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Ok, you can break the stopwatches, I'm sure that will make people more comfortable talking to each other.

EDIT, because HN isn't letting me submit new replies: It was hyperbole. I don't care if it's an actual stopwatch, if you record everything on cassette and tally up the minutes later, or if you use some hip new cloud SaaS bespoke locally-grown web-scale meeting management software. When you implement patronizing means of policing human interaction like this, you stifle conversation and make people feel like children.

I'm especially aware of this at the moment, because HN is patronizingly preventing me from making any new posts because I happened to submit some replies too quickly. A dumb algorithm intended to police flamewars is making discussions ITT needlessly difficult to read, and preventing me from posting suggestions for the HN Algolia Search people in another thread. It is just as annoying and counter-productive to "rate limit" people in real life for the crime of impassioned discussion.

Another suggestion mentioned in the article is that of anonymously submitting and "ranking" ideas prior to the meeting. This is literally an "upvote" mechanism with all the familiar flaws of groupthink and trying to assign quantitative value to ideas. This works poorly enough on the internet, let alone in person.
Well, Lua is only just now getting integers. Bitwise operations don't really make that much sense when you only have access to floats.
> Speak up, run with ideas, contribute. If you're gonna be mousey you're gonna get run over. Male or female.

Not only do women face more adversity in this area than men, but you're also writing-off valuable contributions from entire personality types. What if someone in your org has information that is useful that doesn't get shared because they aren't comfortable in the meeting setting you outlined?

Also, think of the talent that you're not able to acquire or retain because this is how meetings are run. I, for one, probably wouldn't stay in such an environment for long.
And your example doesn’t even tell what it’s doing.

I’d have to look up what .expand, .where etc means, while Java just uses the standard FP names that every CompSci student knows.
> 2) Not to be pedantic

You're not being pedantic.
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Yeah sure, but how? It's not like you can pass a law one day and the next the values of every person in the country will have changed.

In my experience values drive law more than law drives values. Marijuana has been illegal for some 40 years (or more!) in the US but that didn't make everyone think it was bad. And now the fact that so many people are unconvinced that marijuana is bad is changing the laws and it's being legalized all across the US.

Critical theory is fine but "trying to fix the system" implies that there is some method by which the system can be fixed other than "everyone has to just grow up" since I don't foresee an "everyone must grow up" law being terribly successful.

EDIT: Let me state that I don't necessarily think the current state of affairs is OK, just that it's a fairly intractable problem that won't get solved quickly. I can figure out what's wrong with my car and install replacement parts. I can figure out what's wrong with society but there aren't any replacement parts.
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Oh btw, your post is highlighted in our blog post Steve :) http://blog.algolia.com/try-new-experimental-version-hn-sear...
Do Android-centered commits use the Linux emoji, or should we be lobbying for a mobile-device emoji?
For some info on bluetoooth, I found this:

https://penturalabs.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/bluetooth-sniff...

https://penturalabs.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/ubertooth-updat...

As far as I can tell, bluetoooth keyboards should be a bit better off. Not sure how the "secure" modes work (presumably some kind of DH-exchange?) - but apparently they're not immune to brute forcing.
There have been a number of bit modules developed by 3rd party developers, including LuaJIT's Mike Pall, in addition to 5.2 which had bit functions. However, the bit functions were slow and a dog to use.
nomadjobs.io, weworkremotely.com, plenty of others.

Incidentally, general networking. I got my current contract via twitter. :-)
In a meeting time is limited. Are you suggesting everyone wait around while she finishes her thought when another person could say it quicker?

What your wife needs is not someone white knighting for her (you or this article). She needs to take lessons in assertiveness to build her confidence so she can get her views across and not be ignored from basics like a weak voice or poor posture. It's not rocket science and it's not a huge male conspiracy against women.

What is true is women are less likely to be assertive, in life and in the workplace. And that can be fixed. It just won't be easy.
This is kind of funny, in a sad way. I mean in the USA the NSA is still saying that the never, never spy on private information, maybe sometimes, in rare cases, on non americans.

While in england they are all like, "No more spying in secret, time to actually take your rights away".

The english are hardcore, the NSA has more freedom in england than in the US. Sad, but funny.
Ha, neat! :)
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It wouldn't be a big enough improvement to be worth it. It's overall less crazy, but has enough of its own warts.
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In my anecdotal experience, a standard compact camera battery, also Li Ion, works quite poorly on a ski slope at -5 to -10C. Battery life was less than a third of usual for several days running, despite a full charge each night.
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They are also alleged to give information to established players so they can fend off upstarts.

