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I'm a bit confused by your objection to "platform lock-in." Presumably a person or company who has chosen to use this service understands the technical limitations and features it entails. That includes understanding that AWS may in fact implement this service differently than other providers do and that a future move might entail some non-trivial effort. That isn't platform lock-in in any meaningful sense.

Besides, what makes you think you would be prevented from moving all this to another provider? From the FAQ (https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/faqs/), it seems that Cognito data is stored in a straight-forward Key-Value scheme. That's about as easy as it gets when it comes to data structure.

Moreover, the actual service itself would almost certainly be implemented differently with another provider. Why should Amazon, or anybody else who offers similar "menu of services" cloud computing, make it easy for you to do so (they make money off of you not moving)?
I'm interested to hear from those who voted this comment down: Why?

The parent's comment, even if disagreeable in some regards, is substantial and the discussion is better for it having been made.
Unless you consider, homelessness, suicides, social stigma regarding being sexually assulted, mancession, acceptance of physical abuse in public.

I mean no one is advocating we get the sucide rate to 50%. If you want parity, you can't cherry pick and that means recalibrating society as a whole.

Which means questioning bad ideas like an equal. There are way to many people intresting in thought stopping for the sake of PR.
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I'm definitely finding it interesting to see Amazon releasing more and more offerings to make life as a developer easier. Will be interesting to see whether they can leverage some of these services to make developing for the Fire phone extra appealing.
> Ah, yes. This is classic. The orthodox economists might tell you that Bitcoin shouldn't have any value at all. Yet, I can sell 1 BTC and pay for months of gas. I'd rather have a running car than an economist's opinion.

I still don't understand how economists can say that BTC has no "intrinsic value," so should be worthless, but the fiat currencies around the world are just dandy.

The whole concept of "intrinsic value" is nonsense. If you can make a Bitcoin transaction faster, cheaper, and with fewer people knowing about it (if you value anonymity), then BTC has value. You can send Bitcoin to someone overseas without anyone else knowing. How powerful is that?

> Ultimately, anything sellable is "worth" what other people will pay for it.

Precisely. I wish we could teach people this before they dismiss Bitcoin for unfounded reasons.
in order to be able to force parties who have perhaps recently reneged on past agreements to allow "monitoring"

I'm not clear what this refers to?

inside information of the current surveillance that is working

This is a serious problem with the whole thing. It's very difficult to bring under democratic control because it's not public. There are a few convictions, but overall we have no idea how real the threat is. Some of us fear we're being sold the proverbial tiger-repelling rock.

Then there's the abuses. Mostly these come out thirty years later, but there are currently questions of torture, of feeding data to the drone strike programme, of targeting nonviolent left wing protestors, etc.

Then there's the apparent failure to prosecute serious crimes by members of the establishment, of which the latest is the alleged missing paedophile dossier that passed across Leon Brittan's desk.
It's much easier and faster to use existing infrastructure than having to build a new one.
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Maybe I'm just more drawn to the average descriptions cause I'm male, but some of the language feels off in the "better" descriptions.

> We are committed to understanding the engineer sector intimately.

Intimately sounds wrong here to me. Intimacy is something I would associate with things of romantic nature.

> Strong communication and influencing skills.
vs
> Proficient oral and written communications skills.

They sound like descriptions for different jobs. One sounds like a job where you need to be able to close deals or lead people the other sounds like a generic soft-skill that everyone says they have.

Turning "Direct" to "Support" also gives a different meaning.

The descriptions feel like the position is more entry-level or wishy-washy. I'd imagine the "better" descriptions would approachable to both genders, as they don't seem they demand as much or need people to be assertive/confident.

Maybe this works out well in practice, as maybe you lose a lot of suitable candidates to effects like impostor syndrome. They just feel like they are advertising two different jobs.
This is a good reminder to re-read Lost Moon, Jim Lovell's account of the mission.
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I'm at the moment trying to run F# on Linux...
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“I can't believe that any woman” — stop right here. Whenever anyone on HN ever says this, they're really showing themselves to:

1) lack imagination
2) lack empathy (egregiously so)
3) generally be wrong about whatever follows next

What you're doing here is saying you think all women who would have an interest in tech are exactly the same. This is IDIOTIC and you're revealing yourself to seeing women as "a demographic" rather than as 3.6 billion unique individuals who each have their own unique personality, interests, etc.

Also, you're revealing your massively shortsighted perspective and utter inability to educate yourself a little on the matter before chiming in with your assertions, but let me help you improve perspective and learn something new:

Study: Women Do Not Apply To ‘Male-Sounding’ Jobs
http://time.com/48578/study-women-do-not-apply-to-male-sound...

