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I'm glad to hear most things are working now. We're hiring to put more eyes on the open issues on GitLab.com. If you want a more stable GitLab upgrade to a new minor release on the 21th of every month. At that time all the patches should have landed. We strive to fix all known regressions. If they want to use the bleeding edge people can use our release candidates. Or run master, like we do on our internal server.
I should not expect more from a handle ButtLoad, i mean bootload. This is more of the Hillary Clinton Decade long leftist War on Men propaganda that silicone valley has eaten like a creampie.

Statistically by any measure, men are and always will be better leaders than women. This generalization has nothing to do with the fact that there are totally incompetent leaders regardless of their gender. they often rise based on their desire and windfall rather than skill or competence.
The point of compulsory education is to provide a common memetic foundation for society's interaction and communication.

That's the charitable view. Another view is that the point of compulsory education is to create generation after generation of children who have had any sense of independence, creativity, initiative or inclination towards free thinking, beaten out of them - generations of children who don't question authority and make good, unquestioning worker drones.

I'm not saying one view is right or the other is wrong, but let's not be too quick to accept the presumed virtues of compulsory education without looking at the dark side.

Without that shared foundation, we see endlessly polarized political talking heads debating nonissues for attention instead of reasoned debate and informed participation in society.

Sadly, we appear to have those things already, even though we have (in the US) a fairly extensive public education system, and compulsory education through age 16 / 17 or so (I suppose that varies by state?) and - nominally - higher literacy rates than in decades past. Although on that last point, I think there's a bit of an open question. Measuring literacy is apparently something that wasn't a priority, say, 200 years ago, and detailed, verifiable statistics are hard to come by. But I've seen some commentary to the effect that the US had better literacy rates in centuries past, than we have now.

I'd actually like to know more about that, but it's a pretty politically charged issue and it isn't necessarily easy to find good info.
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This is based on my experience and has no other basis; I hope it's worthwhile:

Many people overlook obvious incompetence in men. We let men off the hook too easily when they demonstrate poor judgment, ignorance, irresponsibility, or disrespect and a lack of understanding of others. It's ok as long as they do it in a hyper-masculine way, aggressively or boisterously; it's even enouraged in many situations as a byproduct and demonstration of strength. Think of Donald Trump, for example.

I think it's a result of lowered expectations: People think that it's the way men inevitably will behave; boys will be boys. Also I think people are intimidated, both by the aggression and by knowing that socially, such behavior is generally acceptable and criticizing it likely will be a losing battle and will make the critic look 'soft' for not appreciating 'strength'.

EDIT: Some of the angry rants in this thread so far in a way support my idea: Many are ignorant, poorly reasoned, and providing little value to readers. So why is that behavior acceptable? Why do we let it pass or even take it seriously?

As a counterpoint to my own question: I generally associate that behavior with men, based also on my experiences, but I don't know the gender of the commenters (though HN is likely mostly male) and I don't know that women behave differently online.
I used to work for Dyson as an intern some 15 years ago now. Obviously, the company will have to be different than I was there, but one thing that did strike me is that Malmesbury is really out there. [1] No main train line, at least a 40 minute drive from the nearest interesting city (Bristol). I can't imagine them attracting the best talent, particularly if they want to duke it out with sexier companies in sexier places in the IoT segment.

They couldn't pay me enough to go back there, and I think anyone worth their time won't either. It's a mistake to build their technology building there and not near London or at least a major city like Bristol/Manchester/Edinburgh. I don't think they realize that really good programmers are worth 10 bad ones (and at least when I was there, they really didn't have the best ones to put it mildly).

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/A7A1v
I interpreted the statement, with "addictive flash games and digital watches", as actually being opposed to the aforementioned programming clergy.

Perhaps they're serious.
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That was my impression coming away from that talk, I don't agree all code is art in the same way that I don't think all forms of expression are art. They can be art, but they certainly are not always art. I also thought it was just another hackneyed way of labeling whatever profession someone is doing as artistic.
I'm not sure if the elites of HN have spent much time among today's average youth, but they certainly aren't learning a common memetic foundation. They barely graduate from high school. And in fact, the average youth are what drag down today's achievers. The achievers are made to feel there's something wrong with them, and that it's a sin against the collective to try to be better than average.

FWIW, I graduated high-school in 1991, which is probably before some posters here were born. And everything you just said was true in 1991 as well. I have a hunch it was true quite some time before that as well.
I think him writing this after what happened accentuates this, as he was writing "angry." That being said, his preconceived notions of Billy are almost as bad as Billy's of "nerds."
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I blame the stop/go/stop/go feeling of US driving more on the grid rather than the lack of roundabouts. 4-way intersections are relatively rare in the UK, most minor road intersections being T-junctions.
The Big Pharma lobby is easily the most powerful lobby in the country. Most other industries have at least part of one party against it. Many (but far from all) democratic politicians are critical of the oil industry, Monsanto, the military industry, finance industry, prison industry, Walmart, etc.

