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One of the lessons I've learned is that things don't really change very much. Obviously the internet has changed how we do things, but not by much: A time traveler snatched from 1975 would feel right at home in most ways that matter.

When I was younger, I expected change to happen much faster. Hovercars and jetpacks, but also World Government, peace on Earth, and food for the hungry.

We haven't really made much progress. I have high hopes for new players in the transportation and space industries, and for medical advances based on genetics and bioinformatics, but experience tells me not to hold my breath.

But there are also surprises the other way. In 1975, no one believed the U.S. would have a non-white president so soon.

I now live in a state of (very) tempered optimism.
"the people have spoken...most of it was complete
gibberish"

Linus has emitted the most elegant description of the Internet that I've ever seen.
WP pins are not necessarily meaningful. All of the on-chip flash for embedded micros that I've seen in the last few years have not needed an external WP pin.

Presumably stock external flash parts are okay, but it's still conceivable that evil circuitry could cause a write, or at least an addressing "mistake".
This works perfectly for Google censorship; they can take down anyone and then point to the ridiculous list to wash their hands.
Just to be clear: you believe equity %age vs number of employees is more informative than %age vs company valuation?
Apple pushes out HDD firmware updates more often than you think.
I'm in my early 20s and I learned this. I'm so thankful that I'll be able to live the rest of my life free of an over-bearing ego.

Meditation got me there. I think people should seriously give it a shot. It's potentially lifechanging in very positive ways.
Citizenfour Wins Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Interesting how this is the opposite of Knuth's converge-on-pi versioning system.
“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
Don't borrow money.
Show HN: SQLiteQueryUtil- Objective-c block wrappers for SQLite operations
Ask HN: What do you think of my android app?
If asked to explain in single sentence, I would say it is twitter version of Quora/AskReddit/YahooAnswers.

The idea behind the app is this - every question in this world can be asked in a simple short way, even complex questions can be asked in multiple short questions. The same goes with answers - every answer can be broken into multiple short answers.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plusask.android
I'm not a fan of the saying "do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life" - too easy to take that literally. A similar sentiment, but more precise, that fits for me is "know your temperament and strengths, and if you find a career that fits them, most importantly you will enjoy yourself, and have better odds of doing well at it since you are more fully engaged."
I wasn't debating the substance of what you are saying. I was only questioning the idea that there's a "wrong" side of an age, as opposed to just "later".

My read of age in software is that the age discrimination culture is less severe outside of the Bay Area. I certainly meet people over 50-60+ in Chicago and New York who are still programming and highly respected.
I agree! I'm all about airing of grievances, but it's also good to see validation that previous such airings of grievances have led to advancement.
I read that to be more like "the naive interpretation of entanglement". The author even spends the remainder of the paragraph reminding (or educating) the reader that faster-than-light communication is not possible, and then the rest of the article is exploring retrocausality as another mechanism to explain entanglement with violating FTL restrictions.
"There are over a hundred million grains of sand on the beach."

"Say's who? Where's the cutoff between a grain of sand and a pebble?"

I'm wondering where the cutoff is between a pointless question and a stupid question.
You are correct that it does require more effort to make things production-ready. From my experience doing similar things -- not weaponizing exploits, but turning them into polished tools as part of [1] and [2] which I'd consider roughly equivalent -- I would estimate that productionizing an exploit takes about 3-5 times longer than the time required to find the exploits themselves.

Note that there have been proofs-of-concept of this for some time [3], as linked elsewhere in this thread. While it is still impressive that they could link it into their exploit framework, I honestly believe that you could "weaponize" something like the previously linked exploit without a massive effort.

Also note that this is not a "complete takeover" of an HDD, but rather an exploit that allows it to interpose between the platter data and the computer.

[1] grack.com/romtool

[2] unrevoked.com

[3] http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
I'm sure he won't disagree with the fact that some environments are hostile.

The issue arises around the fluff piece with your example: "Redmond, now 40, didn't want to leave her tech career. But she felt stuck..."
Tell me 1 person in america that doesn't or hasn't felt this way in a career or a job.
The real issue is...if those were men, we would not be having this conversation and you would be saying "suck it up".
iOS Public beta?
Physical switches would be an impediment, actually.

Some targets may fall under surveillance and not acquire new hardware for long periods of time. Years.
From the article it sounds like they tried to enter arbitration to settle the matter but it was described as being "less than productive".
Seeing Greenwald on stage was fantastic. I wonder how much hassle he and Poitras had getting into the US.
Practice is the key to getting better at everything. Ignore the concept of innate talent or gift. People who are good are good because they spent a lot of time practicing.

