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Sounds like a problem with leadership.

Failure should result out of poor leadership in the end. On my team I don't care for your gender, your race, your culture or your social image. I only care that you can get the job done. If I know you can, then I'll give it to you. If I think it allows for time to learn, then I'll give it to the ones who need to grow. If you think you aren't given a chance, then speak up and I'll give you a shot at something. Poor leaders will deny those opportunities.

But I believe that there is more good leadership as opposed to poor leadership in our industry, and that articles like this create misguided issues.

Also, it is too easy for anyone to go and find another job; especially if they have talent. A full on exit means something else, something these articles haven't shown yet. For example, my last experience with this type of issue was with a coworker, a gay black male, who decided to quit in the middle of a project he was leading. He was falling way behind and presenting demos with bugs & poor functionality. All would've been fine and understandable if it weren't for the developer misleading the boss and stating that the project was on track and doing well. After continuous failure our boss eventually gave him extensions but was obviously was not happy about it. The boss began to put pressure on and keep a watchful eye over new commits. The senior ultimately chose not to continue and quit. On his way out he complained of bullying and not being appreciated. He declared that he was a senoir and should've been included in more decision making and that other senior developers were treated with higher favoritism because they got "cooler projects" and he did not. He was partly right, but only because he had not shown that he could get the work done, and rather shown quite the opposite. He had never proven his skills when given the chance. He faltered at all chances and yet still had some type of delusional self-entitlement. He left and his project was delivered 2 months late even after his poor code-base was heavily refactored by the next lead. I recently chatted him to ask how he was doing and he stated that his experience on our team and with our boss was so negative that he hasn't looked for a new job yet, and is even considering a career change. I agreed that he should do what is good for him, but only because I consciously knew he is in no place to be a senior developer in this industry (but he will never tell you that, and neither will any journalist trying to make a story out of it).
What happened to Sara? She's mentioned as a founder initially and then nowhere else.
The food in developing countries doesn't necessarily.
Couldn't the ifs have other purpose, such as branching to perform other operations in those cases?

Also, consider that if the entire block isn't wrapped in a try/catch, those ifs are guarding against runtime errors which would crash the program for the user.

Although I do see unit tests making use of exceptions in their decision to pass/fail, it's not the only way to write a unit test-- sometimes you test for value, etc.
Credit card companies use their huge database of merchants and your own transaction history to authorize tap transactions. If anything is too out of the norm for you, the tap won't go through.

Furthermore, nobody is going to pay out on these fraudulent transactions once they're discovered. It's not as if the money is instantly transferred.
That goes against the intent of the parents though. If a parent wants a child to go into some other non-STEM field, I don't see how anyone has the right to go against that by brainwashing kids into doing something else.
We have "tap card to pay" in Denmark. If amount is below 200Dkk (30ish USD) no PIN is needed. Its very fast, very secure and our credit card fees for merchants, are much much lover.
That would be equivalent to Lebron James going head to head with a disabled 5 year old.
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Correct, even if IOS is root level compromised it doesn't matter, as the secure element is a self contained hardware security module:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module
True, although I'd say most users are logged in, so that does make caching much harder.

stackoverflow is just a nice example that you don't need dozens of servers, even when you reach their scale.

I do believe Brook's The Mythical Man-Month does also applies to computers. In that communication overhead soon outweighs the benefits of adding more computer nodes.
tl;tr Fuck these cards. Go team Depot. Walmart is suing too. [0]

As someone with one foot in retail, I can honestly say these cards are not doing anyone any favors. Fraud is rampant and there are shoppers that travel the world [0.5] with stolen cards just to spend stolen cards and gift cards [1].

During the transition to chip, Square had liability shift for non-chip cards [2], but we failed to meet the requirements for a few transactions because we insisted on entering the ZIP for security, which requires key entry even at an additional fee. There was no feature to enable ZIP code entry for swipes. In these cases, trying to heighten security with additional measures was the wrong move for us. We should have just let them swipe and Square eat the cost.

Apple has been burying a scandal of its own with Apple Pay fraud. Once after a shopper left, we immediately received negative feedback through Square from someone claiming they didn't just buy anything from our store. Well, when someone has a phone, there is nothing to check. Though Apple Stores seem to have been hit hard, which seems appropriate [3].

