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This notebook will feature a lot in stock photography and advertising - no more need to photoshop out the apple logo on the notebook lid.
It does. Women and minorities are primed to think that they suck anyway - and tech is a place where most of the ancient masters are white men. It takes a bit longer to learn to think of yourself as like those people, rather than a bargain replacement for them.

Everybody can feel like an impostor when objectively competent; it could have been your parents or your older brother who primed you to think that any success you have comes from faking it, but that's not the same as saying that sex or race has "absolutely nothing" to do with it.
http://examine.com/faq/is-saturated-fat-bad-for-me.html
As for the sexism bit, I think the reaction would probably have been different had the submitter (edit: poster, rather: David Howells submitted the code, but it was mjg that the "explosion" was directed at) merely been just a "Red Hat Engineer" (which mjg is not anymore, IIRC). Garrett is a core guy, and Linus knows him well and respects his work. He chose that language to make a broader point, not merely to "explode". This isn't about emotions, it's about content.

Which is sort of the point here: the "shim signed by Microsoft" trick isn't the "Wrong Thing", really. The hardware companies absolutely need a top-level cert authority if secure boot is going to have any utility at all, and Microsoft is the only entity that has stepped up to the plate. What else are we going to do? Dell and Lenovo and Acer aren't about to add a key to their database (and test it) just because the Linux Foundation asked nicely. They're shipping windows hardware. That's not going to happen. So the Shim idea is as good as we're going to get, and as Red Hat (and SUSE, and Canonical) has to ship a product that runs on real hardware, it's the choice they had to make.

That said, I think there's a strong argument that baking this authority into the kernel is a bad idea. Linus clearly agrees (and frankly mjg probably does too, but you can't just write a feature and not try to upstream it). And he's made that point as forcefully and publicly as he can.
While it's all been said before I did enjoy the article more than the title suggested I would. Plus the point about having a valid revenue stream is always worth hammering home again.
It's so funny how, over the past couple of years, good-tasting food is now a "conspiracy".

When a Michelin chef meticulously constructs a dish to give you pleasure, he's a creative genius whose dedication to his art is applauded.

But when the people behind Snickers do it to give you pleasure, they're nefarious conspirators trying to manipulate you and keep you addicted.

Yes, people who make food are trying to make it taste better, minimize their own costs, and keep you coming back. Why is this suddenly considered "news"?

(I mean, the article is plenty interesting, it's just the sensationalism of calling it "food engineering", "addiction", etc. that bothers me.)
"People who are offended should be offended."
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> I assume that if new management has arrived, they would or should know what productivity levels should be and that yahoo remote staff are lacking.

That certainly sounds like what most new management thinks they know.
> now there are boards to decide who gets what care based on cost measures, rather than medical need.

How is this different from insurance companies, or are those what you are referring to? I'm really confused by your statement.
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Born in the US, left permanently in 2007. The US is absolutely a dystopia. Opening your eyes helps perspective:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/constitution.html
Exactly. Whenever I see an ad for cola with some variant of 'delicious and refreshing' I feel 'Well, why don't you just drink water? Sure its not delicious but certainly refreshing'. One thing that genuinely does refresh is lemonade; I wonder why that hasn't caught up though.
Beh, I think the purpose of the API call still stands. Besides, I don't think windows has curl so non-techies could get stuck on that if they didn't want to dig.
> The first generation can recognise around 20 gestures, some as subtle as the tap of a finger

I wonder if it's able to distinguish between fingers. If so, it would be possible to create some sort of chorded keyboard, without the keyboard of course. Combine with Project Glass and you have awesome sauce.
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People who are saying this is not related to gender are wrong. It is very related. While both men and women can suffer from the impostor syndrome, men get over it much more quickly and easily than women. The reason is simple: in male-dominated fields men receive praise and validation much more easily than women do, which can help them overcome their feelings of self-doubt. For women the situation is quite different. I work for a private software company and our owner and CEO is female. She once explained it like this: women in tech are not taken seriously until after they have become successful.
Or when the people who made your fridge query it without your knowledge, then sell the current state to 3rd parties who make sure that all you see are egg ads on the internet.
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I'm staying in San Francisco and will be here until the 6th of March; I came here to expose myself to a different culture and perspective (I'm from the UK) and I would love to visit your startup, I would even be happy to do some work for you for free!

