skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The videos in the article are Gimbal[1] and Go Fast[2]. The incident that occured in 2004 is FLIR1[3].

This[4] analysis of Go Fast is pretty good, and sounds plausible, the author concludes that it's most likely a bird. He also analyzes FLIR1[5] and takes a look at Gimbal[6]. To me, it seems like FLIR1 might just be another jet moving away, and the "Tic-Tac" shape is just the IR-cone of a jet exhaust. As to Gimbal, Parabunk has yet to offer an analysis...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1uLwUTDA0

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxVRg7LLaQA

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rWOtrke0HY

[4]: http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/analysis-of-ttsa-2015-g...

[5]: http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-2004-uss-nimitz-tic...

[6]: http://parabunk.blogspot.com/2018/04/ttsa-gimbal-and-go-fast...
It's due to the number of indicies/indexes stored from our various data sources. Yours and another poster's comments are interesting so we might look at ways we can reduce the shard count given the new info on overhead.
5g just means you can blow your entire data plan in 5 minutes if it even works. 4g is fast enough where they could actually just lie and sell you 4g service by labeling it 5g you likely wouldn't notice because YouTube already runs great on 4g.
NYT doesn't take debit card and I don't have a credit card. Your loss NYT.
Apologies, still working on putting in feature lists. That's a feedback in itself! But yes, you're right.

You can actually sign up and start using KanRails via "Get Started" / "Sign Up"
Dr. Lisa Su at Computex 2019: AMD Keynote Live
Lots of people insinuating things about this recently.

I'm the person who posted this article, and I do not have (and never have had) a relationship with the NYT. I read their articles for free thanks to a partnership my library system (SMCL) has with the NYT. I definitely don't always agree with their stories, but some of their tech stuff is good.

It's also worth noting that some of their content is newsworthy for the HN community simply because many (non-HN) people read the NYT and form their ideas about tech based on what they read there.
Always be wary of people who's skill is telling others what to do. You may find the people they're telling already know.
What if “someone else” doesn’t own “an old place” in the same housing market? Like say, all the new people moving to an area?
Although I have remained sceptical of Scrum, I do find it a bit strange that many of the negative comments about Scum here seems to be related to not doing Scrum (The old, you are not doing Scrum properly). All the talk about managers, and being told what to do in a sprint etc. None of that sounds like Scrum to me. Isn’t the whole idea of Scrum about self organising teams (?), independent of management etc. All you have is a Scrum Master to facilitate the process, and a Product Owner (part of the team) who prioritises the backlog because that role has an understanding of what is needed to solve the problem at hand (in terms of functionality needed).
My account has been suspended in the past 2 weeks. Having gone through their support page a few times, I have yet to receive an email about the reasoning.

I'll be setting up a Mastodon machine soon, deleting my Twitter account, and making sure that my posts are forever owned by myself and my online voice can't ever be taken away from me again.
I'm very happy to still have access to my @umich.edu account (which is supposedly permanent) - it's great for reading papers!
> Heck even their Anime is on point

They’re impressing the hell out of me recently here, especially with the announcement that they’re helping produce another season of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

I don’t think Netflix has something for everyone these days, but they are really hitting certain niches out of the park and will be just fine as long as they keep this core subscriber base. Especially hard sci-fi that almost everybody else has given up on.
Yes I pay $.99 / month for it. The normal plan with ads is 6.99 and 10.99 without ads.
Currently no other service has traditional ads

Honestly I don’t see how anyone is paying $75 / month for streaming services unless they are paying for sports plans, which most people don’t subscribe to. Most people subscribe to only 2-3 streaming services which probably includes amazon prime. That comes to roughly $35/month
This. I've run programs that purport to be agile but the work input stream was waterfall and disconnected from the means of output so it was really timeboxed waterfall, unfortunately my management did not agree to re label. You know it is real Scrum if it is painful for the business team and they come to realise that now it's software all the way down.
I searched the entirety of the Scrum Guide (https://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html) and could not find a single reference to "agile". And a quick Google search about the origins of Scrum reveals:

In the early 1990s, Ken Schwaber used what would become Scrum at his company, Advanced Development Methods; while Jeff Sutherland, John Scumniotales and Jeff McKenna developed a similar approach at Easel Corporation, referring to it using the single word Scrum.
why? there's no reason why the universe need conform to what you happen to believe about it. similar reports since 1930s and earlier. that suggests human tech level has nothing to do with it.
Many public library systems give their patrons free access to the NYT. I was able to set this up with mine (San Mateo County Library system) in about 5 minutes from home. Another commenter mentioned incognito windows, but my understanding is that the NYT has started blocking this avenue.

