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> > Psychologically, the more relevant variable for success in live is motivation.

> Which is still pretty small compared to who your parents are (in terms of the upbringing offered to you and the connections it offers).

It quite looks like it, yes. That's why I prefixed that with "Psychologically". I actually had written more or less your answer after that, but then deleted it because I didn't want to derail the thread :)
Scala doesn't have to be complicated
That would be very unlikely.
It has no memory protection as someone else alluded to, has no networking and I dont believe it is open source either.
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I couldn't help but notice that quote, either. I wonder why the author found it necessary to put that in on an article about the pixels of the Apple Watch? I don't see that information doing much besides inciting a flame war.
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Get out of London ASAP. £32k a year is a respectable wage and you'll find it goes a long way once you move further north (I'm on a very similar wage and live in Leeds)

First thing is you need that roof over your head, if possible clear those arrears as a priority - moving will become more difficult if you leave with debt as no agency or landlord will touch you and it will damage your credit rating for years.
Is the percentage of women in STEM low in all STEM degrees in the US? I'm Spanish and math and chemistry usually have a 50/50 or >50% of women here. Not sure if those are considered STEM at all in the US.
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I like this presentation, as it shows what Docker really is, and also how to use Docker without Docker: https://chimeracoder.github.io/docker-without-docker/#1
I've got an Acorn System One under my desk (faulty), if you need it for parts let me know, my email address is my username at gmail.com
Ah yes... there is such a lot of that around. I recall a "work-life balance" seminar held from 7-8pm on a Friday.

(I'd like to think that anyone who turned up was just told to go away and get some work-life balance, but knowing the company involved, I don't think so...)
It seems that people continue to find significant differences.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7DMQCP3v6SZQUw1MnNWbXBUV3M/
I think the main problem is that people are looking for some kind of silver bullet diet that will make them healthy and live long. So, since there's demand, there are other people providing them with it.

Of course it's just air, there's no such thing as a silver bullet diet. Health and longevity depends on so much more than just diet that there will never be such a thing.

But still, since there's money to be made by selling dummies miracle diets, there are some to sell. And since they can't sell the real thing because it can't be made, they do what they can to convince the customers that it is. Among other marketing tricks, pervert science so it looks like their snake oil is based on something more than just the will to make money from gullible people.

There might be some good science in the nutrition field. Sadly, it's drowned in a sea of wishful thinking, bad science and plain charlatanry...
First let me say that I don't intend to speak for anyone but myself here.

As a black man who grew up in America (though not African-American) I have to say that my immediate reaction to the idea of similar study being done to explain the effects of slavery, Jim Crow, and other forms of institutional racism on the black population makes me nervous.

On one hand I'd love to welcome such studies because they would (could?) explain to many people the lasting effects of over 100 years of horrific oppression on millions of people.

On the other hand it makes me nervous because blacks in this country spent decades fighting not just for freedom but for equality. And not just equality in the eyes of the law but in the hearts of their neighbors. I fear, perhaps irrationally, that a study like this could serve to convince people that blacks are in fact different. That our brains are not in fact the same as other people in this country. That we are not equal.

And if it were possible to have a third hand I'd also have another thought that may be somewhat controversial, particularly in the black community, and it is that I'd be worried that the results of a study like this one would serve to absolve many people today of their responsibility to essentially be good people. The victimization of black people in America is well-documented but I have to say I've often felt uncomfortable by how frequently it is used as something to point to when we are just straight up unwilling to take care of our own communities.

I'm rambling now so I'll stop but I hope some of that made sense.
Not really, it's still RGB, because you still have the same number of red, green and blue cells. PenTile has twice as much green pixels than red or blue (RGBG).
I read this and thought "Lotus Notes, the early days"
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'Here' = in Europe. It's only illegal in Austria.
I second the recommendation of Innovators. Even though it does not go into deep detail, it provides a good overview of the history of computing. It is easy to then follow-up with specific literature if a topic piques one's interest.

In addition, I would also recommend "Intel Trinity" by Michael Malone (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-Trinity-Robert-Important-Compa...). It covers the post-Fairchild era from Intel's point of view.
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If you put in rules to follow people simply won't. Especially trolls. That's kind of part of their definition, isn't it?

But what people forget is that you can communicate without text boxes as well. There are already social non-verbal communications in place.

Simple examples are liking something, sharing it, seeing a group post or chat message (with or without responding). Being online or not is also a way to say you want to communicate or not.

