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I get the author's point, but assigning blame to the Unicode Consortium is incorrect. The Indian government dropped the ball here. They went their separate way with "ISCII" and other such misguided efforts, instead of cooperating with UC. To me, the UC is just a platform.

The government is the de facto safeguarder of the people's interests; if it drops the ball, it should be taken to task, not the provider of the platform.
Announcement: http://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/digits-deep-learni...
I'd say it is pretty easy to avoid buying them gifts on Valentine's day and inviting them to private dinners with your SO out of town.

If you can't help but spontaneously give gifts to attractive women on Valentine's day...I'm at a loss, I'll admit.
I do find it disappointing when someone intentionally makes work GPL without knowing the implications. The intention of GPL is very much to prevent use in proprietary software, and to make life more difficult for proprietary software users, while creating an ecosystem of software only usable by other Free Software. However, even RMS and the Free Software Foundation have explicitly acknowledged that there are cases where an all-permissive license like MIT or (2-clause or 3-clause) BSD makes sense; for instance, when implementing a free format to replace a proprietary one, such as Ogg Vorbis or WebM. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html for instance: "For these projects, widespread use of the code is vital for advancing the cause of free software, and does more good than a copyleft on the project's code would do." (That page actually recommends Apache 2.0 now, which is GPLv3 but not GPLv2 compatible; it used to recommend GPLv2-compatible licenses, and personally I still do recommend using MIT when trying to promote the widest possible use.)
I'm sure it could be done with paper folding.
I have found that job posting are enough. Of course, you should try to tap your network whenever you can, but in practice that will mean a much smaller pool of people who are both qualified and looking for a new position.
I've been using the site extensively for the past six months or so. I have about a dozen Python exercises complete, one C++, and about a half-dozen Common Lisp and OCaml exercises to boot.

Some languages get more reviews than others. The big problem is taking the time to review other peoples' code. There isn't a lot of reward for doing that. Solving the challenges and receiving a comment or two is far more rewarding... so it tends to be pretty one-sided in the less-populated corners of the site. The Common Lisp group has been the most vocal for me so far followed by Python.

It's worth mentioning that the project is open source and you can contribute features on github (or add requests to the growing queue)[0].

It's a useful tool for dipping your toes in a new language if you're an experienced programmer. Code reviews are essential for learning the in-grained idioms and conventions of a language that make things easier. I think there's a lot of potential in a site like this if it were able to attract more users and reward reviewers.

[0] https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io
That's only one phase towards full obsolescence of humans and rental cars overall.
I never seen 1 line/minute in Scala either, but that's not the point.

Theoretically, there is nothing stopping you from writing code which will never finish compiling if you have a Turing-complete typesystem.
If you put in 5 years at Google, Apple, etc. you will find it to be much easier to start (or to get hired at) a start-up than if you had joined a start-up right away.

I'm sorry, but this is really bad advice for engineers graduating from MIT in 2015 and predisposed to starting a new company.

You have your whole career to settle into a big corporate job for a long stretch; why do that right out of college? An entrepreneurial software engineer graduating from anywhere, let alone MIT, should almost certainly move to San Francisco after college and start or join a startup. If it doesn't work out, they'll find themselves looking for a job in an extremely favorable market.

Letting assumptions about what's "easier" cow you into taking some job for five years is no way to live, certainly not for a recent MIT grad with the most highly sought after skill set in the world.
Can you explain this a little more? Are there different groups where each group has a mentor or shared resources?
Age is a big part of this. Your parents are competing in a very different social landscape than people in the 20-30 range are.

People in their 20's are engaged primarily in mate selection an career building. Those are very focused and somewhat desperate endeavours, where random conversations with strangers are high risk and low payoff, particularly when talking with people in your own age group who are likely to want something from you, just as you are likely to want something from them. It's like being at one of those networking events where everyone is there to make connections that can help them but aren't able to offer much in return: an unpleasant waste of time.

Older people are much more pro-social. Their investment in their offspring will be enhanced by a more friendly, connected world, and they can afford to indulge themselves in random social connections. Human society is fundamentally kept intact by grandparents. The reason we have these ridiculously long lives is most likely because troops of early humans who had more grandparents around were better at transmitting culture to new generations.

I'm putting this in brutally evolutionary terms, and there is obviously much more to the story, but the evolutionary forces are always there, under the surface, and we can't just wish them away (however much we might like to.)
I actually thought I liked Google Now until I read through these comments. It sort of woke me up to the fact that Google stole iGoogle from us and this is its replacement.

