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Ryan, do you think it is possible that by not allowing all candidates access, regardless of race, gender, education, age is opening up your clients to potential litigation?

If you publish a list of your clients, do you think that someone could apply at those companies but be rejected because your company would not allow the applicant to be a part of your system or allege that they were not hired directly because your client used your service exclusively?

Can I still apply if I am 1/2, 1/4, or 1/32 Native American?

Wouldn't it be better to allow the client to sort by race (that just sounds crazy) including white? Wouldn't a photo of the candidate serve the same purpose? What happens in the near future when White is a minority in the US?

It's okay to have a lapse in judgment, but IMHO you folks are literally in a gray area. I sincerely wish you the best and hope you gain clarity. Hiring from a club that excludes one or more races is bad juju. I could not recommend this approach/your company to any of my clients.
> "The FBI has effectively smashed the hornets' nest," said U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton, "and we are in the process of rounding up and charging the hornets."

They didn't smash it "in the hand". They smashed it. With a hammer. Flame thrower. ICBM. MOAB. Smoke generator and nets.

I could imagine a hundred ways to smash a hornets nest that won't get me hurt in any shape or form... and I could imagine a few that would definitely bite back (like, say, crushing it in the hand without gloves).

Once you get past the imagined "hand" part, it's not a bad analogy since they do have to worry about what part of the "swarm" got away...
It probably helps that dialogs usually use "ok"/"cancel" rather than "yes"/"no". Chinese, for example, doesn't really have a word for "yes", but it does have a word/phrase meaning basically "ok" ("好的"), which is what's used on windows for those dialogs.
Ah... these hackers just don't understand that hacking, invading people's privacy and stealing their money is a government monopoly.
The metric is called LTV, lifetime value. The problem is that it takes a while to measure it. It's easy to see that your short-term obnoxious ad campaign brings in more money in an A/B test. It's much harder to figure out that it lowers the LTV over a week or month.
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So it's a social network for going on chores with friends?

""Now here's an app that has me by the balls."" as your tweet prompt is uh.. imho not professional.
Past gives context as to why the present is as it is. Agree that its not something to dwell on.

Also, agree with you about hiring the best. One of the issues this startup (I presume) is hoping to solve is to help source great candidates that may not be as well aware of their options in startups or are outside the typical silicon valley friends of friends networks that much of the hiring goes through.

There are other issues like giving students the affordance of entering into the technology world (which is why I am on the board of a computer science high school) that Jopwell and others will try to aid in as well.
"Best part to predict the future is to live it." There's great deal of science fiction about enhancement, but usually it discusses nanotechnology or compute-based augmentation; there's less out there that would cover the impact of actually understanding how the brain works ("the brain genome project") and developing more "natural" solutions.

Re: movies. Charles Stross ('cstross' on here) mentioned how television has effectively replaced the short story as commercial medium -- so youtube shorts could effectively have the same impact short stories (e.g., Flowers for Algernon -- the original story about enhancement) once had.

tl;dr Please write a modernized "Flowers for Algernon", perhaps as a film short.
I don't see that example, where did you find it?
This is very much off-topic, but briefly: Iraq vs ISIS vs Assad vs Al Nusra vs Hezbollah has absolutely nothing to do with Israel. Qadafi, Saddam and Khomenei had absolutely nothing to do with Israel. The destabilization and polarization of the Middle East has nothing to do with Israel. If anything, Israel unites the arabs in hatred against it.
Is this defense funding at work?
They are, that's why their stings "sting"
According to your website, you are a young, white male, Google engineer, that lives in California and owns a plane. You really have nothing to worry about.
If you are all such experts, why don't you "fix it" and then pull request it in.
Can someone please send a Keybase invitation to:

keybase-please@Safe-mail.net

This help would be appreciated.
Probably with heavy code duplication though, as eg X clipboard management and X session management appear to be cross-cutting concerns. I mean, if you bury the ugly in just one function, I don't see how everyone is calling this horrid engineering.

edit: I read this [1] and maybe the ugly isn't localized =P

edit2: since you're reading this, thank you for ag. I use it every day.

[1] http://geoff.greer.fm/2015/01/15/why-neovim-is-better-than-v...
TV found several better models. PBS asks the public directly to give them money, and they allow corporations to buy sponsorships which don't interrupt the content. HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, etc. have subscribers who pay directly for the privilege of watching their shows. Netflix delivers ad-free content to your home either via postal mail or network for a fee. There are plenty of other models available to try out.
"Those indicted include Johan Anders Gudmunds, identified by federal documents as an administrator of Darkode who created a large botnet of hacked computers that stole private information "on approximately 200,000,000 occasions.""

