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In humans, at least, hormones are responsible for the majority of developmental differences. Chromosomes usually determine what hormones will be released at different stages of development, but this doesn't always hold true - e.g. de la Chapelle syndrome and complete androgen insensitivity syndrome.

Trans men and women usually undergo hormone replacement therapy which sends their body through a second puberty; they develop the secondary sex characteristics of their transitioned sex. These hormones also influence emotional responses and other psychological aspects in the same way they would influence a cis (non-trans) person.

Several studies [1] have shown that there are similarities in brain structure of trans individuals to their cis counterparts. The most common hypothesis used to explain physiological differences in trans individuals is that infants are exposed to androgen levels that are either too high or too low, causing the brain to sexually differentiate towards a different sex than other parts of the body.

So, while trans women may have benefited from male privilege in their lives pre-transition, they may not necessarily "think like men". (And the inverse is true for trans men.)

In addition, wages for trans women tend to fall post-transition, while wages for trans men increase. [2]

Amber faces the same sexism as all women, and her physiology and brain structure are likely quite different than those of a cis man. That she was assigned male at birth is less relevant than you think.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexualism#Brain_...
[2] http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/04/lgbt_wage_gap...
I'm getting downvoted, so let me explain. I wish people would discuss their ideas instead of downvote beliefs they disagree with.

1) Space themes – This is old in Apple land. Leopard launched with a space screensaver and the galaxy background. This was in 2007. Every year they update the space themes. Not cool, not sci-fi, and far from unique.

2) Packaging – The packing mirrors Apple's current packaging exactly. Side color with white text, main image from a direct shot, black text on white.

3) Utilitarian Design – The stark modernist style was pioneered by Apple. I run a design firm, and the number one thing I've heard consistently over the past ten years "I want to look like Apple". I got sick of Apple's style in 2002. Stark in computers is one brand.

4) Logos – The flat shape approach would be good if it wasn't mirroring Apple again. The lack of depth, the application on images, the short "inspirational" text...all of this is so common for Apple it is pained. Windows is one of the most recognized brands in the world, so it still needs to retain the iconic nature.

Do I think this is cool? Yes. But do I think they should do it? No way! Adopting this design is adopting cultural defeat. MS gets labeled a copycat and the worst thing they could do would be to rip-off the worlds most profitable brand.

Why not adopt the Metro approach? It can be refined further, made into a similar overview, and actually still "feels" Microsoft with being something completely new.
I'd like to see some numbers. How many phones are part of the botnet and how many messages is this botnet sending?
that's true for any task that is mostly bound by intellect rather than something else. The cab driver can only drive so much faster / better than everyone else because he is constrained by the traffic and the car. In the case of pure intellectual pursuits like writing a novel, or painting, there is a vast difference between the masters and the average person. Same thing for programming, it's part art, part science, mostly constrained by intellect.
Ask PG: has the hotness algorithm changed? Stories seem to stay longer…
In the past few days, I've felt that stories have stayed on the front page longer than usual.

Right now, I see a lot of stories that I saw this morning or maybe even yesterday (e.g. the Higgs boson cartoon, the Flip ship, the next Microsoft, PageRank and soccer, MVC/MOVE…). A couple have a lot of points but the Flip story for example has "only" 230 points and 27 comments but is 18 hours old. Fairly unusual it seems.

Not that this is necessarily a bad thing and it could just be that there have been less visitors or something else… but I'm curious.
Just to let you know, you'll have to request your keys over a number of days as there appears to be a limit to the number of keys you can claim within a 24 hour period.
No... the reason it is stable is because a) the waterplane area is small compared to the overall mass of the vessel; and b) the natural frequency of the vessel is far removed from the forcing frequency (wave frequency).

Think of it this way: The vessel in perfectly calm water will sit at a particular level. Now a wave comes, and briefly the force acting on the ship is "proportional" to the buoyancy volume, ie height of the wave and the area of water that the hull intersects. Nothing can be done about the wave height, but the waterplane area can be reduced, minimising the force. The price you pay for that is a low payload.

Now if the vessel had a natural frequency of bobbing up and down close to the frequency of the waves, a resonance could occur which would amplify the motions. But the natural frequency of such a structure is by design very low, many times lower than the wave frequency, so resonance does not occur.

Other structures which operate on the same principle are semi-submersible drilling/production vessels (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-submersible) and "spar" type oil production platforms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_(platform)). The need to support a heavy payload on these structures makes the design quite challenging, as a good compromise must be found between hull cost, payload and low motions.

Interestingly, another type of oil platform, the tension-leg platform, takes the opposite approach of having a very stiff anchoring system and a high natural frequency to achieve the same effect of low vertical motion in heavy seas.