The main problems are, 1) as retailers we cannot treat every customer as a crook nor can we profile them [4], 2) if they jump through all the hurdles, we can't then not sell them something even if something seems odd, and 3) in the case of Apple Pay, gift cards, and some swipe transactions, retailers are actually covered so even if buyers appear suspect, there is zero incentive to call them out, 4) the police don't treat it as shoplifting, and 5) some of the worst offenders are not suspicious at all, and can even be contesting their own purchases on purpose.

This is just a fact, but most of the scammers that came through our store were from NY and were black (again, just a fact, not saying anything about race or NY, though something does seem to be going on there [4][5]).

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[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/wal-mart-sues-visa-over-chip-ena...

[0.5] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/11/authorities-arres...

[1] http://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/risk-based-securit...

[2] https://squareup.com/news/why-square-sellers-can-rest-easy-a...

[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/business/banks-find-fraud-...

[4] http://www.ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces...

[5] http://nypost.com/2016/04/26/rappers-used-stolen-credit-card...
The China manufacturing sector is much more essential to Apple than Apple is to the China manufacturing sector.
The reason why US consumers have multiple cards (at least intelligent consumers) is because of the various cashback programs.

For example, Costco's Visa card gives me 4% cash back on all gas purchases. Costco's Visa also gives me 3% back on all travel related purchases like hotels, airlines, and restaurants. Citi Double Cash Mastercard gives me 2% back on all other purchases. Discover card runs 5% cash back each quarter on up to $1500 of one category, like online shopping, or home improvement retailers.

It's a bit of a chore to determine which card to use for every transaction, however, if you don't have credit cards, or just use debit cards, you're effectively leaving money on the table.
Did you care to read? I meant they should not wait.

Electron uses gigabytes of RAM - it's the one reason I switched to weechat from Slack's "desktop" client!

Such "desktop" apps are a disgrace and they run way more efficiently in the browser compared to having multiple copies of browsers running in parallel.
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> Next up: Do they succeed on the international scene?

Ha... is there yet a "Godwin/Poe/Betteridge/etc's Law" equivalent for how quickly HN threads converge towards Trump?
Because Lambda/Cloud functions are meant for scripting tasks in your cloud environment, not for building full-fledged apps.

(Lambdas couldn't even be triggered with HTTP calls when AWS Lambda launched.)
I agree, they should have used '_'.
Build stuff you want and you think others like you will want. Basically explore and do things that interest you. There's a lot of value in that.
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FIFO layoffs suck extra hard for the new people.
It's not even so much the friction-less nature of "Word", it's just that's what testers, PMs, Managers, Directors, Executive Directors, Vice Presidents, Executive Vice Presidents, etc etc all have and understand. Very few people even seem to find "Word's" grotesque shortfalls as engineering documentation to be a problem. Beyond not being able to ever completely turn off auto-capitalization ("boolean" and "Boolean" aren't the same in Java, people!), the lack of a line-by-line diff makes getting feedback on a document painful and impossible to get correct. Nobody in their right mind would accept binary blobs of code as a "new revision" - you couldn't see what changed, for starters. So why do we just accept WITHOUT THOUGHT binary blobs of documentation? Try to make that argument to a PM, and they'll look at you like you're growing a second face on your ass.
Seems to me that genetics is a perfectly acceptable answer.
Typo in Kubernetes here:

"And other applications can find your service through Kurbenetes service discovery"

Edit: also "ephmeral" on the Volumes drawing.
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The GPs point is that it is a stimulant that increases performance at the cost of heart health. Were we to make it legal while at work, people who were working without it would be at a disadvantage, prompting a "normal" worker to increase productivity at the expense of their health.
Well, most SSH keys are RSA keys. Could it not also be used for signing? Also you could use a special alias/command (-a) that explicitly disables agent forwarding.
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> From a possible general taxing of the immune system relieving autoimmune dysfunction

This matches my experience. I have Psoriasis, and the only time I don't have bloody little flakes of skin coming off my hands every day is when I have a cold or some other sort of sickness. So really anything that taxes my immune system is enough to give me some relief, it doesn't require parasites for me.
Must be the Puppetmaster!

Relevant Scene in Ghost in a Shell (1995):
https://youtu.be/bWLzzUE67pc?t=2189
> 5+ trillion USD per year

That's a stupendous number.
But we don't live in bizarro-land where it's 7%, so we don't have to decide whether 7% or 15% would be profit-maximizing. But we can say for certain it's not 1.95%. The reason I feel that profit-maximizing is closer to 7% is the example of actual monopolies or duopolies.

Western Union, which cut its teeth on being a "an industrialized monopoly dominating the telegraph industry in the late 19th century" and in some areas I feel succeeded in establishing a money transfer monopoly, has rates close to 15% in some cases. Here is an economist talking about its remittance monopoly: http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=...