With the pharmaceutical industry, however, there is no such check. To go against Pharma as a Republican is to go against big business. To go against Pharma as a Democrat is to go against "Science." Add millions and millions spent on lobbying and deceptive PR, you have a very powerful lobby.
I don't think you understand. If you join my startup team and spend one weekend working on it and then disappear for a year while everyone else keeps working then you didn't build even 1/2% of the effort. Anyone that thinks a weekend of work can generate 10M of value is delusional. It's better to keep them filtered out of the process from the start.

And just to clarify - if everyone on your team signed away their rights then you would still be free to take your code and do whatever you want with it. You could build the business on your own if you didn't like any of the other teammates.
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There's a lot of begging the question fallacies in this article, the most prominent being that confidence has nothing to do with leadership. Which is nonsense - confidence is a fundamental part of leadership. Leadership is definitely more than confidence (as the second-last paragraph of the article suggests), but this article makes it sound like they're orthogonal traits.

It also moves the goalposts: First up, it says that the best leaders are humble. Then it says that the best leaders, since they don't show this humility (eg Jobs), are not representative of the average manager... so now we're talking about middle managers, not 'best leaders'.

Curiously, the article makes no mention of the Peter Principle - people can be competant, and keep getting promoted until they reach a level where they can no longer perform well. While that doesn't explain the gender difference, it does somewhat answer the article title - something the article doesn't actually do.
From my understanding, I would say "yes." This project is trying to present itself in the same vein as Unikernels which are out to solve a similar problem as Docker but at a different level of abstraction.
Concorde didn't have the range for trans-pacific flights. If you compare its times on very long-range flights with today's flights they're much less impressive than shorter flights: its best JFK-Heathrow is under 3h (2:52:59) to a subsonic ~7h, but its best Heathrow-Sydney is 17h (17:03:45) to a subsonic ~24h.

Concorde had a range of 3900nmi (7200km/4500mi), a 777-200LR has a range of 8500nmi, an A340-500 HGW has a range of 9000nmi
Except having the ads there is the cost for the content you're looking at.
I am pretty sure I have heard each of these phrases verbatim from whichever specialist would have said them at one point or another, especially the auto mechanic one, I've heard that one many times.
This is the part that I have trouble wrapping my head around. If you're adding 40 PB of photos per day, and if you can somehow get say $0.01/GB [1] then that's adding $400,000 per day in storage costs.

Facebook doesn't/can't/won't delete photos so how on earth is this sustainable? After 10-20 years wouldn't hosting costs just be too high to function?

[1] Aaverage cost per GB in 2014 was $0.03: http://www.statisticbrain.com/average-cost-of-hard-drive-sto...
Money is fungible, through progressive taxation those people (unless they are hedge fund managers who pay lower tax than almost everyone else) heavily contribute to the tax base even if it isn't earmarked for roads to the extent gas is.
So to recap:

> women outperform men on emotional intelligence

> a quantitative review of gender differences in personality involving more than 23,000 participants in 26 cultures indicated that women are more sensitive, considerate, and humble than men

Nothing wrong with these. The (helpfully linked!) science backs them up.

> Unsurprisingly, the mythical image of a “leader” embodies many of the characteristics commonly found in personality disorders, such as narcissism (Steve Jobs or Vladimir Putin) , [...]

Hold on. Okay, the listed people may not be perfect, but why do so many people feel it is appropriate to diagnose others with some kind of mental disorder, especially without having examined them in person? Shameful, clickbait-tier stuff.

Oh, and why are those mentioned in an article that brings up gender differences? Are those supposed to claim that women lack disorders? Even if those people did actually have those disorders, is it a good idea to claim that women are better just because one or two men have disorders?

> In fact, most leaders — whether in politics or business — fail.

Doesn't answer the question, because it leaves out men, which the title raised specifically.

> There is now compelling scientific evidence for the notion that women are more likely to adopt more effective leadership strategies than do men.

Great! I'm really happy to hear that! But what does it have to do with men and their incompetence? Surely just because men are slightly less efficient, you wouldn't discard all male leaders? Where are the "incompetent men" here?

> In sum, there is no denying that women’s path to leadership positions is paved with many barriers including a very thick glass ceiling. But a much bigger problem is the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men

So there is a societal problem with women becoming leaders which I'll accept without argument. But why is the "the lack of career obstacles for incompetent men" relevant? Why should we, as a society, make it harder for men or for incompetent people to get jobs?

