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First, I'd suggest that HN comments about legal issues sound so "amateurish" (on the scale where "professional" means "lawyer") because they have a heavy bias towards how we believe the law ought to work rather than how it does work. Abstraction, generalization, logic, and other CS problem-solving skills don't automatically provide an understanding of a field whose details often seem utterly contrary to rationality, without the addition of a pile of domain-specific training to understand the idiosyncrasies of that field. :)

Law sometimes seems to have the most in common with machine learning techniques like neural networks: start with something simple, evolve it in small steps based on potentially-flawed fitness functions, hope you don't get stuck in a local maximum, and in the end end you have a tangled mess that more or less gets the job done but which nobody can fully understand or explain. :)

More seriously, I think abstract thinking and similar methods do help in law and many other fields, but they complement knowledge of those fields, rather than replacing it. You still have to understand the details of any field you want to work in. However, abstract thinking helps greatly when attempting to apply that knowledge.

The article I originally linked to, https://rwxweb.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/teaching-algorithmic... , mentioned an applicant for a CS job who didn't know how to sort words because they'd only memorized an algorithm to sort numbers. The same issue would apply to a lawyer who doesn't know how to deal with a stolen meal because the examples they'd worked with only dealt with stolen cars, and (hypothetically/rhetorically/probably-untrue-in-reality) because the law doesn't specifically talk about stolen meals. (Feel free to provide a more relevant example; I don't have the expertise to supply a higher-quality analogy.) And on the flip side of that, just as a programmer ought to know some of the quirks that apply to strings but not numbers (such as dealing with locale-specific sorting), a lawyer also needs to know the specific quirks that apply to stolen meals versus stolen cars (such as "theft of services"); otherwise, in both cases, they'd wind up with faulty generalizations. So, experts in a field need both the abstract-thinking skills that apply to any field and the knowledge of the specific details of their chosen field.
Google really doesn't get that lots of people want a separation between their public and private spaces. I wouldn't be comfortable putting my files on anything connected to Google+ and I would be more than a little creeped out to see my files appear in a Google Search. Even it's 100% secure it's just not a good idea to blur the lines. I think part of the success of Dropbox is it becomes an extension of your private space in the form of an Explorer or Finder window.
I think the term "microaggression" gets overused

If anything, it's underused. I haven't heard it before now, and this is a subject matter that I'm particularly interested in.
I did not experience that at all and had 300+ cookie free searches today. Also, I doubt the UI team is a part of the search SRE - please don't muck up this article with irrelevant complaints about the same company.
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tonecluser responded to the wrong person, but you're both right - that was very bad advice. There are definite copyright problems here.

Even if they could win this in court (which they probably couldn't), it's certainly not so cut and dry that anyone would just say 'nope, no problems, carry on' and be done with it.
But what if you were a "handsome single man?" At least they're being accurate.
If you like Catan, try these games:

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/35677/le-havre <= economic engine building game set in a costal french port

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/43111/chaos-in-the-old-wo... <= Point scoring game where doing a faction specific objective gets yours further ahead. Very balanced, but via active player action (like refusing to trade with a guy at 8-9 points in Catan)

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders <= civ building game with small military elements

http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/34635/stone-age <= stone age building/civ game

Yspahan http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/22345/yspahan <= point scoring game about running shops in an "idealized" arabian bazar.
The 100meter is run in a straight line.

The 40yard is a better metric of the ability
to change directions and accelerate.
all that in 2 months?!?!? that's pretty impressive.
Another use case for git-annex (and hence git) would be host intrusion detection a-la aide, or tripwire.
You'd have to add metadata tracking to make it worthwhile though.
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I think you have a very good point, and a great technique. In general, it works great when reacting to things.

In this case though, you have a third party journalist complaining that a racy joke is a cultural set back to an entire group of people ("startup guys"). It's pretty far out there. The commenters are mostly agreeing with a generalization of the headline, something along the lines of "there is too much sexism in tech", which is probably true.
Had to use Google to find it again, wondering if someone delisted or hid it. http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/phyp1
The thread was a catastrophe from the beginning given the obvious troll nature of the entire posting, but the comments get very hateful towards women (ironically, while accusing feminists of being "man-haters"), mocking gender neutral replacement words and the usual reddit belittlement of rape. There are some in the thread that point out that reddit loves to hate feminism and some with sense enough to point out that the post wasn't even about feminism.

