that that price also included commission from UBER, so you were already offering him 25-35% extra.
I still remember trying to clean my mouse ball between rounds. The dread you feel being in CT spawn, with your ball in your hand and a T coming around the corner...
> while the proponents of the second approach say that it's a false dichotomy, giving money to a poor family without access to healthcare or education is likely to increase the gap between rich and poor, educated and uneducated, etc. So the current cycle we're trying to break, will become more vicious

Which is a silly argument, because anyone who needs those things and is given the equivalent money can use it to buy them.

Indeed, it gives them less opportunity because it deoptimizes what they can use the money for. If you need education, there are merit-based scholarships. There are creative solutions like your father taking a job as a janitor at a university where the children of full-time staff pay no tuition. Or getting a two year degree at a community college which gets you a lower middle class job instead of minimum wage which gets you enough money to pay for a bachelor's degree over a few years in night school. And then you can take the government money as money, save it up and use it to start your own business.

But if the money has to be used for school, then you use it for school, any ingenious alternative method of paying for school is for naught, and you graduate still poor and have to take the first job offer you receive in the rat race because as soon as you get kicked out of the dorms you immediately need first and last month's rent plus the security deposit.
I agree. The idea that there are people who are leaches on the welfare state is an idea that only rings true for a minority of recipients. Although this doesn't mean there isn't room for reform, this kind of thinking seems a little misguided.
It would probably be more useful to study primitive tribes and see how long they sit per day to see what our bodies might be adapted to.

I also find it hard to believe that people can sit for less than 3 hours per day consistently, given commute times as well.

You'd have to be doing manual labor on your property from sun up to sun down and only sit from sun down until bedtime to get close to 3hrs.
The trouble is some of those children will take that educational face value and be confused that things aren’t actually as described. Educational materials are always sugar coated, sometimes more, sometimes less. Some people who realise they’ve been lied to find this quite disturbing, others treat it as the educational lesson it is. Educators are much more motivated to look good to administrators, parents and other adults than to help children. Helping children gives them a feeling of having helped and of professional satisfaction, looking good in front of people with power can make a real difference to their likelihood of having a job next year.
As a developer you cannot expect that the technology you learned at university will be used forever ( or actually at all) in your professional life. Schools are supposed to teach you enough of the fundamentals to be able to adapt and learn the tech du jour on your own.

The sooner your students learn that lesson the better.
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I remember the first time I was in awe of storage capabilities was roughly 2003 when someone sent me a screenshot of his pirated porn collection, it was in the hundreds of TBs, at that point already, mostly stored on Disc spindles. I often wonder if he's stopped accumulating at some point.

In /r/datahoarders people are abusing Google Drive Quotas for the same purpose, but the capital required doesn't remotely compare to what it seems some people are willing to invest.
I sent a message to their support about ten minutes ago asking for a refund, and their chat has been stuck on "The Agent is typing" since I asked.
Did pre-digital cameras kill people?

Because dumb cars with dumb humans in them kill far more than self driving cars do.
Ok one large business customer then. :). I kind of want to see the lawyers go at it over this.
A war? Are the Russians at the border of Death Valley? How many tanks do they have? Have shots already been fired? What do the presidents say?

It's headlines like these which are the reason you can't or should not really give a fuck about news anymore. There's only exaggerations, hype and bloated stories left in news. I don't even want to read the article when it's using a headline like this.
Have you been to Europe lately?
It will probably be about the same - for the performance you percieve on Android the CPU isn't as important (unless you run games). Storage performance is the one that makes all the difference - and Pixel 3a's eMMC storage is showing pretty much the same numbers as the original Pixel.
I guess because the rich are 1% of the population and if they play video games all day nothing bad happens, but if 99% of the population did the same, society would collapse.

I'm not saying this is fair, not saying the parent post is right, but motivating people to do useful things for society after an UBI would be a concearn.
Or that people using Gsuite wont be able to perform certain actions because ... reasons? My Google home hub is still pretty useless since they don't allow some features.
China hasn't been a single govt or people, they have had very different ones over time, of course many different regional languages over time before the 20th centry. They aren't one single culture than went x thousand years. Of course they do have an ancient and proud culture with many achievements and led the world at various times but they weren't just one group. Just like there were dozens maybe 100s of different political entities and countries and philosophies going from Greeks to Rome to modern America and European countries. There wasn't one continuous 'people' for more than 2k years there either.
The camera still works if you disable privacy bits on your Google account.
I think it’s very similar to shutting down Reader, which I’ve long believed was killed in a vain attempt to force adoption of G+.
There are a number of other commercial and free desktop automation tools that exist, some of which I've used to automate GUI testing in the past.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_GUI_testing_to...

My favorite on the Windows side was vTask Studio, but it looks like the domain is down and the link was removed from that wiki page.
I do believe you're correct. I've run searches for the last few months and came up with nothing. Hate when I can't figure something out. Thanks.
How is this different from Linq/EntityFramework for C#? Seems pretty similar at first.
Well they are living on government money already, so a UBI wouldn't change much for them or for how they burden society.