It is possible to force people into a non-textbox communication by giving them buttons instead. Sometimes both options (text and button) already is enough for people to use the button because it's simpler.

There are also experiments to fight trolls by only giving specified communication buttons instead of text boxes, e.g., in the online card game Hearthstone.

One problem you can't fight that way is the problem of interpretation. In the example of Hearthstone the winner of a card game might say "Thanks" hoping to end the game with a polite statement, while the opponent who lost might interpret it as "haha, look at how I beat your ass, noob".

Spamming and Trolling is also still possible, because you can make anything annoying by doing it too often. E.g., someone you just added to your FB friendlist goes through your history and likes every single status message, uploaded picture and shared link you posted.
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The oral histories are fantastic and authoritative.
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I'm close to finish Walter Isaacson's Innovators. It's a great book and he's a great writer. Really enjoying it.
No they're not. They've been denied as evidence a few times in court, and you can't publish images/video with recognizable people on them, but that's not a problem if all you want to do is monitor/track people.
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I have to say a few months ago there were too many of such projects to get me excited any more. I don't mean to criticise just to state why I can't say much about it. Why not work with some of the other projects with decentralized chat?
> gender disparities across different occupations.

I guess it would depend on the occupation. For example, I don't see much difference between nurses and doctors in terms of something that could be quantified as a gender-specific preference. It seems to me that the idea of "nurses are women, doctors are men" came about more from the idea that women were "too stupid" to be doctors and that it was a "man's job." Even today many doctors look down on nurses (as 'below' them; people whose opinions don't matter), and men that decide to become nurses also face a uphill battle of social acceptance.
As an ops guy, I would also mention the benefits of the Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml, which could be clear sources for information to how the system is built, and which in most circumstances would build the same system in dev as in prod. By changing a docker tag in the configuration management, I can roll out a new version quite conveniently to staging and eventually to production.

The potential minimalism of a container is also an important concept to mention, with fast startup-times and less services that could potentially be vulnerable.
For me, it is the ultimate in the idea in Continuous Delivery of "build once." I can be very confident that the docker image I build in the first stage of my pipeline will operate correctly in production. This is because that identical image was used for unit tests, to integration and functional testing, to the staging environment and finally production. There is no difference than configuration.

This is the core that Docker solves, and in such a way that developers can do most of the dependency wrangling for me. I don't even mind Java anymore because the CLASSPATHs can be figured out once, documented in the Dockerfile in a repeatable programatic fashion, and then ignored.

In my opinion the rest of it is gravy. Nice tasty gravy, but I don't care so much about the rest at the moment.

Edit: As danesparz points out, nobody has mentioned immutable architecture. This is what we do at Clarify.io. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9845255
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The most authoritative work is Ceruzzi's A History of Modern Computing (http://amzn.to/1TiHgqd). Because it's written by an academic, not a journalist, it also has a great bibliography and footnotes. Some of the works it cites that are very valuable in themselves, depending on your area of interest, are:

- R. Hodeson, Crystal Fire (on the invention of the transistor), http://amzn.to/1RictfF

- T.R. Reid, The Chip (on the IC), http://amzn.to/1Hdbu8w

- E.W. Pugh, IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems, (on the evolution of computer architecture), http://amzn.to/1NKZcWQ

Also, as others have mentioned, Soul of a New Machine is awesome.

I feel like you may be asking about computer science, though, not computer hardware. If so, pickings are slim. Two that stand out are:

- S. Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code, http://amzn.to/1HdbJk1 (Not really a history of code, just the history of a single project)

- M. Campbell-Kelly, From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog, http://amzn.to/1RicYpS (which, while not quite as amazing as the others, is the only history of the software industry as a whole I know of.)
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If we lived in a society where there was no marketing and I invented something completely new that would genuinely help many people how should those people hear about it? Should they have to use word of mouth to discover that there is a product on the other side of the planet that would fix a problem for them? I'm not talking about a problem they didn't know they had but a problem they didn't know could be solved.
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My thought exactly: we've gone so far afield with this ridiculous notion of "sameness" between sexes that we actually now need "serious" research to "debunk" what was so obviously never true. "This just in: women and men are not exactly the same!"

The real problem is that our society tends to equate sameness with acceptability as its preferred mode of "tolerance". This has the paradoxical effect of re-inforcing the negative ways we view our differences (e.g. discrimination). That is, the desire to claim that we are all exactly the same is an implicit statement that it would be somehow problematic if we were not.

