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Since you're using Java, why not start incorporating JUnit tests into your packages? JUnit is simple enough to get started with and testing is fairly straight forward. Most of the modern IDEs for Java support running JUnit tests.

Good places to start adding tests would be wherever there is critical business logic or areas of code that used very frequently. If you could spare the time, try adding some tests everywhere. But if you can't, add tests to all new functionality or areas that are being updated for bug fixes at the minimum.

Once you've got some tests in place, use a build system (i.e. Jenkins) and have your units run every time there is a check-in to source control. Possibly create some build tasks using Gradle and have your unit tests run at compile time for Java.
I'd argue Germany is ahead democracy-wise than even our most progressive US states.
So far seems he hasn't; he's explained why, and all the more power to him.

BTW, I'm disappointed that only "witch hunt" (terrorism against women) is used in this particular thread so far. Where's "lynch mob" and "McCarthyism", to round out the irony trifecta? (Hilariously sick when men liken themselves to women, whites to blacks, and capitalists to communists.)
What would make you feel more comfortable?

Edit: Is this a bad question? I was trying to be empathetic.
In my informed opinion snacking is indeed a very bad habit and it is not in any way a healthy eating mode.

It's contrary to all of human evolution and there are objective measurements that show the body needs rest from eating to heal and regenerate critical systems.

That's why intermittent fasting is such a proven benefit to health in people who have enough to eat.

Source: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/meal-timing/
Show Me A Man, I’ll Show You The Ideas He’s Built On
My team was in the same situation as you about 2 years ago. We started writing tests for bugs that were reported by customers, as those were the "hot-spots" for regression. As we became more confident and adept at using JUnit, we started writing tests for new features too. Only after 6 months did we start looking at places in the code that were not covered by unit tests and started filling them in to avoid regression. It was a lengthy process to get our coverage to a decent level, but it was definitely worth the struggle.
unfortunately line workers are never asked "what would you do?"
I have to say after I read the Eiffel chapter in the book Masterminds of Programming, I became a fan of Bertrand Meyer

If you have time to learn a new language, I would recommend Eiffel
Seriously inconvenience? I'm a hunter and I also target shoot for recreation, and I can't say a 10 or 15 round limit is an inconvenience at all, let alone a serious one. If you're hunting and you need to fire 10 or 15 shots without taking the time to reload, you're dangerously ill-equipped to be using a gun. You're placing everyone else at risk as you're wildly slinging bullets through the forest. If you're target shooting, you need to take time to adjust your aim between shots anyway, and the target isn't going anywhere. If you're using a gun in self defense and you need more than 10 or 15 rounds, again, you're woefully under-equipped to be using a gun. Chances are if you can't hit your target in 10 or 15 rounds, you're going to hit someone else or your target has already killed you or isn't a real threat. Even the police are known to fire wildly at a suspect and end up hitting innocent bystanders.

I do subscribe to the argument that gun control laws are a slippery slope for lawmakers, but the real need for high capacity civilian firearms just isn't there in lawful use. Does banning high capacity magazines change anything? Not really, it's a useless law. But as a rallying point, I think there are more substantial arguments to be made.
Paul Graham is assumed guilty of being sexist and he's probably unaware of it. Got it.
Put a sticker over them, put glitter on the sticker edges.
It is very interesting see someone like PG take the bait with anti ethical journalism.

I have some friends in top positions and the first thing they learn is about this techniques. There are predators out there wanting to eat your hardly earned reputation for their own benefit or agendas.
No one can tell you "your startup sucks and you can't do it", but there are ways to exponentially improve your chances of growth and success.

YC is one of those ways, arguably a very significant one.
The straight answer is no. Here's a slightly longer version of the story, in case you're curious:

I first met pg at SXSW several years ago, when he was swamped by hungry startup founders. The whole scene was intimidating to me--I hate crowds! I finally got to ask him a question, which I can't recall the exact content of now, but was something about women and YC. He suggested I email Jessica about it. I didn't do that--probably because I had been intimidated, and partly because I felt like he had punted on the question instead of giving me an actual answer (I now know that this was just part of his characteristic bluntness, and I definitely don't hold it against him especially given the environment in which the conversation happened, but at the time I didn't know pg and I found it offputting.)

Since then, I've had two good friends go through YC, both young white males. One of the companies is now "Internet famous" and shows up here on HN on a regular basis. The other one is still completely underground. Both of them enjoyed and recommended YC.

Another fellow entrepreneur here in Austin went through YC recently and we sat down and compared notes after he went through YC and I went through Techstars. Our conclusion: Techstars wins in terms of mentoring and support, but YC wins in terms of visibility and fundraising.

