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So who would buy electronics that would destroy itself if you analyzed certain software?
I have tried it many times, I wanted to switch several times to Linux, I even bought a laptop suitable for Linux, but shortly after got a macbook.

I find that Darktable is in no way a good competitor for Lightroom. The image processing quality seems to lack, speed lacks, file support is not always good. It looks like a nice clone, but apart from the looks it has to work well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4831363
Hey mahmud! Thanks! :)
tldr; Diversity and Equality are not the main starting points nor goal of Women-in-Tech. Increasing women's role in tech helps improve diversity/equality, but is not the real mission of Women-in-Tech. Diversity/Equality is a (side) effect, and not the cause, of the Women-in-Tech movement.

I think there's a tendency for Women-in-Tech PR to equate Diversity/Equality with Women-in-Tech, when in fact, Women-in-Tech is supposed to advance, well, Women in the tech sector, and not Equality/Diversity in general. The 2 are Not the same thing, although they are often claimed to be basically the same for PR reasons.

It's getting so severe that even the author is "shocked" that Women-in-Tech events are less than diverse. She shouldn't be surprised--the fact that she was surprised, indicates she's bought into the whole "Women-in-Tech's mission is for workplace Equality" idea, which is false.

To be clear, I think Women-in-Tech is a noble cause, and I am all for supporting it. But please stop claiming that Women-in-Tech "is for diversity"--it is for advancing women's role in tech. To be clear, I think in and of itself this is great because I'd love to see more women in the tech industry. But we should stop claiming that the mission of the movement is for "diversity", because "diversity" is not what drives the women-in-tech movement, and is not it's main goal. The main goal is to increase women's role, and not "diversity/equality" in general. If the movement's main goal was purely "diversity/equality", then it wouldn't be called "Women-in-Tech"--there are other misrepresented groups that are much more in urgent need of equal representation, that the movement would have focused on first if Diversity and Equality were the main motivators.

I also agree with the author's photo of an all-white panel as being pretty funny :) It reminds me of the cast of Friends. Saying that the cast of Friends is "Diverse" or "Equal" would be kind of ridiculous.
I found this sentence funny "Representatives of Red Hat and Ansible did not immediately respond to requests for comment". I take it to mean: "we wanted to run the story as quickly as possible; still it would have been nice to get superquick comments by RH or Ansible; tough luck, though."
Indeed, people even offer explanations when tricked into believing they had chosen the opposite outcome to the one they actually picked [1].

[1] http://researchgate.net/publication/6745688

> participants fail to notice mismatches between their intended choice and the outcome they are presented with, while nevertheless offering introspectively derived reasons for why they chose the way they did
The display:table css properties are exactly equivalent to the display model of html tables. They were specified in CSS2 which became a recommendation in 1998, which is 17 years ago (!).

But due to the IE6 dominance and abandonment it took many years before this part of css was broadly supported by browsers, so developers had to either use html tables (even when not semantically appropriate) or use hacks like floats (which was not designed for this) to achieve a table-like layout. So the age of hack was due to browsers not supporting css, not to to deficiencies in css as such.

That said, html tables never displayed identically across browsers before css. There were lots of corner cases e.g. with the interaction of fixed and flexible columns. Which is not really surprising since the display model for tables were never specified in the first place before css.
Snowpiercer is adapted from a French graphic novel written in 1982, so the copying may be the other way round (I've not seen/read any of them so can't comment persoanlly).
Lots of people. Lots of people also buy electronics that have such poor-quality electrolytic capacitors that they will self-destroy in five years, even if rest of the device lasts much longer.
I love Lightroom but holy hell is it slow these days!
He is an epidemiologist.
I would have expected haematologists, chemical pathologists, cytopathologists, clinical biochemists, histopathologists and other relevant specialists on the board.

At the moment, there is just a trophy, retired epidemiologist.
The art is to distinguish between gimmicks and effective team building. I believe regular lunch together is great. Having a day-long team building event not so much. Watching a movie together is nearly useless because there is little interaction.

I think the important aspect is for people to interact in different contexts. Lunch is already different to the usual office context. Playing games is great in general (board games, paintball, rpg, team sports, whatever).
The main problem of social science like history or economy is that they are political shaped sciences. Both pick those pattern that fit into their world view, to form a religion like truth of how the world worked. And state payed historian or economic scientist will normally preach the view of their system.

I did not have time for this year Riksbanks Rris, but e.g. in 2013 we saw a typical price " should discard its mathematical pretensions " and better just tell its political agenda straight. Instead they used a positivistic computer simulation, which basically means: I have a row of theories (CAPM, OPT, EHM, ...) that have several unknowns and I tweak their parameters till simulation shows the results that I want to show.
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Are you implying it's worth more or less?