You Don’t Know It, But Women See Gender Bias in Your Job Postings
http://www.ere.net/2013/03/01/you-dont-know-it-but-women-see...

> A scientific study of 4,000 job descriptions revealed that a lack of gender-inclusive wording caused significant implications for recruiting professionals tasked to recruit women to hard-to-fill positions underrepresented by women.

So, your assertion that it's "ridiculous goop" has actually been proven (repeatedly) by scientific studies, and is a tremendously stupid assertion to begin with (it hinges on the assumption that all women are exactly the same).

Perhaps next time, before opening your mouth, assess whether you actually have any fucking knowledge of what you're about to assert.
This seems pretty silly.

If you look at the screenshot from the click study they did in the presentation [0], for the search "gary danko yelp", Google is (or was) serving up the Gary Danko website itself first, instead of the Yelp page. Honestly, I think the website of the business itself is an appropriate first search result, even if the query included the word "Yelp". To the bottom of this result, Google has attached links to see the Google Local Reviews and shows the rating, which is either done automatically by Google (though I'm not sure if they add it automatically) or through the Google Business Tools [1] at the request of Gary Danko themselves. According to their click study though, barely anyone is clicking those additional links.

[0]: Page 12 of http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/yelp.pdf

[1]: https://www.google.com/business/
Entitlement, sure. But the boy's entitlement was confirmed while the girl's wasn't.
What cloud service names, off the top of your head, do you consider to be exemplary?

"Parse"? OK, sure...but that's not any more functionally descriptive than "Cognito"...and Parse is a more narrowly focused company with a primary service...In the case of "Cognito" and "Zocalo"..., Amazon has to come up with names that are distinctive because they provide so many core services...so many that even me, an engineer, get them confused. Imagine the difficulty of a fly-by marketing person trying to differentiate between similar sounding names.

Furthermore, these names are distinctive industry wide...presumably, if Zocalo becomes big, you will no longer have to say "AWS Zocalo", but just, "Zocalo"...just like you do with "S3" and "EC2".

To drive home the situation that Amazon is in, let's consider another great product name: Dropbox. Unlike Parse, it is very easy to relate to the core service. But consider the phrase, "Amazon Dropbox"..."Dropbox" is unique compared to the currently named AWS services...but it has a huge collision with Amazon's core service, which is, stocking and shipping products. If Dropbox.com didn't exist, and Amazon used it instead of "Zocalo"...there is a considerable risk that people associate "dropbox" with some kind of packaging thing.
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>"understanding the engineer sector intimately" sounds like it is actually NOT an engineering position.

This particular language was for describing the company as a whole, rather than a position.

To me, this phrasing sounds like the firm differentiates itself based on having a better understanding of its customers, which is a useful thing for consultancies.
How about Riak? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11351866/does-riak-have-a...
The problem is that social activists have discovered computing. Now they are trying to force their world view into the tech domain because they have failed to impart change in the real world.

Hence the faux moral outrage over gendered words.

Hence the hounding of Brendan Eich for his personal views which had no bearing on his technical competency.

Hence the Gnome foundation running out of money because they diverted all their funds to a women's outreach program instead of focusing on software development.

Right now, in the real world, scantily-clad women in bikins are draped across magazine covers, sporting events segregate the sexes, and in many Islamic countries women are treated like slaves... yet somehow “The tech industry may have a problem with women"?
Are you implementing each card by hand? I was going to make something like this and was just going to regex match all of the cards (from HearthPwn). It seemed like there were few enough variations to make something like that possible.

Curious if you already tried automating it.
I think it's important (for everyone) to clarify that Beacon DevPacks (typically 3 Beacons, SDK, etc.) are different to Beacon Production Orders (I'd like 2000 beacons for my set of stores). Pricing for the former is generally around $20 or so per beacon, while the 1000's tend to drop off rapidly. Just my 2 cents. (Sean @localsocial)
And yet... we still did it. Is it simply a matter of having enough aggression, or something, such that we continued anyway?

In which case, it would certainly be nice to see more sensitive people of either gender encouraged to take up the subjects they are truly interested in. There's a pervasive culture of social shaming of people who don't fit the norm. Will it ever go away as a whole, or is it a unchangeable component of society?
You are talking about people attempting to break the law...

"The first batch, published a week ago, included a conversation between Marek Belka, the chief of Poland's central bank, and Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz, in which they discussed how the central bank might use its power to help the government win reelection in 2015. Mr. Belka said that his condition for help would be "the dismissal of the finance minister" in favor of a “technical and apolitical” one. They also discussed the creation of a law that would allow the central bank to buy government debt on secondary markets, a practice known as quantitative easing.

