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There's a great short story called "The Last Answer," by Isaac Asimov.[1] In it, a scientist dies and is preserved by a "god" to think for eternity. He is quickly horrified by this and declares that he won't do it.

Murray said, “Consider, then, that my thoughts may be useless to you. If I come up with nothing useful, will it not be worth your while to – disassemble me and take no further trouble with me?”

“As a reward? You want Nirvana as the prize of failure and you intend to assure me failure? There is no bargain there. You will not fail. With all eternity before you, you cannot avoid having at least one interesting thought, however you try against it.”

You might be an asshole. You might be a fool who has wrecked his life and screwed everything up. However, you've lived for many decades. I'm sure that you have something interesting, valuable, or insightful to share. It would be extremely difficult to imagine a life where that's not the case.

[1]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_AxwTK5W6b4aG9ZUVRVcnJMN2M...
Lots of schools do. Not business school so much.
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There certainly are cases of orientalist depiction in journalism, but I don't feel that is the case here. It could simply be the case that the volume of their social debate is loud enough that it is being picked up by other countries, because, as you say, it is a common problem.

As it turns out, senior isolation is at 28% in the US vs 20% in Japan. In the US, we don't even talk about it. To me, that is a far more serious problem.
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Agreed. This article sounds more like an advertisement for GH. Also, why not using other platforms like bitbucket? Centralizing everything at GH is the worst scenario for open source.
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If only there was something like World Of Warcraft that is suitable for the elderly.

I'm not joking. I keep wondering if I should introduce my grandma to such a game, but I live far away and they all seem too complicated. Would be happy about suggestions.
> for some people the ideal of open source trumps all.

You said it as if its a bad thing.
It wasn't me who pushed those two words so close together. I sometimes wonder when those who were known as "hackers" back when it meant something will find a new word, but then I remember that they tend to love word games and will never decide on anything, and they've got better things to do with their time anyway.
Why do you think it would be trivial for three-letter agencies to do those things?

Is there a legal mechanism, authority, or track record for such a thing?

If you're talking about Dual_EC_DRBG, that was a non-trivial, poorly-kept secret that failed on launch. An alleged $10 million secret deal, plus development of the algorithm doesn't sound trivial to me.
At the end of the day only PGP and IRL discussions offer some kind of privacy.
Must be a changing thing. I've always thought "hacker" without qualifiers meant "person who can code".
Mmm, I've never used Ruby or Rails professionally, so I can't really speak to that. Prior to Clojure, I mostly worked with C++, Java, C#, and Python.

At its core, Clojure is basically just data and functions. Once the switch flipped in my mind, I found that to be simpler and more straight forward than any of the languages I worked with before.

When the majority of your code is side-effect-free, pure functions (and Clojure makes it very easy to structure your code this way), it becomes very easy to reason about. And very easy to test, with minimal ceremony!

P.S. When I was learning Clojure, I kinda devoured all the resources I could find. A couple interesting looks at the language from the perspective of Rubyists:

http://briancarper.net/blog/536/clojure-from-a-ruby-perspect...

http://confreaks.tv/videos/rubyconf2009-clojure-for-ruby-pro...
I went through the exact same process as you, even including getting 1Password from MacHeist. Are you me?
It is a hard problem and I don't have an answer to propose.

I know my friends have set up a number of legal arrangements with powers of attorney and such in order to work around their lack of marriage, just as gay and lesbian couples had to do for many years.

The problem for them is the same problem homosexual pairs faced up until yesterday: checking the "marriage" box grants you a long list of goodies, from the mundane to the critical, and many of them simply can't be acquired any other way.

It may be that the solution is not to continue fixing the legal institution of marriage at all, but to abandon it. If people could sign up for the rights and responsibilities of marriage a la carte, in whatever combinations suit their relationships, we could solve not just the gay-marriage problem but all the other forms of inequity currently baked into our traditional framework, many of which we may not even be aware of yet.
Douglas Hofstadter wrote a classic essay on this as well: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
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As much as I'd love to say "rewrite all the PHP in Node too" :-) yes, your description will work. After a few years in production it seems to me that Node's best position is right between the browser and the backend. Translating legacy APIs into modern, easy-to-use services.

In your case you might want to add some web hooks for the PHP application to let your Node layer know that things have happened which you can then send over Socket.IO. There may be a more efficient way to do this by tapping into the database directly though I don't tend to like going that route usually but that may just be preference.
DADT was in 1994 IIRC? This idea that gay people were lepers 10 years ago is false, 21 years ago the military was already doing everything it could to put off the pressure of allowing gays in the military (and DADT was their compromise).

