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There's a world of difference between being excluded because you are of a certain gender, religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation and because you don't like a certain beverage.

An analogy would be a conference where the evenings entertainment is a competition to see who can piss up a wall the highest. It wouldn't exclude women per se, because they don't have to join in if they don't want to, but you can reasonably see why they might not feel welcome, and why they might complain about it. If a conference wants to appeal to a broad range of people it's the organisers job to make sure the entertainment isn't based around one thing that only appeals to one group, even if that group is a majority.
Well PayPal once flagged a non-existent transaction on my account as suspicious. I had to call them to get it sorted out. The fact that something like that can happen surely doesn't help me trust PayPal...
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This post makes me feel excluded for drinking beer.
In Europe there's usually alcohol and socials, but as far as I have encountered no binge drinking or hard partying.

Nothing anyone who doesn't drink would feel uncomfortable about.

I don't think it has much to do with the presence of bars or alcohol, but more with the local culture. And in the US, the drinking culture as a result of the absurdly high drinking age is totally juvenile. My guess is that programmers fresh out of college bring that culture with them.
When did "beautiful storytelling" become code for "a big picture near the top and then plain text on a white background?"
Man, that video, typical marketing bullshit. First scene shows a guy writing on a typewriter, next scene shows someone hanging up Polaroid pictures. Seriously? Show me why this app is useful and why I need it, instead of trying to lull me into a world that doesn't exist.
Virtual goods worth real money I assume.
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This is just whining.

I don't drink very much at all, maybe one or two drinks every few weeks. I have never been ostracized, ridiculed, or even noticed when I get a Diet Coke (which is obviously not alcohol if you're paying attention, but from across the room who knows) or even a water (which is obviously not alcohol from anywhere because of how it's served).
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"It just means I might have a different attitude and hold a minority opinion compared to my peers"

And how would religion not fall under this definition?
Because Paypal has a history of being full of shit.
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Same here with Chrome/arch.
You didn't try IE6 0-o
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It appears images sent to the server sometimes get cut off somewhat. Still a cool service!

Edit: Oh, I see, it removes free-standing lines.
This has been in there (Mint) marked as Test for a few weeks and when I asked Coinbase support about it, they didn't exactly "strongly recommend against" giving my credentials to the third party, but they made it clear that I would be responsible for any compromise if I did this.
I am more interested in Twitter's response to all of this.
Not relevant at all, unless you are interested in a historical perspective.
It's a fancy new UI, that's it. Doesn't look like there will be much content change, just how it's laid out. Boring.
5 letter common words can be used freely by anyone, in my opinion. If you want your brand to be distinctive and searchable, pick a distinctive and searchable name.

There was an article a few weeks ago about an internal struggle going on inside Facebook about what their product should be. Some executives are worried that it's primarily shallow (in their minds) content. They want to get rid of the memes and have people sharing more "quality" content. This is a step in that direction. They want Facebook to become the replacement to the daily newspaper. Hence Paper.
Is it just me or the perspective of that image looks very wrong?
MRI Ruby seems to be making a lot of progress in the implementation details recently. Good to see.
I'd be reporting them to the authorities. Then I'd sue them, and get the recording in discovery.
Exactly. If you don't want to drink, don't drink.

There is a world of difference between being excluded, and feeling excluded. Ryan feels excluded, but I genuinely doubt that people are shunning him because he doesn't have a beer in his hand. He isn't being forced out of interesting conversations because of his sobriety.

I've never once seen binge drinking at a conference. Drinking, sure, but binge drinking implies that people are doing kegstands or something similar.

Now, I don't know Ryan personally, and maybe I'm missing the bigger point, but this blog post reminds me of an Elizabeth Taylor quote: "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
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I think the direction Facebook is going with splitting the services in to apps that solve different use cases is a good thing. Let the user use their social graph in the specific ways they want/need to.

Personally, I mostly use FB for private messages from family members, some private groups, and their group event planning. I don't use it for the feed consumption.
As far as I can tell, this is not about alcohol, this is about culture.

Mostly about the immature American drinking culture that is the result of the absurdly high drinking age.

Drinking alcohol <> getting totally wasted, and the presence and consumption of alcohol does not necessarily lead to an atmosphere where sober people should feel excluded.
The author should probably lighten up, but I agree with the general sentiment.

If you want to drink, hang out with your friends. Your colleagues may also be your friends, or maybe your friends are in the tech scene too, but let's get real, software dev is a job, a career and it puts roofs over people's heads and food on their tables. Treat it with respect.
Yes, you need foundations to build a knowledge temple, but that was not my question.

