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Increased pesticide use can be a bit misleading, since an increased amount of something like Roundup could still be better for the environment than the typical amount of alternative pesticides.
I make my living writing copyrighted works (software). I would be happy to let all the 20+ year old stuff slip into the public domain.
"It's an awkward, haphazardly designed, weirdly implemented and frankly ugly beast of a language"

You should have stopped there. :-)

Viva Scala!
Where does ChuckMcM mention these?
It's not a bug, strictly speaking; it's just a feature that's really easy to misunderstand. The `syscall` package in Go tends to be logic-less wrappers around the raw syscalls, and that's what happens here.

Linux actually maintains the uid/euid/suid/gid/egid/sgid/etc. fields per OS thread (which are actually processes, just with a bit of shared memory). The raw syscalls only change the fields on a single task.

Glibc is where the logic happens to propagate that setting to all threads, by setting up signal handlers and immediately triggering a signal, IIRC.

You can get the useful behaviour by using cgo and importing setresuid from unistd.h.

What go should probably do here is:

1) Add os.Set{res,re,}{u,g}id, which implements the logic from glibc.

2) Remove syscall.Set{res,re,}{u,g}id. Anyone that wants that behaviour can use syscall.Syscall6 and syscall.SYS_SETUID or whatever. At least, they could add some really loud godoc to those methods.

The main problem with that is that `os` tries to have a cross-platform API, and (for example) BSD has no saved user or group IDs and therefore no setres{u,g}id. I suspect Windows and Plan9 are even weirder.
As cool of a language as clojure might be, bad tooling is bad UX. Bad UX makes for a bad product. I don't care how many amazing features a language has, without great tools, it sucks.

PHP is a terrible language in terms of design, but deploys are ridiculously easy, and refreshing a page is near instantaneous. There are plenty of other things to complain about with PHP, but part of its popularity is the relatively pleasant experience with the main tools.
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I disagree that it has nothing to do with it.

I'm way more likely to be interested in stuff happening near where I currently am than in some other arbitrary place.

Sure, sometimes it makes sense to be able to search elsewhere, but that makes things more complicated for marginal gains.

Yelp is a good example. Yes, I've used it to research food in other locations, but it would still be 95% as useful to me if the only thing it did was show me stuff that was nearby, since that's what I almost always use it for.
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I read ChuckMcM as just using Fox as an example. Especially where he said "... like Fox ..."
The colour of an egg yolk can be selected by the farmer from charts of colours, much as you'd chose paint.

Some people like deep rich orange colour; others prefer bright pale yellow.

The "standing tall in the pan" is just a fresh egg.
Yeah, I was in a mid-2014 session. Really great content from MIT prof and they do a lot of case-studyish things with past MIT success stories which was pretty neat. Lots of focus on customer need and focus (don't service minivans if you're a Ferrari mechanic) which I thought was valuable.

Definitely one of the better quality MOOCs in terms of content and production values.

I'm absolutely going to sign up again and follow through given the incentives.
As to virality - I like Henry Jenkins ideas. After I googled it now I found that he wrote a book on that subject (http://nyupress.org/books/9780814743508/ )- but I had just read this on his blog.
The author starts off with a Bill Cosby example, front and center, then continues to develop a stat model while acknowledging an inability to account for incidentals, while never mentioning that Bill Cosby is more than likely to have a significant number of incidentals.... Like, tonnes of money and hangin' out at playboy mansions where shady-ness pervades. Back in the day, pre-blogging, when journalism was actually a profession, journalists were taught to avoid this kind of set up. Now it's everywhere and I can't help but be unimpressed.
I just got (on Android) a Waze push notification saying that I could add Waze integration to my (iOS) notification center.

I was very confused, even despite the handy animation they showed me (I apparently can't recognize the iOS notification center on sight, so thought it was showing me something on Android that I'd never seen before).
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I am not able to answer any of these easily and still get a lot of job done and job offers every day/two days.

Interviewing for a frontend Facebook job is all about doing an Array.map/reduce no more.

What matters is what you can do.

Few engineers really need to learn and master "Binary Tree Level Order Traversal" every day after coffee.
Delta IV and Atlas V were designed to use 1 or 3 identical cores, so they are a more basic version of the "universal rocket core" idea. Only Delta IV has flown with a 3 core configuration. Atlas V has all the hardware so it should be able to do it if needed, but the US government hasn't seen the need to spend the money. (No commercial uses for such large payloads.)

