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>What you're doing here is saying you think all women who would have an interest in tech are exactly the same

No, I asserted the opposite by specifically qualifying the women I was targeting with the clause "of substance". That's the part of my quote you left out to make it look like I was lumping "all" women together.

I just showed those supposedly better job descriptions to a female coworker I would categorize as a "woman of substance" and she just rolled her eyes at it. The word "intimate" is groan-inducing and out of place.

I don't personally know Marissa Mayer (ex Google, now CEO Yahoo) or Carol Bartz (ex AutoDesk) but I don't believe women of such caliber require baby talk. In my opinion, it would be quite insulting to them.

>Study: Women Do Not Apply To ‘Male-Sounding’ Jobs

I never asserted that a text can't be overtly (even offensively) male gendered. That part I agree with. However, the over-zealous post-modernism rewrite does not always make the end result gender-neutral. On the contrary, the article shows that the end result looks silly and idiotic. (EDIT TO ADD: the article's author recently commented in this thread and she herself conceded[1] that the wording in those "improved" job descriptions could use some work so I'm not totally off base in my criticism.)

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020992
Let's say you want to store a 100kB file. There are 2^(8 x 102400) possible different 100kB files. The lowest amount of data you need to be able to distinguish the one you want from all the possible candidates is 100kB. If you could compress any file with the same algorithm, it would mean that you would necessarily have to be able to decompress the exactly same compressed file into multiple different files.

Compression can only work when for every byte you take out of a file you want you need to concede to add another byte to the representation of a file you don't care about.

> write down its location and the size

The location of any arbitrary sequence in pi is on average a much larger number than the sequence itself.
For every 1 candidate who would take it as constructive criticism, there are 19 that would react hostilely or think it was the next step of an ongoing debate. Read some of notaio's responses in this thread and remember that he started this discussion with the express purpose of soliciting feedback.
But wouldn't it be nice if they could use their data to get rid of some corruption in politics? I know, I know, how does the government as a whole police itself? Very tough problem. But at some level I don't really care that they collect data, it's what they do with it that's important. So who decides? What is the master agenda? How do they self police? etc... One can only guess at the answers to these questions. It may be nice to allow anyone in the NSA to spy on anyone else in the NSA to prevent abuse, but that would be a huge problem if a spy managed to get a job there. I just imagine this being a rather complex problem.
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Note: an idle godoc does almost nothing, this is godoc started with the indexing option.
Is anyone delivering the equivalent with less lock-in? I can understand both sides of the argument but it seems that over time stuff always migrates towards more control (ie, people migrate OFF of Parse, Heroku, AWS, etc). I'd envision a much better set of images, Fabric/Chef recipes, to the point where you get your AWS but with vanilla OSS on generic hosting providers.
For python: http://pyvideo.org/
Great TIME link KuraFire, added to the resources section of the site - thanks.
As far as I understand, the A7 employs a shared memory architecture and Apple did not publicize this fact until the recent developer conference.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/06/16/inside-metal-how-a...
Here's the press release http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsA...
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I don't see anything about The Coin in that interview. Where did you get 51%-53% from?
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> Scala was a short term hack to fill in the gaps until Java has lambdas.

If you think this is true and not just trolling, you are extremely ignorant about Scala's history, Scala's aims and Scala's features. Scala is so much more than a better Java, this statement is beyond ridiculous.
interesting stuff.
what really bugs me is the zoom does not automatically changes to pinch zoom, I have to click on the zoom icon.
also a clickable link would be useful: http://ziteboard.com
I don't understand what makes those average wordings gendered and the 'better' wording not gendered.

From my readings of Dr. Deborah Tannen, (who writes books on the topic of the differences in male and female communication styles, and their possible cultutral origins) they both seem like they are gendered, with the 'average' wording being an example of masciline-ish speech (my interpretation, not hers) and the 'better' wording being more feminine-ish.

I'm happy to learn how I've misinterpreted it, but I'm not seeing it. Can somebody please enlighten me?
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Isn't that one linked from Gatesnotes, "The Blog of Bill Gates":

http://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Business-Adventures-Free-Cha...
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Why do so many people (and companies) pretend that app backends are just (logic-less) data stores?

I can definitely see the argument that some mobile games only need to store/sync some basic state information on behalf of the user, but I just don't see it as being that simple for most other apps.

I suppose this datastore-only backend model works for apps with users who are completely isolated from each other, but any time you want to allow users to interact with each other (or provide rules for how their resources interact with the world outside their little "user bubble"), you need business logic that resides somewhere other than the app; otherwise, your business logic (which may affect more than just the authenticated user) is in an untrusted environment. Not only that, but there are huge scalability problems associated with using a logic-less backend storage model if you want to do anything that involves more than just a single user's data.