I am simply wondering how the average HN reader, with average programming abilities and knowledge, would feel about an article of this level.
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I'm waiting for the day that Godaddy buys Twitter and then is acquired by PayPal. At this point the nexus of evil will be mainly concentrated around one company.

It would make a good acquisition target for EMC.
To be honest i didn't initially. I just read it.

I think it is a noble thing to explain this in JS. But i don't think "because every body uses js" is a good reason to choose js.

However your specific use case makes sense. But in a broader sense I see more and more people fleeing to JS because its what they know.
> Ah, the old "we only hire people with experience" topic.

I think this one is even more specific than that. He's saying he only wants programmers with a specific type of experience -- shipping products.
The correct answer is always ^C
To be fair the ability to spot a Father Ted quote at 80 paces is a pretty British trait :-)
Are you making a comment about "candy?"
Sarcasm is the lowest form of argument. Go on, expand it out: what are the reasons why that would be a bad thing? Do these reasons also apply to the view in the grandparent post? If so, argue with those reasons.
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All tech companies/startups are starting to look the same. Maybe the same marketing/ad company has a contract with the entire valley?

Edit: Changed "Silicon Valley" to tech...since this common feel is more about the latest trends, than geographical boundaries. Though the joke no longer makes sense.
I do this too when I'm not drinking for a period of time (diet). Never had a problem, and I live in Japan, a country that literally has "all you can drink" as an option at most bars.
> didn't have had ANY interest in explaining how he got to it, besides creating a hoax to confuse and divert attention.

Would the story have gone viral, though, had he just said, "I'm not going to say anything about how I did it."? The story would have just been another "I got hacked" story.

If the hacker were really clever enough to fabricate such an elaborate hoax, I think he would have been clever enough to realize the best way to divert attention from the story, would have been to just keep quiet.
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You've got to understand things in context. The world of web design and of app design has typically been a cluttered and ugly mess where typography and clean design have been pushed to the wayside in favor of trying to cram more stuff into user's eyes (often in service to advertising dollars). In that world boring design that has little going for it other than cleanliness and good lines becomes "beautiful".
Depends. Is your name Ashton Kutcher?
Because the same data set isn't being given to loads of different companies, it is a unique process. The whole concept is you apply for specific data for a reason, get vetted and then receive the data.
At the scale we are talking about here the differences between both fields and individual records is going to be so great as to identify almost any leak.
My girlfriend found it frustrating that she can attach a picture to a facebook post in the browser (even on mobile) but can't in the app.
I guess we'll never know, but last 4 digits are not difficult to get (they're on every single one of my receipts... and for all we know, this guy could be in close vicinity of him...), and making up that PayPal gave the hacker those 4 digits is a good diversion.
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And yet, pages / applications like this using a lot of CPU should be plenty of incentive and test cases for both web developers and browser developers to optimize their respective applications. Like how 3DMark and high-end video games like (at the time) Crysis push the GPU manufacturers and driver programmers to achieve more performance in those respective applications for its PR value.

'50% less CPU usage on the Facebook Paper page' is a nice line in a browser's changelog.
There is a strong tradition of puritanism in the US, and this post highlights some of the points of tension. Unfortunately, like many such arguments, the author makes what is largely a moral argument and amounts to finger shaking.

The real reason brogrammers are entering the field is b/c money flows have shifted from things like investment banking and law into technology. It's the same reason more women, minorities, poets, etc. are entering the field as well (more opportunity in general) so it's hard to paint it as a bad thing.

Tech culture is broadly liberal (with a small L). All kinds of nerds and geeks have found a home here. The conflict is not between true nerds and brogrammers, it's between a liberal/open mindset and a closed/puritan mindset. In the former, there will occasionally be a few annoying people who can't handle a few drinks; in the latter alcohol is a poison that corrupts all who partake and erodes beneficial social order.
Don't know what that means, so no.
I am too. Just because Twitter can very easily prove that account was stolen and return it to the owner. I don't think it is possible to steal, for example, twitter name "jack" or "barackobama".
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have multiple events where the vibe is different, a less boozy conference might attract people who would otherwise go to the boozy one if it results in a more productive outcome etc.

Once your community is big enough it gets increasingly unlikely that a single planning committee will be able to design an event that appeals to everyone and that is ok, nobody has a monopoly on Javascript conferences.
Fuck PayPal, like you ever gave a shit about your customers. Do us all a favor and KILL yourselves
that's not a reason to convict without evidence.

if paypal is so shit why is everyone using them.

vote with your feet
It looks like a different interface on the concept that Flipboard is built around, using Facebook content instead of select news sources.

