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lol I'm in my 40s, work at a YC startup, and we have 3 Hispanic engineers out of 15. So, in short, you're wrong.

I'm pretty sure that you believe you are mild-mannered, but you probably aren't. Your opinions and the things you say betray the fact that you are likely hard to work with. You said that you would not respect people based on their choice of technology. That itself is a red flag about your personality. So I'm telling you, it's probably not your age, it's your personality. You sound like someone who is very hard to work with if they dare to say something you disagree with.
If you read the blog post, GitHub has checked all their repos for for this exploit and is blocking it on pushes; cloning from GitHub should be safe.
He meant there are talks in google to split the company in order to avoid application of monopoly laws.
> I wanted to track my heart rate while I run. I didn't want to let a large company have direct access to my health information.

This! FFS this!

I have yet to find a simple fitness tracker that doesn't literally hold your own data ransom, if they let you export your data at all, and many don't!

Every solution that I'm aware of involves MITM-ing the traffic, or something equally nontrivial. I'm looking at you FitBit!

FitBit does expose an API but IMO this is insufficient for exactly the reason parent stated: I don't want to let them have direct access to my health information.

Everyone in my circles who has a fitness tracker would prefer to be able to export their data without any additional fees, why do none of the trackers cater to this demographic?
You better walk over to the Homebrew office and get the update on a USB stick then, Mr. Safety!
Ask HN: What are some ways to avoid biases in the interviewing process?
Ken Coleman from a16z talks about 3 ways to transform the way hiring can incorporate meritocracy and be inclusive. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/26/ken-coleman-african-american-tech-pioneer-talks-about-diversity/17747925/

1. Make sure that the recruiting team is diverse.
2. Remove inherent biases in the interview process.
3. Implement a robust campus recruiting program that attracts young minds from all backgrounds

With regards to 2. what are some tools and process that can be used to avoid biases in hiring?

I'd like to know how you go about solving for it, if you have examples to share.

Many thanks.
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http://www.wineloverspage.com/randysworld/pinot02.phtml

"We see something, and we simply presuppose how it's going to smell and taste. We know that apples, for instance, are crisp, sweet and drippy. But if we close our eyes, hold our nose and bite into an onion, chances hard we won't be able to tell the difference because onions are also crisp, sweet and drippy."

It works the other way too, if you want to freak someone out switch the coke/beer in their can with OJ while they're distracted. They will act like they have been poisoned.
I'm pretty sure Sony has already optioned this plot and trying to get Tom Cruise for Biff.
The submitter didn't break the rules; this is just the NYT up to its usual title-changing tricks. We've updated the title here accordingly.
Someone is making encrypted Android phones in Switzerland, they said they would cost about $600.00, and should be shipping by now.

They can interoperate with regular Android phones if those phones have their app installed. I don't know what happens, if one calls a phone that does not support encryption.

Boeing is, or will soon be making such a phone, specifically intended for classified communication. I don't know whether they will be sold to the public.
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That's only as sustainable as demographic trends and economic success allows.

In New York State, the pubic employee fund is arguably fully funded, and most employees are eligible to retire at 55 with 2/3 of their salary as a pension. That fund requires a 7% annual return to avoid additional employer contributions.
On an orbiting facility, like the space station, you get some other benefits...

* assuming theres also a filament extruder package (more initial weight i know), you can recycle the printing material some number of times, meaning that you can just not ship a bunch of custom things with each subsequent experiment package.

* Materials can be better packed. Weight is an issue, but so is volume. A roll of filament can produce a bunch of parts that no longer need to be designed and manufactured to withstand "unfolding" stresses - you can just make the awkward shape in situ.

* Related to the previous point - some things can be manufactured with much less material - they never need to handle 1g environments, let alone the vibrations and higher g parts of launch. This means less material in a lot of situations.

* I presume (if there isn't now) there will be "rough" launches to carry bulk materials, and "gentle" launches for delicate things and people. If there is a way to do "rough launches" cheaper, (higher g, higher vibration, more risk since there aren't humans or super expensive equipment on board) then you can provide more space on the "gentle" launches for the the delicate equipment. Further - with more space on "gentle launches" you get a better iteration time, you don't have to schedule space/weight for your 3d-printable parts as tightly.

Basically - 3d printing in orbit provides a nice way to separate several logistical concerns, easing some of the expense and engineering needed per experiment in space.
No, it can be a gotcha because the json column type (which still exists and many may mistakenly use instead of the jsonb type) allows it:

select '{"foo": 1, "foo": 2}'::json;
json
----------------------
{"foo": 1, "foo": 2}
(1 row)

select '{"foo": 1, "foo": 2}'::jsonb;
jsonb
------------
{"foo": 2}
(1 row)

So technically, the gotcha is you have to remember to use jsonb instead of json, as well as json having a true "gotcha" and jsonb not having one.
Good Point.

