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I meant that members of parliament toe the party line in PR systems -- are you saying that members of parliament in Norway commonly vote against their party faction or even switch factions when they feel like it? If so, I'm impressed :-)

I fully agree about it being important that parties can be esatblished and elected easily; again in Belgium, there is a rule (initially devised to keep out the increasingly popular Flemish nationalists) that parties need to get 5% in elections to gain any seats at all.. It's good to hear not all countries have this!

I'm not so sure about the spirit of compromise being so positive; again relating to Belgium, decades of compromise agreements between Flemish and Waloon, and left- and right-leaning parties has created an institutional structure that is very complicated and obtuse (google the term "Belgian compromise"), and indeed its complexity and inflexibility have been at the heart of the recent problems.

It might be a bit unfair of me to base all my argument on the example of a single country, but I guess my main point is that it is not so much the choice of political system which determinces how messed up things get, but much more the polititians themselves. I'm not surprised that you as a Norwegian seem quite satisfied with your political system, because Scandinavians have a reputation for being prudent and reasonable, and I would bet that it wouldn't make all that much difference if the rules there were more like in the US for example.
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I don't agree. Giving 30 books vastly increases the chance that any given reader can find the "right" 20%. Your 20% might not be mine; although I would find it interesting if you posted your top 5 books, I'd rather see the 30 that you read, so that I can read them all and find my own top 5.

My reaction tends to be opposite yours: when someone gives me the "top 5", I consider it only a trailhead; it's unlikely my top 5 would be the same.
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Have you ever been in situation like that?
I always take issue with people talking about replication as a solution to scalability. It better to think of replication as a solution for availability.
Your ignoring 1/2 of Social Security and Medicare taxes.

Well, defenders of the current SS and Medicare system keep insisting that they're not really taxes, they're "contributions" for "insurance" that everybody pays into for the purpose of receiving benefits later. I'm all for abolishing those taxes and funding means-testing benefits out of general revenues, but the left hates that idea because they don't want SS and Medicare to be thought of as welfare.

The bottom quintile pays over 20% if they have a job. Medicare alone is 15.3%.

That's Social Security, Medicare is only a few percent. But the rate is correct; "your employer pays half" is a legal fiction.
The activation email said:

Activate account at example.com:
http://example.com/accounts/activate/xxxx

Instead of something like

Activate account at plangr.com:
http://www.plangr.com/accounts/activate/xxxx
The "money alone can't buy me any more happiness" line is somewhere around $60-$70k per year in the US. I don't agree with you that working is a choice at a mere 6 figures. Okay, maybe they can work one year and take five to ten years off unlike most people, but when their sabbatical is over they still have to work again. Or maybe it's easier than I thought to set up a $20k/yr passive income source. Maybe at 8 figures working for the next 20-40 years becomes optional, but even then that depends highly on your investments.
The population of players of video games is dominated by teenager males because the developers of video games have teenager males in mind.

Game developers have teenager males in mind because the original game developers _were_ teenager males.

Farmville and Wii Sports show that there is a vast market for video games aimed at women that is only now starting to be explored.
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Change their government.
If that actually happened, there would be much less incentive to find new cures and vaccines. Companies spend millions and millions of dollars on risk (research) for the promise of owning the formula for a time.
Well, for what is worth there is absolutely no due process for being denied entry to the US as a non-citizen. I would really not try to be uncooperative and I'll heavily try to look very very dumb (I guess it's some sort of lying). As a non-citizen you have no rights at the border - the guy can send you back for no reason or for the reason he's a dick or detain you without due process.
I'd feel ok telling the US borders I've got a special laptop just for them.
When it doesn't work internationally, you guys want to see what U.S. users see. When it doesn't work in the U.S., you guys what to see what U.S. users see. Maybe you just want to be a U.S. user?
Maybe. This, though, makes using hiking as an excuse even better as a cover for a spying operation. Because it is far-fetched, but not so far-fetched as to actually be impossible.

Thus, the point remains: read everything with huge doses of salt.

Especially in periods where a state is preparing for some new war, and its officials and its media have shown during the last two wars that they are willing to lie to the public to turn the war engine on.
No, you're right; I don't really have enough information to evaluate her skills, mainly because she didn't talk about what she learned. So, the language she used to describe technical things is the only way I could try to evaluate her technical knowledge.

And upon further review, it seems pretty likely that the class she took is this one: http://ladieslearningcodejan14.eventbrite.com/
"If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a “Work”)"

Second paragraph of the EULA. Unless my English is bad, that defines a "Work", capital W, to be the generated output of the software.
>Consumption taxes are regressive because they penalize the spenders. Bill Gates doesn't spend nearly as much money as he earns and as such pays a lower effective tax rate than someone who makes $30,000 a year and spends it all to support their family.

