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It's good PR okay?!?! Makes us feel less guilty or something like that.
> Bad code causes real harm to everyone else on your team, so coders have more incentive to worry about the skill of their coworkers than other professions do.

There isn't anything unique that bad code inflicts on your co-workers that isn't analogous to the problems faced by most people who have to deal with incompetent coworkers.
How is this different from Samsung's 3D vertical nand?
Most mobile browsers allow you to disregard the site's preference and enable zoom anyway. At least, Firefox and the stock browser on my device both have an option for that.
I figured out the use of this; its a better and quicker alternative to PushBullet. If you connect your phone and laptop then when you open a link on your laptop the same link can open on your phone simultaneously. It's really nice. Yeah, I agree that there must be some 1-2-3 tutorial.
I once had a ceo ask why the header image on a prominent section of our website was not showing on his machine.

I opened the page, and to my surprise,, the header image didn't show on my computer either, but it showed on my coworkers screen.

In my standard "eliminate all simple causes" method I switched to incognito, and the header image loaded.

Somehow, I was able to recognize that it was due to an extension that was not active in incognito, and that the header image was named ...ads.png and it was catching a rather generic Adblock matcher. We renamed the file and all was good.
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I figured out the use of this; its a better and quicker alternative to PushBullet. If you connect your phone and laptop then when you open a link on your laptop the same link can open on your phone simultaneously. It's really nice. Yeah, I agree that there must be some 1-2-3 tutorial.
And you can share the link with your friend so whichever web page he visits the same web page can open on your browser.
Redux looks stunning. Thanks a lot for suggesting it.
While this may be true enough to destroy ones faith in the FDA, it's mostly false at least in the US. Here's the US FDA's official policy:
http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyG...

Summarizing, if dyed oranges are sold, there must be a label declaring this at the point of sale.

In practice, only early season Florida oranges are dyed. California has stricter rules, and does not allow it at all: http://littlelocavores.blogspot.com/2011/02/when-orange-isnt...
> If you take it from me, I am left with what? Panhandling? Prostitution? ...???

Is there no welfare for people who aren't able to make a living in your country?
Just because content is discoverable by anyone, does not give them license to reproduce it. (In this case, it was reproduced on their website.)

I think you are putting too much weight on hashtags' "meaning", too. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367901
This is the issue I have now with being a developer. There's so many things people do because they believe we all have gigabit fiber internet service and just bloat the fuck out of the page for no other reason than to try and show off.

It only took 140 requests, 36MB and 2.4 minutes later, I was able to read the article.

This is completely unacceptable and an epic failure.
I agree it might not help in all cases. But ethnic diversity can obviously help in marketing, assuming the target audience has multiple ethnicities, which is often the case. Aside from marketing, it might help less as you get more and more technical, but it might still help in areas in the "middle" like product design, etc.
It's amazing it lasted as long as it did!
I feel like your last paragraph there is an attempt to subtley troll that went too far. If not, then I'd love for you to cite your sources for such speculation (beyond the original JH 15 powerpoint, which has to be intentionally vague regarding scope and specifics regarding an operation which hasn't yet taken place).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10364196
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As an example of that task specificity, for master level chess players, they are better than amateurs and novices at memorising real chess board layouts, but not significantly better at scrambled board layouts.

http://theinvisiblegorilla.com/blog/2012/02/15/how-experts-r...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352704
IMO a real commitment to equal opportunity would mean no at-will employment (i.e. no firing for undisclosed reasons) and only blind interviews (e.g. online pair programming without speech/video):

http://www.theguardian.com/women-in-leadership/2013/oct/14/b...

"We interview for culture/team fit" also typically signals a desire to avoid diversity.
I'd guess that most are in the SF office, but I didn't know that had 29 other offices until 5 seconds ago.
Thanks for the pointer to self-licensing. I am sure there are many such mistakes at play here.

(Also, in the context of gender issues, I felt weird when you referred to two Ph.D. students as "girls", because they probably are not children. I have lots of cognitive bias to work on, and so I try to be careful about words like that.)
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> (an intern etc. not familiar with IP thinks they are doing "guerilla" mkting, for example).

Try: senior marketer perfectly familiar with IP decides to ignore it thinking they're doing "guerilla" marketing, and then blaming it on an intern if caught. Sleazy industry, sleazy standard practices.
I was wondering that, too. Maybe it means that it's meant for end users and not for scripting and programmatic use.
Perhaps it's not prestige so much as risk-aversion. Programming is a very cyclical industry (akin to oil or construction), whereas there's always a need for doctors and to a lesser extent lawyers.