It's a neat interface, and I hope it's light enough on the hardware that it'll be as fluid as in the video (on my iPhone 4 and One S the standard Facebook app has become slow and laggy).

But, it looks like an interface that distances the user from the content, enforcing a more consumption-focused model of interaction than producer, which seems a little antithetical.
To my knowledge they don't know who the thief is.

The thief allegedly got the last 4 digits of the CC by posing as an employee.[0]

If true, it would mean paypal gave out financial information to an unknown third-party, which would be a breach of a bunch of laws, terms, internal policies etc.

The burden to prove innocence in this situation would definitely fall on paypal.

Excerpts from the original article[0]:

>I called paypal and used some very simple engineering tactics to obtain the last four of your card (avoid this by calling paypal and asking the agent to add a note to your account to not release any details via phone)

>Yes paypal told me them over the phone (I was acting as an employee) and godaddy let me “guess” for the first two digits of the card

[0] https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7141532
That's literally the entire point of this type of visual marketing: to help you envision a fantasy world that's attainable with a particular product.

Apple, BMW, Chanel, etc, all do it.
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It doesn't even been to be as extreme as that. Idiots put this data onto laptops all the time and they're often stolen from cars and the like.
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...and it is now going to be available for sale to anyone who cares.

You're laughably wrong.

http://medconfidential.org/whats-the-story/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/21/what_does_nhs_it_wan...

Did you even look at the price list? I guess not.

"Bespoke extract – containing personal confidential data"
My guess is that Google and Samsung have come to some arrangement that will bring them closer. Perhaps Samsung gets more engineers working on Android directly, perhaps Samsung drops S-Voice and some of its proprietary stuff.
Yeah but I wonder if his Ma even reddit...
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It seems reasonable to assume that there are far less women interested in, as you say, "pissing up a wall" then there would be women who enjoy drinks and beer; this doesn't seem like a fair analogy.
That does not sound cheap to me as a graduate student.
And then they would rename it to "Umbrella corporation"
So do you pine for the old IBM days?
This all makes sense. I'm still very curious about what exactly is "making it work." If that makes sense. The attempts at DDD and similar efforts have not worked that well. Even DI has become something that is as annoying as otherwise. When your domain has all of X objects, but you find you have X+Y configuration classes, where Y is a relatively large number, it starts to get obnoxious.

I can say that the times I have relied on factory methods to create objects, this has worked out decently.
At the end it says you can get it on Apple app store.
What about recovering alcoholics, people who avoid alcohol for religious reasons, and people under the drinking age ?

There are clearly groups who don't or can't go to events because alcohol plays a prominent part (i.e other people drinking impacts them).

There's obviously trade-offs between different groups of participants, but they need to be made consciously with awareness of the consequences rather than because they're the default.
While I think the right thing of Twitter would be to give the account back, they didn't really do anything wrong (if the story is to be believed). Hiroshima simply changed the account name, and let the hacker know it was available.

Not sure Twitter could have done anything to prevent this from happening.
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Did you read the article at all? The new study says that we are NOT doomed.
The western equivalent would be either Competitive Eating or going to any steakhouse in the country.
I could be wrong, but wasn't there a story a while back where someone explained how they could hack into any apple ID account with a similar process? Didn't linode's servers get hacked and the hacker explained the whole process?
it's nice to see mike matas' again. i really felt in love with his UI skills

(http://mikematas.com)
I think the analogy with headphones is accurate, but the article missed something important"

Headphones in public are absolutely considered obnoxious. Old folk like me do think they look silly, and we do think it says something negative about people who cannot live without pervasive music in their lives.

The attitudes from 33 Years ago have not changed. But the youth just don't notice (or don't care) that us older folk still think that.

EDIT: Now you kids get off my lawn!
In other words the developer should prematurely scale?
I know that the LibreOffice team is short on manpower, but I still find it puzzling that they do not treat reproducible crashes as release-blocking bugs. Instead, there are a lot of such bug reports untouched, potentially waiting to be exploited by bad people. (I reported 2 such bugs myself, neither has been fixed yet I think)
On a 4S you can literally see the battery meter run down before your eyes.
If you're serious about financial tracking and don't mind paying $100 a year, there's a site called PocketSmith [0] that's a beautiful, clean, and fuller-featured version of Mint. They have a free version but it only supports credit card accounts and 12 budget categories. I just started using it two days ago and it blew me away.

