skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AgileFall does sound like an unholy mess, taking the worst aspects of both Agile and Waterfall!

However, I still think waterfall is the only approach when trying to design a hardware product. Electronics require pretty specific requirements up front before you design and order boards, obviously mechanical tooling can be even more expensive.

But... I think there are lots of ways to do quick experiments and tighten up the feedback look even with robotics or electronics. Breadboards and development kits can be used as initial electronics prototypes. 3d prints help test a mechanical concept. Within each phase of the design more experiments can be done. But ultimately the project is probably more waterfall than agile!
This seams a pretty reasonable approach to solve this problem. The only improvement I could think of is to "mirror" the data or API calls to the new system so it gets battle-tested earlier, but that only works for backend systems.
really useful service
It's the ability to do multiple heavy transfers at the same time, youtube videos loading instantly, game updates finishing within a minute, apps downloading in a few seconds, and never having your connection be the bottleneck to accessing a website.

It's even more important when multiple people are sharing the connection.
Yeah, we haven't defined a limit yet but letting it error out is definitely not acceptable. We'll fix it, thanks for the feedback.
Nothing about English here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Or were you referring to the Internet as a whole?

Or perhaps the United States?

Or the planet?

'here' is a bit ambiguous...
Bounty: Build a decentralized forum and earn $3,200 USD
That sounds terribly complicated. You know you can google "watch ... online free" and get a streamable version in the first two pages of results, right?
.en would seem apt.
To be honest I have no idea what Firefox version I use right now, just that it's the latest.
Centralized industries hold control over their users and their data. Forums are constantly created, users spend hours helping build the community with useful content and then suddenly disappear or you get banned without any prior notice. At Arweave we want to break this barrier and help build the next web, the permaweb.

Create a fully decentralized approach to a Forum using Arweave’s blockchain technology to store and host the platform.

If you know Javascript/HTML/CSS you already know how to build an Arweave dApp!

To participate in the bounty and learn more click here: https://gitcoin.co/issue/ArweaveTeam/Bounties/13/3467
Any questions you may have about Arweave or our other bounties you can ask here or join our discord at https://discord.gg/AhsZfBm

I hope to see many of you participating!
Good luck!
Cedrik.
> battle royale

I don't think it's the Highlander end-game they are envisioning, rather there seems to be a drive towards a new (imagined) equilibrium with specific streaming services servicing specific demographics — like Disney is aiming straight for the 'wholesome and family-friendly'-niche.

Of course we all lose as consumers (until you hoist the Jolly Roger in despair).
I think the question boils down to the gym membership oversubscription model. People can’t consume (serially) all they subscribe to, but on average might consume X%, Y% & Z% of different streams but the sum is less than 100% of all the streaming services added together.
The "deregulation" of 1996 had many examples of this. ILECs were allowed into long-distance phone service, which they used their monopoly LEC rents to dominate. UNE-P tricked CLEC/ISP investors into thinking they'd be allowed to compete, but since none of the requirements it imposed on ILECs were enforced, those investors ended up selling their equipment and customer bases to ATT/VZN for pennies on the dollar. The Daughters Bell were allowed to reconsolidate from only the most profitable territories, while money-losers like Hawaii and rural New England (e.g. Fairpoint) were unloaded to fools who weren't capable of serving them well. In every case, the monopolist won.
Part of this is the legacy of the federal government promising monopoly status to telcos in exchange for them bearing the cost of providing services in rural areas.

If the market had been allowed to work, and rural Americans did not get service until it was profitable we'd have a much different market in the US today.
Well, as long as there was an agreement to do pen testing, the criminal portion should be pretty much dropped.

Caveat emptor
There are other factors here:

- how much time will the code be reread?

- does the carefully selected name does make sense for other readers, future self included? That is, does it help to make things easier to understand for them?

