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We are fairly quick to erase, forget or forgive the racism of white leaders, but seem to have a harder time doing so for those who oppose the majority's cultural status quo. I fear this has been used historically as a way to marginalize certain voices.

Here is a very relevant and well-articulated dissection of the phenomenon you're describing: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/beware-...
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No, it's ok.

I expected to be downvoted but I feel what I posted and believe it to be worth noting among the positive clamor.

Yes, I did have bad experiences at church as a kid, I was forced to go, it was not a good place, but more importantly I don't approve of religion in general.

I would likewise make a negative remark if a site promoting multi-level marketing, extremist politics, anti-vaccination, or something of this nature was on the front page of hacker news. I simply don't think these things are good.

Not to be dismissive of your effort... your application is awesome. I don't claim to know everything nor what everyone should do, but this doesn't change my opinion about churches. Sorry for the negative attitude. But I do have it and it is worth pointing out at minimum *some churches do harm in the world.
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I think it might have been EVE Valkyrie. Although Star Citizen has got to look pretty amazing in the DK2 - Has anyone tried it? I only have the DK1 to play with, unfortunately.
tl;dr:

The question he arrived at is: “... will you please tell me about the best project that you’ve ever created?”

Then watch for enthusiasm and pay attention to the details. The goal seems to be to identify someone who really enjoyed and takes pride in a program they've written.
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It doesn't assume that at all. You as the interviewer get to listen. You can ask probing questions to get the insight you need, or to steer the conversation. It's a great question, because it relaxes the interviewee as she gets to talk about something she knows well, probably enjoyed, and - if she's as good as you hope - has good depth and breadth of knowledge about.
Most alphabets don't have letter case. Its utility particular in written English is questionable at best.

I'm not saying you should stop capitalizing, mind you -- there's value in standardized orthography. But it's a good idea to set your horizon beyond it. I've noticed that I've become much more flexible and less dogmatic about things like this since looking at a bunch of other languages and writing systems and recognizing written communication as spectrum.
I admit I just skimmed the article, but I don't see a requirement that the project you choose to talk about be a solo effort.

I think the point of the question is to find people who are passionate about their profession (in this case programming).
The references for that Wikipedia statement are both from the last five years. One reference is an article titled "Only white people can be racist." That's hardly an unbiased definition of a much older term.

Since 1933, the definition of racism according to Merriam-Webster has been "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."

Why the more recent trend of redefining a clear term to include results of racism when institutionalized by those in power? That seems disingenuous and counterproductive.
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It's always surprising how often interviewers fall back on "API Jeopardy" when trying to make hiring decisions. Maybe it's just because my career hasn't really allowed the luxury of getting deep on any technical stack and staying there, but I just don't keep the details of obscure function calls in my head all the time. And I have to wonder at the utility of testing a developer on having memorized the kinds of things that they will always, ALWAYS be able to look up when they're actually working.
Thank you, finally someone who gets the idea. Though I like to ask two questions, one the best project you ever worked on, one the worst project you ever worked on. You can learn a lot about a programmer by the details they relate in both cases.
I'm not sure I agree - from reading the article, I got that the author found people who were excited and passionate about what they did, people who were excited to code. It may have been the lonewolf project that lit them up, it may have been the massive team effort where they found a novel way to help an entire team. But it was someone who really believed in something, rather than someone who was simply working for the weekend.
As somebody who is right now happy in NYC, I call BS on this one. I have no problems with people loving Louisiana, I don't see why I should feel bad about not living there.
The "tell me about your best project" question is great, but I always combined it with one apparently simple programming question, like giving the quadrant from the (x,y) coordinates. Maybe the OP is able to understand how logic-minded his candidates were just from talking, but many times I was disappointed from the actual ability to write down some code (even discounting the stress of the situation).
I don't think that question precludes all of those things. Anyone who is a "full-stack thinker" with broad experience should have at least one project in their past where they created something they're proud of.
This comment has added far more off-topic gunk to the thread than anyone else's.

Please don't.
It's a 90 degree FOV, Each eye gets half of 1920, then divided by 3 (30°/90°), you'll get 1920/(3*2) = at least 320 horizontal pixels to work with. There are more pixels in the center due to how the distortion works, so in practice a little more than 320.

(edit: actually, if I recall, the 90° FOV on DK2 is actually a diagonal FOV, so you are looking at a ~78° horizontal FOV)
These are handy when you are stuck on a connection that blocks everything but HTTP(S), like many corporate environments.

