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The Lightning connector just seems so fragile to me. I haven't broken mine yet, but I have certainly seen a lot of broken ones on displays in stores. I can't say I've ever broken a USB connector. That said, there is something to be said for a reversible connector that doesn't require 3 rotations to plug in :)
> We (as a country) are trying to do something about global warming are we not?

Not really. The federal executive branch is sort of unilaterally trying to do a bit using a legal framework not specifically designed for it, Congress has no clear commitment either way (the Republican Party holding a majority in the House and mostly opposing concrete action -- some members denying GW is real, some members opposing federal government action on environmental issues that might limit immediate business opportunity generally, and others just opposing any specific proposal related to global warming without necessarily having a clear ideological framework for general opposition), and some states are trying to do some things (and some states are trying to promote things directly opposed).

As a country, there's really nothing coherent going on.
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We also have some of those Engenio JBODs at my office for "big data", but I assume they're much more expensive than the Storage Pod. My general experience with enterprisey hot-swap JBODs is that the enclosure costs more than the drives.

Supermicro also has a 4x12 drive in 4U box that looks a little less "homemade" than the Backblaze Storage Pod.
I'm a professor of information systems (MIS) and, although I like to think of myself as a hacker, I'm probably not. I was a web developer years ago (1995-2001) and continue to program various things on hobby projects and in my research (some social science simulations in R and Python).

My main teaching is a capstone project course for IS undergrads, which started out as a traditional project management (PMBOK) course, and has evolved into a more practical exploration of software development from version control, to scrum, to testing, to DevOps. Hacker News has been a great source of ideas for what to explore in class.

The worst thing about my job is that I have no time to become really good at anything, instead having to be a dabbler in a hundred different things. (Or maybe that just means I'm a "full stack" guy? Heh.) The best thing about my job is that I have a couple hundred students come through my classes each year, so I can assign them to try these things out and I can see how they work.
OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone
>Only for fungible labor.

Oh come now. All of us are fungible. None of us are irreplaceable (at least not to our employers.)
That's true, but a 17% difference from expected seems quite large. And if we're talking about people working at Cupertino, the pool of tech workers is significantly more white and asian than the average U.S. population, and I would think most of the Apple employees at Cupertino are pulled from that population.

Apple does have a substantially higher percentage of asians than would be expected from the entire U.S. population (15% vs 5%), probably due to the relatively large number of asian tech workers, but I would think the same effect would lead to a larger-than-expected percentage of white employees.
Then we disagree at a fairly fundamental philosophical level. And that's perfectly fine.
Two main things:

* Bad estimates. When people are too aggressive with their estimates and miss them, it derails everyone that was depending on that team's stuff being done at a particular time. It causes blockages that cost way more than an over-estimate would have reserved as buffer time.

* Getting distracted. Dev should work really closely with design and PDM to get things done, but if Design / PDM has already moved on to the next project, it's distracting for everyone when they have to get pulled back in. Then, you have multitasking, and blockages, and stuff doesn't get done as smoothly as it should.
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I am so sorry, if this contest goes well I will try to do an international contest next! Please do contribute anyhow, I can't wait to see your discourse template!
Unfortunately, most people are going to read the headline, read the conclusion (that Python is too slow for TCP), and not realize that it's wrong.

Hopefully someone will blog a response post that gets popular on HN proving just how wrong it is.
Can you explain a bit more? I've heard some team leads say their teams need more communication.
You could always install a older version, this has been around for roughly 2 years now.
Should just link to the Kickstarter page instead of this blogspam.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/davidyamnitsky/press-fi...
I think it's a fair point that publishing this info on a regular basis is an important way to focus efforts on results.
Red tape and general overhead of a massive corporation. We can't get anything done. They move way to slow for us (team was aquired ~3 years ago). We haven't delivered anything remotely useful for two years. I'm currently looking to switch companies. Oh also the mandatory 45 minute training we had on how to use a new internal HR website that was a complete waste of time.
No worries, you had a good point. We just added text link for the word "Source Code"
Researchers. There have been innumerable studies on the subject - but really it's common sense. If you're a criminal you're unlikely to be particularly adept at the art of deliberation - otherwise you would choose a different way of life. But for evidence here's a somewhat recent review: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1147698?uid=3739920&ui...

Also, interestingly, deterrence is not the primary reason most people push for harsher penalties. Rather it is punishment for its own sake: http://www.law.asu.edu/files/!NoTemplate/why%20do%20we%20pun...
NACTO released the Urban Street Design Guide with more pedestrian, transit and bike friendly designs last year. Here is their chapter on traffic signals: http://nacto.org/usdg/intersection-design-elements/traffic-s...