To give you an idea of what I might be able to do for you, my background is I:

- have a PhD in Machine Learning (graduated in 2010)
- am a software developer (primarily full-stack web)
- run a small SaaS business in London
- recently started building iOS apps
- have experience in industry in the UK and Japan
- have some understanding of the Japanese market

Of late I'm particularly interested in idea validation and data-driven business intelligence, e.g. use of split testing, cohort analysis and other techniques generally used in lean startups to learn and improve as quickly as possible.

I'm open to any and all suggestions (including just grabbing a coffee/beer!). My name is Stefan and you can reach me at styrmis@gmail.com

Thank you!

(The reason why I am offering to work for free is just to try and give something back in exchange for your time; I'm not actively seeking employment.)
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on twitter my interaction with dhh
me: @dhh been to yahoo office and things are recovering, just reserve your judgement till 3rd quarter results are out , hoping for a miracle

dhh: @senthilnayagam No miracle forthcoming will be due to killing remote working programs.

me: this one is a boomerang, it is targeted at yahoo management team and managers who are comfortable in their old ways
me: those who wanted to abandon the yahoo ship have already done it, yahoo has to float first before it can sail again
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Do you really think that the people who actually matter failed to receive the message?

No, spectators on slashdot and HN do not actually matter, despite how hard our ego may make it to internalize that.
Maybe they skimmed it :)
Except you aren't necessarily hitting the same CDN when you connect via 4g
To answer your question, I have not yet read any of Willingham's books cover to cover, but as I read more of Willingham's articles, I increasingly think I should read everything that he writes. And then I should look up many of the references he cites. Right now, Daniel Willingham is doing an excellent job of filtering the research on human learning.
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Sure, no problem if it works for you. When i was younger it certainly worked for me too, but i now see alot more value in being able to talk to other like minded people during the day, where talk doesnt mean sending messages to an irc channel. That said, i am by no means extroverted and like being alone but i believe that things like working culture, team spirit and motivation are alot easier with people in the same room.
Also depends alot on the company, for startups i think its essential that the core team shares the same space, while a corporate programming job an easily be done remotely.
This is awesome. The Kinect has a ton of great applications, and this looks even better. I can't wait to play around with one.
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"TV is bound to die"

Quite impossible. TV is the large entertainment display in your living room. That won't die. Whatever currently runs that display might die, but it will be replaced with something better.

I want Spotify for my TV. Let me choose shows to watch, when I want them, streamed from my fiber internet connection, on-demand, right after they come out, and I will pay a premium.

Netflix is so close to this. They need a few more agreements and a better interface designed for TV and designed for an entertainment system. Frankly I'm a bit surprised they're not there yet; it leaves the space open for someone else to fill with a better living-room UI.

Big opportunity here folks, if you can deal with licensing & legal. Someone else do it, I don't have the time.
According to wikipedia: "The impostor syndrome was once thought to be particularly common among women who are successful in their given careers, but has since been shown to occur for an equal number of men."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

They provide a citation for this, but here it is again (definitely worth going straight to the source rather than taking the one-line summary):

http://www.paulineroseclance.com/pdf/-Langford.pdf

"Studies of college students (Harvey, 1981; Bussotti, 1990; Lang- ford, 1990), college professors (Topping, 1983), and successful professionals (Dingman, 1987) have all failed, however, to reveal any sex differ- ences in impostor feelings, suggesting that males in these populations are just as likely as females to have low expectations of success and to make attributions to non-ability related factors."

I would be inclined to think this syndrome is higher among programmers, because we don't have as clearly defined an education system as something like medicine. But thing is, I've known (yes, male) physicians who never felt confident, felt like they were faking it, even though they had gone to top medical schools and residencies in their specialty. So maybe it's best not to assume our own experience are unique and don't happen to other people.
If you are going to SxSw, this is a pretty cool time saver.
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Not having health care works if you don't have a catastrophic injury, and/or you are willing to let the hospital write off services and pass the bills on the the rest of us.

This isn't really a sustainable plan for the nation.
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"-e: edit something" (or 'sudoedit') is actually very useful. It makes a temporary copy of th file that is editable by your user, allowing the editor to be run without elevated privileges. After the editor quits, it moves the edited file back over the original.

This could be a simple wrapper script around sudo, but that could require entering the password twice.
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>>Your point is great, but could you elaborate on how you read the article as pushing, "fat makes you fat"?

