skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As such the normal distribution will ensure that a much lower percentage of blacks will be at the high end of the scale (135IQ+) where google gets their recruits.

There's little evidence that IQ and programming ability are correlated.

There is some evidence[1] that Mathematical ability and success at programming are correlated (30%). [1] shows that gender and programming success are correlated, but others show no correlation at all.

[1] shows an 8% correlation between spatial ability and success at programming are correlated, while [2] showed "only a small correlation".

[2] shows that people who are successful at program articulate tasks differently to those who are not.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.110...

[2] http://eprints.usq.edu.au/2259/1/CRPITV52Simon2.pdf
E. B. Sledge's autobiography, With the Old Breed describes his combat experiences as a Marine in the Pacific and is worth reading if your interested in that history.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0891419195/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...

My grandfather served in the 504 PIR. He never talked with me about his experiences at great length, but the two vignettes he related that stick with are both about his being terrified, the one I remember from my teens was: They were holed up in a house in the Ardennes. It was night and he had to urinate so badly that he took the risk of stepping outside [historically. the 504th was trucked in from reserve to stop Panzer Group Piper and stem the rout]. As he relieved himself, he looked up and for a moment mistook the snow covered saplings for enemy soldiers.

The second, is from my early twenties. Blunt and simple: being in a trench in Italy while the Germans dropped antipersonel bombs on him was more 'unpleasant" than I could imagine. That was true. He had a successful professional career after the war. but fought depression up until his death. I'm both sad that I miss him, and glad that I do.
>>closed-source is nice because a company generally has the resources to maintain and build software correctly.

These two things are orthogonal, IMHO.
Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitter): https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/...

edit: Confirmed Microsoft stores your recovery key on their servers if you're not connected to a domain: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-8/bitlocker-recov...
Why isn't BitLocker open source? If the new CEO wants to show he's serious about user privacy, I think opening up BitLocker and letting everyone look inside would be a great start.

One of the reasons I like iPhone is the idea that the security system and drive encryption is not hopelessly broken. It would be great to have the same level of confidence in BitLocker.
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Its a surprisingly awesome s/w for a '2.0'
My post is "on paper". In reality, projects are squeezed for nickels and dimes.

My point is that while open-source should be better, right now it seems that everything is equally not good enough.
The donations thing could be true, but Truecrypt simply wasn't a donation-friendly project.

It was developed in almost total secrecy, with binaries and code being tossed over the wall once in a while, provided under a non-OSI license.

I built it from source a few times, but Truecrypt was used by a lot of people, far beyond the developer community, people who totally lacked the technical skill needed to compile it. SO it's a safe bet the majority just used those binaries. And those binaries actually changed without warning more than once, independent of the version changing. That alone bred suspicion and fueled the demand for an audit.

The behavior of the developers (and their total lack of a public presence, regardless of the reason) may have also discouraged donations. Same with the behavior of the forum moderators, whoever they were.
If the audit made them call it quits, then having them cough up the source and abandon the project for someone else to pick up is the perfect outcome.
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> One of the reasons I like iPhone is the idea that the security system and drive encryption is not hopelessly broken.

Where can you get the source of that?
Sounds like what happened to LavaBit (some sort of gov't pressure).
iPhone security system is open-source?
Anecdotally, this explains a lot. My father was a combat veteran of three wars and had gone through many life-and-death experiences and didn't suffer any of the obvious PTSD symptoms. It was obviously unpleasant for him to think about certain things but he was never afraid to share things he had experienced either.
Not downs, but we had a guy with a pretty bad speech impediment interview with us a while back. He had a well controlled stutter which resulted in pauses of 10s+. The guy was awesome (better than the average across our team) and had wonderful written communication skills. That's all we need as we email each other all day (we're a very disparate team). Unfortunately my asshat boss decided that he wasn't suitable for the position due to a number of made up concerns and vetoed our acceptance.

Pisses me off every time I think about it but that's how a lot of companies operate.
There's an excellent story about Norton in Neal Gaiman's Sandman: Fables and Reflections
To help get to the point where it truly doesn't matter.
The scale of the War in the Soviet Union was vast. 26,000,000 is the commonly agreed on estimate of USSR deaths from the war. The theatre contained hundreds of divisions - many times those in which the US and Britain fought.

A book on Stalingrad I recently enjoyed:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0140284583/ref=redir_mdp_mobil...
Nope. Mercurial devs rebase heavily during Mercurial development, for instance. It's Changeset Evolution [1] that makes history rewriting _safe_.

