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> don't worry about minor things when there are important things that mess with your life and your society

Important things like women making less money than men, being more subjected to media objectification, being the target of laws that want to deny them rights because we still have a problem accepting that women are exactly equal to us? Important things like us dismissing their complaints about this shit without it occurring to us that perhaps our dismissal is exactly the problem?

> Really? That must be way every fifth post is about how to focus, how the "get things done", etc. Well, if we are "capable", we sure don't seem like it. Check those kinds of blogs: people that post on such things rarely post on more important issues.

Learning how to accomplish what you're trying to accomplish, that's important. Learning what's wrong with our culture and how we can help fix the problem, that's important too. There are people who write about both subjects at the same time, but I see nothing wrong with people finding their niche. In any event, the focus of Hacker News is discussing relevant issues, and this is a doozy of a relevant issue.

> It's not a serious issue in its manifestation or it's consequences at all.

Countless women who have been affected by this would disagree with you. Countless men too.

> As for women in IT, well, ever considered they just don't like it that much?

Ever considered they don't like it because people like you see no problem with treating them this way?

> society also shapes men and women differently.

Exactly!

> For example, women being given barbie dolls and men Lego by their parents might be a much more important reason for them not liking IT, than any sexism in the IT industry.

Err... not exactly! Or rather, gross oversimplification!

There's a problem with women being conditioned not to think of themselves the same way that men do. But there's also a problem with men being conditioned to think of women the wrong way. Ads that tell women they need to look pretty to attract men also tell men that it's okay to think of women this way.

Even if the problem was as simple as "women don't like IT because they're given Barbies," the solution is not to shrug your shoulders and say "it's society, nothing we can do about it," because we are society. The solution is to listen to women when they complain about things and realize that the reasons they give for not liking this bullshit are very, very, very, very, very good reasons. That yes, we were conditioned to behave in shitty ways, and that we should stop behaving so shittily.
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Why yes. If it's a site that writes about SEO, it must therefore be spam.

I mean, that's why Google briefed us about the research. Why they let us interview them on it. You know, question them about it, and why we quote them.

The "actual source" is effectively a Google press release, which our SEO blog/spam site did link to. The story that gives context about why they did more research.
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Has anyone had any experience with GO and Windows API/win32?
I've written a few relatively small (a few K LOC) Go projects, and my experience has been quite positive.
The libraries are really well designed and impressively complete.
With goroutines and the fact that most things work with io.Reader/io.Writer, plugging different components together and having them work efficiently is pretty easy.
I love gofmt (sweet sweet consistency), and despite some early reservations, I'm quite happy with what the go tool provides.
The couple servers I have written in Go have been great, in that they were pretty easy to write in a straightforward way, and they ended up impressively fast. The speed is actually somewhat seductive; I've been unnecessarily microoptimizing some things, just because I see what sort of speed is possible without leaving the language.
I also find that due to gofmt, the constraints of the language, and the aesthetic leadership of the Go team (along with, likely, a self-selection in those writing Go right now), third party Go libraries are very readable.
When I'm trying to understand a data structure or a protocol, I often look for source code; python used to be my preference, but in part thanks to types, I now find Go to be my first choice.

I do wish the Thrift support was as good as the protocol buffer support, though. :)
The only people that screwed it up are the ones that monetized it. They made it

a) rigid based on their definition
b) defined themselves as experts in making teams agile based on their rigid definition
c) charged for it

PS. These same guys, once they couldn't squeeze anymore blood out of the Agile stone, moved onto a new marketing term, "craftsmanship". They now charge the same clients, even more money, to teach them this "new way of doing it ..... right".

Plus, they make a mint on the books they hastily write and push out.

I eagerly anticipate that successor to Craftsmanship.
The API I've been working on for the last 596 days is now live
Took me 3 seconds. Didn't you read the message? :P
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Awesome news! A great job by all involved.
Well, they had the option to do this with Tivo and instead they developed their own shitty boxes instead of going with a world leader in DVR and interfaces. Why would they go with Apple when they've already dismissed Tivo and are extremely hostile when you try to get cable card service "whats that? Oh , we'll need a contract from you and a large deposit."

I'm not sure if the grandfather's post is accurate. Yes those boxes cost money but Comcast and other video providers have been very hesitant to give up the proprietary video cash cow for over the internet solutions that may cut them out of a revenue stream or make people realize they don't need to buy the "gold" package.
Exactly. It seems to be a point that a lot of people forget. A lot of people don't fully trust the Internet security tools, such as TOR, for anonymity. So, they try to add a layer of what is essentially physical security by using an Internet connection that doesn't track back to them. However, a lot of times people don't fully consider that at that point you must now not only secure your Internet security but physical security as well. Ie. Not be seen.

