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Probably because the cultural norm is to assume that men are entitled to get laid but women are not. Such assumptions lead to uneven social outcomes which make sex far more socially problematic for women than men, for example prostitutes are typically viewed in more negative terms than johns are. It is not unusual for someone to express the idea that it is okay for a man to pay for sex but it is evil incarnate for a woman to sell it.

While I don't happen to agree with such views I think there are some good reasons why they exist and men who hold such views often do so out of a sense of protectiveness for women generally. But if women are to achieve equality, such things need to change. Unfortunately, idealistically protesting the supposed degradation of women basically agrees with the default cultural assumption that women are mere sex objects who get used by men and thus tends to reinforce it rather than undermine it. As a woman, I have found that whining and complaining that men should not treat women as sex objects is a really weak position to take because it respects the assumption that all the power to change things is held by men, not women. A far stronger position is to turn the tables on men and talk about them like they are sex objects for my pleasure. Edit: I mean as a form of rebuttal/to make a point. In practice -- i.e. in a relationship -- I don't think it really works for either party to be objectified.

Somewhat in Space Dragon's defense, I think there may be some correlation between a man liking porn and a man treating women as mere sex objects. I cannot say though which is cause and which is effect -- i.e. whether men who view women as mere sex objects are more attracted to porn or whether watching porn promotes such attitudes. I only know that men who treated me decently tended to have little interest in porn. I don't much care for it myself, though that isn't out of judgmentalism. It simply doesn't float my boat.
Sometimes, if you don't know who to ask, it makes sense to air the question as loudly as you can and hope it reaches your audience.
That makes more sense, though it still looks like a dangerous abridgment of due process if the country that actually seizes the assets feels no need to launch an independent investigation to find out whether or not the allegations have any merit.
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That's what it's supposed to mean, but everyday usage is the opposite.
or how about the fact that many people think that monopolies are bad, yet are fine with the government completely taking over things like health care, which would create a monopoly. The same rules will also apply (IE: no competition=no innovation).
100% this. To herd cats, you open tuna cans.

Real management isn't telling people what to do. It's helping people find the intersection between what they want to do and what customers need, and then supporting them.

That strikes me as especially easy at Valve, where the whole point is to create something that other people enjoy. If you can't find fun somewhere in the vast space of "create something fun," you're dead inside.
People actually use full screen mode on a browser? I thought we were past only being able to see one application at a time, with multiple monitors and higher-resolution screens, I don't understand why you would want to full screen most applications.

The only application I ever full screen is iTerm2, and that's only so I can get enough screen room to open 10 split windows in vim.
Half of that $5000 is from a single pledge. Is it possible that they pledged $2500 to themselves to make it look like their project is getting more attention than it actually is? Or does someone out there just really really want this game?
If you haven't yet, you could try answering some of the questions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121

Maybe answering them publically would get some feedback?

Best of luck.
I know this question doesn't have bias, so I'm implying you're saying the organization doesn't work, but to me the results speak for themselves. Valve/Steam is just killing it right now, beating out huge, more established players in the gaming world. Doing something right.
Personally, I think it's up to the individual (or in this case, collective) investor to perform due diligence before handing over your cash. I've only chipped into 3 kickstarter projects, but in each instance I'd done the appropriate due diligence before signing up.

As the saying goes, a fool and their money are soon parted!
I'm not saying having a military isn't valuable. I'm saying the US spends more on its military than the next ten countries put together and maintains a foreign policy of intervening in affairs of other countries and regions. I do not believe these things are necessary to defend the country, and may actually endanger us by creating new enemies.

I'm not saying social safety nets aren't valuable. I'm saying that the current implementation does little to encourage or help people who use them to move on to something productive. I'm also saying that social security is an unsustainable pyramid scheme and that medicare is both inefficient and a poor allocation of resources.

I don't necessarily have solutions in mind for the latter problems; they're hard problems and not in a field with which I have experience. What I am saying is that I don't feel obligated to pay any more in taxes than I have to when on the order of 90% of the money will go toward things that I believe aren't constructive.
Do the dishes in the office sink get washed? If so, by whom? And how clean is the kitchen area?

This may seem like a joke, but the answer says a lot about an organization. For example, last time I was at the Wikimedia Foundation offices, this sign was above the sink:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:These_dishes_may_requ...
Good point, I made an amendment.
"which also gives them an advantage over smaller companies and individuals that can't do that."

