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I'm about at that point on trump. I've never even CONSIDERED not listening to someone's political views, but this is not about politics. Everyone's got their breaking point, and I'm simply not willing to be friends with someone who believes an adult behaving in such a way is acceptable.

It's not about politics, it's about being a human being. I'm okay with saying I won't tolerate support of a despicable human being.
Why not just group the fraudsters and the gangsters together like we normally do? These banks have had about 15x as much time to make that mistake, to me it looks like LC was headed that route.
I think, rather, that HN has a dominant point of view which tolerates small differences but otherwise will downvote and [EDIT: hellban doesn't work like I thought] anyone who isn't circumspect enough in voicing their different opinions. I definitely couch a lot of my comments in sarcasm or careful disclaimers to try and avoid getting downvoted, as I've seen what can happen if you say The Wrong Opinion too plainly.
How does this compare to mesa3d?
If you're a WordPress developer, look at some non-WordPress projects.

If you use Angular all the time, check out some React projects.

Use Bootstrap as a starting point for websites? Check out Zurb or any of the new CSS frameworks that are posted here every week.

You don't have to switch... Just become aware of what others are doing.
From the Github README:

> Urbit is a clean-slate system software stack defined as a deterministic computer. An encrypted P2P network, %ames, runs on a functional operating system, Arvo, written in a strict, typed functional language, Hoon, which compiles itself to a combinator interpreter, Nock, whose spec gzips to 340 bytes.

Geez.
Personally, I prefer this quote from Hannessy and Patterson:

> The level below main memory contains rotating magnetic disks that take millions of clock cycles to access. Because of the great discrepancy in access time, no one has yet built a virtual memory operating system that writes through main memory to disk on every store by the processor. (This remark should not be interpreted as an opportunity to become famous by being the first to build one!)
For a while everything was "submarines".
Chdir thanks! We were OK with the artifacts. But it turned out some people don't like them at all. Will work it out!
What if the attacker can inject a string that causes a rule match and enables "probable cause" decryption?

Also, MITM attacks against vanilla TLS can be detected by endpoints. That doesn't seem be to the case here, so it makes the trusted third party problem even worse.

I'd reject anything based on this concept.
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Totally agree with this list. I would also add:

6) Read lots of code. The more of other people's code that you read the faster you'll learn good practices.

7) Work with other people that are better/more experienced than you.

8) Code reviews are your friend. When I was at Google, the best way to learn and teach good coding practices and libraries were through the code reviews that we had. Get in the practice of reviewing other people's code and having others review your code.

9) Test, test, test! It may sound counter intuitive, but if you want to increase coding velocity, write tests. Tests upfront will save so much time in debugging later on.
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Wow, that makes me feel seasick. Looking forward to playing it at the tail end of parties.
Just many thanks for the book! This is the one I keep under my pillow ;)
Ease of use is a big one. You can write your Webtask, run wt create and you'll get an endpoint to access your function vs Lambda's fairly complex system - especially if you just want to expose an endpoint to handle a particular use case.

The authentication/authorization is another big one. Auth0 is a lot easier to work with compared to Amazon IAM and Cognito.

Lambda does have it's strengths in the AWS ecosystem though and also supports multiple languages while Webtasks are mainly written in Node (and C# if you use a wrapper).

Disclaimer: I work at Auth0 as a Tech Writer and wrote the above article.
You're right, turns out Arch's i3 package is a group of packagse: i3-wm, i3-status, and i3lock (screen locker).
Dang is speaking about scenarios where there is no /r/ForHillary or /r/The_Donald to intermingle yourself with. You get both sides in one thread and are confronted with ideas that you may not agree with - or that you vehemently disagree with. Not that people "come to HN to see opposing views". Rather that they must see opposing views when browsing a thread. Then you get a bunch of conflict from both sides.

As an example, HN often has socially-related posts that hit the front page, such as today's Voice Modulation in the Interview Process (not actual title). This gets people from two very different sides that are informally split, depending on who you ask, as "overly politically correct regressives" and "stupid racist [___]phobic bigots". A bunch of conflict that detracts from the study/topic happens when those two groups butt heads.
That's a particularly interesting one, because it's not susceptible to the usual charges of "no one cares because it's low pay/status". If you look to radiology rather than surgery, the gender imbalance is enormous.

Suddenly we're looking at gender skew in two highly technical, prestigious, lucrative fields, and seeing that they prompt totally different types and amounts of discussion.
So, is it like interviewing vocodered Smurfs?
Agreed.

