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Sad that this article didn't get much notice. I like the point he makes about shipping being a part of editors' DNA, inasmuch as it is a nice, albeit imperfect, analogy to software project shipping.

I also appreciate that he mentions Gridworks (now Google Refine).
I know it's a YC company and that you're an employee, but why do you post three stories from three different sources at the same time that all say the same thing? Other than overkill, it fragments the conversion if one develops. Was there a rationale behind this?
So what if Wired Magazine have a gender imbalance over its lifetime. What's the issue here?

Is it more about being offended that wired magazine don't offer equal coverage to women entrepreneurs? Maybe there aren't just many tech entrepreneurs to cover.
I was excited about Go until I started reading how it actually works. It seems to be retrograde in many respects and nowhere near a step forward with systems development languages. I see little to make you move from C++ to Go, and I hate C++.
This sounds like it should only apply to something like basketball rebounds - if you miss 1 rebound, your opponent gets it, and thus you have the case where missing 2 rebounds is a -4.
Feature request: show book cover art.
Indeed. While it's true that most things will have errors, it depends on what those errors were, why they were made and who's pointing them out. For example, a lot of climate skeptics like to point out that models are wrong. But they tend to be wrong in both directions (eg. http://www.skepticalscience.com/images/Arctic_models_obs.gif, where the sea ice loss is far more than worst-case prediction)
Add fexprs and a system F-based type system to lisp/scheme, and I might just go there...
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Are they just blocking by the user agent? What happens if Google has the browser report itself as Chrome on a generic Linux? I don't see how that could be illegal, it's even mostly true.
Most people would consider Lisps, Perl and JavaScript to be dynamic languages. The first two are commonly thought to have "weird" syntax and the last has a C-like syntax --and C is the main example of system programming language. (Maybe JavaScript is a bad example since the part of C syntax people most often complain about is the declarations, which JavaScript of course doesn't have; I think the bits of C syntax JavaScript keeps are not so controversial...)
The communication to notify anyone involved in facilitating his escape was all done through new technology, like Twitter.

On the other side of the coin, Twitter is being used to quickly inform residents when an assassination or cartel murdel appears to be brewing on the streets.

Here's a semi-sensationalist article on it,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/26/twitter-blog-mex...

And the famous twitter account of a Mexican anti-cartel activist,
http://twitter.com/infonarco
It's one thing to say that the magazine has gender parity issues in its coverage, but c'mon - a huge pair of boobs on the cover isn't exactly a step in the right direction.
There was an E! documentary about this, best referenced on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Larson
This sounds disturbingly... reasonable.
She makes a good case. I'm no die-hard feminist, but this strikes me as trying to appeal to that most basic element of their mostly male readership at the expense of their female readership.

Wired shouldn't be about that. Even though the whole magazine is kind of campy, and more reminiscent of science fiction than any serious study, this strikes me as more distasteful than funny or sexy. I don't want Wired to become prudish, but they have an opportunity to lead by example here.
I did not find this in the description for the service, but I'm wondering what happens if you have a crash or power failure while doing a multi-part upload and dont have the 'upload-id' stored anywhere.

First of all the storage for the data already uploaded is reserved and there is no way to release since you cannot abort the upload without the 'id'.

Second of all there doesnt seem to be a way to list active multi-part uploads, you can only list the status of an upload for which you have the 'id'.

Any ideas?
It's one thing to have an imbalance of sheer number, which may well be a reflection of reality.

It's another thing entirely to make 90% of the women you do depict into sexbots. Putting ugly people on the covers doesn't sell magazines, but they could at least make some effort to depict reality.
should I, as your physician, release all my contacts data to Facebook? Do you suppose everyone with HIV wants a huge number of people to know that an infectious disease specialist in HIV is one of her contacts?
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Why oh why, do most women focused magazines (which I see at the checkout counter, etc) have attractive women on them (Cosmo, etc) in various stages of undress?
I'm surprised how many people are oblivious to this.

There is little in one's formal educational experience to prepare one for the concept that one can do work that has real value. So much of what you work on is an exercise, a problem that has already been solved that you must solve again for a grade or a prize, after which your work will be thrown away.
I freaking love this, thanks for posting it

A ton of great lines in there, as Derek Sivers is an amazing writer jam-packed w/ wisdom much like PG, but this is my most fav one out of the pack:

"But the casual ones end up having casual talent and merely casual lives."
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Hmm. While this is definitely true, I think you stand to leave more to your children if you own, opposed to renting. If your rent is comparable to mortgage (assumption, I know) you will wind up paying less after the mortgage is over. If you die at 80, and start paying rent at 20, that's 60 years of rent, compared to, say, a 30-year mortgage. That's 30 more years of rent.

