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I'm coming down to Missoula for Barcamp in April. I expect a ride on this thing.
Put a way to contact you on your HN profile. You are on the frontpage and will probably get a few leads. Don't waste the opportunity to score freelance clients out of your post...
If it crashes completely - yes. If there's a bug in the app - not necessarily.
Starbucks CEO: If You Support Traditional Marriage, We Don't Want Your Business
I blew the whistle on Google (which I regret, because Google has pockets of evil but, on the whole, isn't that bad) although I haven't given the whole story. Google's a case of a decent company (for its size) with some terrible managers, though. I don't mean to cast aspersion on the whole thing. If you get a good manager, I'd still recommend it. There's some really cool stuff happening at Google and if you can get good projects, even now it's a great place to work.

Two of the companies included are defunct. Two are of unknown status (not places I worked).

One is a close friend of mine who eventually got a severance. If I spilled, I'd expose what he told me and risk his package, so no. I shouldn't know, myself.

There's one where I still hold The Card and I'm debating it. I could probably cripple the company, but I'm afraid that it would hurt the engineers (some of whom, I'm still friends with) more than the assholes in charge. That's the real problem. I have enough experience with whistleblowing to know that it's a blunt instrument. You don't get to pick who gets hurt. So I'm being cautions with that case.

Since it was just over a year ago, I feel like the window has passed. However, any individual who wants to ask me if an NYC education startup is That One can email me and I'll confirm or deny. They have truly evil management that deeply deserves to fail, not just at this company but in the future. What keeps me from naming that firm is concern for the lower-level people.
"Even though it's 31 years old and technically qualifies as an antique"

What makes something technically and antique? I was under the impression that 50+ years was measure of antiqueness but I can't remember why I think that.
So now the lobbyist can sit behind the teleprompter.
The article implies that amazon somehow got the law changed, and therefore it only covers reading devices, not laptops etc. I dislike its tone. Before, no electronics of any kind. Now, reading devices. This is strictly progress[1], and we should be happy for all the progress we get. If Marco (or more plausibly, apple) was to start lobbying in a year or so to permit tablets, then being able to point to a year of kindle safe flying would be a good thing. It seems unlikely that amazon (who are in the tablet business as well) choose to somehow limit the change to only reading devices.

[1] Lets ignore the risk to flight safety caused by letting passengers use electronics. Because that risk is so small one needs the LHC to find it.
"for meditation you are supposed to be free of such thoughts"

This a pernicious falsehood. It's possible to achieve, but even most advanced meditators aren't spending long stretches of time thought-free. Wrestling with your concentration and being aware of what you're experiencing is meditation.

It's pernicious because it leads people to believe that they're not any good at meditating, since they look at their mind and are aghast at how cluttered and chaotic it is. The fact that you now start to see it, IS meditation.

You were doing just fine.
"it frankly is none of their business."

Ignoring the merits of this statement, they certainly think it is their business. Even running credit checks on job seekers is common practice now. If you worked in white-collar positions at multiple Fortune 50 companies and never had a background check done, that's definitely not typical.
Upvoted, I think that's a very fair point. From Calvin and Hobbes to Montaigne: "There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life".
For generations there was a steady transition of senior roles to you get generations at a pretty regular pace. For a number of reasons this hasn't happened with the transition from the baby boomers. This has led to a bunch of problems. A backlog if talent with no career progression opportunities. Because younger generations haven't had the positions of seniority open to the same degree they haven't learned progressively how to manage that transition either. This means that when the transitions do happen people will be moving into roles both older and less well prepared. It's a big problem in all aspects of the public sector in particular.
It's strange in the sense that Willy Wonka's fizzy lifting drinks are strange in a factory with oompa loompas and chocolate rivers. Any good experience is going to change your brain and feel strange at first. :-)
I almost feel like C++ gets a pass because people just expect it to have weird fucked up stuff. People expect weirdness out of it thus wouldn't be surprised by examples.

OTOH, by that same logic there should have been less JavaScript representation, because JavaScript is downright goofy.
Maybe I missed it, but how did he get it shipped to Montana?
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Why should the pool of host machines be homogeneous ? Just for ease of administration ?
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One of the unfair things about the U.S justice system is that not all felonies are created equal. In Virgina, if you are pulled over for driving over 80 miles per hour (even if you are on a steep hill with no one around you or if everyone else is traveling faster than you) you are charged with reckless driving, which is can be a felony or a Class 1 misdemeanor — the same category as Assault & Battery. You will recieve a $3000 dollar fine, and could be convicted of a felony if you don't hire an expensive lawyer , and/or if the judge is in a bad mood that day.
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I don't completely understand your argument here, on a purely intellectual level...

