skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some approximate rhino population levels as of 2013: http://www.rhinos.org/rhinos/state-of-the-rhino-2013

The Southern White Rhino has a population of about 20,000 (Endangered).

TIL about the Woolly Rhino: http://www.rhinos.org/rhinos/extinct-woolly-rhino

Would it even be responsible to save the Northern White Rhino right now? Maybe wait a few years, let the current ones die off, then breed several of them using Southern White Rhino surrogates could be one plan.
Like any other set of knowledge, the real skill lies on knowing when and how to apply it. When asked to describe our process, I summarize it as "minimalist Scrum." To us, that means using some aspects of Scrum (small team sizes, prioritized work backlogs, and daily standups) and ignoring others (anything with the word "sprint" in it, pre-planned release cycles, and velocity estimation/tracking). Our culture is more built around continuous deployment.

We've found the process that works well for us, and I encourage everyone to be thoughtful and consider many approaches as they try to do the same.
I think Myntra went too far by shutting the website down. Normally a site transitioning from web to mobile doesn't make all the features available on mobile(you don't want to make the users suffer) and looks like they are trying to pull of a zuckerberg (when he made the Facebook employees use only mobile with no access to the web internally.) albeit on a bigger scale.
How many news articles take longer than a few seconds to load?
OK they messed it up, again? Anyone with a laptop preloaded with the crippled Home edition (meaning most laptops) will not be able to take it to the work place and connect it to the domain. Then there's Pro and Enterprise, and most people don't know why they need Enterprise.
That's a problem with management. All of the agile/scrum resources I've read exclaim, in big bold letters, 'THESE ARE NOT METRICS TO EVALUATE PERFORMANCE; THEY ARE FOR ESTIMATION OF EFFORT'
But the reality is almost everyone who "does agile" has rigidly adopted scrum, xp, kanban, etc. That is the reality most of us face. Just because a group got together 14 years ago and created a hypothetical scenario that essentially no one follows doesn't seem all that relevant to me.

And at the same time, the fact that a good, adaptive team that figures out what works for them is what you and the original group deem to be "agile" simply reinforces that the whole thing is ridiculous to me. Why did we need a name and a manifesto for that?

The end reality is we have an entire industry built around that stupid manifesto. Sure, it's not what they wanted, but it's what we all got. We would have been better off without it.
Some structure needed indeed.
And adjusted to the complexity of the endeavor at hand.

Experience needed (read: got fucked before, now can avoid the treacherous waters and apply effort where and when meaningful).

Ability to deal with herding cats much needed as well.

Add relentless ability to move forward and not hold grudges.
Do you have evidence (i.e. randomized, blinded) that uberman actually does work?

I'd be really interested to see it, all I have managed to find is evidence that some people who do it believe that it works well for them, which isn't at all the same thing.

Polyphasic sleep schedules are interesting, but I've always thought these extremely short cycles were problematic.
Its the one thing I didn't write about is that we all bring our dogs to work and are trying to build a world class culture as much as anything. When you do what you love its just doesn't even feel remotely like work!
The Google Lunar XPRIZE already has a bunch of teams making decent progress. The $30 million[0] certainly won't fund the whole trip, but it seems to be a big enough supplement that it is encouraging institutions to give it a serious effort.

That being said, I would love to see the competition and effort if the prize was increased by a factor of at least 25.

[0] http://lunar.xprize.org/
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> I think one problem is that Agile gives a numerical value to how much work has been done: story points.

Agile does not. Even a number of the defined methodologies sold as "Agile" do not (Scrum, for instance, does not mention either user stories or story points -- it does indicate that backlog items will have estimates that are less-specific when the item is farther out in the tail of the work queue and more refined when it is near the head of the queue, but doesn't specify the terms in which those estimates should be gathered.)

> Seriously, I've seen "average story points per developer per sprint" reported to 2 decimal places as if it's a meaningful number.

If it is fairly stable (which should also be measured if it is going to be used), it is a meaningful number for planning what items are within capacity for a sprint. It may not be meaningful for other purposes even then.
Some kicks in the assets and firing bad apples also go a long way in keeping the team focused.

Some people are self motivated and other needs their slap in the morning (for some, that's a couple of times daily).
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The "argument" is that making software is an ugly, brutish affairs in virtually every case, with virtually every approach. There are extraordinarily few cases throughout history where a team converged, looked at the problem, built a solution, and voila, everyone emerged happy. In the real world there is always a discord between requirements and reality, skillsets and the problem space, change management and the need for rapid change, scope creep, and on and on.

It is the story of every software project everywhere throughout time.

