skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a few points about Scrum that you have wrong ...

* Scrum is not a methodology or a process, just a framework

* There is no product manager role in Scrum, but there is a Product Owner role

* There is a big difference between "ownership" and "management", which could be the source of some of the dysfunction you are seeing

* There is no formula for a Product Owner to follow. Remember, Scrum is just a framework, and the Scrum Team gets out of it what it puts into it.

* You make the POs sound like victims by saying "... have not been able to really do anything about it". I think they were the wrong person for the job.

* Product Owners should not attend the daily Scrum. It's just for the development team. Instead they could spend this time innovating!

* A product's vision is manifested in a properly refined backlog.

* It sounds like the first two struggles you listed (MVP and complaining customers) were caused by the PO being ineffective. The next three are just aspects of a PO's job responsibilities

* Effective POs should be focusing on competitive research, market assessment, positioning, go-to-market readiness, etc.

* I'm not sure where you came up with the notion that POs should be heads down. The Scrum Guide describes just the opposite.

I do agree with your antidote at the end, that a PO should start with the goal, be transparent, and trust the dev team. If your article just these points, readers might find it valuable.

I know you want to sell your product, but if you are going to bash Scrum in the process, you might want to up your game, and your facts.

Richard
I don't think I would call writing a bunch of glue code hard. Annoying and time consuming perhaps, but "hard"? Nah, not often.
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I've thought about doing this before actually, don't know how they'd feel about someone scraping their content though.
For your information, I don't think government should be abolished, I'm rather a partisan of small-government more than anything else. The government still has some roles to take care of, but I am certainly not a big fan of government-sponsored welfare and I have provided you with some material to read to further understand my point of view.

I don't really know why you focus so much on food stamps (which I never mentioned - that's why I called your comment a strawman- i.e. "informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position" which is exactly the case here), and do not focus on any of the points I raised in my first comment above. If you don't even bother making a point...
In my experience, although I know only a few Russians, they are not very politically correct. So calling it "Cocaine" is not that surprising.
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It's funny that's the case. But Yahoo is picking up on demographic that's slowly but surely adapting the Internet. My mom being a great example. She's been on the Internet as long as I have, but I would say she's adapting now. Unfortunately using Facebook, but also Youtube and all of her services from Yahoo(mail, news, search).

Say what you will about Marissa Mayer(I don't know enough about her). But she's making right decision on who her market is and although growth may be slower, I can see a larger number of people retiring that are going to be spending all sorts of time on Yahoo. Since HN is the anti-thesis of the Yahoo demographic, I think there is a more nuanced and emotional approach that Yahoo is taking. But I could be wrong.

edit: Also if anyone from Yahoo read this, please fix the problem with Yahoo mail and Chromium in Linux. My mom is annoyed by being asked to upgrade(Safari or Firefox) and asked to change the theme.
Here's why I like this design.

5 kg is light for a battery/motor module, but it still adds about 50% to the weight of a decent bike. The added thickness also means it's probably not practical to put a multi-gear cassette on it. End result, this will cripple most bikes once the battery runs out. More weight and poor gear ratios = hell for the cyclist. However, most smart-bikes are crippled anyways once they run out of juice.

The great thing is that you can use the same bike for commuting that you use for your sweatier, long-haul weekend trips. All you have to do is swap the original dumb-wheel back in. If you buy a dumb-bike and a smart-wheel you almost get two bikes for the price of one.

Tip for the makers: Stress the ease of hot-swapping that wheel in even more than you are now. This is a major selling point.

P.S. I don't see a quick-release clamp on this sucker in your pictures or video. This is a no-brainier and absolutely needs to be on there.
Man I really hope this guy is a good writer.
> will have to serve the interest of all kinds of news consumers. It cannot be a niche product. It will have to cover sports, business, entertainment, technology: everything that users demand.

> At the core of Newco will be a different plan for how to build a large news organization. It resembles what I called in an earlier post “the personal franchise model” in news

Imagine if Kara, Walt & Co join "Newco" when their AllThingsD contract ends...
That was an occupational hazard in Sinology for many years. Still, it's a great resource--the bibliography alone is a great resource.
Talk to your your local dealer before writing the idea off completely. They periodically have small business and home office pricing available. You have limited options on color/fabric, but the discounts are significant, especially on the Embody. When you factor in the warranty and long-term availability of replacement parts, the TCO of an Embody may be much lower than you think.
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Some of our stuff is simple database lookup (ala Google knowledge graph), other stuff is more algorithmic and computational in nature.

The problem we've had with SPARQL and co is that we feel it isn't optimized for computational queries. Ontologies don't matter as much in that case, and inference in tuple stores costs you significantly in performance, although the technology is improving.

