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Rob, I think that if you re-read knowtheory's comment you may find that your reply does not address its substance - and that, in fact, you are in broad agreement.

Knowtheory cited the case of male nursing precisely because it's a dissimilar example to women in tech. His critique is that it's not enough just to swap gender roles, because we carry along all of the mental and cultural baggage associated with masculinity and femininity. When we recontextualize gender roles, we're not really understanding the contrary perspective with any depth.

Put another way, there's a difference being a man in women's shoes and being a woman in women's shoes.

Anways, thanks for taking the time to write the article - it was enjoyable to read and thought provoking. I'm always appreciate of articles that try to promote understanding instead of enforcement.
Women don't have their chests looked at in fields where they aren't a minority?

Or is minority status merely a red herring?
I hope you'll pardon me for making assumptions about your age, but if there were one lesson that I could teach the younger generation (or even just my own child), it would be 'assume good faith'.

Because they want somebody out of the company doesn't have to mean that they're shady, or that they're angry. I can think of dozens of reasons why you might want to get rid of someone that wouldn't have any bearing on them personally.
And men get beaten up in the streets for no reason way more than women.

Pretty absurd, but we deal with it.
I keep a couple of gift cards in my wallet and hand them out if someone's in trouble. I tell them there's money on it but not how much. Obviously, someone could still sell the gift card, but the buyer will have to take him at his word.
Same thing happened with OO, where people have been discussing whether C++ or JavaScript or Python or Smalltalk are "real OO", rather than discussing if the patterns they support are useful or not.
http://sandofsky.com/blog/apps-vs-the-web.html
http://sandofsky.com/blog/shell-apps.html

Cough.
There is no need to be a slightly asexual man in gay men environment.

It is quite enough that you are a man in a mostly female environment. When a woman approaches you and you turn her down then strange shit starts happening.
Cloudflare has an open CDN at http://www.cdnjs.com/ that hosts a ton of popular and not so popular js libraries. The link for html5shiv is http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/html5shiv/r29/html5.js
Tickets, food and anything else is always almost refundable, so in most cases, it would have been cheaper to have given them a quarter, even a dollar.
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Yes, lets read an article by a straight man about how the gays kept him out of the fashion industry by finding him attractive and behaving effeminately.

Then lets try to take it even half as seriously as articles about how those geeks keep women out of tech by finding them attractive and behaving nerdily.
Software patents are bad, okay?
He got into them before that became obvious.
Now it is. He is too stubborn or too blind to state this truth; instead he hides behind "business community is still excited".

Stallman organizing protest can not be more wrong than Pike not acknowledging the problem.
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You obviously never got assaulted by strangers for just passing by?
This is hardly the point. In my experience as a person and engineer I find that there are really no easy solutions or answers to anything. Not in life, not in technical stuff, nor in politics.

As such I have a healthy disdain for people who knowingly and willingly oversimplify or scream to make their point. This doesn't help anybody accept perhaps attracting a crowed that yells "me to" or "it is an outrage"

For this article he could have written or investigated quite a lot of things. For example the process or system that the Netherlands uses to assign a judge to a case. That is kind of vital information if you are going to establish a link between the judge presiding a case, the specific case, the plaintiffs and the outcome. Where is it?

Perhaps it would be nice to note for a (foreign) audience what exactly a Dutch judge does in a case. It is a far cry from an American judge, I can tell you that.

These court cases with the so called corrupt judge? Were they appealed? And if so successfully and why? An other bit of vital information that is no where to be found. What exactly does the dutch law say about copyright? How actually does one hire or fire a judge in the Netherlands? Surely, if anybody, the lawyer of the accused has reason to pursue action and to open his mouth. Etc etc etc.

If you are going to assert in a headline that "someone is proven to be corrupt" or "is proven to have robbed a bank" I expect to read an article that has a bit more to say than a vague accusation mixed in with the fact that you obviously don't agree with the guy.

Hence, sensationalistic, unproven and misleading.
Apple has been consistent in it's policies. It has always been a closed castle. That is one reason why I haven't spent any bucks buying Apple products. One good thing about their consistency is that their browsers and other software is pretty good. Safari is much decent browser than crappy IE.

Microsoft on other hand has always grown with partners. They are not a closed castle. So when they try to gag a great software like Firefox I am upset.

This comes at a time when Linux based OS like Ubuntu are perhaps as good as Windows 7. MS is hurting itself.
>For many years, we were locked into brand-only phones because they were the only ones in the "allowed" database.

That is still the case. Verizon and Sprint will not activate any phone that they haven't previously sold.
Thats great of you :) I agree completely. I don't think we should believe that we have the right to judge others just because they are poorer than ourselves. Too many people do.

