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Welcome to retail, 100% is nothing for small items, I'd be surprised if the markup wasn't 10x.
>We're simply not going to have women succeeding in tech and entrepreneurship until we break down the construct of women existing solely as objects that are parts their society.

Women are taken very seriously (helped and protected) when they portrays themselves as objects in need of help, and are not taken seriously as seriously when they try to act as free agents. Men are taken more seriously when they act as free agents, but are cast aside when they show vulnerability. Some believe that this is purely because of societal expectations, some believe that this is purely because of biology, and some believe it is somewhere in between. But no matter which you believe is true, it should be clear that continuing to portray yourself and your gender as vulnerable and incapable of achieving their goals without external (male) support is doing the exact opposite of making you seem like a mature free agent. It makes you seem like a child.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C46rSIfTum4
Yes, it is a shame people don't share their advances in science and technology for fear of losing market share usually. Sharing grows the market, and then there's more pie for everyone, and more work gets done to advance the field.
Still that point, nor how successful GP is in the ML community, measures its current or future potential. The book I am working my way through now, in LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang vs. Erlang, or Elixir), is "The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang" by Gene Sher [1]

Gene covers a lot of ground. Somebody has done some transliteration to Elixir too; I use LFE, since staying with Lisp bridges the gap between my GP work, and what Gene has done with Erlang and ANNs and EC. For GP, you really need to be able to create new forms with macros, or it is more in line with GP. To quote and excerpt from Robert Virding, co-designer of Erlang, and creator of LFE,addressing Elixir's macros or messing with Erlang's modules vs. LFE's or Lisp's macros on HN before:

"There is syntactic support for making the function calls look less like function calls but the macros you define are basically function calls.

In Lisp you are free to create completely new syntactic forms. Whether this is a feature of the homoiconicity of Lisp or of Lisp itself is another question as the Lisp syntax is very simple and everything basically has the same structure anyway. Some people say Lisp has no syntax." [2]

[1] http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/536/ErlangConferencePresentation_2012.pdf

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623991
"I didn't start this because I wanted to make rent. I started it because I really wanted to dropkick loud children in movie theaters."

Find your passion.
Japan has capsule hotels that reduce costs through better space efficiency and the weird hotel that reduces costs through automation. If someone were to make a startup that combines the two, they could solve San Francisco's problem of high rent.
Sorry, I should make it more clear that it is different from the norm in most environments.

Defining discrimination is somewhat difficult. As an example: in America, crack cocaine is considered to be more potent than regular cocaine and punished much more harshly (1:100 ratio at one point in time). Crack is also used much more often by blacks than any other race. As a result, far more black people are in jail for long periods of time for drug charges. This would be true even if police treated everyone equally. Is the law racist? It's generally agreed upon by most experts that it is.

In addition, very few black people in America are interested in becoming a police officer. Is this a product of racism? I'd say, yes. Unfortunately, this means that many officers don't represent their peers, which reinforces the racism itself.

There is a huge asymmetry in men:women joining computer science and it creates a more difficult environment for women. This most likely both a symptom and cause of sexism.
> I'm not convinced that there aren't large custom databases of shared private keys that can be used to grant individual, time adjusted master keys that would allow the FBI to enforce their 4th amendment duties while making it impossible for a single master key to be discovered and instantly break every devices encryption.

To what end?

Even if such a thing could be built, if anyone that wanted to hide something knew about this, they wouldn't rely on this encryption and they'd do something on their own (with a 3rd party app, or offline, or whatever).

Encryption is a thing that can't be un-invented, which for some reason everyone that seems to side with the FBI seems to completely forget. Even 100 years ago, there was unbreakable encryption[1] (that could be done without computers).

If Snowden taught us anything it's that you can't keep the existence of this type of thing secret forever.

So, all you end up doing is making it easy to violate regular citizens' privacy, introducing a very real and very serious potential security risk if the database were ever to be compromised, and still not actually being able to decrypt any of the data you are actually (supposedly) trying to get at.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad
This seems way too dismissive. The world is extremely varied; plenty of people aren't predicted by their 'pedigree'. It's great that you got into programming despite poverty, but that doesn't generalize.

And your last paragraph is just a putdown, which is not ok here. Please don't do that in HN comments.
How is this not different from the strategy MS used to follow either kill opponents or buy them? How did the anti trust dept of US allow whatsapp acquisition since it literally made FB king of everything digital?
When I read this, I wasn't sure if it was a joke article or not. I have read Jack's article for many years and this has to be one of his weakest yet. Complaining about curly braces...