So in areas where western union might have a literal monopoly, or a duopoly[2], they might set their price at around 12%. This is ridiculously high, and shows a monopoly level of pricing.

1.95% is a level that reflects a fair amount of competition, not at all a trust versus cash. You can argue till the cows come home, but you can see the actual monopoly or duopoly rates on this type of thing for yourself and compare.

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/apr/16/uk...
What is interesting about this hypothesis is that it does not require men to be especially sexist or treat women poorly. Men only have to be a bit more assertive, or better able to build coalitions among their colleagues, for this effect to occur. These factors, plus the general observation that women tend to score significantly higher than men on the Big 5 trait of Agreeableness, make this thesis plausible. I look forward to seeing it tested further. This study appears to focus on female engineers who have already passed at least some filters for aptitude/interest in engineering, so one would expect any possible effects of biological sex differences/average population differences to be less important to the results.
a personality isn't some spontaneously emerging, fixed thing. it's affected by its environment. certain qualities are encouraged, and others discouraged.

perhaps women are less likely to be blowhards due to something essential about being a woman. on the other hand it may be that the qualities encouraged and discouraged in women are the components in being a blowhard. and that assumes women are less likely to be blowhards, and that blowhards are more likely to succeed, which isn't necessarily clear. maybe gender disparities exist simply because women are treated differently than men, and reframing the cause to "typical characteristics and behaviors that members of each gender display and engage in" is just shuffling around gender essentialism.
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It was a perfectly acceptable answer to justify segregation, too... using "genetics" as a basis for justifying social bias is a very dangerous road to go down unless you're certain you're on extremely firm ground.
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Trouble is most of these are completely single vendor and closed. If you build your app for Lambda, theoretically you've built it to run on one computer: the AWS lambda "main frame."
Except in my experience cabbies are like "yeah we take credit" and then afterwards "oh my credit card machine is broken, are you sure you don't have cash? I'll drive you to the ATM..."
Cabbies want to dodge that income tax.
Lack of demand or lack of interest from the banks to invest in the technology/security? I'd love to know why the US adopted "Chip and Signature" rather than "Chip and Pin". Requiring a signature is essentially worthless. My understanding was that it was a combination of US customers not being familiar with using a PIN and concern over where the liability lies if fraud occurs (the assumption being that if someone uses a PIN then the card owner gave them the PIN).
What would it require the whole Ruby to move to Rust from C? What would it bring and would it make sense?
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The cheap labor is a dead-end under all scenarios.

Robotic manufacturing will eliminate most of those jobs within 10-20 years. China already has half a billion people with no jobs available to them, that are pretending to work as subsistence farmers currently. The labor will always be cheap, it's the politics that will become extremely expensive. Apple should get started on moving off of that labor while they still have the vast financial capabilities to do so.
Where did you find the patent? If it's anything like a US design patent, then you should be able to learn a lot just by looking at the pictures.
It's so slow that some vendors are electing to stay with swipes. It's evidently cheaper to eat the fraud than slow down lines by ~2x. It probably translates to adding 2x cashiers.

For example, the Wawa chain of convenience stores on the East coast are very good at moving people through the registers. Around 10-15s per transaction sustained throughput is common: one or two items, beep beep good day. If someone pays by check or chip, the whole thing grinds to a halt and everyone taps their foot.
It would probably be enough to google for "what every programmer should now about <subject>" before starting to develop software for a new subject.
> Lawyers? Male dominated field, especially higher paying/partner fields. [0]

That's a relative term. The legal profession is about 50-50 in school and at the associate (1-10 years experience) level. While the partner ranks are still heavily male, about a third of new partners are women.[1] As are a third of federal appellate judges. 20% of Fortune 500 General Counsel/CLOs are women.

There is a lot of (justified) hand-wringing in the legal profession about how much work is left to do. But at every stage, the representation of women is much higher than in engineering.

[1] http://dfalliance.com/research/new-partner-report/
Boom there go a bunch of trade dependent jobs, or Boom here come higher prices?
> I can never understand why dumping pollution into the atmosphere and making other people bear the costs is categorized under "capitalism" and "free market," while making people actually pay for the costs they impose on others through pollution is considered "redistribution" and "communism."

