skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I rarely start/stop the repl. I have one running for weeks. And incremental testing or updates in browser(figwheel) is all sub-second.
The difference being that witchcraft and satanism were moral panics that never actually happened to anyone, and rape is something that actually happens to real people fairly often.
It's an awkward, haphazardly designed, weirdly implemented and frankly ugly beast of a language which just happens to be better suited to its task (server-side HTML templating) than other more beautiful and elegant languages, none of which are hated by anyone.
The first step of innovation is recognizing a similarity in two wildly different things.

The second step is wondering what would happen if you used some well-known process (tool, whatever) from one on the other.
>"... We could smell the faeces of other humans in the air" - they were probably a couple of kilometres away - "and we saw smoke in the distance.

one may wonder about human's abilities dampened by the civilization. When my dog(boy) smelled a girl in heat from half a kilometer i was impressed. While from his point of view i guess it was nothing special.
The website doesn't do a good job of explaining what it is. Essentially, you are provided with a list of 'infections' which are just funny photos or messages. You can choose to either 'stop' the infection from spreading further or 'infect' other people, propagating the message to new people whom you can geographically reach but the previous propagators could not.

It seems like the range can get pretty large. I live in the middle of nowhere. My first few images were from maybe ~5 miles away, but after using it for a bit I'm getting messages from 40-100 miles away.

You don't need an account, but it gives an option to create an account to "track" your infections as they spread.
Dave Asprey's claims of micro-toxins in coffee are false. Joe Rogan, formerly a Asprey fan, has since had his own tests done and Asprey's claims about micro-toxins are just wrong.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_mentality
> your typical urban-living organic food enthusiast has.

I somehow doubt that you've actually talked to many vs. just holding some gross generalization of an idea about what "those people" think.
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Yes, the example problem doesn't match to promises.

I don't understand the "change the logger" comment. The example was the logger sends a message to the listener, which opens a database handle, which sends a message to the logger, and repeat. There's nothing to changing. I don't see how FRP helps eliminate that cycle.
That's a natural suggestion, but my experience is that it doesn't work so well. If I make a top-level post out of this, it will lose the feeling of "conversation with a user", become something official, and other factors will kick in. There's a place for that, of course, but it's a different thing and one mustn't overdo it. I will formally ask for feedback when we get closer to knowing what we're asking about, but for now it's just thinking out loud.

Also, you'd be surprised at how much the information in discussions like this makes its way into circulation. People do find this stuff, and I think it's more fun to run across it this way.
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Christ, it's "abuse" now to bring up inconvenient but real facts? If your tribe's thinking is that rigid and dogmatic, is it any wonder we can't seem to actually come to a consensus on gender politics?
Description on the app store is better than the website imo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.plague

"Plague is an essentially different way to spread information.
The idea for Plague is to create a perfect medium for spreading information as wide as it deserves to be spread, without any boundaries.
Plague works like a virus. When you spread information, it goes to the users who are closest to you physically. The infected users can spread information exponentially further or they can resist the epidemic by keeping the information to themselves.
Everyone has a fair and equal chance to be heard by the whole network right from the start - there is no friending or following on Plague. If your information is interesting to people, it can eventually spread to the entire world."
There are different types of communication. Some things need to be communicated to the whole team, something you don't want to be doing more than once a day.

The one thing about stand ups that I find to be a profound waste of time is reporting what you've done. Isn't that what SVN / GIT / JIRA / etc is for?
You make vital points which should be highlighted. One subtlety of Scrum is that it resets a queue at the end of each sprint. More info on queues and software dev: http://agile-jitsu.blogspot.de/2013/07/don-reinertsens-talk-...
So if two companies gave similar perks but one required you to jump through hoops, which one do you think a majority would consider?
Agreed! I recommend reading "The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development" by Donald G. Reinertsen, which while not actually about Scrum, explains a lot of the useful underlying principles at work in Scrum -- like queueing theory.
Yes, the candidate should know in advance if there is a particularly structured interview technique being used, for sure.

Because it also requires a lot of mental commitment from the interview team as we'll as the candidate, I'd recommend using this technique as the final hurdle. I don't think you want to phone screen someone, then just toss them into this process. You need to have them cross some basic technical gate (like FizzBuzz, a take-home coding project, whatever), and have them meet a handful of people first, just to make sure they pass those early smoke tests.

In fact I think this technique works best when you want to seal the deal with a very strong candidate who is entertaining several options. Interviews should always be a two-way process, and if a candidate walks away from your interviews thinking "I had real trouble getting my point across to those people, I would never work there" then that represents success for the interview process.

