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Saying "that's just the way things are" is no excuse for tolerating the sort of behavior under discussion here.

You're correct that it comes with the territory, but that doesn't absolve organizations (and governments) of writing and enforcing policies to mitigate the damage done by harassment. Nor should we excuse away an obligation to repudiate harassment when we encounter it. Saying it's status quo won't fix anything.

Regarding the John Stuart Mill quote above: I agree. It's not the views of the people in question that offend me, it's their alleged actions. Harassment is not free speech; it doesn't attack ideas, it attacks people.
It can be warm in Lulea, in fact it reached 30C when I was last there in June, but that was exceptional. Typically, it's sub-zero for half the year and the summer is very mild.
I just want to address your first point.

The harassment women get is much, much worse than men.

Me and my wife are both computer scientists, and have both given talks at many conferences. My wife and our female friends consistently get much more, and much worse, harassment than me and our male friends. There is no comparison, and over time I've seen it grind several women down to the point where they just give up (fortunately not my wife yet).

I think everyone should help to reduce the often hostile attitude in IT and FOSS in particular, and a fairly obvious part of that is to stop treating women so badly. Just treating them like everyone else would be a fine start.
I work on google maps. You can fix the geocode of your address from google maps itself. If the problem in your town is more systemic than "maps can't locate my road" or "maps misplaces my address on the road", please send me an email with some details and I'll investigate (but I don't work all that close to the geocoding portion of the service), rrenaud@google.com.
Thanks for that. The third option is exactly how we did the app, i.e. no sign up or pay link, just a login. Plus we very prominately say 'You need an active subscription'.

We obviously wouldn't want the 1-star reviews, but in some ways it's ok as the phone app is really just a utility helper for then main task at hand (photos) so it's not as if the app is useful without the subscription.

Do you have any app examples of the third option we could cite?
I used to live in Luleå. It is also tied for most sunlight in a year in Sweden.

Fun fact: Durung the winter they put sign posts into the ice and drive right over the Lule river. It makes for a great shortcut across town.

The article makes it sound completely remote, but it isn't. Google had an office there for a few years. There's a decent university there. Though the population is only 50k, it attracts everyone within 200km, so the city has a disproportionate amount of entertainment and other industries.
Does anyone know more about this phenomenon than the little in this and similar articles I've seen recently?

Pointing a laser at an airplane thousands of feet in the air traveling hundreds of miles an hour for long enough that a pilot notices the dot seems an impressive feat. Thinking about the geometry involved with the position of the cockpit windows on most airplanes, it also seems like it must be done from far away horizontally, at a fairly low angle.

It seems to my naive interpretation that accomplishing this would be substantially more than just a small prank.
The ladder we chose to climb was a very short one, unlike the ones the reporters climb. To get to the top meant convincing one or two people we could make a contribution.

IMO, this still applies to software. That is why the whole debate to stay or drop out of school even exists. You don't see lawyers, accountants, doctors, or journalists for that matter debate on the merits of school to advance their career. If you write code, consider yourself lucky to still be living in this "golden period" where just a little skill and ambition is all you need to make an excellent living doing enjoyable work.
Check out a company called Aqua Connect for a similar concept. Except that you purchase the server software for your Mac. Also uses RDP.

Edit: I do not work for this company and have not used their product.
Fix the computer projector stupidity: Almost every conference, meeting I attend has at least one case of a person connecting their laptop and the display not working because of some incompatibility between the projector and laptop.
That's more a comment on a rejection of Vista by the market. The difference can be seen with 7 which, being a viable upgrade, is displacing XP.
It'll be a similar design to the datacenters in Prineville, Oregon and Forest City, NC. They pull in outside air, cool it a little bit with evaporative mist, mix it with air already in the datacenter, and then send it to the servers.

The air doesn't need to be 50F, just cool enough and at a sufficient pressure to circulate heat off the servers. Sweden will work great.
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Oh and we also made a Jquery Mobile version http://www.instabam.com
I'd be very interested in using something like this to unlock ridiculous achievements on steam.
Yep. And if you look at all the internal politics that has been exposed by Nokia converting to Win Phone. All that politics will be duplicated at Samsung, Motorola, HTC etc. There will design, software and UI departments that are doing this stuff to justify thier existence.
Restraining orders don't work. They're rarely enforced. Police don't have the bandwidth, at least in the US, to care. As a friend in law enforcement told me -- restraining orders exist as a paper trail for police to be able to point out how bad the person was when something does happen. It's not there to actually protect the victim.

The fundamental problem with stalking is no one in law enforcement cares until you're actually dead or physically hurt. If I were the potential victim I'd probably care at a slightly earlier stage.

With that said, mocking the police online will get you a fullscale investigation: http://www.kirotv.com/news/28758502/detail.html
It's hard for me to know why I should care that Winer doesn't like the book.

