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:) These are the types of posts I was hoping for when I created this thread. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this -both of you. It's just been really shitty to think about lately as far as my future is concerned. I am at a point where I'm beginning to question whether or not the choices I am making now are worth the investment of time (or not) before it's too late to change course. your experiences give me a modicum of hope which serves to reinforce my initial belief that everything I have been doing isn't a complete waste of time.

There's a paucity of information about these circumstances (compu fraud + compu pro) available online and most of the information available is presented from accounts of felons who are not in the same boat as I am.

Really my favorite posts here. Thanks again.
Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, as the number of women in the workforce increases, so does the number of sexual harassment lawsuits.
>Had the article been: "How Etsy Replaced 50% of our Male Engineers with Females" you might have cause for concern.

But it's basically same. If they were hiring blindly (not in sexist/discriminatory way) they would have most likely would have hired few men in process. So basically they replaced few would be male employees with women (because according feminism word 'female' is offensive.)
Did it hurt her soul and torment her mind? No.

The talk was not only called "Getting the Money Shot" but suggested in the abstract "how thinking like a porn director will help you achieve the "'money shot.'"

Many people (I am not one of them, to be clear) find porn very morally wrong. This is not just women, but many men too (particularly religious people).

It's not appropriate for a talk, and it is okay to speak up about it.

No one is talking about making it illegal.
It's not a question of whether comments like this should be made or not made at a tech conference. It's a question of, essentially, "standing to object." It's not about right and wrong, but "effective politics" versus "ineffective politics."
Unless I'm missing something you only need to have a version Apache that supports SNI then have NameVirtualHost for your https port. If your os/distro doesn't make that version easily available then I can see how it might take extra work to get SNI support.
It's a film term that has acquired a secondary meaning in porn. In regular movies it's a shot where you blow something or stage some similarly expensive setpiece that will provide a visual highlight for the film, and it's still current in that context - on a crew it's normal to discuss scheduling in relation to the day's 'money' shot, and the term is often stretched to include whichever shot is the most aesthetically important one for the current scene. Obviously, in this case the person explicitly referenced the porn context.

I thought that the porn context was quite inappropriate myself and broadly supported Richards at the time, although I also think she should have taken her concerns directly to the organizers first. I'm not really offended by porn, but I'd rather not watch it myself, and it's very predictable that it will be offensive to quite a few other people, who'll feel excluded from that presentation even if they're interested in the technical topic (making effective screencasts). In the organizers' position I'd have asked the presenter to consider something more general, such as 'what you can learn from movie directors'.
He does say it was more to ship than to purchase.
Yes absolutely. I know at least one highly regarded info sec consulting firm has a "reformed computer-hacker" (their words) on staff who will penetration test your systems for a handsome fee. ($30k per system last time I checked).

If this is your passion then I would encourage you to apply. Definitely use a cover letter along the lines of the pastebin.
To add a "soft" argument to this, OP obviously has talent/knowledge (while not enough to not get caught) in his chosen career field, instead of doing something completely different where everyone else has a headstart.
I meditate about twice a day, once in the morning and once before bed. Sometimes I get lazy and just meditate in the morning. My typical amount of time is 30 - 40 minutes. I typically use my breath as a concentration object and go into vipassana, though I have done others. I supplement with the teaching from Tsultrim Allione's _Feeding Your Demons_.

If I don't meditate, I can feel my mind subtly destabilizing. It may not be apparent to other people, but it is apparent to me.

But beyond that, I've had realized some insights to know that mindfulness is the base reality of which everything else is a play, a story.

As far as benefits that others can see: I am less crankier. I am more empathic and occasionally intuit other people's motivations. I can see into other people's shadows and assuming I don't start resonating with my own, they don't upset me as much as it used to. With more space or more need, I can listen mindfully to someone else thrashing out their rejected shadow.

It's still a work in progress. I'm still working on being fully mindful while coding. I know the theory. As always, the practice is harder.
"If this was wrong" - well, since she later admitted it was wrong and apologized for it, then yea - it was wrong.