(I am an engineer in the oil and gas industry with many years of deepwater development experience).
Have you tried the "feather" UI from the Youtube Labs/beta page?
Off-topic, this is one of the most readable sites I've ever visited. What is it, exactly, that makes that typesetting so pleasing to the eye?
I don't know about Stanford, but in several other schools, it stands for Operations Research.
> Windows is becoming irrelevant to the elite. It's a bizarre phenomenon given that MS is still dominant in the OS

That is a terrible symptom for their case. In that long term that is what will kill them. They ignore the geeks and people who eventually end up promoting technology.

For example, looking at some open source projects (say Redis), a Windows version is not even supported. Most just assume you have 'gcc' and 'make' installed and will compile the project that way.

Now they are trying to appeal to the cool kids, they got Erik Meijer, they have F# but it is just not enough.
Check your SLA definitions. http://www.virtualizationpractice.com/technically-the-amazon...

Edit: Not that I agree or disagree with that SLA. Just noting it is documented somewhere besides a glyph in a legend.
Cell phone records to convict the mob that burned 1000 people alive
"Thousands of cases against rioters were dismissed by the police for lack of evidence despite eyewitness accounts.

But in 2004, the Supreme Court intervened, acting on petitions from human rights groups. The court ordered that more than 2,000 dismissed cases be reopened, a special police team be created and some trials be transferred out of Gujarat. The wheels of justice began to turn, leading more victims to press claims.

That year, a lawyer representing victims was cross-examining a top police official when the official laid a CD on the table in front of him.

“What’s that?” asked the lawyer, Dr. Mukul Sinha.

“Evidence,” answered the officer, Rahul Sharma.

The CD contained records of every cellphone call made in Ahmedabad during the worst of the rioting. The records allowed advocates to construct precise timelines of the movements of many rioters, timelines that often dovetailed with the accounts of riot victims but contradicted those of the accused.

Dr. Sinha is still mining the records for evidence, but Mr. Modi’s government is vigorously trying to suppress the investigation, charging the officer who provided the records with violating the Official Secrets Act."
If real, I wonder if someone is interested in selling via bitcoin for anonymity. Or a marketing stunt...
The raid carried out by NZ authorities was declared illegal by a judge, for one..

Furthermore, "Kim Dotcom is a $negative_thing" is an adhom no matter how you slice it, when the question is "Do his claims have any merit". He could be a mother-stabbing father-raper, claims are still supposed to be evaluated on their merit, not their speaker!
Email to support would be a great idea. Maybe you can show a confirmed/verified icon for apps that have been verified in this manner.
and you just _know_ some people would be ordering them 6 months before they were available.. .. never mind that to avoid damaging yourself you'd have to load it so light the bullet would be visible in flight - I am sure it would sell.
I'd say it applies even more to great developers. Good programming greatly multiplies a single person's work. When great developers get together and all understand a set of best practices along with bringing in unique individual talents, then their creative output will be exponentially better than a group of lesser programmers.
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Except in Android's, and especially the Nexus series of phones case, any random can do whatever fixes to the core code they wish - that's not something you can do in Apple land. I'd be shocked to learn that third party patches don't exist for at least some of the rough edges.
This doesn't negate your point, but Yahoo Japan is a different company from Yahoo (which owns about a 30% stake in it).
I don't think I'm going out on a limb here for thinking it's common and mainstream news for the Internet. It's also been covered multiple times.

If this isn't mainstream, then very few things are. Trending on Twitter, frontpage of reddit, it's had coverage in many newspapers, and so on. I think a weak test of it being 'mainstream' on the Internet, assuming that is the optimal way to determine, has been met.
I'd say programming is most constrained by politics, management & technical debt.
I'm guessing he's about to be disbarred again.
Ahh but can it be proved that language can prove anything?
I cringe a little bit in some of these education threads. On one hand, students who chose to major in something that isn't very marketable right now are lambasted for making a poor decision based on what sounds interesting to them, and they get blame heaped on them for being in debt and having nothing to show for it. On the other hand, when people choose CS - a field that has very good earning prospects right now - their intentions are immediately questioned and we ask "Are they just doing it for the money?"

It must kind of suck to be someone entering college right now without natural interest for and aptitude in a STEM field.
This happened during the first bubble. Everyone became CS majors when companies started giving away cars if you knew Java. I remember helping out psychology majors switching to computer science, who were failing their first CS class.
wouldn't that be the case with any sort of group project? i.e. hard sciences
I honestly believe his wife is mentally ill. Have you read her posts on the forum she runs... that only she and Charles are allowed to post on?
Recent Stanford alum here. I think it's difficult to parse out exactly why CS is becoming popular at Stanford now.

