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This article is kinda insulting. Panels and conferences suck when they're homogenous. They're banal and uninspiring because the perspectives are all too similar.

The reality is that they didn't work hard enough to find good quality presenters that represent the actual world we live and work in - one where people approach problem solving in myriad different ways that stem from their own history and experience.

tl;dr - if you can't find women, POC for your conference, you didn't look hard enough.
If you want to run an exit node then this is, I think, required reading: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tips-running-exit-node-mini...
>model the real world .. shared vocabulary .. SQL databases .. object store .. good examples.

This is the crux of the challenge, I think. Anybody who doesn't know what a scone is, can't really sell it.

The modeling occurs at a word level, like .. as a dictionary .. and everything else is just baggage. Get everyone on the same page .. of the dictionary .. and you get a working group. Isn't software secondary to human interaction?
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jgon, maybe you're also reading this on a mobile client.

tptacek's first side note on the right column is that his opinion is that DUAL_EC_DRBG is an NSA backdoor. Far from burying the most important part of the scandal, he puts it front and center. This discussion is about other proposed extensions to TLS, not DUAL_EC_DRBG.

It might be too late, but I recommend you edit your comment to change "Extended Random" to DUAL_EC_DRBG (the random number generator). Extended Random is an extension proposed by the NSA (Clyde Frog).
Not everyone can be the best of the best, a lot of us are sadly just a bit better than average and we matter too. The market encompasses more than just the elite.

That said, given cultural differences and our abilities to judge their own skill, it's entirely possible your best of the best is just my above average.
Just want to say thank you for creating the free, open tools needed to host even more controversial stuff like this. Even if you're afraid to host it yourself, you've truly created a good for the world at large.
While I agree that the rule "Thou shall not end a sentence with a preposition." seems to be a borrowed Latinate prescription and is at variance with modern English usage, inhale, deep breath, I think your example of using the phrasal verb (put up with), though common, to demonstrate your point is not a good example. :)

If we consider put-up-with as a verb that just so happens to be a compound verb-postposition-postposition _unit_ then the sentence "That's the kind of grammar prescription which we will not put up with" actually ends in a verb. If you see what I mean. Does this make sense? I'm just punting this intuitively.

I'm trying to think of an actual case where a bare adpositional word terminates a sentence... which is not in question form... and I can only think poetic uses... and after having Googled a bit... verb+prep or phrasal verb or question are the only examples I've _come across_. :)
Glad to see a list that doesn't just rehash the same books/papers. The Purely Functional Data Structures suggestion looks like a great read
Forwarding your keys basically. It's like giving someone you don't know a handshake AND all your keys.
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The gender imbalance in tech will remain self-reinforcing unless we actively work to change it. Right now the gender balance is so bad that we're effectively giving up on half the population. How does anyone think that is a good thing? Other high-skill fields like medicine & law aren't anywhere near as imbalanced as tech.

Changing the status quo requires outreach and making the culture more inclusive. Most appeals to meritocracy in tech boil down to "but I really like the way things are now".
I too am a diehard Slackware user (I would say "Slack" like J.R. Dobbs intended it, but people would confuse it for the chat) and I'll echo your sentiment.

Guix and Nix are the only ones in the field which deeply identify and solve issues in package management, and are the solutions I'd be most open to using.

For personal usage, the Slackware tarball format without dependency resolution has never failed me.

(I also have an affinity for Portage, but it's a delicate thing to use.)
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My phone provider (Fido, Canada) used to call me weekly to try and sell me random crap. Every single time, I would complain that I find being cold-called by a service I already pay for extremely rude. "But Sir, we're trying to offer you the best service possible, in no way is this rude". It took the threat of legal action to get them to stop...

Shaw TV inserts ads taking up about a third of the screen real estate when browsing channels. When asked, I was told this was for my benefit and there was no way to disable it. Again, shoving ads in your face even though you're already a paying customer. I'm cancelling my TV subscription again (I pretty much never use it anyway).

When going to the movies, all the major movie theatres will practically coerce people into turning up early for the official showtime ("get a good seat while you can!"), then proceed to show nearly 30 minutes of advertising (after having paid $15 for my seat...). I now go to independent movie theatres whenever I can.

I recently bought a wireless HP printer for which the software is absymally bad. After installing it (twice), I proceeded to disable all the "cloud" options (this has to be done on both the PC AND the printer itself...). Throughout the installation, it keeps marking options as "recommended", such as having to register your personal details on their website. Any non-savvy user would easily fall for this. I missed one option (I don't even recall whether it was actually available) and ended up with a bunch of icons on my desktop for offers, as well as a huge icon in the taskbar displaying popups every so often for "special offers". I complained to HP, haven't heard anything yet (and doubt I ever will).