Many of these web-based ssh tools are based of the excellent term.js[0].

[0]: https://github.com/chjj/term.js
If you can make money with it, people at HN will love it.
I take "special" here to mean "deserving of privileges over and above other instances". In this sense, if you think you are "special" that means you think that you ought to be able to bend the rules more than other people, or that cashiers ought to be nicer to you than to the rest of the people in line, or that you deserve to get that last discount TV on the shelf on Black Friday, or that it's okay for you to zoom past traffic on the shoulder because you're in a hurry moreso than anyone else.

Possibly part of your trouble in interpreting the essay is that you're missing out on what the essay is in response to. The question was posed: "What scientific concept would improve everybody's cognitive toolkit?"

Whether the Mediocrity Principle is "correct" or not is not even the point. The point is that assuming the Mediocrity Principle to be true and acting as if you and your situation are not special is a productive stance to take in life, as it is in science.

It's another way of saying "the world does not revolve around you", "you are not the center of the universe", etc.
Is this only an issue for those using Google Chrome? I haven't had any SSL issues with Github all day using Firefox.
I also took notes, but at a key point/insight level. My notes are here for anyone they are of use to...

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cGeSs5CgRIgMuwjmkq43hsg...
I took notes of key points from each talk which you can access here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cGeSs5CgRIgMuwjmkq43hsg...

Also, nqureshi made much more complete and well written notes here...http://theinflexion.com/blog/2014/07/26/notes-from-startup-s...
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He's saying that there isn't a point of running CoreOS as the base image inside of a container, which is true for most people. There isn't a good reason to run CoreOS containers on a CoreOS host.
He doesn't write code, but manages people who do.
A fix to remove the expired cert right now:

https://twitter.com/aarongraves/status/493116549599739905

Pretty sure this is on Digicert's side, but we (at GitHub) are investigating to make sure of that.
Expanding on the idea of 'redefining success', I love how he explained that if the answer to the "What can I do to make you happy?" question was too complex to implement, he'd just keep asking different people until he found problems that were relatively easy to solve.
I think there's still something to be said for professionalism. I curse like a sailor when frustrated (which, as a coder, is about 95% of the day) so I constantly have to rein it in. This is because avoiding offending people does matter.

If you want to have an open and inclusive environment, you have to keep in mind the terrible things you say. You want to attract a group of top and diverse people? Some of those folks are going to have thin skin, or they're going to have sensitive buttons that you don't have.

They can't avoid hearing it, but you can avoid saying it.

And as for rude code? I've got a team under me now and I've seen it happen already a few times: somebody will see it. I don't care where you wrote it, it will be seen. Murphy's law just works that way. Your IDE will be open when you remote in to fix something during a rough alpha-stage demo, or a variable name will become a database column will become a column of a report.

Somebody will see it, and they will be offended, and it's your ass.
I learned the other day that before the printing press all characters were 'upper case' but were squashed down to be able to write quickly and use less space. Printing press creators copied what they saw in written text by creating small characters alongside the normal large characters and case rules developed out of that. You can play around with squashing handwritten uppercase characters (write them fast and small) and see why lowercase characters look the way they do.
How was SARS deadlier, I thought it killed 8000 people as opposed to millions ... ??
You're right of course. It feels that way because of a. companies we're talking about, b. fact that I live in the so-called first world. I probably haven't made that explicit enough, thus making the comment sound much more general than it was supposed to be.

To restate: being a Facebook user in Europe feels safer than government surveillance. Dealing with Nestlé or Coca Cola in poor countries - obviously not so much.

Also thanks for the other two examples, haven't heard about them before.
Note: Don't take the titles seriously.

Publishing schedule changes? http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=saturday.sunday.monday...

Strong correlation: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=moon.mars

Each peak higher than the previous leader: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=microsoft.google.faceb...

Resilience: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=computer.phone

And then there was one: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=fax.iphone

Exponential decrease of area: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=telegram.fax.iphone

There's still hope: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=science.pop%20music

We meet again, after almost a century: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=america.russia

The baby boomers had it so good: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=marriage.divorce

Didn't last: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=blessings

Interesting: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=luck

Added:

Increasing aspirations or inflation? http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=millionaire.billionair...

Obligatory: http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=hacker
I recommend adopting the The GNU ChangeLog format. My commit messages have been much better since adopting the standard.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.htm...