We'll have to agree to disagree on the mildness of the transgression and pattern-forming.
Not sure about hard SF, but Prey by Michael Crichton?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(novel)
None of the companies I've worked at would have hired him, either. BUT. . .all of the companies I've worked at have been large and/or had government contracts. I find it hard to believe that he couldn't get a job at mid-sized company, or a start-up, especially if ends up with a skillset that's hard to find and not just a standard CS skillset. . .however that's defined. And based on his experience, it sounds like he would/could definitely end up with a relatively hard-to-find skillset.
To be clear, I think the philosophical and some of the metaphysical ideas that come with meditation have a lot to offer as a way of thinking about the world. I'm talking more about the stuff like "aligning chakras" and "energies" and all that.
That pattern is pretty common in general, no? I use the same url dispatch array in Tornado projects.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433803
[Quora] That Amanda Blum Article on Adria Richards is Not What It Seems
Is there something similar to WAPP for MacOS?
Web apps are hard but it is not because of javascript
I was pointing out that 'still' seemed to involve a misapprehension.

And your comment completely ignores my first point that not actively dismantling past good contributions is very far from demonstrating that they are not turning against hackers.
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Try going to some meetups in a big city. There's a lot of work out there and if you mention you're looking for a gig, and you seem knowledgeable, people will probably refer work to you.
This mom previously tried to raise $20k to make...capes. How much of this $20k+ do you think the 9 yr. old is getting? She's also spamming celebs and women's groups on twitter - http://i.imgur.com/b4l2fI2.png.

I'd be happy to back a child interested in tech but I don't think her daughter made this - http://i.imgur.com/F03oG3e.png.
>(is this possible?) re-tuning the beam's frequency.

No. DVD burners simply use a 630nm or 650nm red laser diode. It can not be re-tuned more than a few nm, by regulating the temperature of the diode.

You could replace the diode, but that is more effort than it's worth, and there's not much else to replace it with. If you wanted more power you might use a different diode, but the diodes are almost always buried really far in there and you would have to replace the electronics as well.
I agree with simply just not mentioning it. I know background checks are more common in the US than in Sweden, but I doubt most small companies care enough to do them. So just apply for small companies and you should be fine.
> OK, TLS is complex. But a lot of that is due to its configurability.

...and as many have noted, that configurability is the root of a lot of security problems.

The pick one approach and say, "that's all we're going to do" might be one way to solve the problem. I'm not sure it'd be any better.
"500% more female engineers = 500% more risk of sexual harassment lawsuits. If that's not progress, I don't know what is."

You made 2 critical mistakes.
1. You posted this in white knight infested community
2. bad wording. It should be :
"500% more female engineers = 500% more risk of false sexual harassment lawsuits. If that's not progress, I don't know what is."
> founder

is the key word here

> So I just say that you go on and be happy and successful.

that is worthless advice
Oh god. I've seen way to many bugs as a result of this stupid feature.
If you want the simplest way to run Postgres on a Mac, have a look at http://postgresapp.com/, or `brew install postgres`
Why was it deleted? But yes, that does illustrate the issue.
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We're trying to provide a better interface for searching computer science at http://scholr.ly. I'd love your feedback.
2) I agree the UI could be much better. On the plus side, you only have to navigate it once per application.
And why is this on hackernews?
It's not that what is in Mindfulness in Plain English keeps you avoiding painful experiences. It's that, that is the level of your practice right now. That's the distinction that Daniel Ingram made between concentration exercises and insight meditation. In the latter, you start by gaining access concentration to your object (breathing, or whatever), and then deliberately seek out one of the Three Fundemental Characteristics: things come and go (impermanence), they don't satisfy (suffering), and it isn't you (no self).

So for example, once you reach access concentration on breathing, you can see hone in on the specific physical sensations and try to find any part of it that is actually "permanent". You're looking for the transience of not only the inhale and the exhale, but also the transience of what appears to be solid neural signals are actually high-frequency sensations. Go deeper, and you start observing how these sensations trigger other, in kind of a cascade effect -- exactly what was mentioned in Chuang-Tzu on the wind blowing through the openings of the world.

I point this out because it's not that the teachings lead you to the practice, but rather, the teachings come from the practice. You are essentially "reverse engineering" the teaching with your personal practice. When I look around, I see how teachings from around the world derive from the insights realized (experienced) in practice. And since the practice is "experience reality, all of reality", then of course there is a commonality.

Heh, having said that, some teachings are easier to absorb than others, depending on where you think you are and who you think you are. I guess I want to leave open the possibility, to not to have strong attachment to the specific teachings themselves when you practice.
Everyone is focussed a bit too literally on the word "fraud" when it's more about the fact that a 9 yr old did not come up with this: http://i.imgur.com/F03oG3e.png. Which begs the question, how much money is mom going to pocket from this?

The 9 yr old is also not spamming celebs & women's groups on Twitter - http://i.imgur.com/b4l2fI2.png.
I don't like how timetz was highlighted. From the PostgreSQL docs[1]: "Time zones in the real world have little meaning unless associated with a date as well as a time, since the offset can vary through the year with daylight-saving time boundaries."

