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Forgot where I read it but like true_religion said, some female programmers came into the field by way of secretary. As they kept typing instructions, they eventually figured out how computers work.

This photo set from Bell Labs taken in the 1960s is pretty interesting:

http://www.luckham.org/LHL.Bell%20Labs%20Days.html

One thing to note is that despite computers being a novelty back then is that primary education was in a much better state and students had a stronger foundation in science and math regardless of sex. Many long-time teachers would say (with some nostalgia premium) that high school graduates of the 1960s are equivalent to college graduates of today.

Another thing that isn't touched on is that computer programming as it stands right now is not a very female friendly profession. Women will usually factor in the possibility that their careers may get derailed at some point by having a child. Careers where time away from the field doesn't obsolete your skills is a big plus for women. Medicine and law are excellent fields in that regard.

"Partly because it is so tricky to juggle kids and a career, many highly able women opt for jobs with predictable hours, such as human resources or accounting. They also gravitate towards fields where their skills are less likely to become obsolete if they take a career break, which is perhaps one reason why nearly two-thirds of new American law graduates are female but only 18% of engineers.

A study by the Centre for Work-Life Policy, a think-tank based in New York, found that, in 2009, 31% of American women had taken a career break (for an average of 2.7 years) and 66% had switched to working part-time or flexible-time in order to balance work and family. Having left the fast track, many women find it hard to get back on. "

http://www.economist.com/node/18988694
whatever you want it to be baby!

for a simple examples there is station.
https://github.com/Marak/station

disclosure, I work @ nodejitsu.
I like Ruby, and I like functional programming, but if you try to shoehorn statelessness into your Ruby programs, you will be fighting the language, and you will feel a lot of pain. All of the data structures are ephermal, even strings. So, the language will not give thet persisitent, relatively perfomant strutuctes that Haskell or Clojure provides. If you want functional Ruby, just go use Clojure.
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Not really sure how this takes on Erlang, seems much more like a simple message queue for Node.
For one, there are observed gender disparities in certain things (you mentioned spacial reasoning) which there is no apparent or plausible political agenda in artificially creating. In fact, the predominant political agenda is largely the idea that there are no differences between men and women. For another, disparities are often observed in infants. What mechanism do you propose communicates subtle social norms to infants? You also have proposed no plausible explanation as to where these expectations came from in the first place.

Further, you are misunderstanding the idea I'm proposing. I'm sure there are individual men who have, for instance, very poor spacial reasoning and individual women who have very good spacial reasoning. One does not reason about individuals the same way they reason about populations. As a population, men, on average, might be better at spacial reasoning. As an individual man or woman, a test of spacial reasoning will yield orders of magnitude more data about their spacial reasoning abilities than simply observing their sex. I have many personality traits that are more common in the opposite sex--I'm sure most people do. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of averages that leads one to take this as evidence for your viewpoint, however.

Ultimately, measures of a population only explain populations. They may explain why, as a population, most programmers are men. They do not explain why your sister is or isn't a programmer.
Old programmers never die
I prepared this article to make a tribute to all those great famous computer scientists passed away.
humorously, if you search for "facebook ads", the first ad (at least for me) is an ad for facebook.com/ads. If you search with the quotes, that is followed by two sites that promise to optimize your social media ad presence.

Those might be from existing contracts or something, and after the whole email contact "reciprocity" spat I could believe some form of this is happening, but it would be nice to see some actual confirmation.
Poll: What do you think of US patents?
All this patent trolling news makes me want to know what people actually think
Scrap them all.
Withdraw all idea-based patents.
Block all new idea-based patent applications.
Don't particularly care.
Leave it be, the system works.
> These ads are also growing in popularity. It looks like they doubled between April and June.

Source?
Does anyone know if there's a parallel way to block sites from their Shopping search? If not, this would be a wonderful feature.

There are a few "low price" sites that keep popping up in my results, but never actually offer goods for sale at these teaser prices. I'd love to never be tempted by them again.
What if you could pay for some kind of insurance product to protect against patent lawsuits? Or perhaps some kind of co-operative that owned a bunch of bullshit patents to be used for defensive purposes in such a scenario?
"girls don't find sitting in front of a computer alone all that interesting"

To be honest, the nature of the work is that most time working is spent in solitude. It's the same if you write novels or compose operas. Do we also say that writing novels is unfriendly to girls because sitting in front of the typewriter alone is not all that interesting? It is interesting if you are a writer or developer or opera composer because that is the nature of the work.

However, it should be noted that all these fields also have times when you are not deeply immersed in a project during which you socialize, travel, or even party. Many IT shops are run like slave ships with 16 hr days 7 days a week, that is not possible and yes such shops are deeply dysfunctional, and a turn off for psychologically healthy women and men.

