skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So few implementations of Agile have the slightest connection to the quality-focused spirit of the Agile principles that there is no such thing to talk about "Agile" apart from the ubiquitous failure mode.

You say,

>the kind of "Agile" that people are railing against is so far removed that it doesn't deserve any association whatsoever with the expression "agile"

but I say that the idealized notion of "agile" you're talking about simply does not exist in reality, and no company using Agile even comes remotely close to it. The fact that Agile is so easily subverted is an indication of how poor a tool it is, and in the end when everyone is misusing a certain tool (the way that everyone misuses Agile) you have to stop doing mental gymnastics to defend the tool and acknowledge the widespread failure is the tool's fault.
Purple Rain in the Saharan Desert: How a remake of Prince’s cult classic became the first-ever Tuareg-language fiction film

Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai

(“rain the color of blue with a little red in it”)

The alcoholic, wife-beating father character from Purple Rain is swapped for a pious Muslim who bans music in his household and burns Moctar’s guitar for the sake of his son’s soul (“only drug addicts and alcoholics play guitar,” the father declares). Instead of the protagonist ordering his lover to “purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka,” Moctar tries to woo his love interest by driving her into the middle of the desert and pretending that his motorcycle has run out of gas. And, instead of one-upping Morris Day in a showdown on First Avenue, the Tuareg six-stringer squares off against his real-life rival Kader Tanoutanoute at the Agadez branch of the Alliance Française, a French language and cultural center.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/pur...
There are faint, faint wisps of Earth's atmosphere a fair distance out, which is the big part of an orbit's challenge. Perturbations from other bodies nearby (notably the Moon), deformities of Earth's gravity, and even solar weather and tiniest fractions of gases are other contributors on a long-enough time scale. Micrometeorites would probably be the big risk over time for our orbital monument to humanity, and I would expect Kessler syndrome, as dramatized in Gravity, to actually happen over a long enough period without human existence. (Hell, even with us around it's a possibility, but not as depicted in the film. It'd be slower. Some say it's already underway.)

Distant orbits might decay away from Earth given enough time and certain circumstances, oddly enough. A return to Earth is not guaranteed.
Beating Back the Patent Trolls
I never thought the ship of Theseus discussion would come up in the context of licensing.. Yet here we are!
Valve do not provide a public trading api that is needed to run these sites, they mostly use steamkit2 an open source library that was made from re
Ask HN: Is Golang mature enough for FinTech startups?
We would love to get your thoughts on GoLang in 2016. The language has spectacular speed and it is fun to work with but we're wondering whether to brave an entire FinTech site with it. Our backup is Rails. I've noticed that Revel and other frameworks in Go have lost steam, due to React, Angular, and Ember replacing the frond end. But that has its upsides and downsides too. Go and React would make a nice pair, but we may have to reinvent the wheel to protect against many attack vectors that are already taken care of by Rails. Then there is hiring and on-boarding on a less-standard architecture. Yet that speed is so tempting.

Braintree had some objections in 2013: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/gotchas-irritants-and-warts-in-go-web-development/

From a functionality standpoint, the site will be processing Stripe and/or Dwolla & Braintree; holding user profiles with private and public views; We'll do CloudFlare, SSL (DigiCert or CF), and Postgres in the back. We'll need to take care of CSRF, injections, user validations, OFAC checking etc. What do you guys think?

If you or someone you know has done GoLang for FinTech, would you be willing to chat?
I've spent the last couple of weeks intensively researching paths into the life sciences without a PhD (I'm deciding whether to go get one).

I haven't found a way in either. If you start your own company somewhere in the field, or otherwise support yourself, you can rock and roll as an indie researcher. Otherwise, a Ph.D. seems necessary.

I wonder if this will change over the next decade, as synthetic biology continues to expand rapidly.
Nobody was questioning the economics, it's obvious why they do what they do. I was questioning the kind of company Google wants to be. It can be greater (in my eyes anyway). For example, Apple can still generate phenomenal profits just on the basis of their product and doesn't need to resort to putting ads everywhere.
Slow tech news day? I guess the craptocurrency speculators need periodically "news" like this to dump their bitcoins and buy them cheaper next week.
There's a way to spin each propeller at 180 degree phase so they would cancel/reduce each others noise.
Some practicing, non-research positions are gated and require a doctorate, such as psychology.
At Kursk, that proved true. Numbers won.
Which ad-blocker are you using? I'm trying to find an alternative to AdBlock.
This tool is probably the most expensive GitHub-related tool there is! $9/private repo, wow!