* They could easily drop in the ability for me to subscribe to an RSS feed, but they don't.
* I don't have any way to tell it what I prioritize. Today I scrolled through 10 cards before finding the weather.
* Going into "Customize" -> "Everything Else" has some absolutely laughable questions that it is using to inform itself about my tastes. Some of this cannot be based on my browsing habits.

If they won't give the users any access to configuring a tool for our needs, what sort of warm and fuzzies are we supposed to get that they'll let developers have access? Do I really need ANOTHER notification dock?
I doubt most of these facts were taught in schools - which is probably the point.

Finding answers to questions like these was difficult pre-Internet.

You'd only have a chance of getting them right if you read very widely all the time, and remembered most of what you read.

If I was competing with Edison and I genuinely thought his employees were able to ace that test, I'd be seriously worried, trivia or no.

In reality they probably couldn't. Only a very tiny percentage of the population is going to have the wide interests and the eidetic recall needed to ace this list.
Also how many total applications did they receive?
Last year, a friend of mine who worked for DeNA in Vancouver asked me if they were hiring for her position, which we were. And then if we were hiring from her boyfriend's position. And she was competing for the position against another of her DeNA coworkers/teammates. When I mentioned all that to one of our founders in passing, he said 'You know, we've been seeing a lot of resumes from them lately.'

I don't know much about the inner workings or much about what people hated (though I've heard some crappy stories), but, at least as far as their Vancouver office goes, it's run by idiots and can't retain talent.
This article is completely missing the point. These valuation numbers are made up. Say you have a basket of ten oranges, ten apples and ten pears. Someone comes along and says, "I'll give you $20 for your oranges." You give them the oranges and put the twenty dollar bill in the basket. You now announce to the world "This basket of fruit/cash is now worth $60!" It's not. You have no basis for assuming that the market will also pay $2 per apple or pear, but you need a nice round number to shout out to the world.

In this allegory, your oranges are preferred shares that may have "economic terms" like liquidation preferences and participation clauses that could make them 10 or more times more valuable than the common shares of your company. These companies that are now going through 5+ rounds of private financing often are negotiating different terms for each round. But when it comes time to issue a press release--even if they're not intentionally being disingenuous--it's easier to communicate a single number. That number is often just number of outstanding "shares" * purchase price of last funding round.
Why we dislike UBER?
I work for a company in Dubai and UBER also has an office in the same building as ours and for some reason they have give a wrong address or printed wrong business cards and were distributed unknowingly :| everyday we get knocks at our office (the door opens from inside, and I have to get up been the nearest to the door) asking for "UBER?" some people just enter the office literally push us as if we are in their way!

Our office is at 252 and UBERs office is at 352

Someone please inform them to contact all their drivers, clients, shipping companies and a dozen unknown fat people with some trolley bags to goto OFFICE 352 and NOT OFFICE 252
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>Honestly, I don't understand the hate for GPL.

It takes away people's ability to say "what's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine." That's enough reason for those who care about freedom for themselves, but aren't really all that interested in freedom for others.

These people were deeply upset when the GPL consistently won every time it went to court.
I had the opportunity to interact with some of the new execs at GoDaddy and the culture was definitely shifting. But Virb's numbers just couldn't compare to GoDaddy's own site builder. Virb was a drop in the bucket compared to the user base they already had.
Because they have to be contacted to determine a price instead of making pricing clear. (I am not saying that they will not price consistently, I'm just saying it's a bit off-putting)
Or you can buy a beer once a week to someone that will send you "important announcements" by email, and having a good solid sleep in own bed ;)
a3n pretty much said everything I was going to. I heard it from my dad originally and his reasoning was that if you aren't happy then a title change/money isn't going to fix that long-term. Also most people, myself included, are bad about letting that shit stew until it bubbles over and in my experience there is nothing that can be done to reverse that. Normally the trust is lost and can't be gained back and even it could your life will be magnitudes of times better to just move on from a toxic environment instead of trying to change the company you are currently at.

The future consequences are also huge, you may no longer be seen as "team player" which can slow or halt your career, better to not take the chance and move on.
VCs are the bosses of tech. VCs are the real executives in Silicon Valley and "founders" are upper-mid-level project managers in the world's first postmodern corporation.
The TL;DR for those too lazy to click and would rather speculate: Edison's reasoning was that he wanted to hire executives who could make decisions quickly and recall information quickly and reliably. Edison wanted the kind of information access that's available to everyone in this day and age. Since there were no machines to do it, he had to hire people to do it for him.

It is difficult for people living today to understand what information was like even 25 years ago. We absolutely look at information differently now because our storage, retrieval, and processing methods have advanced so fast that to look back a hundred years and try to understand their thinking we might as well be looking at the stone age. Try it sometime. Swear off the Internet for a week and try to be productive in your job.

