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Here's a task I had to accomplish recently:

For two different directories,
find all duplicate files that are
both less than 10 minutes old

This was easily accomplished in a few lines of bash, and then scripted, because I knew I'd have to do it again and again.

I'm not accomplished with GUI tools, but I'd be interested to know how this would be done via a GUI.
I think we should give it a day or two, then start another one, provided this question gets voted up.
If you're going to go on assumed product leaks being true they launched the tear drop shaped iPhone 5 last year.

Encouraging signs:

* In their recent "disappointing" quarter they grew faster than Google.

* Mountain Lion has just become the fastest selling version of Mac OSX ever, shipping over 3 million copies in the first 4 days (from memory, those numbers may be a little out).

* The latest figures show iOS market share increasing despite the fact that the iPhone is due a refresh (which has historically meant sales are at their slowest).

* In a market where PC sales as a whole are decreasing, sales of the Mac are increasing.

But hell, they did some bad ads, the writing is on the wall.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for Front-end engineers and a DevOps engineer.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The team is still small (~9 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs (we just announced our round with NEA and Atomico - http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/01/content-crunching-app-silk-...) and located in the city center of Amsterdam.

More on http://jobs.silkapp.com/
I'm not sure - I was used KNO3 and sugar to make rocket fuel when I was younger, it makes smoke bombs if too much sugar, but I figured fine KNO3 at the right concentration with fuel oil would create an explosive. You still need a primary explosive and detonator though. Is KNO3 + Fuel Oil different than the usual NH4NO3 "AN-FO" bombs?
Hey Tom

I've actually played AirSpace and your product looks great. Sorry I lobstered* you in with the rest. The marketplace is an interesting concept - I wonder if you'll eventually earn more from that than your product?

I'll take a closer look at those startups. There may be a few undervalued ideas because their names are bad or copy is generic.

*Do consider changing the Lobster font. It's the new Comic Sans).
This is true! We need to work on solution and not on forks with solutions.

but 1 thing about oauth2. It's damn small and easy. There is nothing to "fork" in it. This is why we need to fix 2 vulns(from my post) and make it slightly more interoperable.
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As I begin my final year of school, I really don't want to go back to my minimum wage job. Is doing independent contracting a feasible replacement? If so, where do I start? Advice?
This is an ongoing made up fake crisis.

First, I've yet to see any women engineers who have demonstrated they are good at their jobs make this argument. It's mostly bloggers and journalists writing these things. Women engineers who are good don't describe having problems any different from the rest of us.

As far as the actual incidents of harassment from asshole managers and socially inept coworkers, I've got the same stories too. Management is clueless in general and the profession, although respected by the public, is not generally respected by managers, executives or journalists.

Most developers employed these days are not competent, regardless of gender, man and woman alike. The few that are competent cluster in competent firms where harassment and disrespect of employees, man and woman alike, is not tolerated.

I'm a bit hyper-aware of this right now. I resigned my job last month after 6 months of abuse and harassment of engineers by non-engineering sales staff, which they viewed as hilarious pranks on worthless geeks who think they are so smart. Complaints to management were handled with suggestions to "man up", "learn to deal" and "stop being a pussy". I received over 100% salary increase in return for my willingness to quit and leave for a more sane firm.

If you are good and you are being harassed, there is high demand for people who are good. The companies that permit harassment deserve to fail. Leave and don't look back. I offer this advise because I would hate for someone to think they can't find a place where there work is appreciated and they are valued because of their gender or race. There are places out there that are sane and professional, and they are generally more profitable so you make more as well. The only thing is that you need to be competent, that is the most important thing in this field because that's your ticket to success.
>Apple's strength is not in its chips. It's in its software and tightly integrated stack

Huh? Every time an iOS device is released, it usually is the industry leader for mobile processors. Apple is huge and can be great at many things at once.
Yeah, how did she score higher than Daft Punk?
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The website is still under construction but you should definately check out my works on deviantart http://michalkosecki.deviantart.com/gallery/

