skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you seen any methodology work consistently when dealing with fixed deadlines? The reality when dealing with large contracts, as you mention, is that there are almost always timetables with expectations. This poses an inherant problem due to the unreliability of estimates, so either quality or features must be sacrificed if the timeline is in jeopardy. My only experience in such an environment was using some hybrid waterfall/sprint methodology that mostly worked fine, but i suspect that was more to with the general culture and people involved than anything else.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but don't a lot of the ultra-dense cities have some form of areas of makeshift or very unhealthy living situations? Sao Paulo was a city like this, as are many in ultra dense places in Asia, Tokyo excluded but they built down as well as up and routinely demolish relatively new buildings.

California really does have a major problem now with wildfires and encroachment. I was amazed how fast the Camp Fire moved (an acre a second burnt at one point). There's just no way to really escape something like that. This is why I think building down as well as up is a good idea for many cities, Californian cities may have dinner different issues due to their tectonic activity but it should at least be explored.

I agree with your point regarding density in general. I always find it silly when people say America doesn't have space for more people. We have entire states with less population than some cities. I think improving infrastructure between the "flyover" states and coastal states might be one improvement that's overdue, but I don't know what the best solution would be off the top of my head.
There was two big spikes: three generations ago, FDR and WWII caused the federal government to grow from 5% of GDP to 25% of GDP, and dominate economic regulation, and then two generations ago the Warren Court caused the federal government to dominate social regulation. After FDR, but before Warren, you couldn’t drive oranges between states without federal permission, but you could have prayer in local schools conforming to local values. The latter was arguably a bigger destabilizing force than the former.
I think there is another aspect to your social importance thing. That is that the truth is varied, layered, often contextual. But falsehoods are fixed, easy to understand and remember. They are much easier to conform to socially if all you are using them for is a chat, signaling or shibboleth.
I do wonder if this is what they've released, what does the unreleased footage looks like?
Yep, none of these are new, and the thing about the navy making it standard operating procedure to report these things to get around the stigma of ufo sightings was a story from a month or two ago.

The real reason why this article is newsworthy is about halfway down:

> Lieutenants Graves and Accoin, along with former American intelligence officials, appear in a six-part History Channel series, “Unidentified: Inside America’s U.F.O. Investigation,” to air beginning Friday. The Times conducted separate interviews with key participants.

Happy memorial day, go enjoy some promoted TV.
Why are your managers attending stand up? The Daily Scrum is the team's meeting. I swear Scrum is only fragile because no one reads the bloody book, or if they do they skim it or ignore it.

From the scrum guide... "The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute time-boxed event for the Development Team."

It is the team's event, if there are other people there it should be at their request. The guide goes on to say that.. "If others are present, the Scrum Master ensures that they do not disrupt the meeting."
JVM is very smart about locking. My knowledge is limited but this is a great article. https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/19-lock-elision/
You're 100% right that this is exactly the kind of thing that needs to be tested in various settings to figure out what an optimal setup looks like for different problems. Unfortunately, I had a hell of a time finding actual comparative data with real metrics [1][2]. Pretty sad that 90% of the "research" available is either snake oil or mostly useless comparisons of methodology.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/85d0/00404206914501d26e0bb4...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261047173_Agile_and...
I was just reading on the SpaceX subreddit on how a lot of people are reporting the Starlink satellites as UFO:

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/bso4wt/footage_of_s...
You're right, I mixed those two up. That's a bit too far back for me :)
Well, it’s a year later, and it doesn’t really seem like there’s anything new here. Luis Elizondo (who’s basically Guy Fieri mixed with Fox Mulder) looks and sounds like a crackpot, and keeping this up sure seems like a good way to drive sales of Leslie Kean’s book about UFOs. So I’m really not inclined to believe this is anything really extraordinary, since so little credible, verifiable information has trickled out over the past year.

“The incidents tapered off after they left the United States, the pilots said.”

Yeeaaaah, sorry, but this sounds like complete bullshit to me. And IMO, way below what The NY Times should deliver.
The unsubscribe process is even worse. You have to call them, it's not possible to unsubscribe in the website. Extra fun if you're not from the states.
> Also, let's not forget the context of the post here. The Bose Connect app (at least on iOS) does not demand access to the user's location. They got sued for lesser privacy violation (in my subjective opinion) and rightly so. Any app demanding background location access, especially an app for a pair of headphones is a serious concern, IMO.

I'm not sure you are understanding the feature. It allows you to set profiles for your location automatically. Like if you're at home maybe you care more about ambient noise while cancelling is enabled. Maybe while you're at work you want to dial it down. Yes, you can switch between profiles in other ways but this allows your phone to do it automatically for you. The app does not "demand" access, I wish you'd stop saying this because it is not true. Again if you do not use the feature it, literally, will never ask you for location permissions until you try to turn the feature that requires it on.

