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The title gives nothing away except for the fact that some editor, not possessing the usual unimpeachable standards of his calling, decided to sacrifice meaning for sensation. The first sentence of the article points out that the avg. woman earns 8/10 of the avg. man's wage. Equality is still a ways off. Also, the women in the studied group are being paid more because they are on avg. more highly educated; there is no suggestion that they are getting paid more for the same work.
That's correct. They even considered delaying a release like this because it's not 100% finished and they didn't want too many versions of the font in the wild.
AOL doesn't want to die alone.
MacBooks are really, really nice to look at and Lenovos computers aren't as good as IBMs used to be, but I have to agree with you - thinkpads are still the best computers out there if you want solid hardware that is designed to be _used_ not admired.
This article makes the mistake of equating the "cash value of time" with the real value of time.

If you're Warren Buffett, a dollar when you were 20 years old could have been worth $10m now. If you're building a startup, saving every penny you can on ramen noodles might give you an extra month you can survive with no funds.
Thinking "I'm worth so much more than this" because you could be charging $100 an hour for Java development to some enterprise while you're coding The Next Big Thing is a disconnect.

Time has no cash value. Productive output has cash value.
Is that a response to my question or a koan? We're talking about the ethics of the leak itself.
what an awesome stress reliever. now i can get points for destroying facebook.
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On the other hand, in pretty much every way, the poor suffer much more from an unstable society (with the only exception being an all out successful class war revolution that wipes out the rich class ... many of whom are going to be able to flee anyway).
Awesome. Doesn't seem to work on Gmail.
They should if they're not providing alternate css for mobile devices.
This is absolutely brilliant.
They're building one.
Yes, but that was a long time ago - women haven't really been discriminated against in any serious, society wide way for a very long time.
My point is that Perl 5 is still the most recent released version of Perl. Perl 6 is somewhere on the horizon (out there with Java 1.6 and C++ 0x). Even if Perl 6 gets released tomorrow, then what? Another decade and a half until Perl 7?

Nobody's going to wait around another 30 or 45 years for Perl to become the language it was meant to be, they'll move on long before then, if they haven't already.
Medians do exist- everyone "could" fit in an average salary.
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/24/74521/
I think Jason is wrong about industrial design being the singular primary differentiator for Apple devices.

Sure, Lenovos look like shit next to a MacBook, but people buy Lenovos for entirely different reasons and the rugged design plays in their favor.

Other competitors offer laptops with near Apple levels of hardware design — certainly near enough to meet Jason's criteria of "immediately obvious".

I think software is the primary differentiator between iPhone and some of the better looking Android devices, between MacBook and some of the better looking PC laptops. Software, and some of the, by Jason's definition, "less obvious" hardware attributes, like screen quality, UI responsiveness, precision, etc.

The simpler the hardware gets, the more important and immediate these attributes become. This only plays in Apple's favor, and is in my opinion what has already been so hard for Nokia to deal with; they're a hardware company with poor software chops. Superficial industrial design is easy to emulate or fake, to a certain point. After that, it becomes hard, and not many companies other than Apple have the skills or the patience for it. Look at the tragic excuse for a Windows tablet HP is releasing for another example.
Sure, but they're not putting any really bad shit in the atmosphere, which is something.
I agree with you, having had my share of back-and-forth with Apple Care.

But I think there's the build quality vs. the durability of the products. For me, Apple products win in build quality in the sense that the pieces are cleanly fabricated, properly aligned, don't wiggle, shake or bend, etc. I've had a ThinkPad and was disappointed from that point of view. Certainly better than many other brands (Dell, Toshiba), but still a bit under Apple.

But as I said, Apple does have some issues of durability. (e.g. MacBook's plastic cases, iPod/iPhone earbuds...)
This article is representative of an even bigger issue - I think "women" (as a gender) are still trying to find their place as society continues its change to a more female-friendly one. More than that, women seem to be split on how it should progress.

In the Parkour community, the female practitioners fall into two separate groups: "We're women, we have to stick together, and we need to help each other out however we can. Women are physically different from men and have to do some things differently" and "We're women, so what? We'll do all the things the boys have to do, we'll hang out with the boys, we don't need our own separate women-only events." Women in both of these camps strongly defend their view.

Despite my role in various parkour communities, I've largely taken a back seat to the issue, or at least tried to position myself in the middle. I've been a proponent of female only events, as long as their focus is to get women comfortable with parkour to the point where they can go to the regular events.