It's true that the book is not written by someone with a deep understanding of technology, but this is mostly a story about Steve Jobs the man, and not technical detail. What comes through in the book is that Jobs was a very difficult and troubled person with a tremendous energy to try to do things 'right' (for his definition of right).

I've found it a very enjoyable read. Here you have a book written with the cooperation of a man who knows he's dying and wants to talk about his story. It's an interesting book because it's not a hagiography nor is Jobs making excuses. Early in the book he says straight up that he behaved poorly towards his parents and Lisa Brennan-Jobs and at the same time can't quite recall stiffing Woz out of money for the Atari work.
Oh sweet, thanks! Missed that.
[Edit: Doesn't look like that thread got past 'build a better toaster' and 'build a better toilet']
A graphical repl. Would be great for kids learning to program.

e.g.

Prelude> 3 + 4
7
Prelude> \x -> x * x

<interactive>:1:0:
No instance for (Show (a -> a))
arising from a use of `print' at <interactive>:1:0-10
Possible fix: add an instance declaration for (Show (a -> a))
In a stmt of a 'do' expression: print it

Would be great if it could display a scrollable graph of y = x² instead.
I really curious to see what Nintendo do in the face of devices like the iPod Touch. Portable gaming has always been more casual than "static" gaming, and the iPod Touch is absolutely dominating casual gaming. I sold my DS a long time ago because I simply couldn't be bothered to carry it around any more- I don't think I'm alone on that, and I'm not sure how Nintendo can solve that problem.

I won't be surprised if we see them take an approach similar to Sony- partner with a phone manufacturer to make a top tier casual gaming device that is also a phone, connected to an app store.
But that doesn't happen, because it's easy for game developers to support FroYo+ devices with the same APK.

Example: The latest hot Android game is "Wind-up Knight". It supports Android 2.2 and up.

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.robotinvader.knigh...
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A storm cloud in the distance but I wouldn't start freaking out just yet. "We will also provide at least 30 days notice on this blog before enforcement of the usage limits and billing for excess usage begins." I hope they'll need to pull a "Qwickster" on this one.
Reading the PPS in Winer's post about who should write a Jobs book made it clear to me that I think I will like this biography. I honestly didn't think anyone liked "Breaking Windows".
Very far and few in between. So, my question is "why"?
OS X, you're right (edited the parent).
No, I'm white, male, and straight, and I get that about once every ten frags or so, more so if I shut out the round.
Whether or not it compares to standard trolling, it still is trolling. You're not going to fix it by complaining.
The United Nations has made world population projections to the year 2300 under varying assumptions,

http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/longrange2/Wor...

as I mentioned in a different recent thread here on HN about the current world population count.
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What happened to the iPad killers of 2010?
By the same reasoning, we could argue that thieves and murderers are almost as old as civilization and we should just get used to it. Sorry, but no. They will always exist, sure, but the only thing we should get used to is hunting them fiercely. I will not surrender my right to be happy, productive, and helpful because a minority of socially-dysfunctional people are trying hard to ruin it for me and for others. Nobody should.

Moreover, to equate harassment of women to mere trolling is of complete ignorance. The fact that you accept the label of "troll" just reinforces that you should not put the two in the same level. Would you be OK if people often called you an abuser of women?

The women involved in this shitty situation have already written pages and pages of how terrible it is—particularly for women—to be the target of harassment. If anyone cannot understand that, they must be really stupid.

Also remember:

"A witty saying proves nothing." — Voltaire
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Looks like ubuntu.com. Meh..
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You don't need scientific facts anymore - just a lawyer

"FAA released what it called a legal interpretation, which finds that directing a laser beam into an aircraft cockpit could interfere with a flight crew performing its duties while operating an aircraft"

If only they would release a legal interpretation that aircraft can fly without engines we would save a fortune in fuel, reduce noise and GHG emmisions.
I was just at a conference where our "leader" spent 20 minutes trying to get the sound to work on his presentation while we all sat there fighting to stay awake. When the sound emerged we were forced to watch a video clip from the movie, "Any Given Sunday". -In this case, I wish the incompatibility had existed permanently.

On a serious note though, this IS a problem that arises often.
Apples and oranges. An actually useful version of this graph would compare the Google phones to the Apple phones, and then in a separate table, compare the support for OS updates for other parties using the operating system (Apple would have no entries in that second chart, of course, but that's their choice).

In the first hypothetical chart, I believe Google's support for Google phones compares acceptably well with Apple's support for Apple phones.
Ask HN: redis or eventlet for async
Redis has a feature called pub/sub ...however...
Eventlet (running on gunicorn) also provides amazing async capabilities.

Assuming a redis datastore, can you perform a pub/sub or async operation faster then using Eventlet?
Aren't the limits IP based? This page on Google's 'Geocoding Strategies' seems to say so: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/geocodestrat.html#...

