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It's a shame these comments went so far off the rails. The most important diversity is in life experience and problem-solving skills. If your idea of diversity is something that's only skin deep, you deserve what you get.

However most voters do not deserve the public education system they are paying for. They're expecting a reasonable, open-minded discussion of ideas. What they're getting is evidenced by the comments here. We're starting to see kids leave academia with 5 and 6-figure college debts with no discernible job skills, no ability to discuss political matters without resort to either threats or stereotypes, and no experience dealing with intellectuals with widely divergent life experiences and problem-solving methods. That's a total and complete fail.
The technical aspect here is completely insignificant. All they did was remove a basic listener function that was already optional, used to communicate with systemd's socket activator without linking to libsystemd itself. And it seems only one Busybox daemon ever made use of it.

The political significance is quite high, and I have to say I feel that this move, though perhaps a bit childish, is a valid signal to express grievances with the absolutist attitudes of the systemd developers. Plus let's be honest here, they aren't the pinnacles of mature behavior either. I think this is the first time a major project has done a statement like this against systemd. I would expect more to follow their example.

I of course summarized my issues in "Structural and semantic deficiencies in the systemd architecture for real-world service management" [1] and hope to see systemd go the way of devfsd and HAL.

[1] http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/
I read it as saying that there is no ethical way for a _Psychologist_ to participate in a law enforcement interview as an interrogator.

Which is reasonable, interviews conducted for law enforcement purposes are not therapeutic in nature and are not for the benefit of the interviewee.

That said, the APA should roundly condemn and participate in holding past members to account for their participation in creating protocols that clearly violate principles of civilised war and ethical practice by offering expert testimony to that effect in both civil and criminal cases.

For instance the two men profiled in this report http://www.latimes.com/world/afghanistan-pakistan/la-fg-tort... should see an APA expert witness explaining how far they had strayed from their obligations any time they face a lawsuit.
Thanks, this is what I wanted to hear. I'm at the prototyping stage, and I was afraid that the market is already saturated with webapps. Or worse, was never that big a space as it would seem on HN.
Awesome! I have been trying to find something like this for Lua or Perl
Possibly some backwards incompatible change was introduced & nobody feels like having to maintain version checking down to minor releases. systemd should learn how to run as a non-init service daemon
I think you're wearing rose-colored glasses, and you're underestimating the number of attackers that will be targeting autonomous vehicle systems.

Your faith in "common sense good security engineering" saving the day flies in the face of years of IT security reality. Computer security has been discussed, both formally and informally, since there have been networked computers (have a look at the "Ware Report", prepared by the RAND corporation for the DoD in 1967), yet the general state of IT security is horrendous.

The Toyota uncontrolled acceleration bug and the subsequent software quality issues were reported by Phil Koopman make me think the auto industry isn't particularly qualified to take on security, reliability, or formal verification of their software. (Toyota might be a single example, but I find it hard to believe that software quality is generally any better across the industry. VW's software-based emissions defeat device makes me that much more suspicious of the industry as a whole.)

Attackers are going to be everyone from nation-states who want to surveil their citizenry to individuals who "game" the algorithms in other drivers' autonomous cars to allow themselves to move more quickly through traffic. I'm sure that staged accident insurance fraud, carjacking, hit-and-run, and other vehicle-related crimes will evolve in the face of the rise of autonomous vehicles.

I expect an outcry from law enforcement and "grass roots" groups to demand draconian measures to "lock down" autonomous vehicles. I expect that copyright maximalists and others who would benefit from restrictions on the use of general purpose computers will jump on the bandwagon too. I'm envisioning a future like Stallman's "Right to Read", but applied to our cars and any computers that interface with them.
Disclaimer: I never went through a similar situation.

To me it sounds like that you have built the core platform for someone else, as an employee, and you have been rewarded for your work. Problem is: you are an employee and you are tired of that.

My feeling is that what you are really saying is that you would like to do your own thing, but the current situation is too economically stable and good to just give it up. How about keeping consistent with your current role and start working on a pet project? Might sound like an obvious advice but it does really make sense to me given your situation :)
You don't need to follow "mainline church doctrine" to be an evangelical christian or a witch hunter.
I'm not sure lawsuits is so much the path though as kids simply not playing. That doesn't seem to be happening however.