I read recently that lots of startups are funded by government benefits - food stamps and the like.

Oddly, in some places it is unlawful to receive such benefits if one is the director of any company. I would think that would be encouraged, actually.
There are many ways in which Dropcam is different. For Example, Dropcam's service only support Dropcam Cameras and you can only use Dropcam's cameras with their service. So, if you ever wanted to stop using Dropcam, you are left with a camera that will not work with any other service. With CameraFTP, we support most wireless IP cameras as well as all mobile devices. Therefore, if you currently own an IP camera, an old laptop, phone or tablet, you will not have to purchase new hardware.

We have a more detailed explanation of how we differ from Dropcam and other services : http://www.cameraftp.com/Features/comparison.htm
"Clearly, to get sleep events, the app is constructing a REST call."

This is gold :) Nice write-up, Jeff.
Why not? Does the existence of something not aimed at you somehow make your life less worth living?
Well, for me personally, SR-71 is one of those childhood geek objects of idolation that grows in stature inverse to the rest of the things one finds interesting when they are in their pre-teens and how they look like 25 years later. Most of the things one finds fun and insipirational then end up looking quite silly now.

Unlike the Blackbird. The more one understands about how engineering projects go, how work is organized and how hard it's to do anything novel ones appreciation of the plane and the organization that built it and operated it grows enormously.
Which still doesn't say! That says there aren't any, but is silent on whether there were any. It's probably safe to assume that this is just clumsy wording and he meant to say that the scan found nothing, but it could also be a careful attempt at trying to sound like it says more than it really does.
I think they're just trying to attract more women, not disqualify men. From my experience, women engineers are super chill about this stuff. When I was in college, I used to get emails all the time from the womens society of engineers or something, inviting me to events and stuff.
Can Vimeo build a big business without selling out?
It also includes a link to msysgit for Windows. If you need some type of binary not listed, it would help if you mention what type of binaries you need.
You just gave me a kickstarter project.

Send me your bill in the mail.
Ironically, Homebrew uses git to update its package metadata, but presumably you already trust Homebrew to not deliver malicious software (I also don't know if "pull" is vulnerable, or just "clone" and "checkout". Also Homebrew is hosted on Github, which now scans/blocks malicious repos)
Also a man. I don't give two figs what's said behind my back though.
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And the exact same thing happened with the TFX in the '60, except it was proposed to also fill the air superiority role that the F-22 was designed for, and not the V/STOL one. The F-111, in the deep interdiction role, was the only surviving model.

Not clear the Navy or Marines had anything to do with this Charlie Foxtrot, at least prior to the decision to save money by having only one basic plane.

This is a common peacetime "savings" measure. Same thing happened with the M14 rifle, which had about the shortest time as a combat rifle in US history (although part of that was due to the utterly corrupt Army institution that procured it when pretty much every other contemporary battle rifle design was better, except for trigger pull).
Thanks for the question. We do not support all cameras, so no we have not tested them all because there are way too many cameras out there. However, we do support most wireless IP cameras as well as all mobile devices.
You can at least in theory inspect the library code after cloning it but before compiling it. Insta-owning your machine just because you cloned it is considerably worse. This is especially true if you always run the library in a sandbox of some sort (e.g. you're building an Android app and your code always runs on an Android device or emulator).
Learned so much here. ruby005
Hey yes, good catch:} You can email me at taras@ivc.com.
>Product management does.

Maybe in start-ups or 1-product companies. Even then, this is not a good practice. Your customers will make a choice between you and competitors/substitutes. The product team does not know or understand this process. They don't do choice modeling, they write code.
If you don't want to use homebrew on mac, here is the list of commands I used to upgrade: https://gist.github.com/jazzychad/07c0c6da5709202e8106
It has nothing to do with "self respect". If Chrome dominates why would you waste time/money testing on other browsers?
Clustering is really, really hard.

Cassandra is one of the better ones out there, but you have to deal with its data model and weird consistency promises (which however weird you think they are, are weirder)

The correct way to cluster also changes dramatically depending on your use case. Sure there are things like RAC that promise to make it just work, but those don't scale more than a few nodes.

Mongo is kind of the worst in this - it clusters in one weird way, has bad tooling, and subtly destroys your data at scale.

The general philosophy with postgres is to do it right, or not do it. There are ways to do specific kinds of clustering, but all of them (just like mongo, oracle, etc) have a lot of nuances to them.

