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Maybe it's because most managers who set up offices don't read hacker news and progeammer blots. And the ones that do started at tiny scrappy companies that can't afford more than one room. For the my part, I worked somewhere that had a manager bragging about moving to another "more collaborative" office layout, with only partial non-wall separation for the dozens of staff, that coincidentally was quite a bargain.
To me, HN is as much as about the community here as it is with the kind of news I get. Sometimes, I get more value from the discussions on HN than a few articles on the front-page put together. We have some amazing people here.

THAT - is very very hard to reproduce.
I think the underlying message is that only male geeks would ever go to a hackathon.
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Man, the last time I read about these was back during the original trials when it was still pretty finicky. Feeling seriously tempted now.
Well said. I've used the second pattern you described as well. If I find myself in a situation where I'm tempted to treat the message as mutable, it usually indicates I've hit the point where I need to (potentially) use some sort of transformation pipeline, and the steps in that transformation should ideally be encapsulated inside a component and not publicly exposed on the bus itself.
That, and the perspective as he runs on the "takeoff" is completely out of whack.
Nice hack, Arshad! I remember you when you were still a student selling naps :)
these guys put a godhead on their website apologizing for this ... if you are reading, sqoot, i would advise you actually hire a PR firm experienced in these matters. they'll probably tell you to just go silent for awhile. that would be "good advice"
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Hey folks,

I'd be interested to hear which shop-builder platforms that you've tried like Shopify, BigCartel, Goodsie etc. I'm interested in experiences good and bad.

Anyone look at the options and choose to build their own custom store instead?

Any new names I've not heard of would be great too!
I'm not sure, but I believe sale of this kind of thing must be regulated by authorities. I mean, plug electrodes to your head? Sure, looks legit.
I had a good experience with a 4670, myself. Better, actually, than with the proprietary driver.
A VPS is just a single box, while AWS is designed for scalability (they launch a load balancer for you and everything). It's basically the same as manually configuring EC2, EBS, ELB and AutoScaling to work together, except that the deployment is automatic and you can use Git. It does cost quite a bit more though. It might make sense for a company that needs to scale, but I think I'm going to stick with my VPS provider for my own sites.
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I think I'll let others do the epidemiological study on the long terms effects of this for me. In the mean time, I'll stick with good sleep, good food, and good exercise.

Don't get me wrong. I would love this to work flawlessly. I'm just afraid it may not.
I like how they link to the gizmodo article to reference the benefits, when in fact the article says its stupid to DIY.
Looking past the "women servants" message there's the implication that "developers are men, and we'll have women there to serve them beer."

DO you think a female developer would feel welcomed by that message?

The servants bit is a joke, the unspoken assumption that devs are men is the insidious poison.
HVAC can ruin private offices too! Consider the common case where 5 Private offices share HVAC, but some have windows, and some face west, some south. Guarantee that everyone is burning or freezing. But hey, you save $30/month per person on AC, so it's a bargain!
Ok, now we've gotten to the point where we at least agree on the relevant numbers. And now I see what you're saying regarding inequality: that prior to redistribution, inequality is more or less universal. To use your phrase, well, duh. Remember that the point of my original comment was that Europe's more progressive tax structure addresses the problem of income inequality, where the less progressive tax structure of the US does not. You responded by saying the US tax structure is more progressive. Then you cited an article which explicitly argues my point, that other nations more effectively address income inequality with progressive taxation than does the US.

And, I've never said that Europe has a fairer tax policy.

You said (and repeated again here) that the US has a more progressive tax system, that the wealthy pay a greater share of taxes here than almost anywhere else in the world. I took that to be a criticism, that you believe progressive taxation is unfair. If so, then a country like Germany (which according to you puts less of a tax burden on the wealthy) is fairer overall than the US. I understand that you're trying to avoid saying they're fairer, but that's the inescapable conclusion of your argument that US taxes are more progressive.

[Y]ou didn't bother to look for the second number, the tax revenue share.

I didn't bother to look for it because it was already there in your source and I assumed it was a pretty solid number, since it's based on tax records. Judging the share of income seems a much more likely source of error since it requires more estimation.

Now you've got me wondering how accurate that tax number is, too. Your source put the share of taxes at 45.1% in the mid-2000s. Yet the same source puts the 2009 number at 70%. Do you really believe that the share almost doubled in four years? It's a lot more likely that you're misinterpreting the numbers, or the source is simply wrong. This chart from the conservative Heritage Foundation is more consistent: http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/top10-percent-income... .

I found a reference for German taxes that puts their top 10%'s share at 60% in 2005 (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=germany+top+1...). The same source indicates that the top 10% in Germany earned 33% of the gross income, 29% net.

