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I like her, it seems like women in technology are divided.

on the one side you have the Randi Harper style bridage of ladies pushing for "Women in tech" which means treating women better than others and promoting women above men in cases where there is any choice (even if a man has better experience)

on the other side you have people like the author, and my old networking engineer colleague (who happened to be female) who are happy to be judged on their work!

I've said before that the concept of women in tech scares me (and been downvoted), not because women are better or worse- but because all I see from women in tech (the vocal minority) seem to be so shouty, so aggressive and so blind to the hypocrisy that I'm worried that any woman I hire -might- push people around (because they would automatically have an audience and there is a stigma that "the man" is doing something misogynistic)

I wish my only experience of females in technology was my previous network engineer, she did a good job, was promoted because of it, nobody had any issues with her gender, we never pandered to it and she never asked us to. It's not like people made sexual jokes .. ever, most jokes are about computers.. and it's definitely not like having a vagina makes you stupid around computers.

I wish the women who were pushing "WOMEN IN TECH" so adamantly would actually go to work in technology, instead of trying to make others do it.
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Good grief. Why did this author try to turn it into a woman thing? I've seen a lot of people agreeing with Sarah that the environment was toxic and rude. Most of these people were men.
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That's an offensively trite and simplified viewpoint on a very complicated and heartbreaking topic.
haha, one of my colleagues used to do it. somehow his phone number ended up on these lists and he used to get 2-3 calls a month, at work. Everytime he got a call he would ask us to be quiet (we have an open office) and then the fun would start - this colleague was so good in playing dumb, it was super entertaining. One day he got tired and asked the scammer if he would like to learn programming and that he was willing to teach if he wanted to learn. Nothing much came out of it but the calls stopped after that. Fun times.
I'm suspicious. Google doesn't turn up a "Francesca V" as a kernel developer (only a Francesca A.) outside this post. Can anyone confirm or deny?
One option I've been meaning to look, but haven't had a reason to because of LastPass is Encryptr [https://encryptr.org/], but now I might need to. They have Android and Linux support, but not browser plugin I think. Also, it comes from the same people as SpiderOak...
Price was $110M + $15M in contingency payments.

From the LogMeIn investor release[1]

Under the terms of the transaction, LogMeIn will pay $110 million in cash upon close for all outstanding equity interests in LastPass, with up to an additional $15 million in cash payable in contingent payments which are expected to be paid to equity holders and key employees of LastPass upon the achievement of certain milestone and retention targets over the two-year period following the closing of the transaction.

1. https://investor.logmeininc.com/about-us/investors/news/pres...
And they are calls from foreigners, to boot. They may not even need to ask the secret courts for permission to record those.

Even the metadata, which they definitely collect, would be very useful.
"The Jamaican lottery scam is a cruel, persistent and sophisticated scam that has victimized seniors throughout the nation"

What's so sophisticated about it? Honest question. Seems like the oldest trick in the book, as primitive and crude as scams only get. One that couldn't possibly work against anyone but most senile people. It's a sad story, I'm just missing the "sophistication" element.
Because a blunt, rude, & brutal response to the observation that the community around the kernel is blunt, rude, & brutal is obviously the way to go...
Then my followup question would be: why do we actually need trading to be faster than the regular internet allows? For the objects being traded (companies) have time-constants that are far greater than the millisecond-range. And I hope the answer is not "because everybody else does it" :)
So I as a user put up with all that loading of resources, because I don't have the time and money (resources) to set up my own version of the web. And because I consume a lot of content I don't otherwise pay for.

To pretend that the infrastructure that allows companies to pay for the content I want to consume is incidental to the true purpose of the web (text documents??) is pretty narrow.
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I concede it is possible someone might write a reasoned and balanced response to Sarah Sharp's blog post. This is not that response. It's lost all credibility by the first paragraph, and only serves to reinforce Sarah's original point about the unnecessary rudeness on the kernel mailing list.

OTOH, was is interesting about this email is that it was posted on Wed, 24 Jul 2013, and Sarah's blog post was posted on Oct 2015. So I don't really understand was the motivation for posting this to HN is (shit stirring?) or what motivated the linked email.
The Justice Department is already requiring warrants for federal agents using stingrays. That decision didn't affect local/state departments, but AFAICT everything in California is covered under one or the other now.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/justi...
I'm having trouble seeing past the ad hominem attacks:

"She's a bully. She bullies her husband."

"I couldn't be silent and stand by while Sarah bullied and
assaulted this list with her profanity and self-indulgent narcissism."

... and Linus worshiping:
"I know he's a big boy. But dare I say, Linus is too nice to tell this
drama queen to bugger off."

