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"Conversely, men are less likely to attend college, are more likely to be unemployed, are more likely be injured in the course of employment, are more likely to be the victim of a violent crime, are more likely to be incarcerated, etc etc, every single day."

Yes. I never claimed otherwise. I was making an argument as to the cultural conditioning that might lead women to be, on average, more risk averse than men. This doesn't mean that bad things don't happen to men. The two statements, in fact, have nothing to do with one another.

"Just because there are inequities in one direction does not mean that there aren't also inequities in the opposite direction."

Yes. Again, I never claimed otherwise. Inequities are bad. That's my point. Inequities that disadvantage men are also bad and, had that been the subject of the conversation, I would have made that point too. However, we're not talking about inequities that apply to men, we're talking about a field in which there are demonstrably fewer women participating than men and we're asking why. I was arguing that first, we need to go beyond a conclusion that states "women are choosing not to do X, so it's not a problem", second, that women may be risk averse for cultural reasons that may be worth addressing, and finally, by extension, that it's insufficient to claim that so long as women are legally treated the same way as men the playing field is equal so we shouldn't worry about it.

In other words, I'm not sure what your point is.
I wont be upgrading upon release mainly because the servers always get slammed as soon as a new release comes out. However I'm not all that excited about the new version anyway, i'm sure there is plenty nice new small things that'll make it better in some way but theres no major new thing that will get me to upgrade.

Eventually i'll upgrade at some point, but no rush.
My understanding is that criminal liability almost always requires either intent negligence.

If the automated system is less error-prone than a human, the driver can't reasonably be negligent for doing nothing ("it would be incredibly foolish and arrogant for me to think I could handle that situation better than a computer designed by 10 Phds, especially when the insurance company agrees that the computer drives better").

For the manufacturer the reasonable position would be that as long as they followed certain verification/testing standards, and fixed any discovered bugs as fast as reasonably possible (probably not issuing a recall or telling people to turn it off, assuming the system was still safer than a human driver), they should be fine. The industry might need to get together and come up with standards and a certification body for the first part to work, and I have no idea how well the no-recall thing would work without something explicitly permitting it.
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That may be the practical translation of the article, but I'm not so sure its author understands that. I get the distinct impression she thinks there's a distinct difference between "programmers" and "software engineers" that is somehow conveyed by that train wreck of a sentence where she tries to define the two terms.
YCombinator is not a substitute for business skills in the founding team.
This quote is quite different than what you originally quoted. Here Chomsky cites research from others on the evidence available at the time, and does not say whether there were concentration camps in Cambodia or not.

And since you did read the actual article (and not the Wikipedia treatment), you should have noticed the conclusion:

"We do not pretend to know where the truth lies amidst these sharply conflicting assessments; rather, we again want to emphasize some crucial points. What filters through to the American public is a seriously distorted version of the evidence available, emphasizing alleged Khmer Rouge atrocities and downplaying or ignoring the crucial U.S. role, direct and indirect, in the torment that Cambodia has suffered. Evidence that focuses on the American role, like the Hildebrand and Porter volume, is ignored, not on the basis of truthfulness or scholarship but because the message is unpalatable. "

Thus, Chomsky never made the statement on whether there were concentrations camps in Cambodia or not, but wanted to provide a level headed review of the available evidence. When the Khmer Rouge was finally defeated (by the North Vietnamese, by the way) hard evidence of the concentration camps became available and Chomsky never disputed it.
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All my DNS is hosted with my domain registrar, Gandi. They allow short TTL's and have very good uptime. They also give me full control, I can edit my BIND config.

Can anyone see reason for me to switch?
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I'd like to call bullshit on this one. Disclaimer: I'm probably one of those insane women who wants to do a startup.

1) I'm tired of articles like these which have little to no research backing up their claims on why there are so few women doing startups. Penelope isn't making a sweeping generalization in the article, but she might as well make a generalization here - the effect is quite the same.

2) I'm also tired of the set of women I refer to as "the angry feminists" who are easily insulted everytime someone (especially a male author/speaker) points out that there are so few women in tech or that women lack qualities X and Y to do a startup. To all the women of the afore-mentioned category, you're wasting your time. An ounce of action is better than a ton of theories.