Even if they use my money to drink themselves into oblivion, thats their choice and I'm happy that I can provide them with the means to do whatever they want with their lives.

That said, I do prefer to give to certain types of people. It can be hard to really tell how needy someone is, but generally I don't give to children (this encourages parents to not send them to school), those who occupy prime locations (main street, outside a supermerket etc. - as I've seen these being worked by groups who muscle others out of their patch - and besides they make plenty of money from others there), and those who hassle every passing stranger.
I've had most of the events mentioned in the article happen to me, by women.

I was also labeled as gay in milieu for turning down a woman.

I was hit on by gay men in an extremely uncomfortable fashion more than once.

I was also assaulted by complete strangers for no reason at all.

I was also isolated and bullied by my schoolmates in kindergarten and primary school (boys and girls).

And if I go and complain about it I will be labeled as less than a man. So why should I care?

p.s.: Disclaimer. Since I grew big and strong enough to do it I also disallow any kind of improper behavior in my presence.
That post shows Rob's opinion in 1982, 1991 and 2006.

I wonder what his opinion is now.

Whatever it is, its going to be considered. But it doesn't mean it hasn't evolved.
This is a very specific selection. There are plenty of modern languages that don't use printf semantics or C-like syntax. Too, there's languages from the 80s and 90s that did: Python (1991), R (1993), and PHP (1995) come to mind for direct printf analogs.
No, Anonymous is better than the black bloc. Anonymous does things on their own, in such a chaotic way that the people who they are supporting can disavow their actions pretty easily. Whereas the black bloc attaches themselves to peaceful demonstrations organized by entirely different groups and fucks them up.

The black bloc is a demonstration to the spectator that, deep down, under every group of peaceful demonstrators for peace or civil rights, is a scary looking bomb throwing terrorist who wants to hurt you because you like Starbucks.

P.S. Comparing things is not the same as saying they're the same, and the doublespeak and doublethink required to avoid comparing That Which Should Not Be Compared makes the world stupider and you should be ashamed for participating in that kind of public shaming. It's probably the defining characteristic of America, the Uncomparable.
Because if you did not sign, there is no written contract for that transaction, so there is far less of a case that the charge is valid. Regardless of what the signature looks like, you are liable if it was you (or someone you authorized) who signed and you are not liable otherwise. You are even liable if you charged for the transaction but did not sign - there is just no written, signed contract, so you are presumed not to have agreed to the charge.

None of the above is legal advice as IANAL, however I do believe it is correct.

Do you really think a merchant can verify those electronic scribbles on a tiny, crappy pen input device? No. Any mark made by you with the intent to sign is a legal signature.

Read more here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9227832...
Is the author related to this post made 4 days ago here on HN? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3942636
What's unique here is the whole package - the personal touch, the cheap product, the honesty and openness. I have never seen anything equivalent on any big-name person/band on the internet. If you have specific examples please share them because the Radiohead experiment was one-off and it has long since ended.

Of course small bands/artists have been doing this - they have no choice. Very few people break away from the comfort of big-business checks once they get there to try stuff on their own. You have to remember he could have lost a ton of money if the original experiment failed, but it did not because people respect it and supported it.

This is news because it proves DRM-free content at a low price can be a worthy endeavor that supports the artist directly - not because someone is selling shit on a website.
This comment nails it:

"""Please read "Quiet - The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking" by Susan Cain

Saying its a habit is saying that you can easily overcome it. I don't feel it's a choice, do you know how many times I thought about ending my life because I hated being born an introvert and shy?

This article might as well be called: If you are shy, its you're fault, stop being lazy and change.

Once gays are accepted the biggest issue is probably going to be that introverts dont feel accepted in this extravert world."""

The conflation of terms like shyness and introversion (etc) has been discussed before, so I'll leave that one alone. The last two sentences of the comment are more interesting. If you are shy, is that necessarily bad? And is it your "fault"?

The other issue applies as well. It's not OK to fire someone because of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, etc; but firing someone because they are "shy" or "introverted" or "not a people person" seems to be perfectly acceptable and legal. Shouldn't that be considered discrimination as well? (Assuming that "being good with people" isn't a requirement of the job.)
You can use an explicit trampoline to make sure you don't block the stack. It's not as clean, but still better than loops.
Well, his approach might also be influenced by the fact that he is a comedian
> Show current date without having to see calendar app. Put it in the notification center

If your phone is on, hit the power button twice (power off, then power on) - the current date appears in the slide-to-unlock screen.
Just wanted to provide a bit of additional information on the US foreign income tax exclusion: You only qualify if you are outside of the US for 330 days of 365. Otherwise you're responsible for your full tax load. http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=108276,00.html
This is a lovely outcome, and illustrative of how people can exercise their right to assemble peaceably and make their views known.