Also, I quote: "It's Postgres or Postgres-Que-Ell, not Postgre-Es-Que-Ell". And then a slide shows "PostgresQL" while http://postgresql.org shows "PostgreSQL". That pronounciation makes no sense to me if the slide is correct.

[1]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/datatype-datetime....
Odd factoid: I wrote the manual for the Game Genie
So I watched the numba talk at pycon. What I still don't understand is does it speed up any python code or only code that uses numpy? How does it know if you're using numpy?
3) I haven't run in to this problem, but as you can imagine, NOT being able to change it provides a number of benefits from a security standpoint, and if you do want to change it, it is just a matter of creating a new one and deleting the old one. I should think that'd be good enough for anyone.
Annoying and manipulative, at minimum.
They have, but note the corollary to 'perfect emulation takes huge amounts of computing power': imperfect emulation can often be done cheaply.

The question for WBE is whether brains are the very rare SNES game which must be perfectly emulated to work at all... or one of the others. The success of machine learning stuff like deep belief networks, while using a fraction of the brain's computing power and minimal biological plausibility, suggests human brains aren't very special snowflakes.
4) I've never seen the 1970 bug. How odd.
One important aspect is density; Another is to have relatively mixed usage blocks with lively things like storefronts or entrances near the sidewalk as often as possible, rather than a street-facing brick wall on three sides, or expanses of lawn or parking lots.
I'm not gnosis, but I've occasionally done 1 to 3 hours in a single sitting. The "difficulty" is exactly the aversion to suffering. Well, unless you only do samadhi and enter into the bliss states. At which point, you really don't want to leave so you sit there until you fall over. (I sometimes think, meditators should participate in the 12-step program for Bliss Junkies Anonymous, except that it is exactly what vipassana is supposed to addressed).
i understand what you're saying, but my point is that even rewriting from python to python would show improvement. i've just coded the same project three times in different languages last year, and my design is getting better every time, and it has (almost) nothing to do with the language themselves. a benchmark is a much more reliable thing if you want to compare relative speed. or a "pet store" app. but not a "real world" project. altough that's still a really nice experience to read about.
> This is not just women, but many men too (particularly religious people).

Religious people are also deeply offended by homosexuality, abortion and evolution theory. Should we cater to those "offenses" as well?
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If you plan on doing both, which is pretty easy to do with their API (as you can grab all the potential languages from an article and the URL), I think I would think of testing against foreign languages first and then English once you have a basic parser going and search. Non-English had more weirdness, but it happened more often, so it became easier to eliminate similar cases in English articles that may happen more infrequent.

I ended up doing a lot of massive unit testing against various edge cases to make sure things were working. Even with that still, I would try to log any anomalies and put them aside for manual inspection later (by running checks on what "good" data should look like), just to be safe.
I didn't know about the abstract, but I can see what they meant for "thinking like a porn director": titillation. It's a strange metaphor, but I think it was about not dragging on for too long and cleaning showing what's amazing about your product. Still, I'm not sure. I don't see how this is celebration: stretching my military example, I've mentioned military discipline in a blog post once. I don't celebrate and personally repudiate most of their actions, but military discipline is a cultural reference that helped explain my point (the blog is long gone so I can't quote it).

I understand why feminists would hate the porn industry—exploitation of women at a young age, pressure on people to conform to unrealistic expectations, etc. But the feminist argument against porn as a thing, the porn industry notwithstanding, is based on some assumptions—that sexuality is always a tool of exploitation, that male sexuality is abusive, and that sexual attraction without affective relationships is inherently exploitive.

Feminists are right to call out the use of sexuality as a tool for oppression, but to see all sexuality as oppression is absurd.
I think it would be very easy to draw conclusions from this piece if you get a few paragraphs in and either fill up with rage or smugness, but it really is worth reading all the way through before commenting.

It's impossible to write a piece such as this without any hints of bias and/or privilege, I think Steven has done a great job of looking at a lot of the recent incidents we've had around gender in tech, and trying to pull a common thread out of them.
It bothers you? Awesome! That's a rejected shadow you can investigate through mindfulness investigation. I guarantee you, you will get results and realize insights if you get in touch with that feeling of being upset when someone says "you can't measure it, don't even try." :-D
With, of course, the usual "exception that proves the rule":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_R10_TDI
Don't let the religious aspects bother you. If you aren't religious it is simple to ignore the chaff while harvesting the wheat.
I don't really enjoy taking the time to make things look pretty. I'm not very good at that part of the design process and it takes too long for me (imho) to produce some aesthetic that will never really be functional outside the scope of organization.