This is a generational thing, this latest is but 1 victory in a long procession of victories. To pretend otherwise is balderdash.
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What kind of images would make a change?

I think that still life images of old things might fit in with the motivation for the site (free images to use on Web sites &c).
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For NYT story on name changes by women at marriage, we did an analysis of wedding announcements & released the results: https://github.com/TheUpshot/nyt_weddings.
English has an equivalent: "it is what it is". It also stops solution-seeking dead in its tracks. A hateful little phrase.
Why not get legally divorced (but not socially)? As long as you don't get married again it looks like that's not fraud by the IRS. Page 23 of http://www.jefftk.com/abrams2012.pdf has:

"Although the IRS attempted to use Boyter in several subsequent cases
that dealt with divorces allegedly entered into to lessen tax
liability, courts have sided with the IRS only in cases where the
couple remarried after the taxincentivized divorce. In cases where the
couple remains divorced, the sham transaction rationale is not
available. For example, in U.S. v. Taylor, the government sought to
satisfy a tax lien against a man by going after his pension plan—90
percent of which was transferred to his ex-wife in their divorce
proceedings—by contending that the man had obtained a sham divorce in
order to shield his assets.115 The court distinguished Boyter, noting
that while the couple remarried in that case, in the present situation
the couple remained divorced.116 Thus, the test that appears to
operate in the tax context is a “divorce-plus” test: we know that a
divorce is fraudulent if it is followed by the “plus” of remarriage."
You are including etc/cereal/include to your -I
but this does not exist, and I see no probe for cereal.

tools/orange/main.cc:12:10: fatal error:
'cereal/types/unordered_map.hpp' file not found
#include <cereal/types/unordered_map.hpp>

This one: https://github.com/USCiLab/cereal ?
Please add it as submodule to etc.

The apple standard cc=clang-602.0.53 is not good enough.
error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'llvm::EngineBuilder'
EngineBuilder builder((std::unique_ptr<Module>(m_module)))

macports clang-mp-3.{3,5,6,7} even fail before with this error: no matching constructor for initialization of 'llvm::raw_fd_ostream'
raw_fd_ostream raw(loutput.c_str(), ec, llvm::sys::fs::OpenFlags::F_RW)

I only have 5 clang's on my mac.
That was meant to be ended with a question mark. Sorry.
I have seen bare metal options before, for example for Common Lisp, but this really looks good. BTW, does anyone have a list of bare metal systems like MirageOS for other programming languages?
You still have to trust someone.

I think the trust model is broken for the same reason it can be said three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

How can humans create a software or hardware system that absolves us of the issue of trust, when people are, and have always, been up to no good.

The courts are full of people who claim other people have acted outside of good judgement.

I don't think it's possible to have trust without its opposite.

I'd like to be proven wrong.
I don't think OP implied Greece was the east in its comparison and description.

That way of thinking also applies to west entities: the powerful one is always right.
I don't believe God made me specifically and I don't believe in God because I own him something. Also, God isn't slowly killing me by poisoning my body. Other people do that though (pollution). Other people do that whose end product(s) my life depends on (for instance electricity or food) and I don't believe them to be some kind of a deity.
this is great, i've just recently been getting into AWS for computation and it's hard to find good step-by-step tutorials like this one, thanks for the post
What a great read. Skip the Wikipedia article and read the original thing. We still haven't fully realized all of his suggestions:

In the outside world, all forms of intelligence, whether of sound or sight, have been reduced to the form
of varying currents in an electric circuit in order that they may be transmitted. Inside the human frame
exactly the same sort of process occurs. Must we always transform to mechanical movements in order to
proceed from one electrical phenomenon to another?

I would love to see that as much as he did.
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In the 90’s I learned and used C as a general programming language. For lighter tasks, I used shell scripts, sed, and awk, and I came to know them well, and I still use them regularly. I knew then that I needed a better programming language for general programming, and from a distance, I could see that Perl was like shell, sed, and awk all mashed together. I did not want it – it seemed like the entirely wrong direction to go. (Minor or domain-specific languages like PHP was out.) I had heard of Python, but did not try it until I was asked to write a small utility which was just complex enough that a shell script would not suffice; I took the opportunity to learn and use Python (then version 1.5) for it.

I have used Python at every opportunity since, and am happy to use Python 3 everywhere possible.
Yep, I've always believes that there are times when you find yourself in a place you shouldn't be in. It isn't their fault and it isn't your fault, just different people who don't mesh and it's best to admit to it and walk away.

