skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another woman programmer here: This is exactly what I assumed and I agree there is no way it can be considered a unisex term. I would assume the culture at the company is immature and not a place a woman programmer would want to work anyway, so I would avoid applying for any position at this company.
The Dev Team has distributed jailbreaks for all the previous iPhones (and basically all the iPod touches, and the iPad 1, and one Dev Team member published a jailbreak for the iPad 2 on one version of iOS).

That said, MuscleNerd states very clearly in his tweets that this 4S jailbreak is a work in progress ("Huge missing pieces prevent public release. LOTS of work left") with no promised release dates.
Booming economies in the developing world
You're quite right. I skimmed it and misinterpreted.
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Currently usually from biomass or coal, see almighty wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel

The factories would not being build in the few countries that currently supply the vast majority of the oil the world consumes. A number of countries (Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, to name a few) would lose 99% of their income overnight.

Maybe its the wrong place to discuss the political implications of technical inventions here on hn, though.

(I am a little annoyed that some people seem to just down vote anything they lack knowledge about. What do you mean by "science fiction story"??)
Here is an article from a 2009 60 Minutes show about the work of Michael McKubre at SRI. He has been able to get excess energy. but not large enough or reliably enough to claim complete success. He thinks it's some kind of catalytic surface effect.

I've known McKubre for a long time. We were neighbors in the 90's. He's a good honest man. He may be mistaken, but he's not a fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McKubre

I'm inclined to accept that some kind of low energy nuclear process is going on, although it is not fusion as we know it.
Always thought that this is a scam considering his past. How many of you know of the Petroldragon thing he did in the seventies? Interesting story (still not clear if it was a scam or not) http://translate.google.com/translate?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...
I think what he means is "systematic_error = 1/log(log(equipment_cost))"
Well, at that point sockets were something that really interested me (still do) but I didn't know much about them. I asked her if she could spend a lecture going over them and her response was something like "See? This is why there aren't many women in IT, you men make up terms like Queues and Sockets to keep them out!" It's been awhile but that was the gist of it. I don't know if it was meant in jest but she sounded serious.
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> one thing that ought to be pointed out is that free
> markets tend to punish companies, over the long term,
> that intentionally deny themselves access to talent
> due to bigotry.

If this happens on a large enough scale, then it's hard to quantify. If this happens enough that it keeps the number of women in tech low, then how can you really quantify what they are missing out on? It would be easier to quantify if there was a large number of skilled female programmers, but if they are discouraged from even reaching the point of becoming skilled/competent programmers...
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He is a professor at the University of Utah, married with two kids. I think his post represents a set of people who work hard and play hard.

When you are passionate about your work, it's very hard to keep it within 40hrs/week. So your weeks look like periodic bursts of intense work interleaved with excursions and vacations.

You don't have to be single without kids to have that lifestyle.
Have you considered the alternative, namely that people really don’t care about owning (as you define it) their phone?
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... Because lying to your kids is a good idea?

From OP, part of the joy was using the key to open the machine and get a drink when others were watching.

Removing the tangibility of the project (and the heavy lifting——are you teaching your kids that you'll buy and move their inventory?) seems like it might not be the best approach.
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Exactly. Try telling your three-year-old that you can't play this week (!) because you want to hack on a cool idea. It's bad enough to be late picking him up because work ran long.
Sounds about right!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider#Cost

> With a budget of 7.5 billion euros (approx. $9bn or £6.19bn as of Jun 2010), the LHC is one of the most expensive scientific instruments ever built.

If only they'd put in $1b more, they'd have found that Higgs boson by now.
Seems to me that the medium is different enough that you'd generally want games specifically developed for the TV, rather than a straight port of a phone game, anyway.
How wonderful to be you and them.

Some people very obviously do care, bro.
"Why are Banks known for getting robbed more often than Bakeries?"

Because of Hollywood movies? It isn't actually true.

Of all robberies in the US, only 2.1% targets a bank. Shops (including bakeries) are targeted far more often, 14.3% of the time. Gas stations are robbed more often than banks, and convenience stores are even 2.5 times more likely to get robbed. [1]

The number of bank robberies is on the rise, but that's not because "that's where the money is". It's because the number of bank branches has grown rapidly, banks have standardized floor plans, and banks have procedures to deal with robbers (= just give them the money). [2]

To further break down some bank robbery myths: nearly 80 percent of bank robberies are committed by one person. 70 percent of bank robbers are unarmed offenders who do not use or even threaten violence. About 60 percent of bank robbers do not bother with disguises; only 7 percent of robbers in Florida did. And finally, more than 80 percent of arrested bank robbers have no prior convictions for bank crime.

[1] http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/violent_crime/robber...