Even for games, something as simple as providing a leaderboard is impossible (or extremely impractical) with this model. If you have no server-side logic to perform aggregate operations over multiple users, the only other option you'd have is to basically grab all the data and perform those operation in your app, which is absurd.

Backend development, server management, and deployment can be hard (though many PaaS solutions are making it easier than ever), but personally I'd never recommend building an app with a logic-less backend data store like this. Even if you don't think you'll need it today, in most cases you're going to need logic on the backend eventually. If you've started with this, you're just creating a lot more work for yourself when you finally do need to implement a feature that crosses the line from isolated-users-only to users-that-can-interact (or even just obtaining aggregate user data for business intelligence purposes).
Here's a similar project which has more functionality:

https://github.com/karpathy/convnetjs
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Sorry, I should have been more clear. I was pleasantly surprised by how recent the updates are and many commits there were. Keep up the good work!
So I should have clarified, my experience is not with Syncolicity but with Documentum. Syncolicity might be great. Documentum, however, is/was just god awful.
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(author here)

I get your sentiment, but I feel an important advantage of this approach is that the markdown file is much more appropriate to put in version control than a Word document would be. Also, the TeX typesetting is just that bit nicer than what you'd get from converting the .doc, but that's perhaps of secondary importance for some :-)
"Probable cause" is all an officer needs to arrest you, too.
>but it is at least debatable that NSA is really that thorough in its actual practices and really that generally blatant in disregarding the civil rights of Americans or even of people in other countries.

At this point in the debate it has been observed on a number of occasions that ranking officials at the NSA are dishonest. They have made comments both sworn, and in general press releases / statements (on the record) that have later been proven false; and we have reason to believe those officials knew they were making false or misleading statements at the time. So in short, the NSA, and the intelligence community in general have destroyed their credibility.

>Several comments ... write about NSA blackmailing politicians. I don't believe it will happen in general, for reasons I have mentioned before here on HN.

I personally suspect that it already happens. We know that it has happened before (it was a favorite tactic of J Edna Hoover). I see no reason to think that it can't/isn't currently happening.

>I call baloney on the idea that NSA can keep politicians on its leash simply by knowing their secrets. Some politicians have PUBLIC lives full of dirt, and still get elected and influence policy anyway.

I think that is a naive outlook, and that naughty habits of conduct actually serve the purposes of an extortionate NSA/FBI quite well. The NSA does not need to "keep politicians on a leash". They may merely need an occasional favorable vote or motion on the floor. Knowing the internal communications of congressional staffers (and their normal voting habits), they wouldn't need to risk extra exposure to get a marginal vote over the hump. Not to mention getting people like Ruppersberger, Rogers, Feinstein, etc. appointed to the appropriate committees.

The fact that some politicians run successful campaigns despite imperfect, even scandalous personal lives isn't proof that every politician / official is indifferent about their reputation, or that they are invulnerable to blackmail.

I can't really address your last points as they are your personal opinions but I think that most Americans have very naive and uninformed notions about how governance actually works, as opposed to the textbook version of it we were all taught in school.
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A couple of suggestions if the people behing Flytenow are reading this:

* Provide a link from your blog back to the main website, so if I start by reading this (or any other) blog post, it's easy for me to learn more.

* Let me see what's available before signing up! I'm curious, but not that curious about what you're offering.
Both of these comments convince me even more about how big the Uber opportunity is. You do realize that many/most people that actually have used Uber describe the experience as nearly magical. So I have little doubt that you and your types will eventually come to a similar conclusion.
i did edit from "masculine" and "feminine" to "average" and "better" as i found masculine/feminine ultimately problematic. this reference is simply a few examples of what a change in language can do. they still describe the exact same job and functions.
There are also occasionally mass casualty events where some of the rigorous safety protocols are ignored in favor of saving lives. My home town of 55K was hit by an EF5 tornado, killing ~155, hospitalizing over 1,000, with I don't know how many outpatient wounded. And it trashed one of our two hospitals....

Read http://stormdoctor.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-response-mode-... for the ugly details, the relevant parts are:

"Almost all patients were covered in some form of debris which tended to accumulate in skin folds or in the ears or mouth. On more than one occasion, shards of glass cut my gloves (but thankfully, never me). The floor was covered in so much blood in places, that it was a matter of throwing down towels to minimize the risk of slipping and falling. All my career I’d been trained about fluid precautions to avoid transmission of disease, yet in Joplin that night, the ER was a fine mist of all kinds of fluids—infectious and non—and the only thing that mattered was forward motion."