And on such a paltry amount of private information events compared to what the NSA captures!
You're not wrong, but it just seems like bad design. Why do they still show shipping rates at all, if the separate price/shipping prices are meant to deal with the uncertainty of shipping fees?

I'm not sure if they're altering the page based on geo-ip or not, but what I'm seeing on their page is "$14/mo (plus low 5.99 shipping) and $150/yr (plus 69.99 shipping)."

Why not just say $20/mo or $220/yr (additional shipping fees may be required for non North American customers)? It seems like that would be less likely to cause the sort of complaint had by gergles.
While I see your point you are missing the point that Parent hits on: Maintenance. Sure if everything was working you wouldn't touch it but if you do need to make changes or add features at some point then having refactored it into something sane and readable makes a lot of sense. I doubt the Parent is suggesting we re-write everything just because it is old.
There it is right there.
It doesn't acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive.

Except when sometimes it does. That is, external factors reveal old bugs or introduce new ones. Like when you use it after installing a new package/driver/OS and it blows up. Or after years you give it to a new crazy user which somehow succeeds it hitting 20 keys at a time and your code doesn't handle that. I'm not saying occasions like those require a complete rewrite, just that it's not because code has been fine for 10years that it is bugfree and needs no more work ever. (though in cases like this switching to a proven lib for handling key input if such a thing even exist might be a solution - which then introduces new problems like more dependencies and bugs in that lib making your own software not working properly and so on and so on:)
Are there any russians among employees? :)
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To the extent the CEO's claim about a "lack of exposure" is correct, it's entirely possible that separately reaching out to minority candidates will help find "the best". If nothing else, the job market (in Silicon Valley, and elsewhere) is intensely affected by the human social network it's embedded in - it's who you know, and both the natural dynamics of a graph with sparser connections between certain groups than within them, and the instinctive aversion people have to getting to know people that aren't like them (easily overcomeable in the right situation, obviously, but everpresent), make it harder for a minority candidate to have the right connections.
Checkout Google FusionTables, pretty much the same idea.
One of the arrested ones is 20, and he allegedly created Dendroid — a malware that can take remote control of an Android device. He designed, developed and deployed this software (bypassing Google Play's malware detection system) which seems to be quite complex and capable [0]. This proves that he possess a certain set of marketable skills that are quite south after in the industry.

So I'm wondering - is this really bad news for them, or will it just bring them enough spotlight to be contacted for some security roles that pay better than what they were earning prior to the arrest?

[0] https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/03/06/dendroid/
Should be on the right side of the page.
So serious question, what if someone offers you equity instead of cash? I didn’t look carefully, but I’m not sure you specified any payment terms.
Yes, maintainability / extensibility is good. But I'd be wary of refactoring code purely for the sake of potential maintainability / extensibility, as it's work for no gain. You're trying to predict the future for the code, and that's a losing game.

If someone has a reason to extend the code, then you have the choice of hacking in the new feature, or refactoring the code to make it nicer. Each case really needs to be considered on its merits. But IMO it's almost always better to prefer to keep the code as-is rather than making big rewrites. Tiny refactoring is the way to go.
Working on getting publications out, so I don't have a link just yet. So far the research has been reviewed by my committee and I'm working with a couple genomics and metabolomics groups to validate applications. I will start pursuing funding for the business side within a year.
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Apparently it differs between species of hornet.
First glance at the headline had me wondering, "Is this a good thing?"
Where did you read they pretended to be from Latvia? They worked in multiple countries, including Latvia.
> HackerNews doesn't allow racism [...]

HN is the equivalent of a single sub-reddit. Readers see the titles of all submissions that make it to the top pages or to the RSS feed they are using. They also see the user name that submitted the story, and the site it is from.

This necessitates restrictions on content, because nearly everyone has some kind of content they do not want to read to the point that they will choose not to visit sites where they cannot avoid it. Without restrictions, it would be too much effort to pick out the things you are interested in from among the things that you find extremely distasteful or offensive that it just would not be worth the effort for most people.

Reddit has sub-reddits. As long as an offensive sub-reddit is not made a default sub-reddit, and you do not subscribe to it, and you aren't subscribed to sub-reddits (or external sources) that discuss whether or not Reddit should allow offensive sub-reddits, you will rarely or never see that offensive sub-reddit.

For example, I had no idea that /r/coontown existed until it was mentioned several times here on HN.

Reddit would be best off in the long run, I think, if they set the line at legality under the laws applicable in whatever state they are incorporated, along with a no doxing and no FPH-like material, combined with a logical split of Reddit into two sets of sub-reddits: Prime Time Reddit (PTR) and Uncensored Reddit (UR).

