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This is likely going to be 100% ignored since I'm late to the party on this but my wife's experiences have been that true discrimination and difficulty doesn't rise until a female engineer tries to enter management. When she was "just an engineer" things were great and nothing went wrong.

When she tried to level up into management, she faced these difficulties:

- competition from other female managers who had transitioned into the role from product management. They often times felt immensely threatened by her technical acumen and played politics to stop her.

- Lots of pretending from engineers (never the ones she's led, oddly enough) that she "doesn't know anything"

- Her current manager recently demoted her on his second day and told her "she should do engineering because he believes she'll do great at it and, if she can prove herself, she might be put in charge of a project and have a chance at leadership in the future."

The last one still has me pretty irked since it's recent.
> I Google'd and here is one result, showing at least one theoretical security vulnerability of access(): http://stackoverflow.com/a/14333217/3650441

That is not a security flaw in access, it's a potential security flaw in administrative processes that use access() and then operate on files. There's a hole there where someone could swap the file that they are trying to open. That's just a reason to not use that API (there are the at APIs for a reason). But since Blizzard processes are (presumably) not running as root, there isn't a security flaw.

> If an attacker knows what files Blizzard is calling access() on, they could likely use this exploit and execute arbitrary code.

The ability to maybe* get a program to do some file operations on a different file than it checked against is miles away from code execution, unless the program's job is to execute code from a file.
Well now I'm curious, please upload them to imgur :)
It is the great irony of our times that a domain that requires so little working capital to start and grow reasonably well (software) is so hungry for money infusions. I hear that you need the money to grow quickly and growing quickly and capturing networking effects is the path to getting a horn on your horse. I'm not buying it. Being profitable as quickly as possible allows you to reinvest that money which then multiplies into even more investment capital.

Getting the know how and connections I can understand but VC for the money to fuel hyper growth...it sounds like a questionable proposition. Why would I put off testing the most fundamental hypothesis of my business (can it be profitable)?

Are there any known companies that explicitly didn't take any money after YC? It feels like once you take the first bit you're sliding down the slope since investors are pushing to take further rounds which usually pop up valuation. YC->bootstrap mode seems like a reasonable approach but the YC program seems to be built around pitching to the next round of investment (demo day). Has YC considered an alternate program where the explicit goal is being profitable after the program (black number day instead of demo day)?
For another take on my other post: Would you expect "1 == 1" to return 0? Would you expect "3 == 7" to return -4? Why or why not?
I would say that hiring and training process becomes paramount in a bootstrapped organization. I'm going through it right now in my current gig.
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Strictly speaking you're correct -- a distributed snapshot doesn't capture the state of the system at a single instant. But there's a sense in which the nondeterminism introduced by the snapshot is no worse than the nondeterminism that is intrinsic to a distributed system.

To be more precise: any "possible outcome" of the snapshot was also possible at some point during the original execution. And likewise, any "impossible outcome" of the snapshot was also ruled out at some point in the original. So if viewed from the outside, the fact that you took and restored a snapshot is indistinguishable from the normal situation of having an asynchronous network. It can't cause the system to exhibit any behaviors that weren't otherwise allowable.

(Apologies if I'm just restating what you already know; other readers may not be aware of it. This might be the same property that you're calling "integrity".)

This is reminiscent of one of Scott Aaronson's comments from the original article. If quantum effects are significant in the brain, then it's impossible -- even in principle -- to "perfectly" copy it such that the original and the copy are guaranteed to behave identically. But if the original and the copy are statistically indistinguishable, it amounts to the same thing.
The bad business logic slide thats a little too hostile to women dont you think?
> Having a frequently called function in a shared library vs. statically linked code could mean the difference of the code executing from CPU's cache or from main memory.

I am under the impression that when process switches the CPU caches are flushed.
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I believe it's similar to Google's deep dreaming created images, but with videos.
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Pretty in depth to my knowledge. I follow lots of odd genres and was surprised to see many of them on there. With that being said, I do feel like the Rap section is not that detailed. It looks like detail is a goal here so I'll give my 2 cents.

1. Miami Bass & Bounce

All the songs in this playlist are Miami bass songs. There are no bounce songs. At least add The Showboys - Drag Rap on there.

2. Southern Rap & Crunk

You can't roll this up all into 1 section IMO. To make this point, there is not a single Cash Money Records/No Limit Records song in the playlist. If you don't think they deserve their own tree, look at their record sales. I would argue that the descendent tree (Trap), is more influenced Cash Money and No Limit than crunk.

