skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it's possible that you're both right, in different situations:

* Let's just get all these School of Business clowns in and out, OK?

* Now, science geeks, we're gonna see some serious shit! (at least if you go to the right school)

Anyway, that's a possible interpretation :-)
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If you need to withdraw more cash from Simple than the ATM limit, you can do so at just about any bank counter as a over the counter cash advance, there are generally no fees charged for this service. Checks over the deposit limit are a bit more of a challenge- unfortunately, I haven't had that problem :) I think you can mail them to Simple, but that is a few days delay.
For those who don't know, they made a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign on the story: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/59012691/forest-man-pos...
According to google/youtube anonymity positively encourages inhumane treatment? ;)
For the most part, HR are a group that believes in data, but rarely uses it during evaluation and hiring decisions.
I never saw the original submission, so it was nice getting aware of this. But what does this really bring to the table? The linked article is nothing but a link back to HN and some other places.
Let's see some logical refutations before we start with the emotional down votes, you purely logical genius gods of knowledge.
Drama major here.

I can look or sound competent in any field.

Well, except Drama, but it's not like there's any money to be had there.
That was a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing!
Unfortunately no, thus far i have only implemented it in a commercial context as part of a high frequency trading system.
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not very informative article...
> I really don't understand guys who say (or think) shit like this.

It's very simple really. In most parts of the world, female programmers are still a very rare sight. When I was a university instructor, we had approx. 2-3% female CS students attending our lectures and exams. With such gender distributions, the chances are very high that the handful of programming geniuses most people know, are all male. This leads to the widespread wrong conclusions.
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Completely agree. AND Evernote is actually THE SAME price. Instapaper's premium tier seems to do nearly the same thing for 12 bucks a year. Where is the value proposition here?
My point is that as it's closed source, we still don't know whether it sends the key to MS anyway (even if the user asks not to link it to their hotmail account). Given MS' complicity in PRISM, it's not a leap of trust I'm willing to make.
The important thing here is that despite the claims of some, there is no evidence that the proportion of good to bad programmers is any different for males vs. females. Same holds true for race, sexual orientation, etc. Anyone claiming otherwise is merely displaying their own biases.
Based on the English (and other humanities) courses I took as an undergrad, in which the key to getting good grades was not rigor but repeating back what I imagined the professor wanted to hear, and based on my friends who were English (and other humanities) majors, who were delightful people but (for the most part) not particularly rigorous thinkers in the sense that Google is trying to hire for.
It's just that truecrypt.org forwards to this URL where you are warned not to use it: http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net

It's confusing and worrying as it's a pretty mainstream tool. (I wouldn't install anything from this webpage right now btw.)
"like there is a decline of logic in the site votership itself"

I assume it's all the English majors.
Fun to read... I was doing a summer internship that involved DNA sequencing around this same time period, it all sounds very familar. Wet lab work is ultimately what convinced me that I wanted to work in computational biology rather than spending the rest of my life pipetting!
They really just flattened things up, but I like their design team's general approach. They keep it simple, change very slowly, it makes me feel like I "know" the site when I open it up
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Thanks, Whoaa. I was always carrying the iPad plus a pad of paper to every meeting three years ago when I started this fiasco :) There were other drawing & notes apps out there, but this is the one I wanted.
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I think of English courses as teaching you about being convincing to humans. Correctness is important, but secondary. This is probably best exemplified by anecdotes being arguably the most evocative form of explanation, and yet the weakest form of evidence.

It makes sense to me that a technology company would downweight achievements in the humanities when hiring (for their technical positions). It's a noisier signal. Computers and nature aren't convinced or understood in the same way as humans are, so a lot of the English major benefits get lost in the translation to STEM.

(Serious question: what are the best examples of people in the humanities contributing to science and technology? For example, Noam Chomsky basically invented formal grammars.)
That is simply because the top of the stack in our field is full of application developers and not computer architects. I fail to see how quantity becomes more important than quality.
"clan rally"? maybe clan parade is a better way of phrasing it.
Google's entire hiring process is slanted towards rejecting bad candidates, not towards accepting good ones. The "more noise in the system" is exactly why Google is wary of candidates with a humanities background.
And where are the crowds crying out loud for diversity and bringing more men to HR?
I see a lot of hate here. But don't discard this tool just because of that. It works since most of the people are not like you, and they pay attention to this stuff.