So as long as your call to the Maps API goes out client side, aren't you ok?
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4 words: Port Everything. Sell Apps.
I agree with you. However sometimes it feels as if building a lifestyle business takes the same effort (in the beginning) as building a large business.

For example think about all the small web development companies with 3-6 people in their teams. That is a lifestyle business. On the other end think of Instagram, 10M users, 6 people. Or Weebly, millions of sites, 3-4 people. Or Craigslist hundreds of million in revenue, 30ish people.
>as the legality of this AI is still uncertain.

I know it's just a StarCraft AI, but that sentence still sent a chill down my spine, and visions of Ghost in the Shell / similar SF.
I think this stigma exists because on some level, sometimes, when things suck at your high growth crazy startup (even if its just a bad day or week) you think, "man I wish I ran a skate shop in Huntington Beach with an online store". And it stings to see other people doing that.

It's a lot harder to delay gratification and swing for the fences, not just intellectually harder but emotionally harder. Sometimes I feel like my friends doing lifestyle businesses just don't understand what I'm going through, and other times they give me really bad advice that would be great if I was building a company to operate like their's but doesn't do anything for me at scale.

My family business is a lifestyle business in finance, I worked there from age 14 - 20, and its a totally different animal from a startup. Because it isn't a startup, its a self-sustaining business. Was after 12 months. So it makes me think a lifestyle startup is a myth - these aren't startups, they're small businesses trying to dine out on the glory of the name "startup" without takin the risk. What do you think?
+1 - I love this idea; some/most times it's easier to change the CSS instead of the HTML/template.
I'd like to know how Dave Winer expects a new biographer to get the same amount of access to Steve Jobs as Walter Isaacson did. It's hard to interview someone 40 times if, you know, you can't.
The underwhelming sales for the 3DS only reinforce for me that there will be no future market for handheld consoles. Pretty soon, everyone and his mother (literally, my 60+ mother who can barely use the internet got a smartphone because it was the same price "free" as a regular phone) will have a smartphone with 1Ghz+ processors and amazing graphics capabilities. Who wants to carry around 2 devices when 1 will suffice for almost everything?

Consoles will continue to have a place in the gaming industry, but everyone who wants a Wii already has one and the technology is outdated and/or surpassed (e.g. maximun 480p resolution in a time when everyone has an HDTV, other systems have motion sensors) that there isn't much revenue left to squeeze from it. The Wii U could be a spectacular success of the same proportions as the original, but those types of successes are pretty rare (and I'm not hearing of any revolutionary changes such as the motion-sensor controls of the original Wii).

Remember that before the Wii came out and had its greater-than-expected success, Nintendo had basically become a distant third place behind Sony and Microsoft. I think its at another inflection point in its history and needs the Wii U to be another smash critical success or its in huge trouble.
Isn't this just a Marvel Sheevaplug with a sticker and some software? How is this thing patent pending?

Here's the PlugBot:
http://i.imgur.com/SvHQq.png
And here's the Sheevaplug:
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/skins/skin_1/images/s...

The picture in the Kickstarter video also looks a lot like the inital form factor of the Sheevaplug, still seen in the datasheet. Here's the video screen shot:
http://i.imgur.com/LmOCX.png
And here's the datasheet:
http://www.plugcomputer.org/405/us/plug-basic/documentation/...
http://i.imgur.com/3azJX.png

Also, isn't It's a covert penetration testing device (bot) designed for covert use during physical penetration tests. a little redundant? That's the second sentence of the copy, and it doesn't set up a good first impression.
I'm getting sick of Google's "see what sticks" and "let the end user fend for himself" attitude. I really wanted their various platforms to work, but now I'm just getting tired.
Stating that "The ladder we chose to climb was a very short one, unlike the ones the reporters climb" is kind of bullshit. Dave is a blogger who feels like bloggers are the new news reporters, and that news reporters would be as great as him if they would only grow a pair, or something. But reporting the news is not easy. For most reporters it's like bringing a spork to a machine-gun battle, every single day of the week.

This is not a book about Apple and it's not a book about technology. It's not supposed to be "The Soul of a New Machine." It's about Steve Jobs. Did Dave not look at the cover before he started reading? It's all right there.
Data mining security camera footage
No. Elaborate...
The downplaying of the repeated incidents might be encouragement enough, I think.
What is a "3 hour minimum"? Do I have to log in for that amount of time each day?
In other news, Hitler could have won and the terrorists could have successfully followed up 9/11.