Yeah, I didn't get that message either. I think the parent is reading too much into it (a.k.a. projecting).
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It doesn't fix the problem. I've tried TWC's DNS, OpenDNS and Google DNS and they all have the same slow YT problem.
You are mischaracterizing my argument. I'm saying this:

1) This movie is available for sale.
2) I want to purchase it.
3) Therefore, they are obligated to sell it to me. Or, alternatively, I feel I am entitled to purchase a copy.

This is what I fundamentally disagree with. I do not believe that you have any sort of right to purchase a product. Just because they make it available for sale does not mean that they are in any way obligated to sell it to you, even if you want it very badly and are willing to pay quite a lot of money.

I'm not actually talking about torrenting at all; that comes after the 'entitlement'.
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Definitely true. It's easy to take the "it's the content that matters" approach, but the reality is that delivery always matters. It may not be important to the message, but it's vitally important to how people receive your message: If you fail to deliver it effectively, it's your own fault when people ignore it, miss the point, or otherwise misunderstand/misinterpret your point(s) in whole or in part.

Of course, no one is always going to get that right; we're human. But that's also exactly why it's so important to try hard. You can be certain that as soon as you slip even once your message will not get across in the way you intend it.
I think it depends on a lot of things. I'm sure you could talk to your city officials and ask for some permission. But, I think their acceptance to going to be based on how permanent these things are going to be. You chances are probably higher if you explain that you just want to run a week-long experiment and explain to them what exactly your sensors do. The biggest problem is that you don't own anything of the property you'd like to put your sensors on.
Lots of companies have people doing actual work on a tablet. Here are some examples (PepsiCo, CTV News, Ottowa Hospital, Ducati): http://www.apple.com/ipad/business/profiles/

Just remember work doesn't only have to entail Excel or Word stuff. Many custom-made apps help businesses be more effective.
It's been a while since I worked with FPGAs but my experience was that using drop-in CPU cores and peripherals is pure joy, drag and drop what you need, build your bits and you're good to go. Replacing an I2C with SPI or supporting a wide range of daughterboards is trivially easy.

On the other hand, it only takes a day of writing low-level Verilog to realize that the problem of correctly and efficiently parallelizing algorithms is a hard one. We were using a very early C to Verilog (C2H) compiler from Altera and it worked but was very inefficient in terms of logic element use. I'm sure there's a lot of R&D going on in that space because without significant progress general purpose CPUs or at least cores will remain dominant for some time.
Lisp and Ruby, among other languages, actually use the word 'lambda' as a keyword for declaring an anonymous function. It's more typing than "\", but the intent is clear.

I don't think Haskell is really the best choice of language for demonstrating these FP concepts simply because Haskell's syntax is a little cryptic to those who haven't studied it. Lisp would have been a more readable choice since the syntax is trivial.

Also, you didn't touch on recursion, which is a key concept in FP. The idea of having a function call itself repeatedly in order to loop through a data structure, instead of iterating over the data structure by mutating a counter variable, is a huge paradigm shift for people who are new to FP.
waveforms are the first, most obvious choice http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Waveform&FORM=HDRSC2
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My personal experience studying Japanese for a few years makes me skeptical of this claim. Granted, the radicals, etc in the symbols can give you a hint of their meaning, but ultimately a writing system is created to communicate vocalized words.

In fact, many of the "hints" in the written symbols are based on words that sound similar to other words when pronounced (their actual meaning being unrelated), which is fully lost if you cut out the vocalization. As another point, most words are written with multiple symbols, and the meaning of the overall word may be rather different than the words you would get if you read the symbols individually. At that point, I don't see any difference from a word written with an alphabet like English.
It's amazing how much arguing and pontificating there is about subtle effects of dietary composition with little or no mention of massive increases in intake. For example:

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf

Says ~25% increase since the mid 1980s.

I do tend to accept the idea that it is better to get excess calories from fat than from simple carbohydrates and sugars, but I don't think any ongoing significant excess is a good idea, elaborate metabolic theory or not.
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You are correct. Just because the author says "this experience applies to women who are learning to code", that does not preclude the experience from applying to anyone either. She isn't trying to imply that though.