However, if one doesn't like being alone and primarily loves to socialize with people, developing software and writing novels are the wrong careers. Not because of a conspiracy. Because of the way the work is. I would also likewise not recommend high pressure sales jobs to introverts.
Interestingly, a search for "find friends" on Google still returns an ad promoting Facebook from Facebook itself. That's one data point in favor of the Facebook-initiated trademark hypothesis.
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Of course I am. But there is still some truth in there. Some CBP officers are friendly... many are not.

Upon entering the U.S. you effectively have no rights whatsoever. Whether or not you're allowed to enter the country is entirely at the discretion of the CBP officer you happen to get, and you have no right to appeal their decision. Run into one who's having a bad day and doesn't like the look of you and you're screwed.
Wow! My Bitcoin Weekly interview with Doctor Nefario got mentioned in a news source.

Lucky lucky me!
Ad revenue in the "xxx,xxx" is small enough for Flippa, but big enough to get real attention there - take a shot, set a reserve and serious people will hit you up back channel and get a deal done if your #s are supported.
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
I wonder if it is simply Eric Schmidt's ties to Google preventing a DOJ anti-trust suit. Owning the largest advertisment platform, owning the advertising adjacencies, and using that leverage against your competition is very much rubbing up against illegal use of a monopolistic position.
I'm from Quincy (separate city from Boston, but I don't bother to distinguish when I tell people where I'm from as no one knows where it is), so I can appreciate the fact that you're trying to promote accuracy.

That said, every article I've read about Silicon Valley for the past ten years includes places that aren't part of the valley, so I'm not so sure it's a great battle to fight.

I find the fact that 3 of the 6 languages he lists all being in the Lisp family is a little silly (not to mention that he counts C, because Ritchie was at Harvard at one point even though the language wasn't invented there; but at the same time also counts Scala, for the opposite reasons).

The Boston area isn't short of history, computer science-related, or otherwise. If he is trying to pound his chest about the cool things which have come from Boston, he shouldn't have to reach this hard.
Oh, brilliant! I was looking for something exactly like this for a city-exploration thing I have in mind. Thanks.
If not understanding how bitcoin works is your mark for "below average intelligence", then call me stupid.
Out of the MIT Media Lab:
Processing: http://processing.org
Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu

Out of Mass General Hospital:
MUMPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
Its never good to lose a loved one, and i am sorry for your loss - but i have never experienced this issue my 30 years in Canada. im very surprised that you have had "multiple" loved ones die due to "queuing theory and attrition". From time to time there is a story in the media about someone dying in the waiting room with a burst appendix, but those are rare, and i am sure happen in the USA just as often (if not more so in the public facilities).

some points to back up what i say:
-my grandfather was diagnosed with colon cancer last year. they caught it early, and the next week he was undergoing treatment.

-i was diagnosed with a rare eye condition. within a week i was in the specialists office.

-i was in a car accident. it was fairly minor, but they insisted i stay in overnight for observation. i had cat scan, x-ray, etc as soon as possible

-me and my wife have had 3 kids. we never had any delays seeing a doctor, all were born healthy, and every one of them sees a doctor on a regular basis without long delays.
I guess so... my understanding was that the Kinect was produced exclusively to connect to the xbox and play xbox games. When people reverse engineered it in order to connect it to different things and do things other than play xbox games, that was a hack.

On the other hand, my "definition" means that it would be technically impossible to hack with the Arduino because it's intended for hacking. :p So back to the drawing board :)
Ask HN: Got my first customer Now what?
I launched http://geekrations.com this weekend and got my first customer! Huge celebration ensuing, but now what? How can I drive more high quality traffic to my web site in a cost efficient manner? Adwords at $1 a click may prove to be way too expensive.

Trying to keep things lean, so are there other experiments I can run to help me find more customers ASAP?
One of my first games.. created last year: http://www.brokenresolve.com/projects/slither/. Source available at: https://github.com/xtrementl/slither
payback time!
So, you want to take on erlang?

Then how about writing some documentation. Your half-page README, half of which is spent making big claims, but then barely scratching a hello-world, left me rather underwhelmed.

Here's a simple question: How do you handle errors? (exceptions, transport errors, timeouts)
That is what i am doing now, but as you know, if you are not doing anything yourself it will never be as you want it, and thus the site I guess is slowly declining and I am focusing on my new venture and thus can't keep coming back to this and actually need the funds as well.
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Maybe this is nitpicking, but did the author this article do zero fact-checking?

>Mr. Mitnick, who ... is publishing his first book in August...

Er... Following the link to his "first book" leads to Mr. Mitnick's website, whose products page lists his... other books...