I've written more than I might like about an otherwise useless reddit thread, but it's better than you having to read it much. Since I read it this morning the votes and placement have adjusted that it's not as bad, but it still makes me cringe.
> It is almost impossible for an Australian business to easily accept credit card payments in USD.

PayPal works just fine for that, although it's not so pleasant to integrate and manage.
It may be that they can't back out of their deal. Let's not be too quick to burn them in effigy.
Just because the guy said some things that weren't sexist, doesn't make the sexist comments less bad.
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The breakdown for start up/small business isn't great. We have less than 25 people but the company has been around for 17 years.
I think this is a bit of a strawman-- How does somebody who's not already well known raise money for their first video game, comedy show or album with the traditional media industry?

If big artists are able to cut their ties to Big Content using crowdfunding, that will cost them a lot more money than if independent artists who they never would have signed anyway does. If the publishers lose profitability, and there's less revenue being extracted from the content industry by corporate middlemen, that can only improve the ecosystem for the little guys.
It wouldn't get to the top of hacker news, because:

1) Nobody does that;
2) It's not the tip of a bigger iceberg.

Better equivalents:

A) John being introduced at a PTA meeting in a way that draws attention to stereotypes of males as inept and uninvolved in child rearing.

B) Jamal being introduced at a business meeting in a way that awkwardly draws attention to his white girlfriend.

C) Amir being introduced at a social gathering in a way that draws attention to terrorist Middle Easterners.

At best this is a weird social faux-pas.
Who, the jurors? It's unlikely any juror on this case has been a juror before in a patent case.
I am considering System76, ZaReason.

Here's a System76 review:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343798

A friend says:
Heard great things about system76 and I like the fact they offer matte screen options over the usual shiny pieces. I am not a fan of core and intel gma in general. Upper echelon corei7 do very well though because of
all the cache they pack in there. Have you considered something like Lenovo x120? Though not a big performer, would likely get you buy and supports 1080p resolution (even on 12" models). I really dont like the resolutions on system76 systems I see (768 vertical really does affect your view space). I am currently looking at e450 models from Lenovo (130e), Asus, Dell (the only one that bundles w/ Ubuntu out of the factory), or Acer (preferred).

Again, after my experiences with Asus, I'm hesitating to buy from anyone who will ignore any problems on Linux using the excuse that it is Linux. It needs to have all driver software in the Linux tree or it didn't happen. :-)
I really hope they come through with it. It sounds like such a clever model.

// Although some of the dates seem to be slipping (ie - the 2011 Canberra roll-out)
Is there anyone who actually believes you will be able to print a whole car?
This is useless for my area 22202 Arlington VA. You basically mark all areas with highrises as red, and areas with single track housing as green. Sorry, if there is a row of 22 story building on one block and 3 blocks away is single family dwellings of course there is going to be more crimes where there is 30x the number of people.

http://www.trulia.com/local/#crimes/washington-dc

PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ArlingtonTODimage3.jpg High density, mixed use development is often concentrated within 1/4 to 1/2 mile from the County's Metrorail rapid transit stations, such as in Rosslyn, Courthouse, and Clarendon (shown in red from upper left to lower right). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_County,_Virginia
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The skill of learning how pieces fit together in a project you've never touched is one of the most valuable skills in a programmer. Everyone can learn it, it just takes a lot of practice reading code. It also helps if you're strongly familiar the libraries/framework the code was built on as well.
I'm guessing that the "early spike" can't reach more than 20% of their total audience. So if they don't smash the Kickstarter record and reach 5 million I'll be amazed. Even 10 million is completely reasonable.
And the second part reiterates the sexist idea that women can't be happy unless they're married. That's hardly a straw man. If we want more women creating startups, it's exactly the kind of sexism that should be eliminated.
I'm sure Deutsche Bank were less enamoured with it.

http://www.tt-orchestra.de/images/logo_deutschebank.png
All but the most blatant examples of sexism (and racism -- "food stamp President" anyone?) are like this. At worst they seem insensitive, at least in isolation. That's why it's so easy to talk about getting a thicker skin, etc.

I know this will seem like I'm dismissing you, but looking at your profile I see you're a current student at RIT.