Not to mention the buggy button - often I see 2-3 instances one after another!
My impression: PMs are way overvalued. As a simple engineer, can I volunteer to be the guy doing the important work of fetching the hash browns in exchange for a big multi-ten-thousand dollar increase in pay? (I'll skip being blown by the press.) I can even speak with the store manager to assure them that yes, I really want to buy > $50 of food!
I don't think it's easy to copy. I can understand that the search market is ad driven. But they have put ads in everything now. Why does gmail have ads? It's not easily copyable and people will take years to build a decent gmail competitor.

And good products that didn't have ads like google reader get shutdown :/
They seem to be doing a pretty good job of diversifying? The profits haven't caught up yet, granted, but this is a company with many of the smartest people in the world working on future game-changing tech and sinking a ton of money into research. Still bullish here :)
The trilogy was formative for 14 year old me.
No, the identification process requests a particular motion (ex. open and close mouth, nod head, etc) in order to confirm 'liveness'.
The article itself seems to be talking more about the perceived sense of self is, and how that might be affected by organisms that replace our existing organisms.

The title led me to believe it might be something more like the gondii situation mention.

There is perhaps an association between gondii and schizophrenia. Here is one meta analysis[1]

"The results suggest that individuals with schizophrenia have an increased prevalence of antibodies to T. gondii. This association is consistent with other epidemiological studies as well as with animal studies."

[1] http://schizophreniabulletin.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/3...
> I also don't really know any organization that goes all in on "all team members are interchangeable".

This has been a ubiquitous and openly stated goal from management in every job I've had. In one job that followed a consultant's implementation of Agile to the letter, it was actually part of new employee on-boarding to be turned into a full-stack developer no matter what your background was.

Our team worked on a large predictive analytics project, and you can imagine how hard it was to recruit machine learning engineers when the proposition was, "Gee, your amazing degree from Georgia Tech and your experience building a novel recommender system from scratch for a start-up are great and all, but don't you think it would be good for you to spend 6 months fixing Javascript bugs related to poor performance of some of our app's drop-down menus? BTW if you don't exude boisterous enthusiasm for that, it means you're toxic, poor attitude, not a team player, and HR will never let you through the interview process."
The 40% with employment commitments doesn't seem that bad actually. It's probably higher than the percentage for B.S. graduates.
You can't get an MD without a PhD depending on the country the first 5-6 years get you a PhD the residency gets you the MD.
Some medical schools also allow you to take an extra 1-2 years and get a "research" on you degree as well.
I'm in the wrong profession!
In STEM, if you don't get a financial offer along with your PhD program acceptance letter, then you've probably just been politely rejected. The financial offer will usually cover your living costs (a few $k per month), so it won't cover any lost opportunity costs... but you shouldn't need to take on debt to do your PhD in STEM. I'm guessing journalism is a different story!

For STEM, it's also true that certain job opportunities (eg. elite R&D facilities) more-or-less require a PhD or equivalent levels of mastery. It's possible to obtain those jobs after a long period of field work (without PhD), but it's a lot more difficult. Plus, you will always be butting up against credentialing norms during those jobs' recruiting processes. (Whether that's equitable or not is another story.)

Just my $0.02.
I built exactly this app (functionally, but even used "down" in our vocab) in 2003 for a class project called Nitester using the web and an AIM bot. If only I had the drive then to push it further rather than jump to the next project :/

https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~wgg/CSE118/presentations-2003.html
"In fact there are three freely convertible currencies in the Galaxy, but none of them count. The Altairian Dollar has recently collapsed, the Flainian Pobble Bead is only exchangeable for other Flainian Pobble Beads, and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change. From this basic premise it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination."
I'm using uBlock origin and find it much better than ABP.
Only on I-90. For some reason, nobody enforces speed limits on the toll bridge that tech workers take to Google/Microsoft...
500 Year Anniversary of the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516 (“Reinheitsgebot”)
I'm not tolerant of a cultural value that virgins should be thrown into volcanos to ensure a good harvest. There are plenty of others I am not tolerant of, as well, such as the cultural value that some groups of people are subhuman.
The article's title is somewhat coy about the author's central thesis which he states at the bottom[1]: Basically, he prefers a language that is dynamic instead of static.

Instead of giving a reader an immediate heads up about the dynamic-vs-static argument, he gave it the subtitle of "Another kind of performance" ... which he means to be "programmer performance." The majority of the article is about this topic.

The (cpu) "performance" is therefore a subtopic of the dynamic-vs-static choice. He argues that "performance" was one of the drivers of static type checking but that factor does not matter anymore. (E.g. his example of objc_msgSend taking nanoseconds on both desktop & mobile.) I think the Android interest in AOT (static) instead of JIT is a counterexample to that. Performance still matters on battery powered, low GHz cpu devices like smartphones.