Not to mention the well-known tech writer Stevy Levy. :-)
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If a person of any gender can't turn urinal allocation into selecting a subset of range(0,N) of maximal cardinality subject to the constraint that neighboring integers are excluded (assuming my quick skim of the problem didn't gloss anything over), they are a bad developer.

Lots of times you need to develop stuff without domain knowledge. My startup targets women's fashion, which I know very little about. If I were to give up or fail because the problem involves plackets and silhouettes, I'd have already quit and gone back to NJ.
sorry, flippa is garbage, have to get that out there.
Considering that most DDOS attacks come from zombie bots installed on programs when people Torrent, I'm suprised that there were arrest made based on IPs
Nothing in the story says he was flagged for deeper interviewing because of his involvement with Bitcoin. He told the agent he was saying for two months on $600 USD and, making an assumption here, no credit cards or anything else to supplement his stay.

How do we know he wasn't flagged under a different rule, such as "$100 a week in the US? Maybe he's taking a temporary job. Let's look further". Border agents hate finding out you've come under a tourist visa when really you've come to work.
If you assume an MTU of 1500 bytes, then this kid sent about 5.25MB worth of data.
That's because it's totally optional, and anyone who doesn't like it can stick with the default. I'd wager that if they switched the main site tomorrow, there would be some negative feedback.
To echo a good question posed in the comments of the original article.

"what is the digital equivalent of civil disobedience and protest?"
> The prejudicial reaction to buzz words is one of the things that I've found really weird in the programming fields.

At one level, like Google aggregating signals, responding to an abundance of buzz words is one of several ways to classify a given posting as promising or not. A few buzz words could be fine, but a company actually saying they "are building every website in AJAX, MVC, REST, and HTML 5" all in the same sentence is definitely problematic.

Separately, I think there are people who use buzz words to earn points among their non-technical colleagues, which seems to be cultural appropriation from programmers. You can also see this with words that have been redefined in pop culture, like 'hacker'. This naturally breeds resent and wariness of buzz words in general.
Or, you know, just scroll to the bottom of the page for the answer.
In the author's defense, Cambridge is surrounded on three sides by Boston (Charlestown to the east, Back Bay to the south, and Allston to the west, all part of Boston).
I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't for us. It is entirely possible we did something wrong, but we tried to use the defaults and still don't know what mistake we made.

The reason I mentioned Time Machine / iPhoto integration is that iPhoto is the only application where we had to go to the application itself to see the Time Machine history of data. For everything else, we used Time Machine directly. It seems to us that the two different oddities (no iPhoto backup and iPhoto / Time Machine integration) are probably connected.
The best way to define hacking in the positive engineering sense I have ever heard is:

"To make furniture with an ax"

To take tools at hand, oft not ideal for the goal, use them to make the more ideal tools if time allows, then to make something beautiful entirely due to the skill, talent, and/or creativity of the wielder.
On a very expensive and comfortable bed.
What are the other few industries which engage in the "i'm better than you" pissing contest, EVERY SINGLE DAY?
I hope that the winning entry will be an actual implementation. It's not hard to have ideas to improve Wikipedia's search; the hard part is writing the code.
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You can take an MBTA train to both Worcester and Providence from Boston. The MBTA is also the authority that manages the subway system, the bus routes and other services in eastern Massachusetts. Not just Boston.

Anyone ever confuse Newark with NYC? How about Jersey City? And yes, Silicon Valley does not stretch from Sausalito to Berkeley through Oakland and SoMa down to San Jose, either. Especially when you're pushing mindless bragging rights.
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Apple may be afraid the day will come when they stop kicking everyone's ass on execution. That seems to be the simplest explanation for the Samsung / HTC / Motorola lawsuits. If they were confident they'd keep winning in the marketplace, why waste the time and take the PR hit?

In any case, Microsoft and RIM (two of Apple's partners on the Nortel patent purchase) know that the day that their execution is no longer enough has already arrived.
It's great that other countries have legitimate debt counseling services, especially when it's free. Unfortunately from my personal experience (years ago during my school days), I haven't seen a decent US based debt counseling service; even the "non-profits" were slimy. (Maybe things have changed, but since this venture is around; I have my doubts.)

1) They are ridiculously expensive. They base their fees as a percentage of your total debt. Most of these organizations refused to talk to me simply because I had less than $10,000 in credit card debt. To me this was the first sign that the majority of the industry in the US was a scam.

2) One of the key benefits they offer is interest rate and payment renegotiation. I do not believe it was much different from you calling the credit card company yourself and simply asking for it. I know first hand because I asked what rates these companies could offer me and I was able to get that rate or even below with one phone call (to each of my credit card companies). This simple service wouldn't be so horrible and unfair if the fees weren't so exorbitant.