Unfortunately, I have many more examples such as these... But to address the point made by the author:

> Let's hope this isn't a sign of things to come.

It is already happening, and in full force. How this sort of behavior is even legally tolerated is beyond me.
This would make this repos not open source, unless they are replicated elsewhere as well.
Is there a way to set that in bulk so all hosts in your config send identities, but those not specified don't, without putting IdentityFile for every one?
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There's quite a lot of separation, IMO. Docker uses an imperative, stateful system for image creation that doesn't actually help with reproducibility and specifically only creates container environments. Guix and Nix use a functional, declarative system for building anything (software builds, VM image creation, etc.) and can create any type of environment, including containers. Guix and Nix are much more general-purpose and are built upon a stronger foundation.

So, rather than using Docker running Debian/Ubuntu/whatever images and another OS entirely managing the host, you can use Guix or Nix to manage every layer and take advantage of their very advanced features everywhere.
"Leader" is usually reserved for a different kind of work. A leader determines where the organization should go; a manager ensures that everyone under him is marching in that direction. They require very different skillsets - leading is an outward-facing, synthesizing, strategic role, while managing is an inwards-facing, empathizing, tactical role. To use Ben Horowitz's terminology [1], leaders are Ones and managers are Twos. The CEO's usually the most visible leader in the company, but you'll often find them at lower levels as well, like the tech lead trying out a new experimental Skunkworks project.

Both of them are distinct from "boss" as the grandparent describes it, which is usually what happens when you get a manager who lacks empathy, awareness, and flexibility. Both leader and manager are highly cognitively-complex, pro-active roles that require constant information-gathering. Boss is what happens when you get someone in that position who lacks the confidence or skillset to stay on top of all that information and then reacts through command & control techniques when things go wrong.

[1] http://www.bhorowitz.com/ones_and_twos
You may be interested in knowing that you can DOS someone if you know only their public keys. https://medium.com/@gmalette/mistaking-authentication-for-id...
Many of them are, and they still get accused of sexism.
It’s not enough. You cannot just magically wish the world to change and hope everything will turn out alright. You actually have to put in the work. There may be systematic reasons at work that make sure everything is as fucked up as it currently is and we cannot just wish them away. The world is not fair or just and merit is a bullshit metric that does not work at all.

How could we change that for the better? I think quotas are certainly a nice stopgap that can help move us forward and out of this fucked up shit we are currently in. It’s a hack, sure, a dirty one, even, but as far as hacks go I think it’s quite nice.

If you are really convinced that merit based selection is even possible (all a question of degrees, right?) targeted outreach (i.e. actually asking many interesting people to submit something, not just waiting for submissions) combined with a blind review process could also work quite nicely. I know of conferences where that alone (i.e. purely merit based selection, but preceded by targeted outreach – so of those who submitted something really only the very best presenters were selected) actually worked nicely and led to dramatic shifts in – their case (because they decided to tackle gender first, but there are obviously many other angles) – gender balance.
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> A solution is to use the keynote address and invited speakers to draw crowds

Ok, but nothing's solved, just pushed up a level.
Appears to be inconclusive: "None of these modern rebuttals – Melton, Zug, or Hutchison's – attempts to replicate an extremely slow-heating experiment as cited by Goltz or Scripture: only Hutchison did a thermal trial at over five times Goltz's slow rate and over nine times Scripture's 0.002 °C per second temperature rise." [1]

More interesting is perhaps the question of how you get the frog to sit still -- or maybe change the experiment so there's a grid over the top of the pan -- and try to see if the frog gets more and more "desperate" (flight from danger as opposed to "just a frog jumping around") as the water slowly heats?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
This is barely content. "We got subpoenaed and our lawyer told the FBI we didn't have any logs and they never contacted us again." Ok, great.
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Good app, really helpful
Past results guarantee future returns.

...or something
I think it's a case of different people having different priorities.

For example, I have zero interest in career advancement. I just want to draw a paycheck so I don't end up homeless and so I can afford to buy the occasional cool gadget. It'd be nice if my work was interesting so I'm not completely bored while I'm working for my paycheck, but advancement is definitely at the bottom of my list of what to look for in a job.
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I wasn't implying, just noting my feelings. Thanks for being engaged and direct in discussions, btw.
Or simply to DOS you out of your other accounts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10005358
Yes, for more information, see SSH Agent Forwarding Considered Harmful (http://heipei.github.io/2015/02/26/SSH-Agent-Forwarding-cons...). Finally a legitimate use of the title "considered harmful".
I was thinking of overlaying it on a map but since it's a small cross section being referenced,

there is not much distortion (world appears flat) which makes it quite clever hack to plot on the grid!
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Mailinator seems to have added some other anti-scraping detection.

