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That's because it isn't true anywhere in American tech. Maybe in some lower level service jobs but you'd usually just be discriminated against before getting the job if management didn't like the tats.
Well. If the gift has two buttons, say red and blue. And pressing the sequence blue, red, blue, blue makes the server self destruct. Should there be a way to know that?

Put another way, it's not a gift if it somehow eventually fucks over the receiver. Or perhaps you consider STDs a gift? ;)
They also played a leading role in all the celebrity phone leaks but I've yet to see it reported on.
Have you done this in practice? Have you been asked and answered "no"?

If not, it is probably way to easy to make such a statement.
The average Joe who interacts with the market by picking stocks or day trading (which he shouldn't do) is substantially better off with HFT (though he still shouldn't do it).
No joke, I didn't want to become a software engineer when I was young because I saw pictures in books (published in the 60s -- I was reading them in the 80s) of programmers, and they looked like stodgy boring dorks. If I had seen that SV survival guide, the entire course of my life would have been different.
I'd say it's actually a detriment to wear one to an interview in the Valley. I learned that first-hand (but still got the offer).
That "point" has been debunked in every bitcoin thread I've ever read. Because a currency is deflationary doesn't mean that it's irrational to trade it. You can't eat bitcoins.
Yes, it's surely progress. I'd prefer punitive action in addition to the preventive measures. Corruption of the court system itself is heinous.
I mean, in this case the hard drive was bad, and they were purposefully scanning the entire drive in hopes of recovering his data. I'd say it's only natural for somebody to come across hidden data when the entire service is to recover said data.
Worse, people frequently put truck wheels on wheelbarrows because they're the new hot thing.

Edit: Thanks for sharing. I will use this some day.
I once interviewed for a job with a "hands on" recruiter clueless about tech culture who insisted I suit up. I overdressed and was interviewed by a VP of engineering who wore ragged cutoff shorts.
Japan's 'Superhuman' sports games meld high-tech and athletics
Ask HN: Any suggestions for the anythingbot video feed? (botwillacceptanything)
Wheeler: "I have no evidence but I'm pretty sure the police are hiding something!"

Foxnews corespondent: The family is begging me for help.

The family: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/were-seth-richs-pare...
When I tried it might have worked if you'd fully bought into the apple ecosystem, but in a mixed corporate environment it just wouldn't work.

A document had to be somehow transferred into each viewer, and manually saved back out so I could use the reviewed document on the desktop.

With the SP3, live documents are stored in either dropbox or a network share and its seamless.

I do a lot of design work in indesign and photoshop, and even word. Being able to make both simple and substantive changes on the fly is a lot more use than far more limited ipad apps.

The SP4 pen is far more pleasant to write with than any ipad stylus I came across. This is all just a matter of taste, but I found my muscle memory reacts for better to the SP4 stylus.

My ipads were great for many things, but work was never one of them for me.
I paid more on my second home (for the 2 months I had one...) as the council only offered a single person discount on one's primary residence.
"(And then issue diplomatic protests when Russia bombs them.)"

US has literally never complained when Russia has bombed Nusra. People complain when Russia bombs people then calls them ISIS/AQ. Inanimate grain silos? IS oil facilities according to RU MoD. Hospitals? Nusra strongholds according to RU MoD.

This is what people complain about. If you want to say otherwise please substantiate your claim.
I think maybe you are reading too much into it. Adding "value" to a company's bottom line by purchasing assets COMPLETELY outside of the core competency of the company tilts the scales toward cooking the books and away from creating actual value.
The office I work at right now is an old oil and gas company and up until a year ago women had to wear pantyhose. When they started the new internal development department they found out that they had to slightly relax the standards to hire people. We can now wear nice jeans, a shirt with buttons, and dress shoes. Yes, the manager still encourages everyone to wear tires, though it's no longer required.
Huh? Maybe some teens, but not all of them. When I was a teen, I had some peers who were like that, overachievers trying to be valedictorian and also involved in a ton of extracurricular activities. It was a total waste of time AFAICT: colleges don't really care that much about either one of those, your standardized test scores are more important. I easily got into a top tech state school just on my GPA score after they told me I was too late to register for that semester; they saw my SAT score and decided they could make room for me after all. I spent plenty of time at the mall, in pool halls, at Krispy Kreme donuts after midnight, etc.