You are ignoring the part he put in about the stipend to cover tax on basic living expenses. With that included, the $30K spender will pay a much lower effective tax rate than Bill Gates.

Making a flat consumption tax progressive in practice is a very simple solved problem --- there might be other arguments against a flat consumption tax but it being regressive is not really one of them. A rebate or prebate that covers the tax up to a certain dollar amount per person solves it nicely.
Avery Swartz, a mentor at another table, works as a freelance website designer. “A lot of my clients are women. They don’t necessarily want to work with a man because they are afraid of the intimidation factor, the tech speak, the ‘jargon’. I want women to feel empowered, to know that they can take an active role.”

This is not a gender problem, it's pedagogical. My granddad would be intimidated to learn to code for those exact same reasons. I assume that having a name like Ladies Learning Code somewhat entices women to approach programming with the perspective that the pedagogy will be different. Playing on the notion that there's an alternative way to explain code to different gender might be a good marketing ploy, but I'm wondering if it's not also doing a disservice by perpetuating the myth.
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Redolf is a perfect solution when you are on the move and wan to listen to songs. This service provides you with a complete player, playlist shuffle and repeat supported and also lets you find songs online and play it with this player. This is how it looks like when you are playing the song online..
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That's just an informational note. It does not appear to carry any legal weight, but is just a tl;dr for what they think is an important clause.
All of that is terrible but it's not state sponsored genocide.
But this problem also affects comments - shouldn't we remove the downvote button for them?
What I find interesting is that "tech jargon" is listed as the number one reason these women feared getting involved in the technical side of there businesses. It is not as though men are born knowing this jargon; they spend both work and free time learning it as a part of their interests.

I know this is an old question, but how are we raising our young women to shy away from these things? Why is it acceptable to let young girls get away with not having to learn the small bits of technical language that will help them develop an interest and feel confidence with these subjects at a young age?
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Good article. If you want more, rather than reading Darwin, I suggest Dennett's Darwin's Dangerous Idea, which gives a broader, more modern view of the importance of evolution. Especially of "variation and selection", the core ideas of Darwin, and without a lot of frequently irrelevant, for the general reader, biological details.
I approve of people learning to be programmer professionally or as a hobby, I think it is a good thing.

But this repeated media phenomenon of people learning to code is something that really worry me -- it is like 1999 again.

It feels like when mainstream media writes that it is time to invest in the stock market; when e.g. Time write about how good it is going, it is so far over the hill that soon there will be a crash...
I only travel with encrypted data - both my laptop (linux with luks) and my phone (galaxy nexus) use full disk encryption.

Currently it seems that the worst that typically happens is that they take your hardware away from you. I don't care too much about that as all my data is securely backed up in the cloud (tarsnap). The value of the hardware is maybe something like 1000 euros alltogether. Given how unlikely it (currently) is that this happens this is an acceptable monetary loss for me.

The only thing that bothers with my setup is that encryption in Android 4 is absolutely braindead, as it forces you to use the same password for the encryption as for the screenlock, although the security requirements are completely different: You want to use a really strong password for the encryption, but for the screenlock a short password is sufficient. Hopefully that will be possible in either one of the next versions, or one of the inofficial forks.
You have just more or less described how the Chinese government operates.
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Maybe the next Request for Startups should be "By Women, For Women."

Seems there might be an opportunity to address the other half of the population, for their ideas and for the market.
"If we allow ..."

Who is this we and how is this authoritarian power exercised?

Interestingly enough, Age discrimination in the industry continues to be ignored while the (IMO) highly debatable notion of sex discrimination in the field is the subject of countless articles and debates. At least the Japanese are honest about the fact that they don't want programmers older than 30 years of age.

The barrier to entry in this field is low. Github, for example, doesn't ask you to check a box with your sex when you open an account. Nor do I care one bit when I [pull] a project if the author was a woman.
In the last few years there has been a big push in the movie industry to produce movies that are better in or more suited to the theatre than at home. 3D, Imax, etc. This is a direct response to piracy (and secondarily to people who wait to get the Blu-ray).

I think it's misleading to say that the spread of piracy is responsible for increased revenues, when the products themselves have been changing in a direction designed to generate more revenue in the cinema.
It's not about the border: http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
I had the same reaction. HN is already fairly strict with content. If an article has value, it will be on the front page.