Edit: Certainty this isn't the only reason to choose another career besides software, I just thought I'd respond to prestige as a particular reason.
No, this is wrong. We should have an ability to discuss any brand however we like without said brand pulling it into their marketing engine.
Url changed from http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2015/10/09/the_d..., which points to this.
Unfortunately not. The internal classification is 'confidential'. I'm not much a believer of security by obscurity, but that's the company decision and I respect that. When I say refer to (since I left this organisation), I mean mentally. Putting all that in place established some solid structured thinking which I'm looking to share, but that's not ready yet - when it is I will post a link on HN :)
> The question there should be what is (or should be) intended when someone says `except Exception` - it's not clear to me whether that should or should not include AssertionError

Right, I guess I'm not suggesting changing the language today to do this. Rather, I'm suggesting that it would be better if it were already done that way from the beginning. If it were designed that way from the start then there would be no question about the intention because it would just be part of the definition of Exception
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Based on what you've said above, I would believe them. I have heard, second-hand, of another person getting a very similar warning. That person is taking it extremely seriously, and the FBI wouldn't have any credible ulterior motives in investigating them. (Sorry I have to be so vague.)
I think this is slightly misguided in this case; I think your position is more used for safety purposes rather than the copyright purposes here (i.e., while both touch on what happens to someone's personal data once online, your example seems to be more about protection and the article is talking about a business agreement)

If the door was allowed to swing both ways, and users could assume that anything that businesses upload is fair game to copy and use for their personal sites, it wouldn't be as egregious. But in many cases, corporations hold far more power when it comes to takedowns for copyrighted material.

What is being argued here is that the hashtags should count as consent, but I think that's really bad because there isn't really any way to give informed consent in the form of a hashtag. Each corporation is going to have different media replication terms and conditions that they offer, and I don't think that you should be able to give away rights to a work without actually knowing what you're agreeing to.

As an aside, I'm aware that often people sign agreements without reading the entirety of the agreement and have no idea what they're agreeing to. In that instance, they at least have the chance to know what it is they're agreeing to and they choose to ignore it. If hashtags become consent, the users wouldn't even have a chance to read the agreement before they agree to it. That just seems like horrible precedent to set.
The net effect, however, is to make sure ~4000 people will have less choices in the future, and a more miserable life.

Looting and burning a city on a large scale, of course, will always be one of the remaining choices. Furthermore, the more miserable life part will provide extra incentive to do so.
Because CEOs and other higher paying jobs impact the world we live in. Women need to be represented in high impact jobs so that we don't have a world designed entirely by men.
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(FYI all butter is also tinted yellow)

This is trivially false, in that even in the US there are many brands that do not color their butter[1], but I'd be interested in knowing the truth.

Is there an FDA rule that allows coloring to be added to butter without adding it to the ingredient list? I found a rule saying that FD&C Yellow No. 5 must explicitly be listed[2], and I did not see any exceptions for carotene.

[1] http://organicvalley.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/59...

[2] http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/ComplianceManuals/CompliancePolicyG...
I literally spent all day answering parents questions just like this at the Seattle Robothon event www.robothon.org . With a stated interest in coding and electronics I would probably suggest the Parallax Boe-Bot approx $159, there is some mechanical assembly (screwdriver/pliers) but it has good coverage of electronics without soldering. Great step by step directions are available. A few other great starter robots: Pololu 3Pi ($110) for a focus on embedded C Programming, no electronics or mechanical skills required. For the home school types I suggest the Vex IQ - Superkit ($350) or Vex EDR Clawbot ($530), these kits include Classroom style documentation with Teachers guides. As you noted there are lots of options and these are just opinions, although these picks were easily agreed on by the key members of our committee, most of which had hands on building experience with these robots (including Lego Mindstorms $350).
What are we going to do about the lack of boys/men in higher education?
It's possible that the source of the negative reinforcement matters. In games it comes from either the environment, or from another person who's part of a (temporary) outgroup. If you simulate aggression towards that person you will be rewarded. In schools it comes from another person in a position of authority over you, and if you act aggressively towards them the punishment will escalate to you point where you are almost guaranteed to lose.
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>Auernheimer tweeted that he was “targeting Facebook ads” on the prosecutor as part of his campaign to “broadcast” prosecutors’ “indiscretions” by telling their spouses, friends and families that they were members of Ashley Madison.

