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I agree. I probably phrased myself poorly. My point is that the continued drive for diversity is aimed at making the tech sector more closely resemble America's population as a whole. If every ethnicity but African Americans were represented, there would still be a drive for more diversity because a group is being left out.
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It is, but the existence of underrepresented groups is not a necessity. That is, there is no requirement that there be an underrepresented group. But if there is an underrepresented group, then it is a necessity that not enough people from that group are present.

What I'm really trying to say is, that particular phrase is repetitious, but not useless.
The same basic logic explains the folly of reducing unemployment by demand stimulus and the "consumers are the real job creators" mentality. If producing twice as many widgets requires (at least) twice as many workers, you're doing something wrong.
The incentives don't seem to align for this. Why kick someone out of the system and lose their 250 Euros/month?
Not to mention performance (or lack thereof). Adobe SVG on a PIII/P4 was like running Photoshop on a 486SX; a small-radius Gaussian blur, like for a drop shadow, would peg the CPU for several minutes even on a simple shape.
Do you have any good examples of where it is likely to fail?
What he's saying is that NYC has a huge drinking culture (small apartments, lots of street activity) where a LOT of social activity revolves around bars. In my experience, 1-2 drinks daily would be considered moderation.

It's definitely a place where you have to learn how to moderate yourself. It is indeed quite easy to blow through $1000 in a month on alcohol related socializing, even if you tend towards the cheap places. Alcohol begets all other sorts of consumption (cabs, transit, extraneous food, pool/foos, etc).
Nothing is ever done for free by businesses (Even though it appears like it is free, you do pay for it indirectly) At some point the profit motive will drive businesses to take things too far and threshold will be crossed. This will either result in customer defections, or increased government regulation. A shakeout will ensue, and only businesses strong enough be profitable will remain.
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You're misinformed about how much equity employees have been getting then (be it in RSUs or ISOs).
Which is basically doable with folders.
Why is two thirds of the README dedicated to Docker? must everything be a Docker container now?
yeah it helps out mom and pop shops cause starbucks coffee is fucking repulsive and customers should go literally anywhere else for a halfway decent cup
Pedantically, not a "gap" if there's a network cable going to another network...
I'm currently working on an SVG authoring tool written in JavaScript. You can check the project on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/boxy-svg/gaoogdonm...
It's very likely that the employee roster in those companies mirror the ethnic makeup of the country quite closely. That is not to say that minority groups in many other countries don't also suffer from discrimination in the labour market due to socioeconomic marginalization, religious differences, etc.

But to dismiss this issue in Silicon Valley by pointing at other countries is besides the point here. SV by and large is the most well known tech hub, and notorious for waxing poetic about its meritocratic structure. That is what is at issue here; is it a true meritocracy, or are there enough confounding factors (recruiting at specific schools for instance) that end up resulting in a workforce that doesn't reflect the racial/ethnic/demographic makeup of the country in which it exists?
Cool. Now can we have Swift with Microsoft codegen?
I agree with your general sentiment and I too pretty much ignore equity when considering a new position.

However equity becomes very important upon leaving a company. I think extending the exercise window to 10 years is an excellent idea as it reduces the amount of gambling that a former employee needs to engage in.
Amazon is trying to build its own logistics with drones and is probably well aware of self driven trucks (which many automotive companies are testing ). To build on that, all it will need for now are those Truck Trailer. As the self driving automotive industry gets more mature in near future, their trucking partners will be replaced eventually. And who knows it might already be working on its own Self Driven automotive project.
How soon will Amazon go into the freight business? After all they ran their own servers and then with excess capacity started AWS. So if a particular trailer is 75% full on a given run why not rent out the space?

If you're running dead head why not rent it out for a retail price rather than letting a freight broker fill it? A startup running on AWS could hand over its logistics to Amazon as well.
Agreed. I was flabbergasted when I got to that point in the article and it was clear they were trying to compete with Uber by ... charging significantly higher prices?! Good luck with that. They aren't charging 20% on every fare, so if anything they should be lower.
How much longer were you at this company than him?
Not from Verizon's perspective, sure. But there are a lot of consumer shortcomings to LTE vs a wired connection: slower data rates, more latency, data caps, no net neutrality protection, blocked by trees and terrain, slowed by certain kinds of home construction, slowed by weather, and greater sensitivity to power outages.