It's a complicated issue, and this article made me realize it was bigger than just the parkour community. I hope my analogy will help others realize that this issue is bigger than just the tech community too.
Definitely user experience is the new IP. Some startups are getting some advantage over competitors just based on user experience. But do you think user experience is really defensible? How hard it is for competitors to imitate your user experience? (Apple just didn't have user experience. They had multi-touch technology as well, which was defensible.)

I remember reading one post from Union Square Venture blog about defensibility is not about features, or technology layer you use - but now a days its about the network effect (Craigslist, eBay), and accumulation of data asset (Google, Facebook).

So how startups can win over competitors in long run just based on User Experience? Sure, it can give great head start, but I think to sustain that leadership in the long run, you need to also innovate defensible technology or above mentioned network effect or data asset.
>Yes, it does. There have been some studies on the black community where the women would rather remain single mothers than to marry.

Can you link to some of those studies?
Not only great, in a few situations it's a useful and fun way to 'cross off' content on a site you don't need to see anymore. Like stories you wish were not on hacker news.
There are existing businesses who bet on Solaris and have it widely deployed. Moving to Linux may not be trivial. That is, it may not be beyond the FYO point. [1]

The IBM AS400 isn't something that people really desire, but there are a lot of businesses that rely on it and IBM still gets paid to support mainframes.

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2004/08/28/the-economics-of-soft...
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maybe the next i-device will move away from the screen and towards a more touchy-feely :-) approach

Once things get to the point where ubiquitous mobile haptics are just around the corner, will Apple's "no porn" policy start to be a big disadvantage?
Ask HN: is there a wealth gene?
today I encountered something that was quite disturbing to me on HN (apparently such thinking splits HN in half, as the opinion has gained quite a few upvotes so it's now in zero territory):

Low upward mobility shouldn't be considered a bad thing -- in fact, it's a sign of a functioning meritocracy along with the fact that merit is at least partially inheirited.

Rich people tend to be smart, smart people tend to have smart children, smart children tend to grow up to be rich, and so rich people wind up having rich children. Rich people would have rich children even in a society where all children were taken away from their parents at birth and raised communally.

Add to this the fact that children also pick up financial literacy and values (good or bad) from their parents, and there's your low upward mobility right there. I doubt if the other effects (i.e. rich children inheirit wealth and can often get into better schools) are nearly as important as the genetics of it.

Couldn't believe that there is anyone who can believe what one responder called Social Darwinism nowadays, but apparently there are plenty of supporters. One of them writes:

On a factual level, you're right (and don't deserve all those downvotes). Every study I've seen suggests a strong correlation between genetics and intelligence, between intelligence and income, and between income and wealth. When you multiply them out, the correlation becomes somewhat less, but it still seems like a fair statement to say that genetics is correlated with wealth.

When confronted with question about what study can they point to there is silence. Only one user (who doesn't seem to agree with the premise) has been able to point to something:

On #1, income is correlated with intelligence, but from the studies I can find, wealth is much more poorly correlated, if at all:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2007.02.003

OK, but here's aforementioned author's review of his own work:

While those with above-average IQs were three times more likely to have a high income as those with below-average IQs, they were only 1.2 times more likely to have a high net worth. "Simply put, there are few individuals with below-average IQ scores who have high income, but there are relatively large numbers (of those with below-average IQs) who are wealthy," he wrote.
"I was expecting that smarter people would have greater wealth," Zagorsky said. "And you kind of expect people with higher IQ to make fewer mistakes. . . . I thought, 'Wow, I must have made a mistake.' "

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/LearnToBudget/AHighIQIsNoFinancialGuarantee.aspx

Anyway, the question is: do you believe that there is positive correlation between genetics, IQ and wealth?
It should make a potential bar owner ask himself how the police feel about the bars in the town though. It only takes one guy to be a pain in your ass.
How did I live for so long without this?
Some extreme stereotypes end up with a disproportionate amount of mindshare - Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin seem like reasonable examples of this.

[You could also consider those in charge of the Texas Board of Education rewriting history and science in textbooks that will be used across the whole country, or the particular people who create the often decidedly institutionally sexist terms of e.g., rape victim anonymity or child support.]
I'll believe that when I see feminists clamouring for the dirty, dangerous, low-paid jobs too, in the name of "equality". They all look up and see CEOs, they never look down and see miners, meatpackers, refuse collectors... 98% of those killed at work are men.
It is not wikileaks job to prevent people from getting harmed, nor is it their job to help America fight is wars.

The sole, only and absolute job of wikileaks is to leak information, which they have done very well.

If the US leadership can't fight their wars because of it, that is their problem, not wikileaks.
It's also very interesting when you begin thinking of how it affects other people's value or money.

