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I don't even know what you're talking about. People have preferences for a reason. It's not a static property of reality. So what if men don't like Twilight? We could easily rewrite Twilight if we wanted so that they do.

Women don't like STEM? Change STEM so that they do. What do preferences have to do with anything? We don't have to abide by them.

Preferences are not a problem, social inequalities are a problem.
6 hours ago you asked 'How to get a job when just starting out?' without providing any information.

20 days ago you asked 'Help me starting out my career.' where the information boiled down to 'I have no knowledge whatsoever, Please help me how to start off. I need help regarding what to do, study etc.' https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hotshot

I'm not sure I could give you usable advice on part-time jobs without information what you already tried, what you think is holding you back or why you think a random HN question will get you on the right path to an unspecified job.
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This is a question of ethical experiment design.

You by definition start with a postulate that there is an "unwanted mental health effect" you want to reduce. We'll assume for the moment it isn't permanent schizophrenia. To see if you've reduced it, you need a control group getting the "wild type", who will be at risk of getting permanent schizophrenia to the best of our current knowledge. If that risk is real, there's also a real chance the causative agent(s) will be administered to the control group.

BTW, two of the major active ingredients are already legal drugs or being tested in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Marinol (Schedule III!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabilone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabiximols (in US Phase III drug trials)

So your initial premise that the US government hasn't been allowing medical research is not quite the case. However, unlike recreational use, pharmaceutical use has a much higher tolerance of side effects, there's medical gain to be balanced against risks, or so you believe and keep testing at each stage of the drug trials.
The amount of damaged cars and stationary objects and injured people in bad-driving countries belies that particular nugget of cultural relativism.
You just articulated all the issues I have with these frameworks (Backbone is another one that comes to mind) - the boilerplate code violates the hell out of YAGNI, which for me is a core principle of my development style.

You end up building a ton of boilerplate code that is capable of handling anything your system evolves into, but most of it is wasted because each part of the system typically only uses a small subset of functionality of the framework. So you're left with a bunch of big crufty systems laying around. When I want to be the most lightweight and agile and capable of changing my direction is at the beginning of a project when I'm still learning how the system will work. These frameworks make it really tough (at least for me) to do that so I end up not using them.
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Nice and well done!

One gripe: the number font looks like Comic Sans. I know it's not Comic Sans but it's very close to and give the game kind of an amateurish look.
That's a classic open office plan fail. Sales and account management do not need to be in the same space as dev.
There's also a right way and a wrong way to disseminate information within a team that doesn't require a work environment that's detrimental to productivity (code reviews and pair programming immediately come to mind).

Open plans as a way to avoid "siloing" is the wrong solution to a much bigger problem.
but I need my own desk, and my back to a wall

I'm curious why you want your back to the wall. All the people I know that do this are chronic goof offs. They always scramble to cover whatever they're looking at when I come in to talk with them.

I am genuinely curious and not trolling you.

EDIT: downvotes? Really? This is a very legit question and is producing legit conversation.
Looks like that first link got truncated to the ellipsized display form when you copypasted; full one should be;

http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-...
Reasoning from intuition has a terrible track record, I'm afraid.
Can you explain what the difference you think there is between a proxy card and tokenization, if the proxy card was randomly generated each transaction (which wallet supports)

(Hint: There is no difference, both would be valid methods of tokenization by the spec :P)
Alternatively, there is a very similar example, including a talk, right from the source:
https://github.com/facebook/flux/tree/master/examples/flux-c...
https://facebook.github.io/flux/docs/chat.html#content
I interview 3-4 times/month in the bay area, as a way of keeping myself in tune with the interview process for when I do want a new gig, seeing what new tech trends are popping up in interviews (and what specific gotcha questions are popular), and so on. Generally I don't intend to take the job. It could certainly be interpreted as trolling the process, but I've taken the opportunity to note things I didn't love about the company when I decline offers (I see it as the mirror of wanting a company to be specific about weaknesses if they choose not to hire me), including open or noisy office space, the appearance of high pressure to work unnecessarily lengthy hours, poor clarity in equity granting, and lack of diversity.
Could you reference a study that makes that claim? I've never heard that before.
You make it sound like noone has analyzed cannabis smoke. Do you really believe that? Obviously they have. Here's an easy read summary.

http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.answers.php?question...

The interesting one is:

> Dale Gieringer, PhD, State Coordinator of the California National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), stated in his 2004 article "Cannabis Vaporizer Combines Efficient Delivery of THC with Effective Suppression of Pyrolytic Compounds," published in the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics, where he compared the chemical constituents of marijuana smoke (from a glass pipe) with marijuana vapor (from a vaporizer machine):

[...]