As often as not, however, the computationally irreducible work lies in making a domain suitable for computational consumption, not in the technology used for representation.

To analogize, UTF-8 is great, but without the notion of Unicode code points it wouldn't exist.
I actually just switched over to this method. The process of switching all of my accounts want rather painless actually--I was very happy to see that.
Yep I've been totally outclassed. I've only recently started getting into the online aspect of Pokémon so I still have a ton to learn with regards to strategy. Though does the speed stat really matter all that much outside of first mover advantage?
yup good questions, i guess i'd like to know how the marketing of a blog works, what's the value... where it should sit in the priority on the marketing budget/plan?
You don't need to mine in order to use Bitcoin.

Mining is a business, many businesses are capital intensive.
You can leave one blank. It worked for me.
Is it working yet? - email sales[at] and I can help.
F.lux is a very good program, but you'll note that the 'research' section of their own page indicates that they didn't come up with the concept itself, and once you understand that blue light exposure distorts circadian rhythms, this particular implementation becomes rather obvious.
It's not like bulbapedia own the fundamental content - do they place a public license on the wiki pages?

Ideally bulbapedia would provide mediawiki dumps for this, but they don't, and they've gone on record saying they don't intend to. They did leave the mediawiki API open though if you want to crawl a clean rip of each page's wikitext - the default mediawiki API guidelines are also intact, which say that single-threaded crawls should be acceptable in almost all instances, but you should warn the site owner before initiating a multi-threaded scrape.
I'm not sure what kind of connection there is between being boring and being more likely to jump ship. Plenty of interesting people jump ship too, because the best way to become interesting is to accumulate a lifetime of diverse experiences and staying in any one place gets in the way of that.

If you don't want people to leave the business, earn their loyalty. A boring person still wants to be treated fairly. They still want to take vacation, even if it's to visit their boring family rather than go backpacking in Tibet. They still have the same capacity to either enjoy or hate their job. They just don't necessarily have an interesting answer to the question "any plans for the weekend?", and I don't see why that makes them worse employees.
Rackspace is slowly eating AWS up. Their customer service is unmatchable.
I am extremely satisfied with my Lenovo y560p.

If I buy a new laptop it will either be a surface pro or a mba however.
They're definitely a leader in the space, but its not like it isn't a commodity. Great, you've got a durable object store and virtual machines. I'm not Netflix, I'm not Reddit. I don't need to scale to a bazillian users, and even if I did, its going to be with Akamai and the whole damn site mostly static (I'm looking at you, Healthcare.gov).

So, yeah, AWS is awesome. But its not like others can't/aren't catching up.
Yeah, Amazon is a super easy problem. Let's try to make a website that sells everything. We'll only need to get every manufacturer under the sun to sell under us and make a system is compatible with all other theirs. Heck, we can easily make a big ol' warehouse system that stores every single freaking product known to man-kind and make it profitable. Super easy.

Oh, and getting your customers to become more loyal to you? Easy peazy. Combine those little warehouses with two day shipping literally anywhere in the United States and offer it to customers for under a hundred bucks a year. Trivial optimization problem, if you ask me.

And Amazon Web Services? Pbbbt. Just get some servers and make software that separates them into virtualized storage, computing, DNS, long-term storage, etc into different sizes and make the uptime not suck. That's like CS101

Don't even get me started on the Kindle. Just switch your entire focus from eCommerce and other industries to hardware and make a tablet and integrate it with your other media services (music, video, books, etc) and offer it for cheaper than anyone else. Super easy.

#shitthatHNsays
Well, AWS has been making moves more towards Heroku PaaS territory with elastic beanstalk, rds, etc.
Maybe this should read "Glass wearer [singular]"?
I've found their customer service to be great, but pathetic from a technical perspective (i.e. they're very nice and apologetic when shit goes south, but its still going to be a while before they figure out how to fix it).

And slowly eating up AWS? No. That's Digital Ocean eating the lower end of the market. Rackspace outsources their CDN to Akamai, and their Cloud experience is damn near abysmal.
It looks like all of Bulbapedia's content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbapedia:Copyrights
The team I work on has gone from a culture of "single guys who stay after work playing board games and go out drinking sometimes" to a culture of "married guys who leave promptly at 5 PM to go home to their pregnant wives and/or children" by gradually introducing people from the second set while people from the first set leave. Guess what? It didn't affect how much we managed to accomplish, because it's work and that bullshit doesn't really matter.
And lets not forget self driving cars
Where's the hack?
Shall we not forget the MIT cheetah:
http://biomimetics.mit.edu:8100/wordpress/

I like the design much better than BD's weighty quadrupeds.
The same argument can be made (by me, and everyone else, many times) for any desktop. I press the windows button and I get... about 200 icons. That's supposed to be usable? Yeesh.
Anyone trying to sell products that they don't manufacture themselves. Even if you do make things amazon might be a very important distribution channel.
http://veekun.com/dex/pokemon/search does all that Alfram is claiming to do, other than the grouping, which to be honest, I'm not sure how useful that'll be, other than statical notekeeping.
There are literally millions of people who are satisfied with "the most popular language for the web" - PHP, but this doesn't magically make it even a good language.

