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I understand what's acceptable and normal. I just question why it's not questioned from time to time to see if it merits change.

I'm looking at this from two sides. I've been an employee all my working life, one day I would want to run a business, so I have that in mind too. And I understand that sometimes one might want to fire someone 'just because'. It's just that in principle, 'just because' rubs me wrong.

What I find ironic is that today's HR pretty much says "The reason we fired you is we have no reason" And it's totally acceptable. Do you see how perverse it's become. You can't state a reason for firing someone, because giving a reason exposes you to lawsuits, so, giving no reason, has become a good reason to fire people with.

PS. I've been fired once in my life, while working to put myself thru college. Driver and I were making deliveries, it was late, he decided to skip the last delivery. Upon arrival at the workplace "insubordination". Which was great, got a better part time job after that.
There is another side to this lesson. I cannot count the amount of times I've read about scientists in the past getting ridiculed for some "crackpot" theory only to be vindicated later. A perfect example is Ohm's law:

"Ohm's initial publication was met with ridicule and dismissal; called "a tissue of naked fantasy." Approx. twenty years passed before scientists began to recognize its great importance."

The site here has a whole list of these "maverick scientists": http://amasci.com/weird/vindac.html#j9

I think the other lesson we need to consider is, just because an idea appears to be crazy, doesn't mean it is...

The Author, by presenting his theory in a way that also illustrates his awareness of the possibility that he himself is also crazy, was able to get it published by the New Yorker as a symbolic piece on the dangers of getting sucked into a conspiracy theory. If this was his plan, I think it's a good one as there's too many technical summaries, pictures and diagrams for this not be an article that is in part promoting a conspiracy theory.
Well, kinda.

The novice says "everything is a string."

The adept says "tcl values are implemented as dual-ported objects, meaning that the internal representation of every value is automatically and transparently converted to the type that is needed at that time."

The wizard says "everything is a string."

Everything can be a string. From the outside, everything looks like a string. And it's considered bad style to violate this principle. But if you're talking implementation, everything isn't exactly a string.
I'm in the EDA world since 15 years at least and I'm still surprised why many (but not all) vendors have adopted TCL as their scripting language of choice for their public API; my opinion is because it is quite close to shell scripting and so more suitable than Perl or Python for engineers which are not experienced with real software development. Another reason is due probably to the good integration with the Tk UI library that allows to easily associate a UI interface to some of the scripting tasks, something that is highly appreciated by many engineers: this is not easy to accomplish if you use Pyhton or Perl. However I agree that Tcl is a terrible language that I would avoid for any modern project.
A packet of energy absorbed and exciting a molecule in my eye, causing a cascade through a complex system still feels entirely classical. I'm not sure merely invoking "photon" is enough to imply quantum effects. It's when the behavior breaks from deterministic to probabilistic (independent of initial conditions) that we switch paradigms.
I'm so over all this legalization news, it's inevitable at this point and this nascent industry is about to blow up big.

Time to start putting in your bets.... http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/06/of-course-he-does/
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http://www.convergence.io/
If it helps, I've recently used huddle[0] to create arbitrarily-nested dictionaries and output JSON of them. It can be quite slow to do a jsondump for large dictionaries though: it sometimes takes a few minutes to output a multi-megabyte file.

And, to add to your point, it wasn't even listed on the JSON page you mentioned until the "Misc" conversation section.

[0] http://wiki.tcl.tk/21116
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> There's simply not that much news.

Of course there is, this is a planet of six billion people.

I'm sure from your endeavours you are familiar with BBC Monitoring which summarises news from thousands of global media sources. 50%+ of those stories never reach the western mainstream news.

And that's just one possible source.
Comment you replied to was most likely referring to private prisons:

https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/private-prisons

> Private prison companies, however, essentially admit that their business model depends on locking up more and more people. For example, in a 2010 Annual Report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) stated: “The demand for our facilities and services could be adversely affected by . . . leniency in conviction or parole standards and sentencing practices . . . .” As incarceration rates skyrocket, the private prison industry expands at exponential rates, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits.
This was also the part I found most interesting.

Over the past several months, I've been putting an increasing level of thought into how people reach conclusions and investigate technical problems, and looking at things like confirmation bias, and I see it happen in myself and others.

The best example I have, is a vendor I work with had an outage in their platform, and we spent weeks going through the data, where the vendor jumped to a conclusion about the cause of the outage, even though it poorly or in no way explained the data we had compiled. No matter how hard I tried, I was not able to convince this vendor that the conclusion they reached was incorrect, every piece of evidence, was manipulated in a way to explain their theory. That is until they developed the fix, applied it, and had another outage occur after they thought they fixed it.