As to whether Einstein would have done well at this test, Einstein would have made a lousy business executive, especially by Edison's metric as Einstein was notoriously forgetful.

This interesting stuff to me personally. My great-grandfather worked directly for Edison. At one point he managed a brick-making factory. He died long before I came along but I've always wondered what it was like to work closely with Edison.
One of the cities this is popular in is San Francisco. And the data the article suggests is correct. If you don't have to worry about taking a car to park, you are more likely to spend more time in a local area with businesses available to spend your disposable income.

The second benefit is creating a sense of place. The place to see or the place to hangout in. This personal behavior of a local population can transform a regional neighborhood into a vibrant culture and/or community.

Great post!
This is worrying. When I tested some time ago (at home, so next to my home SSID), I saw only a broadcast probe quickly followed by it connecting to the network. Perhaps I should try again, but powering down the AP first.

Did you try the "WiFi Advanced Config Editor" or similar to see what Android thinks about these networks, to see if there's a pattern?
What is their business model? Who's gonna pay for storage and bandwidth?
Silicon Valley culture is inherently ageist. The median age is by far the most surprising statistic to me. I would have thought it'd be at least 5 years younger. To me the ageist aspect is part of the idea that only young people should be building products for young people.

This is perhaps an insight into the types of companies YC is funding. They may just have a larger pool of B2B and enterprise companies this session.
Well, first I would say that if somebody has ten nested DIVs then they're doing it wrong. But if the DIVs are formatted properly then it's usually not that hard to find the matching start tag. As for the class in the closing tag, that's what my statement about people putting comments with the closing tag is referring to. It's been done and was quite popular at one time. I'm willing to bet our editing tools fixed that problem simply by highlighting matching element pairs.

But in the end, if HTML went with <div></> instead of <div></div> then I probably wouldn't mind so much. But I can't agree that no closing tag is more readable because it takes less space, that makes no sense. It might look better.

I would be curious about bandwidth savings but I'm willing to bet in most cases it would make very little difference.
Q: What inspired you to produce a personal FAQ?

A: See Computer Networks, 3rd edition, page 663.

Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?

I believe I did, Bob. I believe I did.
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What is your concise summary of the biggest accusation that demands justice ? I fail to understand from the bloomberg article as it seems to make all accusations petty and even harmful to her case.
Nice to see BOTLs on HN!
Enterprise has nothing to do with only 500 companies in the US.

There is no real difference.

Though some might say if you charge thousands and have dedicated salespeople, you're enterprise, even if you sell to a 25 person architect firm. Sales force is definitely though of as enterprise. While basecamp or twilio is more B2B. It's fuzzy, if there even is a difference.
Based on my reading of the stuff from the defense, that would have been the first thing they would have trotted out and the fact they failed to do so makes it pretty clear.

http://pando.com/2015/03/09/the-main-attraction-dispatches-f...

> Pao: I thought it was inappropriate, it had drawings of naked women, poems about masturbation and older men longing for younger women, and [Randy Komisar] gave it to me for Valentine’s Day.

I'd say any defense of that would make it pretty clear he gave out gifts to everyone and/or this book to multiple people.

But once again, its not relevant because my comment is in regards to the fact the article implies this sort of behavior is the equivalent of being nice and mentoring.
They say the passwords or biometric data will be kept in hardware - what does that mean exactly? Is it the TPM? TPM 1.2? 2.0?
> Someone like myself, who greatly enjoys open source software will also be sure to be a 'good citizen', giving back any changes to that little library, even if we're not forced to.

And frequently they won't, leading to fragmentation. This happened a lot before the GPL became de rigeur.
But YCombinator was mentioned, albeit as "Y Combinator" instead of "YCombinator" (Making search a bit painful)

>Notably absent in this year’s list are Y Combinator and RockHealth–both programs now classify themselves as seed funds rather than accelerators, and asked us to respect their evolution into a new model.

>This, of course, is not a statement about efficacy of those programs – based on the 2013 data submitted to the rankings team, Y Combinator would still have topped the list if they had not transitioned models.
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Real talk: I feel like the demographic of people who read and comment on HN is primarily people for whom "painful threat" is purely theoretical. Downstream folks are talking about preventing information leak if the adversary is literally willing to kill you via torture.