The strongest candidates tend to be the ones least influenced by money and more interested in the problems, the people they will be working with, the culture and the environment of the organization. So having your interview process structured around revealing that gives you the best possible chance of matching your team with people excited to be there.

Conversely if you're a candidate, even if the company you're applying with doesn't seem to have thought too deeply about this stuff, don't despair. Hiring is one of the hardest things to do and also tends to be done by the seat of the pants (Amazon seems like a notable exception) You can impose your own structure by asking the right questions and making special requests of the recruiter. Tell them you want a chance to write code with someone! Or that you want to mock up a UI that solves a problem they have. Or you want to see what their strongest engineer thinks of your design for this service you've put together.

It doesn't matter if you're desperate for the job, or whether you wish they'd stop calling you ... this kind of stuff makes you stand out in the crowd as proactive and motivated by the right reasons.
Re footnote 4: the Alexandria library has a function 'parse-body' that will be helpful.

Also: I'm not sure it's a good idea to give these macros the same names as the CL builtins. This will require users to do 'shadowing-import' if they want to use them without the package prefix, and then when they want to reference the builtins (in performance-sensitive code, perhaps) they'll have to use an explicit 'cl:'. At the very least, I'd suggest exporting a second set of names also, which are prefixed with "p-" or some such, so people can import them without shadowing.
I agree. The big food companies doesn't like it. So it doesn't happen. My brother in law, who researches the EU food industry told me that there are about 150 purchasing departments in the EU where the majority (I think it was high end, but can't remember the number) of food for 500 million people pass through. That is an awful lot of concentration of power over our food. Not surprising they like obscurity if they make more money that way.
"Hate" is a bit strong - as if PHP was some malignant force of the universe. I agree with Bjarne Stroustrup quote:

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: the new hotness (node, etc), and oldskool PHP"
It's funny to see "sprint" and "sustained pace" used together. In a normal/regular life you have one or the other :-)
Designing a system architecture (Monopoly question) and solving a practical coding problem are different skillsets, so ideally you would ask the interviewee both types of questions.
> "people submit to the tool without knowing about other accusers"

Not necessarily. People can conspire to submit multiple accusations to the tool against the same person.

Even without actual conspiracy, someone who is a target for other reasons could have multiple false accusations independently levied against them.

Example: I have a friend who runs a religious ministry for ex-members-of-another-religion. This draws the ire of current-members-of-the-other-religion, and leads to a lot of things they post being flagged as abusive (even things like photographs of themselves.) In some cases, it's clear that there's a group conspiring -- something posted years ago will get flagged multiple times over the course of a day (FB once investigated and located a private group that was being used to coordinate mass-flagging efforts.) In other cases, it's just the most recent thing they posted, likely being independently flagged.
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This is probably doable if you're interviewing 1 candidate a week (or one in 2 weeks). Most tech companies run through several candidates a week; and finding engineers/designers/managers who will play along with your question will be very difficult. I've been to interviews where they didn't know I was coming that day; where interviewers failed to turn up; where wrong interviewers showed up; etc. etc.

Basically, interviewing is a clusterfuck. :-)
A deterministic K is used in many of these libraries, so randomness isn't needed at the time of signing transactions. window.crypto and the Node.js crypto library are often used for private key generation.
And for the male chicks, death in the high speed grinder. I wonder if they ever even get to see the daylight in their miserable short lives?
Scrum has, as a prerequisite that all your developers are already competent and fast.

It assumes competence. If you are doing scrum with a team that has incompetent and slow developers, you will fail.
Running something inside a container does very little to actually secure it. If someone can execute arbitrary code inside a container, they can use a kernel exploit to jump outside of the container. It's important to always keep in mind that containers provide resource isolation, not a security boundary.
Yeeeeaaaah...

Why does your music toy need to be able "see who I follow and follow new people", "update my profile", or "post tweets for me"? That's just not happening. It's unnecessary.
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Not realated with statistics but this is how females think. This is a few years old real story I've heard, from Austria. There is some kind of part like graduation or something. A guy with his new girlfriend starts to make out. Before they start to make sex the guy asks to the girl her age. She replies that she is 16 or something like that. Then the fuys says that it is not approppriate and leaves her. Then the girl says to her friends that she was sexually abused... That he leaved her etc... Hello....????!!!
After reading the precautions you folk take - I hardy think the OP is exaggerating. Emergency breathing apparatus under our desks pretty much sums it up. With respect.
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Exhibit A:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMartin_preschool_trial

I remember watching the Frontline reports of this. There were several over a few years and I was just flabbergasted as to how amazingly stupid people where to believe this. That no one in the prosecutors office put the brakes on it. Really sad.
A character name can be trademarked if that character appears in copyrighted works, particularly if it appears in a series. James Bond can thus be trademarked, in the same way that Harry Potter, Frodo Baggins, Sherlock Holmes, et al are trademarked.

