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All fine things, but spending a year with a bunch of guys in the same room during the workday can get a little draining. If I'm having a bad day it gets difficult when there isn't another female around for support.

For what it's worth, it's the same deal if you're the only guy on an almost exclusively female team.

Wouldn't it be the same if you're a guy and your workplace is all women?

Yep. Been there, done that. I think it pretty much always sucks to be "the only one of X" where X is any significant characteristic, such as gender.

When I was one of only two guys in a 14 person IT department a few years ago (and the other guy was the IT director and he was never around on a day to day basis, so basically my work environment was me and 12 girls) there was definitely a sense of exclusion... I was obviously an outsider and nothing was going to change that. Now I don't think it was intentional on their part, any more than it's intention on the part of the men when the situation is reversed. It's just that groups of similar people tend to fall into certain patterns of behavior and a small minority group is always going to feel excluded to some degree.
Now the Only thing Kivy Lacks is Networking with bluetooth and TCP/IP ...Maybe for android you can create some classes to interact with python to do the stuff...But the Widget Framework is the best I've seen till now...Keep up the Good Work..

P.S. There is something called PhoneGap that is os and platform independent Check it Out
Hopefully this will improve on the algorithms they have in Lion (which seemed to work ever-so slightly better than OpenCV's face detection and work poorly on profile views).
I hate to break it to you, but people are this stupid and do try to use stolen credit cards for hotels all the time.
It's pretty undeniable that the whole patents thing is now one giant clusterfuck.

The problem is, as technology advances, previously "genius" ideas become trivial due to more people being able to solve problems.

There was a time in history when things such as spoons were considered an amazing idea, but how utterly fucked would humanity's development have been if stone-age people allowed themselves to be crippled by greed and a the blind seeking of money.
It's not news, HN has only ever been about 50% news, the other half are just interesting links.

Sure, i get annoyed every time the 500-mile email or more magic or some other classic story gets reposted, but that's what HN is about-- every time it's reposted, there are dozens of people that hadn't seen it before.
Maybe even Apple will realize that the current patent system isn't really doing them any favors, either, overall.

When even companies that stand to benefit from the current patent system start complaining about the patent system, that's when we'll see some radical change.
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I have no sympathy for companies that bitch about how hard it is to find engineering talent if they don't operate a strong internship program. There is a Joel blog on this - the best talent graduates from university with job offers from all the places that they interned. There is no rational reason for any company that purports an interest in top talent to shy away from having an internship program. It is the cheapest hiring strategy, far cheaper than having expensive in-house or outsourced recruiters.
I suspect you'll find that clause in your contract is to protect your sponsoring employer from liability in the event that you declare bankruptcy. That is, they cease to be your sponsor and thus absolve themselves of any liability.
Have you paid attention to what's going on at all? Republicans are rejecting a plan that's significantly to the right of their initial demands. And they're currently pushing for a bill that reduces the deficit less than the democrats' plan, with the twist that the limit has to be reauthorized multiple times before the next election. Just to insure that congress doesn't accomplish anything and the markets are uncertain going into election 2012.

Splitting the difference is a major problem here. The Republicans are incentivized to be as crazy as possible because attitudes like yours, and most editorial boards will just split the difference assuming 2 valid points of view. So the crazier you are, the further the split will be in your direction.
CPI is computed by the Department of Labor. There is both a CPI and a separate "core CPI" index that attempts to exclude energy costs.
> Maybe even Apple will realize that the current patent system isn't really doing them any favors, either, overall.

I suspect all the big manufacturers realize that. They just don't have an option - someone is going to sue, so everyone feels they have to.
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We'd all be eating porridge with a spork.
I use PIE for a charting software we created at my company. Here are some problems we had:

The latest release of PIE is used for IE7 and IE8 but we had some issues with it in IE6 where it would throw JavaScript errors. In addition, there is a problem with hidden elements (style="display: none") for example PNGs with transparent backgrounds or elements that have a linear background and rounded corners. If those become visible without reloading the page, the styles might not be applied correctly. You may find black images instead of the PNGs or missing element styles. This cannot be reproduced regularly, though. I found a beta version somewhere in the message boards that fixes the issues but does not work well with other versions of IE.

We never had any performance issues although we quite heavily use layout elements from CSS3.

BTW: The main website can be reached here http://css3pie.com
>will be replaced with commercial properties

They won't be replaced, just added to. Many travelers prefer the local flavor to some sterile hotel.
The fact that human beings are capable of spending "an entire week devoted to thinking up ways of being cruel to another human being" when the other human being has been nothing but honest and welcoming is why I believe that we are an inherently evil species that doesn't deserve its place on this planet.
this is what I visit www.reddit.com/r/somebodymakethis for :)
I'm not sure what you mean by having a diploma and not a degree, typically those are equivalent.