Another alternative is to read via Pocket (I know, not everyone likes them), which appears to give unlimited access. Just save articles to your Pocket and open it there!
Back Bay of Boston is really a marvel. I have literally no idea about California so I'll have to take your word for it. My concern is that the only people who seen willing to build are those who stand to make the most money. It would seem that the effective way to do this would be to require as part of codes for building different cost zoning to be taken into account. When I was in Tokyo they had elevators sectioned off by floor access, which would provide the ability to have luxury, shopping, and lower/mid income mixed into the same building. When I've traveled to Europe I've been interested in how businesses have been lower levels with hosting above, something I've not seen much of in the US.
Anybody else notice an uptick of these sorts of articles lately in the mainstream press?
Totally. Although this has long been a problem.

My dad started developing in the late 1960s. He did a lot of in-house software, mainly manufacturing and insurance systems. His approach was to go out and see something in use, talk to the people using it, go back to his office, write something, release it, and go talk to the people again. He'd do that loop in as little as a couple of days.

Today we'd call that obviously agile. But both back then and now, higher-ups wanted more "control", by which they meant feelings and appearance of control. Which caused longer feedback loops. Which made things more out of control, which required more process and even longer feedback loops.

I think we have the same struggle today, and I have no idea how to get out of it.
I agree Clinton is when the wheels came off, and beating the other side into submission became more important than governing. I’d call that pretty recent in the grand scheme of things. (I’d add that I don’t think the trend is necessarily blameworthy. It’s hard to compromise politically with people who sincerely believe are morally wrong. And that’s true of many of the issues that divide the US today. But whether it is justified or not, you can’t have a functioning democracy where half the people view the other half as “the other.” Trump isn’t the end of this problem, he’s the start of it.
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This one is very useful too.
The "exotic matter" is plasma. Since the entire atmosphere of the sun (the corona) is plasma the headline is about as relevant to the study as saying that scientists studying hydrology have found water.
A tiny endangered species put a man in prison
My advice is to be careful about the terminology you use. I'm guessing from your brief question that what you really want to be is a software developer. The industry variably calls people who that work "developers", "engineers", and "programmers", but on a message board, people gate-keep "engineering" --- if you're not especially interested in formal methods, which 90% of software developers aren't, you're not looking to do the thing the gatekeepers might be saying you shouldn't do. "Developer" is the most neutral title you can want.

My best guess as to how to move forward: pick a high-level language --- Ruby, Python, or Javascript (Node), but not Rust, Go, Clojure, or Haskell. Find a straightforward project that interests you and learn how to build it. If your project takes the form of a Rails or Django application, you'll have an especially easy time self-teaching yourself.

I would earnestly try to get this done before considering any kind of boot camp or paid class.

People will be quick to point out that you're only N% of the way to being a software developer by getting to the point where you can bang out a Django or Flask application, and they're right, but you're 80% further down the path of learning how to learn software development, which is the important thing to optimize for. The trick after getting that far is to keep ratcheting up your ambitions, so that the next project you do is harder and a better learning experience than the last.
Has anyone here made a request for their information under the GDPR laws? I'm curious about what they received back.
I'm specifically curious regarding the FAANG companies, and what kind of responses people have received from companies which so directly profit from customer data. Forgive any naïveté regarding the implementation of the laws if they have a built-in mechanism to defeat this, but I'd imagine that the companies would make the entire process as arbitrarily difficult as they legally could.

Also, as a non-EU resident, do I have any ability to make such a request? I suppose the answer is 'no' from a strictly legal standpoint, but is it possible in practice? Or will the company require a comprehensive verification process that precludes such illegitimate requests.
If, as you suggest, opinions expressed online don't have the power to change anyone's mind, what does it matter when their free expression is curbed by new laws?
There are always tons of NY Times articles. I think they are getting better at writing rage-bait headlines over at the Grey Lady, but it's hard to find a day that three or four times stories aren't on the front page, and I've been more or less keeping track for a few years because I tend to hide them, as I find them utterly disinteresting.

The NY Times recycles topics and takes so often that if you read it for a year, you can pretty much cancel your subscription for the next five.
A realistic model is hard for human to understand, but it didn't account for the case that human can leverage computing power to simulate and machine learn whatever is "realistic".
> Scrum master should be a team member and rotated along the team.

I don't agree. For us the scrum master is a fixed position who has as a responsibility to advise the teams on how to fix problems with their processes or to help build these processes in the first place. This works very well for us, because the scrum master is explicitly only an adviser.

Meaning I, as a team lead, do not have to do what the scrum master says, but I always have someone experienced with scrum who I can ask when problems arise or when the team wants to change the processes.
This is a frustratingly common problem, the answer is crappy advertise javascript. I have reported this problem numerous times to various sites such as anandtech, etc. Most commonly for me it only happens on iPhone and redirects to some kind of you won an iPhone ad.