N.E.R.D. - Lapdance is in the playlist. I think this is a big stretch. Yes, I know Virginia is technically in the South but their sound is nothing close to it.

3. Grime (listed with Breakbeat Garage)

This deserves its own tree. Grime has been starting to gain major traction outside of the UK as of late. Also, current day Grime is heavily influenced by trap/drill.

and 1 minor nitpick not rap related - Juke(ghetto house, ghetto tech) is influenced by Jungle. You'll hear sped up breaks in quite a few of DJ Rashad's songs.
> Perl, Ruby, Python give you everything good from Lisp

So where are the:

- AOT compilers to native code

- REPL environments with GUI debuggers, with fix-and-continue?

- Ability to do systems programming without having to use an external language?

- Macros
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I think it all boils down to literally putting too much attention into physical objects. Can it be done? Of course there are actually many examples and none of the resulting objects were healthy to be around, and for obvious reason. Consciousness is meant to explore the universe and the "idea" that suddenly we should step backwards into a robot (my office), after a million years of evolution is absolutely and perfectly ludicrous to even suggest.
You want your self driving cars and self cleaning kitchens. A machine can never replace a partner or ally, or child for that matter. Ultimately if you want to create a conscious being it would have to be on the scale of a planet in order to achieve what we are talking about.
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I'm not very interested in demuring that war is a desirable thing.

One man can profess all his love for the addiction of going into action, and write so many valentine's day cards about the thrill of testing his metal. To me it rings as hollow as a junkie's pining for dope.

But it won't bury the aftermath, nor will it obviate the grind of the slower churn, when stalemate is intractable. The police state in between. The thought police of "patriotism," or rather jingoism. The miserable post-dictatorships and the corruption of the spoils.

Those who flee their victories and armistices, to find the rush of more action elsewhere are cowards in their own way. Nevermind the wake of ashes behind them.
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> Resistive screens also failed in the same sense because having to pull a stylus out to use your phone is aggressively technological.

Resistive screens worked fine with fingertips, too. In fact they worked perfectly well with gloves, pens, etc., unlike modern capacitive screens. They failed because they were less sensitive and less accurate.
Regarding Kindertotenlieder, he didn't actually lose any children until after he wrote it. Quoth Wikipedia [0]:

“I placed myself in the situation that a child of mine had died. When I really lost my daughter, I could not have written these songs any more.”

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertotenlieder
> Ogg Vorbis not only providing better audio quality at a given bitrate

That is not my experience at all. If I need to encode in a lossy format, LAME has always produced a smaller transparent encode than Vorbis. But if I've been bandwidth/space restricted, Vorbis and AAC have been better than MP3.
These days Ogg Opus is a better audio codec than any other lossless one.
I thought this was the common complaint about settlements, which is why it confuses me that people are complaining in this case that the purpose of a civil court lawsuit is to extract the largest settlement.

Example:

"The legal system has certain informal but crucial checks and balances in it. One of them is that the cost and uncertainty of litigation make it in everyone's interest to settle, and in addition insurance creates incentives to settle. A third party purposely removing those incentives distorts the process." - CPLX

P.S. No witchhunt being started CPLX, just confused by your position.
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Indeed, and at this point in time, facial recognition is the most cost-effective and practical way to implement such wide spread identity tracking, which in this case can be defeated with a facial covering such as a gas mask, balaclava, handkerchief etc.
No, I don't work in the industry - but I have an acquaintance, and if I want to message him, he's rarely on anything but ICQ.

As far as I know it's just 'tradition', like the oil industry - once ICQ hit critical mass it became the de facto standard.
You should see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film), sounds like you'll enjoy its premise.
I considered moving from Sweden to England for a job a while back. If we did so, the cost for day care and school would be significantly more than my wife's potential salary, so she would probably have stayed at home. That would have been completely absurd living in Sweden, I don't know any stay at home moms, barely even in my parent's generation.

Of course culture, role models, mentors, etc are very important to some, but economic factors establish the baseline for what is actually reasonable and possible for most.

As an example, to diversify the police force in Sweden, one method was to have more opportunity for remote studies at the police academy. It turns out women (for various reasons) have a harder time getting away from their families frequently, so when they could have remote classes that helped.
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>The bad business logic slide thats a little too hostile to women dont you think?

It's a photo Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos. QED.

So really, it's your prejudices showing here more than anything else.

