skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm too anti-social but my role model were letters on the screen all along. Books and education materials belong to a "bit-gender", it's a piece of info and gender doesn't go in the play.
I. e. in book written by Evi Nemeth and others I could not tell whether the respective part is written by she or he.

Maybe I'm too geeky and other people actually need physical humans like themself to cling to? :) That's a weird idea.
Another sexist article. Tech is completely gender neutral. Git doesn't care about you or you partner. If your job is not satisfactory - leave and start your own show.

Why focus on "sexism" instead of technology? Oh, right. Sexism is easy to write about and brings clicks. Tech is boring and requires competence.
There are responses in here that say they are in a healthy environment where they "feel great, valued, treated equally, competent and successful". What's the magic ingredient to a healthy working environment for everyone? Or is it just an environment where implicit/explicit bias towards minority groups in tech just doesn't exist? How do you make someone who is a minority on the team feel like a valued and vital member of the team?
Thanks, but doesn't that contradict Sam?

You're saying "2 founders + 1 investor" maintains founder control. Of course it does.

But Sam's recommendation is 2 founders + 1 or 2 investors + 1 outsider.

My guess is what Sam means by "keep enough control so that investors can't fire you" is to have an outsider on the board so that the investor class is never in the majority by themselves. But if I understand you Paul you are explicitly saying that's a situation founders should worry about, and that they should instead keep themselves in the majority without relying on an "independent".

Basically what sounds best to me as a founder is to have outsiders on the board, so that you get the best advice, but maintain founder control through a voting agreement. But then again that also sounds not that different from an advisory board.
Do you know why the new interstellar movie is on that domain? https://interstellar.withgoogle.com
I don't think your attack violates the security model of this protocol. One of the proofs in the paper is that if you have a network of good and bad nodes the bad nodes can use tricks like you posted to discover whether a good or bad node sent the message. I think that's all they can discover: did an attacker send this or not? But then again they already knew that, didn't they? So I think your attack is only interesting for 3 nodes.
> This is rubbish. If I use custom assembler then that's what gets run. Even if I use C code then I know what the result will be since I can actually check.

It is "rubbish?" Nobody does that. Most crypto libraries are written in C or C++.

You can pre-JIT (AOT) managed code and check there too.

> That's certainly the ideal. But it's impossible - one result will succeed the other won't.

It is absolutely possible with high coding standards. Keep in mind you only have to write "correct" code in sections which have access to things like crypto keys (or things that are derived from similar), since that's what at risk with timing attacks.

> You might have that guarantee in practice on a particular JVM for example, but the whole point of using something like a JIT is that it will be smart about optimising stuff based on what actually happens.

If the code paths are identical (failure and success) what is it optimising out exactly?
And you stood corrected.
Too bad they didn't add support for ChaCha20 and Poly1305

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/10/07/chacha20.html

Also, did they even add support for Curve25519? Or are they still forcing us all to trust the (almost certainly) tainted NIST curves?
I love that you have overandoverrickandmortyadventures.com! I just binge watched season 1 and checked every domain name; surprisingly there are a few mentioned in the show that are still unclaimed (I think one was mentioned by the fake door salesman in a later episode where they watch interdimensional television)
I'm not a huge Drupal or Wordpress fan but I can see how people would want to deploy either of those CMS options. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts regarding this discussion:

https://github.com/deis/deis/issues/448
And the run-time of a managed language is 100% able to change all the timing of that if it's smart enough. It provides a guarantee of outcome not of timing. There are examples of unexpected optimisations even from static compilers such as gcc (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56888 for example). There's nothing stopping the jvm from bailing out early even in your second example. If you'd done something like xoring all the bytes together then checking the result then maybe we'd be approaching something that it's unlike a jit could handle, but the code as is seems ripe for a decent optimiser to me. And remember that according to the spec you're now coding for a perfect optimiser, not just a decent one...
We haven't yet, I got in touch with him and made the site before I moved to the bay area so it wasn't possible at the time.

But that would be appropriate! I'll try to make it happen.
you don't need conspiracy theories to put forth that disabling encryption (for whatever reason) enables dragnet/any surveillance by whichever parties have access to the transmission medium. the NSA will be happy to collect your unencrypted data regardless of whether they had any part in disabling the encryption.
Your page is way too tall for the amount of information you put. And the most important stuff is at the bottom.
Can we learn from other industries that are facing similar challenges? I'm certainly impressed with the medical and legal professions for dramatically improving the gender balance in the past 30 years[1]. Can we adopt some of the strategies learned there? Google's changes in maternity leave [2] dramatically increased their retention of new mothers but retention is different than attraction and promotion. The "sexual harassment" training at my old fortune 500 job certainly didn't have any helpful information about encouraging diversity aside from don't do anything that could you sued...