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...

Let's say that MongoDB is PHP of database world.)
> no wonder people like key-value stores

You're doing a relational query: select, join, project. Translate it to a key-value store and you're going to end up with way more boilerplate. Using a key-value store for a relational query is like trying to use a screwdriver to drive a nail.
Was there a point in stating the obvious?
Wow! results are nothing short of amazing!
At an early stage, and incubating them for years before they told the world what they were working on.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/02/how-med-harms.html is the one thing that immediately comes to mind.
Amazon and Microsoft solve business problems.

Google solves information problems.

Twitter and Facebook solve communication problems.

So many of these silos have similar solutions, but approaches are so incredibly different that it can be difficult to compare them at first blush.
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It's not really boilerplate in the classical sense, he's just talking about headers and lines that have only a brace on them. I think it's a fair statement.

Plus, he could have reduced lines even further to get down to about 6, like

vector<string> data;
string line;
for (ifstream ifile(argv[1]); getline(ifile, line);)
data.push_back(line);
sort(begin(data), end(data));
copy(begin(data), end(data), ostream_iterator<string>(ofstream(argv[2]), "\n"));

And his `return 0` was superfluous so I removed it.

Unfortunately we work with iterator pairs in C++; if we had ranges like D does, we could turn those last two into

copy(sort(data), ...)

but alas we cannot.
I will make the bold claim that within 10 years amazon will fall apart at the seams like a cheap suit in a storm. You cannot run a non profit forever no matter how large your market share is or how obsessed you are about customers.

The culture (from what we can glean from the excerpts of the new book on Bezo's) is also toxic and is unlikely to produce an enduring successful company. Senior execs can't pass gas without Bezos' permission? When he steps down, there is unlikely to be the continuity that produces great enduring companies.
I'd be interested in a follow-up with oreos pitted against cocaine/morphine/etc. It's believable sugar would be more attractive and great to have supporting data but I'm not sure this substantiates oreos equalling cocaine.
I admit, my words may have come off stronger than I intended. I am not trying to condemn all of Chinese culture. I do think that some ways of living are better than others, and it should be fine to discuss these things. But I could have framed it more nicely, that is fair.
It's not something I look for, that's how manufacturers are starting to sell large SSDs in laptops. They're soldered to the motherboard, and doubled up in hardware RAID. It's about wear levelling so that they last, not performance. The failure modes of an SSD aren't the same as spinning disks; RAID 0 is less risky, not more risky AFAIK.
Do you have a source? From conversations in my tech groups, it seems people are moving away from Rackspace. Not to AWS specifically. Either way, I wouldn't have made the statement originally as I don't have any proof and I'm curious if they both released active customer #s that I missed?
"Performance per dollar" is a strange qualifier for a laptop. If you want something small, portable, and powerful, maybe one of those Mac Pro cylinders might suit you when they come out. If you don't (much) care about portability at all, just build something in a mini-ITX case with a handle, and throw it in the boot of your car.

The point of a laptop is good, light, sturdy industrial design, long battery life, and quality interaction features (solid keyboard, responsive touchpad, good webcam, flat SPL curve on speakers, etc.), while optimizing performance given that. That's what you're paying the Apple premium for, not the OS. Those qualities remain when you run Windows on the hardware.
All I ever hear about is the "lean startup" model. Is there an alternative... like where I commit the next 3 years to build something awesome while I work a part-time job? (my model)

Can someone think of a cool name for that methodology? I don't want to be called "fat"...
Couldn't tell by looking around but do you think this could be used to host multi-tenanted environments? How about untrusted code execution?
The degree of reality distortion of the management who chose this brand name is very telling. Moscow, Russia.)

So what, FreeBSD jails based hostings are cool again? But, of course, Docker is much more cool and "innovative".
Well, I was going to say something similar, but I really just think he means Amazon's problems are easy compared to googles. That being the point, I don't think his phrasing is worth taking issue over.
Not working under fluorescent lighting helps. I've never noticed lights reflecting at me from my glossy screens, but I am usually working from home, not in an office building with office lighting.
They are hardly a non-profit. He is maybe the most aggressive CEO in the US right now for putting money back into the company.

Amazon's cash flow is insane, if they put the brakes on reinvestment right now, they would be making billions and billions per quarter.
You tell me. By the way, you still have not explained why a zero inflation is not preferable to some low inflation. You said:

"it encourages spending and investment and discourages hoarding cash."

