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The linked article's title is "Why do all old statues have such small penises?". Why was the word "penises" censored on HN?

Edit: It's now been changed. It used to say "male genitalia" instead of "penises".
In general, "art" had a different meaning in past times compared to today.

It was the subject of this very interesting excerpt by Knuth, recently posted by pg.

http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html
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It really depends on the environment.

At one place I was at they were "Agile" and said they utilized "SCRUM" methods, but yet the PM's were running dev team meetings and really they were just status meetings that took a dev team of 3-4 people 30-45 minutes to get through, totally not the purpose in my opinion.

When I took over a team at that same company, I immediately took over the process and turned the meetings into roughly 10-15 minutes long where we announced roadblocks, issues and what we accomplished and were working on. If needed, we would schedule a separate time to discuss details of specific issues that needed more time. I still invited the PM's but didn't let them ask for status updates on each scheduled task or defect item. I would instead provide them a status update weekly as made sense, sometimes more often in the case of defects.

Personally, I have been part of a lot of environments even as a consultant and seen a lot of varied implementations. At least from my experience the ones that try to layer it with every possible role, and have separate scrum masters etc just aren't as successful. I personally think they miss the point. The idea is to remove layers of process to make all teams more effective, not just development. I have a feeling that the original scrum concepts were perverted by PM consultants and training courses which added back in lots of process and layers to something that is supposed to be lightweight and nimble.

IMO the ones I always see the most successful are when a technical lead is running the process, at the dev team level. And the PM or product owner is interfacing with only the team lead or maybe one person between the team lead and themselves. This removes unnecessary layers, keeps the dev team focused, and still gives great insight for the business into what is happening and makes the process pretty damn fast. It does mean that a team lead is not coding as much, they are instead focused on keeping the monkey off the dev teams back, but that is kinda the job role. In the one place, I was their Chief Software Architect (as a consultant) and I acted as the go between for team leads and the business, which worked well because the team leads stayed more heads down and I could articulate both architecture and schedule issues back to the business. That was really successful, but a little sole sucking for me.
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Based on feedback here and on reddit, I plan to jump on with the next minor release. Maybe Mate will fix the issues found in using the Citrix receiver on Unity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4h58mj/ubuntu_1604_i...
Maybe OP delivered on time.
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OP was deleted because of https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ik6wk/im_planning_my...

Here it is (from Google's cache):

My short bio: I'm a writer and programmer, and have terminal cancer. I'm slowly unwinding my life and planning my death. I'm using my own case to study how the living and the dying talk, to attack the taboos over cancer and death, and to make dying a more positive, social process. More details in the link below.

My Proof: http://hintjens.com/blog:115 (scroll down for scan of summary report from my hospital stay, in French).

To be clear, I'm not sure when I'm going to die. I've metastasis in both lungs, and colon. Bile duct cancer does not respond to chemo, as a rule. My oncologists are pessimistic and I'm on palliative care at home now. That is my data, the basis for the rest of my life.
Uber actually seems less likely than a lot of startups. Their (minimum) running costs are tiny relative to revenue.
I expect they'll be taken over by MI6 and be used to create a high-speed escape tunnel for the staff and agents at Vauxhall Cross
Well done, HN. You upvoted it. Now let's see you discuss it.
I wonder, is there a correlation between the telegraph.co.uk article and your comment?
check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeCDVjeRMWc
The latest William Gibson book features a sculpture made of diggers recovered from the basements of the super rich erected in a possible future London. Apparently the cost of retrieving them is a major driver in the small digger market!
I wonder if the time delay on these pop-ups is set to avoid being measured by the "bounce rate" or "0-10 second session duration" analytics tools.

This would be especially interesting to measure. While the 0-10 second bounce rate on any site will be somewhat high due to people just looking for something other than the page you give them (I see 50% bounces on a small business site with zero ads), and it's difficult to distinguish these from people who didn't like the ads or format, you could get a precise measurement of exactly how many people close the page within 3 seconds of the pop-up appearing.
I am not sure anyone believes that writing with only 1000 words is better - but it should make the writing more understandable. There is a sharp curve in understanding from text that is easy (most magazine or newspaper articles) to dizzyingly complicated (most academic writing). For me the utility in simple writing is its accessibility to a wider audience.

Incidentally you did rather well in your second paragraph - only 'honestly, limit, common, curious, digested' were out of bounds, and they are easily swapped without much loss in expression.
That's the first Terminator. Terminator 2 would be:

It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die, to protect him.
How about compromise and call it "H+ ion"
I'm an Android programmer and talk to Android users. I meet some people who use voice on apps a lot.

