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I understand your point, and I know what you mean. It's impossible to watch a commercial on TV without the guy being an idiot and the woman being intelligent, no matter what the subject is. I did sociology and I'm aware of the statistics, however the statistics don't tell the truth.

On average the top 10% of women are only as strong as the bottom 10% of men. IIRC your average 25 year old woman who goes to the gym is only as strong as a 14/15 year old boy.

The difference between my wife hitting me is at worst a bruise, and me hitting my wife is a fractured skull. The difference between my wife slapping me is a red mark on my face, and me slapping my wife is her being knocked to the floor. I can take my wifes wrist in one hand and I can force her to the ground or I would break her arm if she resisted. If my wife takes my wrist in both hands, she's struggling to even force me to move my arm (this one she tried the other day cause I wouldn't touch the pumpkin goop).

The average woman has around 50% of the upper body strength of a male. Male bones are on average larger and denser than womens. Similarly our skulls are thicker, denser and have features like a bigger brow and stronger jaw than women. Our skin is literally thicker and stronger than women. Men have a naturally higher muscle-to-body-mass ratio than women.

I think on average men tolerate sexism towards them because we can, because we really don't need to defend ourselves from words. Women do need to defend themselves from words, because words are easily turned into actions and women can't easily defend themselves against actions.

I genuinely think that a lot of women are afraid of men, perhaps not consciously. Maybe not rightly so today, but only because of our society and morals. Society and morals put a decline in the male-female spousal abuse rates, to the rape rates.
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Much of that time is spent on trying to maximize returns by ekeing out every deduction and exploiting every possible loophole or even finding them.
Probably because private mapping is prohibited and there is no public-domain map data.

from paxswill's link:

"According to the Surveying and Mapping Law of the People's Republic of China, private surveying and mapping activities are illegal in mainland China."[0]

[0]http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_China#Legalit...
Both Google Maps and Nokia OVI work perfectly fine on my E71 here in China. I guess they just get that encryption library linked inside so the position of my locations always match the roads and buildings on the map. On the other hand, the satellite images in Google Maps do have an offset, which means Google has not redraw the satellite images. Either because Google is unwilling to do that, or, as machinagod said, they cannot take the encryption library back to their image server to do the recalculation.
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so this clears up the iPhone vs. Android debate then :)
Well, I believe this particular head is the one I've seen most commonly in books[1], and that was quite a long time ago (I wish I could remember if the original Aku-Aku book had pictures.)

[1] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Moai_Heads.png
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My wife is a surgeon. Surgery twenty years ago was far more sexist than IT ever was. But in medical school she was taught by some incredibly badass female surgeons who dealt with far worse sexism than bad jokes. They inspired her to be a surgeon while most of her peer went into pediatrics.

Surgery can still be sexist. While interviewing for residency, my then fiance was advised to take off her engagement ring. Apparently some programs won't hire a woman they think will take time off for pregnancy. But it is getting a lot better. Her current residency class is majority female.

IT needs some badass women who can ignore the sexism and just write awesome code. It is the only way to change the culture.
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Your tech team sounds very experienced and competent, but 3 co-founders is already enough for a startup. Also, the dynamic of a team where three people know each other really well and then one business guy is totally new, might be a bit of a problem.

It looks to me you have all your bases covered - including the 1 SW dev who does business. Honestly, there are so many tech people that do the business side out of necessity. I think you guys should do a 3-man startup by yourself. Just my two cents.

If you really need to find a business founder, then perhaps visit some networking events in an EU startup hub (Berlin, London etc). Best of luck
The model is not actively watching everyone it's flagging people for additional screening. It's one thing to know walking into an airport is going to be a pain, it's quite another when driving down the highway your license plate is tagged and someone pulls you over. The security apparatus get's to make it's numbers and occasionally even pick something up, but for those false positives out there there is little recourse but leave the country.
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no public-domain map data

For the record there is no public domain map data in a lot of countries in Europe. The USA has the sensible approach of 'all government data (incl. maps) should be public domain'. In Europe the state owned mapping organisations do the mapping and claim full copyright on the maps & data.

The 'illegal to make your own maps' is, obviously, not the case in EU
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As for the cola:

In your experiments, you know, at least subconsciously, that the possibility exists that you will be served Pepsi. In proper experiments the subjects don't know what they are tasting. You merely ask them for a preference. You also make it clear that both glasses may contain the same liquid (and preferably the experiment leader doesn't know which is which). In such cases, the result holds: M is preferred.