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This looks like a direct clone of Flipboard! Flipboard supports fetching from your personal facebook feed, and this new facebook thing seems to support fetching from various public "interests" feeds too.
I agree, I haven't experienced this either. Indeed, there are many after-hour events that take place at bars or brew pubs but it wasn't a big drunken mess. I also wonder if it might be an age thing, when I was in my twenties it often seemed like drunken-ess was the end-goal.
This is a fair argument.

I have not seen the binge drinking the author brings up other than once at a hackathon but I can see how people could feel discomfort with really really drunk people.

People drink at conferences and meetups but I feel that you could listen to all of the talks without being made fun of for not drinking (to be fair: in in my experience).

Not hanging around after the talks or whatever is over isn't that weird, even finding the people who do not "binge drink" and staying and talking to them wouldn't be impossible.

That said, I feel that it's a different story when it comes to drinking at your workplace.
No worries -- I didn't interpret it that way at all.
There are also a bunch people, like me, who can't (or shouldn't) drink because of medical conditions.

At the same time though, it doesn't bother me when people are drinking in moderation and not set on getting hammered.
> this approach means the Pin code has lifetime of its card

Of course, that's the big downside of not allowing PIN change. If the PIN is compromised, then the card is compromised. However, from my experience the re-issuing of a compromised card was always free.

> Shouldn't bank encrypt the Pin codes in their database?

Well, encryption is two-way: there is decryption. I assume you meant "salted hash" here — which is only one-way.

If PINs are encrypted, they can be re-issued if you forgot them. However, you are right, it means (some of) the bank staff can decrypt them.

If PINs are hashed, they can only be issued once — if you forget your PIN, you will have to ask for a new one. But this is a lot more secure:

- no one can ever know your PIN by accessing the bank data

- this prevents mistakes like what happened in the Adobe breach (a unique private key for all passwords)
it's been so many years and I'm still waiting for the sequel
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I watched the video. I don't understand what paper is.
Actually, the only reason I watched it was because I somehow confused myself into thinking this was Amazon.
When I was done with the video, I finally realized this is Facebook and it all made sense.
I still don't know what "paper" is of course.
Now I need my coffee.
Honestly, I think this is delusional. A developer that successfully develops and launches a product probably won't be looking for a job, they'll be maintaining and trying to grow the product's user base.

This approach will get you people who shipped products no one (or very few people) wanted. It's not as bad as it sounds, but it's not the amazing you-big-developer-ubermensch-you thing these articles on shipping your way to a job make it seem.
The researchers speculate that sexual mind control either costs too much energy for the parasite, causes too much harm to the host, or both.

Speculate? SPECULATE? How can they not know.

It's a simulation for god's sake! How can they not spit out an average for energy consumed per infected host? How can they not have that data?

Sounds suspiciously like pseudo-science.
This looks really neat. Glad to see that the source is available, but there is no licensing information to indicate what can/cannot be done with the source. All I know is that SICP's text is CC-BY-NC.
@1angryhacker - they're the only game in town for a lot of people, notably ebay sellers and users. More tech-savvy sellers know to diversify or to use other payment gateways (amazon, google, etc) but paypal has a huge userbase of average internet users.
My bad.[1]

The computing world isn't the most inclusive to begin with, and by additionally alienating parts of the audience that hasn't already been excluded on other grounds (gender, race), none of this gets any better. Conferences carry a lot of symbolic power, because they are representative of a given community, moreso than a forum or a mailing list, where some voices will always be louder than others. The conferences, then, have the onus on them to accommodate a wider audience of people; they also have the chance to shape their respective communities. By creating what has been described by others as "fret party" environments, these communities severly curtail their wider appeal. It also doesn't help the image of programming being a non-respectable profession. If you behave like and cater to the "frat-bros", expect to be treated like one.

Most academic conferences seem to handle this better, with drinks receptions, dinners or evening programme separated from the actual conference content. If alcohol is served, that usually means sparkling wine and/or wine, with juices as alternative. Additionally, conference proceedings and drinking are strictly separated. I think the conference dinner, as a whole, is a better format, because it still enables you to chat to other attendees, but since everybody is already eating together and thus connected by a common activity, drinking doesn't have to be the one thing connecting everybody. Whether somebody then has a drink with their meal or not doesn't matter so much.

[1]: This might be sarcasm.
"It's sort of like high school is repeating itself."

welcome to life dude, get over yourself.
Who's going to cover the lawyer costs? I'd love to see a 'no win no fee' company prepared to take on paypal
At first, I thought Facebook had acquired 53's Paper and revamped it for its own purposes. So yeah, definitely confusing. I would think that "Paper" is too generic a word for 53 to claim exclusive use of it, but look at the Apple vs. Apple dispute.