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>At the same time Gen. Keith Alexander was running the National Security Agency, the United States’ biggest spying outfit, he was also trading stocks in an obscure technology company that had a sweetheart deal with one of the NSA’s most important sources of intelligence—the global phone and Internet giant AT&T.

Is that a conflict of interest?
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This has been an issue for a while:

http://readwrite.com/2012/12/11/why-are-dead-people-liking-s...
No one cared, its a dance club, an optional after party. Any tier 1 dance club will employ dancers that usually dance on raised platforms to discern them from ordinary patrons. Only after some pics got leaked did feminists and white knights find a good burn narrative. And Microsoft doing damage control decided to apologize. A victory for trolls...
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That's the story story of a game-learning program that found the best way to "not lose" at tetris was to pause right before a brick extended above the top of the level, and leave it paused indefinitely.
> Manipulating/imploring me to do/see/think the way they do

Maybe you are too deceptive yourself? ;)

I think I was pretty manipulative as a kid and this led me to suspect that everybody messing with my emotions is trying to "engineer" me to do something for them.

It drove me insane especially when I utterly couldn't comprehend what they could possibly have out of some particular things. For example, religion totally weirded me out - I just felt like somebody is tricking me and I still haven't even figured out of what :)

Anyway, it gets better once you start to see the reasons why people play with you. Most of the time they have no goals besides self-protection and no real intent to influence you as long as you aren't making them feel uncomfortable in some of their stupid ways you would have never imagine possible.
The outrage isn't at women dancing, it's at having a professional event that should be inclusive of everyone who's a developer in the industry and alienating anyone who's uncomfortable with mixing sexual content with their peers or supervisors.
If anybody has questions about what it's like to have Jason as an investor, feel free to message me. Jason was our first investor and I have ton of respect for him. Here's how Jason has been founder friendly for us:
* He always has your back — he'll encourage you even when times are hard
* He responds to your updates with thoughtful questions and suggestions
* He's happy to make intros and use his network on your behalf

Most importantly he's an entrepreneur and investor — and he knows about the hard times entrepreneurs go through. He'll always encourage you and you always leave a meeting with Jason feeling more positive than you did beforehand. He doesn't believe he knows the answer to every question, but he'll give you his advice. It's hard to over-state how important this is.

Again, I'm happy to jump on the phone if any founders have questions about Jason. Message me.
Why would they think that only introverts need quiet to get serious work done?
>A lawful order from a circuit court judge is a serious thing. While we vehemently disagree with Campbell's order with respect to the video itself, we have chosen to take it down pending our appeal.

From your own link, which you clearly didn't bother to read even after I pointed out that it contradicts what you said.
"pi seconds are a nanocentury" is attributed to Adm. Grace Murray Hopper and it's surprisingly useful to know.
This research uses a camera to capture the mouth area and strain sensors for the upper face (that part can obviously be improved).

http://www.hao-li.com/Hao_Li/Hao_Li_-_publications_%5BFacial...
1) They do,

2) ... but the meat of a driver is putting the right values in the right registers of some chip, and sometimes work around bugs in said chip, or sometimes take into account that popular variant that's almost the same that the original but not quite... It takes a lot of boilerplate code.

3) It depends on your definition of fun. A driver by definition is a middle man between the OS and the hardware; so programming there is a lot about doing what you're told (and sometimes get punished harshly because you misunderstood something), either by the kernel documentation or by the datasheet of the chip you talk to.
In XP settings this is called "spiking" and is recognised as an entirely legitimate tactic.

The point of spiking is that you don't know enough to TDD. You are outside the sweetspot where TDD is tractable.

The key to spiking is that once you come with a plausible approach, or have a conceptual breakthrough, you stop, backtrack and then switch back to TDD.

Like everything else in mature software engineering, agile or classical, it requires sustained discipline.
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At the end of the day I am forced to agree with you. Is the publication of this content morally wrong? Yes. Are the publishers pieces of shit for doing this? Yes. Is what they did illegal? Unless they committed a crime to obtain the content, I would have to say no.
Its a dance club. No one had to attend the after party, it was optional. Right, dance clubs hire women to dance in sexy outfits. I dont see anything wrong.
I wonder how many jobs he got with that.
Ask HN: What's it like to work at Adobe?
I am considering offers as a university student.

Adobe has made me an offer, but I can't find as much information about it as I can for companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft.

What is good about working at Adobe? What is bad about it? What is its reputation like in the industry?

Thanks.
https://archive.is/BaZlv - "the SHA-1 hash of revision #102 of pagfault.c is 0cb82a9525a2158e2a87f5eb53d41e5936cee5a2"

(this link came from the Reddit thread in which this article was discussed the other day - https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4amfp2/i_contr...)
> The state can just harass them into compliance.