Now, you can do evil things with it, and totally legitimate. It is up to you and that's where you get or loose karma points.
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I've been a professional programmer since 1997. I've worked for defense contractors, consulting companies and medical software shops. I've NEVER had a problem with my gender in the workplace. I've always been treated the same as the other developers.

Now, I can't be certain that my resume hasn't been skipped in the pile because I'm a woman. But, it's been my experience that developers on a team just want somebody who can do the work and can appreciate the good work that they do.

With so many articles posted about discrimination and sexism, it's refreshing to see others share their experience as being just one of the gang.
Simple's UI is nice, but it could be improved. Their customer service is what I love about them! I have dealt with so many banks that make so many mistakes, and they aren't very nice when I come in and point out their mistakes. Simple hasn't made any mistakes, and their customer service is always top notch. I'm the kind of guy that goes into the counter to do business at a bank, very rarely using the drive through. I didn't think I would like an online only bank because I thought I would miss interacting face to face with my bank- but Simple's customer service has been so fantastic that it has not been a problem.
Yes, and there are other articles about TrueCrypt still on the front page. I'd flag this and use those.
Not informative about TrueCrypt, no. But it's a very telling sign of how people vote here when a zero-original-content article is at the top only because it's by Bruce Schneier (or Linus Torvalds or Joel Spolsky or Steve Wozniak or ... you get the gist).
Is there a way to filter the up-votes of all the people out (on other submissions) who voted for this? It would be a great feature for HN
Some of the best developers I've hired don't have a degree. When looking at resumes, I don't really care about their academics.
I think the harm here is for other threads on the same core that share the same queue of in-flight loads.

Coherence wise it won't interfere with other cores and their access to memory.

That said how hyper-threads share CPU resources is a moving target. My understanding through hearsay is that in the past many resources were statically partitioned with hyper-threading enabled, but now things are moving towards allocating resources dynamically which means that a thread wasting resources would be sucking up capacity that could be used by another hyper-thread.
It could be because pretty much all branches have ground deploy-able forces so it isn't necessarily true that they aren't exposed to the horrors of war on a person to person level.
I had the pleasure of taking a great Bayesian stats class in college and these methods seem preferable.

Unfortunately, the requirement of priors (seemingly) precludes Bayesian stats from many A/B testing applications. For example, our site launches every article with 3 or 4 headline variations. A priori, we have no idea which headline will be most successful or even what the expected conversion rate is for that article.

Is there any way to use Bayesian methods in such a scenario?
It's always less exciting to hear that there isn't a problem somewhere than that there is, I guess. Sorry you weren't entertained.
Another theory is that some component of the development environment to compile TrueCrypt requires XP. Remember the guy that tried to compile the TC source to match the binary?

https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie...

He needed to get some older version of Visual Studio and a very specific combination of service packs and updates in order to get to matching (nearly) the entire binary.

Could it be that the devs really wanted to keep developing in XP because some part of their dev chain required it, but with support being discontinued they of course couldn't run XP and consider that computer "secure" to develop on?

Obviously, if this theory has some grain of truth to it, it can only be part of the explanation for the TrueCrypt weirdness that's been going on today.

If I had to bet on it, I would say it's most likely they got Lavabitten. But then still, the XP remark seems like a very odd choice if it's intended to function as a canary of sorts.
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Its an effort to combine good parts of various php router, like toro's method of parsing routes, laravel's named routes, others middleware etc. so much.
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Also the new binary, which is properly signed, has no write functionality, only read.
and the Data Analysis hipe continues..
Yes, but CS majors come out of school with some level of understanding about how computing works... not just how to write code.
This would be a legitimate critique if Bock were saying "Here's how I screen through 100,000 resumes". Your interpretation would serve as a good heuristic. But that's not what we're talking about: he implied that, all things being equal, he would hire a B student majoring in CS over an A student majoring in English because of "signalling" when comparing two candidates he had to choose from.
Right, my thoughts too.

Still good to have a positive story as well after all those awful stories of lately.
So at what point have you worked with enough women to be allowed to make inferences? At what point do you stop trusting what you've read on the internet and start going by your own experience?

Because thinking back over all the people I've programmed with or inherited a codebase from[1], the average female programmer was significantly worse than the average male programmer (which is not to say that I haven't also worked with some excellent female programmers, because I have). I wish that wasn't true, and I make every effort to treat every new programmer I meet with an open mind. But it is. Maybe it's just statistical bad luck, but it's reached the point where it's very hard to ignore.