I found out that we have a common friend - Marcin from PlaceChallenge. I'm Art Director at PlaceChallenge. :)
Thanks!! We'll add "open in hd/full resolution" option as well as a "view at 100%" shortcut soonish :-)
This was already answered in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323033
Is this another way of describing what Steven Covey called "Sharpening the Saw?" You can saw wood all day, and of course in the very short run you're always more productive sawing than sharpening, but in the medium or long term, you're better off sharpening the saw before you start cutting.
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Phusion Passenger Enterprise released
Or go directly to https://www.phusionpassenger.com ! Excited to hear what you guys think about it.
I believe that you should account for future growth when planning infrastructure - i.e., 100Mbps might be sufficient for even the most demanding users and overkill for most but 5 or 10 years down the line it might be viewed as barely adequate – the same as we're discussing 2Mbps right now.
The problem in the US is not rifles, it's handguns. The US gets ~17k murders per year. 13k of those are with firearms. 11k of those are with handguns. Shootings like Aurora are visible, but they're not common.

A much harder thing to do is decouple firearms from masculinity - that link is everywhere in the US, from Hollywood to patriotism to those 'defend your daughters against home invading gangbangers' ads.
the fact that I like gaming doesn't mean that I like the same thing as every other reader of /r/gaming, for instance.

So, the site should be unique for each user, right? But if you take the tactic you mentioned in a previous post: "Give users the ability to dislike something strongly enough that anyone who voted it up is excluded from all vote counts/rankings/recommendations as provided to that user for some period of time." You'll pretty quickly run out of any other users to interact with.
The video of him walking down the obstacle course (!!) is pretty amazing and can be found at the bottom of this page http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208...
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It's a realistic choice.

One can usually choose not to work in a military-related occupation and probably not face any major repercussions. However, if one chooses not to pay taxes, one may soon find oneself without the ability to earn an income of any sort, for starters.

Everyone has limits to what they feel they can do in protest.
Why is it so important that we close the gender gap? Why is it so important that we believe that there is no difference in intelligence between men and women?

Statistically, men have a wider variance in IQ score than women do. This means that there are likely to be more highly intelligent men than highly intelligent women in a room, and that the most intelligent man in the room is probably more intelligent than the most intelligent woman.

With that said, if you were to select the top 10 intelligent people in a room of 1000, a statistically significant amount of the time a majority will be men.

If you are hiring for a job that requires the top 1% of intelligence, it is no surprise that you are going to have more men than women.

Disclaimer: I hope some day that my daughter chooses a position in STEM, I realize that there are limitations and gaps in the IQ test, and that I might sound like a complete troll but I'm asking this question legitimately.
I just sat down and read that article and I didn't get any sort of sense of how important the USPS is. I did get a sense of how badly it's run, how powerful the employees's union is, how quickly (even in 1994) businesses were moving to electronic communication in order to route around the USPS, and how unlikely any sort of improvement is. Franzen even writes, near the end, "The attachement of Americans to their post office is pure nostalgia." I have my own nostalgia for post offices of my youth, but the move away from the USPS for important communications has been going on for a long time.
What exactly is fundamentally broken in subscribing to subreddits?

"I like action movies"
"Here's Megashark vs 747. You like action movies, so you like this"

How is any given subreddit any different? Being into fitness does not mean you share an identical interest/taste/discernment with everyone else who is into fitness. Further social news sites are subject to the tyranny of the minority -- aka the lowest common denominator. When people are more likely to express approval than disapproval, a small percentage of users with a common interest will tend to dominate.
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> the simple approach is dangerous

Definitely. However, it also happens to be the approach used since kindergarten up to high school, and in most universities. Whatever the field, as far as I know, students learn real science only when they start their PhD. Sometimes even later.

I would love to see a real science course, where students come up with theories and discard them, again and again, until they come up with something probably correct (or not). That would teach them to accept being wrong (I hope). Today, it's hard to do for anything but open questions, which tend to be pretty difficult.
Similar people do exist in the industry. The only problem is that they tend to be salaried people working in a team of similar folks.
However, for small firms and indie developers, getting in touch with such people is a real problem.
We are looking out for such skills. If you have such skills or know someone who does, ask them to get in touch.
Link to live demo:

http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/

This is one of the tools I (quickly) reviewed (together with showoff and impress.js) before preparing slides for my last presentation [1]; but in the end I went back to KeyNote + Gist (for copy-paste syntax coloring) and one ColourLover palette, because it was faster/more comfortable to use for me, allows PDF export etc.

I'm curious how many coders prefer a non-coding slide tool as well?