Why don't we get rid of the semi-colon and delimit the line of code via the symbol EOL, or maybe use the carriage return.
PPS don't tell your secrets to the intertoobs!
Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans
If you care enough about pencils to buy from a specialized pencil shop, then perhaps you will also be interested in having your pencils hand sharpened by an artisanal pencil sharpener: http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com

Personally, I use a mechanical pencil--the Uni-ball Kuru Toga. This has a simple, clever ratcheting mechanism in the head that slightly rotates the lead every time you press it down on the paper and also when you pick it back up, so it wears evenly on all sides into a conical point instead of developing a flat spot. Here's a video showing how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80k7Jl1o8Lc
> the court basically put all the burden and problems of proving things around 2870 on Marty

Well, yes. As you quoted, the statue itself directs the court to do that.

> They also took a very broad view of what it means to be related to the business.

Okay, I've now read the whole opinion and nothing in it surprises me.

If your point is that people tend to read secs. 2870-2 less carefully than they should, I am in no position to dispute that. I certainly agree that someone hoping to avail themselves of sec. 2870 would be well advised to be extremely careful -- even as to their choice of employer.

But I think there must be employers that don't make a habit of suing former employees when it appears that there's a reasonable chance that the 2870 requirements have been more-or-less met. Lots of Google engineers leave to start startups, I have heard, and I'm sure in plenty of those cases, they had their idea while they were still Google employees. If Google started litigating such cases regularly, they would destroy their reputation as a great place to work, I would think. (I have never worked for Google, so this is just my guess.)
Sandstorm.io is great. It's definitely a part of the story.
One of the things I love about art is that it is almost defined by its resistance to definition. You say "art has to be beautiful," and art says "no, fuck you, a urinal can be art." You say "well, art at least has to mean something," and art says "no, fuck you, a big red square can be art."

Personally, I'm hoping to see a post-ironic return to traditional values of beauty, purely as a way of flipping the bird to a society that finally embraces the new paradigm.
Eliza (for English) is close to a one-liner in any modern language. (If you don't count the templates and canned responses.)
> Parisian density is only possible with a great underground transportation system. That's hugely expensive to build and takes decades.

It takes decades as an artifact of governmental processes. There's no necessary reason it should take decades.
The article doesn't mention the author's programming experience before university.

The author also has a CS degree from Stanford, interned at Facebook and Google, and is currently a software engineer at Pinterest. Even if your earlier assertion about lack of programming experience is true, it's obvious the author isn't incapable of writing software. Did you even read the article before commenting?
Steve Jobs also said: "If you see a stylus, they blew it."
The Newton had a stylus.

I think to terminate the Newton was just Jobs acting according to Jobs' design philosophy. It was his honest opinion.
That's right, of course, which is why the more interesting question is how could we let that corner get so bad that the best argument that can be made against a terrible development is that what's there is already terrible
I believe he was talking about using an existing tool to add a 'level 1 — command & response' style interface to whatever your project is. So yeah, using something like wit.ai you could likely integrate that style of interface with zero prior knowledge fairly quickly.
I was expecting you to link a 10 yr old article to prove your point.
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This is all true about the original core X protocol, doesn't prevent getting eg efficient antialiasing with protocol extensions. OpenGL over X and the RENDER extension are existance proofs that you can roll out new rendering systems in X.
I forgot about the new getrandom syscall but yes that would be preferred if supported.
I struggle to think of the occupation for which a $500 pencil sharpening is a good value, but if you just want to give loads of money to someone interesting, hey, why not?
Because they do. Otherwise you don't own your device, you just rent it.

And all of these are fundamental rights of owenership in the digital era.
That's an interesting view and most probably correct. I was surprised that the first posts I saw appeared to downplay the issue and also use reddit quite frequently, which carries over sometimes.

Should I rephrase it or simply post an argument that supports her if my ultimate goal is changing the opinions of people who don't recognize the issue.

I find social issues fairly important; years ago I had hoped that technology alone could help, but lately I think that a much broader view is required. If I could communicate more effectively, it would go a long way towards having a larger impact.
I'm ignorant, but how does this differ for something like the Play Store where Google can just not let you publish your app on a whim?
I just keep using XML, when the decision falls on my side.

- It supports comments;

- A very flexible format;

- I don't care it is verbose, it should be managed by tools anyway

- Can be automatically validated;

- Plenty of tools to choose from
"At Stanford, I took two introductory computer science classes. I soon became convinced that I was much too behind my male classmates to ever catch up."

I did not even know it was possible to take TWO introductory courses, but what do I know, I did not go to Stanford. Everyone that knew how to code before university breezed through the intro course. This was still true when I was a TA for undergraduate courses during grad school.