So taking 60%/33% you get a ratio of 1.82, significantly higher than your US value of 1.63. Oops indeed.
US Politics has considerable few dictatorial monarchs who can literally silence any opposition, don't have to answer to the general public and don't have to care if the general public is starving to death.
After food, shelter and possibly respect from one's tribe, women are probably next on the hierarchy of needs for most men. Interestingly, even women tend to prefer looking at beautiful female forms to beautiful male forms.

This isn't the kind of language that should be used by an event trying to attract female participants, but on the other hand I don't think many men would object to being listed as a "perk" at an event for elementary school teachers, flight attendants or some other female-dominated field. There certainly wouldn't have been a lynch-mob reaction as there was in this case.

The real world is asymmetric... and that holds for every human culture.
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No, but it certainly looks interesting. According to the collective intelligence that is the internets current tDCS products cost upwards of $600, so this might be an interesting alternative.
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Actually that's the funny part, this "joke" was in no way belittling women, it's idolizing them. It was made at the expense of the stereotypical male geek to whom women are otherwise inaccessible. Somehow it was appropriated as being about the female attendees.
I think this is confusing two very different things. You are "entitled" to have this opinion in that (a) you shouldn't be locked in prison for stating this opinion and (b) I am not allowed to beat you up for having this opinion. However, that opinion is wrong. You should stop having it, and if you express it at work you will and should be fired.

So one is only allowed to have the "right" opinions?

And who gets to judge that? If it's the majority, then what if a poll showed that most Americans are against, say, abortion or gay rights? (Or most of Utah residents, at a local level). If it's just some minority with power (the government, the PC police, etc), why should they get to say it instead of the majority?

So, you're walking a very fine line here. He is entitled to think whatever, include slavery or the annihilation of mankind, and people should not only not put him in prison for it, but not even fire him for it.

They can disagree all they want with him for it, though. Now, if he tries to put his slavery ideals to practice, that's a totally different matter.

I think this is exactly analogous to this case. Sqoot could have held a successful hackathon if they didn't display their sexism in their ad copy, but the root problem is the sexism, not the ad copy. That's why the apology rubs people the wrong way.

Case in point. I am from a different country, and we would probably laugh at the very idea of the apology, not on the "sexism".

Why something that's ok for, say, a casino or a sports bar (female waitresses) is bad for a hackathon? Because a coding marathon should be for both sexes? Well, aren't casinos for both sexes too? How come they get to have women waitresses?
Also, who said the organizers of this PARTICULAR hackathon want it to be?

Is it that they SHOULD want it to be? Is the message that one cannot organize an event the way he likes it, provided he doesn't do anything illegal?
Yes this is the common theme of outsourcing to other cultures, it has to do with cultural norms and everyday knowledge that we take for granted, the same thing would happen if you took the best American developers and assembled a team and then outsourced them to an Indian company to build software for an Indian market. You in the end have to write the software twice to get it developed offshore, once in a sudocode of diagrams and detailed functional specs and the second time in code by the outsourced team. The end result is that it saves very little and increase the risk of failure. The take away is that it is a bad bet unless you know what you are doing and are doing at a very large scale, for the majority of US companies it is not a good idea. Many are starting to realize this and bringing projects home, which is why I find this article to be suspect.
Sorry, but what exactly is sexist about trying to get laid? Not trolling, or sarcastic. It honestly seemed like an event that tried to combine the things that a certain demographic of people like to do into one event. I don't see how different this is from a Sushi buffet-dubstep-LAN event.

If it was a networking conference for high-powered female C*Os and they were advertising that the waiter's were all young buff men I wouldn't get up in arms.

Interesting story: I went for dinner out with a friend (both males) and all the girls (we saw only women waitresses their) were ~20ish and in small black dresses. Our waitress was one of these. However, our food and drinks were brought to us by men that looked like tax accounts. Then we spotted a male waiter, he was serving a table of young women... and he was built (biceps with a diameter of a strip of bacon), tanned, and coifed, but their food was brought but those same tax accounts. That's not sexism, but sex appeal in marketting and was used gender neutrally, and it seemed the ratio of male vs female servers was reflective of the patrons.
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yeah, thats what i thought. This is not looking trustworthy at all. It could be a nice idea to use something like this. After all, we are stimulating ourselves in every possible way. Be it drugs or other techniques. But i think this website should spend a whole lot of time expaining why this is so awesome and useful and not scary. Darpa using it does not make me feel comfortable at all.
I've been planning on making this exact thing myself. This one looks even better than what I was thinking though. The only thing it's missing is the ability to choose which timezones you want to see.
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There are a couple forces at work here.