Your confusion is well founded. It is actually the other way around. Privatizing externalities (the environmental costs) is honestly a well-respected market-based mechanism to solve problems that fall under the Tragedy of the Commons category, as is the case here. So it is arguably absolutely "capitalist," and "free market." It has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with using free market mechanisms. If you're interested in related reading, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

Socializing the costs (which means to redistribute ownership to society) is arguably more consistently "communist." Communism is a really bloated term, economic ideology, in which the economy does not rely on markets, but on socialization of capital and production, arguably more accurately describes a situation where we socialize a cost to society.
Yes, in this case it's a matter of us having data that isn't public.

Although I don't agree that that account's comments in the thread were reasonable (they were highly uncivil, which is a bit of a new tactic for them), you can't judge this kind of abuse by the reasonableness of individual comments alone. This person or organization does professional-level dissumulation and manipulation of online discussions to deliver false impressions and corrupt the community. I rarely use such strong language (indeed I post 100x as many comments asking users not to accuse each other of astroturfing). I do so in this case because they've done a lot of damage to HN over the years and because users need to know how seriously we take real abuse when we see it. Each time this person or organization shows up again, we crack down hard, and publicly. They should know that they're hurting Microsoft's reputation, not helping it.

Most MS-related comments on HN, though, are by legit users. The generalizations people constantly make about the HN community—in this case how it sees MS—are nearly always bogus, driven by cognitive bias, not data. I see a ton of people complaining that HN has gone to shit because it's full of Microsoft promoters [1] and an opposing ton of people complaining that it's full of Microsoft haters. The explanation is that the community is simply divided. Both sides can point to lots of comments that seem to support their favored generalization, but going from "I notice comments that rub me the wrong way" to "HN is full of shills posting against/for the things I like/dislike" is a non sequitur.

1. An example I responded to at length is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840127.
At a minimum, I want support for:

- Key bindings

- Syntax coloring

- Toggle preview within the editor

I found Markdown generally had much wider support than RST.
This is a smart response. The insurance company could also review the contract code in order to provide cover -- this would give investors extra confidence.
on their website they claim it "will not be confused and stray" how ironic :)

http://en.promo-bot.ru/media/2016/06/robot.png
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Yes.

Examples: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0154/ , http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0360/
There is a lot of speculative fervor going on. It's like any fad, except you can count the "value" generated by the waves of PR.

The underlying tech is clever though; the speculation is just a side-effect of cryptocurrency systems that they attract a lot of people who attempt to make a quick buck from during the rapid growth phase.

As others have pointed out, this is not a bad thing b/c speculation is one legitimate way that cryptocurrencies can bootstrap themselves, even if (over time) their strengths are not likely to result in more speculative behavior than is found in other established currencies.
New Zealand is the same. Processing is almost instant. It's infuriatingly slow in the US.
to take one simple example to illustrate the point:

light comes from a moving object

by the time the light has reached the perceiver the object has already moved (in most cases, very slightly) forwards.

by the time the brain has done some bit of processing to do with that object, the object has moved further. brain processing is not very fast.

say this processing generates nerve signals. by the time those signals have reached muscles, the object has moved even further.

by the time those muscles have contracted the object has moved further still.

what i am arguing against is the assumption that all these details are instantaneous. they are not. this is a fundamental constraint.

that means that whatever that brain processing is doing, and however the nerve signals are "telling" the muscles to do, while it is based upon where the object was at one point in time, fundamentally must concern where it is some moments later on.

if you don't want to call this a form or predicting, then fine, though I would like to know why you think the term 'predicting' does not suit what is going on there, and I'd like to know what alternative term you would use to describe what the brain processes "concern".
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Ruby's `Pathname#absolute?` is doing a lot more work[1]. I don't know why, but it is.

If I change it to just check the first character for the file separator, as I understand FasterPath does, then of course it is faster:

Warming up --------------------------------------
original 4.109k i/100ms
faster 110.202k i/100ms
Calculating -------------------------------------
original 42.645k (± 3.7%) i/s - 213.668k in 5.017595s
faster 2.643M (± 4.4%) i/s - 13.224M in 5.013294s

Comparison:
faster: 2643274.6 i/s
original: 42644.5 i/s - 61.98x slower

My implementation:

class Pathname
def f_relative?
@path[0] != File::SEPARATOR
end
end

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/68ebbbfebe5b666cf76ab41f1e...
The difference is your "beta" male wouldn't be punished for changing tone.
but moving in machines with little ground clearance, that's the point here.
i'll take 'u' here any day. would never mistake it for anything else
I'm guessing they assume aliens to be scattered homogeneously around the galaxy at some probable density?