3) And last, I honestly don't know why there are so few women in tech. I don't have theories. All I know is that there ARE few women in tech (and fewer doing startups). I don't think we are all risk-averse. Sure, some of us may not like taking chances, but I'm pretty sure it's not every one of us.

I've been involved in writing software all my adult life. I'd like to do a startup one day. It's a tough world out there if you're doing anything on your own, irrespective of your gender. So stop analyzing and start doing.
Ask HN:paying customers but annoying co-founder: should I stay or go
I have a non-tech co-founder. I handle everything technical, he handles the rest
(including support, website maintenance, basic business stuff,...)

The guy is very stubborn and/or lacks communication skills.
I has happened that I asked him 3 times in the same email conversation 'did you read X', without him saying 'yes I did' or give any other
indication that he read what I said or asked.
Or that I tell him 'please make sure you do X or it won't work' and then he emails me back "it doesn't work", where after a couple of
mails back/forth it turns out he just didn't do X. Or keeps on asking for a feature he would like but no one else would probably use.
After 10 mails he seems to understand why I won't implement it, but 3 days later he asks for the same feature again.

He also takes pride in maintaining our site, but he has no feeling for design or anything, making our site look like it's the 90's
on geocities all over again (without the moving homer simpson head). We've had customers tell us our site sucks.

I feel like I'm wasting my time. Which I hate.

We have a number of paying customers: enough to pay the bills, but by far not enough to pay us (still have day-time jobs and a family
to feed).

I'm contemplating if it would be better to just drop the project, find another co-founder I'm on the same wavelength with or go solo and
start something else. I'm a big advocate for building a working throw-away prototype before building the real deal.
So maybe it's good to regard this project as such: a throw-away prototype of a startup and learn from my mistakes.
I'd throw away years of work, but I gained a lot of knowledge and experience.

But it might be stupid to just leave things at this stage, seeing that we have a working product which people are willing to pay for.
Which, as far as I understand, is a stage a lot of startup projects don't even reach?

What would you do?
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This article makes me wonder: how much does your current job title, as opposed to actual duties, matter?

If computer programmer at company A does the same thing as software engineer at company B, how much will it hurt the person at company A when looking for a job?
The problem with that train of thought is that the point when you realize you need tests (you're shipping software with stupid bugs that could be prevented with a few tests) is often after the point at which it's easiest to write them. I'm not going to be the TDD zealot and say you need 100% coverage and you need to have your tests written up front. However, I will say that sooner is usually much better than later when writing tests.
> Sure there is globalization, but telecommuting jobs aren't ubiquitous.

I think she was referring to overseas outsourcing specifically to save on wages rather than more mundane telecommuting where the only necessary reason for it is to de-emphasize the office environment.

> This is so wrong, I can't even go there.

This is one reason I disagree with the notion in someone else's comment that "computer programmer" means "systems programmer" to this article's author. I think she is actually thinking of "programmer" as someone who is nothing but a code monkey, following stupidly simple instructions to build stuff that is generic across different problem domains, while "software engineers" are somehow inherently better without her really understanding or being able to articulate how they are better.

Of course, that kind of code monkey job does not really exist, much, even if that kind of code monkey often fills jobs that really should be filled by people with some domain specific knowledge.
1. I don't think that's exactly what Legion was saying.

2. I don't think that's exactly what the article's author was saying.

3. I think that makes a lot more sense than whatever cockamamie BS the article's author was saying, though, and I think you give her too much credit by applying such a reasonable sounding interpretation to her ridiculously uninformed statements.
Can anyone explain what TomorrowNow was doing that got them sued?
Go read the original piece for context. Here's a quote that I think is his thesis statement of the piece:

"Nor is there any discussion in the Times of the "case of the missing bloodbath," although forecasts of a holocaust were urged by the U.S. leadership, official experts and the mass media over the entire course of the war in justifying our continued military presence."

He's saying that there was no holocaust/bloodbath, and that it was a bad reason to justify American involvement in the region. He was wrong, there was a massive bloodbath. He and people like him argued against the American presence in the war and argued that it was a mostly peaceful local movement and that the Americans were the aggressors, and the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnamese were liberators.