- a good name can be reused extensively over your whole career, so a few hours might well be well invested time from this perspective if you plan to keep a foot in the technical side of the story all along. Actually, a good name is surely something you might have the opportunity to reuse outside a coding context.
Yeah you’re sort of right, 5 of the top 10 on this list are from Disney, including 2 Marvel properties: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2019&p=.htm

But what I’m talking about is if you scroll down this list, 8 of the top 100 are from Disney unless I’m missing a studio name, I’m counting BV and MGM. So those 5 are pretty much all the 2019 blockbusters you’ll get from the service in a few months.
A Modern View on the Mainframe
It might be a newbie question, but for my own culture, what is the impact of a given snapshot if the database is really big ?

I guess it all depends on what data we are touching, but let imagine I want to update all the rows for a table with 1 billions entries, wouldn't the snapshot be giantic ?

Or maybe I misunderstood what is a snapshot.
it's not the "choices" it's having to pay each one of their monthly fee
Government lawyers aren't paid by the hour or the case.
For Star Wars and Marvel fans, they don't really have any choice in the matter these days.
It’s literally what the CFR says: “maintained...for the transmission of letters sealed against inspection.” The word “for” clearly means “intended for” or “for the purposes of.”

You can put whatever you want in a priority mail envelope, but the size and weight limits are much more suited to a big document than an engine block.
You just invented the Cable TV network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_television_in_the_United...
There is also speculation a single face of the pyramids would remain revealed, so that it would be possible to create an artifical snow-slope during the cold desert nights, increasing demand for Egypts famous ski-mittens.
Really impressive. The first time I rotated the camera my jaw dropped a bit.
I will always pirate shows. I cut the cord 11 years ago due to my objection of cable company billing practices. The entire industry is greedy. I was a netflix subscriber for awhile but I burned thru all the good stuff and left.
Woah, free markets balancing themselves...

Crazy
Take a step back and answer why do you need a bonus system ?

Dan Ariely and other Psychology and Behavioral Economists claim that the value of bonuses is not big or even negative [0].

My experience is that bonuses tied to performance leads to a bad work environment, and if at all benefits only part of the people- the backstabbers or the geniuses
[0] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dan-ariely-bonuses-boost-act...
bundling - unbundling - bundling

TPB (mirror) here we come
Extracting insights from the shape of complex data using topology
Kruger Safari
The interesting takeaway here is: maybe Mozilla gave up on Firefox OS too early?

It apparently found a market after all, albeit as a fork.
Almost all zoos in the US are non-profit.
> (how about a site of the CPSU?)

You are talking about http://kpss.su ?
Fortnite Patch v10.30 Brings Party Hub, Multitasking Features, Bug Fixes
Is there any data that refutes his claim, or is resistance to his statement based solely on opinion and morals?
Faster speeds help with downloads. Yeah you won't notice the difference when downloading a selfie, but when you buy Gears 5 on Steam and want to start playing, you will notice the difference between waiting ~1h45m @ 100Mbps / ~11m @ 1Gbps to get that 80GB game.
Xdsrgdrsxfgs
https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whnf/officiallive_club_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whob/matchthread_club_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whp5/matchthreadclub_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whpp/officialsoccer_club_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whqb/livestreamofficialclub_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whr6/officiallivestreamclub_brugge_vs_galatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whrp/officialredditgalatasaray_vs_club_brugge_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5whs5/officialreddit_club_brugge_vsgalatasaray_live/

https://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerALLTODAY/comments/d5wht7/livestreamofficialgalatasaray_vs_club_brugge_live/
Probably one of the corporate ones like .xyz, .amazon, .bananarepublic, etc.
Or viewed from another perspective (the person initiating) a request for someone else to accept the changes you are pushing.
Haha, I got the same email and I don't even live in Colorado!

I own 216 shares of Comcast but I wish they would fuck right off.
Maybe there wasn't. Maybe they just had enough stuff. I started using it when they added Star Trek: TNG, later on they added quite a lot of things I was interested in too. At their peak, they had about every other thing I wanted to watch (or rewatch).