Unfortunately it does not work very well as I was not scraping mailinator, but still somehow got IP banned. Fortunately my ip has changed. But they definitely have some strange and overzealous method now.
I hate to say it, but that's what you get for seeking help from a TV psychologist.

You're insane if you think a TV show is there to help you.
Under "Threats to Validity" the authors note that "some" of the code studied is generated, and that they tried to deobfuscate this code so they could understand it. I think this understates the danger to their results.

I would expect most of the code on the top 100 websites to be generated/minified. I would further hypothesize that minifiers would only make transformations that are correct, but do not necessarily make code more readable, thus skewing these results towards correct type conversions that humans would not tend to write.

It would be interesting to see these tests run over the minified and unminified jQuery source to see if there's any difference.
> (And if you have agent forwarding active I show you a big WARNING [0].)

It amazes me that people enable that for random servers. Seems like SSH should make that harder. Enabling it for a specific server you trust makes sense; enabling it for all servers doesn't. SSH could reject "ForwardAgent" outside a Host block, for instance, and force you to at least write a "Host *" block.

EDIT: Check out this search: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ForwardAgent&type...
Your answer will follow from the chosen "random" sampling method. Since the sampling method is not stated as part of the problem, there is ambiguity.

For this Ruby snippet, you chose random (x,y) coordinate pairs on a plane. This corresponds to selection method #2 as outlined on the Wikipedia article [0]. Scroll down a bit to see different selection methods visualized!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probabilit...
That's fair, I misparaphrased. Still, not an ad hominem because its argument appeals to studies. That could be fallacious, but it's not an ad hominem fallacy.
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His point was: be aware that to be a good manager you need to be effective in all three directions. From my experience, engineers stepping into the manager's role will primarily want to make their team happy and productive. But if that becomes all they concern themselves with, they will tend to land their team in the soup! Call it what you will, I think steering managers away from this is sound advice.

Interestingly, in my office's parlance, "manage down" is "make the boss happy (by making the team do what the boss wants)"...
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We've used Stripe + https://plasso.co/ for the first SaaS customers. Zero coding, invoices look professional, supports recurring subscriptions. The customer data remains in Stripe so nothing keeps you from building a full system around the Stripe API (or other tools) in the future.

Bank transfer should work. Be prepared that questions about the full bank postal address come up. Not all US banks are used to intl transfers it seems. Some banks, well credit unions, don't do intl transfers at all.

Have a look at https://transferwise.com/ as well.
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I can see it as France trampling over other countries sovereignty, but I can also see it as France protecting its sovereign citizens, which is .. after all .. the Purpose of Sovereignty in the first place. So I'm not swayed by your corporatist argument that we should just negate the rights of citizenry for the sake of a clearly non-Sovereign, corporate entity - which has demonstrably profited from the mass-harvesting of social information at the personal layer.

It is indeed a gray area, but what did you expect between the extreme black and white of individual freedom and corporate control/hegemony? Some sort of simple 'bit flip'?

Alas, precisely because the bits are so easily flipped, this discussion must be continued - and it must not be being conducted, so, reactively.

I am an advocate for the right to disappear. I happen to think, having witnessed the bit flip in the positive direction - i.e. mass-surveillance as a consumer - I also wish to remind my peers that it must be recognized that it can .. also .. just as easily be turned off.

In other words, French mores on the issue should infect American mores. It would be good for other cultures, other mores, to not let it go the other way: Total Surveillance as a normative.

In this sense, perhaps yet again, the French lead the way.
1) I wish you'd dispute the meat of what I said:

* That YC founders can see each other differently on the site (colored names).

* This naturally leads to more upvotes for YC stories.

* These upvotes would be unlikely to trigger voting rings.

* This provides a non-transparent (unfair?) advantage for YC startups, and a false signal about the interest in these startups overall for people unware.

2) The job listings thing I have less to harp on, but I still find it a little weird that there is a hugely popular job board reserved for a few hundred companies.

3) The comment wasn't intended as an attack on pg, and I understand the YC is from the top down well-meaning and full of good people. But the site is better, more transparent, and more fair under the new management, at least it seems that way to me.