I see it as both a cultural thing as well as practical thing (perhaps what initially lead to it becoming cultural). The reason for the second part is because most analyses are not easily reproducible--they exist as a smattering of data files and analysis scripts that coalesce into a magical, undocumented pipeline that spits out statistics and figures. Reproducibility has received more attention lately but it's still an uphill battle against academics' frantic publishing schedule, lack of familiarity with their software, and general lack of incentive for others to replicate the results (for some, a reverse incentive exists).
Is this the kind of society we want?
US is far from finishing deveping, fortunately or unfortunately. Take trains, for example, area where US is far behind China, Japan, or European countries, despite the size of its territory. I'm sure there are other examples.
I do entire home/apt. Perhaps I've never made enough use of hotel amenities, but so far I haven't missed them in an AirBnB.
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If I were to start a company today, I'd definitely be tempted to only hire women, and pay my entire workforce 80 cents on the dollar, instead of 70 cents on the dollar.

I couldn't be sued for pay discrimination if ALL of my underpaid engineers are women, since there is no benchmark for a lawsuit to compare the discrimination too!

I jest, but it really does surprise me that more companies aren't trying to aggressively poach underpaid women from other companies.
We did send a notification out to our announcements list (see urbit.org), but have heard that it went to some people's spam or promotions folders. In retrospect, we should have also sent it out to urbit-dev (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/urbit-dev), but the sale was over before we got around to it.
Almost always the top reply critiques the article and it's top reply critiques it. We're an opinionated bunch, it makes sense to me.
You can basically ignore that server, until your basically ignored server goes down or breaks for some silly reason unknown to you in advance.

At that point, you have to intervene, troubleshoot, and fix the problem.

But if you had gone the Functions-as-a-Service route, you'd avoid such occurrences altogether. For some people, that's an appealing trade-off.
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This is needed. The dashboard show all the expiration countdowns, but not the error if the TLS certificate is broken.
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Only $1000/month/node! What a bargain. :)
My interpretation is that it is differentiated from statistical analysis in that there's a system that adapts its heuristics to trained and incoming data.

The Cox model fits that definition.

Perhaps you mean ML is synonymous with reinforcement learning, which is I think the closest thing to "tuned and adapted to changing data"?

My interpretation of ML is that it's about evaluating statistical predictors without worrying about their internals. Those are the fundamental advances that have given us all the classical "machine learning" algorithms - random forests, SVMs, neural networks, etc.

And the entire point of those techniques is that you can use them to evaluate a secret algorithm.

Did we even read the same article? The entire fucking article is about whether the justice system is unduly influenced by a proprietary algorithm that has been sold to the system (and paid for by our tax dollars) but is not as smart or objective as it is sold to be.

The entire article claims the algorithm is both inaccurate and racially biased, which their statistical analysis directly contradicts.

They never once made the argument that an accurate and unbiased model should not be used.
If anything, I would imagine it's like the old story about drafting athletes. Given two equally successful point guards, you draft the one with crappy technique because he has more room to grow.

If you're hiring for some mid-level orchestra, bad mechanics on a sufficiently-skilled player might be enticing. And as you say, bad mechanics among top performers are basically nonexistent.
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Become an excellent debugger. It's sorely neglected as a skill that goes along with development, but is not the same thing as being a good coder.

Read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Debugging-Indispensable-Software-Hard...

It's short and sweet and applies to any technology problem.
This is the most important thing: "Unless and until the code is used it's all meaningless."

The risk of writing perfect unused code is significant, and the consequences are pretty grave. I think worrying about how "good" your code is should be secondary to worrying how usable your code is.

Yes, maintenance & debugging can really suck. But optimizing to make maintenance & debugging better won't serve your users well if your code never launches.
>They have a strong argument along the lines of copyright fair use for academic purposes.

Next thing you know they'll be running extension cords over your fence and into your windows in order to power their experiments for academic purposes.
We should convince the VirtualBox devs to do an AMA or a conference tech talk. Not only is it deep tech, I get the feeling it is a small number of really strong devs running the show (and possibly being ignored by the beast). Their networking options are also fairly awesome IMHO. I guess I'm a VirtualBox fanboy :)
Just to be clear, men do vocal fry and uptalk(ending sentences with upward inflection/making it sound like a question) too. Just less often. And not all women use uptalk and vocal fry.

Uptalk is more common in women:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/overturning-the-myt...

Vocal fry is more common in women:
"An examination of creaky voice occurring in natural conversations among relatively young educated American and Japanese speakers revealed that female speakers of American English residing in California employed creaky voice much more frequently than comparable American male and Japanese female speakers."
http://americanspeech.dukejournals.org/content/85/3/315.abst...