True, though the broader demographic shift interests me - soccer is increasing in popularity for kids, given its popularity among hispanic populations. Presumably to the detriment of something, and I can believe it would be football.
> female founders still out performed male founders

That's not what the study says, it says groups that have at least 1 female founder, not female founders.
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Keep meaning to write a blog post, one day I'll get round to it :)

My setup is based on docker-openvpn[0] which has quite a detailed readme, along with a Digital Ocean community tutorial[1]. My script basically wraps up some of the config and makes the various commands a bit easier to remember.

[0] https://github.com/kylemanna/docker-openvpn

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-...
The only assumption I need is that P_{f,g}([C,C+d]) >= h(d) > 0 for some arbitrary monotonic function h(d). This comes directly from the p-value formula.

I.e., for any d, there is a finite probability of finding an A or a B in [C,C+d]. I don't actually care what the shapes of f or g are at all beyond this - as long as this probability exists and is bounded below (in whatever class of functions f and g might be drawn from), it's all fine.
I don't understand his point about First Round Capital showing their female founders did better than companies without female founders. What does that show? How do we know that female founders aren't simply better? Or maybe women are scared of applying, so out of women, only the best apply? In that case, the mere idea that there is a bias can cause "pre-selection" bias.

I lack the mathematics to prove this, but it seems that on the face of it, pg is simply wrong. Or I'm misreading terribly.

Tangentially: Speaking of bias, why doesn't YC publish information on their companies' tech choices? PG racked up a lot of inferred cachet (positive) by stating that use of Lisp gave them a huge advantage. Now that YC has data, they should be able to show how choice of technology correlates to performance.
> 3rd party sources (a function added by Google!)

It's great that Google allows this. That's one thing that makes them better than Apple (in my opinion).

However, it is still the case that being banned from the Play store can kill an app. Few users know how to sideload things.

In a world where there are several competing app markets that users can easily switch between, it would not be a big deal for Google to refuse to carry apps they don't like on their market, but when 99% of the users realistically can't get apps anywhere else than Google Play, then it becomes problematic.
You misunderstood what I wrote. I didn't claim that a high performing subgroup should be throttled, I claimed that the Asians that pass an unbiased bar would be roughly as successful as the non-Asians that pass the same bar. I
The US is also uniquely suited to business innovation. I think that's no coincidence. Depending upon after-the-fact class action instead of up-front regulation means more focus on actual harm than fear of harm.

I also broadly wouldn't trust the US to be particularly good at government regulation until our elections are publicly funded. There's a lot of evidence that our legislation is distorted towards the interests of the moneyed. I don't think that's a recipe for energetic, effective business regulation.
At https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483861
gizmo shares an intuitive anecdote that matches your math.
Freedom of speech isn't really the right to say what you want to a large group of people, it's the right to say what you want _period_ regardless of who's listening. It's your job to find an audience.
Until you simplify your sort function into insert sort (which, admittedly, is really fast before container size hits triple digits)
> but simply won't get it anywhere near a channel where any sizeable amount of people might see it.

They have a youtube channel, with over three million views, which can be accessed from any device with a modern browser. Your definition of "censorship" seems to be an incredibly liberal one.
It's fashionable in some parts of the linux world to hate on systemd.
I went through almost the exact same thing working full time for a consulting company in the USA. The situation was even worse since we had to log so many hours a week due to billing hourly. The biggest difference with me is that when I was first put on the PIP, it looked like I was going to successfully complete it. So a 4 week process was extended to 12 and then I was given a new PIP that was impossible to fulfill[0] and the micromanagement was increased to ridiculous levels. I didn't even try to improve at that point and was fired a week later. No severance, no benefits, no nothing. They were nice in that they gave a glowing recommendation that didn't mention any of this. They said we parted ways amicably and that it just wasn't a good fit.

It seems the recurring theme here is if your employees are slacking, more micromanagement isn't the answer. Either give them a reason to get excited about coming to work or fire them. The PIP process is an orwellian farce. The only saving grace is I bet most companies that use them don't actually know they don't work. Or maybe it's like interviewing; they know it doesn't work, but they don't have anything better?