If after they renegotiate the terms of your credit debt, and somehow the credit card company jacks up your rate again (even if you have done nothing wrong in that period): a) they do not monitor your debt, and b) they will not renegotiate the terms. The only thing they really monitor is your payments to their organization. I vaguely remember reading some fine print that they wouldn't be liable for missed payments (their fee and your credit card payments, are billed as one payment to their organization - they pay the credit card companies for you).

3) There were even nastier sketchy organizations that were essentially asking you to default on your unsecured debt. The service they provided was just to redirect your official phone number and address to their office, so you wouldn't have to deal with people harassing you for repayment. On the surface, they only asked for 10% of your debt and they didn't have a minimum limit. However they wanted you to make payments to their company for the full amount of your credit card debt as a 'savings account' that you would get back (minus their 10% fee); which happens only after you paid your total debt amount in full (to them). Honestly I wonder if they would even give your 'savings' if you did pay in full after your credit was completely ruined.

If this company is sincere, I really hope they succeed. That industry desperately needs an honest company.
The growth of bits/second per fiber has also been exponential.
"APL was originally popular for computer graphics programming."

define "graphics"? I suppose matrix operations and the ability to visualize them could count?
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Faceted search over a network connected was demonstrated in a video education series (some sort of HCI distance education class) hosted by Ben Schneiderman of the university of maryland in the fall of 1992. I don't have a link or more concrete reference to give you nor any idea if that would help in this specific case.

We were using faceted search on the IBM Corporate web site in the 1998-1999 timeframe, I believe in the IBM PC “shop” site, however I no longer have any of the relevant information/documentation (IBM might).
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Right. I use RFZ and I assume only people who are current and can afford making more than minimum payments can take full advantage of RFZ.

Also, it currently focuses on getting rid of Credit Card debt, using a high-interest-first strategy.

And speaking of RFZ, I had to log on to RFZ in order to fill out my cc debts on Debteye[1], whereas on RFZ I just gave them my login information and they "figured" it all out. :D

[1] I even filled in my, shudder, SSN on debteye.
Actually, there may be a moral responsibility on all of us developers/hackers to make it obvious to the general public how ridiculous most sw patents are.

For example, we could apply machine learning / data mining to categorise patents so that we can say patent N, M and L are 95% equivalent in some well defined sense.

ie. we could fight back with firm data which ridicules the Patent system into revamp or obsolescence.
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Women tend to be blocked from firefighting by the fitness test. Requirements like carrying a 80kg 100 yards, extending a ladder and running quickly were too hard for many women.

Fortunately, this problem is being solved in progressive countries - they are making the test easier.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1375381/Fire-service...

This isn't great for me - I weigh more than 80kg, so I run the risk of getting stuck with a firefighter who can't carry me out of a burning building. But hey, gender equality is great, right?
Of all of the female computer programmers I've gotten to know well and worked with (maybe 4 or 5), none of them were half as good as the average male programmer I've gotten to know.

Programming is, and always will be a male profession. The only thing that will change this is if we force women to learn programming, but even then you can't make them like it. I think the solution here is to realize that there is a physical pre-programmed revulsion to everything that Higher math, Physics and Programming have to offer.
Here's the thing with Civil Disobedience: you take a certain amount of risk when you do it. In fact, if there is no risk, there's little point in the "disobedient" action at all. So when these guys go to jail for DoSing a server, they've actually partially succeeded. Now when a majority of the populace cares that they've been punished for their actions, and believes the disobedience was a just action against an invalid law, then they'll have actually succeeded.

Put another way (and translated into meatspace), environmental protesters don't win when they chain themselves to a tree to stop it from being cut down. They win when they are confronted by the authorities, hauled off to jail, and covered by the media, making people aware of their protest. Simply blocking access to the site and hoping there will be no repercussions is basically pointless.
Yep, it's US only. You can add the sites to the list but they're not blocked if you're not in the US.
There's the Asch conformity experiments, where people went along with the group with no overt pressure and with nothing at stake:

http://psychology.about.com/od/classicpsychologystudies/p/conformity.htm

The Milgram experiments on obedience to authority are also relevant. 65% of subjects went along with what amounted to torture of another person:

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

While these experiments weren't about the spread of ideas, conformity and obedience are certainly at work for the vast majority that simply repeat what they hear. You can have a perfectly sound, logical case, even with physical evidence and many will not trust their own judgement if its contradicted by an authority.

But it sort of has to work this way. There have to be followers if there are to be leaders and leaders are necessary if groups are to compete with each other, which was the case even before modern humans showed up.
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Ask HN: I'm visiting Palo Alto tonight. What should I do?
I'm in Palo Alto tonight by myself for my day job. I'd love suggestions on what to do tonight.