Not to mention, most of the stuff I comment on, I want to engage in a decent discussion. If a post doesn't have a lot of comments, chances are the people here don't think it's all that important.
You're never going to get rid of the advantages of being born into the right family. Money is a relatively minor component; your major advantage was that your parents actually cared. If the Ministry of Equality had outlawed private tutors, your parents would have tutored you themselves, still giving you an "unfair" advantage over kids with less responsible parents.
that seems like something you can easily implement on your end, not the disqus end.
My take on the article is that she had a problem - she needed to better understand how things worked underneath the web software that is Wordpress. The meeting she wrote about helped her do that. It also raised (meta?) questions related to gender issues in the technology field.

As the married father of a four year old daughter, I do get the sense of comfort that is prevalent in ladies clubs. Watching my daughter play with boys and girls, just boys and then just girls I have observed a noticeable difference in the intersections between the children. I have also noticed the differences in my wife's book club (all women) when its her turn to host. It's not that they exclude me or the other guy's we are friends with but, the books they read are not to my taste so I would not be able to contribute anything meaningful to the discussion. Although I do still need read The Girl With THe Dragon Tattoo book on their recommendation.

So reading about an women's club where they go into the basics of coding is a good thing even if most of the members never become elite programmers - they will have learned a valuable skill in a comfortable setting. That is something they can take back to work and apply now: how to talk to the programmer in a meaningful way. For my daughters generation (not just girls) I am coming to suspect that a line will be drawn between those who can make use of the technology underneath the productivity tools their generation is raised on (web/office being the most prevalent today) and learning to code in anything is a step towards being successful in any field, not just web and software.
That is a mind-bogglingly stupid headline. Give me a break.
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I would like to add a twist to this. Bad guys do hog the limelight, in exceptional cases (Steve Jobs is an example). However, being a bad-ass doesn't guarantee success and you may not be able to look yourself in the eye. On the other hand, being nice doesn't guarantee success too. However, you can still walk around keeping your conscience high. It's not what works, it's what you want to be.
For you 1st point: because in most jurisdiction CP is absolutely forbidden and typically you are not protected if you don't proactively act to eradicate CP on your service with reasonable dilligence, whereas an upload of a film might or might not be problematic, given that it can be for private use or public distribution.

For the third point who are you kidding. Technically this is problematic. In the real world even representatives and people in grand jury exchange ripped films, most probably most judges do it too. So this is both technically a reason but an highly hypocritical one.
Really cool, though it makes WebKit very slow and unresponsive, despite the fact it's built with CSS3 & Javascript.
> The real disturbing part is this: Apple censors worse than China, and books tend to be provocative, a lot more than music or apps. They essentially want to act as a publisher too, but without taking any risks on the part of authors.

The rules may stipulate this but I don't think it's Apple's intent. If that was their intent they would never have control of the music and movie marketplace. Yes, certain books have been previously banned from apps but that was more about engineers not getting fired.

The app store model is still fairly new and Apple is still learning, even with books that existed 1,000 years ago.

I think they want to be open while protecting kids. That is a very fine line.
Funnily enough I fit your profile... 28, married, likely to have kids in relatively near future.

I think the perks are a lot like the thrill of buying something new. When your just entering the workforce they seem fantastic - almost unimaginable. When you've been surviving on ramen in your early twenties, free food at a tech company makes it sound like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Then when you initially get those perks, they usually are somewhat fun. Then as the 'new car smell wears off' you realize that the fundamentals of the job (like what you mentioned) are really 99% of what makes it good or bad.
> And so lately I've been more and more attracted to the idea of a flat tax where everyone pays the same tax rate on income above a minimum amount

That's not a flat tax. It is a progressive tax with two brackets. People who reach the second bracket pay a variable overall percentage that rises the more they make. I have never heard anyone make a convincing argument that this is better that a progressive tax with multiple brackets.

In fact, a progressive rate with multiple brackets is what you get if you apply a two bracket "flat" tax serially. What I mean by that is suppose that for each major department or function of the government you had a separate tax specifically to fund that department or function, with a two bracket structure. You get a separate tax bill for each of these in some specified order, with the taxes on each being deductible when computing the taxes for the ones that follow.

If you take this to a limit, imagining a separate small two bracket tax for every single thing the government does that needs money, and then replace the thousands of very small brackets with a smooth marginal tax rate curve, you'd get a monotonically increasing curve.
You seem to have just lifted your comment directly from this 2008 Business Insider article and changed "we" to "I." But you missed the "our" in the second paragraph.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2008-04-23/tech/30027421...
When I travel I just hide Grub and make it boot Windows 7 instantly. (I very rarely use Windows so there isn't anything installed except Chrome.)