LTE is great for when folks are out and about, but at home or work, even a halfway decent DSL line beats it. Fiber kills it across the board.
since no one's done it yet, i'll mention Raphaël [1] that has served for a long time to provide a single interface to SVG w/VML fallback back to ie6. (supporting only svg features that can be supported/mimicked in vml)

[1] http://raphaeljs.com/
I remember that in elementary school a lot of the early math education was especially focused on speed. The same quizzes were basically given to us repeatedly until our speed improved for the entire year. Later on, they intended for this to serve as a sort of placement test for math. I was pretty much always the slowest one, because I would get more stressed when a time limit was given (something around 2 minutes for 60 questions) and I didn't approach it as memorization like many of the other students did. My teachers were convinced that I was unable to learn math because my speeds at answering those questions were not improving as much as those of other students and most of the time I was not able to finish the quizzes. But as soon as my parents requested for the school to give me a normal test they found that none of those problems even existed for me. Afterwards, they ended up moving me to a class that was a lot less focused on just doing the work quickly and that put me ahead of where many of my peers were. I think that if everybody else had been taught in an environment like that were time was not a factor in your grade they would have a much better understanding of the concepts of math and would also find it easier to learn how to do the actual math than how to memorize the answers to repetitive problems.
It seems that Indians and Chinese cultures both (all?) celebrate education and particularly science/engineering more than other cultures.
But... how does the truck have the inventory to fulfill whatever is ordered, within 30 minutes? You don't know in advance what "the day's deliveries" are going to be, or where they will be, because the drone deliveries are on-demand.
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Just worked 3 years at a gig, from the "sharing a tiny office with another company" phase to significantly larger. Moved on, and had to let a lot of vested options go because it just didn't make financial sense at the time to buy them, given the risk factor. Were it not for the 90 days limit (which sure isn't in my favor), I'd have been able to hold on to what I earned, rather than see it evaporate.

If anything, the system works spectacularly well for the founders, and investors. Not so much for the people they need to bring on to help their vision move forward.
I know, which means that until Android gets its garbage latency issues sorted out, having principles a la "No iDevices" simply cuts off the nose to spite the face.
Huh. I wonder. I can believe that Starbucks actually help nearby shops, but I bet it depends on the neighbourhood.
How do we know that Let's Encrypt isn't an NSA/CIA program? Like a way to make it easier for agencies to MITM or something?
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Even in the US, computer work was originally seen as a "woman's job" -- an extension of things like phone routing and secretarial work.

http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
Doesn't "air gapped" imply physical separation? Putting a firewall, even if it's totally locked down, between two networks does not make it "air gapped".
From a purely scientific perspective the rational response would be to assume it's a yet-to-be-accounted-for experimental artifact, but no one in the reporting chain has an economic incentive to approach it that way.
I'm speaking in the context of the Western world, because we aren't particularly interested in studies of the indigent. The US is overweight because of the quality and quantity of food they eat.

And 66%? That's a vast majority.
It may be that the core problem of production is one that was already solved by hardware at the end of the industrial revolution. Software can now be used to solve the 2nd part of the problem, which is distribution.

>In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and "overhead" time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity

-Buckminster Fuller, Grunch of Giants

Our means of production have already served to produce a renewable surplus of all the physiological needs of humanity (food, water, shelter etc). The problem is in distributing it fairly which is why almost 50% of the world population struggles to obtain these necessities.

>The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

-Sitting Bull
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In the EV, make sure you throw in 'Ninth Street Esrpesso' (multiple locations: 9th and C, 10th and B, and a couple in midtown), 'Boxkite' to your rotation (St. Marks btw. A & 1st), as well as 'Van Leeuwen' (7th btw. 1st & 2nd). On the west side, there's also 'Ground Support' (W. Broadway btw. Spring & Broome), and in Tribeca there's 'Kaffe 1668' (Greenwich St. btw. Murray & Warren).
ISTM secrets should mostly be generated where they're needed and should not leave that location. If two locations need to interact then use asymmetric keys so that the public key may be shared. Of course such a system must be bootstrapped, but suitable arrangements will make that a relatively rare manual process.

Of course exceptions might be made for any number of operational reasons but I think it helps to at least aim for the right thing even if it isn't always possible. Secrets in VCS seems to be a shot in exactly the opposite direction.
What happens when we start replacing men with electronic minds?

There is a particular class of problems of a 'machine economy' where machines produce products for machines, the machines can use the economic product more efficiently (at making the capital owners more profit), and humans are cut out of the loop.

