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At risk of showing my age, it never meant that; or at least, if that's what it means now, it's a very modern interpretation and the word has basically become meaningless.

I've got a copy of Levy's "Hackers" on my desk, printed in 1984. The first chapter opens in the late fifties (i.e. almost sixty years ago) in the MIT model railway club.

"Hackers" are (or at least, were) people who solved problems in a particular way. A good hack involved some clever dodge around a limitation, or some new creative technical thinking to achieve a task. In code terms, someone might find a way round a memory limitation by reusing something in a non-standard way, or perhaps someone might hide some extra calculation in the fly-back time of a CRT monitor. Hacks show a knowledge and understanding beyond the standard methods, a knowledge and understanding often gathered through exploring deeply and chasing personal itches; creativity based on a more thorough understanding than just knowing the syntax. The skill good hackers tended to have was just a base knowledge that allowed their creativity to fly; sometimes someone would churn out a creative, non-standard solution purely because they didn't have the skill needed, and didn't know the elegant standard method.

A "person who can code" is not a hacker (under the traditional definition, at least). That's simply a person who can code. Some of the finest programmers are not hackers. Some of the finest hackers are not outstanding programmers. Yes, there's a broad correlation; good hackers tend to be good programmers (although certainly not the other way around), but the two terms are by no means synonymous.

If you've not read Levy's "Hackers", it's a good read.
Apparently Iceland has n variations of yogurt-like products but you can't buy condensed milk anywhere.
Point being that it is a normal expectation for a large populous city anywhere and says nothing whatsoever about London (other than London may actually be doing quite well as far as traffic goes).
"China’s stock market is really different from other countries"

Yeah, just add an opaque, government overseeing and controlling all information of Chinese stocks. Nothing to see here folks.
And this company that didn't hire the most-competent candidate: Would you say that they are now some how measurably worse-off within the market? At the very least, in relation to a potential competitor that did snag up that candidate?
Ten years from now for all we know we could all have so much cheap storage and bandwidth and good, open p2p software that all coders get to archive their own full copy of github's repos. So the focus should be on getting today's job done now.
Utah, apparently.

https://medium.com/culture-club/a-black-man-walks-into-silic...
Ouch.

Even if what you say could be true, is it a good thing to send our kids to institutions of learning so that they can become arse-licking sycophants? Is that even a conscious decision in parenting?
The New Beetle.
The penultimate guide to stopping a DDoS attack (2010)
Just went to the Ello website and got greated by a flashing heading and a menu with a single-digit font size. Not very welcoming in 1995, and a turn off in 2015.
If it's only an instrumental value, how do you work around it? Put people in holodecks and give them illusions of loving friends? Or modify people's minds to make them content with not having any loving friends, because they already have guaranteed food/shelter/entertainment? I think many people wouldn't agree to either of those alternatives. They want to "actually" have someone who cares about them, whatever that means.
sorry, Doku is for physical goods, you know Indonesia has relatively low in software industry sector. Please don't judge me check the site first

and again I need a gumroad.com-like where payout is through bank account and support my country(Indonesia).'

There is no such platform like that in my country :(

I spend for few years to research about this.
One star, if it's from the right person.

Revenue is number of people willing to pay you time the amount they're willing to part with. Neither of those can be inferred from number of stars on a GitHub page (it probably has the most correlation with the number of people willing to pay, but there's going to be a scaling factor there that will vary dramatically based on the nature of the project).
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Strawman.

There's nothing about marriage that necessitates restricting it to members of opposite sexes. It is however a contract, which requires restricting it to persons that are capable of consent. Exclusion conflicts the basic premise of equal rights so the exclusion has to have valid reasons other than "because that's how we defined it".

A more interesting question would be why it's restricted to natural persons and why it is restricted to two persons.
"Sacrifice" is sort of ambiguous, isn't it? LHL working late a few evenings would be one thing, but his government locking this kid up for years, for a cartoon, is another. He's 16 though, so I wonder whether that would meet his obligation for compulsory service? It would be a real bummer to come out of two years of reeducation camp, and then have to do two more years of essentially the same thing.
Still don't get it. Knowing that I use SGP gives attacker nothing. On each guess of master password attacker has to generate pass (quick, using hash) and then GO to website and try to login. And this is very slow compared to hash generation using bcrypt, SHA1 or even md5.
Show HN: Verify-git-tag: Ensure that Git tag exists before publishing to npm
>resist any non-artsy content like an immune system warding off a plague

I might be being pedantic, but the immune system didn't do a very good job of resisting the plague, in fact it mostly let it do it's thing...
I received a lot of downvotes but my comment was a bit ironical since in many forums (even in HN in the past) when someone talked about backups many people suggest the block chain.