[1]author says: "Yes, I realize that would have meant pushing some errors from compile time to run time, in exactly the same way Objective-C does right now. But I don’t care — I’d take that trade-off every single day of the week."
Snapchat lets you Face Swap with your camera roll, drops paid replays
More likely they ran a few experiments putting more on, and the statistics said more people clicked them. I doubt it's actually that users have a preference towards paid results
TSLH - too short, left hanging.

I've pondered similar diagnoses of various economic metrics. But what is his constructive outlook for what comes next?

Without one, the only approach is to cling to the outgoing paradigm, because being in a better position in the old one is not likely to put one in a worse position in whatever the new one may be.
The book that superb movie is based on is well written as well.
Why don't journalistic ethics require you to disclose when a propagandist basically wrote your piece for you?
My $120,000 Vacation – Experience on Four Seasons' Indulgent Vacation Package
If adblocking becomes a serious problem for Google, they can (and will) block the relevant extensions in Chrome.

Also, mobile chrome (increasingly dominant worldwide) doesn't, and won't, have adblocking.

Yes, I'm ignoring numerically insignificant installs like rooted hosts redirects, firefox mobile, opera, etc. Those aren't going to impact revenue.
Are you good at math and algorithms? If so you would probably be much better off getting into finance. There are probably lots of high paying jobs in London if you are skilled.
I still don't believe they've actually hacked it. There's no evidence that they have.
Don't try to shortcut this editorial by just reading the headline!

tldr: "The reg is closing the barn door a bit, at a time when there have been no recent mass horse escapes. That's probably a good idea though it doesn't solve all the problems out there and is arguably kind of unhip."
The government owned the iPhone in question.
Very proud to see the new gov't doing something right for a change. But it's probably a little too late sadly.
Are the companies paying $10 per click? Otherwise I'm not sure you're making the appropriate comparison.
I dunno about Lexis Nexis. I've had occasion to use LN to look up information about some people, both Academic and full commercial versions, and while it was useful and worthwhile spending those hours digging through all its hits, I was not that impressed by what they had. Ultimately, usually I wound up with less new information than I had gotten from simply closely examining their social media activity and writings.
I would rather have a permanent battery. The technology has been understood since the 1970s and the military has been using them for at least 15 years.
To the extent that there is a liquid secondary market in trading cards, I'm not sure there is a real line between them and retail gambling instruments. But, some things cases have more in common with scratchers than Pokemon booster packs:

- They're available instantly in effectively unlimited quantity, as many as you want to buy.

- Although technically there are many gradations, the quality label of an item ("Factory new", "battle-scarred", etc.) is incontrovertible and easily verified.

- As a digital good, liquidation is extremely low-friction and virtually risk-free. In fact:

- You can click a button from within the game itself to see the current market value in USD -- sorry, in "Steam credit" -- and another to immediately offer the item for sale at that price.

- Maybe most relevant to this thread, even without liquidating they can be easily used as currency to participate in unregulated online roulette, slots, sports betting and more.

So, yeah, there are some differences.
How exactly is Monsanto supposed to recoupe the initial investment of generating a transgenic crop and getting it through the FDA to ensure its safe for human consumption if they can only charge for the first generation of seeds. The second generation still contains their unnatural transgene insert (the part which is actually under patent).
This looks like for on going verification rather than the initial one on sign up. The issue is drivers sharing accounts.
Things you want to know before developing a SaaS Website – Part 1: Start
Copy paste.
I had a fun exercise with a client that said they don't need a process to control the take in, audit and validation of 3rd party (mainly open source) code in their SDLC process because they strictly prohibit it in their coding policy.

I ran a code plagiarism tool on the top 500 github repos and on some list of the top most common code questions from stackoverflow and found 1000's of hits on only a small part of their code base with even comments copied directly from stack being not to uncommon.

In one particular instance it was a perfect storm of stupidity they had some code that was supposed to take user provided files and store them on S3 the example they copied from actually had a valid AWS access token of another company if that code was live the files which would be mainly their customers invoices and tax info could've ended up on some one else's server.

After that afternoon I never had a single pushback from neither their head of development nor their compliance guys ever again.
Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning vs. Montezuma's Revenge
They are doing a poor job of diversifying. Those side businesses are producing a small amount of revenue. It would be one thing if the profits hadn't caught up, the real problem is there isn't much in the way of sales to begin with. I see no example business of theirs that will get them even moderately diversified off of online advertising in the next five years. And I'm not speaking of technology Alphabet is messing with - what business are they looking to capture in self-driving cars for example? I see no example of an actual business there so far.

Granted, this only matters in the scenario in which their online advertising business contracts meaningfully (whether due to ad-blockers or otherwise). If ad-blockers gain usage at an accelerating pace, Google is unlikely to have much time to diversify (and that takes a long time when you're talking $20b in sales to off-set).