In a very simple model, going from 0 women to 1 woman should increase the number of harassment suits, right? Then going from 1 woman to 2 women should have a similar effect, because all naturally occurring functions are differentiable :-) Intuitively it seems to me that the amount of reported harassment should be proportional to how many opportunities for harassment exist, or (under a different theory) how many opportunities for false claims exist, which is the same number by another name.

So it's a little strange to hear you say that anyone who disagrees with you must believe in nasty things like "harassment is made up by women". Do you know how hard it is to figure out causality from observational data? For any possible trend you could find in the data, like "reported harassment scales as the number of women times the square root of the number of men", one could probably make up a just-so story that blames men, and a different just-so story that blames women.
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Pointer arithmetic via syntactic sugar is definitely fun. I still love the occasional "variable index of a literal".
Or maybe it's just thast they paid for their education. Getting something for free could attract a lot of people.

I also would like an update on the results in 5 years.
I submitted an issue to lodash, feel free to add to it: https://github.com/bestiejs/lodash/issues/215
No, but firetrucks in GTA were always a fun ride.
Bloomberg is responding to market forces. In New York, most people read the WSJ for financial news, but ever since Murdock bought the paper it's been trending right. But Wall Street folks really don't lean right that strongly (e.g. Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein are both registered Democrats), especially the rank-and-file. That leaves a market opening for Bloomberg if they shift to the left. E.g. Bloomberg Businessweek ran a piece a couple of months ago on Wal-Mart that was extremely sympathetic to union interests. That kind of stuff really resonates with a lot of people you wouldn't think it would resonate with.

Indeed, an article like this is entirely consistent with that angle. Without getting into the merits of the gold standard, it is hard to dispute that the banking sector has a greater status in a country with a "managed currency" than they do in a country on the gold standard. You're not going to find a lot of Wall Street types who yearn for a return to the gold standard...
I've always thought that an old firetruck would make a much better RV conversion platform than an old bus. The reasoning is that a firetruck (especially a pumper truck) has a suspension that is designed to carry much more weight than a bus so you would not be as constrained in what you could build on top of it.

Jay Leno did an excellent column about how amazing fire trucks are in terms of durability.

The OP said that "fire trucks" weren't designed to drive on the highway at highway speeds, which is a bit of an over generalization. The National Forest Service for example has a number of trucks in California that are tasked with driving up and down the state to fight wild fires. They not only drive on the highway, they end up with a couple million miles on them before they are retired.

In terms of practicality (there isn't much :-) but a ladder truck has the ability to put you fairly high up somewhat "away" from the truck. (although an inexperienced operator could easily tip over their truck if they weren't careful) and they have those pretty awesome hydraulic stabilizing legs. I sketched out briefly a sort of 'circus tent' RV where the tenting was connected to a ladder truck's ladder which could then extend up and allow you to stake out a tent around it. A number of issues there, from the outgassing of the truck into your tent :-) and the ladder has a specified end load that it can move around which is often less than 500 lbs so you end can't really hoist canvas, you would get away with light nylon at best.

But in terms of interesting vehicles to own I agree with the author that there is a certain cachet there :-)
Thank you for your response. After reading many of the other responses it is nice to have this perspective here for other posters to see -- because it is very real to me.

This is essentially what someone like me encounters every time they try. It's a really unfortunate part of my reality and other posters should understand that it's not simply "just a felony" -- not when equally qualified applicants do not have any "issues" like this.
I find this policy of intentionally hiring female over male programmers as highly disturbing. Etsy already proved that female programmers are not needed to successfully sell to females. Is there some sort of magical difference between male and female programmers that I am unaware of? Why throw out equality to promote it?

Would anyone be OK with the reverse policy? Could a company that sells to 99% men systematically exclude more qualify female leads to only hire men? Could a company that only sells to white people refuse to hire minorities? The Internet would be up in arms organizing boycotts in the case of the later (not to mention civil suites).
There is nothing in that experiment supporting that theory, though. So why push it anyway? How does people flocking to free education prove anything?
Thanks for this.

I guess the people who've asked me must not know much about meditating. I admit I only have a superficial knowledge of it, as well. The people I've talked to see meditating more of a 'relaxing' experience, I guess.

I will look into it more now, though.
I try and meditate daily.
Speaking of overflows, the original Quake stored kills as a signed 16 bit integer, and there's no minimum time delay between typing 'kill' in the console (though, IIRC, the network code syncs at 10 hz, which may be the effective ceiling).