And the lower-income, not-so-academically-inclined teens certainly aren't spending all their time doing homework and extracurriculars.
AMERICA, IF YOU FEAR EVIL THEN DO NO EVIL
As I understand it, they generally don't just aimlessly scroll through your email/facebook in front of you, then give your device back (although they can, if they feel like it) - they get you to surrender your credentials, then save these in their database; the contents of the accounts will then be downloaded automatically.

Same for devices - they have you unlock the device, then take it away, plug it into a PC/whatever, which sucks down a complete image of the device. Then they give it back, if they feel like it.

Obviously, if they do this with your email & facebook, they're also sucking in all your connections - your social graph: everyone you've ever emailed or has emailed you, everyone you're connected to on facebook.
You would think that people who experienced sexism would be more likely to be inclined to help out...
I'm also using Chrome 58 (on Mac) and it's working fine.
Or on Hacker News, for that matter...
Here in rural northwest Kansas the nearest Walmart is an hour away. All the local retailers cost more than Amazon. And whereas I have fiber optic broadband, I'd rather shop on Amazon. I can, after all, return an item to them for free if it doesn't fit.
I don't think the author knows what motivated IBM to make the change and just tries to make it look like IBM is Yahoo! Yahoo was a failing company trying desperately to reboot its revenue and culture. IBM on the other hand is an extremely successful enterprise that nurtures a company culture that has become a legend of its own. IBM has so far succeeded morphing into different shapes and forms to adapt to a very competitive market and ever shifting technology paradigms. Why assume, with such passionate and condescending arguments, that IBM does not know what it's doing?
The near-1550 nm wavelengths do not cause cancer or blind people.
The locals sold at a price they wanted or they wouldn't have sold. The locals who have not sold are now much wealthier.
I'd just go to your local phone repair kiosk and see what they have lying around for cheap.
> people who walk barefoot every day are not worried of stepping on tacks

Unless they're encumbered with a 80-pound piece of furniture that they're carrying down the stairs.
Pure tech no, but I bet they'd all roll down their sleeves if they're interviewing at a financial services company.
Will this mean that companies will actively avoid establishing offices in states with any courts that favor prosecutors in patent cases?

That in turn creates a motivation for states to make their courts neutral, or favor defendants in patent cases.
I was in an uber to one of Microsoft's collegiate CTF's, and when my Uber driver realized that means I knew (the very basics of) computer security he begged me to hack Uber and get all the Seattle driver's emails so he could ask them to strike.

He also tried to sell me on his cult. And told me to defend my servers all I needed was a fractal firewall that used the number Pi somewhere because if you use a number with (presumably) no pattern in it no one could ever touch you.

I gave him 5 stars
Complaint letters, too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir
More expensive brands typically have 1-inch intervals, so finding 31- or 33-inch waist isn't a problem.
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>Yes, the manager still encourages everyone to wear tires, though it's no longer required.

Wouldn't that be rather uncomfortable, especially when you try to sit in a chair with a back?
"where they allegedly infringe the patent and have a regular and established place of business."

So if you are an internet company, add this to your header:

if (ip_address_in_texas) exit;

Otherwise you might still being doing business there?
Absolutely true.
Friend of mine just got a new tech job with one of those boring old Fortune 100 companies. Wore a suit to the interview; the interviewer told him to dress it down for the job.

So he wore slacks, a belt and a button up shirt on the first day; people seemed really nervous around him, like he was there to audit them.

So he meets the people he's going to work with: his "boss" is in a stained t-shirt, shorts, no shoes, super casual. I mean like 20 years ago he wouldn't have been able to buy a soda in a beach-town convenience store. Looks at my friend like he's from Mars.