In his example of bargain hunting and collecting coupons, he spent 8+ hours to save $20, which he realized was a poor return on his money. (That must have been some serious bargain hunting). Not only that, if he purchased some goods for $20 less than he would have without the coupons, then the vendor ended up $20 poorer than he would have. So he spent 8+ hours to effectively transfer $20 of value from the vendor to himself, which is even worse than spending 8 hours to create $20 of new value.

It certainly depends on how you view other people's money and value compared to your own.
I don't have much in the way of product, but AOL: you are more than welcome to acquire Robot Mode.
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And to be able to tell when the bartender is stealing from you.
Nah ... I think on average Men just don't go to college as much as women do these days.

Since college gives you a $6k bump (or so) in earnings per year afterwards ... its stands to reason that would be reflected in the numbers.

There's a much longer and involved article that breaks down the entire thing more, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-end-...
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This is a tautology. The same logic animates the sentence "It is not the job of the Kill-bot 3000 to prevent people from getting harmed; it is the job of the Kill-bot 3000 to kill puppies, a job it has done very well".

Maybe it is right and sensible that Wikileaks provides the information that it does. But it is clearly not automatically immune from ethical/moral responsibility for its actions.
Wikileaks is about leaking data - what happens after isn't their problem.

And if it harms the war effort of the US, then again it is not their problem.
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Ask HN: What happens when you start selling internationally 
So I am thinking about marketing my simple web app to the canadian market. We are in a very niche industry and feel professionals in Canada could benefit from our service so why not help them out right?

Well my question for you all is do I need to do anything on the business end of things? We are an LLC in NH, do we need to set anything up in addition to this to make it legal to do business in Canada?

I'm not sure what the process is because all of our business is done through the internet. Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks.
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The only way I can find it at all feasible is if the government supplied crypto binaries that you could / should / etc link against. If that has a backdoor which gets broken, you're not at fault. If your code has a backdoor because someone made you put one in, it'll end up being your fault if someone gets spied on illegally.
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that's not true. a lot of energy is lost just trying to move electricity to another location (something like a factor of 2/3).

so having local power plants would mean power has far less distance to travel, meaning you don't have to produce as much.
Ask HN: One Red Paperclip
So I'm in entrepreneurship class and we were given a bag of rubberbands and the assignment of taking the approach of the one red paperclip guy and do something really creative with them, trading or whatever and see what we can get out of it...

For those of you who don't know the story:
http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip

So if anyone here is interested in either some rubberbands (we've got all sizes and colors) for some cool trading or if you have any cool ideas for what we can do with it, I'm interested to see if anyone here can come up with some really creative ideas

Thanks in advance.
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on NPR they said that only 2 areas still see male dominance - janitorial and computer engineering. Looks like cleaning somebody's mess up is a real macho thing.
I'll stick with the OOCSS grids - about the same size but a lot more versatile:

http://github.com/stubbornella/oocss/blob/master/core/grid/g...
The whole gender wage gap issue tends to set me off, as it is filled with "lies, damned lies and statistics" and half the arguments seem to exist in a fairy tale world, so this may get a little ranty, but I'll try to keep it on the level:

OF COURSE THEY DO! As someone born in the 1980s, the gender norms of the previous generations had already been blown away. Schools are filled with female teachers, administrators and policy makers. The bias inherent in the system is already in favor of females, and yet we pile on extra focus and opportunities for girls at every level from kindergarten through college. We celebrate every female accomplishment while any sign of male over-achievement is viewed as being a manifestation of discrimination.

Today, women are more likely to graduate high school, get a phD, go to law school, go to medical school. Less likely to go to jail. How is anyone surprised when women therefore end up making more money? The horribly flawed, over used statistic about women making less than men has been shown many times to be due to hours worked, aggressiveness in pursuing promotions and raises, and other similar factors.

To compensate for women born before the 1970s getting the short end of the stick, our culture has given girls born in the '80s and later every possible advantage. This news article isn't shocking, surprising, or novel - it was inevitable.

/end rant, goodbye karma
> Anyway, the question is: do you believe that there is positive correlation between genetics, IQ and wealth?

No. If you ask for specifics I can gives you more than few dozen examples of dumb rich and intelligent poor people.
Awesome. Now someone needs to combine it with websockets/node.js (or similar) so I can see the other players on the same page!
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery.

I think these Asteroids are a fun to use, web design tool to cut out what is not necessary. :))
Recently I realized that nearly every restaurant I've ever liked has had a warm color scheme. The hugeness of your average food court makes that harder to pull off, but it seems worth it.
This is a reply to http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1285659877.html which was discussed here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734936
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> other apps that would lend themselves to being shown on one (big) screen, and controlled on another (small) screen. Think: games.

