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- Comfortable with Git for version control

- Effective time management when working on multiple projects

Considering Mike Pompeo, Trump's pick to head the CIA, has said "the proper outcome" for Snowden would be "a death sentence", things are unlikely to get better for Snowden in the next administration.

Except the Russians have been implicated by more than just the government, its been backed up by multiple independent internet security firms. Also, the Bush administration that supported the Iraq war has kinda been out of power for a while now.

Is trying to stop a country from obtaining nuclear weapons in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty really morally equivalent to interference with a democratic election?

> the US government accuses Russia of hacking the DNC, either because they have some kind of proof (unlikely)

"two competing cybersecurity companies, Mandiant (part of FireEye) and Fidelis, confirmed CrowdStrike’s initial findings that Russian intelligence indeed hacked the DNC. The forensic evidence that links network breaches to known groups is solid... etc etc"

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-b...

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Our tech stack includes: - Django - GitHub - Jenkins - NewRelic - Nginx - Percona - SCSS - Slack - uWSGI

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We only truncate the captions on mobile and only if the are longer than a set number of characters. If I recall, the thinking was that the captions might be pretty long on some galleries and we didn't want to detract too much from the visual experience for readers who just wanted to scroll through the gallery without reading 100% of the text.

I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the gallery even on a phone. Making an image heavy page work well like these is always tricky for mobile, but it's an experience we care about and plan on improving in the future.

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* Ability to define and communicate a technical vision, possessing excellent verbal and written communication skills

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* Experience deploying high volume Python applications; knowledge of Nginx and uWSGI configuration is a definite plus

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According to this slide their "real world" tests of PyPy didn't live up to the benchmarks, and in fact showed "no clear improvement" compare with cpython

http://www.slideshare.net/KevinModzelewski/pyston-talk-11101...

The Pyston team at Dropbox has a presentation where they say the "real world" performance metrics aren't as good for PyPy as the benchmarks would suggest, allegedly slower than cpython on many metrics.

http://www.slideshare.net/KevinModzelewski/pyston-talk-11101...

It's an argument I haven't heard anywhere else (and one I'm not in a position to substantiate) but presumably Dropbox, who use Python at scale, have as valid perspective on this issue as anyone.

There seems to be an interesting tension between Hacker News readers who complain about ads and those who complain about paywalls -- realistically the money to pay for journalism has to come from somewhere, right?

Where in the article does it say that?

> In its note, Google said that the product has received a good level of traffic from users but, when it came to revenue and activity, it “hasn’t driven the success we hoped for”.

That sounds like they did have problems monetizing it

> raise error("groups number is too large")

Oh, I hate that kind of error message. Why couldn't it be something useful like

    raise error("groups number is too large "
                "(you have used %d out of an "
                "allowed %d)" % (self.groups, MAXGROUPS))

Identity theft and credit card fraud are victimless crimes?

While we're talking Python best practices, I highly recommend using an `else` clause to keep the code being 'excepted' to one line:

  def handle_login():
    try:
      ph.verify(hash, "s3kr3tp4ssw0rd")
    except VerificationError:
      log_bad_login()
      redirect_to_login()
    else:
      log_login()
      redirect_to_page()

It's not a big deal for this code, but in general this is good practice because

1. It makes it very obvious to the next developer which line is the one that is expected to raise that exception

2. One of the other lines could unintentionally raise that exception and mistakenly trigger the except clause. (This is more of an issue with Python's built in exceptions than with something very specific like this `VerificationError` example.)

Interesting read, but there is something a little odd about an article that describes Emperor Hirohito as "merely a figurehead" but later casually mentions that Hirohito had the power to surprise General Tojo by naming him prime minister and spends a good deal of time talking about how Hirohito could have potentially prevented the war due to how much influence he had.

> Other pop novelists, like John le Carré and Tom Clancy, may flavor their work with a few real-world scenarios and some spy lingo...

This seems like an unfair characterization of Carré who actually worked as a spy for both MI5 and MI6 and who introduced the word 'mole' as slang for a sleeper agent into the english language.

Who would use a dictionary for a point? If it's a 2D grid, you are only going to have two axes and by convention x-axis is always first, and y-axis is always second. Perfect use case for a tuple.

   point = (0, 0)

If we say facts are irrelevant and we're just going to go with our "gut" or our initial opinion, then what's the point of having a discussion?

Truth matters in discussions as well as the news. If we can't bring fact and reason to discourse, what's the point? Also, I'd hope the Hacker News community has at least a slightly higher standard for itself than 4Chan.

>It doesn't much matter if it's really true or not. The real question is whether it's plausible or not.

God lord, is that really the standard we want to use for any news source (even social news aggregation, such as Hacker News)? I may be lying but I'm lying well so that's basically as good as the truth?

> We did eventually get bodies, but only fairly recently.

While living giant squid have only been filmed recently, their bodies have been washing ashore and studied for over a hundred years.

>It wasn't really until the 2000's and a live specimen was discovered that it was generally accepted that these things were real.

Not true. Many dead giant squids have been caught in fishing nets or have washed ashore and have been studied by scientists or even put on display in museums for years. Additionally, scars from giant squid suckers are common on certain whales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_giant_squid_specimens_a...

> It's not a vacuum system ... I don't understand where people are getting this idea.

http://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/blog_attachme...

Page 12: "The pressure of air in Hyperloop is about 1/6 the pressure of the atmosphere on Mars."

Sounds like a near vacuum to me.

>Of course types and structures are useful but why do I need it in my database as well as in my app ?

Do you write bug free code 100% of the time? I'm pretty good, but I definitely don't. And when there are bugs in my code, I'm grateful for a RDBMS with enforced referential integrity.

I've also had to work on projects where the initial codebase was scrapped all together. When that's happened I've found having the data in clearly defined columns and relationships immensely useful.

The two features they list as "extra" by going with them are automatic backups and updates, both of which are hosting features, not software features.

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If I bought an apple at the grocery store and it turned out that half of it was taken up by the inedible core, I'd feel pretty ripped off.

When I was in China I noticed that English language versions Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm were freely available in bookstores. The educated elite seems to be allowed to read or watch things that the Chinese government would surpress from getting into the hands of the masses.

- 8 chars: 84 minutes

- 6 chars: 1.2 seconds

All of which demonstrates the importance of requiring longer passwords. Also, keep in mind that these are maximum times required to crack a password and not the average times.

However, the length of the average password is probably closer to 8 chars (http://www.codelord.net/2011/06/18/statistics-of-62k-passwor...) at which point the time to crack a password drops to 84 minutes for SHA-1 and 30 minutes for MD5. Also if users aren't required to use uppercase or special characters, they probably won't (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74164/www2007.pdf), at which case things look a lot worse.