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In theory, you can watch anybody, but for this to work, you'd need someone to actually look at the evidence i.e. suspect the person in the first place. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes... And in this case it's the guardians of the guardians: who are you going to trust with watching the head of MI6's counter-intelligence division 24/7?

As the CIA found in its paranoid early days, over-suspicion is highly counter-productive (see e.g. [1]). You just HAVE to trust your managers. Even if all services have some kind of internal intelligence setup to watch the watchers, it's focused downwards where the risks are higher and cost of suspicion lower, and it has to be run by people you trust the most. You balance the cost of a mole, versus the opportunity cost of turning down genuine defectors and trusting your own staff.

This is why (according to [2]) many European services are run by people from wealthy, old families, preferably with at least a few members who have served. It's expected that on average, these people have profound ties to their country - if nothing else, in the form of immense property portfolios - and thus are much less likely to defect. You can't bribe them, you can't offer them a better life [3], what's left? Ideology, and that can be somewhat watched for. Of course, you deny yourself some great talent that way but as with managing a hedge fund, you want to limit downside rather than maximize upside. Nationalism and dynastic politics are a form of defense against foreign enemies.

Hence Philby. He was trusted by design, not because MI6 were "bloody incestuous fools" or whatever, and no amount of surveillance would have changed that.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Main-Enemy-Inside-Showdown/dp/0345...

[2] http://www.amazon.fr/Missions-methodes-techniques-speciales-...

[3] Kalugin recalls in http://www.amazon.com/First-Directorate-Intelligence-Espiona... that he was somewhat worried about Philby's living conditions in the Soviet Union (unheated flat, alcoholism, etc.). It's been a while since I read the book but I recall he or someone else decided to push for him to have a good quality of life as an advertisement to other potential defectors; only then was Philby put up in proper accommodation and welcomed by the Soviet system.
That's a 'cool trick', but it's not 'nice to code'.
Wow! This is great news, I never thought there would be an open source Netflix solution. Can you give me some pointers for where to find more information? I did a quick search and did not find anything.
And home computers didn't exist in the 60s. What's your point?
I assume existing forks will still remain in the blocked users account but will no longer appear in the fork graph.
Very timely I was having a personal dilemma about keeping regressing to basics and building backup from blank page or not. Very timely.
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Great post.

A good thing to remember: no one knows what the hell they're doing, no matter what stage of life they're in.
Noun, 1. money laundering:
Concealing the source of illegally gotten money.

Do you have any evidence that suggests that all users of mixers obtained their Bitcoin illegally?

This HN post is a criticism of the privacy of Bitcoin transactions. Mixers can improve the privacy of Bitcoin transactions. I don't see how your comment adds to this discussion, unless you think financial privacy is a crime - in which case your statement applies equally to cash transactions.
TFA makes it sound like Netflix bootstrapped itself by buying DVDs from WalMart, which is false -- Rental DVDs, of course, are purchased from distributors and are substantially more expensive than consumer DVDs.
Ah, the good old days...

The history of airport security is somewhat interesting. There wasn't a TSA for long time, and the hijackings/flying to Cuba got annoying, so metal detectors were added.

Everything else since then hasn't made much sense.
‘There are going to be lots of dead unicorns’
Dog comes to mind first, stealing those would tick someone off a lot. Like the horses later, it was what you brought hunting and was a companion animal. Horse and dog are 1 word difference in Dakota: sunka (dog) vs. sunka wakan (horse). S is a sh sound, emphasis is 2nd syllable.

[edit: of course I'm not Crow, I grew up with their rivals]
Literally see this every year in the lab
I agree. The difference between an IDE and a text editor is absolutely not that an IDE has more advanced editing capabilities (e.g., code completion). In fact, it's quite the opposite, in that most programmers' text editors provide far more sophisticated editing capabilities than a typical IDE. What sets the IDE apart is right in the name: integrated development environment. That is, everything you need for development all rolled up into a single integrated environment (hopefully, this is obvious). So, an IDE ought to provide not just editing capabilities, but facilities for managing, configuring, building, running, testing, debugging, etc.
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Unfortunately this post won't get many upvotes cause its not negative about an employer (everyone loves dirty drama, the HN upvotes say it all), so I'm quite happy to see someone post about some great work they've done.