Incidentally, Atlas V uses the RD-180 engine, which as two chambers. It is derived from the Soviet RD-170 engine with four chambers, the world's most powerful rocket engine. The RD-170 series was used by Buran (as boosters) and in the Zenit rocket (Sea Launch, also Boeing involvement) that still flies.

The RD-190 used in Angara is a one chamber derivative of RD-170.

So you could say that Angara 1 is a "half of Atlas V" or "quarter of Zenit". Angara 5 then would be "2.5 times Atlas V" or "1.25x Zenit".

But the staging improves payload, so it's better than linear.

The Russians have been wanting to do such "universal rockets" since the dawn of the space age. They only managed to build one, so it wasn't much of a modular system: Proton (The UR in UR-500 is from Universal Rocket). The first stage has six engines attached to six oxidizer tanks. But storable propellants were perhaps not such a good idea after all. There were big battles between Chelomei and Korolev about this. Proton has not been used for manned launches.

Angara seems like a very good ideal compromise design. Engines are small enough so it can be modular. It uses nontoxic propellants so it can be used for manned launches. Yet it still puts to good use the fantastic RD-170 engine technology, into which massive investments were made back in the day.

Reusability and competition with SpaceX: Russia has proposed to make the universal boosters of Angara reusable. Add a scissor wing and a jet engine to the nose and you get Baikal.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikal.html
It seems like a coherent design to me. It will add some mass though, but might be operationally flexible if the boosters can fly long distances.
It would be costly to develop, but they have indigenous expertise on these subjects.

Europe hasn't been willing to put money in big liquid engines, so they've needed the solid boosters for Ariane V (which was oversized, since it was designed for the Hermes mini shuttle). Seems they are going further down that road, to all-solids. No hopes of reusability. Or manned flights either. Maybe geopolitical reasons or lack of money.

SLS: it's problematic because it's so big and inflexible. There's no money to fly something so big so often. So it will have high fixed costs. Better than Ares though. None of the solids or engines of SLS will be used for commercial use anywhere else.

Saturn I to Saturn V. There wasn't much commonality, just the S-IVB stage (second in Saturn Ib and third in Saturn V). First stages were completely different, in structure and engines. Saturn I had to be whipped up quickly to test Apollo hardware and train, it was a kludge. There were plans to migrate Saturn Ib to use F-1 engines later, instead of the eight H-1.
The longer I'm inside my own head, the further I'm allowed to stretch my thoughts. When you're always bouncing back and forth between people for validation, every criticism to what you say is like an axe hacking off an original piece of the idea.
Fox is just the poster child for the decline of western journalism, and I call them out only because their early narrative 'we report you decide / fair and balanced' so clearly failed in the modern equivalent of cultured audiences that they abandoned it while using its still warm corpse as the entry point into establishing their brand.

That said, when you read about the Fox response to the hoax being exposed to them, and the responses of the others mentioned, does that inform your opinion of their relative ranking? Getting out in front a hoax is pretty doable, but it does start with admitting you were fooled.
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Have you actually read php-src? In my opinion there are many clever design patterns used to create the language.
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I appear to be in the minority as an engineer who rather enjoys Scrum – we've been delivering working features to customers at a steady pace; they've been involved in the feedback process; we've managed to improve the process through the retrospectives; the burndown charts etc. have been useful in understanding where bottlenecks are.

I guess the key, like anything else, is not overcommitting, not having interfering management. I suspect that applies to any PM methodology, though.
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It'll get better, but I don't disagree.

I started using Django, as a relative newbie to python, back in 0.96, and it was a real pain in the ass to deploy. It took me a couple of days, minimum, all the while knowing I could have things halfway done in PHP.

Luckily I was given a stellar recommendation, and I stuck with it.

Django deploys now? Incredibly easy on the hosts I use (DO / Heroku). I expect Clojure to be the same in a year or so.

FWIW, I'm just starting to learn clojure. And just barely starting--these problems aren't annoying me yet.
There are other things, like Crystal Reports, Active Reports etc. But what are your requirements? e.g. do you have report writers that need to create reports, or are they developer created only? does it need to handle report subscription like SSRS? Do you need analytics access (e.g. mdx capable reporting)?

I spent quite a long time working with/in SSRS, but we had better success when we used Active Reports. I dreaded working in SSRS overall because it has so many quirks that you have to deal with and it took a lot of tuning, but it does do its job most of the time. Performance wise, Active reports was superior for what we were doing, I found that with the same stored procedure backing the report Active Reports would product output 2-3x faster than SSRS most of the time using far less resources. Not that it is perfect either.
>"Scrum requires that ..."