(Edit: I'd like to find better resources on this if available. These seem to be small studies.)
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I am a newbie in app developing. I might have overlooked the permissions.
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It depends on the nature of the failure. If you're doing something which triggers hard failures – i.e. where a read() call on a ocket would unblock with an error – soft mounts will eventually recover. The problem is that, in my experience anyways, the vast majority of failures aren't that clean – things like a server which processes packets but never responds, a network connection which drops packets but doesn't change the link status, etc. — and in those cases soft mounts behave no better than hard mounts. There also used to be kernel bugs in *BSD, Darwin, and Linux where the client could deadlock in heavy activity, which were hard to reproduce and get fixed.

In all of those cases, anything which tries to access something on the NFS mount will block in the kernel (i.e. “kill -9“ won't work) and the mount cannot be unmounted normally.

I wrote https://github.com/acdha/mountstatus awhile back – if memory serves, 2004 or so – because we found that on Linux a lazy unmount would still work in this case and so you could have a process monitor the mount status (fork() a child to check the mount, alert if it doesn't get a response within a set interval) and a watchdog could respond to an alert by issuing a “umount -l” and remounting, which doesn't fix the blocked process but is less disruptive than rebooting and that new processes won't block because they tried to access that mount.
People should always talk in exact figures instead of general terms that follow the evolution of technology like "Broadband".

One good example is Quebec's Prime Minister, who specifically said he wanted 30Mbps to be the minimum Internet speed by 2021. [1]

[1] http://branchez-vous.com/2016/05/20/quebec-injectera-100mill... (article in French)
Ehhh. There's only about 360k welders in the U.S. and 3.6 million software engineers. That's an order of magnitude in difference in impact.

Additionally, a software engineer probably makes more than a roofer, welder, and kindergarten teacher combined.

Part of the reason for studying software engineering is because it's part of a larger trend of women not being as prevalent in high-paying careers. That's also why the number of women CEOs and other leadership positions gets so much attention.

So, while I understand your point (there are any number of careers that have huge gender gaps that no one is looking at), software engineering is specifically scrutinized due to the number of current jobs, the average salary, and the expected growth of the profession over time. No other field has the kind of potential impact on the employee that software engineering does.
I thought this was going to be real estate and bitcoin merged together. Would be interesting to see how those two concepts might merge. Maybe the ability to buy land using bitcoin, and instead of holding a deed/title issued by the state, it remains with a holding company and you prove ownership with a digital private key. Useful for people who want to be anonymous but still sort-of-directly own real estate.
> May I ask though, how can I convey my frustration to anyone? and how to I avoid becoming jaded and apathetic to my goals?

Spend time cultivating empathy and patience.
What turned out really well for the company and the investors was that CloudLock was more scrappy than many of its competitors. [...] when the large incumbent security players all realized they need to acquire startups in this space, their best options were the startups that haven’t burned a lot of money
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I used to be able to use other calendars. Now it ignores my other calendars, and insists on using google calendar.
"iOS Simulator (4:27)

The iOS Simultator is much faster than the Android one, because it’s not an emulator. It’s basically an i386 Mac OS app. The simulator cannot access the camera, but a lot of other things can be simulated, including how the graphic rendering is working, locations, localizations, and iCloud integration. It still can’t simulate multi-touch or force touch unfortunately."

You can simulate multi-touch (hold Option) and force touch (Hardware->Simulate Finger Touch or Hardware->Use Trackpad Force for 3D Touch {If you have a force touch enabled Macbook Pro})
Anecdotally, we added a template to the TypeScript issue form.

Our stats (duplicate / not repro / just a question) didn't move at all. Our template had a sample version number in it that the logger was supposed to replace with the actual version number; that nightly-changing version number exists in 63 issues.

People still log bugs with literally identical titles to existing issues. People still log bugs with repros that don't display the behavior they're describing. People log bugs that are obviously just questions, which the template asks them not to do.

I don't think there's a fix here. Fundamentally you're asking someone to do work that they can, at no social cost, offload to someone else. I would love to try a model where it costs $1 to log an issue and the maintainer can give you back the dollar at their discretion.
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Doh! Good catch! I thought we figured it out!

Sorry for that. We're not native speakers. The thing is that "n-jinks" is how Russian NGINX team pronounce it. X is pronounced as iks, not ex, in Russian.
In one of the threads about the recent Ephemerum/DAO debacle someone explained everything in terms of Pokemons. The comment also applies here.

