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About Giving Assistant:
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The Position:
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The Fit:
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We're a team of 6 and we all love building this product. It's a great feeling knowing we're creating a for profit company while raising so much money for families and great causes. Everyone who is part of this team believes in more than just work. We're creating the change we want to see in the world. Will you join us? email: jim@givingassistant.org
Thanks! These are good articles.
Microsoft Decided to Support Opus, Vorbis and VP9 in IE
Do you have an email where I could forward you a resume for a designer?
I like what JWZ wrote about the related topics:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...

"I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it's true. So did most of the early engineers. But the people who made 100x as much as the engineers did? I can tell you for a fact that none of them slept under their desk. If you look at a list of financially successful people from the software industry, I'll bet you get a very different view of what kind of sleep habits and office hours are successful than the one presented here."

The whole text is worth reading.
I'm fascinated by things like the aqueducts. The skill to make them is something i can never comprehend.
Me too. I had the trunk at the bottom. :-p
As I mentioned in another unrelated thread, most people do not have the discipline to do this. It is simply unrealistic... but, yes, it can be done.
Installed 30 minutes ago, entire team hooked
His numbers are all over the place. Most of the stats he provides are for executives and investors which don't require STEM degrees, yet he uses STEM graduation as his initial stat.

I don't even know what this means:

"0% of partners at some of our largest Bay Area VC firms are women"

So > 0% of partners of the largest Bay Area VC firms are women, since he qualifies the statement with "some"?
Yes he might ought to worry about getting on one of those lists himself...
See:

* http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/opusaudiocodec/

* http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/vorbisaudiocodec/

* http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/vp9videocodec/

Really great news. Now only Apple will be a roadblock for wider free codecs usage.
I read this as publishing and was getting mad, then I read the article and smiled. Thanks Google! I absolutely hate sites that do this.
Unfortunately, blind hiring/promotion would take all the power out of the hiring/promotion game. Most medium/large sized companies have a flourishing trade in promotions/bonuses: you help me back one of my people for promotion to director this year, and I'll make sure you get feature XYZ by the end of the year.

These types of power networks are what make big companies run. Not that taking them away would necessarily be a bad thing, but there would be a LOT of resistance.
Are Floating Farms in Our Future?
The tool might built in Python, but it doesn't really expose the python api to the user, which (among other things) makes for super clean build files.

It's also very fast since it uses Ninja for the actual build phase.
People might cry and complain, but why not text based media like chat or email? Chat for real time related things, email for other.

Or voice scramblers, but that's just silly :)
The argument is that the availability of choices is not the same between the sexes. Part of the problem is that so few women are in the engineering disciplines that when young girls make the decision (and this is of course, a simplification...it's not the decision, but hundreds of little decisions that factor into a career choice), they aren't as inclined to go into engineering because they just don't see themselves as being engineers. Nor do their parents, peers, social groups, etc. So it's an unfortunate feedback loop.

To use an anecdotal example...I wanted to be a journalist growing up, but that was not something my parents heavily encouraged, when all of the other Asian immigrant kids went into med school or engineering. I ended up just doing journalism and engineering in college but I credit that to my parents being relatively easy-going about what path I choose. I'd like to say that I graduated with an engineering degree because I'm especially talented for it, but more likely, it's just that I didn't face much resistance and I also saw a lot of other people "like me". I doubt this is the same for women.
And jQuery is... surprise! A library.
Ecuador Considered Smuggling Julian Assange to Freedom in a Bag
Java is known to read /dev/random when dealing with SecureRandom class. In particular it might cause extremely slow starting time for Tomcat on fresh virtual machine. There's parameter "-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom" and I always felt unsafe using it. Thanks to this article, now I won't regret it even theoretically.

Fun thing is, if you pass "/dev/urandom" to this parameter, Java will read /dev/random anyway. May be that was a wise decision 20 years ago.
A couple things:

1. It syncs PDFs as well as links. Assuming you run the Dropbox app on your computer, you can view your Google Docs even if you're offline.

2. If you already use Dropbox and sync it to your computer, you no longer need to run another sync client (Google Drive's).

3. If you use Google Docs and Dropbox, you can keep everything in one place.
It is because the terminal cut of the g attempts to geometrically bisect the bar of the e, whilst simultaneously trying to resemble a smile. Those are irreconcilable design objectives. The capital G is still wasting vast quantities of space. I agree, overall, this new typography has a kindergarten aesthetic. It's not for me, certainly.