But invariably the comments will fill with tales of woe with agile (usually with people betraying a complete lack of understanding of it, as an aside, such as seen with most uses of the term "scrum" throughout these discussions. It serves as the canary in the coal mine when noxious gases are afoot), as if troubled projects are some unique reality of agile. They're a reality of every single methodology. Agile merely tries to help reduce a few of the bigger and most deadly issues, which are friction with the business (the ability to adapt to change), and enormous investments of time and money to a project that ends up being a solution to the wrong problem. It doesn't suddenly make everyone cooperative and great.

As to my "misunderstand", so the solution as you see it is just to have developers that work well together. Easy peasie solution.
I think your fears are indeed irrational. You're reading sensationalized horror stories, internalizing the fear and using it as a justification to NOT do something. I see this mentality in my aging parents and their friends who watch a lot of Fox News.

Would you call me ridiculous if I told you I'll never come to Russia because I believe a joke I made about Putin years ago on the internet will get me assassinated in the streets? I would certainly hope so.

Don't let irrational fear guide your decisions.
I was expecting to see a gold version for $10,000...
Google doesn't like workers who always work remotely, but periodically working from home (or the bus, or hotel, or coffeeshop, or the lobby at the auto mechanic, etc.) for a day is common for all employees.
It's quite possible this changed with iOS7 with the introduction of iCloud Keychain, which enabled storage of credit card information. I've found myself buying a lot more stuff on the mobile web since then, things that previously I only would have bought on a desktop.
Agreed. I would only add to it their embedded "IoT" version.
I think it is even simpler than that: The big companies that have thousands of customers doing millions of dollars of business on hundreds of thousands of machines need more time to patch because their is much more money / business to be lost. Not giving large companies time to patch would do more harm than good in the end.

It is fundamentally unfair, and is perfectly reasonable.
> A year later, when I began to worry about a thesis topic, Neyman just shrugged and told me to wrap the two problems in a binder and he would accept them as my thesis.

I love fun stories like that. And I love that it shows this guy is crazy brilliant yet humble enough to shrug off that success and just assume he had to figure out something else for his thesis. At least that's my interpretation.

faithInHumanity++;
Ur app looks interesting. I just signed up :).

Also, I like the breakdown of your expenses. It's good for other people to learn from too.
What about infrastructure? High-speed internet? Security? Government bureaucracy? Cost of living? Business opportunities? Increased equipment corrosion?

A 'surf' town sounds great. But I just moved away from a popular tourist destination in Brazil, due to some of the above concerns.
Few workplaces are fond of remote workers. The major reason a lot of people remain employed is so they have a purpose to wake up, leave their houses, and spend the day occupied by the relative comfort of an office building, surrounded by reasonably-intelligent coworkers, as a faux-family. And it's a slap in their face that you don't want to spend your time basking in their physical proximity.
Distance field marching has some pros and cons (the biggest downside is that it takes many steps when you get close to an object but not close enough to intersect it).

<self promo> If anyone is interested, I am presenting a new method soon that is a hybrid of distance field marching (explained in this paper) and some other pretty simple techniques. Preview here:

https://twitter.com/gavanw/status/590884138871230464
I've worked at over a dozen places claiming to be agile to some degree, shape, or form, and have yet to see a process that's even remotely close, let alone agile. The failure of agile isn't that it takes time to learn and practice correctly or that it's too rigid. Its main failure is an inability to communicate its purpose to its users effectively. Agile is a good process in theory, but it seems the original creators did not anticipate the people that would try to put it into place and their agendas.

Agile goes against the mandates of almost all corporate culture in that it requires one to get out of the estimates as deadline mindset that rules corporate development. Agile tries to be flexible because that's the only rational option when developing software. When faced with irrationality, however, agile just becomes another justification for deadlines, time-wasting meetings (standup and otherwise), and other nonsense that leads to a productivity plunge everywhere I've seen it implemented.

This corporate culture based around deadlines and subservience of engineers is something that cannot simply be defeated with a methodology, especially when that methodology is, at best, only partially adopted. I will go as far to say that there is no methodology that can change this mindset. Regardless of what the author thinks, corporations and their managers will simply not allow something that will disrupt their world views and opinions.

While agile was trying to solve the problem of waterfall design--which is not always a problem and sometimes the best process--many corporate schmucks (both in management and engineering, both at giant companies and startups) saw it as a way to eliminate the design stage altogether. What great software has resulted! While agile was pushing for quicker iteration and release cycles so that code and features doesn't pile up and prevent / delay / disrupt the release, many corporate schmucks (managers only in this case) decided to use it as a justification for working their engineers overtime so they could push the features they "promised" out live by the release date.

