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You can add Russian as an input language and use a keyboard shortcut to switch between Russian and English (usually alt+shift or super+space), and then it's just a matter of learning the keyboard layout.

If you're learning Russian, you have to learn a new alphabet anyway, a new layout isn't that much more trouble.
Not sure that R is _shunned_ in big data, as much as there are better solutions once you get to a certain level of big.
An note about the cables, mostly because I've always found this to be a weird historical aside.

The cables today were put up in 1919, but follow closely both the style and path of the first ascent of Half Dome, which took place in 1875, 15 years _before_ Yosemite became a National Park. The first ascentionist basically drilled a bunch of holes up the side of the dome and used sticks or poles or something stuck in them to pull his way up like a ladder. In a sense the Cable Route thus really does "provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner" as Yosemite was before it was a park :)

In any case, and I say this as someone who spends a lot of time in Yosemite, it's best to think of the ditch as a big piece of land that we are sacrificing so that people can have some appreciation of what real wilderness is like and (hopefully) want to protect it. Most certainly nothing going on there is about keeping it preserved in it's original state.
> At $80-100 a throw, I'm not sure it's a very good money-making scheme. For starters, when someone enrols in the precheck program, they must undergo both a background check and an in-person interview... how much of the $80 fee do you suppose that leaves?

So I haven't gone through it but several people I know have and all of them report that they fill out forms, show identification and that's it. The "interview" is always a very short questionnaire and background checks are incredibly cheap to do nowadays.

> And even once approved, you're still subject to metal-detector scans upon boarding, you just get to skip the whole shoes-belt-laptop game. Oh and they can still "randomly" subject you to those checks if they want to.

The metal-detector scan is incredibly fast, no one is ever in that line and you don't have to remove your laptops, shoes and other related equipment. You just go through and you're done 99% of the time.

> So I don't really agree that it's some crude "anyone can just pay and receive carte blanche access at the airport" scheme.

I don't agree with that either hence why I never said it so I'm not sure why you bring it up.
So… a raffle for a house combined with some of the hassle people already do (writing letters about why you should be the buyer of a house is already common in tight markets just for normal purchase situations). The idea that this makes home ownership more affordable is no more valid than saying that the lottery enables social mobility.

How about next moving to penny auctions for houses! <sarcasm>
Like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9696476
I've (accidentally) carried contraband liquids through TSA airline security 3 times - been "caught" twice.
Jack running Square and Twitter will be bad for both Square and Twitter, but probably more bad for Twitter as the stakes are higher.

Nothing against Jack, but human beings cannot multi-task. Now maybe Jack and Elon don't think they are human, but the results will bear this out.
Removing and preventing fake accounts should be they're no. 1 priority.
Or if government funded open-source software research.
I see. What kind of data structure does you use for indexing tags?
You're unintentionally perpetuating the stereotype that US citizens do not know or care about history. Those people involved may be American, but surely some of them can look beyond their own noses to realize that a person speaking in broad, abstract strokes isn't talking about them in particular.
Those operational procedures aren't secret knowledge though. Someone who really wanted to get something through can get their hands on that information.
About water and its properties, there is also what Luc Montagner says concerning DNA and homeopathy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Research_on_elec...

There would be unknown "waves". He gets the Nobel Prize for the discovery of AIDS.
I just used it to evaluate a rather large (50k LOC) java8 application deployed as a war to tomcat8. ( infer -- gradle build ) and it found a bunch of null refs that IntelliJ and humans had all missed.
Right. In principle, it's possible. Apple maintains it can't read your iMessages, for example. And are there any operations that happen on your photos that have to happen in the cloud? Thumbnail generation/optimisation can happen during upload.

However, since iCloud Photos has a web interface, I imagine they're not doing this.
I mostly write small 1 file python, PowerShell scripts along with some VB.Net utilities. I just save my work in my drop box and I'm able to work on them on any computer. Works pretty good for small projects that you're working on alone. I should figure out git one of these days I suppose.
One hopes there's some sort of lien on his future income or so, though I suppose he could declare bankruptcy. This seems like straight-up fraud to me, I don't know why they can't just hand the details over to the DoJ. (Disclaimer: haven't read the FTCs documents, not especially familiar with existing legal standards, just my general impression).
Buying shares in the company you work for means you're less diversified than if you'd bought the shares in some other company. The biggest investment most people make is the investment of their time into their job+career. If you also invest your money there, you'll be in bigger trouble if your company/sector of the economy tanks than if you'd invested your money somewhere else.