Certainly, the author addresses "girls learning how to code" specifically because her intended audience, on a website named "Lady Coders" is women who are interested in coding.
I don't know if you can register that your organs only go to people of a particular group (religious beliefs, for example), but if that is possible then it would solve the ethical issue of giving an organ to someone who is a less suitable candidate (due to them refusing other life-saving treatment in the case of complications). Just have the various religious groups put on their organ donation form that they are to be donated only to others with similar beliefs.
I don't understand how serious software engineering is done in a lot of the start up offices I see in photos.

These offices look like an Apple store. They are open floor plan. Instead of desks they have tables where devs sit across from each other working on 13" to 15" laptop screens.

The ergonomics of these set ups are awful, and so are the economics.

Real estate is expensive in this economy. Why double pay for space? Why have 9-5 work space and 6-8 home space?

I know there is a separation of concerns argument, but in a competitive global economy I find that takes a back seat.

I look at not double paying for space as one of the business advantages my consultancy has.

A nice home/office with floor to ceiling windows slightly tinted to reduce glare and UV in a high rise building with panoramic view, a proper standing desk, a Kinesis Advantage contoured keyboard, Evoluent vertical mouse and dual 27" monitors is an incredible mood and productivity booster.

The ratio of window area to wall area in non-luxury buildings in NYC is an abomination. In my far off utopian vision a glorious and massive urban renewal project demolishes all soul crushingly dark tiny windowed apartments and in their place stand gleaming solar powered monuments to the human race where our creative class toils happily producing works of the head and the heart for global consumption and a breath taking view is never more than a side-long glance away.
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You make a really good case against remote work. The only thing I can say about it is that you make a case from the point of view of an employer, or maybe an extremely loyal employee.

It may well be true that it's easier to enforce cultural homogeneity on colocated teams, which makes it easier to treat individuals as interchangeable cogs that can be transplanted between different parts of the wider machine.

Whose interest that's in is an interesting question. It's a obvious win for the employer. And employees who want to work for an "apex predator" employer are better off because in their case, utility for the employer is utility for the employee.

The point of the 37signals post is that only "apex predator" companies like Google can legitimately demand this sort of dedication. Given your statement that you actually work at Google, I think perhaps it makes sense that your opinion is what it is.

My point - to sum it up - is that productivity and cultural homogeneity aren't the only important metrics to optimise for.
It's a hindrance for us but I understand why it's there. For starters, it weeds out vaporware rather quickly.
Here's an article I wrote about this that contains an embedded video of 60 Minutes' "The Flavorists" which is closely related. http://www.humansarenotbroken.com/the-extraordinary-manipula...
> women in tech are not taken seriously until after they have become successful.

Neither are men, so I don't really see what you are getting at.
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So, you follow your children 24-7 and monitor everything they eat?
Or to this commenter's friend, who was apparently fired after a promotion he didn't exactly want because of his voice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1898209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1899452
Yeah, you are referring to insulin sensitivity and calorie partitioning. Still depends on genetic makeup (insulin sensitivity can vary 10-fold). P-ratio isn't the same for everyone. So not correct what you are saying (energy does not only go into muscle cells). You can still get fat(ter) with such a diet. Muscle and liver glycogen will be full at some point and more and more fatty acids will be stored in adipocytes. Berkhan got fatter when he overfed.
Kcal still need to be controlled.

Also you can get fat on a very low carb diet if you eat too much fat/energy. As a lot of low carb "gurus" do (such a jimmy moore).
As a biochem major you should be aware of other mechanisms besides insulin. (ASP & HSL) Insulin is so terribly overrated.
Depending on the sensitivity of this, the potential is endless. There are many multi-finger gestures that would work very well in three-dimensional space that have not yet been exploited with current technology. I'm excited to see what will come of this.
We definitely want a deterministic result for every task execution even if the execution of some subtasks happens nondeterministically. But after rethinking what I wrote last time I would now even strengthen my statement. Concurrency is a structural property of a system, parallelism is property of an (specific) schedule of subtasks and therefore a property of the runtime behavior of a task. Nondeterminism is also a property of the runtime behavior and therefore nondeterminism MAY be associated with parallelism but CAN NOT be associated with concurrency.
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Great comment. In such a dysfunctional company such as Yahoo I would bet that the majority of "remote workers" are just coasting and doing nothing. It's a shame for those productive remote workers who will either leave or be forced to start coming in, but if for every one of those people there are a hundred pieces of dead weight then I think the cost benefit analysis is pretty clear for a CEO to make.