However I think the colour blocking and letter shaping on the new favicon is superb.
Maybe. But most of them don't involve transmitting my microphone directly to Google servers.
I still do not understand the popularity of this approach. It seems to crazy increase bounce rates. You would think that negative user behavior would already make these undesirable without Google being explicit?
Perhaps when we select books to read them, we only do so in order to describe ourselves as a "Calvino reader" or a "Russophile" as much as the author rejects Bukowski so as to be thought of as "a person who despises Bukowski." In that case, forming an identity through the art you arbitrarily despise and have not experienced seems only slightly more flimsy than doing so through the art you have experienced and have a real opinion about.

But, I think most of us read to learn or to gain new perspectives, etc. So, openly hating things you haven't experienced or examined critically is about as anti-intellectual as claiming to have read things one hasn't. Why not just say, "I am more interested in [some type of fiction with certain themes], and my reading list is quite long." Easier and doesn't freeze out the conversation quite as badly.

I still haven't read Bayard's "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read"...
I thought Safari doesn't even allow this anymore because of all the popup forwarder spam?
I have a relative who went through the same thing in Kansas in the late 60s... But 15 years ago? Yeah that's nuts.
I always give people the benefit of the doubt? Why would you think that women aren't?

I am an awkward person with social anxiety. The idea that women like myself aren't already doing that is part of the absurdity.
I was afraid this would be another lecture about trolls but it turned out to be quite profound.

We tend to define ourselves by what we like and dislike, which is fine, except, most of the time, it's not based on fact, but on arbitrary decisions.

This is quite obvious with kids; for example, my two younger kids (6 and 7, boy and girl) try to hate the preferred foods of one another, even if they have to admit they like its individual components. The boy loves fruit yogurt but "hates" fruits (will leave the table when someone's eating a raw fruit next to him), and the girl actually does love fruits but decided she will never eat yogurt... or use a spoon.

This is all fake, it's all an act, and yet it's quite powerful and difficult to overcome. (What gives it away though, is that these "tastes" vary according to location; when in school, those preferences disappear!)

We adults use spoons, but act the same with literature, or really most of our tastes in arts or crafts or products; we like the idea of ourselves not liking this or that (hello, vegans! ;-)

Dislike and contempt is also much easier to develop and maintain than an actual taste that has to be nurtured; it's like free money.

I really should get around to reading Houellebecq.
> "...From what I've heard, Azul has a great GC, but the
> throughput is extremely low. It's really only a practical
> solution for high frequency finance and places like that
> where latency is everything, and throughput is nothing..."

Well, you heard wrong.

Zing is used in plenty of throughput-intesive and throughout-centric applications, and sustainable throughput on Zing tends to be higher (not lower) than with other JVMs. E.g. Cassandra clusters tend to carry higher production loads per machine when powered by Zing (compared to OpenJDK or HotSpot on the same hardware). All while dramatically improving their latency behavior and consistency.

Specifically, on similarly sized heaps and workloads, the C4 collector's throughout is better than CMS's and close to ParallelGC's. And since it's throughput scales linearly with the amount of empty heap configured and since (unlike OpenJDK/Hotspot) Zing places no practical pause-related caps on how much memory can be applied, it tends to beat both on efficiency in actual configurations.

The notion that good latency behavior has to come at the expense of throughput is just a silly myth. There are plenty of examples that disprove it. Zing/C4 is just one of many.
"The internet of infrequently updated things built by under qualified contractors"
A guy on Hacker News posted a theory that discrimination in startup culture came from it's connection to MBA-culture, not nerd-culture. You might enjoy hearing his take on it:

Comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9942837
The blog post linked to in the comment https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/vc-istan-8-t...
San Francisco, CA - Jobr - Senior Software Engineer or Data Scientist - 5-10 FTEs - http://www.jobrapp.com

Jobr is the leading mobile-first jobs application combining a Tinder-style interface with a Pandora-like recommendation engine. We were founded just over a year ago, and all key metrics are growing 50-100% MoM. We’ve raised $2M in funding from a group of strategic investors and advisors including Lowercase Capital, Workday, the Tinder founders, Redpoint Ventures, Lerer Ventures, and Eniac Ventures. Our platform now has over 1M jobs across virtually every industry and covers the entire US and Canada, and we’re planning to expand further later this year.

We’re looking for a hungry, analytical Software Engineer to help us continue to move quickly and scale engineering operations. You should be comfortable in all parts of the stack, from writing CSS to querying databases to managing instances.