He was wrong, and millions of people died as a result of people like Chomsky and Jane Fonda and anti-war protestors. I'm in Vietnam now and was in Cambodia a few months ago. These places are still less prosperous than they were before the war, everything is dirty, run down, broken, no safety, minimal infrastructure, and there's not much rule of law. Vietnam will recover eventually. Cambodia probably never will.

Had the United States and South Vietnam won, or at least fought to a standstill, South Vietnam would be more like South Korea today, and less like North Korea. Cambodia would be more like South Korea and less like North Korea. Chomsky, Fonda, and the protestors against the war did a massive disservice to the people of Southeast Asia. Millions dead as a result of their incorrect, ignorant moralizing. The United States and South Vietnam were winning militarily, and lost public opinion. Without people like Fonda and Chomsky to turn the tide, millions more survive and live in prosperity instead of horror and poverty and bloodshed.
This is yet another one of those things that greatly reduces the SN ratio of Facebook.

Remember when apps were able to post to your stream willy-nilly? Facebook's stream became almost useless - for every one status update from one of your friends, there would be 6 more from apps like Farmville (seriously, Zynga's credibility for me went out the window when they started massively spamming everyone's streams).

Facebook had to backpedal quickly on that one and institute some pretty hard caps on what contexts allow apps to insert something into the stream, and the volume thereof also.

The more "curating" I have to do to make Facebook palatable to use, the less inclined I am to use it. For some people, photo tagging is one of those things (and IMHO ought to be fixed), and now they've introduced yet another thing you have to watch out for (on top of being a hawk on your privacy settings, in case Facebook decides to mess with them without your knowledge, again).

To be fair, this isn't the world-ending thing that a lot of outlets are claiming it is. But IMHO it is a clear net negative for the usability and appeal of Facebook. It's also fixing something that ain't broke - your friends can already suggest groups to you (as well as friends, pages, etc). If you really are interested in said group, there's already a perfectly capable mechanism for your friends to tell you.
Sometimes you downvote by accident. Make it so a downvote can be upvoted once. Cannot downvote after upvoting
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It's the site owner's responsibility to figure this sort of things now. A set of users acting in a cluster is detectable as are aberrant behavior patterns from particular IPs.
the URL being linked need not necessarily go directly to the target site.

also I cringe at the fact that this is called a "hack".
Why do you have a pseudonym field for a one-off rant? If it's optional, why doesn't it say so? It doesn't add anything and just annoys people as they stop for a few seconds to type in "wtf" before continuing.
You're pointing out what Obama and the Dems are doing, but Chomsky is predicting what will happen if the extreme right of the GoP takes power in the coming elections. Not the same thing.

Of course, I'm pretty sure no matter who is in power, no matter what else they attempt, be it curtail capitalism or oppress illegals, there will still be a push to control information. I think that's Chomsky's 'power elite' at work, and they are nonpartisan.
Ok, but from an economic perspective - if Topix is not collecting email addresses, how can they monetize all these people in the long run? From a marketing & user retention standpoint isn't that throwing away a pretty valuable channel? What monetary gain does 780 random anonymous non-threaded text-only comments bring?

(Just really curious, I've recently started trying to see things from this perspective and I'm interested in hearing discussion from the business model end)
Money quote:

“Most intellectuals have a self-understanding of themselves as the conscience of humanity,” said the Middle East scholar Norman Finkelstein. “They revel in and admire someone like Vaclav Havel. Chomsky is contemptuous of Havel. Chomsky embraces the Julien Benda view of the world. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege it will always be at the expense of truth and justice. Benda says that the credo of any true intellectual has to be, as Christ said, ‘my kingdom is not of this world.’ Chomsky exposes the pretenses of those who claim to be the bearers of truth and justice. He shows that in fact these intellectuals are the bearers of power and privilege and all the evil that attends it.”
Besides the Sahara, shouldn't Canada, Alaska, Siberia, and maybe even parts of Antarctica become habitable?
Sorry for that, I'll be more enter-aware in the future.
I was wondering when that South Park reference would pop up.
It might be an interesting topic, but wouldn't it be better if reformatted into a single page of text (there's what, 300 words there?) rather than 49 slides?
Short term prototyping only. Anything long term and big--- and you'll be hating yourself for not having clear standards and patterns. :P

Keep in mind you can make something that is overengineered suck hard too. There is a happy medium between over engineering and hacking together crap.
My 2 pennies worth: I'd take away the modal window from the start, signing in with fb or twitter accounts is a first class task and should be treated as such, graphically, editorially whatever. As it stands with the darkened "I like too" etc. buttons it feels like I missed a step, or some piece of the story.