The last chapter of the essay points out the issue, not that machines take jobs, that machines can and will evolve faster than their human counterparts can causes issues with employment certainty, something that is very dangerous for economies.
Indians in America aren't particularly representative of Indians in India.
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> It seems that Indians and Chinese cultures both (all?) celebrate education and particularly science/engineering more than other cultures.

We start to head down a dangerous path when we paint with broad strokes like this.

Starting off by talking about Indian culture as if it's a single entity (as opposed to an incredibly heterogenous set of cultures that happen to exist in the same sovereign state) does not lead to an accurate or nuanced perspective for the discussion at hand.
Absolutely. That's why, as some people asked elsewhere, why there's no defense. Because they haven't been disturbed yet (in most cases). No reason to drag them in and suffer the social stigma because of some overzealous prosecutor's witch hunt.
They implicitly do when they compare diversity statistics to the entire population, rather than the population of qualified workers. And that distinction right there ties directly in to GP's entire point; it comes down to education. For instance, it's not exactly a secret in the US that women are underrepresented in STEM education. So of course they are underrepresented in STEM careers.

If the pool of qualified workers does not have the same statistics as the general population, what is a workplace supposed to do about that, other than hire unqualified people?
I was referring to a time when Silicon Valley was all semiconductors, electronics, and computer hardware. There are probably 10 SAAS business for every one producing something tangible. This is the problem.
Eh, I doubt people would be saying the tech industry lacks diversity if 40% of the workers were black instead of Asian.
> Political mass-murder of innocent women and children

What about the innocent men?

> totally worth it though.

That's up for debate.
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http://www.gocsc.com/userfiles/file/ortronics/whitepapergovt...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10447/is-the-us...

I'm honestly not familiar with these kinds of facilities, but with a potential "Collateral Confidential" type cable, one could imagine a gas-filled tube being a countermeasure of some sort.
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Considering the point of Silicon Valley is to eliminate jobs, that doesn't seem entirely surprising.
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>As someone who has cards that settle after ~48 hours and cards that reflect the state of transactions immediately I can clearly state that I heavily prefer the former. The reason for this is that many transactions are not that simple and you end up with a ton of spam on your statements.

I will forever be against long settlement times for debit accounts. It reminds me of when I was in college and living paycheck to paycheck. Here in the US many banks have a scheme where they will purposely order your settled transactions from highest to lowest amount in order to charge you more fees should you run out of cash in the account.

Say you have $100 available and make 3 purchases in this order: $10, $10, $105. The bank authorizes all three transactions but orders them in decreasing value instead when the account settles. The first $105 charge hits your account causing you to be overdrawn and adding a $35 overdraft fee, then the two additional charges add an additional $35 fee each. So instead of settling the charges in order and being charged one $35 fee, they charge three $35 fees. And if you can't bring your account positive in time? Another fee, naturally.

It's been a while since I experienced this, but I feel for people who are less financially well off like I once was who still have to deal with this. I think banks now make it an option to disallow overdrafts, but by default they're allowed to "avoid embarrassment" when shopping.
And also grouping first generation immigrants with native born Americans of south and east Asian ancestry.
Until 2012 there was an intersection in Vancouver with Starbucks on 2 of the 4 corners and a different coffee shop on the third corner. So even Starbucks knows this.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kitty-corner-...
With the current CA scheme you'll always have to trust someone at some point. I think trusting the EFF with not collaborating with the NSA is a pretty good bet.
This is funny. There are several coffee shops in my town that you can see while sitting in Starbucks. I was super confused till I went out and tried them all. I still go to Starbucks since they are cheaper and better tasting then the rest but I can see the logic.
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You can get physical separation with WAPs, too...
> "How do you think I got the firmware updates? We just made an SSH tunnel over TCP 53 and proxied HTTP to the Sun website."