Example commit: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=0a90af1...
Yup!! It's a great project. Couldn't have translated the ANSI codes without it!
Hmm, that's true. The library could monkey patch .push (etc.), but it wouldn't support setting the property directly with [index] (until Object.observe is mainstream enough).
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The problem is that this method disproportionately hurts people who don't have the time or energy to effectively hold two jobs (one full-time position at their day job and one as an independent developer or open-source contributor by night) because of family, friends, or some other facet of life beyond their laptop.

I think it's totally unreasonable to expect that everyone spend every minute of their lives coding or to have some kind of deep, personal connection to the code they write.

This thinking is ridiculous, and doesn't really appear in any other industry. Do you care whether your accountant's idea of an enjoyable Friday night is sitting at home making more spreadsheets? Would you demand that your eye doctor go home and craft her own lenses in her garage for fun? Competency doesn't require fanaticism, and no employer should expect that their employees devote their entire lives to their occupation.

If I want to code for 8 or 10 hours a day, go home and enjoy myself in the little free time I do have, then wake up and do it again, I don't see why that makes me an inferior employee.

This just seems like more misguided, unjustified cultural absolutism that is so prevalent in the industry.

EDIT: For those saying that the article doesn't necessitate spending massive time outside of work writing code, the author clearly conflates the two. "i have always been convinced that those who love code do not restrict their coding activities to their work. they take home that love and continue to create for fun as a hobby." Personally, I think passion could be a valuable heuristic in hiring, but the author seemed to imply that passion is only measured by your willingness to work outside of your day job. At the very least, that seems to be his expectation of good candidates, and his hiring process clearly disadvantages people who can't or won't code 24/7.
The original and updated title are a bit misleading. I expected an article showing some valuation of Fairchild in 1950/1960's dollars to be equal to $1 trillion in 2014 dollars. That's not the case.

TC is making the argument that 92 companies today had some contact with Fairchild and if you sum these 92 companies valuations you get $2.1 trillion.

And the barrier for whether it's an offshoot of Fairchild is pretty tenuous. For example, they count Apple in the total because Steve Jobs had conversations with Robert Noyce (co-founder of Fairchild) when they were starting.

Maybe it's just me but this seems like far reaching hyperbole.
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Nitpick: there is an obvious way but the idea is that it is very hard to do so.
This isn't Reddit...
Has anyone played with it? Are the backends hierarchical (can you store stuff in multiple backends)? Are they pluggable (can you add a new storage backend e.g. to a remote system or a shared webworker)?
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The downside is loss of security. Since one's already being MitM'ed, there is no way to ensure the SSH connections aren't compromised.

The proper (security-wise) way to use jumpbox is to ask it to build a tunnel between your local machine and remote host you want to SSH into - then connect over that tunnel. That is, unless you ultimately trust the jumphost or have no interest in security besides the basics necessary to shoo away passive attackers.
Yes, I am aware of that. I was trying to make a point about interacting with Web companies in first world countries in current sociopolitical climate, not about corporations around the world in all history in general.
And now you are switching the subject.

> The canonical example, of course, is Sarah Sharp.

In which she had an issue with Linus specifically.

> There are also plenty of examples here.

None of which are the examples of kernel devs brainlessly parroting Linus abrasive commenting style, which is what you've been originally claiming -

> hundreds of other kernel developers imitate his most severe tones all the time
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No, git fetch from MacOSX 10.10 command line as well:

Maxims-MacBook-Air:walk maximveksler$ git up
Fetching origin
fatal: unable to access ‘https://github.com/maximveksler/walk.git/': SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain
error: Could not fetch origin
`git fetch` failed
Thanks for the reply—that makes sense. I think you should change the language in the post itself, however.
The real question is whether some of the pertinent platform features _can_ be implemented on top of the JVM (without being crushingly slow).
I think his vs her is more interesting than men vs women.

http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=his.her

Surprisingly, the difference seems to be be fairly constant.
Daniel D. McCracken was involved with professional ethics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_D._McCracken
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i remember reading up on Forrest Reiling's master thesis:
source, https://github.com/evil0sheep/motorcar
an abstract with link to video, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTcyMTI

unsure of the specs as per legible font size and number of characters or lines,
also, i believe it was on the DK1
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I believe he means each individual viral infection has a higher probability of resulting in death. The epidemic as a whole was less deadly, but he's arguing that's only because of the quarantine restrictions put in place.
I would suggest Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [1]

I have not read the book yet but it is on my reading list. I'm currently going through "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" [2] by the same author and it is illuminating to see the author examine a simple process such as enjoying a walk and reveal the intricate interplay of our consciousness, attention and self.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Psychology-Discovery-Mihaly...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csik...
Not sure if it's listed, but Far Travelers is really awesome

http://history.nasa.gov/SP-480/contents.htm
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People get persecuted based on their (perceived) race/ethnicity. The classification of tomatoes or planetary bodies is not a life or death matter.