I have worked with plenty of CS graduates that cannot code during my decades in the field.
It it also possible to perform DNS validation, which is my preferred method as I can automate certificate generation/replacement from Ansible.
No I definitly mean /dev/urandom[1] or the getrandom syscall which would be equal to /dev/urandom.

[1] http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...
Programming and STEM in general are targeted towards men (though this message is getting better with the various diversity initiatives). Boys have male role models and are socialized into engineering career paths. This messaging is missing for girls and women. Since they are not encouraged or do not see themselves as programmers, they inadvertently miss the opportunity to pursue these paths at a young age.

In your case, you overcame the class barriers of learning programming. This doesn't preclude the existence of other social barriers, such as gender, race, etc.

It's very admirable of you to have been programming from such a young age, but is it entirely unimaginable for someone to start coding in university? You're glibly discounting the experience of many many talented people. Tech is becoming a field with many different types of people with diverse backgrounds and it's necessary to recognize and accept that fact.
And, one of the very first things the founders said when they booted up this country was "no ex post facto laws".

Right next to "no bills of attainder", which is pretty much exactly what people want to pass.
I'd much rather write in a language suitable for prototyping like Python or Javascript than Rust

Is this mostly because of the dynamic and interpreted nature of Python and Javascript or because of their library ecosystem?
I concur. I'm an equalist, not a feminist. I don't believe in either sex having more rights than the other, over any issue whatsoever, and think we should treat everyone - regardless of race, language-spoken, gender, culture, whatever - equally, no matter what.

I never use the word feminist because it just doesn't mean that any more. What it means, is something else entirely than what I've just described.
Is this the Timeful acquisition playing out?
http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/04/google-acquires-timeful-to-...
I am going to be downvoted, but for me XML is sane and I don't bother to use anything else when given the option.
Goodness, give him a break. It's not like they aren't trying to do something about it.
I have considered my relationship with HackerNews to be over for quite some time. Right now I'm just seeing how far I can push it before I get banned.
That you vehemently disagree with me is WHY I AM SO FUCKING PISSED OFF! Everyone here uses the downvote button for disagreement because they're lazy fucking assholes who can't really approach my arguments.
This is the number one place for discussion about technology on the web, or perhaps anywhere. I'm very well qualified to talk about tech and tech policy. Yet my ideas are constantly shit on by a bunch of ignorant and dogmatic cocksuckers. I want to see just how long YOU could put up with this abuse before you FUCKING SPRUNG A GOD DAMNED LEAK IN YOUR BRAIN!
This whole "community" is insufferable and my actions are really a quite logical reflection of the kind of discourse that takes place in these forums.

At this point you're well past where going on tilt is indistinguishable from trolling, so we've banned your account. If you don't want it to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com.

I don't like banning users with minority/contrarian views (assuming you've described yourself accurately) because it's important for HN to have a wide spectrum of opinion—but only among users who can contain themselves within civil bounds and follow the rules here. You're doing neither, and it isn't the community who's to blame.
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There's also a designer, an engineering manager, a "security expert", a researcher, and a "hacker" - all men

Also, note that just because the sources cited in grandparent were written after, that doesn't mean she wasn't already working on it before, e.g.

https://medium.com/@triketora/where-are-the-numbers-cb997a57...

https://github.com/triketora/women-in-software-eng/commit/02...
Seems like the Timeful app's features are finally being integrated.
Not exsctly the same. Those are for short over night stays mostly. Also you are sleeping a tube but the end is covered with a drape.

That being said, some micro apartment progress could be made in SF
I think that all movements have to deal with the agent-provocateur problem, sooner or later - which is to say, any time you make an enemy, if you don't allow your enemy to become you properly, then you will become your enemy.

This is what happened with feminist movements: they became the very frothy-mouthed totalitarians they were resisting. Because they didn't do enough to deal with the totalitarians that were attracted to their platform of power, gained in the rising days of the feminist movement, and must now share that platform with a vast array of differing views, somehow aligned with feminism, but nevertheless diluting the goals of very subject and thwarting it in a direction not originally intended.

All movements have to deal with this factor, it seems. Its a social one.
Part of what an investor provides is a network. That network tends to be where the investor is.
Yes. I ran into this problem with one of my websites. Turns out, a lot of websites in NL were having the same problem. I guess it's coming through one of the thousands of other advertising networks that are using the Adsense auction.

It's still happening now and then, so Google is fixing the problem in the wrong place.
I definitely find myself having to wade through my photo and video collection just to find that one that I remember I took a few years ago but for the life of me can't remember exactly when and where (which is the easiest way to sort and find). I think the key for me would be how much training/how many questions it would take for the search to become accurate. It would also be important to me to be able to use this offline. Don't fancy having to upload all my personal photos and videos.

