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Agreed, it's an important principle. But, as with many (all?) important principles, there are situations, contexts and exceptions that will cause them to yield, if only temporarily. And in this specific case I think you might find that the circumstance far from fascist, if not the exact opposite. Please note we are not talking about relaxing any burden of proof in courts of law, this is about publishing accusations of possible criminal misconduct in media. It's my conviction that this is a morally defensible way, maybe the only way, to imprint on leaders in business and elsewhere that these issues are more important than they (obviously) used to think. But it can get out of hand, granted.
It isn't easy but it's possible to change routes. I did software for 6 years, then quit. In the last 2 years I've worked as a farm engineer, a cook, done tree work, and carpentry to pay the bills. It's not something I would recommend to everyone. Part-time side work in something your interested in might be a good way to test the water.
"Know thyself". I don't know exactly what you mean by the question. That was just my first thought. If you are asking where you place in the spectrum of the guy that builds simple websites vs the guy that build large scale enterprise applications the only way you will know is keep on trying till you succeed. Some would argue failure is the measurement, but in truth we fail all the time. Failing is the easiest thing for one to accomplish so it could never be the metric we use to measure. Failing repeatedly till we achieve success is what life is about. Every time we run into a problem or new situation is a chance to grow to expand and to achieve something we couldn't the day before. The whole whats the difference between the master vs his apprentice? The master has already failed a million times while the apprentice has only failed a handful of times. The master never cared about reaching greatness he just cared about taking care of the challenge that was placed in front of him when it came. Those challenges are what turn him into a master and the same shall happen to you. The level you speak of is the spoon in the matrix it only exist in your mind the second you realize that then you can bend the spoon.
Physically, metaphorically, or biologically.
> What am I doing wrong here?

For reasons I cannot fathom you're reiterating the same type of suspicion that started the whole controversy, and that this apology seeks to address. Then you feel a need to share that unsubstantiated and damaging conspiracy with other people.

The apology include several reasons why this is wrong.

> Should I not be suspicious at all?

No, you shouldn't.
May I ask which state you reside in?
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I've been playing around with the Plaid Transactions API. I think it would be pretty interesting to offer a product similar to Mint.com that allows for more slicing and dicing of your data.

While I'm having fun playing with my own data, do any HNers know of legal/privacy issues I might run into if I start storing other people's transactions?

I work in the healthcare space and am used to being very careful with PII like this. Are there any regulations like HIPPA that I should be mindful of?

Edit: I am in the US
All of them ignored the law. If Uber was just Uber Black you might have a point.
Drawdown.org places "Plant-rich diet" as the 4th most effective change we can make to combat climate change.

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

So there's a good deal more at stake here than just optimal protein digestibility uptake rates.

Anecdotal, but I recently placed first in my age group and 5th overall in a trail marathon on a nearly vegan diet. Two other the other four in front of me were vegans. In another recent half marathon with over 1,000 runners, a near-vegan diet helped secure 4th out of 90 in my age group, close to the top 10% overall. I wasn't counting calories and certainly not protein. I did lose to close to 30 lbs while also getting faster. I used to have an "afternoon slump" at work, but that's rare now, even when running 7 miles before work.

For more interviews with scientists, the Cowspiracy movie (bad name) helps explain why animal agriculture has ended up as a top cause of climate change, and the newer movie "What the Health" interviews a number of doctors and scientists about the relationship between plant-based foods and health.
I've been meaning to write this up more properly for a long time, and this reminds me of my pains in this area.

This is more of an off the cusp draft of my ideas and opinions in this area.

To start with, it would be REALLY helpful if there were a physical mode switch for maintenance tasks. (On desktops I think it should be like an 'ignition key', only with the key being a generic shape that could be substituted by a flat-head screwdriver or any custom shape someone might buy as a keychain thing at a gas station/convenience store. For thinner portable devices maybe an SD card where all the data pins are shorted to ground or a similar data cable. Whatever it is, the standard should be dead simple and generic. )

Lacking an above maintenance mode, the system should assume it's in such a mode by default (current state of affairs).

When in that maintenance mode the basic firmware should:

>> If /only/ bootable media with previously authorized keys is present and the last boot attempt was less more than 5 min* (configurable time per boot profile) ago: attempt to boot.

>> If the last boot was less than that time, follow secondary boot options (might be a local checking stub, might be a URI to offer a list of PXE style blobs from, etc * * ).

>> If bootable media is present, but has a 'signing key' not in the local approved cache...

>>>> Prompt the user with a description of the issuing key, the fingerprint of said key, cross-reference it against previously installed authorities to see what their opinion of the key is.