But inflation discourages savings (as I said, critical for the banking system, and therfore impacting investment), and hoarding cash would be anyway discouraged in case you have zero inflation, because you would be able to place your money in portfolio to gain more than 0 on yearly returns (dividends at least). So there would be no net return in hoarding cash. Or are you saying you need inflation to have growth ? In that case you would be mistaken, there was ample growth even when the markets were following the Gold standards...

So I am not really sure where you come from to recommend "low inflation". Besides, who can ensure the inflation remains low, and who can control that there is no dumping of cash on the market when there is a central bank in charge, serving the current political agenda ?

Again, what's good with Bitcoin and Gold is that they are both neutral and relatively free of political control (well, at least for Bitcoin).
Just to toss it out there, because I also drool over awesome chairs (and lament their price tag):

I recently picked up a standing desk (geekdesk). I still love my Steelcase, but the standing desk is a bigger improvement on the work day. This isn't even a close fight. I would not hesitate to drop the cash on a standing desk and buy a cheapo chair if that's what the budget dictated.

YMMV, of course. At least try the Ikea standing desk hack (http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...) before you jump.
They've done a lot of acquisitions. I think the biggest was Tumblr. Not much to show from the acquisitions yet, but based on the fact that there has been acquisitions, Googlers moving to Yahoo, etcetera, I think there's a pretty good chance they're working on some things that will eventually pay off.
It's odd, they don't mention if it's possible to do rails.

Maybe with a couple dollar bills they can make rails happen, doesn't seem to work so far.
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Yes. Most pokemon battles, unless they're designed to stall, or there are a lot of misses, pokemon as a rule usually faint within two to three hits. Unless Pikachu's stats are totally a bad fit for a special attacker, and Bulbasaur's stats are totally for special walling, chances are even with attacking with Thunderbolt, Pikachu could take down Bulbasaur within 4 rounds. With Hidden Ice, holding the Light Ball, probably 2 rounds.

Now, let's say we gave Bulbasaur all the extra ev training into special attacking. It would still take about two hits to knock out Pikachu. Problem is, since Pikachu is faster, it'll get in two hits before Bulbasaur does. This is why both Pikachu and Bulbasaur are considered LC (Little Cup) or NU (Never Used), as they have a lot of problems dealing with a lot of different pokemons that occur in battling.

May I suggest you try a website called Pokemon Showdown? It's an online simulator which allows you to try out different strategies, and test them against other people. http://play.pokemonshowdown.com/
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The idea is good, and it would actually work as it currently stands. The fundamental issue is that the signatures it creates would be massive in comparison to the lean scripts that the Bitcoin network uses internally. There's certainly ways of making it work, it just needs a little more baking before any of the Bitcoin developers would even consider using it.
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Basically the DO backups are for machines that can tolerate 24/hrs data loss-- which to be honest is the vast majority of things. Would I run critical stuff this way? No. My personal websites/blogs and jerkoff clients? Yes. What do you want for $1/month for a backup?

For things I'm a bit more paranoid about I do postgres/mysql backups at regular intervals, and rsync any data directories to another server.

To me the advantage of the backups is this-- if something awful happens, I can restore 99% of my data in, 60 seconds? Then you're only moments away from a working server if you need to shuttle additional data/sql backups over? So be it.

I was an admin for a UC at one time in my life and there I learned that backups are THE most important part of any job. Being a good admin is like being a father I suppose, you do a lot of shit to protect people that will never be needed or noticed. I got myself out of numerous hopeless situations with a good backup strategy which I tested on a regular basis. PRACTICE YOUR RESTORES. The best example of this was my last day at this particular job-- I had an affection for my colleagues and threw a brand new set of AIT tapes into the backup system, and did a full L0 backup of our 7 sun A1000 arrays. In my mind this was the last thing I'd be able to do for my friends.

I swear to jebus the next morning my phone rang-- it was my replacement. He'd rm -rf'd the entire lab's home directories, decades of research worth millions of dollars-- gone. I told him to look to his left and pray to god the light was green and not red. :)
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No, you'd have the same service for the same money. It would just be labeled correctly, and not a complete fabrication.
It definitely suits a relational query.

But assuming you have indexes `pokemon_learn_moves_by_move_id` and `moves_by_name`, you could write

pokemon_learn_moves_by_move_id[ moves_by_name["Hydro Pump"].id ]
.map( |id| [pokemon[id].sp_atk, pokemon[id].name] )
.greatest()[1];

(using a hypothetical system) which i think is a bit less boilerplate. Although, now i've explicitly written an execution plan rather than letting the SQL engine decide (i had `sort()[0]` there instead of `greatest()` for a while, which i think sums up why the SQL approach is generally better).