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The worst kept secret in Silicon Valley is that 90+% of the so called 'unicorns' are just donkeys with a plastic cone on their head.

It long since stopped being about innovation and disrupting markets and became mostly about shuffling piles of imaginary units around so a select few could get rich. Sadly the pawns in this whole game will be all the employees holding options that are soon to be worthless... and who were convinced to take those options in exchange for taking a proper cash salary.

The only good thing this time around is that (unlike the last big Silicon Valley implosion) most of these companies are still private. So it will be really messy for some private investors and the greater San Francisco area is going to have a mess on its hands, but the broader US economy isn't going to get impacted as much. The stock market of 2015 also isn't propped up by bloated tech stocks in the way it was in 1999-2000.
The master branch worked without issue for me on ubuntu 15.04 and 15.10. I had to install clang-3.6 and libclang3.6-dev, if that helps.
And by the same token, not all white guys are into Star Wars and Pokemon and roller blading. The Bloomberg blogger is guilty of a lot of stereotyping.
Yeah, but that's not related to the race aspect. Why bring up her race unless that's the reason for why they don't watch the same TV shows or read the same books?
I thought it means "Rockstar Games developers". No idea why would they force this crappy layout, though.
It's a leading indicator. Gas prices are unsustainably low, tech startups are in trouble, China is in the midst of an economic crisis, and US stocks have been very volatile for most of this year. These are all signs we might be due for a correction.
> I think replacing civil political discourse with intimidation is in and of itself an evil thing. I think that destroying civil political discourse in exchange for a political goal is a long term loss for society, even if the political goal is a good goal.

When civil political discourse is a valid option, then sure, I agree. The point is that people exist in this world who:

1. Want to do evil things.
2. Cannot be reasoned with.
3. Are smart enough to take advantage of the goodwill of people who think they can be reasoned with, and use it against them.

It's hard for me to take seriously any position that doesn't acknowledge these facts. You can't just close your eyes and pretend that everyone is basically good, does evil only because evil has been done to them, and can be brought around to see reason.
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I didn't quite get what a unikernel was. Reading up on approaches that were a bit different than MirageOS was helpful:

http://osv.io/

https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun
There are also far more high quality apps that are free for Android.
Does it need to be public? Japan has a huge train infrastructure all privately owned AFAIK. Singapore's I'm not sure if it's public or private but it apparently makes a profit.
I don't want to devolve the thread but I have to say I chuckled at the thought of "unnecessary left-handed children."
As are yours, when you try to implicate that Gamergate has anything to do with the comment in question.
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You can click two boxes on maybe 300 different financial websites and see this data. Which doesn't apply to the "unicorn" situation anyway.

Volatility appears (and is fed back) as people re-evaluate risk vs reward.

People who held unfashionable Microsoft stock made more money than people who got in on the last two Tumblr rounds over the same time period. Early investors are no longer just technology zealots who made $300 million 10 years ago -- actual financial companies are involved now.

Also early-stage startup investing is a drop in the bucket of the greater market. If people are even bothering to move their money out, that's an even more significant indicator.
I'd think it runs the other way: a visa is a much larger gamble for someone running a startup.
I had the exact opposite reaction: "This is Twitter, but without all the interesting bits from people I don't follow." A lot of the benefit of watching Twitter when I have a game on is having funny or informative stuff wander my way. Facebook is more insular than I like, and frankly I'm not close enough to the people I like watching sports "with" on Twitter to have them on Facebook.
That's a great point; it goes both ways though.
No media statement should simply be taken at face value in this type of international conflicts, whether it is RT or the NYT.
There are more resources at http://unikernel.org/resources
How will it differ from Fitbit?
Skimming the article doesn't make it clear whether they've addressed this, but, if you want to add units of time of non-constant size, then you cannot just use time-stamps. For example, `(today + 1 year) - today` is longer than `(today + 2 years) - (today + 1 year)` [0], so that one can't think of them as just `(today.unix + seconds_in_year).human` and `(today.unix + 2*seconds_in_year).human`.

[0] Assuming that today + 1 year is defined to be 2017-01-21, and today + 2 years is defined to be 2018-01-21; and, if not, then one faces other problems with intuition.
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I've tried using Voice Memos when inspiration strikes, but it's a tiny bit fiddly. I bought a little Tascam recorder which makes excellent recordings and is super easy to use, but getting files of it is not trivial and I don't always have it in the right room. For me it's all about minimizing friction, and this looks about as simple as it can get. iCloud sharing is going to be super useful too - I can get a sketch down and it'll be waiting on my computer in the studio.
This is not my experience in France at all. I'm a white American male, and I was shocked when I worked in France for a month. When I ate lunch in the cafeteria the muslim employees grouped together and there was a whole 'who are you eating with' question that I found odd.