Not really sure why someone would want options though... maybe if you feel like taking a little bit of risk on you can invest a smaller amount?
Oh, cool! I've looked into suffix trees and suffix arrays, by way of investigating how diff works. While I found suffix trees hard to understand, this is a great explanation of suffix arrays. Suffix arrays can take much less space - I've heard 1/4 as much space? - than suffix trees.
Just like the large number of conflicting instructions for building iptables
firewall, none of which got it how to write a set of rules and instead
focuses on how to write a set of commands. One just needs to apply common
sense instead of blindly follow somebody's recipe.

But why not just use the introduction from the official documentation?

https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging
> What I'd dread is writing the garbage collector in assembly.

Then don't. If you're just building a lisp just so you can bootstrap your lisp compiler in lisp, the free-everything-and-quit should be a good enough GC strategy, and quite quick too.
I don't need an excuse to eat more kimchi, but hey, if it's helpful :-). Kidding aside, I love that more studies seem to keep coming out linking healthy diets with mental and psychological benefits.
> My understanding is that the no-poach agreements forbade only unsolicited pursual of employed individuals. Dissatisfied employees were still free to seek employment at the other competitors.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/78818102/TechCrunch-High-Tech-Empl...

> The documents also demonstrate that Defendants did not extend an offer to an employee of another Defendant without prior approval from the candidate's current employer, regardless of whether the candidate applied without being solicited first.

It's also obvious from now public emails that many of the employers knew that these agreements were probably illegal, with Google explicitly saying internally that they didn't want to create a paper trail that they could be sued over, and Palm flat out telling Jobs that his suggestion was probably illegal.
Good for yahoo, but he should just run a hedge fund if that's all he's good for.
I hate the culture fit conversations.

People are looking for the wrong culture fit.

I care intensely about cultural fit, but could care less about gender, ethnicity, race, political inclinations, sexuality, and other non-work behaviors.

I care intensely about a culture of automated tests, automated deployment, campsite rule (leaving something better than you found it), clean code, empathy as a core engineering principle, and other cultural issues where reasonable people disagree. I can respect Michael O. Church's opinions on agile, for example, but I think that we would be best fit working in different companies.
"I have been in on hiring people where 'culture fit' has been a topic. On at least three occasions I can think of people hired for a team where yellow flags raised during the interview under the rubric of culture fit actually did become problem later on: failures in ability to argue or communicate honestly or effectively; superiority complexes glimpsed during an interview turned into unneeded friction later on, etc."

Are these really culture fit issues, though? Does anyone pride themselves on having a culture of miscommunication?
other than "can't fall off a seat tray" there isn't much point in having 4 virtual monitors if it gives you less readable real-estate than a real monitor.
Yes, Snapchat surely couldn't have figured out QR codes without that acquisition. If one lumbering, futureless behemoth of the tech industry eats another, what do we end up with? Investors goading other pieces of their portfolio to "acquire" their and/or each others' dying companies is fairly common.

In a serious tone, thanks for letting me know. I didn't know what had happened to them.
TSA makes money which is used to pay for more equipment and other contractors, etc. It's how all government money travels.
Dick Costolo said his job was safe a month ago
This appears† to be the result of Facebook having purchased a UK company called Monoidics†† in 2013. It's nice to see these types of acquisitions resulting in code getting opensourced.

† https://github.com/facebook/infer/blob/2bce7c6c3dbb22646e2d6...

†† http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/18/facebook-monoidics/
Actually, that might not be as silly as it sounds... What if Twitter tried to pivot into something like Patreon? They already have one of the world's largest social graphs of followers and creators; just add a payment layer and things could get quite interesting.
Learning about Lambas in C#
Magazines and newspapers have been disguising advertisements as articles for as longs as they have existed. Why is this one restaurant, album, book reviewed and not the other? How are the list of cool and hot fashion articles curated?
When I finally tried OR DK2 last month it didn't meet my expectations. Latency was not an issue, but the fielf-of-view was simply to small to be convincing. It felt like looking through a toilet paper roll sawed in half.
You can be good to your employees and bad for stockholders.
One way to do this is to hand out bonuses instead of dividends.

Agreed. But don't the employees have higher stakes running on the long term success of the company compared to investors who are known to be in for short term profit and hence can't the former be a better indicator?

Eg: Mass employee exodus results in company going bust while the team can still bootstrap when investors run away with money.
I hope this model continues to evolve in other companies. I'd rather see employees do well versus shareholders (who may or may not be employees), VCs, and investment bankers managing an IPO.
> There was a thread a while back where software developers told me I was unreasonable to expect them to know who the vice president of the country they lived in was.

It is absolutely unreasonable. The average person has no clue who the vice president happens to be ... so why should software developers?