(edited - I'd mistaken Marissa Mayer for Elizabeth Holmes)
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Since they made it themselves, they overlooked their usual negativity. But of course, they can't support FLAC (which was released in 2001) because NIH and because Apple.
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100% agree. At the start-up I work at when I brought up we needed to set a maternity leave policy, I made a point of saying we should match it with a paternity leave policy.

I'm a woman, but if I was hiring and it came down to someone I had to give x weeks of paid leave to if they had a child (aka a woman) or someone with the same credentials and skills who I wouldn't need to give that leave to (a man), you bet your ass it would impact my hiring decisions. Particularly at a small company.

Matching maternity leave with paternity leave removes at least one rational incentive to hire men over women.
Don't forget all the Adam Chipala stuff in Coq. Didn't know people actually used TLA.

Even if I was programming in a separate language, I'd still want a it embedded in a hosting type-theory so I can use it both for proofs and macros.
> it must have been correct for some trips but incorrect for others.

No, it could have been inconclusive for the other 10% of the trips, simply stating, "Insufficient data for meaningful answer". So 90% of the time it said, "Oh, this must be DrScump" and the other 10% of the time it said, "I don't know who this is yet, let me keep analyzing the braking patterns"

EDIT: Which is different than the way I stated it in my initial comment. Your reply helped me realize that.
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...and now they are finally being automatically built:

https://wiki.debian.org/AutomaticDebugPackages

Ubuntu/Fedora has been doing this for years too.
Interesting. Can you provide sources and also what do you think the end game is? Did Nick Denton know he was going to lose and go ahead anyway? Or was he just unable to conceive of losing?
This technique is quite different from deep dream. An autoencoder is a model that is trained to compress then reconstruct an image. After seeing and trying to reconstruct many images, it learns how to make a "compressed representation" from original images by going through this compress -> uncompress scheme, which typically results in blurry/lossy reconstructions of images which are very different than the normal artifacts we see in lossy compression schemes like jpg, etc.

In deep dream, a network whose goal is to predict image categories is "run in reverse" and used as a generative model, but it was not intended to be generative from the outset. Many times autoencoders are intended to be generative, or at least learn relationships between images (sometimes called a latent space/latent variable), where classification tasks care more about just getting the classification correct - no explicit concern on learning relationships between categories/images in those groups.
> just don't believe in encouraging anyone to do anything in particular, except what they enjoy.

Great. What about the women working in tech now who feel isolated and held back, and the women who leave tech because of it?

(i.e. the people this initiative is supposed to help)
> Looks like Marissa Mayer to me. CEO of Yahoo, QED.

It's Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos.
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I've come to recently replace Twitter with Snapchat, having replaced Facebook Timeline with Twitter.

The process is definitely cyclical, but there is at least one new emphasis that's changed:

Content is treated as low-value, which makes it low-pressure. Mainly because:

1. it has a short life span (it expires in 24 hours)

2. the lack of per-item ratings (e.g. likes or favourites)

3. it is always packaged non-individually (i.e. as a bundled "Story")

4. pictures are not dressed up (ie not "Instagram photos") and videos are short

5. simple UI promotes content creation as central and valued over content judging/consumption

Add to that it offers the best visual blogging UI (and specifically vlogging).

Whereas with Facebook and Twitter every new post would bring thoughts like "is this good enough? Will I regret this post down the line? Will people like it?", Snapchat promotes the "just do it" attitude. Is this interesting right now?

I expect my personal use of Snapchat will wane as it did with the other platforms. When something becomes too big it becomes too public, and brings too much pressure to be idyllic. Right now Snapchat feels closed and personal.
Heartbleed is not a real memory safety bug when program reads beyond allocated memory. It is more of improper reuse of previously allocated buffer and could exist in safe Rust just as well.
Are you guys hiring juniors or interns? I reached out to you guys like 2~ weeks ago and never heard back.
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>It's Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos.

Damn, I was thinking Marissa looked a bit odd in that photo.

Elizabeth Holmes is a way better fit!
Wrong person maybe you think all white people look alike?
> Looks like Marissa Mayer to me. CEO of Yahoo, QED.

It's Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes
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You simply don't need to be the best to win, you just need to be good enough. If your technic is good enough other soft factors are way more important.

In the case here I think it's mostly that mp3 was first to market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Going_public
When I say 'at scale', I really mean ~1000 units. You can already get under your price point with Mask ROMs (and they're faster than flash!).
If you are obsessed with gender, perhaps you are the sexist.
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> So what did they use instead? C++ ?