Sounds like the real problem was they didn't have a better mechanism for getting things like that in. If a security system stops people from doing their jobs, they'll poke a hole in it unless you provide a better option.
My thinking is that if this line of reasoning is true it suggests that we may as well be using kernel methods or other feature generation systems with high dimensionality with better algebraic properties that be might be able to train quicker or better interpret. My understanding is that those other techniques haven't been especially competitive with deep neural nets on large data sets these days, so that implies that the high dimension argument for gradient descent is insufficient to explain the success of deep neural nets.
Apple & Xcode support the same concept, but with PDFs. You can add a PDF to an "imageset", and at build time it will be rasterized into different resolutions for different devices.
Are splash screens in apps a necessary evil?
As far as can tell, the redeeming social value of Netflix, if there is one, is keeping of the peace. I would say that making work to prevent antisocial behavior is deeply ingrained in civilization itself, and is perhaps at its core; The Prince calls for make-work projects to mandate full employment to keep the peace and it must have been a primary effect, intended or otherwise of pyramid building and other group rituals. The Nietzschean/Emersonian counterdream of everyone retiring to their own homes as gods leaves no peacekeeping force or incentive. The spiderweb on US paper bills symbolizes the intent of economic interdependence as a positive incentive for peace. Without economic interdependence, one could promote peace by propoganda, genetic engineering, medication, and many other ways, but as the population unNEEDed by others increases, I find it hard to see how that population's safety could increase indefinitely. The manufacturing of needs, of "increasingly sophisticated consumer tastes" in the Fukuyama-esque formulation, is probably reaching a breaking point (or at least I personally have stopped wanting any new consumer products) but don't fail to see the wisdom in an idea just because the devil metaphor can be taken in a manner so literal it offends your sensibilities.
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I understood what he was trying to say, but the sentence itself was worded in a confusing way.
Even for weird little side projects, it's always feels safer to me to get changes upstreamed than keep carrying around "special snowflake" vendored copies that diverge.
I'm not sure this will reach an audience here, but both Canada Water and Westminster were commissioned by Roland Paoletti as part of the Jubilee Line Extension. Overall, I think it's a success (a different architect was chosen for each station).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10460471/Roland-P...
Vertical integration. What percentage of Fedex, UPS, and USPS business is Amazon deliveries? I might be worried if I was in their shoes.
Reminds me of ship shipping ships

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/04/blue-marlin-giant-ship-that...
At the scale amazon operates at, you probably do know in advance what the day's deliveries will be. I'm sure they could fill a truck with product, cruise a set route, and be reasonably certain it would all be delivered by the end of the day.
I think on amazons scale, the number of people buying a good within a large area would have some near term predictability I would imagine. In fact I would be surprised if Amazon does not speculatively dispatch goods ahead of time to local warehouses based on projected demand for orders that have not been placed yet.
I'm definitely worried about Apple's product line sprawl. They have let their belt out a lot in the last few years and I hope they're planning a sweep to cut down the product line. 25 different computing devices is a lot for the consumer to think about and I think it would help boost sales. I talked more about this in a blog post recently: http://www.jasonshen.com/2015/the-rise-and-fall-of-product-l...
Education is totally a confounding factor. There's a layer between the population of the companies and the general population, and that's the population of qualified workers. If the population of qualified workers doesn't match the general population, that's an education problem.
We appear to be perfectly in sync!
France never reverted to the kind of excesses that the set of Royalty at the time of the French revolution practiced.

And yes, you're right the effect wasn't a direct one but it definitely became part of the DNA of France. For instance the role of the church before and after the revolution are tremendously different and aristocracy never managed to get the same strong grip on France as it did before.
Years ago I was told by a colleague that he was required to setup an administrative system that was NOT connected the network, but also had to be able to send and receive e-mail.

The inherent contradiction was lost on the people giving the orders. So...
Those margins don't hold a candle to bottled water.
I would agree; however, Verizon has reneged on this agreement a few times. There are several "donut" towns in New Jersey where Verizon was explicitly mandated to serve FTTH but never bothered to (and seem to have been all but forgotten by local lawmakers).
For instance if the gas were poisonous?
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Or it has its origins in both. Especially as the Fête de la Fédération was the commemoration the year after the storming of the Bastille.

It might help were the 14th not commonly referred to as Bastille day and feature a military parade.
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It's obvious why companies don't do it: it removes the so-called golden handcuffs.

People keep pretending an employee's inability to leave a successful company because of the strike price and tax issues is a negative rather than one of the highlights of this compensation strategy from management's perspective. Oh, and employees not exercising and returning shares to the option pool doesn't hurt any of the people with the power to make decisions about it either. viz various CTOs on here defending this practice (not in this thread, but I've seen them on HN. I'm not linking one in particular because I don't want to call anyone out and I appreciate his honesty on here.)
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not sure if it's true, but is it bad to use "[person] is getting paid more than me and i should be paid more than that" as a leverage in negotiation?
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I mean, I'm not suggesting that we should stop innovating and continue employing people for jobs that can be automated, but at some point we do have to realize that we will replace humans with machines.