You will always have freeloaders. But it will work if it is only very few of them. It will be much more important to provide somewhat fulfilling jobs to people to encourage working. Because working in a coal mine sucks but having a passion-driven career is actually fun and rewarding.
They can then apply to the potatoes + a bunk bed plan.
I have also voted with my money for IKEA Trådfri and am quite happy with it. Light bulbs, motion sensors, remote controls. Everything connected to zigbee coordinator and controlled with simple node red flows. And good thing is that list of supported devices is longer than any other single vendor with option to expand it by your self.

Baby starts moving in bedroom, light bulb flashes in kitchen.

Sonos stopped supporting remote control, no problem, map IKEA remote controller to start/stop Sonos playback.

https://nodered.org

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io

https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/information/supported_devices.htm...

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/lighting/smart-lighting/
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There's one thing you don't mention and it is very important for overall device performance: storage speed.

3a has a cheaper eMMC storage which is showing numbers closer to the original Pixel. Pixels 2 and 3 have faster UFS storage so they'll probably run a bit smoother.
Yes, and the twitter link above suggests that this is already used for tracking in the wild.

That being said, if one is THAT worried about tracking then one should not be on the modern web, and should probably stick to using Lynx over TOR.
is the shortage of meds due to the embargo, or to a general disastrous state of the economy?
If you’re willing to live with the consequences of not conforming you can not conform all you like. If you don’t want to conform you can move to a community that supports that. San Francisco puts a lot of effort into supporting people who enjoy defecating in public for example, and you see the same thing in other US West Coast cities too, though they aren’t quite as far along.
It's not just the transfer... It's the compile, load and perceived speed. 1mb compressed and gzipped can be a hundred MB parsed and in memory. Which isn't bad on a modern mid level desktop, but it's crazy on a lower end smart phone.

There are also other factors to consider. I'm not huge in premature optimization, but damn.
Also, there is another scenario. Let's say the rules allow to change the vote later. A voter votes for candidate X and gets a link that allows to verify that the vote is recorded. But several hours later the server software re-votes for candidate Y. If the voter bothers to check results after election, they will find that their vote was altered. But the voter has no proof that they didn't vote for candidate Y, and election officials have server logs that prove that the voter has voted two times. So probably the voter is just lying because they don't want to accept the fact that candidate Y is supported by 99% of population.

And one more scenario: before closing the elections, officials can make a list of people who didn't vote and vote for them. If they didn't vote they probably don't care about elections and won't find out that someone voted for them.
Why is Google completely unable/unwilling to do global roll-outs of their phones like everybody else does? Is it a production capacity problem or some sort of weird marketing strategy
Do you think there might also be some people who are currently working in a job that's not really the optimal use of their time, who would be able to substantially improve their lives with the help of a basic income? What do you think about the proportion between these two groups?
It's a small site. Not a concern.
Yes, those companies are a thread. Our leaders in the us think because we are christians or something god chose us to have military power. In reality, we have economic power that let the us have the ability to get all this military power. The source of the ability (economic might) seems to be almost deliberately being reduced at this time by a certain leader.
Thanks for sharing this link. I have been an avid Sudoku fan and am really glad I found Ken-Ken
Woah, I was really considering a Nest (I use Hass.io for many things, lighting at sunset, reading energy meter and my home energy usage), I'm very glad I didn't purchase one yet.

One more reason to go for a completely-in-my-lan solution.
I think it will stick around as long as it is the way the iOS Mail app connects
Ask HN: How many customer/user interviews are enough?
Few days back I asked this same question, but it went into ether on this forum; hence asking again as this is, I think, fundamental to customer development. Sorry for the repost. The original question was:

When evaluating an idea how many customer interviews are enough to make a decision in favour or against the idea? Does it just depend on duration of the evaluation period or the number of total prospective customers interviewed, or both? How many customer interviews are enough and for how long should the idea evaluation phase last?

Thank you!
UBI isn't necessarily the cause because there's just no guarantee they would better themselves without UBI. You might think they would get jobs if UBI didn't exist, but they might just move in with family or friends instead, or start getting in relationships just for economic purposes. Or maybe start dealing (and/or doing) drugs.
After a lot of failed experiments trying to get my film production team first on Keybase, then Matrix I gave up and surrendered to email.

I was faffing about for a team communication platform that doesn't require a user to install an app or register and found Topicbox by the same people at Fastmail.

It's a prettified listserv that runs on top of the JMAP email protocol, so between this and Delta Chat [1] I have a decentralized, robust communications platform that everyone already has access to.

[1] https://delta.chat
That is only in the terms for the managed offerings though, which I'd assume, is not what you'd be looking into.
None of that - the photos uploaded at "original" quality after that date will start counting towards your Drive quota.

Same as what happens when you switch to another non-Pixel phone.
Should try all your Dev and browsing on a 2gb low end Chromebook, and last gen lower end phone for a couple months. Then see how you feel about it all.
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Not giving you free GB of storage on their servers forever is a "cheap move" for 400$ phone?
What about TIGA? http://people.cs.aau.dk/~adavid/tiga/
Yep, also no security features like the Titan M chip (it's effectively a Yubikey on device).
Define "optimal use".