A few weeks in and my friend still over-dresses. I mean, his shirt has a COLLAR for christsakes. It looks like it has been IRONED for the love-of-god. We'll see how long he lasts. Maybe when he gets more comfortable he'll start wearing ripped jeans and a pink floyd t-shirt. We'll see.
Why substantially better off?
I wonder if the same will be written about yoga pants. They're everywhere nowadays. Some women even wear them for work (that is not related to yoga).
Not true in most U.S. real-estate markets (especially in cities), where rental prices bear very little relationship to costs to the landlord. Prices are set more by a mixture of demand and supply, where supply is more constrained by zoning and planning policy than by maintenance costs. Raising or lowering property taxes in that kind of market will raise or lower profit margins for the landlord, but not raise or lower the prevailing rental prices, which are already set as high as demand allows.

One way to verify that not even landlords believe this "pass on the costs" theory is to see what they lobby for. U.K. landlords are adamant in lobbying against any attempt to convert the council-tax system into a property-tax system, and California landlords strongly lobby against any modification to Proposition 13. If it were equivalent either way with all costs just paid by the renters, landlords wouldn't care enough to lobby.
I would describe the distinction like Gresham's law. Suppose we have two units of currency, each with identical face value: a real tulip bulb, and a certificate worth 1.0 tulip bulbs, or a silver coin marked $1 and an iron coin marked $1.

In each case, the face value is identical but one of the units has an additional possible area of value, extrinsic to the marked face value. You can melt down the silver coin, eat the potato, plant the tulip. This puts a floor on the value of the item - it's worth min(facevalue, extrinsicvalue). Something worth min(facevalue,extrinsicvalue) should be worth more than something worth min(facevalue, 0).

Bitcoin doesn't seem to be something that can be planted, eaten, etc. It doesn't have another area of value, other than being bitcoin.
Am I doing that? I don't think "I wonder how a sea-turtle thinks" is necessarily on a different plane than how our machines today 'think', on a high level. Or by biological NN did you only mean humans? If you only meant reasoning humans, it strikes me as pretty obvious they are different. Didn't Andrew Ng define the scope of DL as anything a human can do in less than a second, only?

I don't think the "neural" analogy is meaningful or interesting anyways, and I don't think DL people do either. Layers of logistic regression units isn't a brain, or would you argue brains are logistic regression layers?
"Scott proved that vibrations are truly how sounds came to our ears. But Thompson says the scientific community had trouble accepting his breakthrough"

Wat? How the hell did bell makers think bells worked?
The CTO made me sick – why I left unity3d
Because they don't want to get detained, be denied entry, have to travel home at their own expense, and be refused/blacklisted entry in the future, probably?

If you're not a US citizen, there's no plausible deniability, due process or rights at the US Border; CBP agents can deny entry to whoever, for any reason at all - they have _very_ wide latitude and there is no appeal.

Legal details vary by country, but this is pretty much the case at all borders, afaik.
Was Vallco ever alive? Serious question; it's seemed dead ever since the mid 90s
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Aloha people. I am looking for a few people who are ok with printing a pdf to test a game called Idiot Cards. It's somewhat similar to Cards Against Humanity. Cheers
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I've never used one, but I suspect one of the benefits is with the CPU on the screen side, you don't get bacon legs like you would with a traditional laptop.
>I think we can all think of times when someone at work "red-socked-it".

When I worked at Best Buy years ago, they started making us wear earpieces. I hated trying to do my job with constant interruptions in my ear, but instead of telling management I hated it, I pretended to love it.

I started talking over the radio constantly, and I'd end every phrase by making a white-noise sound and saying over. Eventually the managers took my radio away, and they thought it was a punishment.
Since I studied how humans sometimes have poor judgments for a briefly, I had the opposite reaction: I immediately imagined some young person from the 1800's saying "Well gee why would you want to record sounds when you go can go hear them live!"
Just weeks ago, I had to pay out a $5000 bounty on my Cuckoo Cycle proof of work scheme [1], because I had wrongly assumed that hash sets were faster, given that the hash set reduces to a simple bitmap.