I myself try to use voice with Google Maps when I'm driving in a car. I don't want to fiddle with the onscreen keyboard while driving. It's success varies, currently it understands some place names better than others. But it keeps improving too.
Installed 16.04 last Saturday no large issues but then my scope of customization is really small. Nvidia drivers also installed without an issue which is honestly a first (for me on any distro).
Someone wrote a 260 pages long novel without using a single word that contains the letter 'e'. That seems impossible to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_%28novel%29
How about investing some of that money? Like Real State or trading or bootstrapping a business.

Generate passive income on the side, there are only 24 hours in a day and you cant expect that your salary will grow exponentially.
Um, it's not?

Maybe the submitter changed the title after seeing your comment?
I was hoping that this was sort of reflecting the norm :S
I read somewhere that in greek culture big genitalia was considered barbaric and brute, and small genitalia was preferred.

On the phone now though so can't find the source.
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Writing advanced C++ code is more difficult than writing node.js code for sure imo. So having a /2 salary for the most difficult option is meh. I have also had these offers from companies outside of London (don't know about rural areas OK). I think you should research a bit because I really think you are taken advantage of mate.
Guessing that https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=okket self-censored due to perceived American "sensibilities". Those of us who aren't from the USA never really understand what causes insult or not. (no joke, and no snark, it's absolutely true that this causes confusion to Australians, and I assume it does to a whole bunch of people from other nationalities!)

EDIT: Title has been changed. Good for whoever changed it!
Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?
Just hired a new biz dev person. Over the weekend, he sent some messages that were inappropriate to one of my existing employees.

He asked to take the conversation off Slack (moved to Whatsapp) and asked if they could hang out (she said, "sure as friends in work context"), referred to her as a milf (ugh...), and asked if he could tell her a secret (she refused)

My employee handled it well and didn't let it get out of hand. I've seen the evidence of the texts in question.

The employee came to me in confidence (I'm one of the founders) and told me she really doesn't want to cause problems with the team. I'm really upset by this guy's behaviour and I want to fire him immediately. If I do, she'll know and it will be a violation of the trust she placed in me.

So what do I do HN? Do I fire him? Kick his ass? Get them in a room with a HR rep and talk it out? Hold a "how to recognize sexual harassment seminar"?

The employee in question has made it clear that it's not a big deal and she knows how to deal with it, but fact is she shouldn't have to deal with it and I want to make it clear that these things aren't acceptable in the company we're building.
That's what the linked article says :-)
>The decisions they make during the gameplay get translated into decisions about non-trivial aspects of scientific work. (This is the hard part).

It's a nice dream but I suspect figuring out the mapping from game to scientific problem would take exponential time (ie be totally impractical) if you're talking about unmodified games.
You might find these benchmarks interesting: http://kparc.com/q4/readme.txt
I very strongly disagree that it's morally wrong.
Let's say I provide a service to people for 1000$/pop. They value it at more than that and happily exchange money for that service. I get my 1000$. I don't use almost any environmental or public resources to perform the service (I write code or perform massages or w/e).

The mere fact that I exist and provide those services is beneficial for society even if I am taxed at 0%.

There are of course issues if I have a monopoly or if I am extracting rent from what should be a common good (say natural resources of crucial piece of land) or if I am polluting while providing my services. There are also issues if what I do hurt others but they are or unrelated to the fact that I create wealth for myself. How is it wrong? What moral principle are you using to say it's wrong? My reasons are quite straightforward: by providing sought for services I am increasing my and my customer's happiness while not hurting others in the process. It's a win-win, the more I provide the more insanely win-win it is even if I collect a trillion dollars in the process.
It may be insane to the typical person, but if you start to objectify the lens that is active, then you can see there are multiple conflicting truths.

As an example:

Belief 1: The floor I am standing on is real.

Of course it is real. I can experience it right now.

Belief 2: The floor I am standing on is not real.

Of course it is not real. Most materials are empty space and our nervous system generates the experience of solidity. Besides, time doesn't exist as there is only this present experience so there is no container for material things to exist in.

I regard both of these as true from different lenses.