In the wider World, we should think twice about criminalizing peaceful protesters, as some recent laws seem to be doing.

cite: http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/ready-occupy-what-you-n...
Yea, I'm a big fan of much of Rob's work (from Plan 9 to Go), but about this he is plain wrong.

At the same time I'm a big critic of RMS and his work (from GCC to the GPL, passing by the Free Software Song ;) but he is right that software patents are a very harmful monster.
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You make a lot of valid points, but I don't think OP knows the answers to those things either. Maybe he is just opening up discussions and that's were I don't agree with you; as a tool to make people think he shouldn't have not written the article; it worked. People are reading it on HN and thinking about it.

I do think it helps. But it's very difficult to see what helped in the end. There were a lot of 'uninformed' articles about SOPA, especially in the big news outlets; I'm willing to bet (but have no proof) that those made the outcry larger than the technically correct and informative ones on HN etc.

But it's hard to tell what makes the pendulum swing and better researched at this time is better, but nothing at all is worse.
Maybe I'm too trusting, but I can't imagine Apple would provide a worse experience than I've had with AT&T for the last few years.

Also, I'm pretty certain that even if Apple controlled the "virtual-SIM" card, there would still be hackers jailbreaking and unlocking the devices to make them work on other networks. So, I'm not too scared.
My favorite bit so far:

if you know how your computer is beating inside, you are hard to fool
Didn't Japan have SIM-less phones like 20 years ago?
Don't recall if they were tied to a single network though.
A little off topic, but here in the USA Supreme Court judge Antonin Gregory Scalia went on a vacation with Vice President Dick Cheney, shortly before Cheney's case went before the Supreme Court.

I may be wrong about this, but when I was younger it seemed like corruption was well hidden from public view, now the elites rub our faces in the fact that they can get away with just about anything.
The situation is not similar in Sweden. In fact, from the entire planet, Sweden is one of most dissimilar places.
Are all rhetorical questions bad?
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That will be interesting. Shame it takes so long and it will be 'komkommertijd' (summer) so although media will write about it, they already know that not many will read. On the other hand; it's a good time to get ANYTHING in any press starting june, so why not this?

Very curious to see if it's Hensen again. I would think it is.
I don't find it likely that Tweakers is going to write a full article about this. As on of their writers stated "a serious accusation and not very convincing"
You'll never know 'til you try? Sure, but most people get plenty of chance to try mathematics at school. And while school-level mathematics ain't the same as research-level mathematics, enough of it uses the same bits of brain that by the time you hit university you already know whether you're brilliant at mathematics or not.

Terry Tao was clearly brilliant at mathematics as a child, though what nobody knew then was that he'd go on to be super-brilliant at mathematics as an adult, rather than being one of the many disappointing prodigies.

Anyway, I'm pretty smart, but I don't take career advice from anyone as smart as Terry Tao, just as I don't take dating advice from Scarlett Johannsen.
> Before I unintentionally start a flame war

This statement would be needed if anyone thought HN was an example of good design and usability, I don't think I've ever seen a comment here claim that, it seems everyone acknowledges that HN was built to work (as in, do the very minimum it can to exist) and nothing more. The lack of polish with HN is part of the charm really.
According to this article they were locked and one couldn't purchase a SIM separately. So no, they weren't SIM-less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_industry_in_Japan...
What I want is a jQuery-like library that can dynamically load alternative versions based on the browser in use, so that modern browsers load something close to zepto, while IE6 loads all the fixin's.
I guess some people's problem is that we "care what [the beggars] do with it" when we give money.

i.e. I don't want to give someone money that they'll use to further destroy their life with drugs/alcohol/whatever. I don't want to be complicit in that action. If that's too 'morally' or 'judgemental' for some people, so be it.

Now, I'm more than happy to buy them some food, transportation, etc. Or even better, spend some time with them (when possible) and treat them like a real person for a few minutes.
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The governments of the US might tolerate dual citizenship, or turn a blind eye towards to it, but legally speaking, it's not allowed; you can have allegiance to only the United States.
I fail to see how the gypsy beggars are the problem and not your legislation or enforcement.
If hostile begging is an issue, legislate it out of the streets. Pass a law that would criminalise it once you've been caught three times.

Instead of complaining, you better appeal to your fellow citizens and solve it
I used to do the same thing while I was commuting to San Francisco to do an expert system for PacBell. Lots of homeless people begging and the people I worked with lectured me on not giving them money. That was in my pre-vegetarian days and I had a serious hamburger addiction; occasionally when I bought a hamburger, I would buy a second one to hand to an apparently homeless person.
What's wrong with marketing an article? People respond well to questions, "Top 5...", and other tried and true methods of "baiting" someone into giving your post a chance.