We can complain about how clueless average people are, sure, but there's no reason to apply a higher standard to software developers.
OS X Metal – Raw Notes
I have never seen that definition and I can't find it online anywhere. Wikipedia gives 6 pretty solid looking references for the "two or more atoms" definition.
Twitter has been a frustration for US propaganda efforts for a long time (e.g. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/cen...).

Whoever usurps Dick Costolo, if they pursue 'removing and preventing fake accounts', they are also likely to partner more closely with the Department of State and DoD to support strategic communication and counter-strategic communications efforts - taking down accounts the US claims represent efforts by Russia, other actors, or contain ideas and narratives that harm United States national security.
> Whaaaaa? I can't find this, but it seems like such a weird operation. Got a link?

https://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/~duozhao/entry/2014/12/binary-tree-u...
Have at it :)

http://hearthsim.info

https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/

https://github.com/hearthsim/
I would say most people actually mean a personality fit when that say "Cultural Fit"
Is Square that much of a failure? I've always had a positive impression of it, and a lot of small merchants in my city use it and seem to like it (or so I thought).
Do low frequency sounds really carry longer distances?
I think that's the point: You can't make an objective decision about it, so it turns into a bunch of feely stuff, and that's really bad to base hiring decisions on.
The funny thing is, that this is not actually all that different from playing FPS. Know your map, time item respawns, use the right weapon depending on the environment, move to strategically better positions, retreat if necessary and aim as good as you can. Team matches like CTF, King of the hill, etc. also challenge you to act as a team player.

But it many ways LoL looks so much more difficult to me. Like playing Magic and an FPS at the same time. I'm already awed by the confusing user interface which looks so much more complex than most FPS, which more or less try to reduce the clutter to the bare minimum...
I'd actually expand that to European - in my grad studies, the European CS world had a much more mathematical bent. Notice the the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, Coq, etc.

You can always go from math -> pragmatism, but the reverse is nearly impossible. People get set in their ways, and it takes time to develop mathematical rigor, even if you want to.

So when you need to get mathematical expertise, you wind up needing to hire it.
It seems like that's how the park service in Yosemite has been acting for a few years. Jumpers only jump during dusk and dawn when people aren't around, and the Rangers don't particularly go after them.
I thoroughly disagree with this in the startup space.

Run a food startup? I expect the people there to be at least much more interested in the space than average, even if they're working on a purely technical role.

Music business? Events? Cars? Clothing?

Look, if you're going to be busting ass while getting funding and traction and you'll be inevitably spending a lot of time getting these things right, the kind of person involved has to have a personal interest beyond their job description. You need to understand customers and the business, and empathizing and knowing where to look in those spaces is more than just having business acumen.

You can hire without regarding culture fit if you're a medium-sized business and above where people have clearly defined roles and specialties. But when passion and interest are just as important as putting in the effort, I want to work with people whom I have more than just a cordial time at the office.
There is a law against illegal aerial delivery, not BASE jumping.

Furthermore, the US has made laws putting the Japanese in internment camps, mandating race segregation, regulating the trade of slaves, etc etc. U.S Law is not a great moral compass for how you should feel about a given activity.
Culture fit is very important in any organization, or at least complimentary cultures. There are of course abuses in any kind of hiring process, but it's wrong to think that culture fit is responsible for this. When you're turned down because of culture fit, it's easy to get upset about it, but honestly, would you have wanted them to hire you anyways, knowing that they'd be 'tolerating' you? In the same vein, when a company does hire you, I feel like it's assumed that it's because you're technically proficient and can provide value; they usually don't say "we're hiring you because you're a solid culture fit" even though it's highly likely that you are, and that is a chunk of why they hired you. It seems like:
a) culture fit where you get hired == good
b) culture fit where you get declined == racist/ageist/sexist/whatever.
Twitter can acquire Medium, completing the Steve Jobs narrative.

Medium recently made major strategic changes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9702651
How come Twitter doesn't lift the character limit on tweets? Then you could allow content writers to write a more coherent thought (IE not breaking it into a 20+ message tweet storm) and then normal length tweets could serve just as comments.

Lifting the character limit could make Twitter a publishing powerhouse over night. With the right API support, writers could write their content on Twitter and have it appear as standard blog posts on their own domains. It could completely open up the platform to new opportunities, plus allow for richer expression in content which means they can mine the ever living shit out of it even more accurately to improve their advertising profits.
Been pretty confident since the 3rd grade.
In that vein, literally anything could be a guise for discrimination.
Really? I certainly liked the N64 and Gamecube controllers, but they're not exactly ideal designs for a "universal controller". The wiimote had kind of crappy motion controls and was borderline useless for anything that didn't involve motion. The Wii U uses upgraded wiimotes that suffer the same problem, and the gamepad is more like a giant gameboy than a controller. Plus we can't use any of those controllers on a PC without additional adapters or significant hardware hacks. The Xbox 360 (and to a similar degree Xbox One) controller is designed to be universal, and if you look at what people are using for PC gaming it's pretty much just those two.
According to justdelete.me, "If you haven't posted on the site, it's just one click. Otherwise, edit your 'About Me' bio to say 'please delete me' then contact support."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckAGpmf21a8
>Parents, people of religion who don't drink, non-alcoholics.