If that were actually implementable against large powerful corporations universally, we would not have had a bailout after the derivatives bomb. As it is, not even the ratings agencies got nicked.
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> because an _optional_ feature is impractical on a few niche architectures

That isn't why it's a mistake. Arrays and the stack don't mesh well together, especially arrays that aren't bounded by anything other than the width of the integral type used for the VLA length.
tl;dr: Based on the information that's publicly available, which does not include the full text of the article, it passes the sniff test.

Long: To take a stab at the study's scientific integrity without access to it[1], other aspects may be better indicators than a Washington Post article written for a mainstream audience -- namely, the journal's reputation and review policy, the author's CV, and the abstract. That's not anyone's fault, but the Post author's goal - an understandable explanation - doesn't emphasize what you're evaluating.

So, let's check these things out. Here's the CV of the first named author (I can't easily tell whether he was PI): http://www.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/socsc/pdf/psychvit...

The abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26847844

A preview: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.12181/pdf

The entity behind the journal (which also grants licenses to psychologists in Britain): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Psychological_Society

ToC from the February issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.2016.107.iss...

Peer reviewers: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjop.12174/full

He's a trained scientist with a lot of experience and many prior studies, and that this was published in a well-known peer-reviewed journal. Short of reading the actual article and having experience in the field, I think that's a more likely indicator of scientific integrity than the OP's URL.

[1]: The full text of the article isn't publicly available. While drawing conclusions without reading it would be crazy, checking the author and the journal are reasonable.
Yes, in this context it's extremely important. It's well accepted there's a pay gap between males and females. However there are also discrimination and pay differences for people who associate with non-cys gender identities. If you're going to expose wage information, it's important that it's done so not only in the name of efficient markets, but also in terms of social equality.
>Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person?

Yes.

>Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person without their consent?

Depends. Is it important that other people know these facts, as in "will they be harmed/make bad decisions if they don't know them"? (Think knowledge about a politician.)

>Do you think a publication should be able to publish facts about a person that were initially obtained illegally but were given to the publication? (see wikileaks…etc)

See question two.
Irrational exuberance and/or lack of proper due diligence as to the extent of the ties. It must be great to have so much spare cash that you can do a transaction like this the way I might buy a TV and sell it on ebay if doesn't do what I thought it would.
I agree that mimicking feeling behavior isn't the same as having feelings. However I've started to fear and wonder whether there's really anything special about organic life in this sense. "as far as we know" - we don't even know the people around have feelings. I think this is a big open question.
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Drinking isnt professional either. Its an after party. The whole point is to have fun. If a bunch of skimpy dancers ruin your fun you shouldnt have gone to the party.
This means you still need science to figure out which traditional practices are any good. Unfortunately studying diet is quite hard.
> Is that really the first criticism that comes to mind when discussing this very specific endeavor?

This is how Show HN works. Someone makes a thing -- a form to collect data. Someone else finds that it's missing options they would find useful, so they offer a suggestion with supporting links to explain why the missing stuff would be useful. Now the form can be improved. High fives all around.

> There are MILLIONS of forms like that all over the internet.

There are millions of everything on the internet. But it's hard to find successful sites with mandatory gender fields and only two options, because that alienates users for no reason, and alienating users for no reason isn't what successful sites do.

Think about it this way: you might choose "female" sometimes to mess with marketers, but "male" is still an option. If you were filling out a form and the only options were "female over 35" and "female under 35," do you think that might tend to discourage male responses?
Your statement, 'I don't care how it looks, I just want it to work', versus your argument against it, 'aesthetically pleasing designs and good usability lead to you wanting to use an app more' are perhaps misaligned.

Usability is not supposed to be aesthetically pleasing, it can be but it is not supposed to be. It's supposed to be usable.

If something is more usable by removing a microsecond delay, then it may not look as nice but it is more usable. I would prefer more usable to nicer looking.

Design is absolutely not just vanity, but artificial delays absolutely do hinder usability to increase the vanity. It may not "feel" as nice, but it is objectively better to use.

The Android Chrome browser is a great example. Swiping stuff around, amazing, smooth and great animations. The animations take only as long as it takes for me to use them. But when I click the button to show me more tabs, it takes a moment to swoop out, then I click and it takes a moment to swoop back in. Great, spatial awareness is introduced and it felt nice, neat.

But now I have 5 tabs open and I am trying to flip between them without losing my train of thought and all those delays add up, it is now no longer as nice to use because I feel like I am ahead of my device because it's slow, when it's really just the artificial delays.