In the real world, torture is a fairly effective way to make somebody divulge information, especially in the case where it can be readily checked (by trying the password they divulge). It's a fairly well proven fact that living beings will do pretty much anything to make the pain stop. For recent reference, this HN article, where he repeatedly complied with demands, even including lying about being tortured, in the hope that it would make the torture stop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213753
After my favourite invoicing solution roninapp.com got bought out by GoDaddy, I was forced to use their inferior Bookkeeping product!!! Never again!!!
PG used to tell students to work for an established company for a while after college, then start a startup later with that experience under their belt. After a few years of YC, he changed that to: if you want to start a startup you should just start a startup. (Pretty sure he still makes an exception for finishing school though.) I don't recall him saying that experience at BigCo was bad, just that it turned out not to prepare people for startups after all, so if a startup is what you want to do then you should just plunge in and figure it out.

Experience at BigCo can be a mixed bag. I worked for two years at one, and it took me perhaps 10 years after that before I stopped noticing bad habits in myself that I'd acquired there—and I still wince at the memories. But the experience was valuable in one way: I learned a lot about users and their problems.
Why eat people when we have chicken already? Good question.

Why control people as automatons when we already have cockroaches? Because of the reasons I listed above.
The timing of the dinner request isn't relevant.

The problem is the choice of gift on Valentines and the fact the author of the article basically equated buying erotic poetry with being "nice and mentoring".
Good point. That is often one of the most misunderstood aspects of GPL. You have to provide the source code to the user you are selling the product to. It doesn't mean you have to necessarily give it to the whole world or even the original writer of the code.
Sadly, the people who will see this are not the people who need to see this.
> Having an affair with one married coworker doesn't give other coworkers license to hit on you.

Coworkers don't need a license, because it's not illegal to make a pass at a coworker.

> you obviously shouldn't be hitting on people at work.

"Hitting on" is a crude way to describe buying a gift. Is love now banned at work?
Not that this isn't abhorrent behavior, and not that GoDaddy isn't a terrible company anyway, but this isn't exactly uncommon. It happens every day, with the prototypical example of this sort of thing is General Motors:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspi...
If you're already connected to the same network/AP you can just ARP spoof[1] to MITM your victim, but any service halfway serious about security is already using HSTS[2] for some time now so SSL stripping/downgrade attacks are not going to work, well except of course for those Lenovo laptops equipped with SuperFish, thanks Lenovo!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARP_spoofing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
What is infuriating is that Virb still lives under the MediaTemple umbrella. I'm sure MediaTemple loves having a good as dead product in their product lineup.
You would think that if you haven't experienced launching dozens or hundreds of apps.

In reality many times the first review is cursory and approved. They actually bucket you as a low-risk and wait for you to succeed before you might flag serious concerns and be removed.
Come to think of it... print a cylindrical projection of the photo and then wrap around a cylinder...
Now you have something convenient and funny to show to the people who need to see it.
Forget Android. What does wpa_supplicant do? It's not clear from your links that any scan_ssid value achieves hiding the network names.
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My theory - people in this age group entered college at a very low point in the software development market. This was both because of the dot-com bubble crash, and because outsourcing had just begun and quality outsourcing was far cheaper than it is today. C, Java, and horrible APIs dominated at the time. Javascript and browser compatibility were a mess. It was a far less glamorous industry than it's become now over the past 15 years.

Few people who began training for a development career at this time were in it just for quick money.
The main difference is that those household products have actual revenue.

Snapchat has yet to make any sort of significant money nor does it even have a plant to make money.
If you've been following all of the coverage of this case, Pao isn't coming off well.

In the worst case for her, Ellen Pao turns out to be like Michael Brown: not sympathetic, not a victim, but the case still illustrates a lot of systemic bias and moral failure.

(Not to say that is how it is playing out or will play out.)

I think she probably did have her reputation (internal to the firm) damaged for reasons that constitute gender harassment. I also think that she was passed over and fired not because she was a woman, but because her reputation was damaged and she probably couldn't get much done. The question is how responsible the firm itself is for spotting problems like that and allowing people to clear their own names.
We've historically reported companies versus individuals, so we wanted to stay consistent. But that's fair -- we'll put it in those terms next time we release stats.
I like the idea. But you should really work on the site loading time. It was very slow and might piss off some users.
> The argument you're using is basically, "She slept with someone else, so why should other people not expect to be able to get to have privileged relationships with her too?"

Actually, the argument is "She slept with someone else, so why shouldn't I be allowed to see if she's interested in sleeping with me?"
It's possible but it's not logical!

If one supports the level of power that current copyright law provides for authors, then you must support the fact that any particular author wields it. If you think the author is abusing power, then that means the current copyright law is too broad, and if it's too broad you ultimately don't agree with the law.
Thanks. I've disabled RC4, and am currently working on cipher suite changes for PFS.
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