This was in 2004, and it is only 1 data point. But when talking to French friends of mine in tech who are African they share similar stories. One French friend of mine could not find a job in tech until he changed his name to a generic French one. He sent out over 20 job applications and didn't get an interview until he changed his name. After he changed his name he got an interview after the first attempt.

These are only anecdotes, and I can't offer any hard evidence, but I would not suggest that France is somehow 'post-racial'.
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I thought about brokers like real estate, insurance etc. if you live in a high end neighborhood and have family that lives and has connections there you have a lot better income just because your personal network would have larger numbers for commission.
The Java is clean because it's perfectly understandable. I don't have to think about "+ 1m" meaning month, minute, or milli-. Verbose, yes, but the meaning is 100% unambiguous which I think makes it a better API.

> overloading strings

I'm pretty sure writing "+ 1m" is more of an overloading of a string than ".plusMinutes(1)".
We also put a note on the company website [1]. I'm looking forward to working with the Docker folks on this. :)

[1] http://unikernel.com/#notice (not to be confused with the community website at http://unikernel.org :)
Do you have any data to support these statements? This reads as FUD as-is. Not saying that's the case, I'm not in the startup scene per se, but on the face of it, this seems overly pessimistic.
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Shorter but sadly not RFC3339 compliant although it is ISO8601 compliant.
“SJW” is the modern equivalent of saying “commie” or “pinko”. It says nothing about the target but suggests your goal is to attack rather than contribute anything of value to the conversation.
Well I'm not an expert but it seems to me that in France we expect minorities to leave a good part of their culture and become "real french", eat cheese, wear beret and never walk without a baguette under their arms, whereas in the US I was under the impression that there's a lot more effort from minorities to differentiate themselves.
I don't think we can really talk of a "black culture" in France (at least not in the same degree as in the US, but I may be mistaken).

I wasn't talking about tourists, we are well known for behaving badly with them, sorry about that.

What shocks me is not that she doesn't feel she has a lot in common with her colleagues, but that she thinks that it's because she's black and they're not.
Is the the emergence of their Sportstream acquisition?

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sportstream#/entity
I am virtually certain that it is illegal on a lot of counts, but that circumstances and the law make it very difficult to fight in an effective manner.
Lots of focus on too many restraints, but I'd say poor design can just as often be the result of not enough restraints.
Yes, and when you break down the "white" demographic, you'll find yourself surprised at the rather high representation of Ashkenazis.
I used to be in the unikernel camp of "this is the next step in virtualization tech", but having played around with both containers and unikernels, and now developing with containers, I think unikernels are going to occupy only a very niche space.

There are two touted benefits of unikernels, performance and security. Performance turns out to be a red herring, as the overhead of an OS vs a Hypervisor turns out to be roughly equivalent (with the OS actually winning in some use cases).

Security is definitely an issue, but it's so abstract. My company is a compliance (a very specific industry's compliance) cloud provider and we have gone with Docker as we get to use the OS as our Hypervisor, which means it is much more extensible and, in our use case, secure as we are able to auto-encrypt all network traffic coming out of the hosts with a tap/tun virtual device.

Two things need to happen to make unikernels attractive. A new Hypervisor needs to get made, one that is just as extensible as an OS around the isolated primitives. It should also have something extra too (like the ability to fine tune resource management better than an OS can). Secondly a user friendly mechanism like Docker needs to happen.
> By my count it's over 30 characters less "clean".

If character count were really the ultimate measure of cleanliness, then we'd all be programming pointlessly (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_programming) and using single-character names for any variables that slipped through. (That's not to say that shorter is never better, but rather that, when it is better, its brevity is not the only reason.)
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Computer programming is one of the most cognitively demanding professions in existence. Ability to program correlates pretty highly with cognitive test scores, such as the SAT Math. If you look at the top scorers on such tests in America, only about 1% are black. The ratio of black engineers in Silicon Valley matches what you would expect based on the test scores.

To see it visually, this is the bell curve based on millions of test results: http://i.imgur.com/zB1oENS.png?1 There are very simply very few black people in the far-right portion. This is not even a disputed fact (the dispute is mainly over why the curve is skewed and if it can be fixed; the existence of the skew is incontrovertible).

This was at least partly because of the way companies recruited: From 2001 to 2009, more than 20 percent of all black computer science graduates attended an historically black school, according to federal statistics—yet the Valley wasn’t looking for candidates at these institutions.