Or not implying anything but hoping someone here has an answer or analysis?
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Interesting story. There's a later article [1] that describes the problems that the Google car has with assertiveness at junctions.

[1]: http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/a_cyclists_encounter_w...
Anecdotal, but I would say in my experience its true. The jocks who got the gals in my teen youth have grown up to be quite the social misfits - jail time, drug abuse, kicked out of homes. This is a total generalization but its been a long-standing one: "nice guys finish last" .. etc.
Brian Hayes wrote a nice article about this a few months ago in American Scientist [1] and also wrote a little JS demo to tinker with linked from here [2].

1. http://www.americanscientist.org/libraries/documents/2015617...

2. http://bit-player.org/2015/traffic-jams-in-javascript
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I find the same thing. For example, the funniest movie I've ever seen is "Freddy Got Fingered". This is currently rated 11% on Rotten Tomatoes. And the most boring movie I've seen is "Lost In Translation", which is rated 95% there. In both cases I watched them because I liked the lead actor's previous work, and that's had a better success rate than trusting reviews.
Well, they tried an ironic "tongue-in-cheek" title, let's not burn them.
>There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces

Less than 10 for every language using nastaleek script.
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A further step in this direction would be a git-style dependency graph of influential books, showing how authors were inspired by each other to "fork" and improve ideas.
Wow, that's incredible. That's really really bad.
Budget and Auxiliaries alum here.

B&A is a boring-sounding organization which is the primary income sheet profit-center, which rakes in slightly more than tuition; SMC is balance sheet (aka investment) management.

Stanford is unlike most other universities in the fact that there is no pretense of firewalling business opportunity development from academic research. I think this pushes away some pure-research, money-is-evil people and attracts more entrepreneurial folks.
Adept: An ansible alternative for the rest of us
It would be nice if my Desktop environment were exportable into some kind of standardized file so I could customize a new Windows box completely with a single installer.
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Why do you have to keep your pets groomed?
What looks like icon based UI without text combined with monthly fee for using the device. Doesn't sound too good.

For devs it looks like they could get share of the monthly fees, but can't have advertisements or in-app purchases. So somekind of Spotify for devs? Doesn't sound appealing at all.

Props for trying something new, but I have really hard time of seeing this take off.
I love RT, but I think people misinterpret the percentage. It doesn't mean that the film was 95% 'good', it means there was a 95% chance you'd like the film and a 5% chance you'd dislike it based on a sampling of professional reviews.

Something to bear in mind is that a slight above mediocre film can have a 100% rating if it has wide appeal.
Hi - yep, data came from Google Maps API, as linked below
Get acquainted with the magic of public key cryptography code signing.
Btw., even the Wikipedia article contains a nice explanation of what I'm talking about (and, yes, I'm of the Landau-Kapitsa-Okun school of thought, naturally): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_special_relativity#Con...
This clearly is much more about Tower, consultancy, etc, than their main product, but their yaml encoded language is an abomination; masquerading as 'declarative' and easy to read, yet piling on loops and conditional statements and an unintuitive inheritance tree of global and local variables.
French. I have no patience for such an endeavour.
The fear of not having the best people speaking at a conference might have some merit if the people speaking at most conferences today were actually the best people. They are usually not. The best people speak at very few conferences because they are busy working.
So this could explain why his very active github activities suddenly stopped early 2015, I just presumed it was due to consciously allocating more time for management and leadership.

His github contributions rate and depth for ansible while still the CEO in y2014 has been a great inspiration for me.
Well, I guess Al-Jazeera is also a "very poor example" for you? Could you provide a good example then?
True... the data came from Google Maps API and so maybe be a little incomplete compared to what's actually on the street at this moment
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Finding people that rate in the same way as you is an interesting concept at https://www.mov3y.com
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Well, that's too amazing to be true - as part of my preparation I started reading "The Art of Unit Testing" just a couple days ago (not that I did not write tests before, but got a suggestion that the book will help me better understand dependency injection, inversion of control etc.)
for me personally, IMDB works damn well for almost all movies (except family/sport stuff which ain't my cup of tea). probably the attitude "I am above all the stupid masses" tells a bit about you...

hollywood "classics" that have rating around 6.2 are mostly piece of cr*p IMHO, unwatchable/boring these days except if you have some strong bias towards it due to special childhood memories or something. the true classics, be it from 40s, 50s or 60s (that are in top 250 for example) are damn fine movies that stood the test of time with flying flags. only last week I found my way& time to watch Citizen Kane. what a movie and performance! Too bad Wells didn't get well deserved regognition in US for his work, that's US public voting with their cash at their worst...
> If Apple can update OS on their phones it's not by some magical power that nobody else can possible posses.