If you have enough credits to get the diploma but have not satisfied the degree requirements, then that is a tougher decision. And it will depend on how much value you perceive in meeting the additional requirements, but as PG writes running up the stairs (take the harder path) usually has a bigger advantage.

That does not mean you can not work full time. Lots of distance education courses available. Check with your school and find out the rules/regulations in this area.

Also you can network while in school, possibly this can lead to a company/start up that will let you start work while you finish your schooling.
Kleiner Perkins report examines the US govt as if it were a business
I am willing to let the optical drive go in my next computer, but what I'm not willing to let go of is the storage capacity. Right now I can buy a laptop with 500GB of storage for less than $2,000. Or I can get a MacBook Air with half that. I understand that for the average consumer that 256GB of memory is plenty but I'm willing to exchange weight for storage capacity. And for everyone saying iCloud will eliminate the need for a lot of storage ask yourself if you really want to have to connect to the internet and burn up bandwidth every time you want to access your stuff? In the days of data caps, I don't.
> I do accept that other people have different opinions.

You say that and yet you can't think of even a single sane reason to want to shut down the government?
If you have $9,999 in your wallet and a bank account with $1,000,000,000,000, though, you don't have to mention cash on your customs declaration form.
Glad I still have my Lynx. And I'm going to play some Skweek when home. Thanks for reminding me of that :-)
While it's not my position, some people might believe that you can lose that right if you do something like killing dozens of people. The freedom to travel inside your own country is important too, but if you kill or rob someone, most people will agree that you should be jailed.

Again, I don't agree with it, but it's not necessarily hypocrisy, just different values.
So, is the .app project a non-profit corporation? Or how is it going to stay a "community project" and remain impartial when money is to be involved?
Ask HN: How many HN members are there?
Why Email Is The Perfect Way To Teach Writing
Here's a word everyone speaking with an immigration officer needs to know: sightseeing.
It only costs you €480 if you lose time that would otherwise be spent at work. But I understand (and agree) with your point of losing time. If you use it for as your media library, 4 days with only standard TV broadcasts can be boring :-)
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If Googlebot is doing its job then there are around 28,700 registered users on Hacker News.
This is great, but with the full two-way interop and low overhead (just add the .jar for Clojure) that functional JVM languages provide, is there really any reason to deal with the pain of doing FP in Java the language? When you don't have real closures, map/reduce/filter and other HOFs become rather tedious and inflexible.
Thanks for the -4, I think a.) that's worth it b.) proves my point. A "new" business model aka AirBnB does not change any facts.
Does homeowner's/renter's insurance cover the property damage from renting out your place?
This seems to be the original paper from 2004:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/surprise/llog/Gordon_Pi...
Overall volume perhaps, but the optical drive takes up a lot more than 10% of the internal volume.
> But as we all know, due to Internet Explorer's lack of support for any of these features, we must be patient and refrain from using them, and make do with the same old tedious techniques for the foreseeable future.

Couldn't disagree with this more. Let your site have square corners, no shadows, and no animations in IE. The users won't know or care.
Hey, we'll still be able to buy all the computers and consumer electronics that are made in the US.

...

Oh.
No.
I wasn't even making an argument for mandatory car insurance. I was merely pointing out the difference to mandatory property insurance and said that this difference _might_ be the basis for a convincing argument in favor of the former.
I'm shocked by some things I've read in this article. I don't want to blame the victim, but the author has rented out their home for a full week and left identity and financial documents behind a plywood or MDF door. Data, passport, birth certificate, and cash. Trusting people is nice, but surely there's a limit at which it becomes insane. I get a little nervous when I leave my documents in my (empty) apartment over a long weekend; I'm flabbergasted as to why the author seemingly wasn't bothered until after the crime.
Speculation alert
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Could be drug addicts. But my hunch says it could be some known persons to the unfortunate host, playing some dreadful prank. Reasons:

1) From the blog:
'All the while, Dj Pattrson was sending me friendly emails, thanking me for being such a great host, for respecting his/her privacy…. telling me how much he/she was enjoying my beautiful apartment bathed in sunlight, how much he/she particularly loved the “little loft area” upstairs… with an “lol” closing one sentence'
This suggests motivation to cause a greater hurt. Thieves will just steal. Drug addicts may not punctually mail all the while.

2) Also I suspect the name DJ Pattrson, may have been carefully chosen. Note the author calls herself 'EJ' (and 'DJ' sort of rhymes). I tried jumbling Pattrson for some meaningful word, but could not get any.
Ok. Yeah, makes sense now that you put it that way. I don't think an extra click is all that much more, especially considering if there's an attachment (picture or video) in the email that you have to download and open. If they don't remember the site, they can always pull up that email, or check their FB or Twit page to find it (assuming they save it).