What is this supposed to achieve? They have broken no laws. They may be hypocrites, but democracy allows for citizens to be hypocrites.
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I was reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-feuille and then googled when the thermometer was invented, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermometer , then I googled 'how did people bake before thermometers' among other things and couldn't find a satisfactory historical reason. Anyone have the knowledge?
> The cartel brings stability to prices. Each farmer agrees to produce X and in return has confidence they will get Y price.

We have futures contracts that serve this role for other commodities, not cartels.
But at some point you will need to send a push notification to my devices. You're going to do that in the same process that is reflecting the message to all recipients?
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At least in the US, the names Grade B and Grade C have already been phased out. Some states had done so earlier, but the USDA officially renamed them earlier this year to wordy variants of Grade A. So if you are looking for Grade B, you now want "GRADE A: DARK COLOR & ROBUST", and if you were so ahead of the game that you wanted Grade C, you now want the eloquently named "GRADE A: VERY DARK & STRONG".

[1] http://www.epicurious.com/ingredients/grade-b-maple-syrup-bu...
There's a ton of research into genomic privacy, and some ideas where a third party hosts encrypted genomic data. The parties interested in the data don't see it, they send their query to the third party, the third party runs it and returns the results.

However, it's yet unclear whether the transmission of the results ("your DNA of interest is contained in your person of interest's DNA") already counts as the transmission of personal data. I'd say it is personal data, making the whole enterprise moot.
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How else do you expect the application to use sockets?
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In order to improve my job options, I'm looking to study (even master) something that not many people know, and can give me a significant advantage in finding good jobs (maybe even as a consultant).

My background is in web development. I know JavaScript and AngularJS really well, but I'm full stack and willing to get into any field in software...
Man, no kidding. Why would anyone want to sign up for that? 45-50 hours codified face time in your open office cattle farm. Get permission from a founder at least a day in advance if god forbid you need to be out of the office for something. Not only do I not want to work there, but I'll think twice before signing up with them as my 2FA provider.
I see what you mean now. In our site, a larger percentage of women contributors doesn't affect the quality of the posts, but does add more diversity to their content. For example, women are more likely to add news about magazine covers, music performances, and celebrities, while men seem to prefer to add posts about politics and issues. If we only had men contributors then the latter would be overrepresented.

We can see the effect of the gender gap on Wikipedia in the content too. Topics like porn stars, games and politics are overrepresented, while other topics that women would be more interested in, are neglected.
So you'd rather give up your free time (and freedom at work) rather than risk the incredibly unlikely possibility of being shot by a random stranger?
I find it interesting that nobody is mentioning the inverse - plenty of HNers seem to think it is okay to redistribute companies' generated content (and I agree with piracy) yet many of you here are somehow thinking that because of "privacy" on a perfectly public website like Twitter that a company shouldn't be allowed to redistribute what (unfortunately) is content that Twitter owns (because the user submitted to Twitter and Twitter's terms). But what ever happened to the privacy rights of companies' generated content, why shouldn't they require you to get permission before you reshare that pirated content? I sniff double standards.
You might be overthinking how hard it is to allow remote work.
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So you're saying it costs as much as a down payment on a house in the Bay Area to own my own airplane?

I'd rather do that and then live nearly anywhere in the 400 mile range that it provides, and probably be happier.
Being called a "coder" implies you're performing mechanistic grunt work of manipulating symbols with little thought to architecture, or really without any implied discipline. It's akin to identifying a writer or journalist as a "typist". Though I suppose that's what many "coders" do, go figure.

The media by and large does not care about programmers, only insofar as there is overlap with Internet entrepreneurs.
FTP is quite often anonymous with no password. And you can use SFTP (secure FTP, not to be confused with SSH file transfer).

It's much better than HTTP if you need entire directories. There isn't really any better protocol for giving public access to entire directories.
In the early days, hardware was men's work, and programming was women's work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC#Programming

ENIAC started with an exclusively female group of six programmers.

This Cosmo article is from 1967: http://boingboing.net/2015/07/31/the-computer-girls-1967-c.h...

In a line sure to make heads explode, it quotes Grace Hopper explaining how programming is just like planning dinner.
Driving up housing prices is in itself indicative of income, not status.

Of relevance is the following snippet from http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/

"Does the staggering wealth of particular engineers and programmers mean that there is any chance for nerds to rise socially?