[0]: I won't go into details, but it required getting two or three approvals per day from managers who were already backed up with work.
One could argue that. But markets are mainly good at solving problems that occur frequently and with short feedback loops. The sort of problems that lead to class action lawsuits are rarely either, let alone both.
I've also have a "think different" idea, so I expect the sales part to be the challenge as well.
Before you take your theory too far, you need to explain why it's OK that your theory implies that black people in America were best suited to be slaves, up until the day they weren't.
> As long as we have hungry developers, we are going to have the problem with gardens attracting them.

That sounds like an argument for libertarian socialism...
That is awesome, thanks for that link.
Thanks for your reply. That's an incredibly sound advice, and I feel like I missed a detail in my post: the contribution that I'm giving to this company is requiring me to work a lot (not like crazy, but let's say a good average of 50 hours a week), so I really don't have the spare bandwidth to start a serious pet project that could lead somewhere else than just simply playing with some technology for the sake of it.
Really click-baity title from the Post, which ironically enough, seems to be the point the article is trying to argue. It's mostly about the morality of free markets and it's strengths/weaknesses.
What would the end of grantland look like?

It would look like today, sadly.

http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantla...

I'm not really sure why Simmons needed espn to start grantland. Perhaps he was under contract. I would have read it, due to his writing, either way.

When he didn't show up to cover the Super Bowl or NBA Championships, I knew it was over.
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It didn't promise anyone anything. It's a direct descendant of SGML, there were existing tools and use cases, you know.
People are choosing to agree to EULAs that say they have no right to sue for any reason, but agree in advance in the case of disputes that they'll submit to binding arbitration by an arbiter chosen by company, and if the consumer loses that they pay all the costs associated with that arbitration.

Just because they chose to be a part of that agreement doesn't mean it's OK or not worth complaining about.
nskillen on github has made a script: https://github.com/nskillen/hexchat_filter_twitch_installs_a...
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And then developers who get their apps handicapped by apps promoted next to them takes their apps down. I understand your reasoning, but Google's focus is the ecosystem. If it was trivial for everybody to disable all adds and in-app purchase functions in all free apps with just a few taps, there'd be far fewer of exactly those apps you want to use.

So the rest of us simply have to get Xposed from outside Google Play and root with unofficial methods to make all apps, including proprietary ones, behave exactly as we want on our devices.
Why do you assume he stopped working? He could be working harder than ever, but his productivity dropped.

That's one of the cruelties of burnout. It feels like you're working harder than you ever have in your life, but you have nothing to show for it.
Second-best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajILZ3S2RE&list=PL9334868E7...

(I took this very class the year prior)
A fair use claim should defend it. Understanding a contract is necessary for complying with it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10483024
That wire is still the nicest stuff for making small modifications to printed circuit boards, because it takes solder well, but the insulation doesn't melt.

My wire wrap tool is somewhere.
That's a trivial challenge for a computer to solve.
Yes, and after that Apple will stop bricking iphones repaired outside of apple store.
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I enjoyed this comment.
So I'll be bald for a while then...
I would say this: it is never as bad as it seems and it is never as good as it seems. Startups are very hard on everyone, despite the smiles and glowing press. What you are feeling is natural, and a lot of close-to-founder employees go through it. (Founders do too.)

Tactically, at your age and at that level of comp, I would stick it out for a few more years or until it became clear that the ISO's were not going to be worth anything, which ever came first. Jumping ship almost always seems more attractive that it turns out to be in actuality.

I would also recommend some sort of stoic philosophy. I am a Christian, but there are plenty of other options: zen, greek, etc. At the end of the day, none of this shit really matter that much, and, additionally, it's all pretty funny if you can get some mental space between yourself and the situation.

Good luck.
Exactly this is what i did and loved all my life.

But since i moved from home office to a 'normal' company with a 'normal' office, this doesn't work for me anymore. Getting into the zone is impossible in such environments, at least for me and many devs i know.
The article defines bias as follows:

> Want to know if the selection process was biased against some type of applicant? Check whether they outperform the others. This is not just a heuristic for detecting bias. It's what bias means.

Under that definition, you have been biased against A. [edit: on reflection I see this as a weakness of his definition. I missed that your selection process does in fact select the best candidates.]
related: collection of them is currendly trending on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DesirePath
You can't force people to read them. You can only force them to agree that they've read them. Which is by and large what contracts say already. ("I have read the terms and conditions...")