Several state DOTs have endorsed the NACTO USDG.
What we do know is that sunburns are uncomfortable and mess up your skin for a while, so for me choice between getting sunburned or applying sunscreen is clear. If you are not going to get sunburned, sunscreen does not really matter.
Huh. I started off laughing at this comment. But, I work for an organic grocery company. Kitchen stocked with fruit, salad, healthy nut butters, etc. We ship frequently. I wonder if there is something to this.
Here is a very popular Quora question that details alot of the reasons why software estimates are wrong:

http://www.quora.com/Engineering-Management/Why-are-software...

When I look back on my career the patterns that lead to good development were:

1) small team sizes, I'm a big believer that if version 1 of your product is developed by more than 4 people, its in trouble:) Small, super focused, and highly talented teams make the best version 1 products in my opinion, probably related to why some start ups can be more agile.

2) Everyone on the team has domain experience, ie its not the first time a product has been written. This is slightly at odds with the "second system syndrome". At my current company, when we wrote our algo platform, each member had done this before so we knew from a data, networking, machine learning, and trader's perspective what we wanted to get done. There was very little flailing around trying to learn the domain( ie no learning what ml techniques to use, how to connect to exchanges via FIX, no learning what a pairs trade was, etc).

3) 1, and only 1 person in charge of the vision. This might be obvious but debates, even when they are well intended, seem to slow things down. Having one person dictate what the next version will have seems to make things much easier. This is especially obvious in my current field of finance. Its very easy to spot the products developed by engineers for traders, vs the products developed by traders for traders, The former have lots of features that no one wants but they look pretty and the later, look ugly but make money:)

META NOTE TO ANYONE DEVELOPING A TRADING SYSTEM No one cares what it looks like. I'll say that again, no one cares what it looks like. The Bloomberg terminal is the ugliest thing on the planet and they mint money. Function over fashion, always. I'd go as far as to state that a small team developing a trading system having a designer is viewed in the same light as a small team having an mba. That person might add value, but you'll need to justify why you're there instead of another engineer.

I think alot of not shipping can be tied to these three things, too large of a team, not knowing what the final product will be doing and hence alot of experimentation and wrong turns and competing visions, or a lack of vision of what you are building.
These companies are all like the virtual ISP companies that used to rent bandwidth from the ISP companies owning the physical wires. As you'd suspect, the big ISP oligopoly companies didn't want to undercut their own offerings, and the virtual ISP companies had to ask super high fees to remain profitable.

In the same way, this debit card will be more expensive to use than a regular debit card (The backbone providers MasterCard/Visa will want a generous cut) and this will consequently be a pointless product.

(hope I'm wrong)
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presumably this? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/847478159/the-t100-a-ga...

I am worried they allow water running through the assembly, sea water is very corrosive and can't be in contact with any interesting materials (e.g. high performance magnets). /*

/* ok they use plastic bearings and stuff, not sure what the magnets are.
Not entirely true. PHK outlines some specific issues with HTTP/2 that makes a load balancer's job harder and/or less performant.
Wow this looks amazing.

I feel left out in the coming 'robotics revolution'. I am planning to take a couple of years off from work and switch careers into something robotics. I've been building my math base past couple of months, but I am utterly clueless as to where to even start with robotics.
> If the risk is, "I have to watch every little thing I say/joke with a female founder lest I get blacklisted", if I was a VC, I might choose to avoid female founders altogether.

That's rich. People who think like that should really take some time to read a few first-person accounts on sexism and misogyny in tech industry. Once you've read about how women have to worry about their appearance and behavior on a daily basis just to be able to somewhat tone down the sexism they're exposed to, men's complaints about how they might have to start worrying a bit more become laughable.

To illustrate, here's an excerpt from the Forbes story making rounds on Twitter [1]:

Unlike my male peers, who could wear anything from jeans and a hoodie to a well-tailored suit, I had to choose my attire carefully. Feminine but not sexy, structured but not form fitting, classy but not too expensive, lest I imply that I was bad at bootstrapping and not "scrappy enough," professional but not so stuffy that people would assume our product lacked creativity. My hair was almost always worn in a bun or pulled back conservatively.

During the ten years that I worked in international development, clothing was a tool to defuse gender, a strategy for gaining access to an almost exclusively male professional environment. We referred to it as "taking on the third gender." For all its self-regard as the most forward-thinking place on earth, it seemed I would need to use the same tactics in Silicon Valley.

