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I really dig the design. It looks good, but you should put some copy on the "pull down" that explains why I should be using your product, or what I'd be missing out on if I weren't.

In my opinion "To find one's place in this world
often it's necessary to create it." isn't very good headline text, it should be below in a blockquote or something. Put something in the headline that helps me understand what your product does, as well as jumps out and smacks me in the face.

Other than that though, great job! Signing up for beta right now. Good luck with it guys!
I almost immigrated to Iceland when I was young, somewhere around 19, I was living out in New Orleans and looking for something else. I ended up coming back home to Florida but a buddy and I where literally hours away from going when we decided to take a different path. I always thought about what would be if I had, as it was the only time I thought about tying to become a citizen of a different nation, with what Iceland has been doing with their government since the economic collapse I have thought about it more and more. I really like the way they are heading and think it will be a great place to live with all the changes they are making. If I where a younger man making the same decision now, I probably would have made the trip as I think there efforts to clean up their government and financial institutions will reward them for years to come.
> it is not a accepted selling point of professionals. Rather, it will get you in serious trouble in many professional environments.

Not to defend Sqoot at all, but... um... booth babes? Every large trade show has them. They are there specifically to excite the hormones of the male professionals in attendance. Their use is as sexist as it is effective.

Had Sqoot quietly hired a bunch of models to serve beer to the attendants, and had they had the sense not to publicly high-five themselves for doing so, there would have been no controversy. The reason Sqoot landed in the soup is because they wore their sexism on their sleeves, and handled their communications like obnoxious rubes rather than responsible business owners. Their crime was lack of finesse.
Personally I think that it's not a "free tool" if you charge for it, even at 50 or 500 emails a month, to me it's a paid service with a "free tier".

For example I would never generalise Amazon AWS as "free hosting".
I was never really aware of the reason Wozniak left Apple, I figured it was because Jobs was mostly in it for the money and their relationship inevitably went downhill. I remember an interview with Wozniak, something I'll always remember, it went something like this: "I went to Steve and showed him this awesome new system I had been playing with, 'Isn't this awesome?!', I said and he replied 'Holy crap, we could make so much money off of this!', 'I suppose you're right'".

Edit: bad grammar.
You can recompile most Linux apps to work on an Android phone now. Anything requiring graphics will require a complete rework, though, because Android doesn't have X.
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Here's another interesting case-study in exploiting a bad RNG. It's from 1999 and shows how the authors were able to exploit the weak RNG at planetpoker.com to predict the sequences output by their card-shuffling algorithm.

http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph...
The point I'm trying to make is that thinking of hiring women staff as a "perk" is sexist and unprofessional, and you shouldn't do it. It assumes that everyone attending is a straight guy, and it also assumes that the straight guys that attend want to be included in your sexual fantasies.

As to the larger society, yes, "Bud Girls", booth babes, GoDaddy ads, and Hooters are all sexist.
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> I think that's irrelevant.

Irrelevant? It's my entire proposition in no absolute terms. Of course everyone is stupid and anyone with a modicum of critical thinking skills can understand this. My point was that it is often difficult to accept criticism because we're pressured to believe we need to be the best or at least better than everyone else we see ourselves competing against. Criticism then seems like a personal attack and makes it difficult to accept since it can lower your perceived position amongst your peers.

Humility is the easiest solution I put forth. Once we realize just how stupid we are we can look at criticism as a chance to learn something and improve ourselves. And maybe when we give some criticism we'll try to be more thoughtful and be constructive.
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The most outragous thing is not the cache/session error, but the fact that they've spent over 170 million USD on a broken system that can't even handle a couple of hundred thousands of users a day.
People getting upset about this type of thing is a sign to me that emancipation still has a long way to go. Nobody would have complained if the girls in a Sex and the City movie would have gone 'fishing for some men'.
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Hi kapkapkap, the paid plans would be a few dollars a month for greater volumes. I'm not sure what the cost will be yet because I don't know my costs before I get more usage, but it won't be expensive.
> 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?

I think it has a lot to do with expectations. People held the hackaton to a higher standard than, for example, a strip club, and therefore they are a lot more vocal about it when the organizers fail to live up to what was expected of them.