First, the tech/hacker world tends to be male-dominated, which creates a male-oriented culture, which reciprocally draws more men, and the cycle continues. We want to break that cycle, and a good way to do that is to snap at the heels of people (like Sqoot) who are slow to get with the program. Overall, this sort of admonishment improves the community. I'm glad it's happening.

Second, anyone who has first-hand seen or experienced being subjected to this type of offensive comments will almost certainly have an emotional interest in the matter. It feels pretty good to watch someone burn at the stake, especially when day in and day out you watch others get away with making similar comments. Just scroll through the comments on Sqoot's apology and you'll find some pretty visceral remarks.

The problem is, it may feel good but it doesn't help. Here's why: As blatantly offensive as the original comment was, it wasn't written with the intent of bashing women -- it was just plain insensitive. Grossly insensitive and very hurtful? Yes. But there's an important difference between being insensitive and being malicious.

Why does it matter? Because if you truly have the goal of improving the community, insensitive/ignorant behavior needs to be met with education. Otherwise, all we get is an "Us vs. Them" mentality, which leads me to the third force at work here: defensiveness.

Sqoot's initial apology, along with many of the comments on this new one, reek of defensiveness. It's easy to see why: those people are most likely just as oblivious as Sqoot, and they see themselves in Sqoot's behavior. Don't alienate those people and don't put them on the defensive by being overly harsh on Sqoot. That pushes people away from the conversation -- the very people who most need to be educated.

There needs to be a clear distinction between Sqoot's words (not tolerated) and Sqoot's mistake (mistakes must be tolerated).
I don't think the quality of their writing is the problem. Their "apology" comes across as the same kind of apology a child gives when their parent forces them to apologise for something, but they don't really think what they did was wrong. But hey, nobody can complain anymore because they apologised, right?
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That is a great example and happens all the time. This can be handled decently well by something like Skype, or just using code reviews and design reviews like professional engineers we claim to be.
If they fully support 3D, CL and all features, this could perfectly mean their closed source drivers are phased out by these new open ones.
women certainly arent picking up men at hackathons

(because all programmers are big fat neckbeards and brogrammers are gigantic hunks of meat)

(that is the joke you see)
People do realize that this is an apology right? You do realize that they did this twice right?

Why in the world can't be just accept it and move on. It literally boggles the mind that people ARE STILL OFFENDED after an apology.

Get over it! Geez...
It sure used to be true. Back when Europeans didn't know what was out there...
I wasn't knocking you at all- sorry if it seemed that way! I was merely saying it's unfortunate that the discussion is going to focus too much on what made you think of this post (this particularly hot-button issue around women in tech), instead of the post itself, in which you included some really useful and practical advice for everyone. Proper apologies to win customer loyalty is a huge and important idea.
I also own a Legend, and it's indeed a very solid phone. I dropped it on concrete 3 times and only have a few 1mm scratches on it. I've also spilled a whole glass of water over it, and I just shut it down immediately and used it the next day without a problem.

When I first held an iPhone 4, I was completely unimpressed by how it feels. It felt like I'm holding a glass in my hand, and I'd better not drop it or it will smash into many pieces. The Legend feels a whole lot better in hand and more solid. Even the LG Optimus Black feels more solid, and it's made out of plastic. But I'm hoping more manufacturers will start using metal or some very solid material in their phones, because it will be hard for me to use something that feels significantly weaker and cheap.

That being said, the Legend is the worst HTC phone from that period, software wise. It's one of the most locked down phones ever. It took me like 7 hours to get to root it and install a custom ROM on it, because I had to jump over a ton of hoops to be able to do it and the process was very complicated. It only took about an hour to root and put a custom ROM on an LG Optimus One, considering these both times are the first time I've ever rooted a phone.
I read into this that you have no idea where you're going to. You're running this race and suddenly you're asking yourself why you are running at all.

This is going to sound cliché, but honestly I think it's your age. I remember at your age calling a friend once and telling him how great my life should be - I was wealthy, single, living in foreign lands, doing the best job, known in my industry, yet totally lonely. I felt guilty too about everything I had.

Sometime, I don't know when exactly, I just realised, you really have no control over your life. What happens happens, there is no reason for your life or mine so don't search for one.

When you get that, you realise that everyone is is in the same boat. Some people get different results by chance. It helps that you have skills, but don't try and run the race, if actually you don't feel like running it. Who really cares who wins anyway?

I'll tell you the thing that puts me straight: I think of Mark Zuckerberg. he has everything yet, could he really just go back-packing in India like others his age? Could he just decide to pack up and move to Paris for the kicks? The point I want to make is that success has it's limitations, it's responsabilities too.

If it's going to happen to you it will, but if it doesn't well that's just fine too.
I see this mentioned a lot - what is broken in the commercial real estate game?