Interesting trait of scrum - whenever there is scrum related discussion the no true Scotsman fallacies immediately pop up. By the way, scrum is actually a methodology to get something out of non-delivering teams. For everybody else it is just like throwing sand into their engine's cylinders.
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I think you should note in captions that each of your code samples came from Domenic's blog, to be polite. Initially it seems like you sort of lifted the entire first bit of the post.

As far as your Lisp implementation goes, since promises are really just syntactical sugar around continuation passing (not in a bad way), and since both the continuation and the callback are first class, it should be trivial to land on a syntax that is as easy or easier to read than the JavaScript implementation. I think your final implementation hides a bit too much.
Similar one http://www.gazetesok.com/yazi/alkol-varsa-tecavuz-sayilmaz_2...
True enough, but the positive response you feel to a red barn is just as illogical as the negative response you feel towards the word 'industrial' as applied to barns or fans. Do you see the irony in an article debunking these feel good labels applied to the eggs, by applying negative labels instead to evoke pictures of industrial factories, etc.? Do you really think the chickens are bothered by the colour and style of their barns?
The implementation being clever in parts does nothing for the language itself.
Abortion may be an ugly practice, but it is a voluntary individual choice that a person chooses for themselves, while it is controversial given that you are indeed killing your unborn baby - I don't think it is comparable to forced torture on other by sponsored governmental agents. Further, abortion is sought out and paid for by one gender of the population.

They are both moral issues, but other than that, they don't have much in common.

However, I will agree that if you made all people watch a video of an abortion, it would likely influence their opinion on it - but we don't cmsend the Cia all over the globe forcing abortions on people. Or kidnap people and send them to forced abortion clinics in Hungary.
I know I'm biased but I really and truly believe we're helping solve this. We remove the need to build out ACH processing with a bank, do the regulatory work for you, and roll in a pretty cool account ownership verification piece out of the box. No ODFI needed, no Yodlee needed, plus if you want we'll guarantee the funds so you don't even need to take float risk or monitor returns. We do it pretty damn cheap.

I'm writing this not so much to make a pitch (of course that's part of it) but to point out what I hope other fintech companies do: package UX and compliance together and sell it for a reasonable cost. It will help the whole industry explode into the potential investors are clearly seeing in it.
Related to this, there was that recent article about a classical interpretation of the famous double-slit experiment (pilot wave theory) that helps bring quantum physics back closer to more intuitive descriptions
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality

And this can help for pedagogical purposes, too. Another example is infinitesimals in calculus, which were dismissed in favor of Weierstrass's epsilon-delta definitions over a hundred years ago, but found to be more understandable to students in more recent studies: http://academic.brcc.edu/johnson/Projects/Calculus%20with%20...
It's not my experience that Clojure tooling is fundamentally slow, Leiningen is just one option. For many projects I don't use anything more than Maven bash scripts, inf-clojure, and clojure-mode - all overhead free. And projects like CursiveClojure drive home how powerful and responsive tooling for Clojure(Script) can be.

Even so the point of the post is not to bash on Leiningen but to demonstrate how the overhead issues are not insurmountable - it just requires really knowing the tools (surprise) and which knobs to turn. In fact an implicit free idea for someone to explore is to automate all the optimizations for Leiningen that I covered.
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We used a mixture of stuff, but mostly just node.js and jquery
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Perhaps a better example of how a naive assumption of statistical independence has led to a severe miscarriage of justice is provided by the case of Sally Clark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Clark

I would be extremely wary of your claim that "multiple accusations enable us to get enough evidence to convict even in parameter regimes where a single accusation is never enough" (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/drrvcd5zzqclhbt/AACdWnx_wlfwnUoYF...).
Well, I suspect part of the reason some people hate it so much is also that so many other people don't. It feels somehow unjust that such an ugly language basically took over the web.

But then again, what was the other option, Perl? Evolution picks a direction and runs with it.
The Briz upper stage is an existing design, it wasn't purpose built for Angara, it's been flying with various other rockets.

Storable propellants are good for upper stages that need to do long coast periods and many stops and starts. Apollo used them.

But there are multi-restart versions of lox-hydrogen stages. The RL-10 engine in Delta and Atlas can do it.
I've used it when I want to parse query params from a URL into a hash, and then possibly modify them, and then write them back out to query params -- in the same order they came in, so the query params will be identical if I didn't end up modifying them, and identical but for what I modified otherwise, etc.