> 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?

They have all the rights in the world to organize a hackathon the way they want it, but that also means that the general public has all the rights in the world to dislike it, i.e be outraged.
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What exactly is sexism? Behaving as sexes DO exist, and, for example, men can like the look of certain females? Well, sexes DO exist, and men do like the look of certain females. To state otherwise would be hypocrisy.

And it's not like liking women or wanting to go to a bar that has pretty waitresses (and vice versa for women) if somehow taking advantage of the other sex. No more than wanting to go to a concert is taking advantage of people with nice voices and musical skills.

So, are we disallowing sexual desire and/or lust? If not, we are just advocating hypocrisy. I.e think it, but don't say/act as if you think it.

Seems to my European mind that Americans will be puritans whatever their political inclinations are. If they are of the Bible inclination (Bible belt etc), they will be all serious, sex is evil, abolish sexy looks, etc.

If they are of the liberal inclination (democrats etc), they will be all serious, sex is insulting, sexual references show intolerance and or exploitation, we should hide sexuality when in polite/professional company, etc.

Once a puritan, always a puritan.
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pfft... like I said "What is this 'Women:' bit about?"

I didn't realise that they had listed women explicity as a perk. I just thought it was a bad bit of copy. I didn't see their original site and as it has now been taken down.

I thought they had listed it in a less obvious way noting the servers would be women to bait males to attend.

Perhaps this is a bit more than a kerfuffle then.

While what they wrote turned out to be sexist I don't think at all this was there intention. They fell into the trap of sterotyping their audience. If your a hacker your probably a pale introvert with little access to women. The trouble is a hacker/programmer/whatever is just a job title. The people who do these jobs have variety personalities and genitals.

If anything they misunderstood their audience which is a shame really and managed to generate some copy that could offend just about everyone.
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I wish these 'More Jobs Are Moving Offshore' stories would accurately describe what non-trivial positions are affected. We now know it's possible to move call-centers offshore, despite actual consumer satisfaction, since it's been condensed to a mechanical process of reading a script and transferring departments when the script has been exhausted. As close to trivial of a business process you'll get. Anything more complex and we're talking a whole different world.

After hiring a few developers and designers from oDesk, I've concluded for myself that it's more expensive in the long run. Not only do you need to take the time to be ridiculously specific with your implementation (add time here), you need to check their code to ensure it's at all maintainable (more time), and clean up when necessary (add more time). At the end of the day, it has cost me a lot more in time. You could strike it rich by finding the right person, but it's good of odds as winning a mini lottery.

If the small scale of oDesk is any indicator of performance for larger projects, outsourcing will not be taking off any time soon for jobs requiring above trivial knowledge. If we have naive CIO's who still believe how outsourcing anything above junior/trivial positions can help the bottom line, we're in trouble. Either way, I've come to greatly appreciate even the junior/intermediate developers I work with locally.
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The hard part is getting people to signup for your service. Once they do the first step it's easy to get their email. The sign in with FB/Twitter/etc... makes that first step easier.
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If you want to divine whole worlds of phantom meanings from innocuous phrases I'd recommend picking up PoMo lit-crit as a hobby, it's where such speculation belongs.

For the record, I hardly view women as 'pleasure devices', and "picking up" is such a common phrase in the english language that to divine from that someone's entire attitude toward present gender issues is disingenuous.

As a community with a genuine gender disparity I think it's great that we've latched on to these issues. However, comments like LaGrange's, and the sibling in this thread are just as much a threat in their distraction from real issues.

There's a difference between opposing genuinely oppressive language and going on a linguistic witch hunt. Going after a phrase like 'pick up' (something girls do with guys as well by the way), is in the same hyperbolic category as the ill fated attempts to change the word women to womyn.
Great questions! The idea is not to charge them on day 1. The idea is to charge them on day 30, just like you do right now, but collect their CC (and revocable permission to charge it on day 30) on day 1.

You're not trying to get people to forget about the service and pay for one month then cancel. That's not a long-term success for the business. You're trying to extract a commitment to pay money because extracting a commitment to pay money automatically increases their perceived value of your service, their engagement with it, and their likelihood of paying for it.