Additionally, the difference is that race is a product of racism, not of science. This is a historical fact. The concept of race has no scientific value. It has historical and sociological importance, though, and we should seek to understand that.

In a perfectly rational world researchers could research anything and the world would only pay attention based on the merit of the research itself. We don't live in that world. Research on race and IQ today has predictable consequences: it legitimizes racist prejudices.
That's almost exactly what I was doing for years. Two differences:
1. I sometimes ask 1-2 technical questions, for example if the candidate claims exceptional knowledge of some important (for us) technology, but his/her resume doesn't show extensive use of it. Like: "You say you know CouchDB inside out, but you've used it only once and not for long, interesting.... Can you tell me how the _changes feed works - if I listen on this feed do I get just the changed documents IDs or whole documents?"
2. Instead of "what's your best project" I ask more aggressive question - "imagine I give you 1 million dollars right now and in return I want to be a part of what you use it for - a share of profits, credits in the movie, etc. What would you do?".

Edit: ah, the almost mandatory third question: why do you want to leave the job you're currently having?
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This article looks interesting: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/11/technology/state-of-the-ar...
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Ask HN: Why does the enterprise have such a strong affinity to Java?
I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of how Java actually exploded into the mainstream "enterprise" and has continued to do so at least since the early 2000s. As a regular browser of HN, I've stumbled upon different flavors of commentary related to this in an ad-hoc fashion; some snarky like "Oh you know, it's a dumb-proof language that really doesn't require people to have had a solid foundation in CS so hiring and ramp-up are easier" and some more insightful like "It's not really Java the language, but Java the ecosystem (like JEE) and particularly the JVM that makes it an attractive proposition for enterprise companies". I'm wondering how much of this proliferation can be attributed to:

1. Features. Core functionality that the language/ecosystem provides like the JVM, portability, relative ease in multi-threaded programming, garbage collection etc)
2. Timing. Was there a specific problem during the late 90s or early 2000s that was a sweet spot for solving using Java? Seeing that this was around the time when the internet really became mainstream, was Java primed to benefit from this in a way that set it apart from the then-contemporary programming ecosytems?
3. Scalability. In terms of the number of people you can hire while "growing" your company; could the popularity of SOA/WebServices fueled this as well?

Disclaimer: I'm not generalizing that every "big" company uses Java and I'm not saying that the ones that do are obviously doing it for the right reasons; I'm purely looking at this from academic interest since there's so much rich nuanced history that I feel I don't understand. Such a discussion could be easily extended to ask "What does this mean for functional programming languages based on the JVM like Clojure and Scala". Like Mark Twain said: "History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes."
This was roughly the situation circa 1990. There was a TCP/IP based NSFNet, VMS-based HEPNet/Spacenet and whatever DEC ran internally, a UUCP-based Usenet, Telenet, FIDO and probably some others I'm not remembering, not to mention various proprietary "walled gardens" like Compu$erve, Delphi, GEnie...

It was actually kind of interesting, for someone who wasn't stuck in a "my subculture is BEST!" viewpoint. Innovations arose in a small population, and spread based on merit. Really niche populations (OS-9 on a Color Computer III, anyone?) could live in peace, and not be swamped by advertising and a mass market that demanded everyone be part of that mass market. You could laugh at the hicks stuck in DELPHI, or worse yet, GEnie.

The reasons the author of this article gives for favoring a single market (because that's what he really means) is "it's good for business, especially Big Business". Should I, as a consumer, just nod my head and say "Yes, Yes!"? A lot of generally accepted "good things" don't work from my point of view. Internationalization? I'm a native English speaker, exclusive ASCII works fine for me, why do I have to pay the performance penalty so that MSFT can sell bi-directional capability half a world away?
It's a fascinating story, and a really well-written book (co-authored by Alex Haley). I don't think you have to like the man at all to get something out of the book, although it may change your opinion of him slightly. He changed his stance on a great many things over the course of his life and popular views on him often disregard this.