I said: With the current and future block size it will take sometime to make it happen.
The strangest part of that article is this:

I understand how ingrained the “guys” habit might be for
some of you. It was for me. After several months of
concerted, conscious effort, I still slip and say it on oc-
casion.

So even the author herself used the word with completely gender neutral intent, but then she insists that others can't. It's like she's looking for reasons to be offended.
Title has now been edited.
I've found the biggest issue with most of the Google Authenticator implementation is that they store the seeds in plain text.
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In the past, I hardly ever used foo and bar in my examples, for that reason. Over the last two years or so, I've strived to start using them.

There's history of using foo/bar/baz in examples. So it's a very quick way to signal to the reader, "What this is isn't the important part. The meat of the discussion isn't in this; he crux of it lies elsewhere," and that's a pretty important thing.

There's a cost in using "real" examples. There's a cost to you the author in coming up with them, and then there's the cost to the reader who has to unpack the domain-specific concepts in the example you're synthesizing and disentangle it from what you're actually trying to demonstrate.

Do use foo and bar whenever possible.
Speaking as a lower-income student who went to an Ivy League university, appearing more similar to those in power is an entirely different thing than becoming an "arse-licking sycophant".

I'd argue that going to a so-called "elite" institution is more akin to learning a language by immersion.
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Actually it's just harder to meet new people. And harder still to meet interesting new people. (Especially ones who aren't judgemental about age.)
Isn't that stretching it a bit too much? It's a service that can be replicated for free with the Yahoo! Finance APIs and a couple hours of your time.
Talking about a hobby as if you still do it, in order to get the job and provide for your family, is not a lie anyone sane would say matters. Next time, don't sweat it.
Ask HN: Former founders, how do you evaluate culture while job searching?
Background--
I'm asking as an former startup founder who was very thoughtful of building the right culture. Now I'm interviewing for PM jobs at companies of various stages, and I'm wondering how I should judge their culture. Not to apply cultural relativism to tech startups, but surely I shouldn't (exclusively) judge companies' culture based on how I wanted to build my own. Something different than what I planned could be working well for them, and also evaluating as a founder should be different than an employee, no?

Other related discussion points--
-- How is evaluating a company overall as an employee different than evaluating your own startup as a founder?
-- Anyone else finding the interview process odd after a while at one's own startup? (There should be a support group.)
-- What are some of the most serious red-flags culture-wise in a prospective company? For example, having unclear compensation structure is often seen as a red flag by veterans and some VCs, and startup founders are told to avoid it; how serious is this at a series C company?

Request--
In your comments, please at least mention the stage of the company you're referring to, since I suspect this differs a lot by stage (any other details are great).

Note on definition of culture--
Culture is a nebulous term and can mean a lot of things (timely NYT article on HN today). When I say culture, I mean the hard, tangible aspects of a company that shows what they care about: for example, being open with emails like Stripe shows that they value transparency; not having titles at work shows that they think themselves a meritocracy; etc.
Oh right. The whole everyone is a little bit gay thing.
Why is it the penultimate guide? Is there a follow-up with the ultimate guide? I'm not a native speaker and the title confuses me. Can someone explain?
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I don't think there's sexual repulsion. Either you are repulsed by something or you are not, whether it's sexual has nothing to do with it. And what we are repulsed by is often conditioned

And no, I am not bisexual.
This is something I wrote about it a while ago: https://medium.com/@simon/the-not-so-brave-yogurt-of-iceland...

I still don't like that the first impression a consumer has is that the yogurt is made with milk from Icelandic cows, while in reality it's American cows.
Well then please, say that. You'll note in the comments below that there's someone who defines "hacker" as "person who can code".

If what you seek is open-mindedness to new ways of thinking and new ways of doing things, a positive attitude to learning, a desire to explore the software and hardware beyond the level purely necessary to meet the requirements, then say all these things so people know what you mean (and so that you do get applications from people with two decades of experience applying all these values to their life - some of those applicants can blow you away, if you can look past the smart suit; twenty years as a working adult with an attitude of never-ending learning can create some seriously skilled people).

You started your definition with "For me"; clearly, you already know that this is your definition. I bet there are people you work with who actually have a different definition but because you all use the same word, you don't realise it (cf. the common political phrases "our common values" and "hard-working families" - everyone has a personal definition of this that they simply project onto the phrase).
Your source says:

"all but one (Chinese) study suggested that high fluoride content in water may negatively affect cognitive development."