There is a backdrop here and it's hard to see from the other side of the country. Heck, it's hard to see right here in Silicon Valley unless you're in the middle of it and sensitive to it.

Many people are the former, but not the latter.

You might accuse me of using weasel words -- "many people," "most instances," etc. -- and I won't blame you.

What I can say, though, is that there's a lot between the lines here. Anyone who spends time in Silicon Valley and isn't completely unaware sees it and knows it.

See my top-level comment on this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3573674
> How can you teach a seven year old to program? Kids of that age are hardly learning to add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers.

Leaving aside the various educational bugs that lead to that situation...

For one thing, the earliest concepts of programming don't depend on math; that comes later. Think about something like LOGO here: the simplest bits just involve giving instructions to a computer like "go forward" and "turn left". More complex instructions like those used in fractal snowflakes represent a natural progression, and suggest the basics of functions and repetition. Similarly, think about LEGO robots: "go forward until you hit something, then back up and turn". You don't have to understand advanced math to implement that.

At some point around that age, I came across a simplistic algorithm in a geology book for identifying rocks, which provided a series of questions that amounted to a flowchart: does it split into layers, what color of streak does it leave if you rub it on glass, etc. I turned that algorithm into a simplistic pile of C, using printf to print questions, getch or similar to prompt for answers, and if/else to figure out what to do next. I had no concept of modularity or code reuse, open-coded the prompting logic for every question, and nested the conditionals to an absurd depth, but it worked, and triumphantly printed the kind of rock you had. :)
Ask HN: Does YC Fund Non US StartUps?
I was wondering if YC accepts and funds start-up teams from outside the US (UK, Ireland, India, etc)?

If so, do the founders get temporary work visas or use their passports to stay in the US during YC?
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It was a statutory requirement, and probably far more relevant in years before 1991.
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Sex, politics and religion do not belong in a professional environment. You are there to work, save the other stuff for after hours.
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Some of these comments baffle me.

Look, it doesn't matter what someone said before or after they sexualized someone in a professional context. Here's why: human beings are smart. They know that things people say matter. Thus, if you are commenting on someone's appearance or sexiness in a professional context, that must matter to you.

Why is that important? It serves to undermine the person it's said about. Rather than being judged on their work, or their connections, or what not - they are now being judged for their appearance. And that steals credibility they may have had in other, legitimate arenas.

It says, I like you because you're attractive, not because you deserve it.

("Oh, Nancy's not a good lawyer - everyone just thinks she's pretty." "Well Bob got that promotion because he's so good-looking. He didn't really deserve it." Etc.)

And yes, in some contexts, we expect to be more casual and colloquial. But if you're in a professional setting, unprofessional remarks do insidious harm to the subject.
Villas can be super affordable when you're travelling with large groups. I'm the CTO of a startup that provides these sort of vacations. It's pretty common that the per person rate works out to much less than a hotel would be and you get the added bonus of an entire house!

Here are a couple of examples:

Sleeps 24 - $4,501/week - http://demeure.com/properties/villa-turquesa--2

Sleeps 13 - $4,569/week - http://demeure.com/properties/casa-fermentini
I'm about to use Strip for an upcoming project due to the wonderful things I've heard about it on HN. I'm looking forward to giving it a go!
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how can you think this is appropriate in any professional setting?
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Compatibility with Google culture is something that the interviewers are trained to look for. You can't do an interview until you've worked at Google for more than 6 months, for this reason.

I think the whole hiring committee removes a lot of biases that people may have and the end result, in my opinion, is a workplace that's a lot more diverse than any other I've been at.
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Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! I work at KAYAK so I'll make sure this gets to the right people. I don't work on mobile but usually it gets QA'd on a plethora of devices but maybe they didn't hit your corner case somehow. If you'd like to give a bit more information such as specific device names or other stuff, you can reply here or just post feedback at:

http://www.kayak.com/feedback/form

All feedback always gets read and routed and engineers quite often reply to feedback from their area.
I get junk mail to a PO Box and two street addresses. Most of our junk mail is my SO's name, some of it's in mine. When I subscribe to a magazine, I sometimes use a different middle initial, which tells me who sells my address. AFAIK, none of them have our phone numbers.

How does this work for varying names in the household and multiple addresses?