You can still move up to the tab overview screen, it still gives spatial context, but the animation is not needed, and can be removed for better usability.

I also feel like good animations can still exist without delay in many contexts (not all). Complete the users action instantly, show them the results instantly, but in some contexts there is room to fade out auxiliary information out more slowly.

Moving up to the tab overview is a good example. The tabs can be shown instantly, and just a ghost of the previous screen could fade out behind it.
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Yup, that's an extra $15 million. Serves them right. I'll bet all the staffers who made crude jokes and laughed at a guy having consensual sex with someone in what they thought was a private, intimate act wouldn't be very happy if the same was done to them.

This whole argument that public people don't have ANY right to privacy is utterly absurd, and Gawker have been very much been brought down to earth - hard. And funnily enough, thought I cant stand the man - they've been super critical of a variety of unethical and outrageous things Trump has said and done. But Trump hasn't ever published a sex tape, and defied a court order to remove it!
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I mean the personalities. I don't think being a "complainer" vs a "feel gooder" personality type changes much based on salary.
Only on quantum computers of sufficient size. And we are far from having idea about how to actually build them.
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Watcha gonna do when Hulk Hogan runs wild on your wife, Brother!

Distribute the sex tape then make you earn 115 millions.
I could be remembering wrong, but I believe the last time I checked, the FAA required people operating RC planes/quadcopters to maintain a physical line of sight to their machine, with the implication being you need to do so to remain in control of the machine. A quadcopter a mile away is definitely outside controllable line of sight, and this guy should be getting questioned by the FAA.
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40 years old here, and I have seen much more pain than benefit over the last 30 years. Early in my youth I was exposed to libertarianism, and I was taken in - it sounded so simple and logical and effective. But, over time I saw the effects of globalization, free trade, and deregulation. They've been selling us, the masses, on it for 40 years. Why haven't salaries and demand for jobs increased? They always say it's because of the existing tariffs, regulations, unions, etc. 'Trust us,' they say, 'just a little bit longer - more deregulation and free trade, and it will happen. Trust us.' I've literally heard that same claim for as long I can remember.

Maybe I'm a minority. I'm the first college educated person in my family (most with 'gifted' level IQs - like that matters!). The rest were working class. Then, I've seen them slowly lose jobs, fall below the poverty line. Now, I make a good salary, and I have to send money back to my family because they're unable to find jobs, pay for transportation, pay for education or health care or housing. Luckily, they are still able to pay for food! It's like I'm an immigrant in my own country, sending money back to the old country. Just weird.

I am very happy that we have been able to raise standards of living for many who had been earning less than a dollar a day. But, this has come at the expense of the working and middle class in many 'rich' countries. There were and are much better ways to achieve the same goal. Instead of pressuring the benefiting countries to migrate to democracy and rule of law, we instead caved into our primal demand for low-cost junk. (Yay! $5 t-shirts. Thank you, Stefan Persson) Now, we have autocratic and corrupt countries with as much leverage as we used to have.

The capitalists have been selling us Powerball tickets for 40 years, and we keep lining up to buy them.
Way to give an opinion on a set of constraints you know nothing about.

I wrote a system for the constraints they supplied and it turned out what they asked for wasn't what they ended up doing, instead of 30-40 jobs unscheduled at any one time they have 4 to 6 thousand. Given that the original system was designed for 40 and I assumed a worst case of 250 they blew through that limit, also since you know nothing about the system I find your comment hilarious, there is a lot of difference between 6 users posting a tweet and 6 users using a system them polls out to dozens of services and has to do a large amount of processing for each task.
Nothing you have just said makes that sex tape of vital public interest.
I liked Seneca's letters from a Stoic, and the miracle of mindfulness. There's also some helpful exercises in the four hour workweek (writing down worst case scenarios), and bits of the Black Swan were formative.

Of course, a big part of the latter two books was also structuring my life so I don't have situations where I need to deal with office politics as part of my livelihood. But I can confirm that the techniques do work for very real stresses I've had that can't be avoided.
How many tarmac earmuff people do you see getting promoted to a senior position?

This sort of thing, even if it's unfair, absolutely lowers your status in the company.

In one previous job with a noisy open-plan office, I actually tried wearing some factory-grade ear plugs, small little yellow ear plugs that you couldn't see unless you came up close.

They weren't perfect, but the ambient noise was so distracting that I gave them a try.

Within a week, my boss had a 1-1 meeting with me to tell me that some people thought it was very rude that I was wearing earplugs, and that it made it seem like I was unwilling to participate.

I was actually training an intern and helping a team of three others with a software tool I wrote for them, so I was far from not participating, and all of my peers were vocally supportive of me wearing the ear plugs if they helped.