* All major systems are written in Go, accessing data in MySQL with a Redis layer

* Redis MQ for message queueing

* Scala data processing on Spark

* Job search via Elastic on Found

* Mixpanel and Periscope for tracking (track everything)

* Table tennis - for stress relief and friendly competition

We treat employees like founders, compensate very competitively, have a really cool office space, and just generally like each other.

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What often happens is that a company no longer wants to support a product that's still in use running production stuff. So the company sells off the support accounts to some other company which makes money supporting that product. This is how dBASE, filePro, and Framework (Ashton-Tate software) are still around. It's how OS/2 morphed into eComStation.
Radio Waves of Doom
Yeah. What did Newton ever do for science?
I would guess, as an outsider, that it'll basically stop as an independent project and carry on to whatever degree its tech get absorbed into this new project.

There's lots of cool tech in Daala, but I'm guessing that most people involved would be happy to see a royalty-free video codec succeed even if it wasn't entirely their baby and if the member corporations can throw enough lawyers, engineers and existing patents at the problem, then less sexy, more traditional tech will probably get the job done and make Daala's strategy less relevant.
Well first off, when I meet and like people and therefore come to the conclusion I want to be friends with them, it has nothing to do with race or gender. I'm a white male, may of my friends are female, black, Indian, Asian, Hispanic... and I think, at least in the younger generation (teens - ~ 35 years old) this is generally the case. Unless their parents enforced some crazy ideals in the poor child. For the record, most of my best friends have been girls of different races.

Second, I view partnerships in business as a marriage. It is CRITICAL that I like the person, or it simply will not work. Has NOTHING to do with race or gender.

This is something you simply cannot just generalize across people. Also, having diversity for the sake of diversity is the wrong way to look at things. Yes, you can be diverse with an all white male team. People come from different backgrounds, different parts of the world, etc. Diversity should not just mean race and gender, that's ignorant and really consist of people just spitting out political correctness.
Nifty!

Why not define a bunch of custom emoji, one for each card, and use those instead of the big graphics at each turn? Would save massive bandwidth.
In a way, this validates the "ghost town" argument about G+. There might be tons of wonderful content in this or that "circle", but hidden away it just loses any appeal.
Slack off with some poker!
> how does the woman in the hackerspace perceive what a given person conforms to?

Stereotypes, basically. Visuals/fashion play a very large role, as you can see in those google queries.

How they interact with others also is a factor. In my experience, shy people are less likely to be considered "dudes", while extroverts are much more likely to get the label.
http://skedge.info/careers/

skedge.me founded in 2010, is the leading enterprise specific customer engagement platform for scheduling and marketing in-store events and services used by Sephora and other well know retailers. The product integrates with existing websites, and allows customers, as well as associates, the ability to make individual personalized appointments and/or sign up for exclusive events or classes from any mobile, tablet or desktop device.We are a rapidly expanding company that offers a great, fast paced but casual work environment and a ton of professional ownership and growth opportunities. We are poised to become the market leader as enterprise online scheduling becomes the norm, and are looking to expand our team with the following positions:

- Back-end Developer (Haskell)

- Senior Software Engineer – Backend (Haskell)

- Senior Software Engineer – Front End

- Senior Software Engineer – Site Reliability
Why not just run the search straight from your browser's address bar or search field?
> Hackspaces are supposed to be safe spaces to do work, you aren't there for flirting/socialzing/picking-a-mate. There, like work, it is inappropriate to be trying to "seduce" someone.

Well, then I imagine hack spaces a bit differently. For me, anything I do in my free time isn't work, it's fun. Socializing. And a natural part of socializing is forming relationships. Friendships, romantic relationships, ... In any case, I'd consider it much preferable to try and meet a soulmate at a common hobby, rather than at a bar. Applies to everyone, not just women, of course.

> Also gay guys usually don't just hit on everyone because at least they usually have the grace to know when it's appropriate and when it's not and also when it might be reciprocal (wanted) and when not.

That's quite a generalization, a pretty offensive at that. Obviously, straight guys are all scary and creepy, while gay guys are nice and tender and soft!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins
How [do] activity feeds on individual issues aggregate events on GitHub
My first job in software was also my worst. I was learning a lot by building and enhancing a SaaS applicant tracking system for a small firm in Denton. But it was run by really shady people; our CEO would hire grossly unqualified people that he was friends with back in his home country... Our director of QA had previously been a high school history teacher, and had never used a computer before... it was nuts.