At an overnight LAN party in my youth, I bound every key to kill and sat there for an hour hammering the keyboard; the overflow worked as expected and my kills turned positive, much to my delight.

But I recommend either taking my word for it, or reading the source!
A dozen people scramble to make that "original" observation any time Stack Overflow is mentioned anywhere.
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A firetruck ride might convince me to make the trip over for Barcamp...
Check out the literature on habit formation. Charles Duhigg just wrote a good book on habits recently, and BJ Fogg of Stanford runs a weekly 3 Tiny Habits course on helping people develop habits.

Or the tl;dr: Promise to yourself to do no more than sit somewhere quiet at a regular time (e.g., as soon as you wake) for one minute. If you sit at least a minute, give yourself a guilt-free reward (e.g., a bit of chocolate).

You'll essentially be using operant conditioning to train yourself until the intrinsic rewards kick in, which can take a few weeks.
Only related to the original topic because they both are part of the series but seeing that video..When I was younger we played Lost Levels on the SNES (Mario All-Stars had it) and I remember it being too hard to get anywhere. I hadn't even seen most of those levels.

I never beat the first SMB either but I have to wonder if they had made the original as crazy as Lost Levels if it would still be so popular. I know other games had insanity (Battle Toads) and people beat them but they don't seem to have Mario status.
The 200A are at the fuse box (in new houses, old houses may have less).

The wall sockets usually have 110V-15/20A connections. But there are some especial sockets with 240V-30/50A for special applications, like clothes dryers and electric ovens.
Very similar to how most projects start with,"Let's design the database model..."
Start your own freelance firm. There's a lot of work for freelancers and outside of the fortune 500 very little background checking of the contractors.
Ok, not the complete centre. The display I've seen in all videos takes up around 1/9th of the image - I'm not sure how it translates to normal field of view. But imagine that 1/9th of your view starts flickering - that would be rather annoying and noticeable, right?
Whast extra hurdles did you have to jump over? Are you sure your wages are lower? Those differences are not very obvious for office jobs, in fact the other day I linked to astudy showing women in tech earn more than men ( till age 30 anyway, have no data on otherrs).
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Is there something that prevents you from starting your own company?
I just came back from QiGong practice that included meditation :)
Meditation is by no means guaranteed to be relaxing. I've been on several retreats, and wile they were always rewarding, they were rarely relaxing. That's just a popular myth.
in case this helps anyone else. at first i wasn't that keen on doing this, but my doctor recommended it. so i bought myself a box of very nice chocolates. the deal is that i can have a chocolate once a day, but only if i meditate (immediately) afterwards. after one and a half boxes (a couple of months) i now miss the meditation if i don't do it. so i no longer need the chocolates, but hey... ;o)
Depends on the state you live in. In Montana it qualifies for special license plates when a vehicle is 30 years old.

https://doj.mt.gov/driving/license-plates/#antiqueplates

Although by driving it to work he probably violates the 'general transportation' provision.
nginx can do a ton of things with modules. One of the reasons I use it is because I can pattern match incoming URLs and send them to different servers based on some pretty fancy rules routing rules.

Also, there are many that use nginx as the load balancer (including me). Would a TCP load balancer be better? Possibly but it also comes at an additional cost whereas nginx is free and far more flexible with routing HTTP content.

I'm not even going to summarize all the other things nginx can do via modules (Lua, memcached, etc -- http://wiki.nginx.org/Modules).
The interesting part is how they found "interstate commerce" in chicken feed which wasn't actually sold and didn't actually leave the state (didn't leave the farm even):

The Court decided that Filburn's wheat growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for chicken feed on the open market, and because wheat was traded nationally, Filburn's production of more wheat than he was allotted was affecting interstate commerce. Thus, Filburn's production could be regulated by the federal government.

By this reasoning, even free open-source software is interstate commerce, if it has a commercial competitor. Imagine a federal law restricting FOSS, as part of an economic stimulus for the software industry.

(edit: My FOSS analogy is actually too weak! You wouldn't need to distribute anything. It'd be enough to write your own code, for your personal use, if this prevents you from purchasing some commercial product).
A lot of people put their backups on S3, with a script running on the server. Even if you limit the rights with IAM to only put files, the attacker can overwrite existing files on S3. The only way I thought to prevent that is to give only write access with no listing access, and append a random number to the file name. But, who does that? I'm sure 90%+ of the servers backing up on S3 are not safe for this scenario.