The average SAT scores at Howard are thoroughly mediocre, on par with second and tier state colleges, and you would not expect an elite school to concentrate on Howard, any more than you would expect it to concentrate on Southern Illinois University or the like. The only reason an elite company would recruit at Howard is for diversity reasons.

Foreman is strong-willed, which sometimes gets him in trouble. “I just chalked it up to soft skills, I guess,” he says, explaining that he and his interviewer had clashed. Pratt says he’d been “furious” to learn that Foreman had been passed over. Other companies said no, too.

So was he a good programmer or not? How do we the readers know that he good do the job and was passed up unfairly?

The phenomenon, “stereotype threat,” is getting more attention in the Valley, and companies have begun training employees to be aware of it.

The idea of stereotype threat is extremely dubious - http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/10/john-list-on-virtual-none...

“She doesn’t fit the profile of what people think of when they think of engineers. Even though people think of Silicon Valley as a big meritocracy, I don’t think that’s how it works.”

There are now a number of companies that do automated programming interviews -- Starfighter, Hacker Rank, etc. Do these manage to overcome stereotype threat? Do these blind interviews allow through more African-Americans? Before throwing around slanderous accusations, one should actually show that Silicon Valley is treating people with the same programming ability differently.

The sad thing is that these tech companies cannot just admit, "We don't recruit at Howard because the SAT scores are not there." Rather these companies have to pretend that anyone can be a great programmer if they just put in the work, and a lot of people end up with false hopes that only get crushed.
> It long since stopped being about innovation and disrupting markets and became mostly about shuffling piles of imaginary units around so a select few could get rich.

As someone mentioned on another thread a day or two ago, just look at the latest YC batches, particularly the IT companies. They're largely "X for Y" sorts of companies that already have significant traction. It's unlikely that the Airbnb founders would be able to get into YC in 2016.

> Sadly the pawns in this whole game will be all the employees holding options that are soon to be worthless... and who were convinced to take those options in exchange for taking a proper cash salary.

And on the other side, once the bubble bursts and the options are exposed as worthless at many of these companies, it's going to be much harder for startups to recruit employees with equity compensation, which will only make it more difficult to control burn rates.
These principles extend beyond commercial product design. The API and thus the ergonomics of a programming library come to mind, for example.
Access to a computer has little to do with education anymore. If someone wants to tinker with computers, they can use one in a library or just get an old one for <$100.
Looking like being obvious is not among Rams principles.
Something like that seems so easy to fake. If you have the knowledge now, how is anyone going to prove you wrong if you say you learned it at 13?
I was born in -91, and the first time I had access to a computer that I could actually install things on (not school/library) was at the age of 15, and no internet access at home until about 2 years later. I live in Finland, but I imagine there are lots of Americans with similiar experiences. Nowadays it's also possible that the those people will have a "consumption only"-device rather than a "real" PC they can do things like programming with.
I am writing one. You should use the C one, if you can.

https://github.com/bwesterb/argon2pure
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> Performance turns out to be a red herring, as the overhead of an OS vs a Hypervisor turns out to be roughly equivalent

That presumes you get to choose. When you have a hypervisor either way (as on IaaS), the only "choice" is between a "bare" hypervisor, or a hypervisor plus an OS doing containerization.
> Pratt also noticed that many advanced classes at Howard and other black colleges weren’t as rigorous or up-to-date as they were at Carnegie Mellon or Stanford. By senior year, students risked falling behind their peers from other institutions. “I’d ask faculty members, ‘Why are you teaching this course that way?’ ” he recalls. “And they’d say, ‘Well, I’ve been teaching the course for 25 years.’  ”

That's the core issue right there. The school hasn't adapted to the technology and practices. What use would you be on day one if your coding knowledge was stuck in 1991?
Good luck testing it without developing it. And double good luck getting something without investing in it. Apply business process after you actually have the kernel of a product, which includes a product design.
Just loading slowly and buffering. Direct link seems to work better for me, thanks.
As a human that people in America would call black/African-American I really dislike articles like this. I understand that some black people feel like they cant relate to others, but I find the entire premise of such arguments about homogeneous workplaces and cultures completely ridiculous. The culture of 'black' people in Alabama will be very different from Howard or Washington DC, does that mean Alabama is unwelcoming ?

Secondly, who cares what schools top tier companies are targeting. If Howard is churning out good software engineers that are so good they cant be ignored, a) they wont need Google, et al to hire them b) their skills will speak for themselves when they apply for a job

It seems like so many people (black, white, Asian, etc) actually buy into this socially constructed division by culture or skin color which is completely insane to me. To me it's like dividing people into groups by eye or hair color and saying you feel unwelcomed by the blue eyed people.