Then, the shows and movies started disappearing. This is what annoyed me most - I wanted to rewatch something I've seen few months earlier, or to show it to my SO, and suddenly it isn't there. This became a regular occurence, and I think this is where people started noticing something is wrong.
You'll find the richness of content you are after in the graphic novels of both franchises, and also the LONG list of star wars novels.
A 2016 court deposition, in which a woman claimed to have been forced to have sex with Minsky, at Epstein's compound in the Virgin Islands.

This was not just Minsky having dinner with the guy in his apartment.

Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/9/20798900/marvin-minsky-jef...
Not microservices.

Way too many (but not all) enterprise codebases can be divided into small non-interacting pieces that share only a small bit of code. If so, diving them transforms the problem from a monster program that nobody can ever understand into a lot of tractable ones that a single person can read.
I'm not saying it was a scam. What I am saying something odd was going on.

I booked and prepaid the hotel with my Visa debit card. When I arrived they wanted a deposit for £150, which they would only accept using a Mastercard. I have never encountered any business that only accepts Visa OR Mastercard.

I don't have a Mastercard, so I was told I had to pay the deposit in cash. That was just really odd.
>Their response to having visible security that sucks

seems like you missed the whole point of the article - their security doesn't suck.

EDIT: as reply points out below, not bits of entopy, just possible combinations. ORIGINAL: 3 trys - thats it. theres no account autounlock. 5 lower case letters is ~12 million bits of entropy, and thats if you even know the username which, the article points out, you often dont.

furthermore, even if i accepted your claim that this "visible security" was bad, the "invisible security" is well established. any reputable bank will flag your account for any number of reasons. ive had cards (correctly) locked for <$1 charge at an air pump a few miles away.

>Why am I supposed to believe that?

again, as the article says, "Banks like ING will give you your money back". they have skin in the game and will refund your fraudulent charges.
In addition to the cynical everyone-is-corrupt answers you've been getting, I'll add:

ISPs, like mail delivery or electricity, are classical examples of "natural monopolies" where the fixed price of installing infrastructure is high, while the marginal cost of each additional customer is low.

Such environments are tricky to manage: You want some market forces, because otherwise there's one lazy government-owned provider with bad service at high prices because they have no pressure to be better. At the other end of the spectrum, you have a private company with bad services at high prices that makes a ton of profit because competitors cannot afford the initial investment.

To balance these competing forces is tricky, and some countries manage better than others.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Facebook to build its own private court system for governing speech
But at the same time the other side is arguing that the tactics used to this end involve misquoting and lying about what he said.

In the end it is two groups of people having two correlated (but different) conversations.

Many (not all, but many) of RMS "defenders" here would completely agree if not for this backhanded tactics, as some are only asking for proper representation of facts.

The fact that a lot of "takedown" pieces continue to lie means that they force together two groups of people that do not necessarily agree.
What a horrible story. I can't imagine how terrible of an experience thay must have been.

Just wish I knew more details about the police investigation. Why isn't this guy in jail? Did it go to trial? If not, why? She knows his car, apparently his name/ pseudonym, wasn't he questioned?

I get the feeling the police department failed her more than anything. I'm not sure how much Lyft can even do here. They aren't law enforcement.
Your description means they are design patterns: a technique to solve a problem that appears repeatedly. What trips people up is that monad is a 2nd-level pattern, as can be seen in the type. 'List a' is-a pattern for nondeterminism. 'Maybe a' is-a pattern for handling failure. Instancing 'm a' is a pattern
for 'sequencing effects with branching' and
also other patterns for various other applications.
He was very skilful at telling developers things they wanted to hear in his blog. But until Stack Overflow I didn’t know a single person who used any of his products (FogBugz, CityDesk) and it didn’t seem plausible that the hottest developers in the world would be beating down his door to work on them.