People who practice a lot usually do so because they’re interested in it. It’s not hard or homework for them. If there’s a gift, it’s the gift of interest.

Artists copy a lot. They don’t come up with stuff clear out of their heads. They look at a lot of things, keep a lot of references, and blend ideas together.

Most people who are famous are so not because they’re good, but because they’ve worked hard to become famous. It was important to them, so they did what it took to become famous. Being good at something is a small part of that, small enough that famous people aren’t usually all that good. Their time was better spent becoming famous. (This is the biggest lesson from this list. It basically implies that you can ignore people who have blogs and podcasts. Seek out the unknown experts in your field.)

Don’t make decisions based on money. Don’t stay at a job because the shares might be worth something, or because the company might get acquired. These things rarely happen and you can’t get your time back.

Everyone is totally winging it all the time. Confident people are just better at hiding it.
His black pants wearing bosses told him he'd built it without permission. Then they said only architects within the company could pitch features — and all the architects were wearing black pants !

"Clearly this is not a coincidence. It has nothing to do with this company just being dysfunctional and unwelcoming of individual initiatives or anything, no : this has got to be discrimination against people wearing blue pants like myself ! This would definitely never happen to my colleagues who prefer black pants. I'm sure you can find other stories of blue pants-wearing people like myself who at least once didn't get that promotion, and make a nice article about it with a catchy headline. Go to work, journalist !"

Gender discrimination in tech might exist, but it will take more than anecdotal stories like these thrown together to establish causation.

Any white male developer with some big corp experience will have experienced the frustrating situation described above. This is the control group, and it says your "gender" variable in that particular experiment is BS.

Some white males never get "that" promotion either, I'm sure you can find enough of them to make a nice article about it.
They just don't have the opportunity of blaming it on their genitals nor do they have support groups dedicated to them.

The constant use of fallacies and sensationalism by well-meaning (and less well-meaning) feminists is doing a disservice to taking these issues seriously where they do exist, IMHO.
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I guess I don't understand this comment. Someone wrote about it, so obviously they care. Moreover, firmware is normally considered safe, if it's not then that is a significant shift in paradigm for the security conscious.
Barbie taught a generation that "math is hard". Journalists shouldn't be expected to investigate numbers beyond how well they sit with the text in their screed.
Try both, each medium has benefits and downsides.
How quickly can you reach out to the company to apologize? Were you having a bad day or do you fly off the handle on a regular basis?
- Most people are foolish, and rationalize their emotions rather than thinking. Relying too much on logic or rationality will thus be a barrier to social advancement. In other words, it doesn't matter how right you are; if what you say makes people feel bad, that's ll they'll remember.

- The more vociferously people express their opinions about some external issue, the more likely it is that they're talking about themselves.

- Pay less attention to the news. If it's really important you'll hear about it anyway. Devote more of your mental attention to what you're really interested in.

- Quitting smoking starts to really pay off after about a year. After a few years, it feels outstanding.
"For some (t)reason, the subject of this film couldn't be here tonight..."
Beware, I had similar revelations in my early 20s and personally found it very tough to uphold these ideals. I doubt that I'm alone here on this.

Life throws curveballs at you, and the more you stack responisiblity and ambition - the harder it is to live for your own ideals. Eventually your friends start getting married and getting ahead, and you begin wanting more for your own family than for yourself.

All I'm saying is that it's one thing to realize these values, yet another entirely to consistently uphold them throughout your adult life.

But, as gregd will attest, it is possible.
It seems to be a scope with a range finder that adjusts a virtual reticle as appropriate. It also has an electronic trigger system that probably prevents spoiled shots. While I wish everyone would stop being interested in developing weapons, I have to say this seems pretty innovative.

It seems like a step toward a system I've been worried about for a while. In this system, a big rifle would be mounted on/in a vehicle, like a van. A human would be watching a scene on a display. When the targets emerged from the building, the human would select and prioritize them similar to how people interact with games like Starcraft, and a CV system would begin tracking them. When the human hits "go", the computer system would make a shooting plan that it thinks maximizes the probability of achieving the goal, and would aim and fire the gun as appropriate. To me it seems possible that several people could be hit before they even hear the first reports.

Or more generally, human in charge of selection and prioritizing, CV system in charge of aiming and firing. I think it's not super crazy to think that someone might be sitting in an armored vehicle, steering the vehicle with WASD, tagging targets with a mouse.

Stuff like this sucks! But it seems inevitable because it'd be so effective.
#1 : tech workers are not under attack. Your suggestion that they are and a far drawn remark that it relates to the oppression faced by blacks/jews is an appeal to extremes and is a logical fallacy.