There are few things in this industry that have wasted as much time as the doomed implementation of agile. Many have gotten rich off of it, but it has provided little to no value. The idea that processes can be malleable and flexible that the author advances is just pure insanity. It may work with a group of hackers cranking something out, but something like that will especially be discarded or twisted into something dark by management.

This idea, that a perfectly good process can be turned against itself is what the author does not understand and why his new process will likely fail in the same, dangerous way (should it gain acceptance and adoption), wreaking havoc on the engineers and managers it was supposed to help.
I'd like to at least offer some support to this -- I'm not sure I agree with all of your conclusions but since switching to Scrum mentality I definitely notice that the goals of our team have become much less ambitious... Rather than insulating for development cycles that may not yield much for a few of months but in the end equals proper enterprise architecture, the business/devs have found it much easier to focus on small iterative tasks that are much more superficial in the grand scheme of things.

I think engineering processes benefit when they are insulated from direct scrutiny of timelines. Resorting to tackling smaller, neater issues in Agile seems to be a sign that there is a lack of technical leadership/vision. This is not necessarily the fault of Agile (I don't mind Agile, I think projects can succeed with it if approached properly), I simply agree that increasing process rigor seems to be a symptom of an engineering/mgmt team that is floundering.

In short, if your team's problem is that things are getting "messy" and "hectic" because of too much crappy copy/paste code, I have seen how Agile can just deepen that wound while masking it in a veil of "tangible progress" seen in burndown charts. Then, again, if you don't have the right people you don't have the right people. What else can you say?
Unfortunately, cranks have a serious signal vs. noise problem. Even if they blunder into a correct answer, it's difficult to tell.
IMO, this is not just to discourage/avoid the price comparison issue but to mainly circumvent the competition in more of the web/SEO way.

Every e-commerce website right now is putting way too much money on PPC to make sure their site pops up for any product you search online.

What flipkart/myntra wants to achieve is this; you think of a particular shoe you want to buy. Instead of firing up your browser and see other others offers from ebay or amazon or snapdeal, they expect you to go to myntra app, search for it and buy it.

Pulling the desktop site means no such comparison nor any other offers would be shown to you instead you would get it from the app.

I am totally against this not just because this sounds stupid to me but kills our freedom of choice. I and you are smart and patient enough to browse around but not many new smartpone users would be and might just buy it from Myntra no matter the price. Especially if Myntra starts coming pre-installed on devices ( which I think would be their next move )
It is, but tool vendors joined the party and talked to C-level people...
What is DNS?
The original premise was actually finding girls. When I read your second sentence I actually thought you meant that.
Not if it is indistinguishable from the real thing and they have no idea as to its origins.
Orwell's quote was:
> ... can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face.
I agree. The trick will to i) undercut rhino horn prices and ii) make it undistinguishable from the original. Quite a challenge, but I like the idea.
Misandry does not exist.
Except those computations aren't actually doing anything useful. They're not protein folding, they're not analyzing data, they're just computing for the sake of computing.
Yes, I submitted this yesterday (instead of the article submitted here, because I found it to be deeper and did not want to submit 2 links at the same time), but sadly it failed to gain traction.
"Pro" is for people that don't have volume licenses but want the business-specific features like domain joining. Remember, Windows 10 may be a free upgrade, but it's not free and I imagine they still make quite a bit of extra money from businesses buying Pro.

"Education" looks like it's a discounted volume license available to schools. Not sure what extra features it's going to have but it's not something that anyone other than a school administrator will ever care about.
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Write it in TeX, then search for that.
Content, Distribution and Anti-FOMO (FB Instant Articles)
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Was this a custom app? My company puts most of our stuff on the internet, but most of it is stuff we've bought from Atlassian and the like.
I suspect there's some sad commentary on the state of humanity that you have bother yourself to say something like this.

Whatever happened to "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"? I know that has origins in English Law but the Founding Fathers considered it to be so important it figures heavily in the Bill of Rights.
while we're in this discussion, is there any good hosted agile/scrum tool? (note: asana doesn't seem to count, it's too flexible, like a glorified todo app).

if there isn't any, i'd take this as an opportunity to develop one (i recently acquired agile.id and scrum.id domain, otherwise i'll just sell the domains).

...or maybe because their mantra "people over process" so the practitioners never feel the need of management software?
Some articles just ask really in-depth questions. Like this one on whether too much sugar is bad for you: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...
I think Slate is the most egregious offender there.
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> I wonder which "cloud hosting provider" they will choose.