The two would share accounts, but only PTR shows up on your front page, and there would be a link to take you to a UR front page (or maybe an option to show UR top content after PTR content on a unified front page, with a separator between the two sections).

Both would require (1) legality, and (2) no doxing and FPH-like behavior. PTR would in addition require that sub-reddits (including their topic, their acceptable submissions, and their comments) be things that would be acceptable if they were part of a US nationwide prime time television show.

Advertisers would be able to specify whether their ads just go to PTR, just to UR, or both, and maybe there should also be separate Reddit Gold systems on the two.
It's usually found in the form of "biggest, baddest so-and-so". Its connotation is like "badass".

Mean ("lean, mean fighting machine") can also mean similar things
Is the current state of the law such that possession of these tools themselves is illegal? I would have thought that possession of most "hacking" tools would be legal i.e. for penetration testing and defense - usage against a non-consenting entity would then be the illegal act. I guess I could see some of the cell phone hacking stuff being illegal via FCC regulations...
This is why I have a burner phone and an SF address for salary negotiations. Then my W2 goes to Austin, TX to avoid all state taxes. #winning
Congrats guys! I had played around with this 6 months ago. Looking forward to seeing what you guys build.
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I find it easier to just use Gas Mask to very quickly swap out the hosts file for sites I think abuse their web privileges.
> If you can solve the problem of differentiating between direct human interaction and running a program, this would be a lot better.

This is already solved to an extent in the Unix world by providing the ability for a program to detect whether its standard input/output is wired to an interactive terminal. This is how, for example, many Unix programs detect whether they're being piped into another program and to therefore be more strict about their output.
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Ah yes! LOL, thanks.
(of the homepage, i.e.)
These guys need to do a kickstarter - http://grillo.io/
Just sent you an invite. If anyone else needs an invitation, I still have 8 left. Shoot me an email or reply here if you want one.

Edit: 6 still left.
You say "dragging it up", I think "a reminder that we can do better".

History is useful for understanding the present situation and trajectory. It gives us context.

I can't speculate whether or not the practices of this site are illegal as I am not a lawyer, however I can say that it's addressing a very visible problem in hiring practices that are discriminatory. People may not be knowingly discriminating, but it certainly does happen. Often malice and incompetence cause the same results.

I for one think this is great for not only building an equal opportunity for everyone in the industry, but it also broadens the accessible talent pool.
Does Stripe operate in Latin America? How can they be competitors?
Sorry, that's just the first impression I got when I read your comment.

I wouldn't say a new company with (presumably) no revenue, but $10 million in funding is a full scale business. Certainly more of a business than a hobby project, but at some point a business needs revenue to qualify as a 'business'.

To be invested in, you need to convince your investors to give you money to do something. You have to explain what you are doing in a way they can understand and once they understand what you are doing, they need to be excited and want to invest (because they are interested in what you are doing or because they think they can make a lot of money off your work).

In this case, the investors are very interested in public key cryptography and Keybase was able to explain to them what they are doing and what they need going forward to build what they are trying to build.
Just curious. Is the division between civilians and officers different from the division between civilians and enlisted?

My guess is that it's easier for HN to relate to the vets who have college degrees. And the problems faced by enlisted men are completely alien.
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No. We don't.

We're getting to here:
https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/idiocra...
> I wonder if I could sue because I am now being discriminated against?

Sure, you can sue for any reason at all.

Whether you can win a lawsuit (or even get it past an early demurrer or motion to dismiss) is a different question.
So what was the glitch?
I too would love to know, if that actually works. Does anyone have any data on this? As an engineer, I would push back HEAVILY if an employer asked me to do something like that.
Dart's around. It's great :)

The developer summit was a couple of months ago, but there will be more.
In that best result you also end up with code that is smaller and easier to extend in the future. Considering that Vim is still extremely common that is a win.
ncurse is similar with a lot of legacy code to support old terminals.
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While this is difficult for traditional management styles to grasp, it is most useful to just ignore the down times and instead do absolutely everything in your power to encourage the ultra-productive "flow" state to happen as often as possible. The necessary conditions will vary by developer. Some people thrive with regular teammate feedback. Others like to pull a lonely all-nighter. Some will do their best thinking on a treadmill or in the shower, then sit down and execute. Some perform work-related rituals, like the morning coffee ceremony.

There is no single thing you can do, other than getting to know your co-workers. Once you know them well enough, it should be obvious what you need to do. It may well be that the best way to motivate one of your developers is to institute timelines, milestones, and deadlines, but another will just switch off the creativity and motivation because of the micromanagement, and they won't come back until well after you remove the artificial pressure.