I think you'd have better luck giving them something they expect instead of sabotaging your system.
Probably not coincidence: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3497285
Adventures of a linux noob: Useless lock-screen?
That's awesome. I really hope that is a true story.
I was hoping this was some kind of study with data and stuff, or at least multiple concrete examples.
So I'd like to agree with this, and it might even be true, but it's not a very convincing counterargument. Am I missing something, or is its counterargument to the study basically, "I disagree, because team-building and collaboration is important"?
I think part2 is far better suited for the typical knowledge level on HN:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/dsl/white-php-par...

BTW their demonstration code where they hit filemtime constant to see if a file is outdated is also a bad recommendation since there is OS overhead, especially exaggerated if you use NAS. Instead use time of day for an zero-load way to check if sometime is out of date, and only update during times of lower load.
Depends on what you define as "fabrication". Most scientists tweak things around to suit theories to look like facts, rather than deriving theories from facts.
Winning the Games Scientists Play is a nice book [1] delves into this issue in some detail.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Games-Scientists-Play-Sinderma...
Locally, the only solutions I found revolved around WAMP/XAMPP. It does well until you need to customize how your web server and modules work.

Aside from that, I've been experimenting with a VM of Archlinux running on Windows and connecting to the Arch web server. So far it's decent and better than WAMP/XAMPP, but it does require a bit more work.
Our baby just turned 10 months old, and it has been more amazing than I could ever have imagined. Something as simple as watching him learn to walk makes me marvel at how we all learned to use these awkward bodies.

The clearest effect for me, work-wise, is the fragmentation of time. I am a teacher during the day and a hacker on the side. I have always put in a couple extra hours a day at school, getting in half an hour early and leaving an hour after my official end of the day. Now I have to go in when school starts and leave when school ends, to share the baby load. My time at home is incredibly fragmented and busy, but also incredibly satisfying.

One unexpected plus is that I am more motivated to work efficiently than I ever have been in my life. I do a much better job of prioritizing my work energy than I ever have, because procrastinating, or focusing on too much low-hanging fruit instead of the schlep that needs to get done, means I would never finish anything.

My schedule has shifted a bit, and I keep adapting to the baby's changing schedule. For example, he wakes me up around 3:30-4:00 in the morning several days a week, needing about 10-60 minutes of soothing. Instead of going back to sleep, I try to stay up and get a couple really focused hours in. It's pretty awesome to get to spend some quiet middle-of-the-night time with your new baby, thinking about what your parents must have done for you, and then get some really focused work time in.

In short, be there for mom and baby, sleep when you can, work when you can, and focus on the most important things in each of those areas.

(By the way, you also get to make fun things like this happen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinlandrews/5773878417/)
I like the sentiment.

A tangent thought: I think the nice/jerk dichotomy/model is somewhat misleading. It's really compressing two separate axis into one. I think a better way to think about it is this: you have a kind-unkind axis and a dominant-weak axis; and "nice" tends to be in the kind/weak sector while "jerk" tends to be dominant/unkind sector. You still have two other sectors though, and I think that's really where you're going to find your heroes/villains.
To add my $0.02: it isn't "good" or "bad" that wins. Its skill, ability, responsibility, etc.. It just so happens that if you're an aggressive jerk, you're more inclined to aggressively oversell yourself, as opposed to the stereotypical "good guy" who tends to undersell but overdeliver or be more generally realistic.
Then make it simple like Estonia did.

http://www.slideshare.net/rahamin/estonian-taxes-and-tax-str...
Mid-upper 6 digits, maybe. There are lots of places where you'll have to strictly control your expenses to live on $100k/year.
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> It seems strange to think that to represent everybody's need the web needs to be developed by everybody.

It's not that strange. It's hard to represent the needs of people that you don't fully understand.

When it comes to an under-represented cultural/social/racial group, I simply don't understand the market, what they want, or what is important to them. I don't come up anything like the ideas that entrepreneurial members of that group will come up with, and even once I've heard the ideas, it often takes a radical shift in my thinking to see the advantages.

Women make up roughly 50% of the population, but many industries repeatedly fail to provide the products that women would prefer -- as you've almost accidentally elucidated above with your comment regarding video games.
I think every startup would love to have a talented designer to work on the logo (and also the site). Budget is always the biggest reason it doesn't happen as soon as it should.

I haven't gone down the road of using sites like http://dribbble.com and carbonmade.com to inquire about designers and their work. It seems worth the investment of time to get a good designer for the right budget. Design shops tend to be too expensive for startups with $150/hour average rate.