> Comparison runs using combusted [burned] cannabis presented a strikingly different picture... Review data from the gaseous headspace detected 111 tentatively identified compounds, including THC and CBN. Included were five known PAHs [polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons]. Cannabinoids represented only 12% of the inferred recovered mass; the remaining 88% consisted of extraneous products of combustion."

And that is followed by a different study:

> Donald P. Tashkin, MD, Director of the Pulmonary Function Laboratories at the University of California, Los Angeles, stated in his article "Effects of Marijuana on the Lung and its Immune Defenses," published in the Mar. 1997 "Secretary's Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Initiative: Resource Papers" by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention:

> With regard to the carcinogenic potential of marijuana, it is noteworthy that the tar phase of marijuana smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds contained in tobacco smoke, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, such as benz[a]pyrene, which was recently identified as a key factor promoting human lung cancer... Preliminary findings suggest that marijuana smoke activates cytochrome P4501A1, the enzyme that converts polycyclic hydrocarbons, such as benz[a]pyrene, into active carcinogens."
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I can't wait for my dishwasher to report back to KitchenAid about its usage + the sights and sound it picks up while idle.
Most of the studies I've seen on caffeine and driving have only focused on drivers who were already sleep deprived. Are there any that focus on it's effects on otherwise well-rested subjects?
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Sometimes I wonder at the limits of productivity here. Your average Office worker can do things that took multiple people to do in the pre-business IT age. We're so productive that we have no more low-hanging fruit to grab. Now we've entered the age of cargo-cult HR thinking like these office plans which are trying to squeeze out some tiny bit of productivity at the cost of extra misery for workers.

It saddens me a bit to think that instead of being rewarded for being productive and competitive, we're just squeezed more and more. Remember when futurists in the past were predicting the 3 or 4 day workweek because of productivity gains and automation? People are working just as long and whatever dividends are being paid out from the efficiencies of modern work, just seem to be going nowhere or into the pockets of ownership.

Personally, I'm hoping this stuff gets so bad that the white collar types start a revolt of sorts. We're seeing the blue collar types being 1099'd to death or worked hard at below living wages. Maybe its time we got squeezed so hard that we start taking a more political stance. Basing our modern work environment on what is essentially 1890's factory work policies (9-5, weekends, lunch breaks) seems crazy. I'm not even sure why I'm even in the office most days. Its all so inefficient and backwards, that all this open office shuffling just seems to be a way to guarantee that we won't ask for the 4 day workweek or the 35 hour week, via losing productivity by having coworkers yell in our ears all day.

I'm not saying this is intentional, its just management incompetence. They also have no idea what to do with this glut of cheap labor. Shoving us into smaller cubes or open spaces just seems like the next logical move when they hold all the cards.
I'm not sure if that's a particularly good graph; I can't get my brain to not think "Hey, look at how big cannabis is on that scale; it's obviously the most dangerous!". I can't even find where in that article it's specified what those numbers actually mean. The only thing I have is an assertion by the graph that a higher number equals lower risk, which seems backwards; a lower number equaling a lower risk would be less nonsensical.
It is a long tail distribution and it happens because of different computational complexity classes. I don't really know if there is anything to be done about it.

I'll give you a high grumpy old forum five though.
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A "lethal" dosage of THC would require a blood transfusion - literally replacing your blood with THC until you asphyxiated. I've heard the LD50 (the lethal dosage that would kill 50% of the population) of cannabis described as "50 pounds dropped on your head from 50 feet."
While I do think this is a good move for YouTube, it isn't enough to win my family's viewership, because the age-appropriate issues of YouTube are not their only problem (quality of content is still an issue), and there are other video sources if I want to educate my children via online videos. Khan Academy is the most obvious one that comes to mind, but we also will watch documentaries on Netflix, and watch the Smithsonian channel on our Roku.
if you don't understand yet, you'll never understand.
Why not use the blockchain model for decentralized CAs in place of trusted CAs?
Innovators and inventors are being empowered by new and changing laws. Someone will invent something more potent than vaporizers until it too is replaced by something more potent. The only reason it hasn't already happened to weed is laws inhibited serious efforts and it came in a naturally consumable form that was good enough.
An aerospace major who took a QM elective, or a physics major who took a couple of aerodynamics electives, would probably cover the necessary material by the end of year 2 of an undergraduate program. If you've got a solid, intuitive grasp of calculus and differential equations, you could probably learn enough from lecture notes to understand this in a few weeks. This is the most accessible physics paper that you'll ever see make the news.
It is explicitly acceptable in the US to fire people for nebulous reasons. We have a "default allow" policy here for firing, which (among other things) makes it much easier to start new companies, by lowering the stakes on hiring people.