If you have a natural shard key, use a bunch of schemas and table inheritance, and eat the downtime during re-shards. Check out citus as well. They have their issues, but they can help you hook up what you need.
Wait, is there any other reason to want to become a wiza- I mean programmer?
Coming from NPM land, sounds like a nice module to build.
Is there a way to set up custom layouts? Eg, I'd love to have a variant of tall/wide-tall that puts the main area on the right side of the display, rather than the left.
Steam has terrible customer service, Origin's is far better.
This might be an issue with github due to load or their security fixes or code scans. I've been able to run `brew update && brew upgrade git`.
I've always been curious about Emacs, but I haven't made time to really dig into it. A resource like this will be very helpful. Looking forward to reading it!
Memo: Open-source note-taking software with hack value
It's more than just that. There are a number of additional checks that are performed for the benefit of various insane filesystems like HFS and NTFS. For example: HFS has several codepoints that are ignored for the purposes of name comparison; for example, U+200C. We need to protect against those, too, or else you could have ".git<U+200C>/config" in your repository that maps to ".git/config".
Potentially interesting source, to be sure. But just a bit discombobulating to depict a nice looking hard-bound paper book at the top of the web-page only to read on the bottom: "The book is ebook only for now. I will supply the book in PDF and ePub formats"
One thing I want to know but haven't gotten around to figuring out who to ask is why msysgit is 1.x instead of 2.x? I saw some mention on their Github issue tracker that msysgit had been rebased on top of 2.x but the downloads don't seem to be updated.

I figured I could build from source if I really wanted and the downloads would be updated eventually but ... they have not.
Netscape 6 did not stagnate for five years. Even Netscape 4 stagnating was only because they decided to cancel "Mariner" which was a mistake.
I am not against conferences like these - women to women connection is different from women to mixed crowd. Actually, I would not mind men only conferences either if they improve the social environment for all the attendees.
> Are we working at P&G here?

No, teradata.
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Interdisciplinary research is a thing. Though I guess it doesn't start from the presumption that incompetence will be helpful.
You claim to disprove a general phenomenon with anecdotal evidence.

I'm a Physicist, I know all about this stuff. That Hispanics are not commonly employed as software engineers is very well-established. Go have a look at companies other than your own.

I do applaud you for employing them. I think highly of Hispanic people.

And yes I really am quite easy to work with. That's why I post like this on the Internet, because it enables me to be quite blunt when I want to be.

In the workplace I work hard to play nice in the sandbox.

Do you know what the term "passing" means? Consider that I am quite profoundly mentally ill. Having Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder is much like being Manic-Depressive and Schizophrenic at the same time.

I would not be able to get a job at all, were I not able to pass as someone who was not mentally ill. It is quite uncommon for those I encounter in person, to ever figure out that I am mentally ill in any way, unless I specifically tell them.

That really gets me down, so I don't make any attempt whatsoever to hide my mental illness on the Internet.
I think it's interesting that people associate programming with magic, but I don't think it's the most enlightening comparison. The actual magic, from my perspective, is social skills and the ability to organize/manipulate people.

People like magic narratives because magic acts as a force multiplier for a single person. The force multiplier in real life is the ability to organize a bunch of other people to do stuff for you. The real Merlin is Steve Jobs or Obama. Just like magic, the ability to do this is generally an inborn talent (theoretically it could be learned, but you can't do anything to change whether it's the kind of thing you like to do, just like you can't do anything to make yourself like golf enough to make yourself practice as much as Tiger Woods).

There are weaknesses to this comparison, of course. In real life when you are using social engineering to further your goals, you become beholden to the network of interests that support you (e.g. politicians, customers). Also, in real life the ability to gain positions of influence is not distributed in any egalitarian manner.

One of the reasons magic is appealing to programmer types, is because they tend to be weaker in these areas, and they wish that they could have access to the same sort of power, but based on the things they are good at (studying tomes, complex incantations) rather than the things they aren't good at (networking, salesmanship). If magic were real, I would definitely be dedicating a lot of time to mastering that, but even knowing the power of politics I am not particularly interested in becoming a politician.
Avoiding platitudes will go a long way. Here's a tangentially-related example: Peter Thiel recently wrote (in Zero to One) that he decided not to invest in anyone who wore a suit.