>>>> Allow the operator to install the indicated key and/or CA (and online cross-check / maintenance image locations) in to the trusted keys storage area.

In all cases the end user should be the highest authority and trusted operator.

The operator SHOULD be able to remove (or at least disable) (even all) pre-installed CA/etc.

The operator MUST be able to add any additional authority they designate.

For TPM/DRM things, operator added authorities /may/ maintain strong signing verification for loaded code (or not), and the 'strong signing' flag would only indicate if the path was trusted or not.

The way TPM/DRM would actually work is to verify the integrity from the ground up, in it's side channel. The host system MUST also be able to operate in a mode where that side channel is completely disabled, or replaced with a non-DRM-trusted side channel (corporations might want to use such equipment for remote support operations).

* * This is intended to be an 'advanced' system checking and repair utility. It should do something like collect a list of 'core' things that it thinks are installed, and check that against the online repository. It would operate by downloading lists of files (per installed thing and update set), then compile an in-memory database of those items and their signatures in at least two hash algorithms and verify that the local storage matches. If there's a difference it should offer to download the expected files instead, and ask the user if they want to upload the different, possibly infected, files.
You get what you pay for. How is this a revolutionary idea?
Anyone else think this article was going to be about chess?

Man HN has my mind so warped I thought this article was going to be about women and chess.
One is set in a spare hospital corridor. Its subject wears scrubs and a woebegone expression. The sense is one of desperation - of at best a forlorn hope, if not of hopelessness outright. It is in every respect commensurate with the textual depiction of the subject as someone struggling nobly under an unjustly imposed burden.

The other is lush, full of color and interest and expensive appointments: fine curtains, musical instruments, a leather sofa. Its subject wears a stylish outfit and a look that lies somewhere between a smirk and a sneer. One need not read a subtext of entitlement into the image. Entitlement is the whole of its text.

Yet these photographs depict two people whose situations the article they accompany would have us regard as effectively parallel. It's an odd juxtaposition, and one whose origin in mere happenstance would surprise me greatly of so consummately professional an A-list blog as this.

The cliché is that a picture is worth a thousand words. These two pictures are worth two very different thousands of words. Such things do happen by accident, but not, I think, at the New York Times. So I'm curious about the purpose that underlay their selection.
Being anti-nuclear is pretty much accepting the status quo though. Modern nuclear power is much, much more sustainable than coal, scales very well, and is very safe. If you believe in a quick solution for energy issues then you shouldn't halt all nuclear development and leave fossil fuels for the next couple decades.
Both are factors, and I don't honestly know which is the larger factor, however, it's no longer just local papers that are affected.

The large national dailies are getting thinner and thinner each year, each month it seems.

Compare a Sunday times from today to one from the early nineties if you remember them.

This is not good. A clickbait article on facebook that has been targeted to appeal to your biases is not the same thing as real journalism.
If I'm being honest, this would bother me at some level. Certainly not enough to pass up the opportunity, but somehow I would feel less of a man. I'm sure I would get over it quickly enough, or maybe use it as motivation to become equally educated. I do think it's great that there are so many highly educated women.
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>We're fast converging on a future where IQ and inherited wealth will be the only two fundamental positive qualities.

Genome editing might take care of IQ.
VC money can't make up for their weak numbers and incompetence. They gotta push up revenue in other ways.
I wouldn't mind living in a time when an engineer could make a living supporting 20 users. (Or maybe you still can?)
> core functions

We're not talking about outsourcing tangential features, we're talking about the outsourcing of waging war and core abilities of the military, eg the hired hackers at the NSA or outfits like Blackwater.

Privatization isn't about purchasing supplies through corporations outside of the government, but having corporations perform key features of the government.

Your example isn't really about that, so you're right -- you're not an expert, you're talking about the wrong thing.
Being publicly criticized for your actions is not the same as being lynched. Please stop.
True, but better to have loved and lost, right?
> I know several women in their mid-thirties who adamantly refuse to consider long term partnership with perceived low status males (along lines of status, power, wealth and education).

Lowering standards aside, this attitude alone would be off-putting for most men, high-status ones especially. What do they bring to the table? Certainly humility isn't one of them.
Dual major in theology?
Funny enough one of the big accusations against her being fake is that her English is “too good” for a native.
Good luck trying to explain this simple reality of life. Youth is very important to males because of the diminishing ability of women to reproduce as they get closer to 40, with males it is much later. It is biology 101 but today mentioning biology as a reason to anything related to the relations between sexes is a heresy.
> The text of the manual was written using the ed text editor.

I guess I should have known, but I had no idea that anyone had written a 50,000-word 300-page manual in ed. It has a bit of a, uh, reputation.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt
But the fuel needs extremely high ion energy—temperature—to burn.