Is it insane? Maybe. But it also avoids a ton of existential angst.
Talk to your lawyer.
Back on the envelope - on mobile so forgive no sources:

150b Bing searches/yr (from 12% mkt share)
-->37.5b voice searches

500m iOS devices (ignoring Cortana/Alexa as negligible)
-->75m have ever used Siri (15%)

Implies 500 voices searches/year or one or two per day, per Siri user. Seems high

Edit: found a source on Quora that suggested 1b Siri queries per week. So it's in the ballpark- since not all of those will be web searches
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I found the article interesting but I don't know how much there is to discuss. The article asks the question and answers it. In a neat little package. (Pun intended... I couldn't stop myself.)
If you're referring to the domain of my email in my profile: This isn't my website. It's just an email provider.
Umm... is this supposed to be a parody of antivaxxers or something? I'm having a lot of trouble with Poe's Law here.
OK, so now we've switched from "why can't we just agree that what you deserve to be paid is exactly what others are willing to pay you" to some combination of that with "you deserve to be paid more if you've invested more time and effort" and "you only deserve to be paid for things that aren't actually illegal".

The trouble with the second of these, as an ethical principle, is that it offers no way to decide what to make illegal in the first place. Suppose your legal system has carelessly failed to forbid murdering people for money; then doing so meets all of your criteria (people will pay for it, doing it well surely requires an investment of time and effort, and it isn't against the law). Someone arguing against it will have to make exactly the kind of argument you've objected to here: "Murder-for-hire is a bad thing even though people will pay for it, because overall it makes the world a worse place."

You may reasonably be completely untroubled by this if you think your legal system, as it is now, perfectly captures all the moral principles it's reasonable to care about. Personally, I am not convinced that any actually existing legal system does this.

> I understand your argument but just disagree that anything unethical is going on.

OK. How do you feel about the ethics of the situation in my fable? The first person who realised that he could get more money by putting up a big net that extends over his neighbour's garden: anything wrong with that? Are you happy with the final result, where the overall amount of money everyone's getting is the same but lots of people are having to work very hard to make it be them rather than someone else who gets it?

I'm not sure I'd exactly say that hedge funds, or indeed the money-collecting businesses in my fable, are acting unethically. If they didn't do it, someone else would and the situation wouldn't be any better. But I would say that the overall result is a pretty terrible one. What we have here is a coordination problem: you have lots of people acting in individually-reasonable ways, and the overall outcome is much worse than what you'd get if by some magic everyone could agree to act so as to produce a mutually-better outcome. (E.g., just letting the money carry on falling from the sky.)

(The best answer we currently have to large-scale coordination problems is regulation enforced by the government. That has plenty of problems of its own, of course.)
To me, language is wielded with dual intention: (1) to convey meaning ("A thorough lecturer") & (2) to convey meaning in a pleasing manner to the listener ("A good lecturer").

Expanding vocabulary to accentuate (2) by necessity compromises (1) for classes of listeners / readers who are not familiar with that vocabulary superset. Which decomposes the optimization problem to "Who is my audience and what is their comfort vocabulary set?" I would expect it's >1,000 words even for ESOL listeners. However, it's certainly < "the full set of florid English words".

And furthermore, I think English writers writing for English consumers (I count myself among these, sadly) often undervalue writing in the most effective style for the widest audience when applicable (and nowadays it almost always is: research papers, comments on a public forum, blog posts, how to's, etc etc).

Does anyone have any links to courses to help develop a working minimally spanning English vocabulary for international technical communication?

This is one problem I've had with academic literature in historically liberal arts fields. "Just learn the obscure English vocabulary (before you can understand, work, or research in a field)" is a ridiculous bar to set in front of contributions.
Maybe the ones with big ones were vandalised?
Britain tried something similar in the 1960s. It was a disaster.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-03-22/the-beatle...
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Where America has a huge hardcore pornography industry, common nudity on major motion pictures and award winning TV shows, nudists, hippy communes and sex cults in the country, Burning Man and San Francisco, it also has a strong protestant conservative prudishness. It's very confusing to a European.
They don't - they're about average.

Following links are NSFW!

* https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-83057b24725b6e813a747a...

* https://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-0f7e6c4cf3094a8d60b824...

Taken from Quora answer - https://www.quora.com/Why-do-ancient-Greek-sculptures-and-st...
So i assume this is similar to Ranch in Erlang ?
I'm don't completely agree with the fact that it's called a "software update". Reading different article about it, from what I understand, there was an initial error (software error probably triggered by an hardware error probably due to an upset due to radiation), but this error is not very important. A series of event from this error triggered the safe mode (that's expected), and there was the critical problem.

They had updated parameter in the software describing the torque generated by each thruster (or the center of mass position, or the tensor of inertia, or parameters based on all this) These parameter are software parameters, but updating them is not updating the software. It's software data, not software code.