> Finally, coming back to the "feature" in question, "Adaptive Sound Control". The feature seems to be built around classifying whether the wearer of the headphones is standing still, or walking or running or using a mode of transport and applying the user selected profile based on the activity. Couldn't this be implemented in a much more efficient manner in hardware with an accelerometer in the headphones? I understand that this would mean a slightly reduced battery life on the headphones for people using the feature, but would be a better trade off, IMO. And yes, decisions like this are a product of a company's design philosophy.

You're wrong here. Maybe try to understand the feature before making a bunch of incorrect assumptions. You think an accelerometer is going to be able to differentiate your work and home location? No. It's a pair of headphones and a feature that has been blown way out of proportion with your strawman. Finally, a feature does not a company's design philosophy make as, again, you assume here with absolutely zero basis to back up your argument. Not only have you failed to show how this feature is ill used by Sony you've also failed to comprehend what it actually is or how it's used.
You have your causality hopelessly backwards. Housing did not become a interesting investment because people chose to invest in it. People chose to invest in it because it was an interesting investment.
You can't download and extract Unix make because of one of these reserved filenames (it's either CON or AUX, can't recall).
So it seems to me we sorted that out almost exactly the right way. Parents are responsible for inculcating religious values into their kids, not school administrators, and we don't pay $5 for an orange†.

Either way: it can't be the case that things were more decentralized and local 2 generations ago and more centralized now, because, well, no, they aren't.

† I don't like oranges and haven't bought one in years so if it turns out we do pay $5 for an orange pretend I said $50, which I'm pretty sure we don't pay.
I didn't use the staging area until I started to use git add -p. Now I use it very often to properly separate mixed changes into more logical commits.

It makes the staging very convenient to use. But without this command, I agree that it is a pain to use.
I think my HN participation is just a function of where I am in life right now, to be honest. (Sandwiched between a demanding job which uses a lot of the same cycles that HN used to use and having a young family.)
That seems to be secret for managers anyway. Always appear eager and motivated and then run away.
Would be an interesting exercise to determine what exposure gp has to GDPR here. Theres no direct relationship to the user, just analysis of publicly accessible content.

Wonder how archive.org fares.
Fist, Huawei will be mostly fine. They have the largest consumer market called China to them. Second, the notion that a company could be "independent" from the government of the countries that they operate in is hard-to-define at best. Google and Microsoft immediately shut down business with Huawei following Trump's order, without concrete evidence that Huawei had done anything wrong. Huawei is just operating under the laws of China, and also US, EU. They are not so different from the likes of Google, Apple, and Microsoft. All this is a tragedy for the 200 thousand Huawei employees and their families, to see the company they built with hard work getting ruined. And if China retaliates, it will create more tragedies for US companies, their employees and families.
its a very successful marketing campaign by the history channel for the show mentioned in the article
Gotta drive that ad revenue somehow!
If something is self-organized, there is no need for all this ceremony and bullshit that comes with capital-A Agile or Scrum. You just shoot the shit and talk about what you're doing.

Stand-ups and all the process attendant appears to be universally imposed from on high as a micromanagement technique, or because they were sold the idea as some kind of silver bullet by a talk or a snake-oil consultant.
> ... was arguably forced by two major wars...

You may want to read more about the impetus behind the formation of the EU, in particular its origins in the European Coal and Steel Community:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Commun...
why would the chinese take the insane risk of testing an experimental drone in US airspace and near US fighters during a training exercise...
I mean it sounds like the game is attracting the type of people who would be attracted to the title, and then sticking around for the challenge. I don't think that's a problem you really need to invest in solving. Eve online has a similar problem with the ability to rob entire months of work with betrayal. Any game where lying can lead to a positive outcome is generally going to encourage a mindset. If your players like the game then it's the niche that you're serving, doesn't seem to be anying wrong with that, they're having fun. My question to you would be are you enjoying running the game and building it, you're there now important person in this.
> I don’t understand why we need these tools when we use semver?

This sounds like "why do we need cooks when we have cooking books".

Semver is a policy/idea. It doesn't actually do anything. Dependabot lets you know about updates and tries to do them for you.
Well, the child will be bored much earlier :-)

For Fermat numbers 2^(2^n) + 1, it is well known that every prime factor should have the form k 2^(n+2) + 1. The sequence (A007117) thus goes like: k = 5 for n = 5 (Euler in 1732, very managable), k = 1071 for n = 6 (Thomas Clausen in 1854) and k = 116503103764643 for n = 7 (only known in 1970 after the modern computer).
Poland files complaint with EU's top court over copyright rule change
I share you sentiment. But I believe his website is an expression of free speech and should not be suppressed.