But the name is only protected in the sense that it is attached to the character. The character has to be distinct and unique, not a trope or stereotype character (except, obviously, the prototype character). And the character has to be integral to a copyrighted story. The courts are far from agreed on this standard, obviously, so that's as much as I can say about it.

And it isn't really even a full trademark. It's more like an artificial "name and likeness" right of publicity. Those rights vary by state. That creates some interesting scenarios.

Say, for instance, that author E.R.R. Fartin kills beloved serial character Guy Trademarked. Some states define personality rights such that they terminate relative to the year of the person's death. Would that be the year of publication, or the year copyright ends, or some other year?

Essentially, no one can correct you, because no one really knows what the law allows yet.
What about the probability of someone who has been accused multiple times to also draw false accusations? True ones?

What about the substantially different personal cost of making an immediate accusation vs a delayed one? The same applies to someone like Snowden who could have waited until he was in his 70s before blowing the whistle.
Scrum requires that all team members are already competent and fast. Don't let this consulting company fool you.
It's a bit pedantic of me, but I think your argument has presented has a lot of holes. You can always write original work that doesn't depend on existing cultural references, and the ability to reference things is not as limited as you suggest. I can write an publish a book tomorrow in which a character reads a Harry Potter novel and muses on the content. What I can't do is write a book featuring Harry Potter, boy wizard, as a character, unless it's some sort of parody - but in that case I may well have to expend money and legal effort on defending against a lawsuit while a court decides whether the derivative work falls within some permissible exception.

Incidentally JRR Tolkien died in 1973 so you'll be able to recycle characters from Lord of the Rings to your heart's content in 29 years as long as the law doesn't change; you just won't be able to use the footage from the movies or quote the script insofar as it differs from the novel. A literary parody has been around for a few decades already, I think it's called Bored of the Rings.
Exactly. The alternative is now there, and it's coming with a lobbying force of it's own. Once people are used to Taxi alternatives, they may start fighting back against the medallions.
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I'm glad we can determine "how females think" from a hearsay-based anecdote for which significant details are noted as "or something".
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We've been using MS reporting services for ever. We want to move to something else. What framework, services you use for reporting. I searched SO but I couldn't find a good alternative.
I don't know, if a company asks me to complete a simple test application, I might be more inclined to talk with them, because it means my interview (ostensibly) would be about the code I'd submitted. Which in turn is much more like what a day in the life of a developer would be like at their company (I write code, review with team lead, repeat, or somesuch).
Scrum comes before "Agile" was invented. Scrum has more connections with lean. But scrum is agile too.
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I agree, but my proposal is one that is much more likely to get through than the all-or-nothing approach.
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Can't speak to "insane prices". But Patrick got AppointmentReminder.org for $8. He classifies it as the best ROI he's ever made.

"cars.com" is still the #1 result for searching "cars". And "business.com" is still on page 1 for searching "business". The death of the EMD has been greatly exaggerated, IMHO.
That's not a Scrum issue, it's shitty project management.

If the scope of a sprint is so far out of whack that fast developers are running out of work, then you're misestimating the complexity of deliverables. That sort of thing gets cleared up pretty quickly if it's being managed correctly.
In general, animals that eat grass and things that eat grass (insects, mostly) will have a much higher amount of Omega 3s than those that eat mostly corn and ground up animal byproducts.
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> Is the fact that passwords aren't reused anyway.

Completely wrong. People reuse passwords all the time.
You're onto something - there's a correlation between variables when coaching (intentional or not) is involved.
Or you could always search Google via proxy to some jurisdiction that doesn't have these silly laws.
Nowadays many rapes are the kind of sex where at the beginning everything goes normal and then for some reason the guy dumps the female.
No, but if you do a GIS for "barn" you'll find virtually every top result to be a red barn. Here's a screen shot: http://cl.ly/image/3G2w3N2a3d1e/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-23%2...

I'm saying chicken/dairy/etc. producers will happily use this stereotypical image in their marketing, but the reality of how they're raising the animals is very different.
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Sadly most of the time stand-ups turn into glorified status reports for managers/PMs :-( Stand-ups are meant for developers (carried out for developers by developers). If devs don't get enough value out of them (to offset the "distraction factor" they introduce) they shouldn't exist.