Looking at one of the REITs I own shares in, they claim a commercial vacancy rate of 14% which isn't going to give a lot of room for negotiation.

But if you're looking for a loft/open space, you can fill it with partitions that you can buy or rent. It isn't a perfect office, but, easy to construct with minimal delay in getting to the new space.
Ultrabooks are MacBookAir-like laptops. Technically the term is an Intel trademark, but it's a widely-accepted synonym for "very thin and light laptop with extra battery life and no optical-disc bay".

As soon as they start to get over the 11-to-13'' form factor (and lower in price), they're going to replace the current generation of work laptops. They'll get thinner and thinner; as batteries and bluetooth-like technologies improve, sooner or later they'll even lose USB ports, and you'll be left with a device that is literally a screen and a keyboard. Some models will have a detachable tablet screen, no doubt, but the heavy lifting will still be done with a real keyboard.
There is no default in C, beyond stdio. The C specification makes no reference to any I/O beyond stdio.

The author was being unfair to C. Use epoll or, better yet, libuv. libuv is a simple-to-use library.
API serves as a way to file lawsuit. It is humans who process them. This court deals with standard claims like businesses not paying for the service/goods but also consumers not paying their bills.

API is useful for companies like mobile operators or utility providers who have thousands of subscribers who do not pay.

1.6M payment orders, 21 months, 200 staff = ~17 cases per day per person (no holidays and vacations). Sounds doable given it is likely to be batches of claims as described above.
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Sqoot Goes Topless
Just in case you thought this was a one-off incident..
Any ideas, in particular?
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See "I don't have a Facebook or Twitter account."
I suppose you like to spend a lot of time reading eh?

I'd say newspapers would be a good source. New York Times. CNN. BBC. Economist. Inc. Entrepreneur.

Hm... maybe I should provide contents more for people like you :D
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As someone who primarily uses Google Reader (RSS feeds include Gothamist), his news gathering process is interesting:

Jake starts with:

Facebook
Twitter
Google+
Flickr
Stellar

Then he goes to RSS, organized by:

Aggregators (Techmeme/Mediagazer)
Local Competing Sources (NYTimes local blog, etc)
National News (NYTimes, etc)

In my own experience, Twitter is good for quick news scanning, whereas RSS is great for reading "everything".
This is reminiscent of the time-machine that Kip orders off the internet in Napoleon Dynamite. Pass.
This wasn't a language issue.
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They totally don't objectify women at all, never ever.
You're right... I'm trying to figure out how this can be useful. I used it at a recent Meetup to divide people into committees, and that worked well. But yeah, the hunt for more use cases is on.
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Hey HN, I built this because practically every project involves spending a day dealing with a contact form. That development time is a total waste. Let Contact Formify handle that work for you, and for free if its for personal or low-volume business use.
Thanks for pointing that out, it used to work, think maybe Thomas introduced a bug when he totally reimplemented it last week :)
Those might even be better, since this appears to need a wall near the corner for the lasers to bounce off in order to function correctly.
Kids don't pretend to have superpowers anymore. They have apps, instead.
You miss the point. People tend to write in extremes (e.g. "I'm so hungry, I could literally eat a horse"). No one in their right minds believes he has no other choice but to behave illegally but he is just highlighting how much of a pain it is to behave legally. It is more of a business issue than a legal/ethical one. Your business model sucks when your most rabid fans are struggling to find ways to give their money to you.

ps. given this is the internet, I do somewhat have to concede that quite a significant number of people may not be in their "right minds"
Thanks, Dhimes. I'll update the language to be more accurate. How embarrassing! - Arshad
I'm not sure I have THAT much time :)
I cannot fathom shopping for an electrical device to hook up to my brain, primarily on the basis of price.
I built an iPhone as a weekend project a year or so ago. http://www.timesliderapp.com (free). In a similar vein to this one... the few people who've downloaded it seem to like it :)
Totally agree with you. You can customize the displayed cities on the iPhone/iPad version, and that'll be on the "desktop" version RSN.
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So from what I could read (it's kind of hard to get to the original studies from their main site) the "multiple clinical studies" means 3 studies. One, involving navigating a computer generated city, had six participants. Which is pretty preliminary.

There were two other studies that did have a fair number of participants (one was darpa funded, the other us army), but both those studies had to do with being able to pick out and assess threats quickly. There is a strong visual/spatial component to all of the studies. Which seems a good deal more specific than the generalized learning the site seems to be pushing.

Further studies may find that there is something to this beyond the spatial realm, but I'd say the site is pretty misleadingly overselling the data.
There is a very real possibility that the wing was pulled by a cable. The kite adapted is actually one of those ones you usually pull behind a boat and which glides you up into the air.