I don't believe an authoritarian approach to job granting will actually benefit anyone. Why would you try to stop certain people from getting jobs? Why not make it easier for other kinds of people to get jobs instead? And I have to raise the argument (as mine would not be complete without it), why not just allow people to act on their own merit and decide who is the best leader based on what they do?

The article stirs up a controversy (or whatever) but doesn't leave the reader with any actionable suggestions. Perhaps reevaluating managers more seriously for more accurate metrics could be a good idea! The author implies that we should learn to counter "our inability to discern between confidence and competence"... and I agree with that! It was simply not stated directly.

But it has nothing to do with men or women. It should be about making things more fair. Which actually has nothing to do with gender, in this case. Learning how to tell good leadership from a good show really doesn't have to do with gender.

I appreciate replies or direct emails. Fire away.
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Perhaps men also should be learning leadership traits from women. If you're male and competitive, consider that the male leadership traits are easily found in your peers; the female ones could give you a big advantage - if you dare.

(I'm greatly simplifying by categorizing some traits as 'male' or 'female'. To the extent there is a difference, I expect much of it is socialized. In many ways I suspect the difference is due to the expectations of the beholder.)
12 years ago, I was working on a PHP library to parse XMLRPC requests, and I ran into it's numeric type slipperiness in a painful way. I was (naively) using PHP's eval to parse a decimal numeric string.

I noticed what seemed like random numeric errors in a random subset of RPCs. It turned out, after what seemed like eons of investigation, that some clients were stringifying decimal integers with leading zeros, which made PHP interpret them as octal numbers, and hence the random seeming errors.

Having come from a strongly-typed-language background (C/C++/Java), that was a major learning experience about the caveats of weakly typed languages.
Nice! Looking at the code, it seems that it's a very old version of OpenSeadragon, back when it was just called Seadragon. It's still looking good, so perhaps they've been adding their own extensions to it.

Thanks for pointing to it!
iPhones and the internet seem to chiefly facilitate communication, with a subsection of functionality dedicated to computing.
Global entry is easy to get and cheap compared to the cost of concorde travel.
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I personally think Peter wasn't cut out out for the role of software engineer. He seemed lazy and not driven.
I don't think it has much bearing on the reaction to bringing the clock to his school, but man it really bothered me when I saw a picture of it - who adds a 9v connector like that to what would almost certainly be a first or second shot at an electronics project? (If it were only powered by 9v, like a small headphone amp, sure, but who's that concerned with backup power on a learning project?)
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FYI, I believe it is possible to use OpenSeadragon on the front-end and IIPImage on the backend, since they both support IIIF.
I believe it is because the vehicle is very aerodynamically unstable. When you ride a normal upright bike, it will fall over unless you actively spend a little effort balancing it. Here is a video of a crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Dapy1xUq0 Note how it wobbles to the right when he pushes the right pedal, then to the left when the left pedal is pushed.
More than mandatory release, we need to:

1) Have full transparency of the placebos being used. Many studies that are published don't fully disclose the placebo being used. Full release should really mean full release.

2) Movement way from the for-profit journal system to a not-for-profit system, to prevent obvious conflicts of interest. Full release means nothing if the means in which information travels is biased.

3) Reining in the benefits pharmaceutical companies can give researchers and doctors. A number of studies have shown even the smallest of gifts can change a doctor's propensity to prescribe a specific drug. Surprisingly this can be as powerful as a journal article.

4) Passing real legislation to reduce the revolving door between the FDA and the rest of the medical industry to prevent a number of other problems.
> you need that underlying representation back again.

But that's kind of a problem: while the underlying representations might be perfectly compatible, and you might know that for sure, that is not at all guaranteed. If you have a function that takes (int, int, int, int) instead of (Point1, Point1), Point1 = (int, int), that would not help you very much when Point2 = (int32, int32) (e.g., sometimes libraries make assumptions about internal representations, sometimes they don't).

Using low-level primitives everywhere like that can be a very misleading kind of simplicity - it might disappear. That C++ makes you reckon with the possibility that Point1 /= Point2 is supposed to tell you something about what you can know for sure about those types.
> Statistically by any measure, men are and always will be better leaders than women.

Unfortunately for your argument, the science that is very helpfully linked in the article claims otherwise. You're welcome to counter it with other studies, but they're pretty solid.

> This generalization has nothing to do with the fact that there are totally incompetent leaders regardless of their gender. they often rise based on their desire and windfall rather than skill or competence.

This part, however, is very true, and I agree with it. The article describes how this is more useful to men than for women... and instead of simply stating "we need more females as managers!" we should find ways to better evaluate managers by rigorous, scientific standards.
Numerically, yes. I aspire to be something more, however.
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Or you could have just installed a Bitnami image until you're willing to jump through all the hoops necessary to get many multiple moving pieces to work together happily.