Meant to be sarcastic? Google is in this market. Doesn't strike me that there is any chance they'd use MSFT or Amazon for infrastructure.
I suspect the number, and the very presence, of likes on your company's page is inconsequential. What matters is the percent of conversions (that is, purchases) for ad impressions. FB can target ads very narrowly.
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It's impossible to do double-blind experiments on behavior changes. But randomized, blind-evaluator experiments would be a good start.
One paper estimates that the power consumption of Bitcoin mining is approximately equal to the power consumption of Ireland. My own estimate is that it is the same as the power consumption of Cambodia. Either way, Bitcoin's power usage is basically insane, considering that the transaction volume could literally be handled by a Raspberry Pi running a SQL database.

Ref: https://karlodwyer.github.io/publications/pdf/bitcoin_KJOD_2...
I'm imagining a surfer zen master saying, "dude it is not the size of the screen that matters, but what is in the mind."
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I agree. A simple "Windows 10" with no subtitle would really make things easier for the consumer. Appending 'Home' on what is really a feature reduced version of Windows 10 doesn't seem to be in the best interest of the customer.
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The introduction to the UN FAO report on edible insects [1] states that 2 billion people currently eat insects.

World population is over 7 billion so most people, in fact, do not eat bugs.

[1] http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3253e/i3253e00.htm
One thing I haven't discovered yet is whether the installation of 10 is going to be a brand new install rather than an upgrade. In other words, will it be necessary to reinstall all my applications after moving to 10?
The editions make sense for market segmentation. Home editions cannot join a domain so that rules them out for business and education. Then they want to price segment between schools and business which makes the distinction between Education and Enterprise.

Pro is sort of the consumer version of Enterprise; it can join a domain too. I run 8.1 pro, not because of the join a domain feature, but because it can host a remote desktop session and home cannot.
iPhone users can't do WhatsApp from their computers. I will resist WhatsApp in my social circles to the greatest extent possible until that's fixed.
Totally guessing here, but I feel like there's a problem for grade schools to attract talent to teach CS _right_....
What are "authenticated devices"? The closest I can think of are client certificates being installed on the devices and used as a first-level of authentication. It could be anything from TLS client certificates to VPN certificates.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8716050
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The biggest impact of the T20 incident referred to here was on EVE-politics rather than CCP's policies.

Context: The T20 incident happened during a three year long galaxy-spanning conflict that erupted which pitted numerous smaller players against a dominant feudal-like political entity. As implied in the article, this war was not about resources or territory, but about ideology: "roleplay and serious business" vs. "we are bad at this, let's have fun". The T20 event was seen by many as evidence of corruption and organisational rot within the "serious business camp", bolstering the opposing camp's numbers and morale significantly.
It should be clear from the article which side has won in the end.

In the post above, tinfoilman is giving a fine example of five year-old political spin of the aforementioned great war. Figuring out which side he was on is left as a trivial exercise to the reader.
I can't tell you how many times I've had coworkers come in with a new device they convinced management to buy them, without my approval, and they've saved a few hundred on the OS by having a Personal edition.

So MS is paid twice there - once for the Personal version that came with the device, and once again for the business buying a single copy of Pro version to install over the Personal version.
So it's a Raspberry Pi 2 with 1GB of extra RAM and 1Gb/s Ethernet connection or an average smartphone without a display... times 10?
I think methodologies in general don't work as they are basically someone's reflection on some process (ex. Lean Startup by Eric Ries), an attempt to generalize one's experience that isn't widely applicable by construction.
An upgrade; the underlying technology in Windows hasn't changed significantly since Vista.
> Focus on preparing yourself for a leadership role and an independent future

as someone who's entry-level, what's the best way to "prepare for leadership role"? thanks!
no paywall https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newss...
Is there a story leading up to this one? I guess I was looking for answers to questions like:

- At what point did Sudan become the last male northern white rhino?

- Were similar conservation and breeding efforts done on the previous male northern white rhinos?

- If so, why did those fail (for both conservation and breeding)?

- How far back were conservation and breeding efforts executed and failed, leading up to the last one?

- Is this a case of hunting efforts out-pacing diligent conservation and breeding efforts, or was there not enough education and funding for truly diligent conservation and breeding efforts?

Unfortunately, the goal of this article seems to be to strike at the readers' emotions vs. present a factual story of the past and present. Not saying the former is bad, just that I was hoping for more of the latter.
I'm curious as to why the author seems to be so set on Taghazout specifically.
Posting from Marrakech via hotel WiFi to confirm that the internet seems to work reasonably well in Morocco, FWTW. Perhaps Taghazout is cooler, but, personally, I'd find it hard to get work done in this 45 C heat.
Getting really tired of these slick vuln websites....