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The reason why you develop for FB first is because they have the users. Are you going to develop for app.net first if the users are not using app.net? I think it is really risky to build ontop of an API that has few users. What if you dedicate the time integrating app.net and then 10 months later they decide to fold. I integrated picplzs API and a few months later they decided to fold the service. Complete waste of time.
An indication that it is cultural is from looking at other cultures:

If you look globally, there are countries where that isn’t the image, and in fact, their numbers are dramatically better. I was recently speaking with some of our Oracle engineers from China and they pretty much have a fifty-fifty split of men and women. And they think it’s sort of odd that we don’t.

http://www.txchnologist.com/2012/breaking-the-brogrammer-cod...
Finally. It is hard to believe in this day and age that 99.99999% of women have no chance at receiving VC/Angel investments, whereas men only have a 99.9999% chance at not having access to VC/Angel money.
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The Impact of Gender Composition on Team Performance and Decision-Making: Evidence from the Field

http://www.econ.upf.edu/~apesteguia/Gender_Teams.pdf

"Looking across the performance distribution, we find that for undergraduates, three women teams are
outperformed throughout... For MBA students, at the
top, the best performing group is two men and one woman."

http://hbr.org/2011/06/defend-your-research-what-makes-a-tea...

"The standard argument is that diversity is good and you should have both men and women in a group. But so far, the data show, the more women, the better."

http://www.20-first.com/968-0-lbs-study-shows-addition-of-wo...

"The optimal percentage for the gender balance of men and women on teams is 50:50.
Neither men nor women flourish when in a minority on teams. When in a minority, women tend to network outside whereas men tend to become less motivated.
Having a slight majority of women on teams (about 60%) improves the self-confidence of the team."

I think the evidence is pretty clear. Anecdotally, I've seen the best performance out of mixed teams. All men teams and all women teams generally don't work out so well.
No, apparently we need complete and utter equality or the kids get nothing. :)
This is what I don't understand. Status.net is a great, open, decentralized/federated platform but we still have developers reinventing the wheel. I see why I should support App.net when they haven't said anything about how open their platform will be.
Me too. Though the author has a picture of coconuts on his "what I eat" page.
Here was another oops moment, from an airborne test:

"Shot Harry was detonated on a 300-foot tower. The 32-kiloton explosion heaved a vast amount of earth into the air, much of it vaporized, most of it as a fine powder, all of it radioactive..."

From http://www.kcsg.com/view/full_story/19217952/article-SOUTHER...

My point is simply that it's hard to stay safe when within a couple miles of an energy release of that size, no matter what your model tells you. Downvote if you like; this seems pretty non-controversial.
What about the existence of other open source OS, such as Tizen, webOS, etc.
It will be nice when this is available; to think we might actually be able to use a mobile device that doesn't try to siphon all our personal data through Google or Apple.
That's a pretty lame excuse, IMO.

I don't think most cities have so much elevation gain that biking to work isn't practical for most people. There are definitely exceptions, but I'm pretty sure a person of average fitness could bike to work without too much trouble in the vast majority of cases.

The majority of bikes sold have multiple gears, so hills should be even less of an issue.
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“In terms of architecture, it is an operating system based on Linux, just as Android is. But we rely on Gecko, the Firefox web browser layout engine, to run applications written entirely in HTML5. We dropped XUL (the XML User Interface Language) in favour of HTML5, a language known to all web developers.”

It’s like WebOS all over again, but without its good looks.
Same thing that happens when your leather wallet runs out of juice...
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Link seems fine to me:

https://vimeo.com/45485034
By "the bottom of the ladder" do you mean economically? Is your claim that women have a higher earnings floor then men? Could you provide figures?
Try this for the video: http://vimeo.com/45485034
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You are looking at things from a "nutrionism" point of view http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t....

The answer is simple: Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.
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Significant figures, you have too many of them.
One of the things that's held back Windows and made it so complex, according to an MS engineer I recently spoke with who's been with the company since the 80's, is that it contains thousands of pieces of code to fix bugs in third-party software.

In other words, there's code in Windows 7 that prevents crashing due to a rare bug in Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego v1.3 (hypothetical example). And so on.
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I don't really see any universe in which Windows 8 is a minor update.
Double linkjacked from http://hypervocal.com/news/2012/4chan-busts-lettuce-stomping...
An example [1] from the Reddit thread [2].

1. https://www.fluidui.com/editor/live/preview/p_mcEkMTfZpIcMp5...