Finished with an intense shift in ER, on his way to deal with uninjured patients evacuated from the other hospital:

"[...] then we hit the waiting room. There were hundreds of people, blood on every surface, bandages outnumbered clothes...."

And there were other places probably like that, e.g. lots of the personal of the other hospital set up operations in one of our main event venues.
Usually "ear infection" means internal. My point was that medicine is more gambling than precise science. I understand there are many strains, but just the fact that the doctor doesn't even want to test if it's viral or bacterial, is pretty discouraging as these two vastly different things and, yet, they treat with antibiotics still just to possibly prevent the secondary bacterial infection if it was primarily viral. Here's one solid take on how those should be treated instead: http://chriskresser.com/how-to-prevent-and-treat-recurring-e...
If you have decent information on the reliability of your process, there is some argument that, if candidates are close enough in the results under that process that there is a very small probability that the differences are meaningful, a random selection among the candidates might be a better choice than consistently choosing the highest score -- this avoids privileging any systematic bias in the system when the differences are unlikely to be meaningful in what you are using the system as a proxy measure for.

Of course, most places don't actually have much meaningful insight into the reliability of their process so as to enable determining whether and when its outputs are actually meaningful in the first place, they adopt processes that subjectively seem right to the people adopting them, and don't do anything to validate them.
But workflow systems can't do shit with scanned documents other than route them via human instructions.
I love xpra and used to use it every day (using a Mac laptop now and haven't figured out how to make xpra not suck on it w.r.t. modifier keys and dock / cmd-tab support).

A big problem with xpra in myind is that the wire protocol doesn't even try to be version independent. If you're using slightly different versions on client and server, it just falls down.

If you're using distro packages this is fine e as long as all clients and servers are similar enough to have overlap in the versions that they package. Otherwise you're building from source on every client and server, on various platforms.
Thing is, as a developer, I don't have Word on my computer. So when it comes to reviewing resumes, one in Word format is going to be very difficult for me to view. I might just not bother.

PDFs are fine. But, IMO, Markdown is better, because it's also demonstrating a skill that's usable in your job.
Power corrupts, with all this unchecked surveillance somebody is going to use it against their political rivals it's inevitable. There could be lower level corruption too with DEA agents splitting the spoils of busts with NSA analysts in exchange for intel. Lobbyist payoffs for industrial espionage or intel on protester action against their pipeline plans. If none of this is reigned in who knows how long democracy will last, all the ingredients for a totalitarian state are ready.
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And you can spend the time you'd spend building new infrastructure making the existing infrastructure even more powerful.

Additionally, while the people capable of building this infrastructure might refuse to do it under a fascist regime, they're comfortable doing it now under a democracy.
It would seem so. I posted a link a few weeks back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983060) that was on the front page for a bit but was booted off when the conversation spiraled a bit out of control.
>'It seems amazing to me that he looks so calm and cool when they were actually being poisoned by their own CO2 and without knowing if they were going to make it alive to Earth.'

Though our problems aren't close to same order of magnitude - keeping calm under pressure is something I feel is rare and under-appreciated in technology.

More than once I've seen a person start shaking so bad they couldn't type or slot in a replacement module while working a serious outage.

Amusingly, I've also had a new manager flip-out and actually interfere with my triage efforts because I 'didn't look like I was taking the problem seriously' (read: calm).

I wonder what sort of techniques could be adapted from elsewhere to teach the tech engineers of the world how to hold it together?
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Did you catch my sentence where I suggested that Uber is even better in the suburbs where taxi service is even worse?

Did you read the post's suggestions that Uber (and ZipCar, RelayRides, etc) enable getting rid of secondary or even primary cars (in fact, it's already happening)?
Bingo!

This is one of our core values and while we get odd looks from investors or MBA-types we know that it's the right move to make in the long run. This is the way things are moving and I hope that more companies will go this route.
Check out Mobile Identity Connect -> http://www.kinvey.com/blog/3856/mobile-identity-for-the-ente... and http://devcenter.kinvey.com/ios/guides/auth-link-for-ldap
it's tricky, and agreed - simply an example (by ERE) of how changing language may increase the pool of people interested in the job posting.
You know, I actually thought that too, then I tried to actually use it for a while, and found the viewing and sharing to be such a breeze. On Android, to share a photo, you just have to swipe up, and all the photos that you swiped up on will be shareable very easily in just two clicks.
I also thought the technology behind it is quite interesting.
https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/building-carousel-part-i-ho...
>I never asserted that a text can't be overtly (even offensively) male gendered. That part I agree with. However, the over-zealous post-modernism rewrite does not always make the end result gender-neutral. On the contrary, the article shows that the end result looks silly and idiotic.