Yeah, it's only signed by cryptographic keys that nobody else is likely to ever possess.

You "only" need to put in a new Boot ROM with your own key ("When an iOS device is turned on, its application processor immediately executes code from read-only memory known as the Boot ROM. [...] The Boot ROM code contains the Apple Root CA public key, which is used to verify that the Low-Level Bootloader (LLB) is signed by Apple before allowing it to load." https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf) AFAICT this ROM is probably deeply integrated into the CPU, so hopefully you have some really precise tools and/or plan to make your own replacement CPU as well.
I was a little disappointed that article was about a pilot flying a plane from the ground and not about a plane that flew itself.

Having a human in the loop does bring to mind some fun possibilities though. Imagine one pilot managing several planes at once only interceding at times too out of the norm for the autopilot. Or perhaps imagine a network of Uber pilots all over the world managing planes in their spare time (1).

Either way unmanned aircraft certainly would have made Castaway a much different movie (2).

(1) Whimsy not position.

(2) Two hours of a camera-shot of an empty beach.
If you expand capacity in one mode but hold the other ones steady, you're still running into Braess' paradox. It doesn't matter that there is more bus capacity if people were tolerating the existing car congestion before. People will not switch until the roads are jam-packed.

The paradox still applies when we consider the Tokyo rail network. There's lots of rail in Tokyo - it transports most of the commuters. Major lines are quite literally packed during rush hour. [0] Adding more rail will make the system even more popular, so the problem won't get better.

OTOH consider congestion charges. When interviewed[1], individuals do not believe they were significantly affected by the introduction of a charge, even though overall traffic levels go down substantially, by one fifth in the example used of Stockholm.

What we are changing when we change capacities is not speed or comfort, but a preference for what kind of congestion we get and how cheaply it will be filled. If our only goal is congestion reduction we should not be looking at the roads at all.

The San Francisco area has plenty of car traffic, but more recently, within the past decade or so, the public transit has become extremely popular. This is not because the transit has gotten substantially better by quality or speed metrics. It is because the population is making more trips and longer ones, and the public transit systems were the last resort for capacity. Demand for new trips is in turn caused by available housing being located distantly from workplaces. If newcomers were able to live where they worked, congestion would drop significantly.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRBLnth4oSg
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC33HAq--x8
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I can tell we're aligned regarding CSS architecture - and also regarding Angular. :)

The style guide you linked is very clear and concise in explaining why BEM is great without being a panacea - it's ugly, but it's simple, predictable and solves many of the issues which arise with CSS nature (e.g. everything in CSS is global). I also liked the emphasis on having BEM as a naming convention, no more.

Regarding how you introduce BEM, I would only:

* Reinforce the idea that a BEM compliant worflow would typically allow developers to change mark-up without having to look up stylesheets and vice-versa;

* Reinforce how much it would typically reduce side-effects!

I'd also give a few words on the topic of using the preprocessor (mixins, extends and, obviously, variables) to achieve DRYness.

* My argument to my team was to have readable semantic and obvious classnames (without style references in the name, e.g. no .blue-widget) which are "composed" via SASS (and SASS constructs might have style references in the name e.g. my-button @extends %blue-button);

* The other argument, and the one I actually believe `philosophically is that this allows you transfer the object-composition duty from the browser to the build process. It just makes sense to me: why have thousands of clients composing styles (e.g. button class="btn btn-lg btn-primary") when this is predictable ahead-of-time (button class="my-btn", where .my-btn = @make-btn(lg, primary)). This gives you performance and, as I said above, the possibility to have readable class names - I don't exactly know what "btn btn-lg btn-primary" might be, but "btn-login" is quite obvious.

In your contributing guidelines I noticed you have @extends with classes (e.g. @extend .mint-list). I use placeholders instead of classes to avoid side effects which are difficult to predict (even more so when you have a team with different levels of expertise). Here's why: http://csswizardry.com/2014/01/extending-silent-classes-in-s....

I'd also reinforce the notion - as less experienced developers do this quite often - of the different concerns of HTML (structure) and CSS (style). Newcomers to HTML seem to believe that HTML is a GUI mark-up language and, ergo, it shouldn't be problematic to use it as a presentational layer. As a practical example, "newcomers" usually have HTML elements only for presentational purposes, such as <div class="shadow"> or a list item used as a divider between other list items. I usually spend a few minutes of my time explaining how to avoid this using e.g. :before and/or :after.
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Thanks, that is a good question to ask in the interview. I will. One of the reasons may be that I have experience in the particular field, and also worked for a competitor in my previous position a few years ago.
Have you tried Google's Noto Nastaliq?

https://www.google.com/get/noto/#nastaliq-aran
For French people I highly advise http://www.senscritique.com

You can follow people who have the same taste of you in movies and then site shows you the rating according to these people (plus a global rating based on the whole community)
I had a similar experience. I had tried to find a decent set of tools for working with my images, and I was not along [1].