Of course this does not change the fact that it is a critical error, but it's not exactly software update (IHMO). It's a configuration error. It's strange that they didn't see that in a simulator before updating them, but it's possible that they may have used the same value in the part simulating the software and the part simulating the thrusters themselves.

(note: I'm working in the satellite on-board software/attitude control domain, but not for JAXA, in Europe. Anyway at my current position, I must both test this kind of code, and the parameter used in the code. And checking the parameters is much more difficult, because you must be sure that everyone agree on everything. This includes a lot of basic stuff, but it's a pain in the ass ;-) )

This pdf from JAXA is probably the initial source of all articles. http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2016/04/files/20160428_hitomi.pd... I found it interesting to read, if you know how it works. I would of course prefer to have more detains. I always want more details. But it's for the press...
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475284

The absence of optical specifications seems counter to the marketing blurbage regarding manual mode and full control of aperture and shutter. The ring flash is a nice touch, though.
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Yes, it's somewhat similar. EasyMorph is a hybrid tool -- you can do data preparation like with OpenRefine, but at the same time you can re-run the same transformation process for another file or with a different parameter, which makes EasyMorph similar to ETL.
but why would they be?
Right, because either that Walmart employee is living in a crate by the docks OR a condo next to central park, there are NO OTHER OPTIONS like maybe a modestly sized apartment in an affordable complex designed for people with children and responsibilities.

I'm a capitalist sir, but I believe if you put in your effort you ought to get at least a living out of it. A lot of Walmart employees do not, and as far as I know we're going to need Walmart employees in the future so we need to do better than "try harder" for them.
Firstly, they’re flaccid. If you compare their size to most flaccid male penises, they are actually not significantly smaller than real-life penises tend to be.

So... they're not small. I guess most people haven't seen many average, flaccid ones. If most of your exposure to penises is hardcore pornography and Mapplethorpe that confusion is understandable.
KDB is not distributed and K (APL) is not particularly pleasant to work with. While it has a proven track record in fintech no one I know of is particularly fond of working with this technology. Not to mention the cost of K developers (200K+). Riak is simply offering a free alternative to these systems that is very palatable.
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Springtime is the best time to buy furniture for home. Springtime is when home sales are on the upswing in UK and UK's top furniture retailers want to help people furnish their homes rapidly by offering attractive discounts and deals on home furniture. Furniture retailers like https://www.choicefurnituresuperstore.co.uk/ offer huge discount on their products on bank holiday sales.
Sorry, I falsely assumed there was an auto censor for "penises" when the word got shortened the first time I try to post it. So I rewrote it (to "male genitalia"). The title is now in its intended original form.
Sorry. The Yakuza traditionally strong armed real estate hold outs and NIMBYs at the behest of the construction industry. Without the Yakuza, Tokyo wouldn't be what it is today.
A more accurate way imho to see this data is: "Tooling support, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has"
For personal use it's a total over kill...
So practically if in an environment we should apply a strict Scrum implementation, there is no role called Team Lead and the team lead can be seen as a senior team member in the scrum team?
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The author clearly explains the difference between breaking a circlejerk and trolling. Read the whole thing.
The author mentions that David looks afraid from the front, but doesn't provide a photo, so I went looking: http://i.imgur.com/OVJdNac.jpg

He definitely doesn't look afraid from below. He always looked bored to me, but looking him in the eyes, he definitely looks concerned.
I had a few weird small things - I was using Gnome on the desktop and after the update I couldn't mouse click on anything (MS wireless mouse), but all works in Unity. One of my ssh keys stopped working, the font (possibly consolas) i was using in the terminal stopped rendering nicely and for a while Terminator thought a pipe symbol was a < (despite it being ok elsewhere). I am using an nvidia card and have had no issues with that.
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Why would you call that a troll, rather than simple rational enquiry?
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I've been running 16.04 with cairo-dock, which has been my favorite non i3/awesome setup in a while.
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The fact that it happened at all (and without McLellan being proven guilty of anything!) is indicative of a severe security flaw in the banking system.
Why we migrated away from Librato to InfluxDB?
Conjecture: not sure if this is the reason why SHA is used, but a useful side effect is that it may make users of Riak less vulnerable to certain types of denial of service attacks. Not 100% sure since I know little about how Riak works, but a more predictable hashing algorithm could make it easy for attackers to overload a given bucket with data, and slow down the db to a crawl.
No problem, I think your original title was fine, and the ensuing over-examination was nothing but a diversion from the point of your post, which is quiet an interesting article.

No double-entendres implied.
With a knowledge in college algebra, what math book would you study next?