Under Polish law, the central bank has to be independent from political interference. But Jacek Rostowski, the finance minister, did indeed lose his job in November last year and was replaced by Mateusz Szczurek, an economist with no political experience. And new laws that include a provision allowing quantitative easing are also now in the works."

Why yes, if you conspire to break the law and get recorded, this is a bad thing for you. I'm not sure why you cited one of the few cases such a recording would be perfectly acceptable.

That is actually the valid and good purpose of the media and the security apparatus. Exposing political corruption and bringing it to justice wherever possible.
That's what I'm saying. The "backbone", by which I take it you mean the big PSTN providers, is by far the easiest point to wiretap. Internet exchange points are by design far more heterogenous, plus that wirespeed protocol parsers that has the ability to parse the plurality of protocols used is at least an order of magnitude more difficult/expensive.

The five eyes do that as well, no doubt about it. But if you encrypt your traffic on IP and then switch out to unencrypted PSTN then that's completely useless as you'd risk drawing unnecessary attention to your plaintext.
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I was going to answer in kind. But if you truly believe there is not a problem, that everything is just fine, then I can't help you. "So be it" has led us to the situation we have now: dogmatic, unexamined assumptions and reverence for "the process".
"The reason why Women, Blacks and Hispanics are under-represented in tech boils down to the pipeline."

Oh yeah? Then how come with blacks taking 10% of CS degrees and Latinos taking 8%, their representation at Google and Facebook is only 1% and 2%?

Meritocracy?
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Your implicit assumption is that supply is inelastic. But why should that be the case? Better benefits and working conditions result in more women being attracted to tech. To assume otherwise means that you don't think women respond to incentives. (Admittedly, there will be a lag here since reputations take a while to change.)

Sure, the "less progressive" companies are going to have to compete with that, but I don't see the downside in companies competing to treat their employees better.
On a similar thread, I've had my resume as markdown for a while with a little PHP script to compile it to PDF and HTML.

https://github.com/donatj/resume
Build script https://github.com/donatj/Resume/blob/master/build.php
Sorta knowing the sad state of government IT, it's possible that it was never "fixed" at all!
The pigeonhole principle says that you cannot use pi to compress all data. You could certainly use this scheme to compress some data. For example, if you were storing a file containing the contents of pi (from the beginning), it would compress very well with this scheme.

This is the same tradeoff that all compression schemes make. gzip can compress some files, but others will grow. The hope is that the domain of files you actually want to apply it to will shrink instead of grow.

That said, given that the digits of pi are more or less uniformly distributed, there is no particular reason to believe that common bit patterns will be likely to appear sooner in pi than uncommon bit patterns. So it is unlikely that it will compress very many of the files you'd have sitting around on your hard drive.

But the pigeonhole principle alone does not prove this.
There's no serious limitations that I've ran into. I have a variety of very minor gripes with certain parts of the protocol, and there certainly are parts of it that are a bit underdeveloped, but we're moving forward on a lot of these.
Don't concern yourself with meeting "girls". Meet _women_ and let it happen organically through your journeys.
I think you fixed it as I was replying - please ignore!
With Marked, yes. You can write your own CSS styles, which carry over to the PDF.
Maybe Shivetya doesn't have any progressive in them. If they did, perhaps it would be annoyed too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2687112/Emergency-sp... EDIT: ah, no, not on the front page..

The comments are better than I expected, to be honest.
So how exactly is this illegal? It's Google's search, they can put up any results they want. If people aren't getting the results they want then they can use Bing or Yahoo and get what they want. Since when is promoting yourself within your own product against he law? Makes Yelp sound like a bunch of spoiled whiny brats.

Sally: "Jimmy, what does Billy think about Restaurant x?".

Jimmy: "I think that Restaurant x is amazing... Here, I'll write down what Billy thinks and put it in this envelope that you can open and read if you want another opinion."

Sally: "Thanks, sounds good, I think I'll try it. You're so helpful Jimmy." *leaves note unopened

Billy: "Mom! Jimmy told Sally what he thinks of Restaurant x and didn't say what I thought. Punish him, he's not playing fair!".