[2] http://www.popcenter.org/problems/robbery_banks/2
You can also grab near real-time imagery from the MODIS family of instruments.

http://lance-modis.eosdis.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/imagery/realtime....
http://lance.nasa.gov/imagery/rapid-response/

This is very useful when you want to zoom in on an interesting natural disaster (fires, flooding, hurricanes, dust storms).
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This may or may not be some seriously cool materials science, but parallelizing a cellular automaton is trivial (as cells change state based on local interactions) and has been done with conventional hardware already, as has the construction of systems that change their own wiring in response to experience.
Clicking through to the authors blog home page and reading between the lines a little it looks like he is the founder and was the CTO of Mofuse.com and was kicked out just a week ago. Mofuse took $1.2M from 33 angels this past January so I guess they had something to say.

What is the story dberube? Inquiring minds want to know.
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I can't say my parents had lessons this cool, but I did spend some of my time in my teenage years working at my cousins' vending machine warehouse, doing various tasks: counting the take (and filling out the spreadsheet), filing refill slips for the drivers, putting new inventory in the right place, trips to purchase new inventory, and even refilling a machine once. It's a pretty interesting business, and it's interesting to me to see how one can scale up the "levels of responsibility".
The downside of Microsoft’s Android dollars
Yeah, I was confused with the H.264 encoder (and the MP3 encoder). My mistake.
Probably not a success from their point of view but from my point of view it's a great ad. It convinced me immediately not to waste any time pursuing the opportunity.

In addition, I can say that the only reason I'd care to know who the stealth company is is so I can avoid giving any thought to working for/with them later on or reading any later (probably toned down) job postings.
40 hours a week sounds great!
'(rather than "improving")'

Are you raising a child, or raising an adult?

You seem horrified by the idea that we might try to "improve" kids; I'm horrified by the idea that I might turn my kids loose in the world without any "improvement". My mind can not even express the theory of parenting you are operating under in which improvement is some sort of anathema.
Interesting. But I'm kinda curios how scrapping craigslist will turnout. Check this for example.

http://www.ridejoy.com/portland
You can support call queueing and call duration so that it doesn't go to the user voicemail. This is just a simple example to get you started.
For a "layman's explanation" of the physics, I found Phil Plait's article about the iPhone 4 (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/06/10/re...) really instructive. See "1) What is 'resolution', really?"
Event tweeted at

https://twitter.com/#!/22passi

In Italian only :-(
Does this patent cover any gesture like patterns or circles too --or just the slider? If it's the slider only, then that's an easy hurdle to overcome.
Drat. Apple could have done that first. Kudos to Google for taking that step.
Even if this was inadvertent, the idea that the ad reads like:

BROGRAMMERS COME WORK HERE

(fine print: non-bros can apply too)

This comes across like:

1. The writer of the ad had in mind a college-aged male as the target audience.

2. The 'non-bros can apply' part seems like an after thought. It makes it seem like someone that's a 'brogrammer' will get to the top of the list, and others will be looked at after the list of 'brogrammers' is exhausted.

3. It indicates a sort of Reddit/Frathouse-ish company culture, which women might not want to apply to any ways. (So some of the commentary could also be on whether or not we want to encourage such cultures in our industry, but that's stretching a bit from the original ad).
Are they even trying?

You've paid your 500 bucks. They lock it down so that the 99.999% of people who have no interest in jailbreaking don't screw themselves up and don't get infected by viruses. If a fringe minority decides to jailbreak that, that's not a problem for Apple so long as it remains a fringe minority.
You can always buy an Android phone if you're so concerned about your "freedom". oh wait Android's no better. /snicker

option 1:
if you buy an iPhone you get f'ed by Apple.

option 2:
if you buy an Android phone you get f'ed by Google, your Carrier and your phone manufacturer. true story.
Actually, Pons and Flesciemann announced their results at a press conference prior to publication, which was extremely detrimental to their credibility without regard to the validity of their science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion#Announcement
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Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
Humor sometimes conveys the real meaning- and in this job post, it is undeniably, No Girls Allowed. Those that think "brogrammer" means anything more deep or nuanced is giving the poster a whole lot of leeway. If they wanted a more diverse (age, sex, even race) they'd convey a different culture.

This is one of those things in the Valley that I really hate (I'm a ho-grammer). The immature attitude - up there with "rockstar" postings. Is there anything in the ad about the tech? Oh right, because it's "stealth" (another annoying Valley thing). I am also wary of a company that feels the need to state that programmers get some sleep. Really? The reality is that they're going to get tons of applicants because it's a recession. The applicants are going to be eager and inexperienced, probably not from here. The poster didn't evenhave to use brogrammer to get 95% men applying- that's roughly the % of men in the CA-Bay Area industry.