I completely agree that a site like this would benefit greatly from some Game mechanics, like points. You'll notice in my previous comment I alluded to that, only called it kudos or karma. I also think the social aspects can play a much bigger role in the future. I'd love to see something like a "circle of thanks" and having the explore option allows users to browse other peoples notes for wording ideas, and to learn more about how others send thanks.

Love the idea of video thanks. We had the same idea, only a different implementation. Basically, we were thinking a user could upload a photo or record a short video from the browser or Web cam to attach (for a more personal touch).

Would love to continue this discussion, if you'd be up for it. It really sounds like you understand what we're trying to do, and are obviously passionate about it. Maybe there's an opportunity here to collaborate on this.

Are you a hacker? Or?

Feel free to email me using the address in my profile!

Matt Franklin
Of course. They can license all their patents to HTC in exchange for a license to all of HTC's patents.

Everyone wins except the new upstart company without eight billion dollars worth of bullshit patents. We don't need any new computer companies, though, there are enough already. The system works!
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I actually saw the millenium bug manifest itself, believe it or not. I saw some forum software which claimed the year was 19100 :-D
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I didn't notice until I saw the finished product. This is indeed a pity. Now, is there one 4:3 screen of that size on the market?
Tip: "Market rate" is what someone else is willing to pay you. Go to your boss with a better offer from elsewhere and they will change their tune fast!
> AirBNB at least has a credit card on file

Might be stolen especially in the light of this case.
It got 20 to 30 votes in the first hour but was buried at around 50. Whatever algorithm they use, I'm not impressed. Maybe Arc just can't handle complex expressions. :-)
Of course.
I didn't mean to say that she/he should actually start an insurance company. I wanted to point out that there are market-incentives that might motivate someone to offer such a service without the need for a law.
Why didn't you withdraw the money from your Paypal account hourly/daily? That's what I'd have done :S
To the extent that the system is choked it means that the Patent Office grants patents without having the time to look at them, not that a backlog develops. You might notice that this has already happened.
You obviously haven't been working with companies in the financial sector. Those Fortran developers you always hear about, this is were they are working. Many companies in that sector use rather old systems that can't be replaced. Some of those systems rely on IE6 or IE7.

I do work for a company that targets that sector and we calculate with a user base of about 50% that still use one of those browsers. Yet, we want them to have all the bells and whistles that the web offers today as well. This will change (and is changing) but rather slowly. Some might even say it barely even moves.
In many places the business facilitated by Airbnb is illegal. New York state, Chicago, and many other places have strict hotel laws that forbid these kinds of informal apartment rentals. It is extremely unlikely that any one can buy an insurance policy to cover an illegal transaction.

If you read the Airbnb TOS you'll see that they are well aware of this and are just hoping that naive customers don't read the whole thing.

I expect the original poster's losses will not be covered by home owner's insurance.

http://www.nysenate.gov/press-release/illegal-hotels-bill-pa...
Google Checkout? Amazon payment?
How not to compute trends
is that what this book is about? I though it was about FP principles without any specific implementation. How do you actually do FP in Java? anonymous inner classes everywhere?
It's completely different. I don't see how you can't make the distinction between paying lots of money for a product and doing what essentially amounts to filling out a survey for a free prize. The comparison is apples and oranges.
I prefer using the Macbook Air for both content consumption and creation. For reading, resting a laptop on my lap and paging with an occasional tap of a key or brush of the touchpad is far easier than supporting the entire weight of the device and swiping the screen on occasion. For website viewing, I need the freedom to have 10 or so tabs open without the iPad's annoying reload when you try to enter an old tab.
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I would like to see what a sample digest looks like before giving out my email
I've met more than a few recruiters who do that here too.

In fact, I think I have even worse stories to share: one recruiter who shall forever remain in my email blocklist took my resume, promised she'd ask me before sending it to any company, and then, naturally, sent it to a place where I was already having discussions, which led to quite a bit of unpleasantness all around.
He does still produce interesting products I think, just overhyped. For example, Fable 2 actually comes somewhat close to what Fable promised, albeit a few years later, and not hitting much of what Fable 2 itself promised. But it's still one of the more interesting games in that space that's come out in the past few years.
“CTOs typically go for like $225K, with $50K bonus and 1 percent equity, but that’s rich for a small start-up,”

what do you need to do to be thought of as a candidate to be a CTO for a startup?

my brother started at Microsoft a couple of weeks ago, plan the next 10 years for him
I run gdipp and decrease the hinting; I love my fonts now.
Many experienced developers use web2py and find it to be quite flexible and powerful. For example, see comments here (http://harrywolff.com/2011/01/web-application-development-fr...) regarding questions about function re-use and form customization. In web2py, I don't think the complicated stuff is generally any harder than it would be in other frameworks, yet many things are often much easier. Granted, though, sometimes documentation is lacking for some of the more complex stuff. A recipes book is due out soon, so hopefully that will help.
Any advice for "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found" error?
I use comcast business at home, and use crashplan pro for our laptop and Linux server backups.