Giving someone no-strings-attached money to someone will sure improve their lives, at least for a short moment.
UBI is contingent on enough people not being on the dole. There is a balance between everyone getting 0 and everyone getting Ferraris. There will always be net-negative contributors, but as long as the net societal good is positive, it's worth it.
You're forgetting the structural flaws in the existing welfare system.

The way things are right now, if you qualify for benefits, you can get thousands of dollars a year in free stuff. If you take any full time job, you immediately lose most of the benefits.

If you give people the choice between free stuff where they can do whatever they want all day vs. working 40 hours to get substantially the same thing, no kidding there aren't a lot of takers for the option to work full time in exchange for what amounts to a gain of only around $5000/year.

The point of a UBI being universal is that you don't get that perverse incentive. There is no means testing, you don't lose the benefit from taking the job, so a job that pays $20,000/year after taxes gives you $20,000 in additional money, not $5000 because taking the job costs you $15,000 in benefits.
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> When do we stop?

Sometime after we stop mining fossil fuels, I hope.
> "The video states that 60% of the wealth in the U.K. is inherited"

I hate statements like this because they are completely misleading. other similar ones like "top 1 % controls ~50 % of wealth" etc.

This goes by networth. Imagine this, there are about 20 million college students, nearly all of then have a negative net worth. By that logic, if you hand a homeless person a single $ bill, they 'control' the wealth of at least 20 million Americans. you can add in tons of americans who have a positive net worth to make up for all that negative net worth. Its an absurd way of thinking. its especially problematic since most net worth is paper net worth (stocks that not even the owners can really touch).

Surely someone who just graduated college and has 100k negative net worth is far better off than a starving person in a desert, distended belly and all.
Expert systems are AI. (and some of us are salty about statistics creeping overreach on terminology).

It seems to me that HN might not be too frequented hy people who work with symbolic AI, but expert systems and semantic tools are very, very deeply connected. In fact, semantic technologies are derived from work on expert systems, and using JESS with RDF store was part of my coursework at university.
It is really mind-bogging how fast processors are these days. A few days ago I read the marketing copy for the iPad Pro on the Apple website, where they said that their neural processor can perform more than five trillion operations per second. Initially I thought they translated it wrong from English to German (one trillion is "eine Billion" in German), but I rechecked it and it seems correct and actually makes sense for a highly parallel architecture that runs at a few GHz per second. Granted it costs more than $1 (though the production cost without factoring in R&D might actually be in that range) but it's still amazing that you can just carry such a thing around in your pocket.
Is it ok for parents to provide free roof and food for their kids?
Following the link in your readme to davywtf's twitter post, I saw this comment by dade:

>I remember last year, and probably the year before that, and probably the year before that still, people continually rediscover CSS keylogging. Glad to see something more interesting this time. Good work.

Following up on this, I found an article[0] claiming that it isn't really an issue since a pure CSS keylogger can only catch one character. It seems to me like your method of pseudo-refreshing the page by making old elements hidden and delivering new elements to replace them might be able to overcome this impediment, which would make your on-screen keyboard unnecessary; if I understand correctly, you could just keep capturing whatever the user types in a field, and deliver a new field that already has whatever they've typed already as the default value with autofocus on. Do I understand correctly? Is there something I'm missing, like autofocus not playing well with continuous chunks of data being delivered? I'm not saying you should put in the additional effort to do this for your beautiful-horrible-clusterfuck of a project, I'm just curious about the feasibility and thought you might already know the answer.

[0]: https://www.bram.us/2018/02/21/css-keylogger-and-why-you-sho...
There are smaller/faster ready like libraries such as preact and inferno btw. React does offer a lot of advantages though mostly for diagnostic purposes for developers.
This is crazy talk.

> The US will enjoy the maximum military gap about 20 years from now and this will provide a huge incentive to perform a decapitation strike. Would this be palatable to the US population? Only if it can be demonstrated that the collateral damage would be insignificant. Is that possible? What do you need to do?

A decapitation strike couldn't be debated. It would have to be done. The US population would only accept it--and only in part, as some segments would never accept it--as a fait accompli if there were zero US casualties, few foreign civilian casualties, no/minimal residual health risks, and limited reputational damage to the US. I highly doubt any, let alone all, could be accomplished with a nearly sufficient degree of confidence, even with groundbreaking missile defense systems.

The risks of miscalculation are staggering, and the immorality of attempting or even seriously considering (as a policymaker) such a "decapitation strike" in the current or foreseeable future global context is indisputable.
> Why is it okay for rich people to receive free money but not everyday people?

Because consent of the giving person is present in the inheritance case but not in case of the government redistribution?
Ha, at first I thought "cornstalks" was a new slang reference for Googlers and was just over my head.
Part of the argument for UBI is that with increasing automation it doesn't make sense to force everyone into a job anymore. If you buy into that then not working and doing what you want (e.g. video games) is actually how the system is intended to function. Obviously, that argument only makes sense if you believe that we can automate away a sufficient number of jobs.
There's more CPU time across 1000 users' browsers than on the server. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to minimize your load at both ends.