So, tl;dr I've met pg (briefly), I know one of the partners and a handful of YC founders, but they're not female. I didn't specifically seek out female founders who'd gone through YC, though now that you ask, I'm really curious to hear some of their viewpoints!
> Blind applications would be great if they were possible, but I suspect they would be as helpful as a blind audition for concert conductors -- i.e., not at all.

While I agree that blind applications would be somewhat tough for startup founders, conducting seems like a bad example. You could fairly easily judge the resulting music without being able to see the conductor.
I'm very skeptical of Glenn Greenwald. I'm surprised by how many will readily accept whatever he says. That's kinda scary. There's a question of credibility when you don't fact check[1]. Makes you wonder what else is Greenwald exaggerating or not fact checking.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/1...
Dear Paul,

In your arc article:
http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html

you have the following few sentences:
I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that's almost offensive, like calling Beijing Peking, or Roma Rome (hmm, wait a minute). But the kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn't like Arc anyway.

Here's the issue: "the kind of people who would be offended by that" - I realize that "that" refers to ASCII only support, and I agree with your statement. But it took me two minutes to figure that out. Indeed "that" might as well refer to Chinese people being offended by the colonial label of Peking instead of using Beijing. I thought you might want to fix this infelicity of expression.
Amen. I stated earlier that because of this behavior people now treat me (a female) as if I'm just looking to fight. It's disgusting and actively pushing me out of the industry. Sexist men are not my enemy anymore :/
Postulating "bias" in the hiring process does seem to imply that a non-deserving or less-qualified candidate was hired. Saying that being a non-white-male is itself a merit doesn't change that, and is also highly contentious.
There is no age limit for YC. Many people in their 30's (some in their 40's) have gone through the program.
The conclusions you're taking from the North Hollywood shootout aren't what most of the police world took from it. The police had .38 special revolvers and shotguns and were confronted with people with rifles. Someone with a rifle is going to be able to effectively engage someone long before someone with a revolver or a shotgun gets into effective range. Also, .38 special isn't very effective against ballistic vests, which the robbers had. And suppressive fire (from the illegally modified AK variant rifle) limits an adversary's tactical options. The conclusion that police generally came to afterwards was that officers should have rifles available to use in such situations.

Have you ever shot a rifle with a detachable magazine? And practiced magazine changes? Because it seems to be universally accepted among those who do such things that magazine changes are more of an annoyance than a hindrance.
The fundamental issue is that the code needs be audited and signed offline so it can't be changed. Unsigned code should not be run. This makes releases harder (no push on commit).

It's not language-specific. App stores already work this way (including the Chrome web store), so a deployment mechanism is there; it's just not used as often as it should be.

It's funny, back in the day we debated ActiveX (code signing) versus sandboxes (Java and JavaScript) and the real answer is that you should have both (as Android does).

But code signing isn't magic either. You still need someone to do the auditing, and users to be careful about what they run. Since users are so trusting, I'm not sure that app stores in practice are any more secure.
"forgo an in-person interview altogether. Which doesn't seem like a good idea"

I would disagree strongly in that YC has a measurable financial risk of excluding potentially profitable founders solely for meaningless cultural woo woo reasons. For example if some Finnish dudes conduct perfectly normal business transactions nude in the sauna, a prudish American who refuses to participate has an obvious measurable economic loss solely because of irrational cultural woo woo. Now extend that far out example into female communication style.

Now what would work, or at least would be interesting, is having a female partner interview female founders separately from the male partners then study the female partner's impression vs male partner impression. I don't suspect there would be a huge difference; but at least this would be a somewhat more effective way to test the proposed effect. For my ridiculous made up example, you'd need a Finnish partner; probably easier to run this test on the somewhat easier to acquire and categorize male vs female test subjects.
IFTTT in 2014
> There's something about seeing a strong woman succeed that makes weak men feel weak.

Fixed.
Thanks. I'd use a browser extension, and also constrain what gets sent to the server.

If the server was really compromised, it could just copy the CC# into another field in the form (so it gets sent twice, encrypted and unencrypted) - and the server would get the data without having to change the JS. Integrity checks would not turn anything up. A properly paranoid browser extension should have a specified format for sending a form, so that no extra information is leaked.

In my case it's bids rather than CC#s, though the same pattern holds of encrypting with the tender creator's public key.
The Disinformation
British Ex-Spy Launches Fund to Support Whistleblowers Like Snowden
I'm not surprised that things were taken completely out of context. The first time you have something written about something you've said is really eye opening - unless the whole thing is printed verbatim, it's almost invariably edited to say something different than what you meant, and to be more in line with the rest of the story.
one person = one vote, so you need to track who voted. I don't think the way we do it is necessarily effective, but that's the justification.

Your other comments are probably justified though.
A reliability engineer might say that as a first approximation, the time-till-failure of the human animal (really just an electro-mechanical-chemical machine) has a governing equation which is a linear combination of many Weibull equations [0] and Arrhenius equations [1]. Mechanical failure is known to be governed by Weibull, and chemically-driven devices fail according to Arrhenius.