"To Linus: You're a hero to many of us. Don't change. Please."
Lost you. Large fossil fuel power stations are undeniably more efficient (cheaper) than the alternatives. Renewables are not competitive at all, yet.
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I don't follow Linux development at all, so I have a hard time judging who's in the right here and who's to blame.

Somebody on Slashdot apparently found the relevant part of the archives where it all started [1]. After reading those posts, I feel like Sarah's reaction is comically overblown.

http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8123533&cid=506646...
This is in Brazil so, sorry for the Portuguese. I've worked there and this is a very sad news...

Here is the google translated version : https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev...

I think this is relevant so here is the info, Monsanto 2 days ago closed a company in Brazil that they bought some 8 years ago for close to 300 million, the company was the country leading genetic genetic improvement research group, with close to 250 scientist, they did all kinds of researches in the field and launched several new varieties both classic genetic selection and GMOS.

It was the best place I've ever worked, so many smart people... close to 250 people. The research from what I've heard is going to the garbage as well.

Very sad times for agriculture research here.
Startup costs are a few thousand a month. The firm I worked at has never had more than 3 people and was started by one nerd working out of his flat. You can spend a lot more if you want to do proper latency arb rather than price improvements, but bootstrapping your way to that point is hardly impossible.

I run algo strategies myself - not HFT - and my monthly trading costs are less than my monthly beer costs. Capital invested is perhaps 1-2 years savings for any software engineer (e.g., my best recent trade was dropping $40k on SPY when it was at $190, it's now at $201.66).
" how do they know the relationship of the victims"

Probably they don't. If the victim says "but I don't have a son" they just hang-up. Scattershot approach, not targeted.
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(2013)
As you get older, you lose some discrimination ability.
The next post says:

"I don't know if you're for real but if you are, you just hit the nail on
the head!

I only wish this would've come earlier and put a timely end to this
kindergarten bullshit."

Man do these people love them some drama.
You're not blind, I can't find it either.

And I've already got spider sense tingles about them... lack of SSL cert for a security company? No pricing info? No "About Company"?
Because it's an obvious troll post.
Needs (2013) in the title.

More recent events ("3 days ago") discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338094

"Linux kernel dev Sarah Sharp quits"

and here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10331891
Why would they need to know? The could just call people (of a suitable age? I don't know if Indonesia has an accessibly census + phone database) and hope for a hit.
And since "exit" has come to mean 50%+ chance that customers will be screwed over it also means that in the future having a decentralized product will be KEY to actually get investor money - there's only so many times this get-customers-screw-customers round-about can spin before it gets uninteresting from a capital gain standpoint.
>Of course they wouldn't; its the relatives of all those who could not afford the drug and died who would be all-in for this!

We don't have that problem in the Netherlands so maybe that is what requires fixing. Here, if a drug is too expensive, nobody has access to it (only the ultra rich perhaps) and that creates an incentive to keep drugs affordable to certain extent.

Again I'm not saying the current system is optimal but cancelling the right to monetize your inventions at least until your investment has been earned back seems nothing but reasonable to me.
There's something hollow about this kind of art. It's too much of the intellect. I prefer the writing of someone like Cormac McCarthy - done with real craftsmanship and exploring the moral dimensions of life through plain storytelling, with feeling.
BA/MA in Chinese studies here. I greatly admire China's accomplishments, starting back around 1,000 BC :)

China today is on a trajectory of becoming the premier world technological power, simply based on its tremendous energy and drive and respect for learning.

The U.S. and Europe are in decline, by comparison. The U.S. in particular is relying heavily on Chinese and other foreign students to keep its science, math, and engineering graduate programs going. The native U.S. population is lazy and unmotivated by comparison.

And tellingly, increasing numbers of Chinese grads are returning to China to work rather than seeking citizenship in the U.S. Even non-Chinese are flocking to China to start up technology companies, something unheard of a generation or two back.

I too hope this doesn't turn into some kind of cold war.
Well looks like I'm going to have to convince, my wife, family, extended family, and friends that they all have to switch password managers now.

I'm blown away, I've been a fan since day one because of it's simplicity and availability.

I am torn between waiting to see what happens and giving them the benefit of the doubt and just changing all my passwords before Logmein can f--- me.
Since this is from 2013 apparently, can we get the year added to the header please?
The author put "front-running" in scare quotes for a reason. See footnote 6, where he explains he's using the term in the Michael Lewis/IEX sense.
Every time I hear this, I think "Be a man!" : https://youtu.be/-qtrAMK7_Qk
Note the date: 2013. This isn't a response to the blog post at all. Seems to have been part of the initial conversation or shortly after.
The last mile is not necessarily evil pawn shops - a lot of countries license money transmitters and impose "know your customers" rules on them, which relate to money laundering laws and various other legislature.