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/08/07/what-it...
Then the fact that we have powerful regulatory bodies like the EPA, and are much better off environmentally than countries like India and China is somehow just a fluke? Global warming is an environmentalist issue, but environmentalism != coherent global warming prevention -- that's really not a small problem, and would be a tall order for any nation to fill.
Most of the world does not operate on rigid and sometimes funny ("hispanic", come on) set of "races" like US do.

Rather, people have more dynamic nationalities and ethnicities which are harder to classify.
Not sure why it is absurd due to the redundancy they've implemented + data checksumming. Plus AWS hit two trillion objects a bit over a year ago.

http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-two-trillion-objec...
Now that I'm 49, here's my 2 yen.

After a certain age, I didn't care as much about the "challenge" of a new position so much as the money and power I would receive. Shocking, I know.

I also acquired a certain ruthlessness born maybe out of my observations of corporate life, or from a sense that my life's candle is burning ever shorter.

Sure, I would still make the mouth noises and refrain from keeping it real. And I would occasionally succeed.

The problem with revealing a taste for money and power is that it puts you in competition with the company suits - who consider money and power as much their birthright as their perfectly coiffed hair and their legacy admission to Hahvahd. So if given the choice, the suits will always choose less-experienced people who don't value money and power over better-qualified people who do.

Put another way, suits have a sense of inadequacy that only Freud could appreciate.
Hopefully they build a way to view an entire long filename on the ipad version.

Not impressed with their current mobile offerings.
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A different idea, but still an interesting C++ Web development framework: http://cppcms.com
Are you so sure that it is "across the board inferior"? I don't really know about the technical details, but the lightning connector is designed for pretty specific uses. Can it carry 10Gbps and 100W like this connector can? Perhaps the housing contributes to that ability.
The lightning connector is pretty cool isn't it? Apple figured out you could build the RF shield around the signal lines in a single planar unit. If you look at the original 30 pin connector they did, they used a very similar scheme to USB the shield around the outside of the connector, the signal lines on the inside in a separate piece.

I actually think it was the lightning connector that got the USB group to go back and look at their connector designs. The interesting bit about the shield on the lightning is the fairly tricky way they create an island in the middle of the shield and thread the signal lines through it. Makes for a more expensive cable I expect.
Sorry, I was unclear. What I was thinking about was, whether I would be safe with them is hard to assume.

- They probably have more experience behind the wheel, but they also have different incentives.

- Time behind the wheel doesn't automatically mean more skilled/safe.

There's plenty of reasons I could be safer in a cab, but also plenty of reasons I wouldn't assume that.
I think it comes from their AppFog acquisition.
Come work with us! We're growing fast and love people with lots of experience.

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I like this book a lot, but you won't need any of this math until set 8. I spent a lot of term learning things like lattice basis reduction algorithms (I used Strang's linear algebra book and MIT lectures) only to discover that there really isn't a whole lot that requires you to break out linear algebra in day-to-day cryptography.

In particular: virtually all of block cipher crypto and message authentication relies on straightforward math. (It would be different if our challenges covered poly MACs, but we don't have good examples of common flaws in poly MAC implementations).
If you exactly double the pot right before a drawing, you'll have a 50% of losing 50% of the pot (what you put in) and a 50% chance of winning 48% of the pot, with an expected value of, you guessed it, losing 2% of your money each time.

It's not a coincidence that this 2% is equal to the cut taken. That will always be your expected loss. Unless it does not behave as advertised, you can't game it.
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Sure. I haven't really concluded if this is a bad thing yet, but compared to previous places, this is what I have observed. And that is that we will bounce around an idea about something that is pretty (seemingly) trivial for longer than I am used to doing. Typically with the small things it has been "not really an issue, do this or that, it wont matter" where here we will communicate over a decision for much longer hashing things out. I think it comes from a good place of wanting to do what is right and make the best choice. And sometimes it feels slow. Now saying this is the wrong way to do things would not be an unbiased opinion since, all I have to compare it to is past employment experience. And my current place, regardless of the time accrued by these decisions, they are still quite successful. So really my observations are inconclusive at best.
Just be a professional, come on. Engaging in any kind of romantic relationship with someone who you are giving millions of dollars is the definition of unprofessional. You shouldn't have that job, period, end of story.
> Then the fact that we have powerful regulatory bodies like the EPA, and are much better off environmentally than countries like India and China is somehow just a fluke?

The EPA does not exist to address global warming specifically. The claim I addressed was that "we as a country are trying to do something about global warming", not "we as a country are trying to do something about environmental issues more generally". Those are very different claims.
So what does it say about the women who participate in this contest?

Are they victims being degraded?
NANOG[0] warned about it in May, and there is a blog post [1] that expands on the risk. Cisco 6500/7600 (if they are set to hold the complete BGP table) are known to be affected.