The NSA is a threat to Americans just as much as anyone else.
Did not help us much(since we are working with spidev and i2cdev), but did not cause much trouble either.
At the very least, maybe JavaScript can take a page from this release of Lua and finally give us integers.
> should I give in and work with some recruiters?

What's your current job-search bandwidth like? How effective are you at self-promotion? Are you able to directly connect with senior hiring executives?

If you have the time and basic sales ability, you may not need a headhunters help. But networking with the right the people is always a smart play. See if you can identify the few 'good' recruiters who truly understand your space.

*Pro-tip-- these guys are inundated by needy job seekers. Flip the script, ask them what positions they're looking to fill? How can you help them? Do they need any candidate referrals?
> Could this be an admission that the largely senior citizen SCOTUS defers techie stuff to the SG because its so out of their experience?

No, because the SCOTUS isn't deferring, and often seeks the input of the SG on cases, tech or not, particularly ones involving interpretation of federal law that would impact the role of the executive where the government is not a direct party, or ones that potentially have wide policy implications (regardless if they directly affect the role of the executive branch) where the government is not direct party.

This is just a matter of the court wanting to have the issues well briefed before it makes a decision, not specifically an issue related to technology.
I certainly understand the previous statement regarding lukewarm reception.

It's quite the crazy paradox because in my mind's eye, if any group has the perfect combination of ability, globalized community, and gen-y go-getter attitude, it's Hacker News. Yet to my constant surprise people here tend to lean towards meatspace for some intangible but enthusiastically cited reason about productivity, and worse still, plenty of those people even praise cube farms.

It's most odd to me. Please be gentle with the down votes; I'm just expressing an observation.
> they aren't comfortable in the meeting setting you outlined

I'm not sure I understand you here, in what ways could they be uncomfortable?
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If you're curious on how he "finds out", check out his other video (Quickjack - Hacking Facebook likes with Clickjacking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCkSVGhIEb4#t=217
It seems to me, in my unscientific personal experience, that men are much more likely to interrupt, and when interrupted, they have a rather amazing ability to keep talking through/over the interrupter even if the interrupter continues. IMO women are more attuned to listening and will stop speaking because they are interested in hearing what the other person has to say. I've seen many "conversations" where two men are just talking simultaneously, nobody can understand what's being said, and whoever keeps talking longer is the one who prevails.
Someone asked on Twitter about the implications of my personal decisions about work life balance.

It's really simple: I work less because I have kids. No need to sugar coat that.
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>actually for historical reasons its called fmap, but nevermind

Heh, reading that reminded me of this blog post I wrote a while ago:

fmap(), "inverse" of Python map() function:
http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/10/fmap-inverse-of-python-map...

And someone I know also commented on it and gave what is probably a better version, called compose.
This is great news .. I'm looking forward to getting this integrated into the latest MOAI client. The lack of utf-8 support up to now was definitely a little frustrating .. going to be great to get that integrated and functional.
Super self-promotional writeup, without much substance.
I believe the scientist you're talking about is Ben Barres at Stanford. I know people who have worked for him and he's a truly exceptional scientist and mentor. He's been pretty outspoken about his personal experience on how women are perceived in high-power science, I'd encourage a google for "Ben Barres Feminism" to see a few articles.
The article pointed out instances of not treating people the same, treating men who speak out better than women who speak out.
That's procrastination :)
I keep getting

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Additional clarification. The integer reason was the main reason it wasn't in the language, but various libraries have always been available to do bitwise operations. Lua 5.2 included a bitwise library as part of the standard library (which is now redundant and deprecated).

As a library, there were edge cases such as what if you used the number as floating point or what happens with 64-bit.

Now with integers, bitwise operations can be put directly into the language instead as a library.
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> I bet this does add a lot of new revenue for the music industry.

Not that much.The music industry is over. Call it the entertainment industry , where the popularity of a song is mesured by youtube views,not actual sells. Even iTunes don't pay that much now a days. It's good, because any artist can "grow up fast" with a good social network marketing strategy. It's bad, because some kind of music need some investment only big producers could afford before. But crowdfunding can fix that. Yet no one can deny that the amount of crappy music today is just overwhelming (looking at you "hiphop"). Something like Nirvana could never happen today.But bands like Nirvana could have a moderate success.