Large incumbent operators (Western Union, Moneygram, banks) have compliance departments and operate at scale, a new entrant with limited transaction volume would have to grow fast just to cover the compliance costs.
Is fingerprint reading within the scope of what OpenGroup is trying to do? POSIX doesn't specify whether you should make a web page with CSS2 or CSS3 either.
> I wish the women who were pushing "WOMEN IN TECH" so adamantly would actually go to work in technology, instead of trying to make others do it.

All of the prominent ones I'm aware of either do or did work in tech.
My father, from whom I'm mostly estranged and who doesn't live in the same country as I, has given over $100K to Nigerian scammers. They hooked him on a Christian dating site. It's incredibly angering to watch all of this.
Not only that, but you'll lose your best people, since they're the ones who can get another job. The ones who struggle to get a job will be the ones who leave.

Regardless, firing 20% will be probably make the best look around anyway.
It has. Go visit Amish country. Or come out west where people still ride horses around the small towns.
had million of users judging by the announcement comments
*Free version can store upto 20 items only. Price for Life-time Pro ver is $9.99 per platform with no other server or subscription charges.

http://enpass.io/apps/android/

So for me that is $20 for iPad and Android BUT my iPad is a company product that is likely to switch on me shorty with an upgrade.

So this might not work if it is $20 per platform per personal and business use.
Once the relatives get wind of this, there is a simple solution. Get a new phone number for the person in question. And even more critical don't cancel the old one.

Put an answering machine on the old one, and have a "safe" relative check it every other day or so. Give the new phone number to family and friends.

After a few weeks of getting nothing but answering machine messages, the scammers will go away.

If the old number has been cancelled, the scammers know you're on to them. And look for the new number. If the old number still works, they won't look for a new number. Mostly.
I missed the announcement of cross-account access. This seems great, thanks!

STUPS looks interesting. What scares me a bit about these suites that provide many abstractions on top of AWS is how they work in mixed environments where some resources have been set up and are managed out-of-band. I understand that the purpose of STUPS for example is to provide a higher-level interface to AWS, and that having many AWS accounts avoids these mixed environments.

Perhaps it's just me suffering from analysis paralysis. I kind of want there to be one or two leading suites of AWS PaaS tools to choose from, whereas the market today seems fragmented with new tools popping up all the time. For the moment I'm betting on HashiCorp. :)
You have an uncanny ability to write a lot of words that collectively mean nothing. Are you saying its WeB-Scale? Did you wear a hipster had while posting this?
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Agreed. Matt Levine is one of the few commentators that fully understands market microstructure. The Bloomberg View linked in a different comment (by John Arnold) is horrible with terminology, though.
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If Your Wi-Fi Is Terrible, Check Your Router
I don't use Windows and that exploit isn't relevant to my use-case anyway (requires an evil local user). I'll move to another encryption program sometime, but it hasn't been a priority.
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I was under the impression that many times, the "scammer" is not even aware that they are in a scam. They're a contractor following a script. But I just did a search and I can't find the article (maybe from wired) where they talked about that.
People are working on this -- come join the fun! There is a LightTable-based environment at http://junolab.org/, but that group has shifted focus to building on Atom for long-term sustainability: https://github.com/JuliaLang/atom-language-julia

(I don't really use emacs, but I thought julia-mode was available from MELPA)
> Adoption will happen without distorting markets with overwrought subsisidies and burning money trying to accelerate it further.

So you think that instead of introducing counter distortions to protect the environment we should just keep the distortions that are damaging it that we already have?
Aren't GPUs a good enough example of hardware that can be programmed to do things way faster than what is possible with CPUs of the same era?

Also what about FPGAs? If compiling a specific program down to an FPGA is possible, what kinds of optimizations can we bring in? (I am indeed waving my hands here, but we already have had genetic-proframming optimized FPGAs for over 15 years in research.)
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Implementing caching servers and horizontal scaling is complicated and requires talented people who typically need to be on call. It's lot of complicated moving parts, which can easily go wrong outside office hours when a site unexpectedly gets popular.

Where as with a static site, the complicated bit is only in the updates. A single server can handle massive numbers of requests and it's easy to scale further with a CDN.
"So? Who has the right to tell those people they shouldn't be discussing?"

Who is?

Not expending resources to actively provide a forum is in no sense "telling people they shouldn't be discussing a thing". That's an absurd standard.

"Few real-world stuff works like tech-stuff works."

Nope, that's oversimplifying what I said to the point that it's simply not what I said. What I said is that there is nothing I know that works at CNN scale and produces anything remotely sensible. It won't produce a "community", it won't produce a "conversation", it won't produce "democratic debate", it won't change anybody's mind about anything, it's just too darned big to produce anything other than a tumult.