Stammbach worked with a colony of longtailed macaques. In the paper cited above, the running header is "Responses to Specially Skilled Java Monkeys." Stammbach took the lowest-ranking macaque out of the society and taught him to operate a complex machine and obtain food. When the nerd monkey was reintroduced to the society, the higher ranking macaques stopped kicking him out of the way long enough for him to complete operation of the machine and obtain food for the community. I.e., society cooperated to create the conditions under which the nerd could toil for them. However, the monkey who acquired these special skills and provided for the society did not achieve any rise in his dominance status."

Phil Greenspun's title for the above was "Java Monkeys."

(I personally don't have an opinion about the status of programmers relative to other professionals and how it affects women, so just commenting on your remark.)
Now we are definitely going in circles.
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Truthiness values are also WTF worthy (although not mentioned above).

if not x:
do_something()

Where do_something will occur if x is None, zero, 0.0, a blank string or even midnight in some versions of python.

This has bitten me multiple times. It's a violation of python's explicit over implicit. It's an example of weak typing in an otherwise strongly typed language. There's really no good reason for it.

IMO, if x isn't a boolean, that line should just throw an exception. If you want to check for x being 0.0 or "", you should do x == "" or x == 0.0.
So, how many people have been sentenced to death, based on this shaky evidence?

As an aside, even if "one in a million" were true, we're talking about 300+ matches in the US and 7000+ in the world.

IMHO, then the correct question to ask is: "given there are 300 people in the US whose DNA matches the one of the murderer, how likely is it that the defendent is the murderer?"
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What's wrong with embedding per se? We should be preventing companies from monetizing other people's works without permission and knowledge, but disabling embedding - especially with all the cruft that usually comes with it, that points towards the source - is going too far. It's trying to protect user rights so much that it overflows the counter and wraps back around to damaging them.

As a user I want the right to embed any publicly available work for purpose of commentary, as long as I'm doing it non-profit. Yes, if someone posts a public photo of their kid, I want to be able to embed it on my non-profit website (if I run ads, go ahead and sue me) to comment about that absolutely awesome/awful photo I've just found. Disabling embedding wholesale is throwing baby out with bathwater - it's hurting cultural development.
>So while it looks weird there is a rational backwards-compatibility reason for it.

That was a while ago, however. This behavior ought to be phased out in favor of treating it as entirely its own type.
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What's ambiguous about #crocs (which is a registered trademark) in that context?

I don't believe they should directly use other's content for material gain (in advertisements, essentially), but a photo/comment the creator willingly released to the public and attached to the brand logically allows for re-sharing that content to me, especially by the entity explicitly mentioned.

I wouldn't be on the business's side had this been a private account or even a blog somewhere, but she published an image to the public on a hugely popular platform and tagged it with the company's name. How is that different than sending the image to the company saying "Look at how cute my daughter is in these crocs?" Other than that millions of people could see the image prior to the company reproducing it.
Very good write-up. Sadly I can only up-vote once.
Posted many times yet apparently never discussed: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22Good%20Product%20Manager,%2....
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Well sure but nobody cares about most Nobel prize winners either, and nobody cares about great poets. It's just that money is an "objective" yardstick, you either have it or you don't, which makes it easy for people to wrap their head around.
The similarity is that optimization is taking place, and cheating is possible by recognizing a test situation, in order to "game" the test. Compilers can "game" benchmarks by recognizing them specifically and supplying hand-crafted code. The cases which do this have no applicability to non-benchmark code. Just like recognizing that an emissions test is taking place and behaving optimally for that test has no applicability to real driving.
Sockets are not part of ANSI C, as such they are an external library.
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> in 1985, no government of a major state appeared to be as firmly in power, its policies as clearly set in their course, as that of the USSR.

the ship was rotting and falling apart from inside. Andropov, before Gorbachev, was trying to treat the situation the way that was natural to him - previously head of KGB - by enforcing the workplace discipline and implementing strict restrictions on alcohol. Talking about the way Russian government can lose the last trust and support of the people! (i say Russian because the rest of USSR had significant other reasons to leave the empire) Current regime in Russia has learned the lesson - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/02...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10366981 and marked it off-topic.
What if someone were to maintain an unofficial list with one domain per line, freely available as a daily torrent or served directly? Would there be a rights problem with mirroring and filtering ICANN data?
I don't believe you need to be particularly tech-savvy to observe that the ad blocker extension you installed breaks the Internet.
Good = they are capable of "writing clear, maintainable, test covered code" if they wanted to.
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