The initial backup of my laptop (200gb since I included iTunes mp3 and 2 x 25gb vmware images) took a couple days when idle. After that the incrementals were basically unnoticed.
A letter from China
This is also the case in the Pharmaceutical sector. The IE6 user base accounts for the majority of the users and therefor it was the primary development platform but still requiring the bells and whistles.
The spork would undoubtedly have been found infringing and sued out of existence. We'd be eating it with a fork.
Well, here in Canada a diploma is basically from a 2 year program, and a degree usually from a 4 year program. I finished a 2 year program and transferred into the 4 year one.

Also, thanks for the input, I'll look into the stuff you mentioned.
MS-DOS Is 30 Years Old Today
Awesome! Great work guys!
Long story short it was to reduce the number of chips and thus cost, area, and heat (which leads to noise). There are good articles on this on AnandTech or Ars Technica but I can't find them.
Or a paddle/spatula. They might have been able to argue that it wasn't a spoon because there were no raise edges.
Agreed. Couple of days back, I went through one AirBnB competitor http://www.quora.com/Airbnb/Will-Agriya-Burrow-be-a-threat-t... There comments suggest that HomeAway model is better and also they're adding SecondPorch.

I initially thought that their comparison http://www.launchfeed.com/launches/view/1308830151 is weird. But, that makes sense now.
While I applaud his motives for change, we should also focus on HOW he quit, too.

IMHO, his boss deserves the professional courtesy of being told personally (be it face to face, or by letter of resignation), rather than finding out via a YouTube clip...
So if Apple is infringing because they used AMD hardware, aren't everyone who owns a machine with AMD hardware also infringing?

While the whole patent system is tending toward absurdity, it's really absurd that you can be sued for infringement by using a product that infringes even if you have no idea or even a way of knowing that...
At this point you should finish because it helps to have a degree if you ever want to work in a different country.
Considering the increasingly vocal outcry of rampant patent abuse, it's also possible that tech giants begin publicly stating their position towards US patent law: it needn't exist (or one of the many alternatives that have been proposed). If the market can metabolize that, patent law reform isn't far away.
Sweat baby milo
Anyone care to post a summary of the OP (a 15-minute video)?
You're not taking patent trolls into account.
Technical angel
If someone creates an account but never posts, will there ever be a public-facing link the the userid page? If not, then Googlebot could be doing its job perfectly but have a totally inaccurate number of registered users using this method.

I'm curious what the actual number is now...
Really? That slideshow is benign and I've never heard of someone having their Google account banned because of something like this.

I would have assumed AdWords a hundred times over.
Having tried to recruit for an unsexy university staff job, I will agree that it is tough to find developers. But having been through the interview process at amazon and other "top" tech companies, it is clear that they acct (by their own admission) a high number of false negatives.

I understand why - a bad dev can really wreak havoc. But theymve gone so far, they seem like a man claiming to starve who turns his nose up at an apple with a small bruise. It feels a little insincere.

I won't hire if there's a big red flag, but I'll. Give a candidate a chance. Maybe top companies with more pull don't have to, but then how seriously should I take these stories of how hard it is to hire.
For down voters, please refer top story http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811080
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Then I assume all the big companies have no problem supporting Google to push for an overhaul (or dare I say the abolishing?) of the patent system.
It would be interesting to see AirBnB's response to this.
Congress is part of the problem. Even if they fixed patents, they would just screw something else up. The checks and balances of the US government aren't working. We need a free market of governments, so that if we don't like one, we just switch to a better one. Competition would provide the check and balance, like it does for everything else. This isn't possible at present because it is impractical or impossible for most people to switch governments. But imagine how quickly governments would fix this stuff if the people just left for somewhere better. It would be fixed instantly.
To be fair, the bull horn/cheering thing is part of the Agile methodology too (tho' we do it with a cowbell and clapping where I work).
This. Your documents should use progressive enhancements that make them at least accessible (if not pretty) with every browser that has ever existed. If you write something that only works on FF5 or IE9, you did something wrong, and someday we'll be cursing you just as you curse people who wrote stuff that only work on IE6.