Those are bad but there are also legitimate clashes of "culture fit" and almost every blog writer that complains about it is leaving it out.

For example, consider a software team writing rocket guidance software for NASA or SpaceX. They are very disciplined about bottom-up analysis, 100% code path coverage, proofs of algorithm correctness, etc. However, they interview a candidate that is somewhat of a cowboy coder (a duct tape programmer)[1]. He's smart and competent but he doesn't fit their culture.

The team can acknowledge that the duct tape programmers are not inferior to overly cautious and disciplined programmers. The team can also acknowledge that the fast-paced world needs duct programmers. However, they just don't need him on their particular team.

If pressed for reason for why they rejected him, it's very easy to fall back on the simple phrase "culture fit" instead of itemizing an inventory of intellectual incompatibilities. Teams can reject candidates for other reasons besides the He's-Not-White-Anglo-Saxon-Protestant-22-year-old angle.

I guess they could add an adjective and say it was "intellectual culture fit" but that phrase isn't commonplace enough that people would instinctively use it.

Just consider that some clashes of "culture fit" are intellectual instead of ethnic discrimination and engineers are not always the best at articulating why they rejected candidates for legitimate reasons.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html
There are only 300-400 active wingsuit base jumpers in the world. You cannot see or hear them until their parachutes open. Canopy rides typically last 20-30s or less. There are less than 2000 base jumpers total recorded in history. When I land in the park and walk out, I sometimes ask people if they have seen anything funny just to get an idea for what my exposure is. Everyone is oblivious to anything having happened.

edit: here is an example of how much base jumpers care about the environment and preserving it http://www.kmvt.com/news/latest/Perrine-Bridge-Canyon-Clean-... Chuma has been leading these clean ups for the past few years along with many other local jumpers.
Yeah, I would think so. You don't even need user accounts.
It's the SEC's job to determine that, and writing the rules is taking a long time, which is why title III of the JOBS act, which relates to small-scale equity crowdfunding, has been delayed.

Look, you really don't know what you're talking about here. I'm not saying that to make you feel bad, but to point out that some of your beliefs about how these things work have no basis in fact and you could end up making expensive mistakes if you act on those beliefs.

Try this simple overview of the issue and follow some of the links within to learn about the legal realities of crowdfunding-as-an-investment: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mraneri/2015/04/16/who-needs-equ...

I understand that it may seem like a distinction without a difference to you, but if you were ever to set up a crowdfunding campaign of your own based on this viewpoint you could run into all sorts of problems.
I think HN readers would enjoy 'Valley Uprising', a documentary about the history of Yosemite, particularly around rock climbing with segments about more recent BASE jumping. Dean is a main character, and the film excellently captures the 'true' spirit of the valley, full of adventurers and dreamers.

http://senderfilms.com/productions/details/809/Valley-Uprisi...
Ok, you won. I'm simply too old for this, I guess :)

I'm not even able to follow him doing all this after rewatching it again and again. Makes it even more impressive.
Not to mention that adding an image chops 20+ chars of my limit. Want a URL in there and maybe a hashtag? You're down to less than 100 characters. These arbitrary platform limits should not burden the end user.
This comment falls neatly into the category of my favorite trendy term of 2014/2015, the "hot take". No matter how informative or well-intentioned a piece of writing may be, some people will just immediately go looking for something wrong with it, reason or authorial intention be damned.

Maybe instead of ridiculing the majority of people who don't understand what we do, we should celebrate a piece like this that makes an effort to educate. Maybe instead of lamenting their ignorance, we should commend the VPs and everyone else with enough curiosity about code to make it through this behemoth of an article.
> When it encroaches on personal things such as the size of a family (below, from the article's Zhang Yue) I do not like it

Not having a child is the most environmentally responsible act one can do. For each child you don't have, you offset tens of thousands of tons of CO2 emissions, millions of gallons of water used, tons of trash produced, etc.

I've been kicking around starting a non-profit that pays people not to have children, with the funding coming from carbon credits.

"By first year itself an American toddler would have generated more Carbon dioxide emission than an average person in Tanzania will generate in a life time."

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/14/g68/...

http://www.greencontributor.com/index.php/human-foot-print.h...