#2 : In the real world, people conduct violence against others all the time for varied reasons. Just because you have a well paying job doesn't make you immune.

#3 : The left/right/center .. Has nothing to do w/ this matter. If you're an asshole, someone might

> say nothing to you because they stand more to lose than gain

> say something to you for which your response might escalate the matter

> enact physical harm against you w/o words (some people just chose this as a normal response to jerks)

If you somehow think the last option indicates hatred, you are out of touch with reality.
You made zero points and your perspective is based on a sheltered view of the world that is reinforced by the homogeneous environment of the bay area in which people often chose :
> say nothing to you because they stand more to lose than gain

I've done my years in tech in the bay area. I gain nothing from dishing on you. You're out of touch with reality and my advice is to relax. You make good money, live a cushy life. No one is out to get you. So, get over yourself. Shit happens in the real world. Your job/degrees don't make you immune to it. So humble yourself and realize you share the world with non-techies... Some of which don't want your silly google glass pointed at them... Nor do they care for your reasoning.. People who face real struggles and adversity and equate yours to being a cry baby (I could easily post an article about areas of America where people are shot in the face for looking at someone wrong). But whatever, it's your life to live. Maintain the viewpoint you want. Who am I to tell you different?

Good day
Given the politics of any gender-issue related topic on Wikipedia, there is little reason to bother reading it, much less use it as an appeal to authority.
Be careful who you swear at on the train
Reading, Writing, Arithmatic and Coding for Kids
I wish I took better care of my knees. It's important to do quad strengthening and hamstring stretching. Just playing a lot of soccer and basketball by themselves can lead to loss of cartilage and having to give it all up.
Find someone to love, and who loves you back. Try to find a community of people, not only here on HN or online, but who you can be with physically. Also, while I love the startup ecosystem, I highly suggest finding a community that doesn't hinge around "success" or money. For example, a gardening group, or a city league team, etc. Find people who you wouldn't mind giving your time to for nothing in return.
How to Bridge the Gap from Education to Activation
Motherboards used to have physical write-protection jumpers for the BIOS flash, and that was something no malware could ever bypass. This was also in the days when BIOS updates were quite rare, so opening up the case to do it seems a very reasonable action to take. I have only updated the BIOS twice on two machines, in over a decade; "don't fix it if it ain't broke" is how I tend to approach updates in general.

For HDD firmware, I think it's something that should not be updatable at all through regular software; instead it's something manufacturers should be getting right before shipping product. I've owned disks from over two decades ago, and not once have I needed to update any firmware on them.

Somehow I feel that this "update culture" has just lead to more problems due to propagating an attitude of "it can always be updated later", where shipping devices with imperfect firmware becomes almost acceptable and it can sometimes become a case of fixing one bug and introducing others.
How to get a job programming: fix 200 bugs on a well known open source project
Why would presume that owners would not want to install electric car chargers in their garages if there was demand for it? Presumably in such a situation you would be expected to pay for the electricity in the same way you pay for your gas, so installing chargers would actually make money. The building owners would have to hate money to not want to install electric car chargers in their buildings.

Also, for many urban dwellers the choice is academic because they choose to not own a car at all. Instead using car sharing services these services would have no problem ensuring that their cars get charging ports.
>For my father's generation (the silent generation) the path to success was a steady union job or say becoming a professional like a lawyer. However for my generation (gen x) union jobs didn't exist and many of my friends who became lawyers are doing quite badly.

I wish I could up vote this more than once. the past two decades have taught us that there is no such thing as a safe job or a risk free investment
I guess I could see having that as an option, but reality is that every vendor would just ship the dries with the jumper in the "flashme" position by default. Asking a consumer to pull out a drive and move a jumper to install an update is akin to asking them to remove their own spleen.
Eventually Uber will fire all drivers and replace them with self-driving cars. In many ways Uber is currently doing things that don't scale with regard to relying on humans to drive customers. Eventually the cost-intensive humans won't be needed and Uber will grow massively.

I could see this happening in many business models. Obviously Magic may fail entirely (it appears to be pretty much just an idea currently) but I could see AI replacing the human components.

I'm not sure how I feel about all of this.
Nobody on their deathbed ever says, "I wish I had worked more instead of spending time with my family."
Feel free to explain how it was offensive.
Very cool. It would be pretty neat to make a game for the Rolls-Royce of video game consoles.
Straight Talk for White Men
There are a few differences but basically yes, physical ops execution to scale the business profitably (or with the promise of profitability some day) is key to a business like this. Physical ops (e.g. running a call center, which is a comparable model) is a LOT harder than it sounds.

