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Yeah - the coincidence is how I know him.

me: http://mattvanhorn.com

him: http://mattvh.com

Also, I did not see the presentation, so I can't comment on it firsthand, but as portrayed it looks to be in pretty bad taste. I don't know Matt that well, mostly through social media, but I can say that he's never come across as a knuckle-dragging misogynist. So ridiculing the presentation is fair, but trying to make him the face of the problem that is very widespread in the industry seems a bit unfair.
(Not to mention this is all going to come up in Google searches for me, a programmer (not brogrammer) who lives and works in the bay area as well. /selfinterest )
Nor did I want to try and produce some sort of WAG percentage of programmers that would/wouldn't want to.
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Do you really think that all men enjoy this type of culture?
Having actually been in that situation; I respectfully disagree.
Mostly, insight into the technical underpinnings. I had absolutely no concept of the existence of this world before that talk. In terms of take-home value, not much more than I got from your talk at BH last year, though largely because of the fire-hose effect there. :)
Promoting seems problematic to me. What does promoting mean and in what manner will they be promoting their service using data that I upload? A reasonable laymen read of this basically means advertising.
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My impression is that nursing and teaching were considered women's work before they even existed as distinct professions.

It depends on which kind of teaching. Teaching of children has been seen as a woman's job for a very long time. On the other hand, professors and philosophers were classically men.
Because most of the normal people, i.e., non-geeks, simply don't like typing stuff and remember gazillion commands.
Command-line is for programmers and sysadmins - not for your average user.
My first thought was that this could be done (with less work) using a smartphone's accelerometer. That said, I definitely dig the setup. Thanks for the mention of Phidgets.
Go on LinkedIn and try to add some other developers who seem like they would be the type of person who goes to meetups. I did this before and got some suggestions for places to go (a co-working type of environment) that I hadn't heard of before. It ended up being pretty far from where I actually lived so I never made it out there (busy with work, commute, etc) but it was nice to at least have the option
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Did you miss the part where I work a "shit job" because I like eating, or was that convenient to dismiss?

I am _not_ a software designer. Nor do I create any sort of content that people wish to pay me for. I work as a gas station attendant right now, and have no creative endeavors lined up.

I also said I would reconsider this agreement when I make more money. But the value I receive far exceeds what value Google makes on me.

Also, for someone who is looking for work, and is aggressively looking, a resume IS is critical file.

Although, I would like to see an investigation of free services of this nature indeed helps people on their feet. I'm not sure if poor people realize what can be done to alleviate problems. (note: not saying we poor are stupid, but instead just not aware of choices)
This is so freaking awesome - I wish I could upvote this 10 times. This kind of work is a perfect representation of the hacker mentality. Props to the author, really cool stuff.
Decrease the minimum bid increment from $0.01 to a value such that ties are rare.
> However, did major markets ever really have a huge problem with lack of liquidity, 20 or 30 years ago before HFT?

Yes. It used to be that humans were the market makers. Humans are (generally) a lot more expensive than computers so providing liquidity came at a higher cost. Bid/ask spreads used to be much higher.

HFT it just an example of computers replacing humans at a lower cost. A phenomenon that can be observed in many industries.
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Being a little too old to be a brogrammer (heck, I still remember when the notion of casual workdays was a novelty), I have a simple rule that I follow:

"If you're on the clock, act like it."

That typically means no inappropriate jokes/comments or profanity in workplace communications (email, conversation, slide decks, etc.), dressing appropriately (i.e., casual at work, but not too casual, dressing up for meeting with third parties), etc.

This idea might be considered "old school" here on HN, but it has kept me out of trouble for a long time, and I'm sure it could work just as well for 'brogrammers' as well.

I know that the tech workplace culture is quite relaxed about many types of borderline inappropriate behaviours, but to use another clichéd rule, "just because you can doesn't mean you should".
I would contend if you add women to the men with some social intelligence who would run, not walk from this "opportunity", you're probably killing far past 50% of your audience.
Why did they call it 802.11ac when there are already specs for 802.11a and 802.11c? This is only going to confuse people.
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The books don't hold "shares", they hold "orders". The spoils are supposed to go to the people willing to provide the most liquidity; the "spoils" you're referring to are "the expense involved in executing orders".
> I get the rationale for avoiding a bottom dock on a widescreen monitor

Depends. I have set my OSX dock to autohide at the bottom, and I'm glad I don't have to move across to reach it. Flick down, boom, Dock. It works even better than it sounds since it works along the edge, not solely where the dock is. Even with multiple monitors, my dock is at most one screen-wide away (even in a triple head setup), while a left-bound dock is two (even three) screenful away.