And even if you could force people to read them, you can't force them to understand them, which is really what's necessary for your plan to work. Those contracts are generally written by lawyers for other lawyers. To understand them you need the IQ of a lawyer and a fair bit of their education. Not being able to get an oil change until you've done a semester of contract law is something that nobody's going to be happy about.
Does the startup have technical founders? How many rounds of investment have you guys taken on? How many employees have an equal or higher title than you? Is your role in technical and possibly business development integral enough where it would be really difficult to replace? Does the company have enough of a runway to figure things out if you left?
> Your cat could have a channel and would not be rejected

That would depend on what the cat is doing.
I don't get it :-/ Why is there a bias?

Even if the VCs are totally unbiased, why couldn't the startups with women outperformed the others? It could happen for a variety of reasons. Just hypothetically speaking, maybe startups-with-women have different networking connections or insight that male-only-startups don't have?
"voiding the whole thing" means you don't have a license to the software either.
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Very interesting! Seems like I don't understand probability as well as I think I do, since I bought the argument till I ran into this comment.

So, what are the effects of variance in different evaluation contexts, and do we have a meaningful way to measure bias if we take variance into account?

My initial reactions:

- It seems the higher the variance, the better examples you can trot out to say you are not biased against that particular group. since youll always find a member of that group who does amazing.

- If distributions of performance are multimodal, its even harder to conclude stuff because different institutions might cut off different modes when selecting the bar.

- Modeling the sources of variance may lead to insight into any actual bias.
Absolutely. I'd join just on general principle.

I think this could also be pulled off by somebody like Costco. They already have a big membership and strong negotiating power. And a large part of their job is sorting through many possible merchandise options and only providing the good ones to their members. It'd be nice to see them take it a step further.
My two-year-old daughter loves this. (Within this category, I'm partial to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg)
> If you can't convince someone who doesn't already agree, you shouldn't be allowed to claim knowledge, only opinion.

What about global warming denial, anti-vax, young-earth creationism, etc? I'm not being snarky, it legitimately troubles me that "can you convince people?" is the best measure of truth we seem to have, because it seems so noisy and unreliable.
Eh, once Congress starts acting in bad faith against citizens, what's the harm in SCOTUS exceeding its authority? The law derives is legitimacy from its effect on the society it governs, not from the grace of God.
I don't understand how you guys don't have a revolution over the manifest injustice of your "justice" system. And I don't mean riots, I mean actual change of government.
> Why is there a bias?

Applications by definition are supposed to be biased. If an application weren't biased then it wouldn't be an application, it would just be a lottery. And while that's a system that a lot of charter schools actually use, or a least pretend to, I think it would be a tough sell to convince venture capitalists to allocate their capital this way.
Yeah, on the PCBs manufactured in the '70s and '80s that I worked with in the '80s, I never saw anything but wire wrap wire used to make ECOs (Engineering Change Orders, I think that was a DEC phrase that had gone into general circulation).
Yep. Especially open work spaces. I constantly see employees looking for their center, trying to focus, but it's a hard task for sure. I appreciate companies that create focus rooms, for just one person, and encourages employees to get some concentration there.
Wow that's a skeezy place to bury it. Their email drip spampaigns don't remind me to check the arbitration options when they tell me all about how to make the most of my new account.
You're still stuck in the theory, talking about how the people in this thread feel when none of them matter. The child matters, that's it.

> It's so important for young students to feel like they understand and will continue to understand, in order for them to then achieve new understanding. I don't know how to write that without sounding like a theorist, but I sincerely believe it to be true. You've got to get rid of that fear of red ink.

None of what has been applied in the photo is pedagogical and will lead to "getting rid of the fear of the red ink". Seriously man, take a step back, punishing a child for being right will make it worse if anything. Even if what you were talking about was a thing (it's not - the closest thing that comes to it is fear of failure and it's dealt with outside of tests), this would NOT help it.
What about initrd? Most of those use busybox and it's now "recommended" to start systemd there. (Granted, I don't see why anyone would run busybox's syslog - the only component affected by this change - in an initrd.)
I think MattHeard understood this and his point was that the weakest man will realistically have quality C + epsilon + random, and the weakest woman will have quality C + K + epsilon + random. The random term arises because no evaluation process is going to perfectly tell you how people are going to end up performing. But yeah, this seems fixable also, by averaging some number of the lowest performing members of each group, as MattHeard suggested.
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C++0x? This page must be very old...
Thanks for the wisdom, appreciated :)