Unlike Uber, this service doesn't require any physical presence in a city, just knowledge of services available in that city. So in theory they could launch in Mongolia next week. But, so could a competitor. Unlike Uber's (contracted) fleet of physical cars which provide a material barrier to competition, all you need here is knowledge and a Twilio account and you're in business.

There is a risk here that whatever they (and other startups) do in this space, the gorillas just come along and clone them - e.g. Amex, Visa/MC, etc - but offer the service for free. They can run their concierge services at a loss since they are attached to a profitable card services business. This is similar to robo advisory financial services where Wealthfront etc now face margin squeezing, maybe even life threatening competition from Vanguard and Fidelity.

I've used services like this for years and this exact business model (sms concierge) pops up every few months. I've worked out the per unit economics and it's a tough business. At some point due to automation of background services it will become possible. Maybe these guys will raise a huge round and take that gamble. Maybe the timing is right and they will succeed (along with many competitors rushing into a new industry), or maybe it's still too early by a decade and they will fail. But some day with AI and automation I think this model will work.
Because Chou is younger and more attractive than the other women mentioned. Ironic, huh?
1. That people would prefer a piece of advice to be given by Kurt Vonnegut at an MIT commencement speech rather than for the same advice to be provided by Mary Schmich in her Chicago Tribune column. Even if she wrote the original and he never gave the speech.

2. That people will always prefer the YouTube video over all other alternatives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

3. That meta is convoluted.
probably not nearly as much as we'd believe. Pretty much every case of border frustration that I've heard from this group of people has usually turned out somewhat founded (like when Greenwald's partner got stopped while he was actually carrying confidential documents).

Then again, police harass people for no good reason all the time, so the TSA could very well have the same culture. Not a huge fan of security theater.

EDIT: stand corrected, the harrassement by the DHS agents described in this is pretty horrible
I wasn't thinking of any region or profession in particular, but I am more aware of age as a filtering strategy than I was a few years back.
Australia to toughen citizenship laws to combat terror
The investors don't get off scot-free; if the company tanks because of sexual harassment, their investment fails. For that matter, if consumers cared about the character of CEOs, this problem simply wouldn't exist.
http://www.cminusminus.org/ . It's meant as a compiler target, say, a portable assembly code.
Apparently that was Snowden's girlfriend to the right.
I can't argue that the post your are responding to is terribly substantive, but at the same time, guys who tell me, "No one looks at my chest at conferences!" just don't... inspire a lot of confidence in me.

Perhaps you're saying that you are working to make your workplace an equal opportunity environment, in which case I congratulate you. Perhaps like my workplace, though, there are plenty of inequities, which I simply don't mention too often because I have work to do and I don't want to be seen as the troublemaker. Most of my male colleagues would testify that our workplace is an equal opportunity environment. This is easily demonstrably false if you line up salaries, office space, and academic credentials & publications (I'm at a university so it's relevant). I am indeed grateful to the (male) colleagues who look out for me and try to help me out. At the same time, they are often clueless and have no idea what my interactions with funders and administrators are really like. But complainers and depressing people are just less fun to hang out with, so I don't want to be one of them! Stay positive!
Certainly. I'm living largely stress-free right now because of my remote job that pays well, and so it allows me to easily live an unfettered life. I know for a fact that if I were not so fortunate that living lucidly and carefree would not come as naturally. In the past I was very stressed and not happy with myself, yet still needed to be the best for some reason. I think living in the now and keeping a clear mind is the best thing I can do to maintain my peace with myself and my situation, whether it be fortunate or unfortunate.
https://twitter.com/sneakatdatavibe/status/56970728370314444...
Fair enough, I apologize for speaking for everyone.

Have you never heard a sexist joke at work? That's misogyny in the tech industry. I'm not suggesting it's endemic to tech. I'm merely recognizing that we're not that far removed from a time where women couldn't vote and we still have laws on books that allow men to beat women as punishment in first world countries.

Tech has nothing to do with the disease. We're merely a more observant industry, so we tend to notice things like this before other industries and thus it somehow becomes a problem vs industry instead of just recognizing it as a problem. Tech isn't the only industry that is male dominated and I certainly wouldn't say that being male dominated necessitates sexism.
It looks like its nicely designed. Do you need a lot of active users to make the app successful? Its not really obvious who answers the questions... maybe just add an answer question screenshot.
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Sure, and for some people the solution to that is car sharing, or car pooling, or just owning two cars.
How often do consumers actually have to flash a hard drive with new firmware?
There are fuel cells that don't require pure hydrogen, they can use light hydrocarbons such as methane or alcohol both of which have a much more mature distribution infrastructure in place.
Take cash over equity. Drop acid or shrooms at least once. Don't get married young.
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