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I'm really, really worried about this thread. Holding my breathe.

(Edit: for context, when I posted this, there was 1 comment by Bsharp.)
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Whatever the name, it may or may not get you laid, but if you're in NYC tonight you can find out about some of interesting graph theory allegedly behind it:

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I really value initiatives that teach people to code, and I've taught at a few myself. But I wonder at the value of this increasing focus on certain minorities. Should we have classes focussed on teaching gay people to code?
I've talked with an electrical engineer who works for QSC on the part of their business that deals with large, coordinated installations. They run huge, theme park-sized systems over COTS networking gear (read: Ethernet) with audio synced within hundreds of nanoseconds at locations hundreds of meters apart. It's doable, but you're not going to see it in normal consumer hardware.
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I recently got a pair of glasses with a slight tint and it does seem to make a big different. I went with slight grey tint since they are my everyday glasses, but I think any tint will probably help. I would also recommend an anti-reflective coating.

I also agree about the IPS monitor, they are much easier to look at.
I like those scare quotes around 'natural'.
And 7 out of those 11 are some sort of 10-line "gems" or whatever they are called. Also GitHub is not the only code sharing web site, just biggest and hypiest. For any of those tools/plugins there is a .NET equivalent, but I don't know a up-to-date page that combines them all as an overview.
Yeah, but that's because people would claim they weren't doing anything if they didn't.
I tried the Dell Ultrasharp and sent it back - it wasn't crisp enough and I found that my eyes hurt after long hours of coding. I moved to the Samsung higher end model (which was $300ish at the time) and that was it - worked great. I'm on an Acer G235H now and it's great - no eye trouble at all and I have very sensitive eyes.
There is something that needs to be changed in this kind of pool. Every time the same misconception.

- North America

- Central America (Northern part of South America?)

- South America

This needs to be common knowledge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America
Really? Server: <username>.provider.com.

Anyways, I'm just pointing out that it is possible to provide per-user certificates.
Then they can all use each other's apps. No lock in is nice.
I edited a Wikipedia page yesterday, gave a very strong reason in the edit comment. 20 hours later my edit is still there... The system isn't totally broken just many people watching the new edits for spam and other things and they might get a bit overzealous sometimes.
No backup service in the history of the universe gives you non-working local "files" that are just links back to the cloud when you attempt to copy a file to your computer.

The problem is not that Drive deleted his stuff on Google. The problem is that Drive deleted his stuff on Google after taking an action that should have left him with local copies of the data, but didn't.
Oh my good lord that was fast
It's very true that if you aren't based in SV but visit it regularly this is something that jars every damn time. Doing something positive about it is great.

The other side is the rest of us should see it as an opportunity, given that the effective monoculture in SV gives them a sort of blindness to certain product areas.
If you do remember a journal article, it's perfectly fine to put in an incomplete citation with a note, and someone will fix it up. <ref>Einstein's paper on foo (FIXME: fill out this citation)</ref> or something is typically sufficient for someone to track it down. It's not sufficient to just say that you know it's true, though, for good reason; a lot of "common knowledge", even among scientists, is incorrectly or imprecisely remembered. Typically we are most reliable in our specific sub-specialty, where we actually will have no trouble coming up with sources off the top of our heads (in my very specific sub-sub-specialty, I could rattle off sources for almost anything without even needing to look them up). Outside our sub-specialty, we may remember some things but not 100% reliably, and often based on obsolete or incomplete knowledge (e.g. a course from university years ago) that someone familiar with the literature would be able to do a better job of covering. Hence the importance of referring directly to sources, not only to cite them, but to make sure the information is actually in those sources precisely as remembered. To me, "I know X is true, but I don't know where you can verify that" is a bit of a red flag, typical of e.g. something someone vaguely remembers from med-school or undergrad, rather than something they really have a solid handle on.