I had some luck reporting this to publishers but they feel basically powerless, they have to blacklist these advertisers manually and they always come up with new tricks to get around it.

And as much as I would say, dump these ad brokers, I guess the reality is that it's hard to make money in online news at the moment, and these ad networks are the best they have.
My favorite team experience was scrum done "right". Standups were run by a scrum master who was the most experienced engineer on the team- programming longer than I've been alive type of guy.

Probject managers and product owners were kept at arms length in the sense that they didn't dictate how, what or when we did what we did. They translated the business requirements and timelines into something we could understand and react to.

Somehow, all of that turned into two week sprints that felt sustainable... At least until the company bought out another company, and everything went downhill. That, however, is a story for another time.
I would recommend Nutritionfacts.org as a source of high-quality information about nutrition. Dr. Greger (the creator) and a team of researchers read everything they can about nutrition research, examine the studies with a very critical eye, and summarize everything into videos on different topics.

The thing about research is that if you look for studies to support a particular conclusion, you can always find them, usually more than one. You could probably find a study or two to support eating nothing but beef and pork, if you tried hard enough. But if you want the truth, you have to read ALL the related studies, and you have to critique and interpret them and understand their scope/limitations and relate them all together to build up as complete a picture as you can. Dr. Greger isn't perfect, but he and his team seem to be doing a hell of a job trying to find the truth.

He advocates a whole-food plant-based diet because overall, that's what the evidence seems to say is healthiest. But he's not a hard-line vegan or anything, just trying to ensure that people have can make informed choices by giving us all the information. Not just in terms of broad strokes like "eat more vegetables, don't eat so much meat", but all sorts of weird and interesting details like which sorts of lentils are healthiest, or why broccoli sprouts are amazing at fighting cancer.

And it's not an alarmist site -- here's a nuanced take on glyphsate, used on GMO soy https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gmo-soy-and-breast-cancer/

Back to the topic at hand, here's an example about Soy and prostate cancer. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-soy-foods-in-pr...

And to find a way out of the forest of conflicting info -- if you find a study and want to get a second opinion on it, search for it on nutrition facts (you probably have to use google, with a query like "site:nutritionfacts.org <study keywords>").

I'm not encouraging you to blindly believe what Dr. Greger says! You should evaluate it for yourself. But I strongly believe that after watching a few videos on random topics, you'll start to see how most people have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to nutrition science, and intentionally or unintentionally spread falsehoods.
Apple’s abacus emoji is wrong
This is the way it should be.

Meetings should only be between business / leads to get scope onto canvas.

If I'm blocked I'll seek out the person who can most help me. I can easily find 5-10 minutes to write out a summary, but on my terms when I'm not in coding mode.

Now, I'm freelancing, likely to be team lead for the company assuming they get financing - and I keep taking notes and reading ways to organize better. We have a ton of work to do, it's a financial mobile app that has 0 tests on the api (I'm single-handedly running the API development Laravel + vue (for some web views)). Money is tight so I'm the only dev on web side and we have 1 ios dev.

The hope is to be full-time at this by Christmas w/ a 6 figure salary (my first +6 figures).
Memorial+Day+Weekend+Mattress+Specials
Read Perlstein's books on the emergence of the modern GOP, not for the narrative about the ideological sort and the commandeering of the GOP, but for all the little details about how fucked things were in the '60s and '70s. If you go another 25 years back in time, you're in a period where strikes were being broken with private military forces. 25 years further back and you've got what can only be called small-scale civil wars sparked by labor conflicts. Plus ça change.

Nobody knows whether our system is going to work in the long run. Aren't we one of the oldest constitutional republics in the world? And yet we're like the blink of an eye compared to the empires of antiquity. It could all collapse tomorrow or we could chug along like Rome for centuries to come. But I'm not here for arguments that we're somehow uniquely screwed up today. Things have gotten less regulated and more decentralized, and other things have gone the opposite direction. Some people are angrier, others happier (we have a distinctively bad President so we're probably a little unusually hyped up). But if you wanted to be an American at a time of national stability, 2019 would still probably be in the top quartile of years to be here.

Either way, YC should not be pitching "Government 2.0".
I do this for a living and craft somewhere between 1000 and 2000 emails a week. Here are some additional tips:

- be authentic. I never email anyone without believing 100% that my message can help solve a problem I already know they are struggling with.

- be personal. Do some research and find something that shows you are putting in the work to make sure you are authentic. It makes all the difference.

- be honest. Should go without saying.

- offer something expecting nothing in return. For example, if you are selling SEO services send them a list of where their site ranks for 5 keywords you think apply to their business. Then send 2 or 3 simple things they can do on their own to solve the problem

- keep it short. 140 words is enough. Keep rewriting until it is that short.