[0] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2014-May/066880.htm...

[1] http://packetlife.net/blog/2014/may/6/global-ipv4-routing-ta...
No it's all our own tasks.
> where to even start with robotics

With an EE, CS, or ME degree? Minor in biology. Nature has made by far the best robots. Definitely useful to learn from it.
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The expected amount is always 98% percent of what you put in, so the optimal strategy is to not play at all :)

It depends what you are optimizing for. In most cases playing multiple times will make you win very slightly less in the median case, countered by the fact that you can win multiple jackpots (obviously not too likely an event)

And stopping strategies usually mean having a big probability of winning little but have a small chance of losing a lot. Basically a reverse lottery, but you still lose on average.
That's your justification for why I should feel safe getting into anyone's car? "Because I already face at least one risk, what's more risk?"
Zero tolerance for harassment of Founders or of YC Founders? By what mechanism can founders safely report an offender?
Well no matter how you look at it, the expected value is .98 of whatever you paid. So in the long run you're certainly going to lose 2% of what you invested.
No, your the problem. Hysterical social-justice-warrior making problems where there is none. There was a study done not long ago that shows the number of people taking computer science was predominately white and male. And the fact is any company that does not have a workforce along those numbers (pinterest for example) should be considered as having suspect hiring practises.

But hey it's only bigotry against "white" "males" and it hip to be ok with that nowadays, right HN?
I'm the creator, thanks for the insights.
This was really just a fun project to explore the Stellar API (which is really good, and I hope they will reach their goal and transform international payments).

It seems the attention on hacker news drew quite some payments into the system, whereas I had thought that it would just stay in the play money range forever.
The lottery aspect I hadn't thought about. I'm eager to transform the model to make it less lottery like as I certainly don't want to violate any laws, but am a bit unsure about exactly how. There could be a small chance that 100% of the money goes to a charity, or that there is somehow a matter of skill involved in the exact amount you send.
(FYI, the only other piece of information that can be sent along with a Stellar payment is one 32-bit integer ID).
Any suggestions are welcome.
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"Sadly, I sometimes worry that explicit moves like this deter investors from working with female founders."

Where did you read anything about gender in that reminder from Jessica? That was guidance on behavior. I'm sure YC has strong positions on racism, but that doesn't in any way imply that VCs should be concerned about working with founders from different races/ethnicities.

Just don't be a jerk, and you'll be fine.
I agree. Also, that's a pretty awesome looking QR code.
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You just described my situation and the way I work.

Work hard when you join, get status, show that you get shit done and have a fast turn-around. Your mission should be to make everyone happy. That way, when you lose interest in the job you will be able to slack and still get raises and go up the ladder. Bosses will act exactly as you said, by giving you freedom in hopes that you will spend that time working (which you are not). Sometimes when they really need/want something done they will micromanage, but basically they won't fire you because they know how productive you can be and desperately want to harvest your brain power.

Companies and girls are exactly the same. Everything is predetermined by the first three months (or less) you spend with them.

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Well, targeted outreach for applications followed by a blind review process has been shown to be successful in increasing the number of women speakers at conferences. John Oliver was recently in the news for using that approach when looking for writers for his new show (but he has only nine writers, so it’s hard to draw any conclusions from the outcome in his case).

Please don’t pretend that companies can do nothing about who sends the applications. I don’t know what Apple does, but I do know that many companies are doing some kind of outreach already (going to conferences, publishing job adverts in many places, maybe even specifically calling people and asking them whether they would want to apply), so optimizing that with diversity goals in mind would not be something very weird.

Your portrayal of the situation is extremely simplistic and misleading.
I once read a fascinating article about a grasshopper(?) that uses such a fast and sudden movement to jump that the only way it could keep its two legs in sync was with a biological "gear", with teeth and everything.

Edit: Found it: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-insect-has...
Exploiting a position of power or influence so that one can "get away with it" does not mean that it was ever considered appropriate behaviour.
Never?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Gates
https://github.com/rogaha/docker-desktop
blaming the pipeline does not help actually solve the problem.

Sure, but if the hiring process is unbiased, the problem exists elsewhere, so the hiring process cannot be "fixed".

The only thing that could be done at the hiring point is "overcompensate" by hiring many inferior/poorly qualified applicants simply because they are female.

Certainly companies hire "token" minorities purely for PR purposes, but generally speaking it seems unrealistic to expect a large company to routinely pick inferior candidates for the bulk of its workforce.
Worked for Hefner.
100% agree with the nature comment. You'd enjoy this ted talk by Robert Full (if you haven't already seen it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ascql_RoeBU