Secondly, it's a statistical result. It doesn't mean there aren't people that can't taste the difference.

As for the wine:
Many experiments are flawed. I don't know what experiments you saw, but if you ask experts to distinguish between a glass of red and a glass of white wine, of course they will succeed. The expectations have been set properly. One white, one red. In all cases where people are asked to distinguish between two different things and they are also presented two different things, they will succeed.

That does not mean they won't fail to note something is white wine when you give them a glass of seemingly red wine and ask them to rate this red wine.

The point is not that there isn't any difference between wines. There is and oenologists will be able to tell you the difference... as long as you told them upfront that there is a difference (and there is indeed that difference).
Well IIRC most moai were placed at the shore or on the cliffs, and the hats were generally rounded. So giant wheel + hill + ocean is definitely going to end with the majority of the hats being lost.
It explicitly replaces "women" with "alien", not "retard".
Trying to get satellite and the map portions to line up is very difficult. Trying to do it on a global scale with data from multiple sources... you get the idea.

Not really. There are loads of different projection systems & coordinate system around the world, so all GIS software is able to deal with converting coordinates and reprojections etc.

Satellite & aerial imagery always has to be georectified and made 'location aware'. Once you've done that, it's trivial to reproject it to whatever system you want.
The high level architectural patterns he usually deals with will live decades longer than the memory and cache heirarchy problems we have at the moment, so I don't think he's particularly concerned at that level.
There are models that do learn several latent features for each player [e.g. 1]. And I recently supervised a Master's project motivated by exactly your observation[2]. Models with multiple features per player do make better predictions, but by less than I'd hoped. A result from the Master's project, which surprised me, was quite how much details of the approximate inference mattered — much more so than the choice of model.

[1] http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rpa/adams-dahl-murray-2010a.shtml

[2] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/projects/2011_marius_...
Abuse is not about physical damage and/or risk to life.

If it were, it doesn't take a bodybuilder to kill or hurt someone with an axe or a knife.

But that's completely besides the point. The point is that in marital abuse - getting hurt (physiologically or psychologically) by someone that was supposed to care for you is always demeaning and hurtful experience.

And its a point that few women know, that male psyche is way more fragile than male physis. Some know and take advantage of it.

Your statement of men not being hurt by verbal (or other forms of psychological) abuse is frankly, naive. A man puts up with it because, frankly unless he moves away (and that's what every sane person should do in my opinion) there is no way for him to defend himself from his mother/spouse without getting a short end.
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I saw this coming. Git is one of the greatest pieces of software ever. I can't imagine working without it ever again.

All these git improvers like Mercurial are just gilding the lilly.

Now we all owe Linus TWICE.
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I totally agree with what you're saying about minority group entrants into industries dominated by another group - and I've seen this myself, they are generally quite talented and driven. However I think this comes at the cost of being scrutinised to a MUCH higher degree than everyone else (lets not argue chicken and egg here).

A friend of mine put it perfectly - "when you're amongst the dominant group, you can get away with being mediocre" (i.e. the 98% you're referring to). Meaning that when you're the minority group - your every move will probably be scrutinised/analysed/categorised more closely.

That said - I'm not sure if the personal attacks ("fucking idiot") are completely warranted here (though I suspect you wrote that in the heat of the moment). We all go through learning experiences, some of our learnings just happen to be on a much larger scale than others (and for Adam this was unfortunate). I know I've certainly offended people without meaning to ("it wouldn't have offended my friend Joe - and he's Asian too!"), but now I've learnt the fine art of holding my tongue with regard to such jokes amongst crowds that I don't know too well... sure, I guess I was an "idiot" too in that moment, but no more or less of an idiot than Adam here - despite the difference in scale.
My wife is a scotch expert. She hosts tastings where they taste scotch of three different ages. It used to be that after the tasting, most people would rate the oldest one the best. She then started to do blind tastings (tasters didn't know the age). Now the oldest is picked as the best around 30% of the time.
Thinking about this in terms of what low-level actions are being performed by the Arduino (relay closures, sensor readings, basic I/O), it strikes me how this can be an alternative/complement to platforms like LabView. I feel this is significant due to the prevalence of these platforms in engineering education as well as in industry R&D, test labs, etc. - in my opinion, the more (different) tools that are available and to which people are exposed, the more likely these people will be engaged (in the case of engineering education) or able to get their jobs done.
we would drink up 2 205 000 000 000 litres of fresh water in a day, but the total possible water supply we can access (and this includes the glaciers) is only 3.5 × 10^19 litres...