In any case, as an academic myself, I find it weird that we, of all people, would find ourselves "too busy to reference" or something. That's an attitude one finds among students asked to write papers, but academics do not have problems peppering supporting references all over the place; it's basically second nature. Some academics even get in arguments with book publishers because the publisher always want to remove the "clutter" of too many citations and footnotes that intimidate the general reader...
Do you have an example of this that's in any way different what nuclear power advocates have been saying for decades?
Seems like the frontend developers who are told to never use onclick= handlers have never used a more advanced UI framework before, like Apple's Interface Builder for example. In more advanced js frameworks like Ember.js, all the click handlers are essentially onclick= style. "this is the right way of doing things"

I feel like many of your team's complaints are due to the fact that they are old school web developers who have probably never wrote apps on the desktop before, where 2-way bindings are standard. The jQuery style of event binding is extremely brittle because it requires the DOM to have a specific structure.
Correct! Not sure what I keyed in earlier.
Thus leading to the well-known sport of Subway Surfing.
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I hope it is a floating data center. If not, it is a fun detective type article.
I don't think that's a realistic solution. No matter what terms you write there will always be someone willing to work crazy hard and ignore their life in return for financial reward. That person is always going to get ahead of someone that wants more balance.
Big military projects have the additional problem of congressional interference. Congressmen regularly force military acquisitions that the military may not even want or need in order to funnel dollars to their home districts. So it might make more sense to build all of the components of something like the Joint Strike Fighter in the same state, but instead it's spread over something like 40 states to ensure the project's survival.

And for whatever reason, the military seems to have a very short memory when it comes to major weapon system procurement failures. "Hmm, the V-22 went over budget, killed a good number of people, has higher maintenance needs and operating costs than we anticipated because of the USMC's requirements. I know, why don't we tie the entire future of our combat airpower to the JSF and hamstring that project with the needs of the USMC..."

Long story short, the space constraints of operating from an amphibious carrier forced design compromises on the V-22 that significantly worsened that program. Now with the JSF, the same thing is happening with the VSTOL variant that the USMC wants.
Off the top of my head? Allow people to charge for subscriptions to their feeds and take a cut. People follow you, you make naughty pics and send them out, people see them. There's lots of ways for the leader to play with the timing and types of photos too. It makes the user's feel a connection since it's not publicly available, have private ones, etc.
Heart attacks, in the cases where they are preventable, only end up killing the person who failed to prevent them. People who drive cars poorly end up accidentally killing other people all the time. And it's hardly a "freedom" anymore when people are practically required to either drive everywhere or at least be around constant car traffic in order to get anywhere.

Getting human-operated cars off the road doesn't diminish freedom, it enhances it.
It would be nice to collapse or skip all replies to a parent, do any of these extensions do that? I often find some discussion that is uninteresting to me (but might be others for others) and just want to easily get past it. If it is long, it takes some time to find where the indention matches-up many PGDNs below.
Trying to join the masses of white males have often resulted in failure, should those black women that are trying to learn something wait until they might be accepted instead of starting their own safe spaces, just to please your idea of "one big group of humans"?
No one cares if you are thinking of race, because obviously it is not about you. It's easy to not think about racism when racism isn't an issue in your environment.

It's not as if now that you're exposed to racism, that you will perpetuate it, right?
I get that there's likely going to be days where it's plain unsafe to bike.

That shouldn't restrict you from ever biking though, as seems to be the excuse some people are using.
Its meant to be like talking. No record by default. Sure you can "hack it" and keep a copy.. but you can tape record a spoken conversation also, right? Just not 100% of every spoken words won't be written down, just like 100% of snapchats won't be saved by the end users.
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Congratulations on your project and the attention it's getting!

Can you explain-more/rationalize GPLv3 licensing w/ the conditional alternate commercial license?

Why not just BSD, MIT, or (at least) LGPL ?

GPL is more understandable on "higher level software" (ie: complete applications), but I don't understand your intent licensing a library this way.
You may not be thinking about race, but an outsider looking at the tech industry probably is. Ideally, yes whether everyone is black or white shouldn't really matter, but I'm sure you feel the same way as well when you are in an 'ethnic' neighborhood or gathering. You don't feel the sense of belonging or at the very least, the racial apathy that everyone else feels. By gathering people with the same upbringing together to work toward a common goal, it builds camaraderie and morale, not so different from why companies care about 'culture-fit'.
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Oh awesome, I'll have to check some of these out! Apparently I haven't looked hard enough.
One of the government's complaints against Ulbricht states:

"Bitcoins are not illegal in and of themselves and have known legitimate uses."

(See 21(b)(v) of http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalCompl...)

Of course that's not a binding declaration, but it indicates some openness on the mattter. The agency holding it would surely like the $millions (or someday appreciated $billions) in law-enforcement toys it could buy, if liquidated. They routinely sell/spend other confiscations.
Again though: the real issue I see here (not the giant UI rant or the Google is Evil nonsense) is that cloud-managed content like Google Docs cannot be backed up meaningfully. I think that's a real problem, and until it's fixed other people are going to be tripping over the same issues.
I am a lot more bothered about private companies doing surveillance than I am about whatever NSA / GCHQ are doing.