So far Google has been flaky, disorganized and unprincipled about developing other real businesses. They should have a dramatically larger cloud services business for example, but they handled that incompetently and ceded years and tons of ground to AWS.

Essentially Google has to spend the next several years praying that ad-blockers don't rapidly bring their spigot of online ad dollars to an end. That's a real bad position to have put yourself in if you're a $536 billion corporation.
It's worth noting that most schools of economics are heavily indebted to physics. This came from a desire to increase economics' perceived rigor, and led to the (mis)appropriation of some core concepts[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_equilibrium_theory, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09672560600708011
Wow, talk about a product that is not on my radar. Right now, I'm too geographically constrained to find it useful (it takes too long to casually meet up with friends), and in New York, we all just group texted each other. I guess this is nice in comparison to mass text/email (I'm speculating since I don't have the app) in that when one person replies "Yes!" or worse, "No", not everyone has to get that message. And right now, Facebook Events seem too formal a mechanism for setting up casual meetups. I could see that differentiation making a product...but how did it reach a critical mass?

It's funny that the article mentions that the app can be used for invitations to a variety of events, "even a church service". This sounds like the kind of app that would seemingly have originated from a church community. A lot of people go to megachurches for the daytime social networking, and stay loyal through small groups (Bible study, recreational sports, etc)...while it's often joked that this serves as a dating service for Christian singles, there's a lot of eagerness for platonic casual meetups, or just wondering if anyone is going to go to Wednesday night service this week. If a pastor recommended his 10,000 congregants to use an app to best stay in touch...I'd think that its adoption would spread very quickly...and the church-going crowd is still a big sector in America.
If you want shipping, you want standards. They should be creative in the UI and system administration tools (maybe not even for those tooks), otherwise we can't build anything on top of them.

There's no real use for 3000 distributions anyway. Most of them can't even support the software they include properly. And most of them duplicate so much effort it's not even funny anymore (rpm vs deb, yum vs apt, etc.).

Standards are generally good (HTTP, IP, SSL, TCP, POSIX, USB, etc.).
The authors were able to do well on one of the few games previously too difficult for Deep Reinforcement learning. The agent finds subgoals based on object detection.
That's also not good for them, because it grants a potentially huge advantage to their competitors who do support adblocking. That may or may not be a long term big deal, but it's a risk.
I've always wondered why production cars for road use can ever go over 100 mph. Put a governor at 65 mph and you never have to both enforcing speeding tickets again. I'm not advocating for this, but if it's so bad they will take away your ability to drive over it why not limit it mechanically?
If you are relying only on a framework for things like CRSF protection and do not understand how to avoid these pitfalls on a fundamental level then you have bigger problems.

Having said that I think I would choose your solution based on your teams skills. If they are comfortable with golang there is no reason it could not be made to work.

But as long as you understand how the table is set and the trade offs I don't think it matters. Golang is going to have less batteries included but it has other advantages too. If it's worth it is really a question of speed of code execution vs speed of writing code.
I dropped out of college to found a med-tech company that went on to be funded by YC. Every other company in my space is founded by a doctor. I haven't noticed a difference in how we are treated yet. If you're good, you're good, and you can always hire the PhDs later on.
It was acquired and shut down, but https://www.mailboxapp.com/ was a thing recently.
That's an excellent way to get people to switch away from Chrome. I love Chrome, use it all the time, but if I can't have any adblocking? No thanks.
Uh, state actors (including GCHQ) already are some of the primary buyers of vulnerabilities.
"$1M and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
Do you think you can attribute the relaxation more to the breathing or stretching component?

I've been doing casual meditation (mostly just mindful breathing) and I wonder if I'd further benefit my mind from Yoga. I already do intense cardio and resistance exercises from other activities.
Here is a gif of a few runs https://goo.gl/3Z64Ji
Advertising will just change form.
If the artificial gene insert was designed so that it doesn't propogate to the next generation (which is theoretically possible), would you consider this more fair? That is to say, Monsanto wouldn't have to impose any 'artificial rules' because their plant crops are designed to last a single generation.
Any attempt to do that, would result in two likely outcomes:

1) It would create a bad product, according to Google's own prior statements on the matter.

2) It would encourage government authorities to look even closer at potential abuses toward consumers (ie what kind of consumer harm is occurring, if any, when a monopoly search provider prevents attempts by consumers to use ad blockers; that would have to be resolved legally). European authorities would likely pounce on such a move immediately, looking for any opening by mistake to go after the company, given how they've handled Google thus far.
Snowden Seeks Assurance from Norway It Won’t Extradite Him