Documentation is a long and fairly thankless job, for some reason I don't see bootcamps kicking out technical writers, which is a shame because we need more great technical writing. Thanks for all the hard work making development better for so many!
I am not accusing De Goes of being a racist. Just because his actions had consequences you feel in hindsight were predictable does not mean that he felt that way at the time. He chose to write what he wrote.
There's way too much Kay content online nowadays. Thanks for the tip. It's cool to see him rant about the forgotten wonders on stage, it's a different thing to see him look around like a kid when describing sketchpad 'face to face'.
Do you say that as a consumer, or an employee, or an employer? I am curious about which perspectives support tipping and which don't.
Spoken like a true parent
This. Spot on. Not just for Tony, but for everyone who is admired at Nest. First-line managers (not all, only the ones that the company celebrates and adores) especially - making life difficult for poor individual contributors (micromanagement, zero positive feedback or encouragement, tons of critical feedback), all the while sucking up to the middle managers who think their lieutenants are the best thing since sliced bread.
How do you figure? Having done some product development work, it seemed to me like a highly speculative project, unlikely ever to ship as a consumer device.
How is the Western rejection of Christianity coming along?
Start a crowdfunding effort. There are enough Tesla owners in MA that at least one of them will be willing to do this.
FYI: You can always check someone's profile and see if they have info listed, more efficient and cuts down on extraneous comments and waiting on replies.
I'm particularly infamous among my peers for asking questions, and most of the time I'm not asking on my own behalf. Asking a question because you don't understand is what you can do for yourself. Asking a question because you don't expect others to understand is something more.

This pretty much applies to all disciplines, particularly when a subgroup of people are more likely to feel intimidated by the learning environment.
This isn't gender specific. As a guy I have worked in teams where asking for help is terrifying. To the point I stared at code for hours lest I ask how the uber-abstraction and hack soup worked.
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I wonder if about 10 years from now, we're going to see a lot more young women entering CS and similarly technical majors, and sticking with it through a degree and a career, because they've grown up watching Twilight Sparkle and the other ponies expressing vulnerability -- "I don't understand" and "I need help" and similar sentiments.

I don't think girls necessarily need mentors they can identify with (which, for many girls, means "women") in their exact chosen fields, in order to choose those fields. But I do think they need mentors they can identify with who display the character traits needed to be successful in those fields -- the sort of confidence and perseverance expressed in this article.
For many students, it's not easy to be the first one to speak up. It interrupts the lecture and tells everyone you don't know what's going on. Of course, a lot of people might be just as lost as you, but none of them can be sure that others are lost.
I think all of the tech discussions misses the bigger picture of why a random app to begin with. It is to ensure racial profiling or other profiling is not the trigger to put people on one side of the line or the other. Frankly, I find this a bit too PC, and from my experience in life, a bit of common sense, and using your 'eyes' (judgement included) is needed here. You will have idiots using their own eyes and judgement sure, but you will have idiots using the TSA iPad app too without using their 'eyes'. I grew up in Sunset Park Brooklyn, NY. I could get beat up 4 times a week if I didn't simply 'racially profile', and cross the street when seeing a group of hispanic-looking guys drinking beer out of brown paper bags after school (a hint they had nothing better to do). Being white in a +90% Puerto Rican / Dominican neighborhood with platinum blonde hair until age 14 made me stand out to say the least. If I had used a random 'cross the street' | 'stay on this side', I could expect to get beat up 50% of the time ;) I learned how to avoid the common prejudices of some of the morons in my neighborhood, while maintaining some rational level of discrimination and common sense. Yes, sometimes you will miss the radicalized Nordic-looking or UK youth, but I bet the odds of the discriminatory eye will beat a random search any day in a large population sample.
It's about preference and work flow.
Myself I use Mutt and configured it extensively to speed up mail processing with macros and short cuts.

So Mutt may not give _you_ anything of value, but to others it may be a huge time saving tool. :)
That actually makes sense in a perverse way. From the poll, one can see that most business owners would like to pay more wages. Well, they own the business, so they could just raise wages if they wanted to, without a legal minimum wage. Then why don't they? Competition. A business owner won't raise wages because his neighboring business will have lower costs and be more competitive. However, by forcing all business owners to give raises, competitive pressure is lost. Raising the minimum wage still defies economic sense, however, in that it distorts the marketplace and causes job loss.
Should we keep the whole education lie about choosing a career early on ? [1] or admit that things are the way they are and make people have a broader intellectual view about things so that they can jump whenever the times require it ?

[1] I understand the value of picking one thing and going deep. Versus breadth / jack of all trade say.
> When he started to explain the assignment it quickly became aware that I wasn’t grasping a thing he was saying. He tried again, and again, and again to explain basic concepts to me. He started to become visibly frustrated and impatient with my lack of understanding and everyone in the room kept looking at us.