For a long time my assumption has been that well funded government agencies can, and do, slurp everything I type. (Even though that breaks several laws.)

That has little to no effect on me. But private companies do - they lose the data; they're open to blackmail or corruption; they're insecure; they inaccurate; etc.

Many more people are caused harm by Equifax listing someone else's debt problems under their name than by the NSA doing whatever it is they do.

This post is not saying that government surveillance is acceptable, or that we shouldn't do stuff to stop it!
This is awesome, targeting minorities early is a fantastic way to get them into the tech scene. Kudos to them, I really hope it works well.
Jeez, talk about unhelpful and condescending.
It's more like a subculture. If people in the group already identify with the group, then I don't think this is going to hurt. It's about having fun with people you relate to. If you like participating in "black girl culture" or "gaming nerd culture" or "english-speaking perl guru culture" you're going to have a better time (on average) than "one big group of humans culture".
I'm also sceptic, but if they are purposely "sampling" black girls into some social "learn to code" program with limited resources, it might not be the worst thing to do.

Depending on location and neighbourhoods, or scope of the program they might actually have less success drawing anybody with a less specific target group.
The problem isn't with HTML5—as a consumer, I love it—it's that it's the ONLY way to interact with the system. HTML may be powerful these days but using javascript is still like eating nails, and compiling to javascript has many years to go before it's competitive with native in terms of resources. I.e. even though it's very attractive as the software company who has to maintain these platforms, HTML5 holds nothing for me: it's a wholly unpleasant development platform that has an absolutely absurd amount of money and man years behind it.

Also, as a note, I think it's unhealthy to design phones to be closed off from the beginning. Apps are only a small subset of potential things to do with a computer.
I earned a barnstar in 2004, and was an admin from around 2003 to 2011. Heck I even ran for a board election (got 30+ votes too!)

I agree with everything you said.
Likewise. There are already some pretty biting responses to expressions of opinions.
I never thought of SV as a monoculture, when it comes to nationality and race (it does suffer from a bad case of groupthink though...)

In SV you will find engineers, designers and managers from all over the world --Russia, China, Europe, etc., and when it comes to race you will find very large numbers of highly successful Asians and Indians. Likely more so than in other US industry.
Congratulations. You've re-invented the pull request.
> I wasn't thinking about race

Maybe you should just appreciate having that luxury rather than criticize those who do not have it.
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Sports/fashion has its peculiarities, but your anecdote is not convincing.

The big reason that Nike is so successful is that they have maintained their status of a premium brand, in a sweet spot a few notches above where the competition is cutthroat and less profitable. In the short term, crap sells and looks good for this year's sales number. In the long term, crap offers competitors too many openings to convince a consumer that Nike is actually overrated/overpriced.

Saying "yes" to crap worked really well for Izod, up until the moment it failed catastrophically.
There's no need to hold the coins to preserve the evidence: they have cryptographically-secured logs of the funds' provenance (and disposition) in either case.

If they do ever sell, is it a bullish or bearish signal? That they've made peace with the market, or know that a brutal crackdown is imminent (and thus selling at a the top)?
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They're great if you don't care about your user experience.
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Why did Levison have access to their users mails in the first place? Didn't they claim that only you can see your emails? Isn't that the reason you can't reset your password?
There's a roughly similar browser extension called "Track Me Not". I have no idea if it's any use. I've been told that it's trivially easy to filter this kind of noise.

http://trackmenot.org/

https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
A story about its use:
http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23790294/crime-fighting-tech-us...
Condescending maybe but GP has a point. If racism is already a big deal, ignoring it isn't going to help. Explicitly addressing it and helping out the less-privileged group will.
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I believe such group can become a subdivision of the greater coding community rather than a segregation of it. they can learn among themselves and still be part of the greater community.
I have no strong opinions on this but perhaps the initiative isn't meant to make you think or not think about race or gender. It's not designed to make you more racially sensitive or be more considerate towards women.

I imagine it exists for the purpose of making programming more popular among women and particularly women of African American background because at the moment I guess it's not seen as a valid career option for them. I don't know anything about the effectiveness of these programs or anything, but I believe they have a purpose outside of making men people feel welcoming to women in programming.
These commute times are not your own making they are based on your salary, your priorities in housing (neighborhood, safety, price), and your work location.

There are plenty of times when it is too expensive to live near work.