[1]: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ChangesetEvolution
I agree with you that there are serious questions whether an NFL career is success or exploitation. However, one needs to consider a) whether the demographic that aspires to join the NFL thinks that way, and b) what the alternatives are.
> a system to reliably render images at scale

I'm curious what exactly "render" means in your context? Phantom.js is headless, so it would be futile to be simply rendering GIFs and JPGs within the browser I assume?
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From the comment he's replying to:

"Have a status page that's up to date. Post updates to the status page. Give ETAs when you have them, or state you don't have a ETA when you don't. I shouldn't have to waste customer service resources calling or emailing someone about this - if your service is down you should know it before I do, and should keep the status page up to date as needed."
This seems highly suspicious, especially the recommendation of BitLocker, a product we have little to no evidence does what it says and after PRISM, have no reason to trust[2]; not to mention it being limited to a (very small subset of) Windows platforms vs. TrueCrypt's cross-platform functionality. If this was legit[1], it'd probably be directing people to one of the other TrueCrypt-like programs.

[1]The new version posted is almost certainly compromised; don't download it, or at the very least, run it in a VM on non-networked hardware you can reimage after finishing using.

[2]Edit: Forgot this before, but BitLocker is definitely completely broken as it sends your recovery key to MS anyway ( https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/... ).
DamnInteresting is just as the name suggests. It's a fantastic site and I'm sure it's cost myself / my employer a few dollars in its time :)
Well OK then, lets just ignore all the rest of the disgusting and derogatory things that N.W.A. state about women. Not just Dre when he was in N.W.A, but in material since then that he has authored and produced. This isn't something that happened and stopped 20 years ago. This is who he is.

Do you seriously think someone is going to listen to this garbage for an hour each day and then go into society and be polite and respectful to women? You think it doesn't spill over? I know from personal experience that is does. I had friends who started to change the way they talked about and treated women after becoming heave N.W.A listeners. Years later they told me that they felt that it influenced them negatively and that the influence was pervasive. They regretted listening to that trash.

I don't understand people. You think watching porn regularly doesn't affect how you think sex should be (and what you expect from it)? Sex can never live up to a porno, it's a fantasy. Do you think that porn doesn't contribute to sexual harassment/abuse/assault? It's not hard to find lots of men's blogs, books, movies, ETC whom it has heavily affected. Surveys show that it's negative influence is widespread.

Influential things like gangster rap and porn that go into our brains break and form neuro-pathways. They actually shape how we think long term. They are mind altering in a negative way.

People think of them like alcohol. You can drink it now and it will be out of your system in time for work tomorrow morning. This actually is not the case though. These thoughts and images will NEVER leave our minds.

Why is this all a big deal? well here on HN, equality comes up quite often. Women's right to be treated equal, to be free from sexual harassment, and from being treated as inferiors. Do you think Dre's influence in years past and presently has helped women's equality or hurt it? I think the answer is quite obvious.

If you are female, can you imagine being his co-worker, or admin assistant at Apple? How uncomfortable would that be?
I support unions, but i think they need to be in the model used in sweden:one union for blue collar worker, one for white collar workers , which leads to distribution of power among all employees(and far greater negotiation power) .

This is far better than the union per company , because some unions get rich and powerful , and abusive , while other suffer.
I have wondered what it would take to put racket on a xen?
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Would something like a google glass app, or another semi-automated assistant work for augmenting his capabilities?

Sounds like he's totally motivated and capable to do e.g. the janitorial work, but his capability needs to be paired with intensive supervision. Could that supervision be implemented as wearable interactive instruction or cheat-sheets?
Understand, I am well aware of the facts and figures of the East's struggle. I have sat and talked with nearly 50 WWII vets at length, and not one of them from anywhere but the US, Britain, and Germany. The road to victory that Mother Russia took is informative when considering the events of the present.
I've been using git (and GitHub) at my day job for a couple years now, and I'm still not sure I'm sold on it over Subversion.

In the past, version control was something that existed but you never had to think about. When you got to a good place, you'd hit the big red Save Button and up your code would go. Once in a blue moon you'd step on somebody's changes and have to do a quick merge. No big deal.

Now with Git, version control is part of the workflow. It's never far from your mind. You're creating branches before writing code (versus creating branches three times a year when you needed them). You're doing silly housekeeping tasks like reverting a change that you accidentally checked in to the main branch then branching and copy/pasting your changes back into the IDE just so that the source control system (and possibly some ops overlord somewhere) doesn't get mad at you.

I'm sure there are times where Git has actually made things easier, but most of the time it's just one extra thing taking up my attention.