I know, I know, someone is going to say "well, what about upkeep and maintenance and killing rats and xyz?" The way I'm seeing this (which, by the by, is originating completely from a 3-beer-deep opinionated loudmouth) is that it's negligible compared to the fact that you are investing your money in something that is of material value.
Looks like we have a candidate for next year's Apple Design Awards.
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Things were looking up a couple months ago when you published that great article on Caterina Fake of Flickr and Hunch fame. That could have been a cover… Instead you went with Will Ferrell…

Like it or not, a magazine with Caterina Fake on the cover just isn't going to sell as well on news stands as one with Will Ferrell on the cover.
Indeed, it appears it was America West flight 808.
Given the choice, what work would you choose to do?
Ask HN: How are you swifting through Hacker News content overload?
Hacker News is so great with all great stuffs that most of the time I end up having a whole bunch of tabs open on my browser with content I find so interesting to read. Then I started leveraging Instapaper and but that list also has outgrown with so many unread items.

Just wanted to see how everyone else is efficiently swifting through this much of content overload? What tools do you use to make life easier? Any high time/low time that you see with the content flow? I don't want to miss out any of the great stuff that you all share here.
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I think that's a fair question. First of all, feminists typically decry Cosmo just as quickly as they would these Wired covers. So you can't really argue there is an inconsistency there; the fact of the matter is that not all women are feminists, and not all women are Cosmo readers. The two don't usually overlap.

But I'm not going to suggest there is anything wrong with Cosmo. The purpose of Cosmo is to be a woman's magazine that focuses on various traditional interests of women, including attracting men. Their covers reflect that. My problem with Wired doing it is that it doesn't fit what Wired is about. Wired represents the tech community in a sense, so I feel it reflects on me a bit what they do. Historically, it's been a nearly all-male community, yes; but most of us agree we'd like that to change, and getting rid of things like this is not much of a sacrifice. Wired should be about cool tech stuff, and there's no reason that premise should prefer one gender over the other.
This is true but I was just looking for the 'infinite number of bounces in a finite time' part; after that it would slide or roll without bouncing, or sit still if there had been no horizontal component initially.
It's disturbing to me how much logic, reason, and science have been bypassed in the race to global warming panic. The idea that it's necessary for human civilization to take drastic steps in order to forestall global warming is based on an entire chain of reasoning: that global warming exists, that it is unnatural and anthropogenic, that massively devastating consequences to mankind and the environment will result if AGW is allowed to continue along current trends, and that curtailing CO2 emissions will prevent those consequences and is the best way of dealing with their possibility. Of these at best only the first and perhaps the 2nd could be considered "proven" (though there is still significant debate), but the rest are just assumed, nothing even approaching a robust analysis has been done (sadly Lomborg's work is perhaps the best analysis so far).
Because the advertisers in such magazines are selling that "you too can look like that" if you buy our clothes / make-up / smell / exercise video / diet food or whatever.
I read the first paragraph of this article and thought "this article is clearly written by an angry female." Lo and behold, the author's name is Cindy.

Go Wired magazine for choosing your covers based on what will sell and not based on the loss of the five readers who might be offended by it. They can read "Bitch" (which is somehow not an offensive name for a magazine if written by feminists?). If Wired doesn't sell magazines, Wired doesn't exist.
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I have wired magazine sent to me for free (I'm actually not sure exactly how that came about) and I'm this close to calling them up and just having them stop the subscription all together - I barely even read the magazine, probably spending less than 5 mins skimming through it before it goes into the trash or the bathroom.
Magazines like Cosmo target women but obviously don't try to sell based on intellectual content. You won't see covers like theirs on, say, Bitch magazine, which is most definitely "women focused."

Of course, the kinds of magazines that the smart girls I know read are traditionally thought of as male focused. I'm talking about the Economist, the New Yorker, etc. And yes, Wired.
Men like beautiful sexy women.