That's quite an easy way to run out of water.

Water doesn't vanish after it's used. Also, putting your first number in scientific notation helps put this in perspective: 2.2 x 10^12 . Seven orders of magnitude. Close to 15 000 0000 times as much.

That's not to say that work isn't needed to develop cheap recycling appliances, and to build water systems that recycle and reuse waste water rather than dumping it all into the environment, but it's not a very hard problem on the scale of things humanity can accomplish -- it mostly just requires more energy.

Energy will continue to be the limiting factor for a long time, and eventually (after essentially perfect recycling of all material civilization requires) the limit will be waste heat. But as others have mentioned, we have a whole solar system to use as well, and moving the highest heat processes to space would allow us to radiate it away without affecting the earth. Technology which is clearly within our reach would allow the earth to support trillions of humans -- admittedly at a more crowded level than I would prefer. :)
No worries, my company runs into the analytics problem you're solving all the time, so I totally knew what you were talking about :)
Can you say 'replicator'?

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What I wonder is, were these buried statues left like that by the islanders. I mean to get the hat on the statue, the statue has to both be stable and you have to access the head.

So was the easy method of doing this burying the statue? If so how fast did the islanders die off that they couldn't dig out the statues back to their intended state.

What's scary is what these peoples last days must have been like if they abandoned so many of these before completion.
The article starts by saying that low latency is the main requirement for financial trading, but then quotes all performance numbers in throughput ("6 million orders per second"). I couldn't find any mention of average or worst-case latency, and throughput numbers alone tell you nothing about latency.

In particular, since each input event has to be journaled and replicated (which both involve I/O) before it can be processed, there is a potentially large and unpredictable delay for each event.

Another issue is that this architecture assumes that 1 CPU core is enough to run all business logic processors, and that 1 machine's memory is enough to hold your state. If your processing is something CPU-intensive or your state is large, you'll hit a scaling wall that requires you to manually shard your input across multiple machines.
Well, at my company, everyone makes fun of the ethnicity of everyone else. Southerners made fun of the bling bling on northerners, people made fun of marathi's homely attitudes, etc. Once I showed up, americans also became a topic of humor [1]. At companies which have gujus, their mercantilist habits are a topic of humor.

No one really cared since it was all in good fun and Indian's don't have the same culture of victimhood that we do in the US.

[1] "Don't make fun of Chris, Americans will sue you if you tell a joke."
I fully agree with you that management at most companies is horrible when it comes to utilizing IT resources. Part of you wants to fix the problem. I'm all for you trying. Keep in mind, though, that you might just get absorbed into the machine you're trying to fix.

You'll have to be extremely charismatic to get upper management to care about things like code quality and proper form. Management looks at IT, wrongfully, as a cost center. They don't realize, or care if they do realize, that poor code quality might make it cheaper to roll out the first few phases of the project, but in the long run make costs higher. Businesses think they are in business, rather than thinking they are in the IT business. Until companies learn they are in a hybridized model of software company and industry, they will never advance.

So leadership is needed to move them forward. I want to do the same. You will need to establish a game plan that requires total company reform. Until the business individuals go to meetings with IT with the goal of creating the best software possible, and until your analysts go to the same meeting with the same goal rather than wanting to just plow through requirements, and until your developers go caring to learn the business, your leadership will be completely useless, because no one is listening.
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There are several tools that allow you to compare OpenStreetMap and Google Maps by overlaying partially on the other. Here's one of the area in question:

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You can see the noticable difference in street geometry.
I guess it depends on what you need. Most of them are helpers to create quick applications, ideal for startup and prototypes. Writing less code also mean writing less bugs. When I create a stylesheet, it may take a while to get feedback if it doesn't work on a obscure browser version while a bug in Twitter's bootstrap will be detected (and probably fixed) a lot sooner.
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Ask HN: revenue sharing model digital publishing tool/platform a good idea?
hi HN members,

We are currently building a digital publishing platform sort of in the vein of onswipe/adobe DPS, it's a set of tools that help publishers to create apps for their contents (books, magazine or newspaper, think "our choice" kind of publication) that run on iOS/Android tablets and phones.