Forcing the decision-point until when the trial is over will cause them to discount the value of their software because a) they've already consumed it or b) they haven't had time to look at it yet but have had time to totally forget your sales copy about it. You want the big decision point to come at their moment of maximum perceived desire for the software: when they've just come to your website with a headache and you've just told them you're selling aspirin, the magic cure for headaches. At that moment they burn with desire for aspirin, so get agreement in principle that if the aspirin cures their headache you get paid, rather than saying "Take this aspirin and then let's talk about how much you value not having headaches four weeks from now."

After you get people to make the decision, all of their future actions will tend to reinforce that they previously made the correct decision. (People hacking 101.)
What's wrong with these drivers exactly? I've got two PCs one with a 5450, the other with a 6450, and I didn't encountered any problem. In fact, I had no problem while I had quite a lot of freezes with nVidia previously.
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I thought something that was cooler (and less permanent) was the feelspace belt: it has a compass module and a bunch of of vibrating motors, so you can always 'feel' magnetic north

http://feelspace.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/
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I have had it with these beardist remarks.
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It looks quite dead.. last updates more than 30 days ago
Uh where is python available that Go is not and how portable is that C code:
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Yes, being upset at someone emphasizing that there will be women around to serve you beers is tantamount to disallowing sexual desire. It's totally like 1984.
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I mentioned esports specifically because it is often the case that a Japanese player must play a European player in an online tournament where low latency is crucial. However, in a non-esports multiplayer context the specific opponent and therefore their location is not as important. The matchmaking systems are able to randomly pick nearby (read: low latency) opponents, and games like WoW are regioned simply because of their immense scale.
Sorry, but what exactly is sexist about trying to get laid?

Nothing. The hilarious image of a bunch of brogrammers hitting on their waitresses aside, the issue is that the event effectively excluded women programmers- or at least made it clear that they weren't wanted. Perhaps if the flyer boasted "hot chicks and buff dudes serving you drinks" it might be a little more equal. Horrifying, but equal.
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Even so, when I saw the event and its pathetic attempt to appeal to get some free work done for sponsors, it set off more than one red flag. It wasn't so much the PC-ness as the poor marketing that turned me off.
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I have to say, it would be phenomenal if there was an HN equivalent to this opportunity (e.g. like Ask HN but in the other direction) that didn't simply promote a blog post elsewhere in order to spark intelligent discourse here. This would allow intellectual superstars in the computer sciences and entrepreneurial spheres to hold similar forums without (the likelihood) of offensive comments to infiltrate the conversation, i.e. "Do boobs look cooler in space?"
That's also something I haven't considered. Whether or not this was really done, if you wanted to create the same effect by faking it, you could do it at least in part by doing two different "takes" -- one where you pull the guy from the front and view with a camera behind him, and another where you pull the guy up from behind and view with the camera on his head. There is a blurry whitish splotch when he first gets air which could be a tree in the distance, but if you wanted to fake it, that could be a way to disguise the cable.

This would give a plausible way to fake the first and the last scenes, where you see the man from behind, as well as the "in the air" scenes where you just see from his perspective: you could in principle put him in a boom lift vehicle -- perhaps suspended from it or perhaps even just sitting in it -- and the image would look very similar.

The side-view shot would be much more difficult to fake.
"So, not burning, but still, not the best news. Maybe it's a faulty device?"

Except for the fact that many people are complaining of similar issues.
"picking up women" This is what's wrong with this. I mean, I do know it's a pretty good day for a chauvinistic dude, but that's objectification of women as pleasure devices.

Really? Because, humans sometimes just want to pick up some other human (of the different or even the same sex) and JUST have pleasure with each other bodies. They don't want to marry, and they don't want to discuss Russian Literature. They don't even intent to date, they JUST want to fuck each other's brains out. We call this "picking up". Sometimes, it even turns to a proper romance, sometimes it's just an one night stand.

Now, somehow this is bad, because?
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For those who don`t think this is offensive: Replace Women/Female with an ethnic minority (e.g. Japanese, Hispanic) of your choice, and then think about how someone of that background would feel reading that message. Then try it with other minorities - lesbian or deaf people, for example.

Yes, it's blown up. Proportionally? I don't know.