The new hires are going to work for a bit, the start-up will fizzle to nothing, but in the meantime the brogrammer will learn how to party in SF, go to strip clubs, get crunk, work hungover, and write passable code. He'd doubtless leave with a few great connections, and then starting or join another startup, where he'll fondly remember the ad that got him here and post a similar one. A kid just out of a midwestern school will see it and buy a cheap one-way ticket to SF. Like begets like (another thing that annoys me about SV). The monoculture continues.
That's debatable, but its entirely a different point, we are talking here about "rich" at the Bill Gates scale.
Most, if not all of the tracks on bandcamp.com are sold with a FLAC option.
I found something that concerns me a lot at the "announced" link at the start of the article.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/22/protecting-the...

If you look at the diagram, it appears that Remote Attestation is being brought back. For those of you who weren't around, or weren't paying attention, during the first Trusted Computing War, that means something like the following:

- You try to log on to your bank's website
- Your bank queries your TPM
- Your TPM sends back a signed hash attesting that you're running an unmodified version of Windows 8
- The bank lets you on

Versus:

- You try to log on to your bank's website
- Your bank queries your TPM
- Your TPM sends back a signed hash attesting that you're running an unmodified version of RedHat Linux
- The bank denies your login for violating the security policy
- There is NOTHING you can do about it, short of taking an electron microscope to your TPM to extract the keys.

Of course, none of this is possible as long as there are a nontrivial number of people whose machines aren't capable of Remote Attestation. But it's likely that every machine you've bought in the last 5 years has a TPM with this capability, which means that as soon as Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot have critical mass, Remote Attestation will have critical mass too. And then it will start showing up in security requirements for banks and other secure applications. And then the Linux users will start to feel the heat...
clickable link: http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0077
.NET 3.5 SP1 actually has GC notifications that are intended for this purpose: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713687.aspx
They could've done it much earlier, too, if only they didn't waste all that time porting both Android and the Dalvik VM to x86. They should've used ARM from day one. Hoping there will be some Tegra 3-based set top boxes launching with Google TV 2.0.
Sprint says iPhone is 50% more network efficient than Android
That's proof that there's a lively online Mac community, nothing more.

Guess what? Any search for "<<printer manufacturer>> windows not working" will also produce scads of results, often taking you to discussions that are dozens of pages long with people who can't print from their Windows PCs to any number of printers. The same can be said about most GNU/Linux distributions.

The only support forums where no one complains are those of products that no one uses.
> if you were offended by this job advert, it's likely you wouldn't be a good fit

So a company decides that most female engineers wouldn't be a good fit?

It's fairly obvious that using it in a job ad (as opposed to using it in a self-deprecating way to joke about yourself: how the term started) has the effect of alienating female developers.
But that favors longevity and undermines the "meritocracy" that many geeks seem to cherish. As a newer voice here, I think it odd I might be less valued (by orders of magnitude) because my contributions over six months or a year or whatever simply because I wasn't user #5.

Based on 120-day rolling karma? Might work.
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It was on a MacBook Pro. We tried it on a MacBook Air too and it performed reasonably well.
Y'know, I went looking for something to debunk this (rather implausible sounding) theory, so I googled "rothschild snopes". Snopes doesn't actually have anything, but I did find this rather delicious thread from the prisonplanet forums, wherein a bunch of conspiracy nuts speculate about precisely who is funding snopes:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=196892.0

Snopes most definitely is a disinfo website much like wikipedia

Anyway, I certainly can't find any evidence to support the contention that the Rothschilds are significantly wealthier than the wealthiest known people, and I don't believe it's possible to have a trillion dollars in assets while flying underneath the radar.
Aaron Greenspan Accuses AirBNB Cofounder of Being a Prolific Spammer
If it wasn't clear I meant 100mil requests, not $$$.
The pricing is fixed for a tier plan. This is no different than deciding which license to acquire for a service.

Do you have any insight into how large the volume of your map requests is?
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And the first honeypot article hits HN...
>Perpetual motion machines are a really old dream. The dream outlived Clausius, Kelvin, and Carnot and it will outlive us. Dreams are durable.

FWIW, it's not perpetual motion. This is not a claim of free energy, but a claim of matter being converted to energy in a way physicists deem exceedingly unlikely. I, too, would be incredulous of any positive result, but it's not claiming to violate thermodynamics.
Actually, Google TV 2.0 has native support for game controllers and USB host, too. They could really push Android/Google TV into becoming a "console platform", too. They could use the same strategy they've used against the iPhone to beat Xbox, PS3 and Wii - just get everyone to make TV's and set top boxes with high-performance ARM chips.