Also, I seem to unconsciously end up with the pointer in a vertically centered zone. Horizontally it comparatively could stay in any place, left, center or right. Statistically that might be the case too since going up for a (application or status icon) menu will later have me bring the pointer down since I click on a menu entry.

What's more it seems more natural and producing less strain for my eyes to peek up or down than to the far left. Indeed when I want for something to 'disappear' (like the pointer when typing) I move it sideways, never up or down.

Hence since I'm at most a screen width and half a screen height away form the dock, 'flick, boom, Dock' works only at the bottom.

While all of this may apply only to me (and I used a left-bound dock for a while myself, but ended up reverting back to the bottom edge) I understand that some may have other habits and prefer a left-, or right-bound dock. This is why both Gnome 3 and Unity drive me insane, because even if I had a lengthy experiment with a side dock it just doesn't make sense to me, and this is really infuriating to not let people have their way in this case.

(besides, vaguely related to the subject and multi head setups notwithstanding, I find it infuriating in Gnome 3 that the left edge does not reveal the dock and the right edge the workspace switcher. the whole thing just begs for it)
Incidentally, this is how we fix it. If everyone just refuses to work with these assholes, and says so loudly, they'll... well, I'd like to say they'll pack up and leave the valley, but more likely they'll wind up concentrated in their own bro-heavy companies, which still seems like a net win for the rest of us.
Well crying about a certain personality or type of person crowding into your formerly insular world is hardly going to accomplish anything.

The context is a competitive business landscape so let the competition's results sort it all out.
Only certain types of men would be attracted to this type of culture. It's very possible the handicap is more like 75%.
Let's pound on programmers, they're an easier target than the bankers.
The same can be said of the opposite end of the geek cultural spectrum, though -- the stereotypical Mountain Dew & video games contingent.

I interviewed a startup where one of the co-founders openly mocked me for wearing a tie; when he asked what my interests were (sports and music, amongst other things), I got criticized for not liking "Starcraft and normal programmer stuff."

The issue isn't one specific subset of tech industry culture; it's a result of the startup scene shifting HR roles to technical people who often don't have the soft skills necessary to deal with such tasks effectively.
What does promoting mean in this context? A reasonable read of this would basically mean "advertising". I think the dropbox terms are clearer, and not because they weren't written by a lawyer. They were specifically meant to be as clear as possible. Because Google has a global TOS now, they have to be vague enough to encompass all services. But this introduced ambiguity. I never understood their motivation for this. Clarity is preferable to a single TOS that we all know a minuscule amount of people read.
And from three scenarios, the second is at the moment impossible because of physics

Even if it was possible, who knows if we could even get them built. I half suspect we (as a country) will pick WWIII over nuclear reactors, we're so afraid of them.
I discussed this phenomenon before - it's basically just poorly written algorithms behaving oddly.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1564445

Note that your article provides no explanation as to who is being defrauded ("markets" isn't a person) or how, so I don't know what you want me to explain.
Huh? If someone knows neither where Paris nor London are, then yes, saying "Paris is far from London" indeed isn't useful. Is the distance between them a two hour drive? Do they lie half-way around the world from each other?

Except in pathological cases, we barely know how physiology affects large scale behavior, let alone how particular brain functions influence how one's interests develop and how they excel at activities, especially in the midst of the confounding environmental factors such as upbringing, schooling, and culture. We don't know where Paris or London are on the map.
> I think you need to be careful on that line of thinking. We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues.

Why on earth not? Part of ensuring cooperation on prisoner's dilemmas is punishment. It should be bad for your career to act like an asshole and make us all look bad.
Que first rule of fight club...
If you're looking for good talks on the security or technical implications of trading markets, look for microstructure details. Any talk that has a diagram of "orders" going to a "trading engine" is addressing itself at a higher level than you're interested in. Just the order entry side of a real firm OMS is too complicated to get one bubble in a diagram.