Ops is hard dude. Sorry about that.

https://wiki.bitnami.com/Applications/BitNami_Discourse
When you buy stuff in a store, the items remain the property of the store until you pay. If you take them without paying then you're stealing. This is firmly enshrined in both morality and law.

When you view something with ads, they send you the stuff first, on the hope or assumption that you will later view the ads. No property changes hands at any time.
Yeah, you're right. I had the maps right, but name wrong.
I think it's more gender-biased, in that incompetence is overlooked in areas where we expect one gender to have better skills. If a man fucks up changing a nappy, "well, he's just a man". If a woman fucks up changing a tyre, "well, she's just a woman".

When it comes to leadership, we haven't allowed women to be visible leaders for very long; there is still cultural baggage suggesting it as a male area.
Hence setting the speed record!
Weight, air flow for rider, friction, even more arodynamic profile, ergonomics, better fit for rider. I suspect a better bike might get you 10% more speed, but each 1% is going to keep getting exponentially harder.
Sassafrass isn't restricted because of cancer risk, it's restricted because it can be used as a precursor to MDMA (ecstasy).
Careful! I've seen proxies (TracFone I think) subtly modify JSON files by removing whitespace, probably in the name of download speed. That will break the hashing.

If you start seeing unexplained errors on pay-as-you-go phones, you'll know why; although if this facility gains popularity then I'm sure they'll be pressured to stop modifying content.
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Just remember the sonic boom thing was more of a political problem than anything else.

If say the US had come up with something else than just a wooden supersonic airliner (Boeing 2707), I guess swallowing the supersonic pill would have been easier.

Plus realistically, it's not like military planes are not allowed to fly supersonic over their own countries. Really, solutions, routes, compromises could have been found, it's just no one had the guts to.

When British Airways retired one of its Concorde to Seattle, it flew from New York / JFK to Seattle, it flew supersonic over Canada. Flight time: 3 hours and 55 minutes. Regular flight time is more like 5h30. Supersonic all the way would have been even quicker...
Though I recently found out you can get it at a bourgie EV restaurant, I regularly frequent a joint in Brooklyn that will make kibbe naya (Lebanese lamb tartare, essentially.) You have to call ahead and you have to know the guy. It was the same way when I lived in Sydney. A few joints had it but it was technically against health code.

When I get it at my BK joint the owner will sit down at the table and eat it with us. And he generally makes so much that it's essentially all you can eat.
Windows was selling well while OS/2 sales were, to quote Gates, "dismal", and Microsoft couldn't afford to support a failing project. (IBM may have had more programmers on OS/2 than Microsoft had programmers.)

Thanks to hiring Dave Cutler and staff from DEC, Microsoft could see a way out. However, IBM rejected the plan to move to NT as OS/2 3.0, and the two companies formally divorced. After that, IBM did its best to kill Microsoft. (One IBM senior manager told me: "We're going to burn Bill's butt.")

Bear in mind that in 1990, when Windows 3 came out, IBM had an annual turnover of $69 billion and Microsoft's turnover was $0.8 billion. It was a giant monopolist against a tiny start-up.

So, given the context, what was underhand about Microsoft's behavior, and what should it have done?

How did IBM's 1991 development of Workplace OS for PowerPC -- intended to cut both Microsoft and Intel out of the PC market -- fit into the strategy?
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> (unless they are hedge fund managers who pay lower tax than almost everyone else)

Everyone whose income is largely derived through long-term capital gains does this, really; hedge-fund managers just happen to be people who seem like they are working for someone else but manage to get paid for that work in a way that gets them taxed like capitalists.

(Which might explain while a few notable actual major capitalists -- who don't favor general reform of taxation on capital -- have come out in favor of reforms that would tax hedge-fund manager earnings like normal income.)
Are post-9/11 security times really longer? Security screening actually seems pretty efficient (i.e. quick) to me. Even before 9/11 we had baggage x-ray and passenger metal detection. These measures were introduced in December 1972.
The last line is really true with regards to happiness. Unfortunately, you have to be in the right place, mentally, in order to really appreciate it.

You can take it to mean: I'll be happy where I am, or I'm happy making these changes to get to whatever. Whichever helps right now is ok.

But, to me, the key to happiness in being happy in the now. Not the tomorrow. Not the yesterday. One hack that makes this easier is to be more thankful.

Anyway, you should probably be taking vitamin D supplements (especially if you are pigmented). Definitely helped me.
You can 'decide' to be happy, but you give youself a better chance if you aren't chemically at the correct balance.
reminds me of "0-0-0-0".
Before the rule was added that castling was a 'row move',
you could promote an e-pawn to a rook and than castle superlong by moving the king from e1 to e3 (and the rook to e2).
This oversight in the rules was later corrected.