From this claim it isn't hard to cook up superexponential-ish results over certain timescales by tuning the fitting parameters and combination coefficients. But that doesn't mean the underlying failure physics here are truly superexponential.

But as a better approximation, human death may be governed by a system of differential equations with primarily stochastic coefficients and plenty of strongly nonlinear operators. So after our biomedical engineers remove the first few bottlenecks at ~105 years old, these curve shapes might change dramatically to reflect the true complexity of the underlying physics.

[0] http://reliabilityanalyticstoolkit.appspot.com/mechanical_re...
[1] http://reliawiki.com/index.php/Arrhenius_Relationship
A reputation can be a blessing or a curse. YCombinator has a great reputation as the best startup incubator and it's founders have sterling reputations as being the people you absolutely need to talk to if you're considering a tech startup. It takes a lifetime to become known as superlative, the proverbial gold standard. It's as true on the mean streets as it is in the halls of power: You are what people think you are.

I'm not sure where this "frat house" thing comes from (scare quotes, not direct quotation). Have you ever been to a frat house? Believe me, they have nothing in common with a summer at YCombinator. I've described yc dinners as being "like a high school lunchroom where everyone is happy to see you and every table is the cool kid's table". Women are utterly and completely welcome. Minorities are welcome. Bring them your nerds, your socially inept, your ambitious hackers yearning to be free. Frat houses are all about pecking orders and childish humor. YC is genuinely about mutual support and an open exchange of ideas.

If "frat house" means that there aren't many women present, I can only guess as to why. There are a variety of social and cultural factors that push the majority of women away from hacking at a young age. I can't point the finger of blame at anyone in particular, but I can report on what I have observed. Women are generally underrepresented in computer science departments, engineering programs, computer clubs and yes, startup incubators. It has nothing to do with Paul Graham or the YC partners. We're all responsible as members of society at large.

I understand your reasons for not appliyng to YCombinator. TechStars is a great program, and I'm glad that you've thrived there. But there's something to be said for seeing things with your own eyes. I would be very unhappy if someone dismissed me out of hand because of something that they'd heard. I can only believe that YCombinator’s positive reputation will outweigh whatever negative reputation that they have fairly or unfairly received.
Any electoral fraud that relies on having bunches of people vote multiple times necessarily relies on there being a conspiracy of >100 people in order for it to be effective (this is the only kind of fraud that can be prevented by demanding that voters produce photo ID).

But if a conspiracy is required, then why not address that directly? Offer a $500,000 reward and immunity to any one who provides information about a conspiracy that could have changed the result of an election. Voila: no more "voter fraud".
In a nutshell!
There is an interesting comment in the original article, that I wasn't sure about, and figured I'd bring up here:

"There was always a question that bogged me. Imagine you are called aside to do a routine border check in airport security area. Imagine they want to inspect your laptop. Can you refuse to surrender your password which encrypts the whole disk? Is there such right to say "Nay, what is mine stays mine"?"

As somebody who is not from the USA, are you allowed to ask that they perform any security checks in front of you? Are you allowed to ask for the TSA agent's supervisor and have them walk you through each of the steps?

I guess one obvious solution is to carry the laptop/device with you on the flight, and leave the battery/adapter in check luggage, but this becomes more difficult when you consider tablets, phones, and the like. Thoughts? As somebody who may travel to the USA one day, I'd like to hear what kinds of situations you might end up in playing games like this.
There is no such thing as "overproduction". Having produced everything people want should be the goal.
Would the concept of gamification be a bad idea in government?
I was given a national ID card, it's call a social security card. That is my unique identifying number as an American.
Work on Wall Street. It's one of the last bastions of political incorrectness that you're likely to find in the USA. (I mean that in a complimentary way - people tend to take your words with a grain of salt, don't get butthurt unnecessarily, and if they are offended, they tell you off and then you put it behind you.)
Brian Tracey! What a blast from the past. Many years ago I was sent on a course of his by my boss, nothing to do with self discipline, more like general 80's "empowerment" or some similar wish washy shit. The part I remember most is he advocated daily affirmations staring into a mirror and saying "I like myself" over and over. I came away with very negative impressions of Brian Tracey but he's certainly had time to get better, that was a long time ago.
How we do mobile engineering at Venmo
I'm not sure we should expect anything but handwaving. This language hasn't been released to the world; it may be that it's not even a fully-functional language yet. All we've got to go on is a couple sentences from a blog post that clearly wasn't intended as a detailed exposition, a G+ post from someone who is no longer involved in the project, and a whole lot of Reddit. Mostly the Reddit.

More details will hopefully be coming soon, but until then we might as well stay calm and try not to confuse cocktail napkins with something that's ready for peer review.
There is good reason to believe that natural aptitude is not equal[1][2]

[1] https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7DMQCP3v6SZQUw1MnNWbXBUV3M/...