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/12/more-women-...
[2] http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/08/28/google_mater...
The only problem is that there are two other malls for residents of Plano to go to, Stonebriar and Willow Bend, and they are both doing just fine. The "outdoor malls" of Firecreek and the Shops at Legacy are also doing well. Insofar as Plano is concerned, it is only Collin Creek that is suffering.

So TFA is being slightly hyperbolic. There are many malls who have done poorly, and the mall at the heart of the article is one of them. But there are also many malls who have done quite well. It doesn't speak about those.
It was the same for me while I was "just a programmer" but I've moved into executive positions and have to deal with people on a human level. I am really enjoying the change in challenges and often miss that I could spend days on end with the "bits". I consider myself extremely lucky to have a role model who is an incredible person. Without her I would feel lost, and hope I can repay the favour some day to some young women.
Hi Miles, I really like the page and the idea behind!

Do you know www.startuptravels.com? There's approximately 42 entrepreneurs at the moment of writing in the bay area who'd like to meet other entrepreneurs for a coffee and a chat.

Direct link to the SF search: http://www.startuptravels.com/search?location=San%20Francisc...

Edit: If anyone wants to show a little support. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8592850
I've definitely seen this. It's probably a consequence of how women are depicted in our society: women in movies/TV are either young and beautiful or matronly old crones. The period between 40 and 60 just doesn't exist (presumably women are busy raising children then?) Any actresses whose careers are fortunate enough to survive turning 40 are usually because they either naturally look younger or have a good plastic surgeon. Men, on the other hand, don't shed their "boyish good looks" until their late 30s and can be considered sex symbols well into their 60s. Thus how you get stupid romantic comedies with a 25 year old woman falling in love with a 50 year old man.

But you're right, it's not fair. But I don't think this particular problem is isolated to tech.
The Pursuit of the Ideal [pdf]
>Girls should be exposed to sciences/tech and working together with their male peers on complex projects very early in the K-12 system.

I think most people here agree with that statement. The problem is realizing how difficult that is to accomplish when the field is almost in a paradox of male control. The key will always be early exposure to STEM and people that aren't like yourself, but currently this is difficult for women because they are forced into lower self esteem on average than men.

Once women feel like they have the same amount of power in society as men, that's when we start to focus on social adjustment at an early age. Until then, it remains very hard for female-identified persons to "adjust themselves" when they lack adequate role models.
That makes sense to me, interview problems are highly synthetic and most people will probably need to prep specifically for the common tech interview process. If you don't have access to people who are interviewing regularly then it would be easy not to fully grasp how important this type of thing is to your earning power, given the lack of importance to your job performance.
Sounds like an Orson Scott Card plot from Xenocide i.e. Descolada.
Yeah, this place is a lot like that. Movie Theater (actually the nicest theater in town) with a sushi bar in it, H&M, Barnes and Noble, etc. We're too small for an IKEA (the closest one's in Atlanta).
How are you marketing this page?
Surprisingly enough, executive positions usually have much more level gender ratio around me. It should be easier to find a role model there.
Flynn co-creator here.

Short answer: A lot. At Flynn we're building solutions to what we see as the big problems that developers will face in the next few years. Deis seems to be solely focused on Heroku-like featureset.

Flynn runs anything that runs on Linux, including stateful services like databases. In fact, we package major open source databases as "appliances" that run within the Flynn cluster for ease of use.

Deis has historically required users to use very specific technologies (initially Chef, and now CoreOS). Flynn does not rely on a specific Linux distribution or configuration management system. In fact, Flynn was designed to be modular to give users the greatest possible choice of components (Deis uses a few components we created for Flynn).

Flynn is designed to be a single toolkit that lets you run everything, not just twelve-factor stateless webapps.

We have created a lot of new technology where necessary but we also use off-the-shelf components like CoreOS's etcd, which Deis also uses. Neither we nor CoreOS consider etcd production-ready, and we don't consider any platforms (including Flynn) production-ready until etcd and all underlying components are stable (Deis also depends on the CoreOS alpha channel).

When you see a "1.0" release from Flynn it will come with our full confidence in the stability of all of its components. We also aim to go well beyond what's possible in Heroku today.
Partnering with Mozilla
I saw a great video somewhere I forget where about viruses and how vaccines dramatically reduced deaths from viruses.

I'm not sure what an age band is but the I saw video showed data of infections for many years it showed typical chart with peaks during each year. That data was rotated 90 degrees toward us the viewers so now each peak showed as a single vertical line.

The end result was a horizontal barcode type chart showing different clusters in certain decades.