You didn't read the study, did you?
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It's available since July 8th 2014 in Amazon... I see what you did there with your marketing ingeniousness, Mr. WSJ || Bill Gates.

The problem is that I'm easy, all too easy, and I fall for these ploys. And now I'm biting myself to buy the book :) Well done.

edit: what's available is a Kindle edition, that I suppose is from the same book http://www.amazon.com/Business-Adventures-Twelve-Classic-Str...
It's available since July 8th 2014 in Amazon... I see what you did there with your marketing ingeniousness, Mr. WSJ || Bill Gates.

The problem is that I'm easy, all too easy, and I fall for these ploys. And now I'm biting myself to buy the book :) Well done.
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Facebook, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Citrix, etc.

http://ocaml.org/learn/companies.html

http://ocaml.org/learn/success.html
I have worked a bit on things related to the ISS. From what I learnt, it is basically two space stations stuck together with an adapter. The smaller Russian part was launched first and is self-contained, basically a MIR 2. The US/international part was then added piece by piece, with each part having a specialized function.

Visiting Russian spacecraft can only dock on the Russian side and the Space Shuttle only on the US side, unless it brought an adapter.

I'm sure there were still many compatibility issues. For example the European ATV docks on the Russian side.
Any summary/writeup for this talk. 36 minute is a long time to find out whether it matters to you, even a quarter of that is too long. There should be some summary.
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Why not do the same thing in real-time using Firebase? It supports offline mode too..Would love pros/cons from the HN community..
Why would you think that? Am I really that unclear?

If I had to venture a suggestion it would be to encrypt your data end-to-end.
As the description says:

instead of having to worry about building and managing a backend solution to handle identity management, network state, storage, and sync.

From my reading of this, this wouldn't in any way obviate the need for a backend system of your own. It just does the identity management, network state, storage and sync parts for you. Your own business logic on your own backend can use this to jump start you.
Hi Maciej,
Does this allow offline playing mode?
This will be good for beginner pilots to make some cash. I used to attend a flight school and knew some graduates making minimum wage as entry-level flight instructors, and there are stories abound of commercial pilots not doing much better (Google "LAX ghetto"). They're basically glorified bus drivers. By cutting out all the mega airport overhead (airlines pay the airport for facilities, terminal use, baggage handling, and of course the TSA) we could see a much greater proportion of airfare go straight to the pilot, traveling in this way.
fair enough re: "re-evaluate your job post descriptions" - i did not draft those descriptions. nothing on the site is original content. i find the descriptions could use some work, but do a decent job of illustrating the point that language matters.
Why would you order the self-driving cars through Uber?
> Wealthy white women are not the most disprivileged class <

If we are considering equality. A native american man is way more disprivileged then a caucasian univerity educated woman. I mean name one VC backed start up with a Native American CEO?

I am Metis (Native American) and frankly the low employment on reserves could be mitigated by remote work. Having more coders and startup from reserves/communities could be an amazing way to help many of the cripling social issues.

We could have a Native American Steve Jobs... and then have him played in a film by Johnny Depp :)

TL:DR > It is not really fair to almost exclusively focus on the most privilidged dispriviledge class.

PS > Also those are some big numbers for ROI with no sourcing. Sceptical me is skeptic.
Okay. I guess I just assumed you meant there was some statistical evidence showing it was fundamentally wrong rather than the fact I didn't prove it was exactly 26%.

For purposes of my disagreeing with the OP, being 100% accurate on whether its 26% or 28% doesn't really matter to me. The basic principle applies that its going to create a worse problem than it solves imo.
Love this service. Would use again!
The point is what is "viable" changes drastically when you have $1,000,000 vs $10,000.
Out of curiosity, what do you use as an alternative to Word if you do have to open something in a .doc/.docx format? Surely just saying "I don't have Word because I'm a developer" can't work in every situation?
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No. One "reason given" is that Uber is already at a "healthy multiple" of the total existing taxi market in San Francisco.

Uber doesn't need to make a dime in logistics in order to achieve $1 trillion in gross sales.
Right, but the "probable cause" is technically different -- for a search without arrest, they need probable cause to believe that there is contraband in the car, for arrest they need probable cause to believe you have committed a crime. Given that possession of contraband is itself a crime (though generally one with a mental state requirement), there is quite a lot of overlap between the two kinds of "probable cause", but they aren't equivalent.
Thanks puffyrice. We're working on default pinch zoom and instant collaboration (multiple users at the same time) as well.
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