That’s the killer caveat.
> The United States has the most advanced military in the world.

It's not just that Silicon Valley and other tech is in the USA. It's the result of a massive spending program.

https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

The United States spends more on national defense than the next eight countries combined.

the United States has historically devoted a larger share of its economy to defense than many of its key allies.
Cambridge, FWIW, seems to be mostly individual colleges rather than the University itself. Given the size (and presumably diversity) of their endowment assets[0], I don't find this much of a surprise.

[0] e.g. Trinity ~£1bn per https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/alumni/giving-to-trinity/annual-r..., Gonville and Caius ~£150m per https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/alumni/campaign-brochure/the-endow...
I'll upvote, because we're all on a journey here. But that weird and offputting feeling a feeling that, more often than not, comes up when we're talking about women. Only women. And that's the problem.

Here's a counterpoint: https://twitter.com/aphyr

I can't speak for all the harassment he may or may not have endured, but it's not on the same level as Wu. He makes fun of his weird pairing of interests in his featured photo. He doesn't have the CEO of a company and de facto leader of his professional association questioning his competence on Twitter. Whatever he's dealt with, it probably hasn't been "this is so offputting that I'm going to question the fact that you even exist."

Honestly, I had the same reaction as you. I don't think it's OK to question people like Naomi in this way, because I'm pretty sure I'm doing it unevenly. It's something I'm trying to figure out if I do elsewhere, and how to improve. This stuff is hard.
It goes the other way too. I can read and write Chinese far better than I can speak it or listen to it in real time. If I have time to think, I can get grammar mostly correctly but if I have to do it on my feet I make many mistakes with tones and grammar.
Call me crazy, but when I use one of these services, I expect the service to be reflected in the price.
In Silicon Valley it has become too risky to date professional women. Everyone is a “Founder”, and everyone is an “Angel Investor”. Even flirting can end your career.
>Entitled or not, we generally think that if would be better if people who want relationships were in relationships.

In a perfect world, sure. Sadly, we are discussing reality here.
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My wife has at times earned more than me but that's never felt threatening. After all, I benefit from her increased income. In fact I would love it if she'd earn enough for me to be a stay home dad without us needing to cut expenses too much.
Is end-to-end encryption going to be part of a modern IRC experience? Please, this is an absolute must. And don't make it optional if possible. Make non-e2ee optional.
Maybe you could screencap and put them on an image hosting site, imgur for example. It would be greatly appreciated thanks.
I was wondering why this comment was downvoted, and realized that it’s probably because of the “childless” bit, which is a pretty conservative attitude.

But there is an important point here. People who are in a healthy family and have dependents don’t do things like suicide bomb or go on mass shootings. Those are the acts of desperate, miserable men.

I’m not advocating nuclear families, but when I hear about the insane gender disparity in places like China, I worry.
I have only dated women smarter/richer than me so far, and yes, it is very motivating.
I run both -- but which I'm using at a particular time depends on the particular use case.

For this article's target audience, Qubes OS is the better choice.
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I know a few people who left careers as software engineers to go to grad school in a different field, some to a humanities field.

It's easier to escape computer work than most fields -- computer workers tend to have relatively high salaries and ought to be able to survive the transition period if they saved enough money.
The other commenter referenced growing apart as a risk, and there were definitely "growing pains" for me and my partner. But ultimately I agree with you that it is really valuable to grow through early adulthood with someone if you find the right person. Glad you found someone to grow with now though!
Your story is a great reminder to why tipping is pointless (among many other reasons, such as [1]) If you do decide to tip, you should hand the person you want to have the money cash -- that's the only way you can be for sure they're gonna get it.

[1] http://scholarship.sha.cornell.edu/articles/27/
I wondered about that when I was in college. Had a fellow student who was from China and had pretty poor spoken skills, but I had to write something (I think it was a write-up of a circuit) with him (on an old Mac SE/30) and his written English was amazing. It was such a weird split and not that uncommon or confined to the Chinese as I later found out.

I think it comes down to reading a lot and absorbing that formalism, but not really speaking that way because, well, spoken English is a different bird.
Or finding one who isn't traumatized too badly by past relationships.
> The Chinese Communist party has ordered foreign-funded universities to install party units and grant decision-making powers to a party official, reversing an earlier promise to guarantee academic freedom as President Xi Jinping strengthens political control over all levels of education.

Sounds like Xi Jinping is really gearing up for possible re-education of college students with communist ideals and more importantly, party loyalty. Also rejection of human rights, educational freedom, and democratic ideas. Will this affect China's already low innovation capability? most likely.