Again: strongly recommend _Trading & Exchanges_ by Harris. The TCP/IP Illustrated of markets. Supremely readable.
I am really worried... getting people to trust the capabilities of Sketchup was really easy mainly to the Google brand. Now I really hope that Trimble can convince me. Long time Sketchup user here, since Sketchup 2, good @Last days.
I highly recommend you start a Show HN thread for this.
As someone who moved back to the Bay Area recently, I spent a lot of time applying online, I mostly went out my way to avoid 3rd party recruiters as I'm grown sick of dealing with them. I wasn't out here to go in person like you are suggesting but I found that being persistent, going to company websites directly and applying was lining me up a steady stream of phone interviews. From there, its a matter of getting their interest and then they may pay for you to come out (the company that hired me covered my air fare). If you go the 3rd party recruiter route, you are most likely going to be spending a lot of time talking on the phone to these people having "fluff" conversations as they really don't know anything about programming and they are just grasping at straws trying to place you somewhere to get a commission. If you can find one that seems decent, then go with them, however be prepared to have to filter out some of these recruiters as many may be a complete waste of your time.
And the guy who, to test Gladwell's "10,000 hours" theory, has taken up golf and intends to turn pro. He knew nigh unto nothing about the game when he started. (BTW: how's he doing on that? anyone have updates?)
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Well, the biodegradability of oil-based plastic is poor, and we might find bio-based plastics with other such compelling properties.
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I'd like some data on if there are more 'why' posts that actually deliver an explanation of a comprehensively analyzed technical/business problem, compared to that common derivative opinions ping-pong.
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> However, did major markets ever really have a huge problem with lack of liquidity, 20 or 30 years ago before HFT?

Well, officially some traders in US exchanges are privileged in both information and fees ("specialist" market makers) in exchange for guaranteeing liquidity. I was not following the markets 20 or 30 years ago, but those "specialists" always claimed that they were, in fact, helping the market rather than themselves (it was demonstrably false in the mid 2000s for almost all specialists; I don't know about the 80s).

European exchanges in which no such privileged traders exist were able to pick up a lot of international and american trading volume in the last 10 years thanks to perceived anonymity and fairness. The german exchanges went as far as to slow down data streams to better connected users until they were able to offer the better connection across the board.
Absence of proof != proof of absence
>If you want to store things that you would consider sensitive, dropbox, google drive, amazon, imgur, facebook, or whatever else are not the place to do it, and you shouldn't be expecting any different.

This is true, but it shouldn't be. Ambiguous TOS's aren't helping matters. This is even more important now that companies like Google are trying to encourage people to trust their livelihoods to the cloud. They absolutely need to be as clear as possible, for their own sakes. It's odd that they allow themselves to be in a situation where their motives are questioned precisely when they're trying to get the masses comfortable with storing their lives in the cloud.
What a horrible idea if you need that mystical 1:200 soul to pull it off.
I agree with the fact that RSS is not a good protocol. But as you said unfortunately there's no alternative. I guess what really surprised me is that people consider Twitter/Facebook an alternative to RSS.
Let's say I want to sell 100 shares of MomCorp at $10.
Bob also wants to sell 100 shares of MomCorp at $10.

If, instead of employing first come first serve you use a random selection then both of us have an incentive to tell the market that we actually want to sell more than 100 shares to increase the odds that we'll actually get to sell what we want. Various bad/unpredictable/unstable things start to happen in this sort of situation.

FIFO matching leads to a stable market.
What was the cost of the flash crash? As I see it, the important take away from it wasn't the crash, but the immediate rebound. That's evidence of the inherent stability of the set up, rather than the opposite.

Yes, some people living on the edge of the market, picking pennies in front of steam rollers, probably had a few days shaved off their life expectancies due to adrenalin spikes, but I could really care less.
Ah, that's a good excuse. Thanks :)
Humans are also far less transparent than algorithmic market makers. Talk to professionals about the specialist system. It's (words chosen carefully) hard to take anyone seriously who pines for the good old days of 1970's and 1980's trade execution.
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Yes. Thanks. Arrggh, so many people reading my bad writing.
This is a very good example of a geek's solution to the wrong problem.

The point of pullups is to improve upper body strength and muscularity. Once one is able to do 10-15 pullups in one set with bodyweight the stress of this unweighted movement is insufficient to cause much further adaptation.

At this point the trainee should start doing pullups with added weight and/or do pullups on ropes, a fat bar or a vertical pipe.

So, instead of actually making real progress in improving his grip, upper body and back strength, the OP has managed to spend a lot of money quantifying something almost worthless. That money and time could have been productively invested in buying some sand, putting it in heavy garbage bags and then loading a backpack to add weight to his pullups.

Note: For a cheap(possibly free) pullup training tool simply get a regular claw hammer, use the claw on top of the doorjam(or tree limb) and grab the handle with both hands and do pullups. Chalking your hands will almost certainly be required otherwise they will slip off.
And people get to keep their jobs.
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What is your take on Zero Hedge? It drives me sort of bananas, but I'm not a pro.
Barely. A weight loss program consisting of "my muscle will burn off extra calories" will not go far.
>We don't want conferences censoring presenters because of reputation issues

Yes you do. You don't want a heavy editorial hand, but you want there to BE a hand. Wanting absolutely no judgement is a great way to let total crap in.
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In isolation, I might be inclined to agree with you. But taken in the context of programming culture as a whole, it was simply inappropriate. Go look at http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com and then read the story and tell me it still doesn't sound problematic to you.