I learned later that one of the C-level executives had made a walk through of the research work space and he just simply "didn't like" seeing someone with ear plugs.

Headphones == acceptable, possibly even sexy cool start-up geek.

Ear plugs == tacky, borderline Aspbergery nerd who isn't being good enough office eye candy
Are you talking about the original Wolfenstein, or the new one? And if referring to the latter, How so? The new Wolfenstein felt very well done.
There are some redox screenshots here: http://www.redox-os.org/news/
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Typically tests can provide fault detection and fault isolation, but to different degrees.

A feature/e2e test typically provides the most effective kind of fault detection, because it combines all the components of the real system with no stubs or mocks. But if it shows a fault, then typically that fault is hard to identify, because it wasn't previously driven out by a more detailed integration or unit test.

Contrariwise, integration or unit tests will typically be best suited to isolating faults, but typically those faults are limited to the class of things you included in your tests.

This is why we have "test pyramids": a handful of slow, brittle feature tests at the top, then an increasing volume of faster, less-brittle integration and unit tests.

TDD is almost orthogonal to the testing pyramid, with one difference from non-TDD tests. In TDD each line of code was, ideally, driven out by a test or tests. Fault detection is increased, because each line was written in response to a manufactured (test-first) fault.
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This reads as unnecessarily nasty and mean-spirited. Sure, I am biased, I am a FreeBSD developer.
System beat every spec they set, they asked for it to manage a max of 40 unscheduled jobs, I designed it to handle 250, last time I looked it was sat at 5600 odd, given the nature of the system the interactions are vast.
There's a massive difference between wikileaks who report on human rights violations of governments and Gawker posting a sex tape with the intent of ruining a person's life.
You realize that Hitler was elected, right? Democracy is not the be all and end all. It's great because of all of the wonderful things it has done for us. Self-representation is a good in itself, but not greater than human prosperity and freedom. And loyal opposition only works when everyone agrees on the sanctity of the system. I believe in liberal democracy, where the sovereignty of the people is limited by institutions like a constitutional court and a general separation of powers. An elected dictatorship (especially one like Allende's, elected on a slim plurality) has no legitimacy in my eyes.

Allende had effectively made himself dictator by ignoring the Congress and the Supreme Court. That doesn't justify Pinochet creating a military junta after the coup, and it certainly didn't justify his political death squads. But again, I'd rather live under a traditional dictatorship, that seeks to preserve society's structure and institutions, than a Communist dictatorship that has social and economic upheaval (destruction in practice) as its agenda. It's not a choice I want to ever be in a position to make. But man has lived and prospered under unfree governments throughout history. Man has never prospered under Communism.

It's disappointing that someone who's clearly intelligent can't have an intellectual disagreement without attacking the other person's moral integrity. Personally, I'll take it as badge of honor to be called 'disgusting' by someone who defends Castro and Allende and their ilk.
maybe, or maybe this, Dec 2015, when the US military scrapped plans to invest in Big Dog http://www.headlines-news.com/2015/12/30/698664/defence-chie...
It also doesn't work because a patch if sometimes reworked by multiple people - either the committer himself, or a co-author of the patch series.
I have. I guess my model is the opposite of theirs. They place you in a big group with all your neighbors and I guess they hope you go to events and start meeting people. I put you in a small group, encourage you to do stuff together in a comfortable setting a couple times to establish familiarity, and then let you grow the group from there. Bottom up vs top down.

My neighborhood has 60,000 people living in it with ~600 people in the Nextdoor group. There's very little activity in the group, so I don't think people are really using it. I don't know what it's like in other neighborhoods so it may be that my neighborhood just isn't good for it, but if I had 600 users on Krewe from my neighborhood, there would definitely be a lot of activity.
Interesting. The last paragraph sounds nothing at all like me.

And for the other comment below, I'd say my learning processes were both conscious and unconscious. I used conscious thinking to note what needed practice and assess progress, but used intuition and practice to actually improve them. From what I've read of skill development this is pretty typical.
There's no doubt that free trade is a big net positive for the US. But one of the major oversights of the last few decades of public policy is the failure to reallocate some of the net benefits of free trade more directly to the losers, e.g. lower middle class working people in the US. Maybe they figured these people would never organize or vote in serious numbers. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump might prove otherwise.
I don't think a publication should be allowed to publish intimate facts about a person without their consent, if there is no greater good at stake.

This includes irrelevant sextapes.

Also if there is a greater good at stake (for example the security of a nation) its questionable if the public needs to have access to every intimate detail, that often just contribute to humiliating the person in question.