It's like timesheets for your code. Not a big deal, but ever so slightly insulting that you have to deal with them.
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If this was reddit, that'd be called 'karmawhoring' - posting comments that play to the crowd while being tangentially related to the story, in order to get a big pile of internet points.
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They track it to look for unequal hiring practices. Which is an actual and ongoing problem and one the US Federal government is involved with and interested in fighting.
Interested to know if Selenium web driver integration was looked into? You can use Selenium Grid for example to run distributed jobs with a Phantom JS backend... https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver
In no way did i imply that english language only was a parameter, bro.
Wasn't Frank Lloyd Wright the inspiration for the main characer of Ayn Rands 'The Fountainhead?' She uses him to draw a figure, mocked by regular architects, fighting against the 'fake' style of that day: architects trying to build 'classic' buildings from Greek times with columns and all. In the novel 'man' is what the buildings are about, if I'm correct. I don't know for sure, but I imagine Frank got his share of ridiculement as well.
When I did the service one of the benefits working weekends was extra good food. It is good for moral. Soylent on the otherhand...
1. Codes should be like passwords. If they're guessable, they're no good.
2. All operations, including signing in, verifying the account, etc should be rate shaped. The more you try, the longer you have to wait till you can try again.
"it was the impossibly long production cycles that got me. After a year of work, I shelved a whole book of research notes with not so much as a mention. "

It's funny that I have zero difficulty understanding you when you say you, "push to Github and try something new" - but I'm trying to grok what you mean when you say, "long production cycles that got to me" and "shelved a whole book of research notes with no so much as a mention" - What was happening when you were working in Chemistry?
I wrote my own doing something similar with leveraging the casperjs layer instead. I was just too lazy to deal with phantomjs directly.
I understand that is massive, but aren't computers today doing things that seemed utterly impossible forty years ago?
How wonderful. Thanks for sharing this.

My grandpa was in the French resistance. He left the family farm at 17 to join the maquis (French wilderness) where he lived for 2 years, trying to hamper the German forces (eg. blowing up trains). He then participated to the liberation of Royan, and received the croix de guerre. It blows my mind to think about what he must have felt like- when I was 17, I was reading computer magazines in my bedroom.

My cousin and I wanted to record him talking about his life, and then he died unexpectedly.
There's always a "next time" until there isn't.
I have nothing constructive to add. Just as a Chinese who frequently hosts dinner party for friends and coworkers, the idea of someone voluntarily using soylent as meal substitute is utter crazy and I feel personally insulted by the mere existence of such horrific product.
> But I suspect that even if you remove the white Jewish cohort from the white group then whites (and especially white males) would still be overrepresented amongst founders.

If the demographic data for founders looks anything like the demographic data in the linked blog post, White people would be almost perfectly(!) proportionally represented, given the percentage of working-age Americans who are White. White men would indeed be over-represented, and Asian men would be the most over-represented of all.
TrueCrypt encrypted volume format is well known and there are tools out there that can create TrueCrypt volumes and open them.

There is tcplay[1]. This project can create and open TrueCrypt volumes.

There is cryptsetup[2].This is a linux native solution for block device encryption and supports opening of TrueCrypt volumes.

The above two projects and command line based and there is a third project called zuluCrypt[3] that gives a GUI front end to the two projects.

I am not aware of any alternative solutions in windows or OSX that does support TrueCrypt encrypted format but adding support for it should not be that hard.

This maybe the end of line for TrueCrypt as a project,but its encrypted volume format may still be used as a "universal cross platform encrypted volume format".

Somebody should file a bug report in projects that deal with block device encryption in windows and OSX and ask them to support this format as i think the format should live on as its the only one that is widely used and supported.

[1] https://github.com/bwalex/tc-play

[2] https://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/

[3] https://code.google.com/p/zulucrypt/
> You're doing silly housekeeping tasks like reverting a change that you accidentally checked in to the main branch then branching and copy/pasting your changes back into the IDE just so that the source control system (and possibly some ops overlord somewhere) doesn't get mad at you.

I'm sure if you were a release manager, or the lead of a sizeable team, or the owner of a busy open source project, you would feel very differently about 'silly' modularised changesets and branching.
and it was missing on facebook. That was the issue
Previous discussion from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7812133
That's true. But the opposite could be true too. Being constantly reminded of the cost every month might move you to reconsider paying for the service.
Kindly refer to the comments in the post itself.
There are more architects who tried this. Christopher Alexander dedicated a lot of time to solve building countries to doorsteps.