Yes, that's pretty much what the bulk of everything that comes with Windows is written in.
While I'm too old to care about your knee-jerk threat, I think you better be careful about policing HN like this. It is really off-putting and IMHO creates more of an existential threat to HN than my very reasonable inquiry.

There is nothing personal about my question. As I see it, this guy has questionable credentials to get such a prestigious job, so I ask what has he done. It looks he owned a bar, made some investments, his dad was high up in a quasi-impressive tech company. Again, very vague credentials which say he has money but no particular skill.
OS/2 was couple of billion dollars.
> just repeating what I've heard.

My point exactly. What has he done?
This sort of blew my mind when I discovered it since I often travel with a second phone and realized to my horror that I could not be logged into the same whatsapp from two phones. Is this the promise of a mobile-first app world?
JoeB? That wouldn't happen to be Joe Belfiore by any chance, would it?
Spent ages trying to work out what the hell Linux-FU is ... then eventually realised it's like kung-fu .. wtf.
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It's not substantively any different, but the other old people are disconcerted by the dancing. Perhaps if there was a formal dancing school scheduled at the graveyard they could get used to the idea.
The picture of Google recycling old, cheap servers to generate vast amounts of combined computing power comes to mind. It's all in the management layer.
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> is there an ADDITIONAL safety net if a person burns through their cash and can't pay rent and eat? ... And if not, then it's even crueler cuz some people won't eat.

People can still be irresponsible (or whatever you'd like to call it) with welfare. They can spend it all at the beginning of the month or barter their credit for cash/drugs. In the end they'll be left hungry. They made that choice for themselves. It's not cruel. To say otherwise is to deny them of their free agency, and if that's the case, perhaps they belong in the care of someone else.
If we managed to model exactly how a rat thinks, behaves and we create a little fury rat robot that runs around being all rat-like, doing all things real rats do to the degree that the robot is accepted by the local rat community, is that not a system that would be considered equal in complexity to a rat?

Do we have enough information to create a rat? I think so. Is that an A.I.? To be rat-like you have to be able to adopt to new environments, learn new things.

Could we also model in the same way a human baby? Ok, that's perhaps a bit too hard. What if we try to create a model of a mongoloid baby. It would still be considered intelligent, right? Is it an A.I.?

Why does a system need conciousness in order to be able to dominate its environment? To me, clonable robotic rats would be as much of an inconvenience as real rats are.
It all comes down to your expenses. A good rule of thumb is to budget at least 6 months of costs before setting out. Maybe that's some tens of thousands of $. This is often enough time get some early traction before looking at angel investment or an accelerator. Hopefully at that point you're no longer burning your own money. VCs come much later.

Of course every situation is different. $100K+ commitment is not unreasonable if fundraising is difficult. Then again, some people raise a million bucks after a few weeks of prototyping.

In any case, people with money have more flexibility than people without it. One of the hard truths of startups.
I asked what has he done. Considering how high profile this job is, a Wikipedia page in 2016 should make this obvious. In his case, it's decidedly not clear so I asked the question.
Smart move on bootstrapping! I think people take funding for a few reasons

1) glitter or brainwashing
2) they don't know how to sell before they build (you're guaranteed a business if you have paying customers/clients)

Also, it's a business, no lifestyle about it. Almost all businesses are bootstrapped (just like most businesses are not in the valley).
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I think Snapchat is too "dangerous" for me. Too much gamification, fueling FOMO etc.

This story was fairly scary (imo): https://www.buzzfeed.com/benrosen/how-to-snapchat-like-the-t...
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As someone who gets stuck more in data/spreadsheets - this has given me something interesting to think about.

Not much to add except a thanks for the blog post about it and for broadening my scope.
Seems like an arbitrary boundary to me. IF you can live with timezone differences, why not employ eg Europeans as freelancers? Taxes should be very plain then, perhaps you need some reverse VAT declaration but that's it.
Wages are lower here, too, so sthg like €80k would actually be pretty good pay.

Disclaimer: EU freelancer here.
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Radicale sounds interesting, but it looks like it's just a CalDAV server? OwnCloud/NextCloud already gives me that. What I'm looking for is a way of syncing calendars which have to be off-site, to my own server. I don't have control over the fact that my company uses Google calendars for work and I'd like to dump my Facebook events into an OwnCloud/NextCloud calendar too.