We all want the same good thing: the elimination of unfair employment actions. But we should take a long view on how we obtain that good. Considering a more Franco-European policy on employment, it's natural to think employment would be more "fair". But employer policy wouldn't be static given that change; they'd drastically alter both the way they accept new employees and the way they track performance to compensate for it.

All that is just to say once again: you can't read too much out of a vague explanation for why someone was terminated (or, in this case, "managed out").
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True, this certainly skews my impression of driving in other countries. However, some of the examples I recall can not possibly be good driving in any culture (like making a ten point U-turn when there is ample room to make a single turn, or failing to park in a large spot after several attempts).
Closed source does in fact have eyeballs on it. Vulnerabilities are found in source such as Windows by those who are only looking at the binary.

Automated testing tools are also available at the binary level.
It has tricked the https://www.kernel.org/finger_banner page:

The latest mainline 3 version of the Linux kernel is: 4.0-rc1
The latest mainline 3 version of the Linux kernel is: 3.19
The latest stable 3.18 version of the Linux kernel is: 3.18.7
The latest longterm 3.14 version of the Linux kernel is: 3.14.33
I would agree with you they shouldn't be doing it, but I would disagree that's it's anywhere near the equivalent to drinking and driving. People who drink and drive (assuming not to the point of being blackout drunk) tend to drive more aggressively. People who get high and drive, if nothing else, are a danger to others for driving too slow and being too cautious.

I don't think it's a good idea to drive around a 2,000+ lbs pile of metal while in any kind of altered state, but I'd take someone high over someone drunk or extremely tired any day of the week.
The most important thing in software is that humans build software systems. And that they need to communicate with as high-fidelity and efficiency possible. Often that works with small teams that are co-located without doors. If I have to get up to ask you a question, I might not ask it. I might spend then next 1/2 hour trying to read code. Maybe I'll figure it out but you could have just told me in 15 seconds. That's the idea here. But it can work with closed doors, too; especially as the product matures (or, heh, ossifies).
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Totally ancedotal - I have a friend who who gives me a lift and I feel more comfortable as a passenger when they are stoned. Their attention span is low.
tldr; End-to-end encryption does nothing when an adversary controls one of the ends.

I'd say this guy is trying a little too hard to promote his "Zimperim Mobile Security" brand here...
TL;DR - the author claims to have hacked their encryption by reading the messages in phone memory.

I don't understand how this is a valid exploit/vulnerability? How would any device, Android or not, render the actual picture of the message on the GPU without having the unencrypted string in memory? It's not possible. If you have local memory/code execution, you will ALWAYS have access to the messages any client application is rendering/using.
This doesn't consider the post-flop strategy though. Since heads-up limit holdem has been solved, it would be interesting to look at the EV of the hand with the optimal play. I would think hands like 22 should have been weaker than show down value suggested..
yeah it's "Noteworthy". I've gotten that comment before (and thought it myself when my designer gave it to me at first) but it has grown on me quite a bit. That being said it's possible we should still change it.
That is pretty much what happened at my current job. We had tall semi-private cubicles that provided a decent amount of sound dampening.

Suddenly we were moving to new cubicles there were half the size and half the height in an open format. The only people who were allowed to vote on the office changes were all the managers who had their own private offices.

Enough hell was raised over the decision that all the managers ended up moving out of the offices to sit with their teams. They get to be miserable with us in all the noise. However, the overall team relations have improved to some degree.

Our new plan is to move to a new location and build team rooms for up to eight people instead of large floors with lots of people.

Clarification Edit: We now also have a single shared private office that be requisitioned by any employee for up to a day regardless of their position as long as they have a good reason.
I can't speak for the original commenter, but it seems reasonable to me, because if your monitor is facing away from a wall, there is a constant burden of wondering who might be behind you and what they might think of what is on your screen. And this is when you're doing actual work.

When you're not doing work, it makes goofing off on the Internet less of a mental relief, and things are overall more stressful.
This was briefly added in Android 4.something, but Google removed it.
Dunno about anyone else, but i prefer ifconfig over ip.

At least for smaller tasks like toggling a interface up or down.
I rule out companies that have devs working in cube farms or behind closed doors. I can almost always see this is how the company does development by just looking at their code.
> e.g. a small ticket, no penalty points, or similar

This might not be the case in other states, but in California and (I believe) Nevada, even first-time offenses are at least a night in jail and significant penalty points. License revocation is also not unheard of. Classes are pretty common.