[1] And in the case of one inherited codebase with a foreign name I wasn't aware of the gender until long after I'd formed my judgement, so I think I'm being reasonably objective.
Sorry, I meant that that the rules should be updated to apply. Of course, while they remain out of date, Uber should be allowed to operate as they do.
Minor quibble: lavabit was not a forced shutdown. The feds did not expect him to shut down, they would have handed him an NSL forbidding him to do so if they had realized his intentions.

Closing the doors to lavabit almost landed Ladar in jail.
1. 7.2 just disabled things. It didn't introduce a vulnerability.

2. Warrant canary makes no sense. There is nothing for a warrant to grab.

3. Forking is legally troublesome. Just because you can see the source doesn't mean you can distribute the source.
You're correct to point out the useful distinction that TrueCrypt is a product.

But what makes you think U.S. law treats them any differently, assuming TrueCrypt's creators and maintainers can be identified?

Here's my article from 8 years ago talking about how the FBI was demanding that makers of certain products include backdoors for FedGov surveillance:

http://news.cnet.com/FBI-plans-new-Net-tapping-push/2100-102...
The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would...force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping... FBI Agent Barry Smith distributed the proposal at a private meeting last Friday with industry representatives and indicated it would be introduced by Sen. Mike DeWine, an Ohio Republican, according to two sources familiar with the meeting...
"The controversy centres on an app provided to Uber's drivers - which is separate from the one used by the public - that calculates the journey distance and time taken, and then relays this information to remote computer servers to determine the fee."
Are there enough diverse people to satisfy companies' diversity index goal?
Agree, but still a valuable link for 1) Getting Schneier's on the record statement of how much he knows and doesn't know about this, and 2) the comments.
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Yes! When I read quotes like this I often wonder if they are literal quotations or if they're summary interpretations -- not because I distrust those who cite them but because it's so foreign and absurd a thing to say that it's hard to fit into my mental model of human behavior.
So long Truecrypt, what now?
> Which does nothing to improve the core problems with your workflow :)

Not sure what you mean. I state above how it helps my workflow.

> Offloading tests to 3rd party will not help you ensure that tests run fast as they should.

That's not the main point of CI. The main point is both: as a sanity check for tests pushed to the remote and also to not waste your time and CPUs running tests locally.

> Working too long on your branch will only make mergers more painful later.

I easily rebase off of master on a daily basis with git, no issues there.
It's kinda sad that she has to call out Netguru as someplace safe for women. Honestly, I think it's just a bit of moral panic brought on by a few high profile stories. I've been in and out of a lot of organizations and never witnessed female colleagues being given a hard time. A few instances of creepy guy behavior, but I've also seen guys get bothered by creepy gay guy behavior. That's not unique to the programmer world at least.
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oh man, that's a ridiculously grotesque hack. Huh! Thanks! You learn something new every day.

That said, now I don't understand why one would use these things instead of something less openly hacky, like normal portable sockets, which have all sorts of advantages. And I can't find a reason why these were implemented in such a weird and nonportable way. From all I can piece together from the web, it looks like these were implemented by the freedesktop guys for that hacky desktop bus thing, is that right?

Well that's an aside; in any case, having discovered this unnecessary coupling to a hacky linux-only feature, I would go back to the OP's idea of using standard unix IPC, which for the purpose appears to be more than enough to do the job but doesn't bring baggage. Any idea why that would be a bad thing?
All "language" is not the same. To be reliably and consistently machine executable, a language needs to facilitate manipulations that are logically rigorous. While in a language for general human communication, emphasis needs to be on manipulations that are more fluid and aesthetic in nature. Facility with one does not necessarily translate well to another. Particularly in the English -> Programming direction, which makes it doubly dangerous to assume it does, when hiring for STEM type jobs. Extreme aspies and savants aside, most good programmers can communicate well in English, in the sense they can formulate their intent precisely. While the converse is much, much rarer.
This is the feeling I'm scared of:

According to Google's numbers, whites are underrepresented at Google compared to the US at large.

What? What did I say?

Yes, european whites make up roughly 72% of the US, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat..., and 61% of Googlers.

If anything, you should be wanting to see less Asian faces overall (insanely, dramatically overrepresented, 30% of Googlers compared to 4.7% of Americans), and want to see more black faces and more white female faces.
I worked on a small software package for a financial firm that used AxCrypt for encryption. It wasn't bad from a program integration perspective. I can't personally verify the cryptographic security of it. Like codeulike said, it's a per-file based encryption. No virtual disk services.
I think you are being distracted by the content of the comment. This kind of nonsense has nothing to do with sexism. (Or if it were racist it has nothing to do with racism, or any other types of 'isms.) Some people are simply cruel, angry, sadistic bullies and the internet gives them the anonymity to get away with it. The reason for the comment was only to hurt.
I managed to get Rust wired up to websockets pretty easily.