Imagine if your hiring committee had a similar platitude. Is it illegal? Arguably no. Is it going to narrow candidates down based on any criteria that actually matters to the job? Probably not. I think catching yourself when you're tempted to use these kinds of heuristics is the key. Ask yourself, "are there any direct causal links between performance and the metric I'm measuring?" If not, you might not want to use that metric to make decisions.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-hates-suits-2014-...
Yeah, the title I submitted is the one currently used on the NYT home page: "The Master Spy Who Betrayed Cuba’s Codes, and Paid for It", not the one currently used in the article: "C.I.A. Mole, Now Out of Prison, Helped U.S. Identify Cuban Spies"
Fair point. I was looking for Mac binaries. Homebrew ending up being the quickest way to upgrade git, as much as I dislike using Homebrew :)
Do you know that Microsoft was bribing websites to include features that Netscape would not render properly? How does that fit into your "tech is generally a meritocracy" view?
Nonsense. I've never heard that claim. And that policy was in place long before smartphones came along.
> He ignored me. "This looks more like the _Monitor_ or the _Merrimac_ from the Civil War," he said. "We'd never build a modern submarine that looked like _that_."

it is beyond ironic, giving how revolutionary the Monitor and the Merrimack/Virginia were, how one battle between them has changed the naval warfare for the whole world ....
The main difference is that we are targeting passive candidates.

The primary goals of careerswitch is for candidates to be in 'exploration mode all the time'.

They want to explore better or specific opportunities without any commitment of changing a job.
Tyler Durden is real, and he reads Hacker News!

What's the REAL reason credit card companies don't keep backups?
They know it exists, they don't know how it works or why (unless they run a business).

What? It's just a percentage. You don't need to be a business to understand that.

...which is exactly what I mean by "hiding it". [...]

That's not hiding it. Companies can (broadly speaking) also show ex-VAT prices, should they choose, they are just obliged to show the inc-VAT ones more prominently. People care about the end cost, I'd guess if you polled people, they'd overwhelmingly choose the inc-VAT display over ex-VAT.

Also, in the UK, your receipt will show the breakdown of tax and may also highlight tax-exempt items, so if you really care for the details, you can see them.

The american approach to sales tax, which seems complicated and "magic" at first, is actually much more transparent.

Again, I'd wager that the actual costs are the ones that consumers want to see, not the pre-tax prices. Do US customers really sum their trolley of goods in their heads and add on the exact tax % to know how much they are spending before they hit the tills? Which is more convenient?

Nope. It's regressive because it's flat rate

Um, I'd suggest that you look up the definition of a 'regressive tax', you appear confused. 'flat rate' or 'proportional tax' is _not_ regressive, again by the very definition!

[yacht ownership discussion snipped]

because in the end it's paid only by fixed-income n00b employees who can't justify a VAT return.

VAT return? End customers have no VAT to claim back. They are people that pay it! Now if you are running a business, and so have business purchases, then obviously you need to be aware of tax regulations. If you are a 'n00b' employee then you pay it.
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+1 for this question. I've got a dual head box hooked up to my machine, and I'd do just about anything for a window management solution that would let me divide up this 3840x1080 "virtual" display into two equal displays. Mostly so dialogs stop appearing in the split between displays.
Everything that has the capability to record must be assumed to be recording, I would argue.
You could think of the bias as having two sides.

#1. You won't recognize the potential of a candidate application enough to do an actual interview.

#2. You won't recognize the potential of a candidate after interviewing them.

In my experience solving #1 is straightforward and does 80% of what you're wanting to do.

Thankfully, this was figured out by the NFL years ago. They call it the Rooney rule: you can't hire a head coach until you've interviewed a minority candidate.

That's it! The only requirement is that you perform an interview.

Thankfully, with Angel List, you don't need to work very hard to get diversity into your pipeline. Just keep clicking yes to profiles until you've said yes to some diverse candidates and they've responded that they want to be interviewed by you.

It's less a quota system and more of a marker for how much time you should spend sourcing candidates. Keep up that work until you meet this trivial requirement to have interviewed at least one candidate that meets your definition of diversity.

In my experience, the person who walks in the door is often both clearly the superior candidate and not being recruited very heavily. In other words, industry bias is so strong that your personal bias in the interviewing process is largely solved for you by the candidate being so strong.

I'm not saying not to work on your other biases, just pointing out that this is a high leverage place to start.
I also have a legitimate reason to snap still photos on a smartphone, without making the shutter sound. On an iPhone, it sounds just like an SLR film camera, and is very loud.

However, it turns out that it is unlawful to do that in such countries as Japan.

Asking how to silence the iphone camera on stackoverflow resulted in 20,000 views of my post, several people saying you can't do that, and several people telling me it's against the law, that it would be a bad idea and so on.

Nevertheless, I have a completely legitimate reason to do so.

I expect Apple would reject it from the App Store. I may do it for Android, as well as for jailbroken iOS devices, but then sell it through the Cydia App Store.
But courts should be in the position of deciding whether specific actions constitute abuse of monopoly.
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I'm pretty sure that (on my MacBook Air, anyway) you only need to get a kext installed for the camera to not light up.
It's built into the baseband.

Google around, there are plenty of public media stories indicating that the capability exists. In one case, the FBI arrested a mafia leader based on covert capture of all conversations that happened in a rental car equipped with OnStar.