Perhaps I will use throw away accounts more frequently in future or just post less regularly.
I had come from a Compilers/computer vision and distributed systems background, and just recently I decided I'd quit my job and bootstrap my own little SaaS business. My web development knowledge had basically been stuck in the era of PHP and XmlHttpRequest, so I was in for a huge surprise when I decided to dive into modern day web development. For 3 months I couldn't do anything useful; it's just straight up a lot of fumbling in the dark with lots of alternatives and opinions on how to do something. The most aggravating things I found were the proliferation of tutorials written by beginners, and libraries/frameworks with lots of new terminologies which are just rebranding of existing CS concepts. It's aggravating to me because I made a distinction between knowledge from sciences and knowledge of made up words that won't be relevant in a few years (e.g action reducers, action creators, state store, etc), but in the end I decided to just suck it up and internalize all these words so I can move on with my project. They were useful to someone's project, so surely I could humble myself and learn something from them.

This piece may seem like a satire on the current state of javascript's ecosystem, but as far as I'm concerned it's an accurate portrayal of the pains that one goes through when picking up front-end development from scratch. I can't reproduce my initial development environment from memory even if I wanted to (too many npm dependencies and command line incantations). I've resorted to freezing them in a git repo and forking from it when I want to start a new project. I hope in time I will figure out the bare basics for what I plan to do.

Reflecting on my learning experiences, I think perhaps I would have progressed faster if I had an opinionated mentor who could hide from me the diversity of the ecosystem, or a guide if you will, until I'm ready. Entering web front-end development is just like entering a bazaar with thousands of sellers calling out to you. You wanted to buy a simple woodwork table so you could get on with your home improvement project, but you left the place 8 hours later with a bunch of tools that would be used to build said table instead, and you're nowhere close to getting started on your actual project.

This maybe the beauty of the ecosystem, but getting into it wasn't a pleasant experience for me. Now that I've gone through that phase and can get started on the real work, I hope to spare others the pain with what I've learned.
Just a word of warning, I tried this right now and I'm 55% sure I just broke the arduino. Upload failed, resetting does nothing.
I've had some interesting experiences with SHFileOperationA on Wine. Star Citizen's updater wasn't working properly at one point due to it.
Well, salaries of employees are a fixed cost, so there wouldn't really be any money saved by giving away devices. At least, there'd be no money saved unless the company also then fired all of the engineers that were no longer needed because time didn't have to be spent diligently supporting old android versions.
I don't think I have ever seen it done as badly as some of these comments. Scrum itself is a very light and quite flexible framework, half of the complaints here aren't even Scrum related. User stories aren't part of Scrum, neither are story points or burndown charts.

Of all the people complaining about Scrum it doesn't sound like any of them have read the Scrum Guide. Symptoms of Scrum are not managers pressuring people at stand ups, squeezing 4 weeks of work into 2 and having a "team" of 20 people. These are symptoms of poor leadership.
A New Online Tool Converts FLAC to MP3 Without Uploading Files to the Server
Damn, I see my mum sharing all sorts of right-wing stuff on social media that is obviously fake news designed to spread virally. People are allowed to hold whatever political views they want, but the stuff she's sharing is obviously designed to enrage and cause itself to be spread.
Parents have always relied on the community to help inculcate religious values, just as they do with other kinds of values. Talking religion out of schools, where kids spend most of their waking time, and the public sphere generally, cut the legs out from under a key institution that was integral to the fabric of American society. And in the process it created enormous resentment to the folks who had orchestrated that destruction.

Even when you come to the “right” conclusion, imposing rules on people contrary to their values comes at a high price. In Bangladesh, the liberal elite tried to impose ideas like secular government. The common people pushed back, backing a military dictator that made Islam the official religion. 50 years later, the struggle between the two sides continues. You can’t beat people into believing the right things. There is nothing fundamentally different about Americans. You can impose the right answer on issues ranging from abortion to obscenity (and for the most part, I believe we have), but people will resent you for overriding their community’s choices. The cost of correcting injustice is straining the fabric that binds you together.

(How much does a banana even cost? $5?)
I had a similar experience, where we would spend at a full day every sprint planning the sprint (team of 5).

During the project, it felt like a bit of a waste. We were spending a full 10% of our time on project management. However, looking back, I see that a) it seems to match up with other's experience, and b) it's pretty much the same amount of overhead for project management that the project would have had using any methodology.