Articles like this seem to reinforce the notion that there is this 'otherness' of culture and skin color. If Google ,Facebook, etc are ignoring software engineers that are top notch from Howard and other historically black colleges, that would be a problem, but I doubt that is the case. Most companies want people that can get the job done well and know their stuff in my experience (I've worked in Silicon Valley and Fortune 50 companies).

The article seems to repeatedly make the point that the black people at tech companies were feeling out of place while working at Google, etc. as if any Indian, Asian, or White person do not experience the same thing (someone from India will have to learn the culture of SV just like someone from Howard Univ. or some white person from Alaska). Who cares if you dont watch the same TV shows or read the same books. If anything , I think thats a good thing, as its a starting point to learn more about something you havent experienced. I think the most important thing is mindset and attitude going into situations like this. Curiosity and open mindedness would do wonders for the people in the article who feel like 'others' in SV.

I dont feel like the culture of SV is as homogeneous as they are trying to project, but this 'otherness' is the real projection

I've never been openly been discriminated against, or felt like the color of my skin had anything to do with my success in Silicon Valley or the East Coast while working at tech companies. I've found almost all people of all 'races' to only care about competence and efficiency (other than the occasional jerk or misanthrope)
Completely different animal, to stay relevant to your topic. That's an original work. No derivative conditions appy. I was being specific about the music part. I don't see any information on the site about it either, though if it's there and I've missed it, I'd be willing to read it and revise my take if needed.
Wait a decade or so after that and the games themselves will be played in VR.
The “unicorn” is not a new buzzword but the frequency of it popping up the last several days lets me assume there is a unicorn inflation underway. Put on your muck repellant and get ready for bursting bubbles full of unicorn blood.
I think it's similar to the issue of women in comp sci. It's a recruiting and culture problem in the whole industry.
African Americans have more barriers than women imo, because statistically they have issues of poverty and less tech early age tech exposure on TOP of culture mismatch.
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Very cool app. Question: I assume that any content created belongs to the creator/user, correct? Apple can't mine the pool of content and use someone's idea for their next ad, right? I looked through the app's license agreement on the App Store but couldn't really conclude anything (IANAL). I'm also pretty certain that none of my noodling would ever warrant theft, just wondering if there was any legalese ensuring that this couldn't happen!
We're getting into domains where sub-second precision is pretty important. Logs, for instance; on s aystem handling thousands of messages a second, storing log entries at a resolution of one second gets . . . irritating.

I like Windows NT's system of seconds-since-1600-or-so in increments of 100 nanoseconds. That system has served me well. 100ns isn't crazy to read directly and often from a hardware register (talk to a hardware engineer about latching a rapid counter sometime...), it covers a reasonable range for humans (handles everyone currently alive, for their whole lifetimes and most events they care about) and it fits pretty well with events that occur in multiprocessor systems (I'll be saying something different if I ever work on systems with terahertz clock rates, though).
> I remember my own struggles to break into the tech business, many years ago now. Although white and "privileged", i.e. no cultural barriers to entry, I found it very tough and had to jump through hoops, work my way up from semi-tech to actual development positions

Imagine you actually had cultural barriers to entry to deal with as well.
This is a very simple problem and racism has almost nothing to do with it:

White founder has a business idea and they bring along their friends - most likely white. Those friends bring in their friends and colleagues - also most likely white - to become the executive team. The executives hire tomorrow's managers. By that time the vast majority of employees are white, and even if they work very very hard to hire black people, it will take a very very long time until there is proportional representation all the way up to the executive level. Some execs work well into their 80s, meaning that it could take more than a century until there is population-proportional diversity at any predominantly white-founded institution.

The longer a lack of diversity persists in a company's trajectory the harder it becomes to fix it. The only solution I can think of is for black people to start more companies themselves.
I'm not sure they deep down believe it. It's a rhetorical technique of frame shifting that has been quite successful, and allows some people to avoid facing their own racism. Since it works, why not continue using it?

I have found a near perfect antidote: I point out that the USA is the world's most powerful nation (I'm from a small weak nation that has historically been trashed a lot). So, I continue: are you saying that only Americans can be racist, for they are so powerful?

Nobody that I threw that at has been able to recover, they stutter, stumble, flail their arms, start to sweat and change the subject.
> I do think, through my personal experience, the Valley is probably the most diverse place that I have been.

Yikes. You need to get out more, visit more places in America.
+1 I see where you're coming from now. You're right about America and the culture of minorities, but in the melting pot, that's how everyone kind of is. We all feel like we have to be someone in America. It's impossible to just be American since there's really no such thing. The traditional American is a mid-western cowboy and that doesn't really apply to people on either coast.
Data to support what? It's well known that common stock gets wiped out in any kind of devaluation.