I would argue that the principal reason for the popularity of CS is because of the amazing teaching in the introductory courses, not the recent tech acquisitions or news coming from Silicon Valley.

Very few departments at Stanford put in the kind of effort to bring students along that I've seen in computer science (most prominently, the use of an army of qualified undegraduate students to serve as TAs for the introductory courses). Almost every engineering student I know has taken an intro CS course, and an easy majority of everyone else has at least attempted to do so as well. They're fun, easy, and accessible.

I would be interested to see the same sort of effort put into say, introductory physics or chemistry. The now-second most popular major, Human Biology, also represents a very big effort to reach out to students.
Five reasons:

1. Proper line height

2. #404040 for text color instead of #000

3. webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

4. text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;

5. Steve Jobs quote

Wow is this guy a designer?
Well... the article attempts to "explain" rather than to "prove".
My guess is that the color: is set to #404040, not black. Most people aren't aware that pure black is hard on the eyes; a slightly grey black is much more readable.
> Paypal isn't perfect, but if it really screwed over merchants the way you suggest they do, they would have gone out of business years ago.

I don't think you can draw that inference unless there is a good non-Paypal option that doesn't screw over merchants. Getting a traditional merchant account and accepting credit cards online isn't such an alternative--that screws over merchants on charge backs and with the occasional massive and apparently arbitrary increase in reserve requirements.
Saw this on twitter. Unfair, but hilarious:

http://memecaptain.com/893ea5.jpg

I know this: if I was running my AWS cluster, I'd be doing a worse job of it.
Suggestion: you should let me go to the actual HN user page.
IMO truly great developers are not just developers. They are also software architects, UX and UI designers, network engineers, etc. "A" developers knock down learning curves and assimilate everything about software creation innately.
I think there is a lot of talk about hiring an "A" developer, but almost nothing on what makes an A developer an A developer. More likely than not, it a continuum, and that a lot of engineers have the potential to be an A, but don't end up getting there due to one reason or another. It would be great to see some discussion on what environment could one provide that would enable A players to thrive and reach their potential.
MVC isn't dead, just much abused
There are some things I don't like about it. The header is gigantic. I wish I could turn that off and add a few more feeds without needing to scroll.

That's what Super iGoogle is for.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncindhlccodninkgio...
The title of this is a bit sensational. Gates only said that it was a "strong possibility" that Apple would have to do something similar to the "no compromise" strategy of the Surface.
I propose that the title be amended to "...comes up with yet another way to size up nations' wealth" and am willing to bet that this report will be all but forgotten in ten years time.
China (as usual) painted as an evil villain to the righteous U.S.

A great startup idea, would be a media outlet that didn't push such a massive point of view on everything...

Likely, a lot of media outlets probably started that way...
Considering that Opera is religiously standards compliant, anything that renders properly on Chrome should also render properly on Opera. (Assuming Google isn't invoking some kind of undocumented chrome-specific functions we don't know about for some reason).

They can 'drop support', okay, fine, it's their choice what browsers they target. I just hope they don't start sniffing for the user agent and actively blocking it.
Like all posts by me, not an official HackNY opinion, just my own:

The piece should speak for itself, so I definitely agree that if that's what you got out of the piece, it looks bad.

The purpose of the piece was to satirize startup culture. HackNY is young, and just developing a culture. Cultural aspects I believe are distinctly HackNY are the living arrangements (having around 30 hackers on one floor of a building is pretty awesome and leads to a lot of brother and sisterhood), along with the talks and activities with amazing people involved in the New York technology sector. That's it. The rest of it you can find at any startup technology internship, and it was the actual incredible, different, interesting, and often difficult, experiences of working at startups, and their stereotypes, that I sought to satirize.

I love HackNY, and I love startup culture although I find it really amusing at times. I'm the kind of person that is literally wearing a shirt with 1's and 0's forming a "binary tree" on it right now. I love this community, and if you have an interest in what HackNY really is, I strongly suggest you take a look at the other pages of the site. I should actually go to bed because I may go to a BBQ with some hackers tomorrow.
The first thing MS should do is fire a whole bunch of people. I'd start with Balmer.
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The bureaucracy in the institutions doing hard sciences eventually wears down even the sharpest mind.
Thanks! You can do the following:

1) Click Options under Autobahn in the list of installed extensions, and turn the instant profile feature off (each feature has its own checkbox).

or

2) You can right-click a username and select Open Link in New Tab.
This statement is false. True or false?