The real reason is probably to generate some buzz for Bitcoin, because some of the valley nouveau riche like to gamble and have long positions.
You can see the full log of errors with diagnostics from the 'Results Log' menu item. You're right, there should be a link to the log from the dashboard items.
I found that using Blacklane in that case was cheaper and more predictable than Uber.
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Price per text in the UK :

Twilio : $0.04/text
SNS : $0.05479/text (3UK is slightly cheaper)

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I wouldn't say components is the novel idea in react. For me the novel idea is continually generating the entire ui by applying functions to data. Previous component-based frameworks were about static declaratively-described ui's that where then bound to data, which is in many ways an inferior approach.
a corporate death penalty doesn't really hurt the people who a corporation stands in for very much

I know, that's why I included prison.
I get their goal of users having control over their data but limiting the identities artificially sounds pointless to me. Spam accounts are part of the internet and it's time we acknowledge and consider them as part of the overall user base. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding their reason for limiting the identities.
I find the original blog posts [1] a really interesting read. Nowadays Urbit is indeed full of buzzwords, “your personal cloud computer” and the like. But initially, Urbit was this [2]:

> Urbit is a new programming and execution environment designed from scratch. Any resemblance to existing languages or operating systems is coincidental, cosmetic, or inevitable.

It was based on this idea: suppose that a different civilization (Martians specifically) had invented computing long before humans. Then by now they would have perfected it. What would their system look like? Urbit is an attempt to rethink computing without the bias of human research and our current intuition. At the heart of Urbit is Nock, a “functional assembly language”. Zero is intentionally used to denote “true” to defy programmer intuition.

[1]: https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-progr...
[2]: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/0-int...
Speaking as someone who's on the spectrum, just because one is autistic doesn't automatically make them toxic - nor does being toxic automatically make one autistic. This is a really disingenuous and harmful stereotype of people on the spectrum. Autism affects more than just social functioning, and a great number of us, myself included, have no problems behaving in a positive and supportive fashion.
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If I were to start a company today, I'd definitely be tempted to only hire women, and pay my entire workforce 80 cents on the dollar, instead of 70 cents on the dollar.

Except that correcting for experience, the pay gap shrinks to about 94 cents on the dollar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0EYBBl5LI

I'm with John Green here: Much of the strong negative feeling around the gender pay gap comes from women as a whole feeling "squeezed" because they still do an out-sized amount of the unpaid work in our society. This also contributes to the absolute numbers pay gap, because women need to ask for more flexibility to be able to accomplish that unpaid work.

I wish discussions around that issue were more nuanced and fact based. The answer is more complicated than the simplistic notion that one gender is being crappy to the other, in either direction.
VFIAX is not a mutual fund, it's just the "Admiral" class of the VOO ETF. Admirals shares offer lower expense ratios in many instances, but I guess the VOO expense was already at its floor.
Borski — thanks for sharing this! I heard once about Tinfoil Security at BlackHat last year. Are in touch with the guys? We'd like to talk more with them.
That'd be interesting, but once you reach an orchestra you're generally beyond technical training. Players are expected to know how to play; individual training is rare and focuses on style aspects more than technical things.
Since when is hacking is a capital crime?
> it’s not about systemic bias against women or women being bad at computers or whatever. Rather, it’s about women being bad at dusting themselves off after failing, which, despite everything, is probably a lot easier to fix.

This conclusion (imo) should have been bolded. I disagree that getting women to "dust themselves off" is an easier fix than if there were inherent bias against women in interviewing.

My theory is that this is tied to (In the US) men being more tolerant of taking risks, which leads to being more tolerant of failure, which leads to being able to more easily "dust oneself off."

I'd imagine if you looked at women in this study who played competitive sports, they would be less likely to leave the platform.

Risk-aversion might also contribute to women being less likely to ask for a promotion, raise, or negotiate salary.

I disagree that "dusting yourself off" as being an easy fix similarly for why I think "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" is not an effective way to elevate people out of poverty. There are more cultural biases to overcome than a simple behavior change.
And why shouldn't the actual interview be text-based? Yes, that would be a drastic change, and it would render on-site interviews pointless. But then again, it would eliminate a lot more biases, e.g.based on accent and disabilities.
1) Always write code for someone else. And you don't know who it is.
-- similarly: "When I come back to this in a few years after not touching this code, will I understand it?"
UK-style colony management was also largely about access to colonial resources, and colonial markets. Colonial management was a means to that end.

The US empire is doing precisely that, through a mixture of soft and hard power.
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After reading this post, I still don't understand what the problem is. Are Mac developers writing apps that modify files stored inside the app bundle? If so, isn't this considered a dangerous practice?