The current stupidity of the hiring process, the inane whiteboarding, the take-home tests and all that, is all down to him.
Amazon could be this. Hulu could be this. They both have a foot in the water with add-on subscriptions. The site that's best suited might actually be YouTube.
The 5 number 3 tries bank does not seem very secure:

It is (at least in my country) very easy to guess valid acount numbers: They are incrementally numbered + have a checksum. So while 1 account of a 5 number 3 tries bank is safe, attacking all of them in volume is not:

With N numbers, T tries, A accounts, the chance of guessing at least 1 account is
pow(1-T/pow(10,N),A)

5 numbers 3 tries means a chance of 0.9997 of being locked out of 1 account. For A=100 000 accounts, the chance is 0.049, so more than 95% chance you guessed one account right. For A=1 000 000, you're almost certain.

And that's the dumbest possible way. Try guessing with the most common password like 12345, take only 1 try each month so people unknowingly reset the account number when doing payments, and use a botnet to spread the load over tons of IP adresses and randomize the numbers.
simpler method trick

1) Create virtual card

2) Switch payment method to new card

3) Delete virtual card

4) Cha ching !
You could call it "TV over Wires" or something like that.
By definition, if people are collectively, willingly giving Disney billions of dollars a year for a Marvel and Star Wars movies, the market is jibing where it matters.
really amazing one
So many good things streaming can't serve you.

Eg.

The Last of the Mohicans.

Wanted to watch it last night. Had to do some tricks...
Yes, really. I didn’t say a judge used them - you said no court possesses one, and they do.
The contradiction is that "clueless nerd" is pretty insensitive, so for an article preaching about the hurt that comes from it, well, sounds weird.
Well, you know - everyone thought that everyone should decide - the unwashed masses as it were.

Would you prefer that voting went back to just the white educated land owners? Does that sound any more "just"?
CoSQL: Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Cross-Domain NL Interfaces to DB [pdf]
There's plenty of streaming sites, and since web browsers work so well on mobile devices nowadays...
> We have a great architect right now, but he's really just an engineer designated as the "architect".

Why is anyone assuming that an software architect is not supposed to be a software engineer?

The software world is not divided as the civil engineering world, where architects are responsible for meatspace UX and engineers are tasked with bringing the UX to life.

In the software world, software architects are expected to be experienced software engineers who are tasked with coming up with design decisions upfront that render the software development project feasible and economical by picking which technologies to reuse, which modules/services to develop independently, and how to run in production.

Which of hear tasks is not the job of a software engineer?
There's big forces at play that do want it to happen though; financial, in that there's a lot of people that want UK businesses and real estate to drop in value so they can buy it up for cheap, and political, political forces who have an interest in destabilizing Europe (and the world).
Amazon Launched a Brand with Lady Gaga to Show Off
I'm using plain symbols and pen drawing when testing and CPU shoots up to 70% instantly, moving objects are sluggish and every move makes the CPU spike again.

The more curves I have, the more sluggish it becomes.
.duck, sadly.
It does have some json aware functionality, like sort, skip, and limit. Also, two levels of identifiers, where some web storage services only have one.
Are you going to tell me that you view sexual intercourse with a 6 year old as being the same as sexual intercourse with a 16 year old? If so, we can stop here.

If not, then here's what changes: if you tell me someone is a pedophile, I'm going to assume that their primary sexual interest is pre-pubescent children. That's the definition of the word, and I tend to generally assume that people mean what they say. It bothers me when you use the wrong word here, because it conveys the wrong impression. It's not about showcasing intelligence. It's about calling things what they are, to facilitate accurate communication. RMS is by all accounts even more pedantic about words than I am, so it's hardly surprising to me that he would make this distinction.