Up to 1960 it was very dense waves but after 1960 (almost exactly) it's as if someone flipped a switch and suddenly large numbers of deaths from viruses stopped.
So what I can't figure out is if the new outdoor malls are just a fad, or if they represent a different shift in retail planning that will stick around for a long time. I will admit that I like the outdoor ones that have multiple avenues built in for wandering around, and it feels like the shops are more substantial then mall stores.

The article mentions that when an anchor leaves a raditional mall, the disease spreads, are outdoor malls immune to this effect?
This potentially quite a profound result -- especially if cooperative behaviors and information processing capabilities comparable to that of, say, insects or small animals (in the sense of Animalia) can be quantitatively assessed.
Thinking about it in the abstract, it seems to me that the probability goes up as interfaces get smaller/narrower (which apparently is a style that go encourages) and the codebase gets larger (which is go's target environment).
Best thing you may get is a scientific journal. These are expensive though. If you are affiliated with a university you can check their catalog.
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Introducing Soylent 1.2 [100% Vegan]
For the curious minds trying to figure out what's right in this world: you would be doing yourself a great injustice by not reading this.

About the author:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaiah_Berlin
Great idea. Just a heads up, the email validation in your index.js isn't functioning; it accepts any arbitrary string (or none at all).
Voltron YES another youth memory that I assure you does not look so good in 2010s.

General startup advice that can be learned from this : Kids have always had really bad taste. You can make money off that. But always keep in mind, "the kids like it" does not equal "that proves its good". Teens arguably due to hormonal impact have even worse taste than kids.
Women discriminate against men. Example from today:

http://imgur.com/YkHsCJY
Thanks! I really appreciate the praise, some of my friends didn't get it.

It was fun being able to register a domain and have the site for it done before the DNS finished propagating. Plus the whole site, favicon and all, is just one file which is 3kb unzipped:

https://github.com/MilesOkeefe/overandoverrickandmortyadvent...
An other example, how software (and other low invention height-) patents are just existing to get money from small companies and startups (and thus being a new toll for innovation laid unto the later customers).

An insurance might be a good thing for some startups to reduce the risks, but it is only a second- (or third-) best solution for the main problem.

The main problem is, that what once should help innovative people, today does the opposite -- it hampers innovation and is a shield against creative companies for dinosaur corporations and a living for so called "patent trolls". And it is -- in any case -- a streaming money-fountain for lawyers.
> All corporations must have a board of directors

It this a legal requirement, or is it just by convention? Has anyone ever experimented with alternate company structures?
San Francisco in particular has really visible "bro" culture it feels to me. It's probably just a reflection of the kinds of perks the industry provides, and of the "gold rush" itself. Smaller cities have a far more inclusive experience, for sure. Watch a Bay area bus drop all its people on an evening, it's a bunch of young men pouring back into the city. Friends of mine who commute say no-one speaks to anyone, ever. I find that really sad and can certainly say if there were at least 30% women on those buses nearly everyone would know each other a little.
The next steps is to tear down the old mall, and replace it with an "inverted mall." Big box stores on the edges of the property, and parking in the middle.
That's a big thing, and it's hard to solve too, in both directions. Some might argue that artists don't get a fair shake when someone just hears one song in a playlist of other songs. Some even claim that you can't listen to one song, you have to listen to the album (Garth Brooks and Pink Floyd are two examples). On the other side of the coin, who here has bought an album after hearing one song on the radio, only to find out the rest of the album sounds completely different? I know much of my family bought Kid Rock's album when "Picture" came out on the radio, only to find out he's a rock/rap artist, not a country artist. They spent $20 on literally one song.

I've done that on Spotify. I hear a song I like and go to the entire album, to find I hate the rest of the album. That's fine. That one song goes in my playlist and I listen to it over and over again, and the artist gets paid for making a song I enjoy, rather than me not buying their album because I know there is only one song I will enjoy.
How many employees does Brightroll have?
That's pretty much the definition of it. It's what just about every language out there calls a vector.

If you want a blackbox object that has Lookup(), Add() and Set() but with no guarantees about the underlying algorithm, you should probably avoid calling it a vector...
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It's not broken; it's an intentional form of user validation.
Yeah same thing down in Bham. The indoor malls are becoming derelict, with the use of the word "mall" reverting to an original meaning, like an outdoor area that happens to include sidewalk stores.
I agree, this should clearly be illegal.
I don't see any serious advantages for using GNU/Linux over MacOSX because I live in userland and I can get all my gnu utils and open source programs through MacPorts.

Linux is a programmer's paradise and you can basically whatever you wanna do with the system. IMHO the most serious lack is a set of good looking office programs and some lack of interoperability when you needed. On the other hand you get to have much more flexibility than any other OS out there.

Windows to me seems like a mobile OS. It's so restricted and the possibilities are so limited that's scary (DOS vs Bash/Zsh/any-shell + gnutools... comparison doesn't stand, no way).
> Most students decide at a very young age whether or not they're good in math and science.