2. http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/wr8h0/html5_web_app_...
I believe WebOS has its own development stack, whereas Firefox OS is pure HTML5 with some extension APIs: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

Furthermore, quoting the above link: "Once we have an API that we feel that we are satisfied with, we will submit the new API for standardization to the W3C. The goal is to standardize all APIs."

As for looks, these screenshots look pretty slick to me: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/b2g/
I'm a UX Designer at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're starting to make big changes, mostly revolving around our 2015 strategy [1].

[1] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
It's not surprising that new and enlightening nature-vs-nurture research has come out in the last 10 years. But I haven't personally come across anything significant with regard to asymmetry in gender-based interests.

Also, I'm not attempting to refute Dave McClure or anyone specific. I never claimed that he claimed we should strive for 50-50 equality, so it's unfair for you to accuse me of a straw man. I'm just making reference to an argument that happened to affect my personal view on the matter. This topic has come up again and again on HN and in tech-related blogs, and I think it's a very common viewpoint that any deviation from a 50-50 distribution is attributable to discrimination.

Regardless, I agree with you that that current ratio is overly-extreme, and that we can do better.
Our body doesn't posess the enzymes to dehydrate saturated fats, therefore we can't process them as efficiently,
Additionally saturated fats lead to cell membrane instability and 'crystallisation' due to the straight-line chemical arrangement of the carbon atoms.
Cis - (A type of) unsaturated fats by contrast, have kinks in the chains which induces fluidity into cell membranes. Interestingly Cholesterol is used to maintain membrane stability/'fine-tune' membrane fluidity when there are lots of Cis fats.

I haven't listened to the whole talk yet and take it the poster's angle is that there is a lot more to diet, nutrition and preventable diseases like Ischaemic heart disease than just 'saturated fats and cholesterol'. Yes. No doubt. But they are still terrible for you in high doeses, Epidemiological studies have shown this beyond a doubt and the basic science is sound.
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What's with all the spelling errors? I find them quite distracting.
Downvote and no response?
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If the 18,500 figure refers to feet above sea level, then since most of Nevada is at about 4,500 feet above sea level, . . .
Apple wants your credit card on file for you to do impulse shopping. Apple would also like you to buy a new device every few years. It has little interest in your personal data, but it will hold on to it if you want a backup.

Google has a different business model, in which “getting to know the users” is essential.

I can't imagine Firefox OS won't have a cloud component. Already Firefox has a syncing service.

In the end, every consumer has to choose for themselves who to trust with their information. Mozilla's future business model isn't clear to me, right now it is way too dependent on Google. Just as I don't trust Google with my information, right now I don't trust Mozilla with it.
Not to mention the physical issues. My wife was nursing and according to her the inability to carry most of the patients is one of the bigger problems in that field. The way it works now you need a group of male employees basically just for carrying people - not a very popular job. They try to solve it with robots in Japan, but it's at least another 10 years until those solutions are really viable. 50% male nurses would certainly help there.
Ship it half-working. Launch the user-facing things that have to work right away and make as much as you can a manual process. Work out of PHPMyAdmin if you can to save time on fleshing out that backend that will be super tedious to build. Don't try to make the site look perfect. Just make it passable. Put off as absolutely much as you can if you are the kind of person that "can't ship." Once you've shipped then you've gotten past that hurdle. You can build the features as they become more pressing.
Pinker's book has been ridiculed by pretty much everyone who understands statistics or actually studies neurobiology. Even his views on linguistics are proving excessively simplistic as further evidence is gathered.

I recommend against holding up pop-science cults of personality if you would like people to take you seriously.
Searching site:fab.com on google seems to let you see more behind the scenes. As far as I can tell it seems to be the MOMA store crossed with tumblr.
It's nothing like affirmative action. He's not saying "investors should invest more in women-founded startups". He's saying "more women should invest in startups". It's self-help, not affirmative action.
I don't think it's necessary to make a distinction between a de jure monopoly, say, and a de facto monopoly, or a cartel.

The point is a market that allows lots of profit for an extended time period. This doesn't have to produce a Bell Labs, but it sure seems helpful.
That's interesting, although I'm not inclined to take hearsay of hearsay at face value. It'd be great to see a report with some hard numbers proving that this is the case, and examining the cultural differences that could explain why their numbers are so drastically better than numbers elsewhere in the world.