"Besides, I've had wonderful conversations on Slashdot, and Reddit and other places, even places like 9gag."

What does that have to do with anything? They're not CNN. They're external fora. If you're happy with those, you shouldn't have said anything at all; they exist, they will continue to exist, nobody is talking about shutting them down. What's your problem then? The whole point of this conversation is CNN and NYT and Wired (eventually) shutting down comment sections, not anybody else. What do you think you're defending, exactly?

With all due respect, you seem to be so sure you already know what other people are going to say, you don't bother actually reading what they do say. For someone advocating the importance of user comments, that's sort of ironic.
For decades, government steered millions away from whole milk. Was that wrong?
This one? http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/11/malwarebytes
It's great to see Matt Levine on HN - for those interested in finance, his Money Stuff [0] daily column is absolutely excellent. His writing has a really fantastic funny and informal style.

He does a great job presenting a fair and deep view of a lot of finance issues, like HFT or Unicorn valuations.

[0] http://www.bloombergview.com/topics/money-stuff
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You have some extra characters at the end of your link

https://investor.logmeininc.com/about-us/investors/news/pres...
I see robots everyday
The question is: what kind of valuable things would still be produced? You'll still get iPhones, but will you get ARM cores or Snapdragon chipsets or LTE or MPEG4 or pills that cure Hep-C?

The bigger picture is that almost all hard R&D takes place under the umbrella of some sort of protection from copying. Intel spends billions a year on semiconductor R&D, and protects it with trade secrets. Pharma companies spend billions on drug R&D and protect them with patents. Even internet companies like Google and Facebook depend on being able to hide a lot of their "secret sauce" (either algorithms or compilations of user information) on the server-side where it can't be easily copied.

Hard R&D that isn't protected from copying is usually subsidized. The core internet protocols were subsidized by the Government. Advances in core browser protocols are subsidized by Internet companies that rely heavily on ad revenue. Going back further in history, Bell Labs was subsidized by AT&T's telephone monopoly and PARC was subsidized by Xerox's copier monopoly. That model can work too, but has its own problems.
It's hard to tell because the old people who are more sophisticated and know a lot about money are usually the kind of people who keep themselves mentally active in their old age.

That means they are both more sophisticated and physiologically more mentally healthy. It's hard to separate the two.
I would be interested in your source for that comment, as I think it is untrue (at least for US exchanges, I don't know rules in other countries).

I am not saying payment-for-order-flow doesn't exist, but the buyers are firms like Citadel and other "internalizers", not exchanges.

If by "paying" you are referring to the maker/taker rebate model, that is paid to any market participant, not just retail brokers.
Which is why retail level commissions have dropped to zero (or close to it).
Looking at a real horse's teeth shows how worn down they are over age. Looking at a horses teeth is to check its age.

The idiom could be modernized to: 'dont check the odometer of a gift car'
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I made the mistake of reading this book once: the rest of it is similarly awful.
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So the pensioners didn't lose money in the Icelandic bank collapse, because the combined provisions I mentioned above protected them.

http://www.fscs.org.uk/industry/determinations/icesave/

Looks like FSCS paid out. In fact, they may even have paid out without being asked (8.1)
That all seems like quasi-maths, however. What hopefully was being referred to earlier is algebra and analysis, at least up to the 2nd iteration, so one has real understanding of methods of proof.

E.g - no probability class that doesn't require analysis 1 and 2 is truly a probability class.
Every EE company I worked for used source control (perforce, git or svn). And a typical Verilog module is far longer than 1000 lines.
I don't know if all stuff Elon says makes him sound unbalanced, but all off the stuff he gets quoted on makes him sound unbalanced.
Please don't fuck it up.
"Updating" orders seems a far more accurate terminology than "cancelling" in the market maker case.

Although of course making such a distinction by law is problematic, because updating an order to be "out-of-the-money" (have an absurdly low or high price) is almost equivalent to canceling, and objectively determining if an order is "out-of-the-money" is problematic.
* Not free

* Not open source

* Not a single benchmark

This is just an ad for a commercial product.
Doesn't the fact that he understands, and intentionally uses pejorative language make him dishonest?
Because the issue isn't how long it takes for a company to do something. The issue is how fast you can react once information about what they are doing becomes public.
As a web developer (as in the world of JavaScript / Python / PHP / Ruby ), I don't really know much about C or operating system stuff. So I have a total noob question.

What goes into "maintaining" USB development? I mean, the USB ports have worked for years, no? What is there to be done? To my naive ears this is like hearing that someone is actively contributing to the technology behind light switches. Can someone in the know describe what goes into this?
The sophisticated part is getting the phone numbers of old people to begin the scam and then laundering the money at the end.