There are plenty of times when housing near work is low income or unsafe.
That's a superb explanation. I just plugged all that into a spreadsheet to get this: http://pastebin.com/z32SB1Z4

I can see that e*d mod phi = 1 when d = 29, 101, 173 etc.

I understood the rest of the article except this part so thanks a lot for it!
If you're doing deep analysis on large historical data, then it's in essence a MIS system, and most businesses do (and should do) that outside of Excel.

But what the article is about, in a growing startup or a changing company (say, completely new product line) the 'one master source of data' is not in a database but the assumptions in your head; and any clever model based on your historical data will be either impossible or far more wrong than a simple order-of-magnitude calculation done on a paper napkin. And, well, Excel is more convenient than the napkin.
Yeah, I agree thats its not really intuitive but you can back up cloud managed content by converting it in various formats for export.
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Making a clean cut between free-as-in-speech on one hand and free-as-in-beer on the other.
I take your point, but in my experience gay men are over-represented in tech, not under-represented.
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I don't see too many black and hispanic people at startups in SV. Whether it is intentional racism or not white men dominate the space. I'm not hating on white people but this is the reality.
Came here to say the same thing. It takes the piss out of his argument.
Bruce Sterling will love this.
Being gay may make you a minority, but not an obviously visible minority that people could instantly discriminate against.

The reason any of these kinds of initiatives exist is because the end results are skewed. That is, some population is statistically under-represented relative to major population. In this case, you might look at the number of black women in tech and wonder why its so low. The creators of this initiative must therefore think that the resources of inspiration/training/education or whatever may not be making it to enough young black girls to persuade them into technology. Hence the desire to "correct" it.
Disagree with my viewpoint? Please comment before you downvote.

The presence of this part of your comment indicates that you already know the answer to what you've asked, and are really just trolling by 'playing the innocent'. Please don't do that.
If it is built by Google and it's not a floating data center, I wonder what it could be.
EFF is a pointless figurehead that does none of it's own work. It simply coopts ongoing legal action and puts their name on it anyway they can. This is a pointless case, like the EFF can fix https by this case? No, the cat is already out of the bag. https has been broken for some time, first by cyber criminals and businesses being stupid, and then the NSA trying to keep up with the game.
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You sound like I imagine my son in 10 years ...

The reason I occasionally let him stay with friends for the junk food/games/TV binge with friends is so that he learns all types of experiences. I don't believe in banning anything, just regulating. How else can we understand our world if we don't experience it for ourselves?

If I were to host the junk food/TV/games binges, I'd have to buy the console and games and stock the junk food ... Things that I just don't want to do .. So it's easier to let someone else do it.

In return, I take others kids on bush walks, to BBQs, roller skating, etc - so their kids get to do something different too.

There may be some "it doesn't happen in my house" as you suggest, but it's not my primary or secondary motivator.
It's clear that the goals are extremely laudable -- to help a disadvantaged group gain experience.

But this indeed asks the question, which as far as I can tell is completely unaddressed on their website: why create a group that excludes others by sex and race? How do they explain to a black 14-year-old that their group isn't going to help him? Or a Hispanic 14-year-old girl? Or any 14-year-old whose parents are below the poverty line, who also wants to learn to code?

Why can't we just help disadvantaged youths in general?

I mean, limiting to a certain location (Miami) is fine. Limiting the number of students who can participate is fine. But I really have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of telling a black boy that they won't help him, because of the gender he was born as.
This thread isn't going to resolve anything on this "issue"; just look up affirmative action. There's the logic you provide, which is solid. The counterargument is that certain groups currently have a major disadvantage and specifically targeting them improves things, despite it excluding on race or other characteristics. In this case, it may be that "black girls" wouldn't feel comfortable or would be significantly outnumbered in a general "group of humans" so excluding people provides a net benefit in this case.

Another view is that private groups should be able to do whatever they want, and discrimination is only a problem when it's a problem. If "black girls" grew to dominate the industry or significantly change things, then it's become problematic. Obviously that's a rather subjective measurement hence all the "debate".
While it may seem on the surface that a racially/gender motivated coding class is superfluous, I think that the founders are seeking to appeal to the complete opposite of the coder stereotype (aka white male).

Raising awareness and breaking down stereotypes is a good thing and it seems to me that it's hard to do without seeming like some type of segregation whilst doing it.

Empowering people isn't about making them better than others, but simply raising everyone to the same level.
If you want to start a group for black boys, then do it.