I imagine the cultishness is recognized and unwanted... hence pg not being on the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (and totally withdrawing from the site overall)
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A good reminder that your public keys are, in fact, public. For most people, this is probably a good thing, unless you're specifically trying to hide your identity.
Same thing here. I was seeing a pop-up for a service that was going to be discontinued. Thanks Samsung, I really needed to know that.

I was also seeing "smart ads" when it detected some out-of-band signal for ads I was seeing in Hulu. It would pop up some UI on top of the display that would let you "learn more". Thanks again Samsung for enriching my experience.
For the record, I agree with the points made. But, I've flagged this, as it will (and has started to) produce the usual firestorm.
The lack of representation of women at these sorts of conferences is in and of itself something that turns women off participating in them and ultimately off the profession. It's a self-perpetuating problem. Until you get that essential fact, you just don't get the overall problem.

"For all they know, 95% of speaker pitches came from men and thus why they ended up with a 95% male speaker line up once they whittled down the list to the best pitches." Shouldn't the very next thought be: "gee, why would 95% of speaker pitches come from men?" Why might that be the case?

To me, the "women just aren't interested in tech" explanation is ridiculous on its face. "Women just don't want to be in a high-profile, financially rewarding career with tons of growth potential, because ____." What goes in the blank? I'm dying to know.
Leverage that is rarely and reluctantly used, and that no one reasonably expects to be used, and that does not translate into any observable consequences in the lives of black people attempting to get a ride.

I've once heard a quip that "You have no constitutional right to eat at a restaurant, but you do have one to a speedy trial -- but which one feels more secure?"

The city has "leverage" to stamp out discrimination against black people wanting a cab ride, but "no leverage" to stamp out discrimination against black people on Uber -- yet which one will more reliably secure a ride?
How can one lament the lack of women in a conference panel but make no mention of how lily white it is?

Is it just me or do most of these underepresentation conversations seem to focus on gender more than race? How the heck does that make any kind of sense?

If anything racial disadvantages have even broader economic consequences than gender. How is race not an intrinsic, automatic part of every conversation on representation in tech alongside gender? Why is it "women in tech" instead of "women and minorities in tech"?
Still really convenient, though.
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Conspiracy. Intent goes a long way, especially in cases like this. Such as cases where FBI makes a fake bomb, ask suspect to flip this switch to arm it, ask suspect to place fake bomb at target, arrested for terrorism.
and it worked for me too, just thought i'd chime in here. nice educational and simple project.
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Apparently, they didn't plot it on the map but on a grid. The density of data gives the well defined contour; a clever hack!
I find it ironic that the title of this article is 'Shut up and Calculate', seeing as he proposes no way to calculate the things that he proposes would qualify his theory as falsifiable.
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> But in comparison to the "big guys" (the various frameworks for PHP, Java, C#) it barely registers.

[citation needed]

[citation needed] especially for C#; the only .NET-based language I know of that registers as even a blip in web development is, for better or worse, ASP.NET.

[citation needed] also for PHP frameworks; most PHP web "applications", in my experience, don't use any sort of "framework" at all, instead opting to use CGI with direct manipulation of HTML tags in order to do anything. Facebook is the only significant exception that I'm aware of.
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It seems to me that the intelligence communicate uses lie detectors less as tests for nefarious activities and more as personality tests.

Let's assume that lie detectors actually work. To "pass" such a test you have to be reasonably certain about your answers. Have you ever passed information to the enemy: Yes/No? Is everything in your application truthful? Only some people can be completely secure about there answers. The more knowledge and experience a person has in an area, the more the likelihood that they cannot give that yes/no answer. So what they get is a bunch of young, mostly male, kids who are not the type to self examine. They are sure that they are correct, that they have done no wrong. That infeed might explain much of the direction that the community has taken in recent years.
The point is to be a counterpoint to all the tor exit node horror stories. The point is not to have interesting content.
> I will still not say that reasonable people can't disagree over the question at hand but the arguments presented in this article don't strike me as being anywhere near strong enough to make this the sort of grey area the author would like.

You have three negations in this sentence, which means it's nearly impossible to parse or understand. It's been my observation statements like these follow rationalizations about a point in which there exists dissonance. Given you seem to be disagreeing with something Thomas said or the way he said it, but not actually disagreeing with a point he made, I'd say that is the case here as well.

Violations of our privacy via rationalizations of security makes me sad and bored. I think we can all agree that things could be better with the situation, and I for one appreciate Thomas' efforts in bringing the truth to light.