Where the article considers up to 10M elements,
Cuckoo Cycle deals with about a billion elements,
thus answering the question of what happens when cranking up the data size. It turns out that despite using 32x to 64x more memory than the bitmap, sorting is about 4x faster.

Blog entry [2] explains how Cuckoo Cycle reduces to a counting problem.

[1] https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
[2] http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mini...
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Ask HN: Building cross platform text adventure game how to package a terminal
I'm looking for recommendations on a crossplatform terminal emulator that I can package with the app. I've looked at hyper and it appears to be acceptable but it doesn't have the ability to set the shell to start with a command line parameter. So what options are there to provide a terminal emulator without trying to implement one myself.
Alternate theory: the longer we aren't England the more we recognize that three layers of wool isn't a very practical outfit.

I mean shit Miami's winters are warmer than London's summers
Radar gets you range rate. It's also a good backup to the primary system. A very simple computation from radar returns will answer "is a collision imminent"? This should apply the brakes even if the "AI system" doing the driving (or the human driver) do not.
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> I thought "wrong site surgery" was rare.

It is, but that wasn't the entire sentence, nor really representative of the total harm from medical errors.
Maybe I should have elaborated a bit more. My original point was that it makes sense that the visible spectrum was colocated with the frequencies not readily absorbed by water.

Which is to say, eyes were made for seeing the light that was bouncing around in the sea (and not the frequencies that had already been absorbed).

So yes, the simplest answer you can imagine.
I didn't upvote it, but I appreciated hearing about the article and reading it. Startup types are routinely told to speak with their customers, and here was a novel, fun and attention-getting way of doing exactly that.
> Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big

Did we really have to weaken the title's statement? Bending to the common denominator will always lead to milquetoast titles.
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Most of the "core" packages are very recent. Guix typically has zero-day updates for popular software such as git, kernel, ffmpeg etc, and obviously most of the GNU portfolio.

The only "unfree" package I use is the vanilla Linux kernel (for non-free wifi firmware), which is fairly easy to tie into the system configuration.
You've assumed locals own the housing, when really most of them are renting. Rental prices go up; everybody loses.
Explaining how end-to-end deep learning steers a self-driving car
Okay, but maybe don't walk barefoot if you're moving furniture around.
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Rigid gloves that are an inch of solid rubber, sure :P
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I've witnessed US border agents mocking someone for hours in the waiting area before summarily sending him back to where he came in from.
Silicon Valley Has an Unofficial Nerd Heritage Trail for Tech Tourists
There's also an investor (Paul Singh, ex-500Startups) driving across America in an RV to meet startups. For those who don't know about his excursions head over here:

https://www.resultsjunkies.com

Jovial mood: I wonder what's the probability of an investor on road meeting a startup on road. I mean on physical roads. And is that measure of probability meaningfully any different from the reality of fundraising? Think not :-)
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You have to type :q to quit. : Is the command mode.
Who said anything about chat? Parent was talking about https://discourse.org which has effort put into archival / finding old discussions
Interesting. I find stereotypical business casual (khakis or maybe jeans these days and a button down shirt/polo shirt) to still be pretty much the norm even at a lot of tech companies, at least on the East Coast. That's pretty much what I wear. It's comfortable and it works even if I have to drop into a customer or analyst meeting.

Honestly, I find dressing down from that involves more thinking about what I will/may have to do in the course of the day. Khakis and a collared shirt let me do pretty much anything that may come up without thinking about it.
Well, yeah, perhaps the craziest thing about XML is that it has namespaces built into its syntax with no realistic model of how or why you would be mashing up different sources of XML tags.

Namespaces are about the semantics of what strings refer to. They belong in a layer with semantics, like JSON-LD, not in the definition of the data transfer format.