But hey, even if you don't believe in a difference in severity, there's still a difference between saying "this guy is sexually interested in pre-pubescent children" and "this guy is sexually interested in teenagers". Even if both are deemed equally offensive they are just flat out different --- and one is mis-information.
Yeah, then comes the inevitable attempt at squeezing more money from people through aggressive market segmentation, and we're back to square one, except now you can reorder programming in time without using a VCR.
Oh yeah.

Simpsons is a prime example. As a european i can't watch it anywhere
After many years of using Comcast because it was my only option, I recently had my breakup call with them. We have Verizon Fios as an option and at their lowest tier speeds, we get 100 mbps symmetric (and every time I've checked the speed over the past week, it has been as advertised). Our overpriced Comcast plan was giving us "up to 60 mbps" but we were getting, wait for it, 1 mbps in the last few weeks of our plan. We could barely load modern web pages in a reasonable time and streaming anything was a mess.

Glad to see that Colorado cities and towns are at least being given the option of building their own high-speed infrastructure. If successful, it should provide a great example for the rest of the country.
This article conflates the reporting and engineering aspects of the two processes, then it goes on to focus purely on the reporting. There was also no discussion of engineering discipline and how that fits into their process, despite the waterfall graphics showing requirements and design.
This is a tragedy of the commons scenario.

Instead of (all numbers illustrative):

Group A: 100%

group B gets jealous and does:

Group A: 25%, Group B: 25%, Piracy: 50%

As long as B's shareholders are happy (0->25%) then "who cares".
Something 100-200 meters across is visible as a spec from low orbit. A square kilometer is reasonably easy to see. There's an estimate on wikipedia that to read text from the ISS the letters would need to be 2km tall.

This solar park is 37 square kilometers in almost a square. Well over all those thresholds.
Manufacturers have done nothing to clean up toxic cabin air
Depends on the identity goin forward. If England+Wales stick to the name for some reason they will continue using it, and Scots and NI get new ones. (Well, later not if they merge with Republic of Ireland) If they form a new country and rename to "England" (poor Welsh) or "South Britain" they likely will be legal successor of treaties and stuff (like Russia being legal successor of USSR) and can use .UK for the time being.

One effect can be seen on .eu: After Brexit UK entities aren't eligible for .eu domains anymore and depending on the outcome on Oct 31st might lose it immediately (while there are statements for a grace period even on Brexit without further agreement ... but no deal leads to no legal requirement)
That was my point. Sure it could be better, but at a cost (design+dev'p, and alienation of users). It seems big/commercial softwares love to take that cost.
My experience with high school computer science
I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.
Tapping with two fingers at the same time let me jump on my iPhone (used firefox if that matters)
Doesn't 5G solve that problem? Lay fiber to a bunch of 5G nodes and then you can service hundreds of customers who only need to install a wireless modem to get fiber speeds and latency.
What's wrong with SPARQL? What advantages has this over SPARQL?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20958631
I'm rather uninitiated on this... what's the difference between a graph database and a traditional relational database that makes them need different query languages?
This was the building owner, not google. Once Google bought the building, the practice stopped.
Not looking at people funny could be a natural law if enough UGs don't like it. (In fact, I believe medieval Japan actually had something like this). The only thing Zog can do is co-operate with friends, multiplying Zog's force. And what's a state more than an organized cooperation between its people.
IBM will soon launch a 53-qubit quantum computer
Losing the ability to explain it is good, because the explanations are wrong.
The best modern advice about moands is that you don't learn them by explanation of the monad in isolation, you grok them by experience with examples and study of the formal definitions. This applies to a lot of Haskell (and mathematics in general), that has the ability to provide precise concise implementations of very powerful, general concepts.

Monad tutorials for newbies are like explaining quantum mechanics to someone who hasn't learned anything about optics or electricity or complex numbers yet - a bunch of false, meaningless metaphors.
Health insurance really needs to be disconnected from employment. The fact alone that this article was written is already ridiculous.
RedHat RH033 Exam Material
Oh that's what the commenter was pointing out, my mistake.