It troubles me, to know that we wasted so much effort, due to these biases.

While not 100% related, one story I like to remind myself of to try and disrupt my own biases, goes something along the lines of:
- A little girl was helping her mom make banana bread one day, and asks her mom, why do you cut the ends off before you serve it.
- The mom replies, I don't know, that's the way my mom always made it.
- Next they ask the girls grand mother, why did you cut the ends off the bread
- She replies, I don't know that's the way I always made it.
- They manage to ask the great grand mother, why did you cut the ends off...
- The response was, my serving plate was too small, so I used to cut the ends off so it would fit on the plate.

If anyone knows the attribution for that story, it would be great, I'm unable to find it so my recollection is probably wrong. However, I still really like this story, as I use it as a way to remind myself and others, that we need to be ready to question everything, when it comes to understanding a problem. It doesn't mean that we can afford to question every bias, but it does mean that we need to gain enough evidence to corroborate any theory that may come up, or if necessary, invalidate it.

Where I work, I believe it's something we need to spend greater effort on, is questioning our biases and make sure we're reaching the right conclusions.
> Moscow and Beijing will be in rubbles when the dusts clear.

reminds me of sting's "russian" song, specifically, "i hope the russians love their children too..."
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> I was calling you out on the worlds most obvious straw man. Would you rather I just call you a liar, instead?

I'd rather you not call me anything. As I said, it doesn't matter who I am. That's not the issue I'm interested in.

Likewise, I have not called you any names--I care only about the arguments you make.

> in the real world, we theorycraft before we invest using that miracle of nature, our ability to model and predict the future in our heads.

That is my point. If we only invest in making anything we can predict will succeed, and avoid potential failures, a device like a smartphone would not have existed, because I was there when companies like Apple tried to launch PDAs like the Newton, and the world did not care. Based on prediction, smartphones would not gain traction in the consumer market. And yet, the iPhone made that happen

Same for iPods--"Hundreds of dollars for a music player? Everyone would get a $30 sony". It was only with a lot of conviction pushing a "theoretically blank" idea, that the smartphone industry became what it is today.

If we only invest in things that seem "not dumb" in "theorycraft", a lot of the successful startups today would not exist. Success requires experimenting on things that may not seem obvious at first.

> Amaze me.

1. I don't need to amaze you. You as an individual are not that important.

This is especially true if you are the type of person who sits and waits to be amazed. The most important people in the world go out and amaze others, as opposed to waiting to be amazed by others

2. Ideas are not dumb until they are proven good. They are ideas until proven wrong. You don't get to dismiss an idea with near-certainty that they are "dumb", until you've actually tried it out yourself and can prove that it doesn't work.

> I'm willing to be shown wrong

That is not true. Someone who is willing to be shown wrong, would encourage others to try new ideas, even ones that are not apparent successes "in theory", or "dumb"

From the conversation so far, it sounds like you are not supportive of investing in ideas that are not proven in theorycraft. Based on the conversation alone, and the trust you put in theorycraft, it does not look like you want to be proven wrong.
Probably something to do with Docker...
I'll quote straight from Steven Pinker's 'The Better Angels of Our Nature':

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Once again it seems to me that the appropriate response is “maybe, but maybe not.” Though climate change can cause plenty of misery and deserves to be mitigated for that reason alone, it will not necessarily lead to armed conflict. The political scientists who track war and peace, such as Halvard Buhaug, Idean Salehyan, Ole Theisen, and Nils Gleditsch, are skeptical of the popular idea that people fight wars over scarce resources.290 Hunger and resource shortages are tragically common in sub-Saharan countries such as Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania, but wars involving them are not. Hurricanes, floods, droughts, and tsunamis (such as the disastrous one in the Indian Ocean in 2004) do not generally lead to armed conflict. The American dust bowl in the 1930s, to take another example, caused plenty of deprivation but no civil war. And while temperatures have been rising steadily in Africa during the past fifteen years, civil wars and war deaths have been falling. Pressures on access to land and water can certainly cause local skirmishes, but a genuine war requires that hostile forces be organized and armed, and that depends more on the influence of bad governments, closed economies, and militant ideologies than on the sheer availability of land and water. Certainly any connection to terrorism is in the imagination of the terror warriors: terrorists tend to be underemployed lower-middle-class men, not subsistence farmers.291 As for genocide, the Sudanese government finds it convenient to blame violence in Darfur on desertification, distracting the world from its own role in tolerating or encouraging the ethnic cleansing.