There are probably other analagous circumstances. Maybe even some I could think of that I've encountered.
It would help if you could explain which fact you do not find convincing, and I will attempt to provide sources that you can use for further research, if you are interested to seriously examine the issue or have a serious discussion. A lot of original sources are cited by the Wikipedia articles.

For example: "Sex differences in human neonatal social perception".

> Abstract. Sexual dimorphism in sociability has been documented in humans. The present study aimed to ascertain whether the sexual dimorphism is a result of biological or socio-cultural differences between the two sexes. 102 human neonates, who by definition have not yet been influenced by social and cultural factors, were tested to see if there was a difference in looking time at a face (social object) and a mobile (physical-mechanical object). Results showed that the male infants showed a stronger interest in the physical-mechanical mobile while the female infants showed a stronger interest in the face. The results of this research clearly demonstrate that sex differences are in part biological in origin.

http://www.math.kth.se/matstat/gru/godis/sex.pdf
The primary reasons people believe Fintech is primed for explosion are the following:

1. Ubiquity and mobility of the internet. Paypal was designed for when the internet was new and barely anyone was using it. Now, everyone is on the internet and on it constantly with devices that have way more powerful. Now is the time for just about any innovation that was promised but not fulfilled in the first dot com bust to have another shot.

2. Stirrings all around - talk to any bank and ask them if they think financial technology is about to break out. They're pretty much all convinced it is because they see it pecking at the edges. Alternate lending just has 2 IPOs 10 days apart (on deck, lending club), crypto currencies are surprisingly stable given what they are and how new they are, and new payment tech is gaining traction (apple pay, google wallet, square, venmo, etc). It all starts small but it's gaining traction faster than it used to, and momentum is everything.

That's what I've seen and what I've heard as the two biggest reasons. Essentially, reach and momentum.
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>Of course, then we'll make them larger. And larger. And eventually it will spell our doom. //

I thought that we'd make them smaller and smaller ... and that will spell our doom.

Perhaps the bug killing squads of nanobots mutate - either by a human introduced [computer] virus or for a more ironic twist from a source that would normally be a DNA mutator (cosmic ray radiation say). The bugs will then hunt out not pathogens but something useful like human nerve cells or white blood cells. Caught in an international crisis - war or famine, you choose - humanity will have it's eyes off the ball until too late.

There must be Sci-Fi of this.

Aside: is there a rule akin to Rule 34, perhaps Rule 0100011, that says no matter how outlandish a distopian future scenario is that it is nonetheless already a feature in the plot of a Sci-Fi work?
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it could be done evenings or weekends. i'd make it async/flextime as much as possible. the main point is to try a real project, however small, and pay the person, therefore it's real and fair for both parties. from my observation over a few decades, all other methods are noise and circuses and mysticism and propaganda in comparison. at least, I'm so done letting myself be the victim of other people's theories and guesses and unpaid meta makework.
Which part was criminal?

The part where they don't establish most basic protection at least for their critical customer data, after suffering from security breaches pretty much constantly[1] for over 3 years.

If you have an account with any Sony product (Playstation network etc.) then your personal and payment data (credit card numbers) have most likely been leaked not once but multiple times by now.

Why is Sony still allowed to store payment data? Why is their PCI certification not revoked?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8790458
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What you just said makes absolutely no sense.
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U.S. cable/satellite-only channels like Fox News do not have FCC licenses. There may be a few general regulations they have to abide by – things like closed captioning – but they do not have to answer directly to the FCC (unlike local broadcast stations).

Theoretically the Federal _Trade_ Commission could go after them if they had proof they were advertising falsely, though I think people have tried to bring complaints in the past along those lines and failed.
I think this is a really neat idea and I really wanted to play with it but the interface isn't really intuitive and then I read that you have to use twitter to be able to use it. I think I'll pass. Neat idea though.
You're correct, the rate of false accusations might be quite high. The "2-8%" stat given in OP really should be "2-10%" - advocates somehow tend to lose track of a couple studies that came out on the high end - but even that number range is only the percentage of rape accusations that were brought to the police which were deemed demonstrably false. For instance: the alleged victim reported it to the cops but later recanted or changed their story so much that it couldn't be trusted, or the facts on the ground made the story as stated impossible.

Advocates are correct to note that this "2-10%" includes some mistakes - true rape victims might be very confused in their testimony or might recant because they get frustrated with the justice system - but it still should probably be regarded as a lower bound on the actual number of false accusations, as it's a subset of the full total.

False accusations that wouldn't show up in this measurable "2-10%" include (a) those in which the accusation is plausible, consistent and the accuser does not recant, (b) false accusations that aren't ever brought to the police.
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