[1] https://speakerdeck.com/u/thbar/p/transforming-data-with-rub...
These people are attacking not only the independence of our profession but their consumers' human faculty for tinkering. IMHO the gloves should come farther off than they have.
I've been in a similar situation, and I think it's about risk. It's relatively easy to decline a job, you're not going to jail for turning down a gig. Not paying taxes will get you some serious jail time though. So morally, yeah, both actions are enabling the same results, but one is easier to commit to.
Isn't there some commonly accepted cryptographic digital signature standard in the US, as it's the case in many European countries (where the user's keys are basically certified by a government agency)? Using simple pictures as "digital signatures" seems like multiple steps backwards to me.
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Looks nice. Why do I have to log in to browse icons? There is the widget on the homepage that cycles through them but I can't actually get it to pause so I can see what's available. That's really annoying.
And how are you going to tell content aggregators what you like? By upvoting/liking? Doesn't it count as spending time?

I don't want to spend time upvoting 50 submissions to tell the recommendation engine what my interests are (and with the current state of technology it will get my interests wrong anyway). I just want to click one button (subscribe to a subreddit) and that's it.

And when I become less interested in a certain topic (fitness, starcraft) I can just press the unsubscribe button once and never see submissions for that topic again.
Yeah, the fact that DEFCON brought in an NSA director to keynote is pretty vile. By helping legitimize the NSA and allowing it to openly recruit hackers DEFCON is doing their part to help compromise the privacy and infosec of American citizens.
Likely the solution starts from parenting as author points out at the beginning of the post. Programs that start at age 13-14 have those early years to fight with in order to create an interest in software and instill self-confidence. It reminds me of an old article on gender imbalances from 1970, where it argues that while we say people have free will when they choose their careers, they combat 20 years of social molding that's difficult to break. [1]

It'd be interesting to see the differences in upbringing that allowed for the Soviet Union back in the 60s to have a stat where "one-third of the engineers and 75 percent of the physicians are women." [1]

Having been in the role of a guy in a computer science class at a large public university with roughly similar ratios, I wouldn't say that the motivation that people don't work with women is mostly due to the stereotype. It's likely due to the social ineptitude of engineering students. I definitely could relate to Max Levchin talk about how PayPal had difficulty in hiring women because they were nerds that didn't know how to relate to women. [2] Granted, as the author points out, the stereotype threat exists due to the outcome being perceived as social bias.

Perhaps a solution as well is to help nerdy guys interact with girls in high school while the gender balance is fairly balanced. Perhaps projects with "random" (assigned) partners. Looking back at some of the things I did, I can't believe I was that socially awkward.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=dwTvE44DOgQC&lpg=PA145&... pg 188

[2] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels...
Kudos to the ShopLocket team!
Hey, I too am an experienced python web developer with some iOS experience visiting SF this week and some of next. Does anyone want to show me his/her startup? My email is johnwlockwood at gmail.
didn't understand it was joke until I read the comments. unless it was never meant to be a joke...
The data was bundled with the domain sale, thankfully. It's a shitty move that they took it offline for an unspecified duration, and that they don't plan to handle existing urls.
If you know anything about product cycles, you should know that iPhone5 is absolutely signed off by SJ. And it is 100% certain that this phone is not the last product he signed off.
That's a false dichotomy as not all of the taxes you pay go toward national defense. He sees a closer connection to actively (and willingly) working on systems that could be used to oppress people in other places than the 50-someodd percent of his Federal taxes finding their way into National Defense spending (which, by all accounts, he probably wouldn't pay if he had the choice).

Even if that wasn't the case, the argument can simply be "why contribute even more to the military war machine than I already have to," which isn't at all an unjust argument.

This argument also presumes there's no barrier to simply changing residency of country, when in fact, it can be very difficult to get a visa, let alone a job, for a militarily neutral country like Switzerland.
SparkleShare is something you host yourself, and uses a git backend (or its own). So it is as secure as you can manage it. (or secure as you can keep the keys with smudge/clean encryption filters).

Alternatively, use a git provider such as github as a backend - I'm not sure "secure" is the right description, though, if you do that.
That is a great question. And I think the wrong one. But let me share my reasoning and you can tell me if you agree with that or not.