Does the set of all sets that don't contain themselves contain itself?
This is pretty cool extension. I can finally block forbes.com :)

Though unfortunately it's not working for me on Lubuntu 11.10, Chromium. ("Lu15.0.874.106 (Developer Build 107270 Linux) Ubuntu 11.10"). Saving preferences doesn't work - all choices just disappear after clicking 'save'...

Also feature request: I'd love to be able to highlight domains like I'm not able to ban them.

My use-case is that there is a certain type of article by arstechnica, NYT (and a few other sites) that have quality investigative/in-depth reporting that I particular enjoy. Unfortunately, only small subset of those publications total output is that kind of reporting, so I use HN as a filter. This would allow me to quickly figure out what I want to read :-)
I think you are underestimating the impact of being well known on HN for something like that.

Nearly everybody who matters reads this site at least sometimes.
No, it doesn't permit gatherings of more than 2500 people to last longer than five hours without a lot of overhead (money and paperwork):

http://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/hs/009.00.000751.00.h...
BUPA is pretty cheap (maybe 1/5 of a US health policy if healthy and young down to 1/25 or less if you have pre-existing conditions) because it's just an add-on to NHS.
For those of us who have never been, what is it? "Just drop in and talk to people" or are there any presentations or organised discussions / talks / whatever.
Looks interesting, but I don't get the profiles in the latest Chromium nightly, 22.0.1195.0 (145429).
I'm amazed there could be negative reaction to this. Just think of it this way: every year there are literally armies of smart young people, who are fully capable of being top-notch programmers or engineers, who graduate and become lawyers or go to wall street. Many of them spend their time on things that add _negative value_ for the economy. Every single one of those people who goes into engineering is an entire career that helps the US economy instead of hurting it.

(Note: if you like, read "western capitalist democracy economies" instead of "US economy").
At Stanford, you don't declare your major until your 2nd or 3rd year, and can change it after declaring. Students declaring CS will have already taken a number of CS courses, including the fundamentals of CS.
Right, but I think we've established Amazon is actually a software company which happens to run a retail business and contract for some datacenters. Same way Google is either a supercomputer company or an advertising company which uses search to get users cheaply.
We hear this a lot and somehow feel it's true but there are no reliable metrics and little verifiable data so ultimately it's just talk.
It's, in fact, fairly common. Some companies even go so far as to ally with the AAF and other organizations for national competitions.
Sorting algorithms are high school material, I think they'll handle it. Especially if the professor is kind enough to say "...And never use these out of the classroom without a good reason to (and there is no good reason to use BubbleSort). Just use the built-in sort()."

Actually using regexes seems a lot more common in the working world than in academia; as for the theory the basics of finite state machines are about as hard as sorting algorithms. (Or do most CS programs these days cover even more ways to implement a regex parser? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4194707 I have no idea what most CS programs do other than produce BigCo BigLang employees, Stanford's sounds better than that from all I've read and heard.) So no, instead of sorting algorithms, maybe they'll give up at suffix tries or Haskell Monads or Lisp macros or relational databases or garbage collectors or JITs or Bayesian networks or operating systems or... And while I don't know much about iPhone apps, I think Android apps are at least as hard as InsertionSort() and probably more frustrating. You even have a consulting business around them--does anyone have a business around sorting algorithms?

Who knows what their motivations are? Someone at Stanford should do a poll. I'd bet the same amount on "want to make something easy-sounding and specific like phone apps", "want to make lots of money doing who knows what" (maybe even as concrete as working for BigCo or doing a startup), and "because it sounds interesting/friends are doing it/other social reasons". If we're going to imagine them as fairly dim, it's easier to imagine they have no concrete goal in mind. (Edit: and according to my sibling comment, since majors aren't declared until later we probably shouldn't be imagining these students as dim.)
A bit of a meta question: As someone who feels like a 'B' or even 'C' at times, what would it take to become an 'A' player? Is it predicated on pure talent alone, hard work, or experience?

Even though I know I'm still a junior developer (~1 yr exp), I feel hopeless at times that I'll never approach being 'A' status especially knowing that I have many peers my age that are already far and away better than me. How would I overcome that?
Is there a deadline to prepay? Two maybes here, depending on work.
This is absolutely the right answer. I would add that the BEST developers are those that have some business or project management background.

That way they can put what they are doing in the greater context of the organisation. As well as add a lot more weighting to maintainability and future flexibility over the "latest cool thing".
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Agreed, I'm getting kind of sick of these articles. It's like if the developer community here started posting fluff pieces about how you need to use the best programming languages and the most optimized frameworks.

Maybe I'm out of step with the recruiting community but are there people who are sitting around going "let's round up some really mediocre candidates?"