So, the fact that we are obviously different means that we are attempting to sell oursleves a lie that we never buy, while allowing our negative feelings about our very real differences go unchecked.
I don't think this is a good investment to go into purely because you are not buying a game like Mighty No.9. What you are buying is some episodes not a full game. Furthermore with this being the third kickstarter that they are doing (the second being Mighty No.9 animation, which is weird considering having a separate funding event already for that), the financial aspects of comcept leave me questioning how are they handling their resources.
I found this a while back and have been really enjoying it. http://www.synthesiagame.com

With a laptop that folds flat, you can prop it on the music stand of your piano. Would be best with a touch screen, I think.
I'm curious to know how difficult it is to find the ads.

If you found the ads:
1. Would you want to advertise to developers?
2. Would you want to have ads like this on your site?

Why or why not?
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I think it's more interesting that people who relinquish their mobility to cars end up thinking that cars are the only potential source of mobility, forgetting that walking, mass transit, and bicycling are all viable means of transport for most people.
We've always done it this way
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I once stumbled upon a link on Hacker News to a gist where "principles of security" were listed and which algorithms to use for which use case.

e.g.: For API communication use HMAC verification

For hashing use sha256

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Always with a example use case and an explanation why to this mechanism over others (or older algorithms).

I cannot find it anymore and forgot to bookmark it, maybe some recognizes what I am looking and shares the link again.

Thanks
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All of those are features the OS should manage. In particular, estimating runtime is a function laptops have had since they existed.
https://gist.github.com/tqbf/be58d2d39690c3b366ad this one?

discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593916
It's a footnote. I guess the author is going for a "stream of consciousness" around Apple watch pixels. (Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a positive contribution to the article)
The problem is: the car interacts with its environment. When a new algorithm kicks in, the car will behave differently, and as a result the input data will be different, and thus the recorded data will have lost its relevance.
"I had religiously read /r/fitness and /r/formcheck, so I had a fairly good idea of what good form is."

You got to be kidding ...
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Does the apple watch downscale like their phones? Can apple implement subpixel downscaling? It seems like an easy win if already downscaling abbreviations if you can do it in hardware.
Regardless of where the defect originates, if you want people to be able to use your product in different environments, you gotta test in different environments. The user won't care whether your product looks like crap because of a browser defect or because of a product defect; all they know is that it looks like crap. Of course, strike a balance; don't bother developing for IE6 on WinXP anymore.
That's because they can talk about anything.

Here for instance, it's different, and voices are silenced if enough people disagree with you and downvote you.

It's how adults communicate about difficult issues. Can't do that here at all, too many children. They want it always 'positive' here, and other smokescreens are deployed to silence independent thought.

When you're too emotional, you can't discuss things rationally and logically. You're too busy crying.
The Crockford's lecture about history of web-development (starting far before first computing machines and ending on javascript) is definitely must-watch. It's not so detailed because it's not a book, but gives a good overview.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg
OpenVZ is not upstream in the kernel; the container stuff that got merged is what Docker uses. Docker has much wider adoption than OpenVZ does now.
I'm uncomfortable with being negative about it, but am I right in understanding the only display is led lights?

A long time ago I was a kid with an interest in computers and I remember what it was like and it's hard to imagine this actually being interesting to kids.

It sort of feels like it's trying so hard not to compete with other technology that it's become kind of pointless. It really should have been able to plug into a display.

I'd love to be enthused because the initiative is an awesome one but a box with lights feel like it might be missing the inspiration factor.

It would have been good if they had some sort of Lego-like ability to connect them to each other or something to encourage kids to hook them up in series and make them communicate. Heck maybe with Legos permission it should have been Lego connector compatible so it could be clipped into Lego structures.

Feels like this little device is a bit of a missed opportunity.
GMail has a cool extension in Labs that changes the favicon to display the number of unread messages. So that's a use-case.
Might be interesting for you: https://medium.com/using-artificial-intelligence-to-make-tec...
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Somehow I doubt you or anyone else here is shipping respirators and cryovalves as side projects, and even if so, the context here is clearly web and infrastructure software.
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Connecting two computers.

IP addresses (normal, unicast ones) like 1.2.3.4 and a9c::890 are meant to reach a computer somewhere on the Internet, through any number of routers. Routers are meant to forward IP packets until they reach their goal.