EDIT: also, there have been alot of these desperation moves by the communist party this year. From recently banning Katy Perry from performing in China because she wore a Taiwan flag in 2015, to banning Winnie the Pooh. There must be panic within the party halls regarding the economic decline.
Traditional gender roles and expectation still exist. It also seems that if the wife makes more than the husband, you're more likely to suffer a divorce[1]

It's easy to say I wouldn't mind, but I haven't faced the situation. In fact, I hope I wouldn't have to.

[1]
https://hbr.org/2017/05/does-a-womans-high-status-career-hur...
I suppose you aren't talking about Andrew Gelman... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/upshot/the-er...
If that wasn't the deal they promised the universities, then the universities have every right to act surprised.
> My point is: just because a book has cartoons & unserious style doesn't mean it has good presentation of teaching. It might be a suboptimal book that just happened to use cartoons.

I hope you're not implying that I don't have good presentation or don't teach well! I'd obviously disagree with that. And I definitely think that the Head First books mentioned by others in their responses do a great job with both.

But I notice that you said "suboptimal," and then made this point:

> - page 1: the clipart of the man and woman and the thought bubbles do not reward the user with quality knowledge in relation to the space they take up

I recommend against judging the "optimality" of a book based on the amount of information that it packs into the smallest amount of space. Maybe instead of the amount of space taken up by the teaching, consider using the amount of time and effort required by the reader. Pages are cheap, especially in an electronic medium. A page like the one you mentioned is really quick to read and absorb.

Also:

> - page 19: the clipart of the tourist with the arrows and thought bubble does not actually teach a networking concept

I haven't read Head First Networking, and I don't know the authors, Al Anderson or Ryan Benedetti. But from a quick read, it's clear that that picture is part of a larger story (in this case, about tourists and an airline) that the authors are using as a teaching tool. Stories are a very effective teaching tool.

This should make sense if you think about it. Think about the last textbook that you read. Can you remember the major points that it made, in order? You might be able to, but most people probably can't do it accurately. Now think about the last movie you watched. It's much more likely that you can remember most or all of the major plot points and in the right order, because they're part of a consistent story.

Our brains are wired to remember stories, just like they're wired to remember places, faces, and emotions. The Head First books use stories to take advantage of this effect, not dissimilar to how people use memory palaces (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2395739) to improve their recall.

Yes, telling stories (especially visually) takes a lot of page space. But readers absorb them quickly -- in my experience, it's a very efficient and effective way of teaching. The Head First books that I've read (and hopefully the ones that I've written!) do a great job of that.
> Considering that we want to eliminate any gaps between the genders, why are educated women limited to educated men of their own ages?

Biologically and evolutionarily speaking, men want younger and more fertile women to mate with. Women want established males ( their age or older ) to mate with.

> Why not increase the pool like men do: go for more younger, possibly less educated men (as the article implies for men)?

As I stated earlier because men want younger women and women want established males.

http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/54455482eab8ea36171...

http://www.businessinsider.com/dataclysm-shows-men-are-attra...
I'm guessing these are just the ones that got caught. I would be surprised if the London Universities e.g. Imperial, LSE would miss out on doing similar things with their funds.
I can read Dakotah ok, but I never could speak the language because I cannot really do the guttural without sounding idiotic. Had a boss who learned the language from her uncles, so she was teased by her aunts for "talking like a man". Reading is safer.
That’s a video of her being interviewed near the end she talks about why you can call yourself a maker to the host who feels he is a passive observer even though he has tinkered.

If you go to her channel, watch the build for her LED transparent bikini top for example. That can’t be faked by her husband, she demonstrates skills with the tools that many people on HN don’t even have.

Is she an electrical engineer? No, she’s a tinkerer, but what’s wrong with that?

A beautiful girl decides she wants to tinker, is into transhumanisn and body modification, uses her popularity to encourage other girls and women. Does it even matter if she has help?

I mean the guys on Mystbusters have a production staff too as do many YouTubers have collaborators.

Why do we only doubt Women’s ability or downplay it? Is it not real real because she’s attractive? Because an attractive woman couldn’t possibly be into hacking and making?

What does an engineer “look like”? What does a hacker “look like”?

Naomi already coded ruby under a male pseudonym for this very reason, to avoid gender discrimination.
For a Chinese person living in China, her English is very good (compare to the English of the merchants in the same video). There are very few e.g. Americans living in the US with similarly good Chinese.
wasn't that what the reply said, unless you have 1000 engineers, you don't need it?
That article has me baffled. So many players talking about how much weight they've lost. One of them lost 40 lbs!

In every sport I've ever participated in, the diet dilemma of the top tier athletes is how to keep the weight on...not how to lose it. I don't even know what to say, just that it seems so weird.