- ask one question and make it yes or no.

Lots of other nuance but those are good pillars to build on.
I’d love to see your scripts if you could share them? Especially the part to automatically generate entries
>12.X has about 80.5% market share... [of the iOS market] My POV is ... Apple leads the Mobile OS market share ... by a huge margin

That's a rather dubious view of market share, parsing the definition to include only the most recent version of an OS. Under that mode of accounting, I'm sure MacOS enjoys market share "dominance" briefly after each October update of Windows. But if we extend Android version back just to 8.x then ~46% of all android devices are accounted for, and 46% of Android's total 75% of mobile install base is still quit a bit more than 80% of iOS's 23% mobile install base.

And even that I don't really care about. iOS is a great OS. What I don't like are sloppy definitions and methodology in something that presents as data analysis.

It's a stretch to say each manufacturer that puts what amounts to little more than a custom skin and vendor-specific apps constitutes its own distinct fragment. So too is it disingenuous to represent each point-release of Android as a separate fragment, especially when the author goes on to lump all iOS 12.x point versions together.

I'd also say that fragmentation, in some small way at least, works in favor of android users that have older versions installed because apps can't just target the latest version given that vendors don't push the latest updates to all users. It means older devices can still get many/most new apps on their devices. Contrast this to Apple, where not updating to the latest version can have an impact on app availability much sooner, while updating the OS tends to degrade (in my subjective experience) user experience significantly when you hit the second or third such update. Last time I had to update my kid's ipad to a newer iOS version it basically killed it. It was necessary so she could play minecraft again, but the device became unbearably slow, and minecraft crashed anyway. (My solution was to "upgrade" to an $80 kindle fire kids version, which plays minecraft quite nicely. That I'll admit is absolutely its own fragment of Android though)
Show HN: API documentation tool Doxyrest 2.0
Well, there's always ledger, the C++ program that HLedger was originally based on:

https://github.com/ledger/ledger

I used Ledger once upon a time, quite successfully! Worth a look.
Those videos were FLIR, not radar. These are trained pilots with experience in identifying flying objects, and the thing that stood out to them is they didn't see a source of propulsion. The movement characteristics were unlike anything they've seen. The object in question was flagged for their inspection by radar and they followed up visually. What they saw was baffling. The videos came from the aircraft and have been released by the Pentagon.

Regarding how many eyes have seen this. Take a read of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group report of the incident (PDF) which might answer some of your questions and raise others: https://media.lasvegasnow.com/nxsglobal/lasvegasnow/document...

Edit: adding a couple of excerpts from the report.

- "AAVs would descend "very rapidly" from approximately 60,000 feet down to approximately 50 feet in a matter of seconds. They would then hover or stay stationary on the radar for a short time and depart at high velocities and turn rates"

- "The AAV did take evasive actions upon intercept by the F/A-18 demonstrating an advanced acceleration (G), aerodynamic, and propulsion capability."

- "The Anomalous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) was no known aircraft or air vehicle currently in the inventory of the United States or any foreign nation."

- "The AAV exhibited advanced aerodynamic performance with no visible control surfaces and no visible means to generate lift."

So here's what this comes down to. Three possibilities in order of likelihood:

* A: Psyop fakery: doctored videos were released through official channels, trying to fool other countries we saw something unusual. But why? Who benefits from that? What does it show to others, that our own military is unaware of experimental technology?

* B: Another country has made a giant leap in technology, possibly physics resulting in aerial combat superiority and this should scare any military leader, because if it's real this means the U.S. is no longer the biggest sky predator.

* C: Nonterrestrial origin.

I don't think there are any other possibilities. Last two are a game changer. First one is just bizarre. The weirdest thing, again, is that these videos were released by the Pentagon. You can request copies yourself by filing a FOIA request with the following wording "seeking cockpit videos cleared for release to Louis Elizondo in the fall (September-October) of 2017."
There are some recent developments that are potentially scary, but I don't see how this is one of them. Humans are really good at guessing approximate age, sex, and ethnicity from a voice. I'm not surprised in the least that some machine learning can do it too. I think the "whole of a person" is a lot more than age, sex, and ethnicity, so I don't agree that we are "getting close."
In this major update: multi-language support (C-family, Lua, CMake), configurable declaration coding style, highlights upon following hyperlinks, footnotes, merging closely-related items into subgroups, support for unnamed structs/union, etc. Various examples of application to open-source projects included.
> Daily standup

Change them so that people talk about what is blocked then.

> Scrum master

Tricky, like anyone who doesn't want to adapt.

> Technical debt

Create tickets for debt, put them on the backlog.

> Poor product owners

Tricky.