I am convinced that nobody would try to add namespaces to JSON itself. Just about everyone can tell how bad an idea that would be.
I thought it odd as well. These are mostly women in IT at non tech companies.
If Texas was a country instead of a state, it would have the 10th largest economy in the world, you won't see any such games to avoid Texas (not that it's legally relevant anyway)
The commonly 'standard' workflow.

1. Local feature branch. Sometimes remote feature branch for co-developing purpose.
2. Always rebase before pushing, merge local branch to the 'main' branch after rebasing but before pushing the 'main' branch
3. Keep remote branches versioned for each release, just in case you need to roll back.
The owner's ability to pass the cost on depends on the conditions of supply and demand in the market, as always.
Jurisdictions will compete, and maybe one will rarely enforce any software patents, which I would prefer. I would love for someone to link to a single truly novel software patent, the quintessential "this is why we need software patents" patent. I have yet to read one.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/29/us/alabama-to-make-prisone... (I support prisoners having good job training, choices and wages.)
I believe the current internet is a living creature and the sarcasm and snark it produces are natural defenses against any new internet someone tries to create.
There will surely be a new scam, but it won't be as lucrative. If the court can only harm business of local interest then it's much less likely to do harm.
When I interviewed for my 2nd out of college job (circa 2000), I happened to interview on a day where the folks I was interviewing with had a conference, so they were dressed up. My start date was delayed for some bureaucratic reason.

Not knowing what the dress code was, I showed up my first day in a suit, and headed up to the office, which had been moved the week prior. I'm wandering around looking for my boss, when the Commissioner's secretary (this is a .gov gig) spots me, and thinks I'm a salesman as they had an issue with salespeople crashing the place. Nobody can find my boss, and five minutes later, two policeman show up and escort me out of the building. Thankfully my boss was a smoker, and rescued me as the cops were kicking me out! :)

The particular division I was in had a pretty eclectic collection of dressers. The bigshots wore suits or sportsjackets, and most people did the business casual thing. Then there were the... others. One dude did leather pants and a massive cowboy hat, there was a male and female tracksuit contingent, and a few people wearing sweatpants of all things.
Haven't worn a suit for an interview in decades. Last interviews, I wore a jacket and tie. I knew I'd be overdressing and certainly didn't need to. But it generally doesn't hurt to signal that you're taking the process seriously.

I've interviewed plenty of folks in the years since and they do pretty much the same. I'm not going to dock people because they approach an interview formally.
Yeah, I don't believe that, either. Stringed instruments were commonplace, and the instrument makers pretty obviously knew how they worked.
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It's something I've noticed as well and something I feel myself starting to react against. I don't own any t-shirts anymore and now dress almost exclusively in business casual, whether I'm at work or not. I plan to get myself a suit tailored this year.

I think the stereo-typical image of the "IT guy" wearing a hoodie or printed t-shirts isn't a good one, and stops us being taken as seriously as we should be. I want to be respected as a professional, not ostracized for dressing like a slob.
I find these sartorial/sumptuary rules fascinating. My kid (age 19) is a snappy dresser which I (working in the Valley since I was 18, 30-odd years ago) pretty much wear whatever my hand falls on first, typically T shirts and shorts.

He says it's a status thing: I have status (within the community I work with) and so can afford to not give a shit about my clothing. While service workers (not gardeners, but sales people, lawyers, doctors, janitors, finance people, waiters, etc) all have to wear a uniform of one sort or another.

I wonder if he's right because when I am in Japan or Europe I dress better and do dress up for dinner.

I heard an interesting explanation for SF's acceptance of a much wider norm of behavior: the claim was that it goes back to the gold rush: that crazy person might just have an ounce or two of gold in his or her pocket.
All you're really saying is Ford can't build an electric car the same way Tesla plans to build electric cars. But electric cars aren't very different from conventional cars - Ford's logistics system is more likely to be an advantage than a disadvantage.