In a regression analysis on armed conflicts from 1980 to 1992, Theisen found that conflict was more likely if a country was poor, populous, politically unstable, and abundant in oil, but not if it had suffered from droughts, water shortages, or mild land degradation. (Severe land degradation did have a small effect.) Reviewing analyses that examined a large number (N) of countries rather than cherry-picking one or two, he concluded, “Those who foresee doom, because of the relationship between resource scarcity and violent internal conflict, have very little support in the large-N literature." Salehyan adds that relatively inexpensive advances in water use and agricultural practices in the developing world can yield massive increases in productivity with a constant or even shrinking amount of land, and that better governance can mitigate the human costs of environmental damage, as it does in developed democracies. Since the state of the environment is at most one ingredient in a mixture that depends far more on political and social organization, resource wars are far from inevitable, even in a climate-changed world.

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Should we do nothing about climate change? Probably not. Panicking is not likely to help either. Given that the Cold War didn't end in a scorched earth I do believe we are capable of pulling together and dealing with what's in front of us.

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A few off the top of my head:

* Use ui-router. Build your app with nested views.

* Any duplicate page elements should be directives. Use isolated scope when you can and pass state into directives explicitly

* Keep model state in services. Controllers handle binding data to $scope (one way, from model to view) and handling events from the view
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edit: the comment your reading was downvoted. I decided to erase it in protest instead of letting you (the reader) read it.

How can that be a protest? Someone who downvotes a comment simply because they disagree with it wants you to never see the comment. This is an object lesson in the repercussions. What was lost? You may never know.
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And lest you think that AOLserver is dead based on the lack of new activity on that github repo (which is just a mirror, BTW), Naviserver - https://bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver - which was forked from AOLserver some time ago, just released a new version yesterday.
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The first time I read that story it was about roast beef, so I'm guessing there's a number of variations and adaptations.
In reference to your paragraph on scientific theory:

In actuality nothing in science or in reality can be proven to be true. In science it is only possible to disprove or falsify theories. You can actually extract this concept from a famous statement in science and statistics:

"Correlation does not imply causation"

This basically means nothing can be proven, we can only correlate things. If you negate that statement it turns into:

"No Correlation does imply non-causation"

Which means by establishing that two things do not correlate we've disproved or falsified causation.
I'm pretty sure what people mean by "Blockchain not Bitcoin" is "Bitcoin 2.0" and not "Bitcoin 1.0" i.e. people think that the killer apps will be complex programs running on the blockchain that enable things like smart contracts etc much like search & social apps were more of killer apps than email which is the analog of bitcoin the currency. The point this article goes into detail to explain is likely not lost on people as smart as Sam Altman or Fred Wilson who say this.
Is it straightforward to reference a separate compiled library from an Emscripten binary?

Seems that caching commonly shared dependencies could be a good way to cut down on size and parse/compile time.
Did it? Seems like a claim that could use some elaboration. In what way would her privacy have been compromised by not using truecrypt? How do we know her privacy wasn't compromised despite using truecrypt?
I think you have to challenge your perception professional preference has to be gender-balanced, or else there is something wrong going on.

Men and women are physiologically different. They have an intrinsically different hormonal and social development path. Their movie preference shows this well: you can't possibly think that even in an "ideal" society men and women would prefer exactly the same movies? Why would they prefer the same professions? Surely you've met some nurses and seen why it might be a popular occupation among women?

The "preference" model hints what part of gender unbalance would be present even in an ideal world, and the rest we should address. That's the point you're missing here.
I think this should only be applicable to sites where you are logged in, as otherwise its going to be pretty difficult for them to identify using your name.
IIRC, Canonical joined the go community around 2010/2011 when docker has not been created. They are actually one of the early adopters of Go. Some major projects from Canonical using Go are juju[0], mgo[1], etc.

0. https://juju.ubuntu.com/

1. https://labix.org/mgo

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Many EDA tools are using outdated versions of Tcl. 8.5 and 8.6 added significant improvements with hash objects and native OO among them. I've been writing a Tcl clone for use in VHDL and I'm happy with where the language has gone. It was only meant to be used for scripting in the original sense. I like to think of it as the executable JSON with shades of lisp. Detractors should realize that it is still well suited for its niche.
> Tcl makes the most sense when you think of it as a shell.