The source does not support claims that US levels of flouridation are too high nor that it is detrimental to brain development.
Bridge, or chess, or mah-Jong, or any number of other games. Sudoku, different solitaire variations, crosswords...
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If you're asking whether they "learnt" their lesson ... I very much doubt that cultures that entrench such biases are ever shaken up to reconsider the harmful effects (financial or otherwise) of their adopted attitudes. Don't underestimate the power of the "backfire effect" on the minds of middle-managers who don't want to be revealed as having made mistakes.

It takes a bold and courageous leader to admit mistakes in the corporate environment. Or a stupid one.
I used DuckDuckGo.
Surely those aren't confidence intervals coming from a place like lesswrong.

(also "16-75%"? Seriously?)
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I suppose those who only write in relatively similar languages like JS, Python, and Ruby start seeing all the tiny differences and miss the entire subset of Lisp languages that offer so much more.
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I stand corrected. Am I to understand that finishing a degree actually closes doors as opposed to opens them in Korea? That a degree earned in Korea is not worth much elsewhere? And that in two years she will have further cemented a life that she is doomed to live? If so, then I would have thought that she would have no desire to finish the degree and would not be conflicted to begin with. But you are right that I do not fully know the circumstances and should not be eager to dispense advice. Maybe she wants to finish the degree for the sake of someone else, though there was no mention of this. I was assuming a "she" due to "jenny" but it could be a "he". I would love to learn more about the tradeoffs in Korea. Given the long term desire to be based in the states, you and I are making an excellent point -- it is worth considering that people outside Korea may not be fully aware of the tradeoffs. In my defense, the question was directed at a global forum without the context being fully presented initially...
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You send the kids to Stanford so their ares will be the ones licked by syciphants.
I'm an expat living in Germany. The attitude here is remarkable. There's wide awareness of privacy issues.

You know the joke about how to apply for a job at the NSA? Most of the parents at my childrens' school would get that.
The competitor that his hiring the best people in terms of skills and values (values that aligned with the companies core values); given everything else is equal will be much better off.
I agree with you on this. The only way we can trust, is if we know thee people. And even then it's normally not 100%.

For example, if you want to take someone out to a nice restaurant. You might ask friends and colleagues, but some might have different tastes or some might just have an incentive for you to go there. So once you have a few options, you can then Google those choices to see if they match what you are looking for.

So for something as simple as a dinner, we are already doing several checks to validate the place and comments that people have made.

The issue comes when the web is involved, as we expect instant reaction and response. We also hate having to answer repeated question as it interrupts our though process. So we need a web of trust, but also with the option of sharing in you personal web of trust. So for an example, I want to go to page: newcorp.com, but the certificate warns me it's not allowed by my chosen web of trust. So I query so see if anyone on my local web of trust has an allowed setting for this page. It finds that Bob does, but I have set Bob as a low trust setting so it won't allow me to go there, but it will say that Bob's web of trust does. Do you trust Bob's choices to allow access?

This would at least allow people to make choices of trust that they understand. As humans we thrive in groups, as long as they are not to big, and the Internet is a huge group of people. It's a lot easier to choose if I trust Bob from the office then for example Google, ICAN or even Mozilla.

That way, the non-tech people can see the web of trust of their tech friends and make a choice on what they have set.

It's a thought, but I think we need to bring trust and security back to our local, controllable environment. The Internet will keep on integrating with our every day life's in ways that are hard the even think about now. So we need to figure out security and trust now, not once my jacket is talking to the street lamp telling it that the light should be lower because I had eye surgery yesterday and should not have strong lights around me. How the hell do we add security to all those types of functions that will come.

Sorry for the long rant, but it's something that worries me about the future.
This can be the copy editing subthread.

See zipolupu's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9790181

The article also says:

> When you see code like rho == lho it could be converted into rho[Symbol.isAbstractEqual](lho), allowing classes to override what == means to them.

While there's not any technical error here (the examples follow proper alpha-conversion), the "l" and "r" in lho and rho stand for "left" and "right", respectively, so they should be switched.

In the Symbol.match example, "return [find];" should be... "return [index];"?
...never assume one byte per glyph
...or just use a language where a cookie cutter isn't needed e.g. macros in Clojure
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Seriously? You'd take a job that requires that you lie about your personal life?
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"appearing more similar to those in power" ...