Source: former California Highway Patrol employee. I processed a lot of arrest reports for drunk drivers.
I work for an IT consultancy that has about 40 people and an open office. I have never had any issues. Probably because almost everyone is a developer/administrator and people mostly prefer communicating through IRC. The office space is completely silent, and the desks are in groups, far apart from each other. It is wonderful, looks good and doesn't make me feel depressed sitting in a cubicle with partitions shorter than my height giving a fake sense of privacy.

All I am saying is there is a wrong way and a right way of maintaining open offices. Bashing all open offices for being cheap and unproductive is naive.
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Wow, your story about the conference room is almost identical to what Joel (Joel on Software) wrote about CEOs who work in open offices "like everyone else".

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FieldGuidetoDeveloper...

"A fairly common Silicon Valley phenomenon is the CEO who makes a big show of working from a cubicle just like the hoi polloi, although somehow there’s this one conference room that he tends to make his own (“Only when there’s something private to be discussed,” he’ll claim, but half the time when you walk by that conference room there’s your CEO, all by himself, talking on the phone to his golf buddy, with his Cole Haans up on the conference table)."

Thing is, even if a CEO isn't converting a conference room into a private office, even if the CEO is sincerely working in the same office space as everyone else, it still doesn't work. PG wrote about this on a related note in the makers vs managers's schedule. Mild interruptions don't seem like a big deal to managers, and the nature of their jobs means that they'll place constant communication far above quiet, focused, uninterrupted work.
I have a workshop with an office-y looking corner that barely ever gets used. If you aren't using a machine tool, and are coding or doing paperwork, please stay home and do it from home.

There's a catch-up meeting once a week, usually on Wednesday afternoon because that's when it works for everybody, and everything else is via video call.

The people operating the machine tools talk to me directly, but they're mostly there to build what I design.

Seems to work OK for everyone except for one lady who I've let go because she kept showing up to work stoned (I don't care if you do drugs off the job, but if you want to operate a lathe or a drill press, you must be sober. If you can't, I can't get any work of you for the day, so go home).
Often that works with small teams that are co-located without doors. If I have to get up to ask you a question, I might not ask it. I might spend then next 1/2 hour trying to read code. Maybe I'll figure it out but you could have just told me in 15 seconds.

The flipside is that, if you spend a half hour figuring something out instead of interrupting me, you don't interrupt my flow, which could translate into a much greater reduction in productivity than if you'd just dealt with it yourself.

Put another way: open offices make it too easy to interrupt someone else.

In our space we find a balance with electronic communication. Two person offices reduce distraction. IRC and email serve as a middle ground to interruption (as folks on the receiving end can control when the interruption occurs). Interruptions in meatspace only occur when they're actually necessary.

Edit:

And I forgot the other big benefit: two person offices mean you can co-locate people who work in the same product area, and when broader discussions need to happen, the offices can double as meeting spaces without everyone else being interrupted by the conversation.

So offices actually assist in facilitating communication as the threat of distracting others is substantially reduced.
>I interview 3-4 times/month in the bay area, as a way of keeping myself in tune with the interview process for when I do want a new gig

Sounds like you're wasting a lot of people's time and resources.
This is clickbait unfortunately, his attacks require root access on the device.
Yeah, the memory thing didn't impress me. More concerning though is that apparently messages are stored in plain text on disk in that cache4.db file. It's not clear to me whether they are deleted when the app quits or what.
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Having people constantly walking behind you is incredibly distracting. If I have a wall and no chance of anyone behind me, I won't be nearly as distracted.

"Typed while goofing off in my cubicle".
Adopted what technology? Canada has had chip tech and tap-to-pay tech in their various debit and credit cards for a while but I've never seen tap-to-pay work with a phone here in Canada. On top of that, Google Wallet has not yet been rolled out to work in Canada or internationally for that matter, even with their physical Google Wallet cards. If you attempt to make a purchase with the physical card, it will be declined and you'll receive a notification saying that international (non-US) purchases are not supported. Apple Pay additionally does not work in Canada. Given the first point made, there's no reason for them to activate it soon anyway because our hardware won't work out of the gate regardless.
Same here. It's important to not feel like someone may hit you in the back of the head with no warning. Admittedly, it's not something that happens in most workplaces... most not all.

It's a primal fear kind of thing, and doesn't have to be rational.
Makes one wonder what STASI could come up with had it still been operating...
Thank you. I might do that in another version.