I do think this story is noteworthy, not because of the headline, but because it draws attention to the underlying deficiencies of XML cryptography, as others have pointed out in comments.
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By "source materials" presumably he means the raw transcripts of the interviews, etc. Which doesn't seem too likely but it's at least possible.
Um, we've left the earth already. The only reason why we don't continue to do so is that it isn't cost-effective -- which means that we have another resource-allocation problem rather than some mysterious insurmountable challenge.
I think there were plans to port Meego onto Wayland.
Nintendo's days as an independent company may be numbered. With no clear path forward on either the handheld or the console side, their greatest strength is their content. Possible suitors? Their neighbor Microsoft might benefit. Or Apple, which is rumored to be entering the console space. Sony seems to have its hands full right now. How about Disney, they'd love to add Mario and company to their IP. Out of left field, maybe Samsung would jump in.
Linux is a good brand. GNU/Linux is not. GnuLix is ugly and confusing. Period.
And under what obligation is Isaacson or his publisher supposed to give the raw transcripts of any interviews he did with anyone for the book?
I think there is a difference between "effectiveness of the tool in general" vs. "effectiveness of a tool for the particular purpose".

Pliers are a fantastic tool. You can even put the screws in with it. But it is a very poor tool for putting in the nails. Arguably it is merely a consequence of a business decision to have nails the way they are. For that you need a hammer.

Therefore I believe the parent analogy makes perfect sense. If you wanna write iPhone apps, get the tool that does the job. At this point in time this is a Mac. Linux/Windows is a fantastic tool, but for making iPhone apps it is rather useless.
> In a certain way, its an intangible, just like programming.

OTOH, I don't check references when buying jewelry. If I can't find somebody telling me a guy/gal is worth that much an hour, no sale.
Question: Because of privacy concerns, are you less likely to visit or interact frequently on a site that uses GA? Just curious as I know that some people are and I'm wondering the thought behind it.
If the only reason there weren't more women in tech was because they didn't want to be there, what you say about fixing tech would be true, but it's not. Women are significantly discriminated against, from the day they start engineering courses.

I don't believe you are sympathetic at all. More importantly, you've shown no empathy. I'm assuming she started speaking at conferences because she enjoyed it. Some jackass takes that away from her and you call her out. That couldn't be more illustrative of the problem.
What is a bigger boat good for? I'm not a vehicle guy, but a lot of people have different fascinations.
Make that a hard 'g' and you've got a deal.
Private pilot here - while I've never experienced a laser incident while flying (and I sure as hell never want to), it's not as hard to hit an aircraft with a laser as you might think. People who do this aren't targeting 767's at 33,000 - they're hitting the ones taxiing on the ground, those flying at low altitudes, or worse, those in the pattern for a landing. The night blindness from getting hit with a laser can have fatal consequences, and it carries serious penalties.

See the image at the lower right on the first page for a sampling of the effects of being hit with a green laser(warning: PDF): http://www.ifalpa.org/downloads/Level1/Briefing%20Leaflets/M...

Law enforcement takes these sorts of things very seriously. Here's a video(SFW) of one person who hit a police helicopter and was arrested minutes later:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6617532/guy-shines-laser-p...
Overview of text editors for programmers on linux
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The only thing missing from your post is this!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Bay...

I must admit, it's been a couple of years since I've glanced at Bayes' theorem but this was an interesting refresher.
I'm not blaming her. Dude sounds like a dick.

But there are dicks out there in the world. How we deal with them is indeed up to us.
Does it seem weird to anyone else that it requires a connection speed of 1 megabyte (not megabit) per second? Also no contact information? No mailing address?

Edit: By requiring 1 megabyte per second you're technically requiring the same data rate that you would need to stream dvd video. Requiring that data rate seems more consistent with the VNC protocol and not RDP.
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I don't believe I did attribute it to GNU. If it came across that way, apologies.

It seems it very much did come off that way. Deleted.
Got any links/citations that support this assertion? Specifically, cases where men in the FOSS community are being harassed because of their gender.
There is also http://openlayers.org supporting all different kind of formts (GeoJSON, GPX, WKT...) and different providers like google, bing, osm, ... It even supports mobile

Have a look at http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ for their examples
Then buy up the oldest Core 2 Duo mini you can find. Probably $200-$300. You can download Xcode for free. Used iPod touch 3rd gen maybe $100-$150 if you don't have an iPhone.

Back when OS 10.1 came out I took a look at Cocoa documentation and some sample code, read up on Interface Builder, and felt intensely that this was the clean, user AND developer-friendly well-packaged Unix platform I had been dreaming of. I had to learn it, despite having a pure Unix background (Vim was my editor for many years at this point). I paid more than $3000 for a mac desktop. That was more money than I had spent on anything in my life. It also opened the doors to my next job, and my job after that. Invest in your future.
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"Ditto for pollution"

I believe pollution per capita is highly correlated with per capita wealth (or income).
I roll a D12 then pick the units (hours/days/weeks) as appropriate.
Sorry. Deleted.