Also, from a scientific perspective, this is a disastrously imperfect experiment. You cannot rule out the effect of the genes unless you control for that. Looking at a group of people who are physically different AND culturally different , then arbitrarily concluding that any differences are the result of cultures is about as unscientific as it gets.
Yeah, litigation is by no means the only reason. It's just one of the clearest expressions of their relatively shitty corporate mindset.
Twelve years ago I had read too many peer-reviewed papers to know that low-cholesterol diets were a bad idea, and useless from the point of view of having a good blood-cholesterol profile.

Useless because, for example, population study after population study showed that low-cholesterol diets did not improve blood-cholesterol. Furthermore, it was common to find populations with high-cholesterol diets that had an excellent blood-cholesterol profile, and, conversely, populations with low-cholesterol diets and a bad blood-cholesterol profile.

A bad idea because, among other things, low-cholesterol diets will immediately lower your blood Testosterone. Recall that cholesterol is the most basic steroid; from it, all other steroids, including anabolic androgenic steroids such as Testosterone, are metabolized. A diet with a good amount of cholesterol is a necessary condition to achieve good levels of Testosterone.

Why would a hacker care about his Testosterone levels?? Some examples:

Males with high Testosterone perform better in arithmetic and mathematics than males with low testosterone. Males with high Testosterone levels have better short-term-memory. Males with high Testosterone have good mood; whereas low Testosterone causes depression, mood-swings, and angry reactions to minor things.

So, for at least 12 years, I have made it a point to have two jumbo eggs for breakfast. And that's not the only source of cholesterol and saturated fat in my diet. I do, however, make sure that I do not ingest too much saturated fat ... and there are too many more details to my diet to discuss here.
Very interesting - I also noticed that gists have comments -- I'm not sure how those are handled. Doesn't this mean that gists are the ultimate blog? Can you even create them locally and push?
I'll bite here on a tangent: are you really interested in taking a $5k check from an individual angel? Do startups (real ones, not just "I started a company!" startups) bother with that stuff? It seems that if you're a three-person YC gang that the effort involved in coming up with an extra week's (if that) worth of runway isn't even close to worthwhile.
It's all anecdotal of course, but my female IT friends, both in uni and work, have to deal with not being made welcome, or being made too welcome.

If I got leared at and hit on all the time when I'm just trying to get shit done I'd feel like I wasn't welcome either.
We address this is every gender thread on hacker's news. Yes, it is a problem. Yes, people are trying to fix it. Yes, including creating male-only nursing scholarships and spaces and community groups.

None of which has anything to do with programming. I don't know if you think you are being clever or if you are just repeating a talking point, but either way it's a derailment that has been addressed a hundred times before if you cared to do a little bit of homework.
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He sure holds a low opinion of men, 'tis true. I suppose it's so easier to get through life when everyone assumes you are too stupid to be expected not to pee on the rug.
I don't really like that simplification. Potatoes and wheat are both plants and people eat far too much of both.
The low numbers of women in I.T with CS majors, is indicative of this.

Are you just trying to enforce a burden of proof here? Or do you seriously not think that woman are ostracised in I.T?
Maybe you are trying to do to much? If you can find people that have similar interest to yours, and have skills which are applicable to building your ideas, I'd recommend teaming up with that person. It helps a lot having someone to not only push you along to the finish line, but also to do some of the running as well.

I had a similar issue where I would start projects, implement a bunch of it, and seemingly never finish any of it. I got in touch with some friends who enjoy design and from there I started doing back-end things and leaving the design implementing to a friend. Not only did he push me to hit milestones but I did the same for him.

Also make sure you are picking projects that the end result is something that you yourself want to use. That way, you will have a little extra motivation when it comes to finishing.

Good luck!
Compare that to a training exercise the soviets carried out - 40+ thousand troops engaging in combat while a nuke is detonated overhead: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/nuclear/radevents/1954USSR1....
What I can't seem to wrap my head around is why if someone actually breached DB security that what they'd do with it is send spam. So, to me, that suggests that whatever breach might have occurred must have been minimal or via a non-critical system (i.e.: someone had an unencrypted copy of some set of users email addresses, possibly for marketing purposes, and their machine was compromised, etc.)

Otherwise, it just doesn't make sense that spam is the first sign we'd see of problems.