-Names have been changed to protect the idiotic.
Sure, hire the best. But first you have to recognize that N is probably larger (and less replicable!) than you think. Also, that there is more than one "N". Job interviewing is not a 100-yard dash with only one metric.
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Good point. I borrowed a computer that had "HTTP Nowhere" installed on Firefox, but that seemed to break a lot of things to the point I had to turn it off. That may explain why browsers still default to http.
I just started LibreOffice Calc (the version distributed with the latest version of Ubuntu), chose a cell and entered "1-December-2014"

The program tidied it to 01/12/14 (I'm in the UK, presumably the field order is locale-dependent) then exported a CSV with the default settings. Voilia, I have a file with the date expressed as 01/12/14

My guess is this process only gets run once a year, so it's not been a high priority for automation, and someone's spreadsheet program is configured to work out two-digit years automatically.
Neither of those two places could be described as having a particularly high volume of calls though. Its an order of magnitude or more difference in sheer volume you'd be looking at.
I'm working on a yml-formatted resume built in Jekyll. I'll post it when it's done.
I registered for the selective service and all of that, and it never really crossed my mind. 12 years later, the act seems alarmingly misandristic. It also makes me wonder if any feminists are fighting to have this law updated to include all citizens and not just males...
From http://www.meetup.com/Oslo-pm/events/172566472/

"Perl 6: A Programming Language for Computer Scientists (And Other Crazy People)

A good Computer Science syllabus will cover everything from bit manipulation to set theory, from Boolean algebra to concurrency, from parsing grammars to graph traversal, from two's-complement arithmetic to higher-order functions, from sorting algorithms to multiple dispatch, from macros to closures. ...

To teach all these concepts and techniques it is usually necessary to resort to a wide range of different programming languages ... Lisp and Fortran ... Forth ... Smalltalk, C, Scheme ... C++, Perl, Occam ... Haskell, Java, JavaScript ... C#, Scala, Clojure.

This diversity ... encourages an unfortunate ... internal compartmentalization of concepts and approaches.

Perl 6 ... aims to provide all of the major features of all of the major languages from all three dominant paradigms.

... we stole the best features from 20 different languages, and then spent a decade working out how to put them together in a way that is clean, efficient, powerful, and still usable by actual human beings. And Perl 6 was the result."
If they want to search you, they would need probable cause; simply "acting suspicious" isn't enough. Overly broad laws like this give them a convenient way of bypassing the 4th amendment.
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Do users really care about this? My guess is that 99% don't and don't want to deal with these details. The project sounds cool and like something the HN crowd might want, but my intuition is that most users won't understand the implications.

It also adds an extra step in the data storage process within the app, which increases friction and seems like it would be hard to get developers to adopt. All that said, I'd love to be proven wrong and see an implementation that is killer enough to solve these problems.
I am not ruining the web, I am actively contributing to it in "the right way" by writing and hosting my own websites free of cost because I have fun doing so. Being able to copy and paste to quickly get things done is awesome!

Yes, that page has examples. Somewhere way down the page.
Yes, my analogy paints the internet as a distribution system for a fungible commodity, because bits ARE a fungible commodity, just like water and electricity. A 1 is indistinguishable from every other 1, and a 0 is indistinguishable from every other 0.

In case it's not obvious, I agree that ISPs are NOT reponsible for upgrading infrastructure outside their network. What I'm saying is that ISPs are responsible for upgrading their network so it has sufficient capacity to receive the traffic pulled (and paid for) by ISP customers.
Is there anything like this in the enterprise space? Many of our customers want authentication against their internal Active Directory or other single sign-on solution. It would be nice if there was a company that exported an api, and did all the work of connecting up the various types of auth, so that we can focus on our own product rather than redo integration work that has probably been done by many other companies already, probably even for the customer's other services.
Cool idea!

When testing, using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/994c0zb1(v=vs.110).a... as the target URL, I selected an item in the table in the "Remarks" section of the page and the resulting URL was "undefined/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2F994c0zb1(v%3Dvs.110).aspx&top=1442.4700012207031".

I'm using IE11 on Win7.
To me Hearthstone didn't feel grindy at all compared to almost any other top IAP game available in App Store. I think Hearthstone hit a pretty good balance for freemium IAP model, I never felt that I had to pay to be able to play, unlike in most of the other freemium IAP games.

I agree that classing causes a bit too predicable deck strategies, MtG felt more balanced on this aspect.

What Hearthstone got right was the flow: they had to remove instants and introduce secrets and taunts, but with that they achieved an excellent flow for a turn-based card game.
The point is to say it's an error in an automated system, rather than a human who decided to intentionally send out notices to 120-year-olds. Of course humans programmed the system, but they surely didn't mean to program it to do that.
You are right, I read it and went back and took a quote from the wrong place after getting a bad impression from the entire section. Consider this though,

Proficient oral and written communications skills. Collaborates well in a team environment. Sensitive to clients’ needs, can develop warm client relationships

Does that sound like a qualification for an engineer? I suppose it could but I am used to engineering qualifications being specifically about engineering, if I had to guess, I would assume this was a sales job or sales oriented and would not apply.

I still hold that I shouldn't have to filter all the language I use to be nontoxic to women. I am not a woman, so I cannot judge what is toxic to them and would prefer to function as normal.
because voting her out would likely require voting in a republican, which doesn't seem overly likely against an incumbent.