:) That's something I wanted to do way before AirPlay, by using the iOS device as a web-server of some sort and display the big screen part of the games through a web browser (on laptop, game console...). In particular, one idea was for games like Pictionary or Taboo: the small device is a controller as well as the private part of the game (with the hints).

However, I never implemented anything due to my lack of experience with iOS and the fact that it seemed that the game console web browsers were fairly limited... contact me if anyone would like to do something around that though, even if just for fun!
So, your argument is that we all have a duty towards Afghani and Pakistani informers to keep their identities safe?

That's just as absurd.

What's leaked stays leaked, there is not much 'we all' can do about that and wikileaks as a conduit is not in a position to make the call, so they should default to 'release all' rather than to make judgement calls on what can and can not be released.

Every secret will inconvenience someone if it were known, some may be more inconvenienced (as in a bullet to the head) than others, but when you turn informer that is a well known risk.

Wikileaks is not responsible for people taking that risk, the only people that have a responsibility there are the informers themselves (don't give your identifying info to parties you can't trust), the US military / government (don't hire people you can't trust) and the leaker (for breaking his oath of secrecy).

What's interesting is that there is a pretty strong effort to shift the blame for the fall-out of the leak on to wikileaks, whereas it should be clear to everybody that the other parties have a much larger part of the responsibility to carry and each and every one of them failed in a very serious way.
I'm not a big fan of some of those names:

LessOffice - people with think it does less. CopyDesk - is is a photocopier?

BloatOffice - calling something bloated is an insult. If you want to emphasize completeness, how about PowerOffice, and use the slogan "PowerOffice -- it does it all".
Well off men have no problem marrying poor women, but well off women aren't as likely to marry poor men.

A stereotype, yes, and not always true, does anyone not believe this to be generally true?

Basically, what they are comparing is the average earning power of all women against the average earning power of poor men.

What I'm interested in is the average earning of men young men and women, irrespective of marriage or number children.
are there any examples of marketplaces/services with similar implementations that have worked successfully?

Elance does this (http://help.elance.com/forums/30972/entries/34480). They let you set milestones, so funds can be released gradually over time. Elance will mediate if there are any disputes (this will be your headache should you go this route).

Alternatively, you can use an independent escrow service, such as escrow.com (https://www.escrow.com/solutions/escrow/process-service.asp). I'm not sure if this fits with your revenue model (were you going to take your percentage from the escrow account?)

Definitely talk to a lawyer to see how liable you are when things go wrong.
The 30% is only for the initial cost (amortized). So it wouldn't apply to maintenance and fuel. So probably not as bad as it seems.
The proposed solution (an environment variable) is crap. That any of the Debian maintainers think that it's a good idea is an indication of how badly broken the Debian process is, and I know that Lucas was trying to do a good thing there. I don't blame him, it's at least an attempt at a fix.

There's already a working solution provided by Apple for Mac OS X and improved upon by the RubyGems team. There's concepts of vendor gems, system gems, user gems, and I think one other level. The Debian team has never considered it despite being told that it's there. The Debian team has also never offered patches that would help RubyGems come more in line with what Debian thinks it should be doing.

Why should the RubyGems guys bother working with uncooperative Debian maintainers?
Most people, perhaps. Not most congresspeople.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-1338

(For those unfamiliar, this law would have encoded the notion of "comparable worth" into law. Comparable worth is the notion that entire fields/job categories are underpaid due to sexism.)
As soon as someone comes along able to do most of what I need to to design UI in Photoshop, I'm gone.

You mean when someone comes along with an application with the required features, perhaps? (see above)

As a pure amateur, I have found Corel Potopaint and Corel Draw infinitely more pleasant than anything Adobe does. But I also hear that they don't have the really specific features professionals need ("trapping" and other stuff I don't have a clue about).
This is one of the most creative time sinks I've ran across in a while, had to link it here.
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Fair enough :)

(In my defense, I've been solving other problems instead...)
Creative cognition related to what? Their own work, or the material presented? I'd have to see the studies themselves - I can't comment on studies that I have not read firsthand.

"Design for design's sake" is what I call design that interferes with the purpose of what's being designed for. An example would be a chair that is "creatively engaging" but is uncomfortable to sit in.
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If it's secondary-source, sure. If it's primary-source, then I don't necessarily agree.

I think everyone's motivations are clear. Money, power, and reproduction.
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