So you must possess the talent of Tom Ripley?
Same principle of SSL hijacking, yes. Probably used to scan your traffic for XSS attacks, JS and Flash-related vulnerabilities, and stuff like that.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889692/some-bitdefender-prod...
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I agree with the point being made, but that story sounds made up. It ticks all the boxes, in a way that real-life stories rarely do.
+1 clever!
There was a whole article about this recently... I forget where, probably the NY Times. Have you read it? Quite illuminating for me. Didn't even realize there was this whole issue/culture about being low-income + Ivy.
I don't think it's related to "traditional marriage systems," but instead to social nets and expectations about who will do the caring. For instance, in Scandinavia marriage rates have simply plunged over the last few decades -- fewer and fewer people get married, even though they are still getting together. But social safety nets ensure that taking care of children or older relatives is not such a financial burden as in Japan. Marriage isn't necessary to supporting elders or children in Scandinavia. In Japan, though, there is very little government support. Families are the main line of support, and it is expensive!
It's definitely not just a "We're really happy with Haskell here at FB" post. This probably explains the trollish comments elsewhere to the tune of "Haskell without Simon+bos /= scalable".

It is a little intimidating, though. I think the perception is "Haskell is hard enough, AND I have to be a C++/GHC internals expert too?" The hard truth is you have to be this level of expert at something to achieve robustness at industrial scale.

Simon's comment in this thread hints at some of the power of Haskell alone:

The "automatic" bit is that we insert the code that consults the map so the programmer doesn't have to write it. The map itself is already invisible, because it's inside the monad. So the overall effect is a form of automatic memoization.[1]

This pretty much sums up appdev in Haskell. Engineer (or employ) amazing abstractions with no funny business (hello Spring!) and no loss in safety or expressiveness.

I'm really happy this team exists, this is the kind of work that will take Haskell into the mainstream. Kudos!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9787523
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>One issue I have with posts like this, however awesome/uplifting/well-intentioned they may be, is that they attempt to generalize mostly anecdotal evidence to general advice.

That's the reader's job. It's they that can and should make appropriate generalizations from the multiple stories they read and listen to.

The posters job is to post their anecdotal evidence as true to what happened as they can, including giving any insights of what worked for them.

As businessmen we don't operate with perfectly accurate and complete data, detailed scientific models for every action and perfect confidence (those don't exist in business anyway).

What good businessmen do is make sense out of the chaos of empirical information, which includes both their experience and anecdotes, and use it AS IT applies and IF IT applies to their particular market and special circumstances.
A lot of people are looking to be offended these days.
I am using a Trello board to organize my life. The flexibility to define lists freely and quickly add issues is a big win. The lists on my board are: Today's task list, Task list, Friends & Family, Project ideas, Client work.
Blockchain Startup Raises $2M for Intellectual Property Solution
In the absence of access to good deals it would be fair to say 'yes', and view crowdfunding as the method of last resort when VC or angel deals don't work out.

With that said, AngelList did a round for Uber, FundersClub did Instacart, and Wefunder did Zenefits, so the dealflow might not be of the quality that a brand-name VC/angel would get, but it's also not 100% reverse selection bias all the way.

One troubling indicator is how quickly all of crowdfunding models converged to syndicate models. While it's helpful and time-efficient to have the lead do proper due diligence, the incentives for a popular syndicate lead is to do as many deals as possible, featuring the winners and sweeping the failures under the rug.
I don't think it is intended to be undetected. Plenty of large organizations use security appliances that MITM all traffic. Though I'd prefer they do it by pushing their own BigCo certificate to the boxes they own than relying on a cert that exists in all copies of Windows.
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May I ask what's your objection to drinking beer?

The reason I ask because some people abstain for religious reasons and I seriously don't relish the company of fundie folks around me because from experience over time they won't settle for exercising just their own rights but till they impose or restrict other people's rights or make them at least feel very uncomfortable in the workplace.
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Anyone care to speculate why they need to use logs so much in their codebase?
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Some of the levels studied (mg/L) --

.88, 1.8, 2.97, 1.81-2.69, 4.12, 2.0, 3.15, 2.9, 2.97, .57-4.5, 2.5, 1.24-2.34, 2.47, 2.38
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Here's a comment from an Ask HN I started pertaining to hiring: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9760639

I think it addresses the issue of not getting an offer because the existing team doesn't connect on as private/personal level.
There's... a huge gap between not drinking due to religious reasons, and being a "fundie". That's like calling everyone who is vegetarian or vegan or don't eat a specific kind of meat due to religion your feared "fundies".