At least with the 1-2 days every 2 weeks everyone sees it and it's something you can get better at. I'll take that over magical GANTT charts any day.
Not that we don't enjoy donations, but this project won't go the way of Sinopia.

Trent and I originally forked Sinopia and purposefully made it an organization rather than putting it into an individual's repo. We very intentionally did not want it to become like Sinopia, though early on we couldn't contribute much to it by way of keeping up with pull requests and bug fixes.

Everyone that uses Verdaccio should be really grateful to Juan for the massive amount of work he's put into the project, as well as the other core maintainers over the pass several years. At this point (and for quite a while now) Trent and I have been on the sidelines, still owners of the organization but really more of a fail-safe than anything else. I can't speak to Trent's intentions, but if one day everyone up and left the organization, I would try and at least keep minimal patches going while looking for qualified people to become new maintainers.

That scenario is extremely unlikely, however. Verdaccio has a robust number of core contributors, and Juan has from the start been incredibly dedicated to the project. I imagine it will be around for a long, long time.
The other possibility is some sort of odd but natural atmospheric phenomenon.
The days where we could not write Android 4-compatible apps because the population of Android 2.2 devices was too important to be ignored, are long gone. Android looks much more like iOS now: most people are using a present or past version of a flagship device like Samsung Galaxy or Google Pixel. I don't care if an app does not run on Xing Ling that is 0.0003% of the population.
It's absolutely part of the process... just not something companies always realize they're signing up for, or the degree to which they are, when they initiate projects. One problem is that the cost of cleaning it up can easily exceed the cost of, and benefit from, the work they planned on doing with the data. Another is that sometimes it's a mess (structurally or the company failed to record key data at point of collection that can't be determined after the fact etc.) to the point of being useless in terms of being able to glean meaningful insight from it.

Several of the Data Warehousing projects I've dealt with could be better described as Data Landfills. One can't just dump data into a hole for years, let it rot, and expect goodness when you go back to look at it.
why the hell would aliens take that risk
A bit off topic, but does anyone recognise the USB keyboard shown in the photos?
I think no industry producing anything new ever found a working process to predict and keep the timeline. (If omniscience really existed, it would have more lucrative applications.)

Developing new aircraft, building a new ship, building a custom-designed bridge (most of them are) are processes that often run out of time and / or budget.

If you want predictability, you want repeatability. But in software all reliably repeatable parts become automated away.
Most people never have to deal with this though - I wonder what the % of these figures are things like Smart TV's and various other Android devices.

For the most part it isn't a problem for us - we require Android 6+ and for the phone to have various sensors.

Some of our customers can't afford the latest or greatest Android devices - that's fine - we will do our best to support them.

Could Android do what iOS does? To a degree yes, they would just have to cripple phones forcing people to make the choice between newer software and a slower phone or leaving something that works just fine as it is....
An hour of gardening does this to your body
Sad day for you too. This is a mess!
Wow. It looks like my image and voice were used in this study. I was never contacted.
Dating App Exposes the Monstrous Bias of Algorithms
This is the overblown excuse people use to argue for their preferred changes, when really the environment or requirements usually don’t change, and when they really do then either it’s small and you should still stick to the plan or else it’s big and the need for change is so overwhelmingly self-evident that you don’t need things like Agile slogans to generate motivation or buy-in to change things.

Either way, harping on the idea of “but what if circumstances changed” is mostly just what corporate politicians do to subvert people demanding evidence for the requirement of changes.
I agree. Scrum is training wheels. If your team is mature and knows when to talk to each other then awesome, let the team do what works for them.

I feel like Scrum is for teams that suffer Stockholm syndrome from poor management and need to be taught how to human beings again.
The short answer:

"The 32 is just part of the name and doesn’t mean anything."
-- Raymond Chen

The long answer:

"There are quite a number of existing 32-bit programs that hard-code the System32 path rather than calling the GetSystemDirectory function. When these programs are recompiled for 64-bit Windows, they will still try to access the System32 directory, expecting to find 64-bit files (because the program is now compiled 64-bit). Paths written into configuration files or the registry need to be meaningful to both 32-bit and 64-bit processes, yet need to refer to the appropriate directory depending on the “bitness” of the program doing the asking."

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-m...

Basically System32 is the system directory regardless of the bitness of the OS. What matters is the bitness of the program being executed. If a 32bit program accesses System32 on a 64bit machine, it's silently redirected to a folder containing 32bit libraries.
This title does not match what is in the article at all. It's about the race to first, not the technology in general.
What is your source of email leads? That is, how do you know of 1000-2000 new people each week whom you know you can help with a problem they are struggling with?