So? They also get lower rates on car rentals, hotel rooms, components, office supplies etc. and can choose from a larger pool of potential employees. And a million other things that "smaller companies and individuals" can't.
Cue the Agile coaches switching over to teaching "Valve". "Refinery" meetings are held in a format called the "Engine room".
I understand the parent comments point as well as yours. I realize this won't be an issue for most of the employees, but bad apples sneak through everywhere, it's human nature, and I specifically wanted to understand how they might handle that.
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Hang on... WTH???

The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance?

This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. Between this and java.sun.com being offline it's pretty much the biggest red flag to stay away from Oracle as far as possible I could imagine.
In the dark days when I worked for financial traders, once a year the company would set aside a pool for bonuses and then try to figure out how to share it out based on contribution. If you went around and asked people what percentage they deserved and then added them up, the total would never be less than 300%.

I don't think most people are quite as bad about this as financial traders, but I imagine no group's numbers add up to 100% exactly. What's the dynamic like at Valve, and how do you make sure people feel fairly treated?
100% right on focus, but this part is grating:

"But as you know, a few key people in any business have disproportionate impact on the company’s ultimate success. And nobody is more important in this regard than senior management."

You see recommendations for this management style throughout Mark's blog posts. IMO, he is advocating a style that is more centralized than is effective in the uncertain environment of a startup. Strong central control works great when you are executing on a clear business model. Prior to that, you want empowered employees who have a shared view of the current business model hypothesis and are confident enough to question it.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem

"Post-mortem (disambiguation)" => "Postmortem documentation, a technical analysis of a finished project."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem_documentation
Ah, got it. I thought you were talking about all workers rather than the occasional bad apple. Great question.
Thanks; we had an internal debate on wether or not to use ads, and we decided to see what happened if we included them. It is backed by bootstrap.
I've had it happen to me several times. It's always been jarring. Last time it happened, it was Preview that had been full screen.
I have a slightly different feeling of what the internet is doing for politics. It's a subtle change, but one which I think has outsized long-term effects.

Basically, my thesis is that we are generating more collective wisdom in the past. There are more "raw stories," and scandals are almost impossible to cover up once they're leaked to the public. Representation for all sides of an argument can be found whenever desired. The rabble-rousers of comment sections everywhere are always willing to debate, even if they usually aren't very good. As all age groups start to contribute, it becomes easier to get a "long view" of society now vs. in the past. And at the bare minimum, we have Wikipedia's record of reality, which may not be perfect, but on matters of political importance, is usually wrung dry of fallicious statements very quickly.

While this doesn't change the human condition - we're still going to act in dumb self-interest and get swayed with a lot of the same old tricks - a collective change in perception is a major factor for subsequent changes in action. Everyone says the voting public should be well-informed...and increasingly, they are!

But we're still in the "catch-up" phase. Although there are many obvious problems with society as we know it, that doesn't mean we've found answers yet.
Ugh. No. Every damn news site on the planet misrepresented the Star Command money issue.

First, Star Command didn't fail to deliver. It simply hasn't delivered yet. The game was being shown at a trade show last month. It's on it's way. This is not a case of a cancelled project or someone running off with the money.

Second, the article's statement that only 4k went to the game is an outright lie. They clearly state that 6k went to music, 5k to marketing (poster + PAX), and 1k to development/demo hardware. That's not necessarily ideal but it's not entirely unreasonable either. You can argue the marketing/hardware issue perhaps, but 6k went directly into the game in the form of music.

The real lesson to take away from Star Command is their under-estimation of time and money required to create, package, and ship backer rewards. That's the real danger that other projects should be wary of.
I would have liked them to move to bitbucket.org because it was built with Django.
The article mentioning Ireland touched home for me. That's where the bulk of RIM's developer payments come from. Until now I thought my dj app was just REALLY popular with the Irish.
This is a very neat idea. A couple of questions come to mind:

Do you rely on an outside source for picture identification? If so, what's your plan if/when it fails? If not, do you plan to build your own in-house system?

Have you tested whether your code has any impact in page load speed (Y-Slow and company)?

Related to Q1, if you have your own in-house system, will you have your own database of pictures for feature extraction/matching, and how do you plan to make it large enough (and grow it fast enough) to accomodate the wide variety of pictures that people take and post?

I think that if you implement this well, you potentially have a real winner here. Best of luck to you!
Things that weren't in the mid 90's: stack overflow, google, gmail, google docs, os x, github, git, torrents, and basically every tool I use to make things with my computer (besides bash).

No I don't want to go back.
Does the DTD have the right headers set to allow clients to cache it?
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In a world of short attentions spans oh look an eagle!