Try it with your neighbor's computer, it's not going to work. Did he enable DMZ or port forwarding? Alright, that works when your neighbor is home. Now try it when your neighbor is at work. His IP address changed, so there goes the reachability. This seems like "duh, obviously," and you're right. But I just want to perform the fundamental action of connecting two computers.

I personally used Tor to solve this problem: run a hidden service on one, connect to the .onion address on the other (you can configure ssh to work with .onion addresses).

This public key system would solve the problem in a much better way, without going through Tor. Not that Tor is bad, it's just not meant for this. Connecting the two machines directly without thinking about the intermediary network is what I wanted.
I think the argument is that the iPhone (and other innovations) required a leap in creativity, not science or engineering; it's those leaps that power many of today's technology companies.
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Please don't use projects such as the Apollo or Manhattan program as examples. These projects are huge and have considerable amounts of money and man-power behind them, which most IT projects nowadays don't have.

I did a quick check on Wikipedia and the Apollo program cost in 2005 dollars $170 Billion dollars.

I believe the problem with IT is that vendors have sold management that their solutions will solve all their problems with little effort or man-power. The do more with less mantra has been oversold.
...it can be very disheartening...

I hear what you're saying, but that's the risk you must take when you do a public display like that. Besides, it's at least half the fun. What's the use of only fanboys (& -girls) commenting, if that's not the whole picture?
Watching now. Thanks for turning me on to this.
Yeah, what's wrong with Lego Mindstorm? At least you can actually do stuff with that.
Exactly that!
You are my hero ;)

Thank you
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This is the correct answer.

You are not a fruit-in-code-out machine. You are part of a company now and, hopefully, getting deep into your career.

Your career involves keeping your ear to the ground and understanding the state of your company. Not just the outward stuff that goes into press releases and product launches, but the internal success and failures.

You don't have to just walk up to the fruit person and ask "WTF?". Be a little more subtle than that. Was there some major project that was cancelled? Sales not meet the forecast? Hiring was frozen by management?

All these little pieces need to be gathered over months and years, but you should always know where your job stands before the decision is made for you.

Sometimes, yeah, it was just the fruit person going on holiday. But sometimes it's the canary in a coal mine.
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Nor would most spend their time doing so.
well, the advice there could be generalized into a concept of "good form"...

I tried an approach mining the data from those two subreddits. That was a waste of time.
I don't remember the Canadian mounds of snow taking so much time to melt
To me, this seems more akin to the Arduino - a small, cheap board that you can program easily from your computer so that it provides immediate feedback, such as blinking.

The Raspberry Pi is more like an experimentation platform for learning linux as well as programming on the actual device. It can blink LEDs as well of course over GPIO but my impression is that this is a bit more complicated and requires extra hardware.

I think both have their merits and they can even be used in conjunction, like using the Raspberry Pi to program the micro:bit.
>I hope you can see there's a difference between someone saying "FYAD" and someone sending hundreds of death and rape threats per day from multiple different accounts.

I absolutely do - and I agree with basically everything you say. What I'm not sure about is where the law draws the line.

Twitter [social media] feels like a real problem for abuse, because instead of saying "anything goes, leave or stay at will" or moderating according to community rules, they claim no responsibility or interest and simply refer to the police.

I don't have answers, and I know defending my right to be a dick to someone for bad posting on some forum somewhere is somewhat pathetic. I just feel like "people could be fined or sent to prison for using deliberately harmful, threatening or offensive language" is dangerous. I'm pretty sure on the last one I've got some jail time coming - especially if the offence can be taken by someone to whom it isn't addressed...
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20% of Congresspeople and 5% of CEOs are women; to explain that, you would need 3 independent traits (ie, no correlation between traits) with a 40/60 split strongly tied to Congresspeople (ie, everyone who is a Congressperson shares this trait) and 7 for businesspeople.

You could go the other way and assume that it is all explained by a single trait -- give Congresspeople an IQ of 150, CEOs 160, and just assume that the trend in the chart continues and the overrepresentation of males is even higher at the further extremes.

This, however, runs into the problem that we've measured the IQs of Congresspeople and CEOs. Congresspeople are starkly average, with Representatives averaging 101 and Senators 98, so unless you believe that half of Congresspeople are below 50 and half above 150, the expectation based on this research is that more than half of Congresspeople should be women. Likewise, CEOs only average -- optimistically -- 130, where the gender split is only 46/54.