But if you ask me, as an artist,while it's tough,i'm ok with how things work today,since I actually do some gigs and that's the most interesting part.
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That's one of my favorite things about Swift. I can do, for example:

// version 1
var author: String

// version 2
var author: String {
get {"\(authorFirst) \(authorLast)"}
}
Is it really necessary to draw such a line when the data indicate that both genders are harder on women than on men?
cool. Now please kindly tell me when is the next sears warehouse sale for the sorel shoes?
"Could say it quicker" is an assumption that's part of the problem.
At least get the grammar right, please!
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If "unknown languages" and imagery of incense isn't racially coded I'm not sure what is. The statement was plainly racist, whether it was intentional or not.
I don't think so, apes speak to each other and you cannot understand them. Dolphins speak to each other and you cannot understand them. Speaking is not a human only action.
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This. If they want you to be their head honcho they should have substantial room to move on salary or options if they're convinced you're the best option and you have good reason to consider their existing offer low enough to be a deal breaker

Doesn't mean they'll match your previous role, but they should make your decision a lot easier.
> Unless they eat it while it's still frozen, why is this noteworthy?

I'm pretty sure that's what it's saying. I also don't think keeping water constantly running through pipes is necessarily enough to keep things from freezing at 40 degrees below zero.
You are articulating the zeitgeist of the culture: equal treatment is enough.

You are failing to accept the measured fact that people who think they are giving out equal treatment, are mistaken.

Privilege blinds you. There are problems you never see, that if you knew about you'd be all like "Shit, seriously? that really happens? That's awful". But because you never know, you fill in the blanks with your own privileged experience and so erase them. There are problems, like this one, where your eyes believe they have seen equality, but a camera and stopwatch measures unfair treatment.

You need to stop being so trusting of your own inputs.

Those "different rules for every demographic" are there to (crudely) rebalance the scales. They aren't really different rules. They are compensating for the fact that supposed neutrality is skewed hard. Think of them as komi in go.

And the concept of privilege is there to teach you how the real world works, because unaided, you'll never see it.
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Okay,guys,any solutions to the current scenario?
It is very different.You have a full Linux environment with multiple libraries. It is great for education research and development.

When LTE is not available you can use long range wifi.
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Alcohol is not in fact safe for sale over the counter.

Say what?
I agree, my biggest annoyance with HN search by far is the time filter. If I am looking for a post I saw a few weeks ago I have to search through a years worth of posts with my keywords in it (if it's between a year and a month ago).

I think a good feature to add to HN Search would be some kind of clustering of the same link. So if a link has been reposted many times you can see all the discussions of it in one result.
The Conservatives did not win a majority in 2010. Thus, if they are to win a majority this year, they need to be doing better. However...

They tried to trade their boundary change bill in exchange for House of Lords reform, but failed because of a rebellion in their own ranks. Thus the constituency borders are favourable to Labour.

During their term, UKIP became the 3rd most popular party, which is splitting their vote.

Labour's popularity has also increased since 2010 (when it was at record lows).

The Conservatives' only saving grace is that if Labour does not achieve a majority, David Cameron gets the first chance to try to form a government.

However the mechanics of FPTP are such that UKIP are unlikely to achieve a share of seats proportional to their vote, and the Lib Dems are unlikely to be completely annihilated.

So the most likely outcome is that neither Conservative + Lib Dem nor Conservative + UKIP will add up to a majority. A three-way is right out.

They can of course try for a minority government, but if Labour are almost at a majority and the Cons are much further away, the Queen (should) say "Errrr... no".
This conversation is important. It's a bit disappointing that we see legislation instead of dialogue. The initiatives here sound kind of knee-jerk and rather difficult to enforce.

Companies should be held accountable for the data they collect and how it is used. Most TOS are unconscionable. I'm sure some of the folks here read the entire TOS of every web service they use, but I've never met a person in real life who does. I think a framework for TOS that is basically just a check box "Do you collect: A, B, C" "Do you distribute: X, Y, Z" could be really useful. There could be some pretty cool strategies between web sites and browsers to help users determine what the site is doing and whether they want to proceed.

This is a time for a dialogue that builds a working framework, not a burst of legislation that pacifies the public and accomplishes at best a couple of short term goals.
Wouldn't iron in blood be affected well before this point though?
I'm downvoting simply because feminism isn't any one thing. To try and define it is a fool's errand. There is no generally accepted definition. It's "no true scotsman" to the highest degree.
Right. Like I said, it sounds crazy that anything would ever take this long. And I'm not saying that it should take 90 days to get a patch out the door. I'm saying that it plausibly take 90 days to get a patch out the door.

For CVE 2014-9390, we had a fix roughly 30 days after we were notified of the vulnerability. In that time, we released patches for the third-party libraries that we use for Git repository management (libgit2 and LibGit2Sharp), we released patches to three versions of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server, and we worked with the Git for Windows team to ensure that our fixes were nice and compatible. In order to get the VS and TFS patches out the door, we needed all of this time.