The cultural fit thing can be important in that a negative nancy can seriously cause problems in a group, to the point of people leaving due to getting such a negative view of management/business over time from the constant negativity.

It's a hard thing because there are definitely people you don't want to hire due to 'fit', but it's so hard to get it even fairly right.
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I think the key is to define within the company, what the cultural values are, and then talk about how to check if a person is aligned with them or not.

At the company I work for, we value creativity, independence and taking ownership and responsibility of one's work. It sounds generic but it's not - people who like structured workplaces and process, just wither and don't succeed. So we try to assess that in interviews, and we took the time actually define what are our values (it goes way beyond this example).

Over time we became better at this, and it actually contributed more heterogeneous hires. Since you don't have to assess people on your personal chemistry and how much they're like you personally - you have better tools do do that. This approach opened the door to people who fit with the work culture, even though they're not similar to the core "social DNA" of the team, and that's just fine, it works well for everyone.
There are core skills relating to attractiveness and not everyone picks them up intuitively. Without those skills, and without even knowing what they are, "get out there and talk to people" will be vastly less effective. Similarly, "just go to the gym and work out" will be far less effective than "follow starting strength".

Unfortunately the only people teaching those skills are redpill, pua, and similar sorts. I think this is mainly because many of the effective techniques contradict a lot of socially desirable dogma.
That website is so many levels of fucked up. Glad the SCOTUS is less insane than these sites make the US seem.
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Should i be worried?
I hire for Attitude and Aptitude.

If you have a crappy attitude I can't do anything to help you there.

If you have the aptitude and your attitude is positive, can-do, willing to learn, we can teach you anything you need to know or you can learn it on the job.

I too worry that "Cultural Fit" is becoming the new "don't like them" excuse of the day. I try hard to hire people who think about problems differently than myself or other members of my team. My hope is to get as many angles as possible to see problems from so we together as a team can find solutions that might not have been obvious if each of us has a homogeneous view driven by some bogus "cultural fit".

What I know about my life is I was born with almost none of the skills I leverage every day. From the ability to walk and talk, I've had to learn it all. I feel focusing too much on fit and skills is like judging a baby on how cute it is. Basically useless.
Modern marriage in the US is a civil union that has nothing to do with any religion, and the rights are already defined.

Notice that you have to apply to get married in the government office. Whether you have your ceremony in some church or elsewhere or not have it at all is your choice, and affects absolutely nothing.

What you're suggesting is that we rename "marriage" into "civil union" and do the same with all the laws and precedents. It's an expensive and stupid proposition, all in the name of dealing with some hurt feelings of religious fanatics that try to get their hands into the government business.
My SSL connection is passing through Bit Defender Antivirus.

Is it something like Lenovo Superfish ?
Quite the neutral title. We now understand your disdain for Singapore. The punishment is definitely harsh.

It is well-known that Singapore has quite the dictatorial side to it, but it is a fantastic country when you look at where it was only 40 years ago. A country with the total area of a city with absolutely no natural resources, no official language, and a large variety of ethnicities i.e. not homogenous like say SK. It took a lot of sacrifice to get it where it is today.
Archive.org (while an amazing resource created lovingly by amaing people) is not a great front-end for stuff like this. Github is very easy to get started with and excels at code hosting. As for the blockchain that's a terrible idea, there are so many things wrong with it including the cost to push all of that data into the blockchain and the fact that while source code can be small it isn't always and it's magnitudes of times larger. Right now each block is 1MB and blocks take some 10 minutes for just 1 confirmation so you are looking at < 1.7KBpss (13.6Kbps) "upload" speeds. IF you actually attempted this you would have to have some sort of header on each transaction to tie it all together which lowers the speed even further. I'd bet money that if you started uploading nodes would either ban you or the core devs would do something to stop the chain from being filled with shit that now has to get replicated to 10's of thousands of machines across the globe.
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Not legally you won't. Your "marriage" will be equivalent to "monogamous relationship", that's about it. No visitation rights. No tax breaks. No inheritance rights. No pension rights.
> Can you imagine an Angel funder in Silicon Valley saying they only fund "innovative" ideas by companies that have five years of existing accounts

One way of getting around that for us has been to incorporate some of the best things we have come across into what we do. Essentially taking on those teams or their software. As we finally have the "five years" of accounts. (Described elsewhere in this thread.)

We are also teaming up with some of the larger NGOs and also governments where they essentially end up collaborating with us on the innovation side which has a hard time inside the organisations.