I think of it as lisp's rather less clever little brother.
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And your viewership doesn't care about most of them. There's only so much news that the general public cares about.
Most people would suffer much more from a leak of their email, photos, or code than their porn browsing habits.
The theory goes: the simpler answer is more likely to be true because it is impossible for a series of events to be more likely.

The probability of A + B cannot be higher than A or B alone.

Of course that doesn't mean that A + B didn't occur, just that it is less likely.
There were definitely a number in both the practice law and ethics exam and the official exam that I took. I can't recall them off-hand, though. You can see the Code of Ethics for Professional Engineers Ontario in the actual law.

http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/regs/english/elaws_regs_900...

See section 77. Generally, it often revolves around 77.2.i,

"A practitioner shall, regard the practitioner’s duty to public welfare as paramount"

One could see a conflict come up between the company's and the public's interest. For example, you get asked to write the code in a way that takes less time, but could expose the client's data to hackers.
have you ever seen a GUI interface for EDA tool scripts?
Are you being sarcastic? This would be expensive, and is that how you are going to work with them?

I know that HN and the world in general is on a kick about equality of everything, but when your interviewee wears 100 gallons of perfume to the interview that is a problem I have to address even before they start working.

I absolutely think that the work can have objective measures, but back in reality much of work is not based around how good the candidate fits the job description exactly as described in the requirements.
I don't think I agree.

I think this is something that can often backfire. If someone creates evidence that say's the plane crashed at location x, when location X is searched and there is no plane, I still have more information than I started. I know the evidence that led me to location x is incorrect. This could be because the data is bad, or due to tampering. If I'm now focused on tampering and able to corroborate that it is tampered with, I now have a new area to narrow my investigation, based on who has the skills, ability, and motives to tamper with that data.

Now, I would agree, if the goal was to create a short term disruption to the investigation, which didn't require holding up to scrutiny in the long run.
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this is amazing. now I'm strongly resisting the urge to order a couple hundred tongue depressors.
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Wrong. All it takes is a browser fingerprint. If they can associate that with a name, whether or not you're logged into the porn site — e.g., through sites that you are logged into — they can identify your browsing session on the former.
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I think its a good analogy of "executable JSON with shades of Lisp". Can you share the TCL clone?
For your specific case you can look at camelcamelcamel: http://camelcamelcamel.com/LEGO-4657599-Shuttle-Expedition-1...

The last first-party price change ($84.97) corresponds to a steady and sustained increase in third-party price, so I'm assuming they discontinued the product in December of 2013 and the price is now driven by market forces. Just looking at other recommended space sets, I'm seeing prices jump 2x to 3x between when they were discontinued and now.
That you think the Apple Pay token is reusable makes this a non starter in terms of a discussion
>comment character

Yes the comment syntax can be infuriating if you're not ready for it.

This might not be true any longer, but a number of years ago when I was still using Tcl,

# this was a valid comment
#this was not a valid comment

due to the parser reading "# this" as a comment token followed by its string arguments (I guess it's semantically a noop that takes a string arg) and "#this" which threw an invalid token error.

Coming from C/C++ it drove me nuts.
Are you saying you don't have an issue with the taxation of vices, or that you do not have an issue with the taxation of marijuana because the taxation of vices is already common?
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Unless there is big money in this, I don't think this will be the next big privacy scandal, with the exception of politicians --they could get worried (people who have a big stake in maintaining an image). But your average Jurgen and Silvie, not so much.

[edit]That's to say, porn, for all practical purposes, is mainstream. It's an open secret. I don't think people are going to hyperventilate, freak out. I mean, 50 shades, the movie, is a marketing juggernaut in middle America --and beyond.
GCC testsuite is still written in DejaGnu, which is written in Expect.

http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/

It works for what it does.
And it's also true, though perhaps to a less consequential extent, of public prisons. You still have prison employees and management drawing salaries and construction companies building public prisons, after all.
Access to IP address + browser fingerprint on two sites that you've recently visited. Doesn't seem that implausable with all the recent security breaches.
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In the biomedical community the standard way to interact with VMD[0] - one of the major molecular viewers and really a workhorse of modern biology - is through Tcl.

I always think this is rather unfortunate, because it means that for many people, their first introduction to scripting ever comes in the form of trying to decipher the Tcl docs and just figure out the simplest things.

[0] - http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
>A system like Canada's would be nice to have to eliminate the cheapening of the title.

Are the egos of the "real" engineers really worth the additional burden of this regulation? At best, it stops people using a word that was coveted by others. At worst it means more regulatory hoops to jump through when there was no problem in the first place.
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