A lot of the people who are saying "get over it guys, this really isn't that bad" are the people who've never had to face continual prejudice regarding their coding abilities or competence because of their genetics. It's difficult to understand the perspective of a woman in tech unless you're experienced that. When you've been receiving subtle indicators that "you're not really part of this club", this sort of message can sting quite a bit.
The author is up front about there existing more optimal and performant designs for python and C but remarks that this is a fast, easy, naive implementation. Who here doesn't appreciate those qualities or who here hasn't worked on a team where there life would have been easier if that one guy had a little bit harder time screwing things up?
This kind of stuff always reminds me of the movie gataca and how maybe soon our society might transform into a sort of castesized version of itself where only those who can afford it will be able to function comparably to their peers (more so than the current financial inequalities we face today).
What's interesting isn't what the article got wrong. It's what the article got right. A 400k program is insanely difficult to write, if you're working in straight assembly. What the article misses, though, is that programmers' tools evolve too. As we're required to do more in less time we abstract away more and more of the code until the abstractions become incorporated right into the programming languages we write. In the '80s, you still had to write your own basic data structures. Making something like a dictionary, or a hash table might have been an all-day exercise. Today, you can just pull up one of the many ready-made data structures provided by the standard library of your favorite programming language.

On a side note, I find it interesting that the author seems to equate artificial intelligence and e-mail integration as being approximately the same order of difficulty.
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This point regarding education is interesting:

free and open-source software provides teaching opportunities that do not exist with proprietary software, since the background functions of free and open-source software, including its characteristics and programming, can be revealed to students. In these respects, free and open-source software is better suited to arousing interest in computer programming and information technology than proprietary software, where its use is all that can be taught.

The other points from the report:

1. When purchasing new software, free and open-source software and proprietary software are to be considered on an equal footing, with the object of always selecting the most favourable purchase.

2. Every endeavour shall be made to choose software based on open standards, regardless of whether the software in question is standard or bespoke (custom-designed). Generally, software which is free for anyone to use is also typified by open standards.

3. Public bodies shall endeavour to avoid any undue dependence on particular software manufacturers or service providers. The utilisation of free and open-source software is one means of this.

4. One goal for bespoke (custom-designed) software financed by public bodies, including software for research and development projects, should be its reusability. Keeping the software free and open-source is one way to achieve reusability. Strategies shall be devised at the outset of such projects for ensuring reuse of the software.

5. Students in Icelandic educational institutions shall be given the opportunity of learning about and using free and open-source software on a par with proprietary software
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All of this discussion is a complete waste of time. The burdon is on the publishers of this video to demonstrate these wings in front of a live audience of reputable journalists and engineers. Until then, can we move on?
Unfortunately, he's not quite right. There are actually two hard things in CS: cache invalidation, naming, and fencepost errors.
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Yeah, the issue seems to be that, when an iPhone loads the page containing the video, PBS does some user agent checking to determine what video source to provide.

When iPhone goes to AirPlay, it provides the AppleTV with the only stream source it received.

Ideally, either the HTML5 video tag could define multiple streams based on size (similar to how it can provide different streams based on video format), but since that's not in the spec, I suppose we have to conjure up a "standardized" convention.
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What is wrong with that?Must we all be scrawny?
Also described in this excellent wired article, which I think is a more concise overview of the subject:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/mf_neuwirth_qa/
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Most HN articles are short, followed by short comments. I find http://longform.org a refreshing supplement.
the issue is that the event effectively excluded women programmers- or at least made it clear that they weren't wanted.

OK, and that is an issue because?

Can't one just make an event with a SPECIFIC target audience in mind? Especially, if, hypocrisy aside, the audience was gonna be male populated anyway, even if a semi-naked Brad Pitt served drinks.

Perhaps if the flyer boasted "hot chicks and buff dudes serving you drinks" it might be a little more equal. Horrifying, but equal.

And when does that need for "equality" stop when planning a SPECIFIC event? Even if they did what you suggest, someone could come and say: "this event is terrible, it excludes gays by having hetero male and female servers, we also need hot gay guys serving drinks". And then lesbians.
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Not like HN-- but one of the best alt news sites out there is cryptogon.com, hands down.
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