Everything is laid out for them. They just need to act on it. So far I don't see them promoting it too hard, which is a shame, because Apple will probably hype it up hard when they launch Apple TV with iOS apps and games, and then everyone will think Google is playing catch-up again.

What's sort of ironic, is that Google "TV" might actually be a lot more successful as a console platform than a "TV" platform, meaning that there would be a lot more customers buying it for the "console" promise, than for the "improving TV experience" promise. If they were smart, they would take full advantage of that, get millions of units in people's homes, and then figure out the TV part.
While I don't disagree with you, I do have a nit: they're not claiming this is a perpetual motion machine, which is categorically impossible and an incontrovertible indicator of a scam.

They're claiming it can derive energy from nuclear fusion of hydrogen atoms. This has not been proven to be impossible. In fact, we know it's possible (albiet at much higher temperatures.)

Therefore, there is at least a logical possibility that it's legit, even if their behavior doesn't indicate that so far.
Your conclusion does not follow from the premise.

You can defend something based on one merit, while not supporting a related detriment.
We've had a few of these types of things up here in America's hat, they seem to end up sued/legislated out of existence by the various transport groups. I know a few of the student unions ended up taking their rideshare boards offline. Shame, they were handy.
I don't really know what I'm talking about but I'm not sure this type of card game translates well online. In my opinion, the site design is a problem. The problem I'm seeing is that there's nothing making me want to learn how to play a new card game. I have no idea what the answer to that problem is but there's got to be some motivator on the site, I think, to get people to want to learn it. I'm sure once the game is learned people will love it. Maybe you could look at techniques other card games/board games use to get people interested? If you made a digital version of the game, you may also be able to sell the physical card game online?

The site is too red.
Mainly, because I paid for it, but Apple still has control over what it runs. "If you can't open it, you don't own it." The real definition of ownership is who controls the device. To the extent that I can't do what I want with the phone, it isn't mine.
Every time I read an article like this, it makes me a little depressed that I'm still writing code for traditional computer architectures instead of inventing new ones.
...and a little bit of that "sean parker" if you know what i mean
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What is it with people here assuming people are about to rob them?

Fuck that. Make it so that you have to register your car with plates, then if something happens you know which guy to call the police on.
Saying "you could always" for something like this doesn't make any sense. To undertake creation of a mapping service with no/little expertise and if the main constraint is approval timeline doesn't even seem like an option.
Fellow here, and that's how I read it as well--as a term to exclude (whether that be women, nerds, or the properly socialized). It was, however, a useful filter on my side--I work in speech technology and might have wasted time following up.
"There are things I dislike, like red tape, but in general, I accept them as part of the process"

I'm having a hard time accepting it. I find it frustrating to wade through the red tape. So by the time I get to the interesting bit, it feels like a chore.

My Solution: I secretly write dev-tools and unleash it to the group just so I can by pass the red tape that comes with starting a new project. I do collect feedback after the release and fix stuff. But the initial release is based entirely on my design decisions which in turn are based on what I've observed.
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Best statistics question ever
Well, in that case you would say that Microsoft is trying to survive by eliminating competition on scarce resources. But then, I don't think Microsoft is dying.
Cold causes blood vessels to constrict, restricting blood flow. It is a totally different response from coagulation.
I agree that the poster may not have intended to exclude women, but when they imagined that work environment in their head I'll bet they weren't imagining it full of women writing code.
Where can I order? None of the distributors mentioned in ST site have this in stock.
Here's the BadassJS perspective on all of this very impressive stuff! http://badassjs.com/post/12035631618/broadway-an-h-264-decod...
> "Brogrammer," is not a unisex term, no matter how they try to spin it.

No one sensible would try to spin it as unisex. I think it's simply an oversight on their part - more stronger than addressing a gathering "hey guys", but on the same lines.
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From Q2 2011

http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/29/apples-iphone-accounted-for-66...
We're supposed to comment intelligently and politely, but I can't think of either to reply to this.

The reality of the situation is of course nothing like what you are saying.
Yeah, we've seen people take the enterprise rideshare approach and while that's great way to generate revenue, we're focused on building a company for the long term that really facilitates rideshare to anywhere for anyone.
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"bro" puns are pretty non-sexed. Women make "bro" jokes too, because they're funny and no one should take them seriously.
So why the hell are we still wasting time responding to the same damn questions?

Because customers never read anyway.
Now I see the downside of having a socialist father.
"If it fails to perform, Rossi will not get paid" ...

This is the key part.
I know you're just teasing, but: when I say "Our family built a new house" I don't mean that we laid the bricks, I mean we paid to have it built. And I think it's entirely appropriate the the company who expended the resources to make the research happen gets full credit (to the extent that no one mistakes this for evidence of the research capabilities of Google's employees).