Most vendors in this sector are charing monthly platform fees and per download fee (take DPS for example, it's $0.3 for each download of the issue).

We are considering a revenue-sharing model that publishers just need to pay a one-time setup fee, then we will split the revenue, be it by selling of each issue, or advertisement.

Do you think this is a good/viable idea ? thanks.
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That's a ridiculously pedantic point, especially considering that the firm has a history of illegal foreclosures.
It would be very interesting to load android on a bunch of iPhones and test the reactions of people shopping for phones... take one group and tell them that this was the new iOS 6 and tell the others what you had done exactly and rate the reactions :-)
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one interesting aspect of this is that workers often need to maintain capital goods; equipment to do this 'shadow work' - if you want a job in most parts of the country, you need a car. But guess what? that car isn't tax deductible, even if you only use it to commute to and from work.

The interesting bit here is that some companies, especially here in silicon valley, seem to be putting effort into doing more and more of this 'shadow work' for you and thus paying for it out of pre-tax money. Google's free food is the prime example, but nearly every large silicon valley employer not only will pay for public transit out of pre-tax monies, but will also provide shuttles from the train station to the office.

A company can also provide a 'company car' but, well, the tax implications of that get complicated. If you get audited and you didn't keep a careful log of personal travel, (and commuting to and from work is personal travel) and pay income tax on the miles you used for personal stuff? you are in deep trouble; this is why I own my vehicles outside of my corporation; I get reimbursed for business-related miles by the business and handle gas and maintenance out of post-tax dollars.
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I would suggest that you put this up as a blog post, and submit the link here. It would make for a much better reading experience, especially since your post is quite link-heavy.
Thanks! We have done startups ourselves as well on local European level. This time we really would love to work on a project where the strong business lead & problem to execute is coming from the US.
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Last week, I was talking with a guy at a cocktail party who was reading "Ways of Seeing" by Berger and studying physics by reading The Feynman Lectures. He was one of the most fascinating people I have met in a while because he was genuinely interested in your life (even though we only talked ten minutes, I was left wanting more...). And he was a marketing guy.
Useful information. That explains why I was having so much trouble navigating with mapping software on my Android phone when I visited. Now, I wonder if there's a workaround.
How would you get those resources here, or us over there?

There are a number of high-startup-cost, low-running-cost schemes for putting stuff in LEO, and as someone once said, LEO is halfway to anywhere in the solar system, energy-wise. Some possibilities are laser launching, space elevators, launch loops, and electromagnetic guns.

Some of these have much higher startup costs (to be effective for human launching, a gun would have to be very, very long and possibly cost the most of any of these, but shorter ones could launch material at very high acceleration with much less up-front cost), and some of them have awful failure modes (the space elevator could spread destruction in a narrow path wrapped all the way around the earth if it failed in the wrong way, via separation from the counterweight), but they're feasible.

The cheapest ways of getting to orbit, therefore, approach the cost in electricity of the task, which is less than 10 KwH per kilogram, or about $2USD per kilo. A recent flight from coast to coast cost more than that for me.
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Reminds me of node-chainsaw: https://github.com/substack/node-chainsaw

Also, my own node-ContextChain https://github.com/duncanbeevers/node-ContextChain

Both of these libraries take the approach of wrapping the underlying object rather than modifying it.
The primary difference between 'play' and "work" is safety, both in terms of personal harm and in terms of wasted resources. Most 'play' simulates some adult activity in a (hopefully) safe way; from mud pies on up to the first-person shooter video games.

From that point of view, a business like this where the parent provides the 'safety net' so that the kid can explore without much by way of negative consequences /is/ play.
That's what I like about Khan Academy just sit back and watch so many subjects as well so many universities have free videos.

In a way reading HN feels like I'm crashing a vascular conference.
Those are all valid concerns, but (and I don't mean this negatively), they seem to be more "first world" problems. For the majority of the people on this planet (c.f., Haiti), a sturdy box with a roof itself will be a huge step up.

Imagine an army of robots just toiling away, building a structure per day. The locals provide sand, and a barrel of ink, and out comes a house. Their very own house, sturdy enough to survive a hurricane or flooding.

Yes, this isn't perfect, but nothing is at first. Things approach perfection after several iterations.
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