This is sort of the unspoken problem in computer science. Most people aren't doing it for the first time. It's not uncommon for many people to have started programming on their own in middle school or even earlier. First year computer science is more of a refresher.

Then there's everyone else starting an entry-level class as beginners and getting completely demolished. "How does everyone get this so much better and faster than me?" The answer is because they're not beginners.
Great post.
You go Cat!
>if you take money and employ WHOIS privacy

I have my contact details on the company domain. I'm considering enabling the WHOIS privacy simply to get rid of the endless succession of people trying to sell me domains that are one character off.
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Its worth a shot. Especially when you already have your check for your stock for the company you sold. :)
That sounds dangerously close to "asking a question because you want to look smart"

I like people like you in principle, but not in meetings.
There's also a robust aftermarket of 1st party Telsa parts that have been scavenged from totaled vehicles. If you are willing to pay for a part, you can get it.
When people talk about raising or lowering taxes they are usually talking about income taxes (not property taxes). I'm suggesting we tax all property (assets/wealth).
I don't see that they told him anything, they just asked.
So then we need captures from, say, 16 users and some software to scramble all of them together.
for scoping purposes, I own a volt

There are two batteries:
1) normal 12V battery (in the trunk under the floor I believe)
2) the large 'main' battery which

The 12V is absolutely user replaceable. Wonderfully, they even provide jump lugs under the hood in normal locations. The main battery is under the rear seat and the center console between the passenger and drive sides seats. I haven't messed with that one...not going to bother until the warranty is gone.
In the CS lab at my uni as well.
I think so. Funny how no one in America was implicated.
Would you have thought it was gender specific if the title was "Being a 'dumb' guy in..."?
I was curious about your setup. Found this:
https://gist.github.com/4540438

But no mention of OS X contacts integration. Care to share how you do it?
>If there's a problem with raccoons, why not just turn to mankind's tried-and-true friend in dealing with animals: dogs?

so many wrong things in your statement.

Bloodbathing raccoons, highly intelligent animals, just because one is too lazy to implement simple solutions to coexist! When we lived in the duplex in Palo Alto bunch of years ago there was a large family of raccoons. It was great and fun.

Yes, the dogs would go out of their way to protect their humans and the house from whatever, raccoons included. Yet putting them into such situation unnecessary (even if dogs had good chances to avoid being harmed - and they don't as raccoons are pretty serious animals) is just a violation of that trust relationship between dogs and their humans.
The whole thing hurts to read. it could only hurt more if he'd discover the fact that there are in fact other verbs than GET and POST at the same time.
I should do a better job of tracking "interesting" reviews, but for now the easiest way to find some is to poke around the PRs of some open source projects that have adopted Reviewable, for example https://github.com/servo/servo/pulls, https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pulls, and https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pulls. Each PR will have a link to the corresponding review in its description.

Let me know if you need anything else!
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I absolutely would, if it included a line like "...the continued and constant emphasis in taking pride in failure is EXACTLY what men need to be exposed to in order to let down their walls..."
If I understand you correctly, while it's not a license, you must have one to do business and you can be punished for not having one.

So I have to ask exactly how many businesses can you give me the names & addresses of which legally operate in the USA without any sort of government paperwork which they could punish you for operating without?
There won't be, at least not in the short or medium term. The fact is all these unicorn companies have a great deal of value in terms of goodwill, staff, patents, market share and userbase, and that value isn't going away even if the company is struggling to find a working business model. None of them will die - if they can't raise working capital they'll get bought.
Dot three is a minimum game. Please concentrate to get high score^_^
Nice retort. 10/10 would subscribe again.
Arabs use "Sharia" like Americans use "Liberty". They just use the word because it sounds respectable, but they make it mean whatever suits their power.
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If I am not mistaken this is built off of Atom or something else like that. That disappoints me a bit. I hate apps that pretend to be native when they are really just wrapper around a web app.
What can ordinary people do (besides call their favorite politician, LOL)? "Only buy cars built before the 80s" is going to be less and less a viable option over time. Is there even a single auto manufacturer building repairable cars anymore?
I can't speak for OP but I would say asking somewhat obvious questions and making peoples' mental gears go through the effort of thinking things through has been beneficial for me. There is a guy on our team, possibly the smartest one, who constantly asks what could initially be construed as "dumb questions", only to later uncover some flaw in our reasoning or potential pitfall we hadn't thought of. I've come to deeply appreciate his dumb questions.
Exactly. This is why it's important to teach the general concepts of computing, logic, and programming in grade school.
"Never-ever (NEVER EVER!!) let anybody (ANYBODY!!) shape your career."