[2] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/2012-sat-test-results-a-hug...
Nokia wins German patent injunction against all HTC Android devices
A Response to Paul Krugman on Bitcoin
Twister: P2P micro-blogging with accounts on the blockchain and messages in DHT
SSNs are not mandatory.
Living on an island in Canada I've taken these small commuter flights a number of times. Being able to hop on near the actual flight time is fantastic. Few points about these smaller flights:

- Typically they still want you there 30 mins early to check-in and load the baggage.

- The pilot to passenger ratio makes them very expensive. A 20 minute flight for me is costlier than a 5 hour one to a major hub. I rarely pay for these out of my own pocket.

- Being a smaller operation your pilot can be very young and inexperienced.

- These planes are very small and at times get uncomfortably hot in the summer.

- The majority of crashes around here are from similarly sized aircraft. Always an uncomfortable reminder of what can go wrong.

- Flying in any kind of adverse weather can honestly be pretty terrifying in a smaller plane. If your lucky they'll delay or cancel it altogether.

- Sometimes your pilot will leave the window open and a wasp will fly in prior to take off. Sitting in the co-pilot seat in a cramped plane, it may be up to you to kill it :)

Overall I prefer the smaller flights in the summer, but I'll take the slow security for the safety of the bigger plane in winter.
The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away
I could see myself being pressured into feeling bad about not sacrificing myself (societal pressures/norms and all of that), but it really doesn't make sense to me to feel bad, and I sort of hope that I wouldn't. After all, why should I effectively doom myself to save them? Why should I feel bad? Why should I trade my life for theirs?

The answer to these questions seems obvious to many people, but I don't get it. Why is this virtuous? Why is this sensible? Why is this rational?
You should read "The fall of Long Term Capital Management by Robert Lowenstein". Fratty culture is not limted to the young or inexperienced.

John William Meriwether - born August 10, 1947

Myron Samuel Scholes - born July 1, 1941

Robert Cox Merton - born 31 July 1944
That's what I use. Works as advertised. Should be part of the spec I think.
> While you and you alone have the power to change your behavior (and it would be awesome if you gave women the benefit of the doubt because we're not all this way...promise), I really can't place 100% of the blame on you either.

Yet this seems to imply that you place most of the blame on him... though it seems that you are both (potential) victims here.
Blind applications would make me more comfortable to consider applying.

A lot of this has to do with impostor syndrome which is why the idea of a blind applications would, in my opinion, help many other talented founders think of applying.

Thanks for your comment on empathy. That is something that makes me feel really welcome to comment here.
What a great comment from a longtime member of HN. Not only did you make a wonderful example of name-calling and an ad-hominem argument in a single sentence, you also failed to dispute the central argument which was that time is lost while translating the macro.

Apart from your already ( apparently )wast knowledge of various development tools, please also consider improving your conversational skills.
> As I stated elsewhere, the government using its powers to restrict ownership of an inanimate object based on what another individual may or may not do with their own inanimate object is a disgusting abuse of power.

Do you believe the government should restrict personal ownership of nuclear weapons, or is that a disgusting abuse of power?
I blame the listeners, not the talkers.

I blame both. The listeners for not exercising critical thinking, as you say, and the talkers for spending their time and effort (not to mention sucking in the time and effort of many other people) on these useless witch hunts instead of adding actual value.
Self-selection, as you have done, is a hard problem to solve.

Not just in tech, but in our entire culture. As noted elsewhere, Americans are sorting themselves by demographics.

It feels awkward to be a woman in a predominantly male organization. It feels awkward to be a republican in San Francisco. It feels awkward to be gay in Mississippi. It feels awkward to be black in Portland. And so we place ourselves in locations (and organizations) where it's less awkward to be ourselves, and the problem gets worse.

What's difficult about this problem is that it's nobody's fault. There's no conspiracy behind this trend. (In fact there is a conspiracy to try and reverse it! But to little avail.) Counterintuitively, perhaps it's the fault of the people who choose the comfort of sameness over diversity, but that feels too close to victim blaming.
In WI, if you can't afford an ID you can get one for free for voting purposes (heading "FREE Wisconsin ID cards for voting"):
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/drivers/drivers/apply/idcard.ht...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.[1]

Wantrepreneurs are "wannabe entrepreneurs", in the same sense that wanksters are "wannabe gangsters". Someone is saying you want to be seen as an entrepreneur, but have neither the skills, nor the inclination, to actually build anything. It is an insult. They are calling you a "poser". Entrepreneurs who have yet to succeed, but are trying, are just new or unsuccessful entrepreneurs.

If you are trying to redefine the word, to give it a positive context, I can only wish you luck.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/quotes?item=qt0482717