This whole talk about low attention spans, is it backed by any real research? I'd have thought folks on Hacker News would have longer attention spans. After all, most are developers who need to get into the zone when coding, and often read copious amounts of documentation. This sort of thing requires concentration!
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I don't think this question should be downvoted. There's a lot of unsexy infrastructure stuff that just needs doing. If people can really do whatever they want, what happens to the stuff that nobody wants to do? Lightbulbs are a great example.
Go to this thread below and grill yourself with these 34 questions.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3896121

You perhaps will find yourself where you are in the application.
By the way, the idea is cool. But does your algorithms advanced enough to distinguish between items that can be bought (commercials) compared to those can't (human face, nature photographs etc to example a few)?
And still all three acronyms are totally meaningless to me.

Residual-current device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device
Sadly, if you use Python's batteries-included XML tools, this is virtually impossible to do. See http://bugs.python.org/issue2124 for some discussion.
This is why kickstarter/indiegogo need to release an api or a data dump. It will only help them and the public, just the same as the sec releases public company data.
please take this note: CUT THE CRAP
Thoreau came to the same conclusion. "I don't support war, so I'm not going to pay taxes." This, however, isn't a tenable practice for society as a whole.
They didn't collect any money, simply took pledges. And, looking at it that way, it's easy to see how it could be looked at as just a prank.
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The same argument could have been used for SourceForge back in its heyday. Times change.
Definitions notwithstanding, I tend to prefer the term 'AAR' (After Action Report). I had a manager in an early campus IT job that had been in the Marines, and he enforced a strict mandatory-AAR policy for anything even remotely complex.

It's really a fantastic idea and something I fully intend to use in every capacity that makes sense going forward. It doesn't make much sense as part of the software design flow, but it absolutely could (and probably should) be a tool in any deployment protocol.

My AARs usually read pretty much like this blog post, more or less to the T, although we emphasized what we would do differently in the future more.
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The biggest new technology breakthrough can be computer vision (so that unconstrained robots are possible). However, the type of people who can work on it are mostly working in big data (the stock market and online advertising).

It is reasonable for them to do so (the money is just sitting there to be taken), so the solution to the innovation problem is to fund more people to work on computer vision.
You don't have to compete with CS grads. There aren't enough of them. (Even if we assume that they are all brilliant and charming and competent and productive and interested in working on what the customers need and will pay for... which we do, of course. ;)

Moreover, much of what needs to be done with programming doesn't require CS knowledge as such, but rather a lot of ancillary skills that aren't taught in any school; some of them are barely even mentioned in books. There you and the CS majors start out tied.

Conspicuous among that set of skills are business skills: Not MBA stuff, but things like "here is a potential customer: what are their actual problems, can I help solve them, can I prove that to myself, can I prove that to them using words they will understand and like, will they really pay me?" So much of your work will be about these things, in programming or in physics, and CS training doesn't teach them any more than stat mech class does.
Is this a result of someone analyzing the 'hacked' files?? Either way, it's like kicking 'em while they're down!
This solves it for me, and I believe it also will for others. Everytime I wanna see something in WebGL I have to open a new Chrome window using --ignore-gpu-blacklist and then it works. This was the same.
Mostly likely that's exactly what it is. I know if I were to run a scam like this, the first thing I'd do is a bunch of fake pledges to drive eyeballs. I think the total overhead is about 10% (split between Amazon and Kickstarter), and of course you only end up paying it if the scam is a success.
I have not seen much evidence that private management is superior to any given civil service. I have seen absurd waste in the private sector in my time. I think that there is little empirical evidence to support either position. The civil service generally is handicapped by the fact that any waste exposed is made very public because they are accountable to, well, everyone. For example, journalists generally do not chase stories about waste or incompetence in private companies but publish such stories about government. Even audits that reveal waste in any private company are generally kept under wraps.
the difference is it got taken down before the prank became a scam. If it was never caught, and cashed out I don't think anyone would be calling a prank. Every system involving money always has people testing the boundries. This isn't the first and probably won't be the last.
I'd think an arc interrupter would be better.
i don't work at valve, but i work at an organisation with a very similar management structure (there is none) and payment scheme (autonomous self organizing teams are paid by clients and distribute payments as negotiated by the group). we have virtually zero overhead and minimal residual or recurring income so we are not identical to valve, but their employee handbook could very easily be ours

we have a number of 'bad apples', but they generally find themselves ostracized very quickly. as we have no downside income guarantees (we are organized as a group of independent contractors), people very quickly fall out of the organisation