Um... How does one do that exactly? I think you mean: Never-ever form a concept of how much other people actually do shape your career. Which is obviously stupid advice. Not that I don't find obsequiousness as annoying as you apparently do.
Very true. I tried to jump into some higher-level math classes in college after finishing my major, and though I didn't completely fail, I would have learned much more if I had gotten over my fear of looking "dumb" by asking basic questions, or by talking to the professors during office hours.
Yeah the title and the article expressly talk about gender.
Very likely proxy or setting CORS headers, or using Xdomain? I don't think there are alternatives?
it was tongue in cheek, but yeah, that 2% (or .01%) to go from junior partner to running the show is pretty magical. (ask a game theorist, or Al Gore!)
CIA case officer Robert Baer's talk about this is pretty entertaining - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIhpdFu4BpA

These days if you work in the world domination industry you are more likely working for Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg.
Do you think it's possible to major in computer science in college if you have absolutely no prior experience in programming?
But only for certain a definitions of "problem."
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Imagemagick can't do everything GIMP can do. But everything Imagemagick can do can be scripted.

Need to convert 10, or 100, or 1,000, or 1,000,000 images? You might use GIMP for the first. You'd best give it up for the 2nd and further.

On Linux desktop, I had an Imagemagick command in my command history which would trim off the top n pixels of images to remove extraneous elements. Quick to call that up and run it on a new screenshot, or a series of shots, prior to posting online. The job was completed before GIMP would finish initialising.
Nest about to deliberately break Revolv services (acquired 2014)
I could see this being both a blessing and a curse.

On the one hand, it's easy to see how this is a powerful tool respectful developers can use to moderate their community positively.

But from the other, I've heard a few too many stories along the lines of "passionate contributor breaks into argument with passionate repo owner" and chaos ensues. I could see feature a way for people to step on toes and divide rather than encourage positive community.
Though I haven't confirmed that this was fixed in new models, when I was first reviewing the Lockitron I contacted their support folks with my concerns about paying a one time fee for something that waa easentually a service and about being able to run my own server and (one of) the founder emailed me back and explained that in the next version my concerns would be addressed. That gave me hope for their next iteration but I haven't been back to them yet. I look forward to checking them out again.
> Azul sells a pauseless collector. AIUI the downside is that you need enough memory headroom and spare CPU cores for the collector to keep up with the mutator threads, which presumably is a significant overhead on large heaps.

I think that one of these vendors tried Azul and couldn't get it to work. (I don't know the details. If I understood correctly, the problem wasn't the GC so much as that Azul couldn't run their code correctly or would have required extensive modifications or something along those lines. In any event, they decided not to use Azul's product.)
You see people ask basic questions on SO. And people will downvote them to oblivion.
It's the same principle as rubber duck debugging: It's harder to take shortcuts in your reasoning when you're trying to explain something.
That's clever. All that complexity leads to lower power consumption, because the device is dynamically driven at its resonant frequency. You could drive it at a fixed frequency, calibrated once at the factory, and avoid patent problems.
TSA is far more idiotic ?
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Absolutely yes, and if it doesn't work at your college then it's a failure of your college.
It's only recently in modern history that religious and political power haven't always been one and the same.
Minimum wage is fine but it does not solve the actual problem of technology decreasing the value of each worker in most of those fields.

A better solution would be UBI since it actually deals with the issue that MW is claiming to solve (but doesn't)
Absolutely yes. But you'll definitely want awareness of the reality the GP presented. The environment you're in is likely to make you dissatisfied with your own performance... at first.
Dont forget beard.
True in the general case, but in a few specific cases like swappable battery form factors and interface protcols for EVs, government-mandated standards could catapult the market ahead by decades.

If those standards were well-thought-out. I know, I know, good luck with that...
I used to ask loads of questions during lectures - feedback I got from my classmates was half saying "thanks for asking the question, I was wondering about that too" and the other half was "why do you ask soo many questions".

I just liked making sure I understood things properly.
Absolutely. A number of my coworkers at Google had never done it before college (and some had never done it until after college, going back to CS as a second career).

You have to be okay with being "behind" compared to your peers, but if you'd like to be successful long-term in anything, you need to become okay with that anyway. Fashions change, whatever you were good at before becomes obsolete, and you relearn things. Slope is more important than Y-intercept.
This is a very difficult question. I used to be TA for freshman CS, and there was a marked difference in performance and the time it took to complete labs between those who had been hobbyist programmers and those who had never programmed before.

It really seemed like there was a vast chasm between the two groups. While I did see complete newbies making A's, it took them considerable effort. I'm not sure they really groked the concepts at that point in time.