There's no magic bullet. Sorry.
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We should definitely be doing both. That way we can more easily measure which ones are listening so we know who might not be being as effective as they can be, and so that once we've got someone who will be in place they'll have the tools necessary to actually listen and get the proper information. There's no reason to do just one or the other since there are problems on both sides.
You account for the time hassle in one case but not the other. You need to account for it in both, with the population using the average value of time for that population.

The end result is that it is likely worth it for some people whose time is worth more than for others.

The only problem is the worth of time. Is a CEO making $200/hr missing their kid's baseball game really losing more than the $10/hr admin staff missing their kid's baseball game?

>This is like the antibiotics trade-off. We don't want the population to overuse antibiotics to avoid building resistance in the population. But if I'm sick, and there's only a 10% chance that the antibiotic is useful (and 90% chance that my illness is viral and therefore the antibiotic is useless but otherwise harmless), then it's still in my individual interest to take it.

I'm not sure this is all that related. For antibiotics, the problem is that someone else taking an antibiotic has a cost to you (in bacteria becoming more resistant). Thus, you taking it gets you a gain of 1000 at a cost of 1 but someone else taking it gets you a gain of 0 at a cost of 1. This is an example of everyone using a strategy that helps them at the cost of others, which is a strategy that does not scale well when trying to maximize the gain of the whole group. In the security example, if it is beneficial for the average person to use the 'increased security' strategy, then the strategy is a net benefit when scaled (if done so evenly across the population, which may be a faulty assumption).

In short, security scales the benefit (or cost) evenly. k gain for 1 person, kn gain for n people. k Cost for 1 person, kn cost for n people. Antibiotics does not. (k - j) gain/cost for 1 person, n(k - nj) gain/cost for n people.

Edit:

To specify, the n(k - nj) is based on a person getting k benefit at j costs from using an antibiotic, while everyone else gets only j cost. So one use of an antibiotic is 1 person get k benefit while n people get j cost, or (k - nj). This is then multiplied by those n people each taking an antibiotic.
Those events seem outside the scope of an article that is about multi-year trends.
I supposed the DEP (Dart Enhancement Process) isn't good enough?

https://github.com/dart-lang/dart_enhancement_proposals

They send out regular notes about DEP meetings, which proposals are under consideration, and which have been accepted.
This problem also applies to MediaWiki. They decided to internationalize pretty much everything, too. Not only functions are translated; the functionality of some URL parts also depends on the language - and you'll get a lot of duplicates when more languages are enabled.
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This could be an arrest-hire... who knows
> As a person who grew up in a place where discrimination based on gender/age/race was not really a thing, this strikes me as insane!

It would be insane in a place where discrimination based on gender/age/race hadn't been a thing for so long that it substantially distorts all aspects of society.

However, the place where its actually developed and focused isn't that kind of place, so that doesn't really matter.
that "place" you refer to - are you speaking about your early days in Russia, or the US? Because I assure you discrimination is alive and well in both places.
There's no way to way what most office setups tend to be like, but I can tell you that when I'm in the office, I feel really isolated from others. To the point where being at home is no different other than maybe for the two 5-minute personal interactions I have with people. Let's face it, a lot of modern office environments are shit for human flourishing. You're better off being surrounded by a couple dogs at home than the stale interaction at the office.

Again I realize offices are all different as are tasks, but this is my opinion from experience in about 7 different offices spanning full time, contract and temporary onsite freelance work.

I would love a job where I NEED to be at the office, instead of feeling like it's a waste of my time just to satisfy my supervisor's 'feelz' but not his / her or the company's actual needs.

I'm for balance between in and out of office. I'm for not being locked into one chair as if sitting in the same place was ever the way that humans were supposed to live for the majority of their day / life.
If your app does become super popular, it would be very hard to implement http-level caching when using only POST. By using GET you can do caching at client (or CDN/reverse proxy) layer.
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Those are the worst, it's gotten to the point that I couldn't even tell you what is on those popups. If I'm reading an article and you get in my way I will close the distraction so fast that there is zero chance I will even see what you were saying AND now I'm pissed at you.
Lovely.
Exactly the sort of thing people into "economical order quantity" ordering are into.

Plans to expand?
The family needs to get a better lawyer.
Can you explain why you have a completely un-diverse team?

http://www.jopwell.com/team
The submitter asked how prevalent is it for people in the community to use these drugs? I said I don't use it but I know someone who does.

He didn't ask for trip reports. How is that irrelevant or unhelpful? I don't see any reason to say my relation to this person, it is a hacker who I'm talking about.