I'd also suggest you stick to one shade of blue if possible, make your border radius the same or in harmony and make the generic icon look less like a squashed fb icon, i.e. make it unique or charming, identifiable to your project.

Animating the movement of the modal box was probably wasted on most :)

Can't say much about anything else as I don't have twitter and I don't use FB to log in to other apps.
Have you sat down and had a heart-to-heart with him? Cover all these points. I think his response will be a better indicator of whether you should stay or leave.
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What kind of value would having a forum user's email address give you? Unless by "monetize" you just mean "send them activity notices so they'll come back", it sounds like you want to spam them.

Personally, I recommend monetizing internet forums by selling people things and having them buy them for money. You can keep interest by just being interesting.
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My concern about that is communication between web and DB servers. Some reports need hundreds of queries to generate - wouldn't the lag severely slow this down?

Most of our servers are DB anyways. We have 2 load balancers, 6 web servers, and ~40 DB servers.
Very nice! I've been loving Haskell, but I spend most of my time in Javascript. This is a pleasant mix of both.
I don't doubt that; but one should be suspicious of bulk proxy server lists sold for very low rates.
Link to original?
Here's my current setup: I have 2 clones/repositories of Satchmo. [1] is for bug fixing and [2] for translations. I've asked for a better solution on the #mercurial channel and no one has offered it to me.

If you have a better idea that's similar to git[3] (1 repo), I'm waiting for it. Until then I'll complain about what Mercurial is offering me, just like Groxx and cdavid (see above).

[1] http://bitbucket.org/ciupicri/satchmo

[2] http://bitbucket.org/ciupicri/satchmo-l10n-ro

[3] http://github.com/ciupicri/cobbler/tree/master-pagination-bu...
Another question: why does it want to post to my FB wall?

I'm not even sure what your product is - but I do get that it probably wants to have access to my data to do its business. Allowing you access to my posts, friends, etc, is fine, but I get suspicious when an app demands write-access without justifying it.
I've used a password manager for a while that lets me "go to and log in" in a single action. Save one for each Starbucks you frequent, save that approval form, and get in in one step :)

Works especially well for one near me, which sometimes takes 30 minutes to reach that approval screen if I browse to it. The method above usually gets me in in less than a minute on even those days.
People seem to be more and more fixated on the "one thing per rapidly changing slide" style of presentation nowadays. I can certainly see the advantages of having only one thing in your audience's mind at a time as you blab--they're more focused, and the rapidly changing slides fits better with modern attention spans. But it definitely kills the utility of the slides on their own.

For an even more difficult to follow slide deck see the git tricks presentation currently on the frontpage. 328 slides!
> I think she was referring to overseas outsourcing specifically to save on wages rather than more mundane telecommuting where the only necessary reason for it is to de-emphasize the office environment.

And that is why I said, "Sure there is globalization." She went too far and stated that it can be done from anywhere. If that were true, very few programming jobs would be on-site. While there are a good number of jobs that can be outsourced onsite, partial-onsite, offsite, blended-shore, offshore, etc., not all are, because not all can be. I agree with her that offshoring is a reason for decrease in development jobs, but not all of them can go away. You have to have onsite FTEs that are invested in the company and have in-house knowledge for some jobs.

> I think she is actually thinking of "programmer" as someone who is nothing but a code monkey...

Judging by the number of comments on her article, I think she was just trying to cause a disturbance.
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I agree. Perhaps I should have phrased my first paragraph differently.
Awesome. It'd be cool to see http://tryhaskell.org/ use this.

Also, when using the REPL, it stops after about 2 seconds trying to print "[0..]", which is a very nice feature.
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I guess that will teach me to comment before reading the entire article.

Anyway, I would expect that this issue will be looked into a bit deeper once companies start producing autonomous cars.
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