I don't I would have read your post if it was titled like an academic paper.
I'm not sure what the point of this is. It seems pretty petty. To wit, we could have just we well written...

MACLISP (1980):
(format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
--> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI

C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby:
...uh...

COMMON LISP:
(format t "Week ~R of the ~:R month of the year ~:@R~%" 15 102 1996)
--> Week fifteen of the one hundred second month of the year MDCCCCLXXXXVI

There are powerful print functions and then there are powerful print functions.
Great writing! I've known about this hardware for years but it still sold me. (at least until the 20 year payoff calculation.)
I'd say the best way to learn more about vim if you are already a heavy vim user is to join both the vim-dev and vim users mailing list in google groups. People post questions in the vim user mailing list every day and I've learned many new things just by reading the answer that other people gave.
User: rawrr69, on Reddit: "His writing style, long and nested sentences and use of commas are another hint. Plus he likes to laugh about and feel superior to other people and rectify their "mistakes" - 100% definitely German."
Something interesting about the article (and how analytic number theory is done in general).

As mentioned in the article, it was proved over 50 years ago that every odd N can be written as a sum of three primes, provided N is sufficiently large. The proof extends to cover five primes instead, if you like (indeed, write N = 2 + 2 + (N - 4), but in fact the five primes case is in fact easier).

Usually in such proofs the definition of "sufficiently large" is maybe like 10^(10^(10^(10^(10^10000)))) or something similarly absurd, possibly far worse, and it is typically difficult even to calculate such a fixed N, because then you can't use big-O estimates in your calculations. Sometimes you can't even compute such an N, it is "ineffective", see e.g. here for an example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegel_zero

Tao's accomplishment, which was really cool, was to bring the value of N down to the level where you could settle the small N case by brute force.
Windows Mesh had a bad habit of locking files unnecessarily when I was working with them, which got in my way and I had to get rid of it. Mesh sounded better on paper.
Best debunk I have read (the statistics start about halfway into the article):

http://owningyourshit.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-feminism-hate...

Note that the author is female and has been sexually assaulted (read attempted rape in a park).
GitHub, seriously, if Torwalds takes the time to point out a flaw in your software, listen to him! Really.
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there is plenty of clock apps with timers in the store.
"cross-browser" is a misnomer that seems to have been invented by DOM library authors as a marketing tool.

If we're talking about the en vogue subset of browsers, then QSA has support. If we're talking about a set of browsers where a usable DOM implementation is provided (most dating back to Netscape), then, no, support is not provided.

"Works in all browsers" should be closer to the latter, not the former.
We really go for this in libguestfs, generating about 300,000 lines of C boilerplate (mainly bindings for languages, and RPC generation). We use about 20,000 lines of OCaml to do this. This has proved itself over and over again to have been a smart move.

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/tree/e275786cb2bce7...

$ ./generator/generator
generated 300518 lines of code
I appreciate your candor and honesty.
Ther are beggars and beggars. I suspect those in India wer truly poor and the solution was to go numb onthem.
The ones mentioned inEurope are begging for sport. It is actually organized crime type of thing. The can and should be policed.
Because the Titanic was sunk by a not-awesome iceberg?
mine was numbnuts.xxxx
No. Wait... I see what you did there.
Hmm, posting on a Saturday is not the best tactical time to get someone at HN to read this post... it'll have disappeared off the front-page long before Monday
When there is a singular person responsible for a decision, corruption is inevitable. They are an easy target.

Judicial decisions should be taken by a council rather than an individual.
If he replies to this post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363) with it then it should get noticed, that post seems to be checked every now and again.
Hi,

I have no idea if you are a woman or a man, but as a woman in tech, I feel compelled to reply.

I appreciated this story. Not so much the comments attached to it on HN, but the story itself. If it got some guys thinking about how they would feel if this happened:

"You don't look like a programmer! When did you get into computers? That's kinda hot..."

Which has happened to me so many times I've lost count...usually followed closely by "Are you single?"

If it gets guys to stop saying THAT...then it was well worth the whole thing.
Thanks for the information! I doubt it will come to a confrontation, but it's been an itch I couldn't scratch for almost a year now pondering the implications.
Lol - I bought the first video, and now one of the audios. However, at the end of the process I didn't remember my old password. So I clicked 'I forgot my password' and it said 'Oh my god, you're an idiot' and sent me an email with a new one - a random password beginning with the letters 'idiot' :-D Love the humour.