At some point I caved in and downloaded the LR trial, and it was clear that they had put a lot of effort into making it easy to do your workflow. And having the import/culling, undestructive basic editing, and library functionality in one tool won me over.

[1]: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=7513.0
Let me use an analogy to try and explain what I mean.

If some of the best sprinters in the world managed to sprint 100m in 8.5 seconds, I wouldn't be surprised that they managed to to that. But I would still find it impressive. I would not be like, "Who gives a shit? They are athletes. That's what you should have expected."
Jut to put you rant in context, the CSS color names were not decided by CSS, they were adopted from presentational HTML.

The initial stage of CSS was to provide an alternative to presentational HTML (font tags, bgcolor attribute etc.) by supporting at least the equal presentational power in a style sheet language. Since HTML already had color names, CSS also needed them in order to allow easy porting of style information from HTML to CSS.
I generally use this settings when looking for a movie on movieo.me: http://imgur.com/X4xsXaX. When I'm extra bored, lazy or uninspired and just want some mindless entertainment, I might filter by movies with decent (70+) IMDB ratings, and allow lower RT and Metacritic scores, although I have regretted this a number of times.
Yay, someone with the sophistication required is working on this! As I've been thinking for a few years, intelligence is more about absorbing pattern from the world than it is about the deliberate process of constructing pattern from scratch within the system. It's is better to create a space where the pattern of the world can live, subject to some measure of objective utility, than it is to deduce some pattern from scratch using that same objective function.

God I would love to work in this field.
It would be kind of neat to extend semantic search and social graphing to older works - really neat to see how different minds' work interweaves throughout history.
To me "did not immediately respond to requests for comment" smacks of neediness and self importance on the reporter's part (answer me now, you fools, don't you know who I am and what power I behold?!) and the people that would respond to such comments being in the middle of dealing with something more important at the time (perhaps answering a queue of queries that came in first, or queries from people who are more important to their world view). If I were RedHat or Ansible and read that sentence the reporter and/or outlet would be added to a "never respond to these people for at least 24 hours" list...
Posted at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976385.
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Since when are SV tech companies restricted to hiring from California?
the idea that economics is only a social science

That's exactly how I see it. And the only way to put science into “social science” is the proper application of statistics. Kurt Tucholsky's observation that sociology was invented so people could write without experience is still true today.
Your usage of the phrase "crass anti-intellectualism" is far more absolute, dismissive, and disparaging than anything the parent said.
Do you have any links to back up your claim about sweden and denmark? I live and work in Sweden and my view is that there is great many small companies here.
Thanks a lot. I'm sure I read the book a few years ago ... will have closer look to make sure I'm not confusing it with "The Pragmatic Programmer".
The weaker question "do you have an example of a situation in which adding a wire to a circuit decreases the total current?" is easy to answer positively. Adding a wire sometimes decreases total current.
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I was using ansible with packer https://www.packer.io/ to build AMIs (Amazon Machine Images). I'm spending a lot more time with docker these days though.

I see Ansible as primarily an orchestration tool.
This article brings to mind a noteworthy sentence from one of my favourite short stories:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

In 2047, Frank was in prison, not for pirate reading, but for possessing a debugger.

The more reality seems to inch toward the society of that story, the more I'm convinced that we should choose the side of freedom, even if it means giving up a little temporary security (to paraphase that famous quote.)
Ah, I guess the signed bootloader is the 100% protection. Too bad PS3 did not have one, right?
If you care about hackability, you can buy a completely open hardware development board for under $100 delivered. That's roughly $45 in 1985 US dollars.

Android device makers from China maybe haven't been told about their own inability to pump out clones. Somebody should let them know.

A VM instance from Digital Ocean costs $5/month. Go buy a dozen, and install Xenix on all of them.

All your platforms up to about 1995 have emulators that run on your phone, completely opensource, and gratis.

The devices are locked down, because the cost of unreliability can easily exceed the cost of the device, many times over, and the single biggest point of failure are trojan horses & operator errors.
The appropriate line for online publication is "We reached out to both x and y for comment and will update this article with any responses we receive."
I have internet and everything, and just sleep 9h normally. When camping, I just go to bed earlier and wake up earlier.