Sexbots? Who would think of women as a bunch of automation, unable to think for herself, with no interests of her own, with no agenda of her own as sexy? It is not.
Ah, but there's a very large pool of humanity to draw idiocy from. Something that I'm sure has driven many an engineer (and politician) insane.
this doc: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/iearch... says that there is an operation to list all in-progress multi-part uploads as well as list the parts uploaded for a given multi-part upload.
Great job learning a language (and an infrastructure) with such speed!

I've been building something with a similar aim on and off for a long time now, and it's neat to see in the comments that there are at least three others already out there.

I wonder if there is something that will lead to more widespread awareness/adoption of sites like these. Or are we better off trying to pick a target market smaller than [all book readers]?

Some good food for thought as I try and finally finish my own entrant into the space.
This is cool. If they can make creating interactive content as easy as they make it to consume that would be amazing. There are quite a few artists that I would be happy to pay 20 bucks for a really compelling ipad experience.
Yeah, it's probably a bit late for that with current customers that have given you an explicit denial.
The ball bounces infinitely many times, in a finite period of time, and then stops! :) You can model this completely, i.e. describe height as a function of time. You can know exactly where the ball is at any particular time, and it follows a continuous curve. So it does make sense as a model, although it is perhaps a bit mind-bending.
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I don't get Wired's strategy. It seems now they're doing anything for readers- you can get a year subscription for $3.99 (if you find a good deal online), and they go with controversial covers like naked women and proclamations that "The Web Is Dead."

Why can't they charge a bit more for a subscription ($36/year is still only $3/issue), and publish much higher quality content? I'd rather pay more for quality than read what they currently mail out every month.
Open question: Why do many women in technology make their gender the focus of their work?

http://cindyroyal.com/
Actually I think you'd have a pretty good chance of getting sponsored for a normal work visa in that situation. Unrestricted work visas here are awarded on a points system. Most IT positions are awarded maximum points and you get more for being under 30, healthy and speaking English.
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I don't understand this -- are the article authors compensated in any way or only cc type articles chosen to be printed?
What would be very interesting, is if you could mod the device to work with a better camera. Then, it would probably be useful in the photography industry. Maybe it would allow you to correct issues with lighting? It would allow someone editing pictures to easily select a part of the picture in the foreground or background. With selections being much easier, you could enhance specific parts of photos to make them stand out around other less-important parts without much effort at all.

I'm sure there are many more applications for this technology in the photography and even videography industry. Any ideas?
Why not? It's one of the few things in the world that almost everyone can agree is worth looking at.

Females are pretty and I thank god that I live in an age where I can see the especially pretty ones on the cover of a magazine (there was a time, no doubt, that a man [or woman] could go their whole life without ever seeing perfection in the female form). That's not a bad thing.

What's so wrong with that?
With so many people already giving the reason behind why Polite Indians do that, I need not repeat them.
But I will like to add one very important point.
India is a huge country - Population wise. They have millions of Software Engineers I guess.
You cannot expect all of them to be Experts or have lot of knowledge. But they do have a substantial amount of talent. I am not sure, but the percentage ratio might be as good as that of USA or UK or any other country.
Its probably their huge numbers, that you feel that "In almost all cases it appears that these folks are from India."
I somehow got rolling stone sent to me for free. I'd gladly trade... want to make a website to swap free magazine subscriptions?
wow sweet demo. nice work. I also loved v1 of your site.
I think you failed to grasp the argument. Most of Bangladesh may be only a few meters above sea level, but by the time that Bangladesh faces serious problems from rising sea levels they will almost assuredly be a first world nation in terms of affluence. What level of economic misery should we impose on the entire world both rich and poor, including Bangladesh, today to save affluent future Bangladeshis from dealing with a problem which the Dutch have already solved today?
back in the day i used something called Essbase to do financial modelling for $megacorp it was/is a multidimensional solution, and would seem to fit your needs.

i'm not sure what the current status of it is, but it could be a good starting point to research some more modern options.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essbase
Normals (to borrow a Chris Dixon term) don't know who Caterina is...
I put together Hacker News Daily (http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/) to solve the "don't want to miss out" problem.
Re-reading the comment I see that I made a mess out of my thoughts. If you're a business man that knows music hell more power to you right? I meant the cases where you have people doing amazing things programming, or composing music, or whatever, but not making any money and having to work in a call center or a grocery store packing bags. I've seen many people I know make such retarded choices it's not even funny. Reminds me of Good Will Hunting. It would have been a complete waste to give the guy such a mind so he can go work at a construction site right?
I think he is just trying to break the perceived reverse connection between artistic value and economic value for his impressionable audience who presumably strive for artistic value first.