(In fact, we discovered additional vulnerabilities on Mac OS very late in the process. Had these problems affected Windows, too, we would have needed to throw our patches away and start over with the build / test validation process.)

And compared to Windows, Visual Studio is not nearly as big or complex, and can turn these changes around faster.
> It becomes blackmail under certain circumstances, like where you're threatening to harm someone [illegally?]...

As a general rule, if I take action A and action A will result in a higher probability of harm coming to anyone, whether it's illegal or not...I'm a bad guy. Whether you call it blackmail or not, Google is the bad guy here.

> Yup, sounds like competition to me.

Oh good. I hope you can still apply the same logic if your personal bank gets attacked and your money is stolen because of the fact that Google decided to release detailed information to the mafia.

> ...explain why you think this is "anti-competitive."...forbidding a company from trying to demonstrate that its product is more secure...

That's not what's happening here. Google is not demonstrating any product here. The guy who runs Project Zero stated that “People deserve to use the internet without fear that vulnerabilities out there can ruin their privacy with a single website visit,”.

Do you think Google's action here has resulted in more or less of a probability of harm coming to users here?
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The Unicode characters are standard.

However, encoding them as ASCII strings such as ":lipstick:" is not, and that ASCII string is what goes into the commit message. git will not decode these messages as the emoji characters, as far as I know, and I expect that Linus Torvalds would have some choice words if that were a feature request.

Sequences such as ":lipstick:" are a hack to work around the fact that PCs (as opposed to phones and tablets) are bad at both inputting and displaying emoji.
"no reason to presuppose that personal transportation SHOULD provide a livelihood" This.

It's not Uber's goal to make it so you can live off of Uber. It's to provide people with extra money the side. Does this hurt the livelihood of regular taxi company drivers in the long run? Of coarse. But with so many cars on the road, maybe it's an outdated occupation.
Whether its difficult or not may be besides the point -- Not all languages want to take on the responsibility/burden of being a standard. Not being a standard allows flexibility, in theory.
When I was in military we learned to sleep on top of the made bed and only straighten it out a little in the morning :-)
Why they didn't build their houses underground or at least half underground? That will be much easier to keep warm.
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Those are the same photos, down to the captions being out of sync by one.
Not all personality types thrive in the meeting environment you've outlined. The environment I'm envisioning based on what you've said is one where interruptions are the norm, you must be willing to talk over people to get speaking time, and you must be very socially assertive with your ideas.

I know many more-introverted people who wouldn't be comfortable in that environment. I know several talented engineers that wouldn't contribute ideas in that sort of environment. And I, myself, would probably leave a company if that sort of meeting was in the company's culture.
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There appears to be absolutely no proof that such laws would help with their stated purpose. In the cases of Ottawa, Sydney, and now Paris, the perpetrators of their respective nonsense were already well known to authorities, yet this apparently presented no obstacle to them whatsoever.
Whatever you think of the NSA, there's not a high risk its going to start selling data it collects on the black market for use in identity theft.

That's a big assumption considering you're talking about an agency which openly flaunts the law or lobbies it out of existence as needed (thereby showing very little respect for the rule of law) and whose individual agents have shown very variable levels of judgement in the use of those systems (e.g. the LOVEINT stuff).

On the contrary, I think that once that data is in the possession of a large amorphous non-accountable organisation with relatively few checks and balances, it is inevitable that said data will end up on the black market. Why wouldn't it? There's money to be made.
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Agreed. But it's disappointing that Google doesn't feel the same responsibility that they think Microsoft has.
Some great designs here, and I appreciate the fact that these are mostly in the "not campy" category. Your suggestions of "no place like localhost" are getting campy and have already been done before.

As a business suggestion, you should just try adding it and seeing how sales go... but as a likely customer, I like your current curation, mostly just logos deconstructed in a hot way.
Here is another example, porting a spellchecker from Python to Java 8.

https://github.com/jmoy/norvig-spell/blob/master/java/src/ma...
Perfectly viable technique, though if they are written in SASS/LESS/whatever, the author could refactor the icons to mixins with a parameter that sets the scale, so the values themselves are "true".
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I'd like something that searches the remote contents of the posted urls, sorted by date.
The stats are reported by google play services running on your phone, not by actual visits to the play store. As long as your phone can access the play store, it gets counted.
I'm not very involved in politics but it looks like I need to go voting to make sure he doesn't get in.