I'm not saying it is a bad idea to want to add an extra layer of security/anonymity, but it actually has to be done right. If investigators trace it back to the coffee shop and see on the CCTV that you're the only one sitting there using a laptop for the entire time the attack took place you're screwed.

Interestingly enough, all the ways to actually add that layer of physical security are potentially illegal. (depending on local laws) Obviously, the laws can vary a lot, but in a lot of places the methods a person would use to hide themselves are considered unlawful access.

Take the coffee shop for example, instead of entering the coffee shop you sit outside it. If it doesn't have cameras outside, the businesses around it very well might have one that can see you, and then there are also the people that see you. (witnesses) Okay then, long range antenna, right? Wrong, still illegal in some places. Even though it is an unsecured wifi that is meant for people to connect to it, it is meant for customers. That means that you either have to go in and buy a coffee (which shows on camera that you were in the area) or to have previously asked permission to use it which means that someone in the coffee shop must know who you are to have given you permission. This caveat actually applies to the parking lot situation too and people really have been charged before for accessing a coffee shop's wifi from the parking lot without actually going in so this isn't just a thought exercise.

Generally, if you're doing something online illegal enough to be investigated that fully, illegally accessing some coffee shop's connection is the least of your problems. There are legitimate reasons to want total anonymity though, such as whistle-blowers or individuals living in certain countries. If you're going to try for that level of anonymity it is important to know the local laws and make sure that whatever you're trying to be anonymous about is worth potentially breaking that law if it exists.
Like most people caught out doing something wrong, now you are trying to make "rational" arguments against it.
So is your comment, please stop making them.
I'm just telling you that trying to do this with the follow/unfollow API is likely going to end in tears and that the retweet style will have the same effect.
It would be way easier to find a "real" country and convince them of the merits of doing a favorable free trade zone, than to try to rehabilitate Sealand.

(our plan was actually to use Sealand to get press, and then develop both technical means like anonymous ecash, and political means (going to various neutralish countries to try to sell them on the idea), which is why we did such a big PR campaign)
Or they can label versions like sun, so that nobody will know for sure if they're using Go 2 or Go 1.2 or Go Enterprise Edition or Go Standard...
There was question recently as to why Apple hasn't implemented this feature in many of its own applications.
Making that distinction would mean Comcast is justified in pricing it differently, but since we already know Comcast is not justified, the distinction must be meaningless.
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That sounds good to me, I'd rather pay $$$$+$ than $$$$+$$$ for the 400GB of NetFlix traffic and 100GB of other traffic I use per month.

Sorry, but that's a shortsighted view. You're now glad that you only pay +$, but a year from now you could be paying +$/4 if only the competition hadn't been crushed by these deals.
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Chrome will still be (mostly) C++ for a while. Even if they rewrote V8 and the UI; WebKit is still C++ and I doubt Google plans on ditching it without a very good reason.
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You can't escape the government (or more specifically, "a government")... not while you're on Earth. The best and easiest way to do what you want is to identify the persons/companies in power and persuade them to give you that freedom, offering something useful for them in return.

It's really not that hard, and easier than establishing a new nation in the middle of nowhere, as attractive as that might sound...
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You're totally right. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm not a sysadmin by trade. I've had the misfortune of having to deal with sysadmin work because I was the only one willing to dive in. So you mention Puppet, Chef, the distro's package manager of choice. These are all great tools but they have a learning curve. My point was that hosting apps on MS requires much less in the way of configuration and learning. You can just get things working.
Yup, that's why I labelled it as a minimum profit margin and parenthetically noted that the cost per Mbps used is probably higher than reality.
Yeah, homepage looks great. But if your pitch is being used in articles (like this), I think you should work on it a bit.

You should also think about how friends are going to describe it to each other and get some of that language on the site. They aren't necessarily going to bother going to the site over the course of the conversation. The phrases you have "Post, discover and curate moments around the world", "Add filters to photos and plant them anywhere in the world" aren't going to be able to convey what tenfarms is about without an accompanying visual.

But if you can get some language that conveys the idea of the map, you probably could. Something in the direction of: "A map of what's going on around you, no matter what social network it happened on."