Do they decide or are they told so on exams? Isn't being "good at math" just a function of how many math-knowledgeable adults surround you whom you could ask for help? Could educational technology (think books---not iPads) make "math help" more accessible and ultimately boost the percentage of "good in math" people to 100%?
Agreed seems a bit low. Here's the TC article http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/11/confirmed-yahoo-acquires-br...
I have to say, as someone twice your age, I'm humbled by how many projects you've put out there. Sure, a lot of them are small and simple, but there's something to be said for just doing stuff. I spend too much time agonizing over whether my ideas are good enough, big enough, will make me money, etc. I'd probably learn more and have more fun if I allowed myself the freedom to do small interesting projects without any expectation of what they'll turn into.....
> It's that you can look at native code and predict its side effects more easily than you can with high-level code.

You people are shifting the goalposts so many times in this thread. We've had JIT optimisation, we've had GC, we've had "managed code is too complex!," we've had "write everything in ASM," "side effects," "java's string comparison is too slow," and so on.

I'm done. You people don't know what the heck you're talking about, none of you. Now I am getting downvoted because I, amazingly, actually understand what the hell a timing attack is, how it is exploited, and how it is mitigated.

Nobody in this thread has been able to explain why managed code would be more vulnerable and the vast majority of the posts just prove that the poster either doesn't understand what a timing attack is or how they're mitigated.

Your post broke the camels back by simply being so low quality and using so much faulty logic. As I said I am done here. Too much ignorance.
If I understand correctly, facts can't be copyrighted. I therefore can't copyright a^2 + b^2 = c^2.

I can copyright the text of my proof, but not the fact being proved.
How is this different than standard Patent Infringement Insurance that already exists?
I've been using Fedora exclusively for 4 or 5 years... Linux in general since 1995 (slackware on a mountain of 3.5" floppies!!!)

I love it because it allows me to get the most out of my machine. I've been using xfce and like it everywhere. Most of my work is on Linux machines of one flavor or another (mostly RHEL and a few Ubuntu) so it makes sense.

If I absolutely must do something with Windows, I have a vm that I crank up; then I can edit MS Word, PowerPoint, do my taxes, or update my GPS (Win only updater). I'm trying to convince folks at work to move to Google Docs with some success.

I won't switch to anything else any time soon; Linux does everything I need!

I may switch from Fedora... the continual update process is starting to feel like a treadmill... sometimes the version updates break a lot of things. I may switch to Debian to have a stable platform that doesn't go crazy with updates like Fedora; I've been playing with it on a vm and it seems fine.

I have a Chromebook in the kitchen for web browsing, checking email, etc. and it's surprisingly useful. I couldn't live with it day to day, but I've started to carry it while on the road more often; it's very small, light, and the battery lasts forever.
Yes, that's what I meant. How much is your buffer?
That sub is the modern version of the comic book back pages.
Damn, that's good.
> It is "rubbish?" Nobody does that. Most crypto libraries are written in C or C++.
> You can pre-JIT (AOT) managed code and check there too.

Take a look. You'll see that for example openssl uses perl to generate assembly, and nettle also uses native code. This is needed if you want to use things like the AES instructions on modern CPUs.
A few companies I know only do college recruiting from specific schools (the elite schools). The Director of College Recruiting for one of those companies told me - we only go to those schools for recruiting events; however, anybody from any school in the US can apply for any vacancy listed on our website; the person will simply have a longer/larger pipeline to go through.

I should add that the companies that I'm referring to are NOT startups.
> ... only capable of being happy if they have "more" than their neighbours. This is a well-documented, empirically proven fact of human life ...

It's so nice when somebody takes a tiny, contingent finding from some small-n social science studies and blows it up into an incontrovertible framing for the entire world. Nice in that I can quickly ignore pretty much anything they say from that point forward.
Radically faster and simpler window switcher for Mac
most of the public video ad companies have fallen substantially
SpaceX developing micro-satellite network to bring Internet access to the world
This looks pretty cool; I just registered.

However, I will be that guy that points out that only four of the 33 speakers are women and over two-thirds of the speakers are white men.

While I do appreciate that a good number of the non-profits are ones that help women code, having a low number of women/minority speakers certainly doesn't help and could even be counterproductive to those causes.
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I didn't bother with any validation client-side, I have the email validation happen on the back end only.

In retrospect, I should have placed the inputs in an actual <form> element so that Chrome's email validation would take effect.
a) archlinux

b) I get things done faster. Every bit of it was built according to my own personal habits and is therefore a really fluid experience as opposed to interacting with a machine on someone else's terms. Its probably pretty difficult for anyone else to use though.

c) Not really.