The girls selected by the pretty sorority will likely be dumber than average but that's not because they are pretty, it's because of the selection criteria.

An attribute used in a selection requirement is easily misidentified as a causal factor. Pretty does not have to cause dumb. Popularity in and of itself does not have to cause bad music. Neither does starvation cause great art.

I must temper this conclusion with a joke: "I used to like the Chilean Miners when they were underground. Now they're too mainstream."
I am sure Mr. Lomborg was aware of the elevation of Bangladesh when he did his studies. It's generally considered polite to read/listen to someone's argument before you criticize it.
Frankly I have no idea :)

Having only just launched I don't know what the market looks like. I strongly suspect that the site will end up gravitating towards one kind of user. But who knows! 22books.com (mentioned below) gets used by quite a lot of school teachers so there are plenty of niches out there.

Let me know how you get on - happy to share thoughts :)
Based on the docs, it appears that this also allows you to upload segments of files without knowing the final number of segments or the final file size.

This will be pretty damn useful for piping the output of some process generating a large file (i.e. video transcoding) and beginning the upload before the file has been fully created.
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Would you feel uncomfortable/angry if your entire post replaced 'female' with 'male'?
These bets are adjudicated by humans, not computers doing a string matching algorithm. If that article's headline was just a lead up to an answer of "No, not even close" or was even a reference to the bet itself followed by "no, not even close", I don't think anyone is going to argue that as a win. It has to be serious, and barring catastrophe at this point, that's not going to happen. "World leaders in botnet development" won't cut it, either.
Which, as stated elsewhere in the comments, is the really interesting bit of this tech.

On the otherhand, it's still an impressive hack in terms of speed.
Pulling out of the JCP doesn't mean that Apache will stop doing Java projects, though.

But I agree with your point - less involvement by Apache in Java is a bad thing.
Not at all - like I said before it was just a hobby and never meant to be a serious thing.
What about Grigori Pereleman?

Is he a complete waste because he declined to take the prize money for his proofs?
I am a woman, and I subscribe to Wired, and my reaction when I opened my mailbox and found that cover was "Oooh look, honey, boobies!" Quite literally.

I guess I should, as a caveat, mention that I'm very sex positive and not entirely straight. But I personally believe that bodies aren't obscene, no matter what context they're in. Even if that context is an attention-getting cover on tissue engineering.

Trust me, that's a pretty good use of boobies.
That must have been one huge basement, dude.
If someone would like to try with some more questions and can't bother to write a screen scraper for the demo page, I scraped a few questions a while back:

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> they could at least make some effort to
> depict reality.

A cover story titled: "You will most likely die alone, with no accomplishments to your name, and no one will remember you."
I'm got to admit that for the first time I had to make extra effort to hide the cover of my magazine while reading it in the subway.

I don't personally care about it one way or another but they sure can't say it wasn't meant to be provocative.
> No that doesn't follow because on Google Contacts I give you my email address. On Facebook I "friend" you, which doesn't really even necessarily mean I'm your friend. I don't want you then to be able to automatically export my email to third parties.

You can make your email private in Facebook and you do not have to friend people. I would argue for a downloadable list of contacts/email address whose emails you have access to. Facebook already allows hotmail+yahoo access to the email lists, the individual user can not download it directly.

>Google Contacts is for storing emails you've collected. Facebook is for friending people and I just happened to have to provide my email when signing up... oh just like about every other site on the web.

Add decide to let everyone on your friends list have access to your email address, unless you make it private that is. So I would say Facebook is different in this regard then every other site on the web.
Because they can't code. The ones that can just code don't need to constantly raise the fact that they are women to distract everyone else from incompetence.

When ever I hear "But, I'm a <insert victim group here>" I immediately assume they have sour grapes about the lack of achievement in their life. Everyone faces adversity, it's part of life, get on with it. The adversity you faced probably didn't make you a better coder and thus I don't care. I'm not running a welfare shop, if you want to sell you sob story go there. If you want to work, then let me know.

Look at the woman who optimizes Facebook's CSS, the article isn't about how she is a woman, it's about how to optimize your CSS. Why? Because she knows a lot about CSS.

Guess what? She has no problem getting work or respect!