What amazed me after reading some of his books are the physical effects of today's cities on humans (and animals).

Some examples:

Living higher than 4 stores: there is evidence that this will disconnect you from the life happening on ground level.

Streets made for cars: cars are more important than humans.
All I could think of while reading this was, how am I supposed to type all those weird characters?
I just had a thought that might negate such a thing in the eyes of the general public (or at least the easily trusting sorts).

Let's assume that this is a faulty DMS that was slapped together due to imminent threat by state actors. If these state actors were sufficiently powerful, couldn't they instead press ahead anyway with obtaining the developer's private keys, account data, etc., while publicly parading either the real developer (or an actor) in front of the spotlight briefly enough to claim that this was all a mistake? Next, release another series of new versions (with backdoors) that are fully controlled by the state actor under the guise that they're perfectly okay.

Of course, this would itself be easily defeated by either examining the history of the individual who claims to be the developer (if applicable) and through some scrutiny of the new binaries, although I'd imagine the latter would be anticipated by the actors behind the charade.

The closest thing in my mind that this resembles is a warrant canary as someone else pointed out earlier today. I suppose that in effect the DMS and canary achieve roughly the same goal so perhaps I'm just splitting hairs at this point. I also don't see either of these scenarios working perfectly except to warn people who are themselves already somewhat paranoid.
If you're going to sully the Caro read with Cliff's Notes, you may as well just read the Wikipedia page.
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Absolutely. When I first read it, I thought it was awesome that Gaiman had so much imagination. I only learned later that Norton actually existed.
From Wp[1]: "The character of Roark was at least partly inspired by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Rand described the inspiration as limited to "some of his architectural ideas [and] the pattern of his career".[19] She denied that Wright had anything to do with the philosophy expressed by Roark or the events of the plot."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountainhead#Howard_Roark
Ken Thompson is 71: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson and he still has quite a go at programming.
Google "doesn't like" bad publicity from people who make a stink about non-issues like this. That't my take away from such a post.

I don't want to anyone to Pyongyang or anywhere else.

Those who think that that hiring is the business of an irrelevant third party or that job candidacy based on any factor other than pure merit is a good thing, should examine how this practice is paralleled by practices of those regimes.
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Is it Act One from the episode called Neighborhood Watch?

"Reporter Ruth Padawer tells the story of a woman goes to her neighbors with an incredible request—to help care for her son after she dies—and is shocked by their response."

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/420/n...
I'm confused. Does "off/on" refer to sleep state, whether the phone is powered on/off or does it mean making a call?
I'd recommend Leon Krier's Architecture of Community if you want a better look at this: http://www.amazon.com/The-Architecture-Community-Leon-Krier/... He gets somewhat repetitive and preachy, IMO, and I don't feel the book delivers on its promises, but it's a much more in-depth look at the ideas faintly alluded to in the article.

Differently, check out Vishaan Chakrabarti's A Country of Cities, which disagrees with Krier (and thus agrees with Wright) on the skyscraper: http://www.amazon.com/Country-Cities-Manifesto-Urban-America... It suffers, IIRC, from not enough citations but is otherwise pretty strong on its argument.

I tend to lean towards agreeing with Chakrabarti and Wright more on the vertical space issue, largely because Krier never quite managed to form a coherent argument against density except that it was being done badly. Krier, on the other hand, highlights the idea of the poly-centric city which is at least a reality in Seattle (where I live).
My money is on setting a very weak password on the sf.net account to allow trust in the project to be reduced. This allows them to comply with an NSA order.
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This is superb! I too share your dismay with the current Haskell site. I think what you've put together really captures the elegance of the language. It's focused, crisp, and beautiful. Great work.
This is a pretty standard way of working in many other industries. For example when the cable person comes to install your service a good proportion of them are self employed contractors branded as the cable company being paid a fixed fee for every install they complete. The only dubious part of what you have described is how the other party has communicated this, should have really agreed these terms at the beginning of the relationship.
I took french class with Jamie back in high school. He is a great guy, and works incredibly hard. I loved working in groups with him; his french was much better than mine.
Neither is good nor bad except one is supposedly singling out Apple to make it look bad? Besides, I was talking about holding ALL involved to the absolute standard, compared to a purely relative comparison.
This is what I wanted paper to be. It's absolutely amazing! A true sketch book for the digital age with a proper toolset for the digital artist.
Reminds me of these videos which I think HN will enjoy. Meet Anthony -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv5nzgrYBIQ and Tim's Place -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6He0FWoFj0
Sounds like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority