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> The whole point is to reduce the impact that class and socioeconomic background has on who can attend the institution.

And the whole point of Etsy's scholarship is to reduce the impact that gender has on who gets into the tech field.

> You twisted my words. I said the selection of who gets the grant is sexist by nature. I admitted the motivation for doing so is to help reduce sexism via creating biases on the other end of the spectrum.

It's not sexist the same way a scholarship for kids coming from households with low incomes isn't classist. Sure, if you want to stretch the definition, it's "classist" (or "sexist"), but truly it's not. It's there to correct already existing classism (or sexism) or to assist a specific group of people.

I didn't twist your words. You specifically said the scholarship is sexist. I said it is not.

> Kind of like in war when one country kills a thousand of the enemies because the enemy killed a thousand of their soldiers. It may seem like a fair reaction, but is it solving the root of them problem (for ex making sure another thousand won't die again)? Or is it creating a larger divide?

Your (rather poor) analogy would make more sense if the first country was constantly killing enemy soldiers for thousands of years, and then the second country tries to take a little bit of land back and the first country screams, "Look! Look what they're doing! This isn't fair! We should be treated equally!"

The only divide it's creating is in people who don't think women belong in those fields. We call those people "sexists" and I don't enjoy their company.

> The problem which socioeconomic applicants is that they can't afford to apply, regardless of their ability.

The same is true of women. Regardless of their ability, it is much more difficult for them to get into the field versus men.

> With gender and (pure) race-based scholarships the problem is usually ignorance or bias of the administration - they ignore the ability or merit of the applicant simply because of their race or gender. Giving the applicant a monetary award for (potentially) being a victim of the administrations ignorance isn't solving the root of the problem.

And, using your same logic, income-based scholarships ignore the ability or merit of the applicant simply because of their income level. They are all in place to bridge a gap. This attempts (rather well) to bridge the gender gap in the tech industry.

Here are a couple of comics that summarize the gist of my points: http://i.imgur.com/fMIRr.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xEiL4.jpg
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"[...]just 85,000 views[...]" ???

He's not Britney Spears, he's a guy that's looking for enough name recognition to fill clubs on the road. That's all you need if you don't think you're above working for a living.
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What sources are you drawing on for your Bughouse theory?
Not that this isn't nifty, but hasn't drag and drop been a standard UX fixture since 1984? The fact that drag and drop is a standout feature adds fodder to the argument that the web is an immature platform who's functionality doesn't parallel that of native applications.
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Are there any mods that can kill that account so I can recreate it? You'll see there is no activity on it.

The username is 'nak'

Thanks.
By experience this kind of "attacks" are the results of :

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Wordpress has a bad record on security http://packetstormsecurity.org/search/?q=Wordpress , so yes, I'm implying a weakness in the software.
What really gets me about the MPAA isn't this but the FBI warning at the beginning of movies. And that has been in place for years and years. It is just such an insult to a free society to have the federal police threaten law abiding citizens in their own home, prohibiting them from doing something they have a natural right to do. Dollar bills are not printed with an FBI counterfeit warning because we all know that is wrong.

Copying content is not a criminal act, and the government of the USA abuses its legitimacy by trying to pretend otherwise. Copying content causes no harm, period.
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They really ought to state the customer use-case on-blog, I use Dropbox on only my own computers and didn't understand the point at all.
Why don't students just scan & torrent the texts? They already do that for their music collections.
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No mention of the maximum line length in the Ruby style guide. Sigh...
They also doubled the referral bonuses today! It was 250MB/referral, and it's now 500MB.
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It seems that the US has long passed the tipping point, corruption-wise, where its salvageable. It has to collapse before it can be righted.
It seems that the US has long passed the tipping point, corruption-wise, where it's salvageable. It has to collapse before it can be righted.
And now you're using a heuristic even less correlated with programming ability. My list of awesome programmers I would hire again in a heartbeat has, to my knowledge, a combined 0 lines of code on github.
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Wow, thanks for sharing that. I just saw New York from a whole new angle... literally...!
Do you use semicolons in Ruby, Python, shell, or other semicolon-less language where semicolons are allowed? If not, what's your justification for omitting them?
My only experience is reading Tufte, so I have a question for you. If you based the circles' area on the data, rather than making the circles based off the radius based off the data, you wouldn't be misconstruing the data, right?
This has nothing to do with the actual content of the article, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen advertisements placed so terribly before.

Most decent blogs at a minimum make some divide between content & advertisements but this one has it in the middle of a quote & a huge one before the actual content even starts.
Is it legal to manipulate web traffic like this? I would assume some companies who depend on ads (eg, NYTimes.com) would object, perhaps with a lawsuit, to ISPs or other imitation ISPs (ie, Hotels) to removing original NYTimes ads and replacing it with their own.
Looks like Flajolet was responsible for both the linear probabilistic method and the hyper log log method.

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Hyper log log (2007): http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdf
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> What exactly is a ninja or a rockstar in terms of programming?

Someone who enthusiastically engages in RDD (resume driven development). Someone who knows whatever is currently fashionable in the blogowhatever...
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I sincerely apologise for responding to the point that you made, rather than the one you meant to make. My psi abilities are weakest around the full moon.

reconsidering your two new points that you have made there,

(a) many women make decisions on whether to enter a field based on some absurdly gross overgeneralization of that field

&

(b) women more so than men make decisions on whether to enter a field based on some absurdly gross overgeneralization of that field

Well, I think that (a) is probably true, but is also true for men. And that if (b) has any measurable truth to it I would strongly doubt it to have any statistical significance.

However if you pick any way to divide a large group into two (size of ears, for instance) and then measure something unconnected to that division, you will almost always find a small, measurable, but insignificant difference.

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One commenter on Slashdot (on January 24th) was skeptical that any investigation would ever take place and said this was like "asking the mafia to crack down on organized crime."
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I'd agree with you if not for the many subtle and critical bugs I've seen introduced into our production environment due to and/or precedence problems. The increased expressiveness when used correctly is just not worth it.
This is too large for a small claims court, and too small to retain lawyers and suit Google.

But the USA has another, well worn, route - class action lawsuits.

This seems ripe for class action, where the class is everyone who has been locked out of AdWords without reasonable explanation, or reasonable reason.

What is required is a lawyer/firm to assess the amount at stake and winnability, for them to get a representative case (this one is good) and to recruit thousands or tens of thousands of members of the class. The lawyers get a huge percentage of any damages, but the class members get rewarded too, and the main issue is the Google will take notice and change their behaviour.

In other countries we can use legislation to change the way Google operates. Check the jurisdiction of your contract with them - and use the appropriate system.
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I would agree with that if there were a defined, consistent logic, but I've never seen that done well across multiple developers. After switching to alphabetized rules, my CSS feels much more organized and I'd say is much easier to scan and refactor.
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It's been a few years, but when I went freshmen at Stanford weren't even allowed to have majors. When did this change? Link?
Yeah I thought about bitbucket, any pros-cons with them?
1. How long have you been bootstrapping your startup? - We're on our 4th month but I started working on this project in the middle of 2011.

2. Roughly how much of personal money have you invested in your startup? - About $30K, in addition to salaries I've given up to do my start-up.

3. Are you profitable, if not then at what point do you make the decision of pulling the plug and not invest your personal money anymore? - No. Not even thinking about that.
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I see what you mean.

We were all Unix geeks, so perhaps that's why it worked well for us.
We tend to stay under 80c for everything (minus views, which can be trickier). Probably should add that to the guide.
I feel the same way, when I hear about this talent shortage, I can't help but assume they mean there are only so many people at the top of stanford/mit's classes.
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I'm not making any judgment about whether Amazon is "skating on their responsibility." I'm just trying to explain to people who are misunderstanding that states CAN CHARGE SALES TAX. This case has nothing to do with whether the state can charge a retailer a sales tax. They can. There is no doubt about that. The issue here is that the law, as written, was unconstitutional. Further, those who are claiming that brick and mortars consume a state's services but online retailers do not are wrong. This notion that retailers pay shippers who pay taxes makes zero sense.
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I get you. A lot of developers don't take their work online at all. But there are probably a hundred thousands developers who do take at least some parts of their work online.

Perhaps speaking more practically, the market for developers is segmented. Not all companies want to hire all developers, and some companies specifically look for developers who do take their work online. It's those companies we want to help right now.

Take us for example. We just hired Yuval Adam (http://y3xz.com/) for a project, and his online activity had a huge part in raising our interest.

Check out his site. It's essentially a collection of links to professionally relevant online content. Sure, these are no guarantees. If you were hiring a developer though, wouldn't your interest be raised?
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Sometimes developers don't have a choice about putting their work online--many large companies actively discourage (or prohibit) their engineers from participating in any meaningful way in open source projects.

Want to post your personal hacking online under your real name? Nope, sorry--"everything you do belongs to the company, and we can't take the chance that you might accidentally post some uber-valuable trade secret." So rather than risk losing the job, you just find some other, not-publicly-visible way to spend your time.

Maybe this group of developers isn't viewed as interesting to many employers, and if that's the case my argument isn't worth much.
Fair points.

Theres different ways to approach them problem. I'm much more inclined to figure out what the deeper problems are and address them (ignorances, biases, misconceptions etc)

I feel that grants may only be patching the surface and don't really address the higher level problems.

My cofounder is a female hacker and I recently mentored a "Ladies Learning Code" event.

From that I've learned its best to communicate why programming is fun and interesting. To get past their misconceptions that its all geeky male culture and actually a really rewarding skillset.

Reducing those misconceptions on both sides will have a long term impact. Humans have been effective at evolving and changing "common sense". Newer generations are incredibly more tolerant of race/gender than older ones. I believe that happens through changing peoples understanding of the issues and trying hard to not further segregate it into us vs them groups.
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Assuming this is related to the AdSense thingy on the front page at the moment ... I think a decent amount of the problem is Google has virtually non-existant quality control.

I'd start by not approving all the scrapers and spammers and scammers. I'd avoid sites that get the majority of their traffic from reddit/etc, if they don't have natural traffic but they're consistently featured on social media sites they're probably spammers.

Once you take all the trashy people and their trashy sites out of the equation I think it would become a lot easier to detect fraud.

I would focus on:

1) high quality publishers

2) more interesting formats ... people used to talk about banner blindness, these days AdSense has to be pretty much shoved between sentences to be seen

3) actual support

Something probably like The Deck but more open.
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So did you get a sense of what applications would be a good fit to program for it? The fact that it doesn't "work great with existing compilers" seems to be the stumbling-block.
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What I really want Hipmunk to integrate is low-cost carriers, like Southwest.

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I meant critical for building great software systems sustainably over time. That's also my purpose, if you expand "system" to include the team that's building it.

I agree with Alan Kay that the software industry has become a reductio of wildly inflated complexity and that it's possible to do orders of magnitude better. Presumably, anyone who figures out how to do that will be able to do things other companies can't. That is how the world gets changed. Not by persuading others to do it but by just doing it.

For a long time, smart people thought it was a matter of writing in more powerful languages, but it seems clear that it isn't that alone. It's not just the medium, but how we're using it. The 64 billion dollar question is: how can we use it better? And how will we know?

My hypothesis (not that I invented it, but I subscribe to it) is that we will know when we are able to build valuable systems with drastically less code. Obviously that requires knowing how much code there actually is. I'm fine with LOC as a metric (some HNers convinced me of that) but you still have to know what code you're measuring and what (e.g. libraries, language implementations, OS) you're not.

Interestingly, Kay's VPRI project doesn't have this conundrum because they're building everything up from hardware.
I do wonder why people advertise for “rock stars”. What is the thinking here?

Is it to screen out people who have some self doubt? “Hmm, I think I'm pretty smart, but I don't know if I'm a rock star. I think I better avoid potential embarrassment and look elsewhere”.

Is it code for “seeking brogrammers”?
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Dropped semicolons about 6 months ago and haven't had a problem even once.

Once you get into the habit, it requires zero extra effort. You just know when to put them in, same way you just know when to use parens vs curlies.

Coding with semis is like coding with parens around every expression; unnecessary and paranoid.
Yeah, Facebook is probably in the best position to break Google's dominance in the area. Seems like a pretty natural extension to from having things like likes and comments on 3rd party sites.
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Pretty interesting story, but definitely an example of giving away lock picks while selling better locks.
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AFAIK SSNs are not unique (1:1 in either respect) in the US.

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The client has a permanent connection to the server, but in this case the server doesn't necessarily know what client it's on, and some of us have our browsers configured to be pesky (with a dialog box indicating the URL and target app) about sending URLs to different apps.
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It's one heuristic out of many, and it's a fast one. If you go through all 10-15 github profiles, and you find an awesome programmer, than you're done for that point in time. If you don't find any, you can use a more time-consuming heuristic.
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Of course they're all valid issues. That doesn't answer anything i've asked, though. I want to know why support is only being given to women and not people who probably have a harder time getting into the field. This doesn't need a separate thread, it speaks exactly to the topic which is Etsy giving grants to only women.
The consensus seems to be that they are leading in the "label readability" department: http://geoit.posterous.com/41latitude-google-maps-label-read...
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Agreed! Hell, at meetups and conferences here in Indy it seems to be tough to even put a dent in a keg (since I bring the Dorkbot one home with me I get a pretty good measure each month). Most barely have a beer.

Even at the larger conferences I've been to (few RailsConfs, and even Ruby on Ales) I can't recall more than a couple people who I would consider intoxicated (and that's just giving the benefit of the doubt, they may have just been odd people), much less the majority.

People have drinks, and talk shop. A few may get silly later on, but those are the few.

Maybe the JS scene is different?
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We know, and we're working hard at that problem. Here's two thoughts:

(1) It's not our goal to make candidates like you look bad, not at all. When candidates have professional stuff online, we think employers should be interested in getting a good view of it. That's all we try to do. We wouldn't give you a bad score - we'd give you no score at all. Essentially, we're telling employers: "we can't know anything about this candidate, you should look at other stuff".

(2) I checked out your HN profile, and you have a ton of comments up. So, you do interact professionally online, at least in some way. I'm curious to hear your thoughts - say you applied for a job, and we did our best (algorithmic) job to make your HN footprint interesting to employers - what would that do for your attractiveness as a candidate?
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