The reason I thought of DVDs is that they're not sensitive to electromagnetic fields as disks and tapes. (You never know: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9097587/Solar-flare... )
> I thought "essentialism" was anathema in contemporary diversity circles.

You are absolutely right that essentialism is not generally accepted any more, but you're mistaking essentialism a bit. Essentialism is not 'women do things differently than men,' essentialism is 'Women are x.'

As an example, certain feminists don't believe that trans women are women, because they are not born with sexual organs that are the essence of 'woman.'

In contrast, population thinking would assert some number of a portion of a population has some trait, but it's not required, or 'essential.' Saying that 'many women have vaginas' is not an essentialist statement, it's a population-ist one.

Therefore, "many women approach problems differently than many men" is not essentialst. "All women _must_ approach problems differently than men" is essentialist.
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I'm sorry, is the author implying that men and
women approach engineering problems differently
(i.e. they think differently)? Is there any evidence
of this?

I don't think it's controversial to believe that one's best chance at achieving "cognitive diversity" comes from having a variety of genders/backgrounds/ages/etc/whatever on your team.

That's not incompatible with rejecting the belief that one gender/race/whatever is "better" at something.
Traffic accidents, railway suicides, stuff like that can be pretty gruesome. You have to be a certain type of person to be prepared to deal with that sort of thing.
Technically (within the yogic meditation tradition), 'concentration' is defined as 12 seconds of one-pointed thought, ie the mind is fixed in one place. This is considered 1 unit of concentration.

'Meditation' is considered 12 units of concentration, so 12 * 12 seconds which is 144 seconds.

So technically, according to the definition of the old school meditators practicing 1000s of years ago, you are not really 'meditating' until the mind is fixed in one place for at least 144 seconds.
> To begin to analyze workers in terms of sex or gender to begin with, itself is sexist, the same way that affirmative action is racist.

Which is, again, not sexist or racist at all. *-ism implies institutional bias of a society, not an individual instance of discrimination.

It is _discriminatory_ against men, for sure. But not 'sexist.'
Open-ended and subjective questions tend to be more interesting than questions that have a definite answer.
Sounds like a hackerspace without computers. I think the intersection of people who love math, arts and sciences, but want to stay away from technology, will be quite low.
Unfortunately true. I've encountered that problem where I am now and have had to sign so many agreements with legal dept heads from other agencies that I've lost count. My employer (work in NPO sector) has really assumed some really huge risks by having my on board. The approach for me being exposed to certain at-risk data (at my work there are ssn from clients, login credentials to affiliated networks ran by my state) is routinely addressed by sign NDA as a group of lawyers threaten to destroy me if anything should go awry.

The director of the agency where I work has been tremendously instrumental in arguing and supporting me in these instances.
I have another idea. Either you can go on fighting the rejections and slowly building a brand for yourself when your past will no longer matter (I can't comment on whether your current situation is indeed that bad), or you could try graduate school. From what it sounds, you seem to be interested not just in programming, but the more abstract principles and reasoning required in designing software systems. Graduate school can help you channelize that interest and who knows, you might make a name for your self in academia.

You will need some money for that though, but I personally consider that investment worth the potential experience that you can get at graduate school. More valuable than buying a fancy car.
The phrase "American Dream" traditionally has meant something much more like "secure mediocre living" than the ease of starting a multinational corporation.
Based on the language you're using, I'm guessing you haven't actually meditated much for any length of time.

If you're open to it, I'll bet you'd like Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism Without Beliefs.
Not a fan. I've seen legislators past and present comment that the recent inability of the two sides to get along is due, at least in part, to the fact that they don't interact socially. Whereas in the past most of them lived in DC and would go out together socially after the business of the day was done, now many return to their home districts at any opportunity and as a result don't have the bias towards cooperation/empathy that you'd have with people you count as friends.

If anything, I'd like to see the opposite shift, where legislators are required to be in DC and maybe, just maybe, sit down with each other over beers and get something done. Right now the biggest problem isn't a lack of connection to constituents, it's an inability to work with colleagues.
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The "probably" part is definitely a "just-so" story. It is unfalsifiable. As for the hypothesis that the revulsion is instinctive, well, the only other possibility is that it is learned. But if its learned, then this conversation wouldn't be happening in the first place. It wouldn't be a big deal. The only reason this conversation is even capable of happening is because everyone already implicitly believes that women and only women are instinctively repulsed by direct or subtle sexuality that isn't pre-approved, that is, it is a violation of their core values and therefore we have a problem to be solved.

If men will admit to themselves what they already know and believe, they will be better prepared to handle themselves to avoid conflict with their female counterparts.