My reasoning goes like this, if you believe the smartphone and tablet is how people will be consuming the types of services Google would like to offer (Search, Social, Etc) then Google needs to be able to deliver and innovate in that market. If the market leader in devices is hostile to Google, then Google needs to either enable a new leader that they can control or be the new leader. Android's strategy of being open has been excellent at acquiring hardware partners but it has not been able to compete in terms of user experience. Apple has demonstrated for three generations (3G, 4, 4S) that user experience dominates the smartphone decision. And the user experience is dominated by graphics and graphics performance.

I don't think three years ago Google could have appreciated just how much the impact that solid graphics support would have in consumer's minds, but now it seems painfully clear to me (and other bloggers who do these types of articles and Anandtech Etc etc) that this part of the equation is key.

I claim that if Google's Android can nearly match Apple software feature for feature in Smartphone OSes, but they don't have a hardware partner that can deliver graphics performance. So by the same reasoning that said "we need to create an OS for smartphones that we're able to compete with" they should now know that "we need to create the complete platform that enables a competitive user experience." The biggest and most stubborn nail sticking up from that problem is effective, high performance, graphics drivers. What is perhaps more important, the emergence of the tablet as a viable platform makes that problem stick out more.

So Google spends 1.8 Billion dollars over 5 years, and as a result goes from having Android devices being 1/10th to 1/8th the market for tablets to being 1/2 or 2/3rds? If they achieve that objective then yes, the rate of the return for that investment will swamp any other use of that money.

The 'do nothing' strategy of having that 1.8B$ sit in cash and cash equivalents for the next 5 years looks to return less than 250 M$ (with at most a 5% annualized rate of return in the kinds of securities they would hold it in)

Makes it look like a simple call from the outside, I completely recognize that it is painfully hard for at least one member of the OC [1] to spend like that, and they've had way too much say on how money was spent for the last 5 years.

But the reason I think it is the wrong question, is that once you start thinking about it in rates of return your value system is dollars for dollars. I think the right question would be to ask "Is there anything holding back the growth of Android that only Google with its resources (cash, brainpower, etc) can fix?" And I think the answer to that is yes, this one.

[1] The "OC" or "Organizing Committee" is Google's equivalent of the 'executive staff' or the 'executive management group'
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Adding slides after initialization isn't a problem. I'm also working on an editor for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3RQZ4mcr1c&feature=plcp
While I'm being extreme, in practical application it would be a simple reduced weighting of negative correlation users. e.g. if five people I correlate heavily with liked a /r/programming entry, that will rise above a post liked by one hundred people I have a poor correlation with. Rinse/repeat.

Heavy math/statistical analysis that can be tuned to create a productive enjoyable experience, with the side benefit that it reduces gaming and exploitation.
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The original article is tripe. Here's the beef - http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/719/New_malware_for_Mac_Ba...
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I can't choose not to pay taxes. I can choose not to spend 8 hours a day assisting in the delivery of weapons systems.
I'm very glad to see articles like this: accessibly written on a topic (types) that in the past may have been considered largely academic, but are now entering mainstream engineering mindshare.

I've been thinking recently about why functional languages and features have been gaining traction in the last half decade. Concurrency & parallelism have often been given as rationales, but I suspect the real reason is the need for programs (and libraries) to behave as intended and the desire to express complicated processes more simply. And the driver for that may be that a 'commodity programmer' mindset for businesses is faltering as the rate of change and complexity of technology increases.

In my hiring experience, readily available programmers are well-versed in the technology of several years ago. This makes sense because they've spent their time maintaining and extending systems designed and built years ago. But as requirements increase and become more exotic (due to competitive business pressure), such systems get used beyond their original design, and become more difficult to work with. I believe a 'testing culture' developed to mitigate this risk (along with the rise of dynamic language use to address the need for development speed). The hope was that the cost of testing (which can be pretty heavy for a business) would outweigh the cost of maintenance. But the overhead incurred may go to trivialities (ie, test that are easy to write) or struggling to implement more complex (and probably more valuable) tests which themselves are prone to trouble. Wouldn't it be nice if the parts of the program did what was intended and that testing be used more selectively to ensure the integrity of the system? I think correctness is one of the things functional programming languages encourage.

Types are an important part of many (most?) functional languages and are arguably an important part of the puzzle of building correct program components. I think we'll see a lot more articles musing on what they mean for engineering.
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It says at the top that he's trying to compile a list of common "why not FP" arguments so he can rebut them, as part of publicity for an O'Reilly series on functional programming.
Why would that be such a great interview question? Because it's impossible to determine a correct answer?
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