We were also actively screwing one of our business partners. They sued us, and my boss considered me a very dangerous witness, so he sent me on a paid vacation so I couldn't be subpoenaed. Crazy place.
Pricing = nope. Try lower.
It makes sense to issue different rucksacks to women but boots?
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- Senior Front-End Engineer | Seeking an engineer with strong experience in building single page applications in a modern framework. We currently use Ember but strong experience with any of the popular frameworks would be great.

- Senior Data Engineer | Seeking an engineer with strong experience in Python and a love of gaining new insight from data using tools like Pandas, SciKit-Learn, and much more.

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They could spread the hash out to several places, e.g. tweet it every time it changes.
Does this apply to "please subscribe to our stupid newsletter" that obscures many sites now?
Charles Foster or Donald Knuth both come to mind. Multiple studies put the religious attendance of scientists at around 15 to 20% with belief in a high power or god at around 40 to 50%.
As you point out yourself, the Google logo exists in many places besides their homepage. (Plus many people still visit the homepage, even if you and I don't.)
Because the fun part was writing the game logic, not the glue code. ;)
IRC doesn't have a 3 billion dollar valuation.
I'd really like to see a universal app / site rating service that judges apps / sites on their stability, privacy, security, legitimacy of requested permission, and general UX.

It could then provide alternatives to the app / site, and possibly even an anonymous whistleblower service for employees .
> But that's the whole point: it's hard to tell!

Ah, that's your problem — it's hard for men to tell! Women have much less of a problem. Sorry, reality sucks. I'm a dude, and patriarchy trains us to be bloviating know-nothing assholes driven to mansplain:

"... the constant work women perform in managing, maintaining, and adjusting the egos of apparently oblivious men — involving an endless work of imaginative identification and what I’ve called interpretive labor. This carries over on every level. Women are always imagining what things look like from a male point of view. Men almost never do the same for women. This is presumably the reason why in so many societies with a pronounced gendered division of labor (that is, most societies), women know a great deal about men do every day, and men have next to no idea about women’s occupations. Faced with the prospect of even trying to imagine a women’s perspective, many recoil in horror. In the US, one popular trick among High School creative writing teachers is to assign students to write an essay imagining that they were to switch genders, and describe what it would be like to live for one day as a member of the opposite sex. The results are almost always exactly the same: all the girls in class write long and detailed essays demonstrating that they have spent a great deal of time thinking about such questions; roughly half the boys refuse to write the essay entirely. Almost invariably they express profound resentment about having to imagine what it might be like to be a woman." http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-revolut...
As long as there is "fit" based decisions being made, conscious/subconscious biases based on age/gender/race etc will creep in.

And as long as these pervade, hiring will not be a meritocratic process.
That website looks so dated nowadays. Really needs a revamp.
>getting along takes work, takes giving people the benefit of the doubt, and it takes leaving your ego at the door.

And once again, why do you think that women haven't already examined this and realized that the interactions they have in certain environments are something beyond needing a little understanding? It's not like women walking into hackerspaces haven't been around nerdy, awkward men before- half of them are nerdy, awkward women.

Implying there's a simple solution that is summed up as "women don't understand!" is ridiculous.
Think of both as ways to get a consistent baseline system which your configuration will be applied to. It's faster to spin up a VM or container than it is to do a fresh install on bare metal so you can realistically test that you really could do a clean install from the documented starting point.

Containers add even faster startup time and the option of isolation so you can have multiple containers which think they're writing to the same location but actually aren't. That's not terribly important in a one-app-per-system model but it's awesome for testing or running multiple instances of an insufficiently-configurable app on the same system.
Also, making decisions based on wishy-washy difficult-to-quantify human traits like "genius" and "sense of taste" seems unnecessarily risky, compared to making them based on measurements from repeatable tests.
Jotun: convert JavaScript objects into vectors
I think he meant today. Aren't like >90% of scientists in the hard sciences atheists or at least non-religious? Of course there are thousands of counterexamples, but by "hard to find" I think he meant if you went down to the local uni you might not find anyone at all.
"evolution of [product's] look and feel"
Self-selecting for this type of employee is also a problem. I can understand doing this for the first few months when you're trying to bootstrap, but long-term if your business model can't scale without people working 12-14 hour days, your business model doesn't scale.

We all read articles on HN and HBR saying that more hours != more work, but we still hire for it anyway. I know most founders are just looking for passionate people who fit with their team, and it can be hard to build a team when one of your team members has to leave every day at 3:30 to pick their kids up from school. But we should at least try to be better.