SVN/GIT commit messages and Trello/JIRA notifications sent to Slack/Hipchat/YourInternalIrcServer are a great way to aggregate all that information. You can write a Hubot/YourOtherChatBot plugin to gather and summarize that information to make it even easier to track.

By the way, with Hubot you can just say "What everybody is working on?" and it will show you the status for everybody.
Link to one of these services? I'd love to see this in action for myself.
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My wife is one, so I somehow doubt you have a clue.
For the sake of a handful of older profitable works, all works will forever be held back from the public domain. Better that you concede Mickey Mouse and let the rest benefit society as public works.
No s-expressions.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_accusation_of_rape#FBI_st...
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I don't much. I do wish that when I was younger I had been more particular about wearing sunglasses, for now, as I approach 60, I have the prospect of cataract surgery in the next several years. So: if you are out in the sun, you should have at least a hat or cap to shade your eyes, and preferably sunglasses.

(Yes, I know that this is not what you are talking about. But in my 20s I was occasionally teased for my pallor and my want of enthusiasm for beaches etc. Yet my eyes suffered.)
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I think really good candidates will enjoy working on relevant issues and not working on silly interview questions. If anything these "hoops" seem like exactly the filter you'd want. You want people who enjoy jumping through those hoops every day after all.
can anyone find the resulting paid-for tweet? i couldn't. We can't judge the "celebrities" on this e-mail exchange.
Why is it brain dead? I was merely pointing out that the framing of a question to the public can dramatically influence the results, and I wanted clarification from you about what sort of framing you think is appropriate for different issues.
after a year and half of thorough, to the letter, BigCo company-wide (only super important/critical projects were excepted :) push of Scrum/Agile/Lean down our throats and as result, in particular, work on our complex multi-team project slowing down to a crawl and failing to release while everybody was super busy with their mouths foaming and not being able to catch a breath, about a year ago everybody in our BigCo almost instantly forgot these words and about associated reports/tools/meetings/bla-bla-bla - Christmas magic i guess. The only thing reminding that it wasn't just a nightmare dream, that it was real is that our team's weekly status meeting is called "scrum meeting" :)

Beside other failures, one of a major failures of scrum in real environment (not toy building fun exercise during a scrum course) is failure to address the multi-team environment of real multi-layered projects. A team would usually have dependencies and dependents. In scrum/sprint process a team would try to avoid committing to anything with unsatisfied dependencies which results in that any vertically dependent feature would take a series of sprints, much longer than in non-scrum environment. Add to that complete impossibility of iterations/adjustments on the feature - team A delivers to team B and team B has no chance (until a sprint much much later in the release, i.e. never) to have team A to do an additional iteration upon the delivered changes desired as a result of the actual usage by the team B. It is expectably much worse when it comes to 3 layers/teams (like persistence/framework, business logic, UI).

I specifically asked consultants (during 2 different courses by 2 different consulting companies and at work) about dependencies management in scrum, and blank-facing was their answer. Think about it - software development methodology without addressing inter-component/layer/team dependencies.
> Bitcoin shakes some of the foundations everyone on Earth has or has had at some point

really now...

> like the concept of money

Bitcoin is still money (which I would describe as a proxy for value with latency built in).

> the justifications for inflation

Other than eventually running out and deflating (probably a problem in it's own way), bitcoin doesn't address this problem.

What is bitcoin going to do to address fractional reserve banking, debt slavery, information asymmetry (insider trading), financial chicanery (selling debt-based products/toxic assets), which I would argue are bigger problems built into money as we know it. Nada that I'm aware of.

Why is bitcoin even less anonymous than traditional currency?

Why is it even more inequal (who has bitcoin? wealthy, technologically literate citizens of the first world) than traditional currency?

I agree that money sucks but bitcoin is hardly the solution we need.
Because of a lot of beginners use it, and a lot of people laughed at eevee's "fractal of bad design" rant from nearly 3 years ago, and most peoples' understanding of PHP is as old as the minimum version supported by WordPress :|
Couldn't an author renounce copyright for certain works?

Perhaps if you want to be listed on those sites, you should do that before you die. Or your heirs can if they have no ongoing payments from that work any more.
Free consulting? No thanks. Paid gig? Well that'll make my taxes complicated. No thanks.
I don't see how this is even relevant. What do MySQL's limitations have to do with your decision to store a password hash? Are you writing your entire application in MySQL?