I have done it when I've needed money though. Just aggravates me.
I just bought a warehouse. Similar - I always wanted one. I'm going to turn it into a house and put a roof garden on it and put a sweet garage in to fiddle with cars and set up some office space and generally cause havoc in there.

I could drop dead tomorrow. It's nice to tick these ambitions off, although my ambitions always seem to make it more likely that I will drop dead tomorrow.

(It's in Manchester, UK if anyone wants to come and lug bricks around.)
He is incorrect about the job market for former felons in our field, but that is orthogonal to the subsubthread we find ourselves on now.
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Respectfully, time series analysis involves the use of statistical techniques which have been designed precisely to tease out these kinds of correlations. So what you claim to be impossible is not only statistically possible, but in fact constitutes mainstream econometrics.

There is a clear consensus that fiscal stimulus in war spending played a key role in pulling the United States back to full employment. There is also a clear consensus that the gold standard served as a transmission mechanism for deflationary pressures internationally. If you do not believe this, I'd challenge you to find even a single NBER paper that argues otherwise.
If you hit "flag", it basically downvotes the article.
I'd say start doing contracting. Given market demands you will get land a contract quickly. Some contracts end up being fu time jobs without benefits. So it might play out better for you. You could also do security work. God knows that there is always work on that market.
This is my favorite line from the article :

Judging a book by its cover is the new tolerance. We throw people into the stocks based on feelings while ignoring intent and assuming victimhood. This is why I fundamentally disagree with equating offense with harassment: it provides unlimited ammo and shuts down discussion rather than giving people the benefit of doubt. It elevates the exception to the norm, by presuming the worst.
I always thought foursquare was more a gimmicky feature than a business. Sure "checking in" sounds cool the first few times. But sooner or later you have to ask "what's the point?" And there's really no good answer to that question.
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He posted his address above in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5433215
I did read the article, and think your interpretation of what is says is quite wrong. I also read the opinion, in which discussion of the issue starts around page 28. It does not support your argument at all.

That new standard is that if people might view your blog as a place to read the news, you are guilty of copyright infringement if you quote as much as a single sentence of another person's news article.

LOL no. This is so far off the marks that I think any attempt at explaining it is going to be waste of time. If you seriously disagree, I invite you to cite to the opinion in making your argument.

For example, on the 'transformative nature of the work' test (p.32) the court had this to say:

Neither the purpose nor use of the Meltwater News Reports,nor its excerpts from the Registered Articles in the NewsReports, is transformative. Meltwater uses its computer programs to automatically capture and republish designated segments of text from news articles, without adding any commentary or insight in its News Reports. Meltwater copies AP content in order to make money directly from the undiluted use of the copyrighted material; this is the central feature of its business model and not an incidental consequence of the use to which it puts the copyrighted material. Thus, it is not surprising that Meltwater’s own marketing materials convey an intent to serve as a substitute for AP’s news service.

This directly contradicts your claim that adding your own original content enhances the claim of copyright infringement. In fact, the exact opposite is true.
There are a few athiest renderings of this practice (rather than teaching) floating around. It's not my cup of tea but I have seen them.

However, I will point this out. The point is to be. To experience all of reality: to stop avoiding the things you don't want to experience, and to let go of the things you want to go on forever.

When you say, "the religious aspects are a turnoff", those are fantastic shadows to investigate. And I don't mean, investigate them as in some sort of Socratic dialogue with yourself. I mean getting in touch with the feeling of being "turned off", locating the physical sensation that give rise to your mind's interpretation as the emotion of "turned off", and really watching it with your mind without blinking. These uncomfortable feelings are where you'll find the most intense insights about yourself. And it doesn't matter whether you yourself believe the religion, or whether the religious aspects are an illusion or not, because the feeling of being "turned off" is real for you. That's all that's needed to start.
What I should have said was that I've been too lazy (like to an extreme degree) to host multiple SSL sites using SNI. Just buying another IP was easier for me. It's probably stupid to do that but that's just me.
I'll agree with you that "watch your kids 24/7" is unfeasible. But I did think of something that would get the same results in this case: teach your kids to respect the property of others. It always confused me that, for example, trampoline owners could get in trouble because local children, without the permission of the owner, came over to jump on it and fell off and broke a bone. The kids are at fault, and that reflects on their parents.