There are working zeromq bindings: so you can use mongrel2 to handle websockets (with or without TLS) and then service those requests with a handler written in Rust!

You have to write the handshake & protocol framing yourself; but there's a reference implementation in Python[1] that's only ~200 lines long and supposedly passed the Autobahn test suite.

Rust's model of concurrency also jives really well with mongrel2's architecture.

---

There's one gotcha: receiving on a zeromq socket through the C bindings blocks the OS thread. This will cause your program to deadlock if you're using Rust's green threading. (Native "1:1" threading is the default however.)

[1]: https://github.com/zedshaw/mongrel2/tree/master/examples/ws
Your position can apply to anything. There are Computer Science graduates who cannot tell you what a linked list is.

You need to look for signals that imply humanities majors that are smart. Do they have published articles in student publications? Were they active in campus organizations?

End of the day, look for smart people who get things done.

If you need specific, rigorous domain expertise, hire somebody with a degree in that discipline of engineering or whatever. Otherwise, you're better off with a smart person who knows how to think and communicate vs. someone with an engineering degree who cannot function.
I did a Math and a History degree simultaneously, and I believe that a 4.0 in history is much harder than a 3.0 in math with respect to critical thinking skills.

At one point during the pursuit of my BA in History, I was reading about 1000 pages of primary and secondary source material per week.

Reading primary source material is comparable to reading mathematical exposition in that you have to proceed slowly and carefully.

Then, I had to analyze the material using the various methods of historical analysis/criticism. You are not going to get an 'A' if you just regurgitate facts. You're also not going to get an 'A' if the analysis/argument is sloppy.

Math didn't really get that hard until the proof-based courses, and math degrees usually require only two of those (though I did four). The “computation courses” just consisted of exercises that are only difficult until you discover a small set of tricks.

Now, I'm not sure about what it takes to be a very successful English major, but my anecdotal evidence indicates that the high achievers are pretty smart: One did a math double major, one went from being a LaTex whiz to handling most of the IT at a mathematics journal, and the other is a better-than-average DBA.
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> All of which I never see used in a professional capacity for the vast majority of software developers.

Anecdotal irony: not 24 hours ago a colleague and I had to reverse engineer a hairy mess of deeply nested if/then/else clauses that should not exist that turned out to be composed mostly of tautologies. I definitely wish to throw books at some people, preferably of the steel-bound, razor sharp edged kind.

Conclusion: you're not drawing Karnaugh tables daily in front of you, but having manipulated the fundamental rules of logic has trained your neural net and makes you much more effective at solving logic problems in a wink and not write crap code, and also simply able to debug stuff efficiently, if at all. I am regularly aghast at people drawing completely invalid conclusions from broken "common sense" logic propositions (A=>B therefore B=>A, or various other syllogisms).
I had ColdFusion developers make fun of me for using PHP a few years back. ColdFusion. Yep.
>>Not that one is better than the other, but you don't hear CS folks claiming they're well suited for writing poetry.

Just wait until you see the headline: "Join our startup to disrupt the poetry industry!"
just yesterday, i was debating between Twilio or this email-to-sms option.

a more complete list is here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5913116

it's free, but with Sprint for example, it prepends "Subject: " to the front of the text. not great, but i guess might be an ok compromise for "free".
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I dont know if cragslist has an api but if so you could compare states over two time periods and tally the products that have been removed.

Amazon has an api that you can narroq down to region, age, product, and more. This may have similar results as CL.
Let them downvote me: let them bring their slings and arrows! :)
I can't argue against what you have said. The humanities are subjective but that does not mean that they are not valuable but the greater problem is that there is very little demand in the global economy for essays on social contract theory and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and anti-industrialism. The best thing we can hope for is that the humanities plays a complimentary role in education. i.e. studying a humanities major like philosophy in addition to a computer science degree. In my "subjective experience" when building consumer facing apps for my company having a humanities degree has helped to make these apps better. Being able to code well is not a guarantee that your app will appeal to a consumer but knowing what people want in a product for instance, is an enterprise for the humanities because it demands introspection, divergent and subjective thinking which is a different kind of thinking altogether. That is why I am irked when people from the sciences dismiss the humanities too readily because the humanities does have something to give to the world. In short, tech + humanities = better products/ideas.