I hope that helps.
Try the zoom buttons to experience the slickness. Very cool!
I think it's valid to take on Technical Debt, but only when it's been explicitly decided that there's a good reason to take on technical debt. It's when you make a habit of always taking the quick and dirty approach and never take the time to refactor that you start running into problems.
Does he have a similar arrangement with them as he had with Red Hat, or is he more directly involved in what the firm does?
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Google's brand is about fun, not minimalism. You can look at the page and see a pretty standard corporate blog post. But, if you choose to, you can play with the header. It's fun. Try it.

(Actually, the design is pretty minimal. Big block of text that fits on the page without scrolling, and a few pieces of miscellaneous info on the right hand side. There, but not distracting. I can't really complain about the aesthetics of this design.
HN's algorighm thinks I'm a spammer and wouldn't let me reply, but really, itsnotme.

I could collaborate well with that person. If I like the product and the people enough I'll work on a team that uses "Agile". But I do it knowing that process is not communication, and that standups are a fucking joke.
I believe in using purely software or technical means where possible (PGP to defeat unlawful wiretaps, Start-TLS to protect against echelon), followed by social pressure (i.e. "it's rude to rip off someone's work", vs. enforcing it with laws).

Do a good job of articulating socially good uses. PGP to protect you from spies is unrealistic, PGP to protect you from the law if you are a criminal is both unrealistic and bad PR, but filevault to protect my SSN when your laptop is stolen, that's a much easier win -- it's just hard technically and inertia, but those are easier than active political or legal opposition to overcome.

In parallel with that, try for political change, ideally using tech as much as possible to support that -- I wasn't an Obama voter, but what the 2008 campaign did with social media was transformative.

If all those fail, sure, consider doing something crazy like Sealand or offshore corporations or whatever, but ultimately I'd rather live in a first-world country WITH good laws, than something with technical or jurisdictional hacks.
My version of a datahaven:

A series of small cases with a 12 volt auto plug, a small fanless computer, some batteries, and a 3G wireless connection. Hire some vehicle operators to keep it plugged in while they are moving. Once started, they will need a daily activation code to keep operating, otherwise they erase their hard drive encryption key and deactivate, requiring their encryption key to reactivate.

The small cases will constitute a low-powered cloud with no permanent address. If a case is seized in a raid, it becomes inactivated.
can you propose how an client can authenticate with this type of service without a key?
Ask HN: What is needed to rapidly build mobile apps?
I am thinking of creating multiple mobile apps using HTML5 using rapid prototyping. In order to bring them to market fast I am trying to use as much outside services as possible but keep the costs as low as possible. My current list is as follows -

Backend - Parse

Visual Design - Outsource using 99 designs

Analyitcs - Flurry

Testing - Device anywhere

HTML5 application development using - Phonegap/Titanium/Sencha

What else would you add to the list? Am I missing something obvious?
"For instance, it better send "expected" headers (User Agent, Accepts, etc.), and it better have cookies enabled..."

How are these challenges exactly? Just set the user-agent and enable cookies. Done.

"...also operate from many distinct and perpetually changing IP addresses."

Okay. Change the IP it operates on every few days.
To be clear, I only started working on the API 22 days ago and have been waiting 8 days to get re-verified for my class 2 SSL certificate before releasing the feature today. The 596 days is in reference to the first request of an API here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1590295
There is actually a similar FiOS xbox app as well. I am not familiar enough to say if it gets preferential treatment on the network, but you can stream a subset of live TV channels and use it as an alternative to the cable box, although I don't think it has had enough polish to inspire a full time switch.
I've been using Go for 2 years now. It's been a lot of fun. It certainly brought fun back into programming for me. Very happy to see the 1.0 release hitting the public. Congratulations to the Go team and contributors for a job very well done!
go1 has been my goto language for a while now. I don't even understand why, but everything makes a lot of sense. It compiles about as fast as python and I have an easy time making quite efficient code.

Concurrency is obviously very good and that extends to parallelism quite easily. For example, I wrote go-heatmap ( https://github.com/dustin/go-heatmap ) and found I could shave a few seconds off of the colorization phase of a fairly large image I generate hourly by running every column (or row, I forget which) in parallel on my 4 core atom box.

The build/packaging system is everything maven wishes it could be. It's practical to create, publish and use small third-party things (such as my humanize package: https://github.com/dustin/go-humanize ) because the build system just deals with the dependency for you (even transitively) just based on import statements. "go list -json" in a source directory (or pointed to a namespace) will tell you all kinds of things about what your code uses, including transitive dependencies.