Have you done any user testing yet?

I can imagine that if you get the algorithm to work robustly that there might actually be an entirely different, enterprise market.

Do you have a proprietary algorithm? Or are you using something well-known, published/publically available?

Would this simply be a product that the end user pays for? Or do you have another revenue stream in mind?
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Thanks for the inputs - I agree, there must be 100s of similar applications each year relating to on demand photography.

We love the concept of eversnap, however it is a bit of a risk leaving your wedding day/event in the hands of (possibly inebriated) guests :)

I think our target market is less events/weddings and more the other areas of personal and professional life where great photos can make a BIG difference, but price and time constraints (for finding the right photographer)discourage people from using traditional services (like PrettyInstant). Examples would be when renting out your home, selling something online, photos for the marketing department (headshots, teamphotos, e-commerce product photos, CV-style photos etc.

We love the tinder interface and it seems to work well, but at the end of the day it won't put us head and shoulders above the competition. What really sets us apart is that with us, you book a photographer by judging how they shot a photo which had similar requirements to your shooting. It seems crazy to us as photographers that PrettyInstant (for example) guarantees to only work with 'the best' photographers, yet depending on what style you are looking for, the lighting and the general setting (is it a headshot or documenting a party?), any one photographer could be the perfect fit for you or they could be terrible.
Thank you for your comment. The HCUP data we use is being collected for more than 15 years. There have been at least 2000 peer reviewed papers published using the HCUP data in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA , Annals, etc. My co-founder has deep experience with both medicine (as an anesthesiologist), Outcomes research and healthcare system. We have already published several papers using Computational Healthcare.

The example quoted is not too far off from a real scientific study that we are preaparing to publish soon. Also Sarcoidosis quoted in the example is an auto-immune disease and not a cancer.

The chemo / stem cell example is from a published article which investigated timing of chemotherapy prior to transplant.
Slight aside, but art does not have to be beautiful to be good art.
" Can you imagine a headline "City ruined by becoming too bicycle-friendly?" It just doesn't happen."

Except in Sydney, Australia. Welcome to Murdoch's backyard:

"On a bike path to chaotic traffic: new cycleways could mean more gridlock for city drivers "[1]

"The cycle of waste will cost us $76 million" [2]

"SLOW LANES: If they don’t want it, take it off them" [3]

[1] http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/on-a-bike-path-to-ch...

[2] http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/the-cycle-of-waste-w...

[3] http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/d...
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> Like many a woman before me, I had run smack into the confidence gap.

I was thinking about this lately. I realized, that among my friends, we have been playing this weird game of terrible insults and trying to appear the smartest guy in the room since we were 10. We still do it while in pub some-times :)

Interestingly, girls never wanted to participate. I remember talking to one of my friends in High School where she told me how terrible one of my friends was, where he was always ridiculing her. I tried to explain, that this was normal among that particular group of friends, and that she should ridicule him back. She thought that attempting that wasn't worth the time and effort, because the result of her trying to flip the ridicule would probably be just more ridicule towards her. My thoughts were, yes, it took me 3 years to learn to endure the ridicule and fire back ... so, yeah, probably not worth it to get into this game, if you don't find it fun.

But as a esult, with this way we were trying to one-up each other for better part of a decade, of course "we were unfazed by any of the challenges professors might throw our way".
Moving out from San Francisco would be a simpler solution..

This guy is having dificulty to think outside of the box..
Exactly. Adsense had this problem in the Netherlands and it turned a lot of my visitors to ad blockers, even though advertising on my website was meant to be subtle.
If this works, it would probably be more useful for probing objects in our solar system. You could send a probe to Jupiter and hear back in ~4 hours. Waiting ~25 years for results from Alpha Centauri would be rather painful in comparison. Getting anything interesting back would be a long shot as the instruments would be rather limited and solar systems tend to be rather large.

I imagine/hope that they would probably do tests in the solar system before trying to send them to Allha Centauri.
Interesting. What's the rationale for this?
What exactly do you mean? It's too expensive? Legally impossible? No insurer would insure this?

It's a thought experiment to show what replacing wishful thinking with a tiny amount of objectivity would look like. OP was talking about expectation value of damages etc. Insurers are companies that deal with these sorts of things professionally.

The economic damages of Fukushima and Chernobyl are real and gigantic. It would be foolish to ignore them.
That would be awesome. Hundreds of service that directly exclude non facebook users. What a great thing.
What to do with travel leftover money? There is a mobile app.