We receive 8 inches of junk mail every two weeks, mostly catalogs and CC offers, so can't wait to try this once I know how I can use it for our situation.
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If an employer were to take anything away from this survey, I'd say it should be the last question. Way too often have I been interviewed by monotonous and unorganized people who misrepresent an otherwise great position.

Please. When performing interviews, try and get people who both like what they're doing and are organized.
I'm sick of hearing that we need to teach kids to code. No, we don't. This idea comes from other coders who seem to be living in a bubble. It's important that we teach kids to be computer literate but coding is not an essential skill. Do we need to teach all children to be doctors? I mean, we all have a body that needs to be taken care of, right? Do we need to teach all children how to assemble an automobile engine? No, driving the car and being able to check the oil or change a flat will suffice.

Programming just isn't for everyone and no matter how often or loudly you scream that it is that doesn't make it so. Coding is hard and people think its boring. They won't persue it any further than they would a sport their parent puts them in that they dont like. There are things that all children should learn like reading, writing, and math but you wouldn't say all kids need to be trained in writing like a writer would or that mandatory math needs to incorporate the kind of stuff the guy from A Beautiful Mind was doing, right?

In the same way that we all need to know how to read, write, and do basic arithmetic, that's how we need to teach kids to code. Sketch the broad strokes of how a computer works. Give definitions of hardware and software and teach them how they interact with each other. Introduce them to the concept of binary data and how all code is just one's and zeros. After that it should just be up to the child to decide if they are fascinated enough to learn to code. Even if there is a shortage of software engineers it doesn't matter. Teaching kids to code young won't help them pursue it any further if they aren't interested. No one taught programming in schools years ago but I love it. I became fascinated with the idea that I could make the computer do anything I wanted and there are a lot more like me that did just fine without being taught it in schools. That's how any profession is, really. Pilots don't become pilots because they took an aeronautical engineering class, they do it because when they're little kids they see a plane in the sky and say "wow, I want to fly when I grow up". Same with programming. Somewhere, a kid who never has or will take a mandatory programming course before college is sitting at the computer, browsing Facebook and thinking "wow, I want to make my own websites/games/other software when I grow up".
I don't think "discoverability" is meaningful.

Nobody speaks of restaurant discoverability or beer discoverability or shoe discoverability. That's because nobody would lend the money for a shoe factory, brewery equipment, or a restaurant build-out without seeing a plan for reaching the prospective customers and making them aware of the product. For some reason, people think mobile app business plans don't need this.

That myth may be created by the lucky few who turn out not to need it. They got "discovered" like a starlet at a soda fountain. The app market managers decided to feature that app, or a widely read blogger stumbled upon it. But planning on that is like planning on winning the capital for your next app with a lottery ticket.

If your business plan can't support end-user marketing, you may need to decide you are not writing your app with financial goals in mind, or you need a solid alternative marketing plan and put the effort in to executing that with the same dedication you put in to writing the app.

Tl;dr: Mobile app markets are not a way to get around the cost and effort of properly launching a product.
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XSS flaws like: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/skype_for_iphone_con...
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Check out the very awesome Runestone Wisp for a similar idea: https://runestonewisp.appspot.com/

It presents various "arcane runestones" like "look ahead" and "look left", which send out "magic" over "threads of silk" to power other runes like "walk forward" and "turn left". The harder puzzles introduce AND and OR gates, and later on something similar to flip-flops to store "magic" and send it out later.
A promising direction to go would be to generate gradients using the polygons instead of colors directly and use Poisson blending [1,2] with gradient mixing [e.g. 3] to generate the final image from that. It would lead to many fewer noticeable artifacts at a similar compression ratio.

But I should point out that, while a fun hack, this is not really a viable compression method in practice.

[1] Original paper: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=703822277846437904...

[2] Some easier-to-understand slides about it: http://www.cs.unc.edu/~lazebnik/research/fall08/jia_pan.pdf

[3] Someone's project implementing it: http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/csci1950-g/results/proj2/edw...
I know they have funded Canadians, though I cannot speak to the details of how they legally remain in the US (or even if they all do) during and after the program.
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Big takeaway seems to be that Windows Phone is taking over BB as the third ecosystem.
I sent feedback via the form. Thanks for the link.

My uneducated guess is that the autocomplete box scrolling code doesn't handle the sub-4.3" screen resolutions. Devs would be more likely to prefer top of the line phones.