Women really are underrepresented in programming in the US, so we don't even have the refuge of saying it's unprofessional but harmless. This talk isn't a huge problem in itself, but it is one tentacle of a monstrous beast of a problem.

And I'm not saying we should crucify Matt or even give him the stink eye, but I do think we should make it clear that we're not OK with that kind of talk.
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Answer this question and you will need no evidence:

What would a stock be worth the day of the IPO if there was no way to sell it the day after the IPO?
Yup, 100% agree.
SketchUp is such a great tool. I use it for - furniture design! There's a healthy community of furniture design geeks out there.

Sadly, I can't see much synergy between GPS hardware and furniture design. I wish the acquirer was a CAD/design company. Hope we don't lose a great resource.
I wouldn't. That's not just white-knighting either. You can't have a culture like that and be seriously committed to making amazing products. That's a culture that chases the outwardly flashy, not the inwardly brilliant.

I only work on products that espouse the latter.
The post mentions that the disk performance of Amazon small ec2 instances was poor enough to justify the relatively expensive large instances. If the blog author is on HN, were you using Amazon EBS or ephermeral storage to back Riak? I have seen different advice regarding using ephermeral storage to increase disk performance at the expense of data integrity in the event of instance termination. I remember Reddit programmers saying they run Cassandra on ephermeral storage.
>> It does nothing but alienate women.

In addition, there are personal/professional costs too:

* It does nothing but create the perception that you're not a professional worth listening to.

* It also does nothing to make a non-brogrammer want to hire you (or the company you work for) in the future.
Having seen the Wii U at E3 last year--it being a "clear failure" is increasingly likely.

I remember when the Wii was shown at E3 2005--lines were HUGE. You had to wait for hours to get a glimpse of it. Whereas, nobody paid much attention to the Wii U.

Combined with Apple (and Facebook) completely disrupting the games business--I don't think it bodes well for Nintendo (or Sony, or Microsoft) in 2013.
>you don't know what exactly is the benefit and outcome of all this learning and how it fits in web development

This is not your fault; most tutorials and intros are horrifically coded and introduced.

You'll often find obscenely arbitrary examples that have literally no place in actual coding. Take for example Backbone.js' introductions. It's an incredibly powerful tool for front end MVC work, but it took me a long time to "get it", because there are literally no examples on their site that pertain to any realistic or practical usage of the framework.

To wit: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#Model

They themselves admit that this is a useless example, but choose to use it anyway. It confuses the Model and View purposes, and if it appeared in any actual implementation of Backbone, would break just about every convention in existence. Why even use it?

I know they want to avoid telling people how to use it, because it's so open-ended, but it doesn't hurt to establish some common practices or mechanisms. It took me a long time to figure out a good way to link models and views agnostically, simply because they don't address that whatsoever in the docs.
Harvard University invests quite a bit of money in equity vehicles so for illustrative purposes I'm going to pretend they are a LP in KP.

Here's a conversation which will never happen:

"Hey, YC company! This is Bob at Endowment Management at Harvard. I've decided to forget my 20 year career in finance while simultaneously hopping straight over our trusted partners at KP and ask you directly about our investment. As you'll recall, we dropped a whole Benjamin on that software whatsamahoozit of yours, and we want to know you're working hard on protecting our investment. It shouldn't have cookies, or crackers, or whatever the trace your Facebooks on the Googles thing the WSJ was talking about this morning. You should probably give me your cell phone number so I can call at odd hours with spurious requests. By the way I hear Steve at Stanford says you're a dick for not answering your phone -- not cool! Steve paid 20 perfectly good dollars for your stock, you OWE it to him to take his questions."
I disagree. I have a pretty thick skin and was one of the many people who walked out of this SXSW talk early. It was low on useful content which made it easier to leave; but the repeated mentions of 'hot chicks' 'gang bang approach' 'nudie mags' and 'babes' just grossed me out.
That looks like a good path, I'd add CoffeeScript after jQuery as it makes a great bridge between JS and Ruby.
True indeed; othering is othering, be it over-bro-ing or ignorant defense of "nerd culture".
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Why aren't we already using hemp for plastic, paper, etc?
In the Hacker News comments on part 1 of this series, there were several comments suggesting that HFT’s somehow steal pennies from ordinary investors. I don’t agree with this claim, but I’m very interested in hearing well reasoned disagreement.

I would go past this and say that anyone who did come up with a "logical" argument would be ignoring time value of money.
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