As you say it is sad how hard it is to get access to funds which are actually there, and it is sad to see what get funds instead, in the name of innovation.
You have heard the news since Snowden whistle-blew right?
I think the best way is to start doing something. You should`t wait till something happen. Just be doer not thinker!

The more you think then less time you have to do smth
We should abandon similar attempts at regulation, at least until we understand why that went so wrong.

The EU is pretty good at regulating high-level user protection (e.g. privacy directives), and can be useful to give a "push" to what is already generally accepted in the industry (USB as an universal charging port), but I definitively think they should avoid mandating particular technologies or implementations, and the Cookie directive is a good example of what happens when they don't.
Bitbucket is exactly the same.

Gitlab has a community edition, and then there's Gogs, Kallithea and a few others.
What a show of recalcitrance. You could probably bring up this issue in conversation and use it as a free speech litmus test. I am reminded of this comment [http://lesswrong.com/lw/kat/the_benefits_of_closedmindedness...]:

2-26% of Americans thinks gay people should not be allowed to speak

3-36% of Americans think that atheists like me (& 79.2% of LW) are better seen than heard

7-49% think militarists should shut up

16-48% of Americans disagree with free speech for racists

16-75% claim Muslims should not be permitted to preach against America
@svenfaw, your RCC scanner says "Exiting... [Reason: signature database appears to be out of date.]", why is that?
I think jahnu was referring to obtaining the private keys for a trusted signing authority, which would enable said agency to create valid-looking certificates for the purpose of MITM. Weak algorithms are also concerning, but not really the subject of OP.
I don't want to pay less taxes. I have a philosophical objection to unmarried couples paying less than married couples with the same income. Paying less myself doesn't fix that.
Alternate link: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7568
For me "Be a hacker" is kind of innovative & startupish spirit, the way of life and doing things different, open-mindness, never ending learning.
Ello is beautiful? Guess it really is in the eye of the beholder.
But you can take some of the great parts of that culture and what has been learned and apply it fruitfully. One has to make sure not to be sucked into the new, for newness sake, but there is a lot of good stuff to use.
This sentence:

"Crucially, though, for these gatekeepers, fit was not about a match with organizational values. It was about personal fit."

For all of you defending hiring on fit, which fit are you thinking about?
I have tried it out. As a user, it seemed ok, and it is free (pricewise).

Mailpile does not host mail, it is just the front end - you still need an email account elsewhere.

I use runbox.com as my main email provider - not free (pricewise), but is doesn't cost much.
Usually, but it depends on cultural context.

For example, where I'm from (West Ireland), the term "Lads" is often used for everyone regardless of gender. One might hear a lady say she's "Going out with the lads" when describing a night out, with even a mostly female group of companions.

Basically, we should try to not use language which excludes others, but in some cases the person is actually using gender-neutral language from their culture and does not intend to exclude anyone.
1 star. If you are starred by a big tech biz and they are willing to finance you up to $250k/year (or maybe a million per year?) to keep the project running and clean bugs by the very own creator of the project. Because your project is handling infrastructure for them that runs a multi-million dollars business.

100,000 star. If you are starred by your average to not-so-average (high or low) developer. There is no clear monentization plan. But given the popularity, ads and affiliates might bring you $1 per star (assuming a star is 40-50 visits/year).

Think about it. You have a bridge between Queens and Manhattan. I'm sure the US, NYC and people are willing to finance, pay you, or buy you. For what-ever big price (might be unreasonable too, to the cost of creation) you ask.

But if you have a bridge between Antarctica and the French Southern Antarctic lands (just randomly picked), it'll be certainly an amazing and well-known artefact but I'm not sure how you are going to finance it (especially that Tourism is not huge there).
I was basing off the w3 directors article [1]

1: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Security-NotTheS.html
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In don't think it's a very good alternative and I subscribe to the "we'll fix ten years problems in ten years" but it doesn't have the same issues.
Yes, this is a more challenging and potentially risky one.

I think you're taking the right approach by capturing the code and the history. In fact, I think you're going above and beyond what most people should ask for or expect.
It fails. The more symbols and syntax rules you have, the less readable it is. I think this is pretty straightforward to understand :) Human language has pretty much non-existant symbols besides the alphabet.
Indeed. It is a bit of an uphill struggle, but we are starting to see change though. I think some people are really starting to get it. And yes, IRIS is interesting for some things we do too!
Too late to edit now, but autocorrect strikes again! Good catch, thanks :)
Anybody knows a similar analysis tool for an SVN project? One option would be to convert the SVN to git for analysis purposes, but I'd be interested in a better solution.
I guffawed, but then I remembered that these same people gave us sendmail.