I deploy go code I use every day on OS X and Linux, 386, 64 and ARM. I can build all of these programs from any one of these systems so quickly and easily you wouldn't think they're native binaries. In fact, it just took me 20s to build a Windows cross compiler and all of the standard library (with which I built my kmz_example program from go-heatmap on OS X in .49s and now I've got a kmz_example.exe I don't know what to do with).
IIRC Loren filed this patent "defensively" prior to the Twitter acquisition. Of course, his original intent is irrelevant now.
See, that link should be nearer the top of this thread. That's food for thought right there.

On the other hand, "The only people trying to argue "lighten up" are anti-feminists" is a nasty false generalisation -- it ignores apath-feminists (damn, that doesn't work nearly as well as 'apatheists'); those who are thinking "can't we all just get along?", with absolutely no motive to stymie feminism; those who've never done the research, who think feminism's all well-and-good, but tell themselves they're too busy worrying about other things; exactly the sort of people who would find that article insightful, and who might be pushed toward feminism by it.

I fear you risk scaring them off by lumping them in with 'anti-feminists' and its implications of misogyny, and may taint that link by association.
"The icing on the cake is that the whole thing takes a bit of time to load (showing you a gear much reminiscent of the old "Flash intro" days)--all to load some sort of header with ugly colored balls that move around when you move the mouse."

You can say a lot of things about Google but they've got balls. :-)

The irony is even stronger than you realize, Google has been on a kick 'make the web fast' for a while, when they first kicked it off in 2010 I pointed out that most of my pageloads were hung waiting for doubleclick to load (which got fixed by the way, they are a lot faster now). So the notion of pushing a bunch of non-useful eye candy is kinda antithetical to that theme, but they do it anyway.

Perhaps their release process is broken, I have wondered what would change if they could make it a corporate priority that no Google generated page should take longer than 500mS to load on a 1Mbit connection. They could at least lead by showing best practices for fast loading web pages. Perhaps a current employee reading this will pass it along.
Where are you getting the $20 number from?

I do not want to be in the position of defending Comcast (who I hate with fiery passion), but that sounds a bit like arguing that the cost of manufacturing an Adobe Photoshop disc is relevant to how much it can or should cost.
The famine wasn't specific to Ukraine wasn't it? Southern areas of Russia suffered the same if not worse.

Currently the Russian population is degrading without any purges and people die from poor conditions and criminals (including police raids) in their cities.

But before there millions who really worked for the future and now there are few.
Pretty much.

I still prefer OS X to Windows 7, but the gap has closed up quite a bit and I couldn't guarantee that the cause for my preference doesn't ultimately boil down to it just being that I use one for play and the other for work.

I think that anyone could make a strong argument for why they subjectively believe that one or the other is objectively superior. But I long ago gave up on encouraging friends & family to try Macs. It's not worth the irritation of learning a new OS for them. For the Windows things I do still fret about like removing crapware and installing proper antivirus software, it's much easier for everyone involved if I just arm-twist them into letting me make sure everything's set up properly.
I haven't tried it, but you might want to look into WALK(Windows Application Library Kit):

https://github.com/lxn/walk

Is designed to provide a Go-ish interface for win32.
It's funny, because this is what Movable Type did, back in the day. James Hague echoed your sentiments in "Solving the Wrong Problem": http://prog21.dadgum.com/130.html
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Processes implemented to save lives are the product of death, and the process is put there to slow things down. Ask your friendly agile consultant how much their process is going to slow down your company.

They will tell you that Agile will make you faster. They might even be right, if it's replacing a bigger, worse process that already exists on top of the process of software development. But if it's adding a layer, it's going to slow you down and get in your way.
Attracting customers is rarely free as well.
I don’t think so. Actually I can’t believe they only need one day to rest after what must have been three months of hectic work...

The "no idea" track makes total sense to me for several reasons:

1. Many YC participants changed their idea in the course of the program, some of them multiple times. As an extreme example, the founder of Greplin started working on his final idea three days before demo day.

2. The YC selection process has already been biased towards the team vs the idea.

3. YC is all about experimenting. They like to try and see what happens – this is how the whole thing evolved. Based on the above two, this seems like a logical experiment.

I actually believe the "no idea" track will be a success. Though a major disadvantage is that an idea helps evaluate the quality of the team, even if they end up pivoting. But PG and the rest of the YC team are smart; they’ll figure it out...
Very cool little game. It's a little sluggish for me and the command line changes, but overall, I love it.
Going to put in a bug @ github, for some reason the video's won't actually play (and their file size is slightly larger.)
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