i assume valve accomplish similar by minimizing payments to individuals who act in bad faith. as they are probably primarily financially motivated and valve is likely a great entry on a cv, i'm sure they don't stick around long
good idea, i could definitely use something like this. how would this work on something like heroku, where writes are restricted? would you generate it locally and commit the generated HTML in public/ to git?
I am clever and ambitious. I want to try to cure cancer. Where do I start?
"Where do I start?" is somewhat rhetorical. A major issue is that I feel my ambition would be quickly stunted by the lengthy and difficult decade-long process to get the point where I could start tinkering around with the problem, at which point I may no longer be naive enough to have the confidence to try.

I often wonder if making something like "curing cancer" (I know it isn't as simple as that) a concrete, immediate puzzle could be more effective. Kids on the internet often successfully crack security and protections professionally developed by skilled veterans- simply for the sake of anonymous notoriety- perhaps because the puzzle is immediately there for them to try to solve.

Perhaps we would focus this application of ambition to more productive problems if they were public and global, instead of sheltered behind thick, opaque layers of academic and corporate organizations.

I'm aware that there is a massive amount of training and preexisting knowledge required in tackling this sort of task- but I also can't help wondering how many minds lose their ambition or confidence going through this training and competition, eventually being frustrated or losing sight of the goal.

Nevertheless, I'd like to hear your ideas on where to start.
Damn good point. With deep thought (chess program) and now with Watson, IBM is really pushing hard AI projects that can capture the public's attention. The amazing part is that this is being done by a PRIVATE CORPORATION and not the US federal government. This is like Lockheed Martin making and launching the space shuttle, and then putting satellites into orbit. Except that, of course, the capital cost is much smaller due to the fact that these days a million dollars now buys a very capable supercomputer.
>"1) It's a net negative to GDP"

I agree with everything but the above. As you say in your example, that chore rarely gets done in 1980. Today, there can be multiple transactions of this type, done easily, everyday.
If you have any electronics, books or video games you want to get rid of, you can try Amazon's trade in program.
I hope the NZ government revises their extradition treaty in this light. USA has a legal reputation of trumped up charges to force a plea deal despite no trial. Especially if they can play the card of 'money laundering' which legally allows them to seize every asset and cash.

USA is becoming a very dangerous country.
Does this assume that developers should wash the dishes? If so, why is that a good idea? I would assume that developer time is too expensive for that...
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I will try to put this in perhaps another way: The Internet doesn't have to spur economic growth, it can benefit end users directly. The fact that there can be a discussion on Reddit about the revolution in Egypt, that includes somebody from Egypt chiming in giving a first person account, that's astounding, but won't ever get reflected in money changing hands. It's direct value to the user. Money is just a store of value, sometimes you don't need to store it.
Are you talking about Boot2Gecko?

I personally like both and wouldn't mind either, or both, being top market share leaders. Tho Boot2Gecko is certainly years away from stability.
For what it's worth, I've seen plenty of failures of other sorts. One of the most common is the "field of dreams" failure mode, where you focus on building your vision, rather than on understanding your customers and building what they actually need in a sustainable fashion.

The canonical example is Webvan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan

They were focused to a fault.
Until the pay is comparable to finance, good luck?

I'd love to work on (arguably) cooler problems, but the combination of lower pay and the constant need to use the "hot new thing" to solve problems doesn't make transitioning look remotely attractive.

Really, the second is the HUGE obstacle:
- You don't know anything about aNNs? Sorry, no job.
- Nobody uses aNNs anymore, SVMs are all that matters. Sorry, come back after you catch up.
- SVMs? Man, we need someone who's got expertise in optimizing RFs and Bayesian Trees. We don't want "black box" machine learning. We need to "understand" the results. Sorry no job.
- Decision trees? GTFO man. We're doing rNNs now.
- I'm pretty impressed with your data mining knowledge, but we're looking for someone with a background in DLMs and GPs. Sorry, no job.
- repeat until vomit/suicide

I kind of wonder about the need for "badass" math skills; I'm not terribly convinced that math wizards are extraordinarily high value relative to people with other types of data analysis skills.
This is a common "issue" in design studios and the like. I've always been the kinda guy who enjoys using a lunch break to clean/fix up/replace the small things, because it's just what I'd do at home. Obviously there are places where people feel like they're dumb tasks, but I'd imagine that as the quality and mutual respect goes up (as in a place like Valve) there are more people likely to behave similarly.