So, my fellow HN readers, what's the explanation for this?
have you tried it? I want to bash on it but its actually pretty good. they have solved a hard problem of making an OS scale between laptop, desktop, and tablet. the interface is clean and consistent and increasingly the whole Microsoft line is coherent with a simular interface.
Science?
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm looking forward to the Surface launch. It looks like almost exactly what I'd love to have in a tablet.
I don't think it's that simple. Notice how there are arguably more Asian women in the media (newscasts, roles in movies, fashion shows) than Asian men. I don't think there is a lack of men who want to go into it, I think it's just a lack of demand.
Can we get that in writing and approved by Oracles legal department? Or is this some kind of personal guarantee, if so can you please spell if out exactly. Thanks. Also is it for druiid only, or the community as a whole?
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This entire conversation has been said 100 times.

It's interesting how the original article throws something at least kinda new into the mix, but this whole thread just heads right back to the same old grounds.
I was confused by this statement, which I think you're referring to:

"Firefox add-ons are free and those for Firefox OS will certainly be free also."

I'm not sure if that means there will be no paid apps for Firefox OS, or that Mozilla won't take a cut on paid apps, or just that Mozilla won't charge developers a fee to list an app.

I hope it's the last option. They should allow paid apps and take a small cut, as you said, so they have a funding source other than Google, increasingly their competitor.

But they have time to figure out the funding aspect. I just looked up the story about the latest Google/Mozilla deal in December (I'd forgotten the details), and it turns out it's almost $900 million over three years: https://allthingsd.com/20111222/google-will-pay-mozilla-almo...
My point was that HTML5 apps have proven not to be a suitable replacement for native apps. Not just for games and multimedia (can you imagine Infinity Blade or iMovie in HTML5?), but even simple tableview web apps are not as smooth as native apps.

“these screenshots look pretty slick to me”

You're entitled to your opinion, but it looks incoherent and garish to me. Like something you can buy from 99designs. Not even in the same league as WebOS.
I hope Firefox OS will get frequent updates just like desktop browsers. If Mozilla manages to bring all the advantages of modern desktop browser technologies on to a mobile platform, I vision they will gain their market share.
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You presume correctly: http://eatingacademy.com/wp-login.php

Though all it'd take to fix is 3 clicks to install a caching plugin, usually.
What's shocking to me is the blatant manipulation of the mob. Maybe this has gone on forever, but seeing it happen in real time on sites like Reddit is tripping me out. While I think my BS filter is more sophisticated than most, on the morning it was released I sent the Shell party video to a colleague to ask if he was there not realizing it was a spoof. Turns out he happened to know there was no such party.

I feel like the internet is becoming an increasingly dangerous place, and subtly so.
I sit on my ass all day every day, so my needs are quite different. Never played any sports either :)
The paywall works! got me curious so I signed up. Nothing much to see there. Just a site that sells stuff that people who drives Scions and ride fixe bikes would like.
I assume "not too much" covers that.
"I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would guess that there are actually more rich people in the world who got that way working for somebody else than there are rich people who were entrepreneurs at the start."

What kind of argument is that? It's backed by absolutely nothing. It also conflicts with everyone I've ever known.

Also, from the discussion here, the OP's definition of rich is a dubious one: "But generally, I think if you have a couple hundred grand in the bank you're rich."

If you're an employee, and assuming you've already paid taxes on that 200k, and you don't have kids in school or health problems, that's going to get you a few years down the road. It should be enough runway to get a new job with room to spare. As emergency money it's pretty good.

If you're working with 200k in the bank what does that get you? A down payment on a house you can't really afford? Maybe a sports car? Again this is assuming you're not going to put kids through school. That 200k means you're rich if you don't spend it on anything rich.

That 200k is decidedly not an amount you're going to retire on. You could take that 200k and start a business, but then we're in conflict with the idea that starting a business is completely unnecessary for obtaining riches.

Having said that, I'd be very curious to know how many startup jobs made an employee 200k richer after they've moved on. Given that many startup jobs (at least in the US) are in the Bay Area with its high rent and high taxes and that the average startup salary is what, 100k? IIRC, 100k is going to put you at close to a 40% tax bracket in SF. So that's 60k - 24k for rent for the year? That's not a lot left for a lifestyle in that area. Assuming you saved very aggressively you could, at the outside, put 20k away a year? So that's 10 years. What could you have accomplished working for yourself over those 10 (critical) years? Possibly less, though I think the numbers are probably in favor of a 10-year entrepreneur in a field with low barriers to entry.

What percentage of the current crop of startups will ever see employees make significant amounts via their stock? If you want to roll the dice that way certainly the numbers favor the entrepreneur.

Work for someone because you believe in what they're doing or you simply need the money. Don't ever do it to get rich.